The Bobby Bones Show - (Fri Full) Maren Morris In-Studio Talks About How Her Fans Help Pick Her Next Songs and TV Shows + Lunchbox Thinks He's Helping People Win The Lottery + Listener Needs Wedding Advice With Their Mother-In-Law.

Episode Date: September 23, 2022

Maren Morris is in-studio! She shares how her fans help her pick out the next song she should make a single, what her and her husband, Ryan Hurd, are currently watching on TV and how her Humble Quest tour is going! Plus, Amy shares an update about some lottery winners and Lunchbox is convinced he's the reason they won so they should share their winnings with him. We give our thoughts.  Then we help a listener who called in to share that her mother-in-law is trying to ruin her wedding. We give advice! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Morning studio. Morning. All right. Here we go. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, he's been wearing Elvis hat a lot lately. He's always loved Elvis Presley, but I feel like the movie is reignited his Elvis love. Our video producer, Eddie.

Hey, thank you very much. You're welcome very much. I want to shout out my nine-year-old because he's awesome. He got a homework assignment yesterday, and it wasn't, it's not even due to till Monday. And he came to me last night before I went to bed and said, Dad, I'm done with my project. Check it out. I'm like, wow, I wish all the boys

like, just take note. I called all the kids downstairs, take note. Look what he did. I bet they love that. Oh, they hated it. I bet they love him right now. They're probably making fun of them right now. But he's the old. No, nine, he's not the oldest. Wow. I bet the oldest really hated that. Oh, dude, he was just like, oh, cool, dad. Who cares? Like, what it? Because the oldest, he's always late.

They're always turned in like a day late. Is your nine-year-old completely different, though, in that respect? 100% different. Like on time places. Yeah. He's the first one up in the morning. It's crazy how you can have different personalities. Yeah.

And I don't know who he gets that from. I think me, probably. No, I don't think. On time? Yeah, I don't think you at all. All right, next up, he wants me to introduce him tonight to The Miz. He's a big real world fan. Not really a wrestling fan, but it's all real world based.

Yeah, real world back to New York. And I'll be with The Miz tonight apparently. I've never met him before at the IHeartRadio Music Festival. Here he is. Lunchbox, everybody. I just want to say good luck to my wife as this weekend she ventures to go to her 20-year high school reunion. And I want her to walk in that wherever it's at. I don't know if it's a bar, restaurant at the high school gymnasium.

And I want all those guys to be like, man, we had a dime piece right here in front of us all these years. And we let her get away. And she married a celebrity. So, hey, good luck. hasn't he said recently she's past her prime? Uh-huh. Well, yeah, but they still can realize, dang, we had that dime piece here. and she married a celebrity.

So she was pretty dang hot. What is the dime piece? Yeah, what is that? So what's a dime piece? A perfect 10. 10. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

So I don't know. I don't speak that. What's the cooler compliment that they say look at the dime piece or she married a celebrity? That's what he's trying to say. Married a celebrity. I think. But both are cool. Both are awesome.

But yeah, I mean, it's a big deal. 20 year high school reunion. So have fun. All right, there he is. Next up. You know, we all mostly were peddive. phones for a living. And Amy's the only person who the last couple of years, she's never wavered from the $2 pair of corded Apple Airbuds from iPhone 6. All right, here she is.

Okay, so butterboards are all the rage right now. So if you happen to be hosting something at your house, I highly recommend you Google this and check it out. It's like a chakutery board. Like a slip and slide? Meat and cheese normally. But no, you get like wooden block or board and you spread butter all over it. Different butters? You can do different butters, yeah. One butter seems weird. I would just eat the butter. Well, what I've seen on TikTok

is it covers the whole board and butter, but then you can season it in different sections with like different herbs and salt and spices and whatnot. So in honey, make a sweet version of it and then serve it with different types of bread. And voila, you have a butterboard, which is also a conversation starter because a lot of people probably haven't seen a butterboard.

Yeah, I'm still working on NyQuil chicken. After that, I'll get to the butterboards. This is real and safe. Over there. All right. From Mountain Pine, Arkansas. He likes a good virgin drink, and every weekday morning, he makes you think. Bobby Boggy!

Wow! We get better and better! Okay. So, I'm going to tell you about a little scam. And I almost, I kind of fell for it, but I stopped myself just in time. So I keep my personal email box extremely clean. I don't even check my work email. I don't know what's been over there.

The only person who occasionally checks is Mike D. I'm like, hey, well, you check that work email? My personal email, I don't like any junk. I don't get anything. delete, flag, unsubscribe. A new scam is you'll get one of those and you'll unsubscribe, but it's set up perfectly like that. So when you hit unsubscribe, it takes you to a bad link.

Oh, no. So the email is not to actually be read. It's to make you want to unsubscribe because it's annoying. When you hit unsubscribe, that link is actually a link to a place that steals your information. And when I hit it, it goes, are you sure you want to go to this site? And I was like, this is a brilliant way to steal someone's. And I said, no, I don't. But I remembered that to tell you guys about it.

Thank you, man. So if you hit unsubscribe, if you even unsubscribe, I don't know. If you hit that and it goes, we don't trust this website. Don't go to it. It's a new scam. There you go. A little PSA here. Good to know.

But also, that was a brilliant one. They're going to get us. They're going to get us eventually. I'm starting to think I've already fallen for that one. Uh-oh. All right, guys, welcome to the show. Big guests today, a lot of games. Let's open up the mailbag.

You send an email and we read it on the air. It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag. Hello, Bobby Bones. Last week, my fiancé got into a road rage incident with my boss. Ooh. That's not good. Ooh. My fiance is not pleased to know that I'm working for a hothead.

And while he's at the point where he can move on, it seems like a huge red flag to experience such unprofessional and flat out rude behavior from someone I work for. What should I do? Should I find a new job? Keep this on the back burner? Go above them? Thanks so much.

New to the West. New to this job. Let's go to the road rage expert Well Eddie road rage is like crazy Whoa whoa whoa I'm like a highway vigilante You're not a vigilante It's not your job

It's not your job to shut people down or yell at people Like if someone's passing people real quick I just get on the other lane and slow him down a little bit But that's not your job I like that That could also cause an accident So I don't think you quit your job Because of what your boss did in a personal setting

If he's not assaulting Like I don't know It just so happened it was your fiance If we couldn't be friends or work with people that did have road rage, I can work with Eddie. But he doesn't bring that into this room. No, I'm very peaceful here. Yeah, you're peaceful in every other part of your life.

But what if he roadraged Caitlin? That's a good example. Then I would just beat him up and be like, all right, see tomorrow at work. And then we can move on? Yeah, yeah. Turn the page. I guess it depends if he knew it was Caitlin or not. If he didn't and he was just being road ragey, I would be like, well, that's Eddie.

Okay. But I don't think you go and you look for a new job. I think it's awkward. And you have that talk, hey, you have my fiancee got a little incident at work. Sorry about that. and you move on. I just feel like if the tables were flipped and it was the employee doing that to the boss, the boss would be like, I don't want my employee doing that.

You're out of here. No, you don't fire somebody for road rage when it has nothing to do with work. You never say like, man, you mess with the wrong guy today. I'm your boss and you're out. No, I've never said that, Eddie. Yeah, ever am I home ever being a boss. Ever. Never.

Okay. I think if it happens out of work and it's not somebody drunk driving or it's a crime or you just let it be considered out of work. Man, he bumper tap. I know, I can't. It's like the guy who punched the hole through the windshield a few days ago. The back windshield. I can't believe that happens.

