The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits with Lunchbox: Morgan’s Been Clumsy Lately and Lunchbox On Who You Should Be Tipping This Holiday Season

Episode Date: December 2, 2023

This weekend on the Best Bits it’s Morgan and Lunchbox time! The share their favorite Christmas movies and memories, and Lunchbox reveals his family’s plans. Morgan admits the thing she does at the end of every year and some funny things that have happened to her lately. They discuss the items they can’t live without and if who we should be tipping this holiday seasonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Welcome, welcome. Welcome. Happy weekend. Another best bits is here. And guys, round of applause. He showed up this time. It is lunchbox.

What up, what up, what up? That was the main question I got was, is he going to show up? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, there was no lesson to be taught. It was taught the last time we did this. And so I only teach the lesson once. And then if I have to teach you again later, I will. But, no, you know, you learned your lesson and we're back.

I learned no lesson besides that I got mad at you. There you go. That was what I learned. That's the lesson. No, but you did show up and people would like to know why you did not show up. Was that because of the lesson? Yeah, the lesson. I had to teach you a lesson. I told you, you play with fire. You're going to get burned. And you played with fire and decided to do a little banning on something. And so, you know what? You want to ban me? Guess what? Can't see me because I won't be here. Okay. Well, he's here. He did do the best bits last time. He just didn't, he did a no show when we had agreed to be here.

before the show. Yeah. So we agreed to be here at like 3.30. And I said, yeah, yeah, I'll be there. Ha! Guess what I was doing in my bed. I wasn't snoring, so I can't. That was like a silent breath.

Yeah, I was like, I can't really do what I was doing because I don't snore. So yeah, that's it. Okay. Well, we do have some wild stuff that happened this week. So we're doing Best Bits a little bit differently, lunchbox. I just share the bits up front and then you and I just talk for a little bit. Okay. I'm so confused.

So do we do the question one still or no? Oh, yeah, this is the first one. We're in part one right now. Okay, so we do this and then... It's just done a little bit differently. Why did you change? Just, you know, trying to keep you guys your time with me a little bit less than the hours and hours, apparently. You all have spent with me.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Sure, I'm confused on... So we're not going to talk about the bits, but we're going to talk about talking. We're going to talk about life. Okay, and then we're going to do questions, which is talking about life. Yeah. Got it.

All right, cool, man. So the bits is we... We had Brenda Lee in studio, which is apparently me from the future. I had no idea who that lady was. She's amazing. Oh, yeah, she was great. You don't know rocking around the Christmas street? You could have paid me $10,000 to tell you who's saying that,

and I would have said, I have no idea. Did not know that that's who that was. And when we were like, on the schedule, it was like, Brenda Lee coming in. I'm like, is this some new artist? And then she walked in the studio. I was like, she's definitely not new. Nope, she's been around a long time

and she had a lot of stories to share. So that was an interview with her. That was awesome. Did she have stories? I don't remember. Yeah, she was talking about Patsy Klein, George Jones. Oh. You were probably doing a cross-refference.

Yeah, I guess I missed that part. I just know she came in and she was really short and she talked about singing a song. Yeah, we took a picture together and we look alike. We did? Her and I did. Oh, I was like, I didn't take a picture with her. All right.

Okay. Is that someone like that you knew before she walked in the studio? Yes, I did. Yes, I did know who Brenda Lee was. was. Oh, all right. Do most people know who that is? Yes.

If you listen to any classic country, yeah, you know who she was. Oh, so she did country music too. Yeah. Rocking around was just the song that went like big. You almost said viral. Well, yes, but viral wasn't big at that time. But she was big in classic country. Oh, I thought she was.

During the Patsy Klein, George Joan, little Richard era. I thought she just did that Christmas. a song. Oh, boy. Okay. All right. I got a text from the country artist that happened this week, and I shared an update with all of that. We don't need to talk about it? No, no, we're not going to talk about it. I'm just going to say that, yeah, I mean. Okay. Your wife celebrated her 40th birthday? Yes, she did. Happy 40th birthday to my wife. Yeah, you did not. Jellyroll came in. What do you mean? I didn't say happy birthday to my wife. I did say happy birthday to my wife. I said she celebrated her birthday, and I said, you did not. No, I was there.

with her when we celebrated. So I would say that she celebrated. Okay. Jellyroll is in the studio, which is always awesome. Always great. Let me tell you, he's a good, good dude. Like, he's awesome. Like, it's crazy, crazy fun to have him in the studio. Yeah, he's a great interview and a great guy. We did a draft of bands and artists with numbers in their name. And then we got- Can I say that was a tough draft? That was a really tough draft. You know, I got kicked out. So- which you were surprised by, I know, because you, after the- draft, you were walking around with your freaking head held high, chest puffed out, going, yeah, you guys.

At no point in time did I ever puff out my chest? Yeah, and you were like, yeah, you guys messed up, not taking 1975. And I was like, who? No. I confirmed with Lauren, who's our resident Swifty, that she has a Swifty still likes 1975. She's like, yes, I love them. I know, because during the draft, we told you the Swifty's, we're going to be mad at you. And you were like, no way, Swifty's love 1975 too.

And I mean, we were having an argument that I had no idea about because I was like, man, does it really matter? Like, do the Swifty? I just wanted to confirm. No, I really thought, would the Swifties really stop listening to a band because Taylor's not dating the dude anymore? Possibly. That is. Depending how bad it is. And the lead singer is a bit controversial in other ways too.

