The Bobby Bones Show - MON PT 2:  Bobby's Baby State Of The Union Address

Episode Date: March 30, 2026

Bobby talks about a man who says a company illegally held his criminal convictions against him when considering his application for an administrative job. Lunchbox shared how Amy Bradley’s disappearance was given renewed attention as the FBI issued a new appeal. Bobby delivers his first-ever Baby State of the Union and nothing is off-limits. From full-on “dad brain” and first-week exhaustion to mastering a full-speed diaper “pit crew” routine, Bobby breaks down what life is really like in the early days of fatherhood. He shares the stuff no one tells you like how quickly the days blur together, why he’s suddenly less grossed out by… everything, and the unexpected chaos of dog gates. Plus, he answers listener questions about baby music, daily schedules, and whether he’s actually pulling his weight on diaper duty.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Let's see a couple of voicemails first. Go ahead, Ramundo. Bobby and Eddie, oh my goodness. That guessing game of trying to guess each other's people had me crying. Thank you so much. And I hope you do another one. Thanks. Do you see that video?

Yes. Oh, I guess I can say who. Dr. Phil and. Yeah, you can say it. Dr. Phil and Ambriolar. Okay. I know. I get nervous. That game, who knew that game would take off like it has?

I posted that on Thursday or maybe Friday. It's got over a million views already. But yeah, that was a disaster of a game. It really was. Yeah. So we put it up on Friday's podcast. So you guys may have heard it. We put it up separate. But it's also up on YouTube and whatever. That's stupid. Give me the next one. Eddie. All right, man. I promise I won't sue you that something happens with the sauce.

Can you use this recording as proof of that? I'll try to make it more official. I, Lonnie Thomas Wilson, the Pits, assume all risk and responsibility of obtaining and consuming Eddie Salsa. Appreciate it. All right. Send the guy the salsa overnight it. There you have it.

Overnighted. Okay. Why do you say that? You want to spend the money on it? No, it's just, it's a process. The whole ice situation in a container that's not going to leak and, like, if it doesn't get there in a day and then it's going to leak everywhere or the boss. It's not going to leak.

You're going to make a lot of excuses. Now he's talking about leaking, but you were talking. The whole, it's not an excuse. I've thought about this because I really want to get Lonnie Jr. the third. You don't. Or you would have. Salsa.

You would have. Okay. You guys, voice-mels, if you want to hit us up, you can. 877, 77, Bobby. I'll go first. This guy, Scott Dow was offered a senior operations administrator position after a job interview last year. He's suing now because he interviewed with FedEx.

They withdrew the offer after finding DUI. child pornography and harassment convictions on his record. He is now suing under Pennsylvania's Criminal History Record Information Act, known as Crya, which bars employers from rejecting applicants based on convictions unless they're related to the job. Wait, well, I mean, DUI could be related to the job. How about the child porn? Yeah, you just know.

No, you don't want him. Right, that's any job. That's just like, that's related to life. And I'm not sure what happened with this, but I'm just reading the child. the story. It said child pornography, conviction on his record. So this guy, it's so public now. Like, why would this guy sue? Move on. They're not hiring you. You have child porn on your record, but now that you're suing, it's now so public that people like us who would never even known about this story. Maybe people didn't even know about him are now going to know he's

that freaking child porn on his record. Crazy. And if he does get hired for some reason, the court overturns they have to hire him or they're just going to find a reason to fire him. They're just going to paper trail him. And also, he's going to get beat up. Yeah. Could he be rehabilitated? I mean, sure. Everyone can, right?

I don't know, man, child porn. Rehabilitate somewhere else. Right. Not in my company. I know. Right. I know. Scott Dow was conditionally offered the job. Dow reacted by calling his attorney.

It is now suing. The lawsuit claims FedEx never explained how his specific convictions were relevant to the position. Dude, you got child porn on your record. That's it. What's the job? Is he like a driver? He doesn't say. Well, that's why I was thinking maybe the DUI would impact him.

But even then if you're a driver, you can be in contact with kids. That's from Penn Live is that story. That is like the worst thing. It's the absolute worst thing. So we don't feel sorry for you. No. according to this story. Amy, what do you have? So new footage was released from the 2025 crash in D.C. of the plane that went into the Black Hawk or the Black Hawk that went into the plane.

Oh, from Kansas? Yeah, the, yeah, full of the ice skaters. And yeah, taken off from Wichita. And then 60 minutes had this whole thing because this has resurfaced and they were going through newly released footage, newly released docs. And in the docs, it shows that a second incident happened just hours later, just a few hours later, where another helicopter approached as a flight from Connecticut was coming in for a landing. An alarm went off on the plane and they scrapped the landing to dodge the chopper. So we almost had two of those happened? Yes, but 60 minutes went on to report the air traffic controllers have spent more than a decade telling the FAA that it's dangerous to have so many helicopters and passenger jets sharing the airspace in D.C. And so I, I have, I,

I don't know. It just freaks me out of how many near misses that there are. And yeah, to think of the air spaces that are heavy with traffic, like airplane traffic for one. But yeah, in D.C., there happens to be a lot of helicopters, too. So if they've been talking about this for a decade, we might need to implement some change. Like, let's go. Let's focus on that instead of some of this other ridiculous stuff sometimes we focus on. The birds freak me out. The birds? The geese? You can't control that. Yeah, that's, there's nothing. A flock of birds happens to fly up right around that time. Now, all those don't end up in horrific crashes and deaths, but some do.

But, yeah, I didn't know there was one right after that. Yeah, I had to avoid when I saw the newly released footage, I was like, scroll past it, scroll past it because I didn't want to watch it because they said it's, I mean, it's obviously horrific to watch. It's also back in the news because of that airplane hit the fire truck. So any of the crash stuff is now trending, clickable. Has there been footage of that crash, the fire truck? truck one? I've only seen pictures. I saw a

warning. A simulation. Like someone drew a cartoon of it? Yeah, it was like a 3D animation of kind of the of how it went down but I don't know how true that is. Well, you know how sometimes a video will say you know sensitive keep scrolling and it'll give you like five seconds to keep scrolling and so I kept scrolling but I assumed it was about to show what happened. Oh I never saw a video. Mike is there video? Yeah, I've seen it. You have? Oh maybe mine wasn't a simulation then. Is it hardcore? Is it hardcore? it's pretty far away so you don't fully know what you're looking at what's the camera like was someone doing it with their phone no it's like a just like a

camera they have security camera yeah that sucks yeah totally uh all right so anyway if you're flying into dc heads up what yeah hell anywhere you really can't do anything you can't do a head-up you're just sitting on a plane you can't be heads up it's not like if you're a softball game, you're watching for foul balls. She's talking to the pilots. Yeah, the pilots, on this one situation from Connecticut, the plane had a alarm that went off, and they were like,

oh, abort landing. Did the alarm not go off on the other plane? I guess not. I don't know. Okay, lunchbox. Amy Lynn Bradley. Oh, missing at sea? Should we know the name? Oh, yeah.