The people do that. Beyond a meet guy. Yeah, don't bumper tap. Don't be road ragey because you never know who's got a gun. Yeah. But I don't think it's something that affects you at work as far as you having to pick a new job. Just have that awkward conversation. Hey, I'm sorry that happened between you guys.

He is sorry. And then just get out of there. Get out of the office and go to your job. Don't quit. Anybody argue with that? No. You can't quit. It didn't happen at work.

And he also, again, again, wasn't drunk driving. He didn't get a DUI. It wasn't one of those situations. Okay, thank you. That's the email. Close it up. We got your email and we read it on the air. Now it's about to close. Bobby's mailback.

It's time for Fun Fact Friday. Fun Fact Friday. Amy, what's your fun fact of the week? Well, Jessica Simpson developed an addiction to nicotine because she thought Nicorette was regular gum. Crazy. She would just chew it. Oh, man.

And then she was addicted. That's crazy. That's crazy. I wonder if it tastes better, if it tastes like a tingle. I never had it. I don't want to try because I don't want to get the nicotine fit. Dang, that's unfortunate because she didn't know, right? No.

Eddie, which fun fact. Bones, how far do you think Russia is from Alaska? Now, be honest with me. 90 miles. Right? That sounds about right. Nope, it's 2.5 miles. There are pieces of islands that are so close to each other that one,

belongs to Russia and two and a half miles away, there's an Alaskan island. And sometimes the ocean freezes right there. You can walk right across. Really? Yeah. Yeah. To the other island. It just feels so far away, but it's like the Caribbean in Florida or like Cuba. Oh yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You like do rock and land over there. It's like 60 miles or something. Yeah, that's still close. It's very close. It's very close. All right, let's go to Ramundo. Ramundo. Yeah, you should always brew your coffee and make it at a temperature you can drink right away because within two minutes, you lose 70% of the coffee bean flavor. So you see somebody sucking on it all day?

Pretty much flavorless. Or I guess if it's so hot, they have to let it sit. Right, that's not smart. Never thought about that. I could not know that. Okay, Morgan. The Golden Girls were supposed to have a different theme song. The show's producers wanted to use Bet Midler's song Friends,

but the rights to the song were too expensive. I don't know that song. I don't either. Oh, Ray? Got a clip? But you got to have friends. Two things. One, kind of a jam. That could have worked.

Never heard it, but kind of a jam. And two, I like how Morgan calls for a clip. Ray, Clep. Ray, Clep. That's funny. Thank you, Morgan. Turn that up. It's our new theme song now.

That works, though. That would work. Oh, yeah. I like that sound. And finally, my fun fact, George R.R. Martin is the guy that invented, created Game of Thrones, wrote it. Made tons of money.

Massive, right? He doesn't really spend a bunch of his money. He did buy two houses on the same street in Santa Fe, NFAT New Mexico, one to live in, and another house right beside it to put all his toys and collectibles. Wow. That's splurgeon. Because you know the guy that wrote Game of Thrones got a lot of collectibles. Uh-huh.

Fun Fat Friday. Yay! It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. So we're going to go back to the end of last semester before summer break. This girl is at the University of Tampa and has to fly home to New York for the summer. Well, she has this pet betafish, Theo.

and when she gets to the Southwest ticket counter, they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, you can't fly with the fish. Sorry, it's not going to work. Well, then two Southwest employees tell her, we will take care of your pet fish over the summer, and when you return to college in the fall, we'll give it back to you. That's crazy. Yeah.

You should have hired them to take your fish for it died. Still be here. Yeah, but I'm like 60 bucks richer, that's pretty cool. But shout out to. Yeah, Ishmael and Jamie, they returned the beta fish, Theo safely to Kira. and she's now back at the University of Tampa. Fish is all good all summer long.

It's like it got a little summer vacay. That's pretty cool. Yeah. They also had something fun to talk about at work. And those beta fish are hard to kill. Although, wasn't that the guy you had? Yeah. No, I've heard that too.

They're hard to kill. But Amy did it. Yeah, she did. Well, my tank got a disease. The snails were a bad idea. Now you're blaming it on the tank? The snails maybe released something into the tank. Yeah.

I don't know what happened. It's tragic. Both snails died. The fish died. And it wasn't all at once. We're just happy it didn't spread to the humans. Right. Right.

But hey, Theo's alive. Yes. And well. Those agents are amazing. That's really cool. Southwest. They documented it all on their Twitter, took pictures, update. So it was a very cute story.

That's a great story. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. The Friday morning conversation with Merrin Morris. My question is, when you have to pick a new single, because you write songs, you hear songs all the time, what is that process like for you and for the people? that you're close to to pick a song that you're already so close to for everybody else to hear. Honestly, the fans sort of choose for me now at shows.

Like, I just kind of gauge the volume of the crowd, each song. And especially on new ones, that's kind of how we chose the bones, because that didn't feel like a single to me at first. And then in the shows, it just became like a moment with the fans. So honestly, they kind of helped me choose now, which is nice. Do you ever ask, were they really loud that song? Because if you have ears in, you know, because sometimes if you're listening to the show now, you'll see an artist take something out of their ear.

And most of the time, it's hard to hear the crowd if the ears are in because you're hearing all the instruments, right? Right. Do you ever go, okay, which song were they the loudest because I couldn't hear? Do you have people that will lead you in or are they just so loud for certain songs? We have crowd mics, so I will hear the crowd noise in my ears, which is nice, because it can be really isolating within ears. But yeah, I can actually hear the crowd. and sometimes a little too well.

Like the other night. Hey John, give me a beer. She hears like people talking in the crowd. Oh my God. Someone was so drunk, which like come to the show, have fun. But they were right next to the crowd mic and were so loud in my ear. They obviously didn't know there was a mic next to them.

But yeah, sorry, we're spying on you. So when you picked I Can't Love You anymore, it was because you felt the people loving that song in the crowd. Yeah. And it just, it has such a fun vibe live. And I feel like it's one of those love songs that's kind of kooky and real. I mean, the line that, I mean, obviously I wrote it because it was about Ryan, but you're so good looking. You make me sick.

That felt real to me. That felt conversational. But yeah, I think it just feels good. It's upbeat. I didn't want to pick like a ballad to go into the fall, honestly. There's really no rhyme or reason. I wish I had a science behind it. But it's just a gut.

Can you put me back 2017 before my church became this massive song that we know now? I put it out before I was ever signed to a record label. So it was really like independent released at first when people heard it. And then it just, it kind of like made a huge competition between labels of like who was going to sign me. And I ended up going with Sony. What is that like? Just having people, I mean, I guess you have found it in different ways, but just having people like, We really want you.

We want to show you every way possible. Is that weird? Is it fun? Does it get annoying? No, I mean, I thought it was cool. One of the labels that actually ended up putting in an offer, like, had passed on me several times. So, yeah, it felt kind of, I don't know, I felt vindicated that it really does come down to a song that really gets people excited. And so, you know, it's funny now we're all good.

like that person that passed on me twice has since like said I should have signed you but I yeah everything happened the way it was supposed to put my church out and before it even went to radio like Keith Urban had heard it and he offered me the opening

slot on his ripcord tour that next summer so things were already rolling before it went to radio and then by the time my album hero came out it was like CMA Fest week We were doing Bonaroo, album release. Like, it was a lot of things, like the perfect storm. And I remember that was the week that my church kind of peaked at radio,

I think at seven or eight. So it didn't even go top five. Circles around this town, when you're ever you're putting it out as a single, what was the conversation like? What did you want to say with kind of your re-entrance with the song? Well, I kind of felt like I was just re-entering music again. And so I think it being really autobiographical, writing it with Ryan and like Julia Michaels, who's another songwriter that really understands

that journey of songwriter to artist. Yeah, it just felt like I hate this phrase so much. I'm going to kill myself for saying it out loud. But like getting back to my roots. But it did kind of feel like that. It was like less production, less flash, and just like really telling a story, which I think country music is. It's like storytelling.

