The Bobby Bones Show - (Mon Full Show) Billy Dean Recalls Doing Music In The 90s, Relation To Jimmy Dean & More! + President's Day Trivia + Best Thing About Small Towns Draft

Episode Date: February 19, 2024

90s country music star Billy Dean stops by the studio! He shares the story behind his song "Billy the Kid," if he's related to Jimmy Dean and more! Then, it's President's Day, find out if you know these facts! Plus, we share our favorite things about small towns!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right. Here's your Monday. Get to know your question. What is your morning routine? How long it's take to get ready? What are you doing 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. Oh my God. Meditation. Are we doing all of it? Every single day. Five minute meditation. Yeah, we're talking. And then I do a three. Well, tongue scraper for like. That is not a big moment. You drank water in this story. Yeah. This is what I do. Okay. Go ahead.

Then I do five-minute meditation, and I do three minutes of journaling, and then I'll start getting ready. What in the world? 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 let it get hot. Okay. And then I go downstairs, make my coffee. I pack my little lunch, boiled eggs, 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. may go in the toaster, pop it up, put some 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. It takes me about 30 minutes. From eyeballs open to out the door. To out the door. That's good. I wake up at 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, oh, it scares me to wake up. every morning. Like, oh, yeah. And so, and then I just start my, 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 in 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 we get to email at 1 a.m. It's going to be a rough day for everybody because I'm in 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, I take like my peptides for when I injure myself, which are their injections, in 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 fad 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, trying 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? They 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. Do you friends and email? Read it on the air. It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag. Yeah. 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 slaying in your house, Eddie. Oh, it's ridiculous. I'm like him, like fire, oh, cap, like all that stuff.

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, Pompo? 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. Pull and awesome. Wow, those are really. slang, man. 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, 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. Glad you to Caitlin.

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

every generation rad 80s I'd say rad more 80s more 80s like rad radical psych legit 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 slang jar seems a little the curse jar I get oh yeah you can't say those words the slang jar may be 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 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 gonna give you a quarter Because I've never heard you use 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 air. All right, close it out. Now it's time to close. Bobby's bail back. Yeah. It's 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. It 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. 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 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 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 has written such hits as Vacation 1, vacation 2, 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 six.

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. Guys, 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.

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. sense. Not bad. That is not 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. Well, you can do all the math you want.

And it's still $120. I mean, I thought it would be... It's not like it's $40,000 split up. Wow, I thought it would be more. So where's the money in songwriting? Like, when it's like really... Number one? 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... 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? 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. 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. So this is like residuals. Wow. This is people still streaming it while they're driving their boats in the summer. Hey, he is rich. He is 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. 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. Who's 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. 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 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. That's amazing. And 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. Here's the drafting category, the best things about small towns. Morgan goes first.

We rolled the dice. This is so hard. Yeah, because I'm never living 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, it 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 now. Like you go to a dive bar now. like four bucks for a drink. He gets fries for $2. So cheap drinks at the bar? It's cheap. Everything's cheap. Wait, what boy? How are you guys going to bars and cities then? You just drive out to the town. That'd be nice. Then you got to drive back.

All right, right. 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 one. I'm going to go. Best things about small towns, the church community.

There are a couple churches in every small town and their rivals. but still everybody's pretty close and you go to one to 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 tough man best things about a small town oh man Best thing about a small town. No violent crime. So much safer. And less crime? Less crime.

That's good. Eddie? Easy, man. What do you do in the country with the boys? Bonfire parties. Let's 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. Bonfire parties. You would never call him that in a small town. Never. You don't know, man. You can call them a pasture party. Mountain Pine Park. No, lunchbox.

That was going to be on my mind. You called a Phil party. But you have bonfire party. Bonfire party. I like it. It'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 talent 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. That's a good one. I mean, that's where I drank my first beer. Is that where you...

Jesus. That's where I found Jesus. I knew it. Lunch box? 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.

Where you got lunch? I'm thinking, man. He actually Googled what's cool to do in a small time. Yeah. Guys. nature is at your fingertips. Nature. That was an article.

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. Yeah. Because 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. Yeah, I'm trying to think of the lyric. I couldn't do the lyric. There you go. But you said nature. So nature.

Nature with hunting and fishing. 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. 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 articles.

I know if I Google an article, you guys have probably Googled it too. Yeah. So I don't Google articles. All right. Next up, Raymondo. 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. All right 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 say 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. 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,

that's totally different. 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 anything and everything.

So I'm going to 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

said? I'm looking for it right now. No city folk. Well, there was one item on there, but I don't know if I'd say that. Then you shouldn't probably. Oh, man. I don't know. Let's see. 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. Everybody's got your back. Everybody's got your back. Everybody's got your back. Yes. Everybody's got your back.

The term helping hands. Everybody's got your back. Do you want helping hands on that? Yeah, what do 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 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. with is the dances at the VFW. Oh.

Those VFW dances, man. That's where it's at. What else are you 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 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 is like the 20s. No, he has the dancing 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 at 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 that 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 BobbyBones.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 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 bed. In the truck bed on a dirt road. Whatever you want to do. With whiskey. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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On the phone right now, it's Kelly who's calling us to. 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 the cat probably gave it to somebody? Oh, Blubonic, Bluebonic 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 this calculus. This calculus, 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. And there's a lot of difference that goes with dyslexia. There's monological where you think you're pronouncing something correctly, but you're not. For example, that disease, Eddie? Blubonic Craig. Okay, he knows he's saying that. 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 family. 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, so I'm just dumb. Your brain chemistry just can't get on the same level. It's not smart. It's not mean you're dumb. No, it does not mean you're dumb. Most of your millionaires are dyslexic. Okay. I don't know if that's a fact about you.

No, 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 to survive but 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? 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 dyslexia specialist? Yes. Okay. I have a doctorate, and it's not in letters. It's an education. Oh, well, I don't know.

It's a peer. Okay. Yeah, 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 all take the dyslexia test? And it sounds like there are a lot of different forms of it. Yes. If I can test everybody's reading and spelling levels, 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 lunchboxy? He'll look on our papers. Yeah, spelling test 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? So you did say Lunchbox, do you think, not I made a joke about him cheating, but do you think lunchbox has a bit of dyslexia? I think he has some characteristics that would 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 headlights. 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 her 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. 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 until he was 14. Wow. And now this year he graduates from USA on the Chancellor's list.

