The Bobby Bones Show - MON PT 2: Eddie Explains The $10,000 Water Bill And Crazy Bill Stories!  + Are Lunchbox And Eddie Clickbaiting Us?

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

Eddie shares how his friend got a $10,000 water bill that wasn't just a case of a computer error. We debate whether or not he has ground to get out of it.  Listeners share their stories of times they got crazy bills. Lunchbox shares why he thinks Travis Kelce is a buffoon after it was revealed what he spent $100k on recently. Lunchbox and Eddie both bring stories that determine whether or not they were clickbaiting us.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Keeps on turn. Then you're here. Eddie and me lunchbox, more game two. Steve Redavit's trying to put you through. Backd is writing this week's next bit. Now Bobby's on the mic so you know what this is. This is the Bobby Vaughn's store. I was flipping through TikTok and I saw this guy.

He has a country radio show and he was doing one second of a 90s country song. nail on him. He was good. Then listeners started tagging me in videos because that's something I'm pretty good at, something we've been doing on our show for a while. His name is Jesse Tack. He does a radio show in Cincinnati. He came up this morning and I thought we'd play against each other, which is pretty fun. So I don't remember leaving these comments, but I commented on the stuff. Jesse's here now. Again, Jesse Tak at Jesse Tack Radio. What was one of the comments I left on your videos? And would say what time I left it? Uh, no. Sometimes we're I'm like 2.30 in the morning and I'm a low out of.

Well, and they've been tagging you for months and months. Oh, people have been? People, yeah. I was like, I guess Bobby did this to some point. That makes sense. Okay. Go ahead. Bobby, we did this bit for like 10 years.

So maybe cheating because I've had quite experience. But I'm definitely at 2 o'clock in the morning by that writing. Yeah, go ahead. But I'd give you a run if you wanted. That was the first comment. That's not that bad. Go ahead. I get worse.

Don't worry. Well, the second one, second comment, two days after that, good work. Now we're getting a little more. I'm up for the challenge. I've been doing this bit for about 10 years, so I might have a memorization advantage because you're solid for sure. Paperview, WrestleMania. See? Was that another video or was that the same video? Different video. I'd have been really bad if the same one.

Like I chased it. I went back to it because I'm like that he put the 10 years in both of them just in case I missed the first one. Scuba. Do you have them already ordered? Yes, yeah, Ray's got him right here on the wall. Okay, you can pick if you want to go first or second. That way. You want to go first?

Sure. And these are all hits, 90s country. Only the hits. Okay. Only the hits. All right, good. Oh, come on. I mean, that's a good one.

It's a softball. All right, go ahead. You're doing an artist and song? I don't do. I usually do, yeah. Okay, go ahead. She's in love with the boy, Tricia. You're good.

That's good. Jody Messina, hits Carolina. Let's go. Chenai, any man of mine. Good one. Oh, Billy Ray. It can break your heart. Ellen Jackson, Chattahoochee.

Good. George Strait, check yes or now. Joe Diffy. Tracy Bird. Oh. So listen. I got to tell you, Tracy Bird has messed me up more than any other artists because a lot of his songs sound like other artists. Mark Chestnut specifically.

And there's another Tracy as well. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. Fancy Reba. She thinks of a director, sexy Kenny. Good job. Joe Diffy.

again oh i can't hear it again uh john der green is that right yeah well can i hear it again yeah the drums will get you every time because the song's slow ends up being much slower so we have this thing i can't even hear oh sorry we have this thing waiting in frame you we'll be quiet yeah but then give me more where does it go from there okay that might be the most impressive one of good job well the drums always the drums are the hardest ones because they're they have the least amount of music in them i think the other joke like probably up so the jubox is difficult too because it starts off with a very ballady piano and then it ends up going it because it shifts a bit where it's like doom well they never day to die and this is it's a thought of being dead so i think john diffie's got a

or joe divvy's got a couple of those uh how many more we got two yeah there's two and then there's that one tiebreaker okay go ahead dust on the bottle david lee murphy that's good uh saw your brown some girls do there's a tiebreaker well i mean you're up one how does the tiebreaker work There's one left. We're not tied. You're not tied. Bobby's winning. Yeah, so Bobby won. Get the hell out of here, Jesse. Hang. Let's go. Poser!

Every time you play that bell, I try to guess that too. Like, what is that? Hey, Bobby, I'll go comment on his videos. It's a valiant effort by both of us. Tracy Bird. Every time, man. Eddie thought he was followed yesterday. When you freak out about stuff like this, why would you think you were being followed? Because I noticed someone behind me following me.

You're missing the question. what about you would be followed? Why would someone be following you? It's a good question. At the time, I always think like, oh, this is a robbery. Got it. Okay. You know, because I saw on the news that they've been carjackings and like this could be one of those situations.

