The Bobby Bones Show - (Mon Early Bird) The Show Remembers Their First Jobs + Why Did Raymundo Have A Meltdown At Work? + Mailbag: Throwing A First Birthday Party

Episode Date: January 16, 2023

We start the week off by remembering what our first jobs were! Hear what everyone spent their first paycheck on. Plus, find out why Raymundo had a meltdown at work that disrupted several people in the middle of the night... Mailbag: a listener's wife wants to throw their daughter a first birthday party. It's going to cost hundreds of dollars. He thinks it's stupid to spend that much money on a party their daughter won't remember. We share our thoughts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Morning. Okay, we're going to go. And here's the question everybody answers here this morning. What was your first job? First job you get a paycheck for. Your first job ever. We're going to go to our video producer Eddie. Eddie, your first job. My first job was a lifeguard. And this was right out of high school. My first paycheck. You know what I did with my first paycheck? that I got, I went and bought a guitar. Wow. Dude, it was like $285, and I bought a $300 guitar. My parents, like, you spent all your paycheck.

How long did you have that guitar? Oh, all the way through college. Was it your first ever guitar? It was my second guitar. But it's the first one I bought with my own money. And you know what I did in college? I was at a party dude playing a song. And they were all like, yeah!

And I finished the song and I threw the guitar. I thought someone was going to catch it. No one caught it. Boom. It hit the ground, broke. Oh. Did you fix it or was it dead then? It was dead. It's done.

I mean, I hung it up in my wall all broken, you know? But really, it was like, no one caught that guitar, guys? Did your wife meet you in a part of your life a season where you were playing guitar at parties? Oh, yeah, man. South Fider Island, dude. January 4th, it was Independence Day. I had all my friends there. July?

January 4th was in July 4th. Sorry, guys. Hey, I was by a campfire playing the guitar and my wife loved it. What song do you think you sang? She liked it when I sang Dave Matthews Band. It was called, gosh, what was that song? I don't remember. But there's a part where I go real high.

And she's just like, will you play that song again? Dang. Yeah, dude. I had her. Shut up, Eddie with the guitar. Oh, if I bring the guitar out while she's cooking dinner, she's like, wait, can we put the radio on? Lunchbox over to you. What was your first ever job?

It was easy. I was a bagger at the grocery store, Randalls, because I was 15 years old. And I told my parents, can't wait till you buy me a car when I turned 16. My dad looked at me and said, you better get a job, son. So I went to the grocery store and I had to wear a special white shirt to let everybody know that I was not 16, that I couldn't do certain things like the bailer, take the trash out. I could only bag groceries and I was allowed to work certain hours. And I worked and worked and worked. And then a week before my 16th birthday, I bought me a 1985 Mazda RX7, no power steering, no AC.

Awesome. You had to work with Xs on your hand, basically. Basically, it was so embarrassing because I had the white shirt. and everybody else had a normal blue shirt for Randalls. Everybody would be like, oh, why do you wear the white shirt? I'm only 15. They'd be like, hey, can you go take this to the track? Nope, not allowed to.

I'm 15. You showed them, didn't you? Yeah, and let me tell you, there was one girl that I stood at the end of her register just trying to hook up. Did it? No, I never got, her name was Beatrice. She was a swimmer. She was from another country, and she drove a Toyota Tersel.

Never forget it. Was she older? Yeah, yeah. She was like 19. She didn't give you time of day? Oh, she flirted. but we never got there. But did you get anywhere?

Nah, never even got her number, man. Amy, your first job ever? My first job where I got a real legit paycheck was a hostess at Lone Star Cafe. And did you want to be a waiter, waitress? I never made it to server, but I was a pretty good hostess. Did you get tipped?

Occasionally, but not. It wasn't a requirement from the servers. I mean, maybe sometimes it would be someone that came in. Yeah. Would anybody slide you have five? Oh, to get sat somewhere specific? Anything. No, I definitely got tips, but I wouldn't do anything shady.

If I would double seat my waiters, I would get in so much trouble. So we try to avoid that at all costs. Were you a one stand, one hostess? Because we had two, for the most part, if it was busy on a Friday and Saturday. Or Sunday brunch, because there were so many people. One would take one. One would talk to the next one. They'd take it.

It was a revolver. Yeah, good point. I mean, it would depend on which shift I was working. and we also are responsible for rolling silverware. I hated rolling silverware. It was the worst. I had to do that too. All right,

set me up, buddy. From Mountain Pine, Arkansas, he's heard daily by the masses, but you wouldn't recognize him without his glasses. Bobby Bones. Yeah, that's good. Thank you. That's a good one.

So my first job ever was working in a fireworks stand. One of my neighbors had a small fireworks stand, but I worked in a fireworks stand enough one summer to buy a lawnmower, so that I could go and hustle yards all fall and all the next year. So I worked to buy a lawnmower. How boring does that sound as a kid? Yeah, that's terrible. But I knew what?