That's like a Disney movie. A mom goes back to get her doctorate and 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 who then blows up a comet and then as a comet's coming down when 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. That's the movie too. Okay. He's a cancer survivor, so.

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, thank. 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 threw 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 a salt with porridge. Like I'm pretty sure I've thrown a burger at my brother when we were fighting when we were kids.

And, like, you know, it just kind of, and we made it mad, but we didn't going to call the cops. But grids 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. Yeah. Somebody had to tell on the grit thrower. And I just think if someone would throw oatmeal, eggs, I don't think 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 slowly escalate.

That'll hurt. An apple. Oh, gosh, that'll hurt. Yeah. An apple. That would hurt. the female victim, 64, was covered in grits when officers arrived. Who's the victim?

It's me. Oh, yeah, Gritz. 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? ocean. They wouldn't even understand what China was. Right. And if we look at planets or other, we'd be like, we don't understand, but a hundred years from now, I could be like, oh yeah, that's like China now. Anyway, who knows? Well, there was 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. So it's 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.

Well. 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 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. I watch all their TikToks, for sure. And that in the area 51 county, there are

820 sightings per 100,000 residents. That's just because people know that 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. But it doesn't have to be aliens. But if you said this is a place where there have been a bunch of aliens, even if people don't see them, they're going to go, I think I saw an alien for more. 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, Amy's psychic cousin, loves talking about aliens. But alien is such a weird thing because it feels like a cartoon. Yeah, 100%. 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 it. Yeah, I'm not. And I'm just going to sit back. I'm a bright day now. All right, what else? Okay, so there's a new dating app called score. And it's not just to...

To score? It's not tender. The 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. 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 got something to hurt. Yeah, weird. It's wild.

So high achieving people do these things at least once a week. I'll run through the list so you can write them down. I'll tell you if I do it. Okay. They reflect on their progress. Yeah. 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 unplugging from technology except for I read on the 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. 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. Yep.

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 fundamentals. 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'm Amy. 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-dollar bill? Yeah, $3, $10,000 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 of first year like it's this prank or do they write something wrong?

Do they mean $10?00? But add it 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 all. 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 somebody's going to crazily tip, that's a pretty common, big number.

10 grand? One grand or five grand. 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. 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's, that waited on that person. But it's not about the actual weighting. The other waiter or waitresses did not help in any way. Yeah, but it's not about the delivery of the food. Oh, my. It wasn't. 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 Launchmark says, that's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. Here's a voicemail we got from Isaac and Indiana. Morning Studio.

I would like to make lunchbox an offer he can't refuse on that. Nice, Ultima. How about 1,500 bucks? And the signature, of course. Do you want to call me back? It's 260. Yes. Something he hung up.

No, no, he didn't hang up. We turned it down. No, no, that was for his own, like. Safety. It wasn't like a joke where he, like, says two six. He fades out. What are you writing down? $1,500, man.

The answer is yes. The dealership won't give you $250. $250. I think I might take that deal. Does he have to come get it? Yeah. I'm not delivering. Right.

Unless he wants me to ship it. I don't know where he lives. Ship it. Indiana. Just as Indiana. How would you ship it? You have car? Like, if you move, you can pay you want to bring your car to you.

That's a lot. That's really expensive. Well, that's what I'm saying. He has to pay those fees. But it's not going to drive to Indiana. Right. Well, it might. And how big are you going to sign the whole front door?

Oh, the hood. Oh, that's interesting. Like a NASCAR? Yeah. That's interesting. Can we get Isaac on tomorrow the next day or the next day? Yeah. And see if he's serious about this.

Yeah. Because if he'll come down, lunchbox will sell him on his car for $1,500 and you could sign the car in front of them. Yeah, and we can take pictures from run of the car. That'd be exciting. It'd pretty cool. But you would do it for $1,500? Yeah, I'd have to.

I mean, it's only worth $250, man. Well, why would you keep saying that? Because Isaac's probably listening. I know, but it's sad. It hurts to say it and think it, but, man, $1,500. You got to be gone. Why are you mumbling and what are you writing down? I'm writing $1,500.

Over and over again. All right, we're going to go to the morning corny. All right, let's go. The morning corny. What did they call George Washington's false teeth? What? Presidentialers. Pretty good on President's Day.

Come on. Always timely. That was the morning corny. That girl's got her timely jokes, doesn't she? Are we off today? I think a lot of people are off today. Should we be done? like take the rest of the day off.

Isn't this job a day off? No. Okay. Well, then no. I guess not. All right, Abby's in studio, our producer, our phone screener. Do you not watch movies? I just really don't.

No. I just never have wanted to. I can't sit still. I have other things to do. Well, that could be a medical thing more than just, you know, wanting to have more culture. Actually, it could be. Oh, wow. But she's asked, like, hey, what are like the top ten movies I should watch if I'm

starting to watch movies now? And so we're going to come up with that list. And this can be a list we put up on the website. Like, top 10 movies that somebody between the ages of 25 and 65 has to watch. Like in our culture, our time. Are you ready? Yeah. We're going to debate it.

Okay. Do you have any that you think should be on the list? Oh, man. Remember the Titans. I don't know. That's a good one. We can talk about. Okay.

I suggest first Forrest Gump. And if we get three out of four votes that goes on the list, Forrest Gump. Here. That's obvious. All right. That's in. Okay.

Amy, what's your suggestion? Steel Magnolias. Not on the list. Not on the list. I don't know that one. I don't know that one. I don't care of that. Okay.

Okay. Okay. You have all the emotions. You laugh. You cry. You've already been rejected. Yeah, yeah. You're fighting.

You're punching water right now. Yeah. You know, Robert Sally Fields. I watched it. You may just watch it. Borat. No. No.

It's one of the best comedies of all time. Eddie? It's easy. Shoshank Redemption. I'll second that one. Yeah, I'll second it. I had it on my list. Shosh.

You seen that one, Abby? Nope. Shooting my shot. I feel like it's movies that are like famous quotes that I never get the references. My colors are blush and bashful. Her colors are pink and pink. You have to give that one up. You have to give that one up.

