The Bobby Bones Show - Tues Post Show (12-5-23)

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

Bobby starts by talking to Cindy from Richmond who has an opinion about tipping workers during the holidays with food. Another caller agrees with Lunchbox and thinks America is in a tough place right now and another caller who works collecting garbage clears up how many houses they have in a day. Our friends at Sonic drops by to deliver food and Bobby pitches the idea to sell our pallet items at one of his stores.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's time for the Bobby Bones post show. Here's your host, Bobby Bones. Hello. We just got off the air, so there are a lot of people on the phone still wanting to have their voices heard. So let's do that. Cindy in Richmond, Virginia. Hi, Cindy.

What would you like to say? Oh, hi. I just have a different take on instead of leaving money for the trash guy. Uh-oh. She got put it back on hold. Which I'm actually doing right now. And I give it to recycling, trash, mailman, neighbors. And the recycling guy actually brings our can up and puts it away for us.

We give them water during the summer. You cut out a little bit So what are you doing for them What are you giving them? Oh, I make fudge Fudge Fudge That's nice

Yeah, that's cool I make a batch of fudge And so yeah I give it to Well, the recycling guy There's two of them In the truck, I believe, two of them Do our phone suck that bad, Ray,

where they just fall off the line And then it dropped completely Oh wow Let's give us to you I'm sorry, that happened to you It's good that we have an IT guy come by in about 10 minutes. Geez.

Fudge. So I think the idea, I think the idea is great. Oh, fudge. No, no, fudge. I don't like to eat food that I don't know the person that cooked it, yeah.

Unless it's a restaurant. Okay. And even then, I'm still like, I bet they spit in it. That'd be tough for me. But, yes, excellent. I'm a weirdo. I'm sure they'll love it.

Let's go over and talk to Briol in Oklahoma until the phone cuts them off. Briol, you're on. Sir, I was, just wanting to touch base on the tipping the trash man. Yes, sir. Well, when I originally called in, I agreed to Funchbox heavily, but I don't know. I've kind of thought about it a little bit as I've set here, and I'm a dad of three little girls.

I'm a blue-collar man, and, you know, I've worked hurricanes and stuff like that, and I've seen Ground Zero and stuff like that, and America's kind of shaking at its core. So I don't know. I think there's a time when you need to help out and you need to tip. And I think now it's one of those times, you know, if you see a situation where you know someone could use it. Oh, we lost it. It's like we're in prison and the phone cuts off like you run out of time. You can't talk to the inmate anymore.

What? He's back. He's back? Look, I can get it. Go ahead, Briol. Okay, I was just calling, I agree with you, Lunchbox, in a sense, but I also agree with Bob. in a sense, you know. America's tough, it's tough right now in a lot of situations no matter how you look at it.

And so in a sense, if you know a situation where, you know, you think you need to tip, I think it's good to tip. But also at the same time, I think there's overtime hours and stuff like that for situations where it takes more than a day or more than a set hours to get the achievable job done. Yeah, because this guy's blue collar like I am. You're not blue collar. Nothing about you. What's his name?

Me and him are the same. You're not. And so you say you've been on ground zero like tornadoes and hurricanes and things like that. Do people tip you when you go do that? They probably would if they were like, hey, we'd like to be tipped. That's one thing that, you know, I've never got a tip. I show up with a cooler ice chest full of waters or try to give you a 30 pack of beer or something like that. But no, I'm definitely not getting tipped.

Yep. I'll see. I mean. So I do agree with you in a lot of ways, you know. Well, what I don't agree with is that the guy's not saying you have to tip me. And I'm sure a lot of people are reaching out going, how do we get a hold of you to tip you? So he puts this thing there.

Okay, so now for the rest of the year in the description of the podcast, can we please put, you can tip lunchbox? You say that on the show. Please send me my Amazon gift list. Yeah, I do. That's you doing that. But I'm saying, like now that I need, this guy puts it on every trash can so I want everybody that downloads this podcast and know that they can tip me via VIMO.

