The Bobby Bones Show - BTEAM Town Hall with Bobby and Listeners: The Truth Behind Lunchbox Guessing Weights + Will Bobby Write Another Book?

Episode Date: May 23, 2021

Bobby invited 5 listeners from the BTEAM Facebook page to ask him each a couple questions about the show, him and more. The topics range from what TV couple he thinks resembles his relationship, if he will write another book in the future and what happened to the segment where Lunchbox guesses callers weights.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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which is the greatest place on the internet. So many great things have happened over there. And it's basically the only one of the only thing. reason. I go to Facebook. But each person is on. I'm going to meet each of them and I'll get a couple of questions in and you're asking a question for your own curiosities or if you think other people wonder the same thing, have at it. Anything you want to know. No rules, except I probably can't get Luke Bryan to play your cousin's wedding. Like that's, that's the rule there. All right, let's kick it off with our first B-teamer. This is Emily Morrison in Houston, Texas. Emily, say hello.

Hello. How are you? There she is. Emily, how's it going? Pretty good. I'm excited to me. Thanks for having me. Well, I appreciate that. So what would you normally be doing at, it's like 4.19 p.m. Like, it seems like most people would be in the middle of a work day for you. Are you in the middle of work day? Yeah, totally. And what should you be doing right now instead of on this?

Well, working. I'm in real estate. So, you know, closing transactions and moving things along. How accurate are the TV shows where they sell houses and, you know, do deals? Well, I'm not a realtor. Oh. Oh, what are, oh. I'm, I work on the title side of things, so. So when I go and buy a house and sit in that fancy office that smells a little too like a, you know, a candle, is that where you are? You're sitting in that office making sure I sign all the papers.

Kind of. I'm a contractor for the government, so mine job's a little different. Work for the marshals, so. I'm like you're a spy. I'm a contractor for the government. I do. Don't ask any questions. Okay, Emily. Well, what would you, uh, what would you like to know? Some people might think this is a silly question, but I always want to. every time you say this. So when someone calls, they say, like, oh, I'm from Oklahoma City, and you're like, oh, cool, you listen on a twister.

Do you have every station memorized? Mostly. Yeah. I mean, it's because I cut station liners, and, you know, before the show goes on, I'll get packets of, okay, here's the twister in Oklahoma City. Here's the twister in Tulsa. Here's the bull in Seattle.

You know, and there are also a lot of bulls. You know, but I do. You know, we have corn country now. And that's, that's, you know, you're a bull. You're, uh, what else would there be? There's a lot of, the wolf. The bull, the wolf, the twister. There's a lot of letters.

Like, Case is actually KASE, which is the letters for the Texas station. So yes, the answer is I know pretty much all of them. I don't remember a lot of things, but radio stations, I do. And we're not on in Houston on the radio radio. But, you know, what's crazy is three years ago I would have said that. I've been like, oh, man, sucks. We're not on there. You can listen to us any way you want.

You can still listen on your phone, which is most people are just listening any way possible anymore, you know? Do you listen to us live or on podcast? Podcasts. I'm almost always the day behind. But I'm from Oklahoma, so I've found you guys there when you guys were going to get in the city. Well, great.

Would you like to ask a second question? Go ahead. Okay, yeah. Okay, my other question is, who would you say is like the most underrated country artists who hasn't gotten a break but you think deserves more attention. It's a good question.

And obviously I preface this by going, you know, anytime I go, hey, here's somebody who's underrated, I get 10,000 comments, about 10,000 people whose cousin is,

you know, planted a shownie's. Like, oh, he does, you're stupid. Frank's better. But for me,

like people that I've seen, that I go, man, how are they not a big star? One of them is probably Brandon Ray, because he's so good. He sings,

