The Bobby Bones Show - (Tues Early Bird) Richard Marx Stops By To Talk About Writing Songs for NSYNC, Keith Urban & More! + AI Determines Who Is The Most & Least Attractive On The Show + Mailbag: Ex Doesn’t Want Girlfriend To See Son

Episode Date: June 27, 2023

Legendary singer songwriter Richard Marx stops by to talk about how he got his start in music singing background vocals for Kenny Rodgers and shares why he started focusing on songwriting and producing. He also reveals the story behind hit songs he wrote for NSYNC, Keith Urban and more! Then, we use an AI generator to determine who the most symmetrical person on the show is, and rank who the best and worst looking is! Mailbag: A listener has been split from their ex for almost three years and they have equal custody of their 6-year-old son. She has a boyfriend who the son has met, and he’s started getting serious with another girl. When their son stays with them, she does not like the girlfriend to spend time with their son. He wants to know if she should have any say over who he spends time with when their son is around. We share our thoughts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media.

Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, the Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfilled conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. This week on the Sports Slice podcast, it's all about the NFL draft. And we've got a special guest.

The director of the NFL's East West Shrine Bowl, Eric Galco, joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects. From hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make to the players flying under the the radar. This is the insight you won't hear anywhere else. If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode. Listen to the Sports Slice podcast on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slica Life 12 and TikTok podcast network on TikTok. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed. I will

be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Tuesday show. Morning, studio. Let's go around the room up first. He's a dad of four who coaches his son's basketball team and going to a Pearl Jam show is always his dream. Here he is. Producer Ready. Look, I don't know what Amy's deal is, but I was cooking the night, and my wife left her phone right by the stove. And I look at it, and it's a text from Amy, and it says, hey, girl, you're going to love all these places.

Tootsies, Flaja House, Al Dines. And it's all these bars on Broadway, and I'm like, what is going on here? Is Amy trying to get my wife to go out with her? Like, Amy, I know you're single, but my wife's happily married, and she does not need to be going out. You're telling me your wife's not single. She's very married And I think Amy's just trying to get her to go out or something Go ahead

Okay, this is just further evidence that these guys You know Mold a story to fit These guys, hold on no Eddie's molding a story and you're going to throw me in there Okay Right now it's Eddie But lunchbox does it too

They say you know They see an inch, they take a mile Was that not the text? No, your wife texted me and said Hey, I have a friend that's coming in town with some teenagers and I don't really know what teen girls like to do. What's some fun stuff because you have a teenage daughter. And I didn't mention Tutsies at all.

You said Broadway. No. Fifth and Broadway. Okay. You know, the, where there's... Which is a lot of shopping. And restaurants. Justin Timberlake's restaurant.

No. Oh, God. See... So you really... Also, I said Broadway, yes, fifth and Broadway, but I also said 12 South. You also just wildly overreacted. Or did you just... You just need a bit for the show.

No, no, no, no. No. So she didn't mention any of those bars that you named. He maybe saw the word Broadway. Okay, look, it was just, look, I didn't open her phone. It was just, you know, when the text pop up, you only get a certain amount of words. So the words you saw were not broadway. You can't judge him.

You guys do the same way. I do not. Don't let me in. Okay. Yeah. So you're just helping out. For teen-age girls. Thanks, Amy.

You can find this next person riding his bike to and from work when the weather is good, and he'll never stop playing the lotto, even though he probably should. Here he is lunch, I got announced that I'm applying for another job. Once again, I'm always on the hunt for that next big step. And Pat Sejacked announced that he was retiring after 40 years. Who? Pat Sejacked. He was up retiring.

Say what? He announced Pat Sejacked. Yeah. Why do you keep saying Pat Sejacked? He's not hijacked. Isn't that his name? What's his name? Hey, Pat Sejacked.

How are you putting a... Why are you putting a... Like past... Oh, am I saying it wrong? Yeah. Pat. It's not a verb. We Pat Sejacked all day.

Pat Say Jack. Oh, Pat Say Jack. Yeah. Pat Say Jack announced he's retiring after 40 years of Wheel of Fortune. So, Weill, obviously, he's going to be looking for a new host. So I'm throwing my hat in the ring. But how are you doing that? I just went to their, I made a little real, a little audition tape.

Why are you laughing to her? I need to see the tape. I need to see the audition tape. We can probably hear it. Yeah. Yeah, I have it. How long is it? It's like there's three different clips or four different clips.