So that's why. Oh, really? Didn't know that. Yeah. The more you know. The more you know. Can you play that sound effect here? I don't. I don't have that.

Okay, cool. The Christmas gift exchange drawing happened, so we all found out who we are giving gifts for. Yep, I got to give one to Abby. Let me tell you, I've got some ideas, but I don't know if I can fit them in the studio. Oh, boy. And we got an update from Arkansas Keith. He called in to share how retirement's going. So that's what happened on the show this week.

Yeah, you don't have a 401K. So you got to figure that out first. I mean, just because you don't have a 401K doesn't mean you can't retire, right? Yes, but you have to. have money saved elsewhere or you have to have investments elsewhere. Otherwise, what money are you going to live off of if you don't work anymore? Well, you get paid while you're chilling. Oh, no, no, no. Do you think that's a big check? Like a lot of companies like my grandpa, he worked for Santa Fe Railroad and then he retired and he kept getting money. So I assume I was Santa Fe Railroad paying

him, right? Probably because he had stocks and things invested in that company because the company probably gave it to him. So yes. So do I have stock in this company? No. Not unless you did a 401K. Oh. Well, I mean, I... Or if you negotiated it in your contract. No. Yeah. I just thought maybe they got it, I don't know. Whatever. You thought you just, like, got it naturally because you existed in the world. I guess. Because grandpa never said anything about the... I don't know. Yeah. So, no, you have to have savings elsewhere than money to survive off. And like that social security checking ain't nothing. So you have to make sure you got some savings and stuff. So then why, if it ain't nothing, how come, I mean, over my lifetime, I pay a lot to that Social Security. So, and then it's nothing when I get done?

Well, each year it keeps dwindling down a little bit based on the news reports and everything that I've seen. Oh, why's your problem is watching the news? Well, I mean, you got to stay informed about, especially if it involves your retirement. Ah, I'll worry about that when it gets here. All right. Well, what's your, we're going to talk about holidays a little bit. What's your favorite Christmas movie to watch every year? Oh.

A Christmas story. story is just so good. Is that the one with Ralphie? Yes. Ralphie! Ralphie! The lamp. I mean, everything about it is so...

That's the leg lamp too. Yeah, it's so fantastic. And I know the new generation, oh, elf and... Yeah, elf is really good. Elf is funny. And I thought about this other day. Can I... Is it time to show my kids elf?

Oh, yeah. Like, I have no idea when... You know what I mean? Like, I want to show them home alone too. Not home alone too, but also home alone. Yeah. But I don't know. I think you could show them all of them.

But I don't know if that would scare them about the people breaking in the house and like. When did you watch Home Alone? When I was a kid. Yeah. But I don't know how old I was. I probably wasn't three. But I mean, I was watching. Yeah, I mean.

I definitely think you could get away with Elf. Elf would, there's nothing really super scary about elf. Home alone, you may have to wait a couple years for them to actually get it. Yeah. But elf, I think they would get. Because I was thinking about like the iron hitting that guy in the face. Like, that's funny. Like the kids would like that.

But I don't. Like elf, would they pay attention to elf or would they be bored? No, they love a giant elf. He's a giant elf. That's true. They love the Grinch. Okay, the cartoon one or the original? Oh, yeah, the cartoon.

The other one's kind of creepy. Do you think the one with Jim Carrey's creepy? For a three-year-old, yeah, it's creepy. Oh, just because, like, the Grinch is, like, real life. Yeah, and it's dark, and it's just kind of... Dang, I've never thought of the Grinch creepy. That's my movie. That's the one that I always have to watch over years of the Jim Carrey.

How the Grinch Stold Christmas. Okay. Yeah, we watched the cartoon. They can wear the crap out of that one, though. That is good. And, by the way, you were saying, like, this generation with Elf, Elf came out in 2003. It's 20 years old. Yeah, that's what I mean.

20-year-old's, like... I know. I'm just saying, like... It was funny how you said it and it was like it's been out for 20 years. It's not necessarily a new movie. No, no, I didn't say new. I meant like... This generation.

I don't know that Gen X would claim that movie as their generation. I think millennials would more. Ah, because like the Christmas story was made probably in the 70s. Yeah, I don't know. I'll like that one up. And I still watched it because it was on all the time. 1883 is when it came out. Oh, wow.

Okay. Yeah, my father. Law, the one he loves, is Scrooge. Like Scrooge or Scrooge? I think it's, I don't know, check it out. I think it's with Bill Murray maybe. Yeah, it's Scroogeed. Yeah.

He thinks that's one of the best Christmas movies that no one talks about. Oh, interesting. I don't think I've seen it. You better check it out. 1988. The other movie that I'll watch is the holiday. It's typically between those two, which is like a rom-com with Cameron Diaz and Never seen it.

