The Bobby Bones Show - Mon Part 1: Lunchbox Surprises Listener With Pallet Item + Our Worst Scams

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

Lunchbox surprised a listener with an item from the pallet, find out what it was! Plus, we share the worst scams we've ever fallen for and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I kind of love it. I kind of hate it. There's a couple selling tickets to their wedding, which is funny, but you better not ask for a gift, but I want to tell you more. $333 a ticket. Why? That's a lot. So before I get into it, you're getting married, or if you're going to a wedding, you do expect you have to spend some money for a gift, for travel, for whatever.

So that part, if the ticket just comes. covers, please you get to get us nothing. We don't want you to worry about it. It's 50 bucks. All good. I could understand that. Does it feel a bit tacky? Tacky is to the beholder, as I say.

But I want to read you this story. It does seem a bit expensive. But, quote, we sold tickets to our wedding. Nova Stiles says of her 2023 nuptials to her husband, explaining that the idea to do so came once they realize, well, it's going to be pretty expensive to have the wedding they wanted. Oh, man. These people are nuts.

No way. That's because the 12-hour New York City celebration that they dreamed of with 350 guests and attendance was about $150,000 because venues moving from place to place. 12-hour? 12 hours? That's a long wedding. I'm not standing up for, it's a whole day of celebration. And I'm not saying what they're doing is normal.

I'm saying I could understand it if it were much cheaper and it were like, but don't buy us anything. However, this is not that. These are goobers. Instead of giving up the dream, they are charging their guests $333 to attend. For that fee, they're treated to a seat at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Ooh. Okay, tell me more. St. Patrick.

No, you guys can't be convinced. That's normal. We might be. What's this? It's more of like you're getting an experience. So what am I paying for? Followed by a tour of select New York City landmarks and a double-decker bus. Because most people aren't from New York.

Fun. Okay. A steak and a lobster reception at the Freedom Tower. Oh, okay. No, no, all that's cool. But if you want that as your wedding, you need to pay for it as your wedding. Not go, this will be amazing. Let's sell tickets.

But all that stuff might add up to 300. It might probably what. I don't think. I mean, let me look at Double Duck or Tour in New York. You might be getting a deal, actually. I don't think they're taking advantage of the pricing. I think it's weird to ask for tickets and then do such big, bold things. That's an expensive ticket.

Tell us more. That's it. That's all we get. Well, you get to see about two people get married and love. So on the surface. I go, hey, we're getting married. In lieu of gifts, here's a $75 ticket. You can buy parentheses ticket that's a stipend for what you would have paid for any sort of gift.

I would get that because I feel like you're making it easier on people. This just felt like people who couldn't afford the wedding they want and they're like, oh, crap, what do we do? Let's get a double-decker bus. We can't afford it. And 333 bucks a ticket. That is insane. Yeah, that's crazy. What are you looking at?

I mean, a tour of a Groupon right now has it for $62 on the double-decker bus. For adults, $52 for children. You're talking about it's probably your own bus. Yeah, you probably get private. What if you get on, no one, it's like with other chores. Oh, like random people? That kind of sucked. Like, I would want a private one.

From all over the world. I don't hate the idea. I think you can do whatever you want at your wedding. Be as creative as you want to get. That one just hits a little funny because that ticket's super expensive. And it's also doing like touristy things. It's like, for 700 bucks, we'll do this. And we'll go watch Hamilton.

And it's not even a private Hamilton. It's just what you would do anyway with that money. Yeah. But I commend them for being creative. I just thought it was kind of funny that it's to pay for a seat in the church they want because they can't afford it. A double-decker bus. And a reception they probably would want to be able to give people anyway if they could afford the wedding. Lobster and steak.

Yeah. That's a freedom tower. That's nice. Dang, I want to get a bite it now. Oh, Bobby Bones. My wife and I are in an ongoing argument about when it's appropriate to get rid of stuff that belongs to our children. I like to display their art, schoolwork, awards. We do it for a few weeks.

And then scan them with all amount. While she wants to keep stuff for months and then file them away, she says, well, wish we had them someday, but I think scanning them is enough. And we don't have room for all the stuff. Who's right here? How can I get her to be more reasonable? Signed, decuttering dad. So first of all, I think you both think you're reasonable.

So I would just like to say that. Amy, I'll go to you first. I think everyone's a little bit different on this, but I think there are ways to compromise. I think the compromise is great, like take an image of it. Yeah, the image or go get a big, clear plastic bin and you get your little binder situation and you come up with a system that organizes everything neatly

and keeps it all in one spot so that whoever wants to keep it gets to keep it. I mean, because that is the option. Like I've got lots of stuff from my childhood that my parents kept, and I think it's cool to look back on but there's got to be tons of stuff they also threw away. Eddie? Yeah, look I'm glad I'm not the only one. My wife and I argue about this all the time. But we have a bin where we throw stuff in, but I want to get rid of the bin.

Because like when I look back, like I have one little Christmas tree decoration that I made when I was in third grade. And that's cool enough for me. Like I'm not like, where's all my other stuff? I don't think kids really care about all the stuff that they did. Trophies are one thing. I don't think it's really for the kids though, right? It's for the parents more than the kids. I don't think we get older and want to see the stuff we did.

