The Bobby Bones Show - Jimmie Allen In-Studio on How He Got Famous and His Early Encounters with Country Stars + Chris Stapleton on What Kind of A Student He Was in High School + Eddie Wants to Know How Much Does Baby Bitter Cost?

Episode Date: January 31, 2022

Jimmie Allen stops by the studio to talk about how he got famous, deciding to move to Nashville out of nowhere and running into country artists as he was just getting his start in music. We talk to Chris Stapleton about his single “You Should Probably Leave” and how he actually wrote it a long time ago. He also tells us about what his hometown was like and how he first got started playing music. Eddie brings in the question of how much do you pay a babysitter? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, boy. How much? The tooth fairy, a 50 cent increase from last year to generally, the tooth fairy leaves about $4.70. Oh, yeah. Now, has the tooth fairy left any money at your house? Yes, plenty of money. And it looks like they're following the new guidelines because they've done about $5 a tooth. Oh, nice.

You? Yeah, I mean, occasionally he comes, but the pan- You're a fairy's a guy? My's a girl. Wow, the tooth fairy to me has always been a girl. Well, I've never seen her, but I assume it's a girl. Yeah, I've seen her. What?

Yeah, when I was a kid, I saw her. Yeah. I wasn't supposed to. I saw her leave. I woke up, like, right when it was out. No way. Yeah, yeah. I've been scared to talk about it because I didn't know if.

Well, this is a safe place. And now I feel comfortable. Yeah. Yeah. You're just afraid of a guy? Yeah. In the pandemic, it was a little rough. Social distancing wasn't coming to the house.

You let that dude in your kid's room. You can't really let them. You can't really let them. I saw that this morning. Yeah. Okay. let's go over now. We're going to do it early because Jimmy Allen's about to come in. So let's open up the mailbag. Here we go.

You send an email and we read it all the air. It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag. Yeah. Hello, Bobby Bones. It's currently 2.21 a.m. as I send you this email. I've been listening to our upstairs neighbor. It's extremely loud and extremely annoying music since about 1120 tonight. For the first hour-ish, they were playing it so loud the bass was rattling the glass of water on my nightstand. They've been doing this same thing for about a week. week now, but usually it starts around eight and stops by 10. I am extremely non-confrontational, hence me writing to you instead of getting out of bed and going to chat with them. And I don't want to

be that neighbor that complains, but something's got to give. I'm requesting the world-class advice givers advice. What do I do? Should I suck it up and confront the neighbor? Should I complain to the apartment's administrator? Any other suggestions? Thanks for listening to my tired rant, sleep deprived and annoyed in Colorado. Yeah, when it gets to keeping you awake at night, something has to be done. I understand being non-confrontational and there are ways to handle this as a non-confrontational person by telling someone else to do the confronting. The first thing I would do if I'm non-confrontational is let the apartment complex manager know and say exactly what you said to me. Hey, this neighbor is not only doing this, I'm not hearing it,

but other people are hearing it too. Can you please say something that after 930 that they turn their music down or off. The thing is, the person may not even know their music is reverberating through the apartment. True. They may know that it's kind of loud, but they may not know. There's times in the morning when I'm getting ready for work and Caitlin's asleep because it's still dark outside. I mean, and I had music on and I'm in the kitchen far away. And she'll text me and go, hey, would you mind turning that down? I'm like, how are you even hearing that? But somehow it's going through a wall. Okay. And so I'm like, oh, okay. So I'll turn it off. Hey, thanks for the heads up. That's probably a little bit of what's happening here. This person also is not

just being a good neighbor. But I would let the apartment, you know, manager know, if that doesn't work, I'd leave an anonymous note. I'd see when they go to work and I'd leave a note on their door. That's step two. Yeah. You better hope they don't see you, though. That's why I would wait and see what car they drove when the car left.

It's an apartment complex. You look out, you see when everybody's home when they're not home. I'd leave a note. I probably, in the meantime, would hit the ceiling, though. Be like, shut up. Oh, with a broomstick? No, because then they're going to know. that you're the one.

No, but I'm trying to sleep. But that's confrontational. But not really, because you're not confronting them in person. Yeah, but they still, they know where you live and they can come kill you. Okay. Elevated quickly? Well, then what's your advice? I'm glad you said apartment complex, like the management, that's the perfect route because

my brain initially went to calling the police. Like noise complaint? You were going to call the police before you. Amy's got a murderer and a police call it. Like, she's taking this thing to level 10. Well, I was like how that's what you do with the noise complaint. Like, but you're right. The property manager of the apartment complex should be who handles it.

And then you're out of it. And I would even honestly contact them anonymously. Oh, I wouldn't because you have to tell them where you live. I don't want anybody to know I'm this niche. I don't. Amy's watched too many drug documentary. Yeah, totally. I get it.

But I think those drug documentaries in the cartel show she watches have created. some trauma in her. I just, yeah, I don't want anybody to retaliate. Yeah. I hear you. Just go to the apartment complex. They probably deal with this all the time and know how to handle it. But good luck getting to sleep. That stinks. But thank you for email.

We've got your email and we've read it on the air. Now it's about to close Bobby's mailback. Yeah. On the Bobby Bone show now. Jimmy Allen. I went over to your social media just to see what was going on. At least to know like the last thing you were up to.

maybe that would be interesting. And I type in your name. And the first thing that pops up in this question here says, no, well, it says people ask, how did Jimmy Allen get famous? Yeah. That's like the most asked question. If I were to ask you that question, how did you get famous? Well, first I would say I'm not famous. But two, I would say hard work, honestly, and people give me an opportunity. But if they're talking about my start, I got discovered playing a writer's round at Puckett's Grocery Store in Franklin. A writer's round. A writer's round. where you get up and play songs that you wrote? Yeah, it's like where they have, for people listening,

you know, you have two or three or four songwriters or artists on stage and you just take turns and sing the songs you wrote. And I got discovered in Franklin, Tennessee, by a guy named Ash Bowers. That's my manager now. So did he go looking for you, or did he go and find you accidentally? He actually found me accidentally because I actually only played because someone canceled, and then he was actually playing

because Ash was a songwriter too because someone canceled. So we just happened to be there at the same time. So I caught out of both my jobs. And I was like, well, I at least get $200 and a free meal and get to play music. So when? And then I actually met Ash and he signed me two weeks later. So your manager now was also playing on the same show as you, which people may not know. He was like a legit artist.

Yeah, Ash was a-10, 15 years ago. Ash was an artist and, you know, songwriter. And he actually wrote Freedom was a Highway in my new single with me, me, him Matt Rogers. So your manager's also writing with you? Yeah, I made it. I don't know, it sounds incestual man, obviously. Because I like, I, you know, Ash is one of the most, what I loved about him, choosing him for him to be my manager is because he used to be an artist.

So he knows what an artist needs, and he's a hustler, dude. Like, he's, he's a redhead, you know. He's a shark, he's a hustler. And he's a great songwriter, so I said, let's write. And then we wrote it and, yeah. Will you explain to our audience what exactly a manager does? because I think it gets lost on people in the industry. We know what a manager does. But what would you say your manager does for you that makes it so important? I would say your manager is someone that, one, gives your advice, but he's your spokesperson.

He's the person that makes phone calls for you to try to set up deals. He's the in-between between you and the label, between you and your booking agency, between you and a show, between you and he's a person that speaks on your behalf. he works hard for you or she works hard for you. I used to act like my own manager before I had one. I created a fake email. It was like, hey, I'm calling on behalf of my artist, Jimmy. Because people take it more serious when you have representation.

And that's what it is, representation, that's your manager. Okay, so can you then explain what an agent and the difference in an agent and a manager? Yeah, a booking agent. If we're talking booking agent, he's the person that, or she's the person that contacts show bookers and venues to book you shows. Then you have an acting agent. They're the ones that try to get your movie roles and commercial roles and, you know, TV roles and stuff. And the difference between a manager and an agent is... I would say the difference between a manager and an agent is the agent works directly with the venue that you're going to play at.

Your manager works with the agent to make sure everything is taken care of by the venue. I would say the difference is 5%. Yes. Yes. And in some cases, 10%. Some cases more. Or 15. That is true.

That is true. How did you get Brad Paisley on the song? Was that a call or a text, or did you have your agent or manager do that? Well, I was at Brad's house one day after the opera. He texted me. It was like, hey, come to my house after the opera because Darius is coming over. Tim's coming. As in Tim McGraw.

