The Bobby Bones Show - Fri Full Show: Tracy Lawrence Is On! + Concerns About Lunchbox’s Pee Stream

Episode Date: July 12, 2024

Tracy Lawrence is on the show talking about his new EP, his podcast, touring and recalls one of his favorite memories with George Jones and more! Then, find out why Bobby and Eddie are concerned about Lunchbox's pee stream and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Come on, Bobby. Hey, thanks for being here. Morning, studio. Morning. Tracy Lawrence coming up. 90s country superstar.

He'll be in studio. I have the top 10 most popular TV shows right now, right this second. And so you're basically just trusting these streamers to give you accurate data, which I don't have to. But top 10. Number 10, I don't know it. It's called Eric Limited Series on Netflix. A puppeteer clings to his missing son's drawings. convince that if he can get Eric on TV,

his son will soon come. Oh, that's interesting. I started that a while ago, now that you say it, and I didn't even make it through episode one. Oh, you have to give anything a full episode. Yeah. Mike, did you watch it?

Okay, save it for Tuesday Reviews Day. All right, save it for Tuesday Reviews Day. I like the concept. Okay. I saw a, like the trailer, the intro to some show on Netflix about superheroes and London.

I love superheroes. And like they have these, Now, they're called, like, I don't know. Almost, my wife has had enough of me watching superhero stuff. And so we didn't watch it. But it apparently got such great reviews on Rotten Tomatoes that they, like, released it nationally. Anybody know what I'm talking about? No.

It's a British show. Yeah, British show. I saw the trailer for it, but I haven't started it yet. With the kids, like eating and it goes super fast with his pork? Yeah. Well, I don't know anything about it, so we suck. Number nine, the Mole, Season 2 on Netflix. I remember the old Mole with Anderson Cooper.

I don't watch any games. Oh, it's a game show. Yeah, I don't watch any games. Dark Matter, season one on Apple. Awesome. I already reviewed this. I don't need to say it for Tuesday Reviews Day. It's so good.

It's about this dude who's a scientist, but then he's a teacher and he's just teaching, living his life, and it's like other dimensions. Oh, man, it's good. You love that stuff. Oh, boy. It's the number eight overall.

His name's Jason. He is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Oh. It's amazing. My wife and I loved it. Okay, I loved it and she could stand. Number seven, Your Honor, season one. I watched this on Showtime back in the day, like 2020.

I watched it like two episodes to quit. Oh, I finished the whole thing. It's awesome. Okay, I should give it a chance again. Brian Cranston is a judge. A respected son, judge's son is involved in a hit and run. Let, leave it at that. I'm going to read the rest of the preview right here.

But that's just a description. I'm telling you. It's good, the end. Number six, House of Dragon. We're in the middle of this. It's excellent. Is that Hulu? That is on Max.

Oh, is that your Game of Thrones? It's the Game of Thrones prequel. It is A-plus. Love it. Number five, presumed innocent on Apple. It's not over yet, so I can't do Tuesday or a views day. It's A-plus. Oh, my goodness.

Jake Gyllenhaal is in it. A horrific murder upends the Chicago prosecuting attorney's life and office. And one of their own is suspected of leaving the crime. It's awesome. The boys on Amazon, it's A plus amazing. Yeah, you like that one. I've loved all four seasons. This is so good.

Not over it. The bear is at number three. I watched the first season of the bear, never went back. It's so good. I even liked it. We never went back to season two. I did and it's good.

The bear, season three is in number three. Is it back? Is it out? Is season three out? Yeah. When did that happen? I don't know, sometime before today. Yeah.

Yeah, sometime before the second right here. Oh, I'm going to watch that. Number two is that show I was talking about. Super Cell on Netflix. That's the one. In South London, a group of normal people suddenly develop superpowers, and the only apparent connection between them is that all them are black, and they all do with the impact of their powers on their daily lives.

One man must bring them together. Super Cell? Super Cell? Oh, Super Cell. And then finally, number one is Star Wars, the Ackolite season. Disney Plus. I don't know that one. I mean, that's a hater.

I didn't watch it, but you gave it a hater, eh, and that's not fair. It's an. You didn't watch it. And I won't. That's not nice. So that's the number one show, most popular show right now. Morgan, you watching that? Yeah, I am.

It's a good one. I don't know that it beats Mandalorian for me, but it is really good. Still in the middle of it? Yeah, it's still happening. Each episode's coming up. Can't put it on Tuesday or Tuesday then? Nope, not yet. Okay.

Those are your top 10 TV shows right now. Are you guys in the middle of things that are good? No. The challenge battle for a new champion. It ended like a month ago, but I'm still behind. Keep us up today and who wins that one? I mean, I'm watching that cheerleader show. Oh, yeah, that's Cowboys' Show.

Yeah, you talked about that on Tuesday, Reviews Day last week. Yeah, I'm still working on it. I did see where the Cowboys are worth like, you know, $8 billion or whatever. And the whole story was that cheerleaders make like $400 bucks. Right. Yeah. There's that. It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag.

Hello, Bobby Bones. My boyfriend and I have been together for about a year. He tells me all the time he loves me. and I usually respond in kind, but I don't think I really love him. It would be uncomfortable to not return his affection, so I go along. Just because I don't think I love him doesn't mean I don't enjoy spending time with him, and I can learn to love him. Is it wrong of me to continue dating him knowing he loves me and I don't love him back?

Signed, simply Sarah. The answer is no, it is not wrong. A lot of times in a relationship, somebody loves the person first, and the other person doesn't love back. Hey, many of love your boy here. I only loved one back, the one I'm with now. Only person I ever told I love you to. It's my wife now.

And I kind of kid, that's true. But anytime I say your boy, you know I'm kidding. I don't usually talk like that. But I would say if you see potential in the relationship, you definitely can stay with him. I think where you messed up was saying it back whenever you didn't mean it. Very awkward for me because it was said to me a couple times. and I'd never said it back.

But we say together. So what did you say in those moments? Thank you. Thank you. Well, there's nothing else to say. What, you don't say, well, if they're like, oh, I love you. Oh, awkward, I don't love you back. But let's say together.

You can't do that. I also don't know that thank you is the right response either. But at the time, it felt the kindest way to say, I don't love you and I probably never will. Yeah. I guess inflection would be important with the thing. Thank you. Like, was it like, thank you. Or was it like, thank you? It was like this. No, no questioning. Not San Diego. It wasn't that. It was like, oh, I just, I think I love you. Oh, man, thank you so much. Thank you. I'm not saying it wasn't awkward.

I felt like winning an award. Like I'm doing a speech. I'd like to think everybody that got me here today. But I didn't, so I never said it. So I would say the issue is, and it's not so much of an issue, I think you can keep going along with it. But if you feel like there is no potential for you to actually love this person, you owe it to them to break up with them.

It feels uncomfortable. It won't be good for them or you. But that's what you owe. You owe if you don't see potential or the possibility of loving this person to cut them so they can, go ahead and start anew and find somebody that will love them back. But you're good. No need to also go back and be like, hey, I've been lying about loving you, but I want to stay together.

Because as soon as you go, I've been lying about loving you, you're probably not staying together. But do you keep telling them that you love them? Yeah, why not? You've already, you're already doing it. Really? You can't back off that a little bit? Practical answer is, might as well. You know, bell's already been wrong.

Kind of hard to unring a bell. Yeah. Unless you're going to trash the bell. So keep at it. But as soon as you don't, by the way, this is not philosophically the best answer, but this is all practicality. I try to speak in practicality terms. So if you think there's a future, hang in there. As soon as you don't see there's a future, get out because it's not about you. It's about them. Be fair to them. That's what I'm saying simply. Sarah, I appreciate that. I feel good about my

advice. Good luck. Good luck. Yes. Close it up. We got your email and we let it on the air. Now it's about to close Bobby's mail back. Here's a voice mail we got yesterday. I'm wondering, I got a random call from someone claiming to be jelly roll. How can I verify that this is actually jelly roll, which he did a lot of probing, which I wasn't really interested in doing? He asked for so much information that I'm really thinking it's not him. How can you help me verify that this is him? I can verify it for you. It is not him. Don't know anything about it, but it's not him.

