The Bobby Bones Show - (Mon Early Bird) Daytona 500 Winner William Byron Details Going To College While Racing NASCAR + Who Is Our Mentor? + Mailbag: Husband Attracted To Babysitter

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

Daytona 500 winner William Byron is on talking about his win, what it's like to go to college while racing NASCAR and more! Then, find out who our mentors are! Mailbag: Listener heard that their babysitter is going through a breakup. Our listener said to his wife that the babysitter won't have any issues finding someone. Now our listener's wife wants him to fire the babysitter because she's attractive to him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media.

Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, the Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfilled conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed. I will be his last target.

He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe, on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Ago Vodam. My next guest, it's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever.

He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck.

Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everybody? More to the O. Morning. Welcome back. Hope you had a great weekend. Let's do a little get to know. The question is, do you have a mentor or who's the closest person to a mentor to you?

Amy? For work or personal? You know, it's just do you have a mentor? I don't really care where you go with it. But what comes to mind when I say that? That's tough. Like, I feel like in different spaces. I have different things.

Who came to my very first? Well, some of my fellow adoptive moms. That's good. I rely on them heavily, those that have gone before me. And that started well before we even got the kids, just the journey of adoption and how long that took and what it was like and what you have to do and connections and networking. all the things.

But then once the kids actually get here, yeah, there's a few I could think of that. I can call it any given moment, any time of day, and they would be there for me. And I hope that there's eventually some other people that I can return the favor for and do that. I mean, and there are some people that have adopted that I've been there for them,

but not in the way that these people have, like consistently. I feel like I have a lot of questions. Eddie, you have a mentor? I don't want to say it. They're going to laugh at me. Go ahead. They're going to laugh. Go ahead.

I already know he's going to say Bobby. I would say Bobby. Like I don't really have anyone else in my life. Professionally. Well, no, even personally sometimes, I ask you about kind of my son that I've adopted a little bit. Oh, okay. So this is very specific though. Oh.

So it's not just kind of like. This is a great point. I get it now. He has, you have an adopted son that basically grew up kind of how I did. And then he will come and be like, hey, can you explain them why he would feel this way? And you have great explanations of why he asked him. Because it's why I feel this way. Yeah.

Which is like, I don't think anyone else that I could call could have. have those answers. And so we talk about that a lot. And professionally, I don't think I could ever get to your level, but I do like how you approach things professionally. So I do ask you about some of that stuff. So yeah. Yeah, I'll just go with the sun thing, because they're going to really get it. Oh, my God. Oh, professionally.

But the sun thing is a thing. Hey, Bobby, I can't ever reach it. But I was, hey, no, I told you. Hey, Amy. No, no. No, Eddie can never reach his level, but he really admires how Bobby goes about it. He gave me a kidney. I'm going to tell you guys. It's not true. Not yet. Okay. But lunchbox, you have to admit.

it too that when we start like even from the day we started the show with Bobby he took it we've learned a lot from him that would make him a mentor no I mean you by watching him but I don't ask him questions and I don't like Eddie doesn't really ask me questions about work

I don't know it sounds like he we talk about stuff but not I mean we don't do that a lot I mean yeah I'll go I don't have a professional mentor I wish I would have known anybody I don't have a professional mentor but I don't really do

music but I tried to do music. We do funny stuff. My mentor's Eddie. Okay. It is. It literally is. Shut up. No, no, because he was,

this is so disgusting. I will send him to voice memos. I'd be like, how would you play this? Or can you send me? Why is it gross? Yes. Why is it gross? Bobby just did that because Eddie kissed up to him so he's like,

I didn't kiss up to anyone. Oh, you did. Eddie's my musical mentor. To be fair, Eddie was in a band back in the day. Yeah. He literally is. If there's an issue, I call Eddie. And I'm like, can we play this?

What do you think? Eddie's my musical mentor. I knew we're going to get crap for this. Oh, my God. I'm just covering you right now. Yeah, he is. He's trying to. You are, you are.

I'm not your mentor. You are my mentor. Okay. Oh, my God. Lunchbox? Well, I don't have a mentor. Right. I just do my life.

Like, I don't have anybody I charged you. Your dad? You don't call and be like, oh, you talk to your dad all the time. Yeah, I talk to my dad, but. You don't ask for like life advice? No, what life advice? I don't know. Like parenting? We're not shoving a mentor down your throat.

I never had one professional. I mean, I talked to my parents about life, like what's going on in my life and like, oh, I remember that or this. You know, but I don't say, hey, my kid spit. What should I do? I don't do that. You should probably ask someone about that. No, you just say. Yeah, why are they spitting?

How are you going to fix that? No, you just tell them quit spitting at each other. Like, it's just, you know. They didn't spit at each other. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't call someone to be like, oh my gosh, guys. my kid is spitting at my other kid.

Can you tell me how to handle this? Really? Why would I call someone? Like my wife calls her sister all the time and she has great answers. Like what we do with my kids? Like we do this. Mostly it's somebody who a mentor is mostly somebody who's been through the crap and what you're doing. Right.

It's never somebody who's just all bells and whistles and success. It's mostly somebody who's been through crap and had to go do it the hard way because they can give you, hey, yeah, that's good. Or I've experienced this in a negative way or this is the decision I wish I would have made. And that's mostly what, with one of Eddie's sons, who he's adopted, he's like, why do you think he? And I'd be like, oh, I can tell you because I was really bad at this. And professionally, I'm saying, because I just mentored, I didn't think of this, but I just mentored someone through a divorce process. Oh, yeah.

That's awesome. Because that's some crap that you went through. I didn't know, like, lawyer stuff. I didn't know any of that sort of thing before. And then so, and I had people that I actually called on too of like, hey, how do we do this? So, yeah, there's a bunch of different areas where it can happen. Well. Yeah.

We're just mentoring each other. We're going to get a bunch of cards. You guys want to say anything else about each other? No, man. We'll tell each other in private. We're mentoring each other. Yeah, dude. Well, I'm a kiss, dude.

Here you go, Eddie. Thank you, man. Right back at you. I love you, buddy. Mentor. We're going to have mentors. It's so gross. It's so gross.

I think lunchmocks is dad or his mom's, his mentor. Somebody. He kisses his dad on the mouth. So what? Your brother, no teeth keys, somebody. Yeah. But I don't need advice from them. Never from any of it.

Just like to talk things out. What do I need advice? What about being a homeowner? You just figure it out yourself? You just ripped it up? No, I bought a house and I moved into it and I paid the bills. Probably brothers, mentor? I don't understand.

What do I need to ask my parents about? Like, how do I buy a house? Okay, you go, you find one, you get a real estate agent and you buy it. I mean, there's nothing to be advised about. Oh, I did nothing. I had to call multiple people when I bought a house because I don't know what I'm doing here. It's overwhelming. What's a good rate?