You worked at a fireworks stand? That's amazing. Yeah, but I didn't get to do anything cool. It was a small stand on the side of the road. But you knew of the black cats and you had two for one, buy one, get one. It's mostly the help for the person that was working it. Wow. So I did that, made enough money to buy a lawnmower, bought the lawnmower,

then made enough money to buy school clothes. Dang, none of that sounds fun, doesn't it? Oh, man. But learn to hustle. And I'm still out every Saturday, mowing yards. Knocking on doors. Still today. Today.

$15, sir. You guys send it. We read it. It's the mailbag. You send an email and we read it all the air. It's something we call Bobby's mailbag. Hello, Bobby Bones. My daughter is turning one next month.

My wife wants us to throw a big party to celebrate. We priced it at the party would cost us hundreds of dollars. That includes food, drinks, cake. New clothes for a special. day. A balloon arch. Party props. Plus, renting an Elmo costume that she wants me to wear. Don't even get me started on that. I love my daughter, but she's not going to remember any of this. Honestly, who is the party really for? I say, we get a cake, sing happy birthday and call it a day. Whose team are you on? Team party or team save the money. What's your advice? Signed,

frugal Fred. Eddie, you got four kids. This is such a dad message. Like, this was me the first five years of all my kids' lives. Why are we spending so much money? They're not going to remember this. But you know what? They only turn one once. I mean, it is for you. It's not for the kid. They're not going to remember anything. They're one years old. So just, you know, I think there's a middle ground here. Make it fun for the kid. Why not dress like Elmo? I think that's fun. I think the kid will be like, oh, that's cute. Elmo, or be scared. But look, don't spend that much money. The kid's really not going to remember this. True. But pictures now are in a lot of ways, currency, it's value.

This is you and your one-year-old. I agree. I don't think you should go all in like this. Yeah, don't go broke for this. But I think you could probably cut a couple of things, but it's also very important to your wife. Let's not forget that. It's very important to the wife to be able to celebrate this,

even if the kid doesn't remember. So as much as you're going, well, the kid won't remember, but the wife will, and it's important to her. And don't we try to prioritize our partners? And we have to pick and choose a lot of times. Happy wife, happy life. So I say you can actually make it a win for her while you taking a little bit of liberty and trimming some of it.

Get the Elmo costumes. Maybe you don't get the arch. Get rid of the arch. There are a couple things, but I think you go to her to, remember, it's all about the communication. You can communicate the same exact thing, but it's how you communicate it if it's going to get done or not.

You go to your wife and you go, you know what, I was wrong for not wanting the birthday party. You're right. My friends, Bobby and Eddie, don't even say you heard it from the show. You just say we were talking, and they think I'm being an idiot for not wanting to have a one year old birthday or one year old birthday party. So I do want to do it.

You're absolutely right. Can we just not get the arch? Everything else is great. I just feel like the arch is a little over the top. Because yes, a one year old is not going to remember a birthday party. And yes, you know what? It's pretty stupid. It is pretty dumb.

But that's just dumb to you. It's not dumb to her. Yeah, because I feel like she's going to be like, but the arch is going to look so good in all the pictures. No, I mean all of it. You got to talk her down from a couple of these things. Say yes to Elmo because that's huge. Say yes.

And you'll even wear the comments. For sure. Absolutely, I want to wear the costume. I won't be in there all day, but I'll wear the costume. It'll be great. But just trim back a couple things, but presented as you were wrong, but the budget is the only thing that makes you really uncomfortable. Can we cut back a couple things? And I do think she'll accept that and you guys will move along. But then always hold, you can hold this for something that you want later. Ammo. Literal ammo? No, no, no. Like, you know. Well, I thought you wanted to let's, leverage. Leverage? Not really leverage. I wouldn't say leverage. Then what is it? But it's the next time there's something trivial like this for you. It's like, she's like, I don't think you should go play golf at one. We got. to be here at four. It's like, I feel you, but I dress as Elmo. Do you remember that? And then you

have the picture. So give me, so give me this. So that's all I'm saying. I think it works. Just trim back a little bit for the budget. Wear the Elmo costume. She wins. Sometimes you got to suck it up. And I'm sure your one, your kid when he's 18 will think it's interesting. They had a one-year-old birthday party. And remember this, bud, you're not alone. Like every dad does this. Frugal Fred, thank you for your email. You're going to have to take the L on this, but don't take the L as hard. Save a little money on it. Thank you. That's the mailback. 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 fourth. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college

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Good? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go to Katie. Katie, welcome to Never Gonna Get It. Because you're never going to get it. Oh, oh, oh. Never gone. I get it.

Katie, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Doing pretty good. Now, you get a chance to answer at first. It's going to be hard to get it. But if you miss it, that's okay. You've got two other options here.

The question is, two-thirds of Americans keep one of these in their cars. What is it? What do you think there? I'm not sure. Two-thirds of Americans keep one of these in their car. Yeah. It's a hard question. That's why we say you're never going to get it.