That's what I'm saying. I think that it can be for both. Like, I don't know why my parents held on to some of my things. What I'm saying is as an adult now, once they passed away, I sort of have it all. And I'm like, oh, this is so cool that I still have this. Like some of my trophies or ribbons or letters or cards. All those. Okay, flex.

Yeah. No, no, no. The countless trophies. So I moved recently and that's what I did. I have one big, clear, plastic bin, bin, clear so I can see through it. I know what's in there in case I need access. do it. And that's where it's going to stay and it's up in the attic and I know where it is.

What I would say, you could do something that makes sense where let's say I like the bin, but you have one bin a year. And when it's full for the year, you can put nothing else in it. You have to decide what goes into that bin the whole year. After that year. I'm not using it a bin for like their life. So you're going to have 18 bins. I don't know how I think the bin is. The bin is

that's like a small bin. Like a Tupperware. I think a Tupperware. No, no, no. It's a big bin. Like a bin. Yeah. You can have, okay, we have this many bins or we can do this much a year, keep whatever you want, that way you both win and you both lose a little. Yeah. But I don't have any kids. Like, do you keep stuff though?

Like your wife? What is it? No, like your own stuff. Like, do you have anything from your childhood? No. Nobody kept anything. What are you talking about? I didn't even have parents.

I don't have a refrigerator. I don't know. It doesn't mean nothing was kept somewhere, anywhere. I don't have anything. But wouldn't it be nice if you did. Okay. Wow, it would be really nice. No, no.

I'm saying. Amy's like, wouldn't it be great if your childhood was so much healthier and better? No, but I do have. My sister gave me a picture book, like a book of pictures when I was like 21. So I have a few pictures, but there's not a lot.

And most of the pictures of just me say proof on the front of them. We just take them from because we can afford the pictures. Those are with the free ones. But wouldn't you like to have some of this stuff from when you were kids? He has some saying. So you want them to save it.

Sort of like my trophies and awards. My mom used to work at an Alzheimer's home and she was having like a competition. where they were doing. Alzheimer's. Yeah. And she was trying to do Olympics. And she was going to give my trophies and medals as prize.

I said, oh, ho, ho, no ma'am. No ma'am. So they're still at my parents' house. So the older people that were suffering from a disease did not get to use your medals. So you could keep them and just remember they're there and not actually. 100%. My parents, like, painted my brother and sister's room?

Nuh. My posters are still in my room. No, ma'am. No ma'am. No ma'am. All right. Thank you for the email. There you go.

That's the anonymous inbox. Jason's on the phone with us. You guys will remember Jason. He, like, played college ball. He's an artist. Oh, yeah. We've talked to him a couple times. Yeah, baseball.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, good-looking dude. I'm jealous of everything about him. He's young, good-looking, can sing. He's, like, pursuing his dreams now. So we've had a kind of relationship with Jason as he's been updating us. Jason, what's up, buddy? What's going on?

Garth, you guys remember that? We tried to change his name. Because here's the thing about Jason. His last name is like, aren't? Arndt. Arndt. Yeah, and I was like, dude. You got to do something we can remember or spell.

And I was like, how about Garth Arth? But his name is Jay. Say your name, Jason. Jason Arndt. Okay. But how are you spelling it now? So the D, well, I'm spelling it the same way I always have. But the D, so if you take the D and turn it into an apostrophe, like, R not, you just say it that way.

Yeah, no. See, that's what I'm saying. Garth Arth is what I still think your name should be. Jason, what's happening with your career, man. You been touring? Well, so yeah, we've been doing our thing. We actually something cool is happening this weekend. I get to open for Joe Nichols, which is cool.

That is cool. That would be exciting. I'm excited to meet him because I've listened to him my whole life. That's cool. I know Joe pretty well. Tell Joe that you talk to me about every month or so. Joe's the Arkansas guy like me. I will.

Yeah, we'll like go to games together and stuff sometimes. That's super cool. How did you get that gig? Just kind of playing, playing around, knowing some people around here that a couple of the big show bookers have been trying to find people to open. and that's kind of something that I've been starting to do, which is cool. Oh, cool.

And what else have been going on? This past weekend, I got to play my first headlining kind of ticket show, and we sold, I don't know, 1,500 tickets or something like that. Oh, wow. You sold over 1,000 hard tickets, people that bought tickets just to watch you? Yes, sir. That's the hardest thing to do is sell hard tickets, be it 50 tickets, 100. You sold 1,500?

Yes, sir. How much were the tickets? 15 or 20 bucks. Yeah, that's awesome. Which doesn't even matter, right? Oh, well. How did you sell 1,500? It happened to be in the same town as my college town.

So it kind of helped a little bit. Of course. Playing baseball and everything. That's all right. Like Luke Combs, you know where he started? Right where he went to school. Right. Yeah.

Wow, dude. I'm really proud for you. That's super cool. Because it just spreads from there. And so how was it, how was it, you get a guarantee on that? Like, what was your cut? I don't need to know the money amount, but was that like your highest paying show? Absolutely.

Are you selling? That definitely does a lot better than college shows. Are you selling a good amount of merch even though your name is spelled terribly? Yeah, we've actually, especially lately, the merch has actually been doing a lot. So that's been really cool, too. What do you have up to stream right now? What's like, what's the song? I got three songs.

The one that's been streamed the most is my most recent one, my July. That one's been, been doing really well lately. Do you want us to play a little bit of that on the show? Yeah, absolutely. That'd be sick. You know, it's weird. You know, it's weird. It's weird.