I, yeah, so. Okay, well, cool. He's got it all. Hey, this guy right here, he got it all figured out. Just because you ask someone a question does not mean they're a mentor. No, but if it's somebody you consistently go to? I don't consistently have anything I need anybody to go to for. Hey, bud.

I'm here for you. And I'm here for you too busy with Bobby and looking up to him. We're not able to step away to help you. Yeah. I am good, I promise. Amy, are you available for him? I am not going through a divorce. I can offer more than that.

He said you mentor divorces. I know, but I never. I never wanted to be that mentor. I never thought I don't need that. Okay, that's enough. Thank you. Let's open up the mailbag. You send an email and we read it all the air.

It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag. Yeah. Hello, Bobby Bones. I think I have to fire our babysitter. She's been our babysitter for a few months. But after I made the comment about her being good looking, my wife once are gone. Yeah, you can't say that.

I knew it. Yeah, why? Why would you say that? Just don't say that. My wife told me that our babysitter just broke up with a boyfriend. And I said she'd probably have no trouble finding another guy since she's attractive. Oh, I get that now. Okay.

Still don't say that. No, no, it's okay. I know. Just never acknowledge it. He's just having conversation. I know, I agree. Right. Normal human, yes, absolutely.

Just don't say that. But I'm a normal human and I'm a woman responding that I see now. But you know your wife and you know that's probably going to affect her if you say something like this. Okay. That's on you, bro. Hold on me finish it though. I don't want to give too much editorial here. Because, yes, that's not.

that shouldn't happen and she shouldn't be fired because of it. But you have to know, read the room, as they say. Okay. Keep reading, man. I thought I was merely stating the obvious, but I guess I took just one comment one time and took it to the wrong place and now she realizes how hot the babysitter is.

I don't know if she thinks I want to take a shot at her, like to do in the movies. Or maybe she's worried that the babysitter will take a shot at me. That's not it. Yeah, it's not it, both. I just know that it sucks. that I have to take someone's job away because of how attractive they are. Either way, my wife wants her out of the picture.

Is there more to this than I'm seeing? Signed, dad with foot and mouth. Now, I will say, just generally speaking, this is unfair. She shouldn't be penalized for anything physical about her if she's pretty ugly, ugly pretty. It's all in the eye of the beholder. It's all relative. She shouldn't be penalized for how she looks if she's doing a great job. And I hate that, that it's come to this, but you know your wife.

And if you have to let her go, that's on you. Because you shouldn't have said something that you know. Because you know. Even if you say, I didn't know, you know. If you can't walk around and be like, hey, I think she's hot, like to your wife regularly. If at a restaurant, then you can't do that with the babysitter for sure. Yeah, but he wasn't like, oh, she's hot. It's like, hate.

I know, I agree with what you're saying. Absolutely. He was just trying to be sympathetic because of her situation. Then say she's really great. Look, dude, she shouldn't get fired. I'm on you guys. guys aside like hey everyone this is how the world should be but i'm just talking real talk to this dude you messed up yeah i think his wife didn't want her work in there anyway because that just sounds

like an excuse because the wife already knows she's hot the wife knows the wife knows when she hires her she's hot like she doesn't need the husband to say correct oh she's good looking she can get a new dude like the wife already was looking for a reason but still you had my only point because you guys are putting me you're painting me in the wrong corner here or not yes you're are. I agree that she shouldn't be fired. However, she's going to have to be fired. Because if the wife already wanted her fired, she was going to get fired anyway regardless. If the wife was waiting for you to slip up, she's waiting for you to give her the reason to want to be fired. And if she wasn't, and you just said this and now it's affected her in a way, she's always going to think it.

And you're going to wish you would have moved on because it's going to create such tension in the relationship. Is it right? No, she should not have to be fired. But I'm just talking, not from an HR perspective. from a husband and wife perspective, if something is that bothersome to your partner, you've got to do something about it. Is it possible? There's an underlying issue of trust here. And it takes a long time to fix.

Still got a fire, even if there is. Okay, yeah, I can see. Like if there, yeah, do that so that you can take the moves to work on the trust issue. This could be a... But that means like anybody that is good looking can't ever... No, not in general.

With this situation, he hooked up with somebody before. It's a great. Yeah. Then he's like, oh wow, she's pretty. Then I would be like, oh, okay, well, you've cheated on me before. And now you're, even if that's not what he meant, again, he either knew the wife or he's messed up before.

It's just not worth fighting for because you have to live with your wife all the time. And you don't have to live with babysitter all the time. She's just random. It is not fair. I'm saying it again. Should he have to fire her? If she's just hot, no. Should he fire? Should they fire her? and give her a parachute as far as like try to take care of her for a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

Or like if there's, yeah, you know of another family she could go work for. Obviously give that husband a heads up. I agree with you guys' general idea, but the actual dynamic and the family is, if you're going to fight for this, then you're going to be, why are you fighting for? Exactly, you're right.

You're going to hook up with her? Yeah. No, no, I'm just saying. But that's, okay, again, there must be an underlying trust issue if you have a. But I'm not debating if there is or isn't. Amy, what Bobby's saying is like he's got to drop it. Like, he can't keep going.

And no, no, no, leave her, leave her. There's no win for him in their family dynamic. There's no win. He's got to agree with her and just be like, okay, fine, you're right. But the woman is the bad person in this situation. The wife is. No, I wouldn't say bad. It just depends on the situation.

Yeah, we don't know the full story. If he cheated on her before and this is an issue, great. But we don't know that. If she has an issue where she was cheated on by somebody else really badly, and she has trauma from that and things, you know, trigger it. We don't know. It's just not going to be worth it. It's unfair.

Life is unfair. It's unfair for this babysitter. Sometimes I wish mailbag Like we had the people on because I have questions Like what's your history? How old is the babysitter? But it also doesn't matter None of it matters.

He just, they have to, The answer is you have to move on from her. Okay. And I wouldn't even fire her. I would just say we have to move on and give her a good recommendation. You didn't officially fire her.

She didn't, there's some reason. Yeah, it's not enough. It's a babysitter. So luckily there's no HR because this would be an issue. When they call you for a rep, it's be like,

she had to go because she was too hot. Yeah, okay. We all feel the same. way. However, I'm just going to the point of you can feel that way, but then you have to do what's good for your family. Yeah. And that's not fair to her. That's still what you got to do. It's not worth a fight. It's a battle you don't want to pick. That's all. Yeah. Anything you like to say? No, I think I said it. It'd be so cool to have to get fired because you're hot. That would be the greatest thing. They can't tell her that though. No, but I'm just saying if you were that hot in life, I mean, you're getting fired for it. That's awesome. But that's the sad part. She'll never know that. So she'll just be like, what to She knows. I feel like really pretty people like that know.