Oh, is that who went missing on the cruise? I haven't thought about her in a while. Oh, you should. Is there an update? There's an update. How did I miss this? So this was the Netflix show, everybody. and you know she's missing

because we're not spoiling anything and the show called like Where's Amy? Yeah, it's called like Amy's missing or something Yeah, I think it's called Where's Amy? No spoiler, Amy's not in this show. Brought to you by Netflix. Yeah, go ahead. 28 years later, the FBI

is looking for new leads. They will give you $25,000 if you can tell us where she is. Okay, so two things must have happened. One of two things. One, they got so much pressure from the show and people being so curious about it or two, there have been a couple things that have happened since that

from the notoriety of the show that they have discovered she could possibly be alive. I'm going to go with option one. Yeah, I think it's just the hype from the show. Sure. But my whole thing is $25,000.

Like, come on, guys. She's been missing for 28 years. Let's go $100,000. Really get people going. Where do they have to get the money from? I mean, they may not. Like, is it from people that donated saying it.

The FBI is probably federal. Right. The FBI is offering the money. so I assume they just make up a number. But I feel like 25,000, I'm like, that's not really, for someone that's been a big case like this, 28 years, if you want to get people talking, $100,000 gets people talking.

It sounds like a check the box number. Like, hey, we tried. Yeah, we offer. I don't know, $25,000. Like, if I had some information that could possibly lead to it, I'm like, you know, I don't want to get involved in this because it's probably not true. And I don't want to have to deal with the cops.

I probably would call for $20,000. I probably would call for $20,000. That's real money. Yeah, that's real money. but 25,000. They tax that? Is that your question? Well, yes, because if it's a gift from the federal government and then.

You know they tax it. Get some back. I don't know that, but I'm just like, you know they do. So it's really not even 25,000 because the federal government takes it right back. Yeah, exactly. It's probably like 19. You have to actually like your clue has to solve the case. Your clue has to lead to them solving the case.

Correct. Because even if you have like a good clue and they just can't do anything with it, like you don't get any of that money, right? Sometimes this is not the case with this story because it's been, it was 28, years ago, you say? Yep. Sometimes they'll start at 25 and move it up for two reasons. One, because maybe more money will invoke more attention. But also, it's a way for them to keep having this story hit the news.

So if you start at 25 and then you go to 50, it's going to be a headline again when it goes to 50. It's going to be a headline again when it goes to 100,000. So, but if you're just like, we still have $25,000, anybody out there? No one, that's not making the news if you still are only offering $25,000. Doesn't. Do you guys think about her a lot when you're on the cruise? Not once. I forgot about it.

Really? I'm consuming so much media and watching so many shows. I don't even remember the shows that we watch sometimes. I'd sit on my balcony and just think about like, well, could she have jumped out? Like, would she make it here? And then the neighbor across the way, like, look, I could literally, I would even like look at the panel. You know, separated the two rooms and be like, wow, like that neighbor could have jumped over if you wanted to. I don't know.

Yeah, I thought about it a lot. So dangerous, though. like being on a cruise one I don't think from my room I could have jumped out and hit the water don't think same it was too far like there I think I would have clip the rescue boats I don't know if back then 28 years ago I don't know also the dimensions of cruise ship in any way so I'm speaking only from my one experience and two why in the world would you climb across that thing out on the boat because you could probably go room to room if you hold on to the rail and go that's so dangerous yeah because one of the clues was Well, I don't know. Want to talk about it?

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. What if someone hasn't watched it yet? Who cares about those people? But it's a new story and it's not a spoiler. It also... But who did it? We don't know.

I don't know. I think she... Okay, we're going to play. We're just going to guess based on what we've seen and we haven't even seen at all. Yes. Right? I think she's drawn and fell off. Okay.

I think that she was taken off the boat to get traffic. and she became part of that system. But I also believe she had a baby. That's why she doesn't want to leave. Because Amy and I have talked about this. And why would she want to leave her baby? You guys doing your own podcast or what? Yeah. I think we talked about it on the vote.

On the vote. We had it all figured out. That's like people talking about a plane crash on a plane. I don't like that. Amy and I had a long, we spent some time together on the way back. Yeah. Oh, coming back because you guys came back together. I think it was the.

Yellow player? Yellow. Yellow? What I hated about the bass flare, though. I think that was it. The documentary only had one shot of the bass flare, and it was him being all sexy on the base. He was, man. He's grooving.

So you watch that, you're like, well, of course, it was yellow. Look at him. He moves his hip like that playing base. Of course, the guy's up to no good. Because I just, after being on the cruise ship, I don't see there's any way you get off that boat unless you get checked out. There's no way to get off the boat. Yeah.

I would agree, except that's 28 years ago. I just don't know the protocol didn't get off of it. It's like falling off of it. How we had our ship, no way. but I don't know because I think there are probably different rules and standards 28 years ago. Yes. Because I mean even the employees had to scan to get off the boat. Yeah.

I did, you know, watch when we were on port all the food that would be taken off and on the boat, you know, in forklifts. So that could be a way too. You know, taken down to one of the food containers and then like. But you're putting a body in a container? She's dead then. Oh, yeah, true. Or passed out. Yeah.

Hey, Scoo of Steve. Is he in there? Yeah, I'm here. Yeah, I'm right here. What's up? Any idea how our boat for next year is selling? Last I talked, they haven't given me an update as far as post-crues. Okay, they don't worry about it.

Nothing from last time. I know you told us it did like 35% while on the boat. Yes, yeah, and they were pretty happy with that. So I'm sure they'll give us information here. They had a bunch of calls last week about it, so we should have some new information probably the next week or so. Yeah, if you guys want to come on the cruise next year, top shelf countrycruise.com. Let's see.

