The Bobby Bones Show - Fri Full Show: Luke Bryan Is On! + Should We Open Old Employees Mail?

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

Luke Bryan joins the show to talk about his new album, Mind Of A Country Boy, his latest number one song "Love You, Miss You, Mean It," share how he feels about Carrie Underwood joining him as a judge on American Idol, admits he's allergic to fish but still loves to go fishing and more! Then, there is a package in the mailroom for an employee who hasn't been with the company for a few months, and Lunchbox wants to know if it would be okay if he opened it and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Morning. Coming up. Luke Bryan in Studio. That's next hour. I do like on Friday just to go around the room and check in with everybody. Amy, what's going on with you? I've a new morning ritual. Journaling has always been something I try to do in the morning,

but I have been slacking lately and not doing it. And so now I sleep with my journal in my bed, and it's right there when I wake up, and I'm not allowed to get out of bed until I've journaled a page. So now that's my new thing. How long have you been doing this? Journaling? No, no.

Oh, this week. It's a new ritual. Like us. and I'm like, I'm going to do this. I always end up not doing it because I'm like, man, I could use this time to really get ready for work. I hope that you're not like that. So it's just my thing. Like journaling in the morning is something that I do, but since I've been slacking, now this is getting you back in.

So maybe I'll eventually get back to doing it at the kitchen table. But now it's like, you want to get out of bed? Do you do that before work, though, too? Sure. Yeah. Yeah, I've been doing it. Yeah. It's like three minutes.

As soon as my eyes open, I am like anxious that everything's got to get done. It needs to be gone over twice. for the show. Ooh, maybe you should journal. Good for you. I did for a while. Send an email. Isn't that journaling?

Same thing. Dear Mike De. You know? Pretty close. I'll go. So I'm not Mr. anxiety guy. That doesn't feel like it.

And I have friends that suffer from anxiety. But I was like, I don't have anxiety. It's a daytime. I never have anxiety. I feel great. I come. I started, I don't sleep ever. And my doctor's like, yeah,

that's anxiety at night. For no reason, your heart just starts pounding. And you can't sleep. But there are a real. reasons, but it feels to me like there's no reason because I'm slowing down. And then who knows why? Maybe it's tomorrow when I oversleep. You know, in 20-something years, I've never been late to work. Never overslept. So, or at least never been late to work. Like I've gotten here right before. And maybe that's part of it. I just don't want to miss work. There are other factors.

And we've tried things like even the small, though a little weighted. Blanket. My wife gets to put it on me. I'm like, oh, thank you. But we bought a 25-pound full weighted blanket. 25 pounds. Full comforter. It's 25 pounds. And you don't sweat under that thing? That sounds like a puddle of water for me.

Here's why we don't sweat. I have two things. That's a great question. Our sleep number bed, we can change the temperature. So we start a cooler. So if the bed's cooler and the air is cool and it counters whatever's on top of you, that actually works for us. But it's pretty heavy.

Can you roll over in that day? Yeah, you can, but it's pretty heavy. I think I like, It's done it for like three nights, but when you get it, it's a little of 25 pounds in a bag. And it's a comforter, and you put it inside of your duvet. Duvet. Thank you. So that was a little something.

But we have a 25 pound blanket type thing that I'm testing. Oh, I hope it helps. It's a little heavy for my wife, though. I think she's like, I feel like I'm a casket. I think it's like it's too heavy. If you fold it, the one half on top of you and then take it off of her and fold it back on top of you, does that make it 50? No, the whole thing is 25 pounds. Because if you do a four fall, it would be 100.

You're like, I'm trapped. Okay, we have a discog. Yeah, that's for me. Eddie, what's going on with you? So I got a text from my buddy yesterday, and all he said was just thinking about you. And it felt nice. Remember we were talking about that?

Well, that's your thing, right? You're just sending people text to say, just thinking about you. Yeah, but I hadn't sent him from a text. He sent me. Do you think you heard us talking about? I think you heard it on the show. Yeah, that's okay, though. But still, I mean, that's, and he was thinking about you because he was listening to you.

And I told you guys that I am the one sent into people. I hadn't gotten one yet. It feels real nice. And I had no problem responding to it. I said, thanks, man. Hope you're well. I just never know how to respond. And I feel like they're up just no good when people send me that.

Oh, you think. What if you assume the best? Okay. Okay, just think about you. I reply back. Okay, do you want some money? Hey, what do you want? Yeah.

What do you need for me? Lunchbox, what do you have? Man, listen, I watch a lot of TV and nothing gives me nightmares, but something popped on my TV the other night that gave me nightmares. It has me freaked out. NCIS Sydney is back. That terrible TV show you guys made me watch. I guess my DVR is still set to record it.

And there it is. It says NCIS Sydney, like three episodes recorded on my, oh no. If you hated it, why is it getting a second season? Is it bad? Is it bad? And I believe your reviews on shows, I think our taste, except for the reality part. I think we like a lot of the same stuff. You hated this show, but they don't usually bring shows back that are bad or not rated well.

Oh, my God. I don't know how it's rated well. It is so awful. The acting is terrible. The storylines are terrible. It is brutally bad. I noticed they don't want to advertise with this to promote season two. Oh, they don't.

Maybe they heard of this. It's the anonymous sandbox to be having to be happy. Oh, Bobby Bones. I have a problem with my husband's meat. specifically the one he grills. Every weekend he loves to grill, burgers, hot dogs, fajitas, chicken, you name it. The problem is he's a terrible griller. But he insists on doing it and won't let us make anything else for dinner on these nights because, quote, I got it covered.

It's either burnt or flavorless, but the last straw was a piece of meat he gave me that was completely undercooked. He takes pride in his grilling, loves to do it, but I can't stomach it. How do I tell him without hurting his feelings or worse, make him feel like less of a man? Signed, wife of a grill amateur. I do not get offended when my wife says this wasn't done right. I grill. If we grill, 80% of the time, I'll handle all the grilling. I'm not great at it.

I've gotten a little better at it because she's very, she's vocal about what's good, what's not, what's overcooked, undercooked. I've also learned you have to clean the grill or it burns quickly. I've burned the crap out of some meat. And I'm like, I don't know why. And she's like, did you clean? Oh, science.

So I'm not someone that would be affected by this because I know I'm not good at it. It sounds like he thinks he is good at it. Now, Eddie, you're a great griller, I will say it. I am the grill king. You are the best griller that I know. What advice would you give her into making him better? Because he's not going to take the criticism.

Right. So what can she do to allow him to be better overall as a father, as a man, and as a griller? That's a loaded question. I think it's important that he still feels like he's the grill king. So I think deflating that feeling is bad So take his dish If it's undercooked Throw it in the microwave

When he goes to the restroom or something My wife will have a pan ready and warm To put it on in case I mess it up Like she's just ready to go She has it on the stove So she can take the steak If she needs to Yeah and then get your favorite little spices

Your seasoning whatever Put something better on there But what if he sees that Not the spices but it's super offended by that Like how do you get them better What if you get them like a little online course Like, hey, because I used to take those classes. I forget what they were called.

