The Bobby Bones Show - (Mon Early Bird) Eddie's Theory Raymundo Is Secretly Rich + Listener Believes Eddie Might Have Dyscalculia + Mailbag: Stop Using Slang

Episode Date: February 19, 2024

Find out why Eddie thinks Raymundo is secretly rich, and how much he made in songwriting last year! Then, a listener calls in and believes Eddie might have dyscalculia, hear why and if everyone's going to get tested! Mailbag: A listener's teenage boys won’t stop using slang. Dad started a slang jar to get them to stop, but nothings working. We share our thoughts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A good fun week. Morning studio. Morning. All right, here's your Monday. Get to know your question. What is your morning routine? How long is it to get to get ready? What are you do in the morning, Amy?

I wake up. I make my bed. Then I drink water. Do my tongue scraper. Brush my teeth. Then I'll do meditation. Oh, my God. Meditation.

We're doing all of it. Every single day. A blink. Five minute meditation. Yeah, we're talking. And then I do a three. Well, tongue scraper, feel like. That is not a big moment.

You drank water in this story. Yeah, this is what I do. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Then I do five minute meditation. I do three minutes of journaling. And then I'll start getting ready. What in the world?

That's a lot. You're trying to meditate. and journal. Maybe a cold shower if I am going to do that. Oh, man. And how long does it take you usually from when you wake up until when you leave the house? Too long. Too long.

Oh, hour and a half. Eddie? So I wake up and I stay in bed for about five minutes, look up at the ceiling and like just hate my life and why do I have to get up? And I start thinking of like, do I have time to take a nap today? Because I'm so tired. And then when I finally get up, I go to the bathroom for about 10 minutes. As soon as you wake up, you think about taking a nap? Oh, yeah.

Oh, then you go to the bathroom. I'm like, when can I go back to sleep? Got it. Then I go to the bathroom for about five minutes while the shower gets hot. Take a shower, get ready. You let your shower run for five minutes? Yeah, hey, yeah, I let it get hot. And then I go downstairs, make my coffee.

I pack my little lunch, boiled eggs and my overnight oats. And then I head out the door, that's it. It's pretty quick. Think about 30 minutes to do all that. Lunchbox? I wake up and I look at the clock and I say, six hours till nap time. Oh, same.

Or whatever, yeah, whatever, however many hours still nap time. Then I go in and I urinate and then I brush my teeth. And then I go and eat breakfast. What kind of breakfast? Is it like a quick one? Sometimes I make two eggs. Sometimes it's eggos. You make breakfast in the morning?

Every once in a while, like I'll cook a couple eggs or I'll put an egg in the toaster, pop it up, put the peanut butter on it, eat it. sometimes it's just a piece of toast it just depends and then I'm out the door I grab a couple snacks takes me about 30 minutes from eyeballs open to out the door to out the door it's good

I wake up a whole different you know arrangement of times but let's just say I wake up at four that's probably when I get up most of the time and I'm like it scares me to wake up every morning and so and then I just start At first I go out, I let the dogs out.

And by the time they come in, I have their breakfast ready. So I have them their breakfast. And then I make my athletic greens with lime and coconut water and water. Make that, drink that. And then I start to read the news of the day. And Mike and I start emailing. And Mike knows if it gets email at 1 a.m. It's going to be a rough day for everybody because I'm up for like six hours before I get here.

And so I work on the show and go through all the notes, go through all the stuff that you guys have sent. Then I do take like my peptides for when I injure myself, which are their injections. into my butt or my stomach, and I shoot myself up with those. And then I stretch for 20 or 30 minutes in the morning. And I read a little bit of fav time. Sometimes I'll go walk on the treadmill for a little bit. Depends what time I wake up. Wow.

It just depends. And then come in, try to wake my wife up. Usually I have about two hours at home. Two hours, man. I hate it. No, no, no. I would like to go. Eyeballs up.

Oh. I don't like to wear the same underwear. Who cares? and just go. That'd be awesome. I just have a little too much anxiety, I think. But that's the morning routines. I like it when it's lighter earlier. Because it's kind of, why?

Only in the morning, not in the evening. But then I like it in the evening when it's lighter later. So I wish it could be lighter earlier than lighter later. If only we can have that. I know. Let's open up the mailbag. You send an email and we read it on the air. It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag.

