The Bobby Bones Show - TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (MON) Amy Finally Solved Her Dog’s Separation Anxiety + Eddie’s Son Just Ran His FIRST Race!

Episode Date: August 24, 2026

Amy found a way to deal with her dog’s separation anxiety. Eddie’s son had his first cross country race, and he tells us where he placed. We also get an update from Amy’s son’s race and if his shin splints were a problem. Lunchbox shared a great story from his kid’s sleeping this weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Tell me something good. All right, Amy, you're up. So my dog has anxiety. She's a rescue, but she's getting older and I feel like sometimes it gets worse and she acts out in certain ways. Like lately when we've been leaving the house, she's using the restroom up in our game room area, which thank goodness. sit there because I don't have a rug up there or anything. But I was like, what is the deal? Like, what, what is she freaking out that we're not going to come back? Because I get it.

If we're gone for a long time and she needs to use restroom, but it started happening if I would leave for two hours and I would come back. And I would take her out before I left. So I think I figured it out. If before I leave, instead of like, she tries to race out the door with us and I like, slam the door and I'm like, no, you're not coming. And then she's all anxious. But if before I go, I take a few minutes and I get down and I scratch her face and I'm like, you're safe. I'm coming back. And I just give her a little love.

She doesn't come to the door and like freak out and I don't have to slam the door in her face. And since I've been giving her love before I leave, she hasn't been using the restroom. And so I think I solved it like a dog whisperer or something. My wife does that with me. What? When she leaves, scratches my face. I'm coming back.

You're good. Don't use the bathroom. I was peeing a lot in the game room, too. I know. Yeah, I know. But I just thought, okay, I hope that that's a solution to the problem because otherwise, I, this is going to be real annoying. But so far, since I've been pausing to give her love, we haven't had an incident.

And it reminded me, my ex-sison and I were talking about it this weekend. about how when she had real anxiety, when we first adopted her, we had the doggy llama come to our house. Who talks to the dog? We paid money for the doggy llama. And that was, we've been remembered stuff about that that I didn't remember. And the doggy llama looked at us, and he was like, basically, this dog, she's making your little bee, except for he said the word.

She's like, you don't want to be her little bee? And Ben and I just felt like, we paid you to come into our house and tell us that, like, Where our dogs be. Did you want the truth? Yeah, we got the truth. And, I mean, he definitely had a spell on her. But when we tried to reenact everything he did, it didn't really work. But he did.

He does have a gift. So I get how he gets the money. So, but he's not a dog psychic. He's just a dog trainer. Yeah. Where he's. Okay. With a great name.

It's just confusing because you've also hired a dog psychic before. Yeah. That that was for you guys, for entertainment. Oh, that's for a bit? Yeah, I mean, I can't remember how I got that opportunity, but it was, I heard, Dolly Parton's dog whisperer or dog psychic, pet psychic. And so I thought, well, okay. We had Ella on an anti-anxiety drug for a long time because she is a rescue and she's freaking out a lot.

And so we just put her on, wow, but we didn't just, the vet told us to. And it worked. It chilled her out. She doesn't need it anymore. but yeah I think when they get older too yeah I'm like what flip to where she's just now using the bathroom but if anybody else is in a similar circumstance just take a few minutes before you leave

keep them calm show them some love and then maybe they'll feel a little more secure in that you're coming back and you're not leaving forever and they're like I better use the restroom now because who knows also her bladder or could we just get with age I know that's the thing my dog is working my dog is just walking and like Stuff's just falling out. Your dog's really old. She's so old.

She's so old. No, two. Number two, it just falls out while she's walking to the door. It's so sad. How old? Man. Well, the thing is, when we adopted her, they didn't really know how old she was. I'm assuming she's probably 10.

10? Maybe older. Maybe older. Like her high leg shake and everything now, so she's dealing with all that. But man, it's so sad because she just can't hold it. It's like been there. I get her some diapers. Been there.

Yeah, it's going to be us. If we're lucky, that's if we're lucky. Because if we're not lucky, we'll be dead. That's why I treat my kids really well. Like, somebody's got to take care of me. One of these boys has to take care of me. This is a numbers game? Like, you don't know which one, but there's four.

One of them steps up. Eddie, tell me something good. Okay, so speaking of my boys, so I told you guys, there was one of my boys is running cross country. So he had his first meet ever, and he got 19th place out of like 100 kids. I think it was like 97. kids total. And his time for two miles was 14.25. I don't know what that means, but it seemed like

the coaches were really proud of him for doing that. And so it's a seventh and eighth grade meet. So, and he's in seventh grade, so he's one of the youngest. But for his first meet, they're saying like, this is good. This is really good. Did you go? Yeah. Was it Friday night? I know, Saturday morning. Oh, Saturday morning. That saw Amy's and it look like 10 million kids were about to attack. Yeah. It's crazy. When they all start. High school is another. level. I mean, junior high, there was a lot of people, too, depending on which race you went to. But the race we went to Saturday night, I mean, it's probably the most popular one of the year and there's a DJ. I mean, it was bumping. Like, it was actually fun. And yeah, when they took off,

I was like, yes, it looks like an army charging because there's so many kids. I asked my son, like, do people trip on those? Like, because they're so, they're like sardines. They're so packed in there. It's happened. Stevenson fell before. Oh, tripped over a kid. At the beginning. Uh-huh. And then I was like, are we going to start over? Oh, no, no. Amy runs out to stop everybody. And then, no, they did it. And I'm like, oh, dang, that's when I learned.

