The Bobby Bones Show - (Tues Early Bird) Lunchbox Tried To Buy The '12 Days Of Christmas' Gifts + Did The Show Keep Their New Year's Resolutions? + Mailbag: Should You Combine a Birthday And Christmas Gift?

Episode Date: December 6, 2022

Lunchbox called a store and asked to buy the '12 Days Of Christmas' gifts. Hear how it went and if he was able to get any of the gifts! Plus, find out if anyone on the show kept their New Year's resolutions they made earlier this year...Mailbag: a listener's been with her boyfriend for three months and isn't sure what to get him for Christmas, especially since his birthday is two-days before Christmas too. She's struggling on how to split them up. Should she get him two gifts, or one big gift that counts as both? We give our advice!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Come on, Bobby. Transmitting. Let's go! Welcome to Tuesday's show. Studio. Morning. Hope everybody's doing good. We're gonna do this like we did yesterday. I'm just going to ask you a little question, gives you a little bit.

Warm it up, Chris. I'm about to. Up first, it's gonna be Eddie. Eddie, if you're at one of those fountain machines where you get soda or whatever, you only get one drink, what are you getting? Root beer. Wow. Yeah. I would go Dr. Pepper, but, I mean, I can get that anywhere.

Usually, when I'm at the fountain, the root beer just catches my eye. I want it. All right. Here he is our video producer. Producer. Hey, so I watched Black Panther. You saw the movie? Yeah, the new Wakanda Forever. Yeah.

Dude, awesome. Like, really, really good movie. Even after hearing the hype, it was still awesome. Yeah. Like, I don't know. I feel like all of these Avenger movies kind of just, they're all under the same category of a crazy action, cool movie or whatever. But this one stood above the rest.

Why was it different? It'd be all sorts of emotions. I mean, I almost cried during this movie. Mike, did you cry? You wanted to? If you had a soul, you would have cried? There's definitely moments in there where I'm like, oh, man, like a little child. choked up because a little bit of reality

of Chadwick Bozeman kind of comes in and like the real Black Panther and then you go back into the movie. But I'll tell you what the coolest part of the movie is. My people, Mexicans, are finally featured in Avengers movies. And I'm going to leave it there. I can't say too much about it.

But there's an actor in that movie that my kids, they were like, whoa, dad, that looks like you. That's cool. You represented? Yeah, finally, my people are in Avengers movies and hopefully they make movies about us. Morgan, did you cry? Black Panther? Yeah, I did. I cried, I think, three different times throughout it.

Dang. What do you give it? I'll give it four and a half vibranium rods out of five. Sounds dirty, but I'll go with it. Yeah. It's not dirty. Lunchbox, you go up to a fountain machine. You got a cup. What are you getting? I don't know the last time I've had a Coke in my

life, so I guess I'd go with the power raid. I think they have power aid option up there and that's what I would go with. Lunchbox, what do you have? I feel like we have not been in the Christmas spirit enough on this show. I haven't heard enough Christmas music, and so I thought I would cheer us up, and I called a store trying to buy the 12 things of Christmas. 12 days of Christmas.

Like one crappy horn, two. Turtle darts. Three French. Partridge. That song did not last, did it? No. It died. I don't know any of that.

But I do know the song. Eight mills of milking. Maids a milking. Golden geesees. Five golden rings. Four, calling birds three. I call it a department store. Who says department store?

He does. You don't want to say what it is? I didn't want to say. I was just trying to, it was really a grocery. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Grocery store. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So not a department store. Isn't that a department store? No. Department stores got clothes and departments. Yeah. Oh, what? A grocery store now is clothes. Well, no, it's a super center.

Oh, boy. Anyway, here we go. Here's lunchbox calling and trying to buy all this stuff. Go ahead. Oh, yes, I need 12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers pipinging, 10 lords a leaping. nine ladies dancing eight maids of milking seven swans of swimming six geese allaying five gold rings four collie birds three french hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree yeah so which one of those can

you get for me uh i don't have any of them oh sorry can you can you uh check in your computer and see any of your other stores have them? I don't think any stores would have them. You don't think any of them have eight maids of milking? Oh, interesting. You're wasting this guy's time. Oh, for sure. I think if you called them and were serious and be like, hey, I'm just like, do you have a, I don't know how many you haven't stocked there.

