The Bobby Bones Show - Lunchbox Apologizes To Carrie Underwood + Lauren Alaina Stops By For Friday Morning Conversation

Episode Date: November 9, 2018

Lunchbox makes an apology for a comment he made about Carrie Underwood. Also, Lauren Alaina stops by for the Friday Morning Conversation. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Morning. Why don't we start with Lunchbox wanting to apologize for something he said about Carrie Underwood. Go ahead, lunchbox? Yeah, we did a segment about who would you want to sing as you walk down the aisle at your wedding. And I said, oh, my first thought was Carrie Underwood. But then I don't know how she would see. sound pregnant. And people rip me apart like, oh, you think a pregnant woman can't do the same thing. It wasn't about pregnant. I just don't know if she'd be out of breath by the end of the song.

I don't know how pregnant she is. Is she rapping? Like, why would she be out of breath from singing? Because being pregnant. It puts pressure on the heart theater. Amy, you saw her sing at Iheart ready music festival. I defended her. When he said that, I said she sounded amazing at I heart.

I'm just trying to think of where he's coming from. I don't know how pregnant she is right She could be nine months pregnant right now And she could not be able to sing But I did not mean it in an offensive way So people relax I mean getting all upset over me Making a pregnancy comment

Listen I support all the pregnant women out there So you're apologizing You're officially apologizing Yeah I mean yeah I guess I'm apologizing for you guys Taking my statement the wrong way Sensitive sallies out there That's not an apology

Sensitive sallies Are you apologizing for saying it or not? Yeah, I'm apologizing for the way I said it. Is that an apology, Amy? Like, I was trying to be nice and say, like, oh, you know, I was giving her the night off because she's pregnant. The night off from your wedding. You're giving her the night off from your wedding. Yeah, and people are like I was a terrible person for it.

You apologize. Say I lunchbox apologize. I lunchbox apologize to you people that got offended over nothing. No. Okay. Okay. Yeah, he's like an eight-year-old kid. The Bobby Bones Show.

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If you know me, you know I love blank. Amy. Dogs. Okay, fair enough. Lunchbox, you know I love blank. Dorky things. Dorky things. Wow.

If you know me, you know I love blank. Eddie? Sleeping. I wish. But you don't get enough of it. What else? Amy, what do I love? You know, I love blank.

Reading. Reading. Oh, I know, I know. Go ahead. Being alone. No, I don't love that. Oh, I got it. Go ahead.

Music. Close enough. Country music. Yeah. That's right. I haven't had a nickname that people just started calling me, and it is? Yeah, country music's youngest historian. That's right.

On this day in country music, here we go. The Bobby Bonds show. On this day in country music. 19 years ago, 1999, Faith Hill released her album, Breathe. That's right. It transformed her from a country artist to also a pop superstar. Breathe. This song was a song.

a number one country song and a number two top 40 song. Turn that up. Also, this song was on her album, Breathe, The Way You Love Me. Here you go. The album won Fate Tilly Grammy for Best Country Album. It's one of the most successful country pop albums to date, eight times platinum. The album was so big that several other album tracks were also charted from unsolicited airplay. I mean, they didn't even try to go radio, radio played them so much.

So, Faitil had 19 years ago, 1999, breathe the album on this day in country music history. Bobbit Bones. Hey, on with, I guess, my old friend now, Dave Winters. Hey, Dave. Absolutely. Thank you for having me back. Hey, good. So, I always like having you on.

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for helping servicemen and women who have traumatic brain injury. We're building a series of 10 of these centers at military basis all across the country. We've already opened seven. We have three more to go. Dave is the president of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which is a leading national organization supporting the military community, which Dave's been on our show a lot. And I guess a lot of people come away from our conversations asking how they can be involved with the fund. Very easily. We're building these treatment centers with the help of the American people. We're not, the government isn't doing it. We're doing it as nonprofit. So we need the public's help. We need certainly donations from the public. And we need the public to help spread the word

about the needs facing our military personnel. Again, so many servicemen and women are suffering from traumatic brain injury. A lot of them don't even know they have these injuries, but we can help. So we need your listeners' help and their friends and families help to serve these men and women who have served us so selflessly. Dave's been with the fund since its establishment in 2000, became president in 2011, has been on our show many times talking about this. It's just fantastic that our listeners get involved. One more time, how can our listeners help and get involved?

Please visit our website at fallen heroes fund.org. That way you can learn all about what we're doing and you can donate there. We're also on social media. We're on Facebook. We're on Twitter. We're on Instagram. And you asked about Napa. Napa Auto Parts have been amazing partners of ours for six or seven years now.

And they help spread the word to all their customers. And they've provided a great amount of support towards the building of these critically needed centers. So we love our friends at Napa Auto Parts. And again, I'll just encourage your listeners to please visit our website at fallen heroes fund.org. You can learn all about us and learn how to help. Fallen Heroes Fund.org. Dave Winner serves as the president of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and Napa Auto Parts as a proud supporter of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.

As always, Dave, great to talk to you. Thank you so much for what you do. Great talking to you. Thank you so much. The latest from Nashville and Hollywood. Morgan No. 2's 32nd Skinny. Thomas Wrett shared that he has loved watching his wife Lauren become a role model for his female fans. He said he may be the singer and the one in the

spotlight, but she continues to drive his career forward. Yeah, she's pretty awesome. Amy, you follow her on social media, right? Yes, I do. And she definitely uses it as a platform for a lot of the good. You get it inside into their family life and she just seems really real and natural and laid back and fun. But she definitely uses her platform for good. Like, Homegirl is always doing something to give back, and it's awesome. Morgan number two, what else? Kane Brown's album Experiment is out today. Here's his current single, lose it. There you go. Big album out today.