Hello, Bobby Bones. I have two teenage boys. I am at my wits end with all their slang. I just want to have a normal conversation. Just maybe talk about their day and it's all Riz, Bussing, no cap, sheesh, suss. Just to name a few. I'm so tired of it, I've started a slang jar. Every time they use a slang word, they have to drop 25 cents in the jar.

My wife thinks I'm being ridiculous. What are your thoughts on banning slang at home? Is the slang jar too much? Signed, Dad, ready for a change? Before I give my opinion, I want to know about the sling. laying in your house, Eddie. Oh, it's ridiculous. I'm like him. Like, fire. Oh, cap. Like, all that stuff. It's just all. Let me give you an example. Yesterday was my dad's birthday. Right. Hey, guys, let's FaceTime your grandfather. Okay, great. They go in there and they're like, hey, what are you doing,

Pompe? He's like, I'm having dinner. And then one of my boys goes, that's fire. And the other one's like, yeah, it's cool. That's awesome. Like, guys, can we just- Awesome. Wow, those are real slang, man. Can we just speak normal language to him? Like, great, grandpa. Like, that looks really cool. Like, whatever.

Jolly good father. Just normal talk. Like, it's fire. Like, what are you talking about? That's fire. And then Pompos, like, what does that mean? Fire. Slang in your house?

Yeah, we have slang. We have, mom, you're cooking. What are you cooking? But it really means, like, what are you saying? My son's often like, no dip. I don't even know. I never heard that one. Yeah, no.

I don't know that he has it right. Sometimes he has the slang wrong. But I don't mind it so much. Sometimes if you can't beat them, join them. And then they get annoyed you're doing it. So then they're like, I'm going to quit talking this way around her. So she'll stop talking that way. So.

You know what she does, her kids like fire. Yeah. No dip. Here's what I would say. You probably spoke a bit of slang to your parents or whomever raised to you. They were just different words. And they, your parents, were probably like, what does that even mean? Why is something go way back?

Bad, mean good. Why? And we could go through all the terms. You could go 70s, groovy. Yeah, that's a weird one. There's a lot. Far out. Every generation.

Rad. I'd say rad. I'd say rad. More 80s. Like rad. Radical. Like, there's a lot of these. And the one thing that's never going to change is the slang is always going to change.

And each generation is going to have their own. So the slaying jar seems a little, the curse jar I get. Oh, yeah. You can't say those words. The slang. are maybe a little too much unless you feel like they're just not learning real vocabulary words.

I don't think you can use it as a punishment for them just saying it, but it would be nice if maybe they could pay or they could collect money from the jar if they use a new word. You just have to do some sort of a word system as well if you're doing a punishment

because it's not something to get punished over unless your slang's like bad words. Yeah, I like to paint them for a new word. That's the bomb. You didn't use a new word though. No, I was just using another slang term to say. But you don't get paid. Oh, crap, that's right. That slang.

And you came up with the bomb? You'd be like, if you were to say such a righteous suggestion. I'd be like, righteous. I'm going to give you a quarter because I've never heard you used that before and you used it in the right context. Oh, okay. Yeah, that is terrific. You really worked for that one. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. All right. Good luck with the slang jar. I don't like it. You're the parent. Your rules, though. Right. You know your kids. Yeah, but his wife is like, eh, so she's the parent too. I would just find if you're going to take from them also find a way to give to them if they can get better at the thing you're punishing them for.

Yeah, and I think as parents too, we want to make sure that, okay, our kids can talk one way maybe at home or with their friends, but hopefully, like, to teachers are in a more professional setting, they can, like, dial it back a little bit. Grandpa, you got Riz. Yeah, that's kind of, yeah, great call. All right, close it out. We got your email and we let it on the air. Now it's time to close

Bobby Feltag. Yeah. I feel like we've been together as a show for so long. Me, Amy, Lunchbox, basically 20 years forever. Mike D. 15 years, Eddie, 15 years, Ray and all.

I mean, forever. We've been together for such a long time. And I feel like most things we know about each other. And we were younger, we definitely went on vacations together, then we got married, and kids started to happen.