That's not jelly roll. He's not going to call you. Jelly roll is not calling you. If you don't have a past relationship with Jelly Roll where you have called each other, he's not calling you. He's not asking you for any money. It doesn't need it now. But it's not.

And there are so many of these stories, a 75-year-old Journey fan in Cleveland, Ohio, journey, Journey, just a small town girl. You know that song? This 75-year-old fan was scammed out of $122,000. Oh. By somebody posing as Steve Perry. According to WKYC, the woman responded to a face. Facebook message from someone claiming to be the band's former lead singer, the fake Mr. Perry

needed a woman in his life. The next several months, a woman sent the Perry imposter $72,000 in wire transfers to various persons in various different states designated by Perry, finger quotes, and then gift cards that equaled up to $50,000. See, I see believe in Steve Perry a little bit because he's been out of the spotlight. No. Stop. You never know.

Maybe he's broke. No. But tell you don't. He's hot right now. He's making money right now. There's no need. He doesn't need money. No, Steve Perry's good, too.

Okay. That's a lot, lot, lot, lot of money. This person probably wasn't telling their family they were giving until I got to such a point. $122,000. So I'm assuming there's, you know,

wire transfers going, boom, boom, boom, up to $72,000. And then this $50,000 in gift cards is probably just trickling. And you never let them know because, one, you believe it and two when you don't you're embarrassed and you don't tell anybody while it's happening probably

but you got to be telling someone you're dating Steve Perry not yet because he said don't it's secret there's one about Vince Gill oh where some woman ended up giving a fake Vince Gill like either 30 or 300,000 dollars oh my goodness both suck oh my God I just saw the story but they believed that Vince Gill was looking for somebody I stopped falling for this but the people that you're saying that too aren't listening to this show for the part because she listens to our show.

But he called. These are online. That's true. I'm kidding. It's the same. But I would say most people, though, are older and vulnerable. The made-up victim of the Vince Gill scam wanted $350,000. Vince needed help.

And the scammer had virtually taken all her mom's money and given it to Vince, apparently. Vince, not the real Vince. These are so sad. It's vulnerable. folks and it's a numbers game because we're like none of our friends would fall for that but if they do it to a thousand people and they get one

a bunch of gift cards to P.F. Chang's awesome. I mean this is why eventually we're going to have to get off social media because we're going to be those old people and we're going to fall for this stuff. Oh, I thought you're going to say we're going to be the scammers. I'm like, you know what? Carrie Underwood's going to come calling them and be like, all right, you know what? Carry you call. Take it. I'm all in. I'm all in.

So to end, as a note, unless there's a blue check mark, it does not matter. Don't fall for like the blue squiggly or the blue circle or the other ways you can put. If it does not have the blue check mark, and that doesn't even count on Twitter, but the blue check mark on Instagram or Facebook do not give them money. You can pay for a blue check mark on Twitter now. Twitter's kind of rotten disease land at this point. But if they have a blue check mark, it's not the real person. It's not me. There have been people that have given my fake agents or fake

managers two and $3,000, not $350, but $2,000 and what do they say? Bobby needs money? Like, oh my goodness. And there have been times where, like, Scoob and I talked about it, I was like, I'll just give them $2,000 because I feel bad. And then it's like, you can't do that because what if they're scamming you?

Oh. About how they got scammed. You got to worry about that now. Yes. The reverse scam. So everybody just be aware. It's time for the good news. With producer Eddie. On a hot day in Asheville, North Carolina, walking down the street. He sees a box

on the side of the road. He goes, well, that's weird. Normally I would just walk by and not even think about it, but something told him to check the box. So he goes to the box, opens it up. There's four puppies in there. So hot. It looks like they're like... It looks like they're not in good shape. He grabs the box,

takes them to a local shelter. The shelter takes them. Sure enough, yes, they suffered from severe hydration, upper respiratory infection, but that was a few weeks ago. And now, the four pups, they've been renamed clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts because they're lucky to be found by this guy.

And they're ready to be adopted. Yeah, I'm looking at them here. The fact that someone would just leave them in a box. I hate that person. I don't really hate. I don't have a lot of hate in my heart. I'll hold a grudge, though. I like that. But I don't hate the person. For a long time. Yeah, just a couple people. I got like two grudges that still exist. One's an old morning show in Austin that I hate.

Another one's artist. But other than that, all good, right? Still, still grudges on them? Oh, yeah. I'll hold a grudge till the day I die. Only two, though, I've eliminated 90% of the garage. That's good. But I don't hate anybody. And even if any of those people came to me, I would help them.

What about this guy? Whoever this is, I hate you. You did this to dogs in a box on a hot day and just left them. And to the guy who discovered the dogs, I don't know why you stopped. And you don't either. But I'm so glad you did. He said something told him, intuition. He said, what's in the box?

That's what he said. Puppies. But he found out. He said, yeah, puppies. Great job. I hope people adopt them. It's cool. That's a good story. I'm glad you shared it. That is what it's all about. That was tell me something good.

The most fun fact I could possibly find is this one. The root in root beer is referring to the root of the sassafras tree, which made root beer root. Which, by the way, they can't use sassafras in root beer anymore because the FDA bandit for having potentially dangerous chemical compounds. So the original root beer could kill you. What is sassafras? That sounds awesome. No idea, but it sounds like something from the 50s in the South. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sassafras. I like it. But that's the root. The sassafras root in root beer. Amy. Human teeth are the only part of the body that can't heal themselves. Think about this. I had a lot of cavities and none of them have just fixed themselves.

I think I've had like 27 cavities. Wow, that's a lot. I think every toothless was a cavity when I first started going to the dentist in my 20s. But yeah, that's a lot. I've had one. But I've given a lot of minutes. mentorship in root canals. I'm an expert.

If there's something like you're an expert in it without actually having the actual knowledge of it, it's sitting through a root canal. I think I've had like 12. Is it possible about 12 root canals? How many roots are in there? I have no idea. I've never had one.

I think I've had 12 of them. But that's funny. I guess of the part of the body that we can see, that's, I think the teeth is the only one. That's why hockey players don't have teeth because they lost it. Well, no, but you can also get new ones put in. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Lunchbox. Over the last 10 years, one third of all divorce lawyers. Filings contained one word. Oh, let me guess. Over the last 10 years. I would say cheating.

Cheating. No. Facebook. Oh. Facebook. Yeah, because they probably used it to cheat. Yeah. Yeah.

Facebook. Something happened on Facebook. Facebook this. Facebook that. One third of filings over the last 10 years. That's probably how they got busted. They left their account. on their computer.

That's crazy. Why is Jimmy poking you? They were selling something on Facebook Marketplace and met up with the person and they were like, oh, hey. I've been thinking about using Facebook Marketplace to sell my Bronco. Would that be weird? I see cars on there all the time. Actually, I saw a cool Bronco on there the other day.

I know, Winnebago and Airstream. I see lots of cool vintagey things on there. Really? Yeah. I just feel weird about selling something substantial on Facebook. Yeah, but people go there for all kinds of things. I mean, you could probably list it multiple places, and that's just one. outlet. You never know.

I want to sell it to somebody, though, that has like an uncle that's a king of Dubai and promises me, like, riches. That's pretty easy. Yeah, y'all want to find one of those people. Eddie? So sloths, you know, the animal, the real slow animal, they can hold their breath up to 40 minutes. Wow. 40 minutes. That's crazy. I wonder why they'd have to do that. They sand underwater at all for a long period of time? No, they hang on trees. I don't know they go under water. I wonder why they would have to develop that as a survival mechanism or even a skill. Because

usually that is passed down through generations. It's funny you say water, though, because dolphins, they can hold their breath up to 10 minutes, which is nothing. They have to come up every two minutes. Oh, yeah. I thought they'd be lower longer than that. Yeah, 10 minutes down and that's when you see their little fin come up because they've got to breathe through their blowhole. Yeah, I mean, they're a mammal. A whale's a mammal. How long can a well stay down? I don't have that info. Oh, I have nipples. Can you milk me?