Do you haven't have ten lords of leaping? Like, if you ask like a Siri, I think you would get a, he knew you were singing. I think if you hit him up and we're like, hey, listen, I got four, but I'm supposed to have six geese-a-lang. to. And see if they catch on. I got you. Instead of just singing the song which sounds like you're just prank caroling.

Yeah. Yeah. I liked it though. It's a good good. And then he started singing with me which I thought was pretty fun. That was cute. Yeah.

Thank you lunch, Merry Christmas. Good tidings. Amy, you're up to the machine. You got the fountain, your cup. What are you getting? Okay, I'm going to get lots of ice and Diet Coke. You wouldn't want more Diet Coke than ice?

I love lots of ice. And then Diet Cove. You can go back, though. Yeah, but you know it comes out of that thing cold, right? Yeah, still, though, it feels weird. Okay. If your big cups, it's got no ice. I want lots of ice.

They like shit. It's like the water shifts. Oh, yeah. Too much liquid. All right, Amy, what do you got? So my BFF, like, since I was 13 years old, Andrea, I don't know why, but she decided to go over to our Facebook page. Maybe she was on there doing something else, but she saw Morgan maybe put up a post about

the Christmas movie I was in Holiday Harmony. And she starts reading through the comments, and then she sends me a screenshot of some guy that posted, she's gotten too full of herself, which he put T-O, it should be T-O-O. You've gotten too full of yourself. He just proved his point.

Dang. And then some woman, Peggy below him, said, I agree. And then my friend replied in my defense, but then it got me thinking, I'm like, oh, man, I don't even ever go over to Facebook because this is what it does me. It messes with my head. And then I think, shoot, have I gotten full of myself?

And what do you guys think? And do I need to rein it in? even though it's one comment out of some other nice ones. I saw you struggling to get in the door today. I mean, your ego is like, you're like, you're trying to cram it through. Is she too big for a bridge? So he's the perfect example of somebody who's just jealous of you

and says that because he's jealous of you. That's what that is. You're not too full of yourself. I'm going to say, I mean, everywhere you go now, you walk in like holiday harmony. We have to talk about our lives at content. And people will go, it even say to me sometimes, man, all you do is talk about you and things you.

You guys, look, what's that say behind me? Yeah, your name, Bobby Bowen Show. It is either things that I think are compelling enough to talk about, things I think it's compelling enough for my friends to talk about or my opinions on things. I literally get paid to talk about me and how I feel about things. People are like, man, it's all about just doing him. Yeah, because if I don't, I don't get paid. So don't let that get to you.

Okay. They're him. I'm glad he was able to do that. They're just upset at you. You're not too full of yourself. You are A plus in my book. I mean, we had to get you your own parking garage. Garage, not even spot.

Oh, the whole garage. Okay, just a reminder to just, you know, be nice on Facebook. If I'm going up to the machine, I'm not going to go all the way there. I'm going to go up to him and I'm going to look at it and go, I'm just, I'm a better person than that. And then I'm going to go over because I have a clear cup and I'm going to get water and I'm not going to steal from the machine. Okay. All right. That's not an option.

I assumed we were paying for it. But you guys did, but I wouldn't pay for the big cup. I pay for the water cup and I wouldn't go over there and steal. Then you get Sprite, right? And then I would get water. Oh. I get water because I love soda so much. I wouldn't be able to do just one.