Master class? Yeah, master class. I got your master class in grilling because I know you've gotten pretty good at this, but I think you can go next level, like do competitions. Like you can build him up and see the potential in him and go like, hey, you're getting pretty good at this. And then he enters the competition and loses, and that's how you realize this. He's not good. So you didn't go the same place I went.

He never actually entered a competition, but he does take the class. I think you have two ways to do it. You have to build him up to the point where he wants to get better. Yeah. That's funny. Or you just have to say, it's not good and deal with how uncomfortable it is. That's not good.

I know. But that's the only two options. Or you're just going to sit here and eventually get like some kind of undercooked meatworm. Yeah. Dude, the masterclass is good. That way he just learns to be better anyway. I learned magic on master class. You did?

Uh-huh. Yeah, I watched Peniteller do one. Oh, my goodness. When I was just dating my wife, she walked in. You did a dating masterclass? No. When I was dating her, she walked in and I was taking a magic one. And she was like, who am I dating?

Yeah. Are you dressed like the magician? Not yet. That was later. That was later. But I had like a cup and like a paper wad and I was like learning how to make it disappear. And she's like, what are you doing? And I was like, magic.

And I was like proud of it. And she was like, oh God. But the master classes are really good. That's cool. So do something. Get him some really good grill tools. Yeah. Like build him.

So I'm going to say build him up because it doesn't feel like he wants to be taken down. Build him up like crazy. And as you build him up, encourage him to. watch some extra stuff to do you to learn even more tricks yeah like what would you do with your kid like you wouldn't slam what they're trying to do if they're really excited about a hobby and into it you would try to yeah do do this build them up i love it that's the only way sure like a kid unless you just want unless you just want to like you suck but then he's never gonna grill again right this is meg from wichita hey i was just calling i wanted to tell you guys

a funny story my son who was four years old got at the car today after school and started being the melody of when I grow up and I listened to him singing it for a while and I was like, ah, that's Bobby and Eddie's song when I grow up. Anyways, still inspiring kids to be whatever they want to do when they grow up. So thank you. For those that are new to the show,

Eddie and I, we have a comedy duo called The Raging Idiots. We did a kids record called The Raging Kiddiots and there was a song that we did called When I Grow Up. A song, single-handedly changed lives of tens of kids. Oh, yeah, yeah. Tens of kids. Maybe 11.

Ah, okay. But yeah, it's still, if you want to stream it, raging idiots, and you can look up when I grow up, and it's pretty cool. The Planet songs on that album? Uh-huh. It's a kid song. But all of our songs kind of walked the line. Even the adult ones are kind of dopey. I know. I need to listen to that one.

I feel like it'd help me with easy trivia. The Planet song? Yes. It does. For sure. Your Amy's pile of stories. Scientists may have found an elixir that is the fountain of youth in its pond scum. Then it doesn't sound like something I'm unbelief.

Yeah, it's a colorless compound that's found in microalgae and it could have amazing anti-aging properties. All those words, okay, but puns gum, when you say that, I don't believe that. If you would have said algae and microscopic, I've been like, oh, I'm listening. They tested it on tiny worms and found that it helped them live longer and resist, like, oxidative stress. And it even showed protection against Alzheimer's. All that I believe, it's just when you leave with pawns gum, I'm like, no chance. I'm sure there are all these microorganisms, all these. biological, ABCD, that we have no idea that exists that are right around us that are going to be

able to fix a lot of things. That hopefully we get very lucky and think it's for something and we learn it's for something else. And that's all. Most of the good medicine happens anyway. But I'm sure it's all around us. We just have to find it. But puns gum, I'm going to pass on it. But microsboaks, whatever you said, I'm in for.

Microalgae, yeah. So the exact time of day to eat dinner is in. And experts are saying it's definitely between. 6.45. Yeah. I mean, you're in the wheelhouse. There's a two-hour window. Oh, I ate way earlier than that.

I was just going late because I ate around 4.45 to 5.15. I wake up even earlier than you do. That's crazy. So I have to eat. Go ahead. If you want to align with your body's natural circadian rhythm, you need to be eating dinner between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. That's a too big of block.

That's like going to eat when it's dark. No, because everybody's, that's like a good window for everybody to meet. But it's just like 7 p.m. is your cut off. if you want to improve your sleep and aid in digestion and stay on track. Eat your pawns come between five and seven, but also that window's a little too large. Like, give me a ton. And my natural body,

I'd probably dinner at 8.30 p.m. Because I would go to bed at 4 a.m., my natural body clock, and then wake up around noon. God, that would be the life. That sounds perfect to me. Someday, man. Go to bed at 4 a.m. wake up at noon. Are you kidding?

Yeah, that'd be awesome. My body's just like, please. Yeah. Go ahead. Okay, I know we're a weekend to October, but have you heard of sober October? I live it. I'm in it right now.

I'm sobering up. Well, it's happening right now. It's not too late to join in and it's all in honor of breast cancer awareness. And now whether or not you're going to drink or not, if you are a woman or you know a woman in your life, if she could go get a screening, I encourage her to do it because that's what this is all about

because early detection is everything for women. And I recently sat down with Amy Roboc and she was talking about her journey. And you know, when she was on Good Morning America, they just... That's what I recognize the name. I don't know who that was the first. Yeah. I thought it.

Yeah. Yes, got it. Amy and TJ. So she... Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were like singularly doing it.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. They got fired. Dang. I don't think they were sober in October. Wow. Okay, sorry, go out, Amy. Well, now she said she's in a really great place in her life and she's loving it and she's grateful to be alive, but she was doing it as part of a live segment.

Like they were bringing it in for breast cancer awareness. That's what I found that she had a tumor? Yeah, so she was one of the anchors and it's like, hey, we need you to do this. And she said she was a little hesitant doing it on air. And she went and sat down with Robin Roberts and said, hey, Robin, like, should I be doing this? And Robin said, look, if you can bring awareness and one other person goes to get tested because you got tested, you got a mammogram live on TV. And little did she know that they found breast cancer. She got a phone call after they did all the looked at her results.

And she had breast cancer and got a double mastectomy and did chemo and all that. I wonder if a doctor while doing that on television would be like, oh, we got bad news here. Or if they would just let it finish, the segment finish, and then do it all afterward. They let it finish because even as a person that's not doing it live on TV, when I go in for a mammogram, they don't say anything. They don't say anything? Not in the room to alarm you because I don't think they want to cause any. They don't go like, this is not natural. Like there's a freak out.

They will. They'll say, go in the waiting room and we'll call you in. Then they call you in and give you results. same day or they call you later. It just depends. Like I've had to go back in and get like an ultrasound same day, which was very nerve-wracking because they thought they saw something. And then you wait for the results.

But yeah, they try not to do anything too alarming right to your face in that moment. So our culture's priorities are off. We've known that forever. But the fact that I only know her for hooking up with T.J. Yeah. And then getting fired from the show. When she's a brilliant journalist. No, not even that.