Eddie. lunchbox is going to love this one so the internet is they think they found something with taylor and travis what's something mean uh some kind of turmoil something weird about the relationship so at the i heart music awards that happened uh there was a camera that panned over to taylor and Travis at a time they weren't expecting it and you can see them kind of get busted by the camera like they were like in the middle of some weird whatever conversation and then like oh let me hug and kiss so now the internet is like oh there's trouble there something was not right

so you think there's something going on even if they were fighting they would not do it there where there are cameras everywhere they're probably just having a normal person conversation you can't sit where they were sitting and be like I feel like they're always

expecting the cameras to be on them at a thing like that I mean guys I don't believe it I think they're perfect together I think this you ever fall on the Gayler Rabbit Hall what's that Gayler?

No where there's all these theories that she's gay what Gaylor like Taylor Oh yeah this is Wait I have never even heard of this Neither have I

You act like that's so normal Yeah Oh over the years I've seen a lot of Gaylor stuff Really? I don't believe it But like her and Carly Clause We're together Morgan

You see the Gaylor stuff? No This is news to me Gaylor Swift Who comes up with this stuff Mike you? I have seen that I didn't make it up

I also don't believe it I just It's on Wikipedia Gailer sometimes referred to as galaism is a loose conspiracy theory that claims that Taylor Swift is non-heterosexual. And that Travis is also probably gay and they're like, well, look at the clothes he wears. What? Just baggy stuff.

Like that she's his beard. I don't believe it, but that's, but over the years has been a lot of gala. And they also like find lyrics in her songs. But again, you can assign a lot of things to song lyrics. Is there a date? Like there's a wedding date, right? I don't know. No. No wedding date, man.

Do they have one? Maybe, but we don't know. It's all for show, man. Oh, you still are on that. They're not real. They're not getting married. Why would they keep doing this? Lunchbox? Tom Cruise did it.

He got married though, and he had a baby. Right. Yeah, they were married. But was his for... Contract. It wasn't a contract. No, Tom Cruise was. Yes, it was.

People auditioned to be his wife. Yeah. But his wasn't for being gay, right? No, his was... Oh, I don't know if it was gay or not. I don't think so. I think it's Scientology. Yeah, I'm not saying that Taylor and Travis is...

I'm just saying I don't think it's real. It's all contract work and for publicity. So Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were never like just married and love married and then it got weird? I don't think so. From the things that we've heard, no. Hmm. Because I remember like she was trying to get out or whatever. But we don't, we don't know.

We really don't know anything. Right. But also... What's weird is that Tom and Nicole Kidman were married and they had two kids. kids and like I'm not going to say I know her know her but I've spent we've had at least three long conversations

and we see each other it's always warm and she and sometimes I'll let her say hi first because I don't want to bother her that type of thing that's just that's bizarre I think she was married to Tom Cruise yeah all you guys met her yeah wow I never you've never met her sorry about that man never

never I probably won't now I've been to her house well yeah I know it's still her house Keith doesn't love there anymore. That's crazy, man. I have a friend that lives right next to them, and she's always walking. She has very perfect, fair skin. Really?

So she wears like a big... Always covered. Big hat, whatever. I don't even think I've seen her. Maybe, maybe like what's CMAs or something from a distance. So nice. Like, could not be nicer. Like, we've been in the mall.

What's the makeup store? Sephora. We've been to Sephora. Her and her daughter in there. I didn't bother. I didn't even let her see me because I didn't want to... have her start talking and then somebody be like that's Nicole Kidman. So I was in Sephora with Caitlin and I kind of hid in the corner because I know if she had

seen me she'd probably said hi but I didn't want to bring attention to her. Like they're very normal. They have such an abnormal life but it's very normal. Because again they're just walking. She was just walking on the mall. Yeah. I feel like you're not the only person that's seen her at the mall or seen them. I saw the whole family at the mall.

There you go. And they pet my dog Remy. I've also seen her at the mall. You've seen her a couple of times. That's crazy. Yeah, like worldwide, super famous. And in this town, you can just go to the mall. Because most people, if you live in Nashville, most people don't bother famous people if they live in Nashville.

Where it gets tricky is tourists coming to town. Because I get it, you're like, oh my God, somebody's famous. But it's why people that live here that have public lives don't go to places where they're tourists. Because it'll be insane. But you can see everybody that's in country music or whoever, just it, there's like, You know, 20 or 30 places that kind of everybody goes. People, I used to always say, if you go to true food, I don't think it's like that anymore. True food in Nashville, you'll see somebody there because it's just such a normal place.

It's not fancy. It's in a part of town that's just normal. You know, a lot of the artists would live around there if they're young in that apartment complex, that condo place. But I don't think that's the case anymore. Target? I've seen a couple of Target. Yeah, but it's usually the target like Franklin or Brentwood. Yeah, not downtown.

Target now. You know it's crazy? There's a chick flay that's downtown that was a corporate chick flay now they turned it into a corporate

and they serve out of it. What do you mean by corporate? The corporate office? It was just like an office? Oh, so they didn't have it it was in a restaurant at all?

Oh, okay. And now it's corporate. I think so, this is my theory. I think so many people saw the sign they would go to it thinking there was food there.

Oh, funny. So they're like, man, we got to turn this in something. Take that sign down. It could be busy. Yeah. And so now it's just a walk in. It's like a window only.

there's no restaurant in there but I think they built a little kitchen and that corporate spy Do you know that there's a Cracker Barrel campus? I've been to it You have? Yes, because I did

a couple campaigns with them and so I went to the campus and I saw where they were building like the room They had different versions of those When you walk in the store They would build fake stores Oh like the front of the restaurant

And practice displays Is that where they train? Yeah, I guess I think corporate is there And corporate does the picking of the selections, but I don't think they take all employees to train there. But corporate, you have to live, I mean, you have to live in that part of Tennessee. Yeah, but it is big, Amy.

Yeah, it's big. It's big. It's like a college campus, but it's all crackerboro. That's like when, if you've ever gone to Dave Ramsey's campus, it's huge. Never been. They call it a campus? It's like, I've done his show a couple times. Isn't it a building?

It seemed, I, well, I was a little overwhelmed. Yeah, you may be right. Did you do a show? I did, his daughters. Rachel? Rachel Cruz. Recently? A couple years ago.

