The Bobby Bones Show - (Tues Early Bird) Adam Duritz of Counting Crows Is In Studio Talking About How He Got Asked To Make a Song For 'Shrek,' Why He Almost Quit Music & More! + Show Admits Things They Never Thought They’d End Up Liking + Mailbag: Not Close To Father-In-Law

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

Lead singer of Counting Crows, Adam Duritz, stops by the studio for the first time to share how he got asked to create a song for 'Shrek,' why he almost quit music, what inspired their song "Mr. Jones" and more! Then, find out the things members of the show admitted they thought they would never like but do now! Mailbag: A listener has been married for two years and is still not close to his father-in-law even though he makes an effort to do things with him. He's not sure what to do to help their relationship. We share our advice!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hope you guys had a great three-day weekend.

Really. Hope it was awesome and safe. And we're glad to be back. Morning, studio. Morning. So what we do on our first show of the week is I just ask the question. Can I get to know everybody a little better? and I'll ask the question and then I'll answer it so you guys can have a second to think about it

because if I'm being honest, they don't know the question. No, we don't. Eddie was like asking me up before we came on the air. Favorite ice cream? I can do that. It is not that one. Although what is your favorite ice cream? Rocky Road.

Oh yeah? Love it. You know, it used to be like chocolate for me just, but now I think it's just a straight vanilla if I have to pick one. We'll go to the ice cream place and I'll get like they have like peaches and cornbread or those. But I can't say that would just be my favorite ice cream because it's so rare. Huh, just plain vanilla? Of all, like, the flavor the standards, just plain vanilla. But, like, anything on it or, like, swirl.

Yeah, like chocolate. If we can do that, then, of course, I'm going to do all kinds of stuff. I'm going to put rolloes in it and twigs, but I'm saying it's got to be like a standard. Got it, got it, got it. Rocky Road's a standard. Yes, it is. Different brands make Rocky Road. That's chocolate, too, you know, with almonds and marshmallows.

I'm just going to go vanilla, and I love a good bowl of vanilla ice cream. Okay. Now you've tricked me to doing this one, Amy. So I already went. Yeah, Amy? I mean mint chocolate chip, Bluebell, the old school. I don't know. I'm thinking of writing Bluebell because they changed their mint chocolate chip.

Is it not good anymore? They've messed it up. Lunchbox? Cookies and cream. Pretty good one too. That's really good. Okay, so here's the actual question. What's something that you like that you never thought you'd actually end up liking?

And I will go first. For me, it would be artichoke hearts. Artichokes, Artichoke hearts. I hated them as a kid. Don't even know that I had. I'm going to look out. I'm going to be disgusted by it. I like them now.

Same thing with olives. I'll be like, ugh. Man, I can just order olives straight up. And one after the other. So I'm going artichokes and olives and even uncooked okra. I love fried okra. My grandma made. It was awesome.

But now I can just take uncooked okra and crush it. So I'd say those. It didn't have to be a food, but that's mine. Maybe it's my favorite ice cream to, too, okra and drinks. Eddie? Topo chico. It's the, the me. Mexican carbonated sparkling water, mineral water.

So my dad used to drink this all the time when I was growing up. And he would burp. Like my memories of Topo Chico was me sitting in his lap, him drinking it, and going, he would burp in his mouth, then blow it in my face. I'm like, this is disgusting. So for years, I'm like, I don't like this. Now I bought a case. I don't put anything in it. I love Topo Chico.

He's burping his kid's face, too, just like old time. Yeah, just like dad used to do. Lunchbox. Massages. I always thought it'd be weird. to have some stranger. You lay down on the table and get naked and they just rub your body.

And let me tell you, it's amazing. Later on in the show, we have a lunchbox massage story, perfect timing. It's hilarious. And I don't even know if it's real. It's one of those. Does lunchbox let dudes do with a massage? No, 100% not.

Well, we can get into that too. Yeah. Amy. Birds. You didn't like birds? You didn't like birds? You hated the Eagles? So that means you headed America?

No. But like having a bird feeder, watching birds, playing birds, bird bingo. How do you play bird bingo? Oh, I have a list of all the birds that are native to our area or come to us. And then when you see one, you cross it off. And you're like, ooh, I finally spotted one of those or I spotted one of those.