They know. They know. Okay. We can't tell them that, but they know. Yeah, it sucks for her, but I got a feeling if she's hot, her life's pretty good. Yeah. Pop people have pretty good lives.

That's true. I've heard from lunchbox. Yeah, he comes in. I'm like, I've had a great day. Thank you. That's an uncomfortable mail bag, but we got through it. Close it up. We got your email and we've ready to mail bag.

NASA's looking for people to live in a Mars bunker, not on Mars, but they're going to kind of recreate what it would be like to be on Mars. It's an experiment. They're going to pay you $60,000. Oh, how long? Real money. Here you go. NASA's looking for four volunteers to be part of a simulated Mars experiment that will last 12 months.

The experiment will take place at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, 1,700 square foot 3D printed building. Scientists will collect data on physical and behavioral health while battling extreme isolation and separation from loved ones. They're looking for crop growth, meal preparation, consumption, exercise, hygiene activities, maintenance work, personal time, science, work, sleep, how you get along with others. And again, you don't really get to be around your family. And maybe not even talk with them because they don't know when, you know, if AT&T works up there, did another day, they get married with $5 credit.

Yeah, but man, there's a lot of people out there that don't have families, got nothing going on. 60 grand for a year, though. This is perfect. That would be crazy. Yeah, because you could get out and you just have that money. And you also wouldn't be spending it. Right. Right.

You have no expenses. I think that, well, you know, if you have rent or something, you can't just get out of a lease. But if timed right, it would be hard. But that would be legit. 60 grand for 12 months. I wonder if you could work. You can't work remotely because you can't even talk to your family. No, no, not on Mars, man.

You can't, like, Zoom meetings from Mars. Yeah. Not yet anyway. You can be paid $2,000 to watch all 10 Best Picture nominees. Oh, these are all stories about getting paid to do stuff. If you're into movies, there's a company looking to pay someone $2,000 to watch all 10 best picture nominees. They'll also gift to you a 65-inch 4K TV. Whoa.

And $500 in DoorDash gift cards for snacks. Wow. Oh, I'll do that. So here we go, the Oscars, which are coming up March 10th. Hey, Mike, D. Movie Mike, have you seen all 10 of these? Oh, yeah, I should have got the money. You did it for free.

Yeah. What's the worst of all 10? Probably Maestro. Maestro is one of them. It's the Bradley Cooper movie on Netflix. Yeah, and then probably anatomy of the fall really. Really boring in French. Oh, French.

There's 10 nominations? They do a bunch more now, and they put in some movies of people that we actually watch. Okay. They aren't just, like, cool. Yeah, I guess you're Barbie and Oppenheimer. Yeah, let's do them. Just give me a letter grade on all these. Okay.

American fiction. Ooh, that's an A, almost plus. It's solid A. I saw the guy won a big award. Yeah. The acting award. He's the writer who decided to write something stupid instead of something good. He's been trying forever.

Right? Yeah. Anatomy of a fall? I'd probably give that an F. Wow. Yeah. It's so boring. How did it?

I watched it. I was like, I have no idea what people saw in this movie. But it has like a 96% rating on Rottenmatoes. Barbie. A plus. The holdovers. A plus. I'll go A plus.

I like that. I give it A minus. Killers of the Flower Moon. A minus. I give it a. That's good. I loved it. It was long, but I liked it.

Maestro. That's an F. Wow. Oppenheimer? A plus. B plus for me. Yeah. C minus for me.

Only because I was told it was so good. I think it might have been an A if you guys, if America hadn't built it up. But it was good. It was really good. Past lives. Ooh. That's a solid A.

Solid A. That's the one that you watched us too? Yeah. Poor things. B plus. The zone of interest. C plus. What wins?

Oppenheimer. What's your bet with you? We have a big bet, and it's so dumb. We have the Oppenheimer Parlay. Okay, go ahead. Best picture, it's going to be Oppenheimer. Killian Murphy's going to win for best actor, and then the director is going to win. So you have, if all three of them hit, you win Eddie's money.

I get $100. Okay. That's so dumb. But if any of the three lose, even if one of the three lose, Eddie gets how much? $20. Okay. So dumb. Why?

Because like, I mean... That's movie Mike from Movie Mike's movie podcast. He knows what he's talking about. Ray told me that there are some gambling websites overseas, and they have those three categories that they're highly, highly favorites. Okay. but that doesn't mean all three will win. No, you're right.

I would do, because we have a show called Too Much Access, a video show where we just did the Indiana Pacers, and we did, we just shot at Florida State, we have Auburn coming up. If somebody would walk out with a, like, promote it for 24 hours straight, I'd give him a thousand bucks, human billboard.

Wow! What, where? I don't know, but everybody's paying stuff to do stuff. Like, if a listener wanted to go promote this for 24 hours straight, 24 hours straight Yeah We got it's not gonna be easy You gotta watch

I think we have 19 episodes And how much? Watch all 19 episodes promote it all within 24 hours I give him a thousand bucks I'm shocked Lunchbox isn't jumping on this Well I'm not gonna stand somewhere

For 24 hours Why not? For $1,000? No, I'm good Well he doesn't want money then Guy doesn't need the money I guess he doesn't want that island You guys can hit me up in my DMs

If it sounds good to you That's amazing We just keep hearing about all these people Like I'll give you $50 to eat nine eggs Right I'm like, all right, well, we have a show called Too Much Access, at Too Much Access.com. If a listener wanted to be a human billboard for 24 hours, I'd pay him a thousand bucks.

But they could sit in that spot, right? A chair. Like with a sign? Yeah, as long as the sign stays up. Okay. Yeah. It's not, it's not a torture. You can't fall asleep. You can go to the bathroom.

Yeah. I've not really talked about this illegal, but let's do what happens. Sounds weird. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. You know how sometimes we have stories of brides kicking bridesmaids out of the wedding party because they're pregnant. Or they got weird hair.

or, yeah, the pregnant ones are mean. Yeah, because it's like, what? You're like bringing life into the world. And also you knew they were. Yeah. You knew they were probably going to get pregnant. Go ahead. They don't want the pictures to look off because there's like a pregnant person.

So anyway, this is not that. A woman was fully ready to have her BFF be in her wedding pregnant. But then, well, her BFF went into labor. Oh, then the picture is going to be. See, that's why you don't have it. No, the picture looked good because she'll be no baby. Yeah. Well, no, she's not even there.

So it's sad. but Allie did something cool after giving birth and she made, she connected with the whole wedding via FaceTime and delivered her maid of honor speech. Oh, that's fun. That's cool. That's cool. A little childbirth keep me from this. And so it's gone viral on TikTok like millions and millions. That's pretty cool.