That's cool. I haven't invited you ready? No. Amy, are you talking about the one that's like the giant building all kind of, you can see it from the highway?

Yeah. Like Dave Ramsey Solutions or something? I just know there was like, it seemed like there was multiple buildings and where I was parking, it felt like I was on a campus. I thought they even called it. Maybe.

Campus, but maybe. But the Cracker Barrow one looks like, it looks like a college. A small college. Oh, wow. Okay, yeah. This wasn't, I don't recall a gate, but. No gate, no campus.

Amy's like, yeah, I don't remember a gate at all. Morgan. Oh, yeah. Okay, so this girl goes grocery shopping. She thought it was going to be a normal grocery shopping trip. She bends down to grab something off of one of the bottom shelves. And there was a guy behind her who decided to expose himself. So he is behind her. Yep. So she's not behind the shelf? Nope. So she's squatting down. She's trying to grab something and put it in her basket that's on the floor. And he's kind of standing like Caddy quarter behind her. And, She kind of turns around and sees him, and at that same moment, he shows her his penis. It just shows it or was it like? Oh, it gets, yep, it's right behind you. I don't want to see his penis? It's blurred.

It's blurred. It's blurred. But then he proceeds to put it on her ear all while filming it. Is she in a, oh. Oh my gosh. So she's down and he just comes up and puts a ding-dong on her. I mean, he was right on top of him. You said catty-hangered.

Yeah, well, so he came from behind. So he didn't want her to see him? Yeah, he was kind of like sneaking it. but then he brings it up and puts it on her ear, like literally on... What a freaking weirdo. This dude needs to have the crap beat out of him. Yeah. And he's filming the whole thing.

In prison. Oh my. Because that's not, that technique there was not learned today. This guy has done this before. So we're looking at the store. Every time has to be a first time. No, this guy, but he's not nervous.

He knows exactly where he's going. He knows where to stand. Yeah. And he hasn't, they're looking for him. He hasn't been caught. Oh, go back. There was his picture. Has it been caught?

Yeah. How was he not caught? How was store security not like. It happened yesterday at Whole Foods in California. Whole Foods? What? This is, I was, thought. This is more of a pigly wiggly type thing.

Wow. That is creepy. Uh-huh. You're just shopping for groceries and now you got some dudes ding-dong on your ear. Like if it were, hopefully, if that happened. But she doesn't seem to react very hard. I don't think you'd think that's what it is. Yeah, you're just kind of like.

I think you're confused. Very. I'd be very confused. If you had the understanding of what's happening, grab in. freaking twist. Grab the nuts and freaking twist. I really don't run.

You should run. That's crazy. You should run. That's a weird story to come to the table with Morgan. I saw it and I was like this. I mean, people are weird right now, man.

I don't know what's going on. Right now. They've always been. Always. Yeah. We just have more cameras and TikTok. Yeah. Bots have

surpassed humans when it comes to internet traffic now. Yesterday, the state of AI traffic report was released and confirmed that artificial intelligence and bots have surpassed human users on the internet.

automatic traffic is defined as internet traffic generated by software systems rather than human users, CNBC. This is all what Twitter is because Twitter can be extremely harsh, hardcore. You say something, it's all bot. It's 60, 70% bots. So who's running the bots? Well, there can be... Are bots running bots? There can be people that you program in look for these type of words and say this type of thing back. Okay. Yeah. Hey, that video, that video I sent you of all the, like the bot farm with all the phones.

in there, whatever, they? So not really, not really, oh, yeah, like streaming farms. So Eddie had sent me a video of they kicked in a door. This is not in America, by the way. And there's like a thousand phones, and they put them all to streams just over and over again. Like the same content, whatever they're trying to get stream numbers. Artists do this all the time of music now, too. They can, you can farm streams.

And all of these like thousand phones on the wall had the same video up playing the same video over and over. So that's how the numbers are up. That's crazy. And my text back to Eddie was, how do I hire this? He goes, I need that. Yeah. Like, how do I hire a bot farm?

I don't know. That's crazy. Like, you don't want that though. No, but so if you need a story, like let's say an artist, it's like, I got a song streamed 300,000 times yesterday. I'm really blowing up. And then other people believe it. So they start to put you on playlist. Yeah.

Gotcha. And so that's what you do. You use it to build a story. It's illegal. Don't do it. like how do I how do I do that that'd be crazy could you see what the video was I couldn't see no I was trying to like zoom in I couldn't tell I did see a Madison beer video on the tonight show they pulled that nothing to do with bots I don't know if that she her performance wasn't that

good but she went on to perform on Jimmy Fallon and some of it was still up on Twitter and now they've taken it down and I don't know if it's because of the comments and it wasn't that good Mike will you see if you can find that for me you know she's dating right I bet you've told me, I'd be like, oh, yes, I need that. He's a quarterback. Oh, Joe Burrow. No. For the Chargers. Oh, Justin Herbert. Wow. And did it air? Yeah. Okay, so it aired, and then they pulled it. Yeah, from what I saw. Do you see anything about it, Mike? No, I'm still reading it. It is down, right? Yeah, it looks like it. Yeah, maybe it just wasn't a good performance. It just says due to licensing agreements or a shift in

promotion strategy. Yeah, that's not... Is that code for like... Yes, yes. Oh yeah, she is hot. She's very pretty. She's got 40 million followers on Instagram. Hello.

You want to see, you ready? Yeah, I don't know what she is. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. See? Yeah, she's pretty. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Is he good? Why do you two keep saying, oh, yeah? No, no, I know. No, no. No, don't wrote me in. How old is she? But you just said it. Eddie, you go, oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no. I know her. I know her. I know her. He's 27. Okay.

I'm glad she's not 19. Who cares or she's 19? She's hot. I kind of do a little bit. That'd be weird. You want to see a different one? I'm good. I know her now. I think that we need to evolve past the well,

we're 18. Why? Because it's still. So what's the new number? Listen, now that we are in our 40s, I see an 18 year old. I get very confused. They look so little.

I'm like, there's no way you're old enough to drive. There's no way you're old enough to go off to college. and take care of yourself on your own. Did we look this little? Yes, we did. And you know what makes you think about is men that were into that and that's sick. Now that I'm the age,

I'm like... Well, Madison Beer ain't got nothing to do with that. Yeah, she's 27. She's plenty of age and plenty of hot. If they want to go, oh yeah, oh yeah. I didn't say, oh yeah. You can oh yeah her. You can oh yeah.