I never hear of you. She's talking about get busy living or get busy dying. I'm going to go. I carried a watermelon. I'm going to go because of what it turned into. I'm going to go Iron Man, the first Iron Man. Oh, wow. Because that opens the door to all the Marvel movies.

Yes. I love Iron Man. And that's, I think the best. Iron Man and or The Dark Knight movies Iron Man I think Dark Night God they're both so good Dark Night

Let me suggest both Iron Man Do I have more I I'm not gonna vote on that one Bones I'm not gonna vote on that one now Okay the Dark Knight

I'm gonna vote on that Which one is this? That's not four That's three That's three out of four Get your panties in a wad Because you didn't pick your movie Yeah

Dark Knight is better than Iron Man Yes But Iron Man leads to all the rest of of them, right? Yeah. Yeah. Which is, yeah.

Okay. Well, the dog night's in. Okay, Amy, go ahead. Dirty dancing. Oh, my goodness. Nobody puts a baby in the corner. I would say yes, but I don't think you're going to get a yes from them. Well, have they seen it?

I've seen it. You made me watch it, and I liked it. Put it in. Oh, let's go. Did you say no to begin with? I did, but I thought about it. It's a good movie. It's so good.

Dirty dancing is in. Okay. Lunchbox. Dazed and confused. Yes. That is a cultural. icon. Here, here. Yes. I'm voting. Hey. That is

launching careers. That is one for the ages. Always voted. Yes. That's true. Do you give it a yes? No. No. What are you talking about? Eddie? Goodwill hunting. Oh, I just saw that. It's freaking awesome. It's awesome. I give it. I vote that yes. Okay, me too. I vote no. Okay, it doesn't matter that we have three or four.

Good try. So far we have five movies. You guys are so stupid. I'm going to go with Talladega Nights, ballot of Ricky Bobby. Here, here. Because I think that is such a Will Ferrell, that guy was the king of comedy movies for 15 years, it feels like. Have you seen that?

No. I don't really like Will Ferrell. That's the problem. Because you haven't seen him in the right light. Oh, maybe that's like. Because we have to pick a comedy or two, right? Oh, I have a comedy. Okay, well, are you voting yes or no for Ricky Bobby Talladegan nights? Yeah, I like that.

No, it's not one of the best of all time. Yeah, yeah. All right. Old school was more relevant than that. I thought about old school too, but I'm going to go ballot to Ricky Bobby. And that's made the list. All right.

You guys just vote yes because Bobby says it's amazing. I like that movie, though. But it's not better than... Do they vote no just because you said it to? Actually, we're thinking for ourselves. Bobby has nothing... He just needs an argument whenever he doesn't get his way. Go ahead.

Bridesmaids. No. That's a great movie. That's really good. Yes. I vote yes to none. I vote yes, too. Okay, thanks, guys.

That's so funny. It is, and it's very like it's like a chick funny. Yeah. Like, women are funny too. Yeah. So let's do a movie about them instead of like all the dudes in their wings. Not old school. I like to old school though.

Yeah, that's a good one. Okay. Lunchbox. I mean, if you're going comedies, you have to go, I mean, gosh, I'm trying to do. You don't have to go comedy. You do any movie you want. No, no, I know. The San lot.

Yes. That's 100%. I don't know if she'd like that. It doesn't matter if she liked it. I enjoy the biggest movies of our generation. But I'm going to get, I don't think I'm going to put it on the list. Oh, my God. Of course you're not.

I liked it though a lot. But it's one of the biggest movies of our generation. Anybody saying yes to that? I'll say yes. Oh, but it's only two. Oh, so stupid. Eddie? Braveheart.

No. Braveheart is... Braveheart's good. That's one of his favorite movies. And it's like a battle. And Mel... Lunchbox, you love Braveheart. No, no.

He's just not voting. I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no. You know what? I'll go yes on Braithart. Braveheart's awesome. I haven't really spent... time with it, so.

Are you going to go now? I'm going to go no. Wow. No, you're not thinking for yourself. Yes, I am. Exactly. Exactly. One, two, three, four, five.

Sam, like you guys are here. Two, three four, five, six, seven. Okay, we have three more movies to put on the list. Mm-hmm. How about, remember the Titans? That's good. I vote for that, yes. Nope.

It's a sports movie. It's also like about race at a time when it's, I mean, it's not comfortable at times, but I think it's a good learning lesson. It's got Ryan Gosling in it. Denzel Washington. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. Eddie? You have to vote yes or no?

Yeah, I'll vote yes on that. Of course you will. I mean, you like that better than the sandlot? The sandlot's fine, but she's not going to like the sandline. It's not about her liking. It's about the best movies for a generation. Go ahead. Amy?

Gladiator. Oh, it's so good. Yes. Yes. Yes. Good movie. I'll vote no. Okay.

Of course. You know I voted yes for Sandlot, right? I mean, you voted no on days and confused, which is... Gladiator's awesome. I want to watch Gladiator again. I've not... We have nine. I haven't thought about days and confused and...

Until about a week ago when we called it. And I voted yes for that. He picked Borat. Yeah. All right, go ahead, lunchbox. Field of Dreams. Yes. No.

What? Love it. One of my favorite movies. I liked it, too, but I feel like Kossner's a little too old. Oh, man. I'm going to go no. No. No.

No. Eddie? Is Rocky too old? There's a lot of them. The first Rocky. You could just pick one. Oh, pick Rocky four. I would pick Rocky four.

You would? Yeah. I'm probably going to pick one. She wouldn't know what's going on. Oh, no. Yeah, no. I've only seen. Rocky one, though, it sets up the whole story.

I never watched Rocky one until I'd seen like four, three. Trust me. All right, Rocky four then. You get the idea. I don't want to spoil it, but is this if he dies, he dies. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rocky, four then. I'll go yes.