They don't start over if there's a thing. And that's what Stevenson's ever since that, he stresses about that wanting to get out ahead and be on the outside because he doesn't want to get boxed in or trampled. So that's one thing I didn't understand. I asked my son, I'm like, why weren't you in the front? And he said, the way it works is the school picks. one player, every school picks one player to be in the front row, then every school has a section from there.

So you got to be in your school section. Because I was like, dude, start at the front, what are you doing? Why are you in the middle? Elbow your way up. Yes. I saw you running in your video. What were you doing? Running to the next. So I mean, we did in junior high too because it was two miles, but now that he's

doing a three mile run, there's more spots you can go catch him at. So if you watch the start, then you can run over to like, we can cut across and then meet him at half a mile and then be cheering for him then. And then we can zigzag over and meet him at a mile, cheer for him there, and then go zigzag back to, so we're just, you kind of as parents pick your spots on the course where you want to go cheer them on.

Did they give you a map so you know where to go? I mean, sometimes they'll draw it out. Like you'll get an email and you'll see the course and you'll know. This one was pretty, like when we got there, it was pretty. pretty self-explanatory of like the best spots to go watch your kid from. How were his shin splints? They were good. I don't know if it was adrenaline or what, but he's like, honestly, they're not bothering me. And I said, okay. Are they today? Go for it. No, they,

well, we've been icing them. And then I have these leg compression things. And he's been doing that. And I don't know. Part of me wants to make sure he's not downplaying them because we've said you might need to take a break. So as a parent, I'm trying to, and I've talked to his coach, like, I think, I think we're going to be good, but I did mention taking like a, maybe even a month off or. It don't hurt anymore. Or water jogging. I was like, Bobby said you could use his pool and here's the harness. I can order it.

Oh, no. And he's like, he's like, what shin splints? I don't know what you're talking about. I'm good. I'm good. And he had a good race this weekend. I mean, it was his first one. and he was first for his school,

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Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the IHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Any advice for Eddie? Yeah, I feel like that. That time is good. Like in the only way, Stevenson's coach said, this is your first race,

I'm going to run you, JV. If you finish in the top 10, we'll see if I'll move you up to varsity. And he finished six. Oh, wow. Great. Oh, six overall?

For JV. Nice. But he said, when we got in the car, he's like, shoot, that means coach is going to put me in with varsity. But I think he liked that he finished. And there was a part of the race where he was in first place for a little bit.

As a parent, that was really, like my heart starts feeding. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. And then you see him kind of fall behind. He's like, oh, man, I started too strong. So that's another thing. As Stevenson would give advice, like, as you keep going, you got to find, like, when you're going to break out. Because if you break out too strong in the beginning, then you lose it. You burn out.

But then also continuing to race with people that are faster than you, because that's the only way that you're going to push. And so the whole drive home, he's like, I kind of want to stay on JV for a little bit longer and, like, find my bearings. And I'm like, no, you're, don't be scared. Because if you go to, the quicker you move to varsity, the quicker you're going to be more challenged because. That's fun being a big, fish, small pond sometimes.

Oh, yeah, dominating. That's what I think he kind of like that. Especially if he's never got to, like, win or like, be at the top. But you're right. Yeah. Maybe let him do one more. He did pretty good in junior high, but I think coming into high school. he knows that JV is where he's going to shine.

If he goes to Varsity, I think with his time, so his time was 1741, which is sub-6 each mile, which is crazy. But, oh my gosh, like, he would have been, I was looking at all the times. I think if he would have run varsity, which there was way more kids in that, would he have been, I think someone else

that finished 1741 was like a hundredth place? Yeah, he'd probably run faster, though. against faster competition. Yeah. But someone, yeah. That's cool. It is cool. And there was this one kid that was running, like, because you're saying like, you know, pace yourself or don't start too.

This kid sprinted at the beginning, was sprinting in the middle, sprinted across the finish line. I'm like, I couldn't believe. I'm like, this guy never slowed down. He was so fast. Like the guy that ran four minute miles with his kid in the stroller. Yeah. Exactly. We should go.

The boys should run together. That'd be cool. Stevenson would get slower, though. Yeah, younger kid. Because mine's slower. Well, I don't know. Maybe it might be fun for Stevenson to kind of approach him. Lunchbox.

Tell me something good. Yeah. Yesterday morning, I don't know what was going on in my house, but the kids slept until 8 a.m. Oh, my goodness. Do you know how good it is to wake up? And it's 8 o'clock in the morning. And you're like, wow, we all slept until 8 o'clock. What a great feeling.

They usually get up about 6.6.6.15. Don't know if we just warm out too much, but it was awesome. Great feeling. Why do you think that happened? We had a couple play dates on Saturday, and then we went to the National Soccer game on Saturday night, so we didn't get in bed until 11. But usually, it doesn't matter how late you stay up, they still get up at 6, 615, and they just, maybe it was nice and quiet, and they just were really tired and slept till late. That's the best. Are you guys watching Lioness at all?