just he's the best singer and he's like an a plus guitar player um brandon ray is one i think jillian jacklin is really good and uh she you know hasn't exploded in the way that i thought she may have as far as like artists who are you know they have hits because there's kind of a you know a level of artist too that have hits and aren't ever put on award shows which is kind of a weird thing to say you know they have six seven eight hits you know there's like the the the cold Swindells of the world who the guy just makes hit after hit but everybody just kind of passes over him because you know he didn't have a lot of tattoos or he's not out you know dancing in a flame you know he's not so cole is one of those I mean I think Brett Eldridge is also really one of the

best and he kind of gets passed over a little bit too so I would say on different levels those are the and those last two guys aren't underrated but I feel like they aren't given the respect that they've deserved through massive radio success, really good touring success. But Brandon Ray is fantastic, and so is Jillian Jacqueline. So that's really good question. That's like two days. I like that. One about the show, one about music.

And I can be wrong on all of that, too, is the thing. All right. Thank you, Emily. Let's see. If we don't run out of time, we may come back to you. Don't leave. Let's see. Next up is Emily Lutz in Graham, Texas, which is south of Wichita Falls.

right, Emil, Emulettes? Yes. Is it? Emma Lutz or Emily? What is it here? Well, I have so many names. The last name was actually Lute. Oh, Lute.

So I was wrong again, so I couldn't be more wrong. Okay. And how is Wichita Falls, South of Wichita Falls right now? Are there cicadas coming to kill you all like the R Us? No, I haven't. The mosquitoes are so bad and so big. They're like terracos. It's awful.

Well, what would you like to ask? I'm happy to be here for you. Okay. So, if you went on the radio and you never made it in the radio, what do you think that you would be doing now? If you weren't famous. Well, first I got to say, I still don't consider myself famous. That's a weird, that's a weird thing.

I don't know. I always thought that even before, first of all, I'm lucky enough to have always known what I wanted to do, right? I mean, since I was in kindergarten, they were like, what do you want to be? Well, I want to be on the radio and on TV and a comedian.

And I've done that, right? So it's hard for me to go, well, if I wasn't, but I would think I would be creating something, probably like advertising, like, you know, not selling, because I suck at selling, but like creating campaigns,

advertising campaigns, something like that. If it were completely non-creative, ooh, like a bodybuilder, probably. Maybe. I mean, that's just such a tough one because I only have ever seen myself do one thing. So I'd go, I'd go that.

Let's see, I would, seriously, I would go. Like, creative, like, campaign guy. And then I would maybe go, because I can't be a writer because I'd do that. I mean, I'd probably work at the mill in Mountain Pine. Honestly, you know, we had a sawmill and that's where everybody went to work. So that's where my stepdad worked. I'd probably just done that and, you know, lived in Mount Pine and had a family. been super happy. So yeah, that's what I would say. What is your second question?

Okay. Second question, if you could ask anyone one question, who would it be, and what would you ask? Well, I think, and you can talk this out with me, Mike, I think I would want to know something that people are dying to know. Okay. It wouldn't be selfish, like something that only I want to know, but like, what's a crime that we could talk to somebody that's still alive and they know the answer or like a conspiracy? like, you know, maybe you go to Trump or Obama and go, hey, you have to tell me what you know about aliens. Like, I'm sure you know some crap and you can't tell us. Like, I would go at that instead of, you know, go to Garth Brooks and be like, what would you, when you wrote, you know, River, you know,

what were you thinking? It'd probably be something like that. Like, who probably knows some conspiracy crap that, and if they have to answer it correctly too. Yeah. Like, they have to tell the truth. But aliens interest me? The moon landing?

Yeah, I just think that was real. I don't only think they're keeping anything from us about the moon. So I don't think I would go with that. Like, what else? Would somebody know about the JFK assassination that's still alive today? I think we've kind of aged out of that a little bit. Yeah. To where most of those folks are dead now that would know.

Somebody has to know. Yeah. Did you ever watch, yeah, you watched it. The second season? of Umbrella Academy, where they go. Yeah. Probably that. And maybe that's not my answer,

but I would want to know something that everybody wants to know. Like Tom Brady, did you really, you know, make those footballs deflate on purpose? You know, something that America would go, thank God we finally got the answer to that. All right. Thank you for that. Let's see here.