Okay, I made our list. You guys are. Whoa, okay. You guys pick Rocky 4 over sent I mean you guys are so stupid Abby here's your list we'll put it up on the website And whenever you finish one Just let us know we'll come in we'll talk about it

If he dies These are the 10 movies that you're gonna watch Okay I must break you Forrest Gump Yes Shawshank Redemption So good The Dark Night, dirty dancing

Goodwill Hunting Talladega Nights The Ballad Ricky Bobby Do you want us to pull bridesmaids Since you already seen that one? Yeah Okay well pull bridesmaids I'll put one more on there

I remember the Titans gladiator Rocky 4 And there's one more movie Should we throw in Sandlot? No, we're not doing... No, we're not going to do that. Participation ribbons. Well, it is a good movie.

I like it. I like Braveheart, too. Do we all... What about, like, Matrix or something? Oh, the Matrix is awesome. I didn't like the Matrix. I didn't really either, but I know people love it. I think that...

It's got a movie Mike. Movie Mike, what movie are we leaving? And whatever you say we're going to do, you get one absolute pick. Can we include more modern movies? They're all so old. Yeah, your movie, Mike. I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to go a little off base here, a movie that I think we

all watched and loved that Abby probably wouldn't discover on her own. I'm gonna go Parasite. Yes. I thought about Parasite. You get to pick, so this is the movie. Parasite. Have you seen Parasite? I have not. Hey, good luck. It's in Korean. Okay. You're gonna love it. You're gonna like it. Oh, you have to read the subtitles. Eddie said it was one of his top three favorite movies of all the time when it came out.

It's unbelievable. Oh, wow. Okay, there's your list. We'll put it up on our website. That's a good list. Good luck. We don't care what you watch first. Let us know when you watch one of them, okay? Now that's a good list. Congratulations for getting your movies on the list, Mike D and Amy and Eddie. Absolutely terrible. Did lunchbox get any? Of course not.

He led with Borat. Of course not. You'd either gonna vote for the movies that I like, no. But I gave you Braveheart and you wouldn't vote for that. It's my favorite movie. Borat was his first pick.

I mean, Sandlot, we go with Rocky floor. I like Sandlot. Exactly, but you didn't vote for it. I did. You wouldn't know who McConaughey or Ben Affleck was without dazed and confused.

Well, no, Ben Affleck was, we have him on here with. A good little huntin. Which is where he really blew up. He wrote it, and that's how he got. All right. Abby, thank you. Thank you.

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or wherever you get your podcast. Presidents Day, let's play a game. Which president? Do you hate the most? What? I'm just kidding. We just start a big fight for the reason. I got a few.

President's Day trivia. It's President's Day, and let's find out who knows they're U.S. presidents. Oh, man. Eddie seems to love presidents for some reason, which is weird. Like, I don't know why he knows so much about presidents. But you always say, I love presidents. I don't think I've ever said that.

I think I've never heard. I can say that. So, Buzz in. with your name. Oh, I like a buzzers. Okay. Say your name. If you're in, yes, the president. Okay. We'll do seven or ten. Okay. Okay.

Who is the president during Watergate? Eddie. That's Nixon. Correct. I love presidents. He told you. He loves Christmas. Why does he love presidents? No presents.

What honor. Presents. What month is inauguration? Lunchbox. Lunchbox. February. Incorrect. Amy.

Amy. January. Correct. January is correct. I thought you said leapier. No. President's Day trivia. Who became the president after JFK was assassinated?

That's Lyndon B. Johnson. Correct. Love my presidents. I would have never known that. He was sworn in on the Air Force One. President's Day trivia. How old do you have to be? Lunchbox.

Oh, 45. In correct. 35. Correct. Stupid. I love the trend. Lunchbox goes first, gets it wrong, Amy gets it. Flores out a wrong answer.

The name he takes. Well, I know when he's saying it. It's wrong. My do is wrong too when I said it. Thank you. What are you saying? He knew it after he buzzed them. Here we go.

Next up. Who was the president during the Great Depression in World War II? Eddie. That is Truman. Incorrect. Got!

Who was the president during the Great Depression in World War II? Lunchbox. John F. Kennedy. No. He said, what can your country do for you? Amy.

Amy. Go ahead, Amy. Roosevelt. Correct. What? Thanks, guys. They look the same. No, they don't.

Roosevelt and Kennedy? Yeah, they don't. No, they don't. Okay, I'll take that bet. Bet. Bet. Okay. Five more.

Okay, I'm coming back. What president famously got stuck in a bathtub? Amy. Drimmon. Incorrect. I mean. Ludgebox. Garfield.

Incorrect. Eddie. Adams. Incorrect. Oh, Taft. Dang it. He's a big dude. I was thinking Tubman.

Yeah, yeah. Harriet Tubman. Then I said, not heard you say it. Then why'd you say it? I wasn't saying Harriet. Well, what other Tubman was there? Well, I know, but I'm just saying, Tom.

And I said Truman. And then I'm like, Taft. Hey, so Taft got stuck in there because he was fat. Oh, that's terrible. Dang. That could have. What's his first thing?

That's four more. Harry. William Howard Taft. Ah. Oh, shoot. Which president is known? for the Monroe Doctrine Lunchbox?

Monroe. And need the first name. Henry. Incorrect. Which president is known for the Monroe doctrine? Eddie. William Monroe.

Incorrect. Amy. Amy. Say Marilyn Monroe. John. Marilyn Monroe. John. No, James.

Oh, so close. Man, but did you like my strategy? James Monroe? I don't know that was very smart. So, we have four more questions. I have no idea of the score because I haven't been keeping up with it. Doesn't matter. Amy 3, Eddie 2, lunchbox, 0.

All right. 4, 5, 6, 7. 3 left. Martin Van Buren was the first president to do what in the United States? Lunchbox. Lunchbox. Taxation. No. Martin Van Buren was the first president to do what?

This is who Eddie did a book report on. I did a whole report on this. Hold on. Let me think about that. Amy, you have a guess? You wanted to knock another wrong one out? My friend just married a Bamburan. Right.

Wow. Okay, flex. You want to text them? No, no. It's a distant relative. Get distant relative real quick. Friend of distant relative. Go ahead. Martin Gambier are the first president to do what? They have no guesses. Let's move on. No, I got it.

Eddie. Eddie. Fix an election. No. Oh! No. No. Go ahead. It is. I just have to do with voting. Go ahead. It's the voting. Wrong.