And it's just fun to like look at a chart and match the birds. This is what I mean like bird watching? You had no interest in birds, but now you like it. I've always liked birds, but yes. Well, so the question is, what's something you didn't like that now you like? Oh, okay. I just never saw myself liking bird watching. So can I say I didn't like a bird watching?

I would see people birdwatch. Like I'd go run the hiking bike and I'll say. They're stupid. I wish they'd die. Yeah. It's time for the mailbag. You send an email and we read it all the air. It's something we call Bobby's mailbag.

Hello, Bobby Bones. I have been married for two years. I still don't have a relationship with my father-in-law, but I'd like to be closer with him. I've made efforts to get to know him and spend quality time together one-on-one, but we still feel like strangers. He can be a little shut off. We don't have many things in common. I've even made the effort to do the things that he likes,

even though they're not things that I like, like sports or hunting or golf. Seems like you'd rather just do them alone than with me. What advice would you have on getting closer to him? Have you bonded with your father-in-law, signed lost son-in-law? For me, it was, I won't say easy, because it's always awkward at first. It's a dude and it's also a dude that is the dad of your,

your girl and you know what you're doing with your girl. He also knows what you're doing with the girl. So that's a whole situation. But I'm very lucky that my father-in-law is a diehard sports fan. And that is, I mean, we text constantly about sports, which then, since you have an open dialogue, it allows for other things to pop in and not to be weird. So I just don't text them out of nowhere and be like,

hey, I know I haven't talked to you in three months. But that never happens. It's always with us, Oklahoma football and recruiting, Arkansas football and recruiting, basketball, softball, sports, sports, sports. Again, same reason that I think fantasy football is great for dudes to play because it keeps like open communication between all of us. And so while you're communicating, you're also free to add other life stuff as well. Because I'm not just going to call up Ray and be like, hey man, look, I've been feeling kind of sad lately. I wish guys did that, mostly we don't.

But if Ray and I were playing fantasy football together and I'm like, yeah, man, not only did Patrick Mahomes not score. I needed two touchdowns. This other crap at homes got me down too. So it's like, and the race is like, really what's going on? That's it. That's how guys. Yeah. Interesting. It's good to go have that. What's up? No, it's interesting. I mean, yeah, we're that stupid that we have to like, kind of sports

to talk real life. I know. I'm like, I just call a friend. I'm like, oh. We don't, we don't do that because we're cavemen and we're embarrassed to have any sort of feeling or emotion. Now, back to your problem, you have got to find. You got to find what you have in common. Otherwise, it's just going to always feel clunky and it's going to feel like you're always forcing it and that's okay maybe that's just the

relationship sometimes there's really nothing to bond over and you disagree to be there if you need each other there's always something because like my father-in-law like he's into antiques i don't like antiques but man once i hit him with those antique questions he went off and that's when we that's what we like really bonded so i like the effort of trying the things that he loves but you're never going to stay committed to it and it be authentic if you don't as well. So I would encourage you to try to find other things that he likes or other things that have happened in his life that you also. It's just having something in common.

That's it. And from that, everything else can happen. So that's my advice to you. Find it. It's there. It may not be something huge, but it's there. And if you can find that common thread, then all the other stuff can come on top of it. That's what I have to say.

Amy, you want to give me advice in? Well, yeah, I mean, I think also too with your father-in-law, Bobby, like he's just a, yeah, y'all have sports but he's like just a cool nice warm wants to be connected guy so i don't know i'm struggling because what i hear is some some men just don't want to connect so i also think he might need to be realistic and that sometimes it just doesn't work just be patient because it sounds like he could be a personality that's more shut off and not willing to give you the time you need for this type of relationship but patience because people can change anybody everybody has something that they're passion just find there. There is something

there. You just got to dig in. Keep digging. Keep digging. You'll find it. Good luck. It's a very common thing. It's not talked about a lot, but you know what? We'll talk about it here. But we have to break the ice with Patrick Mahomes first. Yeah, so that's the thing, right? I just need four more points in my fantasy. What's going on my prostate is killing?

We got your email and we've read it on the air. Now it's about the clothes Bobby's mail time. All right. Uber, lift. You got your phone. You hit the app. I'm right here. Pick me up. They pick you up. Pay them.

Boom. It's awesome. Well, there's a new version of this. Have you guys heard of Black Wolf? No. Oh, that doesn't sound good. Black Wolf is different because whoever picks you up has a gun.