And Bill Shatner. First, I didn't know Bill Shatner. Then my friend's like, William Shatner. I said, oh, the Unolved Mission guy. The dude used to scare me from him to bed at night. Got it. So we go there. I don't think he was not.

No, no, he's not. It's all mysteries. He was Rescue 9-1-1, I think. Yeah. It looked just alike. Yeah, Robert Stack. Yes, they're both old white men. Dude, they look just like to me.

Is that racist? No, I don't think so. They were doing similar shows. You're not yet? That's crazy. Yeah, it's still like a mysterious show. It looked just as well. Like, dispensful music.

Got it. Yeah. Well, yeah, I still have no idea of William Shatner. But in. Star Trek. I know that guy. Yeah, yeah. I'm old enough to know Star Trek.

We're there, me, Darius, and Tim, and Brad were just going around the circles playing new songs. I play for him as a highway. He starts, like, picking on it. So I call him the next week, say, hey, I'm going to do a collaboration album. You want to do this song with me? He was like, yeah, sure. And he hopped on it. That was it?

Yeah. You called with your own voice and asked Tim with his own voice? I'd be so scared of rejection. Oh, my God, I can say, I've been rejected so much, bro. You kind of get used to it. Come on, we all know what rejection feels like. But I feel like each of you. No brings you closer to you yes. They can't say no forever because I keep bugging you to you say yeah.

They can and they have to me. So let's leave that there. What's your Starbucks drink there in your hand? It's white chocolate mocha, no whip with almond milk. Do you order it yourself or are you like me where you have an order that sounds delicate and you don't want to order it because you don't maybe want them to think that you like a delicate drink. I think white chocolate mocha is delicate. I wear skinny leather pants so I'm not really worried about being delicate. But today my day-to-day manager picked it up for me. But normally I'll call Starbucks while I'm laying in bed, I'll like Uber Eats it or Post made it. That way as soon as I get

up and stretch it at the front door and that's the best. On your Uber Eats, though, is your name and picture up there? Mm-mm. Just my name. But does it say Jimmy Allen? No, just my legal name. I didn't know Jimmy Allen wasn't your real name. Oh, no, it's James. I know that. But Allen? Is that your real name?

Yeah, Alan, yeah. Okay, I guess James Allen would have put me on Jimmy Allen. James Edward. James Edward Allen, the third. Well, mine is Bobby Bones on my headshot. And I'm just begging when someone pulls up. They're like, hey man, is that you? And I'm like, I'll stop bothering me. No more pictures.

No more pictures. You're like, no, no, I just needed. Your makeup person just left. You're ready. Hey, what's up with neon union? Because I've been seeing them on your Instagram. So I signed neon union. What does that mean you signed them?

So first we signed them to a production deal. Me and my buddy Aaron Bemmerich, been in Blue County and John Marks. And then we signed them to a management deal. And they're this duo. Andrew actually met him on the elevator. in Nashville, and he was like, dude, Jimmy, I love your music, huge fan. I'm playing whiskey jam if you want to come out.

I said, dude, I'm gonna come. Wouldn't heard him sing. Dude's great singer. He's like a 6-5 version of Luke Combs. I actually have him say to my phone under Luke Foams. And then Leo, the black dude, the old country boy, he used to play bass when he was 16 for Lauren Hill, but the past nine years, he's been Pitbull's bass player. So I met him through Pitbull.

He was like, I got this dude, country artists. I don't know what to do with him. So I said, instead of trying to take them both solo, why don't we put them together? because duos and country music is wide open right now. You know, so we just got them their first record deal. I think their first singles going out in April. They're going on tour with me this year. So, man, my biggest thing, I've always just wanted to use my platform to give other artists

opportunity that Ash gave me. Did you ever think of trying to do a duo or be in a band when you were in Nashville? Was it always being a solo artist? I used to be in a band. I was solo when I first moved here. Then I was in a band called Mercury Lane. that I was in a band called Color of London. My guitar player slash keyboard player

I just brought on, we actually used to be in Color of London together. We had a couple label offers, but they wanted me to change and not be who I am, and I'm too stubborn to change. I am how I am. So then we ended up breaking up because he didn't want to tour anymore for a while,

and it ended up just doing a solo thing. I love bands. On your Instagram, a lot of family up there. You just had another baby. what's been the biggest difference in another kid? Is it different? Some people say, hey, just adding another one.

Once you have a couple, it's all the same. Once you go from two to three, you go from playing man to man in his own coverage because you're outnumbered. You know, uh-huh. But it's, the difference is trying to make sure the third child feels as much love

while not giving a third child more love and attention than you give the other two balance. But it's not really hard. You know, I mean, I look at it. Like, if you love them, Whatever you love, you make work, and you make time for her. So that's what me and Alexis are doing. And she's the best, by the way.

My wife's amazing. I do not deserve her at all. Why do you think she picked you then? Because I have this struggle, too. This is the same question. Bro, I have no idea. And the thing was, like, somebody one time was, like, in my comments. Like, I'm the type of artist that if someone comes in my comments talking crazy,

I'm coming back at you. Like, don't think just because I'm a singer, I'm not going to say what I want to say back to you. So somebody said, well, she's only with you for the money. So I looked at the dude and said, well, first of all, if you think she's waiting for the money, she'd never be with you. Two, she's not because she had her own money. Like her parents are loaded. You know what I mean? But she's from the same small town as me.

For us, we don't get too wrapped up in the whole. Like, I'm in the music industry. I could care less about it. You know what I mean? Most of my friends that I hang out with are just normal people. You know, they're electricians, their school teachers, they work at a gym. but she's a real person you know she loves me

she loves my family I love her family and she reminds me at home because I can talk about things from a small town in Delaware that only she would understand and when I got married I told myself I wanted to marry someone that can appreciate the things that I find important and she could and it doesn't hurt

that she looks good that doesn't hurt that doesn't hurt so your town what's it called again? Milton what is Milton life if I were to go to Milton today What do I see? Well, now at Milton, you see we got a grocery store.

There's a bunch of soybean fields around, chicken plants, farms, speed limits 25 all the way through. How many? We got a lot of traffic lights now. But Milton, you know, it's just a little small town, man. Literally everybody knows everybody. Average person there got about eight, nine teeth, you know. You know, small town living, but it's a small town living, but it's, you know. Small town living, but it's good, man.

I go home in Delaware a lot. I enjoy going on to Delaware fishing all day, then going to the moose lodge at night. You can get drunk and full on $8.75. So it was a good day. It's just simple. What was high school like for you? High school was cool, man.

I was in theater, but also played sports. And my girlfriend was a gothic chick, you know, that was like all black and stuff like that. But high school with me was cool. I didn't really, I wasn't in one of the, you know, how they have the bubbles, the jocks, the band, the ROTC kids. I did it all. I did ROTC, did band, played sports, did theater.

Yeah, high school was fun, man. I really got to meet people, you know, different kinds of people. And that's what I loved about growing up where I did, to where, you know, I didn't know what being treated different was because of color your skin until I moved to the south. Because up there, it's just, it is what it is. Everybody fishes, everybody hunts. Most people went to church.

Everybody listened to country. Everybody listening to hip hop. And everybody dated whoever you want to date, you know. And everybody just was taught to just, you know, love the person. And yeah, so I thought it was my childhood was great. High school was great. College was great. Yeah.

When you decided to move to Nashville, what was the, when did it hit you that you got to make the move? Like what was the, what was that day? I was at my grandmama's house and I knew I wanted to get in the music and I knew I wanted to do I knew country music was a place where I wanted to go and I said I can't do that from here so I said

all right let's leave and I literally left the next morning I went to Walmart I packed that whole day my little Malibu went to Walmart bought a blow up bed throw it in the back pack my clothes and said mom moving Nashville she said when I said tomorrow she said okay go down there have fun chase your dream do what you want to do and I packed up and left I just hit a point where if you realize what you want to do in life and you can't make it happen from where you are just go

if you notice whenever people make set a timeline I'm going to move this year I'm going to do this they never do it so just up and go and there was like because I'm like you can find a job anywhere till you get Walmart's always higher target's always higher Starbucks always high you can always find a job but I said I needed to be here in order to meet the people I need to meet to get to where I want to go. When you got here, where did you work as you were trying to make it? I was working at this old gym. It was torn down now. Well, they closed it.