Jude Law. You've never seen the whole. holiday? No. Oh, your wife would love this movie. It came out in 2006. You know what's really good is Four Christmases. Four Christmas is good. Fri's Wither's Twin and Vince Vaughn. Funny movie. Hey, whatever happened to Vince Vaugh. He's still acting? No, he's, you know what? I looked it up because my dad my dad asked that exact same question when we were watching Four Christmases. Like literally, first time I've thought about Vince Vaughn is because you said that. I'm like, dang, he used to be in every single movie. And Tim McGrath's in that movie and Dwight Yolkham.

wild. Dwight Yolkham's in the movie? Yeah, my dad, when we were watching, it's like, hey, that's Dwight Yolkham. And my mom's like, no way. Yeah, sure enough, he's in there. Okay, but yeah, for Christmas, this is a good one. I'll tell you what, that makes me laugh.

Yeah, that's a good one too. I think I've only seen it once in my life. Okay, I'm going to watch Scrooge. You have to watch the holiday. I think you guys would like the holiday. It's a great one. It's a classic for a lot of people. Let me check my calendar.

Oh, we're not going to be able to fit the holiday in. Well, guess I'm watching Scrooge. Favorite Christmas memory growing up? favorite Christmas memory? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. I mean,

just the, there's road trips to see grandma and grandpa and grandpa in Chicago. I mean, they're just, those were fantastic. Your parents. No.

My grandparents. Sorry, I didn't know if you were talking about like now with the kids. I'm just trying to make sure I've followed. No, you said when I'm a kid, we would drive from Austin to Chicago. Yeah.

and to see my mom's parents, and that was just so awesome. Because you got to understand, back in the day, there wasn't freaking FaceTime where you could see Grandma and Grandpa. So I didn't see Grandma and Grandpa, but once every couple years, which is so crazy to think about. Now you just do phone, you see them all the time. I wouldn't see them for a couple years. And so we'd drive up to Chicago and pulling into their little parking spot. They didn't have a driveway, but that little park and it had a little grabble. and you crunch it

and it was like, you're there. And then it would snow and you'd build a snowman. And it was, those are memories and I'm just like, dang,

those were so fun. Those are really good memories. And I do remember, Chicago's probably pretty at Christmas time. I do remember my dad had a stash, a mustache. It was a thing. We got grandma and grandpa's in Chicago

and he, it was Christmas. And he shaved it. And I ran upstairs and said, I'm never talking to you again. because I was like, I'm not going to recognize you. Like, it was like weird, like thing.

I'd never see my dad without a mustache. Okay. And so I remember it clearly running upstairs to the little loft area. I'm never talking to you again. Bananas. I think most dads in the 90s and early 2000s had mustache because my dad did too. Yeah. And he shaved it when we were in high school and it was weird for a while.

It was as a kid, I had never seen it. So, I mean, I may have been seven years old. Do your kids do the same thing when you shave? Because you get some gnarly beards. No, they tell me all the time, you need to shave that. It pokes me. Oh, they're not a fan.

No, I'm not a fan either. It's just I'm lazy. Are you going to try and do a mustache for them, like, for a couple years? No, no. I don't think I could see you with a mustache. No, my mustache doesn't really grow in that well. Like, it's not very evident. Like, the beard can go with the mustache,

and it's still kind of blondeish. Like, it never got really crazy color. You got like a tricolor beard. Yeah, it's a weird. It's a weird deal. I don't know. Yeah, I would never, a mustache is not my, my jam. That's fair.

So growing up, we would always leave food out for the reindeer and we'd make Christmas cookies that we left out for Santa. And we'd always wake up to the reindeer eating, the food had been eaten. And the cookies were eating and we'd get a letter from Santa. Oh, that's legit. Yeah. And then we'd have like our stockings and like that whole memory. Like, it was, Santa had made Christmas so magical. Yeah.

You know, like it was just this really cool. cool, incredible every time you went to bed. Like, I would never sleep Christmas Eve night because I knew it was going to be so excited. And I'd always try and catch Santa and catch the reindeer. Never did. I always fell asleep. Yeah, there was one Christmas that I was so pumped. I mean, just off the wall, bananas like, the next morning I didn't wake up.

I didn't wake up. Like, you just like got had to be woken up? Is that what you're saying? Oh, no, no. They took pots and pans in the room and were banging them. And I wouldn't wake up. Why? Were you just like passed out?

I guess I was like four. But I was so hyped. You know what I mean? Like I'm way up there. And then just, I guess I just crashed. And I just could not be woken up. I was so tired. It's crazy.

I'll tell you one thing. My wife, when she was a kid, she tried to catch Santa. So, hey, get you this kids. Back in the day, they had like camcorders. You had to carry on your shoulder and film. and so her, her sister and her brother set it up and put couch cushions around it and had it pointing at the Christmas tree. And all you got in the video was Santa's white glove coming over the top and turning it off, like covering the lens and turning it off. That's awesome.

And she still talks about it. She's like, I thought I was finally going to get Santa and he outsmarted me. And I'm like, dude knows everything. Santa is baller. That's true. And Santa's full of magic. So like you can't get anything past him. No, nothing.

Nothing gets past him. So yeah, those are, I mean, Christmas memories, bubble bread is just my, that's what it, oh. Is bubble bread like monkey bread? I don't know what monkey bread is. Is it like cinnamon and icing and it's kind of all mixed together and it's like you pull it apart. It's kind of sticky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's called cinnamon.

What is it called for you? Bubble bread. Bubble bread. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I don't know what you called it. Monkey bread. Monkey bread.

We don't monkey around. It could be different things. No, I can't. It's bubble bread. No, I mean, I'm saying like, we could be talking about totally different meals. I don't know. It sounds about the same, but we call it, we call it bubble bread. Bubble bread.