Oh my gosh. Delete that. Don't put the Venmo up on the day. What, what? What? Go over that. All right. Thank you, Brile. Have a good day, man. Yep, you guys too. All right, see you, buddy. How are you okay with the garbage? This is Ben. Ben, you're on the air, buddy.

You guys are just something else. Ben in Colorado. Hi, Ben. Hi. How are you doing this one? Pretty good. What can I do for you? Oh, I was just calling in on the whole trash situation and tipping the trash guys, recycle guys. Yeah.

So I work rural country area in western Colorado up around Telly Y, you know, and I leave Christmas cards. I got 1,500 customers a week that I leave Christmas cards for personally. You know, and we don't expect a tip, but it's always nice to see it when we do get it. I think that's exactly it. I think that's exactly, you know. And I know some of them do leave an envelope for tips. I personally just leave a Christmas card, and if they so choose to leave.

leave me a tip. There you go, and we lost him. I wish somebody would tip our company to get our phones fixed. This has been happening for a long time, though. Yes, let's go over, and let's do Pat in Colorado. We'll do two more calls, and we'll move on. Pat, you're on the air, Pat. Yeah.

Yes, sir. Yeah, I actually drive a trash truck. I'm actually currently on route. I was saying to Abby, my biggest day of the week is 1,100 stops, and I've got to go to the landfill. and then come back and finish the day. Told you. What's an average day?

Average day's about 6,700. Boom, Amy. High five. Thank you. Exactly. And you guys didn't high five. I said average. No, we high five.

Like, we can't stop high-fiving each other. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Oh, wow, wow. Pat, and then do people tip you during the holiday? Yeah, but like with my company, we're not allowed to ask specifically for tips. We can leave out Christmas cards, but we can't put our name and address on them. Well, I appreciate that. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas. And if people tip us, they do. If they don't, they don't. You know if Flashbox is a trash man, he'd be putting on everybody's.

How much is it? July, he'd be doing one. Yes, Morgan. Can you tell me how much you normally get tips? like in one of them? Great question. It's about 20 bucks, 10, 20 bucks. Okay.

And how much do you end up getting? Like, you rack up over the holiday season? It really depends on the route in the area. We've got one route. A guy makes about 5,000. With me, it's about 1,000. Do you see this, guys? That's awesome.

Great. Nobody's being hurt by this. What a great end of your bonus. Man, one of them's in the good part of town, though. Yeah, exactly. Hey, Pat, I appreciate that call, man. Hope you have a great day. Yeah, well, it's also not all cash.

It's spread out between cash and gift cards. Between like Starbucks and restaurant and gift cards. That's cool. That's pretty good. Unless you just didn't want to go to Cheddar. Right. Who doesn't want to go to Cheddar? Pat, thank you, buddy.

Have a great day. You too, Bobby. I see it. Jessica in Texas is on. We'll get off that and see what Jessica asked to say. Hey, Jessica. Hi. Hey, what's going on?

You're on the show. Hey. I've had a couple of questions and just some advice from you guys if that's possible. Yes. Go ahead. I'm trying to make it quick. I know she took you in how much time. Just of it is, I'm 40-ish now.

And I've always held a long-time job for my family. Never been fired in my life. And I found this job. I left another one to go to this one because it was like the dream job. Like, I've wanted it in my entire life. Small office, family type group. This boss was very well known. everywhere in this state.

You guys have a time? Making it out because the connection's bad. Yeah, yeah. Okay, go ahead. Oh, and I had my business cards, and I, you know, hated out hundreds of them already and had family members move to this company. And I thought I was doing great.

I had my review in the middle of November. Oh, you're doing a great job. You're where you're supposed to be. You're learning the system. Everything's great. Work my butt off doing my job. 505, end of day

last week. He walks in and I'm telling him everything I did for the day and I had to smile on my face and this is what I've done you know,

a lot of things. And he interrupted me and said, I'm letting you go. No reason. He had a paper and had three stipulations that I do not, of course,

give him bad publicity because he is very public as I was with him very public in picture. and everywhere. So now, the embarrassment of me, having to walk out in public is pretty

embarrassing when I have to say. I don't work there anymore. So I haven't exactly told people I was fired because it wasn't because he said I'll give you $1,000 to be a resign or I can go ahead and terminate you. Ask for a reason. We're not will state. No reason.

