The Bobby Bones Show - MON PT 2: What Bobby Did For Wife’s 1st Mother’s Day + Delilah In-Studio On Radio, Rude Comments And Adoption

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Bobby revealed what he did to celebrate his wife on her first Mother’s Day. Amy also shares what her kids did for her yesterday.  Amy is getting out because Delilah comes into the studio. Bobby talks to her about her career and if people freak out when they realize it was her. She talks about people she meets who grew up listening to her on the radio, getting rude comments and her reaction to Bobby’s late rule. She tells us about her incredible career in radio, being a lifelong advocate for foster care reform and adoption, and the secrets behind her show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Bobby Bone Show. Coming up, we'll talk to Delilah, who she just kind of existed everywhere on the radio when I was a kid. Did you ever have Delilah on? Oh, yeah, of course. I don't even know what station, but she was just... I feel like in Austin, I was Magic 95.5. Yeah, now that you say that I feel like

in Little Rock, it was... In the evening. Hmm. What was it in Little Rock? because magic was a rock station is why I'm confused now Oh and Little Rock? In Little Rock, Magic 105 was like the Rock station Oh yeah, no and Austin was like

Easy Listening What the heck was the movie? Delilah Mike will you see what Little Rock's Easy Listening station is Because now it's gonna sit in my head All day until I figured it out Did you have one in the valley?

Oh yeah I don't remember the station though my mom would listen to it So it was like one of those things Where my mom would pick me up from school or whatever And we'd listen to Delilah But you don't know the station? No, I don't remember. Maybe B-104?

You know, I think maybe ours was a B as well. Really? Yeah. What's K-R-U-B? Yeah, that would be B-98 or something. Yeah. Is that it? I think so.

I don't know. I didn't listen to that station much, but that station was always on everywhere to make it safe. Because they just played safe music and then Delilah would come on at night. And yeah, so we'll talk to Delilah coming up in just a few minutes.

So did you stay and talk to her after? No, I just caught her in the hall for a quick little video. What was the video? Well, I was like, hey, can I be like, Delilah? Because that's what I'd see. You made her sing it? Well, I asked if she went, but then she had a good idea. She goes, how about you sing it?

And then I won't be in the. Oh, dang. She got you. She didn't want to sing it. How about you sing it? It wasn't awkward. I promise. No, she was like, no, no, no, you say it.

And I'm going to be off camera. And then as you're singing it, I'll come into the camera, like, appearing like Delilah. It was cute. Yeah, that makes me feel like she's been asked that 10,000 times and that's her move. Well, maybe. Oh, yeah, her move. Were you nervous to do that, Amy? No.

I just acted like I was casual, cool, go in the bathroom. Oh, hey, what are you doing here? Oh, Delilah, who we just had in studio for the bathroom. Half hour. It's fine. Yeah. She's coming up in a few minutes here on the podcast. Let's talk to Walt in St.

if we can put them on. Hey, Walt. Yo. Yo. Good morning, studio. Morning. I just wanted to comment about Daniel's winnings. If he's having his materials ship to him, the trucking company will show up and they'll drop a pallet on top of the Alta and leave. They're not going to carry it in his house because I went through a similar situation when I bought my wife a desk for the house.

I was asked the seller to, you know, when I bought the desk at the company, they asked them if they could take it upstairs. Like, oh, no, they're going to do a drop ship. And they're going to just drop a pal at your house. So you need to get your neighbor friends to carry it in your house, Daniel. I don't know. I mean, they said they were going to deliver it and that I needed to be home. So it sounds like to me, they're going to be bringing it in the house. But, I mean, I have no idea.

I've never experienced a wind like this or ordered something this big. So, you might be right, but I'm not going to you a lot. What do you say? I appreciate that, but I think that's what's going to happen, my friend. All right, Walt, we appreciate that call, buddy. We'll be, we'll be waiting for the news from Lunchbox. You know you've got to tip them too, right? They're movers.

They don't work for the prices, right? They're literally hired by the prices right, just like they move stuff all day. Oh, man. More taxes you've got to pay. Yeah, it's costing me more money. Hey, Walt, thank you, buddy. Hope you have a great day. Thank you.

All right, there he is. There's Walton. I did this deal with my wife yesterday on Mother's Day. It's her first Mother's Day ever. And I said, hey, I guess the mail came today. She was like on Sunday. I was like, yeah. So I had her two letters.

One, which our baby, Billy had written her. I wrote it. I wouldn't spoil it. Okay. But I wrote it with the wrong hand. Oh, even better. So it looks sloppy? Yeah.