Whenever she got breast cancer. I don't remember that. I don't know that at all. No idea. And so what I do know is that for. first thing, and that's like that, that's, that's so not important we make jokes about it. Like, who cares? Make your own life decisions. Yeah. But the fact

that that happened to her and I didn't even know it, that's crazy. Yeah, it's a good story. And I'm, so I'm going to stay sober for October then. Yes. Good job, dude. You have inspired me. Good. Do it. Yes. I'm a do sober November too. I bet you can do it. I'm Amy. That's my pile.

That was Amy's pile of story. It's time for the good news. With producer Eddie. Yeah, I'll make something good. Matthew Wilson is in his apartment with his mom. And they're just hanging out there. And the mom goes, what is that beeping sound? Do you hear like a beeping? So Matthew goes, let me go outside and check it out. He hears smoke alarms. Boop, boop, bo, pooh, bo, pooh, bo, bo, bo, bo, going off. He smells smoke. He goes around the corner of the apartment complex. The whole apartment complex is on fire. So what does he do?

He goes door to door. Get out. There's a fire. Get out. There's a fire. He even goes to one unit. It's locked. No one's answering. Kicks the door down. Get out. The apartment's on fire. He saved. Everyone in the apartment complex from getting burned or dying because the apartment was fully engulfed and they lost everything. Great job, kid. That's awesome. Let me tell you what I would have done. Number one, grab my PlayStation and my dogs and told my wife. And then once I got everything down, I've been like, let me go save some people.

He didn't do that. This kid, yes. I don't know why I said that. That's the first thing of mine. This kid didn't even worry about his own crap. Like he just went and started knocking on doors. Oh, and I did forget. He did go back to tell his mom.

I made it seem like he just went and started knocking on doors. He went back to his mom first. Come, get out, then you went door to door. Two, I'd love to kick a door in. Yeah. I'd love to kick a door in. I'd never had a door to kick in. That'd be awesome.

I feel like it's a little harder than we think. I don't know. I've been told by some law enforcement officers. Yeah, yeah, but where exactly to kick. Right by the door? Right by the handle? I'm not even telling you. I would think right by the handle kind of where the lock is.

I'm not even telling you. But I would love to kick in the door. I don't need you kicking doors down the day. Our studio has like that swing door. You could kick it easy. Just go kick it. No, I'm talking about it. I know, but that'll give you the feeling.

No, it won't, though. I want a door that's locked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're like, like, a department complex. Like, kick it in. Like, we're doing, like, roll, boom, kick it in. I would love to do that. Or just try it, you know?

Yeah, see what happens. That would be awesome. Good job, kid. Save some people's lives. Matthew Wilson. Didn't think about yourself first. Thought about them. That is amazing.

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bit, yeah. What have you been doing? What's your life been like the last few months? Well, I had the worst asthma bronchitis Nashville drought stuff. So I finally have started singing at the level that I enjoy to. But it was a rough one.

I don't know. You have bad allergies? I always have. I was the kid that, you know, the mother, I was drinking the pink stuff. What was all that stuff? Yeah. I was just always snotty nose.

And I had childhood asthma as a kid, and I'd never had it. it really come back and flare up until like the first of August to where it was had to move some shows and there's about three shows I probably should have moved. If you want to go look at those Instagram comments, you cannot. Oh, really? Yeah. Do you address that? Will you go out and be like, I'm dealing with this? Well, when I'm having, see, the problem with my voice is when I sing, it has to, it's all got to work. It's like everything's got to be working.

And when it's not, it looks like I'm passing the kidney stone. So I don't really hide it, you know, and you can tell that I'm struggling. So in Chicago, I postponed Des Moines and Oklahoma City to just try to get better and get better. And it was weird. This thing, I would, my talking voice would be good. But the more I say. It was like my lungs would get mad. And then, oh my gosh, I couldn't breathe.

And I had, Bailey was on the show, Tracy Lawrence and Chase Beckham. They came out, and we made the most of it. But on a show like Rigley, you don't want to get up there and feel bad. You want to have fun. So I thought about doing like a Rigley redo and just going up there and maybe redoing it or something. But we'll see. And spell redo with a W. Yes.

Rigley, W.R. Redo, W. are a redo. And again, you have to factor in this because as a fan of music yourself and you've been to tons of concerts, it's like what's more annoying the artist canceling or the artist being a little bit sick? And probably it's more annoying if they cancel. It's awful because people, especially a town like Riggly, I mean, it's one thing if you're

playing like a standard amphitheater and that people probably have bought the season tickets and all that. But you know, a lot of people when they come to Riggly, they've been. probably come in on the Friday night. Destination for sure. Grab a room, enjoy Chicago, and man, it's just a terrible scenario to get in the middle of. And then through all this, you don't know if you're kind of like maybe fighting little COVID strains and stuff like that. And I never had like fevers or where I was like, I need to go get a COVID test.

So it gets a little tricky. never had to move shows until the past two years and god i hate it because there's no there's you're always going to really you're always going to really have people that are like how could you do this to us we've been waiting we flew in from you know but but no you but nothing is worse than being out there and not being able to sing it's like having a terrible sore throat and you're second guessing everything you're doing because i told somebody i was like I would rather televise a vasectomy than do that right there. Oh, wow.

Yeah, yeah. Well, you can sing with a vasectomy. It may hurt. It may hurt on the high notes. What is your hardest song to sing anyway? Let's imagine you're not sick. Oh, roller coaster. Is it because it's a high?

It's the whole, it's when you start the chorus. But when everything's clicking, it's easy. But when it is not, it is. Do the melody of the, you don't have to sing it hard, I can't get there. Hold on. I did none of kind of feeling Would last longer I hadn't warmed up yet

Hey you're back though He's back right now He's back Yeah If I can't hit that I see that I got a little Yeah, made me want to do that

I'll do that for you I didn't know I kind of feeling Would last long longer than I mean if it ain't clicking And, you know, it's just, yeah, we've had to skip roller coaster a couple times. Well, I was reading now you have 30 number one songs.

And so you can actually not do some songs, right? Because you have so many? We've gotten to where we move, we can move some stuff around. Like, if I get on the piano, one thing is when I'm having vocal trouble, the reason why I'm having it is I'm like pushing above the band. So we've learned if I just get out there with my guitar. piano and really like just settle down and sing a little softer that helps but when you saw when i just sang roller coaster i mean when i i'm a loud singer it's not and i think like now gary lovox

in my opinion is one of the best singers of all time but same thing he he has to like let it rip to make it happen can you take it can you change keys i don't want to do that You'd be like, that was the old time feeling. I know, that kind of feeling. You know, I don't think, you know, I don't, I think when I'm 65 and I'm out there, it's probably not going to be a bad idea to change keys and stuff like that. But I watched Elton John change keys on about every song because, again, he's older now. Right.

And he'd be like, hold me closer, tiny dancer. Because that's really all he could. And it was still, it worked. but you're also like, that's Elton John's 70, and it's really hard. Oh, me, it can't. Oh, I mean, and it's a real deal. I think naturally, yeah, I think you're going to, and they, I've heard all these stories, like the human voice, the male voice like hits full, like maturity at like 41 to 43.