And what do they do with that guy? I guess make sure you don't get any crap. Okay. So you get extra security? Or they... They don't rob you. Okay. That's a bad business.

Yeah, that thing would last five seconds. So that's basically what it is. It's a ride-sharing app to compete with Uber and Lyft. It's been launching Atlanta and New York And the drive of your vehicle Have a gun Lunchbox, this is baller Like this is what you want

When you're like rich and famous You have security with guns It's being sold as executive protection For people who are worried about their personal safety Yeah, I don't ever hear stories about people Robbing the Uber and Lyft driver with people in it I feel I hear the I don't like it

Drivers need to pass a background check And trained to de-escalate any situation If a confrontation should occur on the road the guy that started it worked as a private investigator and a bodyguard and claims that many of the drivers who work from the company come from military and security backgrounds and basically it is Uber Lyft but for protection I mean the founder he looks pretty legit

He looks like that stuff to him Yeah I'm shocked lunchbox doesn't like this I know it would be the most baller thing Yeah that's from that's from well I mean Wow wow wow cool if he walked into a restaurant with me or walked around the casino with me But all he's doing is driving me to the front and dropping me off No one even knows that he has.

Wait, where if the car said Black Wolf. Yeah. Now that sounds kind of cool. He likes that. Here's another story I saw that I'm like, I got to talk about this. This Stanford professor, which we feel like if you're a professor, Stanford, you are. Smart. Right.

Very smart. Stanford professor. He says that he's 100%. He 100% believes that extraterrestrials have not only visited Earth, but they've been here for a long time. They're priced on the planet today. Okay. I meant to say wacky, too. top of smart.

He is a professor of pathology at Stanford's medical school. He made the stunning claim during last week's Salt Eye Connections Conference. There was a whole session of the Pentagon extraterrestrial UFOs. He gets up and he says it. Somebody asked him, do you believe extraterrestrial life has visited Earth? And he said, I think I can go further. It hasn't just visited. It's been here for a long time.

It's still here. I need a black wolf. If this is true. I mean, you got to check this. I mean, the stamp are going to keep him on staff? Yeah, I already got fired. You did not hear that. You made that up.

Yeah, I did. One, they asked him again. That's tough to believe. And the guy goes, no, 100%. And it's not just my opinion. The National Defense Authorization Act passed last year, signed by the president in December, 30 pages of that the establishment, they know of unidentified aerial phenomena. You have talked about this.

I'm just saying, guys. What are you saying? I'm just saying just because you think it doesn't mean it's right. But do you think he's right? I think they could be in our animals. And I made that theory out myself. You even said bottom of the ocean. Yeah, but would you ever say 100%?

But I didn't make up to bottom of the ocean. I heard that one. Oh, that's a theory. I think they could have crawled in our animals ears being tiny, and now they're just living as our animals, learning everything about us. That's crazy. That's my theory.

And if anybody else says that crap, they stole it from me. Well, whatever one took over my dog is psychotic. That's an alien. Yeah. You got a bad alien. Yeah, they're like, but lemon carves. They come off or just messed up. You got a bad one.

Yeah. Yeah. It's time for the good news. With producer Eddie. Yeah, it's not been good. Joanna Castillo is a student at Faith Family Academy in Oak Cliff in Dallas, Texas. And, man, like, since she started high school, she hasn't missed a single day of school. So a local dealership, a Jeep dealership says, you know what?

We have a program going on that if you have perfect attendance, you get a free car. So Joanna now is driving a free car. Joanne is driving a 2016 Jeep Patriot. Let's go. Did people know about this beforehand? Because nobody would ever miss school. Yeah. I'd be dragging it with COVID.

And school's not even in. I'm like, I'm still here. They said that they've been promoting it more to encourage other people. She was one out of five that had really good attendance, but she won. Wild, you would get a car. Come on. Wait, wait, wait. They said new car.

You said she got a 2016. That's not a new car. It's a new car. It's a new car. It doesn't matter. Yeah, it's a car. I don't know that. I'm missing.

He's a car. I was going to say, did you have perfect attendance? I might have missed a day occasionally. I don't think all through high school, but I never missed school. I mean, I would drag. It's like this job. Yeah. I would drag myself in here if I have to.