I'm not making fun of you. I just wondered, because that's where I would go first. Like, why are they following me? Like, what do I have to offer? And it could be that. They want to steal your car. So what happens? Walk me through it.

So I was driving back from dropping off my kids at practice. It was nighttime. And I noticed these headlights behind me that were just very, very close. No big deal. We're on the road. It's a four lane road. No big deal. But then everywhere I would turn, that car would turn. So in a four lane, they were in your lane and closer than they should have been. Correct. They could have passed me if I was going too slow, but they were right on me. Were you trying to look in the car and see if it was a cop or somebody you knew? Yeah, you know, it's dark. So you kind of look in the rear view and you can just

tell it was a regular car, but no lights on top. So it wasn't a cop. Okay, so you turn. So I took a right. It wasn't even where you were going. You just took a right to see if this car with following you. No, my house was probably two miles down the road straight. Go ahead. And so I take her right, not in a neighborhood, just take a right on this random street. The car takes her right. Okay, what are you thinking now? I'm like, oh my gosh, like this is 100% following me. Whoever's in there, maybe I cut them off. Maybe I did something. Like, I'm thinking like, okay, is it a robbery? Did I, is, are they road raging? Did you accidentally maybe cut them off? Correct. So then I'm like, all right, I have to do, I have to just go into a neighborhood. That will tell me 100%. Is your heart

beating fast? Yes. What were you thinking you were going to have to do? A speed off. Call the cops first off and then speed off say someone's following me. Did you have your phone ready? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Were you ready for an altercation? No. That's the last thing I want.

Especially with someone following you. You don't know who's in there. Don't know if they have a gun. No. Okay. So I pull into a neighborhood. They pull in a neighborhood. No way.

Here's another deal. I didn't put my signal light on on purpose. I didn't want them like, oh, signal light. Okay. So you whip it. Whip it. I whip it. I whip it.

They went in. Oh my goodness. I'm being followed. So I go to the neighborhood. Don't know the neighborhood. I don't know the streets. I don't know if it's a dead end. I don't know where these streets are taking me.

I take a left. He takes a left. No way. This point, at this point, I'm like, all right, I'm reaching for the phone. I have the phone. I'm going to call the cops. But then I see, like, a cul-de-sac up ahead. I say, you know what?

This is the telltale sign. Like, if I've gone to the cul-de-sac and he's there, this is it. Showdown, maybe. Because there's only a few houses there. There's really nowhere to drive through. Yeah. If you go to a cul-de-sac, that's a dead end. Yes.

Okay, go ahead. So I go into the cul-de-sac, I look at my rear view, car goes straight, pulls into a driveway, parks goes in their house. So just, like, what are the odds? What are the odds that the whole time this car that was tailgating me is going into that neighborhood because they live there? And I just randomly was trying to get, like, get away from them. Any chance they were following you and they just pulled into a house to throw you off the scent? I thought about that. But then when I got out of the cul-de-sac, I drove by the house and they had gotten there.

gotten in the house. They have grocery bags in their arms. They're walking in their broccoli coming out of the top of the bag. That was their home. Were you freaked out? I was relieved when that happened. Do you think he's, do you think he was nuts during the whole situation? He's a little paranoid and he made up some story and his head, but I think it's good to stay aware. Situational awareness is key, so good for you. But what if he wasn't situationally aware, he was just way paranoid? Like, there's really nothing to be aware of except somebody was on the road behind him. What do you think really happened? I think that... Do you think they're really tailgating him?

No. I mean, I think they were going home and this is just a weird coincidence. But a reminder to Eddie, maybe this is just a reminder. Stay on guard. We're going to do another one of these. Lunchbox has a story next. He was being fired? No. They're both ridiculous. So lunchbox is a ridiculous story. We're going to do. But mine was real. In your head.

In your head, yeah. Yeah, it was real to you for sure. Right. Another instance of are they being ridiculous? Our lunchbox, what happened at work? We work with a bunch of idiots. Like we work with stupid people and it's so annoying to me. So we get an email. Says, howdy y'all?

Excited to share. We'll be having a team outing to the Preds game on Thursday 227 at 7 p.m. Thanks for our relationship with the Preds. We are going to get to go have some fun. Please respond by the end of business Monday, 224 if you want a ticket. No plus ones. Why? Why are we so stupid?

Like, we see our coworkers every day. Why would we not want to bring our families so you can meet our families? You already hang out with the coworkers. They don't know your spouses. How'd that email start? Howdy, y'all? Keep going. Excited to share.

We'll be having a team outing to the Preds game. Team. That's it right there. It's an outing for the people that work together to work as a team. It's not a meet and greet with the family. And also, everything the company offers, you don't have to take your family and your kid. Okay, let me take my wife. I don't understand.