You don't fit in. You don't fit in with our family. There's about 15 of them who work there. You just don't fit in. I'm letting you go. So December 1st, right at Christmas. I'm like I go from my job that I know I didn't mess up on because I had my review. No. God dang it. I knew he got to cut off soon. Look, look, look, look.

Maybe you should hear this back because we lost her on the phone. I wonder what the reason is. There's always a reason. Yeah, but there's always a reason. He literally said you don't fit in. I hear you. But there's always a reason. I'm not saying it's her.

It's something that she's doing, but either there's toxicity around you or you're toxic or the mix isn't good. Maybe you don't. So there is no such thing as no reason, pardon the double negative. It was going to, it sucks. It was near Christmas. It sucks. She got fired. Can't change that.

No one is going to look at you and go, I saw her in a picture with that boss. Ooh, shame. Don't be embarrassed. People quit, lose jobs, move on. all the time. Not a single person is going to go, you're not working there anymore. I feel different about you. That is not going to happen. We feel like it is because we are so wrapped up in ourselves that we think everybody is looking at us all the time. They're not. You mess up big. You're like, God, it's so embarrassing. People are always going to remember. Nobody's remembered a

dang thing. And generally. And so don't worry about that either. But what you can affect is everything going forward. Yep. That's all you can affect. You can have, you can harbor emotions. You be resentful, you can be angry, but you can't let that take over so much that it affects everything going forward, or you're just going to stay in the hole longer. Your goal is to get out of the hole, your goal is to get back on your feet, your goal is to start making calls and connections, not even just to get a job immediately, although you need one, but it's to let people know, hey, you're willing and you're available. And you can only affect today. That's it. So, and maybe you do like a post-mortem. Try to figure out exactly what happened. It could have been a toxic

place where everybody hated your guts because of something that they do, something that you do, I don't know, dynamics are different. But it just was, it was not for no reason. I've never seen anybody get fired for no reason unless it's a budget issue. And that's still a reason. But if he's saying, not that this is a valid reason, but if you're saying you don't fit in, that's sort of whatever, for whatever reason, that's his reason. Sure, but she's saying there's no reason. That's a reason, but I'm saying that could be a toxic culture in the office and she doesn't fit that or she's toxic with the rest of the culture. Yeah. To me, because

it wasn't laid out in a clear way why you're being let go, it doesn't seem like it is a very in my opinion, healthy environment and you should just move forward like Bobby was saying. I think the best thing you can do is go show up and do an amazing job somewhere else and

who knows, maybe they'll regret letting you go. It would have been nice if they would just wait until January to fire though. Probably want to pay up her time off for vacation. All that. So that sucks. It's a sucky situation for sure. I would, sometimes we're not aware of what everybody else is aware of. I would try to find out what was really happening, even from somebody else that was working there.

Sometimes it's tough to hear it because sometimes it's your fault. I guess potentially. So yeah, you don't, you don't take that into the next place. You ever gotten fired? I'm not answering that because I don't want to jinx it. What? I got laid off one time, man. But laid off is not fired. No, I had the same thing, man.

No, it's not. No, it's not. not. How is it different? You don't have a job because they're saying it's your fault. But it is different. Because if a company goes out of business, well, you don't have a job, but that's different. Got it. You didn't do anything to deserve that. The company went under. So there are different reasons you don't have a job. There are layoffs, but. Yeah. But if you get fired, you did something. Layoffs, sometimes they hire people back that were laid off because of whatever they

couldn't do with the financials. Like, oh, we now have bounced back. We can hire people back. That happened on this company. So you're telling me, I got laid off because I was too good? Sure. Sure. Why? I don't want to do. I don't want to do. I don't want to jinx it. So I will refuse to answer, but you can get your answer from that. Okay. Got it? Why? I just wonder what that's like. I've never gotten fired. I've been laid off, but never, you're out of here. You know, I guess I was laid off, although I've never actually been laid off. Eddie and I worked at a local TV station together. And one day I was about to go into work and he was like, hey, you don't need to go in anymore. I was like, why? He goes, they cut everybody. They shut the doors. And I was like, what about me? He's like, I don't know. How are you going to work? They're not even open anymore.