Get some new music. What else, Morgan, number two? We've got movies out this weekend, Overlord, with 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Wow. We've got The Grinch. It's an animated update to the classic Grinch story with only 60% on Rotten Tomatoes. And then the Girl in the Spider's Web with 53% on Rotten Tomatoes. I'm so out of the loop.

I don't know any movies. I know what the Grinch is. I don't even know. Is that like Jim Carrey back or what? No, it's actually Benedict Cumberland. actor? No, coverback.

That's what it is. I knew I was going to get that wrong. Cartoon? Yes, it's animated. Yeah. Okay, Morgan number two, thank you very much. I'm Morgan number two. That's the skinny.

It's time for the good news. With lunchbox. Damn it's something good. On Tuesday, there was a 75-year-old man in line to vote. He's ready to cast his ballot. All of a sudden, he goes into cardiac arrest, collapses to the floor. Four people run over. One grabs him, starts doing CPR.

The other one runs and gets it a defibrillator thing, and it goes, clear, boom, shocks him. Nothing. Clear, boom, shocks him again. The 75-year-old starts breathing. EMS comes, takes him to the hospital. He's a-okay. Thanks to the people that jumped in and saved his life all at the polling booth. That's good.

What's that thing called again? You shock him? Defibrillator. Defibrillator. Defibrillator. Maybe you had to pick. Defibulator. Defibulator.

But for sure you have to pick one way to say it. Definitely the defibrillator. The defibrillator. How do you say it? Defibrillator. Okay. Okay. Come on.

One more time. All the money's on the line. You get one way to pronounce it. What do you say? Defibrillator. What's wrong with your suffering suck attach, though? Because you're saying it right, but like a... Deflibulator.

Deflibulator? How do you say it? Defibulator. There you go. Fibulator. Defibulator. Defibulator. Anyway. It's a great story, by the way.

Yeah, don't let my defibrillator lack of renunciation get in the way of these people stepping in the line of duty and saving him. All right, right. Thank you, lunchbox, and that's what it's all about right there. This story comes up from Daytona Beach, Florida. A 30-year-old man had to be rescued out of a well because he climbed down just to say he did it. It was a 30-foot well, and he climbed down, and then he was like, man, I don't have the strength to get up. I had to call 911. Firefighters came.

Took about an hour to get him out of the well. Well, a couple things. One, he did it. And then two, I'm surprised he got cell service at the bottom of a well. Yeah, that's pretty incredible. That, to me, might be the most incredible part of this whole story. The guy had bars on his phone at the bottom of a well. So, yeah, there you go.

All right, lunchbox. I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead Story of the Day. The Bobby Bone Show. So with the shooting yesterday, what we want to do on the show is help out Sergeant Ron Helis' family. He was Ventura County Sheriff. He was among those killed in the Thousand Oaks Bar shooting. And just reading all the stories yesterday about it. And what we can do to help is that I want to help his family. So what we're going to do is we're going to take our people.

Pimpin' Joy line, which is all about spreading positivity. We don't keep any of that money. And if you do buy a shirt or a hoodie or a hat, it's all going to go toward that. Yeah, we restogged some stuff. So if anybody's wanting to do anything, like just now's the time. That's what this is about, is trying to do our part. And you can actually get something that's a reminder to choose joy and spread joy to others as you're wearing it and know that it went towards helping out a family that is really devastated right now. Yeah, I died a hero.

So yeah, it's at Bobby Vones.com. He was shot by a gunman who killed 11 others at borderline bar and grill in Thousand Oaks, California. He was among the first to arrive on the scene, entered the bar with a California Highway Patrol officer. So he exchanged gunfire with the suspect. They identified the suspect now, as you may have seen. He was shot multiple times. He died at the hospital on Thursday morning. he was a 29 year veteran at the department was looking to retire in the next year or so and you know it goes on

so what we want to do is we want to point it toward that and if you guys want listen i would encourage you too if you don't want something a pimper joint thing find a way to help anyway right you know this just a way that we have it up ready and you know we're always trying to do things and this is what we're going to do now so anything amy you want to say about that no i think you said it right too that it's not, if this isn't something that you want to help, like, find a way to help. If you can, just somewhere, always get involved. It's just a reminder that crazy things like this are happening. And it's a reminder to try to just continue to spread positivity and for people to, I don't know.

If you see someone struggling, try to help them or get help if you think you need help. I just, I don't know. It's a thing. Some of the Thousand Oaks victims survive the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Some of the people who survived the borderline bar and girl shooting

that left 13 dead total, including the gunman, also escaped the mass shooting at Route 91 last year. I saw this in a couple places. The New York Times had a story and the Los Angeles Times. Wow.

They're country music fans. I mean, that's a country music bar. Yeah. So I saw that. Yeah. I don't know. I have a pile of stories here and it's just

I don't know. we all are feeling the same way about it and you turn on the TV and it's just people yelling at each other about what to do about next time and instead of us doing that, it's just, well, what can we do to help? And so that's what we're going to do.

Bobbybones.com if you want to help. Or find out your own way to help. We're not even pushing that you buy something from us. We don't care because we don't keep the money. It's just a way that we can, if you want a cool shirt that's about spreading positivity, we don't keep the money and this is where it's going to go. So we really, us personally, like our bottom lines,

it doesn't affect us at all because it doesn't come to us. So I don't want you to think we're trying to sell stuff. We actually are just leaving it there in case you want it and telling you where it's going to go if you do want it. Is that fair? No, that's totally fair. And I think it's good to explain that sometimes too, just so that people know. It's just our avenue. It's our way of doing it.