Morgan. All right, there used to be 27 letters in the alphabet. So ampersand followed Z in the alphabet. it signified the word and as for how it would be recited. It was R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z and per se and. So like they change it from ampersand and to ampersand. Wow, mind-blown. That's a lot of words and that was hard to get through.

But the ampersand, by the way, is that and a sign that's like the circle, like the one thing. We don't, none of us not how to draw it. We could, we do a different one. We do like the three with the comeback. But the ampersand is, it goes to the, it looks like a guy sitting with a table. A little table in front of them. Okay. Everybody familiar with the ampersand?

Yes. That means and? So the original, now it's just the shortened term of that and word, but it used to mean. And per se and. I'm glad they fixed that because that had been terrible. Yeah, that's confusing. WX, Y, and Z, and per se, and. I just didn't fit with the song, you know.

The smell of your home, when you come back from a trip is what it smells like to guests that come to your house all the time. You just get used to it and you're gone so long that when you come home, you smell it again yeah i've had that before i've been like this is not a good smell really was that because they give her a dog like it just animals yeah yeah or yeah that's when i've noticed sometimes something is wrong and i've been like we need leaving it coming back this yeah if you've left for a while and then you come back and you're like nothing's all right yeah my wife cares about that stuff like the smell of the house like with candles and flowers and stuff i never cared

Yeah, no, but you, I mean, and there's some things that are going to mask it, but then there also, it could be an indicator that there's a root problem that you could get rid of, and then you don't have to worry about that odor. I don't like that because I might be the root problem. And just to get rid of me, that is no good. Yeah. Each M&M takes up to 16 hours to make each single M&M. Now, they don't make them one at a time or that would take forever, but it does take 16 hours to make an M&M when they make a bunch of them.

That's crazy. That's pretty crazy. That's pretty crazy. That's fun. No, it's not crazy. It's fun. Fun fact Friday. This is Callie from Upstate New York.

Morning studio. Hoping you could give my little sister and best friend Riley who listens to you in Savannah, Georgia, a big birthday shout out. We're both huge fans and longtime listeners. I even got her a cameo by Ray this year for her birthday. We just love you guys and appreciate you. It's super hard living so far away. The talking about your show and how much you crack us up keeps us in touch almost daily. Thank you for all the joy you spread and hopefully we'll get to meet you guys someday.

Have a great one. Riley, happy birthday. That's cool. And also, how about that, Ray? They buy a cameo from you. Rock bottom price of $29. That's what you're charging right now? Yeah, lowest ever.

Just trying to generate more coming in. How many a day do you get now? Ooh, week one. Oh, we're really struggling, huh? So a day would be 0.2. Well, if it's 7, it wouldn't be. 0.15. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, Ray Moon, what do they search for in cameo if they want to buy one from you? Bobby Bones show, Ray Mundo. I see, I don't like it. My name is in that. For him, I like that you do it. I'm happy to say, Raymondo's like Cameo. But if you ever show something you shouldn't show

or say something you, they're like, and on cameo, Bobby Bone Show Raymundo. And I'm like, I don't want to be in that. I'll just put I Heart Media, Raimundo. I wouldn't do that either. Just keep it how it is. Just keep it how it is. Rock bottom price, $29.

And happy birthday to Riley. Appreciate that. Here's Amy's pile of stories. USA Today did a big write-up on how a lot of Jinziers are hitting the tattoo, regret, stage of their life. Zinzi, by the way, you were born in between 1997 and

2012. So they're like late 20s. They're starting to get married and they're like, oh, these tattoos they're clashing with what I'm going to wear at my wedding. Well, in about seven years, those marriage regrets will fall in as well. Right now we're at the tattoo stage than the marriage. Yeah, it's been trending on

TikTok. We all go through it. Millennials went through it with like barbed wire things and infinity signs. I'm pretty happy with my direction with my tattoos, meaning everything I did is very block letter. Like it will not, it's not a style, so I don't think it can go out of style. Like all this here, it's all just straight blocks. Right. Like Gen X has, you know, tramp stamp regret, but like you didn't do anything trendy.

Yeah. You went with just special. It's not like Times New Roman, the barbed wire. Yeah, Tiger. Okay, what else? I have some unethical parenting hacks that either are brilliant or, oh. Let's go. You shouldn't do this.

Okay. Changing the time on the clock to make your kids go to bed. It's really seven, but you just change the clock to eight. And you're like, oh, but kids, look, it's eight. Let's go to bed. I guess my question is, how do you change a clock? Because everything's on phones. Some people still have digital.

Are they going to believe that if there's a phone anywhere near or an iPad? Evens on how old they are. Okay, so two-year-olds, we got, okay, go ahead. When the ice cream truck plays the music, oh, that actually means they're out of ice cream. Good one. I've heard that one before. someone got their kid to read by turning on subtitles on the TV. And they said they went up four reading levels.

But subtitles were always on and they were like, you have to read along. A guy's parents told him that he was allergic to alcohol. And then finally when he was older, they said, oh, yeah, we just don't want you drinking in high school. They forgot to tell him he wasn't. They probably forgot they even told him that he was. And then he's 27.

No, I don't drink. Why did you never drink? Clark, well, you told me I was allergic. Oh, my God. Then you have to decide, do we tell them now or do we just let them live with it? No, you just let him live with them. And the final one that I just really like. When the batteries and a loud, annoying toy die, they tell him, oh, they don't make those batteries anymore.

That's a good one. You just throw the toy out. Okay, what else? Higher education is a losing ground. Just this whole poll was taken, and we don't have a lot of confidence in higher education or just finding that it's not as necessary as it used to be. I agree. I think it is one avenue. It is not the only avenue.

And it's not always the best avenue to go to college. And in about a month, a lot of people are going to be embarking on college. So now's the time to make your decision. No pressure. You're really rushing up there with that. No, I mean, but it really is, doesn't have to be for everybody. My daughter's starting to consider colleges now that she's 17, just going to be a junior. And I don't really want her to be thinking about it.

But a lot of kids at school, she's like, everybody's talking about it. And they're trying to figure out where they're going to go. they're going to do and I'm just like, slow down. Well, no, I think it's time. If she wants to do that, she's got to start applying. It is, but I didn't say that out loud. In my mind, I'm like, slow down. We didn't say in your mind, you said it out loud, so we thought it was out loud.

True. I would say that depending on what kind of work you want to go into, you aren't going to be a law year without going to school. There are certain jobs you have to have school. But there are certain jobs that are like, you should go to school. You can just get started. But education, they can't take away from you. Unless your lunchbox, he didn't quite finish this.

They didn't quite give it to him. Yeah. Amy's that it? I'm Amy. That's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. If you're listening to the show and you're in Portland, we're going to do something on Tuesday of next week. Eddie and I are coming up to Portland,

and we're going to do a podcast in the evening. If you want to come to this, go to 987Thebull.com. It's time for the good news. With lunchbox. Tell me something good. Will Remington is a truck driver in Oklahoma. And he's on. his usual route and he sees this camper, parked on the side of the road kind of in the trees.

It's not usually there. And he's like, huh, that's weird. Does his route. And he's driving back the other way. And now he sees the camper covered in a tarp. He's like, that's not right. So he flies down a police officer's like, hey, there's this camper that's not usually there. Looks very suspicious.

The cop goes to investigate. The guy that is in the camper is out, dehydrated, clinging to life. Okay, but why? That's a dramatic pot. He just would have thought it was like, where I'm from it had been somebody making meth. Right, right, I thought that. That really would be.

And I'd been like, I'm not calling. I'm not going anywhere near that. Well, he was trying to hide from the police, but he just became overwhelmed by the elements. And so they saved his life, but he got arrested. Overwhelmed by the elements. He's in a camper. Hot.