Nobody, I still haven't been fired. Yeah, so technically he probably still works there. I'm getting checks every two weeks. So I guess that's a thing. I just stop going. It's a weird feeling, you know, when you get told like, all right, your job's done, you really start thinking like, okay, well, what do I do? And especially on a Friday, I can't do anything today. Or a holiday.

I can't do anything for two weeks. It's terrible. You got to buy gifts or get places. Yeah. That sucks. I'm sorry about that. Hang in there. I mean, weaker people have gotten through.

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There's a lot in luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. It's time for the Bobby Bones post show. Here's your host, Bobby Bones. We hit him with that intro again after the mineral. What are you guys doing? Why's everybody being weird? He forgot about the mineral.

First of all, we did a mineral, which is the commercial when we came back and right hit us with the intro again. Scared the crap out of me. And then Morgan and Eddie are like yelling at each other. No, I was telling him he needed to record because Sonic was coming in, but I was trying not to... Oh, Sonic is coming in. But we're rolling right now. Hi, guys. Come on in. Got it. Good to see you guys. I'm recording now. But what's it? Were you already recording?

No, I wasn't. I wasn't recorded. So what is this? Really? Wait, so do they have manning on them? Yes. Perfect. You don't like mayonnaise, man? I hate mayonnaise and I hate onions. I'll tell you what, those corn dogs, they lasted in my house for a week. I gave my kids for breakfast. Oh, you mean, you mean, oh, you can pass it without. You went and bought some or you took the leftovers from here.

Oh, my gosh. He didn't want any. Well, don't worry. I, I, like, jelly roll and I took him home. My kids loved them for breakfast. Thank you. I like mayonnaise. I did too, Amy.

I hate mayonnaise. I hate onions. I was on with, thank you. I did a podcast with Craig Kilbourne last night, and I was talking about. Craig Kilbert. Yeah. Really? Yeah.

That's cool. Yeah, it was really cool. How I was talking about, I don't. I don't do mayonnaise or onions on anything. What is your shirt? I do mustard on everything. Fala la la la la la la. Love that.

Fa la la la la la la la la la. Does Sonic have merch? Yeah, duh. What is it? Sonic swag shop. Is that really what's called? Yeah. And so these, what's the deal with these?

I mean, I've had a hundred of these, but like, is there something happening right now with these? No, January and February. January February? What is the deal with them? How much? How much? $1.99. That's pretty good.

$1.99. That's pretty good. When you have kids, a stop like that is awesome. $1.99 burgers, let's go. Everyone's eating. There's a Sonic. Yeah, if it's not $1.99, not all of them get to eat. Can you give one of them a microphone?

Is that a microphone work right there? Is that right, Eddie? That's all right. Yeah. Right now there's a December special. Okay. We give a microphone. I want to talk about Sonop for a second.

It's all that same one, Mike from the five. So, what? You hear me? Okay, cool. is. Paul. So, Paul, I've a question for you. Sure. Where I come from, there's a Sonic, I'm from Arkansas. I'm from Arkansas. There's a Sonic with a huge ditch and people always fall into the ditch. Have you ever seen that? I think I've seen it on Facebook, yeah. Fix the ditch. Not you, Paul. Not you, Paul. I don't know whose it is, so I can make a phone call or two.

It's the Sonic ditch. It's like in Benton, because I lived in Hot Springs. We'd go through Benton to get to Little Rock. And you turn into Sonic, and there's a huge, huge hole in the ground. And it's become almost like a thing on social media where when someone falls in, everybody takes a picture of it. Yeah, I've seen those pictures. Highway 5, Sonic Ditch, Benton, Arkansas, Infamous Benton Ditch. What is it?

Infamous Benton Ditch prompts fan page. They have now a fan page of the ditch. So now I guess I wouldn't fill the ditch. There's a fan page. I've seen cars in there before. Trucks sitting in there. So we had a whole deal in our show. Oh, by the way, will you tell our listeners what your role is at Sonic?