But then, and I feel like when I don't have, like I said, when I'm in a great non-allergy situation, And one thing too is I started playing a lot of golf. And that made it worse because you're outside. I think that's not helping. Well, what's golf? How's that different than fishing and hunting? Well, because they're out there cutting grass and mowing everywhere. And mowing.

Okay. It's not just about being outside. And you're on water when you're fishing and allergens aren't terrible over the water. Yeah, water helps, yeah. Well, but I'm allergic to fish, which we've talked about before. It's a weird thing to love fishing and be allergic to fish. I am. Be like an NFL player. I'm allergic to face a basketball.

If you touch them or if you eat them. if I touch them. Like, so if I go fishing, I take an Allegra. It's like, all right, now I can go fish.

Interesting. But, I mean, I'm pretty, I got bad allergies. And I take, you know, like I'm on singular every day.

All the, so that's what sucks too, is the fans, like, I want the fans to know, like, I'm not out like, you know,

raking a hay barn. And, you know, when I, when I, I got sick, when I start to feel it coming on, like I'm going to the doctor, we're talking 30 minutes a day. When you do all that and you load up on prednisone and all the antibiotics and you still suck, you're like, I hate my life. Let me ask you about music. Yeah, Mind of a Country Boy just came out, the full album.

And you're obviously still writing. How often are you writing now? I would say I'm writing three, four songs a month. Once a week, possibly. I wouldn't say that much. I mean, I would say, I tell you what I am doing. I'm constantly logging ideas and I'm constantly waking up at night and like typing in ideas. I have tons of ideas.

And I'm just kind of, I wait for those ideas to meet the right co-writer. And I think I want to start doing some maybe some songs. ride of retreats and really knock out a lot more. But I enjoy like, when I sit down to write one of mine, it's like, God, it's probably going to be me again. Like, I love to hear, like, the song Closing Time in California. Like, that's such a different approach on this album. And I just like kind of trying new stuff out, too.

And I think some of the younger writers can really make that happen. You didn't write that, but you found it and you were drawn to it. Why? It feels a bit different. It's just a different approach. and it's kind of got that, yeah, it's just like a fresher approach than maybe something that I've always done historically and using the falsetto was something that I've never really done a lot

in any of my albums prior. Do you feel weird recording that when you don't do it often? Are you like, how do I sound? What's funny is I typically do pretty well singing up falsetto. I mean, it's like, I've been tried. Well, now I can, oh my God, I can. can't do any of this now. But, you know, I think, you know, my main thing is, is this something I can make happen live, you know, and you don't ever want to, like I said, I don't want to get

out there and start adding, you know, gang vocals and all that stuff. I mean, I don't know who does that, but I've, I've never done that. And so, and I still want to, I still want to grow as a singer and a guitar player and a piano player. But this one kind of will push me to kind of stay on the game. You're about to have another number one. Love You Miss, You Mean it. Why did you pick that song? You know, Love You Miss You Mean. It's one of those titles. You're like, why has that not been written? And the first time I heard it, it was just that perfect amount of like something that I felt like it was a song kind of tailor-made for me. And you hear that story.

I mean, I think Caroline and I are our college relationship. We dated a little in college, kind of got away from each other for quite a few years and then got back together. And that kind of mirrors what's going on. And I think a lot of people out there have had that deal where they kind of go their separate ways after high school or college and get back together. And it feels like a pretty relatable song. Well, congratulations on everything.

You're back on Idol. Have you guys started recording, taping yet? We'll start very soon, like in the next couple. About that time. But, you know, auditions are typically... October's like my hell month. It's like where the kids are like, yeah, Dad, we'll see you.

We'll see you here in a little while. Meaning what? Like, you're gone, and so they're like, see on the other side? Well, historically, I have always been maintaining a full... speed tour through October. And this year, I took Friday nights off in October. So I'm kind of, I'm kind of joking a little bit. I'm going to be home on Friday nights for, for, uh, for Bose football.

And then I'm not, I'm doing a makeup, some makeup shows. But then October's pretty chill other than what I would used to do is four days of auditions from like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or three days, and then go straight to a Thursday tour, and then leave Saturday back to audition. So it used to get pretty, October used to get pretty hairy. How early did you know they were talking to Carrie about coming on the show? There were a lot of names getting thrown around. Her name was always in the mix. I think it's probably you could Google the names that were talked about. from Megan Traynor and maybe like Miley and some other people.

And so we were hearing all of the names that were circulating. And so then they said, well, Carrie signed on. And I had seen Carrie at the Toby Keith tribute. And I was like, what's up there? You know, co-worker or whatever. I guess that's how you say it. But, or co-judge. And she's like, yeah, I'm announcing on Wednesday.

So we were kind of keeping it quiet. That's like Carrie and Kelly would have been the A plus best absolute ones to get. Those have been the two best. I don't hit it. I don't hit a home run. Carrie and Kelly Clarkson would have been the two A plusers. Yeah, when you look at Carrie's ability to relate with kids, it'll be, I mean, obviously, me and Lionel, we relate as best we can. But, I mean, Carrie will do great in that role.

And the fact that Carrie has always really come back and uplifted the show. she never was like well the show did this and I you know she's always like this show is why you know so she's been a champion with that and I mean I remember like her first time back when I was a judge I was like

thank you for coming back and singing your new sing when she was like shut up what are you talking about of course I'm coming back yeah she never ran from it to be like I'm bigger than that right or I'm better than that no she's like it's a part of my story yeah it's very um very important that she's done that. Great to see you. Love you.

Luke's got a record out called Mind of a Country Boy. Love You, Miss You Mean, about to be number one. He's back on Idol. He's going to do some makeup shows all over. October is a very tough.

I'm going to yell at, historically. I'm going to yell at yes. Historically. Luke, good to see you, buddy. Good to see y'all. There he is. Luke Bryan, everybody.

Thank you. It's time for the good news. With Bobby. Tell me something good. When you graduate college for the most part. You're how old? Oh, I'd say you're probably about 22? 22, maybe 23. Yeah. So Cam McCormick's 26 years old. He's still playing football for the Miami Hurricanes. And he's, but did he start college late? No. No, no, no, it's his ninth season. What? So you only get four seasons. Those are your four years of eligibility. Now, you can redshirt. That's five.

That's one, that's only one time, though, right? You can redshirt. Red shirt one time. Everybody got an extra COVID year. That's six. Oh, dang. He's been medically redshirted. Seven, eight. he's in his ninth year. So he's had two medical red shirts who's been injured, different than a regular red shirt. A red shirt year, the COVID year, and now it's his senior year.

He's been playing college ball. He's still taking classes, well, not only that. He has his bachelor's, but he also has his master's. Yeah. I mean, nine years, like, he should be doctor, right?

But no, he's still playing football and he wants to go play at the next level. He said, listen, if you're most likely, if you're going to play at the NFL, he could have probably already jumped out

if they were going to draft him and they haven't. But he said if he doesn't make it Pro, he knows that he's loved playing at Miami and he'll use all those college degrees to fall back on. So funny. Nine years.