So you think Joanna, like, was really sick in the win anyway? At times, but I'm not going to say she's irresponsible because I don't know the truth. I don't know the truth. But that is great. That will really do her well later in life that she's already disciplined and condition like that. Yeah. So kids, if you're listening, go to school. don't miss a single day.

I'd hire her right now. Well, if they're giving Jeeps away, nobody's missing a day ever. I know. All right, that's a great story. And shout out to the Jeep place. What's his name again? His name is Mark Gallis. He's the CEO of it, but they don't say the dealership.

Dang, they even getting the plug here. No, no, no. Their PR team got to do a better job. Yeah, but Mark, he's a CEO. All right, CEO, Mark. Nice job, buddy. All right, that's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good.

I want to share a story with you guys. It was a former soldier. He lost both legs to an IED in Afghanistan. He just made history by scaling Mount Everest. He used special prosthetics with spikes to help him climb. So basically his prosthetics have kind of cleats in them. And he's also got him for his arms too to help pull him up. Wow.

He said he went into deep depression after the injury. And then he decided to keep living. He went skydiving. He got involved in Paralympic sports. He started climbing mountains. He was the first person to climb Everest after losing both legs above the knee. his motto is nothing's impossible. You just have to adapt.

Now he's planning to go back to Afghanistan to the spot where he lost his legs so he can say thank you. And it would be some kind of closure for what he learned. He says he never would have climbed Everest if that hadn't happened. Quote, whatever happens, it happens for good if you make it good.

So this guy never made an excuse. Love it. He never made an excuse. And I just wanted to say that because we so many times can make excuses. We can find ways to make things not happen. And it's very easy to find a reason to not do something.

It's very easy for us to go, well, and I'm time to do that. I got this and that. You're right. We are our priorities, which leads me to go to Scoobo Steve and see how his TV show idea is coming. Come on. Oh, because. Come on, come on. Because.

I felt the setup. I mean all of it. But this is a deal. Scooo Steve's like, I have this idea for a TV show. I've been holding it for 10 years. It's a great show. I just don't have the time. And I say to Scoob and Steve, you do.

We are our priorities. We make time for what our priorities are. So that being said, I said, Scooby, I will give you 15 minutes a day on this show to work. Go to my office for 15 minutes in the middle of the show, prime time, and just work on this TV idea of this show, this radio show. He runs, executive producer, like 15 minutes. We'll be okay, 15 minutes. Scoba, how's TV show idea coming? I just got my computer back after being gone for a week.

so I've been battling that. No other computers. You can do your phone. Not an excuse. What about a pen? Paper. I know I got a lot of excuses, which is funny because I was flying to Austin last week, and I was looking for my notebook.

And all week long, I kept poking in me in my backpack. I'm like, what does this keep poking at me? It's my notebook. And it was assigned to write in it and start doing this TV show. And I pulled it out, got the pen ready, and then I got sidetracked by kids. I get sidetracked by work. And I know there are excuses, but it's difficult to,

focus on one thing when you've got 17 other things. You have to also focus on. Says every human. Like paying your bills. You're right. It's difficult because if it were easy, everybody would be doing it. Yes, it's a good point. If it were easy, everybody would meet their goals and we'd all be freaking eating pecans all night long, watching Nick at night and the world's awesome.

It's not. The world's hard. If you want something you have to sacrifice for, it doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if you want to be a great dad or you want to move up high in industry. It doesn't matter if you want balance. Balance is hard work. it's all sacrifice anything you want to be great at is sacrifice

anything you want to to have done that you're proud of it's sacrifice and if you just don't want to do it that's okay but you keep saying you want to do it and then you keep having excuses or you keep prioritizing other things over it I know but and I feel like those are the

but but but but the I'm trying to stumble on my words here and give you a clear thought but really life gets in the way and you have to prioritize what's the most important. And for me, it's family and what... Yes, I agree.

I gave you 15 minutes on this show, though. I'm trying to find 15 minutes to walk away. And I guess I have to be better at that. And I'll make it more tough of mind. Then just give up the idea. I'm not giving up the idea because I've held on to it for so long and no one's done it yet that there's a reason why. And so I have to do it.