You know what I mean? Just a little, because there's no contestant to interact with me. Yeah, no wheel. And so I'm just speaking like I'm doing things that they do on Wheel of Fortune. Here he is. Lunchboxed. Doing. Go ahead.

Hello, everyone. Nice to see you all. Oh, yes, yes. Are you ready to win some money? Well, let's get it started. The first toss-up is worth $1,000. It's a place. Vana, let's go.

That's clip one. That's not bad. Not bad, huh? Yeah. It sounds like you with sound effects. Well, that's what they do on Wheel of Fortune. No, no, no, I know. I thought you said, well, you can't do it with the crowd or the audience, but you insert it.

You could have inserted people saying stuff, too. Oh, I didn't think about that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it sounds good for Wheel of Fortune. All right, what else? Go ahead. Give it a spin. $650.

He would like to buy an E! That's money will spent, Jim. It just feels empty. Well, yes, because there's no... Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you're also not doing anything that only you can do. Meaning they don't care about just an announcer. You're just saying this simple, spend the will.

Like, there's something about you that's got to be different that they're going to want. Well, okay. You just didn't put what you're good at in there. Which is? I don't know. What are you good at? He, well, he does have a deep voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he's, um... Is there another clip? Yeah, there's one more. Okay, go ahead. R-S-T-L-N-E are given to you up on the board. 30 seconds on the clock. Good luck. I was trying to tell you, tell what happened.

It's funny, I would say focus on why they would hire you, not you're doing what everybody else has always done in the history of that show. Okay. But they've already, from what I've been told, they've already got the person. Oh, really? Yeah, they don't know who. I mean... They don't know what it is?

I was told that. No, I don't think it's Ryan. What about Mario Lopez? I know, I wouldn't say who it was anyway, but I don't know who it was. I was just told, I was reached out to, and I was told, hey, I think they've already got their person. Oh. Dang. Don't know that for sure, but that's what I was told.

Unless it's him, and this is how I tell him. Unless it's a curveball, they decide last minute, like, oh, wait a man, we got this submission. This guy's very generic. Audio, you're just not a generic person, so why you would do something generic? Well, because I don't know if they want Flash and... Well, I wouldn't really classify you as Flash, but... Glitz and glamour. Now that's what I would classify you as yes.

I would just say you should always do what only you can do because everybody can do that and you can do way more than that. All you did was read lines. All right. Yeah, I mean, I went to their website and it said, contact us, so I contacted them. And what they say back? Nothing yet. Not yet.

Not yet. Be a little more of you. Do it again, but be more of you. All right. If you were really hosting that show. All right. Because that would be what would get to the job. Should he have people that are also?

Yeah, you could get anybody to act out. I'll help you. Instead of Jim. Yeah. Ah, Jim, you always said the funniest stuff. Let us know what Jim said. Yeah, Jim didn't have much to say. I know, I was not saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, lunchbox, good luck. Let us know. Thank you. All right, next up, just thinking about getting back into dating but needs help from the show and we hope she doesn't take advice from the lunchbox

because they're telling how far he will go. Here she is. Amy, everybody. That was at the pharmacy, and I was picking up what I thought was one bottle of antibiotics. Well, there was two in the package. I paid for it, and it was like 16.

So I thought, okay, one bottle. But then when she hands it to me, I can clearly tell there's two bottles inside and it's stapled. I don't do anything with it. I never leave her sight. And I'm like, ooh, I don't need two bottles. Can I return this one and get my money back? And she said, oh, no, you're already touching it. And I was like, but I haven't opened it.

Is that the rule? If you touch it, you can't turn it back in? I think once they hand it over to the customer, they cannot take it back no matter what. And it was just interesting to me because it's not like, I left and then came back and tried to return an unopened pill bottle. I was right there in front of her and I never did anything. Offered what tampering reasons? I guess.

Tampering with medication? Right, which if I walked away. Could they take it back though? I mean, if they did take it back, they can't. Can they redump it, I guess? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, some people do that with food, you know?

Like once they deliver it to the table, they can't take it back. Okay, but food is open. This was in a stapled bag. That's different than your biagra, Eddie. Whoa, whoa. I don't know. I just thought, I was like, wow, I learned a new law today. But the judge should say if the staple is still stapled, then you can turn it back in.

Nice. Nice. Good rhyme. Thank you. It doesn't really. But okay. Right. Go ahead.