And we try to provide that because sometimes people want to help and they don't know how. And they're like, oh, sweet. I can go buy this shirt and know that it's going to help out 100% of the proceeds. So that is just what we can do to help. It's the only what we have. People threw bar stools through the window to escape. Wow. As a gunman dressed in black and used a smoke grenade to open fire in a bar,

a few people threw bar stools through the bar's windows and helped other people escape. Matt Wernerstrom, 20 years old, told reporters that he and his friends often visited the borderline bar and girl, which was hosting a college night, when the shooting took place. He said he heard a loud sound and a tall figure with a handgun opening fire at the employees working at the front desk. Quote, at that point, I grabbed as many people around me as I could and grabbed them down under the pool table. We were the closest to the pool table until he ran out of bullets. And when he reloaded, they ran.

He and a few others started throwing bar stools through the window and shuffling out as many people as possible. I kind of don't want to talk about this anymore. I felt like we needed to and say how we were, what we were going to try to do. But I kind of'm just going to move on, you know. You're with me on this or no? Yeah, I think that that's okay. I was just giving you space to say whatever you needed to say. But, yeah, I mean, I think it's, we've touched on it.

We're going to help. We're thinking and praying for all those people as a lot of our listeners are. And, yeah, I don't think we need to stick on it, you know, for the rest of the show. Well, shout out to Ventura County Sheriff, Sergeant Ron Healus, was a hero. He's killed. And I'll say this again to any of our police officers out there listening, like we appreciate you so much because when this happens, you're the first one there, trying to stop it. And a lot of times, most of the time, almost every time, you're risking your life and we have no idea. So I'd like to take the second to also. Yes, Anne?

Well, anytime I see his face, I'm like, he just, he went to work that day, not knowing, like, when I've looked up at the news, I'm like, he woke up, put on his uniform, went to work, like normal day, you know, as first responders do. And police officers kiss their kids, hug their wife, walk out the door, their husband, whatever. And then you just never, I mean, you really never know in any day's circumstances what are going to happen. But first responders definitely put their life on the line and it's just, it's crazy. And Bobby Bones!

I'll play you a clip of a famous TV catchphrase. You just have to name the character. Okay? Easy as pie. Yeah, sounds good. I don't even think we need an example. Let's just start with this. We're going to go old school, Amy.

I'll play you a clip. Tell me the character that does this catchphrase. Here you go. Fonzie? Correct. The Fons or Arthur Fonzarelli from Happy Days. Okay. Good.

Lunchbox, ready? Oh, yeah. Name this catchphrase. Name the character. Go ahead. That's one of the Brady chicks. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. The Brady chicks.

One of the Brady chicks. So it can't be Marsha, so what are the other names? Brenda. Brenda Brady, he said. Yeah, the baddest chick of the Brady chicks. Brenda. Incorrect. I'm sorry.

It's actually Jan Brady. The younger sister with Cindy. Everybody knows Marsha. That's the only one people know. Amy, ready? Name the character. No soup for you. Come back.

One year. The soup Nazi. Correct. Good. From Seinfeld. From Seinfeld. Yeah. Lunchbox, name the character who said this famous TV catchphrase.

Go ahead. Oh, that's the, that's a full house. That's, what are their names? The twins, the kids. Michelle Tanner? Mm. So close. Amy, would you have known it?

Stephanie Tanner. Stephanie Tanner, yeah, the middle kid. How rude. Amy, name this one. You ready, you ready to say yes? Ted Sudoff. Oh, that's how I met your mother. Whatever his name is, Neil Patrick Harris.

I'm sorry, incorrect. Lunchbox for this one, right? Yeah, it's Barney. Oh, Barney, I forgot his name. Lunchbox, you ready for this one? Oh, yeah. This is a TV catchphrase. Name the character who said it.

Go ahead. eyes, full hearts. Hey, lose. Let's go. Oh, my boy, Coach Taylor! He's back in the game, folks. He's back in the game. Friday night lights. Such a good show. That'll hit you in the heart.

Yeah. I never watched it. If you start watching and you start binging it, I'm going to be jealous. It's like one of those shows where you get jealous when someone starts it because you want to be starting it for the first time. You know who watches it now? New is my dance partner, Sharna. She's like, I'll watch Friday.

lights, it's fantastic. I know it's old, but it's fantastic. Yeah, so good. I was way late to the party. I only watched it like a couple years ago. Oh, so good. Amy, if you get this, you win. You clinch.

Okay? And action. I'm ready. What? Play it again, please. I'm ready. SpongeBob. Correct for the win.

Wow. What she is. Play her song for her. There she goes. Yeah. Oh, Amy's rolling her eyes of her song again. Because I'm ready for my new one. You want to hear the extra option?

Yeah. Okay, here we go. And finally, here's this one. Amy, just for fun. Go ahead. We were on a break. That's Ross. Yeah, Ross will friends.

Good. There you go. Hey, she loves us so much. Play her song again. There is she goes. There she goes again. It's time for the good news. With Amy.

Tell me something good. So imagine you're just out walking your dog like a normal day, but you see a woman crash her car into a concrete barrier. What do you do? I don't know. You keep walking your dog. Well, this guy, Sebastian, he ran into action. He jumped over.