Man, it was hard to read. I thought if I tried to write it with my good hand but bad, that would be harder than if I wrote it with my bad hand. good. I don't think I made the right decision because she was really struggling and I was like, yeah, baby just learned to write it's hard. So I wrote her a letter from Billy and then I wrote her like a two page letter from me

which I was looking at it and it started off pretty strong with handwriting but then it got worse too. I just don't have good handwriting. Can't draw don't have good penmanship. Never my specialty. But I did that and then I got her a nice gift and then

I just tried to like do a lot of the, all the day-to-day stuff that she does for a few hours, like putting the baby to sleep, like, do you all, just to give her some time. And so I went up to the baby's bedroom, the nursery. And I was up there just trying to like, like, Caitlin take a nap or something if she wanted to. And I think she was like, eh, I'm over. So she came up and just laid up in the nursery with us. She didn't want to be alone. Yeah, she was like, I'm good. Like, I'll just come hang out with you guys. So, but it was a good, it was a good mother's day. I mean,

the baby's eight weeks old. So it's crazy. She can already write. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazing. Impressive. It's wild. So that was mine. I think my wife would give it a solid A minus. I think she'd probably had given it a plus if she would have enjoyed the time away a little more.

She just, it's still too early too early. Yeah, I think it's fresh. Yeah, she was like, I appreciate it, but I'm going to come hang out up here with you guys. So what did your kids do anything for you? Car notes, handwritten, like actually. And wash my car. Oh, they washed your car? That's nice.

That's really cool. Who did that? Stevenson. How'd that go down? He did the best that he could, you know? I think we might need to work on a few things, but he even vacuumed out the inside, wiped down the inside. Did you just walk outside?

He was washing your car? No, he was like, hey, I don't have any money. Well, first he said, I need you to put your car in the driveway because it was in the garage. And I was like, why? And he's like, well, I don't have any money. So I'm going to wash your car for Mother's Day. And I was like, okay. That's really sweet.

Yeah, I don't know if he got that idea from his dad or not, but that's okay. Either way, his dad's a big car wash guy, like always washing the car. So I could see him suggesting like, hey, maybe you should try to wash your mom's car. So either he got help from his dad or he thought of it on his own. Either way, I'm grateful. And then, of course, it rained. Okay, cool. You know, you wanted to rain, wash your car.

It's about the effort. No, no, I know. Yeah. It's good. I was very grateful. It was very successful. sweet and thoughtful. And also, shout out to him or anybody else.

Like, you don't have to have money to think of a gift. There you go. Because that was a... You're like questioning your ex-husband a lot. You said like three times. I think it was a dad. No, well, at first I was like, wow, did he just come up with this on his own? And I was like, oh, I bet his dad mentioned something. But either way,

that's okay. And I have gratitude for that. I also got a text from my ex-husband, his dad, on Mother's Day, saying happy Mother's Day, you're doing a great job. Like, that was really thoughtful. That is nice. So it really is okay.

I'm not trying to be weird. I know. You are being weird about it, though. You're talking about it weird. Your tone is weird. I am. I get dressed it because our listeners are like, she's being weird about that.

Okay. Well, maybe it's to any other co-parents out there. If you're the guy or the girl, it's Father's Day or Mother's Day, whichever it is. Like, you can still be an encouragement to your kids for the X. Is my point. Great.

And point taken. You don't have to be weird about it. Well, you're being weird about that. Eddie, how do you go at your house? Pretty good, man. You were talking about a card or whatever. What was funny about our card is I bought a card and I had all the kids write a little note on it and sign it. And my wife, I didn't see really what they wrote, but she opened it up in front of everyone.

She's like, all of me read it. And dude, we sound so dumb. Like, all of us, even me. Like, everyone's like, I love mom. Mom is great. You are my favorite. Of all the moms? Yes, we are like the dumbest group of dudes ever.

Even mine was just like, I love you. You're the best mom in the whole wide world. Like, thank you for being great. It's like so dumb. Did you give her like a break or a gift or anything? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did all that. Like she didn't cook.

She didn't do anything. She slept in. Like, if we were going somewhere, I drove, which is a big deal. Because like she drives her car. I drive my car. I drove. I got us there. We went to like a put putt put place though.

And like I felt like, do you really want to do this? But she said, you know what? Like if the boys are happy, I'm happy. And I just want to spend time with you guys. So I give it a solid day. It's pretty good. And we got gifts. gifts too, like showered her her gifts.

I feel like you're making it up as you go. No, no, no. After you finish and we don't respond, it's like, oh, and we did this. And I drove. And we did this. Yeah, I did drive. I did drive. Okay, good. No, it's real.

Like, that's what we did. You put, I drove before you said we gave her gifts. That's why we felt like you made that up. Well, the gifts to me was... And the gifts, then you said we showered her gifts. Or like, was it a few gifts or like a lot. Like four gifts. From each of you?

Yeah. Why is everybody weird? Lunchbox? Man, I'm going to tell you what. I don't know how my mother's day went, but I didn't enjoy it. Let's just say my wife slept till 9 a.m. And at that point, the kids are getting grouchy because they're hungry. And I'm like, well, I guess I got to go wake her up.

And I'm like, hey, are you going to get out of bed today? Because the kids are getting, oh, I didn't know. So then we went to a restaurant. We went to the exact same restaurant last year. And it was great because at the end of the meal, they give flowers to the mothers. And so we go and we beat the rush. luckily we got there like 15 minutes before it got crowded. Into the meal, no flowers.

Wait, if she's sleeping, why didn't you just handle the kids? And their food. No, no, no. The whole point is like she's going to get, well, then she wakes up. Well, they're going to go to brunch. Yeah, she's wanting to sleep. He went and woke her up. Like, what are you going to do about this?