I want like 10 of them. I have a story here that I was going to do later on in the show, but I can't stop thinking about it. And so I just want to do it now because it's what I love to talk about. So I love the idea of the apocalypse. And getting to be here when the apocalypse head happens, like seeing if we can survive. Scientists have thought out a, quote, zombie virus

that has been frozen under a lake in Russia for 50,000 years. Something like this is what's going. to happen when something happens. Something randomly hidden somewhere underneath something. I'm not saying this is it for sure. But you remember the first time COVID happened, coronavirus? I was like, guys, this is it. This is something. Months before it happened. You guys laughed at me. I was like, no, no, no, no, this is serious. Well, because it was all the way in China. Airplanes. Yeah, we didn't think about that. What did you say about airplanes? They will get it here. The team from the French National Center for Scientific Research says

that the global warming is melting this lake. And because of that, it's releasing this matter. so the zombie virus that has the potential to be infectious, it could be a public health threat. So zombies are real? In a way. There are bugs that are zombies that come alive. But they're not real because it hasn't happened yet. But nothing happens until it happens.

This is a zombie virus. I hope I am far gone. I do not want to see if I can survive an apocalypse. I have zero desire for that. I want to just live life however living. I don't like it now. I like life out of it. I feel like life out of it.

I feel like that's my only shot to be king of the world. Oh, my gosh. An apocalypse. Okay. Because I get on my team. You guys already said you weren't on my team. I did not. Yeah, Amy, you were out.

I was not. I was in your team. All right, we're here. We're ready to go. It's time for the mailbag. You send an email and we read it on the air. It's something we call Bobby's mailbag. Yeah.

Hello, Bobby Bones. I've been my boyfriend for three months. He is great. I heard you talking recent. about how you're once official should always get your significant out of the something for Christmas. The situation is that

his birthday is right before Christmas. He's turning 29 on the 23rd. I'm struggling on how to split them up. Do I spend an equal amount? Do I go all in on one big gift that counts as both? I was leaning towards doing that. What advice do you have

for getting someone a birthday and a Christmas gift around the same time? From Holiday Hannah. Well, Holiday Hannah, my wife's birthday is in very, very early January. I live this every year. And here's the thing. Growing up, and I've learned this through my wife, growing up, your boyfriend didn't really get a full birthday because people were always ready for Christmas. And sometimes

his birthday got lumped in with Christmas. And most people got two. But because of how unfortunate it was, he had no control over it, he didn't always get two. He kind of got one in a third. So my advice to you, because I live with someone who has a very close one. And she is not someone who's like, you need to celebrate me at all. But I do see where people are like, hey, this is a Christmas and a birthday gift. I'm like, oh, man, that would stink. Because if you're getting, so I would say as you need to celebrate them both fully. Yeah. It's your birthday. It ain't Christmas. It's your birthday. We're here to celebrate your birthday and all your birthday. And here's my birthday gift for you. Christmas is Christmas. It stinks are close, but you would celebrate it the same

way if it were in August. You need to really focus on that. It's tough. It's tough for me because I love, I love to give and I love to impress. I love to like, see, that wow, I can't believe you thought about that. It's always about spending money, but it's like a great gift that I, like, heard her mention something. But that can do it twice in like five days. It's stressful. Yes, but it is worth it.

You need to make sure and dedicate yourself to his birthday and dedicate yourself to Christmas. Do not, do not, do N-O-T, do not get one gift that counts as both. Now, Bones, if you have one gift that's way more expensive or better than the other, which one? Birthday. Birthday. Because that's about that person. Got it. So the big one,

birthday. But get two girls. Yeah. Holiday Hannah, thank you for your email. Close it up. We've got your email and we've read it on the air. Now it's about to close Bobby's mailback.

Yeah. Do you even remember your resolution from last year into this year? No. Last year's a blur. Just in general. Yeah. Did I make one? I don't know.

Well, something like you were going to water yourself. Water. I think it was water. I think that water. It was water. Water was my word of the year, and that was maybe two years ago because I was trying to be more fluid. I was going to drink more water, but then I'll personally go with the flow. Anybody remember this?

No. I do. Yeah, I do. What? And I did. I accomplished it. I think it was try not to do so much. Like, do less.