It's be born in the United States. What? He's the first president born in the United States. What? Wow. That's crazy. Just kidding. Was that in my report?

No. Don't think it was, man. Probably should have been, though, man. Be honest with you, it's a pretty substantial fact there. All right. Two left. No. Three.

Is that able to get three? Two left. What score? He was the first one born in the U.S.? Crazy. Okay. Which president was a peanut farmer before. Eddie?

Jimmy Carter. Correct. Let's go! Tied to tie. Tied up. For the win. Which president said, Speak softly and carry a big.

stick. Eddie. What? Truman. Incorrect. Speak softly and carry a big stick? When you say that it sounds dirty. Yes, I did think that. Like that. Speak softly and carry a big stick? Dick. Lunch box. Ronald Reagan. No. Dang. Amy. Amy. Amy. For the win. Okay, here we go. George Washington. No. Theodore Roosevelt. Lunchbox is eliminated. You two for the tiebreaker. One question. One question only.

Good. I hope neither one do you get it. Then we'll go to another one. Oh, I think he said one only. No, one, not a three-perth. It's like a boxing match. One night only. Which president is known for his creation of the New Deal programs to combat the Great Depression? Eddie. Truman.

Incorrect. The Great Depression? The Great Depression? Amy. Roosevelt. Correct. Franklin D. D. Roosevelt. I don't know if I turned off the time frame Yeah, depression again

Go! And a different Rosadel, by the way Wow, wow So I guess Amy's the one that loves presidents Amy loves presidents Maybe you should have made her Been specific on that one Because I had to be specific on Monroe

Yeah, but it was called the Monroe Doctorate. In the name. Hey, don't hate the player Okay All right, it's time for the news Bobby's big Stories

Do you like the new car smell? Yeah Why? I have no idea to be quite honest. I guess it's probably the, maybe the leather smell that I like. If there's leather, it's the same thing. I don't know. I wonder if it's the association with a new something.

Maybe. I haven't ever thought about it, but I do like it. So the new car smell most people like, but that smell is actually the result of a release of chemical compounds on plastic, paint, lubricant, sealants, and other. Yeah. So I'm addicted to it. Oh, no. So if you were just to say, do you like the smell of chloroforminide? You probably would say no, but because it's a new car.

But I do think I like this. Unless I just associate it with something new. I don't know. I can't tell the difference. But that's what it is. It's a chemical cocktail. And they say be careful. If you just inhale it for a long time in your new car, you could get sick.

Oh, no. That's from prevention. It's like a Sharpie. That's true. Sniff in the Sharpie. Sharpies do smell good, though. The importance of a morning kiss. If you want to feel loved and less stress during the day, kiss all the people you love in your house, including your dog and your cat.

It's important that you do a physical kiss instead of just saying, I love you before you leave in the morning. Connecting with the ones you love, provide you a sense of calm and community. This is from, Why Did I Marry you anyway, from Barbara Bartlein? Now, if I were to lean over and kiss my wife and I was leaving for work, she might slap me. Really? Well, because I'm waking her up. Oh, I kiss my wife every morning, but she doesn't wake up. I don't even think she notices.

You do it every morning? Every morning. And then one time I missed it. See, I said, I spent an hour with all the kids. I'm not joking. And one day he didn't do it and she got upset. She did. She said you didn't give me a kiss this morning.

I thought you said she didn't know it. This is a long time ago. Okay, see, it's not consistent. This story. No, guys, why would I make that up? Make yourself look good. No. Okay, so if I did, she'd be like, I think she would like it, but I think she'd be,

waking. If she was already awake and she'd love it. Well, don't make out with her. Just give her a little. No, let me tell you. I go for the ovula. She's, I'm sleeping. I'm sleeping.

I do, and I don't kiss the dogs so much, but I do make sure they get petted equally before I leave. And I say bye to them and I love them. So if I go to Eller and I put my head on her head and I'm like, all right, I pet her cheek. And then I have the same thing with Stanley so they don't get jealous of each other. Although dogs don't have jealousy, really. Yeah, but you're worried they do. Just in case. Just in case like an alien's inside their animal's body.

I think similarly, like here at the studio, we could all hug each other. Amy kisses this every day. No. We're not doing that. That's not what I'm saying, but I do think that hugs are important. It's like an HR issue. Yep. No, hugs.

Like a simple. How long? That's how it starts. That's not allowed? I don't know that it's encouraged. Hug your co-workers. I don't think it's in the handbook. You're saying only when we leave work?

Yeah. I don't know. I'm good on not hugging you guys every day. I'll pass. Americans aren't taking as many breaks as they need to, the new poll says. One of eight Americans. take no breaks during the day. Exactly.

That's so dumb. First of all, Eddie, don't say exactly. We need breaks, man. You have them. You have a million. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't say a million, but. Like, I'd like to walk around the block once in a minute.

Like, one of those breaks. You can do it. No. One and eight people don't get any breaks. Others would like to get some fresh air by going on a walk, 35%. Told you. Okay. Man, I remember with the bag.

I'd like nachos, too. Yeah. Would that be nice during your break? Yes. Oh, my cart pushing days when it was really busy. No breaks all eight hours. Oh, man. But you get to walk outside, so.

Oh, yeah. I don't take, you know, when I get here, I'm not known as break guy. I try to give you guys breaks. Sometimes you stretch. I do, and I'm like, oh, I got to let them pee or something. Yeah, it's really nice of you. Yeah, but then sometimes you're like, go pee. And we're like, we don't have to go.

Yes, yes, yes. Go! No, sometimes I'm like raising my hand. Can I go pee? And it's not that I'm not letting you go pee. I'm not Amazon. But it's like I don't, when I'm in, I, if we have four or five, six, hours. It's like, I want to use every second of that time, even if we're not on the air,

at doing something efficient. So I don't keep you guys longer than you have to be kept. So I don't take a break, really. But maybe I should just go for a walk. We should do a good, a hug and a block walk. No. That'd be fun. That's from the New York Post. A doctor says why you should never hover over a public toilet. What do you mean hover? Hover. Like, put your head over it. No, hover like, put your head over it. Oh, like squat. It doesn't put your head over a toilet. No, hover. It's like when you're, you're Not sitting on it.