I said, oh yeah, I know her. As long as they've moved the tassel. Eddie, there was a pause before you said. No, there wasn't. Oh, yeah. He said, oh, yeah. I said, oh, yeah. I said, oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I got a question. How did I accidentally add her to this? I don't even know what that is. Uh-oh. What is that? He favored it or Instagram.

It's on his favorite. It's far. How do I do that? Accidentally DM'd her. What is that? Uh-oh. That's how it was. I don't know.

Nah, you can just keep it there. Yes, you can delete it. You all have to show me how. I have no idea. I was trying to click on pictures, and I don't know how that got up there. I did a baby statement. I did a baby state of the union on YouTube. It's about a half hour.

We're going to play that now. And then we have a caller. We're going to talk to you about some stuff. So we're going to play this baby state of the union. We'll take a break. And we will come back. Hello, gorgeous. It's Lala Kent.

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That'll be mostly what this video is. I will say, though, that I do a bit to understand what they would call dad brain. Yesterday, I was leaving the gym. It was the first time that I'd actually been to a workout in a couple of weeks because for those that don't know, this is my first child. So it was later in life. I mean, I was 45 years old until we actually had a baby. And so if you're watching this, you're like, what's up with the old guy talking about a baby?

Like, we just had a baby for the first time ever. So all this stuff is new to me. And so, I mean, I didn't even know that I was going to have kids. I didn't even know that I was going to get married. I don't think until I met my wife, I thought I was going to get married because I was 37 or 38 before I met my wife. I'd kind of given up on thinking that I would actually meet somebody that I felt like would make me better that I would not settle for. So on my mind, I kind of given up. I had always thought, hey, having kids would be fun, but I was never going to have kids or get married for the sake of just getting married, which would have hurt me politically, I think, if I ever ran for political office because that had been the weirdo that wasn't married

running for office. It's hard to get votes whenever you're not married with a kid because they want to see that traditional nuclear family. Also, I wrote a kid's book without a kid. How weird is that? Now, a bit it makes sense. and I didn't write the book to get kids. It's weird to say. I wrote a book that I thought I would have liked as a kid. But yeah, when I was doing press for my book, Stanley the Dog in his first day of school,

it was a little weird doing interviews when I didn't have a kid and I wrote a kid's book. I'm not going to lie. But now that I have a kid, please buy my book, Stanley the Dog, the first day of school. So we have a child. She's a couple weeks old now. and it's been a blur and it feels like it was just yesterday

and it also feels like it was 10 years ago at the same time because we have dedicated all of our time to that. The first week I took off work completely. I had been working with the show for a couple of months prior to make sure I had recorded full shows and we had all these shows that went up on our Bobby Bone Show stream and even secondary podcasts and we had done interviews for my Netflix podcast called The Bobbycast.

We were working, we were great. for like three or four months to make sure we recovered so I could take a week off work. And that's what I did. Took a week fully off work. And the second week, I worked from home. So if my wife needed anything, I was there. I could walk out of the studio and help her. So now we're in like the third week, which I'm back to work, 75%. But it's a lot of attention paid on one thing. I would compare to a long, long road trip where you really haven't done a lot of work, but you've been so focused on something to make sure that nothing bad happens, that you're exhausted. Like the first week, we'd be like, why are we so tired? Because we didn't really do, it's not like we were doing

curls with the baby. We weren't like lifting her above our head. It's just focus on it and building out of schedule. And so I, my brain was, and still is in a bit of mush. So much so to what I was talking about is I was leaving the gym yesterday. It was the first time I had been back to work out in like a trainer capacity. And I've been boxing. a bit and my coach comes out of the front door because he has a small boxing studio and he's like hey hey and i'm thinking he's going to tell me man you're really crushing it like day one back you could be a pro boxer uh he was and he was like hey your trunk's open and not only with my trunk open but the stroller was like halfway hanging out of the back uh so got a little bit of dad brain

there um thankfully he saw that i'd have been driving on the road i'd have lost the stroller and those things are not cheap stroller the bassinet that goes on top of the stroller all that hanging halfway out the truck. So that happened. Yesterday, we had installed these gates in our house and not so much a baby gate so a baby can't get somewhere, but we had put these gates up in a car, in one place specifically so the dogs don't have free run in the house. It has been a bit of an introduction phase with the dogs to the baby, and we have a bulldog, and Stanley's been great, because mostly because he doesn't care. So, you know, we did the whole, let the dog, smell the baby, let the dog be around the baby a little bit, but don't give it full access to the baby.

You know, people say put blankets in the dog's kennels or beds. And so we've done that type of stuff. And so for the first week, Stanley was around her a lot and he just doesn't care. If it's not food, he doesn't care. He's a eight-year-old bulldog at this time. He just wants to be fed. Eller, a little more high strong. She's definitely taller, more athletic, so she can get to places that Stanley can't. And so with her, we've had to really be precious with the time that we allow her around the baby. And she's now great. It just took a second.

But we have these gates that we've put up to block different entrances in our house so the dogs can't get to the baby, not so the baby can't get to the dogs. That being said, it's annoying with the gate because the gate goes up to about a little higher than the top of my hip. And I'm a little more than six foot tall. And there was a wrestler back in the day, WCW named Elegante. And he, seven foot seven, he would step over the top road. So I kind of picture myself as being Elegante. and I would step over the top of the gate.

And I had some diapers, had like a cloth on my shoulder. I had the peanut that you changed the baby on. And I'm stepping over the gate. And my foot catches and I wipe out face first on the freaking floor. Like I'm talking hit hard. Shoulder hits, head hits. I had surgery on my ankle.

My ankle hurts. So also a bit of probably dad brain. is that I wasn't super focused on getting over the gate, but I wiped out heart. Everything still hurts. My back hurts, my neck hurts. That happened. Now, I have other questions from you guys specifically,

because I did a Q&A on my Instagram, and I was like, hey, ask your questions, and it was 99% baby questions. So here we go. Any music you play for the baby, there's two songs that we play the most for the baby. Number one is this song by Imogen Heap. It's called The Happy Song.