Yeah, what are you doing about this? They're hungry. No, no, like, we're going to go. Hey, are we going to go eat or not? Like, I mean, the whole thing was. He needed her to be able to go. That's my point. I had to have her to go to brunch for Mother's Day.

No. No. Bobby's saying why didn't you just cook the kid something? She'd probably like to sleep more than she would have liked to. The plan was to go to brunch. Okay. Got it. So that's what I'm saying. Like, eventually she has to get out of bed or else the whole plan is ruined to go to brunch and get flowers from this restaurant.

And they don't get flowers this year. So great. Thanks a lot, guys. So now my wife doesn't have flowers on Mother's Day. And so then we went back home and my kids gave them their gifts that they made at school, like little handprint things. my son wrote a poem is like, you're as nice as my dad. And it said,

you're not as funny as my dad. And so it was really a poem about me. So I kind of like that. That was fun. Like a mad lids, driver crazy? Yeah. Then we were like,

all right, we're going to go to the dog park. And my wife's like, I don't think I'm going to go. I'm like, what? And so she went back upstairs and went to bed.

And we went to the dog park. And then I texted her and I said, hey, head to home. Can you get lunch ready? Got home? No lunch. But you had brunch. We had brunch.

If you have brunch, you don't eat lunch. The lunch and brunch is lunch. No, no, not when you have kids because it's two and a half hours later. They're hungry. So a snack will suffice. And so she had no lunch ready. She was upstairs sleeping. I'm like, awesome.

Okay, cool. So I got lunch together. We watched Dr. Doolittle. Then we started watching Dr. Doolittle, too. And my wife finally emerged from her room awake. And then she got on FaceTime with her family for an hour and a half. Sounds like that's what she wanted to sleep and just be on FaceTime. Just sleep.

And that was it. So I really didn't see my wife on Mother's Day. It was really pretty terrible. Like, I don't really understand what we did. It was not exactly what I would say is a good Mother's Day. It's funny because my wife wanted to sleep in too. Like, they really want that. Yes.

Yeah, they don't be woken up. Yeah. Let's let him sleep. I hope everybody had a good Mother's Day out there. Thank you to all the moms. All the people serving as moms. that maybe aren't biological moms but I hope you had a good mother's day

our first so there was no showering of gifts there was just a gift it wasn't like Eddie's house we shower I feel like your gift is pretty legit what the baby

Bobby's gift I know he's not gonna talk about it I'm not gonna talk about it you can't say it's pretty legit Amy's the only person that I told what the gift was in the whole world like there's only one person

in the whole world that knew what I was getting my wife and it's Amy no I'm not no No, we're not having a place. It's very special. I thought she was talking about the card. I'm like, okay.

It was something that left. We have possibly the most viral person in the Price's Right history that just happened. Did you see it? That's really. Oh, it's someone else. It was brutal. It's not him. So what they?

I haven't seen it. It made the news news. It was so big. Oh. Like what they do? Did they wear a tugs? The Price is Right gave away the largest amount in a single game. the show's history, a retired veteran won $240,150 in cash and prizes from the Lions Share game.

I had to look up because I watched her play the game. She had to go to the screen. There are little balls up there. And so it's like grocery pricing, risk reward. But I just never seen the game. I like the old old game. That was a good one. But so she wins and she is a retired veteran named Vanessa.

She won a luxury trip to Morocco. the previous record was 210,000 from the Cliffhangers game. Is Cliffhangers the yodel? You're the expert. No, he's the mountain man. Is that not called Cliffhangers? Not that I know of. I don't think it's called, I think it's called Mountain Man.

Oh, dang. You don't know the game, man. Yeah, Cliffhangers is a yodel o'lottie. I here she is winning the biggest ever. Here we go. 227,500. And number eight is, it is. A mother-daughter trip to Morocco.

$240,150,000. That's a nice job. Almost a quartermill. Almost a quartermill. That's crazy. He's fuming over there. Like, I watched it, and it's like all these numbers, and it's like, all right, she had all these numbers selected. And you can keep going or you can stop because there's lose it all.

There is lose at all. And one of them was like 10,000, then 15,000. She's like, I got to believe. I'm going to keep going. it was a $100,000. So she's at like $125,000. And she's like, those last two numbers on the board of my daughter's birthday. So I got to believe, I got to keep going.

And it's another $100,000. So she's at $225,000. And she has one number left. And they say, what do you want to do? And she goes, that's still part of my daughter's birthday. I got to go again. And that's when she got the trip. She didn't lose it all.

And I'm like, dang, man. She kind of surpassed me. Oh, you know, she's the most viral person ever in the history. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And she didn't have to go all crazy and wear a tucks. She just won the game.

How's that make you feel? A little disappointing. It's sad. But, I mean, eventually there was going to be a bigger prize and bigger than me because the money just gets bigger and bigger as it goes on. Well, your prize wasn't big. Right. I mean, that's what I'm saying.