It's called Prairie Life Fitness and Cool Springs. That's where I met T. Roy from Montgomery Gentry. That's where I met Aaron Benward. That's where I met Rodney Atkins, Joe Nichols, BB Winings. And I was serving these guys, their protein shakes and making them like sandwiches. stuff like that. So it was, it was cool. Did you ever meet one of those guys? And they were like, hey, like they gave you sage old advice? No, they were all real cool. You know, they kept it a hundred. I remember when

T. Roy first walked in, because my dad was a huge Montgomery Gentry fan. And T.R. And T.R. W. W. W. W. That's T.Roy. So I told the dude I was working. Say, yo, I'm going to take a break real quick. So I'll go in the little workout area, and T.R.'s on the treadmill. So in my work, in my work clothes, I get on the treadmill next to T. to start walking, right? And then he gets up and goes to this bench brush machine. I go on the bench press machine right next to him. I'm not even working out.

I'm just laying down on it while he's lifting. So he sits up and say, what's your name? I said, Jimmy, I said, dude, huge fan. Love your music, bro. He said, so what are you doing? I said, I work out of this snack bar. He said, do you want to do music or something else? I said, I want to do country music.

He said, dude, here's my cell phone number. And Tiro gave me his number. It was 2007. And we were friends from that day until the day he died. He was just a cool dude. Like, he just Capital Hunter. and that's what I appreciate about it. Who could bench press more in their prime?

You or him? Oh, on their prime? Because I feel like you're in your prime right now, but he... Yeah, I feel like his prime lasted a long time. So, I don't know. He's a big guy. He is a big, he is a big dude. So, Tiro would probably have to have that,

but my ego would probably tell me I could out bench press him, but I've seen him bench press him, probably not. I could definitely squat more than him, though. He had little legs. He skipped leg down a lot. Jimmy, congratulations on everything I feel like I'm always saying that

to you nominated for Grammy when CMA It's just It's one thing after another But the thing is As much as it feels like It was overnight I mean it was the opposite

It was like congratulations On your overnight success It took 15 years to get Yeah, it's 15 years Yeah man It's been cool You know, to see kind of how everything

It's coming together Not for me But people don't realize How important your team are, your team is, because it takes people that are willing to hustle and hear the word know a lot, but still keep going back. So shout out to my team for helping put me in places to be successful, because that's what I think helped me this year. Because in 2021, when I did get the ACM, the CMA, any Grammy nomination, we didn't have a number one at all. We didn't even have a top 10 last

But my team put me in other places, like, whether it was, like, you know, a mentor on American Idol, performing there, whether it was Dance of the Stars, whether it was other game shows, other TV shows. So to just continue to build the name recognition. Because I tell me, it was not about me ever going pop, but it's about taking who I am and the music I make and embedding it into pop culture. Because that's where it's a, it's a, you have people that watch Dance with the Stars that don't listen to country music. So they don't, I'm like, how can they. find me over here if they're over there. I need to go over there.

So shout out to my team for working hard to make that happen. I mean, seventh place, not bad, I guess. Listen, you did fine. I wanted to win, but then I was like, you know what? I'm going to let Bobby be the one to bring to Nashville. I did do some of the Dance with Stars tour. It was fun. I did a little bit of that, too.

It was fun, dude. And you had the greatest part of them. Less pressure, too. Oh, there was, yeah. Nobody's judging you. They're just happy to see you. And again, Emma is just great. That's cool.

Yeah, man. Well, congratulations and everything. At Jimmy Allen. You guys want to follow them on Instagram and another big week with another massive song

and you are playing our IHeart Country Festival coming up in May. So just another one of the massive artists playing the festival. Good to see you. I can see you too.

See you soon. There he is. Jimmy Allen, everybody. Best from Nashville and Hollywood. Morgan number two 30 seconds skinny. During an interview with E's Daily Pop,

Dolly Parton talked about how she keeps her 55-year marriage to Carl Dean fresh. I like to dress up for Carl. Every day I put on some makeup and fix my hair because I think, well, the whole world, I'm out here and everybody else sees me all dressed up. And I'm not going to just kind of go home and just flop on him. Maddie and Tay shared the message of their new album Through the Madness, Volume 1. A lot of these songs have a very hopeful message underneath a lot

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It's time for the good news. With Bobby. Tell me something good. A Rhode Island woman stepped up to become a kidney donor. for a toddler in need. Jessica David had been on the donor registry for more than eight years before she saw a flyer about Garin, whose kid, and how he was searching for a donor.

The two-year-old was born with a disease, needed a transplant, so she reached out to the boys' family directly and started doing the paperwork, and then they have to do the matching process because you can't just donate. You have to see if you're a match, and she was. They had a successful transplant. She's back to her normal self.

It took her a few weeks to get back to normal. But prior to the surgery, Jessica got the opportunity to meet his family and she's like, man, this is crazy and she wants to encourage people to be an organ donor and here's a clip of Jessica talking about it. Well, it's a pretty easy way to be a hero, so I definitely recommend it.

It's crazy adult can do that for a toddler. And I don't think they take the whole thing, do they? Do you imagine putting a huge kidney in a little kid and all of a sudden they're like... I think, no, it's the liver where you take part of it, but the kidney you have to do the whole thing and I think that the organ size is the same. No way.

They're born with a kidney? That big? I don't know. Maybe the kid just gets a rocking kidney that's really big. Yeah, or it fits in there just nice, and they grow a little bit, and it's like, ah, I finally got to room. It's like clothes are a little too big. You grow into them, he just grows out of his kidney. A child older than two years of age can get an adult kidney.

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And the caller is Avery in Austin, Texas. Let's go over and say hi to Avery. Hi, Avery. Morning studio. Morning. Avery, have you heard the game before? Yes. It's tough.

but if you win, you will get not only crap from the back, but a limited edition Beanie Baby. I don't know how limited it is, just in a bag. Scoobah, do you know what the crap from the back is? Yeah, I've got a four things puzzle. That's cool. It's back there. Tricia Yearwood Cookbook. And a pair of sandals that are size 11. They're red sandals.

They're probably sent for me then, honestly. Red size 11? Possibly. What are they? What kind? They are Hari Mari Oh yeah those are good They're nice Yeah

And then we'll throw on a beanie baby too Okay There you go Somehow Amy's stuff And my stuff ended up in this As you can tell I'm like Hey

It's a good puzzle Okay here we go Nearly one and five people Under 25 years old Have never done this once common thing What is it? Nearly one in five people

under age 25 have never done this once common thing. What is it? How old are you, Avery? Can I ask? I'm 36. 36, okay? So you probably would just be aged out of

never having done this, I would think. But nearly one in five people under 25 have never done this. Show, let me know when you're in. Oh, yeah, this is the easy one. In. All right, Avery, you get to go first. If you nail it, you get the prize. So go ahead.

Drive a car. Drive a car. Kids now they don't want to drive themselves. You're right. That's true. Kids don't want to drive. Yeah. My nephew just turned 16, he's like, I don't really want to get a license.

What? When I was 16, I was like, please, I had a permit at 14. Day I turned 16, I was rocking. The answer is not drive a car. Okay. Now, you get to pick one of these gibronies here in the show to team up with. Who would you like to team up with? Okay.

Only because you're. I need to hear the phone. What's that? Are you sitting on your phone as you're talking to us? I thought she picked me, and then it sounds like maybe she picked lunchbox. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what she said. Who did you?

I want to watch that because I could hear the wind, one, woman, mom, and what did she say about me? I don't know. I thought she picked you at the first, Amy, but I don't know. I mean, Amy, you are using them, though. Oh, okay. Okay. Amy, what is your answer?

I have talked on the landline. Talked on the landline phone. Got it. Eddie. Flown on an airplane. Morgan I have get married Ray

change the TV channel manually Wow that's a good one Manually back in the day You had to get up Way back in the day You had to get up and turn the channel Remote

Yeah Oh no Oh no They have no idea Oh no Okay Lunchbox do you match any of them I do

One of them is right And you were going to say that And it's Amy that is right Because it's use a home phone because no one has that home phone anymore, the one with the cords, you know what I'm saying? Oh, oh, oh. So Eddie, yours was terrible.

Morgan's was absolutely dumb because... I don't know. Morgan's isn't bad. Get married, of course. People aren't getting married that young. People used to get married young all the time. I'm just telling you that me and you were right, she just won crap from the back.

Let's in the segment. Go. Eddie, your answer was? Flying on an airplane. Flying an airplane is wrong. Oh. Morgan, get married? Wrong.

Ray Mundo. What do you say? Oh, changing. Change the channel. Wrong. Amy. Interesting. Oh, she gets to hear the song.

Use a home phone. Yeah, that's a... Or landline. That's the same thing. Same thing, every. Yeah. Long. Whoa!