And I know I'm Average and Heep from Back in the day. She was like an emo, I don't want to say electronic artist, but kind of in the Bjork world. And so there's this song that they commissioned an artist to do because scientists had come up with a lot of different things that you should put in songs and different melodies that work. And she was the one they asked to do it. And it supposedly calms your baby down, which is crazy. And I don't know that it works, but I do know. know that sometimes the baby gets calmer while it plays, but this song was scientifically created to make your baby happy.

Image and heap, the happy song. We play it all the time, so much so, that I sing it just randomly now because we hear it all the time. It is on a loop. That one, and the drugs don't work by the verve. And that song goes, drugs don't work. And then it's about drugs and stuff. But that song was playing when my wife went into labor,

and now I can't stop thinking about it. We've played it so many times. So those are the two songs we play the most. The happy song, and the drugs don't work by the verve. And drugs don't work, they just make you worse, but I know I'll see your face again. It has nothing to do with babies. It's really a really sad song about drugs.

So as far as music goes, that's where we are. We haven't played any of our kids' album, Raging Kidiots to the baby, mostly because I don't want to hear myself sing songs. Do you change diapers was a question in a bunch of forms? I've been at 95% of the diaper changes. Like I've been an assistant at 95% of the diaper changes. We have a pit crew technique of baby goes down onto the peanut. And the peanut is actually a place, I didn't know this, all this is new to me.

The peanut is shaped like a peanut and it's a rubber thing that you lay the baby on to change the baby. So if she pees or poops on it, it's rubber. so you just wipe the peanut down, clean it up, and it's good for the next time. So the peanut gets carried around the house a bunch. We have two peanuts now. We layer on the peanut. I go right to the wipes. One, two, three wipes, boom on the side of the peanut.

Then I unzip the onesie and I pull the legs out, double leg lift, put the diaper underneath her. Now, then my wife goes in. Undoes the diaper, goes down, make sure it's all good. She does the cleaning of the baby. straps the diaper on. If she needs more wipes, I hand her more wipes. As soon as she's done with that, I'm then handed the dirty diaper. I take the dirty diaper to the trash and I put the dirty diaper away. When I come back, it's now time to zip her up in the onesie. I have the right leg. She has the left leg every single time. She's already done the arms while I was away. Right leg, left leg.

Zip up, boom, done. So we've got that down. I have done two solo changes. That's right. I did a P solo change. and then recently I did a poop solo change. I was pretty happy with myself. Now, selfishly, I don't want to get too good at it because I'm going to be asked to do it all the time. But I do need to know how to change a diaper. And I'm there for pretty much every single one of them.

I've been at work a little more now, so I've not been able to do them all in the morning. But I know the timing of it all. We were having to feeder every two to two and a half hours. And now we're on a three to three and a half hour schedule. So it's change her. So she wakes up, feed her. Then she goes to sleep while she's eating,

which is very difficult to get her to wake up sometimes while she's eating so she can eat enough food. And then she takes an nap. And it just stays on a schedule like that until nighttime, which now she's sleeping at times five and a half to six hours. So I've been at 95% of the diaper changes and I've done two solos. Could I do it if my wife said, hey, let's do a diaper change or, hey, I'm going to be gone. Can you absolutely?

I can do everything that I need to do with the baby. my wife, it's gone for three hours. I feel completely comfortable with that. There are times now for like an hour, hour, hour and a half or so. It's just me and the baby. I'm good with that. If something goes wrong, I got it. I don't want to be the person that doesn't know what they're doing. I don't want to be that dad that doesn't have a clue. I want to be the dad that knows how to do everything, but then doesn't have to do everything because they're kind of grossed out by it. That's where I am now. I'm also not as grossed out by it as I think I was at the beginning because I've just been exposed to it so much. So the other day when I was changing the first poopie

diaper by myself, I wasn't that grossed out by it. Now, I'm being told that when they start eating real food, it gets gross. I'm probably going to forget how to change diapers when that happens. I'm going to go back to that where I'm like, oh, I thought it went on her head. You know, I'm probably going to get back to that area. But that's where we are now. Now, here's another question. What are your top five moments with the baby? Ah, good question. I'm a good question. I I made a list here. At number five, I have a friend that I'm really close to, except sometimes he won't answer my call for like three months. That's a weird juxtaposition. But it's my friend Amad. I love Amad. I'd give him a kidney. We've been friends for 20 years. He was in my

wedding. He's a groomsman, right? Eddie? Yeah. Yeah. Amad was a groomsman in my wedding. Sometimes he just answer the phone for months at a time. He does this to other friends too. He just disappears off the face of the earth. I had my daughter on my chest, and I didn't FaceTime many people to show them her, but I wanted to show a mod. And so I FaceTime to Mod he didn't answer.

Well, now FaceTime allows you to send a video as a hey, you didn't answer, but here's a video. So I sent a video and I was like, dude, you didn't answer. Now, he's a void of my calls or just been too busy to call me back for two months. he called him back in 30 seconds. And so then I talked to him for a long time, which shows you he just doesn't answer because he doesn't want to.

And that sucks. And if you're watching this, that sucks. But my number five moment with the baby was getting one of my friends to answer my face time because I had the baby with me. And number four, I've never been someone to hold babies. I've held one baby in my life ever one time

before my wife had our daughter. And it was my nephew, and it's because they were like, hold this baby real quick. And I was like, oh God. and I just was weird because I just never held a baby. I don't want to drop a baby.

I really had no, I wasn't drawn to babies. And so I was never the person to be like, let me hold you baby. So I didn't really understand this was a thing. But we went to the pediatrician and you go like two days after you give birth, maybe one day, but ours led into a weekend.

And the pediatrician said, hey, we were still at the back end of RSV. You don't want your baby getting that. you don't want, flu, all the stuff. So don't let people around the baby. If they are feeling 1% sick, don't let them around. If they've been on an airplane, don't let them around. And don't let kids around the baby right now.

So those three things. So my wife has been super vigilant about that. Now, there have been times, like, we were on a walk yesterday, and we saw somebody we knew. And she came over, the person we knew, and was like so conscious to not grab and want to hold a baby. And I thought that was so cool. I don't have consciousness of that

because I never wanted to hold a baby. but there have been a couple times where we've been with people we know and they don't like grab to hold the baby. And I think that's super cool. They probably know people that aren't the mom and the dad this early shouldn't be grabbing and holding the baby. But I think that's been a top moment of the baby. Seeing other people appreciate the fact that we don't want anybody holding their baby

because we don't want anybody getting the baby sick. That's number four. Number three. I'd always heard the stories about when your kid is born, there's going to be this moment of anxiety that happens after the birth when there's not a noise made because they have to clear the airway of the baby. And so I was always nervous about that few seconds. Baby comes out, baby can't breathe.