But I feel like we know everything. However, every once in a while, A new theory creeps out about one of us, but I'm super interested in. And Eddie has a theory about Ray that he's secretly rich. And just refuses to share it with us. Which, by the way, I've offered Ray like promotions. Like, do you want, he never wants them.

Yep. He's like, I like this. Like doing what I'm doing. I'm good. Which I always like is Ray's a hard worker. I was like, this guy works so hard, doesn't he want a promotion? And he drives a beat up car. Right, right.

Yeah. So, but you have a theory he's secretly rich? Go ahead. I walk by his workstation where the board. it is and the computer is and I noticed something that's just been sitting there for a while I'm like that is a BMI

music publishing check so when you write a song the publisher sends you a check for whatever you know like whatever you make on your songwriting I don't know about Ray but as soon as I get that any check any check I open it and I deposit it and Ray it's written such hits as vacation

one vacation two and vacation Christmas her white claw Christmas correct so this check's just sitting there He doesn't have to open it. Why? Because he's rich. No chance I'd let a check stick.

Wow. Ray, is it true? Do you have a check by your desk? It is not true. It is a W-2 statement that they send at the end of the year. Oh. Here goes Eddie. You would have thought the same thing too.

I'm like, wow, money bags. Maybe asked a question. Like, is that a check? Or like look at the big W and the two that is on. That's very obvious. Ray, are you secretly rich? No. And to prove that, I can open this live on the air.

if you'd like. Oh, so you're going to tell us how much you made in all of 2023 writing songs. Yes. I also want this to be for kids too because we see the loot combs and Morgan Wallens of the world, but why not see the people that are struggling? I really just don't think there's any money in songwriting. Okay. That's the check. All right. Total amount. Oh, this is going to be really embarrassing. It looks like $38.56. Not bad. That is not the. That is not the. the definition of rich. Hey, my bad. I guess you're not rich.

It's more than I thought it was going to be. I guess you're not rich. So maybe he can't buy a new car. Okay. You start to find joy in that. Maybe he is broke. So that's what you made the whole year? I thought, like you guys got some decent spins on that song.

We did. And radio play, that gets some money too. But sadly, that's it. And we split it three ways. So, oh. Well, you can do all the math you want. And it's still $120 bucks. I mean, it's, I thought it was.

It's not like it's 40 grand. But wow, I thought it would be more. So where's the money in songwriting? Like when it's like really? Number one. Is that it? Is that where you get big checks? I mean, you get checks for different reasons.

Streaming, obviously, a lot of streams. It's like 0.06 cents a stream. Something like that. And then sure. Ray, I'm sorry, buddy. I didn't, I mean to embarrass it. Yeah, me too. Ray. I'm sorry, dude.

The two keys are getting it on the radio and the other one, getting it on a commercial on TV. Massive money in that. Sink. Yeah, they call that sync. So have you guys tried to get it on TV? Uh, no, no, no. Even we tried.

Well, there's not like some summer, if there's a summer theme stuff, then boom, we pitch vacation. If there's a summer theme stuff. There's always summer theme stuff. Yeah, there's always summer commercial. Yeah. Well, thank you for sharing that, being vulnerable with this. Did you ever mean more than that on a check, though, like the year before? Yeah, yeah, we made hundreds before.

Hundreds. What's the most you ever made on a check? 500? Wow. Yeah. So this is like residuals. Wow. This is people still streaming it while they're driving their boats in the summer.

He is rich. He is rich. Rich, this is like friends. It's like friends in Seinfeld. They still make money on that stuff. Dang, vacation. Sign. Yes.

Wow. The office. The office. Okay, so now are we encouraging kids to chase their dreams? Other dreams, just not sorry. Got it. There you go. All right, thank you.

It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. So there's a Beagle Rescue place in Raleigh, North Carolina. It's called Triangle Beagle Rescue. And they took in a beagle named Honey from Kentucky that had four puppies. Well, sadly, three of the puppies didn't make it. it. So she was just there with her

one lonely puppy and then a vet calls and says, hey, I need help. I got some beagle puppies that need a home. Well, guess who adopted these puppies and is now feeding them, caring for them, making them her own? Well, I don't think it's going to be a tough guess. They're a character. I've been one character introduced. Yeah, yeah, yeah, only

one. It's a cool story, but yeah, the easy guess. Honey. Yeah. That's cool that a dog. Yeah, she's nursing them, caring for them. Like, does that naturally. That's amazing. And her, the surviving puppy from her litter, sweetheart, that she's like letting these other puppies come in

and like hang out with her, eat. Do all the things? Do all the things is a good way to describe it. Okay, so you want the names of all the puppies? So there's honey. How many puppies? Honey. There's honey, and then there's her puppy, sweetheart.