I'm a local franchisee here in Nashville. I got 32 stores throughout Nashville, northern Alabama. Did you hear that, Cheching when he was talking? He's so rich. When he talks, he said,

So we were talking here on the show. We're doing a thing. We bought a big palette of goods. All that stuff was returned from Amazon. You don't know what's in it. We bought it, and then we went through it to see what it is, and we're going to sell it back individually

and try to make money. And the lunchbox goes, why don't we go have a yard sale at a Sonic? And I'm like, no Sonic wants us to go and shut down a whole side of their restaurant, all of the drive-ins for a bunch of garbage that we're selling one-offs. And he's like, they would do it. And I'm like, I don't want to do it.

Because Sony have drive around. It's not like you can drive-in. There's no drive-in and back out. If someone, let's say it's not us. Somebody came up to say, we didn't do a yard sale in your Sonic. What would you say? A yard sale at my Sonic? We have done some fundraisers.

This is not a fundraiser. This is a very selfish thing. Yeah. Profit-raiser. Yeah. Profit razor. No, no, no, but just hear me out, like, as a businessman, on a Saturday morning, we're there at 7 a.m. We take up half the parking lot.

The other half the stalls are open. People are going to walk up. They're going to buy a shower head from us, and they're going to buy a cherry line made from you. I mean, I don't understand how that's a loose. But do you understand the loop? You can't really drive into us. If we're covering. Guess what?

They can back out. You can't because people have to come in. Okay. Guess what? They can walk up to the stall this one time. Okay. We can figure it out, guys. I've got some stores that are in shopping centers.

Ding, ding, ding. They have to part next door. We do some of that kind of. Oh, yeah. But then you have to get clear to the shopping center, lunchbox. They don't own the shopping center. But the shopping center can't control who parks there? But they can control who does a yard sale on their property.

But we can, it's in their, Sonic's lot is where the yard sale is. People park. Would you please tell them this is a ridiculous idea? It's a ridiculous idea. Lunchbox. But you kind of like it. I like it. You like it because we'd be like, hey, this Saturday, we're going to be at the Sonic

at this location, you know how many people are going to show up to that Sonic more than have showed up in the last six months. He said corn dog. He said corn dog's days were huge. I understand corn dog day is huge, but we will have people travel from across America. That's not true. Not for the garbage we bought. Yes, if it was

like legit stuff that people want to buy. They want it. Yeah, like baseball cards. People are not going to drive cross country to get a shower curtain rod. Signed by the Bion Show and a chair and line mate. I think they'd be there. That rope was pretty cool. the big rope. Exactly. By that.

Okay, so anyway. And we have tug of war matches with that rope in the parking lot. Winner gets a cheeseburger. Are you paying for the cheeseburger? That's on the house. Oh, got it. Of course. We'd donate that. See? How many corn dogs do you guys make? Whenever it's Halloween? We've probably had some stores

selling three, four, five thousand. Wow. A day? Oh my gosh. On Corn Dog Day. Matter of fact, a buddy of mine in Circee, Arkansas. You know where that's I do. They do a contest. They've got about 30 locations also, and they do a contest every corn dog day.

If you can guess how many corn dogs, all their store sells combined, they give like $100 gift cards. And they've got stores same way selling $3,000 and $4,000 and $5,000. A day. Do you have that many fry cookers? You can cook probably $6070 at a time. Is it nonstop, though? Is it $6.70 out, then $6.50 back in? You pre-brand.

You cook them, hold them, cook them, hold them. You have several hundred ready to go. because you don't have people come and get 40, somebody get 30, so you can't cook them to order that way. You got to anticipate. I don't know that I've ever had a corn dog. It's not really my thing from Sonic. I would have like a coney.

Yeah. I would have even then chicken. The bite chicken. The popcorn chicken. The popcorn chicken. So I never got a corn dog. Are corn dogs all the time popular? Yeah.