So you can just throw something out there. How about sunglasses? Sunglasses, that's a great guess. That's really good. Now, that's not right. It's a great guess, but she's never going to get it, you know? So, okay, 0 for 1. You get three shots here.

Katie, you can decide if any one of these four get it right, you're going to win, but you have to pick one. Amy, lunchbox, Eddie, or Morgan? Which one would you like to represent you? Do you guys feel good? I feel good. Okay. Oh, okay. All right.

Which one would you like to represent you, Katie? If they get it, you get it. I'm going to pick Morgan. Oh, gosh. Okay. Morgan, two-thirds of Americans keep one of these in their cars. Yeah. What do you have over there?

And I got a few things written down, so I was trying to decide between them, but I'm going between a charger or snacks. Because, you know, parents keep snacks in their car for their kids. Everybody likes to have a charger. The phone to be charged. I feel like charger is more logical. I'm going charger. Well, I might think 100% of the cars have chargers. Oh, like a plug in charge of one.

Yeah. I think more people than two-thirds. Oh, I think only new cars have those. Yeah. Oh. Hmm Two-thirds of Americans Keep one of these in their cars

Morgan says charger It is not charger Oh Okay Now we're down to the final Final shot here So Katie Morgan I know you can write your other answer down

If you want You're gonna be back in it here Okay You can do that one or a different one Don't care But Katie here's where it gets down To the nitty gritty Ooh

Okay You have four players here You can pick that Any of them get it Or that none of them get it So if you think any of them get it If any of the four get it You win

Or you can go None of them get it, and if any of them get it, you lose. Now, here's what you're playing for. Today, some crap from the back. Ray, what's on the list of crap from the back for Katie? A blank slate game, a Tricia Yearwood cookbook, John Party CD, and a Mitchell 10-penny hat. Not bad.

Wow, that is some crap. That's some good crap. Okay. A lot of crap. Which would you like to go with Katie, that you think one of them will get it or one of them won't get it? I think I'm going to go with that none of them will get it. Oh, wow. You're a loser. Thanks for the confidence.

So if any of you get it, she loses. Yeah. And we get to keep all that crap. Yes! I call the hat. Two-thirds of Americans keep one of these in their cars. What is it? Amy.

Hand sanitizer. A little bottle. That's wrong. That's wrong. Eddie. Can I ask a question? When was this survey done? What are you talking about?

You can't ask a question. Recently. Can I ask question? What's the answer? Yeah. You said recently? Sure. Give me COVID mask.

Okay, I'm going to let you sit there on that one. Morgan. Oh, that's a good question. I see why you had that. That is a good question. That is a good answer. Hey, guys, I'm smart. All right?

A flashlight. You get stranded and you might need a flashlight. It's wrong. Dang. I'm going like survival over here. How do you feel over there, lunchy? Good. Lunchy.

Love it when you call on that. Two-thirds of Americans, keep one of these in their cars. What do you have? Well, I had to scratch one out because I don't think you would have that at this time in the morning. So that answer wouldn't be it. What? It makes no sense, but go ahead.

No, but I'm saying it's all the time. It's not morning or day. Anyway, you're saying the answer wouldn't be that because it's in the morning. We wouldn't say that with kids. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. So I went with umbrella. That's a good guess.

So we have umbrella and COVID masks. Yeah. And with Eddie's question, I think he might be right because an umbrella, a lot of people, the only time you need an umbrella, you can leave it in the house. So I think Eddie is... Well, you want to change your answer? No, no, no. I'm saying it was a good answer and I liked your question about when was this survey taken.

Well, hand sanitizer. No, that was terrible. That's not terrible. Colorado, Katie, you still there? Yes, I'm still here. So you've said that they won't get it right. Now, I will give you the option to flip. And if you think one of them is right, you can then flip to you think that they're right.

One of them got it right. Or you can stay with you think they all got it wrong. I'm going to see what they all got it wrong. Oh, you just lost. You don't like the answers? No. What did you not? You didn't like our others?

No respect. Lunchbox, your answer is not right. Umbrella is not right. I didn't think it was. Let him answer. Why would you say it if you didn't think it was? And you yelled, I got it. Well, because the other one I can't suck.

So you think that's it? But you knew that wasn't it too. I don't know. That's not right either. You may change the answer because that one was? No, I did not change the answer. You know me right now what I thought it was? It doesn't matter.

It's not right. You sure? Yes. what to start with C Okay No it's not that Two thirds

Stop Eddie your answer is masked Yeah man Come on If you missed it She wins You got it right You got it right dude

When you said it I felt it I don't want her to lose I also want to get this right When you said it I felt it Two thirds of Americans Keep one of these in their cars

The answer is A weapon Oh Oh my Either pepper spray Or gun Or Katie

you win the crap from the back. Come on. How exciting. How exciting. Send her that crap. She had no faith in us, though. I didn't like that. Oh, you're mad at her morning.