So yeah, I think it just felt like a good refreshing. way to get out of pandemic doldrums. And it did that for me. So it felt like a good first step. I always feel like when you come in or when Ryan comes in, we talk about TV shows that we're watching. It's kind of my wife and I's, after we've both been doing whatever for the entire day,

we will have a show depending on the season and we'll sit and watch the show. We're watching House of Dragon, Game of Thrones. Have you watched the patient yet on Hulu? No, but so many people have told me, It's great, and I love Steve Carell, obviously. But they said that my song Circles around this town is in one of the episodes. The murderer's driving in to the house and you hear on his radio,

And I'm like, I know her. I know her. The murderers listening to my friend. He was listening to my song before he went and murdered someone? No, no. He is a serial killer. And he has abducted Steve Carell, who is a therapist to give him therapy to make him stop murdering. But when he's driving back in to the house where Steve Carrell is abducted,

he's blaring your song. Like what an honor to have a murderer. Oh my God. Blaring the song. Yeah, but it's pretty cool. Yeah. I think you'll like the show knowing kind of your taste. Yeah.

But then also, yeah, you hear you, you ever hear your song in a weird place when you're like, oh, I can't believe that's playing there? I mean, that's probably the weirdest. But also such an honor, like a Steve Carell show. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, like, for sure. But I love, like, sometimes when songs get placed in TV shows

that are actually, like, really good and have great soundtracks. Like, it's such a cool thing. But yeah, House of the Dragon, for sure, were invested in. Do you feel like it's easier to follow than Game of Thrones? Because I do. I feel like maybe I know more because I've watched Game of Thrones. But do you feel like they're making the storylines easier for a novice? Oh, for sure.

Because think about how many storylines were going on in Game of Thrones. They were like 50. Now it's just about the Targaryans. And it had a lot of hype, but I feel like it's living up to it. I think it's really good. Yeah. I'm interested with the next episode when they change. like forward in time and they change some of the cast members but um yeah i think they're doing a

great job it's also really weird because that show especially there's like some incest stuff and it's like you know i'm talking about i'm not gonna say too yeah and it's like i don't know if i should be weirded out by this or because it's thousands of years ago or fiction i should maybe not be as well but i was just kind of weirded were you weirded out by it yeah that last episode was so uncomfortable but i'm like okay they're just acting yeah i have to do that too they're not really they're not Really related. They're not really related. But I'm obsessed with that guy that plays Damon, Targaryen, Matt Smith.

He was in The Crown. He's so good at playing a douchebag. People say the same about me, so I completely relate. What else are you watching? Anything else? We started the new season of The Handmaid's Tale last night. That's our same gig, too, like you were saying about Caitlin. It's like we just, when we're off the road, we come home and we put Hayes to bed,

and then we just like cannot wait to watch whatever is popping. Has anybody cheated and watched ahead of time and then not admitted it but then got caught? Or are you guys full integrity with your shows? He watched the premiere of House of the Dragon without me, but I was like on a long tour run. He did save the finale of Better Call Saul for when I got home. So we try to like keep each other honest. Also that show, the rehearsal. Oh yeah.

It's so funny, weird. I feel like you would like that show. I was just so, what's the word? You like really uncomfortable things. I do. I love it. And I watched it. And I thought to myself, I'm so jealous.

I did not think of this. Yeah. And that is like the ultimate compliment. Because I try to create stuff here or on television. And what he had created, I was like, I'm so jealous. I didn't do that. That is perfect. I know.

Do you ever do that with artists? And they have a song that you hear or a record. And you're like, I am so jealous. Not that you want to do it specifically, but you're like how they captured that right then. Oh, yeah, all the time. I have like songwriter envy from the friends that like, I mean, I remember there was a song on the Brothers Osborne album and it was called Weed Whiskey and Willie. And they wrote it with my friend Laura Veltz, who I write a lot of my stuff with.

And I was like, I hate you guys for writing this without me. But also, like, you didn't need me to write it. It's brilliant. But yeah, I think like it just makes you excited to go write the next day. though, because your friends are so freaking talented. It's an odd feeling to have jealousy towards someone, and I can even put this with a friend of mine, but like a happy jealousy, a healthy jealousy, one of my really great friends is Charlemagne the God, who's in New York on the Breakfast Club.

Yeah. And he just kills it. And he's so funny. And he does all these shows. And like, I get healthily jealous. And I text, I'm like, dude, I'm so proud of you. Like, I'm so jealous of that you're getting to do this. And I have never really experienced that because I don't think I was healthy until.

the last few years. Do you have any artist friends that you get healthy jealous of because they kill it? And you're like, I'm so proud for you. And also, man, that's so cool. Yeah, for sure.

Or they all jealous of you. That's probably what it is. I got it. Either way. No, I think there's definitely people that I have always looked up to that I'm also friends with. And I feel like, yeah,

if there's any, like, anything beyond just healthy competition, it's just so lame. And we can't, like, be on a group thread anymore. So, yeah, I definitely, like, it's a smaller group now than it was, like probably six years ago, but I think it's because we really don't care about the fame part of it or the flashy parts. It sounds so cliche, but like I don't, I think the people

I keep the closest do not care about those things. They care about like, did you stand up for something or were you brave or did you say something in a song that like, I wish I could have said. Marin Morris is here with us and she'll be performing this weekend at our I Heart Ready Music Festival. Luke Combs, the Black Keys, Ella, Pull J, there's so much. You can watch our festival today and tomorrow. Watch for free on the CW app or at cwtv.com. Show starts at 10, 9 p.m. Central.

And you're doing shows all the way up until December. So you're still on the road? You're still doing it all, huh? Yeah, we've been on the West Coast the last couple weeks. We're doing Hollywood Bowl and Red Rocks in a few weeks. And then we end our whole run at Bridgestone here in Nashville. So it'll be fun to end the tour on like a hometown show. Well, keep on.

I love what you're doing. And you know, I'm a big fan. Love the new song. And you guys go see Marin. Marin Morris.com and she'll be at our IHartRadie Music Festival this weekend. All right, Marin, good to see you. There she is. Marin Morris, everybody.

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It's a brand new season of easy trivia, where our champion is putting on his tiara. Lunchbox is the champion. You hear that? That's the ground, the crown. Round is in the building. All right, easy trivia. You should not miss these questions. Lunchbox, and you're the champ, which people are shocked by.

You will go first. Oh. Easy trivia, famous athletes. What sport did Michael Jordan play? Basketball and baseball. Okay. What sport does Ronaldo play, Eddie? That's soccer bones.

Correct. Hey Morgan, Derek Jeter. What sport does he play? That's baseball. Correct. Amy, what sport did Peyton Manning play? Football. Good.

Easy trivia. Everybody's alive. Here we go. So Lunchbox has the tiara. He is wearing it. He is the champion. Overall championships, Eddie 4, Amy won, Lunchbox 1. Boom.