And I think I've done that a little bit, or at least I focused at times and said no to a lot of things. I may have still been very busy, but I said no to a lot of things. And so I think I did that. I would like to encourage people. I know here we are, it's early December, but if you make your resolution now and you actually get started now, by the time you quit it in a couple months,

you'll have gotten so much accomplished. That's true. Because you'll do it for a couple weeks, and then the new year starts over, and everybody else is just starting theirs, and you get re-energized, and you do it for another couple weeks or a month or two months. Yep.

So do it start it now. If it's like a fitness thing, get started now. I know Eddie's back to working out. I try. I try because it's stupid. I just don't know why people are working out. This is why, because he was telling me, he's like, why do people even do this? For your heart?

Your brain. Number one, it hurts when you're working out, right? It's like, oh, gosh, one more sit-up. Why did you decide to start working out again? Or exercising? Well, I took my kids to the gym and they play basketball, and so there's some weight sitting there. So I'm like, you guys shoot a little bit, and dad's going to work on his abs. Man, I can't move.

I can't even breathe today. My abs hurts so bad. Getting out of bed bones was like another sit-up, and I was like, oh, I can't get out of bed. Did you work that hard by yourself? No, I just haven't worked out. like two years. So my body's like, what is happening here? So you don't understand why people work out at all? I just don't get it.

Like, why do you want to go through pain while you're working out? And then three days later, you're still in pain. It makes no sense. And if you don't keep up with it, it all goes away. Which is what happened to me. I have to do it mostly for my mind. I hate it. I hate exercising. It's the worst thing in the world. That's what they say. So not only is it physically working out, it's exercising your mind as well? I don't know if exercise in my mind, but I have to do it. It's good for my mental health.

That does make sense. to work out. You can come market out with me. No, no, no. You work out too hard. I did that eight years ago, nine years ago. Dude, I remember we went for a run and I threw up afterwards. And you were like, that's good, dude. That's good. That's what you want. I'm like, I thought what I want. I don't want to

throw up. So we're done with that. So no resolution of fitness? Man, I think I'm going to adopt your resolution. No, no. No, no. You already like to do less. Do nothing. Oh, no. That's not a bad idea, bones. There's a new diet. And I think they're using the word diet now. they just use that on any way to change your diet because this is not unhealthy but a diet in general

used to be like just eat less but there's a new way to eat called the green Mediterranean diet and they say that this helps if you want to lose belly fat better than a lot of the other stuff it is a plant-based diet and they saw their fat drop like four times more so than people who just ate even healthy but normal but they say this Mediterranean green diet reduces fraility and words on off cancer. Both sound good to me. That sounds great. But if you have a belly, and the weird thing about being a dude, and that belly comes along quick. I can eat one meal and be fat again. Yeah. You can feel it in your underwear. Yeah, my underwear doesn't go up as high. It's not weird. My belly is like growing. It happens quick. So you can look that up if you want

to know about it. It's called the Green Mediterranean Diet. And again, it's just a lot of plants. But I just need, I need protein. And I know there's a way to have protein that's not meat, but I need meat. Yeah, I need meat too, man. You're like lentils have a lot of protein. Nah. Who in the world would ever go? God, I feel like a lentil. They're good.

No, I'm craving some. Lentals. Do you have any? Is there any lentils? No, I don't think so. It's time for the good news. With producer Eddie. Yeah, home it's something good.

Shout out to Virgin Voyages. They're a cruise company. They own a bunch of cruise boats or whatever. And they've donated 2,000 and 23 cruises to health care workers all over South Florida. It's their way of giving back. They said they've had a really tough three years with COVID and all that. So they'd like to give these cruises away. And they get to choose from six different trips to the Caribbean.

I'd never been on a cruise. Lunchbox, did you like it? It was all right. It was all right. A little bit too much boat time. I got kind of bored. The boat is the same thing. You guys sick?

Not to get sick. No, not at all. Some people love them. And I love a free one too. Like this one, like this great. And I mean, I'm just saying why are they concentrated on the workers in Florida? There's health workers everywhere. Well, that's just this cruise.

And probably where they live. Yeah, yeah. And they're dock out of there. My sister deserves a cruise. Hey, Buzz, can you do me a favorite? When I do it, tell me something good. Can you not go to lunchbox? My bad.