If my voice is shot right now, that's because I've been doing like three hours of press for Breaking Bobby Bones, which is out May 31st. I've been doing interviews with folks for, and what's weird about those interviews is that it's honestly the same question over and over again. So I'll just go down and I'll do Zooms with people,

and they'll go like, all right, so-and-so here they are from, I'll just give an example, People magazine. And they're like, hey, so tell me about this episode over the Grand Canyon. And I'm like, well, and then tell me about, you know, why you created the show. And I go, well, and like, what did you learn from it? And I go, well, and then you finish and you go to the next one. And the first question is, tell me, it's the same, like, series of questions for the most part. And you start in your head to go, oh, my God, am I repeating myself?

Have I answered that question already in this? And so there's got to be an interview out there somewhere where I've answered the same question three times and not realize that's what I've been doing. You change it up at all or just go the same. You kind of just get in a rhythm. And you start to get tired. After about 90 minutes, I just get tired. And not in the way of throwing it back. Step-Dow work through the sawmill.

Not that kind of tired. But mentally, you're just like, I don't know if I'm just doing the same thing over and over again. and I'm starting to wear down. In the middle, sometimes of a sentence, I won't remember how I started the sentence, and I don't know where I'm going. And I'm like, yeah, so, you know, I really hope people feel good about it.

That's kind of how I end anything when I'm confused. I'm going, I just hope people feel good about it. So that's what I've been, if my voice is a little burnt out, that's why. Let's go to Alicia Marie in Princeton, Massachusetts. Alicia Marie, where are you? Hi. Say hi, Alicia Marie.

Are you in a B-team shirt? I am. Hey, thank you very much. Thank you. It's really good to meet you. So what is Princeton, Massachusetts? Where is that, what's that by? So we're like an hour west from Boston.

So like when you were at North Hampton, we're like an hour away. So that's more wet. So we're like an hour from that. So we're kind of in the middle. Got it. And you listen on what station? 1017 the bull. See, it's a bull.

But mostly on. Is that what it is? Yeah. If you would have just asked, I'd have been like, that's the bull, obviously. Or I would have just made it up on the air. Like going back to Emily's question, I'd have been like, yeah, no. Oh, that's, you know, country 102. Because that's another thing you can do is you can just go, yeah, country 107.

And they're like, no, it's the bull. Like, no, but it's a country station. So I call it country 107. Like, yeah, it's a good point. It's a good point. Alicia, what would you like to ask? So my first question is about the show. So whenever I'm trying to get friends or, you know, trying to be, oh, listen to this

radio station, you know, the show that I love to hear, I always will, like, find a podcast with lunchbox and guess the wait because it's just so funny. So I'm wondering, is that like gone or do you think we might see that? No, I think it'll come back. I mean, the big bits that we do on our show are pretty cyclical, meaning they'll be around for a few months, and then sometimes we don't get back to it for a year or two years, if it starts to burn.

Or, honestly, selfishly, I sometimes just get bored. And I'm just like, you know what, let's give everybody a break. But no, that'll happen again. also there are some people are starting to get upset at that segment and when people start to get like really irritated at something if I can feel like some unneeded drama coming and I'm pretty bored I just go you know what

I'm just going to shelve it for now and we'll get back to it later because I'd rather not have there be a news story about it then we have to shelve it forever and so and that was just that bit started off as a bit because I would see circus people on TV going, if I can't guess your weight, I'll eat my hat. And we all were doing it,

and lunchbox was really good at it. Because it started as a bit as we all were guessing people's weights. And this is, you know, 15 years ago. And he would almost never miss. We were like, what is happening here? And so that became a bit in itself. But you guys know how folks are. They get upset about everything.

And once we start to kind of get, you know, punched in the gut. four or five times in a row. I go, you know what, I'm going to get out of this fight for a second. We'll come back to it. But that's it. That segment will be back for sure. Okay, great.