But it's a team outing. It's sort of like the Christmas party. It's no plus one. it's literally just hanging out with the people you hang out with every day. It also could be a financial thing where they don't have enough money to buy food for everybody to bring a plus one at a Christmas party. They don't have enough tickets to this because I'm sure if they did it wouldn't matter. But if they're treating as a team outing, it's not bring your family. Here's the deal.

Like 30 people from the building are going and everybody brings plus one. Now that's 60. Okay. But if we, let's say only half the building is going, there's only 15 that say yes, we got a lot of extra tickets. Then why are we not bringing plus ones? it's just so dumb. Like it's like, oh, here, come hang out. See, we're here until 5 o'clock.

And then you can go say hi to your family and then meet back here at 7 and we'll go to the game together. It's like we just hung out all day. We hung out all day yesterday. You don't hang out with people that work in this office. You hang out with us, but this is not that. It's an office team building. It's a team building, not a family get together. Oddly I do see him lingering around a bunch of people's desks all the time.

Not the point. The point is it's an office team building so people that do see each other at work and can do something, outside of work. Oh, man. It's not a bring your family. Yeah, I bet you three people replied yes because they're like, oh, I don't have anybody to hang out with you.

I don't think that means that they're stupid. I think they probably know they have a limited amount of tickets. Okay. I mean, I just felt like it was pretty dumb. Hey, it's so excited. It's also free. You're getting mad to something free. They're not taking from you.

Right. But I got so excited when I said, hey, we're going to go to the Preds game. So you got inside of the middle of reading that before you even got one line later? No, and then I got all the way at the bottom. Very in. No plus ones. That was the last line. They should have put that in the first line. Amy, who's more ridiculous? Eddie thinking he's being chased and stalked or lunchbox getting mad at an email.

They're both pretty ridiculous. You want me to vote? I have to vote. Who's more ridiculous? Meaning my name Moe lunchbox. Morgan, vote. Oh, yeah, for sure. Okay, just making sure. Me too. Me too. Well, yeah. You want me to vote? Eddie, you vote.

Okay, let's make sure. Can I vote? Yeah, go ahead. Eddie, that's like the third time he's been followed. I think it's also ridiculous, but yes. Obviously, he's paranoid. Yes, he's very paranoid. It's time for the good news. With producer Eddie.

Yeah, home it's something good. Eight months ago, Shea was swimming off the coast of Victoria, Canada. He was swimming. He had his GoPro, documenting everything. He was even talking to the camera. And then somewhere in the middle of the swim, it slips. The camera goes all the way down. It's so dark down in the deep water.

He's like, I can't get it. It's just gone. Well, earlier this month, that was eight months ago. earlier this month, this guy named Ken, he's swimming in the same place, but he's got scuba gear. He goes down 30 feet. He's like, what is that? Oh, it looks like a GoPro. That's cool. Takes it home, dries it off. Turns out he can save that memory card because it was waterproof. He looks at it. He posts some of the things online. Says, does this belong to anyone? There's some screenshots. If anyone recognize any of the pictures, and then Shay sees it on Facebook says, that's me. That's my camera.

And he sends it over to Shay, so Shay's got his memories. That's crazy. Yeah, I'm surprised I think of would still be good after 30 feet down, more so than being in the water that long. That's when stuff starts to... I just don't understand how you can put it on Facebook and then you finally see it.

Like, it goes that viral to where it gets to you. Well, luckily, too, the guy doesn't have anything bad on it. Like, he's doing stuff. Oh, God. Committing crimes. Then he definitely be like, my name. Yeah, great story. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good.

Over to Amy for the morning corny. The morning corny. Why did the teacher marry the janitor? Why did the teacher marry the janitor? He swept her off her feet. That was the morning corny. Or he had a key to her heart. Oh, because they got a lot of keys.

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This is Love Trap. Laura, Scottsdale Police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at Maricopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges. This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either.

We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed.

I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Ego Wodom.

My next guest, you know from Step Brothers, Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Ferrell. Woo. Woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with him one day.

And I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet.

Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. Mm. and he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat.

Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. A win is a win. A win is a win.

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podcast network on TikTok. Some of the celebrity Valentine's Day gifts are coming out. We talked about the one where Benny Blanco did the tortilla chips all the way to the bathtub and the bathtub was filled with queso and lunchbox of that gift. You thought? Stupid. Absolutely stupid. I don't know why people are giving them credit for it. It's a waste of money. It's a waste of energy. It's not going to get eaten. It's stupid. It was the idea, right? Okay, fair enough. Next up, there's a celebrity. I won't say who it is yet. Went all out for Valentine's Day, $100,000 worth of gifts. How does that sit initially?

Dumb. Okay. He got the celebrity gold necklaces, diamond earrings, shoes, clothing, candy, and $1,000 worth of roses. He topped it off with a homemade card that he made himself. That's cute. Help? Fine.