And you should probably Photoshop her in to the wedding picture because now that you can do it so easily. What we do, well, we mean, it's we, because Caitlin's family will be somewhere. And if there's only like six or seven of us, if it's Caitlin and her sister and DJ, brother-in-law, her mom and dad, somebody's got to take the picture if there's nobody else around. So we leave a spot empty in the picture

and then whomever's taking the picture just because they go stand by themselves. hilarious. Because you can't get everybody in. Is it always DJ? That's nice. No. It's never DJ.

It's never me either. Like we go in and stand because we don't want them to be a risk of us not being in the picture. That's funny, man. But that's how, they should do that with her. They should Photoshop her in because she would have been there in spirit.

With the baby, the newborn. No? No, they should Photoshop her in pregnant. Oh. That's not what it was supposed to be. Well, then she would have to have taken a picture in her bridesmaid's dress. AI. Okay.

Yeah. Technology, man. All right, great story, love it. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care which I'll say it.

Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show.

This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music.

The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space. for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So, if you've ever supported me, or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right what you need to be. Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHeart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And Rule 2, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends.

I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends... Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no.

I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone?

I'm Ego Wodom. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Ferrell. Woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice. ever. I went and had lunch with them one day and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give

this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place they come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to if you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there.

Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know. Daytona 500 champion, William Byron, is about to be on with us. Now my NASCAR knowledge is very limited.

However, Morgan number ones is not. She's diehard. William Byron, what's he about? He's becoming that guy to beat. He's really good. Last season he won like six races. Is he young? He's young.

I think he's 25 or 26. He's pretty young. He got his start in eye racing, which is very different than how most people around his age got their start. Like simulator? Yeah, simulator racing. Is he likable? Very, very.

likable, very polite. Like, you would let your daughter date him if you had one kind of thing. He seems like a very just great dude. But he may be like the next up as one of the greats. Oh, I thought he was going to win the championship last year. He finished in third. I think he could win it this year. He's a great driver. Morgan number one's here. William Byron. Daytona 500 champion. Let's go. On the Bobby Bones show now. William Byron. Hey, William. How's it going, buddy? Good, man. How are you?

Hey, good. So is Will, William, they don't call you Bill? I mean, like, I don't know, William's such a cool name. Like, it almost feels like you, you demand respect if you go full William. Is it always been full William? Yeah, I mean, it's William or Will, but, uh, yeah, Bill's my dad. So I was called Billy in high school, but I try to avoid that one. That's a great point. If Bill's your dad, you don't go Bill. Then you don't go full Bill. You're not, but are you William the second? I am. I'm a junior. Yeah. Okay, so here's the thing. William's Regal. Williams, hardcore, deserves respect. William, not even junior, the second. That's legit.

I'm just like a Southern Prince. That's awesome. Well, I know we haven't met, but congratulations on the Daytona 500 and just being awesome. I'm going to tell my show something about William that you guys don't. Maybe you don't know. You can be blown away by. Byron's on with us. Listen to this.

You tell me if I'm wrong, William. William's a student at Liberty University right now. Oh, my. Why? Is that why he drives the Liberty University? Now let's ask, William, please follow up on this statement. Oh, boy, what's that? The statement that you're in college.

Oh, yes, yeah. Yeah, I take online classes. Yeah. At Liberty University. But why? Yeah, that's his question, why, because he's rich. Yeah, you're rich and you got a job, man. Well, I'm working towards what I'm going to do after racing.

So you never know how. Hopefully I race for decades, but you never know. But could, I mean, I don't know, realistically speaking, Can you retire even right now, William, and live a pretty good life? That's true. Yeah, I mean, just trying to keep it going, though, for sure. So what is his major, though? Racing.

Resumes. Wait, so what is your major, William? Communications. Oh, you can do this. You don't need to have a degree for any of this crap that we do. You're good, dude. Yeah, no, no, no. Just keep racing.

Yeah, no, you got it. So, he's just, he's like a, he's so young. So does he get a question? Does he get free classes because he drives a Liberty car? 100%. Oh, and can he clep out of driver's ed or any sort of driving class? Oh, so those are related? Yeah.

Liberty. What? Liberty universities related to the Liberty. Well, I'm sure that's why they're. Yeah. Yeah. Do they give you any free credit? So I actually have to pay for the classes, but I think that's just the, the, but yeah, I mean, I, but no, they sponsor us on the racing side.

So there's a lot of, you know, connections there. So they pay him even more than they would normally to cover that. That's awesome. And they're not going to fail their student that is representing their university. That's a great. Do you ever, I'm just blown away he's so successful and still taking college classes. Makes no sense. To me that, I think it's amazing and it's a great example for young people everywhere.

But do you ever have to do a live online class with an instructor or do you only watch record it? Like, do you ever have to raise your hand on a Zoom? Be like, I got a question, teach. So there's the discussion boards and sometimes there, it's like a great. root projects, so I have to go on there and introduce myself. So that is, it's always a little bit uncomfortable trying to describe, explain what I do, but get a few laughs here and there for sure. That's hilarious. It'd be like we're on and we're in Homeck and Patrick Mahomes goes, hey, I'd like to ask a question about how to make a souffle. You're like, wait, are you the same

Patrick Mahomes? That would be crazy. William Byron's on with us, Daytona 500 champ, obviously. I do want to say this. Tune into the Shriner's Children's 500 at Phoenix Raceway, Sunday, March 10th at 3.30 p.m. Eastern, 2.30 Central on Fox. I brought in Morgan number one because she is a massive NASCAR fan, and she's going to actually ask the intelligent questions. Morgan, what is your first question for William? Okay, my first question, hey William, by the way. Hey. Is I thought that Alex Bowman won. To be totally honest with you, did you think that Alex Bowman won? And to give some background, there was a caution thrown. So basically, when the caution light comes on, that's your winner. Yeah, I mean, honestly, it was very close.

for sure. But when we crossed the start finish line to take the white flag, I felt like we were ahead, but I couldn't really tell. Like, it's hard to see out of the cars. Like, we have a full head surround, so we can't just turn our head and look to the right. But I knew he was kind of approaching, you know, coming around the outside, but I didn't know kind of where the lights had come on. But fortunately, I got the call that we were ahead. So when do you find out? Because obviously it was super close, but they tell you in your ear how quickly, because they go and they have, you know, they can watch pinpoint laser precision, how quickly until you know you want? Yeah, so it takes like a lap for them to, for them to review the tape and kind of look at,

you know, who's ahead and look at the timing. And they have basically a snapshot that captures where we are right when the, right when the caution is thrown. So it took like a lap. So that was a lot of suspense. Yeah. And your, your crew chief started crying. So you did, Isn't it true? You didn't know if he was crying like tears of joy because you won or because you lost? Yeah, I mean, he was, he doesn't get emotional very often. So he was starting to ball up, you know, on the radio. So I wasn't sure what that meant. But it was a big deal for him and for us as a team. So it was cool. When they're on a radio, can you hear them clearly or is it so loud sometimes you have to like, what? Huh? Is that ever a thing?