We sell quite a few. Kids only? No, kids and adults. We have a lot of adults. That's my favorite walk to the kitchen ground. Yeah, but if you're going to Sonic and you're driving all the way up there, I'm probably not going to order or something that I've been like salivating over before I get there. You know?

We sell a bunch, though. Yeah, that's why they're so popular on corn dog. They are good. Yeah, no, we ate them all up here in like five seconds. What about drinks? Like, which one's the most popular drink? Cherry Limet. Yeah.

By ocean water. People like Ocean Water. That's my favorite. Ocean water's good, but Cherry Limet is the nationwide drink. That's what everybody like. That's why you see it everywhere to cherry line made. Why did you buy your first Sonic? Why?

Yeah. I wanted to make. Make a living. Did you do one? Started that with one when I was three four. Did you work there first and then decide? Or you just did you work at Sonic first? Yeah.

Yeah, I got hired at 17 as a cook with the thought of being a manager. The guy that hired me, I worked for him at Wendy's. And he called me and said, hey, I want you to quit there and come here. He gave me a dime more an hour. You know, back in 78, that was a lot of money. So, yeah, I'll quit. So I went to work for him and we talked and he made me an assistant manager. Then I flew to Dallas and got into my first deal out.

Dang it at 24, you could buy a Sonic? I did, yeah. Take a loan? Make your pardon? I said I'm eating a burger. Did you take a loan? Loan? Oh, yeah, I took a loan out.

Yeah, my partner co-signed the note for me. That's scary? To take a loan out for a business. It was really scary. And, of course, I bought my first one. I didn't spend that much money, but then when I built my first one, that was scary. That was like a $700,000 deal back in 84. That's a lot of times.

Would you say that starting something like this is risky and you've got to just take risks and do it? Yeah. But we had a good background. My partners had been around for a long time. And so they knew how to do it. And so we started building and just kept building and kept building. What about people, I don't know, it's hypothetical here. They're always talking about doing deals.

Right. And always talk about making money and always talk about how he's going to do all this stuff, but never does anything ever and also doesn't shut up about it. Would you ever do going to business with someone like that, hypothetically? No. I don't know. Depends. They're talking about me.

How do you know? How do you know? We said, no, it's hypothetical. because they had like I don't do anything, but I make moves. How do we get that pallet in here? What moves? What business moves have you ever made? How we make that pallet in here?

Lawn business, let me tell you. For us and I, we crushed. We crushed the lawn mowers. You know, but why are you freaking that off? This is now. You guys said, did I ever make moves? Oh my gosh, did we make moves? We had a monopoly on our neighborhood.

On Palmer Lane. People tried to come into business. We ran them out of town. They couldn't handle it. Did you go beat them up? No. People knew. What about the Disney movies?

Disney movies. Oh, me and my buddy Oscar, shout out Oscar for Vell. And now we're going back 20 years. And this got canned because it was illegal. We were importing Disney DVDs from a foreign country. And we were selling them on eBay. And we were making cash, hand over fist. Well, one time.

You got one order. Well, no, we got two orders. And then we were like, all right, we did small orders to see, you know, test market. You know how you get to do that. You get to test see if people want it. Do your research? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We test stuff here.

Yeah, you test stuff here. Yeah, you test a new burger, a new slush, and you see if people like it, and then you go nationwide. And so we decided, all right, we're all in. And so we put all of our money back into the business and got a big shipment. And we got a note from customs saying, if you want to come get them, you can come get them. And so that business went under. But it happens. You know, when you do businesses, not all of them are going to succeed.

Especially if they're illegal. Yeah. That does happen. If you're committing crimes, it's tough. I didn't think it was committing crimes selling DVDs. It's, you're buying a lot of money. illegal DVDs that are bootlegged. That's a good. I didn't know that. You did know that because you told us you were doing it. Yeah, but that's my defense is I didn't know. Oh, got it.