And then the new ones that came in, Cupid Cupcake Kisses, Lovely, and Archer. One dude, that's the one dude. That's the one dude, Archer. That's a good story. Great job. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. You can have opinions.

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Morgan goes first. We rolled the dice. This is so hard. Yeah, this is a hard one. Yeah, because I never lived in a small town. Oh, then you're out of luck. You lived in, you're right. You lived in a city, but there was a neighborhood-ish kind of thing.

Yeah, but. Okay, I got you. Well, then you just, maybe you shouldn't do good. No, no, I'll probably dominate still because I'm good at everything. Best thing about living in a small town, Morgan, did you live in a small town? No, I wouldn't call Wichita a small town, but growing up there wasn't exactly. a big town either. Okay. So I did have a little mix of both. Go ahead. And what do

you think the best thing is about a small town? Okay. This is hard to have the number one pick of this because I just don't know where it's going to go. But I'm going to go with this one because I feel like it's accurate. Everything is cheap. Like drinks don't cost $15. You don't have to buy crazy cars. No, we didn't say go back 30 years. We said small town now. No, it is small town. Like you go to a dive bar now

it can be like four bucks for a drink. You get fries for $2. So cheap drinks at the bar? It's cheap. Everything's cheap. What boy? Why are you guys going to bars and cities then? Drive out to the town. That'd be nice. Then you got to drive back. All right, Ray Mundo, you're from a small town?

Yeah, this is simple. I'm in a small town right now. None of you guys are. Give me no traffic. I can get from one to the other. That's one. That's a good one. I'm going to go.

Best things about small towns, the church community. There are a couple churches in every small town, and they're rivals. But still, everybody's pretty close. You go to one or the two churches for the most part, and you're all pretty tight because of it. So I'm going to go small town church community. Yeah, but if you don't go, everyone knows. Yeah, they're all up in your biz.

Bobby hasn't been to church in three weeks. Or am I going to Harvey Chapel across the street? Oh. You don't even know that. It's at a Mountain Pine Baptist. Lunchbox. Man. Amy's out, by the way, because she finished last, the last game.

This is tough, man. Best thing's about a small town. Oh, man. Best thing about a small town. No violent crime. So much safer. Less crime? Less crime.

That's good. That's good. Eddie? Easy, man. What do you do in the country with the boys? Bonfire parties. Just make a big fire and let's have a party. Build parties?

Yeah. What do you want your official answer to be? Bonfire parties. We would never call them that in a small town. Never. Never. You don't know, man. You could call them a pasture party.

I don't know. Lunchbox, lunchbox. That was going to be on mine. You called a Phil party. But you have bonfire party. Bonfire party. I like it. Eddie's like pyrotechnic good time.

Because the big fire is the cool thing. Yeah, okay. All right, right. All right, so now we're going to go backward. That's round one. Okay, okay. Oh, boy. So Eddie, with your party, the best thing about a small town is...

That's what I was thinking about those party. I didn't know. It's easy, man. Driving down that dirt road. Dirt roads. All right. I mean, that's where I drank my first beer. Is that where you...

Jesus. That's where I found Jesus. I knew it. lunchbox That's why I picked church community Why? It's where I drank my first I didn't drink the beer, but that's where I found Jesus

What you got lunch? I'm thinking man He actually Googled What's cool to do in a small Yeah Uh Guys Nature

Is that your fingertips Nature That was the accent I saw it. You saw that same article? Sometimes. Sometimes. Country small town.

Where else is the small town? Maybe like hunting. Yeah, like hunting, fishing, everything. Nature. Hunting, fishing, and everything. And I think that's probably pretty accurate with most of them. There's a pond. Yeah.

Maybe there's no pond. Small town, he puts nature. I put hunting fishing every day. No, you didn't put that. I love that. I'm trying to think of the lyric. I couldn't think of the lyric. There you go.