Whether you decide to hold a squat or just refuse to use one, a viral video shows people the cleanest and safest way to use a public toilet when you just got to go. Quote, many people tend to hover even sit on top of the toilet seat and they're splashing. Because if you hover, pee or whatever falls down longer and it flashes up. Okay. So what I do is I lift a little all the way up and I sit in the bowl, in the water. You're like an inch away. From the water. The doctor says just know that if you're hovering.

But y'all have urinals. There's no water to splash up. Toilets, though. It's to do the two. My wife and I were watching a show in the journals. It was those. We guys know them. But they are urinals, but they go all the way to the ground.

Yeah. She was like, they have those. She was like, I've never seen it all the way to the ground urinal that goes into the ground. And I'm like, yeah, I mean, probably one out of seven or eight. It's like that. Yeah, you don't want to wear sandals when you got those. They're bad. My favorite of those troughs, you know, when you go to a bar.

And when they all peep, but there's ice in them. And it melts it. It's really cool. But the trough, too, it's like there's no divider. Everybody's just standing up there Or like a bunch of cows Using their bait Okay, I get it

Lots of worms Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah French bulldog napping situation is happening even more and more Does it say cases are on the rise Owner reported dog nappings Have risen 140% Just in the last couple of years

Because people can get anywhere from $3 to $10,000 For stealing a French bulldog Like at this point, if you have a French bulldog I just wouldn't walk it in public ABC News I mean, what the dog needs to walk? Well, you walk in private.

I don't know how. Like in your room? Around the kitchen table? Do you last in the backyard if you have a yard? I don't know. It's just so risky. You hear of a story all the time and people are getting shot. I can imagine somebody going on with Stanley walking public.

And someone goes like, let's get the bulldog. And they run over to him. They've been down to grab him real quick and like, what the fuck? Too heavy. And then quit and run off. Leave him. He's just too little. We can't get him. We can't get him. But he's not a, he's a English.

These are French. Yeah. Yeah. The most expensive home for sale in the United States is now up in Naples, Florida, $295 million. What in the world? It's a compound. Gordon Point is a nine acre compound in Naples, Florida. It's in a place called Port Royal. It's 11,500 square feet on a private peninsula. Oh, man.

Main house, it's 11,000 five. Two guest houses, each over 5,000 feet. which brings the total to 228. All three homes are on a peninsula that has 1650 as far as feet of waterfront, a private yacht basin, and a T-shaped dock. $295 million. That's the most expensive in America? America.

Okay, yeah, because I don't think of there's castles across the pond, right? I don't say across the pond, first of all. Second of all, they say that, though. I don't know. Oh, man. I'm sure, but I don't know, $300 million. That's a beautiful house. That's crazy.

It is so beautiful, though. I'm from CNBC. Yeah. I mean, you got your own beach, dude. That's the news. Those were bodies big. Stories. You can have opinions.

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podcast. Billy Dean is here, which when they said, hey, Billy Dean's, I was like, absolutely. I said yes immediately. I'm such a big fan, have been a fan forever. So this is the part of the interview where I just say, I'm a massive fan before I get professional. So thank you for coming back. My phone rang off the hook a couple of years ago. I think you were talking about the 90s and my name come up. And man, I had about five or six people from my hometown call. Hey, Bobby Bowens is talking about the 90s mentioning. So thank you for that, man, keeping the old man alive. It's like, you know, I can, I know where I was, like whenever, we just disagree. Like, I can, there's times in music in our life at those ages where we're developing, where you just know where you were.

And your music was such a big part of that for me. And it's crazy that you don't really look any older. Your hair's a little grayer, but doesn't he still like, oh, it looks the same, man. I'm just glad to still have some hair, man. Good genes or good docks is what they say. I was getting a little thin on top, and my son's, I said, I'm a little worried. I'm kind of getting a little thin on top. He goes, Dad, you're six foot four.

nobody can see up there anyway. That's true. You are quite intimidating walking in because you're a lot bigger. Right? Oh, yeah, taller than I thought. So were you an athlete as well? Yeah, I played a little college basketball, a little junior college basketball. I'm from Florida, the great state of Florida.

And I was trying to get out of there, trying to make my way to Nashville and by way of a scholarship and playing a little ball. So went to a little junior college in the East Central Junior College of Mississippi. and, man, junior college ball is tough. They let you play. Don't call any fouls. It was like playing basketball with Toby Keith back in the day, man. There was no fouls. That's funny.

They can only afford so many referees. That's exactly right. You know, all these spoiled high school basketball jocks, man, you go to junior college. It's like, okay, it's time to grow up a little bit here, you know. That's funny. So were you known in high school then as the singer or the athlete more? Probably the singer, I guess. We had a small little school. It was only like 30 people in my graduating class. And my dad had a band for years at the American Legion Hall. He's a World War II veteran. And music was kind of like his therapy, you know. And so I grew up playing in his band. And then when I got to school, we had like a six-week term paper due about like Shakespeare, Star Cross lovers. And I procrastinated to the last minute and wrote a song. instead of doing the term paper and got an A

and I thought, well, I know what I'm going to do for the rest of my life. This is pretty easy, you know. It was like, I don't have to do anything but sing. And then the school kind of found out I played and sang after that. Did people ever confuse you for the sausage guy? Yeah, oh yeah, Jimmy. I did for a lot of years. I thought they may have been related when I was a kid.

I was like, I wonder Billy and Jimmy know each other. We got to ask him that. In fact, we won a couple awards at the ACM several years ago. And we weren't any relation, but we knew each other. and he gave me, sent me a letter, I still have it, and I laminated it and everything. And he said, congratulations, love dad. That's hilarious. That's funny.

That's funny. And so Billy Dean, is that your, because Bobby Bones is not my real name. Bobby is, but Bones is not. Is that your real name? William. William Harold Dean. My dad's name was Billy. I actually didn't have a middle name.

My dad didn't. So my name was William Harold Dean. And I was, grew up as Harold Dean. I was named after. You were a kid named Harold? I was. It doesn't fit. Wow.

I never heard of a kid named Harold. Maybe an occasional Harry. Do they call you Harry or Harold? Oh, Harold. It was always nasely Harold. That's funny. And so, yeah, so when I got to Nashville and the man, there's no Harold Dean. There's no heralds in country music, you know?