So, yeah. So we have like a lot of noise canceling. But, but, but, still it's super loud so yeah like you're always kind of I can always hear them pretty clearly sometimes I have to turn them up a lot of times I have to turn them down because their voice can be pretty annoying under the cautions when the noise isn't as high so but most of the time for me it's like having to shout back to them like they don't hear me the first time so I'm like okay now I have to emphasize what I say again once when we first started to syndicate our show we were in multiple cities, but we didn't understand what we were doing. And we got on the air, we thought we were off the air. And we started, well, I guess we're off the air. So let's just say stuff we'd never say on

the air. We were saying, like, our home addresses. Phone numbers. Phone number. Oh, geez. Right. Do you ever hear them leave the radio on the accident? And they're like, man, William sucks today. Or, man, I wish I wouldn't ate that to Stata. I don't know. Do you ever hear something where you're really not supposed to hear it? So there's a second channel. And they can say whatever they want on there technically, because I never hear that one. But I do get my engineers to send me all the full radio after the race. So if there's any, if there's any talking going on there definitely, then I definitely hear it eventually. That's the channel we want. Wait. So William, you take the time to listen back to the full conversations after the race?

Not, not for that reason, but, you know, to try to study for sure. That's what I'm hearing. I don't know about you about me. He's watching GameTape the Crap Talk. William Byron's on with us. This is also, I'm going to ask another like goofy question that I really care about before we get another serious question. But I like to play Madden and I like to play NBA. So two games I play on PS5 with my friends. Listen to this about William. It's not like he's 50.

He's still in college. But as a teen, he won 290, had 298 top fives and 100 wins on the I racing simulator against worldwide competition. Then he moved to real cars. So how much did that, how hard was that transition going from, I don't even know, the simulator to the real car? Was it easy as, easiest pie the same or not? I mean, very different, but the same skills still apply.

I felt like I still had a feel for the car. But on eye racing, when I was racing on the sim to learn how to drive, I was using my eyes a lot and basically the feel in my hands and my feet. And then I feel like when you get into the real car, you're using the noise, the feel underneath through your whole body. So definitely a lot more intimidating getting into a race car and kind of the danger aspect of it. But yeah. Because that's real.

That'd be like playing Call of Duty and being like, I'm the king. And then they say, okay, but here's a real gum with real people. All of a sudden your butt puckers a little bit when you're out there for sure. Morgan? Okay. I have a nosy question. So a couple seasons ago, I think it was 2022. You got a $50,000 fine for spinning Denny Hamlin.

Yeah. By accident, apparently, under caution. And then, you know, it ended up being bumped up to 100K so your team could get back some of, your playoff points. My question, did you have to pay that fine or does Henry? Yeah, does Liberty pay it? Does Hendrick pay it? Who pays that fine?

So I paid that one, unfortunately, yeah. But it, not a great day, but it was, you know, it was better. They got rid of the points part of it. So at least, you know, that part was better. So you were happy to pay $100,000 instead of 50 so you could have your extra playoff points. I wasn't happy about it, but it happened.

Hey, it's okay, guys. I just Googled your projected net worth for 2024. They project network, you know? Oh, what is it? He's the dumbest page. Go ahead. This is $25 million. Oh, he's going to school in case he wants to be a podcast.

Oh, we have a network for that. Yeah, we do, William. So I got fined a million bucks once by the FCC. Who paid that? Hey, I didn't get any points taken away. I didn't get points. I got nothing. So, like, I relate.

William Byron's on with us. William, so we have these, we have Joey Ligano helmet. We have a Ryan Blaney helmet. It is great luck for people, for especially drivers when they come on the show, to send us memorabilia because they drive wonderfully for the quarter. That's the deal we made. We can't do it six months. But we can give you three months of solid, safe driving.

And let's say, hey, Blaney, Ligano, not doing so bad. Am I right? That's right. No, no, they're on top of their games for sure. Exactly. So we'll get you that address. We'll feature it up here. Yeah, send us your class schedule.

And he'll have a heck of three months coming up right here. Morgan, another question. Okay, speaking of Joey Lugano, he just got penalized for his gloves at Atlanta. Apparently the left hand had extra webbing in between the fingers. And when I saw that headline, I'm like, that can't actually help his performance. There's no way. But then I saw Bob Pocker's, I think he did a story. story about how he can stick his fingers out the window net and it helps like manipulate the air.

What? Is that real? Like do you, as a driver, are you thinking that's something that could have actually given Joey an advantage? I don't know how much, you know, I don't know how to quantify how much of an advantage, but definitely all of our engineers tell us to do that now that you're supposed to put your hand out the window and basically put it at a flat angle so it blocks the air. So it's, it's just a way to eliminate, like if you stick your hand out the window going down the highway, how much your hand gets pulled back. Basically, if you put it flat, it just deflects the air out. So pretty, pretty smart move there to put webbing inside the glove. Let me get this straight. So if I'm driving my car, I don't get it. And I put my hand out. And sometimes if my blinkers out, I will. I'll be like,

left, bent arm. Right. Right. What will it help me do? Or what, what will it help you guys do that you're not supposed to do. When you say manipulate, is it that? Yeah. Is it, I guess the margin of difference is it that small where even the smallest little bit of air manipulation affects a race? Yeah, so basically it just makes the car go faster in a straight line. So it's just eliminating like air coming in the car and slowing it down. So we just call it drag. It's just an aerodynamic term. But yeah, it's less drag. If you put your hand out the window at at the right angle, it blocks all of that. Wow.

He's correct. I googled it. I would do drag when I would ride bike for like triathlons. You can get in somebody's, isn't it called drag? Yeah. Drift. Yeah. You tried.

I'm an idiot. You ever get behind like an 18 wheeler and it just shakes your car like that? So it's weird because these race car drivers, it's hard to keep the lead for a long time because they're getting fresh air and not so much just like the winds making a tunnel for them. Is that right? William? That's right. Yeah. There's a draft. Just like, yeah, very similar to cycling. Like, if you get tucked in behind another car, you go way faster, you know, you go way faster because of the draft they give you. But, but yeah. Would you ever purposefully not take the lead? If you knew the lead car is

kind of a chump and you could take him anyway and just ride him until it was time to like, right him, until it was time to like, you know, slingshot forward. Yeah. So, yeah, like, that's definitely a strategy like riding in second but as the laps get towards the end you don't want to be in second because you you could you know you might not get a chance to make a move so you know you have cautions and you have crashes behind you so um you try to get the lead you know i don't want to give all my strategy away but you try to get the get the lead you know somewhere within 10 laps to go and i asked that in a way that's not fully stupid because running there are times where you let someone hold the pace 100% and you know they're kind of a

chump and you can take them, but you just don't want to take them yet and set a new pace. I didn't know if cars were like that, too. Imagine if you did your hand out the window at the same time. Oh, my God. I know. You have 500 miles. You're hauling. Okay. Okay. So, William, I don't know if you heard Kevin Harvick's latest podcast episode, but he's retired from, he retired at the end of last season. And he mentioned that you're really blossoming right now and that he projects you're going to win a blossoming. Sounds like he's going to do puberty. That's, those are his words. Okay, go ahead. And he projects you're going to win five to seven races this year. Oh, wow.