You got a desktop computer. Yeah, like you got a home gym set. Correct. So I do feel like. Chipped it to Temecula, California. The only reason she went viral is because the amount. It wasn't because of how she acted. I went viral because of me, my personality.

Well, her strategy of like, that's my daughter's birthday. I'm going to keep going. Like, the whole story is powerful. And she was a veteran. Yes. And a mom. Yeah. So all those things.

Yeah. Anyway. What month were you on? April? March 31st. March. It wasn't April 1st? No, that's when we were able to talk about it.

Got it. All right, well, there you have it. Dang, man. Oh, that sucks. New leader this year and most viral on prices are right. I'm happy for her. No.

Yeah. You're by... Really? Why not? Yeah, you don't know her, who cares? I mean, just be happy for her. That's great. Yeah.

Her winning took nothing from you. I'm gonna look it up. They haven't even called you back. What is he getting his phone for? What are you looking up? I'm gonna check the views, man. I want to know. Hers just went up.

Yours was up. I just Google it. Every news outlet is covering this story. story. That crossed over. Local to National to page 6. Yours was fun on their Facebook. Hers like crossed over into mainstream.

Their Facebook. It was. Yeah. Oh my guys. Hold on. You guys are way overrating her. I mean, it made all the news. She only has 334,000 views.

Okay. It's still growing. It's one. It just happened and it's not counting all the news that showed it. Oh my gosh, guys. You guys are overselling the virulity. What do you have? Oh, over like 1.8 million.

I mean, she's not even in my ballpark. She may have anything like that. She may have won the money, but she didn't win the fame. 334,000 views. Oh, that's hilarious. Me, 1.7 million. Hey, congratulations. She's not the most viral.

Thank you. But all the news source. It's been corrected. All the new sites. That doesn't count on the views for this one view. I'm just saying, can't measure it. I would say I'm more byer. Can you measure it by the, like, people are probably talking about this more than that dude in the tuxedo?

Let's see. I don't know. Like, you know, that girl that won all that money and a trip to Morocco versus that dude in the tuxedo's. She has 880 comments on hers. Let's go to mine, 3,479. She has 800 already after just a few days. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's going to keep climbing.

Like, yours has been up for over a month. I mean, let's see, I was on TV guys. I was on the news station. You did local news. I mean, come on. All right, well, congratulations to her. That's pretty cool. Pride is like love.

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It is a carac. Listen to learning to be human on IHard Radio, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, we have the very lovely Delilah here with us. We're so excited for taking the Delilah. Thank you. I didn't tell Amy you were coming, and she was like, Delilah's coming. I should have gotten more dressed up. And then I walk in in blue jeans.

Yeah. This is actually a dress that I had on to go on TV, but as you can see, it's kind of short. And they showed me the stool I was going to be sitting on Local 2 today. And I'm like, okay, I'm going to put the pants on. It was very cute. Yeah, thank you. Oh, they gave you a heads up. You were going to be on a stool.

That's at least nice of them. Yeah, it was. Otherwise, I would, you know, looked half naked out there. What do you talk about when you go on local TV? What did they ask me? you know stuff radio style like what I'm curious what people would ask you that aren't in the business

what's your most ask question is that your real name is usually what they asked me they didn't ask me that today but they asked me you know like any callers recently that really stuck with me and stayed in my heart do you have those loaded up as answers because you know what questions are going to be asked the most

no no I didn't but they were oh my God The girls there, the women there are amazing on the local two show they do in the morning. Amazing. Why? What about them? Professional, beautiful, smart, funny. We had a great conversation.

I've got to stay there all day. Do you ever find out when people find out that you're Delilah, they freak out? Like, they don't know at first. If you're just meeting somebody random, they're like, oh my God, you're Delilah and they freak out. Yeah, I love that. Come on. You do too. Be honest.

You love that. Yes, I would say, though, it really. I think we have a different impact. Some people want to punch me in the face. Nobody wants to punch you in the face. Why would anybody want to punch you in the face? You're so damn nice. I would agree with you.

I'm on your side. Thank you. I love that you love kids. I love that you care about the kids at the hospital. I love that you care about the community. Why would anybody want to punch you? Well, I just have a lot of opinions. And sometimes people don't agree with my opinions.

And I get it. But I feel like you are universally loved. Like, just not a single person that would be like, Delilah, I really liked it. I had somebody say something not nice to me on TikTok today. Who? Tell us, we'll go get them right now. You just point the direction.

We will annihilate them. Well, I was on TikTok. I'm in town because I got to go be on the Bunny X-O podcast yesterday. And I had such an amazing time with this woman. And we talked and we prayed and we connected and she was lovely. And I, you know, posted a picture on social media and somebody put a snarky comment today. And I said to Aaron who brought me here to town. I'm like, I want to respond.