That's a long time to have a job. Yeah. Much less be in school. I wonder if he's sick of college though. Like college was fun. He's probably done with all. It's like three hours now at this point. Anyway, I like that.

He's committed. He's staying in Cam McCormick. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. The fact that Rascal Flats said this yesterday on the show, I was kind of blown away. So they're coming up in just a second. By the way, tickets on sale today, 10 a.m. Easter, 9 Central for their life as a highway tour.

Just go to rascalflats.com. But what they said, they kind of shook me. That's coming up in a second. But first, let's go to Amy and do the morning corny. The morning corny. Why was the zombie so good at trick-or-treating? Why? Dedication.

Dead. That was the morning corny. I guess it could have been any. Dead. It doesn't have to be trick-or-treating. No, no, no, anything. Like, why is it, finish college?

Why is the zombie, the CEO of his company? Dead. Dead. On the Bobby Bones show now. Rascal Flats. Did you miss it, everybody? What did you miss? Well, I mean, I miss playing music.

I miss some of my most favorite memories in my life, my adult life is being on stage with these guys. So, yes, when it was yanked away from us in 2020, pandemic hit and everybody was kind of at a loss not to be able to put a proper exclamation point on our career really hurt and so you know I've said it my entire life Gary's one of the best singers I've ever heard and it's really sucks not to be standing next to that every night so I think it was a perfect opportunity for us to go out and celebrate 25 wonderful years together and this is the first time the Three of us have been together in the same room in five years.

Wait, so at rehearsal, you all three weren't together at the same time. No, Gary wasn't there, actually. Classic Gary. He's kicking things off perfectly. Classic Gary. Yeah. He couldn't make it, but working through musically is really what we needed to do and hire those new band guys and it worked out great.

But, I mean, I've got a lot of cobwebs in these hands, you know. It's been a while. I've kind of gotten away from music for, you know, a lot of different reasons. But I'm back, and I'm definitely trying to practice as much as I can at the house. And my son Jagger is 16. He's eaten alive with music. And he's actually gotten me back into, you know, jamming with him, which has been fabulous. A win is a win.

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Listen to Earn Your Leisure on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm going to blow your minds. Ready? Ready. Generally, PG-13 movies are allowed to use the F-word once, only if it's used in anger, and only if it doesn't refer sex. Okay. So you can say the F-word one time in a PG-13 movie as long as it meets a certain requirements. Okay. That's weird that certain words said in different ways.

different times. Yeah, because anger is very different than the other way. And so is the sex way. Yeah, that's what I mean. No, but those two can't be used. Anger or sex. That would be like, I guess we're just blank and having a good time. It has to be used like that.

That's mine. Amy, what do you have? So earlier this week, you know when I told y'all cows have best friends and y'all didn't believe me? It's not that we didn't believe you. It was just a weird thing to say. And then we were like, what? Okay.

And we didn't fight it. But okay. Well, now I have the facts. Go ahead. Cows are surprisingly social animals and they form close bonds. with certain members of their herd, and research has shown that cows have, quote, best friends and can get stressed when they are separated from them. I love that.

Boom. They have buddies out in the pasture. Yes, cows have buddies. That's interesting. But don't all, even dogs, like when we take our dogs, Stanley and L or two, if we're going to put them up for the day, if we're going to somebody's doing work at the house, we'll take them to the dog place. They'll always stay together. Aren't they best friends? Yeah, they're like, for sure, though.

But they're not really. That's what I mean. see like the cows, they have hundreds of cows out there and they find their one buddy to hang out with. Okay. No, I'm not, I feel you. I like that. I like that. Hey, good for cows.

Then we eat them. We're like, we love cows. I'm, come, come, no, eat it. Lunchbox? Before a funeral, you go to the wake. It's where you, it's like a visitation. But you know where the term wake comes from? Back in the day, they didn't bury the dead right away because they let them in their house, laid them there to see if they'd wake up.

Oh, my gosh. So that means somebody had to wake up at least once for this thing to even be. For sure. Like somebody had to be like, what the crap? Lazarus. Yes, in order for that to happen, that had to happen once. Oh, that is crazy. So do we still do that in hopes that they do wake up?

No, I think now it's just what it is. It's just the term. Yeah, they were leaving there for two to three days to see if they would wake up. That's great. That's weird. Eddie? You know the little pocket, not the main pocket in your jeans, but the little little pocket, that was originally made for pocket watches.

Isn't that cool? But they just kept it because, I mean, why not? The little pockets that I would have mine are too small even for a pocket watch because pocket watches I would see it would be like, those big ones? Do you ever use the little pocket? No, if I do, I'm like, I can't find my quarter. Maybe like a pill. And it's not in my pocket anywhere.

And then I'm like, oh, it's in that stupid little pocket I put in there by accident. And you're like, why is that pocket there? Well, it's for pocket watches. I need to get a pocket watch then. Morgan? All right, so your ear is super fragile. It only takes about an average of seven pounds of force to rip your ear off. Oh, gosh.

Let's not try that. Yeah, I see that in some of those spires. movies where they talk about that. Like, you could rip somebody's ear off with a good tug down. I think slow horses, the show we've been watching, I think they bring up how easy it is rip it ear off. It's a good show, though, too. Okay, spin the wheel.

Somebody's going to do it. Spend the wheel. Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins, but she broke up with him because she couldn't stop associating him with Hannibal Lecter. I get that. He didn't do anything wrong. He's just Animal Lecture. And then finally, the reason baseball and basketball teams were dark jerseys for road

games is because originally they didn't have access to Washington. machines so you're on the road you wear dark so dirt or stains can't be seen stop how fun is that that's pretty good i like that i like that's yeah here's a voicemail from katrina in wichita kansas i was just curious what i should do my husband and i went out to dinner and the waitress completely forgot about us never brought us to be water or civil wear for over 10 minutes they never offered the discount and i didn't ask for one either because i wasn't sure what i should do Next time if this happens, should I ask for a discount or what do I do? That stinks when they forget about you.

After a few minutes, I would just be like, hey, because sometimes that happens. Again, I did work in the service industry as a busboy and a waiter. That's terrible. And yes, that's service. That's bad service. For just a second, give them the benefit of the doubt that they're super busy or something's going on in the life that's got them distracted. But if the attitude is not good once that happens and the service continues to be bad, I think then that can be reflected.

I don't know if this is discount worthy to go like, do I get a discount? But I think you can then tip based on how you feel your overall satisfaction is with the service you got. So, man, there were times where people would seat somebody in my section and not tell me. So I'm just going to tell you as a waiter they would see somebody in my section, not tell me there was any mind. And they would get ignored. It wasn't my fault. It's because Amy, the hostess. Right.

I definitely, yeah. Sometimes it happened. And Amy and I didn't work together, but she was a host of, but Amy would get so busy that sometimes she would forget to tell me, so they'd just be forgotten about. But don't you guys have zones? We do, but it doesn't mean, and sometimes you'll have a table that's not in your zone. And for some reason they'd use one of your tables for something else. Right, like right when you're, like, this is what would happen to me.