What's it feel like to be in that position now where you're being viewed as the one to beat because last season really set the stage for that? Yeah, I mean, it's unique. It's definitely a bit of a target on her back as a team because I feel like, you know, everyone's measuring us. But it is good. I mean, I think I enjoy it. I enjoy, I feel like our team's getting really strong. We have a great pick crew.

We have a great guys that build the race. cars and we communicate really well. So I feel like all the things are starting to come together for long-term success. I know you're in Charlotte. Are you a Panthers fan? I am, unfortunately, right now. Yeah, tough year. How'd you feel about Frank Wright being, you know, run out of town after one year? Yeah, that was a tough hire. I never really, I don't know if I agreed with that one. It was tough to kind of rally the team, it seemed like. But I mean, the new guy, Canalis, he seems He seems like he's got good charisma, so hopefully he's the answer. Bryce Young, I feel like he's that dude, but didn't have a shot last year.

How do you feel about Bryce Young? I mean, he's kind of my height, so that's the only thing. But I think he's putting on some weight, and I think he's obviously a great passer, has a great skill set. We just got to get the offensive line surrounding him, and we've got to get some weapons on the outside. We don't have a lot of speed, so hopefully we can get a few speedy weapons for him. The only, so this ball here is signed by, we went and did a thing with Bryce and, well, Coach Rock at the time, and we got this ball and they signed it.

This is the only not good example of luck that the, yeah, the memorabilia luck. I'm going to be honest with you. I got to, but we're Panthers guys. We did a sports show episode with them and they both signed it. Do you think this ball is more valuable because the coach got fired in Bryce or less valuable? You know, I give it like 10 years. Maybe it'll be really valuable because of Bryce. But you think the value goes down because the coach was, yeah.

probably. Dang. Maybe a little. Maybe. Well, look, we're super pumped. We're rooting for you. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, it's really cool to see you blossom. Who doesn't love to see him in a blossom? He's blossoming right now. That's just a weird word. He's one of the best out there.

I know. He won't look at a year. I mean, the dude's killing, but I'm saying the word blossom feels like a word you use for somebody in puberty. Yeah. William, are you willing to share your current GPA? GPA? Oh, I feel like it's, I feel like it's, oh, I should know this.

it's right around like 3.2. Not bad. That's good. On a roll and a full-time job. Yeah. He's blossoming. A and B students. When you drive the truck, how different? Very different. I mean, those things talk about drag. They have a ton because the roof is so tall. So they just, they feel like they go really slow down the straightaways.

But they're fun. They have a lot of, they move around a lot. They buffer in the air a lot. So like right in the back of one of those during the race. I used to get everywhere back in Arkansas. I was in the back of the truck. Yeah. Like you should have to do a race with somebody in the back

and that part of the win is they didn't die. Oh, man. Or you strap them in and they just have to suffer. Yeah, you need to ride in a two-seater in the right side. You have a great time doing that. I'd vomit my brains out. William Byron, you guys can follow him on Instagram, I Twitter, William Byron,

driver of the number 24 Chevy Camaro Z-1 for Hendrick Motorsports. And let me say again, be sure to watch the Shrine Children 500 at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday, March 10th at 3.30 p.m. Eastern, 2.30 Central on Fox. Hey, William, really great to spend some time with you. We appreciate it. And hopefully, you know, we'll come out there and see you sometime. Yeah, yeah, man. Thank you. Thank you all for having me. See you, buddy.

We're going to play a game. We haven't played a long time. It's called Masterpiece Theater. Oh, wow. Ray Mooneyo and I'll be acting out a movie scene. You write down the answer. If you get it, you move on to the next. The first one is going to be extremely easy. The second one is going to be middle. Third one is going to be hard. Can you name the movie that Oremundo and myself are acting out?

We play Masterpiece Theater. Ramundo, are you ready? Yes. And don't say the name. Okay. Action. Hey man, you got new legs? Yeah, I got new legs.

Custom made titanium alloy. It's what they use on the space shuttle. Space Shubble. Well, hot dang! You're like an astronaut now. Yeah, something like that. But I still ain't got no sea legs. Can't find my balance on these things.

Maybe you just need to give it some time. Y'all get used to him. Maybe. Maybe not. Hey, at least I can stand tall now. Like that's something. Sure is. You look good up there. Thank you.

You know, you're like a brother to me. I reckon that makes us even. Yeah, I reckon it does. I reckon it does. There we go. Seek. That was all one movie. What?

That was all one movie? Yeah, man. Might have seemed like we had nine characters, but we were, we're just finding ourselves. Okay. And for the win. Okay. I'm in. Why do you do a face like that?

Yellow card. I don't like the face. Oh, my goodness. You did a face? I don't like it, yellow card. I was making a face with, I don't think I'm right. Okay, I take it back. No yellow card.

Okay. Everybody in? In. Amy. I had a hint of Matthew McConaughey somewhere. We're trying not to do impressions. I know. Okay, go ahead.

Interstellar. Okay. Eddie? Yeah, I had Matthew McConaughey, too, in there in Forest Gump. but space lunchbox I have Forrest Gump what would be space

the part that that's the kind of on the space shuttle He didn't say I'm on the space shuttle Wait wait I could have swore You were on a ship

Or something Do you think they were Going to quote Interstellar A movie Is the easy one Two percent of people Have seen in the world

The answer's Forst Gump Very good job Okay That's why I made a face I'm like Why would they act Yellow card again

But you're letting Why would they act Out interstellar It's like For the easy one So you're purposely not doing the character's voice. Yes, because Ray could have been like Lieutenant Dan. Right, right, right. Right, we're doing, we're acting.

Acting, but we're doing it as an actor that is not doing an oppression. Got it. Where did I hear Space Shuttle? He said Space Shuttle. The metal and the legs of Lieutenant Dan were what they use on a space shuttle. Oh, that's why. Maybe that we're doing Star Trek. Oh my goodness. Ready, Ray. Yep. Number two, Eddie and Lunchbox both in. Yes. And action. Here. you might like this. Armonica, what's this for? Well, let's say music sues the soul.