I guess it was hot. Yeah, he doesn't have AC, man. I guess the good news is that he got caught, but also that they saved him. Yeah, but they also saved him. So you see something? Say something is what I say. And he was. hanging on to life.

Plinging. Oh, clinging. To life. So elements, he's talking about the weather. He's not talking about elements like you're saying like the movement. It's just a normal day. It's just sunny. He uses code words for drugs sometimes and I'm like elements.

He was in poor condition, sweating and without water. Water. You need some water too. Have a drink. All right, there you go. That's the good news. That's what's all about. That was tell me something good.

with Tracy Lawrence. Tracy, we're talking about you before you came in. Obviously, as a person, I really like you, but then we're fans of forever. What is your best song? What's your, what's such a vague question? What's your best song? You know, there's a lot of ways to look at that. I'd say personally for me, I'll sit now as one of my favorite songs to sing, but Time Marches on is the best written song that I have, but Peytonne in Birmingham might have been the most impacting song that I had. All those are wrong. It's alibis. In case you're wondering the answer, it's alibi. No, all those are great. songs, but Amy and I were talking about you coming in, and we were playing some clips of

stuff, and when that hook and alibis hits. Oh, what a good record that was. And it just had such a great lope to it, too. Just the movement of it was very special. You know, a lot of people don't realize that Tracy Bird cut that on his debut record, and it got bumped from the album. He had been singing that song at the club. He was like it playing at Cutters for years, and they'd been playing that song in the

club for a long time. and so his fans were mad at me because they thought I stole his song, the people that knew him from back home in Beaumont. So when that song came out, but they didn't hook it. I mean, I just cut a great record on that thing. Did you ever hear his version of it, like the studio version? I never heard it, but he's actually got on stage and sang it with me a few times. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah, it's cool. Back in the day, how did fans get mad at you if there wasn't social media to yell? Oh, they just, you know, they're very protective of their artists that they attached to, especially people that had been following him when he was, before he got to Nashville, cut that first record, the fans that went with him way back. But how would you know? Because they couldn't like send you a comment on Instagram. Oh, you hear about it, though. Okay, I went like the Paul Revere?

Back then I did meet and greets overnight. And people would say that to you? Oh, yeah. I can't believe you stole his song. That's funny. Yeah. Okay, let's do Time Marches on then. You say Best Written Song.

I think that song is like a work of art. If you really look at the message of that song, it's talking about multiple generations of a family. family to paint that picture and really get all of that imagery across in three and a half minutes. Bobby Braddock wrote that by itself. I mean, it's a masterful piece of work. Still kind of holds up. You know, sometimes you go watch a TV show and it doesn't hold up or there'll be one from like the late 90s. You're like, man, this would still be good today. That song still kind of holds up and makes you feel the way you felt even back then as well. Without a doubt. Where does that go on your set list, time watches on?

Almost right at the end, right before Birmingham. They're my last two numbers. man if your voice is tired and you gotta do that key change I pay me a Birmingham you know it's weird though I can have problems with other songs that are in lower keys I never have a problem with Birmingham

you're going out doing the headline stuff now you just finished some Riley Green shows right how was that awesome Riley's great and I didn't realize how massive his career is he's drawing huge crowds right now he's killing it he's killing it how were his fans with you

were they super were they awesome they were great absolutely I don't have the abs he does your headline tours tracy lawrence dot com if you guys want to get tickets tonight, you're in Louisville. What do you start the show with? There's a song called Made in America that I wrote a few years ago that I'm kind of kicking things off with. I like to kind of set the tone for

just what I feel about this country and just kind of get everybody excited about what the night holds. I don't do a whole lot of patriotic stuff, but I like to start my show with it. Out here in it is the new EP that's out now. So you have six songs on this. You know, when you make new music and you've had so many massive songs, you're kind of competing with yourself. And I think about that when I'm going into cut stuff. I look for things that I can plug into the show that are a little bit different that don't stay on top of things I already have because the hardest thing about, you know, when you're not really working radio like what we used to do back in the 90s,

when you're just using social media to prop a song up, is feeling how well it impacts. Some things do impact still. So I'm moving things through my set list all the time. So I try to put them in spots where they don't kind of step on anything else that I have. But I do think about all that stuff when I cut a new record. When you make a set list, do you think about I don't need to put two slow songs back to back because then the crowd will fall asleep? It depends on what those songs are.

Some songs, you can put anything around them in the hold of any time. But I don't like to do too many new songs back to back. I like to scatter them through so I can just, a lot of times I won't even tell the crowd there are a new song. I just kind of play them and let them pass and then move on to something else. But I don't like to leave them laying around. I would not go in and do three songs off a new project that nobody knows. I wouldn't do all those back to them. Good for you for caring about the fans, because I've been to shows with major acts,

and when they played like three or four new ones, and listen, I understand as a creator, we want to do the new stuff we've done as well. Without a doubt. However, people have paid good money to come and hear the songs they love as well. And I've told this story, I went to a concert once, one of my favorite bands. They never played a hit. They played their entire new record, and I was like, I feel jipped. Yeah.

And I look at that from the fan's perspective, too. I don't want to be that artist. And I'm blessed that I always had creative control over the things that I cut. So I don't feel like I have to go back and say, God, I wish I hadn't to cut that song. No real stories about the record label making you cut songs? The only song that, and I had to negotiate for it, I didn't really love Texas Tornado.

Oh, my name is crazy now. But I didn't really love it. But I negotiated a deal with Rick Blackburn at the time. I said, I'll cut Texas Tornado, but I wanted to start producing my own stuff. I said if this works out well, so it opened the door for me to do renegade's Rebels and Rokes, which opened the door on the next project for me to do co-production stuff on my record, which kind of got me in the studio more. Hey, Mr. Savvy, Mr. Shark Tank over here making deals ahead of time.

Got a leverage when you can, baby. Yeah, no, you're right. You're a hometown. Do you consider Foreman, Arkansas, your hometown? I do. Tell everybody what Foreman's like. If they were to drive into Foreman. Well, living in Arkansas, you know, there's not a lot there.

Foreman, when I grew up there, there was 1,100 people on the census. We used to play Foreman in sports. Did you really? Except from Mountain Pine. We had 700 people, and so equal size, very small towns. But I know Foreman well. So what was, you drive in, is there, you don't have a Walmart, do you? Oh, no.

We do have a dollar general now. We do have a dollar general too. But we don't even have a, we don't even have a red light. We have a four-way stop. We have the same. No red light and a four-way stop. We're the same. Nothing.

There's nothing there. What was Foreman like for you as a kid? You know, it was great. It was great growing up in a small town. We were the foreman alligators, so our mascot was the gator. So we had this little cafe called the Gator Inn. And when you went downtown on the weekends, everybody would meet at the Gator Inn, say, where are we going to gather up tonight?

So we had three gravel pits. We had the rice field. We had the Catholic cemetery. So we'd go to these places and build a fire and just kind of hang out and do our things. So we always picked a different place every weekend where everybody would go hang out. But there was really nothing else to do. Bad enough, we all started drinking very early. Well, there's nothing else to do.

That's part of the culture. It is. And people that come from big cities that I know now that always lived around a big city, they don't understand going to a field. No. It's because that's all there was. There's nothing else to do. There's nothing else to do.

And we didn't have enough money to ride around all night. Because that was gas. That was gas money. I mean, I might get $5 a weekend. Of course, $5 lasted a lot longer back then, too. What kind of jobs you had back then? I worked pretty much all through high school at a construction company. And so when we didn't have jobs going on, I'd mow the yards of the own.

mow the owner's yard or take up to keep up stuff at the shop but we did everything i mean remodel houses work uh you know commercial projects and different things build houses and stuff so i worked there for like four years all the way could you build a house right now i don't think i could i can i can do little projects but i don't you know there's a lot about that stuff that i don't really want to do what's your specialty as far as non music specialty my non music specialty i like doing woodwork uh i've done a little welding done a little bit of electrical work. What kind of welding? Did you do, like, TIG welding?