He said, do not respond. Do not engage. We just ignored the naughty people and just move on. I'm like, okay. Restrain is difficult. Yeah, it is because I'm like, how dare you be rude to somebody I now care about? Oh, they were rude to her? Well, they were rude to me because I was off.

on her podcast and they have judgmental thoughts that whatever, whatever. Do you ever meet people 10, 20 years later that you talked to a long time ago? And they were like, you gave me advice and changed my life. All the time, which is really cool because I'm old, you know. So I meet a lot of young people and they're like, I listen to you. Well, Bunny, that's how I met Bunny. She wrote a book. It's been on the New York Times bestseller list now for.

umpteen weeks and in one of the last chapters it starts with my name and i'm like what and she grew up listening to me and while she was being horrifically abused and ignored and abused and abused and abused um she said you're you know that this woman delilah was the only parent in my life you know a disembodied voice on the radio and my stepdaughter got the book the day it was released and she took a picture of the page and sent it to me and said mom did you did you know this and I'm like how would I know this so I ordered the book and it took me I'm a fast reader like I can read a book in a day and it took me it took me days to read her book because it was so emotional so painful and she's you know she's younger than my stepkids she's just a couple of years older than my first

born biological child and I'm just like, why did nobody love this kid? Like, why did nobody advocate for her? Why did nobody fight for her or stand in the gap for her or protect her? So it just brought out all my mama bear. That's pretty cool that she would credit you with some consistency in her life, even though you didn't know it. Like it was meaningful to her. Yeah. Like consistency's tough. That's the highest. compliment that I can receive when somebody says, you know, your consistency mattered, your kindness mattered, your empathy mattered. Do you ever just have a bad day though and you're in and you're like, screw you're

your problem? Hang up on them. Never. Not my problem. Like, get alive. Maybe to my husband. No. Never.

No. That's good. That's why people want to punch me in the face sometimes because I'm like, duh. I mean, there are people I slap the microphone. Like, those calls never make it on the air. How do calls get through to you? Do they call in live while you're there? Or they, like, leave a voicemail and you call them back?

Like, how did that? Ain't nobody got time for that, Bobby. They just call live? They call live. I'm in the studio. Four o'clock, my time, because I'm on the West Coast. I go in, usually around 345. I'm in from four.

I leave the studio at 5.30 and put dinner on the table. I then walk back into my studio because I live in a bar. and it's closer. The studio is closer to my kitchen than I am to you right now. Wow. And go back in and finish the show and I quit taking calls around 10, 10.30.

And then go brush my teeth and say my prayers and go to bed. Wow. I set my alarm and get up at 603. I set up for six, but I give myself three minutes. Do you hit the snooze? No. No, snooze is nine. As...

Universally, if you hit snooze, it's going to be a nice. minute delay. Got it. Listen to her knowing the snoo. How many times do you hit snooze? So I used to be a snoozer, a fun fact, but, you know, you would research would show, and then Bobby would talk about it. And I can't remember how many years ago it was.

Maybe five or six years ago, Bobby did a challenge with a listener and me, like, partnered us up so we could be accountability buddies because there was a listener called in, like, I want to stop snoozing, but I can't. And I'm like, I want to stop snoozing, but I can't. So a listener and I. Yeah. How do you snooze with kids? Well, but I was waking up well before they were. Like, I would be gone doing the show before they would go to school.

So because, you know. Okay. So you're getting up of the buttrap. Yeah, really early. Yeah, so it's really early. So because I now had a listener accountability partner, I did it and I powered through and I don't snooze anymore. So that worked? Very clever. Yeah. Were you showing up late?

Like, was there a reason you challenged her? Oh, no, we can't be late. Delilah, if we're late. No, no, no. It's just I would. I was a self-proclaimed. Oh, come on. I've been in radio 52 years.

We can be late. No. We're outside the door. No. We're outside the door and we're supposed to be on the air in 13 seconds. No, no. If we're late to this show. We go home.

Not even the show. There's a time. Yeah. Okay. If there's a deadline, yes. There's, but this is what we're consistently showing up for. We would be sent home.

By who? By Bobby. You're looking at them. Okay. Nobody's been late on this. Punch you in the face. Nobody's been late on the show in seven years. Oh my gosh.

Gosh. Do you know how many days of my life when I was, you know, in a single station? Now I'm in my barn. You know, come on. That I would, I'm supposed to be on the air at seven. They wanted me there at six. I would show up at 6.59 and 58 seconds. But that worked. You're still on time. I was. Yeah. I was. Never on time for a staff meeting in my life. I had a general manager that was pissed off about that. No. I was. wasn't nobody, you know, nighttime. I was, I was, I was, I was, I was lower than the janitor to those people. How did it start for you? What was the first show you did ever? Uh, the first show I did ever, I was in junior high, Delilah Luke on the warpath. Were you angry? We go back to the tapes. Is she just yelling at people? No, I, we were the reedsport Braves. Um, like the school mascot. Yeah. Now it's the Reed Sport Brave because there is no local indigenous

to approve the Braves. So we are the reed sport, brave, meaning brave and bold. Ah, like bravery. Our logo is no longer a Native American. It is an anchor because it's a fishing town. Except there's no fish. It sucks to be a fisherman when there's no fish left in the ocean. And I started in junior high doing school news and school sports.

and then I got into high school and the two men that owned the local radio station put me on the air every afternoon. We were a sundown station so as soon as the sun went down the station went off the air and I was on the air from like one o'clock

until the sun went down. What was your role? I was on the air. Just like doing songs? Songs, commercials. That was 1974, 75. and we had these things called turntables and records and carts. Our commercials were on carts.