How many for Morgan? None. And if Draft Kings were to do the odds and who's going to win this season, Lunchbox would be the favorite, 2 to 1. What? Eddie, 4 to 1. Amy 8 to 1. I mean you have a 1 and 8 chance to be the champ.

And Morgan, 40 to 1. Hey, I'm the one that can make the most money off of, okay? Yeah, you never want to beat. Yeah, you're right. You put a dollar on it. Maybe tops. All right, let's go. Round two easy trivia.

The category is Tom Hanks movies. Yep, I've seen a couple. Life is like a box of chocolates. Is what movie lunchbox? Boris Gump. Correct. Eddie, what's the name of the Tom Hanks movie about the real life All American Women Professional Baseball League?

That's a league of their own. Correct. Morgan, what movie does Tom Hanks play Colonel Tom Parker? Oh, is that the Green Mile? Incorrect. Dang. You've been boo. I don't know.

What is it? Elvis. Oh, dang. Oh, crap. I just watched that. I would never got, I don't know. Yeah, the Colonel. Yeah, that's okay.

I forgot his name was Colonel. Oh, man. But you can make the most money off Morgan. Hey, those odds just went out. Morgan's gone. I'm in it for the fun, okay? That's quick. Amy, what Tom Hanks movies about his character being stuck on a stranded island?

Um, oh, um, um, Law, uh, Wilson. What's it called? You've been bowed. Cast away. Oh, dang. Oh, my gosh. We lost two that quick? I was waiting for I am your captain.

That's the earliest we've ever lost two people. I know. The second round. Well, hey. We're down to two. Easy trivia. Lunchbox's the current champion. Hey.

You like your odds? Oh, of course I do. I love the one-on-one with lunchbox. The category is famous U.S. fruits and veggies. Uh-huh? Famous U.S. foods and veggies. What U.S. state is known for peaches, lunchbox? Georgia.

Correct. Yeah. Why do you say it like that? What U.S. State is known for oranges, Eddie? Florida. Correct. Come on. The category is famous inventors.

Lunchbox. Who is the most famous person that was on the team that invented Apple? Steve Jobs. I'll accept it. That's the answer. Wozniak, I would have also taken. Eddie. Stressful.

Who invented Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg. Correct. In the same category. Lunchbox, who invented the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell. Correct. Eddie, who invented the light bulb?

Thomas Edison. Correct. Wow, wow. Okay, moving on. The category is country music groups. Love it. Lunchbox, Kimberly Schlatman and Karen Fairchild are members of what group? Little Big Town. Correct. Yeah!

Eddie, Natalie, Marty, Emily, make up what country group? Those are the chicks. That's correct. Next category is pop music. music. Yep. Lunchbox.

Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, and Beyonce made up which group? Destiny's Child. Correct. Woohoo! Eddie.

What boy band was Harry Stiles once in? One direction. Correct. Same category. Lunchbox. What pop star slash actress is now featured on the show

only murders in the building? Selina Gomez. Correct. Yeah. Let's go. Eddie, we found love. Umbrella and Disturbia are all songs by what pop artist.

Rihanna. Correct. The next category is measurements. Easy trivia. Two remain. This is not good. Measurements. Lunchbox, how many inches in a foot?

12. Correct. Eddie, how many degrees are in a circle? 360. Correct. Lunchbox, how many millimeters are in a centimeter? Got him. Huh?

How many millimeters are in a centimeter? He's measuring with his fingers. I don't even know what a centimeter is. Oh, gosh. This slow things down. I'll just go 10. Correct. That's amazing.

How did you do that? Wow, wow, wow. Eddie. How many ounces are in a pint? I knew you're going to do this. ounces every single time. A pint is eight ounces. Oh, is it six?

Oh, gosh. Let him keep guessing. You've been boo. Yes! Yes! Good job, my shot! Yes! No matter what.

Maybe Draft King Zana's something with those eyes. They know what they're doing. Wow. Lunchbox won. He is America's favorite player. That's a good, man. Wow.

Lunchbox wins, easy trivia. I mean, you always worry about that championship hangover, but it didn't exist that round. Let's go. No sophomore slump for this guy. Let's go. Let's go.

This is a voicemail from Linda and Dana from Covington, Louisiana. We listen to you guys every morning for our morning commute. You make it much. more bearable and we have a morning corning. What is worse than raining cats and dogs? Hailing taxis. That guys, we love y'all. Thank you for making our commute so much more bearable. Did it hailing taxis? Oh, hailing. Yeah. I like people laugh on the line.

They correct themselves up. Either fake or not, it's fun. For example, listen to this one. Ray, play that. Hi, this is Shawna from Texas and Shawna at... Oh, f-see. See? What? She messed up and they couldn't stop laughing. Here is Kara. I am dating a man that's obsessed with sports betting, and I'm trying to get into it, and I'm trying to get ahead of the game.

I want to take your picks, Bobby. But I don't know how. Do I just listen to 25 whistles? Do you post them anywhere? Do I just have to listen to the show? Yes. Listen to 25 whistles. There's a new one today where I give you.

Here's the thing. I'm probably not going to hit this week. You say that every week. 25 whistles too? I didn't at first, but I'm 15. I'm 15 and 0. I know. It's unbelievable. It's like pitching two perfect games in a row.

Yeah, they're going to start investigating you after a while. I think they think Biff gave me the almanac from back to the future. Two. Yeah. So I'm probably not going to win this week, but yes, it's up there. So go listen to 25 whistles today. We also have Rich Eisenon, who was a former ESPN Sports Center anchor from back in the day. Also has the Rich Eisen show now.

So pretty cool. But yeah, just go search 25 whistles wherever you podcast. It's a sports show. That's what's up. Here's Amy's pile of stories. The Wall Street Journal did a big write-up on how old band logos are trending right now for young people. And they talked to a dad that was so excited when his 17-year-old daughter brought home a Rolling Stones and a Metallica shirt. But then he got super annoyed because she couldn't name a single song. That's when he locks her in the room and you play what you think is their biggest most influential album.

Just listen to all of it. Then she can wear the shirt. I don't even care if you know three songs. Listen to the full album and then we'll talk. Also, I don't care anymore. I'm annoyed with me at this point. I've been saying this forever now. The people are saying it too and I'm like,

I don't want to be on that train. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. It's a whole wall-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-trap thing. Now it's a whole thing. I'm kind of a loser now. Well, a poll found that the most popular band logo shirts are ACDC.

Check, have that. I have an ACDC sweater, like a crew sweatshirt type thing. It's a little thicker than that. But it says Highway to Hell on it. And it's one of their big songs. I love ACDC. Oh, yeah. Like, even when they had Ball Breaker,

which was way later post-super famous ACDC, like knew it all, listen to it all. And I just feel weird about wearing a shirt this is Highway to Hell on it, even though that was the name of the Torn song. So you don't wear it anymore? I've never put it on. Oh, man. I bought it and it's old and I can't.

Because Hell's a place. Yes, it is. So it wouldn't be a bad word. You could wear it. Yeah, dude, who cares? Do it. It's rock and roll, man. Yeah.

Listen. Yes, I'm the bad boy of country music. However, I'm not the bad boy of real life. Oh, that's true. I'd wear it in real life. So, I don't know. It doesn't feel comfortable to me. So what else?

Aerosmith, Queen, Pink Floyd, and Green Day. Those are the popular ones. It's cool the Green Days. Yeah. Got a cool logo. Yeah. All right, what else? Okay, credit card skimmers.