The car was on fire, burning vehicle, pulled the woman out, saved her life. She was 63 years old. She's recovering from the accident. And she says she wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the Good Samaritan. I mean, if you're walking your dog and you see a crash and you just keep walking your dog, You probably aren't a very good person. No, but maybe you call 911. Yeah, maybe, but I still think that, yes, good for that guy.

But you ask the question, what do you do? I think you go run to help, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. If you just keep on walking, Sparky, it's probably. I know, I was just trying to give Sebastian a little more credit. Yeah, good for Sebastian, too. Amy, good story.

That's what it's all about right there. That was Tell Me Something Good. Folks, it's your buddy and mine. Mr. Bobby Bones. Let me. Over to Amy with the morning corny, Amy. The morning corny, Amy. The morning corny.

What kind of music did the pilgrims listen to at the first Thanksgiving feast? What kind of music did the pilgrims listen to at the first Thanksgiving feast? That Plymouth rock. Pretty good. Come on. There it is. There it is. That was the morning corny.

The Friday morning conversation with Lauren Elena. Well, let's say happy birthday, Lauren, to you first of all. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Well, it's not my birthday. Your birthday was yesterday. And we were together at Dancing with the Stars this last week, and you said you were doing a golf party.

What was it again? 24. Oh, 24. Amy, you get it? Yeah, I get it like four. And golf? They went to Top Golf. Yeah.

Look at that. What did you do? So you guys go out and you took a bunch of friends to Top Golf and you guys had a birthday party? Mm-hmm. We dressed up like golfers and I'm horrible. The worst golfer in the history of golfers. And I do themes every year. This one's, I feel really good about this one.

I think it was the best one. Lauren Elena is here. Hey, we were talking about on the show a couple days ago how people will get their nails done whenever they get, or they're thinking about getting engaged because, they don't want to have a picture of their ring with their fingers, you know, because they don't want bad nails. Now, whenever you, whenever Alex engaged, proposed to you, did you have your nails done? No. No, I never get my nails done.

I get my nails done three times a year, twice a year. For all the award shows. I get them done for the award shows. That's about it. My fingernails always look really sad and manly. But, oh, I did have them done. For your proposal? I did because they planned it out

And I literally I feel like I catch everything But this was the one thing in my life I didn't catch my knees His sister's daughter, Tessa She's three And she asked me if I would take her To get her nails done for the first time ever

They got the three-year-old involved So I went and got my nails done And then he proposed the next week So four times this year I will get my nails done You guys did it for six? years? Yeah, yeah, we just, he proposed before the six year mark, but we just celebrated six years of dating. So what's up? What's the plan? You guys have a date yet? No. The plan is to get

married. Yeah, that's a good plan. I like that. Um, that's about it. There's just been a lot going on. I've been really busy and a lot of family stuff, so we just haven't really made a plan yet, but we're working on it. Do you know where? Do you want to go Georgia and Nashville? What do you want to do? Well, probably Nashville. If I had my perfect world, I'd just run away and get married and then we'd come back and have a party. But our families, you know, there's lots of people who want to be at the actual wedding. So, I don't know. There's pressure with that part of it.

Because it's not just about you when you have a wedding. It kind of has to be about other people too, right? I know. I'm so stressed about like bridesmaids and their dresses and all of it. It's just stressful. I was not ever the girl that planned. The wedding, like lots of girls from early on planned their weddings, and I never did. I was such a tomboy, and all I wanted to do was be on stage.

So I just didn't, I knew I would probably get married, but I didn't plan it at all. So now I'm like, really? I couldn't have been a little bit better at being a girl as a child. Now I have to be good at it as an adult. It's way harder. Lauren Elena is here with us. we're going to start off. We're going to play Road Less Traveled first, and we'll come back and talk about your new song in a second and play that. So Road Less Traveled, Massif It for You, number one song. I was with, and you were there too, we were dancing with the stars, and Aaron Andrews, who is one of the hosts of the NFL, she said, this is before she yelled at you.

She said, I was just listening to Road Less Traveled doing squats in the gym. She said, is Lauren Elena nice because I want to yell at her right now. And I was like, Laurenne is the nicest person. Yeah. And so, Then she yelled at you and said that, right? She was like, I was just doing squats to your song. Do you remember that? Yes, I remember. And I told everyone. I've told everyone that she said that.

The best part is she said, I was just doing squats to your song in the gym. And I thought, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when she said, road less traveled, I thought, oh, she really did because we were doing ladies on the show. And I just thought maybe she was being sweet and saying that she like heard the song. But she said a road less traveled. So I thought, dang, I need to go to the gym and do squads. What? Do I look like her if I do it?

She's so beautiful. Well, she was talking about you, and then she did ask, if she's nice because I'm going to mention this? And I was like, no, she's okay. Nah. She's okay. The Friday morning conversation with Lauren Elena. So you're nominated for a new female artist of the year at the CMAs, huh?

Yeah. I'm good. I know. I'm so excited. It's been a good year. What are you going to do if you win? Do you have, you know, something that you're going to say, or specifically something written down?

Or like, what's the plan? No. I've never really been good at this, given the speeches, which is funny because I'm the biggest talker I know. I can talk for the rest of my life and never stop. But I, every award I've ever won and I had to give a speech, I just totally, I look like an idiot. I get up there and I can't form words.