We had cart decks with the commercials. And we were day parted. So from like three until 4.30 or 5, I got to play rock and roll. And then five to six, we played adult contemporary or country. On Saturday mornings, we had the Scandinavian hour where we played horny, dorky, snorkey. Yeah. Yeah. So when did you start doing, or at least, like, waiting into what you're doing now? I started the show that I do now in 1984 when my son was a couple of days old. So I always know how old my show is by how old my son is. I took two weeks

maternity leave and came back and started this show. And did you know you wanted it to be like something that would touch people's lives? Yes. That was the goal? That was a goal. And so callers were calling and just tell you their stories and how did you start to spread?

Like who saw you and who saw what you were doing and thought, man, this would be great in a lot of different places because it resonates. A guy named Victor Strattuckie actually is the reason that I am successful today. He's, I think, in his 80s or 90s, but he was a local columnist for the Seattle Times.

and every Sunday he did a big column. We had a parade magazine that was inside the newspaper, and the inside cover was always on the dial, and it was radio news. And so I don't know if anybody else in the world gave a damn about the article, but every radio or television person dove on the Sunday paper on Saturday when it was actually released to see who made it on the dial. He was also the editor of the,

comic page in the newspaper. And Victor decided when he started listening to me that he wanted to help me and mentor me. And he took me under his wing and he taught me about our industry, which nobody had ever done. I had been on the air already for 10 years and done jazz. I did country. I was an airborne traffic reporter. I did news talk. I had been. I had been. I had done all these formats and gotten fired consistently. And Victor said, I'd probably been doing, we called it lights out back then, probably been doing lights out two or three months when he started listening. And he called me up out of the blue and he said, I'd like to write an article about you. And he started talking to me. He's like, you really have no idea how this industry

works, do you? Like, you have no idea how this industry works. And I didn't. I mean, all I knew was how to open the mic and entertain people. So he started teaching me. And damn, he was good. And he said, obviously, they're not going to put any money into promoting you or shine a spotlight on you. And so let's do it ourselves. And he hired a photographer to take a headshot. I had never, I mean, I had done modeling, but no station had ever thought of, you know, using my image for anything. that was the morning show. You know, you morning people get all the press, and the evening was a literally throwaway airtime. They didn't sell a commercial at night. They sold commercials in morning drive or afternoon drive, and then they bonus them in night.

So if you bought 10 spots, you know, for your car dealership in the morning, you got 10 free spots at night. And it had no, the show had no value to them at all. That time, from 6 o'clock at night, 7 o'clock at night, night until six o'clock in the morning, the station had no income, no value. And I was paid minimum wage. And Victor said, we're going to change that. And he said, but they don't care. He said, exactly. Because they don't care, they're not going to pay attention to what we're doing. And I'm going to teach you how to become a star. And he did. He taught me how to self-promote,

hired a photographer, had a headshot done. He screened it back then. And he screened it. And now we got these fancy color printers on our phone, and you can have a picture printed in living color in, you know, half a second. But back then, you had to have a screened black and white picture or, you know, that separated the tones. And then you had to take it to a print shop, and he did all that for me and had cards printed up. They were half a sheet of paper on cardstock. and came up with a logo, came up with the slogan, came up with jingle ideas, said, call your friends, because I had met, you know, Elton John and Lionel Richie and all these great people, and he's like, call them. Ask them to do a jingle for you.

They'll do it. They love you. They like being on your show. Call them. I'm like, you can't just call Elton John. He's like, try it. Call him. I had Diana Schuer do a jingle for me.

She was a jazz musician with one of the best female voices you've ever heard in your life. He taught me that he said you got to become friends with the salespeople. I'm like, ew, salespeople. He's like, yeah, salespeople, the ones that are going to help you get rich. I'm like, what? I can get rich doing this. Well, maybe not rich, but you'll make more than you're making now, which was like five bucks an hour.

And so I started meeting the salespeople, and I took the sales director out to lunch, and I said, why are you throwing away this time at night? He said, because it's got no value. Nobody listens. I said, well, if I bring people to listen, will you bring me commercials? So we had a handshake deal. And I said, okay, I'm going to bring in ratings like you've never seen before.

And you're going to bring in commercials like I've never seen before. And it worked. Wow. He's still alive? He is. He is. He's been Thanksgiving with us last year. Wow.

in his wife. That is awesome. Yeah, he was like in his 60s or 70s before he fell in love and married his wife and they have a beautiful life. And so. And you have a, you say a barn. You live on a farm? I live on a ranch. I lived on a farm for the last 24 years.

I have 55 acres that I've lived on. But I own a ranch in Oregon that my husband has lived on. So we've had a commuter marriage, our entire relationship. and two years ago he had some health issues and I went down to help and my daughter who was a freshman in high school said I'm not going back mom I love it here I love the school I love the people I love the environment I'm not going back so I'm going to stay here with that I'm like oh oh no you're not your dad can't keep track of a dog no not happening so I had a studio built down there and we're staying there until she finishes high school.