They are cropping up at gas stations, particularly 7-Elevens across the country and even ATMs. So here's what you need to do to protect yourself. Try to only use a chip card in the reader if you can. Just boop. Use the chip. Check the card. reader for a fake top plate.

So it'll take some investigating, but it's worth it. You can use Apple Pay or Google pay or cash. And then also if you're ATMs, they put teeny tiny little cameras there, scammers do, to try to get your PIN code and make sure you look for a camera. Here's the thing. When I'm getting gas,

I don't have all this time to launch full investigation. Oh, you got to call the Department of Justice here. DOJ, I'm going to launch full investigation. Full scale. I'm going to need a... No, you just have to look for a few things. But you say the skimmer on the outside of, they have those that aren't skimmers, though. They have little things that go outside of that plate. You slide your card in.

And I've seen them before and I'm like, does this skimmer? And then they're like, no, that's just part of the gas pump. You're paranoid. Yes. So fine. But I still want to use Apple Pay at the store. I'm like, am I doing this right?

Oh, I feel so old when it's time to bring up my wallet and find my credit card and hold my phone up to it. That's definitely something that ages me. Yeah. And I do it. but I'm always like, is this even crap? So all that sounds good in principle, but I don't think people are going to be doing it.

All right, what else? So Riba was on our show earlier this year, talking about what she would like to see happen with her show Riba. We've been really trying hard to do a reboot on the Riba show because I really want to work with the people that I got to work with during that six and a half years. So hopefully that'll happen one day. And here's Riba on GMA talking about how it's not going to happen.

Unfortunately not. I thought we were getting really close, but nope, not going to be able to do it for right now. But we'll kind of keep seeing if we can get in there somewhere. So hopefully one day it's good show. I guess it's not a survivor. Oh, that is. What is that? It's a song to Reba that also went viral.

Oh, I love for a lot. I don't know that. Okay, I get it. I get it. I get it. I sing it. Just like Reba too. Right on it.

Did that it, Amy? I'm Amy. That's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With lunchbox. Yeah, I hope it's something good. Guys, I need you to stick with me.

We're about to go on a wild, long ride. Carl Allenby, when he's a teenager, he's in high school. He doesn't have the resources to go to college, so he starts working at an auto parts store. He's like, man, I really like this car stuff. So at 19, he said, you know what, I'm going to open my own car shop. So he opens a shop, and it just provides for him. until he's in his mid-30s.

He's like, I'm going to go back to college and get my college degree. And he's taking a biology class. And he's like, you know what? When I was a kid, I was dreamed to become a doctor. So he started taking med school classes. And then he graduates, goes and does residency. And now he is 51 years old. And he was just hired on as his first job as a doctor.

Wow. You know, if there was a group project, everybody wanted to be in his group because he was a non-traditional student and they work a lot harder. Yeah. Oh, man, let me tell you. They care. Intro to Earth Systems in college, we had to take a test individually, and then we got to take it in a group, right? Well, I saw the two non-traditional students.

I got in their group, so I was like, man, the test average, so I didn't even study, and I'd get an F on my test and an A on theirs. C, good. Hey, this guy's living in 2040 right now. Let me tell you. That's important thinking. Wait, if he got a C, does that mean they get a C? No, no, because they would get an A on their individual,

and then they'd get an A on the group, so they would average the two. So I'd just get an F on mine, and then the group, they'd get an A. Boom, here you go. He thought of that years ago. Yeah. That's future type thinking right there. That's crazy. That's crazy.

Good story, though. Shout out that dude. That's what it's all about. Carl Alambi. Carl Alambi. That's what it's all about right there. That was Tell Me Something Good. Amy has a personal lottery story for lunchbox.

Yeah, he's going to hate it. Go ahead. Okay. One of our listeners, Johnny Lausagna, he was mailing the show a package and said that when he was at the UPS store, he decided to go next door and get a lottery ticket because he was thinking about the show, thinking about lunchbox, lottery. So he did and won $400.

Wow. And so he sent that to me saying just as a thank you because he literally would not have bought a lottery ticket and won that day if it wasn't for us. Did you see how much he spent on the ticket? I don't know. It doesn't matter. So I am winning all these people money

and they give me none of it. I mean, the one couple... You're not winning the money just by talking about the lottery. The couple that we had on, they won a million dollars. because they had never played the mega millions. But we're influenced by things everywhere. They bought a ticket because they heard me talking about it.

So the only reason they won is because I did it. Johnny La Zania. You didn't do anything. You literally didn't. It's not a public service you're doing. So Johnny Lozania, great job. Congratulations. Pretty cool.

Don't be a hater. Go ahead and buy more lottery tickets. Double it up this week. Spend your double your money. I will. 300 bucks then. Oh, that's so much money. That's so much money.

Okay, let's get over to Amy with the morning corny. The morning corny. What do you call pumpkins that swim and save lives? What do you call pumpkins that swim and save lives? The coast gourd. Gord. Yeah. Coast gourd.

I get it. I just never use the word gourd. What is gourd? Gordes are pumpkins. Yeah, I think it's a different shape or different kind of pumpkin, right? Or is it just another word for a straight pumpkin? I think they're the ones that kind of look like squashes, right? Is that what it is?

G-O-U-R-D. That was the morning corny. Yeah, how funny is it if you got to break it down? Sit and analyze. You want me to give you one? You don't have to break down? Yeah, I think the Coast Gord is probably pretty funny.

We're just idiots. Yeah, what's the next one? Okay. What's a ghost's favorite nursery rhyme? What's a ghost's favorite nursery rhyme? Little boopep. That's a good one. Hey.

That's a good one. Yeah, we're children. We need it really simple. Yeah. I thank you guys for hanging out with us. Marin Morris. My question is, when you have to pick a new single, because you write songs, you hear songs all the time,

what is that process like for you and for the people that you're close to, to pick a song that you're already so close to for everybody else to hear? Honestly, the fans sort of choose for me now at shows. Like, I just kind of gauge the volume of the crowd, each song. And especially on new ones, that's kind of how we chose the bones, because that didn't feel like a single to me at, first and then in the shows it just became like a moment with the fans so honestly they kind of helped me choose now which is nice do you ever ask were they really loud that song because if you

have ears in you know because sometimes if you're listening to the show now you'll see an artist take something out of their ear and most of the time it's hard to hear the crowd if the ears are in because you're hearing all the instruments right right do you ever go okay which song were they the loudest because i couldn't hear do you have like people that will lead you in or are they just so loud for certain songs. We have crowd mics, so I will hear the crowd noise in my ears, which is nice.

Because it can be really isolating within ears. But yeah, I can actually hear the crowd. And sometimes a little too well. Like the other night... Hey, John, give me a beer. She hears like people talking in the crowd. Oh my God.

Someone was so drunk, which like, come to the show, have fun. But they were right next to the crowd mic and were so loud in my ear. They obviously didn't know there was a mic next to them. But yeah, sorry.

We're spying on you. So when you picked I Can't Love You anymore, it was because you felt the people loving that song in the crowd. Yeah. And it just, it has such a fun vibe live. And I feel like it's one of those love songs that's kind of kooky and real. I mean, the line that, I mean, obviously I wrote it because it was about Ryan, but you're so good looking. You make me sick. That felt real to me.