Homemade card is fine, but the $1,000 worth of roses, what an idiot. Okay, so the guy's Travis Kelsey. Well, he's going to go bankrupt. I don't think so. Here's the problem. He's going to try to keep up with Taylor Swift by spending $100,000 every holiday. Guess what? Dude's going to be bankrupt.

I don't think he has to keep up with Taylor Swift. And also, he has a lot of money, a lot of money. And so I don't think that's keeping up. I think that's just spending kind of relative to what you have. So, yeah, he did that for Taylor Swift on Valentine's Day. As source says, Travis also wanted to include something extra personal. so he did make her a handmade Valentine's Day card. I actually think you can't keep up with Taylor Swift.

And if you're trying to get things for her just because you spent a lot of money on them to impress her, you can't. She has a billion dollars. So I would imagine these were all things that mattered to her. His net worth, according to the loosely correct, often wrong, celebrity net worth is about $100 million. So him spending $100,000 on gifts, he's good.

It ain't nothing. Your thoughts now, lunchbox? I still think, I would love to see what he got his ex-girlfriend. I guarantee he didn't spend anywhere near $100,000 on Valentine's Day. Why did he spend $100,000? He's trying to keep up with Taylor Swift, period. I would also say that he's probably closer to marriage with Taylor than his ex-girlfriend, based on what I know about their relationship.

I think that matters. He probably has more money now that he's been with Taylor. And he's doing television shows. I mean, because he got way more. His podcast deal, when they signed a $100 million deal, that only happened in the past few years. So he wasn't with that girl then. Yeah.

You like data or no? No, I mean, I still think he's stupid for doing it. Like, buying Taylor Swift a thousand dollars worth of roses, like, what are you doing? Well, I guessed wrong. When lunchbox wasn't in the room, I thought he was into think baller, but I forget he's just reacting out of jealousy. If he could do this sort of stuff, he would. I think because we had the way. I would never spend $100,000 on anything for my wife.

Okay, but you did say if you had the money, you would have spent it on a private jet to go pick up a sandwich. That would have been cool. Right. Because that's for you. Because that's for you. Yes. It's for me. Like my wife doesn't need a thousand dollars worth of roses.

You don't need $300,000 or $30,000 or $50,000 for a plane to go pick up a sandwich. And you were like, that's the coolest thing ever. Yeah. I think that it was a baller or buffoon. And you were like baller. I mean, what a flex. I mean, what a flex. Travis Kelsey, baller or buffoon.

Buffoon. But the same baller or buffoon, you said baller when the guy spent $30 grand on an airplane to bring a cheese steak in. Now, if he would have spent $100,000 to get her favorite meal from Paris? baller these roses you can't even where do you put a thousand dollars worth of roses you can't even look at them all but you eat the sandwich quicker than the roses die doesn't matter no roses

died about an hour what no they don't where do you get your roses what this is he buys them like five days late baller or buffoon you go buffoon okay let's talk about this ten thousand dollar water bill Eddie my buddy Isaiah he opened up his bill

it was all electronic so he opens up and it says $10,000 that he owes. And he was like, this isn't right. Like, it's never been more than $200. You had a water issue too, right? And yours was like a leak. Oh, yes, a very slow leak, like a size of a pinhole, but it was leaking a lot to let that fool you because I had months and months of $600 bills every month.

Got it. So the biggest was $600. Yeah. But it was a bunch of months of those. Yes. His was one for $10,000? It was two months. months. Okay. Total. And it was $10,000. How did you? Was there a leak? So he started thinking he's like,

you know what? I remember a conversation at dinner with my kids where one of my kids said, how long would it take for me to fill up the pond outside with a water hose? And he said, no way. So he went outside, checked the hose. And sure enough, they had ran the hose from the house to a pond that he has, like a stock pond. And the pond was just dripping. I mean, it was full to the max, but it was dripping out to another creek and it'd been doing that for two months. Oh my gosh. They never turned the hose off? Never.

So it wasn't even like a tiny leak. It was full blown water coming out of a hose. Correct. $5,000 a month twice? Yes. Twice. So do they, because it wasn't a leak and it was, this is manmade. Do they give him a deal on the bill?

He said, I talked to him yesterday and he said, I'm trying to just negotiate it down. But the fact, he said, I used over. a million gallons of water. Like, the proof is there. He's in the club, million gallon club. So he doesn't know what he can do. He's waiting.