How many kids? 15 that are mine, five step kids, and three more that I just got custody of. So I have five at home. I mean, I've got kids older than you. What inspired you to be so giving to children? There are 487,000 children in foster care. right now, this minute. Half a million kids in foster care. Less than 5% will ever be adopted. The rest will age out of the system. Of those kids that age out of the system, half a million children,

80% of the boys will end up incarcerated by the age of 25. How can we not? How can anybody with a heart who loves a kid think that that is okay. We have two domes in Seattle, two sports fields that are one block apart that cost millions of dollars, billions of dollars. They raised our damn taxes in Seattle so that even if you hate sports,

like some people do, you still have to pay for the privilege of having a damn sports team under a damn dome thing in our city. We have two of them. We used to have one and everybody shared, but that wasn't good enough. Now we have to have two of them

that my taxes pay for for a sports team, but the average caseworker in our state has 38 children on their caseload. How is that okay? How is that okay that my taxes are raised for an entertainment, opportunity while we've got hundreds of children that are sleeping in hotels because there are no foster homes to care for them.

What do they tell you when you ask that question? Who? When I asked the director of the foster care program in America a couple of years ago and I got an audience with them, oh no, the system works great. No, that's not just so. I mean, here in Nashville, I know of caseworkers that have kids that have had to sleep in their office, not even a hotel room, but the office because the kids didn't have anywhere to go. And the caseworker was like, well, this is the best we have at the moment.

The reason I know about the hotel is because my oldest biological son is a police sergeant, and it's on his beat is there is a long-term, long-stay hotel, whatever it's called, long-stay America or something, extended stay. There are no rooms that you or I could rent, even though it's near the airport, because it's contracted out. out to the state every damn night for dozens of children. They don't get a room that becomes their room. They have to move rooms every night, depending upon who's there. So they don't even have a damn chester drawers to put their clothes in. Their clothes are in a garbage bag. That's their life.

That's not okay. It's not okay. How many kids at one time have been at your house living? Most. The most. Eight. What's that grocery bill like? Oh, geez. Well, because I live on a farm, we raise all of our own chicken, all of our own beef, all of our own eggs.

Dang, you do. I have a lower grocery bill than most. I do have a higher hay bill and feed bill. What kind of animals do you got? I have probably 100 chickens, maybe more. I have geese called Sebastopol geese that have curly wings, curly feathers.

They're called frizzle geese. They look like they have dreads. It's kind of cool. I've got cows, donkeys, horses, goats, sheep. No, the sheep ran away. I had sheep, but they ran away from home.

Emus, peacocks, and a zebra. So what's going? And if you're at the ranch now? Hold on, hold on. You have a zebra? I have a zebra.

How'd you get a zebra? I'm not going to tell. Fair enough. Okay, I just didn't want to not acknowledge the zebra. Oh, yeah, no. So you're on the ranch now at the farm. Where are all the animals? They're at the ranch.

They're at the ranch. Okay. They took three trips in very large animal haulers to take. Yeah, I transported them. They're my babies. Wow, that's crazy. How many calls do you think you take a night? We air 25 a night.

I usually take 30, 35. And do you spend a lot of time with people and then find the best parts to put on? Some people I spend a lot of time with and oftentimes we turn those into podcast. And then the average, we edit our calls down to three minutes you know, because they are controlling idiots in our industry that, come on, move it, move it, move it, move it.

We got to move it, we got to move it. Nobody's going to listen that long. Oh, let me stop to play a seven or ten minute spots at. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are you the same idiot that just told me I couldn't air a call more than three minutes long because nobody has the attention span. Everybody's got the attention span of an app.

You've got to move it, move it, move it. But you're telling me that they'll sit there and listen through. eight or ten minutes of commercials. That's really stupid. And that is why I get fired a lot. Have you ever looked at the data to see which song you've played the most and talked into the most? No.

I'm sure it's wind beneath my wings, though. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That one's kind of like universal for a lot of like wonderful things. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even have any clue how many times I played that. Is it because you've opted to be like, okay, this is going to be the

perfect song for this or they've asked for it. Both. Yeah. Both. There for a while, every other request was for that song. Really? Or I will always love you. Do you ever have someone and you just have to go like, hey, cut bait, that dude is bad news? Oh, all the time.

All the time. That is my most common piece of advice is what are you doing? Like, what are you doing? You just said, he slept with your sister. And you're thinking he's trying to hook up with mom, but you love him. Really? That is my most common piece of advice is his girlfriend. Sometimes for guys, there are some very pathetic men who will like grovel on my show and like, I just want her back.

But she moved in with your best friend. I know, but I just want her back. Are there songs for like those instances? Or do you just go to commercial? Yeah, there's, there is a song for everything. Yeah. There's a song. The funniest call I ever got was a woman who wanted a song for her boyfriend because he's

her rock and she had a very strong southern accent. And she said, but right now he's away. And when somebody draws out away and it's like, you know, two minutes long, you know that he's not away at college. Oh, he's in prison He's away He's away And I'm like, okay

Well, why Why, baby, is he away? Well, because he made a little mistake I'm like Little mistakes usually don't Lead to away They might lead to away for a night I said what

What exactly did he do? She said, well, he got jealous of my ex-boyfriend So he built a bomb and put it in his truck. I'm like writing a hot check. That's a little mistake. A bomb? That's a big mistake.