It's weird. It's not weird. I have to get Garth Ars merch before I can send that, y'all. We felt that. I forgot. He spells his name Jason. With the Y. The whole thing spelled terribly.

I know. He's Jason with a Y? Oh, my gosh. I like him. I'm jealous in every way. He's talented. He's good looking. He's an athlete.

But he just spells his name the worst. I've ever seen a human spell both parts of the name. Not his fault. His parents did it. But he could change it. Like Jason Al-Aldean's not really Jason. My mom about that one. Wait, what?

Jason Al-Din's not really Jason Al-Dee. What's his name? His name. name's like al-dine. So he made it. And here, Jason, Ardont, kept his name, though. I admire it, but I can't, I can never read a spell it. Oh, that's cool, man. Well, that, that is, we're rooting for you, dude, that's, that's super cool. And we're going to play a little bit of your song here. I'm looking at this page now. He's over 20,000 followers, country music, North Carolina. We'll link him if you guys care. I like Jason. I shouldn't. There's nothing about him I should

like because I, it's like everything I wanted to be. And I'm not that. And I should just be jealous. He's got muscles. He's a big dude. Good looking guy. Like, looks cool when he does like a hand thing, like a, like in a picture. You know, some people do like pee, some people do. Like, he can do a hand thing and not look like an idiot. I can never do a hand thing.

Jason, good to talk to you, buddy. We're going to play a little bit of your song. And call us in a month or so. Let us know what's going on. We're anxious to hear how it's going. I appreciate it, man. I will. All right, buddy.

See you later. Thank you, bye. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Leanne Vance from Henderson, Kentucky, sent $400 to someone on Facebook claiming to work for an inflatable rental company. So Liam was celebrating her 55th birthday, but she wanted this inflatable at the party for her grandkids to play on. So she was like, okay, yeah, here's the 400, deliver it this day. Well, the minute she sent the 400, communication stopped.

So it wasn't really somebody with the inflatable company. The story aired on the local news and a lot of people that saw the story. decided to step forward. They provided a bounce house and a water slide for her birthday party for her grandkids. They're stooping low if they're bounce house scamming you. Yeah, right. What happened to the old days like, I'm hot.

I'll be your girlfriend. Give me some money. Now they go up to the kids. Like the kid. Yeah. That's terrible. Grandmals and kids, bounce houses. Yeah.

She said the community's generosity. It's been like one of the biggest joys ever. That's cool. I like it. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. You can have opinions. You can have like a strong stance.

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recognized game has never been done before. Two active players giving you a real look at our lives and what we actually think, on and off the court. Nothing's off limits. We talk trade requests. What's the vibe of that when it's like your star player is like, well, I want to leave? And then actually now I'm going to stay. We talk tanking.

I mean, honestly, like, I might get in trouble for this answer, but I think it's like definitely happening in the WBA. And yeah, we talk about our mistakes, too. They pulled me to the side and was like, hey, man, we got a call last night, man. You can't be rolling around the city like this tonight before games, no, you know, doing this, doing whatever. And of course, family stories. They'll be like, Mommy, why did you miss that? Mommy, do you play basketball? Check out Game Recognized game with Stoian Miles on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, Morgan, Harry Potter, what's the name they don't say? Baldwin. And why? I'm sorry, I've never read the books. I respect them. Never seen the movies. I respect them. Why don't they say the name?

Well, he's the main villain. And basically, it's kind of like a boogeyman type situation. If you kind of say the name, he shows up. It's like Beetlejuice. No, but like that's kind of the vibe of it. He doesn't actually show up, but that's the vibe. Like, don't speak about him because he's the darkness. By the way, Beetlejuice, awesome back in the day.

The new Beetle Juice is coming out. Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice. Three, it's Beetleju's. Wait, it's three. Oh, is it? Yeah, Beetlejuice. No, hold on. Hold on.

Is the movie called Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice? Yeah. Okay, so what we're saying is you have to say it three times to get them to come out. Right, right, right. But the new movie is called Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Different pages. I'm looking forward to Beetlejuice, Beatles, yeah. Me too.

Because the first one was so good. So you don't say Voldemort. You don't say Beetlejuice three times. And there's a word that we don't like to say on this show because it brings up bad thoughts and memories. Do you guys know the word? Palat. Palet. That's what I figured.

palette. So the palette is something we all put our money into and we bought this palette. It's a palette of Amazon returns. We didn't know what was in it. And we were very excited to make money by selling the stuff individually. It turned to a massive fight within us. We just stopped talking about it. We said we're not doing this as a bit. However, lunchbox continues drip by drip to tell me that the palette is making people very happy still to this day. So what is the latest? Some guy called in and said he broke his toilet seat and knew that we had toilet seats from the pallet And he would love to have a toilet seat from the palace I was like, man, I'm going to call him and sell him one But Bobby was like, no, you need to give it to him for free Oh yeah, of course

And so I called the dude back and made his dreams come through Oh, we had the call? Yeah Okay, all right, here we go Hello, is this toilet seat guy? Yes, this is a toilet seat guy Man, what's up? It's lunchbox. No freaking way, what's up, lunchbox?