So I'm going to prepare one just in case I went. If you don't, and I think you have a really, good shot. But we've been friends for a while now. If you don't, you should come back on the show and read your speech on this show. All right. Done. And then we'll give you an award too for being our favorite. Thank you. Lauren Elena is here. Man,

so on Halloween, were you a spice girl? Is that what it was on your Instagram? Yes, I was a spice girl. I was scary. That was a good one. I saw that picture. Thank you. Who came up with that idea? Day of Halloween, I said, we need to be the spice girls. And my assistant and I ran around Nashville and all the Goodwills and found those costumes day up.

And then what did you guys do Halloween night? Nothing. We took the picture and we gave out candy. And then I actually did end up going down to 10 roof for about 20 minutes and decided it wasn't for me and I went back home. So you went out to 10 roofs at bar here in Nashville. It's like a bar where they have live music. Can you go out and not be bothered? Define bothered

Well, okay, that's fair Can you go out and people Will just let Lauren and Lena Do our own thing? It depends on where I go Nashville's usually pretty good about it Because there are so many of us roaming around But

I've noticed in the last year I get recognized a lot more For sure But I don't care I'm a social butterfly come talk to me. You ever put on the sunglasses or the fake mustache and be like, I'm not Lauren Luna? When I was 17, right after Idol 16, 17, I wore a black wig to the movies and someone

recognized me still. And then they said, when did you dye your hair of black? And I had to tell them it was a wig. So I decided that might not be the way I want to go with my life. Because then you just kind of look really dumb when they realized you're wearing a wig. And then you took the picture. Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't like the highlight of my life.

Lauren Elena is here. She has a song called Ladies in the 90s, which you co-wrote with one of my friends, Jesse Frazier and Amy Wade. So tell me about this song. I just kind of want to know what you're thinking when you go into a room to start writing the song. So I'd been sitting on the idea for a while.

Sometimes I go into a room and I have no idea what I'm going to write. I try my best to always have an idea, but I don't always know if it's going to. going to be the best idea, but this was one that I really felt good about and really wanted to write because I grew up in a time where there were so many women on the radio.

Like every every childhood memory I have on the radio is like Whitney Houston and the Dixie Chicks and Tricia Yearwood and Faith Hill and Shania Twain and Garth Brooks obviously was on the radio too, but it was just like a lot of women that were just being women and being proud of it. And I don't know, it's been really hard to be on the radio.

Obviously, everyone talks about it. But I wanted to write a song recognizing how powerful it is when women are on the radio rather than being like, why aren't women on the radio? I wanted to be, I wanted to celebrate how powerful it is when you hear women on the radio and how amazing that is. So I just did a little nod to all my heroes. and that's my favorite. I'm really proud of it.

Even Britney Spears. Even Britney Spears. I have to show you a video of me dancing to a Britney Spears song when I'm about seven. It's really ridiculous. My brother's in the background eating a piece of pizza, not amused. It's like if you meet my brother, it's us now. He still sits in the background and eats the pizza and ignores me. The Friday morning conversation with Lauren Elena.

Lauren's here. We just played ladies in the 90s. Lauren's out on the reasons to drink another tour with Cole Swindell and Dustin Lynch. But you're also going on tour with Blake Shelton next year. And you're like, this is cool because, and I know this, I'll brag on you a little bit. Because you are what's considered direct support, which means like you're directly the big act right in front of Blake. Which means you're not the baby opener that comes out when nobody's in there yet. You are the, that's really cool. And I'm really proud for you.

Thank you. I'm so excited. I don't even know what to do about it. So you're going to go out of That's got to be a fun A fun Like vibe right With Blake and his old giddy up

He's the best I always joke and say He's like the male personality He's like a male version of my personality Just a goofball And always trying to make people laugh He might be a little better at it than I am But I've got time

But he We filmed the video to announce the tour And we had so much fun I pretended to be a bartender, which was so scary because I just really overpour, so I don't think there's a future there for me. But he was so sweet and just a really good guy, nice to everyone there. You know, there were a lot of people in the room, and he paid attention to everyone and just I really respect him.

And I think his music is amazing. And my whole family is so excited. Everybody I know is calling me, like, we got to go to the Blake Shelton show. I'm like, you haven't seen me since 2011. Everybody wants to come to the show. Let's talk for a second before you get out of here about dancing with the stars because you came and performed on country night. It was awesome.

Yes, so much fun. I'm going to be a dancer on the show one day. I know. I hope so. Isn't it so fun to be back there? Yes, I didn't want to leave. It's like a family. And a lot of the people that work on the show worked on Idol when I was on Idol.

So I knew everyone in the crew that worked for the show. like, oh, I feel like this is where I'm going to end up someday. And Lauren was singing for a couple that I'm competing against still, which is Alan and Alexis. And you had shot a video for me and they wouldn't let us use it because it was like conflict of interest. It was so funny the whole time. I was standing with them and you'd be like a foot away from me.

And I was like, hi, Bobby. Like I felt like we were up against each other. It was so funny. You did so good, though. It was so good. I was so good for you, and I was so good to see you because it was like my friend were there. And, you know, I've been in California, and it's not the same.

I know. It's not the same in Los Angeles as it is back home. So it's so good to see you. We got to hang out backstage, and it was awesome. Listen, I'm so happy for you. Check out Lauren's song, Ladies in the 90s. She's going to be out with Blake next year with Cole and Dustin Lynch now. Just one of our favorites.

I'm so happy for you. And happy birthday. Thank you. And everything else, and good luck at the CMAs. And if, listen, I hope you win it. But listen, if you want a place to come read your speech, if you put a lot of work into it, you can have one of these microphones right here, okay? We have to do that for sure.