A weapon. Eddie, you've everybody's thinking about that in your road rage. I have a screwdriver. Well, that works too. Pepper sprays. Cunks. Hunks. All that.

Katie, congratulations. Thank you for listening. It's time for the good news. With Bobby. Tell me something good. A year and a half ago, Isaiah heard a noise coming from the basement. of his Colorado home, he went to investigate.

In the basement, he found his autistic son, Jude, playing an old keyboard that they had stored down there. Despite never having a single lesson, Jude was pretty good. Which is, that's crazy. That he has, like, this talent in him. And so, Isaiah bought a son of better keyboard, and now the 11-year-old is the lead keyboardist in church.

Come on. And he is not the greatest communicator that's said about him. Yet, but he's getting a lot better. And he's now viral on YouTube and TikTok. And so here's a story of a kid who had a lot of trouble expressing himself. But now through music is actually really good and has found a passion. And so there's a local piano tuner in town.

And he's like, well, I think I can help this kid. And so he bought a grand piano with some money that he inherited from his father. He spent $15,000 on this piano, gave it to Jude, and then goes and tunes it every single month. and then also helps him get lessons for almost free. Sometimes for free, sometimes, but he works with people because he's a piano tuner. And the family's like, wow, out of nowhere this happened. And the guy is just like, man, I'm able to help and people help me.

So why wouldn't I help? It's just a really great story. Here's a clip of Isaiah, the dad, saying they're super thankful for someone just loving a son like that. Somebody to just love your son like that by making sure that his future is secured. we are super thankful. What a great story. That's so cool. That's what this whole segment's all about.

That's what it's all about right there. That was Tell Me Something Good. To do the job that Ray Mundo does, you have to kind of be cool, calm, and collect it all the time. He runs all the audio. He's here every morning to turn the show on. He's here when the show goes off. And he's the guy that's got to be just even kill the whole time

because things can go wrong. That being said, apparently he had a meltdown. I've never seen Ray. meltdown. Do you know about this? No. Was he texting you at 1 o'clock in the morning? I don't think so. He didn't text me either. Ray, would you like to tell me your version of this? Because I've been hit up by like three people. Yeah, this is really embarrassing. This is a bad one. I came to work and I go to put our little key card at the door and I guess for whatever reason I left my card at home, I misplaced my key card. What time? Like 1.30 in the morning. And so that's the only way to

get in the building. There's no other way to do it. So I pulled through my outfit. I'm like ripping apart my car looking through my wall. I've never lost my key card before. So I just started frantically texting people. But why at 1.30? Because you could have stayed in your car for a couple hours. Gone home? Gone home. You don't need to be here until really 4.15. Right. I needed to get in the building though. For what? But again, you really don't need, you don't really need to be here until 415. No, no, no. I really needed to get in at 1.30 when you get here. Just audio when nobody's talking when it's perfectly quiet. Do you ever go back to sleep here? Yeah. All the time. That is crazy.

So why not just go to sleep in your car? Because you start texting people on the show who aren't up either. Correct. I did chill in my car for a little bit. Then I'm like, I got to start firing all these texts off to people. Anybody wake up from these? No. Yes.

Years woke up. Yeah. And it's like, hey, I need to get in the building. Can you bring me your card? I just turn it back over. I mean, there's no way he expects me to get out of bed and come. And I guess he texted other people, called other people. Mike, did you see it?

Did you wake up? No. You didn't text me, right? No. Eddie, did you see it? Not a text. But you didn't get it the morning either? No, I didn't see it.

Did you have a reason you went to lunchbox and Mike first? These are the people I thought maybe with kids. They're used to getting up. Their phones are on. They have elderly parents. I don't know. Mike doesn't have a kid. Eddie has 80 kids.

And I think he did closest to the station. I think he was trying to go like proximity. Who could get him in the building the fastest because he needed to be in there at 1.30 in the morning. Which is crazy. He doesn't need to be at 1. So who ended up answering? So is Kevin. Everybody answered eventually within an hour.

But Kevin was the first one and he was on the spot in like 20 minutes. So Kickoff Kevin works in the studio next to this, who's editing audio. He shows up. I'd have been so irritated. I was so mad to get out of bed. Was he in a good mood? No, he was fine. Yeah, we're used to getting up for this job.

Not at 1.30 or not. True. So he lets you in. Does he go home after that? Yeah, he went home and went to bed. That's crazy. And what did you do as soon as you got in? What'd you do?

Side relief. I was so happy to be. And then what? You go back to bed? Took a nap. No, then I'm doing my stuff. I'm like, screw the gym. I'm not leaving this building today.

I'm in it. So sometimes you get here and then leave again? Yeah, all the time. To go work out. Oh my God. It's so, he doesn't need to do any of that. He can just go to the gym. Okay.