Dude, what is your name? I just know you want to put your butt on our toilet seat. Yes, yes, yes. Let's go. My name is Carter, man. Okay, well, you know what we're going to do? We're going to make dreams come true today because this is what we do. I mean, I was going to sell it to you, and Bobby said that I have to give it to you for free.

For free? That is freaking awesome. I want the toilet seat lunchbox, and I will give you my address. Yes. Hey man, we're going to make a toilet seat. Congratulations, have a great day. We're making dreams come true one crap at a time. One crap at a time.

Dreams are coming true, guys. Thank you all. Two things. How do we know if fits his toilet? Are they universal? I have no idea. No, no. Two, do we send them when we all signed?

We're going to sign it. But not on the top. That's hilarious. Yeah, let's sign it and he sits on it. Guys. That's so funny. You can do it underneath when he lifts it on. No.

Why would we want that? How many do we have? I think we have three remaining. No, we send him one, and we all sign it. it and he sits on it. Yes. Why would you not want that? Why would you want that?

Because that's hilarious. And you get to pick what you want. Do you want back butt? Do you want thigh, like thigh? Where you sign it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to go right in the middle

in the back so I'll get a little crack. It's a little feeling about it. See, the palette, although made us miserable and really hate each other for a while, it's making some people happy. He sounded pretty happy. So, that's tell me something good. So we'll sign it and we'll mail it off today.

Nice. stories about an eight-year-old beating up an armed robber. It's interesting, a couple of reasons. From CBS News, an armed robber in Minnesota was beaten back by an eight-year-old girl with a baseball bat. Okay, so cool headline. We like it. It's back to business after a big scare at big discount liquors. An armed robber was beaten back by an eight-year-old girl in her baseball bat. 37-year-old.

His name was Connor or something of St. Paul, which charged his first degree attempted aggravated robbery. The store manager says he was preparing to close. the store around 9.30 p.m. and the guy, the robber was walking around the store. Quote, he put the gun on the table, said, give me the money and everything in the register. And I said, yes, I'll give you everything. Behind the counter was his eight-year-old daughter. He said that he tried to reason with the robber, say, hey, take all the money. I just want to get my daughter safe. Surveillance video shows the guy with a gun, then walks behind the counter with the gun. And so the dad punches the guy and they start fighting.

and then you see the little girl with the bat, and she starts beating the crap out of him. It's awesome. So his daughter hits a suspect, just whacking him, right? I'm sorry, I'm thinking about this video. How humiliating for the robber. He's on video,

now getting beat up by an eight-year-old. That's pretty bad. Aside from everything else, like all that sucks. Like, he's robbing, there's a kid. Dad's getting beat up. She has to deal with this. She's going to be traumatized.

Yeah. But what I thought about most was, this Colin, this robber, who eventually will probably get out of jail. has got to go back to his homies and they're going to be like got beat up by 8 year old now oh people in jail are going to be like

hey what are you in for robbery oh you're that dude on the news because she takes the bat and it starts whacking him that's awesome hilarious so I hope he never gets out of prison or maybe he goes and

rehabilitates himself gets his degree and changes lives but he will always be the guy that got beat up by the 8 year old and that's hilarious Also, like, man, I don't know, you have your kid right behind the counter at the liquor store? I know. Maybe have them in the back.

I don't care about a kid at a liquor store. That's fine. It's your business. But like, maybe if you're closing. Yeah. I know gosh, you just never would imagine that you're going to get robbed. At a liquor store, I think every, I think at every minute. That would be the number one place.

Yeah, it's closing. There's liquor. Oh. Like all the ones I've been to have bars all over. Quick recap. Lunchbox was the coach of his rec league soccer team. they won their season, so the league sent him a gift card for his whole team, except he didn't give it to the team.

He kept it all himself. Yeah. It was about to expire. But you still could have shared. Here's a voice email we got about that. Morning Studio. I'm listening to the segment about if lunchbox is catchy for keeping the gift card for his team. And I had a kind of similar situation that I wanted to know if I was sketchy.

I had collected the money for a gift for our boss. And we decided on a place that offered one of those like bonus. If you spend $100, you get an extra $25 gift card. And so we collected money. I went and bought the gift card. And then I kept the bonus gift card. Does that get me? Let me know.

No. It's not the same. Because that wasn't really part of what the deal was. I mean, it's not, you're not going to heaven for it. You don't get a free ticket to heaven. But you're also not taking the train down to Hillsville. Right. Because what you were doing is going to get the $100, whatever, for the boss.

Who knew there was a little extra there? Lunchbox was getting an entire gift certificate for the whole team. He just kept it all. Like, he bought that ticket then. Hillsville. It was like $200 or $250. It was great dinner. It's not the most integrity-filled caller, but it's not bad because nobody knew.

The rest of the team knows that he spent all the money that was for them. I appreciate that, though. Here's Amy's pile of stories. So we're always looking for ways to get good sleep. And I saw an article today from Dr. Nick Popas from the New York Post talking about four things we can do for a perfect nice sleep. And I'm like four, that's attainable. Only four drugs? Only four pills?