Yeah, but it's just a funny one. Thank you. Yeah. And then I have another question for you. I know you love The Office and I do too. And I was wondering, what is your most favorite episode of The Office and why? Well, I got two. I do love the episode where Michael Scott burns his foot on the George Foreman Grill.

And, you know, Dwight wrecks the car going to get him and he has a concussion. and so that and then I love Scott's Tots because everybody hates it so much it is so cringy any show they can make you feel but then there are also certain parts of episodes like Jim and Pam's wedding

it doesn't matter how many times they come down the aisle to Chris Browns forever and they're like you know and they secretly go and get married on the boat and when Michael leaves at the airport when Pam goes through

and you know he takes his mic off and you know those episodes are really great but if I had to pick I would go Forman Grill and Scott's tides. And also let me say, who is the little squirt behind you there? Oh, this is Bradley.

He'd love to listen to you too. We wanted to say hi. Hey, Bradley, you like the band, you too? You like you too, the band? Why do you like Bono so much? I'm just kidding, buddy. Hey, what's your name, Bradley? Yeah.

Bradley, how old are you? Six years old. Did you have school today? Yes. How did it go? Good. You are such a talker. Let me tell you.

I've met some kids that can talk, but you are, you take the cake at communication, my friend, for being six years old. You rock, man. Thank you. Thank you. What's your favorite, what's your favorite subject in school?

I like, um, doing math and stuff. Nice. I do not like doing math and stuff. That's why I'm doing, that's why I'm talking on a Zoom to your mom right now. All right,

buddy, good to meet you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thank you. Thank you, Alicia. All right, let's go over to Tyler in Elkton, Maryland. Tyler, is that right? Elkton, Maryland.

Elkton, that's right. What's Elkton near? So Elkton is in the northeasternmost part of Maryland, basically halfway between Baltimore and Philly. I feel like Tyler should do NPR. This week on NPR, why cicadas may be killing you in your sleep. That's right.

Tyler, what do you do for a living? So I actually work in the medical field. I'm an engineer, the company I work for, we design and manufacture medical devices for open heart surgeries, things like that. Dang, do you ever get to go on like a field day where you go watch that happen? Like, all right, everybody get together. We're going to go watch old Timmy get open heart surgery. I actually did.

When I first started, I went to a hospital in Virginia, and we got to go up to the big observatory and witness a quadruple bypass with our products. I was going to say, yeah, we all got to take a scalpel and take a little cut. and Tyler, what's your question? So I had a question just kind of about country music in general. I listen to several different types of genres of music, but country is something I really just absolutely fell in love with over the past like six or seven years.

But I noticed like out of the people around me, some close friends in mine, a lot of people don't get it or they don't like the genre, and some of the biggest complaint I the complaints I hear is that it's all just pandering and just stereotypes like it's all about just driving your truck down the dirt road and drinking beer you know

and I was just wondering for someone who is so closely involved in the industry and as somebody who I know is a fan of other genres of music is there something about the country genre that really just kind of sets itself apart from other genres or how would you kind of pitch it to somebody who is not a fan? First, I would say that I think your friends are right in a way. I think there's a lot of pandering in country,

but there's also a lot of pandering in hip-hop. There's a lot of pandering in pop. There is always a small sect, SECT, of pandering, kind of at the surface level of any format, because that's the low-hanging fruit, and people are oftentimes chasing the low-hanging fruit because it's the easiest to get and they want to eat now. They're not worried about, you know, long-term success.

So what's getting to your friends are those extremely commercial pandering songs. And if you don't listen to country music, that's all you hear. It's hard for me to hate that you feel that way because you just haven't been exposed to good stuff. Luckily for me, I grew up in a place where I was exposed to country music from forever ago. You know, my grandmother had me thinking country music was Andy Griffith gospel records, Ray Charles, Modern Towns of Country Music, Johnny Cash, because he was from Arkansas, way twitty because he was from Arkansas. Like I had country music that I grew up and I was told that was current until I realized it really wasn't current and there was real country music.