She goes, I know, but I love him. I said, what's going to happen when he gets out from being away and he gets jealous again? I don't know. I'll worry about that. I love him. So I broke format and played the Gap band. You dropped a bomb on me? Yeah.

Had to do it. Had to go there. That's funny. Well, I just think you're the best. I know we've got to spend some time together prior to this. And they said you were coming. I was like, if she'll give me time, I would love to just sit with her and talk about stuff that I wouldn't even bring up to you in real life. Because I wouldn't be like, tell me about your first job. I'd be like, what's happening? How was it? How was the day? How's the day? How are the kids?

Yeah. Yeah. So that's, but I brought one of them on this trip too. Yeah. Have you been in Asheville a bunch? Not a bunch. Not nearly as much as I would like. Most of the kids that I adopt have so much trauma that they have issues that require a lot of energy. So traveling is not an easy thing for Mama Bear to do. And with one of my children in particular, he was so traumatized when I got him that I am his only bond. and when Mama Bear is not in direct eyesight like line of view or accessible within five minutes, he has a meltdown.

So he's got an IEP. He's got a very modified schedule at school. He only goes a couple hours. And we are pretty much together all the time. So I brought him on the trip because if I didn't, there would be a meltdown by the time I got to the airport. and that makes it hard on the other kids because then that's not fair for them. And so it's kind of challenging right now. Well, we're glad you're here.

Thanks for spending some time with this. Thank you. Do people come up to you and sing the jingle all the time? All the time. Oh, and she walked in. I was singing it. Yeah. You guys want to know something sweet about that?

Yeah. There's like four different versions that you'll hear throughout the night. You know, we drop them into every spot. and stuff, but the one that's the kind of high-pitched girls' voice, that's my daughter. Oh, wow. Love that. That's great. She recorded it when she was 15 and we still use it.

The one that we play is Shea from Dana-Shay. Not a sweet, but it's like, yeah. That is what it is. For the Bobby Bone Show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, not Delilah. We don't play Delilah on us.

We would if you wanted us to. You could. Yeah, we would. That would be cool. Could you do that? Like every time you go to break, played the Delilah jingle. Or if we have to give advice or tell someone to cut me.

We hit it. Or maybe you could just talk to your boss and say, you know, Delilah really needs to be back in this building because I was for a long time. On what station? On the I heart station. Like, I don't know what we even have here. What? Maybe the.

Do we have like a hot AC, pop? I don't know what. You're on all those different kinds. I am. So I don't. Which is really weird. Do we have a station here, though, that they didn't change the format of? They changed the format a little bit when they said goodbye.

But they could, you know, I'm adaptable, damn it. I'll play country. Don't say that. You'll take our job. Delilah does not play country. No, Delilah does not want to do country at all. Seven to midnight, come on. Is that a, I mean, is that a conversation you want me to have?

I'll have it. I don't care. Yeah. Tell me the station. I know people. Just talk to Barbara. Say Barbara. Barbara Bridges.

You know there's this girl, Delilah. New to the business. New to the biz. You'll like her. I think there's something there. Delilah, awesome to talk to you. Thank you so much for coming by. Thank you.

You guys are great. The wonderful Delilah, everybody. Yes. All right, that's going to do it for us today. Thanks to Delilah for stopping by. Thanks to you guys. Anything else before we go away? I just hope everybody has this.

day they need to have. Man, couldn't have have it better myself. Whatever day we need to have? Whatever day we need to have. You need to have a great day, have a great day. If you need to have a little bit of a bad day, have a little bit of a bad day. Why would someone need to have a little bit of a bad day? Well, sometimes you just need to have the day. If it's going to be a hard day, like feel the feelings. Did you make that one up? No, I feel like that's something she's not from Instagram,

but she just wasn't expecting to be asked to elaborate on it. No, my co-hosts on Feeling Things, she's a therapist and it's something she has said for years. Do you ever go like, but what does that mean? Or do you just let her say it? No, she said that actually she used to be a spin instructor and someone she used to work with like in a studio she was at. Like she was having a particularly rough day.

And the instructor of that class looked at her and was like, you know what? Have the day you need to have. Like feel those feelings. And she's like, you know what? I love that. So she tells it to a lot of her clients. Like, hey, if this is the day you need right now, not every day has to be great and awesome and perfect.

Like let's feel the feelings. I like that though. I like to have an awesome perfect day. Yeah, have a great day. Well, you can. Wow. Then have that day. What day do you need?

I wish you were that. Awesome, perfect day. Okay. But if it's not, then have the day you need to have. You're trying to sub out have a great day. Yeah, you're trying to get rid of that. No. Like all the math that they've made, you've got to throw them away.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because really, maybe you're not meant to have a great day. I am. I need one. I need a great day. Okay. Thank you, everybody. We will see you guys tomorrow.

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