No, no, no, no, no. Only one of them is a pill one of them before. Okay, go ahead. Blackout curtains in the bedroom. You have those? Yes, because at times, depending on the daylight savings, it's still light when I need to fall asleep because of this job. So I do have those. What's tough is when I go to a hotel and I have the same thing.

thing and it's still sunny and I need to go to sleep. So I just, I carry a comforter along with me and tape it to the wall everywhere I go. Oh. Oh, yeah. It's been a lot of work. It is. It's a terrible idea. I just moved and don't have any curtains yet and I just realized one of my windows,

like that one of my neighbors could perfectly see in. I'm like, okay, I need to tape something to the wall ASAP. Or maybe you find out you like that. Yeah, no, my thing. Screen time, cutoff time, which you talk about all the time, but 30 minutes before bed. Because even though we talk about this, we read it. We know I'm still looking at my screen or watching something right before bed. Classic you.

Air purifier in the bedroom. I'm on my screen while I sleep. We have an air purifier in the bedroom and we have a nice one. I think the thing is, who knows if it even works? It's like someone who says they died and came back to life. Can't prove it. Like we have this air purifier and it's cleaning up the air. But I mean, how do I know?

Well, the Sleep Foundation says that nighttime allergy symptoms like congestion, coughing, nose throat irritation, that can make it challenging for you to sleep and you don't even realize it's happening. And I have bad allergies, although I didn't miss my allergy shot Friday. Oh, such an idiot. You got a reminder. You said, I've got to get my allergy shot today. No, he actually got the reminder and said, I don't have an allergy appointment today. Yeah, no, it was like eight things that happened wrong.

Yeah, anyway, move on, because I was so irritated because when I finally went, because I did go and I grabbed the door handle and click, click, click. I was like, oh my God, I finally remember it down the door. It's over. Doors locked. So anyway, I'm very allergic to. today. Go ahead.

Well, the final thing, which is the pill thing, and it's magnesium 30 minutes before bedtime. That's this doctor's final step. Is that what they call an edible? No, it's magnesium. Oh, okay. All right, got it got it. Magnesium. All right, Oreo-flavored Coca-Cola.

Sounds good. I don't really think that right now it sounds good in my head, but I like the two flavors, and I can see where they'd mix. Yeah, and then get this. Coca-Cola-flavored Oreos. We're getting both. No, I think that's, I'm not. Is that the same thing? Yeah, basically.

Like one's just crunchy, one's just a liquid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think that's probably pretty good. I like Coca-Cola. I like Oreos, and it's not like I like mustard and I like coconut pie where they don't go together at all. I think those go together fine. They're both sugary.

They're rolling out into stores next month so you can look for them. I always like looking at trying out all the different Oreo flavors. You do? I mean, I like it. I never think about it. Let me try all the different flavors. Oh, yeah. When we go to the store and I'm like looking at, I'm like, oh, huh, that's a new one.

That's a new one. That's also what I have to help me go to sleep at night. That was my fifth one. one that you had, Oreos and Coke. It helps me go right to sleep. Okay, so I saw this whole thing about productive people sharing tips that help them focus. So if you're not as productive, you can take their advice. And one of the top things was taking five minutes at night to sit down and go over a to-do list for the next day.

The problem with things like this, you have to be productive if you even want to sit down and make the list. So you're going, to be more productive if you're not, we need you to sit down at night and make a list. Well, we have to be productive to even sit down and make the list. That's true. Right. So it's hard. There are little shortcuts that you can take in order to keep you from being less productive, meaning I lay my clothes out almost every day.

I don't think it takes more than five minutes, but I know if I happen to be running late, if this morning, Ella would, she just wanted to play ball at 4.30 in the morning. And she just kept bringing me the ball. And so I had 10 minutes to go play ball in the dark with her because I knew she. So, but my clothes already laid out.

Another one is the hardest thing for people, me too. It's not a productive thing, but it's just a start. It doesn't matter what it is. Just start. Meaning if you're like, I do not want to work out. I hate working out, by the way. The best thing for me to do, because I'm going to hate it, is just start. Just go and start even though it sucks.

If you know you're going to do it anyway, get it over with because it's going to suck. You might as well get to suck it over with early. But you're not going to be more productive by doing things you already wouldn't do if you weren't productive anyway. So otherwise, just get a productive friend to kick you in the butt. That's, yeah, you could be that friend. No, I'm busy. I got no more people to call until I'll be productive. Oh, they say keep a notepad by your nightstand and then maybe that will help.

Then you lose a pen. Okay, this person is not that productive. Whoever made all this stuff. Keep notes on your phone. And if you really can't remember to go to your notes, keep part of it on your screen. Then you always see. As long as you'll update your screen, you'll always see the goals. The little agendas you have for that day and you can X them out.

I love X and stuff out. everything I have is be blackened stuff out once it's done. Yeah, it's very satisfying. So that could be another thing. Also, check it off. The best thing if you want to be productive, that I would recommend anybody,

have a lot of childhood trauma where you grow up very poor and alone. Oh, man. Because then you have to get things done or you think you'll be back being poor and alone. Doesn't sound healthy. Well, I'm just saying, if you really want to be productive,

it involves a lot of childhood trauma. That's the number one? That's number one, for sure. It's like, have a dad that left when you were a kid, you know, addiction, having to figure out how to make it on your own because then you'll be like, if I'm not productive, I'm going to go back to that life.

That's what I would say. Live in fear? Absolutely. Got it. Now we have it. Noted. I'm Amy. That's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. You can have opinions.

You can have like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program. I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and hosts of the podcast, a slight change of plans. a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation. There is one finding that is consistent, and that is that our resilience rests on our relationships. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes.

Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On a recent episode of the podcast Money and Wealth with John Hobriant, I sit down with Tiffany the budgetista Aliche to talk about what it really takes to take control of your money. What would that look like in our families if everyone was able to pass on wealth to the people when they're no longer here? We break down budgeting, financial discipline, and how to build real wealth, starting with the mindset shifts to, many of us were never, ever taught. Financial education is not always about like, I'm going to get rich. That's great.

It's about creating an atmosphere for you to be able to take care of yourself and leave a strong financial legacy for your family. If you've ever felt you didn't get the memo on money, this conversation is for you to hear more.

Listen to Money and Wealth with John O'Brien from the Black Effect Network on the I'd Heart Radio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Daniel Jeremiah. And I'm Greg Rosenthal. And this is 40s and free agents. The games may be over, but the NFL never stopped.

This is my favorite part of the calendar. Yeah, mine too, Greg, free agency, the combine, the NFL draft, Pro Days, trades. This is where teams reshape their future. This is where Daniel Jeremiah makes his money. On 40s and free agents, we break down every move that actually matters. From my draft evaluations, mock drafts, and team fits, to my top 101 free agents and how real rosters are built, cap space, contracts, and all the tough decisions included. You got quarterbacks on the move.

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Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's time for the good news. With Bobby. Tell me something good. So is it getting hotter just generally? Or are we getting older? Oh, it's getting hotter, man. Right, but I mean, we're also getting, because back as a kid, I was like, this is nothing.

My 20s like, this is not. I go outside for like five minutes. Like, this sucks. Like, it's so hot. And so not easy to stay cool when it's as hot. And Jennifer Jordan, she would always do stuff for the homeless anyway, but she's like, Man, especially now, like you're homeless. The weather is crushing you.

So she walks, she's just popsicles, big things of popsicles, and she makes it her mission to walk around in Boise, Idaho, and pass out popsicles and frozen fruit to people living on the streets. Oh, that's awesome. And she's like, it's not like something that, because she didn't have a million dollars or anything, but just stuff like that because it is so hot to help people. I thought it was a great story.

Jennifer Jordan, awesome. That's from KTVB. We love sharing that. That is what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. These people got trapped in the gateway arch in St. Louis. I've been in that thing. And hey, St. Louis, I love you.

I ain't ever going up in that thing again. Oh, yeah. You go up in it? Yeah. It's like you go and you get in a little pod. And then it clunk, clunk, clunk. And it doesn't go straight up because it's an arch. It's a curve.

Oh, no. I didn't think about that. And then at the top, you get out and you like walk and it's like windy. And it moves? I don't like heights anyway. And it's not very big. Like you don't feel like it's, you feel kind of. kind of crammed in there.

I agree. It's tight. Yeah. All of it. I'd much rather look at as a drive-by, which we go to St. Louis couple times a year. Love to look at it from the ground. Don't like being in it. These people, they get in it.

And next thing you know, they're stuck for like two hours. Two dozen tourists. We're stranded. I would be thinking something's wrong with it. Like, we're stuck. We need more information. Do they think that there's a bomb on it? Do they think that, like, watch.

I would spiral out of control. It's like people to get stuck at Ferris wills. Now, I don't think there's bombs on those Ferris wills or whatever. That's what it's called, right? Yeah. And they're just on top. Or like a roller coaster when they hang upside down. My head would be so red with blood.

There's nothing I can do. That would be terrible. So a big shout out to these people. The cause of malfunction is under investigation. The Northleg of the arch remains closed until repairs are complete. It's the second time of two years. Passengers have been stranded inside the arts. They're averaging about one a year.

So if I were going to wait until that one happens each year and then go. That stinks. All right, time for the morning corny. The morning corny. Did you hear about the guy that evaporated? No. He'll be missed. That's funny.

That was the morning corny. That's a pretty good one. Let's go to Jara in Florida. Hey, Jara, you're on the show. What's going on? Hi, morning, studio. Morning. Okay, so I just have a question.

I was wondering if you guys could do a segment of the worst scams that he's falling for. And the reason I say this is because I remember, like, a year ago, when Amy fell for the scam, I think it was like a prisoner had just gotten out and he came to the door. And he was selling Amy something and Amy cried with him. And Amy gave the person her credit card number. Yeah. And then she bought magazines and never really happened. No, wasn't magazine.

Produce. Never really happened. Yeah. I think we could spend an hour on Amy's. Yeah. Well, that one right there is probably my worst. You think? What about the cat?

Oh, yeah. Amy bought like this really expensive cat, but it was hyperalogenic. It was a deposit. Yeah, she gave a deposit, and then she never got the cat. And then we went after them on the show, and all of a sudden she got her deposit back. But, like, they weren't going to give it back to her. No chance. That was the biggest scam ever.

get scam for that. They were in Louisiana. That was a tough one. I mean, I've been very fortunate as far as like scams and links for me. Somebody used my credit card at Bojangles last week and I canceled it immediately. Really? Yeah, you were gone and I was like, somebody used to my credit card to Bojangles. Cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel.