But you keep saying you have to, but you're not. I know. But I've never had somebody actually like yourself. Give me a hard time about not doing it. No, no, no. Not give you hard time. Challenge you to be the person that you say you are. Yes.

is a better way to say it. And if you said I'm not that person, I'm like, cool, don't worry about it. No, I am that person. There's always crap in the way. There's always sacrifice. I mean, that notebook was poking him, man. It's been poking for a week, and I didn't do anything with him. Dude, fix your back type. Sounds like a new binder, man. But you're right, I am someone that has been challenged my whole life and had to overcome challenges and work hard at things. Nothing was handed or given to me. So I should, I should harness that and work at this. It is my fault for not doing it for the last several

weeks and come tomorrow, I will start working on it. I don't care when you start working on it. I don't need to see the report. I just know you and think that you want to be the person that you say you are, and I think you are. And I don't want everybody to live with that attitude. Like, man, but, but, but sometimes you just can't do it because it's not the priority. And if you say, you know what, it's not the priority, I'm not going to do it right now.

Cool. But you can't talk out of both sides of your mouth, be like, this is a priority. I want to do it. but also got work. But here you go. I'm saying, take 15 minutes, drop it, go work on it, every day. So someone with experience like yourself, so I can dial down and focus on one thing.

I've never focused on one thing. Well, not just in general, but on this particular project, should I focus on dialing down the concept, writing the script, all the whole thing. I would do the concept. I'd work on the concept first. I'd write if I were in an elevator with somebody

for 45 seconds, how I'd pitch it, and then I'd build it out from there. Then I, whatever you want to do. Okay. It may take seven years, 15 minutes at a time. But seven years later, when you haven't done it done at 15 minutes of time, you're going to go, why didn't I do this stupid script? Do you know the best time to plant a tree? 20 years ago.

You know the second best time? Today. That's a good, that's a good quote. Tell them how to eat an elephant. I don't believe we eat elephants, so we're going to move on from this. They don't eat elephants. We don't kill them. African jungles are.

You told me that. Whatever, one bite of time. Hey, in addition to everything Bobby's saying, are you open to one more thing? Maybe that I have, okay. So this is something that's worked for me, may not be for you, but whenever you come on and Bobby's, you know,

asking you or challenging you, I hear over and over the word, difficult and can't find the time. And so I think as long as you, you're leaning into that narrative. So if you keep saying that over and over, you're going to keep finding it to be difficult. you're going to keep getting interrupted with other things.

So maybe change that narrative of being open to the time and not looking at it as so difficult. Like remove the negative language. This is coming from the queen of focus. I'm not talking about. But I do do things. Absolutely. What has he ever done though?

Now he's jumping into it. We're done. We can pass this around. We can pass the beat up baton all around the room. We're good. That wasn't a beat up. It was encouraged. I'm talking about from lunchbox to you.

Oh, he did beat me up. Yes. You don't have to do it. If you're not going to do it, though, poop and get out the pot. Okay. That's what I'm saying. I am going to change my narrative.

There you go. I'm going to push myself. And I will. Thank you. Ignore your kids a little bit, too. No. Ignore your job a little bit. Yeah.

You can have time here. Okay, thank you. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. Well, it's my favorite band of all time, The Counting Crows. I never got to meet Adam Duritz. My whole life, except for now, today. Which is a big moment for me.

And actually, Eddie's friendship in mind where it's all been forged on Counting Crows. That's true. If you know the truth of it. It's a big deal. I'm not cool, everybody. You promise? No. I'm not cool. I'm happy for you. Thank you. Well, let's see what happens here. Adam Durrett's lead singer of Counting Crows.

By the way, Counting Crows are going on the Banshee season tour. Special guest Dashboard Confessional. Kicks off June 13th. You would know Counting Crows from Mr. Jones. A long December. From Shrek to Accidentally in Love. I like that song's not my favorite, but when it comes on, I love it. I'm like, I don't know. I like the track song. It comes on. I'm like, eh, it's good.

Big yellow taxi. Vanessa Carlton here. But you don't know what you got. Your lips gone. It'd be a paradise. And here he is. On the Bobby Bones show now. Adam, how are you, man?

I am good. I'm just turn all this off. Well, if it's anybody cool, you can leave it on and we'll play a phone roulette. And if somebody cool calls, you can just answer it. Hi, Mom. How you been? I'm pretty good. You're here for a couple reasons. One, I have a Mount Rushmore of my favorite people in the world who I haven't met.