From Mountain Pine, Arkansas. On the weekends, he goes to brunch. And after years of boxing, he can throw a punch. Bobby Bones. Thank you very much. I posted a little piece of my Opry performance last week up on my TikTok. And is it just like a minute and a half joke or something? And I'm going to look at the comments.

And the most of the comments were fashion comments. The mean comment was, unbuttoned that top button, idiot. Huh? Because I had my shirt buttoned all the way up to the top. So what? Exactly. So I went over to see any critiques on my joke,

and instead I got fashion critique. Which I guess means the joke was funny. Right. That's what I took from. I saw from being insulted. But if I ever listen to anybody's fashion advice from the comment section of TikTok, then I'm done.

You shouldn't listen to the comments section for anything ever. And I went over to our Facebook page which I do like once a year and I just started looking in some of the threads and it is, it's vile, Morgan. It's never, I've never been over there

and left satisfied with what I've seen. Yeah, no, Facebook is vile no matter. You could post the most happy sunshine unicorn and rainbows and people would still go at you for it. Why do you think that is? I don't know. I mean, it's definitely bleeding

into other social media platforms now but Facebook, you just... Is everybody just... Living sad on Facebook? The older generation, I think, comments things and doesn't realize how their comments come across. The older generation? I mean, like...

What do you mean? Like Eddie. What are you talking about? Yeah, you could be included in that. But, like, they say things, like they would say in person, and normally they just come off, okay, like they're being very straightforward.

But they don't realize how rude it comes across on Facebook and, like, how out of context it is. and they just say things like that they would say that their daughter or whatever. I feel like they say mean or stuff. I feel like most people saying stuff to me would never say it to my face. Yeah. They only say it in a comment because once I get on, I'm going to start flexing. They'll be like, dang, I don't get beat up by that monster.

Maybe they need to just put an emoji at the end of it. No, but see they don't know how to use emojis as part of it. But they just, I'm telling you most of it is like 65 plus. It's very like older and I just don't think they realize the context of what they're doing. Well, I would encourage people to go follow us on Facebook, but don't open the comments. Just see the stuff. We post a lot of good content there, but don't go. looking into the comments because that's what I did.

Anyway, thank you guys. Glad you're here. Let's get started with the big show. Thank you guys for listening. Let's go over and check in and open 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. My ex

and I have been split for almost three years. We have equal custody of our six-year-old son. She has had a living boyfriend for the past two years. Seems to be an okay guy. I'm a son likes him, so I got no problem with it. I started dating someone new. a couple months ago. Things are starting to get serious. So she's been spending weekends with me.

On the weekends, when my son is with us, they spend time together. He likes her. But my ex is absolutely losing her mind over my girlfriend spending any time with our son at all. I think she's being totally unreasonable and it's a double standard. Am I right? Should she have any say over who I spend time with when our son is around? Signed.

Co-parenting Caleb. Well, I bet you this is a really hard thing that a lot of people deal with and I bet it's different for every single couple. And I think maybe she has an issue with it just being a couple months in. Not that she should have an issue because it is your child. You have equal custody. You have equal rights until someone screws up, right? Yeah.

I mean, there's no. Well, depending on how you set it up, yeah, either 50-50 or 70-30 or. Well, I mean, if there's equal custody, I'm just going based off the email when they say equal custody, I'm assuming 50-50. Yeah. I think she just kind of has to get over it. Yeah. I mean, but the thing is, well, you do.

have a say, but if the person, if you really are enjoying the person and there's really no flags, I mean, obviously if something's really bad, like they're a, you know, a drug dealer that's like, okay, you can have a say. It doesn't say that? No, no.

I'm assuming just from the email that there are no huge red flags or it would be expressed. Yeah, so you're, I mean, I think it's probably just something you've got to get used to. And then I don't know if they were, did it say in there that they were ever married? or do they have any formal documents?

My ex and I have been split for three years, equal custody. It doesn't say. Because I would say, yeah, you should get something in writing. That always helps. You have to get in writing if they can meet other people. Oh, it's in there. There's all kinds of, not at what point in which they can meet other people. If the other person is allowed to spend the night at the home, if you can have, yeah.

It's all. Wow. Sounds like none of that's in there. Okay. So I don't feel like. Right. And also, she has her dude living with her. It's probably just new to her.

and it's the first time it's happened. So I would say, hey, if you want to make this easier on everybody, it's to even fake understanding. Yes. Like, I get it. She's great.

Let me explain. We're going to do the be very open about what's happening. And then she'll be okay with it. There's probably some jealousy too, like a second mom. Yeah. Things that he's had to deal with, but he's over it now.