Figured it might help pass the time in here. Ain't nothing in here going to sue my soul. Maybe not. But it can't hurt to try, right? I mean, I suppose not. Go on. Give it a try. See?

Not bad. You've got a real talent. Yeah, well, don't get no ideas about starting a band now. Wouldn't dream of it. Seen! Why is all your movies like Huck Finn and like Tom Sawyer? Seen! No crap.

Masterpiece of Tarton! Can you name that movie? We're killing it, bud. They can laugh if they want. We're killing it. Yeah. That harmonica play was pretty good. Thank you.

I'm in. I'm in for the win. Lunchbox? Shawshank. Eddie? Huck Finn in Shawshank Redemption. Oh, it's like, what, Hug Finn? What is that?

That is Shawshank Redemption. Good. We have one more movie. Oh, man. If you tie, we go one sudden death trivia question. Got it. About movies. Okay. Or do you want us to yell our name on this?

No, because I don't want you interrupt our vibe. I know, because you guys are nailing it. Masterpiece theater! This is the hard one. Action. Something strange is going on. I can't shake this feeling that my whole life is alive. Take it easy, buddy.

You're overthinking things. No, I'm serious. There are things happening. Things I can't explain. Look, look, look. I know things have been weird lately. But you're just imagining things. Everything's fine.

I'm serious. There's things happening. Things I can't explain. Did I just read the same line? Yes, you did. But what about the glitches? The things that don't add up. Coincidences.

You are reading too much into it. I'm not giving up. I need to find out the truth no matter what it takes. Okay. Just let it go. Because sometimes ignorance is blitz. you know. Not this time!

I won't be kept in the dark anymore. See! Wow, that was good. Ah, so he's the theater. That was real good. Well, and hey, you like how we did jump off and you mess up the line? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we just kept going. But usually the actor didn't say like, I just read the same line.

Yeah, but then I was like, who cares? Keep going. Oh, that wasn't part of the movie? No, you never know. I agree. I have no idea. I'm in. Wow.

For the win. I'm in for the win. I have no idea. I do. Lachfax. I put Matrix. Not a bad guess considering in the context.

I can appreciate a solid guess. Not it. Eddie? And I think it helped that you guys didn't do country accents in this one.

Give me the Truman Show. I don't, I've never seen that either. Jim Carrey? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because the glitches. Dang, I was another one of my thoughts, but I didn't.

The Matrix is a good guess over glitches. It is. It's the Truman Show. Buddy, you win the game. Here's your song. It's not about me today. It's about the actors.

That was some good actors. Hey, Mooner, you get an Oscar, buddy. Great job. That's fun. That was a fun game. Hey, he's the one that suggested we bring that game back. She got eliminated first, but still. We should have given her free pass at least a second round.

We haven't played that game in a long time. Yeah, we've done it in a minute. People will do all kinds of stuff to make their body look better. You can inject yourself with stuff. I mean, really, you can just try to eat healthier, get good sleep. So I try to do exercise. This one guy went in and gets like, I'm hurting. But he's been working so hard.

then my stomach's killing me. Doctor like, well, what's up? I'm trying to get jacked. Well, why does your stomach hurt? Well, I swallowed 39 coins and 37 magnets because he thought the zinc in it would help build his body. What?

So he swallowed 39 coins and 37 magnets. Don't they have vitamins for that? And the reason he swallowed the magnets was to make sure the coin stayed in his gut because he wanted to absorb the zinc from them. So doctors had to cut into him and forget it. Oh, my goodness. Going to the intestines.

He spent a week in the hospital. He's in good condition. but when you look at the x-ray, imagine the x-ray. Imagine the pelvis area of the x-ray. It's just humongous blobs in its coins and magnets. It looks like an arcade game. That's ridiculous, but somebody had to plant that idea with him. Like one of his buddies is a joke or really dumb.

You ever think about swall in a quarter? It's got a lot of zinc in it. Here's Amy's pile of stories. All right, I got three things you should never do it. Oh, I could think of like nine right now. Uh-huh. And Lunchbox does a couple. Go ahead.

Okay, this is according to an HR professional. Don't overshare because oversharing too much of your life with coworkers could cause issues. Yeah, our whole show is oversharing. We get paid to overshare. And there's issues. Yeah, go ahead. Don't be humble. If you're too humble, you might get passed up for promotion or something like that.

Oh, so this is a get-ahead type thing, not get fired. If you're not advocating for yourself, nobody else is. That's true. There is a strategy to it. humble into coffee and you're never going to walk it properly because if you're very confident people will go, well, he's just cocky, it makes them uncomfortable. But there is a line of cocky. Give us an example of how you would demonstrate this. Like if you were at dinner with our bosses or our bosses were like in here, like the New York ones.

The first thing I would do is brag on somebody else. Oh, okay. Because it's disarming and it's not a me, me, me show. Like one of them, you'd compliment them or us. Oh, I'd compliment somebody else that I work with. I would say something like, you can use me as an example. I would say something about, let's use Mike D as an example. First of all, I wouldn't use anyone as example.

It wants to be used an example. It's Mike D, guys. I would say, yeah, thank you for all the nice comments about the show. It's all Mike D. If it wasn't for Mike D because he's the vertebrae of the show, you don't really see him. He doesn't get on the air a lot. But for me, like, he's predicting where I want to go.

I couldn't do this without him. Like, he's so important. And I just want you guys to know that. So now they're already, like, he's not on the hype train. He's not on the him hype train. And then I would say it's allowed, Mike, and also your leadership has allowed us to win in this way and I could present data. And I'd be like, that's why we're just killing it.

And that's what makes me so good is my support. And because of that, I'm able to do this and do, so I've walked them into a whole brag session about me. Wow. And they've been built up. I've just built up somebody else. And they're feeling empowered because I'm bragging about what they've allowed me to do. And so now they're like, heck yeah.

Want another 50 mil? Have it. That's good, man. So that is how you'd not be humble if it in a dinner situation. Otherwise, if it's email, similar, you just need to present data and not opinions. But you can cherry pick data like crazy. Got it. I put a lot of time in.

I do this. Go ahead. Don't stick around too long at parties because negative things. Don't go to parties. Be me. Never go. If there's alcohol involved or just coworkers are in a different environment, it could lead to negative things. Or you just stay out of drama, period, even if it's fun to be in it.

Because professionally, if your job is to move up professional. professionally, stay out of drama where you're working. Because if you are consistent, emotionally, professionally, that is how you move up. Emotionally? For sure. Because if it's like, if you're working with somebody and they have breakdowns and that's fine, but you almost can't trust them as much to be there when it's hard. Consistency.

If you can be good almost every day and occasionally great, that's the key to long-term success. So I should do the, yeah. So do what? I should do a book on this. Oh, yeah. Because I'm not great at anything, but I'm very consistent and I'm pretty good at a lot of stuff that I work hard at. And if I can just be great occasionally. And I'm never really bad.

