The Bobby Bones Show - TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (MON) The Five Most Asked Q's From Bobby's DMs

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. Bobby answers the Top 5 questions he gets the most in his Instagram messages.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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. 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 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 the 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. 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. When she leaves, scratches my face time coming back. Because I would, I was peeing a lot in the game room too. I know. I know. 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 didn't remember 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 you 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 and 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 but so far the love is working my dog is just walking and 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. Yeah, okay. 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. I've got to get her some diapers.

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. Right, right. If there's four, one of them steps up. Eddie, tell me something good. Okay, so speaking of my boys, so I told you guys, one of my boys was 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. I saw Amy's and it looked 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? Yeah.

Because they're so, they're like sardines. They're so packed in there. It's happened. Stevenson fell before, 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. 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 him on.

Do 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 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 we're going to be good, but I did mention taking like 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. And he had a good race this weekend. I mean, it was his first one. And he was first for his school for on the JV team, at least, as a freshman.

Any advice for Eddie? Yeah, we need the advice. 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 sixth. 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. Yeah. 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 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 to be a big, fish small pond sometimes. Oh yeah, dominating. Just for a minute. 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, it'd probably run

faster, though, against faster competition. Yeah. That's cool. It is cool. And there was this one kid that was running because you're saying like, you know, pace yourself or don't start too. This kid sprinted in 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? Exactly. Exactly. We should go. The boys should run together. That'd be cool. Stevenson would get slower though. Yeah, you're a younger kid. Because mine's slower. Well, I don't know. Maybe he could just, it might be fun for

Stevenson to kind of coach 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 till 8 o'clock.

What a great feeling. They usually get up about 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 Nashville 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, 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-hmm.

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 think it's the best. 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's 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 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 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 2. 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 L.A. on Thursday and Friday this show. But then I'm going to go fill in for Rich Eisen after this show.

So that would 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. Good. That was Tell Me Something Good. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense.

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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

you 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 other 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. Dang. 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 save. 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, you know?

That's from WHDH. Thankfully, firefighters exist and run. Pearson exists. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. 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 torn down. They said, uh-uh, 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 people. Yeah, but not tunnels for towers. Yeah, yeah. Tell me more about them. You kind of said what they did. Yeah. I just, 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. Well, 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 they felt like this is a big need. Great organization. Out of Memphis? Yes, but they help all over.

Okay. Yeah. Very cool. Very cool indeed. 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. Hey, everybody. I have five questions that I was asked the most in DMs from over all of last week. So I can basically put my DMs in AI and it will tell me a summary of what is being asked the most. Now I just put on there,

give me Bobby Bone Show only questions, things related specifically to this show or this podcast, and here we go with the five questions. Number five, what actually happened to lunchbox's car? So we did a segment last week, and he revealed that he hasn't had a car in two years. If you are new to the show, he had the Ultima. I mean, he's had a forever, maybe 200,000 miles at this point. Nothing new has happened, but that was what the segment was.

Still, nothing new has happened, meaning he still has that car. It sits on the curb in front of his house. He occasionally will blow the leaves of the sticks off of it, but it hasn't moved. He will not separate himself from that car. He also hasn't bought a new car. In the stairwell here at times,

you'll see his bike that he rides to work. We also work downtown, so there are a lot of cars, but we also come in at a time where there's not a lot of traffic, so those kind of cancel each other out. and being that he doesn't live terribly far from work, long enough. It's an odd situation. Can he afford a new car? Absolutely.

Is he going to buy a new car? I don't know. Like, I don't know what the deal is. But people were asking in my DMs if he got a new car or what that was about. And so it really was about that he still doesn't have a car after two years. And us just asking, hey, man, are you going to get a new car? Another one of the segments that kind of crushed, was when Eddie and Lunchbox think that I baby Amy, I don't. Actually, I think I treat her more like an

adult than I do those two at times. But it was a whole debate, I believe, on Monday, where it all started with Eddie going, hey, why do you say to Amy, I'm sorry that happened to you. You don't deserve that. And the thing is, it's not something that I just say to Amy. Maybe you heard it recently. I bet if you went back through the archives of the show, I've probably said that to him seven, eight, nine, 27 times, because I do feel that way. And that is something that I said on last week's show that my wife had said to me at some point and I liked it and I felt seen or heard and now I try to use it. And when I say it, sometimes people react in a really like positive way. But I don't say it unless I mean it. And that's where it started. And then it turned into

do I baby Amy? No. No. And I do treat her more as an adult. But does she get preferential treatment at times? I think that's different than being treated like a baby. Because, and maybe that's where the confusion is, does she get preferential treatment at times? Absolutely. Does LeBron?

Absolutely. Does Otani? Absolutely. Does Mark Paul Gosseler on the set of, saved by the baby? Bill? Absolutely. Like, Amy is the most important person on the show as far as day to day, all the things that she does on the show, not just in the morning show, but, you know, most of us all have a second or third job within the show. Meaning, so I do the morning show,

obviously, in the podcast, and you guys are listening to that right now. But I also do night shows all around the country, which a lot of people, don't know. So before we even go live with the morning show, I will do, I think I'm in like 15 cities of just me doing night shows in some markets where in the past what they've done is we've been on at night and then they take us and they put us on in the morning eventually. It's really not the case anymore. I'm just on a night in a bunch of cities now, including a lot of cities in Canada. And so I will do the morning show. That counts as one job. I'm not going to count the podcast as a job. even though we stay in focus on the podcast.