But even some of that stuff was crap, right? So just to stick up for your friends a little bit, all right. But some of my friends listen to hip hop only hear some of the absolute most pandering hip-hop stuff too where hip-hop, like, well, they always call it all women a B-word and why are they always that's part of it? It's not the part that I enjoy. Same thing with pop music. So I would say that you have a point And yes, there's a lot of that in all music And even all art You know, it's just people wanting to get paid mostly

And I get it How would I pitch it? I pitch country music as the ultimate songwriter's genre Because sonically, it's shifting It has been and always will And there will always, from the beginning of country music Until the earth explodes, you're going to have most people go Well, that ain't country.

People only say that because it's not the same country that they grew up listening to. but I would say country music and singer-songwriter music kind of folk, that's pure songwriter. It's about words, it's about message, it's about authenticity. And if you can get past whatever bias you have about the people that listen or sing country music, I think it is actually the format with the most depth. So, you know, it's going to be hard to convince somebody just because they see people in cowboy hats and they see, you know, people on tractors,

and that's a part of it. And heck, I like some of it. But, you know, you really have to get them with some fringe type stuff and then bring them in. If they're rock people, you got to get them on some brothers Osborne.

You got to slip in some brothers Osborne in the middle of some whatever other classic rock or whatever they're listening to and not tell them as country music. And they go, dang this go, what is that? It's country music, idiot? You know, you don't do that

because then they'll really hate it. But I think it's Casey Musgraves. You know, some of her new, stuff. I think it's kind of saying, hey, follow me, kid, get in the van. You know, it's kind of doing that with country music, with stuff that just isn't mandolin and banjos and bring them over to that.

Because I love mandolin and banjo, but if I'd never been exposed to it, I would just think of he-haw and think that's what it's all about. That's a great question. I appreciate you asking that. And don't get me started on people to go, well, that ain't country. Because there's a whole, I have this whole TikTok that I've gathered all the information for, I just haven't done it yet. Did you know at one point in the last 50, 60 years, the drums were, it's like if you play the drums, that ain't country. They weren't even allowed at the Grand Ole Opry.

The drums! And there was a whole group of people that were like, the drums aren't country. That ain't country. Using drums, that ain't country. And it is slowly transitioned. The first time they plugged in a steel guitar, they were like, no, no, no, you can't plug in a steel guitar. That ain't country. Waylon Jennings, well, how he dresses, you know, what is messages.

That ain't country. and you can go, I've talked to Garth. Garth said people told him that he sucked and he wasn't country. Sam Hunt, he says that. And just because it's a little different doesn't mean it's not country. And in five years we'll look back and be like, yeah, Sam Hunt's country.

I don't know what this guy here is on the hoverboard that also yodels in this song. That ain't country. But then it will be, so you get it. Okay, give me another question, Tyler. Yeah, just to kind of add on to that, that's what really drew me to the, the genre in the first place, how it's constantly evolving.

And something like the 70s might not sound, you know, it might sound completely different from something today. But it's all revolving around lyrical storytelling. But anyway, yeah, my second question, I'll make it a quick one. It's about the books that you've written. I actually have your first book that you wrote. I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the second one failing until you don't.

And I know that you've written the children's book about Stanley. my question was do you think that writing is something that you plan on continuing and then also maybe what initially inspired you to begin writing? Well, first of all, thank you for reading that book. I'm going to send you a copy. I'm going to sign the second one to someone over to you after this. So I'll have Mike D get your address. Until you don't. Yeah, I'll send you.

Oh, I appreciate that. That's awesome. I'll sign it up and send it to you. So am I going to write more? Like, I don't think I'm very good at writing. I think I'm fine. I think I can, like, I don't think people like my writing. I think people hopefully like my message and like where I come from.

I'm not going to win any writing awards. So do I, I don't know. I mean, I didn't want to write the second book. I wrote the first one. Couldn't believe of such a success. They said, hey, we're going to pay to write another one. And I knew why, not because they cared what I wrote, but just because people bought it. And I was like, I don't want to write one just to write a second book.