So, then I hear there's another development. Yes. And then around like 637 in the morning, during a commercial, he goes, who put this key card in my wallet? Did you guys just put this key card in my, who did that? He thought someone had taken his key card and then snuck it back into his wallet. It was in his wallet the whole freaking time. Oh, no.

It was in there. He's like, I don't know. I've never seen this pocket in my wallet. Who did that? Yeah, it's almost impossible to explain, but apparently I have a secret wallet pocket that I never knew about. And so I was trying to find a $20 bill for Kevin to give it to him, be like, hey, thank you so much. So because of that, I kind of pushed my wallet a direction I never pushed it. And all of a sudden there's a secret compartment. How did it get in there? Well, the key card was there all along. No, no, but how did it get? Wait. Who did that?

It was me. The key card never left my wallet. So why didn't it work that time? you got to now take these key cards out they don't work to see through the wallet. So it was in your wallet the whole. The entire time I thought somebody's trying to screw with me, but it was always there just in the little secret shelf

that I never even knew about. Oh. That's terrible. That stinks. Thanks for Kevin. You know, you learn from every situation, or at least you can, you have the opportunity to.

And Ray, why don't you take away from this that you don't need to be here at 1.30? No, he just lives his life. Less stress more life. He's a stress ball. He is a stress ball. One time I had to call, like basically roadside assistance

or a tow truck. I'm not sure you just broken down the side of the road. I couldn't get the car to go. I was in a parking lot. I couldn't get the car to go. I couldn't get the car to go. I tried everything. Nothing. I don't know anything about cars. Nothing. I know nothing about cars. And so I call and they're like, it's going to be 40 minutes. Okay. I just sit and wait and wait. And finally they show up like an hour later. And I'm like, I can't get it to start. I can't get it to go. And the guy gets in and he goes, oh, here's a problem. And then he puts it in park and goes,

boom. Stop it. Oh my goodness. Do you feel like just a dummy? Yeah. I feel like an idiot. Like a complete idiot. He literally just put it in part because I had it in like drive with it not on. You can't do that. Because I probably stopped in the parking lot, just turned it off and took the key out while it was still in drive.

And it's not going to roll. It's not neutral. And so it wouldn't start obviously because it's in drive and I just couldn't figure it. I got under the hood. I don't know what's under the hood. I got under the hood just to see. You're just looking at stuff. Anything broken?

I like, hello? You're tapping. Oh my God. And then he put it in drive and I had to pay him like 80 bucks for the time. And off I went. And then I'm such an idiot. It hit a curb driving off. Oh, my goodness. They laughed at you the whole way. The whole way. They were so stupid. Ray, what did you learn from this? I got the key card and I got a secret compartment in the wallet. No, no, no. You don't have to be at work that early.

You know, at least it's taking something away from it. That's a funny story. Thanks for sharing it. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care which I'll say it. Yep, that's me. Clipper 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.

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On our podcast, Inside American Soccer, you'll get the real storylines. I'm not worried about Policic. I'm not worried about Balagan. I'm not worried about McKinney. My only concern is what happens in the back. The biggest decisions. If you're going to look at stats and numbers, he has no shot at making this World Cup team.

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Hey, Bobby. Good morning, studio. Morning. I need your help, and I possibly need the help of the B team. All right. I'm trying to plan an anniversary gift from my wife. Our anniversary is March 21st. She's always one of the French Bulldog.

I can't. I'm trying to make this a surprise for her. So I can't. I don't have social media. The more people I text and all that stuff, she has access to all of my text messages and all of that stuff. Number one, get a burner phone. Yeah, go ahead.

That could work. I've been sending some emails. She doesn't have access to that. but every email seems like a scam. People are asking me to send them money and they'll ship me a dog. Well, Amy tried to buy a cat and got scammed. And then had we not come on the show

and been like, we know it's a scam, we're coming after you. She'd never got a money back. And luckily they sent it back. And it was all in like yen or something. But she got it. Okay, go ahead. That's what I'm trying to avoid. I know there has to be some B-team members out there

who maybe breed French bulldogs or know somebody who does. Let me say this first. I hear you. Absolutely. And I have a bulldog. I have an American bull. No, I have an English bulldog.

I don't even know because I'm not a bulldog guy. And I love my Stanley, the bulldog. And I got him. And he was sick when I got him. And when I got him, they were like, you're going to have a lot of surgeries. Up front, are you sure that you can take this dog? Absolutely. Let's go.

Luckily, I'm in a place financially where I was like, yeah. And he's had my Stanley's had 11 surgeries at this point. He's almost three. Think about that. 11 surgeries at almost three. That's a little more than normal. but Jason if I'm being honest with you I first of all I wouldn't go to a breeder second of all I wouldn't get a bulldog because as cute as they are they are so they're they're so sick they shouldn't exist in the fact that they're they're just imbred animal they're so cute and Stanley's awesome and I love them and I'm so happy I have them I'm so happy I'm able to give him a good life but they shouldn't make these dogs because they're sick the whole time I feel bad for Stanley his life expectancy is like nine it makes me sad to look at him Because I'm like, he's like my best buddy.