I think that is part of the morning show. I do night shows around the country. I do the country top 30 countdown. So there's three. I produce and pick some music for the I heart women of country show. That's four. And that's just within the morning show, right? So, for example, Mike is on the air.

Mike also writes a bunch of segments for the show. Mike also is running a screen for me during the show. So Mike has a few jobs that he does. Amy, I mean, Eddie has two jobs. He's a co-host and he's running cameras the whole time. And he edits videos all day. Amy has the morning show. She voices the IHeart Country, the women of IHard Country show.

She does the country top 30 with me. Lunchbox has one job because other podcasts don't count. Lunchbox doesn't have a second job. But my point with all of that is that Amy, is other than me, the most money counts on her. Like for the show to continue operating at how it operates, like the most pressure and the most money is on Amy because if she doesn't,

she doesn't create and voice and if she's not killing it on the morning show, we could suffer. So does she get preferential treatment? Yes. Is she baby? No, there's a big difference. I'm not way too long about that. But there is a difference.

But if he would have said that, If he would have said, does Amy get preferential treatment? I would have said yes to that immediately. So there you go. I think that's three. What happened with the coyotes at Bobby's house? So they're gone. And they destroyed the dens.

They plugged up the small holes. Although with wood fences, coyotes can get over a fence pretty easily. And it's a pretty wooded area, but we're fully fenced in. And there were people that were like, well, don't live in the woods if you don't want coyotes. Hey, I completely agree with that. And that's why we didn't kill them.

So we do have woods. We do have woods on our property. But we're completely fenced in. So it's not like we're just living in the wilderness and complaining about coyotes, which, by the way, I wasn't complaining. I just didn't want my dogs to get attacked by them. And that's what was happening.

Because elder went out, got attacked. Also, they have a lot of diseases and bacteria, and I just don't want that here. So the latest is we hired some trappers to come out. It was about a three-day situation where they put game cams up to just monitor. They destroyed their dens when they came back. They trapped them. They got a mom and three babies and they got rid of them.

And they are now somewhere in the woods. Maybe even in someone else's yard. I don't know. But they took them back to the woods wherever they went after that. I don't know. Is Bobby really going to cut his hair? And mostly that was to people going here. Are you going to cut your hair?

Right now, no. I have no interest in it. My daughter, Billy, thinks it's hilarious. So I am not cutting it right now because I can shake my hair on my head. If I just do this, side, side, side. Obviously, you can't see this right here. But if I just go side, side, side, she thinks it's funny and it will also distract her. Or if she's crying, she sees this. It's funny to her.

So as of right now, no. I think I'm going to get a little trim on the sides, though, because I don't know that I like it as much as it is a useful tool right now. It is a utility with the baby at this point. So, man, I think that's five questions. The other ones were Akron football. I was not picked as one of the top ten. They said it was completely random. I believe them.

What famous band randomly deemmed me? That was the Goo Goo Dolls. And that was, well, I guess they didn't really DM me. They maybe AI is mixing up what the messages mean. they collabed with me on a post and they sent it to me, which was cool. So yeah, that's what's up. And that's, well, I guess it was like the seven questions now. And then there are some generic ones.

Like, why doesn't Bobby drink? How long have Bobby and Amy known each other? This is what AI is feeding me at this point. I don't drink. I've never drank. If you haven't heard the show before, if you're new to hearing the podcast, I've never had a drink of alcohol.

And that's just been a personal choice. that had alcoholism, all of my family growing up, and a lot of drugs and alcohol. And I saw it at a very young age, so I just never wanted to do that. I think I could see at a very young age. It was holding the people around me down and back. So I just committed way early to not drinking.

And then also, like I wanted to go to college, and I felt like for me to have a shot because I would see on television that if you had any blemishes on your public record or your, what do they call it, permanent record that you wouldn't get into a college, which turns out it wasn't true. But those are the factors to me not drinking. How long have Amy and I known each other?

21 years or so now, I think. And I addressed, if you guys haven't heard that in the weeds, how come we celebrate Amy's 20th, but we didn't celebrate Eddie's 10th or lunchboxes 20th? Because Amy's the one that brought it up. I didn't know it was Amy's. I didn't know when it was mine. But Amy found an email that was from 20 years ago. And it was one of the first emails,

maybe the day that she started on the show. So that's when we started. Or that's how we had the day she started. So that's how we celebrated it. And maybe I should be better at doing stuff like that. But, all right, there you go. Those are the five questions that my AI told me I was asked about most in my DMs. I don't even know if you guys will hear this or like this segment.

Because again, it could just be really. regurgitation and maybe I could do this better, but I thought it would be fun to see if it could read my DMs and tell me what people wanted to know. So that's it. I may try to make this segment a little better. Maybe you only do it on Mondays because that's where it's going on the podcast today. But okay, there you go. Thank you. I survived nine months in captivity and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart and these are the Survivor Files. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable, abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. These are stories about what it

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