Yeah, I was able to negotiate some stuff down, but it was different, though. I mean, you didn't know. I didn't know, but I still was responsible for it. It's not like they were like, oh, you have a leak. Because even the water company, when they came out,

they couldn't find the leak. I had to hire out of my pocket a leak detection company to come out and find it. And even to have them just come out and they found it in like five seconds. It was $400 for them to just, come find it. And that bill

was on me. You know, it's not like it. So, yeah. I just money, I had to just kiss goodbye. If you get a million followers on YouTube, they give you like a plaque. We should get them like a water plaque. Yeah. Hey, million gallons, buddy. I want to go to Ivy in Texas, who's on the phone right now calling us. Hey, Ivy,

you're on the Bobby Bone show. What's going on? Good morning. Yes, like 10 years ago or more. My brother used to fall asleep on the phone with his girlfriend in California. And my mother received a $9,900 phone bill that we weren't expecting because they would literally be on the phone day and night. See, this is before free minutes. Yeah. Because for those that are young and you're

like, we just get on your phone and talk, it doesn't matter. Back in the day, if you talked a lot, you were minute monitored. You had so many minutes that you bought in a package. And if you went over, you would get, I did get this big vanilla envelope with a massive bill in it. Yeah, it's like you always knew you were in trouble if it went from a normal standard envelope to the big and you had pages and pages of paper. Morgan, did you ever have minute monitoring from your phone company because you're a bit younger than us? I think we did, but I don't think I had cell phones at that point because I remember talking on our house phone for a really long time. Now, house phone you could talk unless it was long distance because long distance was the thing go a couple knuckles back. If you talk to somebody long distance

where you had to dial the area code, then it would charge more. But then long distance became kind of free. but cell phones still had minutes, but then cell phones had like area, what do we call it? Like out of air. Roaming? No, maybe. Well, roaming, that would get you.

That gets you big. That gets you big. Ivy, so did you pay the whole thing? Did your mom have to pay the whole thing? No, we just switched companies and she just let it go through collections because she thought that it didn't give us a warning or anything. We just got the bill and it was a $10,000 bill. I'm like, how did it get to this point?

That's what I did with Columbia House CDs. Okay. When I was like 12 years old. I just ran. I ran like I robbed a bank. I got all those free CDs for a penny. But then what about your credit? I was 12. What did I know about credit? After eight years, I think it goes away.

I think she's asking for the caller, not your Columbia. What's her mom? So I don't know. Okay, I'm just curious, like if that impacted other things. Were you asking about me or her? I was asking you about just anybody that runs from bills. Like, do you worry about your credit? I was 12, so I didn't know what credit was. Did your mom have bad credit from this Ivy? Do you know?

I think she could speak it. it and she was able to get it off her pay it down or something like that. Yeah, we have a friend too that's, it's a, you know, famous story now. He just drove through the tolls over and over again on purpose. And then he got a bill for thousands and thousands of dollars and had to go to court. They were all like late fees. Because 80% of it ended up being late fees and then interest on late fees. And it was like $10,000, whatever it was.

And he negotiated it down to like $2,000 because their mindset is we may get none of this money if they've jacked it up so high, they may just cut bait. So if we can get anything, we'll settle. So hopefully that's what happens to your buddies. Hopefully. That sucks. Let's do one more. Let's go to Christina in Little Rock.

Now, we're talking about roaming a second ago. Hey, Christina, you're on the show. Hi. Hey, so what happened? Good morning. Good morning. What happened with your husband? So we were stationed in Japan and he did a two-week TDI to Alaska.

and he did not turn off his phone. So he was on roaming for two weeks. And we got a $3,000 phone bill. Dude, that's crazy roaming. That's far roaming. Yeah. That's what, okay. So what happened?

Did you pay it or now? We had to pay it. Oh, gosh. Yes, we couldn't get out of it. It's tough. What's the Dave Ramsey line? Like, is this the, if you're buying something, he says to say, is this the best price you can give?

me, but I think that also when you're trying to negotiate down, is this the best you can do for me? Like, this is crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. Christina, how long ago was that? This was about 10 years ago. roaming's a bit different now. Still, though, if you go to another country, which I've had to do some work stuff in other countries, it's like you have landed.

Now every minute over this is going to cost. So it tells you, like, from now on, it's going to cost you more because you're in a foreign country. But yeah, that's a lucky one. I just turn my phone off and, or don't you just use WhatsApp. I just go to pay phones. Everywhere. Christina, thank you for the call. Absolutely, you guys have a great day.

Yeah, you have a great day too. Let's go to Mel and Virginia. Hey, Mel. Good morning, studio. Morning. Yeah, I mean, my bill wasn't as big as everyone else's, but we were selling our house and we had a home inspection done and the inspector

Well, we got a bill for just shy of $1,000 and couldn't figure out what it was because our bills never even been remotely close to that. And after some investigating, we realized our fan had been left on by the home inspector. That wasn't even your fault. No. Yeah. So, yeah. How does a fan rack up a $1,000 bill in a month, though? What kind of fan?

Was it a big industrial fan? It was the heating fan, the hump fan. Yeah, maybe I just don't. So it ran, the fan ran constantly for the heat. Oh, and y'all weren't in the home? They're selling it. Okay. We're in the home, but it just, it ran constantly, so it was always on.