It'd be like, oh, I'm going to Section 23 because that's my next section to seat. And as we're walking to Section 23, the people I'm seating are like, oh, hey, is that table right? they're available and then you try to be accommodating the customer and that's section 16. So you have to give that to a little later. So then you're like, oh, you sit them down and then you get back to your hostess stand and there's another family already there and they're waiting to get seated. And then yeah, next thing you know, you forget to tell server at section 16 they have someone sitting there. Makes sense. And sometimes it's not even the server of section. It's not there. So let's say I'm the next person to get a table and they don't, they're like,

no, we want this table instead. I'll still get the table that's not on my section, but it's on the other side. Because I was due that table. Oh, that's confusing. Yeah. So it's, I don't know that this happened, but give them the benefit of the doubt. You can ask anybody that works. Hey, sorry, we sit down. We don't have any waters or anything. Yeah, is that cool. If their attitude is like, oh, sorry.

And then they're not giving good service. Give them the benefit of the doubt. Show them grace because you would want grace in whatever the situation is in your life that is similar to this. But the service is bad the rest of the time. Then I think you can reflect that in your tip. Or you can say, can I speak to the manager and the manager comes up? I don't understand how I was here for over 10 minutes with no silverware and no water.

I can do that. If the attitude is bad. Is that how you're going to say it? That's exactly how he says it. You know it. So I don't understand how. And it's like, well, I can tell you how. Sometimes it happens. Generally in life, and I try to do this, I'm not perfect at it. But when something happens that is for me, not advantageous to the execution of my day, slows me down, upsets me. I really try to go. I wonder why this was happening to me. And what was going on with the person doing it? Because I'm sure I've done it, even at times I didn't even know where I've done the same thing to people in different ways.

And I didn't know, and luckily they showed me grace. And sometimes if they have a bad attitude, it's different. Somebody cuts in line, I want to kill them. I want to chop their head off with a guilty. You just cut in line line. Like, we were in Vegas for our festival, and there's this long line because the coffee line is really long. And there's a couple, and like their friend comes up and just gets in line with them after we've been in line for like 10 minutes. Now, I've had no sleep.

I'm grumpy. That's not a grace given. You're a freaking loser, dude. Why did you do that? Now, I didn't feel like confrontation. You didn't say anything? I didn't because there were a lot of people around me who had said hi to me who listened to the show

and I don't want to get on here going get people grace and all the time I'm a screaming match with some lady. That's a good boy. That was it. I hate a line cutter. I put you in prison. A week. A week in jail.

You cut line. That's so disrespectful. But try to give grace. Because you want it as well. We have a similar thing with Eddie coming up in just a second. Okay, what is this crap? This segment that Eddie came up with, go. What is this crap?

We went to a restaurant and we ate and at the end we get our bill. I look at the bill and it's got all the food charged up and an extra 20% charge. And it was called an employee wellness charge. And under that was the tip line. I'm like, what? You're going to do a 20% employment wellness charge and then explain. expect us to tip on top of that? Oh man, I'm such an advocate of like, yeah, tipping and being conscious of other people's needs, but that's the dumbest thing you ever heard.

Had you ever heard of an employment? Were you at a therapist office? No. Like, you get therapy and E? That's all I, like, like, employee wellness. Yeah. That's about the only place I'm trying to like give tips for my wellness. Right. That's weird because if that was the tip, I go, okay, that's what they've labeled their tip and they're building it in. And you know that now that that's what they do.

but that's bizarre that they add 20% and it doesn't say tip. They probably just, most people do, it's just snuck on there. Is that just the restaurant trying to make a little extra money? Heck yeah. I didn't see it, but I would say, yeah. That feels weird. What kind of place? Why don't they just like increase their dishes by a certain amount?

All the dishes. Well, you're speaking with logic now. But I also think that probably is the tip and they're just trying to sneak in extra money for their servers. Like, yeah, no, I agree with that. They want you to fall for the trick. Like, oh, I agree. Now I need a tip on top of that, so then you're tipping really 40%. But I would say that's the restaurant doing that for the tip.

I would say that's them trying to spike the tip. And I think most people wouldn't even see that charge and then tip on top of that. An employee wellness charge is a mandatory fee added to a bill to cover employee health and wellness costs. Well, restaurants. So like their health care? Then just mark up the food. Right. No, no, just mark up the food.

That would be like, would you, are 20% for lights and power. And you're like, what? Well, you know, we have to power and put lights in a restaurant. So we need you to do utility tip. Right, we don't need an itemized thing. Yeah, no, we don't need that. Yeah, no, that's, that's, that's, that's. No, that's, that's.

Waterbill. That's, that's, that's, crazy, man. I saw that. What did you tip outside of that? Well, I felt like, it's what I said. Like, I felt like it was the company or the restaurant owners trying to make more money. So I said, I'm not going to take this out of the server. So I tipped on top of it, but I didn't feel good doing that. You also can choose not to go back.

Or you also could ask a question about it. But yeah, they should bake that in with the food. I'm reading about these health and wellness charges. And you said it was 20%. 20%? Restaurants, a lot of them do 3% on checks. And it goes to fund health care benefits. But still, they could bake that into the food costs and you wouldn't know.

But that's bizarre. Why do we have to pay for their health care benefits? This is getting insane. Well, no, I would say for their bills, pay their health care benefits. No one pays for my health care benefits. Yes, they do. Who? Me.

Dude, the company. Here's the thing. Anything you buy, it's just not labeled as that, but anything you buy is money that goes back to that company and they decide what to do with it. And if they have to pay for health care benefits, that money goes there. So you are paying people's health care benefits. It's just where they label it out separately like this. Yeah, hey, dude, what is this crap? I'm with you on that. Maybe they're just like, hey, full transparency.

20% that's way high. That's a lot of money. You're right, though. What are we going to see next? Electricity bill, water bill, air conditioner bill. A trash pickup on Tuesdays. We need our 8%. And the morning, and you turn the radio on, and the dial just keeps on turn.

Fox Morgan 2, school, the Steve Redavitt's trying to put you through. Mike D's writing this week's next bit. Now, Bobby's on the mic so you know what this is, the Bobby Vaughn's story. Easy trivia. The category is famous balls. Balls. Yeah, what ball is used in America's most popular sport, known for its distinctive oval shape?

Yeah, that's a football. Correct. Eddie's our champion. He's running the tiara. Morgan, what small white ball is hit with clubs in one of the world's most popular outdoor sports? Golf. Golf ball is correct. Good.

All right, moving over to Abby. Abby, what black and white checkered ball is used in the world's most popular sport? It's also kicked into goals. Oh, soccer. Soccer ball is correct. She looks so confused. And lunchbox, easy trivia. what round orange ball is dribbled and shot into a hoop.

Basketball. Basketball, correct. As you can see, it's very easy. It's why it's called easy trivia. Amy's not playing. She's been eliminated. Sadly. Yes.

Yes. Score is Eddie 3, Lunchbox 2, everybody else zero. Oh, that's the Rock. Correct. Dwayne the Rock Johnson, correct. Morgan, what actor became famous for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men series, a character he's played for nearly 20 years? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, hold on. Oh, yeah. Oh, don't you know. I'm trying to remember today now. It sounds like making a murderer. Oh, yeah. Hugh Jackman, sorry. I had to play.