Oh God, is the baby going to breathe? Is the baby going to breathe? Is the baby going to breathe? And it starts crying and you're like, ooh. I didn't have that happen. Now, I didn't look. I kept head up. I kept head at head.

I kept my head up near my wife. I was rooting her on. It was like I was at Budwell and the first. arena. Like, let's go. Woo, pig suey. I was rooting for my wife. And they were like, okay. And it was pretty quick. Like, when my wife ended up labor, it was less than an hour. It was super quick. So the baby was born. They were like, here it comes. Wow, it's got a lot of hair. Oh my God. Here's the baby. Weh. I started crying immediately. So I never had that moment of being like, oh my God, is the baby going to live? They, yeah, that was a great moment for me. That was a great moment for

me because I was concerned about it going in. And once we got there, I didn't even think about it until it was over because luckily for us, I don't know if the baby was breathing immediately or they cleared the air and I just wasn't down there looking. So that was number three. Number two, top five moments with the baby. My wife and I have been going on walks with the baby every single day. The baby's not walking, obviously. But that's been fun. They're not long walks because my wife had been in recovery after having a baby, which shout out to women. Who knew? Who knew? I just thought like, you know, you had a baby, rub a little dirt on it, get to raisin. Because I've never been around babies. Dude, that sucks for you guys. Like, I'll be honest,

that sucks. Like, it doesn't just come out. It's not flood. It's just to just come out clean. Like a slip and slide and all of a sudden it's out there with no, like it's, man. Man. How about you guys for that? Like thumbs up. So we've been going on walks and we go a little further each day as my wife has been recovering. And she's been recovering like a champ. Like even going to the bathroom is hard for you guys. Who knew?

I didn't know. I didn't even think about it. So going on walks because it's represented a couple things. One, my wife is recovering. And two, I'm pretty good at the stroller. Like, whack, whack, whack, quack. You ever see that George Clooney movie where he flies all the time, Andy Kendrick's in it?

And so he's like so good at going through security at the airport or he's like, and so that's what I am with the stroller at this point. Like, but uncollapse it. Boom. On top of it. Right now we're bassinet and on top. Handle out. Boom,

walking. We're getting pretty good at the car seat too. So that's where we are there. And then number one, my number one moment with baby so far has been, it's been definitely more taxing on my wife because she's. she's been doing most of the hands-on. I've been with her every step of the way, but obviously I just mentioned she changing the diapers.

And she's been exhausted, and her body obviously has gone through it, having to deliver a baby, and there was so much adrenaline. I mean, it took four or five days for the adrenaline to come out of my wife's body to where she got exhausted after that was over. So I've been super concerned about her.

I think most of my energy has gone into, to making sure that she feels good or feels as best she can while doing it. So it's not like I've done nothing where she's been super attentive toward the baby. I've been pretty attentive to the baby, but I've been super attentive toward her.

So every single thing she could ask for or want, hopefully I've been able to provide that. I've got a call to gate. It might be something for the baby. Let me answer it. Here we go. Oh, yeah, it's another baby coming over to play. It's not.

So I've worried about my wife and I've tried to meet all of her needs and predict all of her needs. And I was talking to her the other night and I was just asking her like, how do you feel? Baby was asleep. And she said that this has been the happiest

she's ever been in her whole life, which I thought was amazing for her to say that. And I think that's my number one moment. It's her saying that this is the happiest she has ever been in her whole life. She's taken to it like a duck to water, man. You ever see a baby duck's never been in the water, hatches out, hops on the water,

that's kind of what this has been like with her. So that's my number one moment for sure. The best thing I've ever seen is her be a mom and love being a mom so much. It's crazy. It's like a different kind of love for my wife. Because no doubt I loved her and I really liked her. Both of those things are super important.

I think she's super funny. Like everything I ever wanted in a wife, I got it from her. But to see her now embrace being a mom like this, it has been a different kind of connection and a different kind of love. So that's been pretty cool. A few more here. What has having a baby taught you that was unexpected? That I have an appreciation for my parents keeping me alive when I was a baby.

Because you have to do everything for these little babies, obviously. I'm assuming most of you. you guys watching this have had a baby. But you have to do everything for it and you're super concerned about everything. And I think back and I don't have a relationship that is super warm with my parents parenting me. But my mom got pregnant at 15 years old. My biological dad was 16 years old. Like you're talking about teenagers having kids. And for me to be alive through the baby stage, like I have an appreciation. They kept a baby alive. when they were 16, 17, 18 years old.

That's crazy because we're doing everything we can to keep this baby alive. And I'm a 40. My wife's in her 30s. And we're pouring everything into it. So there is an appreciation for my teenage parents that they just kept the baby alive because that's a feat in itself as keeping a baby alive. And also they didn't have the resources that we have, not even technology wise, but like I have money now.

I've been working for a long time. I'm also in my 40s. So I have money saved up. So it's easier whenever you can buy stuff. Peanut ain't cheap. They probably stood me on a picnic table when I was a kid. Make sure I didn't roll off. So I think that has been probably the thing most that I've appreciated since.

I've had a baby about being a baby. All right. We got a live question. Out of everyone who gave you advice, what is the most true and what advice are you actually taking? It's a great question. And it's a live question, so I definitely didn't get to make a note here.

I don't know that I'm taking anybody's advice. I started looking and reading some stuff from books and mostly it's people's perspective or mostly it's people's, like what they went through that was specific to them. I don't have a good idea. answer for that because most people's advice is about being like macro parent like this is what's going to happen to you as a kid they're going to grow so fast they're going to most of it's not you have a

one week old here's exactly what you do so i don't know that i'm against advice i don't think any of the advice anybody's given me has been able to come to fruition yet for me using it because we just had the baby and it's all super newborn stuff so yeah live question i should have really bedded that out here's another one. I think I answered this one accidentally. Do you wish you to have had it started a family younger? No, because younger I wouldn't have had Caitlin, so I wouldn't have started a family.