Sometimes it gets a little worse. But that's all. It's so hard to be consistent. And motivation comes and goes. Discipline is always there. If you're disciplined, sometimes you're not feeling good, you still do it. Motivation, inspiration, that comes and goes. Except for if we're not feeling good, we're not supposed to come.

No, sick is different. Sick is different. Good point, Amy. Inspiration and motivation, come and go. It's like the stock market. Discipline is always there. That is the absolute key. It's not pretty or fun or anything, but that is.

That's it. All right, I'm disciplined enough now to move on. A new poll found that a third of us would leave our job if someone else is willing to pay us the same amount that we're making now. Like no raise is required, which that means that a third of people just aren't really happy. They're dramatic. Where they are. Or their job is dramatic.

Or we just have grasses green or complex, which we all do in different versions of our life where we think it's going to be better because we're not there and we have these unfair expectations that if this place is treating their people better, they're going to treat me better too. And it's not it. The people working there are the same way. It's like you marry somebody. Let's say, I'm a lady. And I say a dude. I'm like that dude. Him and his wife, I'd sure like to be with that dude. I bet he's awesome. Yeah, he's awesome from 10 feet away. But you marry and you see the same old crap every day. He's just going to be another dude you're annoyed with. Wait, wait, did you just say you were going to marry the dude?

Yeah, because if I said hot chick, that would be a second. I just chose not that. Because the thing is, that hot chick to you is somebody, some woman that some dude's dealing with going, God, I wish I had that hot chick. Oh, yeah. I want to say that, and now I did,

but I wanted to present it the other way. So this is all part of a survey that looked into what makes us feel valued at work, and 81% of people say that they're more motivated when they feel appreciated. Yeah, I agree. And meaningful forms of appreciation at work include. I can tell you yours. Amy likes me just to send her an email. How you're doing a good job?

This is what I liked. She just likes words. Words of affirmation. Yeah. Or not an email, but that's how I'll do it some. And I don't do it all the time because I want her to feel like when I do do it means something. Right. And I also, shut your mouth.

Eddie likes to be punished. No. Oh, sorry. I don't. I'm a world. I do feel like I've gotten even better at that expressing, hey, you did a really good job here. Just keep, continue doing this. Yeah, like eight months ago, you sent me a text or something.

It was good. She remembers it. That's because he doesn't. I also remember one time in 2011. Oh, my. Because that was in Walking Dead was big, right? Who knows? Because I think I was.

I've done it more than twice. I'm telling everybody. Oh, yeah, you have. And there's also. But these are ones I remember. Yeah. I get another email. She did it all 2011.

You did it one time 10 years ago. No, no. He did send an email in 2022. I have done. Like I remember where I was. And I tell Amy stuff when she's going through work. Like, hey, you're valuable that you can do, but you can actually do this. I believe that you can do this too.

To me, those are also affirmations. Not you did a good job in the past at this. It's I believe in you. I think you'll be great at this. Yes. Although she doesn't see it the same way, so I'll stop that. That's not true. No, it's over.

No more. It's not true. Anyway, other ways you can show appreciation are one-on-one conversations with your boss, like giving them that time. And then awards like employee of the month. Hey, we do that all the time. That's a tough one, man. It doesn't make us feel good.

I've offered Ray like a promotion five times to just show how valued he is. And every time I'm like, Ray, do you want a promotion? Nah, dog, I'm good. No, no, no, but you've worked so hard. Pimp, I'm good. That's because he's rich, man. I knew it. I guess.

I've been like, Ray, you're killing it and you show up. You're just consistent as can be. Would you like, nah, pimp, I'm good. Well, now that he moved into a house and he's a homeowner as he changed his mind. What's the position? Knock scuba off? Well, if he died. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

But so with Ray, though, to him, it wasn't an expression of how you're doing a good job. But it's like, with Ray, it's other things like when his car was all messed up. I was like, hey, why don't you tell me to buy you tires? Because you've been to such a good job. At least let me do something like that. So everybody has their own love language. Yeah. Or boss language.

Eddie likes to be punished. I don't know. I don't know why you keep saying that. What does lunchbox like? Money. That's true. He does like money, though. That's what I like.

All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. I thought this was a little fun fact.

The first band he was a part of, and the ironic part is it was called the country kings. They kicked him out because he wasn't country enough. Amen. And now he's the king of country. That's a classic. It's happening in every single generation. They always think people aren't country enough. And turns out that is what country music evolves to.

Do you figure out the theme of the pile? No. The pile was stories that I don't care about. They were all worth related. Even the George one. You know what? You did a good job. I'll text you real quick.

Hold on. Amy, good job. Oh. Send. Whatever. I mean, that's my pile. It's all about what? Jobs. Yeah. Wow, wow, wow.

I think it's one on Steve. Steve Jobs. All right, go ahead. That's it. That's our pile. That was Amy's pile of story. It's time for the good news. With Bobby.

Damn, it's something good. In a word, just one word. Generally, your spring break in college was blank. Lunchbox. Party. Eddie? Drunk. Amy?

My birthday. Okay. Good. This one's surgery. Cherish, Strunk. Will we undergoing surgery to give her kidney to a total stranger? Oh. That is so cool.

This is what Eddie wants to do. This is what I want to do, man. I've always wanted to do this. Through a friend's post on social media, she learned about Danny, a former coal miner who's been battling type 1 diabetes since he was a kid. He desperately needed a kidney. And so she was motivated her to reach out, DMed him. Hey, what's up?

Got tested. They matched. And that's what happened. During spring break, went and donated the. kidney. Question. Has Eddie gone to see if he's a match for Harold? No, no, no, no. He wants to go and see if he's a match. One day I do want to do that. Yeah.

Yeah, but he's so busy, Amy, he can't. It's not even busy. He just wants to do it. I want to do it, but I mean, will I survive? Can they assure me? Did you just hear what they said? I don't think they can assure you if you're going in for a finger surgery that you're going to survive. Right. And that's risky. No. And that's risky. But the older you get probably the worst odds of surviving or having a

a healthy kidney or great point the younger you do it the better the kidney is you know a pamphlet they give you of like how to live better after you donated you know he wants to read the pamphlet yeah i do i want to always want to go and get tested and wants to donate a kidney that'd be so cool though man you know what any of this story's about you thank you dude it's not a big shout of cherish that's what it's all about that was tell me something good a win is a win a win a win i don't care which i'm saying yep that's me clipper taylor the fourth you might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show.

This is a place for raw unfilled conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed, I will be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves.

We always say that, trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends, trust me, babe, on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Everyone, I'm Eagle Wood. My next guest, it's Will Ferrell. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall

and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Yeah.

Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.