Yes. I hope I win it and I hope you get to hear it on TV. But if not. Yes, if not, you have a home right here to bring that speech, okay? Perfect, thank you. All right, Lauren, good to see you. I'll talk to you soon, okay? You too.

It's time for the good news. With Bobby. Tell me something. This story's crazy. There are some firefighters in Houston. They had to rescue a worker who was trapped because he was working in a trench. And he was 12 feet below the surface of the ground and all the dirt fell onto him. Right.

Amy? It's almost like he's getting buried alive. So it's all the way up to his neck. And it starts to go even higher. And they're going, oh my goodness, what do we do? They can't get a tractor or a bulldozer to go in because it would make more dirt clobes. So all these workers that worked for the firefighter, they had to dig him out by hand. Oh my gosh.

So they all took their hands and dug for hours and hours and hours because of the heavy equipment, all the vibration, what it caused a second collapse. So after several hours, they cleared enough dirt around his waist, like they went from like his chin all the way to his waist. The whole time wondering if it's going to collapse again. They removed him from the trench. He's now receiving medical attention and he should be fine. But isn't that crazy?

That's really cool. One, almost buried alive, and then two, you can't use a machine to get them because it could make the burying even worse. So they all just took their hands and dug and dug and dogging, dog, and dogged, dogg for hours. Man, that's crazy, and that's what it's all about right there. That was Tell Me Something Good. We had mentioned earlier this morning that we are taking our Pimp and Joy line of clothes, hoodies, shirts, hats, and we don't keep any of the money.

And everything that it makes of Bobbybones.com is going to go toward Ventura County Sheriff Sergeant Ron Helis, who was killed in the Thousand Oaks Bar shooting. And we also don't think you have to go buy something that's pimping joy. We just have it. It's a positive message. It's about finding joy for yourself and others, even when times are terrible. And this is pretty terrible. It is. It's really terrible.

But anything that we sell, we don't keep the money anyway. We never do. We never have Pimp and Joy ever. And so this is where it's going to go. Nah, he was just going to work. Sheriff Sergeant Ron Helis died a hero after being shot by a gunman who killed 11 others at borderline bar and grill in Thousand Oaks, California. He was just going to work. But his work is protecting us and that's what he was doing. And so we're going to do what we can do to try to help out the family there.

That's why he was just doing his job. But a job that I don't have the nads to do. So I'm thankful for people like him and for other police officers that are out there. you know, some of the victims survived the Las Vegas shooting as well. Just so crazy. It was just crazy. Yeah. I mean, I don't even know where to start while talking about this.

I tell you what makes me, what's irritating to me is that there's no such thing as a middle ground solution ever. And that's what's irritating to me, just period. Everything so political, both sides, just dug in because, first of all, you're just not going to take away everybody's guns. You're just not going to do that. That's never going to happen. Also, you're just not going to change the culture on mental health in a year. It's going to take 30 to 40 years to do that, to change our culture. And both sides are so dug in that neither one of them will give even an inch.

That's why nothing changes and that's why this keeps happening. It's not one side's fault. It's both sides' fault. And what's irritating to me is that I sit here and I go, how come people with some common sense can't get in and go, here are a few solutions from each side. Like both sides should be locked in a room, sit at a table and go, you're not leaving until you each have three things that you're willing to meet in the middle on, even a little bit. And so to me, I consider myself a pretty smart guy. And I go, everybody keeps going. Why does this keep happening?

Well, it's because both sides won't give in a bit. So you're not going to go, well, let's take everybody's guns. Let's not have guns. You're not taking my guns. But I think you should have to be smart enough, competent enough to have a gun. you're also not going to go well let's just fix everybody's mental health because it's not going to happen either in five years or ten years that's a culture thing and we should do that and so the frustrating part to me is that there is no middle ground ever anymore ever ever it's so polarized and I don't and that's why I'm talking about it anymore because people aren't people don't even care about people anymore they just care about where they're what their political stance is. And you know what? I have a lot of friends that are on both sides

and they're like me, they just can't admit it and they can't do it. So, I've talked about this before. I don't know. I don't even know what to say anymore. It's just going to happen again. It's going to happen again. And everybody's going to go, why does it keep happening? And then I'm going to go, it keeps happening because people won't take a breath and think about humans instead of thinking about politics. Our politicians don't care about us.

You guys realize that, right? They don't care about us. They care about their politics. They don't care about us. So that's all. I'm tired of this. Yeah. I'm tired of it happening every time.

And the people go, why does it keep happening? There's the reason it keeps happening. Because nobody will give any ground. It's never going to... I'm just going to talk to myself in circles. Amy, anything you'd like to say? No. No.

I feel like you're saying it. I feel like I like to believe deep, down somewhere, the politicians, at least there's some that do care. They don't. But you get in and then they get wrapped up in the vicious cycle of how it works and then everybody's tainted. But I feel like somewhere deep in their hearts, they got into it for the right reasons. And yes, like you said, if they would pause and take a breath and then start thinking about what's best for humanity and think about the actual. They don't do that.