Or did you do like... Meg welding and stuff. Just wire welding and stuff. I burn myself a lot. Yeah, but I haven't done it in so long. You really got to step on top of that stuff to run true beads. I mean, I'd have to practice to get my skill set back. It's been a long time.

Do you fish much? I do. I actually fishing just a few weeks ago. I just got back off a snapper trip. My face is a little burn right now. It looks good. Got a little color on my face. My nose is peeling.

How about a tan on your body? You got a... I got a dad tan. I try to keep these shirts on most of the time. The long sleeve so it doesn't do that? Absolutely. Yeah, I don't want to get burnt. My face got a little bit too much.

When you put this record out, this EP that came out, and there are six songs. Like, how many songs do you go through and select of this six? Like, do you have 12, 13, or do you just find the best six and go on and cut them? My system is different now than what it used to be. I used to spend months and months. I would go through thousands of songs looking for stuff

and then write a lot and try to. I had a coal process where I would be making mixtapes and cool things down and see what I burned out on and I would remove it. This time, I mean, I found really good songs early on, but I have such a great well of writers. And I know a lot of the younger writers, too. I cut one of earnest songs. But I got to the point that I found my first song, I could use one. That was one of the first demos. I mean, I think it literally was the first thing that I played that I got in.

I'm not, this is going to be easy. It was great. And then I kind of hit a dole spot. And so I called Bobby Pinson and I called Ernest and I called people that I knew and said, send me the best song that you got that you think will be from me. And that was basically what I did. So that project came out in June about a month or so ago. And you've played some of these.

Do you, once you go out and play them for the first time? Does it kind of reset you on which songs? Oh, wow. I think people like this one the best because you can actually play them in front of people? Yeah, but it's so hard. You know, sometimes a really good. deep lyric that you really have to listen to a few times

it's hard to gauge what people feel about it when they just hear it in passing for the first time. Sometimes songs you need to sit with them for a little bit. A good party song that you can get the crowd rolling, those are all great, but sometimes they don't impact the same. So it's really hard for me to gauge. But I think we were dropping a single every six weeks through this process. So I would

plug the new one in into the slot in my section. because I only got 45 minutes with Riley, so I didn't have a lot of time to play around. So I did a couple of medleys of songs in my set, and then I had one spot that I would plug the new one in as we were going through the release process of everything that we're doing. And then I really don't know how to gauge that with the crowd.

We just kind of have to take feedback that we get from socials and kind of feel what people like. When did you feel like you were good at singing? Was it in church and getting the feedback from... But again, I would sing in church. I was terrible. So I was also getting the positive feedback, but I knew I couldn't be a singer. But a lot of church playing and singing, right?

Early on. Yeah, I didn't really like church music that much. It didn't land in the right key for me. There were things about church music. The literal key, like the singing key. Oftentimes it was a little painful, so I would just do it in a lower register or something, but it was never something that I cared about. Now, when I was in kindergarten, I remember this in my little kindergarten class,

I remember for the holidays, the teacher had done four or five boards, and she broke the class up into little groups where they're four or five in each one. And we had the parents come in for Parents' Day, and we were singing holiday songs and all this. Well, they put me on every board in kindergarten. And so I knew, I could hear pitch and I could sing in tune when I was very young. But about 12 or 13, I really started getting into Merle Haggard and George Strait was just coming out.

That was really when I started connecting with it on a true level where I really started saying, I think I might want to do this for a living. This might be what I want out of life. Could your parents sing or they play instruments? No, I didn't grow up in that kind of family. I mean, really, there was not a lot of music in her house. Daddy never even listened to the radio on the car. I mean, it was just something that was inside of me. How does a guy from Foreman, Arkansas, ever think he can make it as a national recording artist?

I have no idea, because everybody thought I was. absolutely insane. And I didn't know, I mean, nobody, nobody gets out of form in Arkansas. I mean, especially back then. You don't even know what exists in the world. I, uh, I just dreamed it. I wanted it so bad. What did you see that made you dream it? Like, what was it where you're like, I want that? Like, was it, you're watching TNN? Was it, you know, what was it? Just the radio? Yeah, the radio. And, uh, when I learned to play a few chords on the guitar, the girls liked the way I sounded. You know, that always has a lot to do with it. I just, I just wanted it so bad. It just seemed to give me an identity. I wasn't a great athlete. I played a little baseball

in high school, but I wasn't very big, so I couldn't take the hits in football. And so it gave me something that was different than everybody else had. When you moved to town, who were your musical heroes at that age when you moved to Nashville? You got him tattooed on you? George Strait, George Jones, Keith Whitley, Merle Haggard. And how many of them did you get to spend time with? Every one of them but Keith. Keith died the year before I came down. So like, did you get to know Lori at all?

Oh yeah, Lori and I are very close. And her kids. Lori Morgan, by the way, sorry. So, you know, as close as you could have. Oh, absolutely. You know, and Keith was a big inspiration for me. But I spent the most time with Jones. I was a bigger Haggard fan than I was with Jones.

But Jones was the first tour that I was on 92, when I was. I went out with Jones for a couple of years. And I got very close to George. Was he wild and crazy then? Or did he calm down if? No, he wasn't. George kind of, you know, when I was around him, I think he still took a nip every now and then,

but George wasn't drinking the way that he used to. He had kind of got it all under control. Nancy had kind of put the tight grip on him a little bit. But, I mean, he was a sweet old grandfather to me. I spent a lot of time of George. One of my favorite memories, it was about three years before George passed. and we had gone to Fireside the studio and I think Fireside's gone now

but Nancy had put some charity project together and she wanted me and George to do that together and I'd gone in and done my part of the song and George was there and he came in and George was having trouble he couldn't see he couldn't see the lyric and he couldn't hear the pitch anymore and he asked me to come in the booth with him and I would sing the line for him

and help him go through the whole thing and I look back at that as such a fond thing because I got to share something very special with Jones at a time when he was frail and he was struggling that I don't think anybody else got a chance to do. I got to do something with him that nobody ever got to do. And the fact that he would be vulnerable enough to trust you? Absolutely. Because he could have asked anybody to do that.

It was very special for me. Yeah, that's really cool. You know what was the jam that I feel like sometimes isn't brought up when it's like, this song was great. The older George Jones, I don't need your rocking chair. Oh, yeah. You're Jared tall or your Medicare. I still got neon in my veins.

That song was awesome. It was awesome. And you've got to think, too, and this inspires me a lot as I've had the ups and downs in my career. You know, George, at that time in the early 90s, when everything was taken off, the Young Country Movement was hitting. Radio stations were changing formats. You had, in 89, you had, you know, Garth and Chestnut and Allen Jackson, and Travis Triott and Vince Gill, and you had that whole barrage. And it was new. Everything was changed, and I came to town right after that.

And so you had all these guys like Whalen and Merle and all that. they were angry that all of a sudden they'd been on the charts for 30 or 40 years, and now they were getting the records played, and they were mad, and they were mad at us. I mean, they blamed all of us for it. And I saw George take a different perspective. I saw George cut rocking chair, and I saw him take me on tour, and Mark Chestnut on tour, and I got to spend time with him,

and he looked at it from a completely different perspective, and he had a whole other career at that time that none of the rest of them really did, and it made me realize that sometimes you just got to get out of your own way and realize that things change. You can either grab a hold and be a part of it or you can just get out of the way. And what's amazing about what you just said, and it's not exactly the same because George was older than you are now, but you're talking about earnest and these guys. You're doing the same thing.

Absolutely. The podcasts and the things that I do to build relationships with all of these younger artists, I'm putting myself in a situation where I can have relationships with this generation of artists that I wouldn't have any other way. And I treasure it. I love it. I made a lot of friends that way. I'm not put off by it and I'm not jealous of it. I'm proud for their success.