Right. And he could, he's probably shared some of it, but he could start off by sharing that like, hey, yeah, when you first got with this guy, like this is what I was feeling. Maybe you're feeling some of the same things.

I get it. They probably hate each other and it's hard to have those conversations when somebody you hate. But for the kids' sake, I'd fake understanding if you have to fake it. But I think, Caleb, you're good, buddy. That's the number one rule of co-parenting. Fake it to you make it? Fake it. I mean, if you can't, if you don't, if you're not lucky enough to have something amicable,

which I know not everyone is. So yeah, I mean, just, yeah, put your big kid pants on and do what you need. to do. Yeah, Caleb, you're not the wrong, buddy. You get to have a life too. That's it. You get to have a life too. All right, thank you. That's the mailbag. Close it up. We got your email. I'll the close. Bobby's Mailbag. Our executive producer, Scoobo Steve is in studio where the bid he's going to make us do called Scuba Steve suggests. What's the bit? So on the show, we've had listeners email call and talk about our level of attractiveness on the show. So I went and according to science, I inserted our faces to an AI generated machine to tell who is the most symmetrical on the show. And do you think symmetrical means best looking? According to this, yes.

The hottest versus the notest. This is not good. This is not making it. I'm not symmetrical. I got a droopy eye. I got a side of the nose bigger than another. So you'll be surprised that who is actually the last and where Mr. Prom King is on the list. I'll be surprised that who's like ugliest?

Ugliest in the show. Well, let me do a few things here. You're going to do your own list? Yeah. I'm going to just say who I think is probably. most symmetrical. I don't think everybody's symmetrical, but I understand for this. Ray's probably most symmetrical.

Yeah. I think Ray probably. Lately he's been getting a little more round. But it's symmetrical. What is symmetrical? Round is symmetrical. Same on both sides. If you fold it and like... Yes, according to science based on symmetry, you're considered most attractive.

Got it. Okay, I'm going to go with... Well, I'm not even doing the ladies here, because I wouldn't even want to comment on them. Oh, they're definitely on the list. Oh, they are okay. I'll let you do that. I put everyone here from you all way down to Abby. I would say that Ray probably comes in at number one.

And I would think that I'm probably last. Because I've got all kinds of weird things lower and higher than others. Okay. But I see my face all the time. Like I know all the little imperfections. So like I know that one eye goes down more than the other. I know one of my nostrils is bigger than the other. But I don't, but listen.

Hey, you guys. I don't think that there's. But I feel like, well, look at the other. Like slog? Yes. I don't think that that. equals imperfection like with eyebrows sometimes girls... For this though

for this, for the symmetry yes. I would say it is. Okay. Well, listen both sides of your face. There's supposed to be sisters, not twins. Okay. Well, that's a good way to put it. Well, mine are step-pousands. Mine are definitely adopted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, Scova, Steve.

Do you want to... Do you want to, I don't know which ways... I was to say, how do you want this list? Because I've got a top three. Give me somebody in the middle. How many total did you do? So I did. I've got seven, eight, I got nine. I got nine. people on here. Okay, give me number three. Number three is tied. Okay, go ahead. Number three is tied between Raymond, Cizumundo, and Eddie. You guys are both at 69% good. Hey, let's go, Ray. Do you want to hear some imperfections or do you know the score? Just don't want out there. Okay, so Eddie has a big

forehead. Okay, well, that's because I'm bald. And Ray has a narrow nose. What the, this is according to a website and science. So that would be three. There will also be three and four, but three. Okay, who's five? Five is Mike. Mike D, 65%. Oh no, I'm still running for last. Mike has a nice forehead, good distance of features, but he has a wide mouth and a small nose. Wow. We're all going to leave this going worse about ourselves. What in the world?

Okay, who's six? Six is lunchbox. 63% a wide face, a forehead that's too small, a small chin, poor symmetry, but a normal size mouth. Cool. You got a good mouth, man. They call them on normal hole. I mean, got a hate on me for something, you know. I didn't hate any. This is just what I got from this website.

Yeah, I'm just saying some stupid website. I mean, take a poll with the chicks. Three of us left. There's me, Amy and Morgan. So one of us is number one. One of us is last. Oh, is Abby on there too? I got me on there as well. Oh, okay.

Oh, Scuba. Have we got one. Okay, scuba. Who? Just go last. Question. I want to do first. Oh, yeah, yeah.