And so I'm, you know, my dad was really good. I thought it'd be kind of cool to just change my name to Billy. And over the years, I've had a chance to see that name on a lot of billboards. stuff you out in Vegas and have a little talk with the old man, you know. And so here you go. There's your name in Vegas now. Until he saves you for residuals for stealing as you were. So as a kid, I remember whenever I would hear Billy the kid, I always thought, and again,

this is me as a kid. I always thought it was so cool you said your name and your song. Because it didn't happen a lot. You didn't have Alan Jackson going here. It's the story of Alan. Or you didn't have, you know, they never, and I thought it was so cool that you said that even if it wasn't about you or it was it, whatever, I ever thought, artists don't ever say their names in song.

So as that kid, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Oh, man, thank you. Did you worry? Not even worry. Was that a concern whenever you're putting it out to have a song about you, with your name? Yeah, I thought it was too personal and, you know, probably wouldn't be a hit or anything because of that. I actually was telling Paul Nelson, my co-writer about what it was like growing up as a kid. You know, I spent a lot of time away from the house on my bicycle, you know.

Listen, it's kind of interesting being raised by World War II dad, you know, because they tried to grow you up too quick. you know, got to make you a man, you know. You know, the Vietnam War was going on. So I spent a lot of time rebelling against that on my bicycle, you know, riding around town and everything. And I was telling, you know, Paul Nelson, we were just pretty much, you know, terrorizing the neighborhood and stuff. And he said, sound like you were a little outlaw, like a little Billy the kid.

And when he said that, we went, oh, wow, never even thought about writing a song from that point of view. And we did. And then after we recorded it, it really felt like a hit. I tell you, I've had more girls, though, come. up and tell me how much they rode their bicycle. They did the same thing as that. I think you were just good looking and they wanted something to talk about what. If I'm being honest, he's like, I had more women approach me about the, yeah, okay, Billy.

But, you know, I thought it was, that's what, like, I remember thinking, that's so cool that he sings a song about himself. And I just wanted the process in making that, like, a single, if that was a weird element. It was. It was like the fourth song off the album. We had, it was a, it was on my second album, self-titled Billy Dean album. And we'd already had like only the win if there hadn't been you, you don't count the cost. We had some hits off of there and mostly ballads. And you always needed tempo and songs.

And so Billy the Kid was the last choice. You know, the last single off of that album ended up being an identity record. You know, set me apart from the rest of the pack, really. Would you mind playing just a little bit of that for us? Yeah, I sure will. Like it feels like how your voice is even, It feels more bluesy.

I like, I like it. You know, there was definitely a style that you sang with then, but I don't know if it's because you got a little older, but I like the bluesy version of that. That's awesome. You know, that's a big part of my musical background that I really couldn't bring to Nashville. They weren't really ready for that maybe until, you know,

Travis Tritt came along, and, man, he was putting a little bit of the southern rock or the southern soul into that. And, in fact, man, we're doing a lot of, actually we're going to do a little first ag festival with Southern Soul R&B music and country music. Where is that going to be? Down in Quincy, Florida, June 1 and June 2, DJ Trucker, he's a great guy, a great friend, and he's got like a million Facebook followers, and he drove a truck for years and did a Southern Soul playlist while he would drive a truck, and was able to quit driving a truck and do these festivals.

And our county wanted to do the first annual ag festival in our hometown. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to be, I couldn't do that when I came to Nashville because it was really, you know, man, everybody was like, okay, are you a country? They're putting you in a box, you know, and fitting you in there. So I kind of stayed away from some of that, you know, until a little bit later. But that's really in my heart and my soul. It's just the way it comes out, you know. What's Quincy near?

Tallahasse. It's near the Capitol. It was known for Coca-Cola is one of the first companies, the big tobacco farm. farmers down there. It's a very special soil, a lot of agriculture down there. And we, Coca-Cola came down when they were raising money in the early 1900s or late 1800s to start Coca-Cola. They went to all of these tobacco farmers and got all this money. And one of the first bottling plants was there. And so, but, you know, it was very hard living, hard way of life there, you know, digging in the dirt and everything. I couldn't wait to get out. Of course,

you know, dad always, you know, grow you up, you know, got to be a man. You know, I was like, man, I can't wait to get out of here, you know. And so, but about six years, I moved back just south of there, a little island called St. George Island. You live on an island? I do. Let's watch into this. He lives on an island.

Go ahead. How many people? There's, I think, 800 residents there. It's crazy, man. I went, when I first went back to the island about six years ago, I was standing there at this spot in the state park, and I went, oh, my God, I remember standing here when I was 17 years old, wondering if I could just play music long enough to like buy a trailer and live down here. I forgot what the end game was. It took about 30 something years, but I remember that spot.

And I thought, okay, this was what I was really wanting to do. I wanted to play music so I could live down here on this place. A little fishing village, nothing fancy, no golf courses, no high rises. It's just a little, you know, little second homes and little fishing village, just about an hour and a half south of Quincy where I grew up. That's pretty cool. Are you a Florida State fan? I am. I'm a old fan. Bobby Bowie. He spoke at my athletic banquet when I was a senior in high school. So we, and we, you know, you go to school, half of them are gators and half of them are Seminoles. It's always a, you know, a war.

We're going down to Tallahassee in a couple days. Are you really? Yeah, to hang out with the basketball team and the softball team. Oh, awesome. And so, yeah, we've played Florida State football stadium before. We have. Eddie and I have. Really?

Yeah, it's, I like, Tallahassee doesn't feel like the rest of Florida. No, right. There are certain parts of Florida that I really like, I like Tampa a lot, normal people. Tallahassees, it's young and also like normal folks too. Yeah, yeah. It's interesting, you wouldn't think of Tallahassee being the capital. You know, think like a Miami or a Tampa, something like that. But it's very diverse up there, very different.

Florida State was a big part of that. So music, you know, in that top, in that area, you know, you had like, you know, the Ammon Brothers. You had black gospel soul music. You had, you know, of course, the traditional, you know, George Jones, William Whelan, all the outlaw stuff. So there was a lot of different kind of music going on, and especially with the college town there,

a lot of the James Taylor, you know, the folkies, which I kind of gravitated towards you. Yeah, I think for a while, too, I think that's what you were known kind of as, the country music James Taylor. Did you hear, because I felt that way. Did you feel that? I did.