And they're having success that we never had. I mean, it's amazing how bigger our format is now. I'm going to show you a picture here. This is you and a very, very, very young Jason Aldeen. Oh, yeah. What the heck is this picture? He looks 12. You probably don't remember the pick taking it.

But, I mean, what was this even doing? Do you know what he was doing it? I know he was a huge fan of mine. He's told me that. Probably. That's crazy. And he's told me that he had my poster on his wall when he was in high school. I was like, dude, I had Farrah Fawcett on the whole lot.

I don't know what was wrong with you. Here's a picture you and George that it pulled off. What is, do you know when this was? Because it could have been at any point. You know, that was, that jacket right there is from the tour because it's got the red man tobacco logo on it. So that would have been 92 somewhere. And I used to give him, excuse me, hell about that jacket. He always wore those jacks on that fringe on them.

And I like to give him a hard time about his wardrobe selections. So everybody, go to a Tracy show. Tracy Lawrence.com, and he's got, I mean, I have your whole tour schedule. You're on the road doing a bunch of shows. Yeah, we work a lot. Yeah. I know you work a lot. Do you enjoy it?

Do you, like? I do. I've learned over the years. I've taken a lot more time off this year than I have in the past. I mean, I took several weeks. I'll try to take a week off every month or six weeks. And do what? Go to the beach house, go on vacation with the fans.

We've been, I mean, my wife. With the fans. With the fans. That's a party. Let's go. Yeah, let's do that. I started traveling more. I mean, we've taken a couple of trips to Italy with the kids,

and I'm trying to spend more time in Europe, and we're just doing, I'm taking time for my family because I neglected a lot when they were younger. I missed a lot of birthdays, a lot of dance recitals, a lot of tea ball. I missed a lot of that. I'm trying to spend more time, slowing the pace down a little bit.

And I really don't want to run that hard like I used to. Isn't traveling odd? in that we grew up very similarly, you didn't go out of the state, much less out of the country. I was always scared to death by what I'd see on TV. Oh, yeah. And now that I've gotten older

and have had a pretty successful career, I've gone to a few places. And it is like bizarre and amazing, but I was never in that let's travel, have vacations culture, which I am now. And like I'm kind of jealous. I didn't get to do it. But I'm also like a 12 year old

when I go places now where I'm like this is great like we went to Italy I was like I can't believe I'm in another country isn't it isn't it wild awesome yeah and I thought I was like that's like places you go in movies like traveling is weird and people are awesome people are awesome everywhere you get what you give that's true if you're gracious and you don't if you bring your american ideology with you and you're really loud and obnoxious you're off putting to people and so I try to teach my kids when we travel to be very gracious and respect and appreciate other cultures you know you might not like it, but at least try. Try the food, try the cuisine. Be nice to people. And it comes back to you. You tell me the bluebird story. You're playing in the bluebird and you get seen by

somebody cool? No, no. It wasn't the bluebird? It was. The bluebird is in the mix, but that's so misconstrued. When I first got to town, I started doing every, every little music competition that I could do. All the little clubs had little jams and stuff where you could get up, and I'd win a hundred bucks here and there. Well, I met some people and wound up over in Kentucky at a thing called Live at Libby's, which was a supper club, kind of an opera-style music hall that broadcast every Saturday night

back from Kentucky International. And so they would have their first hour where you would do a couple of songs with the house band, and then they had their headliner, and they had a George Jones impersonator and a Johnny Cass impersonator. You know the deal.

Well, I'd started performing on that show in December of 90 when I got to town. I got to town in September. And some folks had come over from Atlantic's management guys, with some executives from Atlantic Records that came to see somebody else on that show and they liked me better.

And in January, I wound up, hooking up of these guys, they became my managers. I did a showcase at the Bluebird in January. Rick Blackburn from Atlantic agreed to sign me in January. I got hooked up with James Stroud in May of 91,

we cut sticks and stone. So it all happened to about a seven-month window. It was very fast for me. That would happen so fast. And looking back, It was wonderful, but I wouldn't have trusted it. It would happen so fast. I'd have been like, there's no way this can be real.

It was, it was, I've never heard of it happening faster for anybody because I didn't know anybody when I got there. I never knocked on a door. I didn't go to labels. I didn't pitch a demo. I never did any of that stuff. And I guess probably to you, it was just normal because it's all you knew. You didn't really know.

Yeah. You know, I'd always believe that it was destiny, you know, it's like it was supposed to happen. I really believed it was. I just kind of went with it. What's up with the podcast? Podcasts are doing great. I've had to take a couple of months off because I was touring so heavy, but we're getting back in the groove with it right now.

What's the name of it? T.L's Roadhouse. T.O. T.L. T L. L. L. L. L. That's what I thought. I thought. I thought. I said T-O. is it. T.O. Serell. O. It's that. It's that twine. I got. T. L.L.'s roadhouse. You guys can search that. And what do you do on the podcast? You know, it's basically, I've had a lot of TikTokers. I've had a few actors, some comedians, a lot of younger artists in the,

business and my whole premise is really just to find the common ground that we share you know even though we all are are very passionate we have a lot of the same likes but there's a lot of difference between all of us and every journey is different for everybody that comes to town we all take a different path so it's just it's just a conversation about trying to find the things that we have in common and the things that make us different but but it's it's been very good it's been very entertaining for me I enjoy I enjoy talking to new people where do you record it I've been doing it in the front lounge of my bus that's cool and I've done some of the road I've done some of it on the road, but it's easier when I have a bus pad where I park all my coaches and all my stuff there at the house.

So it's easier when I can set everything up and do two days at a time and I'll do four or five artists in two days because I have to pack everything back up. When we do a podcast, I have to set everything up every time. You enjoy that? I do. That's cool. I got a lot. Make any money on that yet? No.

We did talk, Tracy. Yeah. Yeah. So check out the podcast. The music's been out for a month or so. and then Tracy Lawrence.com and go watch Tracy do a show. Please. Yeah, Tracy's awesome.

Okay. You're a Razorback fan? I am. Yeah. Baseball season was hard this year. I know you. I'm just setting it up here. I'm also a massive baseball.

Oh, that sucks. It was terrible. It's been a rough year. It's all the way around. It's rough all over. So I have a few friends that are Razorback fans. And so I have this helmet here, and I'm going to have a bunch of us Razorbackers sign this helmet. Cool.

And then I'm going to auction off for NIL so we can have better players. Okay. So we just sign it. We're done here. Absolutely. Because we're going to pay for better players legally. It's worth it. Yes, that's right. Tracy really appreciate you.

You guys go to Tracy's Instagram, the real Tracy Lawrence. Do not follow the fake Tracy Lawrence. There's a bunch of them. Or even at the fake Tracy Lawrence. That's a fraud. The new EP is out. It's called Out Here In It. And check out the podcast and go watch Tracy live.

Tracy Lawrence.com. Tracy, as a person, I'm a fan. And as a fan, I'm a fan. Thank you, my friend. Yeah, yeah, there is. Tracy Lawrence, everybody. Nice job. Thank you much.

It's all right. Country music's the category. What artist is famous for Chattahoochee? Alan Jackson. Correct. Lunchbox. What artist is known for 9 to 5? Dolly Parton?

Correct. Easy trivia. Eddie, what artist is known for the gambler? Jimmy Rogers. Correct. Morgan, what's the name of the venue in Nashville known as the Mother Church of Country Music? The Riemann. Riemann Auditorium is correct.

Good. It's easy trivia. That one may not be easy unless you live in Nashville. but it's super easy. Let's see who can last the longest. The scoreboard is Amy with three points, and she's the current champion. Eddie with two, Morgan with two,

lunchbox was zero. Dang. Easy trivia. The category is sports. And if you miss it, you'll hear this sound. You've been boned. Don't be boned.

Amy, what sport is Muhammad Ali known for? Boxing? Correct. Lunchbox, what sport has played on a diamond-shaped field? Baseball. Correct. Eddie, what sport involves touchdowns?