And it is David Letterman. It is Steve Martin. It's Howard Stern and Adam Durrett. So three remain that you check it off my list now. I've got all of those except for Steve Martin. You haven't met Steve Martin? No. Seen him.

Mr. Jones, you guys kind of imagining what fame is like or what celebrity is like. How long did you write that song before that actually happened? happened. Mr. Jones is from sort of the middle version of counting crows. It was probably about 1990, 91. Was it one of those that fell out? Yeah, pretty much. Really? I mean, I don't know, you know, well, anything wrote it all that night. Anything in front of five hours. I mean, almost like falling out. Most of my songs back then were probably less than five hours. I get real determined to just sit there and do it until it's done. Now, if you get famous, there's all the social media that comes at you. And I've had different smaller-ish,

type of events where it's just like, wow. But when you blow up in the 90s and 2000s, and fame is not able to get to you through those means, how does fame get to you if you're always on the road moving around? Is it just crowds? Is it just people? You know, it's weird. We've been on the road for a while before it happened, really, and it had been building. You know, we played Saturday Night Live, and we ended up in the top.

13, then 6, and then 2 for the next two years. But I didn't really see, you know, we were on the road, on our own for a while at Christmas and we seemed to be a kind of a hot indie band for a little bit and then we went back to opening for Cracker and we flew back from Europe and landed in New Orleans right before Jazz Fest.

And I'd been going to Jazz Fest for years so I'd spend a lot of time in New Orleans. As a fan watching? Yeah, got it. Yeah, because we weren't before the band really. This was my first time at Jazz Fest after the first record was out. And I went to the festival the first day after we got there and got mobbed.

The things that had been building that spring and winter had happened. It had kind of all coalesced while we were in Europe. I mean, the next, you know, a few months were very strange. I remember being on tour and being in Birmingham and having a day off and deciding there's like a movie theater about four blocks from the hotel. And I walked down and I was watching this movie. There's no one in the theater but me.

It was weird. It's like an afternoon matinee or something. This guy comes walking down the aisle, walks up the row and sits next to me. And I was like, hey. And the whole empty theater says right next to it. And he said, hey, um, I'm a really big fan. I was like, thanks, man.

He said, do you mind if I sit here? I'm like, look, I'm just trying to watch a movie. If you don't mind, I just want to watch a movie. And he got up and left. And about 45 minutes later, saw a guy coming down the island. But it wasn't the same guy. It was the guy that was working the concession stand out there. And he said, hey, are you in County Crows?

And I said, yeah. And he goes, I don't know what's going on, but there was some guy in here before. And for the last half hour, he's been on the pay phone in the lobby, calling people. and there's a huge crowd outside. You know, if you want to get out of here, there's like a door at the bottom, like an alley exit.

And I said, you know, thanks, man. And I snuck out at the alley and walked down the street. And then I heard this noise behind me. And I turn around. There's this massive crowd of people out the front of the theater. And they all start running. I ran. I just ran down the street, got to the hotel,

like ahead of this crowd. It was just a little while after Jazz Fest. You didn't even have the infrastructure to be famous. because it all happened while you were gone. You didn't know you landed. It's here. And you didn't have security. You didn't have anything to make sure you were even safe.

No, never really got any of that stuff either. I had a lot of friends in bands who had security. We never really got security out with us or any of that stuff. It just seemed like you could sort of avoid it. The Shrek song, which is how a lot of kids would know you, accidentally in love. Was that written purposefully for that movie or was it a song that you guys, or that you had already had somewhat and thought this will be right?

let's, you know, turn it into that? How'd that come? No, that was written for the movie. I got a call about doing it. I went over to, you know, DreamWorks, Amblin, Spielberg studio there. And they showed me the scene they wanted and kind of told me the flavor. There was a Weezer song on there originally just as a temp track, I think. As soon as I got the offer, my whole thought was, this is exactly what I want to do. This is like being on a really good Disney film. You know, I saw it. I thought it was fantastic, you know, and also has a chance to, you know, get new fans who are younger and, you know, I was so excited to do that because it'll be there forever. I'm really proud of the song and I think the movie's fantastic. At counting crows, countingcrows.com. The tour, it's almost

60 dates. I will be at the one here. You're playing at the Opry House, which is super cool, but basically every city we're in, you're in. Countingcrows.com. Adam, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Thanks, you guys. Here's a voicemail from Alex from Montana. My mom and me and my kids were traveling from Atlanta back to Montana. And we were just walking in TSA. There was Amy Adams just helping her kid in TSA. I took Bobby's advice and because she was with her kid,

I didn't go up to her and ask her for a picture or anything. But my mom was like, hey, I'm a big fan of yours. And she was just super kind and thanked her. but I just wanted to tell someone, so I hope you guys have a great day. Thanks. She seems like she'd be nice. Yeah. I like Amy Adams. Probably because she seems nice.