My bad. That's the mess up. That's on me. That's on me. I just wondered by his cruise experience. Scoobah, do you like cruises? Oh, my goodness. Dude, I cruise like a mother back in the 2000s because I was living in Orlando.

My ex-wife's family had a lot of money, so we don't cruise in at least two or three times a year. I'm a gold platinum member for Royal Caribbean. I love cruising. I'm a big cruiser. On their dime? On their dime? Have you ever been on your dime since?

I have not. But you're still a member? Because you're a lifelong member based on how many times you've been in your life. You ever see those old people that are not even always just old, but people that are older usually that live on a cruise ship? Yes. Meaning they just pay to stay on it forever because they don't ever just wipe the boat completely off. That's their home.

Yeah, you see them at the welcome parties. They invite you in. They go around the room. Who's been here for 10 years? Keep standing and they get to someone who's been there for like 60 years. I've been cruising since the 70s. It's incredible. That's wild.

Don't come off the boat. They're always there. That's sad. Are the rooms small? They have different levels. If you're on the very bottom, of course, it's terrible. They have the whole rooms, which are kind of okay. You want a balcony room so you can see everything and not feel sick. I feel like I get sick.

I get so sick everywhere, so I probably shouldn't go. The bigger the ship, you won't feel a single thing. I guarantee you. I didn't feel a thing, but my window was about this big. I could look out. Don't stay there. That's terrible. The hole you're making looks like one of those submarine things. That's about the size of the window. Eddie, that's a good story. I like that we're sticking up.

Thank you, man. And thank you, Scoba, for saving that. I like lunchbox's input. He does bring it down, though. Do you like cruises? No. They're terrible. I said it was all right.

Why those people? I said I got tired of being on the boat. First you said, why just Florida? Yeah, I did say that. Thank you, Eddie. That is what it's all about. That was tell me something good. Remember.

Like a good neighbor. Blank is there. State Farm. Yes. You got that point. Yeah, I'm at one-nothing. Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there.

Oh, okay. Got it. We'll go around the room. If you miss it, you're out. I've got a paintball gun here, and if you miss it, I'm going to shoot you. That's hilarious. Wouldn't that be so funny, isn't it?

Would that be so scary? Maybe not a paintball gun, but we should do something like that. A Nerf gun. Water gun. Super soaker. I'll give you the famous slogan. You tell me the company. Ready?

Ready. First one's real easy. Amy, just do it. Nike. Correct. Lunchbox. Yeah. Breakfast of Champions.

Wheaties. Good. Eddie, melt in your mouth, not in your hand. M&Ms. Good. But they do melt in your hand. Like if you keep me in your hand, they melt. But they're saying like eat them, don't just hold them in your hands.

Taste the rainbow. Amy. Skittles. Good. Lunchbox. Want to get away? Southwest Airlines. Nice.

Eddie. You're in good hands. With all state. Wow. Okay. With all state. Yeah, yeah. Amy, what's in your wallet?

Capital One. Wow. These are all such great slogans. That was a good one, Amy. We work with Capital One a lot. Lunchbox. There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's blank.

Some things money can't buy. Everything else is... What? There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else, there's blank. Oh, man. Well, I don't believe in this because money can... buy everything.

Oh, got it. It's just a slogan lunch. American Express. You were almost there. So close. MasterCard. You have been eliminated. Well, I don't live by that slogan.

Eddie, come on. You got to hit this to stay. The quicker, picker-upper. Bounty. Nice. We're down. Swiffer popped in my head. And it would have been wrong.

I know. I would have paused. Amy, snap, crackle, pop. Bryce, Krispies. Mm-hmm. Eddie. Can you hear me now? Good.

Can you hear me now? Good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was the sprint guy, right? Wow, is that sprint? Is sprint even a thing? Give me sprint. Oh, no, it's T-Mobile.

It's Verizon. Oh, no. On the way on. Wow, wow, wow, I won. Dang. You did win. Nice job, yeah. You want the rest?