The quote unquote, ugliest is the funniest. So I want to build of that. Who's number two? Number two is you, Bobby. I'll take you. 70% good face, normal chin and forehead size is perfect. Wow, good forehead. But your mouth is too wide.

They call me old wide hole. All right. What number have we not done? Who's next to last? No, no, no. I think you just got to save it. I think we got to go. Next to last.

Who next to last? Next to last is Morgan. What? 58% wide nose, chin too small, bad face symmetry. But a normal mouth and a normal force set. I feel like I just took a blush in the gut. So who's left? Left is me, Amy, and Abby.

Back to the question I have. What photos did you use? That's a great question. I use photos where you can see their face head-on. It's scuba. It's like 19. Like a perfect. I had some company photos, and they were head-on photos so I can get proper symmetry. There's three of you guys left?

Three left, yes. What numbers are left? We got first place. And last place. Fourth and last. Who's fourth? Fourth is me. I'm okay at 60. You're okay. Abby got last.

What? You don't know that. Why would you just yell that? Hi. Abby, what's lunchbox again? This is, what? Lunchbox is six. Oh, my goodness.

Add up nine of us. Guys, I feel this is so bad. I mean, Abby, what a terrible day for her. Who woke up and thought they were going to go to work and get ranked? No, Amy, at least you got ranked one. Ranked? Yeah, yeah, that sounds weird. Ranked.

Ranked. Ranked. So here we got. We got Bobby. That's me at two. Ray and Eddie. Mike D. Lunchbox and Morgan.

So we have one and eight still left. So if I get eight, do we add that to my dating profile? Screw me, Steve. Who got eight? So we're going to rent the band-aid. The last place goes to Abby. 50%. This is a meanest.

narrow nose short nose mouth too wide should too small it might be pretty accurate okay okay you're first place then you're the best looking at the show I don't agree with that this bit is awkward this bit is really mean

Abby I don't know he took it out on you I didn't take anything out on you this is just me inserting a photo into a website are we sure this is accurate like is this she wants a repick Not credible. I picked the nice letter from you of your Instagram

where you're like smiling with the sitting in the backdrop and what it does is it takes the lines and lines up where your eyes in your eyes began, the nose, the mouth, the ears, forehead. Well, Eddie's better look in the lunchbox.

That's what I'm talking about. I mean, I figured that was the case. And that was with your hat off. Yeah. Wait, wait, you took a picture of my hat off? Yeah, with your hat off and you got third place. Dude, if you put your hat on,

you're probably rock it because your forehead gets smaller. Okay. I mean, I can, let's just go ahead and say we can take this with a grain of salt. Amy, stop. Yeah. Amy, you're the hottest.

You're going to believe in science. It's easy for you. I believe in science, but I mean, I feel like we could go enter it in again and it'd probably generate something different. Abby does, okay, fair enough. They did it multiple times. What if everybody provides a picture, our own picture, and then you re-rank us. Okay. Yeah, send me your photos and we'll do this again.

Abby, are you okay? Oh, yeah. How many are you crying? I'm going to go cry, but it's okay. Yeah, this is. I'm just kidding. It's funny. I'm like, wow, out of all of us, I'm the one that's the least.

No one said that. I don't know that if I would have known this was a segment, I don't know that I would have done it because I wouldn't want an Abby to fill a text. Oh yeah, because you don't know what Steve was going to I mean first her voice is bad now she looks bad. But see the thing about our looks is that this is just science.

To the right person, you're beautiful. To the right person. I'm insulting. Well, there is someone for everyone. I don't look great at all and I scored at least in my mind of 10. So again, you find the right person and everything's okay. Looks are just the surface.

Okay, thank you, Steve. I feel like we should have got a good message out of this, but we did not. We got the opposite. Y'all, I took a class. Restimmed a picture. You're the hardest. Hey, well, I'll say as the hottest guy here,

that I think we should move on. You are the hottest dude. He is, yeah. It is science, guys. Much you want to laugh at science. Okay. All right, resubmit your picture to scuba, okay, everybody. Why relive this?

I mean, we can do it. Maybe just don't want me not to throw. No, no, no, no. No, no. No, boy. Good boy. That's a great point. That's a great point.

That's not true. I'm just saying. You know what? If you're scared to defend the title, don't worry about it. I didn't even think about that part. Yeah, you win the title. She's on the run. She's on the lamb guys with the belt.

All right. Fine. We'll do it again. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. There's this guy, Justin Miller. He drives for Door Dash.