Oh, got them. Well, what is it? You said it used to be common. So far she's over two. Let's go to the coin flip. Yes. Heads or tells, Avery. Heads it is.

Wow. So she does win. We'll send you this. The answer is, write a check. Oh, yeah. Nearly one of five people under 25 have never written a check. Avery, you won, even though you lost. That ends.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. Four out of five half. I mean, speaking to old rotary phones, I think Avery's on one now. It's amazing how she's calling us from a cup with a string. Yeah. She's talking through it right now.

Avery, congratulations. You won. We're going to send you some crap from the back. Which, you want a beanie baby? you can have either. A, what is that? A rooster? It's a rooster.

Pink rooster. What's his name? Or a shark. Would you like a rooster or a shark? The rooster's pretty. The shark is cool. Baby shark do-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-a-d-d-a-d-old. Avery, you're the winner.

Thank you for playing, and hopefully you'll call this again sometime soon, okay? Okay, awesome. Thanks, guys. All right, thank you. The age-old question of how much do you pay a babysitter? Oof. I don't have kids, but let's talk about this for a second because Eddie brought this to me and asked me, and I was like, I don't know. And nickel?

Like, what do you pay a babysitter? That's what I'm saying. Nickel an hour? What's the situation? Well, we got a new babysitter. And usually... For four kids. Your babysitter watches four kids.

Uh-huh, four kids. I mean, should be Megan Banks. Yes. Well, here's the thing. When a babysitter starts, usually they're younger, right? And so they always say, oh, just pay me whatever you want. And it's like, oh, this is it. This is our chance to...

Pay me whatever you want. I'm telling you. Out of like the 10 babysitters we've had, they've all said that. And I told my wife, this is our chance to go low. Because some of these other babysitters, they're great. They're really good babysitters, but they charge a lot. And if we're going to go out to dinner for four hours, dude, it's expensive. So I said, just tell her $10.

And my wife goes, no, no, that is insulting. And so she settled with 15. And my wife told me that's a deal. $15 an hour is a deal. So we went with 15. But I don't know what the right price is. Will you Google, Mike, what the average babysitter makes? Amy, what would you say it is?

Yeah, I would say 15 is appropriate for four kids. And you want, like, depending on their age, like, I've paid people $10 before, but they're young and they're more like playing with my kids. The average hourly rate for a babysitter is $18 for one child. Oh, an hour, an hour. Right. 21 bucks for two kids. Get out of here. And by this, 24, 27, about 28 bucks for four kids, an hour.

That's crazy. Oh my goodness. Well, it depends on, yeah, Eddie, what, if you have someone super young there, but you don't want someone super young watching your, like, you don't want your 12 year old neighbor coming over to watch your four kids. So, yeah, if you're getting like an adult or someone that's 18, 17, 18, 20, yeah, 15, 20 bucks at least. I did get, like, a couple years back, you got a girl and she was a professional, like a teacher

or something, and we got, it was a steal for $8 an hour. What? You paid a teacher? He'd be sat one time. You almost get what you paid for, huh? It was almost the thing where she's like, we'd ask her again and she'd be like, oh, I'm busy. Oh, I'm busy. And then that's when I realized like, oh, it was the $8.

Yeah, she's busy for $8 an hour. Yeah, she spent $8, all her money and gas getting over there. Wow, wow, wow. Okay, go to our Facebook page. We'll put it up. Be real, though. Here's the question for Eddie's four kids. Although your oldest son's 14.

Like he should do it, but he's not responsible. No, he shouldn't have to be babysat. But he can help. Yeah, he should help, but he's one of the ones that they have to babysit. So he does. If I were Eddie's 14-year-old and he said this about me on the air, I'd kill him. I would kill you. Maybe you don't learn from this.

And Eddie, you said four hours, which I know getting out is like super important. But if you have to pay a little more for a quality sitter and so that they feel respected for their job and what they're doing, like maybe go out for two and a half hours. And then you have a little extra money to give to the sitter. I mean, that's fine. We'll put up on our Facebook. How much do you pay a babysitter to babysit four kids? It's a bit realistic about it. And I'm sure like city to city it varies.

Nope. We have one answer. Town to town. One answer only. All right, Facebook, search for Bobby Bone Show. Here's Amy's pile of stories. So I have a list of the world's most valuable brands. Okay.

Oh, Apple. Gotta be number one. Number one. Yeah, I got to be. I just saw a story where Apple is like 10 other huge companies combined. Gosh. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm not shocked.

You're number two? The next biggest one. Think about it. Amazon. Yes. Speaking to Amazon, did you see that Jeff Bezos went on a double date with Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson. I did.

Yeah. Who's this? I think he is. Well, no. How cool is that? For both of them. That's the coolest for both of them. He gets to go hang out with them. They get to hang out with him. That's crazy. Who would be cooler to hang out with? I'd pick Bezos over Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian. Oh, Kim K. I have no, I don't care at all about Kim K or Pete Davidson like to hang out with. I would love to talk to a billion air. You would love to talk to him and pick his brain. But I mean, Kim has a super successful business too. It's different. And he's funny.

Kim got famous for being famous and then turned that into a business. He went straight business brain with no notoriety and turned that into something. Yeah. So, okay, number three. We use it every day. Toilet paper. What? Google.

Oh, yeah. We do use it every day. Is Facebook or meta up there? Yeah, Facebook is seven. What's, what, give me four and five? Four and five is Microsoft. Five is Walmart. Microsoft just bought the Call a Duty brand paid like billions of dollars for it.

Honestly, I don't even know this is a global brand. Number nine is Howie? Oh, Wai Mandeau. Sorry. Sorry, I have it phonetically here for me. Huawei. No, it's Wawa. Is it the gas station?

It says it's a tech company like Apple. Wawa the gas station? No, not even that many. Scoob is like, no, I think it's 7-Eleven. Scuwen jumps in and sounds all smart. What brand do you think you're most loyal to? Apple? Yeah.

Nike? I thought about Nike, but. I mean, I like Nike. Most loyal, probably Apple and just Apple. Yeah, what else? So there's a list of commonly misheard phrases, and they make sense both the ways. You might just be hearing it wrong or saying it wrong. So you want to hear the top five?

Go ahead. Alzheimer's disease. Oh, people say Alzheimer's. Yeah, well, no, actually people say old timers. I never heard Alzheimer's. I hear Alzheimer's and Alzheimer's, which is the right way. I say Alzheimer's. Yeah.

I never heard old timers disease. That's just wrong. That is wrong. Now, that one doesn't work. I know you said both are acceptable. I don't think that one works. Old timers. Okay, probably not acceptable, yes.

Last ditch effort. Or last. I've never heard that. Last stitch effort. Never heard last stitch. Okay. Happy as a clam. I would never say that.

You never said happy as a clam? No way. Never said that. How is a clam happy? Happy as a clown. I think clowns are sad, though. Yeah, deep inside. Yeah.

Okay. Take for granted Take for granted The Rock? Who would say take for granted? That's ridiculous. Who made this list? What about this one?

Bald face lie? Or bold face lie? Yeah. That's the only one that I can go. I've heard it said both ways. A bald face lie and a bold face. I bet you've heard this one both ways. Coming down the pike.

And pipe, yeah. What's the real way? Because I don't know that. I would say probably the pike. Coming down the pike. Is the real way. Yeah. But some people say it coming down the pipe.

Which makes more sense. though, because I'm not sure what a pike is, a road. It's like a road. And then this one. Cole'slaw. Or Coleswendo. Or Cold Slaw. Oh, Coleslaw.

It's spelled cold. Cold Slaw. No, it's not spelled cold. C-O-L-E. Yeah, Coleslaw. Yeah. But some people, if they've never written it or seen it, they might say cold slaw. Okay.

On to the next. I pulled this story specifically for a lunchbox. This North Carolina woman said that she only bought a powerball ticket because her friend urged her to do so, and she won $150,000. She's a retired teacher, so it's super cool, and she plans to use her winnings to remodel her bathroom and give back to the community. You probably break them off a little bit if they encourage you to buy the ticket. Yeah.

Like, you probably give them a couple thousand bucks if they're the ones like, you should buy a ticket. I'm not giving you anything. Okay, there it is. All right, Merry Christmas. I'm Amy. That's my file. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news.

With producer Eddie. 9-1-1 dispatcher, Megan Babarro's. She's at work and she gets a call. And it's a couple having a baby. And she says, well, can you get to the hospital? And they're like, no, we have no car. We can't get to the hospital. So the 911 dispatcher says, all right, let me get the firefighters over there. And she calls out. Firefighters in the area, nothing. We're all busy. We're doing this. Okay. We're running out of time. So the 911 dispatcher says, okay, here's what you do. Get a blanket out. Let's get the mom in the bathroom. And she gives them a step by step. on how to deliver the baby.