Mm-mm. I think it's the best show on TV now. I'm putting that there. Yeah, it's pretty legit. It's not to you? No, I love it. I'm just not, I just started the. Oh, new season?

The new season. Yeah, it's awesome. I don't, but I was so excited. I remember when season two ended, I was really bummed because it was so good. But I guess I just don't know where season three is going to go. I think it's the best Taylor Sheridan show. No, he has a lot. Yellowstone, the OG.

He has a lot of shows. So we watched that last night. We're only four episodes into the whole season. Okay. So that comes out of our show. every Sunday. It's really the only show that we wait for on the night of. Like lanterns was last night. We don't watch that. We'll watch that tonight. That's the Greenlander on HBO. You guys probably don't like that. No, no, I haven't started that one. But we did that. You'll hear on the

podcast in part two. We did a lot this weekend as far as like just getting Billy out of the house. So what are them all? Did a bunch of stuff. You can hear that later. And then I'm going to go and do the show from LA on Thursday and Friday this show. But then I'm going to go fill in for Rich Eyes and after this show. So that'd be fun. We're just kind of getting that in order on Thursday and Friday. And Rich Eisen was a big sports center host back in the 90s and 2000s. And now he has a sports show that's on Disney Plus and on ESPN Radio and a bunch of cities. So it'd be cool. I'm looking forward to that on Thursday and Friday. So that'll be my tell me something good. We're going to play the Tell Me Something Goods from the show this morning.

And then I did five most asked questions from my DMs, which we'll do after that. So hang out for that. We have all that coming up. All right, there you go. All right. That's what it's all. about. It's time for the good news. With Bobby. Tell me something good. Massive smoke and then massive fire. It was a five alarm fire.

I think that's the highest, right? Yeah, that's the highest. Man, I watch this guy in TikTok. He does, like, parodies of dating a firefighter. Have you guys ever seen these? No, nope. And he goes, oh, I can't believe you're here with me. I'm dating the firefighter.

Yeah, it's hard for me because everybody wants my autographs and pictures. And obviously, I think he's a firefighter, but he's making fun of other firefighters, like always bragging about how they're firefighters. Like, don't let my ink get in the way. It's just me showing how strong I am. Yeah,

I'm just here with the axe anytime anybody needs anything. Yeah, I'm tough to love. It's just a firefighter. Always on call. It's so funny. And I'm not,

I don't know why I'm the firefighter algorithm. That's weird. But it's so funny. So, but big shout out to firefighters because they jumped in. A bunch of people that just live near also jumped in.

This guy named Ron was driving past the fire. He heard somebody screaming for help. Ron is not a firefighter, despite the flames, this is the early stage of it, and some debris falling, he ran up and then in and grabbed an older guy and got him outside. He also was burned. Ron, not the older guy, the guy that was saving. And so he was taken to the hospital, the guy that he saved was taken to the hospital. They're fine. Firefighters got there.

No lives were lost. No firefighters were injured. But it was a five alarm, and like five families are displaced because it just kept burning. But had Ron not been there to help that dude, and then the firefighters not get there so quick, obviously people in these four buildings that were right beside each other, it had been a lot worse. But those firefighter videos, guys, they're so fun. I'm like, I got to see these. He's like, waitress comes up to the table. He's like, yeah, I don't really want to say, I'm firefighter, and do you guys have first responder discount?

Wait, what is this accent? That's what he does. That's what he does. That's how he talks. Okay. He's being funny and he's using a slight filter on his face. I don't know. You got to be there.

That's from W.H.D.H. Thankfully, firefighters exist and Ron Pearson exist. That's what it's all about. It's time for the good news. With producer Eddie. Tell me something good. Over 100 homeless military veterans now have a home thanks to a foundation. Tunnel to Towers is out of Memphis.

They bought a whole hotel, an old hotel that was about to be. be torn down. They said, we're going to buy this and we're going to turn it in to homes for all these veterans. So they did. So not only do they have these homes, they also have programs like job training, financial counseling, mental health support, all this stuff for all these veterans that were once homeless.

So have you heard of tunnels for towers? No, never. I've been working with them for years on this show. You have? No way. I've heard of homes for heroes. Yeah, we've built houses for military. Yeah, but not tunnels for.

For towers. Yeah, yeah. Tell me more about them. You kind of said what they did. Yeah. So apparently. You're acting like you never heard of it and I've just been working with them for a long time.

I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, we've learned something new. Pay attention, man. You would know that. Did you know that? No. Oh, you didn't either?

Okay. All right. There you go. Did you know that? No. Oh, then I should do a better job. That's cool, though. Okay.

What are we going to? No, I was going to say, apparently, after 9-11, this is when that organization started because because they felt like this is a big need. Great organization. Out of Memphis? Yes, but they help all over. Okay. Very cool.

Very cool indeed. Hey, good job, dude. No, I don't, no, not me. I'm just saying, it doesn't matter. Great story. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. I survived nine months in captivity,

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