To the custom agent, like, hey man, I just saw them online. I wanted to buy them. Do you have interesting having more sonics? Oh yeah. Well, let's go. Give me a call. Well, I'm ready to go. I mean, we tried to do it in Oklahoma. We can't get the property over there. I know. We've got so many people working for us that have worked for us for a long time that we really want to help them out and get them started. So is that how you do it? Like, if you have an employee, you bring them on as an owner of a Sonic? Of our 32 locations, probably 30 of them, started as a cook or a car hopper, a fountain just like I did. And they stayed with us as an assistant. And hey, they wanted to do it.

So, like, when you do that, like, how much of a percentage do they get? They get 100%? 25. That's not bad. No. So they get 25 in for what? They run it? 25% ownership and they run the store.

But are they having to invest their own money? They invest their money. Got it. We co-sign their deal. That's cool. I mean, I don't need a co-sign. I just need the property. We've been battling for territory.

How do they ever get paid? Is it they have to sell out or do you get 25% of the sale? 25% dividend every month. If the store makes money, they get 25%. Probably net profit. Probably net profit. Yeah. Do you know what that means?

Yeah, it's how much money you make. No, net. But what's net? And gross. Oh, I already know this. I watch Shark Tank guys. Yeah, I'm not asking to embarrass you. I'm asking to just say it.

Yeah. Net is after you take out the taxes and pay everything. And that's what you get gross. It's like, oh, man, look at all this money I made. He's like, oh, man. Good job. It's gross because it's so big. It's gross.

You don't get to keep all that. We buy the land build the building. And then the manager runs it. And they own 25% of the business. We own the real estate. And so. That's what I want to be on that side. So do they pay you rent?

Let's go. They pay us rent. Yeah. That real estate that's where it's at. It's a big deal. That's, yeah, that's what I almost did too. What do you mean you almost did? In my other business.

I mean, you got a leap. You got to jump out there. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. He doesn't do crap. Good. Well, I mean, we almost did it.

You almost did what? I mean, I don't want to say it. What if I still do it? What is it? Is it what you told me you're going to do? What was it? Oh, I know. Snow cone stand?

No, bigger. Bigger. But you didn't, so it doesn't matter. He thinks he has this idea. What do you got? No, no, not the hair place. Oh, not the hair? That's what I thought.

Like kids hair with whiskey or something? Yeah. But the only problem is my wife got brain with our third kid. Oh, that happened. Bad. Okay, we should let them go. We're probably holding you up from like making millions of dollars or something. Yeah.

Well, mine was going to cost millions of dollars. That was the problem. But that is a problem. Yeah, yeah. It was going to cost about. What did you hear today? You can go get a loan. It was going to cost you.

It was going to cost me. Okay, but you can get people to invest with you. You can get a loan. Yeah, I was going to have to raise a million. But you can also start small. I mean, no, no. What I was doing was big. Everyone was no small.

My first investment was only $5,000. That's what it cost me. And then, like I said, my last investment was way up there. 800,000. You got to crawl before you walk. Yeah. I almost bought into a tequila company, but my buddy from college.

You keep saying almost. What, like titos? Everything's almost. That's vodka. Yeah, my buddy from college called me up about a year and a half ago, two years ago. He's like, hey, dude, I'm going to start a tequila company. I just got back from Mexico and I fell in love with tequila. And I'm going to start a company.

I was like, you have lost your darn mind. Next thing you know. He'd drive by my house about a month and a half ago and dropped off tequila. He'd raised $11 million. There you got. 11 million dollars. Yeah. That friend, Jose Cuervo.

But you know what he did? His name is Steven Slaughter, man. You know what he did? He did it. But you don't do it. Well. Is the tequila good? It's good.

Is all tequila good? No. It's like pizza where something's better than other, but it's all good. Yes. Kind of. Yeah. So do you get dividends on every one of your stores? The checks just come in?

No, not every store. I got a few of the bed. What do you mean you don't get them on every one of your stores? How does that work? Well, we have a few. low-volume stores and smaller markets. If they don't make the money. Maybe that's where they need the yard sale.

Maybe. Those smaller markets. Yeah, there we go. That's true. It's a good point. I get, we own part of a restaurant until we get, we're, it's, restaurants are tough. We're just now starting to get, like, dividend checks, but they're not that much yet. But it's pretty cool.