But I think my number just got out and I have LifeLock? No one went to Bojangles. Your wife didn't go to Bo Jangles. I hit her up. You have Bo Jengles? Nope. Cancel the card. So I think lunchbox back in the day day maybe was the first one to like get semi-scam

because he clicked the link he thought he was on the news. Hey look you were on the news. What? I was on the news? No, it wasn't me. But it's just a link. They were fished. Oh, they got him good. I mean, trying to get them. The biggest that doesn't come off as scam-scam, but definitely Ray got scammed when he thought

he was modeling for Express and he showed up and took pictures in a basement. That's a scam. It's different. Hey, good job I'm putting it on right now because it's good. It's off you because this is the worst. It's definitely the worst. was approached by a photographer.

It was like, hey, I'm shooting for Express, the store and the mall. Men's, yes, good. Yeah, and so it would come down into my basement, and Ray got in his underwear and, like, on the bed. On the bed and took all these pictures. And just his underwear, they never, ever surfaced. Weird. Never made the magazine?

Never was in a pamphlet. The guy, we don't even know if the guy was actually a photographer, or if the camera had film. I mean, I'm sure it had film. He was documenting. Looking back, Ray. Yeah. Pretty, like, do you kind of hate that that happened? For sure, scammed.

Yeah. And it was a learning experience, yeah. Yeah. What does this make possible? Like, you were there, like, naked, basically. Yeah, and then after the fact, I did realize that's the reason he wanted me to drink, you know. Oh, wow. He wanted you to drink.

Yeah, he said there's a fridge. You can have drinks. You're more comfortable when you're drinking. And so how unclothed did you get? My underwear. And, like, you were laying in the bed, like, Spread Eagle. were you like doing like on all fours like how was he having you model the underwear normally they wanted to i guess he was saying they're trying to promote it as a lounge wear so but all this stuff now this that everybody's

wearing all this relaxed fit clothing i was the start of it years ago with this guy and he said people are going to now be more comfortable in underwear and briefs and stuff like that on their couch so that's how it was modeling and so you were wearing briefs on a couch and was he getting like really close to you like take a picture like close ups yeah it was for a magazine but it wasn't so you can't argue that but yes yes Was there anyone else there, Ray? Like it was just you too. Like a lighting director? No, it was just him, but he did say there were other people getting filmed later in the day.

Sure, of course, course, course, course. Was there any chance that you were changing and there were pictures taken of you that you didn't know? I think that was before webcams and secrets, stuff like that. Okay. I think that's the leader in the clubhouse of in the past how we've been scanned. Yeah. Eddie have any way you've been scanned? No, I just remember when we were moving to Nashville,

I saw a house for a rent for like $200 a month, and it was awesome, and it was huge. And then when I called them, they were like, no, this is not for rent. And it ended up being, yeah, Nigerian Prince. So. But I called the real owner. They're like, this is not for rent. So this is. You were interested in the scam.

Oh, I was ready to do it. Yeah, that sounds pretty fun. I didn't have a good deal. Yeah, but I didn't fall for it. Lunchbox had seen a new one. What was it? I got a text message, and it says, hello, my name is Evelyn Thornton, and I'm a recruiter. It's Simply Hired.

We offer full-time and part-time jobs, and we've had your resume sent to us and recommended by several online recruiters. So we'd like to offer you a part-time job or full-time, depending on what you're interested in. The work is simple, and all you need it is a smartphone, computer, to get the job done.

Daily wages range from 270. All that. All good stuff. But then you click a link. Did you click it? No, because here's my thing. I don't have a resume. You know what kid for my buddy? So I knew that wasn't for me, but I thought if you were looking for a job and you would sit your resume out, you would think, oh, man, that's awesome.

Someone has contacted me about a job. Or this actually could be a thing and they just have the wrong number down. Yeah, I think they're shooting their shot. Maybe. They're spreading the net. This wasn't a scam, but it's more of catfish. I got catfish and I was like 26. Oh, this one.

I thought it was a guest jeans model who wanted to say what up and like I talked to her. But her webcam was always broken. Bree. Yeah. And then turns out it was a dude who was like getting money from other men. Didn't it make the news or something? Yes, it was a big story. And I luckily didn't, I mean, I didn't pay him that much.

But it was so it was just, no, nothing. But I brought him on the air thinking it was a girl to prove to them. I was like, guys, you'll never believe somebody actually likes me. I guess Jean's model. And they were like, no way. And then we put her on. And she came on the show. It sounded a drunk scrap.

We came on the show. And it turned out it was like a really small man who had made a lot of money off the dudes. Scamming lots of people. And we've all. You know, a pretty scammable shot. It's still wild. You got caught up in that. I didn't get caught up because nothing happened to me.

You were in it, though. He got mad at us. You thought, when we were like Bobby, we were questioning this yes, Gene's model being into three. What was your name, Bree Larsson? Because nobody ever wanted to go on. No, Brie Condon. Free. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yes. Okay, Bree Condon. It wasn't that I was like, I wasn't mad at you. I was so happy for me because it was like. But you were defensive. Yeah. We were questioning it. Because I was like, I can't, there's finally a girl that likes me and you guys are fine.

That's what it was. I felt so insulted. This is the story here from 2010. They have been in contact for months from ABC News. When the woman who identified herself as Bree Condon made the first request for money, Mark Puello said they met online exchange telephone calls and emails. Bree had sent pictures of herself, but they'd never met in person. According to the affidavit, he had sent $10,000 to Brie Condon.

Luckily, I was broke in. I'm be honest with you. Because it might have been a different story then. But yeah, I was just so insulted because there were no girls that wanted to date me. And finally, there was a model and they were like, there's no chance. And I was like, you guys are so mean. And there was a little man. There's a little man.