And after... I wonder if it was like a book for that. Like she grabs the book and it goes, okay, because you know, sometimes they'll sell, you know, these people that are selling us stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They say this, go to the next line.

They say this. I wonder if there's that for that. You can hear the paper in the background. Okay, step one. And so she gives them a little step by step. And she says she was really nervous because finally she heard the head's coming out,

the head's coming out. And finally the baby was born, but there was no breathing for about 10 seconds. And then she heard the cry. And baby, Adeline was born and it's a healthy baby girl. Is that a weird time, Eddie, when the baby's born and the baby's not making any noise? Yes.

Is that the scariest 10 seconds of your life? I felt like mine was two minutes because he was turning purple. He came out, wasn't breathing, and all the nurses and doctors start slapping them on the feet and on the head like start breathing, baby, come on something. And then finally they spit out whatever that fluid is and they start crying and it's the most beautiful sound in the world. There are some days I wish you guys would do that to me. Slap you and not feeling good. My feet slapped my like just. Come on, Bobby.

And I'm like, oh, feel better. We can try that. Hey, that 911 operator. Good for her. Good for her. Nailed it. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good.

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That was the morning corny. You snorted. Who snorted? She did. Amy snorted. It happens. Okay. We are about to have Chris Stapleton on, which by the way, I can list you every award he's won because he wins them all.

But what's stunning is he only has two number ones. Wow. That's crazy. And the system's broken. That is stunning. His record just, his records crush and stay at live at number one. But starting over was a number one. Recently. Starting over.

Can you name his only other number one? Traveler. Oh, this is my point. He has so many awesome songs. Tennessee whiskey? What? Broken halos. Oh, yeah.

And he has a song this week that's going for a number. number one, which will be his third, which is, You Should Probably Leave. I want to read you something about Chris here. So back in 2014, there was a review of this song, and the writer wrote, You Should Probably Leave, has no discernible melody. The storyline is dull.

It's a dull's dishwasher, and the tempo is excruciatingly slow. What on earth? Wow. Yeah. That writer? Come on. Morgan number two. No, it wasn't.

It wasn't her. I'm just kidding. It's in 2014. So Chris is about to be on in like 30 seconds or so. Do you want to hear all of his awards or no? Yeah. Okay, Chris Stapleton. 23 million certified units.

I don't know what that means. 7.8 billion streams. Traveler went four times platinum. From Aroom platinum. Five-time Grammy Award winner. 16 CMAs. Nine ACMs. Oh my.

Four CMT. Songwriter of the decade recipient at the ACMs. Where's the money amount? Worth? That's not on here. on here. All right, here we go. He's on now. Let's talk to Chris Stapleton. On the Bobby Bone Show now. Chris Stapleton. Chris, what's up, buddy? How's it going, brother, Bobby? You're all right today? Yeah, I'm doing good. I haven't seen you. How you been?

You know, better not deserve, I suppose. Hey, I was thinking about you. I was talking to a lady that listens to the show who's from Kentucky, and where's she's from Corbyn, Kentucky. Yes. So, Chris, you grew up in Staffordsville. Is that where you spent most like your childhood? Yeah, I mean, that was where my home was, the kind of the county seat was Paintsville, Kentucky. Staffordville consisted of a few houses in a post office. Well, I was going to ask, like, what was your hometown like? If I were to drive into it, what is Staffordsville?

And where else would you go growing up as a teenager? Well, like I said, Staffordville was pretty much some houses in a post office. The town, Paintsville, the town, I went to high school and all that kind of stuff. We had Walmart and Taco Bell, stuff like that. When you were, you know, wanting to do music, I mean, you were musically inclined a bit as a kid. where did you start to flex that muscle growing up in a small town in Kentucky? I grew up singing in church with my brother and some buddies bars and did a bunch of that, but also we just, you know, I had an awkward play guitar and I had another,

and his brother was in a popular regional band, and so I had those influences. They would show me chords and things. That was my guitar education on that end. Yeah, I don't know. I just kind of always was there. It was part of the ethos of hanging out. playing music a little bit. Were you the music kid in school?

What were you known for? Obviously, you were an athlete, too, but what would you say that in 10th grade, people knew Chris Ableton for? I mean, I played a lot of sports. I probably played more sports than I played music in high school. That consumed a lot of my time. But I would, you know, I'd sing now and then

and do some things to other things, too. Are you still a big sports guy? Are you watching all the NFL games right now? Not really. I mean, I like to go to sporting events. when that opportunity presents itself, baseball games or football games or anything. I'm a fan of the kind of the fellowship of the whole thing

and the energy of the whole thing. It's kind of like a live show. It's the same thing. I don't know, to sit around on a TV and watch it all the time, it still to this day kind of makes me want to play. And so if I can't play, I'm not going to watch that. It's going to be a little depressing. Do you have any, I still have injuries, like from meetings.

thinking I was an athlete when I was younger and heck even a year or so ago. Don't we all? Yeah, do you still have any lingering? Because you were actually a really good ball player. Anything lingering with you? A little bit of arthritis in my shoulders. My fingers, none of them are straight. But nothing that kills me.

What position did you play in high school? Which sport? And football. Lineback and a fullback. What is wrong with you? I mean, he's a linebacker and a fullback. All you're doing is craving violent contact in both of those positions. That was what I wanted out of it.

That is punishment. I played wide receiver in a little bit of corner, and I did not want to get hit at all. And no way. I wanted no contact whatsoever. You and I would have been the perfect little buddy cop movie. You'd have been the big guy and all the damage. We'll pitch that to somebody. You and I have high school buddy cops.

Oh, my goodness. Chris Stapleton is on with us, and you should. should probably leave. You know, when they made this a single, when you guys made this single, I was so pumped because I've known this song for such a long time. I'd seen you play it live so many times. And when it was on the record, I think I said something to you like, hey, what was the reasoning, you know, what was the motivation on putting it on the record? Then you made it a single. Are you as surprised as, as I am, that this song has just remained so awesome after all these years? Well, you know, I have to give credit where credit to do. My wife kind of required that this

song go on a record. She's like, you have to put us on the record. Stop not putting it on a record. And that's, you know, that's how it wound up there. You know, you have a tendency when you play, have a song or a song that's going around a while that you're like, well, maybe it's not sticking or something. But, you know, it's kind of had a cult following on YouTube or whatever, whatever performances are out there before it was on a record. We kind of stacked a deck on putting it on there, I guess. Well, I loved it. I was pumped to see it on the record

and then pumped to see it as a single and to see it, you know, here we are. Going for number one, that's an awesome deal. Well, Chris, look, I love talking with you. I can't wait to see you again. And congratulations. I mean, I feel like your life is you showing up to accept awards

and then disappearing back into the abyss pretty much. Oh, man. That sounds good, doesn't it? Yeah, I mean, I guess so. It's like, you don't hear, see you hear from Chris in a while and all this. a sudden he's winning like the award for greatest artists of all time and then he disappears again. Like it's a pretty good life.

Yeah, it's just that easy too. Yeah, of course, of course. Hey, Chris, great. Congratulations. Great to talk to you and, you know, love what you do and love how you do it. And hopefully I'll see you soon. Bobby, thanks so much, buddy. I hope you well and everybody around you is doing well as well. All right, Chris, see you.

Amy, how well do you think you kept up? You kept up. You kept up with the news this weekend. I mean, kind of, but I don't know. If there's a quiz coming, we'll see. All right, it's now time for the pop culture pop quiz. Here we go. See how many you can get.

What two teams are going to the Super Bowl? Just happen, Amy. Yeah, this is like something that happened last night, right? Well, I saw Walker Hayes post that he performed at the Chiefs game, so I know that's one of the teams. If they won. Don't know. So Chiefs versus the... Uh, the Bengals or something?

No, the Bengals is right, but it's the Bengals and the Rams. Oh. The Bengals actually beat the Chiefs, so for them to play again would be like boxing. It'd be like a rematch. Okay. That does happen in football. Walker's thing was, he was playing the halftime show, and at halftime, you know, all the commentators sit around and talk about the game,

but Walker's performance was so loud, you couldn't hear the commentators. So they were like, yeah, so Patrick Mahomes and all you heard is like, Oh, we fancy like apple bees. It was so loud. Like, Walker's having a real moment right now, obviously. Like, that song did great. But, like, everything is just coming up wonderful because that was such a viral story yesterday that you couldn't hear the halftime show because of the musical halftime show in the stadium.