Yeah, you do? Yeah. Because you haven't missed one. Okay. Is it in you? Well, I'm so glad we didn't. No, that's the slogan. Is it in you?

No, no, no, no. You can't say that out. It's Gatorade. Yeah, other side. Beep that out. What on earth? Oh, boy. Like, that would be their slogan.

Okay. It's actually not bad, though. I know, but it can't be their slogan. Okay. On the podcast, you can leave it in. Oh. But. Okay.

What happens here? stays here. Vegas. Correct. Nothing runs like a blank. Nothing runs like a... Toyota? No.

John Deere. Obey your thirst. Oh. Gosh, that's... Obey your... Oh, oh, Sprite? Yes. It keeps going and going and going.

Energizer bunny. King of beers. Budweiser. That's what it's all about. Tell me something good. Correct. That's funny. Yeah.

I was like, I've never heard that in my life. Oh, yes, I have. That's what it's all about. Wow. Wow. What was that? What was that? What was that?

What was that? How bad do you want to win the lottery? Watchbox? I mean, more than anything in the world. Anything? What else would there be? Tell me something. Your kids being healthy and graduate in high school?

Yeah. That'd work. But guess what? Money, I can buy them health. No, you can't. That's the one thing you can't buy is health. Yeah, actually. You get health care. There you go.

But you can't just buy health. It's not like, you know how you walk at the grocery and they have all the gift cards in that little stand? I'll take the health. I'll take long life. And you try, tell our new listeners exactly how dedicated you are to playing the lottery and what you call it an investment. It's not an investment. But how much you spend? Every paycheck is $150.

That is wild. So 300 bucks a month. Yes. So 3,600 bucks a year. Basically $4,000 in lottery tickets. I believe your math. It's got to hurt. And nothing for years.

Nothing yet. But you don't give up. You know what they say? Quitters never win. And let's talk about the lottery. Because you can't really build toward the lottery. But here's the deal. Everybody that wins has a crazy story.

Is that how they bought the lottery ticket. You don't have a crazy story. I always have a... You don't. Let me tell you this one. Go ahead. Her name's Laura Keen. Christmas shopping with her boyfriend. Her truck's

low fuel light came on. She's like, ah, crap. So she pulled over in the 7-Eleven. Didn't even know she was low on gas. Boop. Light pulls over. She got it. She filled the truck up. Got some coffee and said, you know, I'm going to play scratch-off. The 30-millionaire maker game. She hit it won't a million bucks. She wasn't even going to pull over. She had no plans to get a ticket.

Dang. You got to turn your life situations into for some reason it making you go to the gas station. You know what? My gas lights on right now. No, but you can't steal one for anybody either. That's it. It has to be a reason that. All the sudden, oh, I need to do that. You have to create scenarios. Okay.

How much are those? 20 bucks. Oh, it depends. You can go from, I mean, $50 tickets. I mean, there's a lot of stores. I don't ever see $50 or $100 in the store. Oh, really? Yeah.

Occasionally I'll see a $30 one. But you have to create a scenario. And the next, well, you know, Christmas is coming up. We don't have to do it before the first of the year. But you should create a couple scenarios where you or find them where you just, oh, I can't believe I'm here for this reason. Okay. And then you buy one because I think that's why people are winning.

Okay. I know what I got one in my house. Go ahead, go ahead. Like, we're driving to Texas for Christmas, and we stop at the Arkansas, Texas border. Like, man, I don't know what side of the street. And then you pick both sides of the street, be like, man, Arkansas's always been so good to me.

Oh, Texas's always been so good to me. So I went to both sides of the street and trying to win. I don't get it. I turned the channel as the show as he was doing that. I actually flipped the station. I might have listened to the show anymore that story. I was torn between Arkansas and Texas. Yeah, work on that.

Go back to the drawing board. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or my car broke down in the middle of the road between Arkansas and Texas. You got to break it down. It has to be a real thing. Yeah, I'll take a knife to the tire. Here is a voicemail from Jim in Oatfield, Oregon. How is it that Santa Claus can move so fast? Well, he's wearing rocket shoes and they're equipped with missile toes.