No other reason. She seems normal and nice. Yeah, she's like deceivingly super pretty. Really? She's so normal, but then really is she like super pretty. Oh. Like she downplays it, like Pam from the office. Yeah.

Like Jenna Fisher was always really pretty, but then they had her kind of play it way down because they had her play the secretary. Do you guys know that? No. No. No idea. Learn something new. No idea.

All right, next up, this is a voicemail we got last night about Amy. Our Amy. I heard Amy say about taking a biology final exam, and I'm wondering if I missed some episode. Is she going back to school? Great question. Amy's trying to be a doctor. Yeah. Really, Amy?

Yeah. That was your kids, right? Yeah, so my 16-year-old had finals, and we were studying, and I feel like I was about to take an exam because I was studying so hard. I mean, we sent three hours one night. And you said if they didn't do a good job, you were going to be upset. because you put so much effort into it and how'd they do? We don't have the final scores yet. Man, they take forever to get this.

What? No, Bobby, what you're referring to is a paper that I wrote. Oh, got it. How'd that do? We wrote, she wrote. She wrote, of course. She wrote. You just said that wrong, came out wrong.

We got a B on that. Even though that she's 40. So annoying. Amy goes back to the school and complains. I was like, a B. So anyway, the biology, I couldn't physically go take the test, although I am prepared. I know, but you don't have the results back for that.

No, that was just, yeah, we don't have them yet. All right, thank you. Here's Amy's pile of stories. I've got three questions you can ask yourself to avoid buyer's remorse. Okay, go ahead. Where will I store this thing? Good. Like a kayak, for example.

Sometimes it seems like a fun idea, but then you're like, ah. I've done that twice, not just once. twice in my life if I bought a pool table and regretted it both times But Arkansas Keith plays with it So you're good I just got rid of it I just got rid of it

You did? Oh I saw it was missing I didn't even notice I gave it away It just was taking that space And the more was like in the store it Oh That's quite

Yeah Twice I did that Like I did it once in my 20s Early 20s It was like Okay got a little money now It's pretty cool I'm not loving paycheck to paycheck

First thing I'm gonna do Is buy a pool table And I did And it was stupid I never played it I hung clothes on it It just became that Then I was like

All right Got a little space 40 now, buy me a pool table. Same thing. Stupid. Hate it. Well, so these are, we're talking bigger items, but they also say that, you know, an air fryer, a lot of people think they're great. Oh, no, no, that's the greatest thing ever.

Buy it. Oh, it's awesome. Don't listen to the story. You'll love it. Get an air friar, never look back. I agree, but they're saying that's another way to just evaluate. Like, hey, I have limited storage space. Am I okay with this?

Throw whatever else you have away. Put the air friar there because it is invaluable. Right, because it's an eyesore on the counter at times. Ours is that. It's black and sleek. Oh, well. You pull out the little handle. Okay.

Dang. Put the peaches in there. Cook up those peaches, air fried with a little parchment, what we call, paper underneath? Yeah, parchment. Ooh, money. My wife makes fish in there. I hate fish. But not in the air fryer.

I mildly dislike it. Wow. The second question to ask yourself is, how will I clean this thing? Because, I mean, does it have a lot of maintenance? You need to take care of it. Is there going to be added expenses? Okay. Full table, I don't clean.

Air friar, I also don't clean so easy. It's pretty easy, though. Somebody's cleaning. Yeah, yeah, I'm not. Okay. And then the third question is, what will I do with this thing when I'm done? Give it away. Pool table.

And give it away. I don't have to sell it because if you're going to sell it, they're not going to come get it. So give it away, but it's heavy and stupid. Yeah. So you gave it away. How do you even pick up a pool table? Strong arms. Hey, we've been working out, Amy.

Yeah, we did it. So Kate Middleton met with a bunch of kids and drew pictures for them instead of giving them her autograph. And this is fascinating to me. she couldn't give them her autograph. It turns out the royal family isn't allowed to sign autographs ever because then people could forge their signatures. Wow.