That's the real name. All you monkey bread people change the name, bubble bread, get away the times. What's different about the holidays for you now that you have kids? This is like one of the listener questions that I moved into here that you, that's different that you have kids and I moved away from home. Oh, it's different now because this will be the first year that we, have not traveled for Christmas. You were telling me about that.

So my wife is all, I want them to wake up in their own bed sometime. And I'm like, yeah, I get it. I get it. So the Santa can come to y'all's house and have their Christmas magic at your house. Yes, instead of having it at Grandma and Grandpa's house. So we'll be staying here and it's going to be crazy weird. But it's awesome. And she's like, yeah, we'll never travel for Christmas again.

I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, girl. You calm down there. Like going to grandma and grandpa's for Christmas is still exciting. So you can't just say you're never going to go anywhere for Christmas again. That's bananas. Is it hard for you? Because like the thing that would be hard for me is like every year I'm at my parents' house. We do the same, like we have the same traditions and everything.

Oh, it's coming to an end. Don't you worry. But like, isn't it hard for you to like know that like you had all these traditions and now you're having to start new traditions? Yeah. It's hard. It's really hard. Like, I mean, heck, the first one I ever spent. at my in-laws instead of my parents was like, well, this sucks.

I mean, don't get me wrong. My in-laws are fine sometimes. But it was hard to know that, man, like Christmas is usually. And because at my parents' house, before kids and stuff, we had game night every Christmas Eve. So all our friends would come over, you know what I mean? And if they were, you know, married, significant others, whatever, they would bring them. This is all pre-kid.

and we'd freaking game night it until freaking two in the morning and it was a way to catch up and you know like if they live out of town or whatever they always knew and I mean force would always text we still doing game night game night better countdown to game night you know what I mean so we'd get all excited for it and now it's just like

and we don't do that anymore no more game night I think that's the biggest change that I have experienced is that even just like moving away I don't I'll go home for Thanksgiving I'm not home for Thanksgiving anymore. Now it's maybe people come visit if they can, and then I get to see everybody at Christmas. Yeah. Like the changes, I think, is what's just the hardest about in general of getting older in the holidays. Yeah, I mean, there's a line I came up with that.

The only thing that stays as the same is everything changes. That was actually really profound for you. Thank you. I'm sitting here kind of in shock. I don't know how to respond. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just, it's just that's.

And I can't tell if you're also joking. at the same time. No, that's the only thing that remains the same is everything changes. You are right. You are right. I'm trying really hard to be serious with you right now. Why are you trying to be trying so hard to be serious? Because it was really profound.

Yeah. I mean, that's real life. Like, that's the truth. It is. But, like, it's not very often that you say something like that. And I'm not, I was not prepared. Okay. That's cool.

Thank you. It was really good. I'm sorry to do that to you on a Saturday morning. I mean, dang, laugh at my profoundness. Yeah, but hey guys,

if you guys want to, you know, right, no, it's really sweet, lunch parks, okay. Keep that in your head.

You know, get a tattoo of it. You know, just, I mean, that's just something I came up with and it's like,

as it's deep. It's real, though. It is real. It's real, and I appreciate you saying it. Because what else

stays the same? No, you're right. You're 100% right. It's not that. I just, I wasn't ready for it. Okay.

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Woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day, and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place they come, look for up-and-coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent,

I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there.

Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, I need to ask you this from one, I'm like semi frugal to a very frugal person. Do you stock up on things at the end of the year with all the deals going on? Like what do you mean? Like I'll stock up on hand soap.

Sometimes I'll go buy chocolate that's only in store for now and I'll eat it like for a couple months into the new year. I buy a lot of like makeup and hair care. Oh, no. Is there anything you have like multiples of it? Like I feel like I stock up kind of like a bear hibernating. No, my wife will buy toilet paper if she goes to the store, even though we have some and it's on sale. Like if it's like, oh, $10 off, she'll buy it. But besides that, no.

But like the Cyber Monday, the Black Friday, you're not like sitting there stocking up on things that you know you'll use the next year. No. Dang. Did we already have those? Oh, yeah. They have, I mean, Black Fridays after Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday after Black Friday. Yeah, remember when Black Friday was the thing? I loved Black Friday.

No, let me tell you. I camped out on Black Friday. Same. I got a TV on Black Friday. My sister and I camped out at Circuit City, South Park Meadows, like ballers. I mean, it was. Most people did. Well, and here's the thing.

It was actually cold in Austin that night. It was probably in the third. 30s. The wind was whipping. How many hours did y'all camp out for? Five and a half, six hours at least. And the funny part is my sister, you know, couldn't, like, I'm so cold. I just freaking put a sleeping bag on. I went to sleep. You didn't even care. Like, I sleep. The difference is I sleep anywhere. I'm amazing, you know. You do fall asleep anywhere. I can do it. It's just a talent. And I always, when people are like, oh, I can't sleep, I struggle to sleep. I'm like, that sucks.

bro like that's terrible but I remember there you know because they used to say oh there's a limited amount of TVs we don't know how many we have and so I remember running and people grabbing carts I'm like what are these idiots doing getting carts you don't need a cart running and they had like a set of DVDs there and I leaped over the DVDs and got to the TVs number three I was a third person and I was like number 30 in line you know so I passed a lot of people stopping to get carts on my carts. And then impulse buy, I bought another TV because they were so cheap. And I was like, you know what?