Wait, were you hot? Yeah, were you sweating ever? I thought when you said you were selling it, you had moved out. So it ran, but you didn't get one. No. No, it just, it just, I don't know how it all works, but yeah, we got to just, just, just, I don't know how it all works, but yeah, we got to just, just, just, just, just, shy of a $1,000 electric bill. Did you go to the inspector and say, Mr. Inspector, we'd like $1,000, please?

No, we didn't. We called the realtor and let him know, and he just said it wasn't our realtor. It was our buyer's inspector for the home inspection because we're the seller. Did you get it back? And whenever. No, no. We just paid it. But it was unfortunate that it happened.

Yeah, I'd say so. Well, we appreciate you sharing that call with us. Thank you. You all have a good day. That sucks if it wasn't your fault at all. Yeah. I mean, that may be even worse. I know the money's not as high, but it may be even worse if you didn't do it at all like somebody else did. Let's take this call from, let's do Dan in Massachusetts.

He's over on eight. Hey, Dan. Yes. What's up, buddy? Is this Bobby Bone Shell? Yes, sir, it is. What do you want to say? Morning studio. Morning.

Awesome. So I got a $7,000 water bill on my father's house that we had to rent out after he perished. And they, the town only takes a water meter reading twice a year. So she had flushed the toilet in the basement and it was still running. And it ran for six months. I'm in the million gallon club myself. Oh, my gosh. And I got paid, I had to pay a $7,000 water bill.

And even though I tried to hire a lawyer to sue the town to get it reduced because I didn't use water and sewer, it was just clean water going into the system. They wouldn't, they wouldn't reduce the bill at all. The water bills in their town is non-negotiable. And the interest and penalties, if you don't pay it, they'll own your house within a year. Oh, my. I had to remortgage my house to pay the water bill. Oh, my gosh. So question.

So this is on rental units, right? Well, yeah, in the state of Massachusetts, the landowner is responsible for the water bill. So here's a question for you. If it's on rental units and that is a business that you have, could you write that off as it lost through business, which a lot of times you can write a lot of that off? I couldn't in that case because I wasn't it was my because it was in it wasn't it wasn't it was in probate my siblings and my stepmom and everybody were all fighting over the house. Everything went wrong here.

Everything. We used to have to jiggle the handle growing up on the toilet. That's what we did if you were kind of poor. That was to what? You got to get to stop running? Yeah. All toilet. So we had jiggle the handle a lot or it would just run forever, but you'd hear you'd hear.

hear it. But if you're not there, if nobody's there for six months, you don't hear it. We had a, when we had our house in Arkansas, we had a pipe bust, because what happened was it froze and we weren't there. And a pipe bust, and it flooded the laundry room. And luckily, our across-the-street neighbor would go and just check on our house when the weather got bad. And he was like, you have a flood in your basement. It'd probably been like two or three days. And so it wasn't a thousand dollar. It was like a four or five hundred dollar water bill, but the whole house would have flooded if we didn't. He didn't go check on it.

And I'd have been in the million point club. That's my goal. I wanted to be a million gallon club. Dan, thank you for your story, man. I'm really sorry to hear that. It's part of life. You know how it goes.

That's showbiz, baby. That's what I say. Yeah, that's right. All right, buddy. Have a good day. In 2020, in 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckerd

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I'm Ago Wodam. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Fer. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with him one day, and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings.

I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up-and-coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat.

Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football,

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Remember that? Did you ever watch the video of like the wing breaking off? Yeah. I liked that. It did exactly what it was supposed to do in that situation. Those airplanes are built for if that is to happen, the wing breaks off with a certain amount of pressure. Like everything kind of went right after it went way wrong. So that made me feel pretty good

As if you got into a bad situation The plane is built to do things to protect you Even if there's big time user error But I thought when they said $30,000 It was way too little Now that people on the plane think the same thing They're suing Which they should

So the first lawsuits following the Delta Airlines crash In Toronto last week have been filed Despite Delta officials offering $30,000 to each passenger more lawsuits are to follow Delta would pay out about $2.3 million if all 76 passengers agreed to accept the deal that's nothing right 2.3 million to Delta but a man from Texas who filed one of the two lawsuits says he deserves more and you know what I agree with that I'm not somebody who's litigious I've never sued anybody I've been sued but I've never sued anybody so I'm not Mr. Litigious but I think I would go hey we'd settle for half a million That's what I said last week too, right? A half a million?

Yeah. I think this is 500,000. That's from the New York Post. There's another Delta flight diverted back to LAX after smoke detected on board. A Delta Airlines flight was diverted. I'm suing this one, too, $30,000. I went $30,000 for this one. A Delta Airlines flight was diverted back to Los Angeles after smoke was detected in the galley.