Okay, okay. But you said nature. So nature. Nature with hunting and fishing. Like your finger tips. I'm putting Friday. Night Lights. High School football. That's really good. It's a massive

deal. That is good. Everybody comes out for it. High school football, Friday Night Lights, that's it. That's what's happening in town. Someone living in a small town. That was not in the article. That was a good one. What did you say? That one wasn't in the article. I didn't read an article. I know. Lunchbox's article. I know if I Google an article, you guys

have probably Googled it too. Yeah. So don't Google articles. All right. Next up, Ray Mundo. Shoot guns. Okay. At anything. Okay. Anything. Shooting guns.

Yeah. What kind of guns? Just kidding. Registered? Morgan. I don't know. Okay. I think I'm going to go with the slow pace.

Like everything's very slow. You can enjoy life. Slower pace of life. Try that in a small time. Try that in a small... All right. So Morgan, what are your two so far? Everything is cheap and slower pace.

Now you'll go first in round three. Yeah. What are you going to add to that? Oh, man. I'm in between two, and I just thought of one when you were talking about Friday night lights. I don't know if I want to do it or if I want to do... Thursday night dark. Wednesday night, sunrise.

No, I was it after everybody's done. Small cafes and restaurants. Yeah, I like that. Small cafes. Yeah. Like the local spots. Right, right, right. There's not a lot of chains.

Like the Yum Yum Shop we used to have. Yeah. Small cafes, okay. Ray. Call it corny, but everybody waves. In my neighborhood, if you don't wave, you're actually an outcast. I like that, Ray. Everybody waves.

How's it going, Randy? Hey, Mike. Hey, Tom. No, you're waving, but you're saying, I'm just talking to people. I know their names too. So far, I have church community and Friday Night Lights. I'm going to pick the best thing about small towns is small schools because the classes aren't humongous and you can pretty much do any

and everything. Some of small schools. Yeah, but then you run out of chicks to date. That's true. There are things called cars. Yep. And you can go to the next small town and find a chick. Or a big town nearby.

I'm just saying. All right. Next up, lunchbox. It's me now. Hang, I don't know. What is your little website set? I'm looking for it right now. Low city folk.

Well, there was one item on there, but I don't know if I'd say that. Then you shouldn't probably. Yeah. Oh, man. I don't know. Let's save. Quit looking at my list. Eddie, get your own list.

I already have my answer. Hey. Hmm. That's a good one. It's their time limit. Yeah. We need you to pick one, dude. Okay.

Helping hands. Everyone's there to help you. What's that? Everybody's got your back. Everybody's got your back. Everybody's got your back. The term helping hands. Everybody's got your back.

Do you want helping hands on that? Yeah, what you want your words to be? That's what we put up. People vote on. Everybody has your back. Okay. Cool. I like that. Yeah, Helping hands just felt funny.

Sorry, I didn't know how to. Eddie. Am I the last? Yeah. Man, I'm between two really good ones. Like two really, really good ones. I just say them. So I have stargazing because, like, that's great.

When you're in a small town, you look up like, wow, you see every single star in the sky. Love that. And then, which I think I'm going to go with, is the dances at the VFW. Oh. Those VFW dances, man. That's where it's at. What else do you're doing on the Friday night? Oh, there's a dance at the VFW with a band?

Cool. Can't wait. Is that your answer? That's my answer. What is VFW? It's a veterans of foreign war. It's a, my grandma and I used to go, but never in our town. We used to go play bingo there.

It's like a group of people that were in wars. Yeah. And so they have a, but. And Eddie has competing things. Eddie's like the 20s. No, he has competing things. He has the dance on Friday night or the bonfire party. So which one's better, Eddie?

It depends what age you are. You can go to the VFW dance and then the bonfire party afterwards. Or you can pregame get drunk The Bonfire Party. Although it's a field party. Okay, so Eddie has dances at the VFW, dirt roads, and bonfire parties. That's what I'm talking about.

Lunchbox has less crime, nature, and everybody has your back. Helping hands. He chose everybody. You forgot about the hunting and fishing, man. Everybody's sleeping on that. That's nature. I know, but...