I need one from my room. And so I bought two. And what's funny is this is my first house. And it had like a cutout above the fireplace. Yeah. I didn't even measure it. I had no idea if the TV was even going to fit. He just like went in like free ball in it basically.

I went in freeballing and I just ran, grabbed it, and it fit by two inches on each side. Dang, that was luck. So lucky. I mean, I had no idea. I was so just like caught up in the whole thing. Yeah, you're just decided to get a deal. And it was so exciting to camp out. And I remember those.

And people used to go crazy, crazy. And now I'm like, man, it's so much better. People don't have to go camp out and miss Thanksgiving. You know, I never missed Thanksgiving, but I definitely did. And I stayed outside of, I think it was like Cabela's one year. I don't know why. There was something we were getting for my dad, like some like trail camera or something. And I was like, yeah, I'll do it just for like the heck of it.

Not that I really like needed to. I wasn't buying a TV. There wasn't anything like crazy I was buying. But I just remember being as part of it. And I was like, this is wild. People are nuts. I watched a lot of fights happen. Like being somebody who wasn't very.

I was just like, I just needed this one thing that I knew nobody was really going to go after. I got to watch everything happen and it was nuts. It was, like, people were crazy. I do kind of wish people would get to have that experience. Like, it does bummed me out that like, you know, stores are going away. I mean, people were storming, breaking down doors and trampling people. And not that part, but like I do like the community of it, of everybody like waiting in line to like get these deals. Like I miss that community aspect versus now everything's online.

Like there's no community to that. You buy it, you're done. Yeah, I do, I don't understand the shopping. The shopping online, it makes everything easier, but it's not as fun. No, I still go to the mall, but like, switch your closing. Yeah. All over the place. Like, I think about, like, getting presents or whatever, and it's like, you can just do it

online, but is it really, like, when you buy a present for the niece and nephew for their birthday, you just go online and send it to them. What I used to love when grandma and grandpa, would send a package for your birthday or Christmas and you would open it up and all the presents were wrapped. It was like, this is the best. And now it's just like, bro, open a box and you see what it is. You don't even wrap it.

See, with my niece and nephew, their birthdays are in October and November. October what? It's right near mine, October 5th. Okay, yeah, my nephews are October 16th. my niece is September 21st, and then the other nephew is March 19th. I was going to say you had all fall babies, but no. So if I, there was like the first two years when they were younger I did, and now I'm like, no, I'm bringing home your birthday gifts for Christmas.

You're going to open them all in front of me. Oh my gosh. And so I wrap them. So they get their birthday presents from me when I come home and they get their Christmas gifts. Okay, that's ridiculous. But like I want to be able to, otherwise I can't wrap it. Well, actually, you could. Well, there's not a lot of them that do it.

No, no, no. You order it to your house. You wrap and you mail it. Oh, yeah. That's way too much work. It's a lot easier if I just send it to my house wrapping and give it to. A niece and nephew, you ain't worth the effort. You hear what she said.

Morgan said, you guys are not worth the effort. You weren't listening to the second part of that. Like, yes, that's double work when I can just keep it and give it to him in person, one. But also, like, it sucks to watch them open gifts on FaceTime. It's fun to do it in person. I agree, but it's also weird to open a birthday present, six months later. Oh, they don't care.

They love it. They get more gifts. That's true. Like, I just, I just designate different wrapping. Okay. Okay. I think every adult should have at least like one dish that they know how to make that they can bring to a gathering, a party, anything like that.

I've noticed a lot of my friends don't have like one dish. Every time we have gatherings, you're like, well, what should I make? What should I bring? Instead of it being like, no, I got this one thing that I'm really good at making. Do you have something like? that. Like, do you have one dish? Like, if you were invited somewhere, you're like, I can bring this. Like, what do you, like, an appetizer? It could be an, it could be whatever. Yeah, I mean, my wife makes a good queso. See, so like, you get, so like, casso is what you guys would always

be like, okay, we'd bring the casso. Yeah. And she can make a good guac. Yeah. See, like, you guys have your things. She, I can't, like, in the caseo, I'm just like, oh, yeah, will you make that real quick? I mean, but at this point, you guys are a package deal. But, um, yeah. If you were to go by yourself. Yeah. You don't. I don't have one. I don't know. I mean, if I can make it, enchiladas. Yeah, okay. So you do have something. Yeah, but that takes a long time. Well, I'm just, you got to chop the veggies. You got to chop this, chop that, do this. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is my point that I think everybody should have at least one dish

that they can, like, easily put together for a gathering. I mean, I can make SpaghettiOs. Okay, that's not, that's like pouring it out of the can. No, you got to put the Parmesan cheese and pepper in there. Okay. No, no. Like, I'm being making something. Making something that you can bring. It can even be cookies. Like, it can be brownies. I can't make cookies or brownies.

I can't bake. No. Dang. So you'd be on your own. No, I can tell you. I told you I'm making enchiladas. But you just had to take too much time. So you probably wouldn't do it.

Yeah, it takes a long time. So maybe you need to come up with like a easy dish. Yeah, I'll work on that. But, well, cookies, well, you can get the cookies that are already pre-cut. You know what I mean? Stick them in the oven. Yeah, I mean, it's still doing something. But like, it was just funny.