The Airbus A350,900 was carrying 160 passengers. It landed safely at the airport. Passengers can be a reaccommodated on other flights. The incident follows to several aircraft collisions. of North America. This is from Yahoo. This is a story that would have never made the news had other flight stories not been making the news. I did look it up. I went to the FAA website where they do have a plane crash or plane incident listing. We're still way below where we were last year as far as plane crashes. It's only February. No, no. We're the same spot in the year. Oh, the same

spot in the year. Where we are now in the year, we're still way below where we were last year. Now there was a terribly tragic one in Washington, D.C., which when that's main news, they just want to take everything around and make it main news as well. And the Toronto thing sucks. I've never seen anything like that. But there have been less plane crashes. But that one in D.C. kind of started the whole new cycle of, let's talk about plane crashes. A UFO siding grounds airport flights in Turkey. An airport in Turkey was forced to suspend operations after a mysterious unidentifiedified. object flying in the sky was spotted. February 18th, 10 p.m., pilots spotted the UFO traveling near the airport at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. A radio control tower prompting the air hub to ground all flights for an hour while they tried to identify the mystery

craft, which apparently did not appear on the radar, but everybody could also see it. All the pilots could see it with their eyes, but nobody could see it on radar at the exact same time. So did it have some sort of a detection shield? Yes, called aliens. Following their investigation, airport security concluded that the UFO was likely a drone being piloted without permission. There we go. Like a stealth drone.

The airport subsequently resumed operations. People are going, yeah, that's the easy explanation. You can just say drone and make the story go away. That's what's up. That's from the New York Post. A nothing weekend. Is it okay to do nothing on the weekend? say yes and you should have a nothing weekend occasionally it's completely normal not to do

anything on the weekend and let your mind and body reset did you have a nothing weekend by any chance it wasn't totally nothing so no but i mean i'm on board with nothing weekends but i did a little bit of work every day even yeah saturday and sunday there was still some work involved which i like to at least have one full day from the weekend where there's no type of work at all but that wasn't this last see here. TikTokers are dropping heavy objects on their feet and a new viral trend. This is the dumbest viral trend I've ever seen. Well, one of them, top three.

I've seen ones that don't look as dumb but can hurt you worse. But this is like, there is no benefit in this because it's going to hurt you. Just if, even if it's just, ouch, a podiatrist has said, hey, guys, don't do this. Because you'll have a lifetime of pain and disability. There's a viral trend where people drop objects, including air friars and toasters on their feet. No. How do I not use... The hashtag dropping things on my foot.

Naturally, with a reflex, like move your foot away. Like, how do you... You know, I don't think my brain would let me do that. Like, keep my foot there. You'd have to tape it down. Luke Pilling received more than 3.8 million views for a video which shows him jumping around his room in pain after dropping a toaster, air friar, and computer monitor on his feet.

Asked why I decided to join the trend, curiosity, and just because it was funny. And basically four million views later. That's from the Herald. it's very much three stooges. Like what's old as new again. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to do that one. I'll give you one more story.

JetBlue passenger blesses the plane with holy water amid people on the airplane kind of freaking out. So if you're on an airplane, I hope you say your prayers, but I would say them to yourself. If you're getting up and doing anything, if you're demonstrative at all on an airplane and your water and doing big prayer.

I don't know. I'm kind of freaking out. Yeah, I'm like, do they know something? I don't know. Or what are they going to do? That too. Okay, yeah. One of the two, like they're obviously something's not, say your prayers to yourself. Heck, same with the person next to you. But if you're up and you're throwing holy water on the plane inside the plane and you're praying loud,

I'm like, what's about to happen here? That is exactly what happened here. The person that recorded it, got 5.6 million views on TikTok. So record this more than drop us up on your feet. That's safer. The person can be seen dipping their fingers in a bottle of holy water and then using it to paint the sign of the cross on the doorways. No, that's, that's, that's pretty long. And we're all for the cross.

We're all for praying. It's just that that's something that in that situation you probably do to yourself. And maybe it's holy water could be worse. It could have been blood. P? Blood? Yeah. Yeah.

All right, there you go. Bobby's big. Stories. How much money to quit your job here and travel? the world. Like how much would it take? Because they asked a whole bunch of people this. According to your research, they have the magic number. It's the average amount of Americans say they need in the bank before they feel comfortable leaving their current life to just go travel and take some months off and then figure it out after that. Lunchbox, your answer?