I mean, I give him nicknames. Fat Say Jack. Patrick Swayze. Oh, that's a good one. Forrest Plump. Come on. And so I'm hanging out with them. And I'm like, hey, John Lardy.

And he's like, what's it? And I just love them so much. But they are very, very difficult. And you need extra money to take care of them. Now, if she just must have it, I'm not going to try to convince you. You know what you want. You know what she wants.

You're going to do what you're going to do. And, and, you're going to do. And just be ready because they're very, very difficult. That being said, let's say somebody has a French bulldog. They're very expensive, too. Are these the ones that Lady Gaga? Got shot over. Okay.

They're her dog Walker. Right. No more soapbox for me, because I love my bulldog. He's just in a cone every four or five months. You need one. Okay. What would you like to happen? How can we help you?

If any, B-team listeners are out there and could help. Oh, maybe someone has a French bulldog rescue. There are French bulldog rescues. Have you looked there, Jason? No, I haven't found anywhere remotely closed Auburn, Alabama. Well, you may have to drive. Yeah, because they're going to be expensive dogs anyway. Okay, give us an email address or something because I'm happy to try to help you here.

Now that I've done my TED talk, I'm happy to help you here. Okay. Yeah, I don't know what to do. Like, how do people contact you? I can give you my email address. You're going to say it on the air. Yeah. As long as you want to say it on the air, have at it.

I mean, if you just give it to me, I don't know what I'm going to do with it. It just needs to be, if you want to say it on the air and have listeners send you a note, that's fine. But you're probably going to get a lot of different weird emails, but you could actually get one with a French Bulldog. Yeah, I don't think I'm willing to take that risk. No, just do it. Yeah, I would just say your email. It's not, you're not getting to get scammed. Yeah, nobody's going to send you that.

That's coming from Amy. Well, just spam. You should pay attention. Do you have like a secondary email, Jason? Yes, I actually do. Okay, give that one out, and then we will put it on the air, and listeners, I'm sure a listener somewhere will have a French Bulldog. All right. It is, y'all ready?

Lover Boy, 69. I know. I was like, oh, I'm nervous. Go ahead. That is not it, I promise. It is Jason, J-A-S-O-N, the letter T, last name, Keene, K-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-N-E, at Gmail.com. Okay.

Say it one more time. J-A-S-O-N-T-K-E-N-E at g-mail.com. Good luck to you, my friend. I would encourage you to be prepared, have your wallet ready, because it is going to be expensive. They're expensive to buy, expensive to keep up with, just expensive. I will never get another bulldog. We almost took a rescue bulldog. Like recently?

Yeah. Oh. Just to shut. just to keep for a while until we got a home for it. And luckily, somebody grabbed it before us because we were about to. Because the poor guy. They just been through a lot. And they just, they're very, we now are conditioned to always look out in their eyes for crud, in their ears for infections, all the surgeries.

Yeah, Jason, good luck with that. Does Jason's wife listen to the show? So she can't be listening right now and I've never known her to go back and listen to anything that she didn't get to listen to me in the car. She's at work right now and she's a nurse and she better not be listening. because she's got to save lives right now. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm just, you know, he's trying to surprise her and all.

Jason, I like you. Good luck. And I hope you find her an awesome dog and hope you give a dog a really great home. Thank you so much. Appreciate you guys. All right, buddy. Bye-bye.

Eddie, I really thought, as I was reading some of the new names that I call Stanley, that John Lardy would get a better reaction. Is that party? Well, it's party, and I get it now, but at the time I had to think about it. Yeah, so I'm going to eliminate that then. Okay. Because Eddie was like, Forrest Plump.

I love that one. John Lardy. I was like, all right. Sometimes you have to work jokes out and see if they even work. Yeah, but Amy and Lunchbox didn't react to any of them. I did too. I've heard that he's done some of these before. That's like, okay, cool.

Forrest, what is it? Forrest Blump? That's great, dude. That's really good. Appreciate that. This is from Javier in Austin, Texas. I do wanted to see any updates on Lunchbox's claim and roof situation. Also, I wanted to say that Lunchbox is the Ben Stiller of I-Hard Radio.

And I love his cringe moments. I can't stop watching him. Thank you. All I do is win. He loves you. He loves to cringe. Great call. Yeah.

And I cringe, too, but it's in the best way. Like, I think... It's a positive cringe. People... A lot of people attack you. A lot of people love you. It's... You're very polarizing.

But what you do is awesome for the show, right, everybody? Yeah. And as much as we fight, if we actually didn't... If a lunchbox and I didn't actually like each other, neither one of them would be... I would kill one of them. Or fire one of them.

Because we can't keep that. And it'd be Eddie because I've been here longer. Absolutely. Well, just being here longer doesn't matter. But I'm more important. Okay. Sure. But so it's all, even when we fight, it's all like genuine, like friendship. And we do not get along sometimes.