What's yours? Oh, I have like, I have a ranch dip. I got a black raspberry bean dip. Did you say a what dip? It's a ranch. It's a ranch. Yeah. It's actually called like crack dip, but I call it ranc.

No, it's called puk dip. Yeah, you don't like ranch. Go ahead. The black raspberry bean dip. What's in that? Black beans, cream cheese, Chipalte raspberry sauce, and jack cheese. You basically cook it all together. That sounds good.

Oh, it's amazing. It's from my... Is that the bomb? Yeah, it's the bomb. It's from my college town, one of the restaurants. made it. And somebody put the recipe online. Shout out Manhattan, Kansas. So long saloon.

I got a question. Why are they called the little apple? Because it's Manhattan and they're little compared to big Manhattan in New York. You just have a, you just had a revelation. You were sitting there like, wait, what? Yeah, little apple. Yeah, yeah, but it's New York City is the big apple. Yeah, and Manhattan is in New York City. Yeah, but.

And so. Manhattan in Kansas is the little apple. Okay. I mean, I think that's a stretch because... But it's not. They have the same name. No, but Manhattan isn't the big apple. It's part of the big apple.

And Manhattan is in New York City. So you can be called slice of the apple. No, no, no. You're getting way too technical. Thank you. It's the little apple. They're both Manhattan, one's big, one's little. Okay.

Yeah, but Manhattan's not the big apple. New York City is the big apple. So is the Bronx the big apple? I mean, it's part of New York City. It is. It's part of New York City. Like you don't necessarily identify places from their suburbs. It's just so happens that for New York City you do because it's such a massive city.

But it's still New York City. Okay. Maybe I don't know. Maybe I'm overthinking it. You are. You are. So I need to tell you something that happened to me and you're definitely going to laugh at me. I was working out at Planet Fitness.

Yeah. And I was stretching, you know, getting. getting going. I knocked a fire hydrant off the wall. No, you didn't knock a fire hydrant off the wall. Yes, I did. There's no chance. I promise you I did. No, there is no chance. I promised you I did. It fell on my back and I have a bruise on my back. See, because if you knocked a fire hydrant off the wall, yeah. Water will be spraying everywhere. Oh, you're right. What is it? What's the portable ones called? A fire extinguisher. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it was. Sorry. I, for some reason, thought for a second,

they were the same thing. I was like, yes, I did. This happened. Now that is awesome. Okay. Fire extinguisher. Sorry, I really thought for a second they were the same thing. That's why you were like, yes, I did.

I was so confused. Yeah, fire extinguisher off the wall and it fell on the back. Oh, that hurts. Oh, it hurts. Oh, it hurts so bad. And I had to, like, play it on. Oh, man. And some very nice man who, you know, somebody's son raised him right.

He's like probably 18. he came up he's like are you okay and they picked up the fire extinguisher and put it back on the wall and I was like yeah yeah yeah I'm good like you were stretching and you swung your arm out how did I mean so there's like this little kind of ab area whatever where everybody stretches or does core yeah and there was only like one area to put the mat down so it was in front of the fire extinguisher I was far enough away from it I thought but when I like stood up from a stretch oh my gosh oh that's so bad yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah. This may be why I can't find like a guy in real life because I'm too clumsy. Because there's been two other instances. That has nothing to do with that actually would open the door to meet a guy because the guy comes over and is like, oh, are you okay? You know, do you need some CPR? And then you say, yeah, and then boom, marriage. Let me tell you the two other instances that happened. I knocked over a bunch of chips on display at the grocery store an accident.

Oh. I have my backpack on it and I kind of like just turns. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. line off. Okay, that happens. I like sideswiped up. So that happened. This is all the same week, by the way. And then I was at a bar and you know how they have like roped off sections? Yeah. I didn't see their rope off. And again, my backpack got caught on it and I basically did a summer salt over the rope. Pretty bad. So, you know, a collection of clumsy things that I've happened.

Yeah, I didn't realize you were that clumsy. I, it comes in waves. Like sometimes I'm good. And then for whatever reason, I'll have like a spurt. Like I dropped my laptop the other day for no, like don't even know how. I was literally just standing there and just out of my hands. Oh, I do that sometimes like when I have a cup of water and I'm just, I just go to pick it up and I just, it's like your motor skills and stop working. Or I drink it and then I go to set it down and just pops, like somehow squeezes out of my

hand and I'm like, how does that happen? Yeah. Yeah. See? That's what, it's like random. It's like I'm fine for like months and then I'll go through a spurt of. Yeah. You know the hand.

And they say things happen in threes. So that's why you had your three clumsies instead of just one. Yeah, but then the laptop happens and then it's more. Oh, yeah, that's true. So you got two more coming. Oh, boy. Okay, we'll be right back. In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckerd found himself at the center of a paternity scandal.

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My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network, it's Will Ferrell. Woo, woo, who, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day, And I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent.

He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there.

Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. What's something that you've bought, Lunchbox, that now, like, you couldn't live your life without? I'll tell you, because I have two. My house? No.

Okay, like something, something like smaller than your house. The reason I'm asking is that has... My car. Okay. Stop doing survival things. I have a litter robot and I have a vacuum robot. A what? A litter robot for my cat Hazel.