That felt conversational. But yeah, I think it just, it feels good, it's upbeat. I didn't want to pick like a ballad to go into the fall, honestly. There's really no rhyme or reason. I wish I had a science behind it, but it's just a gut thing. Can you put me back 2017 before my church became this massive song that we don't know? I put it out before I was ever signed to a record label. So it was really like independent released at first when people heard it.

And then it just, it kind of like made. a huge competition between labels of like who was going to sign me and I ended up going with Sony. What is that like? Just having people, I mean, I guess you have found it in different ways, but just having people like, we really want you. We want to show you every way possible. Is that weird? Is it fun?

Does it get annoying? No, I mean, I thought it was cool. One of the labels that actually ended up putting in an offer, like, had passed on me several times. So yeah, it felt kind of, I don't know, I felt vindicated that it really does come down to a song that really gets people excited. And so, you know, it's funny now we're all good. Like that person that passed on me twice has since like said, I should assign you. But I, yeah, everything happened the way it was supposed to put my church out. And before it even went to radio, like Keith Urban had heard it. And he offered me the opening slot on his ripcord tour that next summer.

So things were already rolling before it went to radio. And then by the time my album hero came out, it was like CMA Fest week. We were doing Bonarue album release. Like it was a lot of things, like the perfect storm. And I remember that was the week that my church kind of peaked at radio, I think, at seven or eight. So it didn't even go top five. Circles around this town, whenever you're putting it out as a single, what was the conversation like? What did you want to say with your re-entrance with the song?

Well, I kind of felt like I was just reentering music again. And so I think it being really autobiographical, writing it with Ryan and like Julia Michaels, who's another songwriter that really understands that journey of songwriter to artist. Yeah, it just felt like I hate this phrase so much. I'm going to kill myself for saying it out loud. but like getting back to my roots but it did kind of feel like that it was like less production less flash

and just like really telling a story which I think country music is it's like storytelling so yeah I think it just felt like a good refreshing like way to get out of pandemic doldrums and it did that for me so it felt like a good first step

I always feel like when you come in or when Ryan comes in in we talk about TV shows that we're watching it's kind of my wife and I's after we've both been doing whatever for the entire day, we will have a show, depending on the season, and we'll sit and watch the show. We're watching House of Dragon, Game of Thrones. Have you watched The Patient yet on Hulu?

No, but so many people have told me it's great, and I love Steve Karell, obviously. But they said that my song circles around this town is in one of the episodes. I was going to tell you, the murderer's driving in to the house, and you hear on his radio, I'm like, I know her, I know her. I know her.

The murderers listening to my friend. He was listening to my song before he went and murdered someone?

No, no, he is a serial killer and he has abducted Steve Karell who is a therapist

to give him therapy to make him stop murdering. But when he's driving back in to the house where Steve Karell

is abducted he's blaring your song. Like what an honor to have a murderer blaring the song Yeah, but it's pretty cool. Yeah. I think you'll like

the show knowing kind of your taste. Yeah. But then also, yeah, you hear you, you ever hear your song

in a weird place when you're like, oh, I can't believe that's playing there. I mean, that's probably the weirdest. But also such an honor, like a Steve Carell show. Yeah, I mean, like, for sure. But I love, like, sometimes when songs get placed in TV shows that are actually, like, really good and have great soundtracks. Like, it's such a cool thing.

But, yeah, House of the Dragon, for sure, we're invested in. Do you feel like it's easier to follow than Game of Thrones? Because I do. I feel like maybe I know more because I've watched Game of Thrones. but do you feel like they're making the storylines easier for a novice? Oh, for sure. Because think about how many storylines

were going on in Game of Thrones. They were like 50. Now it's just about the Targaryens. And it had a lot of hype, but I feel like it's living up to it. I think it's really good. Yeah. I'm interested with the next episode

when they change like forward in time and they change some of the cast members. But yeah, I think they're doing a great job. It's also really weird because that show especially, there's like some incest stuff. and it's like, you know what I'm talking about? I'm not going to say too much. Yeah.

And it's like, I don't know if I should be weirded out by this or because it's thousands of years ago or fiction I should maybe not be as well. But I was just kind of weirded. Were you weirded out by it? Yeah, that last episode was so uncomfortable. But I'm like, okay, they're just acting. Yeah, I have to do that too. They're not really related. They're not really related.

But I'm obsessed with that guy that plays Damon Targaryen, Matt Smith. He was in the crown. He's so good at playing a douchebag. Mm-hmm. People said same about me, so I completely relate. What else are you watching? Anything else? We started the new season of The Handmaid's Tale last night.

That's our same gig, too, like you were saying about Caitlin. It's like we just, when we're off the road, we come home and we put haze to bed, and then we just, like, cannot wait to watch whatever is popping. Has anybody cheated and watched ahead of time and then not admitted it but then got caught? Or are you guys full integrity with your shows? Um, he watched the premiere of House of the Dragon without me, but I was like on a long tour run. He did save the finale of Better Call Saul for when I got home. So we try to like keep each other honest.

Also that show, the rehearsal. Oh yeah. It's so funny, weird. I feel like you like that show. I just so, what's the word? You like really uncomfortable things. I do. I love it.

And I watched it. And I thought to myself, I'm so jealous. I did not think of this. Yeah. And that is like the ultimate compliment. Because I try to create stuff here or on television. And what he had created, I was like, I'm so jealous. I didn't do that.

That is perfect. I know. Do you ever do that with artists? And they have a song that you hear or a record and you're like, I am so jealous. Not that you want to do it specifically, but you're like how they captured that right then. Oh, yeah, all the time. I have like songwriter envy from friends that like, I mean, I remember there was a song on the Brothers Osborne album.

and it was called weed whiskey and Willie. And they wrote it with my friend Laura Veltz, who I write a lot of my stuff with. And I was like, I hate you guys for writing this without me. But also, like, you didn't need me to write it. It's brilliant. But yeah, I think, like, it just makes you excited to go write the next day, though, because your friends are so freaking talented.

It's an odd feeling to have jealousy towards someone. And I can even put this with a friend of mine. But like a happy jealousy, a healthy jealousy, one of my really great friends is Charlemagne the God, who's in New York on the Breakfast Club. And he just kills it. And he's so funny. And he does all these shows. And like, I get healthily jealous. And I'm like, dude, I'm so proud of you. Like, I'm so jealous of that you're getting to do this. And I have never really experienced that because I don't think I was healthy until the last few years. Do you have any artist friends that you get healthy, jealous of because they kill it? And you're like, I'm so proud for you.

And also, man, that's so cool. Or they all jealous of you. That's probably what it is. I got it. Either way. No, I think there's definitely people that I have always looked up to that I'm also friends with. And I feel like, yeah, if there's anything beyond just healthy competition, it's just so lame. And we can't, like, be on a group thread anymore. So, yeah, I definitely, like, it's a smaller group now than it was, like, probably six years ago. But I think it's because we really don't care about the fame part of it or the flashy parts. It sounds so cliche, but I don't, I think the people I keep the closest do not care about those things.

They care about, like, did you stand up for something or were you brave? Or did you say something in a song that, like, I wish I could have said. Marin Morris is here with us, and she'll be performing this weekend at our I Heart Radio Music Festival. Luke Combs, the Black Keys, LL Cool J. There's so much. You can watch our festival today and tomorrow. Watch for free on the CW app or at cwtv.com. Show starts at 10, 9 p.m. Central, and you're doing shows all the way up until December.