Football. Correct. Morgan, in what sport would you do a slam dunk? Basketball. Correct. Easy trivia. The category is 90s movies. What 1993 film is about dinosaurs brought back to life through cloning, Amy?

Jurassic Park. Correct. Lunchbox in, which 1999 film does Bruce Willis play a child psychologist who helps a boy who sees dead people? Oh, the six cents. Correct. Eddie, which 1997 science fiction film stars Will Smith? and Tommy Lee Jones as agents dealing with extraterrestrial life on Earth. Men in Black. Correct.

Morgan, in which 1995 film does Mill Gibson play a Scottish warrior named William Wallace? Hmm. In which 1995 film? Yeah, I think it's... Braveheart. Correct. The category is the 2000s, Amy. What popular video game?

Three-letter console name was released by Nintendo in 2006. What popular video game, known by its three-letter console name? Okay. Was released by Nintendo in 2006. We? Correct. WIII. Do you guys know that?

Yeah. I didn't know if it was... Oh, you did? I was thinking PS... And then PS5 is popular right now, so I was like... Lunchbox. Which 2009 film, directed by James Cameron, became the highest grossing film of all time? Avatar.

Correct. I thought that was Titanic. Good job. Dang, that's crazy. But 2009, I guess, would be there. The Titanic is out in the 90s. Good job. I would just blurt it out at Titanic, though, too, probably.

Eddie Witch TV show premiering in 2004 feature survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious island. Lost. Good. In the category of 2000s, Morgan, what artist released a hit single? Oh, I'm on tonight. Say my hips don't lie. In 2006. Shakira.

Good. Everybody's still in. Nobody's been boned yet. The category is superheroes. Amy, who is the god of thunder and an avenger? Hmm. Thor? Correct.

Lunchbox, what superhero has an indestructible shield made of vibranium? Captain America? Correct. Eddie, who is the Amazonian princess that's a member of the Justice League? Amazonian princess? Mm-hmm. And member of the Justice League. That's the Amazon.

Oh, well, this is America's. Is it Wonder Woman? Correct. Morgan, what's the name of the superhero team led by Cyclops and Professor X? The X-Men. Correct. Wow. A little bit harder.

Easy trivia. Are we done with superheroes? Yeah. The category is grammar. Oops. Amy. What is the term for a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea? Noun.

Correct. Lunchbox. What is the term for a word that describes an action or a state of being? Action or adjective. Incorrect. Bone him. You've been boned. An action is a verb.

Correct. You've been boned. Eddie, what do you call a word that describes a noun? That's an adjective. Correct. Morgan, what's the term for a noun that represents a specific name of a person, place, or thing? The term for a noun that represents a specific person, place, or thing, and is capitalized. Term for a noun.

That represents a specific name of a person, place, or thing. Why is this hurting her? Oh, my gosh. She's holding her head as it's hurting her brain. It's really hurting. I don't know. Pronoun. Proper now.

Oh. Is it proper? Is pro sure for proper? It is not. Oh. So proper would be Bobby, but pronoun would be him or her. And then lunchbox says, tell me again, that was a verb. That was a verb.

Action verb, yeah. I tried to remember. Two people remain, Amy and Eddie. Okay, okay. What up, Amy? The category is 90s music. Amy, what song by Whitney Houston became a massive hit in 1992 is featured in the Bodyguard?

I will always love you. Correct. Eddie, what band released the song Losing My Religion in 1991? R.E.M. Correct. Amy, Isaac Taylor and Zach were three members of what famous 90s pop group. Isaac Taylor and Zach. Hanson.

Correct. Eddie, what artist released Jagged Little Pill in 1995? Alanis Morissette. Correct. Competition TV shows. Amy, what TV competition has celebrity contestants singing while wearing elaborate outfits? The Masked Singer? Correct.

Eddie, what singing competition features the judges turning their chairs for contestants? The voice. Correct. One more category where to sudden death. Health. Two questions each. Amy, which organ is responsible for filtering and cleaning the blood? The blood.

Dang. Oh, it's between two. I don't want to say which other one I'm thinking of because what's up in this question. The blood? It's the kidney. Oh, that's the kidney. Come on, bones. Kidney.

Give it to me. Eddie, what's the vitamin known as a sunshine vitamin? Ah. For the win. I immediately want to go to C because I feel like that bottle at the store has a sun on it. There's oranges. Vitamin D.

Oh, what did I do? It was C. No, it's D. It's D. It's D. Yeah. Dang it. Eddie wins.

Last question. Wow, 3-3. Hit him. This is a bizarre story, and I promise you, I am not exaggerating at all. In our bathroom, the men's bathroom, there are two stand-up urinals against a wall. Only two in a tiny sink, and there are two sit-down toilets right behind the two urinals. With doors. With doors, but it's a very tiny room.

Okay. And so I was walking to the bathroom, and I might leave the show once every three days to go to the bathroom. I rarely go pee, or the other one. but I walk in and Eddie's leaving and that was it. So I walk up to lunchbox and he's peeing next to me. I'm like, hey, man, your pee stream is really weak. And I kid. Why did you, why?

Exactly, Amy, why are you coming at my stream? Stay out of my stream. Eddie, what happened five minutes before that? I was in the bathroom too. And I got there though when he was walking in and he goes, oh, man, I got a peece so bad. I'm thinking, okay, he's going to be there for a while. Like, because there's a lot's going to come out. Dude, I heard trickle.

It was trickle. Trickle. trickle. Eddie said the same thing. And I said lunchbox. Are you okay, dude? Like, that's a slow stream. So because it's so slow, it takes them a long time.

So you promise, everybody promises that lunchbox within like three minutes time. Both of us hit you with the, dude, your stream is weak. Are you okay? Man, both of you guys hit me with the stream talk. Did you think we had like talked about it outside? I was like, oh, Eddie must have tipped him off on the outside. No. Hey, say something about his stream.

Swear to God. Talk about his stream. Comment on his stream. I don't know. Bones, I didn't know that you experienced the same thing. No, yes. And sometimes it's different. So maybe that was just that moment.

Yeah, maybe it was just a bad experience. It was like Mr. Burns of pink. It was not very strong. On the sentence, really old man? Yeah, yeah, release the ham. Are you okay? Yeah, I think I'm okay. Maybe I just didn't have a lot stored up.

Maybe I thought I had more in there than I... Well, that also is not okay. No, no, no. That's called a bladder infection. No, no, no. I'm saying like... Like, if you feel like you have to pee and then you can't pee, it's a bladder infection. No, no, no, no.

I could pee. You have all those like red bumps around you. Oh, no. And some of it may be shingles. I don't know, but I haven't gotten to a doctor. Anyway, I, the stream was weak. My stream is strong sometimes. Is it always weak though?

No, no, no. Just that day? And maybe it was just a bad trip. Maybe I had gone a little bit earlier and we had a break. It's all like, oh. Maybe. You would know if you went earlier. Now you're just creating scenarios. All to say that it was so weak, Amy.

it was kind of like when you turn a water faucet off and it just drips. Right. Like after you take a bath and you turn it off and it drips like that. Do y'all compare streams? Oh yeah. Mike D's stream is like, but what is it? Like why?

Amy, I never compare streams. Do you all want a more powerful stream? Like does it mean something? No, Amy, it's healthy. It's like if you go outside and the crickets are chirping and then all of a sudden they just stop.

You're like, whoa, something's weird. Remember the day that all of those, one of those bugs called cicadas? Cicadas died. And you're like, wow, that feels weird. That's what lunchboxes stream sound like. Exactly. His pee was so weak. I looked over to make sure he's still alive.

Amy, can you Google? Amy, Google weak pee and see if it's a big deal. Oh, I Googled it. What's it say? It's a big deal. What's it say? Crosstate cancer. No.

Everything's cancer with you. That's what I saw on Google, man. He does have a rash all over his midsection. I have it from the Urology Care Foundation, so I think that's legit. Go ahead. It says, for men, the most common cause of this issue is BPH, basically meaning the black is not emptying properly. So you may have some.