It cleans itself. It's amazing. I never, I never have to like scoop litter anymore. You don't have to take the litter out? No, I just have to take the trash bag out. It's amazing. Okay. It's called what?

Litter robot. Okay. Game changer. And then I got a vacuum robot because Hazel sheds a lot and I don't like vacuuming every single day. So I got the vacuum robot also changed my life. Oh, we had, man, I'm going to text my wife. We had one of those things.

It would vacuum. Yeah, the vacuum robots. Whatever happened to ours? Well, you're asking me, you think I, like, stole it or something? Like, we used to use it, and did we turn it off one day and just never turn it back on? Maybe. Or maybe there's just too many kids to I. around that because it can't really

That's true too I was going to say if you run it and there's stuff everywhere like it could get stuck on it it could stop working and like there's a lot of things that could happen you have to have it pretty clear

obstructed on the floor huh so that could be why I'm gonna talk to that wife me like yo what happened to our vacuum robot why you've been vacuuming more often lately no I haven't been vacuuming any

like I'm just saying like I noticed that we didn't I forgot about that thing it's amazing and it would turn on game changer Yeah, it's pretty loud too. Yeah, so usually you do it when you're sleeping.

Yeah, or just when you're not home. That's true, too. Dang, that's funny. And the one I have, the one that I got, because I got it on one of my Black Friday deals. Yeah. And I splurged, and I got the one that self empties. So I don't have to do anything for like 30 days. It just vacuums goes back.

Vacuums goes back. But where does it empty? It literally has a little base station and it empties at the base station. It sounds like an airplane's taken off. Oh, that's pretty cool. Right? Yeah. So two robots now that I have, and I've only recently, and I can't live without him.

Yeah. What one could I not live without? I know you don't love technology. I was going to say, I don't buy anything. I don't think you understand how cheap I am. But maybe it's like, I don't know, maybe it's a kitchen item. Maybe it's something you use for sports. I don't know.

There's nothing in the kitchen that I don't, I could live with, I mean, a microwave. Microwave is important. Yeah, you're going to have like basic survival things right now. Well, like really, if you, I mean, I don't use a channel. changer. I couldn't live without that. The remote. Do you use like base, like the original remote or do you have like an Apple TV or?

No, I use the, I have the, I don't know, basic one. It's like your old school remote basically. Yeah, but I don't have anything else. Well, that's pretty good. That means you could probably live off the grid. Well, you love TV. It's probably not. Yeah, but I could, I mean, I could go out. I mean, I could live without TV, but

it's tough. But yeah, there's nothing. I don't have technology that is oh i you know i got one i got one oh gosh is it going to be bad or a dirty no okay a bidet uh wait bidet that's it is it bidet or bidet bidet bidet bidet bidet bidet bidet bidet bidet bidet budi bidet uba die sounds like we're going to say now bad dabadoo do we do we die oh my good now i really don't know what we're saying okay um Ray gave me one for Christmas a few years back. And my cousin Andrew and his buddies, his fraternity brothers, they would always talk. Whenever we'd go party, like after they were out of college, they would always be talking about them.

Talking about, dude, it's a game changer. And my cousin Andrew is the one that got his frat brothers onto it. I was like, you guys are crazy. That is a weird thing. Because I'd seen them in the hotel room in Vegas. Yeah. I was like, what the heck is that? Are they weird to learn how to, like, use?

No. And then you use it. I don't want to get too in the weeds about this, but I just like, they're like confusing. And you are like, why did I ever waste time with toilet paper? Yeah, it's more environmentally, environmentally friendly. Yeah. Right? It is. It has to be cleaner. Yeah, I just don't know if you're using more water.

Because like when you get your hands dirty, yeah. Do you just wipe them with toilet paper or do you wash them? After going to the bathroom? No, no, just in general. Oh, no. I wash them. So if you got mud on your hands, would you just use a toilet paper? Oh, I see your point.

No, I would wash them. Yeah. It's pretty bananas. That's a wild comparison to think about. But yeah, so that thing is, I mean, it is crazy. Do you have it on every single toilet in your house or just one? No, just one. Have you thought about putting it on all of them?

No, because I have kids and they'll spray that thing all over the room. They will s. Like they go in my bathroom and they're like, Dad, what's this? I'm like, I don't know. It'll break the toilet. Don't touch it. That's how you get it to touch it.

And they don't touch it. And they're probably not in there all that often. No, exactly. They're not really in our room that very much. Yeah. But yeah, that's it. That thing is legit. Okay.

That's a good one. I need to look at, I've never, I don't know. They also intimidate me a little bit. Oh, it's, hey, let me tell you, it's intimidating at first. But then it's a life changer after that. Much like the Squatty Pottie, right? Squatty potty. Hey, Squatty potty is, if you don't have a squatty potty, you guys are pooping all wrong.

You are pooping wrong. It's bad for you. I hope nobody's getting breakfast. No, no. Get the Squatty Pottie. It'll change your life. Okay. I wanted to end on this with something that you and I both feel kind of similar about.

You get a little bit more extreme than me. But I got a happy holidays card left on my trash can from my trash man. Here we go. Yeah, and you know, I'm just so curious about it. Like, first of all, it's a name and an address. How do I know, for one, that it's my trash man? How do I know I'm not getting scammed and somebody just didn't walk around the neighborhood putting that on all the trash cans? And it's some guy and he's going to be collecting money.