Yeah. Morgan has everything's cheap, slower pace, and small cafes. Who? Ray has no traffic, shooting guns, and everybody waves. Quality. and I have church community, Friday Night Lights, and small schools. That's really good.

Go vote at Bobby Bones.com. We don't put our names on them on the vote. And don't vote for just the top one, that's the first round, because we all have different positions. Vote for the three together that you would pick. Bobby Bones.com will put it up there for a few hours. Thank you guys. Good job, everybody. I should have gone stargazing.

Yeah. But that's the term is not good. What do you mean? That's what it's called when you look at the stars. It feels like you're looking through a telescope. I would say just laying. down in a field staring at stars. That's a really long answer though.

I don't know if it's a bit. In the truck bed on a dirt road. Whatever you want to do. With whiskey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, thank you. There you go. On the phone right now, it's Kelly

who's calling us, who Kelly is a dyslexia specialist. Hi, Kelly. Hi. So Eddie thinks he may have dyslexia and not in a joking way. No. And maybe you've had it forever.

You just didn't know that's what it was that maybe was inhibiting you. Yeah, and then recently we were playing a game or something and I did say something backwards without even thinking that I said it. Also, what's that disease called you were talking about? That's the cat probably gave it to somebody. Oh, Blubonic, Blubonic Craig. Bluebonic Craig. How about Bubonic plague? It's so hard to say. Yeah, so, Kelly, you've heard Eddie and you've heard us on the show. Can you tell me as a dyslexia specialist what you've heard and what you think?

Okay, so I think he may have a form of dyscalcula. Discalcula. Okay, interesting. which is the math form. It makes it almost impossible to memorize multiplication facts. Oh, you can't do that. That's crazy. Oh, shoot, I have this too. Yeah. And there's a lot of difference

that goes with dyslexia. There's on a lot of school where you think you're pronouncing something correctly, but you're not. For example, that disease, Eddie, Blue Bonnet Craig. Okay, he knows he's saying No.

However, he didn't. Even if he's kidding right now, forever, he didn't. He couldn't say bubonic plague. Okay, so desalcula. And the cabbage test that he took on, I wanted to explain that, but that's phony. So, wait, what's it called again? Fonemones. Okay, and what is that?

That is the smallest unit of sound in a work. So what does that have to do with being dyslexic and how is someone like Eddie, like, why would he struggle with? that? Because his pathways and his brain can't break down to that level. Oh, I'm just dumb. Your brain chemistry just they can't get on the same level. It's not smart. It's not smart. It's not mean you're dumb. Most of your

millionaires are dyslexic. Okay. I don't know if that's a fact about you're talking. But I do know stories of very successful people who were born dyslexic so they had to figure out a way before they were even diagnosed to almost cheat the system, but they became so good at reading people or because they had to survive. Right. By the time it was diagnosed, they not only had all these other skills they developed, then

their dyslexia was a bit remedied and they were able to just crush it in the business world. Kelly, what do you think he can do to, I don't know, read better, learn more? What can he do? Well, one of the reasons that I was calling is I'm coming to Nashville, see my daughter. And I was going to offer to test everyone. Yeah, let's do it. Okay.

Are you real? You're not making this up right. You actually are a dyslexia specialist? Yes. Okay. I have a doctorate and it's not in letters. It's in education. Oh, well, I don't know.

It's a peer. Okay. Yeah, we would love, when are you coming to town? It'll be the week of March 4th. I will put you on hold. Hey, Scuba. Can you see if we can get her in and we'll take the dyslexia test? And it sounds like there are a lot of different forms of it.

Yes. is I can test everybody's reading and spelling level. I thought that would be a good challenge for y'all. It would. It would be fun. How long does the test take, though? About 10 to 15 minutes. Oh, no problem. Perfect. Would we all do it at the same time or you need to see us individually? And can we not cheat and have lunchbox? He'll look on our papers. Yeah, spelling tests will be tough.

Some of it I can do all together, but some of the actual testing, especially on Eddie and lunchbox, I would need them one-on-one. Why us? Well, hold on. So you did say Lunchbox. Do you think, I made a joke about him cheating, but do you think lunchbox has a bit of dyslexia?