So you're still on the road? You're still doing it all, huh? Yeah, we've been on the West Coast the last couple weeks. We're doing Hollywood Bowl and Red Rocks in a few weeks, and then we end our whole run at Bridgestone here in Nashville. So it'll be fun to end the tour on, like, a hometown show. Well, keep on. I love what you're doing. and you know I'm a big fan Love the new song and you guys go see Marin Maran Morris.com and she'll be at our IHartRadie

Music Festival this weekend. All right Marron, good to see you. There she is. Marin Morris, everybody. Let's get to the news. Bobby's Big. Stories. A new study says that quality sleep is more important than

quantity of sleep. I just wonder where that fine line is. Eddie, how much sleep do you get a night? Uh, six hours, probably, six and a half. Solid? I mean, I don't know. I don't think it's a I probably need 10. No, I'm saying do you sleep for all six of that solidly? No, I roll over a lot.

You wake up? I kind of feel myself roll over probably about 10 times a night. Do you wake up? Not like up, up, up, up, up. I can go back to sleep, but I sense myself waking up and rolling over. Amy, you? I probably get about on weeknight, six to seven solid. That's good.

I'm good. Even if I do get six or seven or even eight, I probably wake up two or three times a night all the way. And you're up up up, up, up, up, up, up. I'm very up. And I'm like, golly. And then I'll have to go and find a podcast and turn it on and just drift off again. Struggle. A new study published in the academic journal, Sleep, suggested a good night's rest is more important than actually getting a long night's rest, if that makes sense.

They say basically if you can get four to five hours of just killing it straight sleep, that's better than six or seven if you're waking up occasionally. Okay. But who in the world can sleep four or five hours? Is that wake? Well, lunchbox. There he is. Yeah, man, I can nap for that. But at nighttime, when the kids are there, they get,

Dadda! Dad! So I don't get good sleep at night. So maybe that's why I need naps because they make, and I go downstairs, what? You were napping like crazy before kids. I know. And they say, oh, I need my blanket. And I'm like, you son of a gun?

Oh, it's so annoying. That's from the New York Post. Lisa Rena is negotiating to be the highest paid housewife. Amy, is she the best housewife in your opinion? I don't think so, no. Yeah, I don't either. I think she's been around the longest. She's probably one of the most famous.

She's an OG for sure, but she wants the biggest money from Bravo. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Star wants to be the highest paid. She is demanding $2 million a season or she will not go back. Yeah, but I mean, for her in a season, if they do 15 episodes, I don't know. I feel like she'll probably get it or get close to it. Okay, but here's how I feel about her. I do like her, but at the same time, if she were to move on, I'd still watch. Yes, I think that will be with anyone, though, just about.

You don't like one person, individual? Like, that's, like, way better than the rest. I like Kyle Richards. Oh, I like. Some cities aren't even like. Kathy Hilton is hilarious. Like Utah, well, she's not a real one. What do you mean?

She comes in and she's like. No, she's official. Unless she left again, but she came on as an official. But, I mean, in my heart, she's not. She came in and she was like only part time. Listen to you guys. I mean, I'm so lost. She's real.

The source says that Bravo needs her. more than she needs them, so she should get the cash. Still, no deal has been struck. The Utah one's the best. Beverly Hills is really good, but Utah is my favorite, because just kind of out of nowhere, she was married to her grandpa, and I was like, that's weird. Very. Step-grandpa.

But that's who that whole show was built around was her. That is from Radar Online. Thieves swipe thousands of dollars of rare comic books from a store in Virginia. Possibly the nerdiest thieves ever? How would you even know? This is from something called Patch. The owner of a comic store in Virginia is out $100,000 because thieves came in and stole several rare comic books.

The store I just started to get back to normal post-COVID. He said thieves smashed in the front glass store, went straight to the showcase for the most valuable items, did not touch the register, there's nothing left in the showcase. He's offering a $5,000 reward for information and the items returned. You would think there'd be more of a security system there because if there were $100,000 and rings,

watches there probably would be. Yeah. Right? I would assume. But it's, I mean, it sounds like the smash and grab robbers, you know, you go and break a hammer. But they knew where to go because they didn't smash and grab the register or try or other parts of the store. They went right to the high dollar. So you got to go watch the security cameras.

That means they came in there and scouted the place before. Yeah, or somebody did. Yeah. To tell their friends. Does caffeine help you think better? That's the question. Yes. Yeah.

Okay. We got one yes. Yeah. I would say yes. I don't drink it, but yes. Experts say you know. Oh, what? Okay.

people feel no more mentally alert or energized when compared to a test group who didn't drink anything but thought they did. Oh, so now we just have to think we drank coffee? Plasebo effect. Yeah. Well, it's not think you drink coffee, but if someone tells you, if you're drinking something, you think it's coffee, and they're like, yeah, that's coffee. You're going to have the effects of coffee. So just carry the mug around. No, I think it isn't missing the point.

Okay. Moving on to the next one. If you're not a morning person, can you become one? The answer is no. And I say that right now. I've been doing this crap forever since I's 22. And I still am not a morning person. The first hour and a half of this thing is a complete fake.

I'm acting like I'm awake. I ain't. I'm acting like I'm in a good movie. It sucks. So no, it turns out internal clocks are influenced by genes and are incredibly difficult to change. And if you give me three days off in a row, I'm back at going to sleep at three in the morning and waking up at noon. That's all I need is three days. But then it takes me two weeks to get back to normal.

To adjust. So it's like, is it even worth it? it and yes it is. Yes, yes, it is. All right, that's your news. Thank you. Those were Bobby's Big. Stories.

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Air Tasker, get anything done. Let's talk to Emma in California. Emma, appreciate you calling the show. What's going on? I need your advice. Okay, there's never a shortage of them. it. What do you need? So I have a psycho future

mother-in-law. I'm engaged. Hold on a second. Hold on, hold on, hold on. My first advice is not to say that publicly on a national show. But okay, we're going to slowly grow from this call. But I do understand you have a... No, Bobby, actually, like when my fiance told her that we were engaged,

her response was, oh, your ex is going to be so disappointed. I'm not arguing if she's psycho or not. I'm not. I'm saying if you would like to have a normal-ish relationship. Yikes. I wouldn't throw that word around so loosely. But I'm with you.

I'm feeling it. I'm glad you called. So she's difficult. You get engaged. Okay, go ahead. And when we got engaged, she was like, the one thing that I want to do is I want to put on the rehearsal dinner. I want to plan it.

I want to pay for it. The whole nine yards. So we're planning and paying for the whole wedding ourselves because we didn't want our parents help. But when she said that, my fiance agreed. like, okay, that's the one thing she can do. Now we're five months out from the wedding, and she called him the other night

and told him that she changed her mind and she doesn't want to plan or put on the rehearsal dinner. Did she change her mind because of anything that's happened, or is she in a bad financial circumstance? What's the change of my mind about? She tried calling the restaurant that she wanted to plan it at, and they didn't have any availability for that day, and so she said it was going to be too difficult.

Yeah, the relationship with her is going to be difficult for you as well. So we should first acknowledge that this is going to be a journey to have a family that gets along constantly. Because I can just tell by your voice, I mean, you're annoyed with her so much that you're telling the story and just kind of like, you're never going to believe this. She did this. So I understand your frustration. I would start by first having a conversation. Do you ever talk to her? Can you talk to her?