It's not even my trash man. Oh, good question. Right? I mean, like everything's a scam now. How do I trust that if I were to send anything, it's actually going to the trash man? It's not like you can stop them when they come by and be like, hey, stop, stop working. We could. Yeah, but most of the time you can't catch them.

I mean, they move fast and they typically come early in the morning. Yeah, you're exactly right. I don't know. You just got to trust it, I guess. I don't. Do you feel like we should tip them? You send something? Do you send something to your garbage man?

Why? Why would I send him something? I'm asking. I don't know. Like, you get this, so I assume. Does he do something that is above and beyond what they're supposed? supposed to, they are doing their job. Do you give the guy at McDonald's when you go through the drive-thru, do you tip them?

Well, I don't know. They started adding them as a line of McDonald's. I've been to McDonald's in a while. Okay. I mean, they've asked me, do you want to leave a tip? No. You just hand them in food, you fool? Like, you're doing your job.

Hey, Sonic or Taco Bell? I haven't done that to me yet, so. Yeah. But Sonic may do it on the app. I have heard people talk about it, but I think they do if they walk it out. Dang app. I just mean the drive-thru. Like I always use drive-thru.

No, I go through the drive-thru and this is hilarious. Are you ordering on our app today? No, I'm ordering from you because I am here. I'm not ordering through the app. I'm here to order from you. Yeah, I think everywhere has apps now. Everywhere. I mean, I can't imagine if you had an app for every place you ate,

you would have to scroll 16 different screens. Oh, app, app, app, app, app. Yeah, I feel like you only have the ones that you frequent. Or if you're like that frequent. it like Starbucks people I think use the app a lot if they frequent. Yeah, Starbucks people need to get a life. I mean, you drive by a Starbucks and it's like the line is into the street. I'm like, guys, it is not a club.

You do not need to be waiting in line that long to be getting in. It can't be that. There's like local, but I also know for some places like Starbucks is the closest coffee to a lot of things. There's so many. No, there's not. There's a 7-Eleven. There's something around you that has coffee that you don't need to wait in that line. But maybe it's because you and I aren't coffee drinkers.

You're right. I don't understand. Like Duncan, everybody tells me they used to come in, people used to come into Duncan just for the coffee. So it has to be good too. But maybe I'm wrong. Well, and that's what I'm saying is maybe the 7-Eleven coffee isn't good. But you know what? You know what is good at gas stations?

Hot chocolate. Yeah, legit. It's always really good. Legit. Like Quick Trip in Wichita Man and Quicktrop is like all over Kansas. But their hot chocolate is some of the best. Yeah. Hot chocolate at a gas station is, mm-hmm.

Good. Except for the gas station by my house. It's not good. Well, they always forget to change it out, so it's just water. Like, they don't ever put the chocolate mix in. And then they're like, oh, sorry, it's broken. I'm like, no, bro, it's just you're being lazy. Like, get over here and give me some hot chocolate. Like, so annoying.

Yeah. Like those cold freezing days when I'd stop, I stopped. Not anymore. I don't stop anymore. But, man, I'm going to get me. They lost your business. Yeah. Too many times over.

Too many times over. And I'd get in there. I'd, dang it. I'd throw it away. You go somewhere else now? Starbucks does have good hot chocolate. No, they don't have good hot chocolate. I mean, I don't know that I wait in line for it.

No, they're hot chocolate. Their hot chocolate ain't good. It's not good. It's not. Okay, well, back to my trash man. Do you think I send him money? No. It's a scam.

No, it's not a scam, but don't send him money. Period. End of story. That's it. Don't send him money. Okay, well, if you are tipping your garbage people, can somebody tell me how much you're tipping? None.

No, none. I just, I like to get all perspectives. I just need to know what's going on. Do you tip your mailman? So, you know what's funny? is one year, you know, when I brought you guys all little goody, goody boxes of treats. I left them. Oh, yeah, those were amazing. Yeah, I left some for my mail person and they loved them. I, because I was like, well, they always bring me, because they bring me packages and stuff, too.

Do you tip your FedEx guy? I don't think I have a consistent one. Oh. I've tried to pay attention to that. And I don't think I have a consistent Amazon, FedEx or anything. I do see people leave out like waters and stuff, but. Yeah, I don't do that. Yeah, I haven't done that. Maybe I need to look at it. But no, but like mailman, he's, because that's, because that's, you know, but, but, I don't do that. You have the same one all the time. And so I left treats for them and they loved it. And I did try and leave treats for my trash people one time. But like I said, sticky situation.

I left them in the mailbox. I left a note on the trash can and put them in the mailbox for them to grab because they didn't want them to throw them away or I didn't want to sit them on the trash can. And they never got them. So I did try something. It's nice of you. But it didn't work out. Yeah. I've never tried to leave anything for anybody.

So I don't have to worry about all that. That's too much of a hassle. That's true. Well, if you have, please send me up on Instagram or something. Okay, we got to go do some listener questions. Bye. Bye-bye. The Bobby Bones Show.

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Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I got you. What's up, everyone? I'm Ego Wood. My next guest, it's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot.

But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore. It's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah. It would not be. Right. It wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Yeah. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd was accused of fathering twins. But the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax. You doctor, this particular test twice Ms. Owens, correct? I doctored the test ones.

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