Thank you very much. God bless. That's good. His delivery is funny, too. He just doesn't stop. No pause. Just goes right to it. Here's Sophie in California. Morning Studio. I was just calling to tell you how much I love Bobby's book, Stanley the Dog. I work with little kiddos who have autism, and a lot of them have just started going back to school.

I'm a huge fan of the show, so I decided to get a copy of the book, and all of my students have just absolutely loved it. It's been especially hard to find books about inclusion and not always fitting in, especially in the disabilities community. So I so appreciate the book and all it's done and meant to me and my sweet kids. So thank you so much. Love you guys. That's the biggest compliment you could give because that's why I wrote the book. It's so kids wouldn't feel alone.

You don't have to be cool to be cool. You don't have to have everybody else think, oh, he's the coolest. Actually be the coolest. It's just about being yourself. And that's what Stanley the Dog, that book is about. Thank you very much. And you guys can check the book out.

It's on Amazon. It's called Stanley the Dog in the first day at school. And I would have one to look at, but Ligano took one of them. Yeah, I was the one sitting in front of my desk. Yeah, Joe Ligano's like, oh, can I have that?

You can use that? It was Joey Lugano, so you're like, okay. I was like, yeah, man, have it. That's the one of a kind gold-plated copy. We gave it to them. Thank you very much. Stanley the Dog, the first day at school, it is up now at Amazon or your local bookstore, hopefully.

Here's Amy's pile of stories. Our favorite holiday smells. Let me go with this. I like peppermint. Oh, okay. You know, I like mint in general, the smell. Peppermint's slightly different, but I like peppermint's my number one.

Ginger bread cookies, is at number two. Wow. Although I don't know that I've smelled a lot of them. But I think I have a couple times been like, well, that's good. I'm going to store it in the old brain. Yeah. Well, peppermint makes the list and crack the top five, but it's at six.

Dumb list. Gingerbread is at five. Wow. Hot chocolate at four. But I have that all you. It's cold. It's not in holiday. It's not winter.

It's not winter. It's a winter and holiday. Sure. I get mad. Go ahead. Cinnamon at three. Yes. I have that in February.

No, cinnamon's great. No, but that's not Christmas. That's all the time. What else? Cookies. in general. I assume a lot of sugar cookies around Christmas time at number two. I'm never hiring this list maker to make a list for me.

They've done two versions of cookies here. Go ahead. And this is one of my favorite Christmas smells. Christmas trees. Yeah, pine. I love the smell of pine. But I'm from Mountain Pine. That was all year long. Oh, really? Do they really have the smell of pine and mountain pine? And they had the look of mountains. Wow. The look of mountains and the smell of pine. So you were surrounded by mountains and pines? That's why it was called Mountain Pines.

There you go. Population 772. All right, what else? Did you know that Taylor Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm? Grew up on it. She didn't like live in it. It says her family lived on a Christmas tree farm growing up. And her job was to pick the praying mantis pods off the trees so that they wouldn't hatch inside people's homes. That's cool. I thought her dad was a big fancy like money investor, like rich guy.

Maybe investing Christmas tree farm. Yeah. Listen, I'm not saying it's not true. I just never heard this before. Maybe they had one on the property or something where people cut a tree or something. Or maybe the job when she was 14. Yeah, well, I saw this list of celebrity jobs. I guess she was already here at 14, though, huh?

Is that when she started here? Yeah. Yeah, so when did she do at 8? Listen, I don't know the exact age, but it's funny that that was her job. And Tom Hanks, one of his old jobs, is he sold peanuts and soda at baseball games. And Ashton Coucher, he worked in a cereal factory, sweeping Cheerio dust. So, which is interesting to see what these people did when they were younger.

She was very young when they had the Christmas tree farm. Okay. I'm looking at a picture. Christmas tree farm. Taylor Swift, she's probably nine here. Nine years old. She had a job at nine. Yeah, wow.

Fow labor. You have a doctor's office? Yes. A morgue. They do have a morgue. A jail. What else? Post office?