Don't you know, that's correct. Amy, that's his name. Abby, what comedic actor rose to fame on Saturday Night Live and has since starred in films like Anchorman and Elf? Will Ferrell. Correct. And finally, Lunchbox, what actor won an Oscar for his role in Dallas Buyers Club and is known

for his, all right, all right, all right, catchphrase. Matthew McConaughey. That's correct. Good job. The category now is famous glasses wearers. Eddie, what musician is known as the lead singer of Weezer and often wears his thick black glasses on stage? Rivers Cuomo. Correct.

Morgan, what nerdy suspenders wearing character from the 90? is in a sitcom and is known for his high-pitched voice clumsiness and oversized glasses. Did I do that guy? Is this Steve Urkel? Correct.

Abby, what legendary music legend wore round glasses and is known for hits like Imagine all the people? John Lennon. Correct. Whoa! Oh my gosh! I had no idea.

Lunchbox, what fictional boy wizard is instantly recognizable by his round glasses is a lightning-shaped scar. Harry Potter? Correct. Oh, who else? Yeah. Why is you playing possum?

The category is second grade science, Eddie. What part of the plant holds it in the ground and absorbs water? That's the root. Correct. Morgan, what do you call animals that are active at night? Nocturnal. Correct. Abby, what do you call an animal that only eats plants?

Herbivore. Correct. Lunchbox, what did fish use to breathe underwater? All those are the gills. Correct. Yeah. All four is in. We're taking a break.

Let's go. We'll come back on the other side of this break. All right. Back at it. The category is American history. Eddie, in what year did the U.S. celebrate its 200th birthday? What? In what year to the U.S. celebrate, it's 200th birthday, also known as the bicentennial.

There we go. 19. I don't know. This dumb year is going to get me every time. 20082. What? I don't know, dude. I don't even know when we, I don't know when the declaration was signed.

1776? So 1976. Would have been the answer. Eddie has been eliminated. Boney's food. That date's going to get me every time. Wow. I was impressed you picked a year we haven't even had yet.

Yeah, I was like, we got 200 yet. Morgan, where did the Boston Tea Party take place? This is a true question. In Boston, Massachusetts. Correct. Abby, the Watergate scandal involved what U.S. president? That is, um, Watergate scandal involved what U.S. president?

The scandal. Watergate scandal. Hold on one second. Come on, Abby, you got this. I need more than five seconds. His name is, uh, which is more than that. You've been boo. And when she sees the clock, she can't.

And I feel that. She had way more than five seconds. Richard Nixon. And I love when you start getting out, she just starts talking to your hands. She starts talking to those fingers. She's like, no, no, don't do that to me. Lunchbox, which famous founding father was also a scientist and made major contributions to the field of physics through his study of electricity? Founding father?

Which famous founding father was a scientist and made contributions to the field of physics through his study of electricity? He made the light bulb, Thomas Edison. You've been bowed. It's Benjamin Franklin. Morgan, you're the only one that lasted. You're the winner. Morgan? What he gets the first point? Oh.

Easy tribute. What? What do you mean? Benjamin Franklin. He did the kite. Yeah, the kite got struck by lightning. Did you remember that? Play your song, Ray.

I didn't know that. Lunchbox has a question about some mail here in our building. We all get mail. It goes into like a little box over there. What is your question? Is it illegal to open mail if someone doesn't work here anymore? It's illegal to open mail. It's not yours.

Because there is a. box that's been sitting in there for maybe a month, three weeks, person's name is no longer with this company. We wish them well in their future endeavors. Why do you want to open their box, though? Do you know what's in the box? I don't know what's in the box. Why do you care about what's in the box?

Because it's never going to get to that person because they have no way to get that box. So that box is going to sit there forever. What if you like DM the person and go, hey, you have a box here? I'm not going down that road. Why not? Don't be ridiculous. That would be awkward.

So if we don't get the box to him, I didn't say him. I said them. Because it's him or her. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. Okay.

But you want to open the spot? I think it's illegal to open mail that's not yours. It is. Just generally speaking. At work, though, you're talking about mailboxes and out in the world at work. Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to. It's just on a table.

It's not even in a mailbox. Because they're... Yeah, because the table holds our mail. Yeah, like I understand walking down the street and open someone in his mailbox, that's a federal offense. That's different. And you're on his side? I mean, not yet.

Not yet, just on that point. Okay. Here, it is sitting on a table. It's not even in a mailbox. Well, we don't have mailboxes that are big enough. I just don't know what to do. No, we're telling you. Bones, what's wrong with just opening the box, see what's in there.

It's legal. Okay, listen to this. Oh! Now, hold on. It's legal for an employer to open personal mail address to a former employee at the organization's address if it's delivered to the organization. However, get the box.

However, employers should be aware of common law privacy claims that could be made against them such as intrusion upon seclusion or public disclosure of a private fact. You don't want to mess with that.

So if you open it and it's something private they didn't want to be seen, you could be in trouble. Right. But if it's like promotional gear, what do you think it is? I don't know who it's from?

I thought maybe you looked at this awesome Jack Daniels or something. No, I didn't see who was from. I just saw to this person and I was like, huh, well, this person. Hey, bones. Open the box

I'm not the employer though The company has to say that Huh You guys think I pay you Who can we call I don't say no Scoobo what do you think You just said it right there

It's illegal to do it And now we're on our radio show That everyone can hear and see And now if we open the box It's gonna be on social But nobody knows who it is I mean I think we have an idea Who you know who it is

I don't know who it is I don't have a clue Is it Dan? Oh my God Oh I was thinking Broken Foot guy No, not him. No.

He didn't get mail down here. Got it. I don't think. There's a lot of mail that's been sitting there for years. Right. We should go through all of it, right? We should, yeah, but not on the show. Great.

So what's the answer officially? Officially the answer is we should leave it alone. Hey, but he did finger quotes. He did finger quotes. No, he didn't wink. Stop winking. I mean. Okay, we can't open somebody else's mail.

Dang. We can't open somebody else's mail. I kind of want to know what's in there, but we can't open somebody else's mail. What do you hope to be in there? What would be the best guest case scenario? mean like a liquor free cruise in the box how is that in a big box you put a whole boat

in there like a plastic boat like maybe they sent them a promotional boat saying hey you're going on this cruise my official statement is we cannot open that box and I'm going to stand by that official statement what are you doing your personal time is up to you oh no no no I'm standing by my statement of no opening the box

no opening the box officially but I can't always see where you are okay that's all thank you Bobby Bone Show This story comes to us from New Jersey. We all love Facebook. Post your kids. Post your meals.

I'm not a Facebook guy. Just for the record, I don't all love Facebook. Not you don't love it at all. No, I mean, I'm on it once a... I like Facebook Marketplace. Yeah, but I don't want to be known as a group that loves Facebook. Once a week, maybe I look on it. I do love Instagram.