I was a big fan. In fact, I was going to be managed by his manager. Went out and met him, met James, and, you know, they didn't know what to do with me. You know, they had a publishing, deal here in Nashville, but then they signed me as a singer record deal out of New York. And they really didn't know. It kind of fell in a crack, maybe. And somewhere my broken heart came out and crossed over and to adult contemporary. And there was a big stink about

that, you know, what is he? Is he country? I know. Of course, you don't have to wear about it. Some things never change. Yeah, I know, right? It's never changed. You know, somewhere my broken heart was pretty different for the time. And everybody now you go, man, that's classic country. I love being classic country now, you know. The song we were playing before you walked in because Eddie and I are both massive fans, we were singing because we used to be good times. So again, that's another one that is just like an anthem

from that time period in music. Do you still play that at your live shows? I do, man. Could you play a little bit of that now? I sure do. All right. How many shows are you playing it? What's the deal?

You all not a bunch? Yeah, we're going to be up in this area. probably do about 150 shows. Wow, really, good for you. And then you add the traveling on that. It's like that comedian says, Leanne Morgan, when I get home, I have to take to the bed to rest up.

You guys can follow Billy because you can see a lot of what he's doing. Either, you know, you have a golf cart you drive around? I do. I do some golf cart karaoke on the aisle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's official Billy Dean. You can see his shows. And the rest of it, it's my mom.

the record you put on in 2022. It's the first time in like 10 years you'd put on new music. Yeah, it was. When I moved back during the COVID and all that, we were on the island, which I highly recommend if you're going to be quarantine

finding an island somewhere, it was good. But it makes you write a lot of the stuff that I grew up listening to. And so I saw all these people retired, you know, in Florida, and they're so active, you know, they're kayaks, bicycles. And so I, me and Paul Overstreet, Hall of Fame songwriter,

we decided to write a message to our kids in case they decided to boom back around, you know, boomerang back around and say, hey, the rest of it's mine. You're on your own now. Do your own thing. So the whole album's kind of fun and tropical light. You know, I've always done so many serious kind of songs and things that touch the heart. And so I wanted to do something fun and easy, you know. And so the rest of its mind came out last year. We'll do another one next year. Should be marking, I think, 35 years. Good Lord, of being in the business. Somewhere of my broken arts, I think 35 years. old next year. So we'll do another album. Got, you know, writing better than I've ever written.

Got a song, you know, Craig Morgan and Luke Combs recorded a song called Raise the Bar. It's on his new album. And so some of the catalogs starting to pop up here a little bit. My son and his daughter, my daughter-in-law and my little grandson live up here. So I'm up here about once a month. Just staying active and try to stay on the island as much as I can. Sounds like you buy a new island, your own island. You keep popping like this. You guys follow Billy. official Billy Dean. Does your family back home, does anybody call you Harold at all, or is all Billy all the time? No, most of the guys I graduate with call me Harold. We get together about once a year and they try, they go, it's funny to watch him try to go back. Well, you want

Billy or you want Harry? I said Harold, man. Harold's fine. That's always code for somebody's known me for a long time. Well, we're big fans. I really appreciate you coming by. And everybody, you're listening. You should go see Billy where he's going. Go to a show's official Billy Dean on Instagram and Twitter. Thank you for playing too. That was awesome. That's a thrill for me. Billy Dean, everybody. I appreciate you guys.

Thank you, Bob. Bobby Bones show. Boney up the day. This story comes us from Overland, Missouri. A man went through the Wendy's Drive-Thru, ordered some chicken nuggets, ordered a number one. And when he pulled up to the window,

the guy said, hey, why are you so rude on the speaker? And he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm just trying to order my nuggets at number one. He goes, pull over there, I'll bring it out to you. Oh, no. So the employee came out. He comes out to fight him. Boom!

Punched him in the face through the driver's window. So the driver gets out, the employee jumps in and steals the car. What, honor? The employee? I wonder if that was the plane the whole time and the guy wasn't even rude in the voice box. Probably. Like he just wanted to start something, somehow get him out of the car and steal the car. So he steals the car, drives away, then comes back and hits him with the car.

Like turns right around? No, no, he drove like a mile away and then turned around and came back and hit him with the car. Why is the guy just standing in the road? Go inside and call the cops. I picture him there with his arms up like, where's my car? For up, yeah. For up five minutes. Dang, okay.

I'm lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day. An Illinois man, he broke up. This girl, she kind of dumped him. And then after that, like three days later, he wins a million bucks in the lottery. Oh. You think she'd call him back? For sure.

Like, hey, want to get drinks? The Chicago area man told the Illinois Lottery officials, he was headed for a disappointing Valentine's Day after his breakup. He was sad, but his mood shifted because he bought a monopoly 50 times scratch off in the Walmart, North Avenue and North Lake. He said, holy crap, I panicked. I almost didn't go to work. I've been going crazy keeping this million dollar secret. I don't have a special someone now to share my big news with because my girlfriend and I broke up three days before I bought the winning ticket. You can say I haven't had much luck in the love department from UPI. You know she's here in this too.

Tracy, he's one a million dollars. Couldn't you have waited five days? I told after Valentine's Day. She didn't know. But she wouldn't get any of the money anyway. No, I know, but your boyfriend have a million dollars and you know, I get to go a nice trip or something. Hey, we get a lot better relationship out to that.

Dang, that sucks. Yeah, but I mean. No, it sucks. There's no, but I mean. Okay. It just is unfortunate for her. Yeah. And for him, it's kind of awesome.

That's awesome for him. Yeah, she's probably thinking, man, he doesn't have enough money. He doesn't whine and dine me enough. And then, boom, million dollars? I was like, oh, man, he could have brought me that Versace dress. What? Y'all are... Or just bought a house.

Yeah, yeah. Versace dress is weird. Yeah, Versace is kind of a weird brand anyway. It's a little too loud. It's a little too loud. But yeah, congratulations to him. I thought that's pretty good. We're done with the show.

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