That's not what politics is about. Politics is not about humanity anymore. lives. Well, yeah, I know. And then now I'm going to talk in circles with you. So that's why I was like, nope, I got anything to say. So, I mean, we'll just keep saying what we're saying. But I know. That's what inspires me to get into politics more than anything. Well, you just have to make sure that you don't fall into the cycle. I'm not. I'm going to get really rich before I go into politics. You want to know the truth? That's the goal. That way I don't have to worry about falling to people that you're donating money in my campaign. I'll do like I've done everything else my whole life. I'll do it myself. so it's just pissing me off man and I'm sad and I'm pissed and the whole it's just a weird

I get mad at everybody so at the end what do you want me to say do anything else we've done here can I go home? I don't know if we can go home yet but

probably can't go home just yeah just let's end this on a positive note yeah how should we do that well all of our pimping joy

at bobbybones.com does help that's just a guy who was doing a job trying to help and protect us and serve us and to every police officer out there listening right now I appreciate you so much I don't even know how much I appreciate you because I don't know how much you're doing that's actually saving our lives every day and I'll never know I'll never know I was with the veterans a couple nights ago doing the Veterans Day Special thinking the same thing I'll never know what they did there's no way I can appreciate them to the full extent

they should be appreciated and I try but I can't because I have no idea and the fact that they have done what they did for us is why I get to sit here on the radio and wine. That's why. That's why. Yep. It's totally true. And I have no idea and there's no way I could possibly appreciate them enough. So, Bobbybones.com. Pimbing joy. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Do you think people hate me after that segment or no? I hope not. And if they do, then maybe they should take a breath. I don't think you were saying anything super one way or the other crazy. Like, do you? No, yeah. One way or another. Here's one way. People need to stop.

Right. I get that. But I mean, I don't think it was something, if people are on one side and then the other side, I don't think you said anything that was completely out of the realm of their possibility of understanding. Like, oh, maybe they need to stop and take a breath. I like that. My son has to do that sometimes when he's, you know, acting like a toddler and he's eight. But sometimes we do that. And he reminds me that we all can be that way at times. and we need to stop and breathe in. Breathe in, breathe out. And sometimes he can tell when I'm worked up about something and he'll be like, hey, mom, breathe in, breathe out. And I'm like, you know what, buddy, you're right. I need to stop and breathe in and breathe out.

Breathe in. So if anybody's irritated about what you just said, breathe out. Then maybe they should breathe in and breathe out. So if Amy wins a game, she gets her winning song, which is this song right here. And Amy doesn't like it anymore. She wants to change it after years.

So we've suggested songs, but Lunchbox hasn't suggested his yet because when we did this bit, he was with his baby having surgery. Lunchbox, how many songs are you suggesting for Amy? I have two songs that I feel like fit Amy perfectly, and I do agree. Her winning song may be a little lame in these. Like, they bring the party. Yeah, that's what I want. I want to bring the party. And Amy is the party animal, so I want to bring the party for her.

Okay, here we go. Amy, ready? Ready. Song number one from Lunchbox. And hit it. Hit it. Oh, yeah. Tepe. I'm in love with a stripper.

Yeah, turn it up. It should not be my winning song. Bobby practice. Say, Amy, congratulations. You win. Okay, right. I'm going to turn it off. Here we go.

Amy just won. Hit that song. Okay. Let's do the second one. Let's do the same thing. I don't even need to hear the song yet, Lunchbox. But I will just go right into it, okay? Okay.

All right. Wow. Amy, you just won that trivia game. Play our song! Amy, how do you feel about that? I mean, yeah. I say this is what we do. Don't bring the party.

I get it. I get what you're saying. I guess they were popular at one point in time, but they're not my winning song. Do you want to know what mine were? Here's my first one that I suggest to frame you go. Rod Stewart, do you think I'm sexy? All right.

Here is another one from Kia. My neck, my back. Oh. That's solid. That's a solid one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is up with y'all? And then this one here, which is a solid, solid one here from Pure Prairie League.

Here you go. Hey, me, what you want to do. Solid choice. Okay, and then our producer Eddie suggested these. This one from Ludacris. I like this one. All right, and then he also suggested smash mouth. Here you go.

Now, just to recap, Amy, do you have your song still or no? The ones I picked? Yeah. Did you have like Stronger? I had Megan Trainer Do we have those up or no? Because you know I'm all about that base

Okay Okay And then another one I had Cindy Lopper Girls Just wouldn't have fun Solid It's a good one Yeah

And then one final one And I had Kelly Clarkson stronger Go ahead What doesn't kill you makes you Go again Here's the game We're gonna put them all in a hat And we're gonna draw them Monday

Oh come on Between Is I'm in love with a stripper We're gonna be in the hat? Yeah Yeah Yeah! What?

You're crazy. We put them all in a hat, and then whatever one that you have is yours. You have to keep it for like... Even my neck, my back. Yeah. My neck. My back. My...

Yeah. Can we uncensor them, though? Nope. We can. Okay. All right. Monday morning. Oh my gosh.

All right, all right. Here's Amy's pile of stories. So some health officials are talking about a meat tax. Have you heard of this? That was my nickname of college. I knew you were going to do that. What? What?

They'd be like, here comes old meat tax. I was like, ah, great. No, Amy, I did not know about a meat tax. Well, researchers at Oxford University say that if we cut back on the amount of red meat that we consume, we'd have better health. So, therefore, some of our health care issues would go down and money spent on health care. So they're considering taxing red meat. Well, I don't hate it. Listen, here's my thing with taxes, right?

Nobody likes to pay them. I like to pay them. But if we don't pay them, we live in an uncivilized area. We have to pay taxes. We have to. And we're actually lucky that we get to pay taxes sometimes in a weird way. Now, secondly, I love red meat. But I do eat too much red meat.

I think that red meat is probably, from what I have learned, not the best for us. So because I think taxes are needed at times, It's a bad word to say that. And because red meat isn't, I'm down with this as long as it's not too high of a tax. And that tax money goes to funding something important. Yes, I agree. Like a major league baseball team. What?