Even Eddie and I don't, even Amy and I don't get along sometimes. So everybody that's like, man, why do you keep him on the show? I hate him. I get it. But he actually fills that role pretty good. I mean, he creates the role. It's the cringe role. What do you want to say to that, cringy?

I'd like to say that my roof is fixed. It is? Yeah. All the way. Breaking news. Yeah, we didn't know this. Well, I mean, I told you I had a... Yeah, but you didn't tell us what was done.

Well, yeah, over the break. Breaking news! Go ahead. So I brought roofers out. I brought three or four roofers out. Got different estimates because Amy always says, don't go with the first one. And they fixed my room.

No, she doesn't say don't go with the first one. She says, don't only listen to one. Like, get a second and third opinion. That's different. You can go with the first one. Oh, my gosh. He misunderstood. Okay.

Well, I had three or four. come out, got some estimates, and boom, picked one, and it took about two weeks, but no holes in the roof, there's shingles on the roof, and let me tell you, it's kind of toasty in my house now. Because the heat actually works. Yeah.

So, which one did you go with? One, two, three, or four? I was number two. So, did number two give a better deal than number one, or did you just not go with number one? No, number two just was cheaper. And do better job? I don't know if they'd do it better. How would I know? Because I didn't have number one do a job.

They were going to do it. It doesn't matter. Thank you. I'm glad to hear it's fixed. Their quote was cheaper, so guess what? I didn't have to spend all the insurance money. Hey, hey. I don't. Let's just say, hey, a little 2K in my pocket. 2K. Wow. Okay. I have nothing to do with this. No, no. Amy, what's coming up in the pile next? Well, I have the latest must-have accessory for some people. I want to see if you would carry it, Bobby.

And then a simple thing you can do out in your yard that's going to improve your mental health. And then something an artist did to stand apart from the rest, and it worked. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clivert 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 Clivert 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 where you need to be. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Here's Amy's pile of stories. How do you feel about going back to the old-fashioned flip phone? I have friends that do it. I have one friend that does it, probably half the year, too. And they do it because they feel like they are getting a little too obsessed with their iPhone, and they spend way too much time on it. And they have the wherewithal to go, I'm not going to stop if I have this, so I'm going to pull back.

And I do this with food because I can't. I eat everything. It's all sugar. So I will keep sweets out of my refrigerator in general. So for that reason, I'm good with it. But I hate it. I never do it. Me personally, never.

I hate, I need my phone all the time. I need to have, I hug it when I sleep. Oh. Yes. So why do you ask? Well, Gen Z women, the latest must have accessory for a night out on the town is, yeah, the old humble flip phone. If it's a burner phone, that's different.

If I need to do some illegal stuff. No. Oh. It's not a burner. It just allows them for more connection with the people that they're with, but also it prevents them from any posts if they're a little tipsy and drinking and they end up throwing something on social they don't want to or sending text to people that they don't want to and stuff like that. It prevents that. That Galaxy Z flip phone, which I talked about

is awesome because it's a flip, but it has everything. Oh, yeah. You flip it and it's got all the apps. That's not what they're talking about. Yeah. And then it fires me up. This segment fires me up. And then a flip phone though in general, like the old school flip phones, you can't hold down on a text message to do ha ha. I need that. You know, we can do ha-ha or heart or thumbs up. Yes. I need that. Why?

Because that's so much communication so quickly. That saves me time from going H-A-H-A. I just go, bleep. That's how efficient I am. Well, some of the younger kids, even high schoolers, are wanting to start to switch to the flip phone, but parents aren't liking it because they can't track their kids. True.

If it's for a reason because it's keeping you from doing things that you shouldn't be doing, either because it's bad for you or because you're so consumed, great, I love the flip phone idea. But that's stupid. How do you feel about horse and buggy to work, Amy? This is, that's the same thing. It is not. Okay, what else?

Okay, a new study from University of Colorado Boulder found that gardening has a huge physical and mental effect on us. Like so many benefits. Researchers say that it helps reduce the risk of cancer, improves your mental health. And if you don't have space for a garden where you live, there's community gardens where you could go pitch in, get your hands dirty, work with your neighbors, grow some food. There's something about taking care of things and cultivating things. And Eddie's like our plant guy.

Yeah, I am. I don't garden. I don't have like, you know, fruits and stuff outside, but I do have lots of plants in my house. Imagine if you garden with the flip phone. Wow. How healthy that would be. And go to work in a buggy. We're making progress. That's called Amish. And gardening, I think it's just anything to slow you down and focus you on something that's not electronic.

Like, I don't think it has to be gardening. I think that's probably one of the best. But it could be anything that's natural like that. It could be birdwatching even, which Amy likes. Yeah. Yeah, it's about patience. You know, and that's something that I think I'll get into in a few years and go, why didn't I do that 15 years ago?