And his Subaru was stolen last week with his nine-year-old dog inside. Audi. and the police were able to recover his car like a few days later. Most of his belongings were inside, but no dog. Thankfully, he had posted pictures of his dog on social media, and someone was like, hey, that looks like the dog I saw online that's missing. And so people in the community, they gather together because Audi was like hard to catch, nine-year-old pit bull.

They finally corralled him, got him, and were able to get Audi back to Justin, which is super cool. So posting things on social media and reposting and sharing, That stuff really does work. Audi and a Subaru. Yeah, interesting. I kind of lost track of the story. I was like, dang,

the car you'd have been in an Audi or the dog running in Subaru. Right, right. I know, but still. I love it when a dog is put back together. When I lose my dog, I go crazy. And it's like, I'm ever going to see them again? If they get hit by a car, do they get stolen?

All right, Audi, great. We should fundraise an Audi for them. Well, so, yeah, the community has come together. And because Audi has some vet bills and Justin's car needs some repairs, they have set up a crowd fund. So we're saying. Lunchbox has a new cat named Lamborghini in case you guys. It's been stolen. In case you guys want to...

Oh, yeah. You want to help me get a Lamborghini. Yeah. All right. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know. Hey, by the way, this should go on to Abby's list for Employee of the Month when we start to look at who's done great things because Abby lined up Richard Marks. He's here. He's about to walk in right now. Richard Marks has got one way or another 14 number one songs. You would know this one right here waiting

When I'm shopping for lettuce And that song comes on Feels so good Hold on to the Knights Some songs he's written And we won't even get to the Keith Urban stuff yet But this I promise you From InSink

Dang He is Made History is the only male artist Whose first seven singles Reached a top five Billboard chart spot He's got shows all over the country this year he credits most of his success to Lionel Richie, and here he is,

Richard Marks. On the Bobby Bones show now. Richard Marks. It's very exciting for me to have you here. It's a pleasure. I'm a huge fan. We've talked on the phone. It's probably one of your most memorable moments

in your career, so I'm sure you remember all of it. I memorized it. Thank you. Yes. I dream it. He listens back. I'm a massive fan, so I'll geek out early and say thank you. I was telling the show that if either one of the versions of your career

it would just be isolated, you'd be a Hall of Famer, either the artist part or even just the songwriter part. But because there's two, there's no chance. It's a, you know, Tom Brady. Okay, there you go. I'm going to go with that. Did you do the band thing in high school? Did you go with a group of buddies? Oh, man, I tried. I tried to put bands together left and right, and nobody took it to you. I came from a suburb of Chicago where the idea of being a rock star or any of that was such a pipe dream. So I just dove into songwriting, which was actually great. because a few years later when I did go out to LA, that's kind of how I started to get going

as a writer for other people. But were there songwriters where you were? Nobody. I was the only kid in school. How did you learn to write songs by yourself at a place where no one else is really writing songs like you were writing songs? I went to the school of Elton John and Billy Joel

and the Eagles. And I went to, like, I just studied it like out of love. So when I ended up in L.A., at 18, I got my first job with singing background vocals on a Lionel Ritchie record. He was really the catalyst. He was the guy. He heard my demo tape of my first couple of songs. And so I recommend you to Kenny Rogers and you go to sing background vocals for Kenny. So are you the guy? Are there three behind and you're doing the dances at the same? That kind of back? No, no. I'm only in the studio. Oh, just studio. I'm not doing any live work. Yeah. Got it. I get hired to work for two days on this Kenny Rogers album.

I come back the next day and I do exactly what the background singer should never do, which is go up to the artist and say, I'm a songwriter, I've got a song. And the song was, crazy, crazy for you, can't you see? That's my Kenny Rogers. That's like 85 or so. Kenny Rogers crazy. 84 maybe.

I was 19 when I wrote it. Right here waiting, song you're known for most, would you say? Is that the one? It's probably, yeah. Can you give us a little bit on guitar? Yeah, sure. Original key? I think so, yeah.

Yeah. Awesome. You can still sing in original key. Well, thanks, man. Yeah, dang. You know, sometimes it's like, well, I will be right here. I'm almost 60.

Talk to me in 10 years and maybe we'll. That's awesome. Maybe I'll be like, wherever. So the Keith Urban stuff, I think, is always interesting to people that know country music, like Long Hot Summer. Yeah. Does Keith come to you and go, hey, Richard, I want to write with, how does that even come together? He came to my house and stayed with me for a few days.