Like I said, I never thought I'd get married. And mostly too, I think, you know, I was really scared that I was going to have a kid and not have the money to have a kid. and I know there are a lot of people having kids I mean look at my teenage parents they were able to have me but I guess I didn't want to have a kid

at six, seven, eight, nine years old not be able to afford the things that kids need to have just to go to school because I wasn't able to afford those there were times when I was a kid where I didn't go to school on the days that there was like a field trip or there was you had to bring money for the

because I couldn't afford it so I would just be like sick when I was a kid. So I just didn't want to put a kid in that situation. But no, I'm good. I also don't want to be 100 years old Al Pacino, 86 years old having a baby. That's, hey, but more power to him, you know. Other than that, I'm just kind of getting back on the train after a couple to a few weeks.

Other than one workout, I haven't worked out at all. I stopped taking vitamins. I was doing NAD. Like, I was on, like formula. My formula was every day, wake up, do this. That's been completely off. So I got to get back there. I've never been so tired doing nothing.

Because I've done nothing. I've worked. I'm talking about with the baby. You don't do anything. You just sit around, but you just make sure everything's always, you know,

being paid attention to. So I've never been so tired from doing nothing. But that's kind of how you feel also after you drive a car for a long time. You're like, I didn't do anything

except I'm sitting a car for nine hours. Why am I so exhausted? So that's it. That's the baby state of the union. Other questions are like, are you going to show your baby on social media?

And I've talked about this a lot. we don't really have a plan right now on what we are or aren't doing. Right now my wife has decided she doesn't want the baby's face on social media. My wife doesn't need the love from social media. She doesn't care about that. And so she also doesn't then want to have to deal with people saying negative things just to try to get at me. So we've decided right now, no baby face. And my wife went through it.

My wife had a stalker, like the FBI had to get involved with for a long time that just simply came from social media and internet and my job. So I think a little bit, there's some trauma. to that. It's like, why will we do this with our kid whenever the adult had to deal with it? Imagine if the baby's having to do something. So right now, no, we're not dead set against it, but right now we've decided for us at this point, we're going to keep the babies face off the internet. And that's all. We do have an app. Everybody has the app, but we do have a tab in the app. It's a notes app. And on this notes app, we've got a feeding schedule, what time, how many ounces. wet diapers what time it happened dirty diapers what time it happened and like we keep it all we've been

tracking it so we've been doing pretty good my wife's been doing pretty good my wife's been doing great actually and i worry too when i went back to work like how she would feel or react and she'll just text me pictures and be like we're killing it we're doing good she her heart breaks whenever like the baby is sick or fussy and she can't figure out like fix it immediately but i imagine that's just a parent thing So thank you for all the questions. I think I've pretty much answered generally all the questions that are mostly asked over social media. And that is the baby state of the union.

Thank you. Let's go to Mario, who lives in Denver. Mario, you're on the show. What's up, buddy? Morning, studio. Morning. So, that's awesome. I'm calling.

I need some life coaching and motivation for you guys. All right, give it up. I deliver an install appliance for a big box store currently. And I work under somebody else, and I've been reached out with the opportunity to get my own contract. It's all under, it's all subcontractors that do all the work. So they reached out to me and ask me if I wanted to get my own contract and do it on my own. So I'm basically starting my own business and working for myself. What has me really nervous is, of course, there's a lot of upfront cost.

I got to purchase a bunch of, I mean, insurance, liability, insurance, all this stuff. But also there's become a contractor with them. They pay a net 30. So I'm going to be working for a whole month before I get any type of income from them. So that has me nervous. Potentially, I could own my own business. And, you know, it's great. But in the short term, it's really, really hard for my family.

And I'm having trouble pulling the trigger on, again, going a month without income and working. And what am I going to feed my kids? You know, so I'm struggling with that. Yeah, it's definitely different. Whenever the question is, what am I going to feed my kids? So this is the encouragement that I would give you. And it's going to seem at first not like encouragement. But whenever you do this, it's going to be nerve-wracking.

anytime you pull the trigger on this, if it's today, if it's three years from now, you're going to feel this way. But big decisions, you're going to have big nerves about them. And if it were easy, everybody would be doing it. But it ain't easy and everybody's not doing it. And here you are. It's crossroads. Do you make this big decision or not? What I would advise you to do, just only knowing what you've told me, is I would work and try to save up enough of a nut that you can not get paid for a month. So if that's cutting back on some things for the next three, four, six months while you work your regular job, I would also on a calendar, put a date to where you need to move to the next step because we can continue to kick the can

whenever there's something that we can keep kicking the can for. Because you could go, you know what, I'm not quite there. I'll do it in three months. I'm not quite there. I'll do it another three months. Put a date on a calendar. Put something definitive on it. It could be six months, nine months, and you need to save a little bit, a little bit each month, even if it's very hard, and then you need to doing this if it's something that you think you need, you want, and you should do. So, you should do it. If you were single, I would say, bro, eat ramen, go at it, make it happen. Yep, it sucks, but everything that's worth having sucks at first. But you have kids. So put a date on a calendar. What is the day? March 30th. Put a date on a calendar.

Let's say September 1st. And until September 1st, every extra five bucks, 10 bucks, 20 bucks you get, you're putting it away. To give you a month so you can start this other opportunity that will long-term macro be more beneficial to your family because you can make your own hours, you can be your own boss. You have a ceiling that you can lift yourself. You're not just working hourly and hoping that you get overtime. So that would be my advice to you in the state that you're in right now. Yeah, no, that's great advice.

I hadn't thought about that. But you got to do it, though. So I'm not saying don't do it. I was freaking out. Yeah, but you should. Like, that's what's awesome. Like, you only have a few opportunities in life to be nervous about possible good things happening. This is a good thing.

This is an opportunity that you are going to create for yourself. There are some risks. So what you need to do is mitigate as much of that risk as possible. So save up 10, 20, 30 bucks, whatever you can to make sure that you can work and not get paid for a full month as you start what's going to be even better for your family down the road. Right. Yes. Yeah, that's good.

Make it happen. It's all on you. Make it happen. I'm a big believer the world is bendable. If you want it and you strategize right you can have anything

you want and I think you can do this but you've got to put a date on a calendar and commit to it because otherwise it's never going to be comfortable and you're

never going to fall into it it's going to be uncomfortable in September when you do this so just know that okay yep all right

thank you I appreciate it I really appreciate it thank you go get it Mario thank you I will

all right buddy we're rooting for you see later man thank you thank you bye all right we are done with today's

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