Two million. The answer is 287,000. Oh. You went two million? He loves his job. He doesn't. No, no. I don't love my job, but I figure when I come back, I'm not going to have a job, so I need something to live off of. Like I have three kids And that's $2 million You said you'd retire with a $1 million When on a scratch off But he needs to travel

Yeah I have to travel That's what I'm saying If I was retiring And I didn't have to go anywhere A million dollars I could probably make it work But if I'm going to take five people If I'm going to take five people around the world

It's going to cost a lot more than the normal person So it had to be two million Because Amy your number I'd be worried Something wasn't going to be here for me When I came back So can I pass on the offer

What in the world? Keep the job? What? Yeah. I'm nowhere ready to let go of something. Because listen, I've been paying way more attention to when I'm older and what kind of life do I want to live. I'm going to be working for a long time. These guys here, they can't wait to retire, but they're saving nothing. I'm ready to go. Oh, I need way more savings. So what do we do? Have you guys started doing your 401K? Oh, I saw that they're matching now.

They are? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They brought it back. So I've already inquired. I had a call with them two weeks ago. Okay, no, my question was, did you start? I have not been putting money into it yet. But you inquired. I did inquired. Wow. Wait, they really said they're going to match some?

Yes. But they've been doing that for a lot of the time. It's on and off, on and off. Let me check that. I can get that email. Morgan? Oh, yeah. I've had my 401K for like five years now.

The company offers it. 401k match. Now they're matching? One third of respondents would want half a million dollars. The average was 287,000. Okay. 18% would do it for under 50,000. They hate their job.

That's all just take some money to quit. Yeah. And you're not, to me, you have to really not be thinking about when you get back from traveling. Like, what in the world you're going to do? They also said, hey, if we gave you a $1 million travel budget, how would you spend the money? Oh. That's amazing. 37% they would prioritize taking family and friends on a dream vacation.

24% they would road trip. 21% they would visit famous landmarks. Me, I would just like take a road trip about an hour away, come back and keep the other $9,000. Keep the money. $93,000. That's so smart. Yeah, they ain't spending that on a trip or anybody. I'm just going to put my little goggles on.

What are your little virtual goggles? Yeah, yeah. Go on vacation. Yes, I can put on my Apple. Do some Google images and call it a day and keep my million bucks. Bobid Bones show. Bonehead. Norrie up the day.

This story comes us from Gulfport, Florida. A 29-year-old man walked into a dollar general, got $65 worth of stuff, and walked out. And one of them was a box of goldfish. And as he's leaving, he's eating the goldfish. He finishes him. and throws the box in the parking lot ground. They were able to pick it up, get his fingerprint. Boom, that's how they busted him.

I'm surprised they would go to fingerprints for $65 in shoplifting. Right? Yeah. Seems like a lot of work. Maybe it's gotten easier. Then that little brush that they use is in the black light. I don't know. It still seems like CSI to me.

I'm surprised they would fingerprint that shoplifting unless it was like a serial shoplifter. Okay. I'm lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day. Check this out, Amy. A daycare in Michigan has promised there'll be no. No more melatonin spray directed at kids while in their care. Oh, okay.

Well, there must have gotten trouble for it. Yeah. That is not okay. A few parents were a little bit upset after learning that an Adventures Learning Center employee had sprayed three different nap mats with Dr. Till's sleep spray with melatonin and essential oils. Thoughts. Well, no, that's not okay. I mean, if I'm paying that place, I want a refund.

Yeah, I guess you would need to say, you want them to do that and even give it to them yourself, right? If it's your kid. Oh, yeah. Like, yes, you can't know. That melatonin, so many kids react differently to that. Oh, and that could be causing major problems even when you pick them up if they have a reaction. Like, I am not normal after I take melatonin. The next day, I feel horrible. And you imagine if you're a kid, they're acting all wonky. And it's because you're placed drugged them. Video of the treatment was recorded by a parent who'd been monitoring the daycare's live feed. Oh, yeah. If you have a lot of.

live feed? Why are you doing that out? You take the mat and you go to the bathroom and spray it. You don't do that out in the open because you're doing something shady anyway. So, because obviously they want the kids to go to sleep. Yes, 100%. So melatonin is a natural hormone. It hasn't been approved by the FDA for use in children and everybody reacts differently to it. According to Dr. Nick Koch's, it's likely that it's safe, but there's a big difference between a parent using melatonin on their children and someone who's in charge of someone else's kids who get no permission to do it. so W-O-O-D-T-B with that and obviously this is a worker at this place

who's just exhausted of kids and probably needs to find a new new area in the world I was thinking in particular the three kids that the mat got sprayed wasn't it three I would imagine it's way more than that

I imagine they only saw it one time and called and said hey we just saw this oh okay I thought they were like this little kid never takes a nap spray spray they would do that to my kid for sure if I were assuming I would assume this has been happening for a while they just stopped once they caught it once because I don't think you watch them do it

and they go, I'm going to wait till the next day to watch see if they do it again and then report it. So there's that. It sounds like if I had my kids in that daycare. I'd either be like, yeah, I felt that. Or I'd be like, get them out immediately. One of the two. We're done.

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