And it wasn't, it was just sort of to hang out. He was just sort of like trying to take a break from the pace of his career. And we picked up guitars. And within like 10 minutes, we did, Sunday, baby, you and I're not going to be the ones. That was better life. That was like, that's how it happened. It wasn't like, hey, let's get together and write a song. Do you play the Keith and you, your songs when you play your shows?

I do long out summer sometimes. You do? Yeah. Can you play a little bit of that? Do you care? The Luther Vandross song, Dance My Father. I remember hearing it, not knowing who wrote it because I was just listening to it. That's, like, that's a song.

Yeah. That's a song that I think. Really proud to be part of that one. Richard, thank you. You guys, Richardmarks.com. Go to the shows. A voicemail from Carolyn. I have a morning corny.

Why aren't there any knock-knock joke? about America because freedom rings. Nice. I like it. We got a new ring doorbell or maybe it's not ring exactly. I didn't see what the brand is. But my voice won't turn up. And so I talk into it right now and it's like,

you're whispering. I'm not trying to, but every time someone pushes it if they're dropping something off or a package or they ring it, and they're like, what? I've gone into my settings. I cannot. I don't know what the deal is. And I like yell, but it still comes out.

So annoying. Next up, James from Oklahoma City. Eddie was shafted because the question on Easy Trivia was you can buy and sell newer used on a marketplace. eBay and Craigslist were both created in 1995. That was a trick question. We need to run this thing back. Wow.

I hear you. I understand you. There have been a couple incidents about that round, but much like an NFL game, we can recognize that there are some things that maybe didn't go as we'd hoped they would, but we don't reverse games. You can't go back and change it. Right. Like Des Bryant caught the ball, but you can't go back.

You know what I mean? You can't go back and change that. That being said, there were a couple, one, we said Jim Carrey, the American actor. Now, he does have American citizenship. We didn't say American born. Ah, he's Canadian. He is Canadian, but he's also American. But I do understand why people would reach out about that.

That was one. And then, two, this one here. But Craigslist is more than a marketplace. It's also where you murder people. Oh, yeah. You meet up and murder them in their sleep. All the above. Yeah, and you do dirt.

So I still stand by it, but just for the record, we don't go back in reverse games. Okay. Thank you. So there's an asterisk with that win? Nope. No. And you are eliminated for a whole season. Here's Amy's pile of stories.

Scientists are teaching AI to do stuff around the house the same way we learn how to do things. YouTube. They're showing the AI YouTube videos, how-to ones of 12 different tasks like opening drawers or taking a pot off the stove. And then the robots replicate. everything that happens and the goal is for everyone to eventually have a little robot made at their house. I don't know what that means when they show the AI and is it a literal physical robot sitting next to you in like a movie chair or is it just like a chip plugged into another chip? Because I picture Robocop sitting next to me in a movie theater seat and we've got YouTube up on a big screen and I'm like Robocop, see that? That's how you turn on the vacuum.

He's like skip the ad, skip the ad. Why do I have to watch all 60 seconds for a 30 second video? Yes. Yeah, listen, I like AI. We've already used it a ton in our lives over the past five, six, ten years in everything that we do, but it's becoming more and more prevalent.

So now it's becoming a bigger story, but we've AIed forever. What do you think algorithms are? What do you think GPS is? What do you think we've just been so in deep with AI already. It's just more vogue now to kind of talk about it and, oh, how it's affecting us.

So, all right, what else? What were your summer jobs growing up or your main one? Boy, I had a lot. Let's see, I, well, when of the kid kid, I just hustled mowing. But then I worked maintenance on a golf course. That's when I started waiting tables. I worked at Hobby Lobby.

I roofed houses. So all that. I have the top jobs for teenagers this summer, which I'm struggling with this. My daughter's 16. I got a son that's turning 13. They're both looking for work. Roof and houses. I did call Amy's daughter and say, hey, I got some work for you.

Yeah. And it's not that hard, but I was like, I don't even know if she wants to work. but it's work. You're paying too much. No, I'm not. If she wasn't, your kid, yes. Okay. Do you made a pair less?

But there's a difference if it's your kid or Eddie's kid versus somebody I'm just hiring from Angie's list. Yeah, no, it's cool. It is what it is. You sent her a little video explaining the job and then put the dollar amount so I couldn't, I didn't have time to say anything. I sent it over and I was like, oh, shoot, that's a lot of money.

It's like her understanding, you know, a scale, like how to earn. And you know what? It's my, you're the parent. I'll pay her less if you want. No, no. It's your kid. But my understanding is that you should take care of the people that you're close to and that you love. So you want to come and do work and I can pay you extra.