Can you call her? Yeah, we talk all the time. And for me, like, I'm super civil with her. but my fiance is at the point where he just wants to completely un-invite her from the wedding. Don't do that. Don't do that. Then she'll go full psycho if I step. He wants to un-invite his own mom? No, no, no, no, no. Okay. Okay, you get two options here. Option, option. Option A is you call her up or you talk to your own person and say, hey, dang, I hate that about the restaurant. That would have been awesome. Like, you really have a great taste in a place to have that.

You throw a little compliment in there. Oh, butter up a little bit. Just to go, you have great taste, and I understand why you're so disappointed because I would be too. And so thank you for trying to pursue that. is there any way that you could find your second favorite place or third or we can help you because once you said you were going to do that we just took it as that and we've spent no time and just kind of put it back on her but in a positive way like you did a great job i get it what's number two what's number three because i'm sure this will be just as great if she's then difficult you can't really crowbar it in you just have to take it on yourself and do it yourself and

listen i know what a budget's like and if it's over your budget you may have to minimize your rehearsal dinner dream. And that's also okay because I'm going to tell you the wedding's awesome, the rehearsal dinner's awesome, all this. You just don't want to get

into a place where you spent more money than you actually have after the wedding because you're like, why did I spend so much money? And there's stress. Yeah. So the conversation is just like this.

Hey, psycho mom. No, no, no, no. Yeah, that's what you call her. Psycho mom. Like, that was a great place. I'm, man, I'm bummed that didn't work out because you have a great taste and that'd have been awesome.

you know, we kind of want to stick with you here. Like, what would be your second place? Because we're kind of clueless and we don't, we're not really as good at as you are picking stuff like this. Like make her feel good. And if she's like, I'm just not doing it. Give up. And then move to, okay, well, I understand. Then you have to plan it yourself and maybe it's a picnic or maybe, I don't know. Maybe you have the money for it.

But that's my advice. Hit that first and then just abort mission and don't try to force it if she says no. So how do I convince my fiancee that it's not a big deal and that he should still invite his mom for the wedding. By just saying that, hey, this is really a non-negotiable. It's not a big deal. And you can even put it on him.

Like, I am already stressed about this. I don't want to add this to the stress pile because it will and it'll freak me out and I have to be stressed every time I see her. Pre-wedding and then post-wedding. And I don't want that. And I know it makes you uncomfortable, but I'm asking you to allow me to be comfortable in this.

And I think he'll understand. And if he doesn't, don't marry him. Well, yeah, because I'm thinking his issues with his mom are deeper than this. Yeah, and also it could be genetic. Yeah. Oh, wow. Good point. How you're breaking up the marriage?

Nah, I'm okay. I would just say it like that. Say, hey, do me a solid here. I'm already stressed out about the wedding. Would you please help me with this? Because I know you don't, and I understand why you don't. And I'm completely on your team. But I'm asking for a favor here.

And I think he'll be cool with it. Perfect. It's how you say stuff more than what you're saying. You know, just generally in life. Tone. Absolutely. Because my wife always tells me tone. Email tone for me is terrible

But human tone You can learn that stuff Work on, I think it'll be fine I think she'll be at the wedding I think you'll probably have to plan the rehearsal dinner But best case scenario She'll move on to a spot number two And what we learned to is probably don't call her psycho

Publicly Keep that word out Keep that private Yeah yeah yeah Emma good luck Call us in a few weeks and let us know okay Perfect thank you All right bye Emma

There she is She's getting married Or Emma's finally doing it She's finally get married All right Emma All right. Bobby Bones show. Boney up the day.

This story comes us from Michigan. A 40-year-old man walked into a convenience store, gas station, whatever you call it, and there's lottery tickets. And he reaches over the counter and grabs a bunch of scratch-offs and runs out. Well, they don't know who took them. So like, ah, whatever, two days later. He brought it back in. Oh, no. He had a $100 winning ticket.

And he went back to the same gas station. This is starting to be like the investigative corny to me. I love predicting him. What an idiot. But also, don't they have to beep them to win? Yeah, he would have got busted either way because they have the serial numbers, so they have the serial number,

oh, that one was stolen. So when it scans in, it would be alerted, hey, stolen, stolen, and they were bought. But how cool that one he stole actually won. Yeah, that's pretty good. But he probably stole a bunch. What are the odds of that? Yeah, most of his were losers.

Yeah. And he won $100. You know, you think you're stealing lottery tickets. You're about to win $100,000. I don't know how you're going to get that money. I guess I would try to steal the $20 ones and not the $1 one one. Sure. That's the goal.

I bought a $20 one in California, $150. Yeah. Boom. I'm proud of you. And then I got... Are you? Okay, you want to hear why you probably won't be proud of me. But then I got to the airport to fly back home and I still had it.

Oh, no. So I gave it to a person working at the airport. That was awesome. Because I was like, you have to cash it in California. You could mail it. I know, but somebody could use it better. more than I could. And who knows, it would probably, a dog would have eaten it.

So I gave it to a person. They were like, what? I was like, here, have this. You know they threw that in the trash thing. That was no chance. I showed them. I said, this says 10 times $5. And they were like, you're giving this to me? Is this a joke? I said, no, just please take it because I'm flying out of here. And they took it. It was awesome. Wow. Pretty cool, huh? Yeah, that's what it's all about, man.

Thank you. Wait, this is a bonehead. Yeah, this is a bonehead story of the day. You got to do your thing now. I'm lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day. So tonight I'll be intro on Morgan Wallen at the T-Mobile Arena with Kristen Cavalary and the Mizz, and Lunchbox is dying for me to introduce him to the Miz. I don't know the Miz.

I don't know that I can do this, but I will try. But you're going to meet him so you can... If he's nice, I'm happy to. Oh, he's going to be nice. If he's on the real world, he's nice. Sometimes I meet people and they're not that nice. And I'm like, I ain't introducing him. I don't even like him.

I feel like he's nice. I don't know him. Okay. If he is, I'll be happy to introduce you. Good. So are you going to like get together with him beforehand and be like, hey, man, I got this buddy that wants to meet you? That won't be the first thing I say. But I don't know. We'll see how it goes. I don't know him or Kristen

Cavalry, honestly. I'd like to meet her too. No, no. But, okay. So that's tonight. I heart radio music festival tonight and then tomorrow night. Same deal. I mean, I'm introducing Marin with some real housewives apparently. Ooh, which ones? I don't know. It just says real housewives. I don't know. Now Amy wants you to do. Yeah, see. Now Amy wants some favor. Okay. So it's going to be Awesome. Morgan Wall and Marin Morris, Luke Combs, Averill Diddy. You can watch I Heart Radio Music Festival Tonight and tomorrow night on the CW app or at

CWTV.com. The show starts at 10, 9 Central. So, there's that. Also, Amy's tickets for her podcast, if it in Wichita go on, so, depending on where you are, 10 Central, so maybe like 10 minutes, maybe a couple hours ago, depending on what time zone you're hearing this in. But if you want to come, just go over to bobbybones.com and buy tickets.

That show, that podcast, a live podcast, is in November. We're off to Vegas. Let's just be honest, we're going to be exhausted Monday. But it is what it is. That showbiz, baby. I'm going to be rich. That showbitt. You can't get rich in Vegas unless you're playing with a lot of money. Ah, well, you hit a slot machine. Almost never happens. Almost never. Almost. You're saying there's a chance. I am saying there's a chance. You guys have a great weekend. We will see you Monday. Bye everybody. All right. If you have ever dealt with a traditional home security company, you know the drill, expensive monthly fees, contracts that lock you in for years, and waiting around for a technician

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