And so I didn't for years. And they were like, come on. let's give you some money. I was like, man, I don't want the money because I would rather, you know, not get paid a little now. And I didn't want to put out crap and have to be ashamed of it and be like, dang, and I already spent the money. That would have been in my mind. Like the book wasn't good and I already spent the money. And now this book is still out there.

I don't want to be embarrassed about it forever. So I didn't write it. I didn't write a second book forever. And then I did a TED talk. They said, hey, will you come and speak? What would you speak on? And I said, well, I would do a talk on winning by losing. They were like, what do you mean?

Well, I was like, well, all the losses, all the setbacks you have actually teaches you. And if you're able to hang in there through the losses and through the setbacks, like, that's where you're gaining your information and gaining your strength. People don't realize that, though. Like, they're actually winning by losing. And they were like, well, that's interesting. Why don't you give that talk? And so, I don't know if I've revealed this before, but wrote it. And I had, I might draw the images for that TED talk.

And if you go watch the, if you go watch the YouTube video, you see me flicking through the pictures and I'm like, hey, here's this picture, here's this picture. And one of the words, you remember the word? Oh, it's the success? Whatever the word was, might misspelled a word. And we didn't even notice it until like six months later. And I think people just thought that I was messing up the word on purpose

because that's kind of my brand to just be unapologetically dumb in a smart way. Even that I just made up real quick. People go, yeah, yeah, yeah. But there was a big misspelling on the slide that's 10 feet tall over my head. and I message Mike to YouTube video and I went hey I think you misspelled that and I missed you misspelling that

and it's up there and it's a big misspelled word and nobody ever really caught us yeah they didn't even when they saw the slides they didn't even check off on it no one ever said anything so I don't know

I think the Stanley book's gonna be good we just okayed the cover yesterday the process with that is it's so much drawing and I don't draw the same reason Mike draw the pictures drew the pictures for my TED talk I don't draw at all

I'm terrible at drawing. And so I wrote the story, kind of gave guidance to what I wanted the pictures to look like. But my illustrator is so good, but it takes a long time to get those pictures right. And so that's why it's not going to be until next year until the book comes out. I told Caitlin too, I was like, hey, it's a kid's a book. We should probably hurry up and have a kid. Oh. Like at the same time.

Have a kid in a book at the same time. Like, whatever, at least that would be, like a double feature. How did you feel about that? She didn't much care for that, that plan. She thought, you know, we should have a kid whenever we're ready to have a kid and not base it around a kid's book coming out. the release date. Not the way to do it. Yeah, I was like, well, if we have a release date, we can go back, you know, we can even

be a month early. Okay. You can hold it in, you know? But who knows? If I have something to say, all right. If I have something really, something I want to say forever, all right. If I have something I want to say, I'll just get on here and say it. But I appreciate that.

And at the end of this, be sure to email with Mike. You have his email? I got his email. I will send you a book, Tyler. I appreciate that question. All right. Last but not least. it looks like to me, Tara or Teresa?

So it's Tara on Facebook, but it's Teresa. I put Tara on Facebook because I'm a middle school teacher and they try to sign my social media constantly. So I use my childhood nickname on my Facebook for friends and family and then Teresa is my official name. Well, let me officially say, Teresa, to your official name, thank you for being here. and you are on your classroom right now.

Is school over? Yes, it ended at 4.15, so I didn't have, literally, so I didn't have time to go home. So I'm just doing for my classroom. And so how was school today? It was good. This year's kind of, you know, crazy because I'm still teaching partially virtual, partially blended and partially in person. So it's been crazy and it's the end of the year.