But what's their signature for? Do they ever sign anything? Do they know how to sign their name? Yeah. Do they get a pen? Well, that's a good point. I guess they probably don't have to write checks. Yeah, I don't, you know, it's like maybe,

you ever see the TikToks of people trying to figure out to skip again? It's a funny thing where people are like, hey, I know how to skip and they're like, oh, my God. Oh, I have seen that. And it's people going, wait, kind of, that's what I feel like giving one of them a pen. Like, wait, how do I sign my name again? They used to do it maybe, but not anymore. Yeah, crazy.

Interesting. Okay, well, speaking of autographs, Garth Brooks has partnered with a tattoo shop in Vegas where they have his signature. He signed my boobs. Your boobs. Okay. You're interesting. Yeah. Huh.

So he has his Las Vegas residency coming up. So people that are going, they can go to the tattoo. shop. It's called hypnotic tattoos. They have a signature at the tattoo shop and they do it anymore. This is amazing. Yeah, and Garth Garth is in agreement with this. Like, hey, book this appointment, 702-444-2400. They said that they're pretty booked but they're trying

to make room for more. And like the space they've reserved for this sold out. So everybody's getting the Garth signature tattoo. The thing about Garth too, I think Ray could speak on this as well because it's like Godsoners or whatever. He doesn't sign anything unless he makes it specifically to someone, right? Yeah, we have a guitar in our living room.

That's the way somebody can't resell it on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace. Anything he's ever given me, he's written directly. Not that I'm going to sell it, but he makes a point. Or if someone's saying, can Garth sign this. It's like, I have to sign it to somebody so it's not just made for resale. Right. Are you Garth works Godson? No.

That sounds awesome. My wife's really close to him and her dad works for Garth. But you're always got, you're got, you're gotzun right? You should roll with that. Yeah, I can with that too. I remember you. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news.

Oh, it's Bobby. Tell me something good. Let's go over to the phones and talk to Doug, who lives in Nashville. Doug, what do you have for us, buddy? Hey, how you doing, Bobby? Hi, Studio. What's happening? So tell us or tell me something good.

Okay, see, yeah, I appreciate it. So I had a friend in San Diego where I used to live, and he just notified everybody that he got diagnosed. He had to get rushed to the hospital with stomach pain. And it turns out he's got stage four colon cancer, and, like, nobody, you know, there's no way to know that until you obviously get something like that. So, a friend, a mutual friend, started a go-fummy page to help him, you know, like for medical expenses, because he's got two kids and his wife. And he's a really funny guy. He runs a beer blog, a craft beer blog page, and he's a funny guy.

But anyway, long story short, was that he, you know, they didn't know what to put down as a fund amount. So they put down 10,000. And they reached the fund in 12 hours. And then the next day, it was 200,000. And I'm like, good Lord. And I'm like, and you know, because you don't know how much cancer treatment's going to cost. And hopefully he pulls through and everything's going to be all right. But I just thought it was like, wow, like in two days, 200,000 like that.

And that's just from people across the country that knew his, you know, crap beard blog page and things like that. I'm like, wow, like, that's just huge, you know. Yeah, I was going to ask how it got known, like how it went viral-ish. But if he had, that's a lot of money for any go-fund me in two days. That's a lot of people giving up their money so this dude can have a shot. That's awesome, Doug. Do you know how he's doing now? Yeah, no, well, I mean, it's day-to-day, so I keep checking in with them.

But, you know, until the treatment starts and all that, like literally just fine. You know, in a week, that's just, it's just scary to me as a guy that's older or two. I'm like, good Lord. Like, really? That's just, anyway. So, yeah, I just, I wish for the best, and I hope everything's going to be all right. But thank you to let me share it. And you guys are awesome.

I love your show, man. Thanks, man. I appreciate that story. And, you know, I think stress can also help or hurt things as in if you don't have stress, it can help it. If you do have a lot of stress, it can hurt it. And if you're going through something like that and you're stressed out, because of finances, it ain't helping it.

You're like, I'm going through this. I have cancer. I don't know what I'm going to do. And I don't have the money to pay for the... That's going to only amplify it. So shout out to everybody who donated. That's a really great story. That's what I love it when callers call in and tell us something good.

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