It's the first, like, mailbox money. You're like, let me just go out there and say, oh, wow, $13. Yeah, I feel you on that. If you have an idea for another food item, do you, can you pitch it to Sonic? Oh, we do, yeah. The committee I'm on, we test a lot of products. I mean, I just got back from Dallas last week. We test a lot of different products.

Have you guys done a smoked chicken sandwich or anything? Not smoked chicken, no. I hear somebody. I'm talking about. Ask him how business is going. How is that? It's a little slow. A little slow after the holidays are slow.

You should cook it up one day, have them come in on the show, taste it, and give you an honest review if it's something he didn't want to take to us people. Let's go. There we go. All right. I'll get with scuba. We'll set up a date. And how's Eddie going to do that volume?

He doesn't have to. Not yet. All Eddie has to do is sell them the recipe. Yeah. Oh, I like it. He's not cooking at all. You all have smokers? No, we don't.

Okay. But the companies we buy from do. Perfect. Yeah, we've got a barbecue. What if this is a million dollar idea? This is amazing. We've got a barbecue coming in January, February, I think. A barbecue pork sandwich is going to be really good.

Oh, it does sound good. It does sound good. It's barbecue on a hamburger or you can get this barbecue by itself. All right. Dang. Okay, so would you come do that bit with this one day? Sure. And you have to be honest about if you think, not only is it good, because it's going to

be good. I like just good cooked meat, flavorful meat's good. But like, could you actually see it being something at Sonic. Sure. And then it doesn't have to be, but you could maybe pitch it, maybe take it. As long as it's easy to manufacture and easy. It's not. It takes about 12 hours. Excuse me. No one's talking to you. We'll see. That's different. That's it. Somebody else is doing that though. Right. That's right. I'm talking about our location. It's going to be easy for us to produce. Yeah, you can't put 12 smokers every location in the backyard. That's what I'm saying. Right. Right. But if it comes. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you for the burgers. No problem. And we'll, we'll, so. So,

Are we doing the garage sale or not? No yard sale, but we are going to do the sonic. No, no, see, Bobby says no. He has not said no yet. Trust me. He said no. You guys keep putting words in his day mouth. He's saying no. I'm just trying to cover him right now. He just said, Bobby said no. Can we come to a yard sale at one of your places? No. Okay, cool. Thank you.

Scoobah, after the first of the year, let's get them back up here and do the bit for the show. All right, cool. All right. And just so you know, the Sonic Ditch is a tourist attraction on Google and has a five-star 76 ratings. And there's pictures. If it ain't you. Hilarious. And it has, you can type it into your Google Maps and you type in Sonic Ditch and it takes you to it. And there are cars.

Oh, are these people drunk? Like, how many people? No, they just don't see it. They don't see it. They don't see it. And then they go right into it. It is so funny. And they even have a sign up there.

It says, how many days until the car has gone in the ditch you like at the work? So many days without an accident? Oh, my. Oh, man. Wow, that's a bad one. I don't know. You find so much joy in that. I'm going on that Sonic dish forever.

Okay, we have to go. Thank you guys. Thank you. We're good here. So we're not having a garage sale. No. But Eddie, what if you're smoking hot chicken? This would be amazing.

This would be amazing. So I wonder if I need to make it into a sandwich or just the chicken? You could do both. Okay. I got to go to the drawing board. You could actually, what I might do if I were you? Come on, come on, come on. Go to Sonic and get some buns and present it like a sonic smoking hot chicken.

That's what I was thinking. With the fixings and everything on. What if you make a million dollars from my gosh? That would be amazing. That would be amazing. I mean, dude, just from a conversation. Just from a conversation. Wow.

Why? Why? That's it. We got to go. Tomorrow night, Eddie and I'll be in Fayville, Arkansas, doing a pop-up show at Georgia's Majestic. If there are any tickets left, you can still get them bobbybones.com. That's it. We'll do it at 7.30. I know it's a Wednesday night, but I don't know.

We're going to be there anyway, so we thought we'd do it. Thank you. We will see you guys soon. A win. A win is a win. A win. A win is a win. I don't care what you'll say.

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