Okay. Well, this guy, 35-year-old, decided he loves Facebook. He might as well show off his new gun. Oh, great. Only problem is he has previous charges. Oh. So he posted his new gun. But that's the kind of people on Facebook.

I would say there's not a lot of those on Instagram. There's more of those on Facebook. Probably. Would you guys agree with that? Yeah. Yeah. But I shouldn't have a gun crowd. True.

Yeah. Yeah, so police raided his house. They found rifles, handguns, dozens of knives, ninja stars, brass knuckles. Dang, man. And 129 fully loaded illegal magazines full of bullets. Was he selling? Like, was he a gun dealer? A dealer? Like, why you'd have all that and not be, like, profiting? A bounty hunter? I don't know, but... An illegal bounty hunter? You got to have a license to do that. Oh, is that right? Yeah. I didn't know that. Like, for real dude. Really? Yeah. I'm almost positive. You have to have a license to be a... I don't know if bounty hunter is a real word anymore.

Like, dog. Dog was a bounty hunter. Yeah. I think you need to be licensed to do that. Or maybe I'm thinking about driving a car, but either way, I know you need a license to do something. I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead Story of the Day. We're talking about bounty hunters earlier in the bonehead. And I was like, how do you get to be a bounty hunter? Some states, no license needed. You just go in bounty hunt people. That's awesome. That's crazy.

You can just go, I'm a bounty hunter. I'm looking for criminals. I'm on the way. To date, 22 states require bounty hunters to be licensed. How many states are there? 50. So a majority does not require. So something random do with just whatever can arm himself and go start arresting people?

You can do it without arms. But you're looking for a reward, right? Like you look for the fugitives? Yeah. I mean, you're not just doing it for a hobby. I mean, I guess you could. But some states, including California, have specific statutes and plates that regulate the practice of bounty hunting. So, but they don't require a license. So you have to do it a certain way.

But bail enforcement is now a recognized profession, which would be what bounty hunting is. Oh, yeah. Bail enhancement. It's the custodian to the janitor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bail enforcement is now a recognized profession across most of the United States. It's a line of work you can expect to get into without going into a bounty hunter school first. I can't imagine the classrooms of that. So, yeah, four states, Oregon, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Illinois ban bounty hunting.

Oregon, Kentucky, Wisconsin. Oh, for sure, they have shotguns. They're doing it with shotguns out. I mean, maybe some states just know that the most successful bounty hunters aren't going to take time to get a bounty hunter license. They just want to go hunt. The requirements to become a bounty hunter vary by state with some states requiring license or registration. Others do not. Licenses are in California, Hawaii.

Louisiana. Ohio has a certain weird thing. Sometimes you got to be 18. Sometimes. What in the world? I'm a 13 y'all bounty hunter. Get in the car. Dog was in Hawaii, right? Yeah, he was in Hawaii a lot. So he was licensed. Where we live, there is no license required to operate as a bounty hunter. Let's go. But you must submit a background check and provide eight continuing education credits per year. So they need to learn about it. I got to do is watch bounty hunter. That's it. Yeah. Eight episodes is eight credits. Who knew that was like a thing that was ruled, regulated,

has a registration. You had to take classes. That was wild. But I remember I think... I thought you'd be a copper. Honestly, I thought to actually be that, you'd have to be in law enforcement. At some point, maybe you retire.

Just, right? Like, there'd be something to it. Not just, I've decided to be it. His dog's a bounty hunter always wore something like a badge. Like a necklace. And I think he got in trouble because he went to Mexico and got someone in. He wasn't licensed to go to Mexico.

Yes, that did happen. Something like that happened. But he found the guy. Yeah. He was just in Mexico. So my question, though, is, is that badge real? Can you make your own badge? Like a bounty hunting badge?

Well, if the badge just says bounty hunter, I think that's okay, right? Well, I have a friend that was like a boob enforcer at Spring Break. Boob Patrol. Whatever it was. Booty Patrol. Yeah, a lot of those patrols, you know? So, anyway, a little bounty hunter goes for you. Dog Chapman was arrested in Mexico in 2003.

after capturing Andrew Luster a serial rapist and fugitive. Whoa. They were arrested. I mean, doesn't that cancel it out? He caught a bad guy, so like don't arrest him. I think it's like you killed a bad guy, so don't arrest it, no,

because you can't just go do vigilante justice, and then also you're in another country, and their rules are different. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Jurisdictions. You used a good word.

It's like during the vice presidential debate when I think it was Waltz kept saying adjudicated, and I was like, bro, I had to Google that word. like I know what it means, but we're watching this. We don't know what that means. Like general people, if they're like, you can't adjudicate, please use words that.

What does that mean? What do you think it means? Judge something about judging someone? It has to do with the law. Oh, you can't, you're not above the law. No, no chance. It's a judge. Oh, you can't judge.

A process. What I said? I think you said something to do with a judge. To adjudicate the official definition to make a formal judgment or decision about a problem or dispute. example, a judge will adjudicate a case to determine who is at fault. Oh, I was kind of right then. Yeah, yeah, but he was using that. Like, that was a word everybody uses and we don't.

Like, they should go to class and be like, okay, here are normal people words. And you guys are elevated in your education, but here are words you shouldn't use when you need normal people to pay attention. Yeah. When you're in your rooms, you're voting on bills and stuff. Use the big words. But that was, I was like, bro, you guys stop. That, I don't know what I talked. That vice presidential debate was, they were so cordial. It was very boring. and I liked it, but I didn't watch much of it because of that. It was counterintuitive. It was like, I liked it.

They were kind of nice to each other. But then I was like, I'm bored. When was that one? Yeah, when that happened? Yeah, three nights ago. And they both had a really bad moment. They had one, but they both had a really bad moment, which was like clipable. Because on this show, or like podcasts, I'll be like something happens.

I'll be like, clip that. Yeah, clip that. They both had on each other clip that moment where Waltz, the governor of Minnesota. There was one point where he was like talking about going to China and he was like, I'm a knucklehead. I messed up and he's awkward and he just didn't know

how to respond and it looked really bad and it's a meme because his face like this the other one was when J.D. Vance was like you promised you wouldn't fact check us

I laughed out loud I laughed out loud he said it to the moderators yes you promised you wouldn't back check us because in the last debate there was arguments

about fact check and the fact that he said that you could have said it different like hey you guys promise you wouldn't jump in and cloud but he goes you promise you

wouldn't fact check us and I was like that's hilarious. Both were hilarious. Fact checking is... But also, you know, nobody really watched it and also that doesn't... Vice-Pretual, digital debate, whatever, never really decides anything. But there were two clippable moments in that. As a person that's clippable,

I'd have been like, clip that JD vans clip. If I were J.D., I'd be like, clip that clip that clip and put it on. Mm-hmm. That, yeah, JD-Mans could use the knucklehead one on himself. You promise you wouldn't, you know, whatever, what do you say?

You promise you wouldn't. Fact check us. That's good. but he was being a knucklehead by saying that. They could meme each other. That's what Amy said to NPR when they fact-checked her. What? You said you wouldn't fact-checked.

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