I think he has some characteristics that be there. Oh, no. We're the ones getting pulled out of the class. Yeah, we get extra test time, man. That used to happen to me, but for head lice. Oh, okay. That's different. That's soft.

Okay. So I would rather have dyslexia than headlice. Because I got made fun of hard. Okay, so let's do this. Set her up. We would love to meet her and come up. She'll give us a test. We'll check your credentials first to make sure she's not.

Because that would be an awesome way to get in and lie. I'm a dyslexia specialist. Problem. What did you say? I can give you my credentials, not a problem. Where did you go to school? Well, I went to SMU. I have a doctor in education, and then I went back and got my dyslexia physician.

I'm in. Are you dyslexic? No, my son was, and he did not learn to read, so it was 14. Wow. And now this year he graduates from UFA. on the Chancellor's list. It's like a Disney movie. A mom goes back to get her doctorate

dyslexia because her son... They can't figure out why he's not able to thrive in this one area when he's thriving everywhere else. And then he goes to college. And then he goes to college and saves the world. Yes. Becomes a millionaire. No, but an astronaut who then blows up a comet and then

has a comet's coming down where you find the cure for cancer in the comment. Wow, wow, let's go. Is any of that may be true, Kelly? He wants to be a counselor for terminal little kid. Even better. That's pretty good. Even better. Okay.

He's a cancer survivor. See? Wow. It's a Disney movie. Okay, Kelly, we're going to get your information. I would love to have you up here. And hopefully we'll see you in a couple weeks, okay? Okay, thanks.

All right, don't hang up. Whatever you do, don't hang up. 28-year-old woman was busted for battery after she and her mom had an argument in the kitchen. And the woman grabbed the grits that her mom was cooking, the literal grits and through the grits in her face. the mom wasn't seriously hurt by the grits so she hit her with grits but if you only get hit with grits do you call the cops?

No. That's kind of funny. It was a real fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But assault with grits or assault with porridge. Like I'm pretty sure I've thrown a burger at my brother when we were fighting with our kids

and like, you know, it just kind of it made it mad but we were going to call the cops. But grits could burn. But they didn't. it's from the smoking gun and now they're like we don't want the police to be involved but the police got involved because you threw grits somebody had to tell on the grit thrower and i just think if someone to throw oatmeal eggs i don't think that that is me calling the cops unless i'm worried that it's going to go from eggs to like sausage and then from sausage to then it slowly escalate an apple oh gosh that'll hurt yeah an apple that would hurt uh that would hurt uh the female victim 64

was covered in grits when officers arrived oh she was the victim it's me oh yeah gris Here's Amy's pile of stories. So are there aliens in your neighborhood? Define neighborhood. Is our galaxy our neighborhood? And is it that small? Because we don't even understand how big things are. She means your street that you live on.

Because if you were to go back to like the Native Americans, they would have not thought that you would have been able to get to other countries because that was another galaxy to them, right? The ocean. They wouldn't even understand what China was. And if we look at planets or other, we'd be like we don't understand, but 100 years from now, I could be like, oh yeah, that's like China now.

Anyway, who knows? Well, there's this map that was put out that showed the UFO hotspots across America. Can you compare the drinking spot? Like the most consumption of alcohol, too, in the same areas? Well, I don't know, but they did some interesting numbers where 113 alien sightings have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center in the last 23 years. 113,000. That's a lot.

It's a lot. I just think that if, and there probably is something more than us, whatever that is, they're probably so advanced. They don't want us to see them. Like, it's not all on the same spectrum. I know that. It's not like a little green man going, ooh, I got caught. I hate that you think they're more advanced than we are.

Well, if they can get here, they have to be. Well. No, not well. That's not a response. They don't have to be more advanced than us if they're somewhere far away. But if they're able to get here, then they're smarter than us. They have some technology that allows it. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Great story. Well. I know. Oh, yeah? I just thought that that was higher. And then anyway, this guy was talking all about how true believers of aliens are not just outside of government.