But it was good. It's as good as the last two weeks of school can be. And how long? have you been teaching school? This is my eighth year. Wow. Was the last year just a crazy challenge for you? Was it so hard, or did you kind of get into it and understand the virtual part of it quicker

than you thought? I think both. It was suddenly thrown out of us and the kids were learning with us. So we made a lot of mistakes. It gave us the ability to understand that the kids needed grace because we also needed grace. So I think it was the good kind of mindset for us, reality check. Are you guys having to like double teach now, though, because maybe they missed some stuff last year,

or are you still on the same sort of stuff you'd be doing period? We're still on the same stuff that we would have been doing period. But I think next year is going to really be the year that we're going to have to fill in a lot of gap. All right. Well, I commend you for your work. Dang, I can never be a teacher. Okay, Teresa, what would you like to ask? Okay, so my first question was obviously for, I was thinking about my students.

What could I ask me students that would benefit them? And I was like, what advice would you give to eighth graders? You know, especially my school's a fairly low-income school. It's a title one. So I'm thinking like, what can you do? But then I've been listening to you since I was in middle school. So I'm like, he was going to say, show up on time. Then I was in the email, just trying, trying until you're successful, like all

And I was like, well, I could tell them that. So my question is more from a teacher perspective. Like, did you have a teacher who was really influential to you? And, like, what made them so memorable to you so that I can, you know, how to point is for my kids. As someone who came from, you know, like the lower school to someone of great success, what was that teacher like for you? Well, let me answer your first question that you didn't ask a little as well.

In eighth grade, and you can't tell them. them this probably, but I would tell them to deodorant is so important. Like, it's way more important than you're giving it credit for because in 6th, 7th, eighth grade, you don't really value it because

the smell, but some kids hasn't come on at all. Some people kids don't even know. You know this, Teresa. I mean, and me, I grew up, I was kind of a dirty kid just because we couldn't always clean our clothes. So I would just, if you wear deodorant, and I would also tell them if they need

help, ask for it because people will help you. Like sometimes you get embarrassed to ask for help, but if you literally need help, people will help you because if they know what your goal is, they can help you do that. If they don't know, they can't help you do that. So if you're struggling or if you want to do more, I would just say ask. I say that to adults too. Like, you want helping something, ask for it. I love to help people. And sometimes I don't know who wants help. And I'm over here like, dang, I would love to have helped you. I could, but same with me, as I've gotten older, I realize that if I have a goal or I want something, I let people know my goal. And maybe they do nothing. Maybe they care none. I'm at the same place that they care none.

But if they happen to care a little bit, that's amazing. That's a bonus. That's a free step that I get to have. So that's what I would say to answer the first one. But you're right. I would have said all that other flabber jabber first. What was the second part of your question? What was the second part of your question? What was the teacher? What was the teacher? Okay. I'm glad you asked. I had a teacher who won't say her name and they're influential in two different ways but she told me that I will never be on the radio

because I have an accent and I talk too fast and don't have a good radio voice and I remember being in like 10th grade going what are you talking about even if that's true why are you telling me this you're trying to shut down my dreams we did a play and I was the voice of some cat

and she was like and you want to be on the radio, you're not a good speaker. And I was like, okay, even if you think that's true, I remember thinking this. Why would you tell me that right now? I'm in my impressionable years. And so I don't think that she was saying that to keep me out of chasing my dream, but I don't think she should have said it because I was a 10th grader trying to find my

place. So that really hit me in a weird bad way, and I still remember that. And that you should never tell people what they can't do. help them do what they want to do, what they can do. And as far as a teacher that taught me the most, I mean, my head football coach was Coach Vic Gandalf, and it wasn't so much classroom, but it was, you know, him always being able, if needed,

to, after school at football practice, to be able to be, hey, can I ask a couple questions, can I, you know, will you spend a little extra time with me for practice or, heck, even at times history, he taught history. I was like, hey, I'm struggling a little bit here because I wasn't paying attention. What is, what is this? It was just availability was such a thing, but also not just he was available that he let it be known he was available.