But, yeah, Jarr, we've been through it a little bit over here. I can see. Well, thank you guys so much for sharing your story. Yeah, you brought up a lot of hurt. A lot of paths. A lot of hurt that is just kind of still there. I hope you have a great day, Jari. Thank you for listening to the show.

Thank you, too. So a person goes in for colonoscopy. I've had one myself because I have crazy digestion issues. And the doctor's like, okay, let's take this too, place it right up the old butt. And the patient's going, oh my God, stop, stop, ow. It's hard. And you're not really supposed to be able to feel. Not at all.

It's a, they knock you out, right? Yeah. The doctor couldn't hear the patient because his hearing aids weren't in. Oh, my goodness. Oh. Wait, what about a nurse? Let me just walk you through the story. A Florida gastro has been disciplined after recent colonoscopy procedure.

one where he couldn't hear an improperly sedated patient screams because he wasn't wearing his hearing aids. See, and here's where it gets tricky. 84-year-old. Oh, no, no, man. I know, I know, I know. 84-year-old doctor. Prasad has been placed on probation.

Both colonoscopies took place on the same day, which would make sense if he didn't have his hearing aids on that one day. During the first, they said the doctor was to have improperly delegated medical tasks to a surgical tech who did not have a license to practice medicine. Well, that feels like it's also not good. The tech was instructed to perform at least one task from a list, including scope insertion, which when that happens, if not done correctly, I can assume if not being properly sedated would not feel good. Doc, that hurts, Doc, that hurts, Doc, Doc, Doc's over there on, I can't. candy crushing at 84. That stinks. I think you would, boy, 84, though, I would say you'd think you'd have the mindfulness to go,

okay, going in to be a doctor today, must turn my heroinades on, but then you're also 84. You forget things. So how much my... I mean, if I walk in an office and this 84-year-old doctor, I'm out. Walk right out. Yeah, see you. And probably universally, not every 84-year-old is a terrible doctor. But I think there's probably

80. This is probably not a good. How many 84 year old doctors are there though? We almost had two candidates run. There'll be 80s in their presidency. Right. With one left. Right.

So we're acting like... That's a good point. I don't think I get in a car with an 80-year-old driving. Yeah, I hear you. So I'm not letting them operate on me. My point is I bet every 80-year-old doctor isn't bad, but there's only put like one or two good ones out of like 10 million. Well, and when we're 80, we're going to keep wanting to do what we do.

I won't. No, we're retiring. Yeah, I'll be retired for that. I'll be doing for sure virtual podcast. For 80 year olds out there everywhere that feel like they're being hated against. So shout out to that doctor who gave 80 years of service. Yeah. Well, not quite.

He's four then. But who gave 60 years of good quality service. Maybe we take a deep breath. We play some golf we call it today. You know what I mean? First story. A woman was escorted off an aircraft because she refused. used to put her Louis Vuitton bag on the floor for takeoff.

So the bag was about $3,000. It was August 10th. So we're looking at a little over a week ago. And they said, hey, would you put your bag? Wasn't even about really the bag. They don't really know the bag. If they do, it doesn't matter. But if you fly, there are safety rules.

You have to follow, like for a minute, put your bag underneath the seat. If you don't put it above. Like, that's the rule. The thing is, if you are carrying a $3,000 Louis Vuitton handbag, you should be able to lay that on the ground because that $3,000 shouldn't affect you so much or get you kicked off a flight if you don't put it on the ground. It's like in college I had friends who would buy cars that they could not afford. And so when anything went wrong with it, they couldn't fix it because they couldn't afford the car that they just bought.

Like they would get like a Corvette or something. What? And they'd put like a system in it and they'd be like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. They can drive anywhere. But if anything went wrong with it, they couldn't pay the bill for it. Similar to this, she was like, I will not put it on the ground. Okay, well, A, don't take it. Two, take a towel.

If this, oh my gosh. You put a little towel in the bag. Okay. I'm just saying if you must carry it on the flight and you lay it on the ground, you put the bag on top of it. There are like 84 different things you can do instead of getting kicked off this flight. Yeah, go to the bathroom and get paper towels, lay those down. You can do anything. I guess.

And when moronic things happen like this, it really bothers me. I'm very anti-moron in case you're wondering my political stance on morons. Okay, got it. However, I'm still one like 10% of the time. So it's really hard to be full anti-moron. We all are a little bit moron. But nothing like this. Like if you're going to have a bag, an expensive bag, you have to still follow rules.

Because what if you're like, man, put your bag on the floor. No, that's 3,000. Oh, well, then you can break any rule you want. Right. Might as well get in the cockpit. Oh, that's a Louis Vuitton? Those bags can't go on the floor. No, they can.

I can, she just doesn't want an expensive bag and push the floor. Hopefully, if I'm ever on a flight and I get delayed because someone doesn't want to put their Louis Vuitton bag away, I'd be so annoyed. You're going to take a picture of them posted? Is that what you do? I don't know. I'd just be so frustrated. You're not hateful like that.

Lunchbox would, though. I would have an internet. He'd take a picture of it. And that is the end of the first half of the podcast. On a recent episode of the podcast, Money and Wealth with John Hobrient, I sit down with Tiffany the budgetneesst

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