But I struggle with slowing everything down and my wife has like a meditation app. And it's not like meditation like from the hills of the Himalayas. It's just like a woman going, hey, we're going to focus on this. And, okay, feet, hands, done. But focus on this, stay on this. And then you slowly remove all the outside. And you can just kind of come to peace with not having to work. I'm really bad at it because my mind's always racing,

but I think I will get good at it at some point and look back at today and go, why wasn't I doing it then? Which makes I go, well, then I should just start now so I get ahead of it. But then I'm on my phone and there's so much to do and I forget about it. You can just try it though.

Like last night I put on an 18-minute meditation and I probably only really focused on stuff with my hand on my heart and reminding myself that I'm safe for about, you know, four of the 18 minutes. But I still made myself sit there the whole time trying to keep. You weren't safe minute five? No.

No, no, no, no. without my mind. That's when she was burglar eyes. That's second. No, without my mind wandering to 100 different things. I think a lot of people hear the word meditation and they think hippie-dippy. Me too. I did forever.

But now it's such a practical thing where really it's just the ability to try to block out outside things for a little bit while you can just kind of recompose. You don't fall asleep? I feel like if I sat there and tried to close my eyes, I would fall asleep in two seconds. We went to this place once I told you went to something called a sound bath, stupidest thing I ever heard of. And we went in and they like, you hit crystals and they make like pan, I don't know, it's pans and stuff. Gong. Yeah, gong. And I'm like, this is it. And I fell asleep. Wow. Which is what your body needed. It was 50 minutes long. I think I fell asleep like minute three. And apparently, and I don't really snore, but I like breathe hard and talk. And I was breathing hard and talking in this class.

And Caitlin was like, too far for me to hit me. And she was like, I was so embarrassed. That's hilarious. They're still talking about you over there. They were like, mm. And I'm like, I don't know. Get on the dinosaur, man. All right, what else? Well, you know, Lany Wilson, she's got her song,

Thanks, a man ought to know. Yeah, I know a few times a man ought to know. Lany's been blowing up, right? Yes. It's been awesome. And she's been known for wearing bell bottoms. It's her signature look. And she said she started doing it back in 2016

simply so she could stand apart from the rest of the female singers in Nashville. And it worked. Like a year later, she got a publishing deal. And yeah, she is known as the bell bottom girl. And again, she was doing this way before it was, hey, let's cultivate a style because you're starting to make it. Like, I was, again, lucky enough to know Lainey before anything. And she, it was odd. People thought she was odd because she was doing it. But it just shows you whatever you're

doing, when you start to make it, people then go, that's cool, only because they're making it. So Lany's true. And she used to go to these, not vintage, but like, where I came from, it was called Abilities Unlimited. Like a thrift store? Yeah. So we used to donate there. We'd also buy a lot of clothes there too at the same time. And so that's where she would go,

thrift stores, to, like, make her look. And now I think she's getting, like, really cool clothes out of it because people are sending it to her because of her style. That's awesome. It's great. I love to see somebody, like, genuinely work hard and make it. I mean, that's my pile.

That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. I got to tell you something a little bad Before we get to the good, there's this dog Tucker, and it was turned over to an animal rescue center in Myrtle Beach called All About Animals Rescue. And he had cigarette burns on him, a knife wound in his back.

All this abuse led him to being afraid of people, strangers, children, cars, all the things. Very skittish. So they weren't really able to place him in a home. Tucker was at the shelter for 700 days. So they put out a plea on social. media around Christmas time. And on January 3rd, somebody stepped up and they've officially taken Tucker in. And the organization is like, oh, man, we're going to miss him so much. We're so glad he's in his forever home. That's awesome. Dogs, absolutely, can go. They can be retrained. They can find a

healthy place for them. They always can't be completely fixed if they're broken. But they always can be repaired to the point of they can be happy and healthy. There are some dogs, I do a lot with different, either rescue groups or we work very closely with a place that rescues out dogs called Wags and Walks here in town. And even though dogs that come in, they're the worst, they can always get better and you can always find a place for them. Our dog, Ella was very aggressive.

And now she's amazing. Like I love her. She's kinder than that. fat boy is. Where he's bulldog, he just is what he is. She's just so loving. I just encourage you guys to adopt a dog and then fix it. Just like human.

We can help try to fix people too and all the trauma they've had. So I love that story. It's tough because some of those dogs that have been fighting. You really can't just go, okay, be around my three-year-old. Right. It has to be the right home. But there are places that they can actually thrive. And I love that somebody adopted.

And how awesome that shelter stuck with him for 700 days? And didn't put him down. That's amazing. It sounds like a no-kill shelter and stayed with him the whole time. Love that. That's amazing. I love that. I love animal story. I love dogs.

I'd rather see a human get killed in a movie than a dog. I said it. I said it. Kill all the humans and all the movies. Leave all the dogs. All right. 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'm saying. Yep. That's me. Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits. My basketball and college football

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