And for someone that didn't have any consistency in his life, that was me growing up, no consistency whatsoever. If it was food or clothes or money or sometimes living situations, for there to be a consistent influence and at times you'd be annoyed like I get it you're available like you'll leave me alone um that to me was massive it wasn't somebody going go reach your dreams kid that didn't happen where I was from but it was him going hey if you need me I'm here and also you're doing great but also at times you're doing terrible so I trusted the fact that he could tell me when I wasn't doing well that meant I trusted him when he told me I was doing well um so I would say that being especially

with a school like you teach like you're at those kids don't have a lot of consistency and having someone that can be there for them consistently, even if it's just a, you know, a teacher at school going, hey, if you guys need me, like, and you're struggling, you're hurting, I'm here. You don't have to come. You have to talk to me, but I'm just here. So I would say that.

I think that's been one of the hardest parts about being virtual is I can't be there for my students like I normally am. So that is one of the hardest parts of virtual. Well, you just teaching is, I mean, And caring, I would think there, and I know this, because I know some teachers, that after six, seven, eight, nine, ten years, you start to get a bit jaded by the whole thing and not care as much so that you even ask that question shows you still care. So I just, I think that's fantastic.

So thank you for asking that question. Thank you. So my next question is more because, um, so I, if I were to compare you and Caitlin to your TV show couple, just from what I've heard, in my mind, I picture Leonard and Vinny from the Big Bang Theory. if you were to compare yourself yourself as a couple to a TV show couple what would you choose for yourself

well that's funny but I don't like that one why not because I don't want to be Leonard that's funny though I'll tell her that she'll think that's funny she'll think that's funny Chandler and Monica maybe in a way you know but

I like that but also with I mean Monica's pretty funny but Caitlin is so much funnier than I am. She, for everything that I have been celebrated or rewarded for, she's better at it, which just sucks sometimes. Because I'm like,

oh, it does doing this. It was really funny. She's like, oh, what if you would have done this? It had been funnier. And I'm like, God, you're right. But she just doesn't have the need

to let the world see it all the time. She's not, you know, screaming to get it. And we talk about this. And I mentioned this on the show before, that she grew up in a very loving home. So she does. doesn't need to go out and chase love in other places.

Parents love her. They're still together. She's very close with them. Her brother or her sister. Like they are, it is just quite the nucleus there. It's so foreign for me to go and see and do. Where I, it wasn't the situation. I didn't, I didn't have a lot of love at home. I didn't have a lot of people that were there for me that told me they loved me. So at a young age, I started chasing love through performance. And then if I was funny enough, people would go, yay, we clap. And I would be like, oh, they like me. And then, They clap a lot. Oh, they love me.

So then I would get on the radio and I'd go tell jokes and I would do this and that. So I chase love that way. But she's so funny. She doesn't care about getting love from it. She's just naturally that. Where I obviously do, I'm getting better at it. That has always been what I thrived, was finding love in other places. I'm getting a little better of finding love at home now.

I even told her that. I was like, hey, I don't, I still care. I want to be extremely successful. don't care to be famous anymore. I think there was a time when it was like, I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm just going to be famous. I like to be successful

because I like to prove it can be done. Like I like a wall, I like for someone to tell me, there's no way for you to get the side of that wall. And I'm like, all right, well, let's see if I can climb it. Nope.

All right, let's see if I can walk through it. Nope. Okay, let's see if I can burn it down. Like, I like trying to figure out how to, how to accomplish things. So,

it's probably, Penny, and that's what sucks. Like, the more I think about it, the more you're right on. That sucks. But that's actually a funny question. All right.

Well, my screen was telling me we were about over, but we've done almost 45 minutes here, huh, Mike? Yeah. Let me say this. You guys have been great.

Thank you so much for spending a few minutes with me because, you know, we're all on a Zoom. We've probably all been on Zoom's too much the past year and the fact that you guys would hop on and ask a couple questions.

I greatly appreciate that. So thank you guys. Alicia, Teresa, Tyler, Emily, Emma Lutz. Lutes? Lutes? Lutes?

Yeah. Emma Lutes? I appreciate that. So, thank you guys. Hope you guys have an awesome day. And maybe you'll get famous. Maybe this will go viral. Maybe.

Yeah. That would get famous. Yeah. All right. Bye, guys. Have a great day. All right. If you have ever dealt

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