So shout out Walker. Hey, it's pretty awesome. I was laughing my butt off. Ed, did you see that? I did see that. And I'm thinking, like, hey, good things happen to good people. Right. Because his performance, yeah, like, I think you may be mentioned.

It wasn't televised, so it's like... Oh, it was now. Yeah, so it was a win-win. Amy, name one of the two comedians who bought an old fairy in New York and are looking to transform it into a live entertainment space. Chris Rock. Mm-mm. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost.

They bought an old fairy massive, and they planned to turn it into like a venue. All right, next up. Ramundo met a Real Housewives star over the weekend. Yes. Who did he meet? I don't know her name, but I did end up on her page because he tagged her and I went and looked at her and I was like, why have I never heard of this person? Yep. Did you see that Lisa Vanderpump broke her leg horseback riding?

She's a real... Not the question, Amy. Why are you changing the subject? Okay. So she's a housewife. I don't know her name. Like Cindy. Larsa Pippen.

That's it. From Real Housewives of Miami. She used to married to Scotty Pippen back in the day. Hey. Ramundo, how did you? you meet Larsa Pippen and how did you know she'd be there? Well, her son plays on the team, so I was just kind of putting it in the universe. I said, I can't wait to meet Larsa Pippen.

And then I went on to her Instagram and she was just randomly at that game. She doesn't even live here. But I saw where she was located in the stands, went and ran up right next to her, quick pick in less than five seconds, and I was back in my seat, went past security. Nobody cared. Was she annoyed? At you? No, she loved it.

You kidding me? She did a little kissy face. Oh, she did? Yeah. Her son is Scotty Pippin Jr. who plays for Banderbilt. Okay. Okay. Next up, Amy. Howard Hessman passed away on Saturday due to complications from colon surgery.

He was 81 years old. Howard played Dr. Johnny Fever on what TV show? ER? Mm-mm. As a kid, one of my favorite TV shows. And it was before my day, but I watched it and I've seen every episode. He-Haw? No, I loved He-Haw.

Beverly Hillbillies WKRP in Cincinnati Oh Is that a hint or the name of the show No, that's the name of the show It's about a radio station Okay Yeah

You ever heard that song Baby, if you ever wondered Wondered whatever became of me I'm living on the air in Cincinnati Cincinnati WKRP No, I've not heard of this Wow Yeah

Is it on Netflix? Maybe I don't think so. Okay. Dr. Oz jumped in to assist a guy who had collapsed over the weekend. How does he run in? I think these are set up now at this point. I think Dr. Oz is paying people a few bucks.

Hey, man, just fall. Dr. Oz is currently running for Senate in what state? Yes, yes. I was reading about this, like that. Yes. Like a month ago, so the location is a little fuzzy. But something like, where does he? even, well, okay, well, I don't know.

New York. Incorrect. But he lives, so Connecticut. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. One of those. Tomato tomato. How many have you gotten right?

One? Oh, I don't think I've gotten any right. Oh, none? Okay. Have I? No. I don't think so. Euphoria starring in what?

Yeah, I see people post about this all the time. Never seen it, but it's on HBO Max. Well, you took a big gasp like you watch the show. No, but I'm hopeful. Okay. Euphoria starring Zendaya is back with season two. What network does it air? HBO Max. You got one. Finally, what city is Super Bowl in?

The game is Sunday, February 13th. And Super Bowl ads are going to cost $6.5 million or something like that. I did read that. But like, as for the city? Yeah, that's the question. Let's see. Tampa. That's a good guess. What is it?

No, you're confusing the Super Bowl for the raging idiots playing strawberry festival. That's right. In Plant City, Florida, coming up March 12th. No, the Super Bowl is in Los Angeles. Uh-huh. Okay. Which the Rams are playing in the Super Bowl. So it's kind of a home game except, well, the Rams don't have a lot of fans.

I'll be honest with you. So, all right, Amy, you didn't win, but you also didn't lose because there is no winner or loser in this game. Okay, good. That feels good. But I do need to feel like I need to keep up on pop culture. Okay, there you go. Thank you. It's time for the good news. With Amy.

Tell me something good. So thanks to a Good Samaritan and a group of police officers, a woman survived getting trapped underneath her SUV. Yeah, she got out of her car. She forgot to put it in park. Oh, no. It rolled over. And she's 70 years old. and her arm and her legs, they were trapped. But her neighbor, Kyle, jumped into action,

got a jack to try to lift it up and then police officers rolled up. All of this is caught on body cam footage, and they rescued her. They lifted up the SUV. The fact that she didn't die because the car ran over her, I don't care if you're 70 or 25. Yeah. Like, that's lucky to begin with. That's how.

And somebody saw it happen. Yeah. The way able to hop out. What are you going to say? Until my grandpa died. Well, why do we have to go there? Oh, my God. Well, I didn't know him.

I didn't even know him. And my dad was actually like one month old or something. It was 1941 in Dilley, Texas. And my grandpa was a watermelon farmer. And he was unloading watermelons from the back of the truck. Somehow it lost, like it was kind of on a hill. And the car, the truck started to reverse. And he got trapped underneath.

And it rolled over and killed him. And what was this segment? Tell me something bad. Oh, sorry. I mean, good. Sorry. I mean, tell me something good. No, it makes this even more special.

She survived. Sorry, Amy. I mean, I'm sorry. I didn't I mean, yeah. So then my grandma ended up raising all the kids alone. My dad was the last one of like seven.

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Are you done, Amy? Yes, I'm done. It's great, huh? Yeah, no, I was really sad that now we have to wait again for the rest of the season. Yeah, but only to like Mayer, June. They split it up because of like award season. So it's not like a whole year. Oh, okay. Good. But like really one of the best seasons. So and if you love Ozark like Amy and I do,

go to Friday's podcast. We did a whole interview with Laura Lenny, who plays Wendy Bird. It's like 20 minutes long. So really great. So check that out. Just search for the Bobby Bone show wherever you listen to your podcasts. All right, news time. Let's go. Bobby's Big. Stories. All right. We mentioned the Bengals and the Rams. going to the Super Bowl. Amy, can you name either one of the quarterbacks? No. Nope. I'm not even going to try. Because all the quarterbacks I know are Patrick Mahomes, not it. Tom Brady, not it. Dirty Burger, not it. He's retiring, right? Maybe. Ben Rathosberger's

retiring. That's all I know. Those are the only, how about Doc Prescott? Do you know who that is? Maybe he's for the Cowboys, I guess. I know him. I know him, but I wouldn't have thought of him. Okay. Joe Burrow is the quarterback for the bank. Matthew Stafford is the quarterback for the Rams. Good for them. Nothing? Yeah, no.

Another quarterback, Tom Brady, is planning to retire after 22 NFL seasons, if you believe what ESPN says, which, by the way, I do. I think they know something. What I'm hearing, too, is that Tom Brady's $15 million. He's not going to get, if he retires before this weekend, he has an extra $15 million. Wow. Yeah. So he's going to wait it out a little bit and then retire?

I think he's got to, yeah, basically. And he probably wants to announce it himself for the most part, but the story is Tom Brady hasn't decided if he's retiring yet. There are reports that he's due $15 million in a bonus on Friday, but if he retires before then, he doesn't get it, so he's waiting until then to hang it up. But it looks like Tom Brady's retiring, and good for him. He's the greatest quarterback by far to ever do it.

Pretty exciting that you got to watch him play, even if you hated him, because there are people that hated Michael Jordan who now just go, yeah, I saw Michael Jordan play back in the day, You know, you got to see the greatest play. It's pretty cool. So Tom Brady is most likely retiring. That's the first story. Amy, do you care about that?

Yeah. I mean, sure. Do you know what team he played on last? Yes, Tampa Bay. Buccaneers. And before that, he was at the Patriots. He was at the Patriots. With Bill Belichick.

Wow. I mean, the one football player I probably know the most about would be Tom Brady. Good for you. Yeah. A federal judge in Oklahoma on front. resented Tiger King Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison, reducing his punishment by just a year after an appeals court ordered a new sentence. That's crazy. Wow.