Oh, what? Oh, no, no, I'm talking education. Education, education, I mean. Education, education. I can totally see this happening. We already see it happening in certain places on soft drinks and whatnot. But like any sugar and candy for that matter. Yeah.

Okay. That's interesting. And we're going to find out red meat's awful for us in 10 years, just like we are sugar. Even worse. Yeah. But I feel like we more so learned that your nickname in college was meat tax. Yeah, still is sometimes. Sometimes I go out and they're like, it was all meat tax.

I'm like, can I not shake this nickname? All right. What else? 93% of companies are going to have some sort of holiday party this year. And that's huge because economically speaking, like a lot of companies have gotten rid of, you know, company Christmas holiday parties. But this year, it looks like it's on. And two thirds of managers say there's an unwritten rule that you are expected to show up and participate at the company party. We don't really have a company party, do we?

We used to. I think it's at like 4 p.m. And for us, we have to come back to work to do it. And the rest of the building gets out of work. So I was like, eh, we'll pass. Right. It is a little different. Do I want to have a dinner at my house?

Yeah. Oh, this is what I've been wanting for our show for so long, is a Bobby Bone Show Christmas dinner, like our own Christmas party. This is what we'll do, Amy. Okay. If you will help me and really take charge a bit, I'll have it in my house and I'll pay for it, you just kind of manage it the best way. Love it, because I was going to offer my house, but even better.

You're handling it. No, no, I got it. Your house, your money, my doing, I'm in. I feel like we're the team to do it. And I have a little more space in my house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Your house is way, everything about this is way better.

Okay, go ahead. Take you. What else? Okay, well, before Christmas comes Thanksgiving, and the other day in my pile I had the flavored, you know, pringles that tasted like Thanksgiving. and now there's an ice cream shop that legit you can eat your entire Thanksgiving meal in ice cream form. They have a salted caramel Thanksgiving turkey flavor with turkey fat and skin mixed into the ice cream.

Then they have a sweet potato cassero. Who would buy that? Listen, Amy, if I go to eat ice cream with somebody for the first time and they order that and eat the skin inside of it? Oh, some of our friends went to this ice cream shop on Halloween when they had like, you know, pig's blood mixed into the ice cream. Oh, no, I had pig's blood. You did? I did. Yeah, I forgot to tell you about that. It just tastes like, it doesn't take like anything, but it's real pig's blood. Okay, so don't ask me who would get this salted caramel Thanksgiving turkey ice cream.

But there's skin in the ice cream. The texture alone made me think you're a psycho killer. Yeah. All right, what else? Well, I'm not done presenting your meal. But I'm kind of done hearing about it because I'm grossed out, but go ahead. Okay, well, also they have like a cornbread stuffing ice cream. It's got roasted peaches in it.

That sounds pretty good. And then a spiced goat cheese and pumpkin pie ice cream. That's pretty good. And then you would love this one, a roasted cranberry sauce sorbet. Yeah, all of them actually sound pretty good except a turkey skin one. Yeah. Okay, well, maybe that's my pile. The Bobby Bone Show.

Yeah, the weekend is on us. Amy, what's happening over the weekend? Oh, man, I don't know. Family time, I guess. I mean, my husband's trying to get, we're trying to go to the football game. I guess he's convinced our kids that they need to see a football game, which they are not into, but he's so excited about it. But we don't really have tickets yet, so I don't know.

Well, the stadiums, I don't know, a mile from your house, left of that? Yeah, so we can just walk and look at the game, right? Just, Amy, go to a high school game and tell them you're watching the Titans. They're from Haiti. They don't know the difference. That's true. We could do some Friday night lights tonight. That's a good idea. Be like, this is the NFL guys. Yeah, and we'll pay, like Eddie.

Yeah, and you'll pay that. That's right. That sounds fun. That is a good idea. But I don't know. Yeah, just lots of family time this weekend for sure. What about you? You know, because I'm going into the semifinals of Dancing with the Stars, I only have on my schedule. I have one meeting today afterward, but then I just have days, I have like two 14-hour days of practice.

Oh my gosh. Monday's a big day. Yeah. Monday's a big, like Monday makes or breaks you. Yeah? For the finale. For the show. For like winning it, the whole thing.

So like people need to get prepared to watch on Monday and just put it in their calendar. put it in their phone, because really they have to vote. I mean, honestly, we want them to watch, right? But we also just need our people to vote. You've got to show up and vote. Let's say you don't show up anyway, do it from your phone. Let's say you don't even watch. If people don't vote, then you're going to go home.

You're more passionate about this than the midterms. Yeah. Yeah. That's sad. We can talk about it Monday. But yeah, I have to practice. I dance Monday night in the semifinals and try to shock the world and get to the finals, you know? Yeah.

I have a salsa to, it's going down for real. You know that jam? Yeah. And then I have a jive to give me some loving. Give me some loving. There we go. There it is. Got to.

So I'm doing that all weekend, but that's it. I'm most excited about the salsa. Well, me too, if I can do it. I'm just begging right now for Jesus to help me. Dear Jesus. Take the wheel. Bobby, would you mind helping me with the salsa? I know you got other things worry about right now.

Yeah. If you got a minute. But it's okay to share the desires of your heart. I know. That's true. And you're working hard for it. It's not like you're just asking for something that you're not working hard for. That's true.

I wish I could just ask for it. I'd be like, dear Jesus, I'm going to take a nap. Can I please wake up? All right, have a good weekend, everybody. I will see Monday. Thank you so much. Thank you to Lauren Elena for stopping by. Thank you mostly you for listening.

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