Bladder. Prostate. Oh, B.P.H. Benign, prostatic, hyperplasia. He definitely has that. That's prosthetic. I remember saying next time, that's a hyperplasia if I ever heard it. He could also simply have weak bladder muscles.

Oh, that's definitely not. I mean, he's pretty weak. Yeah, no. I call him a weakblad. He could have NSD. No, not NSD. Is that a non-surgical? It's a nervous system disease.

Oh, no. But we're worried about you. So much so that Eddie and I did not talk about it at all. We both peed next time. We were like, your pee is really weak, man. What do you see, Amy? No, is something worth it worse than NSD? No SD?

No, single. No, no, I'm saying no to that and that an STD can cause urine flow. You do have dots all over your midsection. That's what's going on, man. Pops, yeah. Why do I have dribbling stream? Dribles a good word for it.

Probably watching a basketball game. Oh, I know. Oh, he has a partially obstructed urethra. What could be in there? Oh, partial. Yeah. Oh, why is it so funny to me? That's not you.

It's right. And the guys in this room feel bad for him. So much so that I was like, are you okay? Your P-stream feels very weak. Okay. As men age, your prostate enlarges. That could be a problem. Well, we're rooting for you, buddy.

Good luck, dude. Get that checked out. Man, I could. No, that's not. Yeah, overactive bladder. What color is it? cause a bladder spasm. I didn't look at his urine.

No, don't be crazy. I mean, we didn't look at it. You know why they call people piss poor? No. The root of that is back hundreds of years ago,

the very poor people, they would sell their urine to, what? Tell me more. They would sell their urine to like die rugs, animal pelt's rugs. And so that meant they were so poor, they call that piss poor.

That's so sad. That's good. That's what the term comes from. No, but he's so poor that he has to pee and sell it. Well, but he, He doesn't really pee. Oh, lunchbox needs to do exercise.

Wait, like, how do you do that? We're going to go. Amy's too deep in. No, no, he needs to tighten his pelvic floor muscles as strong as he can. Bobby Bones Show. Bonehead. Norrie of the day. This story comes up to us from Indian River County, Florida.

A 27-year-old man went to a local golf course, found a golf cart, drove it away. Yeah, stolen. How am I going to sell this? Puts it on Facebook Marketplaces. Hey, I'll meet you at the Sheriff's Office. to sell it. What? Is that just convenient for him?

Is that on the corner? By his house? In the parking lot, not sure. And police came out and said, hey, man, what's going on here? Why are we selling stuff? I can never put this guy in jail. Something's wrong with him.

Like, something's not to that. That is your, it's not working. He's a bonehead. No. More than the medical. Just go across the street to the Walgreens, man. There's something not right. He do not go to jail, sir.

You go to the doctor. you go to a lot somebody that sells something stolen in the sheriff's office parking lot that is automatic you don't go to jail we work on you

unless yeah no unless maybe he was worried he was gonna get robbed that's a great point like no one will rob you in the sheriff no parking lot okay you go to jail

but I sent him back to jail the sheriff though he said and then the sheriff he got nervous parking lot can be big right yeah maybe it's big I don't know he just was in the

Sheriff's parking lot. Sheriff's like, what are we doing out here? And they bust him for a stolen golf cart. Is that so smart? Or is it so dumb? How's it smart? If it works and he doesn't get robbed, he went to somewhere protected if he's able to pull it off and actually sell it. Yeah, it's like, why would they think I'm doing something wrong if I go do it?

Yes. Well, it didn't work out. No, he got busted. This guy's an idiot. Yeah. But it could have been so smart. Okay. I'm Lunchbox.

That's your Bonehead Story of the Day. Eddie, what's up? So I went to my doctor's office and the lady that runs the front desk, she's a big fan of the show. And I was leaving one day and she said, hey, did you do me a huge favor? Like, I'm so embarrassed to ask. But I have two of Bobby's books. Would you mind taking him to Bobby and get him signed? And I was like, yeah, no problem.

And then I didn't even think about like, well, I should probably ask Bobby. Like, is that all right? Like, is that make you weird? Like, if I brought you some books of like a random person, like, hey, sign. No, that's not weird. If you were like, hey, man, I'm a big fan. Will you sign? I be like, you're in my house all the time.

so you're not at my house anymore, weirdo. Yeah, I already have all that. No, no. No, you donate it. That's not true. When I wrote everybody listening, I'd like tell you a very brief story. My wife did it.

Oh, it's the first time we've heard this. Yes, she's the one that donated it. Do you know that for sure? 100%. No, no, no, he said that. You probably blocked it out. I think he claimed. Yeah.

So this is a story. I have written two books. I've been very fortunate. They've both been New York Times best sellers, Flex. But the first one was called bare bones. I'm not lonely if you're reading this book. It was basically my life story.

The second one was called, fail until you don't, fight, grind, repeat. Basically, kind of my theory on how to be successful if you're not giving a lot of God-gifted talents or money. So wrote those books. And I knew that it wasn't like a really cool gift to be like, here's my book, go read it. But it was just kind of like a ceremonial thing.

Like, hey, I really appreciate you guys as support. So here's a book. I wrote each of you a little note in there. And here you go. And that was it. A listener. Goes, hey, I was at the... It was like a thrift shop.

Thrift shop and found this book that you wrote to Eddie. And we're like, I wonder if it's the same Eddie. We looked at it. It was like, dear Eddie, thanks for me my best Mexican. It was like super specific things to him. It was me 100%. Yes. At the thrift store, somebody donated the book that I gave him.

Didn't expect him to read it, but it was kind of like a gift of a thank you. Right. And he was like, I didn't do it. I didn't do it. And I was shocked when I heard that call come in. So I went home to ask my wife and she said, I don't know. Like, I take a lot of stuff to the. to Goodwill. It could be, that could

have been in there. But why would she throw out my book anyway? I think she just grabbed a pile of books that we hadn't read. Why was my book in a pile of books? Because I gave it to you as a special thing. Oh, because I put it in the shelf where all my books were. And she used to weigh the whole book shelf. Oh, did she threw it? She took my Jimmy Buffett book, all my books. All my books. Eddie says all his

books. Eddie's read like two books in his life. So let's not act like there's a lot of books sitting around. That's a good point. But I've been gifted lots of books that I don't read. We even know the books he's read. It was Matthew McConhey's Greenlight and then the one about the convicted guy jury. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just mercy. Just mercy. That was a good book, man. Yeah. And Jimmy Buffett, Pirate Looks at 40. That's a good one. Did you ever read the book that I signed for you? No, no.

I know your story. But we know it. We live it. Amy, I'm not putting you under the gun here. Oh, but I read it. Okay. You did, you did, Amy? You're welcome.

I'm defending. I've read it three times. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate it. Okay. No, dude, I know you. Why would I read that? Okay.

I will sign whatever books, but I'm not doing it for you. I'm doing it for her. For her, for Dawn. You have already broken the trust in the signing book relationship, but I'm happy to do it. Not really that weird unless it's for you. We appreciate everybody being here. Thank you so much.

As we leave for the weekend, let me recommend not only do you listen to this podcast, for this show, if you missed any of it, we're on for 100 hours, it feels like. Amy also has a really good podcast called Four Things with Amy Brown. Amy, what are you talking about on this episode? My guest is Ken Coleman, and he is a co-host with Dave Ramsey,

and then he also has his show as part of the Ramsey family. But we're talking about how, like, being unhappy at work can affect your mental health and he can help you find clarity on how to get through that and not be completely miserable, but also finding your purpose, like if you would like to make a transition and how to work that job, but transition into the next and finding your true passion. And there was, I had a listener email too about finances, like taking them over for the first time, and he has some really good tips for her. So we cover a lot of different things, four things to be specific.

Yeah, check that out. Four things with Amy Brown. Yeah. You have the weekend. You're looking for a new podcast. Go check it out. You guys have a great weekend. We will see you Monday.

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