Joe Exotic was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in prison after he was convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill animal warfare activist and fellow Tiger King star, Carol Baskin. I mean, this guy. Wild. Got extremely famous. and that was his goal but didn't get to celebrate any of it because he was in prison. Now, I don't think he should get to celebrate it

if he really did do this and obviously the courts think he did then he sure didn't get to celebrate it but I mean his whole goal if you watch that show was just to be famous he tried everything and he finally gets him once he's in jail and then he can't get out

oh my goodness that's from NBC News and finally a man from Virginia was arrested after he crashed his vehicle into Taylor Swift's townhome in New York ripped out the intercom and then tried to get inside. Wow.

Morgan Mank, 31 years old, drove down the wrong way on Franklin Street about 3 a.m. And then reportedly reversed and struck the building and a fire hydrant. TMZ reported Mank was mumbling about Swift as he pulled at the intercom. Police responded to a 911 call and arrested him. He was taken to New York downtown hospital. He faces DWI charges. That is from FoxnY.com. Yeah.

And that's why they need security people. All it takes is one crazy person one time and someone can be badly injured or killed. One crazy person, one time. That's all it takes. And that guy definitely met the criteria. All right, that's the news. Thank you. Those were Bobby's Big.

Stories. Earlier we were talking to Eddie about babysitters. And Eddie's got a new babysitter that said, hey, pay us whatever you want. Right, Eddie? Yeah. You name the price, whatever you feel is right. whatever you want. So Eddie's like, okay, a quarter.

Like, why would I go high? Let's go low. So we just started talking for a second about how much you pay a babysitter. Holly and Colorado is on the phone right now. Hi, Holly. Good morning. What do you want to say? Good morning.

I would like to say that I work at a nonprofit preschool and we pay our teachers between $14 and $18 an hour to watch 14 children. Okay So I think it's insane that People are wanting $20, $24 an hour to babysit poor children I think probably the reason is because there's not near as much work You don't get to work 8, 9, 10 hours a day to do that And also a lot of the times it's like last minute

Like we need a babysitter I'm not justifying the pay I have no idea what a babysitter should be paid I don't have any babies But I would think that that's probably why that rate is higher but I also think the teacher should be paid higher, right? I don't think we should penalize babysitters because we should pay teachers more. Like when I get in office, all teachers, you get a raise.

Day I go in office. You know how they do that first 100 days? Amy, and they're like, the first 100 days, I'm doing this, this and this. First 100 minutes, every teacher gets a raise. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, I have no idea how to do that. I'm sure it's that easy.

Yes. That's going to be on the agenda. That's right. So two things I want to say about that call, Holly. In theory, I, I, agree, but I don't think we should keep babysitters money down because teachers' money's down because teachers' money should be higher. And then also, I think babysitters a lot of times are called last minute and that's hazard pay. Thoughts on that, Holly. I don't even agree. I do agree that

teachers don't get paid as much as they should. I also don't think parents realize how low teachers actually get paid. I agree. I don't think just people in general understand how little teachers get and how much we depend on them, yet we're still throwing nickels at them and being like, hey, you should just be happy. Oh. That's right. What am you? You know what they should do is they should have like lawmakers go to schools in their area and they have to be teacher for a day.

Love it. And then they'll see what it's like. And then they'll be like, okay, yeah, going to go to race. You know, I would say a teacher for a day would be like a fun field trip more than to see how hard it is because you can do anything for a day. I think, like I have friends that grew up Mormon and before they were able to go to college. college they had to go and do a couple of years. I think before you do, you should do a year as a teacher. Not one day, Amy. That's my point here. Not one day. You do a year so you can actually see. Okay. Well, we have other work to do. Yeah, shout out to all of our teachers out there. Hey,

thank you very much. And I hope you have an awesome day, Holly. Thank you, you too. All right, bye-bye. Let's go over and talk to Sarah in Ohio. Sarah, good morning. Thank you for calling the Bobby Bone Show. What's going on? Morning studio. Morning. Morning. Morning. I just wanted to comment. I am paying for full-time babysitting for my daughter while we are at work, and I am paying $900 a month, $50 a day. So I'm paying more in babysitting than my mortgage. Why do you think that is?

And do you think it's worth it if you're getting somebody good? Quality definitely measures up. Like, she is phenomenal. She's the best babysitter I could ask for, and that's why I don't have a problem paying that much. But I just struggled to wrap my head around like $50 a day for one kid. Well, like imagine if they have multiples. So are you working eight-hour days?

Yeah. So she's getting $6.25 an hour. Love it. I mean, that's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about, guys. So, you know. Is that what you're doing? You do a math on your phone right there?

Me? Yeah. Yeah. I noticed Amy, you grabbed her phone and started typing something in. Either she was hot about a text or she was. doing some math right then. Sarah, thank you for your call. Yeah, of course, thank you.

Man, if I hired a babysitter, I'd have cameras in every teddy bear. I'd have cameras in the corner. I'd be watching it. I'd do that with this room when I'm gone, just to watch you guys. Oh, you do? Yeah, yeah, you guys have no idea.

All right, let's check in. What's the Haps? Hey! Hey, what's the Hats? I'll go first because I was really sick over the weekend. I'm talking about so sick that I've just been sitting here in this chair doing the show and I'm already exhausted just from sitting here.

Like, you know when you're on the bounce back and it takes you about, I don't know, five seconds to be tired again, like that's where I am. So sick that there were times where I was so sick over the weekend that I was just thinking about the good old days of not being sick. Like, that's how sick I was, that I was only reminiscing about the times I wasn't sick. I've been there. And I will get upset at myself for not taking advantage of all the times I wasn't sick. Like, that's how sick I was.

Where I would go, oh, you're such a. You're not an idiot. All those times you weren't sick. You didn't even appreciate it. But we finished Ozark. We played a lot of cards. I have two buddies that were in a Madden football league together and we play. But I struggled all weekend long. I wasn't sure if I'd be, I checked for COVID. Listen, I did rapid test after rapid test. I did the PCR test. Apparently it's not COVID. Thought it was for a long time. So I was just staying away for everybody. But I'm in my home studio now. And everybody else is in the studio. you know like in in Nashville but Mike D's in here with me brave in the element that I will not get him sick but I did test again this morning negative so that's what's up I wish I had a cool story but I just been sick all weekend long so sick that I couldn't even do my bobbycast episode which I have songwriters come over to the house or artists and we do like these hour long interviews and Eddie filled in for me like came over to the house and did it I didn't

see him but did it for me I really appreciate that he's a good job well what I hear now is that I did such a good job that I might be doing all of them from here on not. That would be awesome. Hey, I would love it. Have that it, buddy. No, I'm good. There you go. But check out the latest bobbycast. Eddie filled in. But yeah, I was just wildly sick. So that's my what's the haves. Hey, what's the haps? Amy. Well, my daughter finally had her school dance, the one with a little chaperoning discussion. And we ended up splitting up the chaperone duties. My husband ended up going and did it there, did the thing. even sent me insider footage of the kids dancing.

So I felt like I was kind of there, but we just felt like it's good to split it up. And she was totally cool with it. He even drove her there with another one of her friends, and she had the best time. It was her first ever school dance. She sore the next day. Like yesterday, she was like, I'm so sore from all the dancing. And she told me apparently she won the limbo contest. Okay.

Yeah, that's probably why she sore. That limbo, imagine if we did limbo. We wouldn't come to work the next day. Yeah, I'm not sure how low I could go. But that happened, and it went well. So now that it, since it was good, now we're in, chaperoning all the dances. Well, you both didn't go, though. I think.

Oh, that was better. No, I don't think you're in. I think you've met your quota of dances to chaperone. Now you don't need to chaperone anymore. I think it's the opposite. Oh, I thought because it went well, it's like, oh, this is just the norm. No, I don't think that's a no. All right, thank you.

Hey. Hey. Hey, what's the hat? Eddie, what's going on with you, buddy? Well, it's a bad day of sports this weekend. I'm not talking about Kansas City Chiefs. I'm talking about my boys' basketball teams. I have two of my boys, my six-year-old, my eight-year-old,

and they're in two different teams, and they both lost, which is a big deal because they were going into this weekend, undefeated bones, and I just found out my kids, they don't take loss very well. Like, one of my boys cried for like an hour after the game. Oh, does he want you to say that? Well, I don't know who knows. It called for like a pep talk. I had to sit them down and be like, boys, it's not about the wins and the losses.

It's about how you take the wins and losses. And now we're going to work harder because next week, we're going to get them even better. We're going to win next week. And they got pumped up. They started practicing and we're ready. That sounds like a terrible pep talk. Like, I've heard some really bad pep talk. Boys, that's not how you, if you win or lose.