I'm going to pay you a lot of money. So just explain to her when you're paying her. This is not normal. Or Amy, you explain that there's tax. Yeah. That's funny. There you go. Because I'm not doing that, Amy.

I'm paying her the end. And technically I was the middle man. It's like I'm the manager. Oh, well, it depends. If you're an agent, you'll get 10%. A manager, you'll get 15. So you let me know which one you are. Manager. Okay. Okay. Top five jobs. Camp counselor. Oh, that'd be a good one because then they, you know, they go. They get to make friends. They hang out. They spend the life for weeks at a time. Babysitter, tutor. You could have done that. Well, I didn't tutor. I just see people's homework for money.

Dog walker and then mowing lawns or any kind of landscaping that you can help out with. Yeah, us lower class kids did a lot of landscaping. We didn't get to, do a lot of the, and I worked at the golf cart, the course, and so the rich people kids got to work in the golf carts and got to drive the golf carts and do all that work. And the poor people kids had to go and weed eat for days at a time.

So we always hated the rich kids. They got to be in their collared shirts. We were in T-shirts covered in green because it was just weeds everywhere. All right, what else? Michael Ray has opened up about what he went through after his split from Carly Pierce. There was depression,

anger, guilt. He had a lot of trust issues. And he eventually checked into a little retreat that helped him tackle things, do some therapy, work through a lot of the pain. But he basically had to like disappear and went to Georgia, like a small town in Georgia just to kind of get back to himself. I will commend Michael Ray. And I don't know Michael Ray that well. We've played the opera a couple times at the same time. And I went over and said hello.

I guess I just have this feeling about him standing up Ray at the bus. But Ray's also Ray and he's clickbait Ray and he definitely could have dramatized that story where Michael Ray said, I'll be waiting on you. in my tour bus, show up at midnight, and the Ray shows up and there's no bus. Right. Like, I should just ask Michael Ray about that. That being said, I do commend him on, really? Let me say this the right way. Not going crazy whenever somebody else is saying a bunch of stuff about him and singing songs about him.

Yeah, staying quiet. Constantly. I would not have the patience for that because it's not one way. It's not one side and the other side totally sucks. It's always something in the middle. Yeah, he said here, quote, I mean, hey, you're human and people all of a sudden have an opinion on something they know nothing about. I agree.

People use things for personal gain. He goes, it gets to you in the beginning and you definitely want to react a certain way because that's human nature, but he decided not to do that. And, I mean, he went through it. I would have done it. They went through. I got crazy. So there was the divorce.

By the way, he was married to Carly Pierce for like a, eight hours. Oh, go ahead. Eight months. And then they went through a divorce. And then during the proceedings of that, he lost his uncle to a heart attack. And then eight months after that, his aunt, he lost her to suicide. I mean, just he went through it for like about a year and a half or so. Well, hopefully, I know he's putting a record out.

And I hope it's all just shots back. Every song is a reply to every song. Okay. I made me. That's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With lunchbox.

Stay home there's something good. Dr. Robert Moore was about to celebrate his 100th birthday when his daughter came to him said, what do you want to do for your birthday? He's like, I'm not going to the club. I want to pet some dogs. And she was like, okay, how can I get dogs to come by the house? So she got on social media and said, hey, my dad's turning 100 and he wants to pet some dogs. Will you dress your dogs up and walk him by her house?

She thought 20 people would show up. Nope, 200 dogs in cars dressed in tuxedos. Some came in a limo. All came by the house to celebrate his 100th birthday. That's awesome. And she requests they get dressed up too? Wow. Yeah.

And so they all had costumes and top hats and... I bet there was poop for miles. Oh, for sure. It's like, dogs don't care. They just poop. And it was probably loud, too. And a lot of dogs fighting with each other, but he petted it all 200 dogs. That's great.

Good story. That is what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care which I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the 4th.

You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excited. to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw unfilled of conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHeard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok podcast network on TikTok. This week on the Sports Slice podcast, it's all about the NFL draft. And we've got a special guest, the director of the NFL's East West Shrine Bowl, Eric Goward joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects. From hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make to the players flying under the radar. This is the insight you won't hear anywhere else. If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode. Listen to the Sports Slice podcast on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

And for more, follow Timbo Slical Life 12 and TikTok podcast network on TikTok. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed, I will be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that, trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends.

Trust me, babe, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.