Many of them are inside the government. Yeah, for sure. And that in the area 51 county, there are 820 sightings per 100,000 residents. That's just because people know that should be there. Like that, you know, something's up there. I don't even know that that's what's up there, though. Area 51? Yeah, there's for sure.

something happening there, but there's for sure secret things happening all over America, right? They don't want us to know about it. It doesn't have to be aliens. But if you said, this is a place where there been a bunch of aliens, even if people don't see them, they're going to go, I think I saw an alien anymore. That's all. And they're coming from the ocean anyway. All right, go ahead. When are we talking to my cousin about aliens? Amy's cousin, loves talking about aliens. Shocking. But alien is such a weird thing because it feels like a cartoon. Yeah. You know, E.E.T. But. Marvin the Martian. Absolutely. But I also enjoy talking about the possibility of things.

greater than us and so yeah i'm just interested to watch y'all you and her both talk about yeah i'm not and i'm just gonna sit back yeah i'm a bright dang now all right what else okay so there's a new dating app called score and it's not just to you to score yes not tender to score in that way it's not what you think it's about credit score and you must have at least a 675 credit score to use it so you've got to have good credit and it hopes to raise awareness about the importance of finances in relationships. And when they credit check you, don't worry they're doing a soft credit check,

which won't... Not one that affects your credit. Exactly. Because that's the bummer about credit checks. It's also a weird thing. We're going to check your credit because you want to know what it is, but it's also going to hurt.

Yeah, weird. Yeah. It's wild. So high achieving people do these things at least once a week. I'll run through the list, so y'all can write them down. I'll tell you if I do it.

Okay. They reflect on their progress. Yeah. I mean, every 10 seconds, yeah. Unplug from technology. It says just, Once a week copy. Oh, yeah.

I mean, when I read, it's pretty much on plugging technology except for I read on an iPad. All right. They nurture their relationships. I have to be very, very present with myself to do that, but I do do a better job of that. Exercise regularly. Yeah. Prioritize learning. Absolutely.

Practice gratitude. But in your case, Thanksgiving. I don't say gratitude. Hippies say that. I do the same exact thing, though. Just call it something different. Okay. I do Thanksgiving in the morning.

Yeah. And then they set clear goals. Yeah. So there you go if you want to be a high achiever. I don't think that's all, but I think those are good fundamental. that if you do that, it doesn't mean you're going to achieve high. And you don't have to even do all that to achieve high. It's probably very similar.

Do these seven things and you will be successful. There you go. Wow. That easy. Just kidding. I mean, that's my file. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With Bobby.

Tell me something good. Lindsay Boyd works at Mason Jar Cafe in Michigan and a person comes in. They get their bills. It's 32, 43, just some normal stuff, whatever. and so leaves a tip on there, $10,000. Oh. Did you say $10,000? That's a lot of money.

On a $34. Yeah, $3, $3,000 tip. We don't know what the person is. They say they want to be anonymous, unnamed. Now, here's the thing. He didn't want to have his name and was real because at first you're like, is this a prank or do they write something wrong? Did they mean $10, you know, 10.00? But he added an extra.

Who knows? They're like, nope, it's legit. but he wanted to split it with the whole staff wanted her to split it with the whole staff. Wow. So in the end, nine of the servers walked away with $1,100. It's awesome.

Which is awesome, very generous. Was this the guy that was in town for a funeral? I don't know that it said anything about that. Was there one like that too? I think I've read this one. Yeah, he was in town for a funeral for his best friend and he wanted to do that in honor of his best friend. That is not in this story at all.

Yeah. So either there's two of these. Because mine was $10,000 as well. Yeah, but I feel like if someone's going to crazily tip, that's a pretty common, big number. 10 grand? One grand or five grand? Yeah. But maybe.

But this is nothing about somebody dying. Let's put them together. Sure. Just for the sake of tell me something good. That's the same to tell me something good. Be that there's two men out there doing this. Oh, man, that's even better. Yeah.

If you were her, would you be... I'd be disappointed. Why? That you don't get all 10,000? Because you're the one that waited on that person. But it's not about the actual waiting. The other waiter or waitresses did not help in any way. Yeah, but it's not about to delivery the food.

Oh, my. Who did the most work? Did you see? You said everyone gets how much? 1100. That's awesome. That's awesome. There you go.

Regardless of what lunchbox says, that's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. On paper, the three hosts of the Nick Dick & Poll show are geniuses. We can explain how AI works, data centers, but there are certain things. that we don't necessarily understand. Better version of Play Stupid Games, win stupid prizes. Yes.

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