It's how you take the win or lose. I'd be like, what does that even mean, Dad? I said, look, hey, that means you have to work harder. And next week, we're going to dominate these teams. and they said, okay, let's go. That makes a little more sense. Well, you weren't there, bones, okay? I was trying to paraphrase.

Well, he did a bad job paraphrasing. Wait, can we all also take a moment to see how Eddie says defeated? Say what they were what? Defeated. Oh, that's not. He said undefeated. I don't know. Maybe I'm the only one that picked up on that.

Sometimes the Spanish and my Mexican background comes out. Defeited. Okay, Eddie, thank you. Hey, what's the hatch? Well, a couple weeks ago, I had a run-in with one of my neighbors. I still had my Christmas lights on. He stopped me and he was like, hey, you know, there's a energy shortage and you really should take down your Christmas lights.

Well, had another run-in with him this weekend, a.k. he ran away from me. I was out the front yard with the kids kicking the soccer ball, and I see him walking up, and he's about a house, two houses away, and he gets off the sidewalk, crosses the street, and goes on the other sidewalk. Didn't want to talk to me again. Didn't want to face me. He did that on purpose or was he just going that direction?

Right. Oh, I think he was intimidated. I think he saw me outside and was like, man, I don't want to have to talk to this guy again about his Christmas lights. And I don't want him to say anything to me. So he ran like a little chicken across the street and kept on walking. Does he know you're on the radio? No, I don't think.

I mean, I have no idea. I don't know his name. I don't know anything about him. I don't know what house he lives in. You think maybe he heard his own voice on the radio? Oh, that's true. Like, brought in a clip. Yes, I know.

I mean, could have. I mean, I have no idea. Like, I don't know anything about this guy. Like, I mean, it's not someone like, he's probably 20 years older than me, I would say, I would guess, just looking at him. He could probably beat you up, huh? No, guy, I mean, come on. I think, guys, I think he's probably just crossing the street. Yeah, probably.

I don't think he's intimidated by lunchbox. Not at all. All right. Let us know how that turns out, lunchbox. I will. Have you taken your lights down? No, I'm still going. There you go.

I'm a big fan of that. I'm a big fan of leaving him up. Yeah, come on at 5 o'clock every day. When do you plan to take them down? I don't know. Maybe February. I mean, I want to prove a point. If you last until March, that would be awesome. I mean, February is only how many days?

28. I mean, I could probably go an extra 28. Oh, man, that would be so funny. Is there like a fine by your HOA? I don't have an HOA. No HOA. Awesome. Yeah.

So I do what I want. I run that neighborhood. Okay. Clearly. I'm a massive fan of this. I just wish we could post pictures, but we can't because then everybody would be going to lunchbox's house.

All right, thank you. There you go. Hey. Hey, what's the hatch? Something else happened over the weekend. We mentioned that Walker Hayes was playing the halftime of the Chiefs and the Bengals,

and it was so loud that the guys talking about the game could barely be heard. I do want to play a clip here. This is on CBS halftime. They're like, oh, hey, Chuck, how you think about the game? But all you can hear is Walker singing over the top.

Go ahead. I'll move outside. Who cares what they're saying? So funny. And as I was watching it, I mean, I almost had tears in my eyes. Because you just knew that was going to be viral again. I mean, Walker can't help but go viral constantly. It's so funny.

So that happened. And then we had a lot of listeners reach out and go, hey, since Walker played the halftime show of the Chiefs and the Bengals, does Lunchbox still think he's more famous than Walker Hayes? Yeah, just because he played doesn't mean people know who he is. He played the halftime show of, Yeah, yeah. Okay, he played the halftime show. The AFC Championship, one round before the Super Bowl.

And guess what? It's not really televised. So you don't really know who that. You don't know who's playing. You just hear music in the background like, oh my gosh, who is this guy? Like, I'm trying to listen to Phil Sims. Like, come on. You still think you're more famous than Walker Hayes. That blows my mind. Like, he got asked to play the halftime show.

You know what happens at a stadium at halftime? People go get drinks and go to the bathroom. No one's watching them. Okay, but what did you do at halftime? You probably had a drink in your own house and nobody paid you to perform. No, actually, I took a 20 minutes. nap because I was tired, and so I knew halftime was something I didn't need to watch. So I didn't realize all this went down.

But yes, I woke up to everybody going, did you see Walker A's at halftime? I'm like, no, I took a 20 minute nap, guys. Come on. All right. Has he moved into your top 25 yet? No. Is he close? He's probably like 31, maybe.

Okay. Others receiving votes. That's what he's in. Yeah, he had not made the polls, but, you know, got some votes. Former manager at an Amazon warehouse in Charlotte pleaded guilty to stealing more than $273,000 in merchandise over a 15-month span. He'd accessed the company's computers and had stuff sent to his home address. Legit.

No, not legit, because he got caught. So it wasn't even like legitimately good at stealing. But brave, dumb. From WSOCTV.com, Douglas Wright, 27, accepted the charge of mail fraud. Up until 2021, he misused his position as an operations manager. to get in the company's computers and send merchandise to his home address. That sounds so dumb to send stuff to your home. Yeah, I've got to get a PL box.

Right, targeted specific products like internal hard drives, processors, and graphic processing units. He told the court he would then sell the stolen merchandise for a profit to a computer wholesale company in California. His sentencing date has not yet been set. Wow. But that's some serious $273,000. Like, they're not just going to go slap on the wrist community service for that. That's real gel time.

you think that's legit lunchbox? I mean, listen, sometimes I think you come up with creative things. That is something I would never think of, but he did make the mistake of going straight to his house. It's sort of like when I was a kid and I would throw tennis balls at cars. And my dad be like, hey, idiots, why are you doing that in front of our house? Why don't you go down the street and do it? And I was like, great point.

Thanks, Dad. Except for that's also really dangerous to throw balls at cars. Oh, my gosh. It's also dumb to steal $273,000 of equipment. first of all, because they're going to catch you eventually. Second of all, to send it to your house. And you know the thousands upon thousands of people that work for Amazon? This guy's probably not the only one doing it.

And all the other ones they're doing here are like so mad at him. They're like, ugh. Now we have to stop. Now we can't steal. Dang it. This story comes with us from Virginia. A 42-year-old mother was upset because they were having a board meeting about whether students were going to have to wear masks or not.

got up at the podium and she said, listen, if my kid has to wear a mask, I'm bringing every single gun loaded to the school and you better be ready. What? Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's tough. Because you should never say that. No. Like, ever.

Mask or not. No matter how passionate you are. Ever. That's just something you don't say. You're bringing loaded guns to the school. Wow. I saw this. So she got in trouble, sort of.

Yeah, she got arrested for making an oral threat on school property. But didn't she just go. I'm sorry, and they let her go. Yeah, pretty much. Oh, man. I don't know if I've ever heard oral threat before. You know, I think maybe they should say a threat by mouth. I don't know.

I don't know. Oral threat. It feels weird. It's like a spoken threat. Yeah, verbal. Yeah, yeah. Maybe lunchbox has made that up. It says it right here in the story.

Sounds like one of those movies when you're scrolling in like the 600s of your cable. That's not right. And it's like oral threat. I should not watch it. Interesting. I want to get off that. Okay. Is that it at Lunchbox?

That's it. And I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead Story the Day. Appreciate you guys hanging out with us. There's so many places you could be, but you're here with us. We love it. We appreciate it. Thank you. It's the Good News Countdown.

Counting down the biggest good news stories across the lab. Let's go. Three to one, action. Number three. An elementary school teacher in Florida found out that only two of her students had ever seen snow before. I mean, because it's Florida. So she got her sister in Kentucky to pack a box with ice and overnight a small snowman to her. It worked.

The snowman showed up intact. Here's the teacher Robin Hughes talking about why she did it. Anything I can do as a teacher to bring joy into the classroom and also teach them a little something. Then it makes it all worth it. And my sister was just the greatest partner in crime to help me do that. So he was perfect. I love the effort, but you probably could have just went to a snow cone stand, you know? Made a little one there.

Number two. Footage of an Amazon driver in Indiana is going viral after he noticed a little old lady having a hard time getting to her mailbox in the snow. So he stopped delivering packages, grabbed a shovel, and shoveled her driveway for her. Like a good human, like a good citizen. That's a good story. Number one. A guy in Alabama was renovating a house he bought and found a wedding ring under the carpeting. Turns out the couple who sold him the house, lost it, and hadn't seen it.

for over 30 years. They're both in their 90s now. They're both still alive. He found them, and they now have their wedding ring back. That's a pretty cool story. That was the Good News Countdown. And that is the end of the show.

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