Underground casino that you don't know about that they're illegally betting stuff. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I saw that about 200 people worldwide die on cruises each year. This one got dark. All right. Okay. All right.

Country quiz time. Okay, I'm ready. Who said this. Before I go on stage, I smoke a Marlboro. Marlboro. Marlboro. Marlboro. Marlboro.

No, you make me not say it. Marlboro. This one's hard for my speech. Invediment. Amarbrough? Mm-hmm. And drink a cup of coffee. Okay. Who is that? I can give you multiple choices.

Are they still alive? No, it's got to be somebody still alive. No. No one smokes a Marlboro right now. Yeah, I know people that smoke. Yeah. But they're older, like big dudes. Who is it? Give me the options. Casey Mascraves.

It wouldn't be, she wouldn't be smoking a morrow. She'd be smoking something, but not Marlboro. Hank Williams Jr. Cigar. Oh, that's right. Jelly Roll Is he clean? Yeah, but in my boroughs

Is it a cigarette, man? California clean? Oh, that's a good question, I don't know. That's California clean, scuba. He smokes, yeah. Oh, so California is... That's what that's called. You don't drink, but maybe you smoke, yeah.

Go ahead. Last one, Trace Atkins. That's who it is. That's who it is. It's Trace. A don't get done. Is it? And if you have a problem with it?

Well, then don't, because he'll beat the crap out of you. That's right. He's a big dude. I got makes fun of me every time I see him. Like, what does he say? I'm going to stand up to him one day. No, you're not. I know, I'm never going to.

He just makes fun of something. I mean, my shoes, my shirt. He always loves to make fun of the pretty boy, you know? All right, is that it? Yep, but maybe that's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With lunchbox.

Stay at home, it's something good. Look who's back. Back again. Toy Man's back. Tell a friend. Jeffrey Olson, a Vista, Cal, California back in 1988, started giving toys around the holidays to the kids. And he got the name Toy Man.

Well, he goes throughout the year when things are on sale. They're having clearance sales. He goes and stocks up. And this year, he donated 600 items to the kids. And all in all, he's donated over 50,000 items. That's crazy. I mean, that's such a big number. That really is.

And this guy probably, when he started, wasn't moving that amount of product. That sounds like a drug deal. But, um, they're toys. He probably started small, thinking it would never happen. But if you just start and you work, big things happen. And it kept growing and growing in it and it's like, oh, is that a bird? Is that a plane? No, it's Toy Man.

Like a superhero. I don't know that that ever happened. I like it. Because he flies or what? Ah, no, I didn't just. Do you have any adult toys? No, no, hold on. What?

What? Toys, you're an adult, but are like toys that, like, collectors, items, anything that's like a considered a toy, but kids don't play with them. Old Armymen. I have nothing. I have obviously Beanie babies back here. You have Arkansas Barbie. I have Arkansas Barbie. Yeah.

I had a vintage wheelbarrow that was like an antique, but my kids used it and it had rubber wheel or like hard plastic wheels. They broke off, so it's not worth anything anymore. Mikey, do you have funco pops? I have a lot of them. I collect them. That's what I mean. Like, do we get anything there with you guys?

Eddie, what do you collect? anything? No, man. Nothing at all. Oh, vinyl, that's not a toy, but he... Oh, I collect vinyl, yes, yes. You still collect or you just have it? I have, well, it started with like people saying, hey, my dad passed away. I found all his vials. Would you want these? I'm like, yeah. So then I've collected throughout the person said that. Oh, I've had three people people's. Whose dad died and they had crazy collections. And I've had, now, I've got like probably

over 200 vinals. If you have vinyl and your dad is older, I'd stay away from Eddie. Sounds like... No, no, no. No, no. This is a safe home for the vines. Oh, my gosh. Eddie's killing people's dads. No, no, no. If Eddie finds somebody's dad who has vinyl, he kills them. Oh, boy. No, they die naturally. I don't know. Hey, wink, wink.

Uh-huh. Good story. Thank you, lunchbox. Toyman, shout out. Yeah. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a toy man.

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