The Bobby Bones Show - Tues Post Show: Lunchbox Makes An Empty Promise, DIY Dental Work And Trapped In An Elevator  (12-17-24)

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

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And I have been stuck on an elevator for a little bit. Let's say you were going to be stuck for hours. Yeah. I mean, does that freak you out? No. It's inconvenient. Yeah. I'll be like, okay.

I'll get out when I get out. I'm not thinking that anything terrible is going to come from it. Same. Again, not saying that it's like something I look forward to. I also don't think like the cable's going to snap if I'm on like floor 73 and it's going to come crashing down. Yeah, no, but there's some people they won't even get on an elevator because they are so scared of them. I think a lot of that's claustrophobia more than it is an elevator, just itself. But this one was trapped for four hours. Four hours is a long time. Dallas Fire and Rescue responded, 1401 Elm Street. No, it sucks. It could suck for some people because if you're claustrophobic, that's terrible. But what do you have to go to the bathroom? You go in the elevator. You got to go with other people?

That would be the worst. You probably try to hold it. You probably go on your pants. Really? If you're with other people. Because at least that's a buffer. And then you take the pants and you wad them up and you put them in the corner. If you just go on the corner, that's, yeah.

I think I could hold it for four hours. Oh, sometimes you get to start dancing. I know. I've not been able to hold it driving my car and I put my pants before. My stomach was in bad shape. This is not recently. This is like 10 years ago. That just escalated to.

Well, no. I'm just saying sometimes you literally can't hold it regardless of how bad you want. I understand. So she received a call, or they received a call stuck in an elevator. She was trapped for hours. They rescued her using a pulley system. It's just she, so apparently she was by herself. What would be embarrassing was, though, if you do use the bathroom in the corner,

when they finally do open it up and they're like, all right, you're free. What the? Oh, I would tell them immediately. Yeah, I would be embarrassed. On the way up. Yes. Yeah. Well, there'd be no telling them, FYI.

You have to yell it on the way up. Oh, okay. Well, I'd say, before you come get me, you need to know. What would be the thing that I would do was, they're like, oh, that little phone rings. You're going to be stuck for a long time. Okay, I guess I'll go ahead and make this in a bathroom corner. And that's 15 minutes in. They're like, never mind.

You're coming right up. We got you in five minutes. You've been out of 20 minutes and you made a bathroom corner over there. She was evaluated all good, no injuries. But, yeah, inconvenient. That part doesn't really scare me, being stuck in an elevator. I mean, inconvenient or convenient, depending on how you look at it. You're trying to get away from something?

Yeah. I'd rather be convenient at a Starbucks or in a car ride. I know, but a lot of times... That's never convenient. Being in a trap in an elevator is never convenient. You maybe don't take the time for yourself unless it's forced. Yeah, go for a car ride or something. You think you could do the mission impossible and, like, get out to the top?

Yeah. Because, like, they do that in every movie, right? No doubt. The problem is you couldn't open those doors up one floor without, like, super strong fingers. I don't have those. I don't have fingernails. That's the problem. Yeah, that's the only problem with that.

Other than that, dude, I for sure mission impossible. I think climbing it looks probably could someone of able body climb a bit up, yes. But those doors don't just open. Really? Like even when you had a hotel, you never try to open one for fun? And they do open. Well, yeah, if they're working, if it's not on and working. Well, but it'll be on if the elevator's going, though.

Do what if you do get on top of the elevator, right? Like in Mission Possible? I don't think they'll open if the cart's not there. Even if it's on and working, I don't think they'll open if somebody could just do that open and fall down the shaft. Well, that's what I mean. Like, on and working and in the proper position to where it's supposed to do what it's supposed to do. But what I'm saying is you get out and you're on top of the elevator with the pullies and then it starts moving. What do you do?

You just hold on to the road. You pray. You're acting like it's a roller coaster swinging you around. It just goes like this. Yeah, but you go all the way to the top. And then you get smushed? Oh, yeah. When you got to the top, you're done.

You guys have never thought about this? I don't think that it rubs up against top of the building. Okay. I don't know for sure. No, because people have to get up. there and fix things? And what if it's on the very top and things need to be fixed? Then that means you could not get up and fix it. If it were to get stuck and need to be fixed at the very top floor, then no one could get on top and fix it. So there has to be room for someone to be able

to do the work. Of course, you have logic there. Yeah. I never even thought about climbing out the roof of it. Only I have, if Mission Impossible. Yeah, like if I really needed to. And I imagine they all have cameras on them. The elevators? Yeah. So usually I'll look at all four corners and wave, even if they, you know, because there's not a camera there, but I imagine there's one in there somehow. So yeah, there's that one. Florida sheriff's looking for the owner of 25 lost kilos of cocaine. Now, this is where the metric system of me don't really play. Like, I know what a kilo kind of looks like, but I don't really know kilograms, milligrams, the grams, like on shows, it kind of looks like if I were to do my hands like this,

like I were holding a, what size ball is this? It's a brick. What's that ball would that be? A little bigger than a softball. Like a, okay, one of those balls that you use in your house when you're a kid and you put on top of your door, basketball goal? Yes, a mini hoop. Like a mini hoop ball. I would say, I'm doing my hands around a mini hoop basketball. And then, yeah, some are square, some are rectangle.

But yeah, that to me is a kilo. No idea if it really is. Oh, because of like drugs? Yeah. The kind of drugs? So it doesn't even matter the shape of it, but it's over two pounds. Wow. I didn't know kilo was that big.

it could even look like a long piece of paper. I'm looking now. So I just picture it looking like a mini hoop basketball. But yeah, no, 25 kilos of cocaine, so over 50 pounds of cocaine. Wow. That's got to cost some sweet, sweet money, huh? Yeah, I'm sure somebody's in big trouble for that. How much cocaine costs, Amy?

I don't know. Like market today, Amy. You watch all these shows. On the cartel. Yeah, you watch cartels. That's like any of your thing. We were coming to the expert. Yeah, but I don't know because, I mean, they're selling.

it. Who knows how many people it's passing through until it goes to the end user. About $25,000 a kilo street value. And if you're looking at... That would be end user. So, I mean, it's, yeah, it's a lot. So, 25,000 a kilo, and they lost how many? 25 kilos. Let me get the calculator. Okay, let's see if he does this right here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. 25,000 a kilo. So, times 25. That is $625,000. There you go. Someone's in big trouble. The Florida sheriff is looking for the owner of it. If you need it and you lost it, let him know. He's got it.

If you were like a drug lord and you sent the guy that lost it, go claim it. You don't get it back though. No, it doesn't matter. You're going to jail. Go claim it. Why? But why would you want one of your people? A lesson.

Teach him. Just kill him. Well, they do that. Yeah, but just kill them or send him out on another like another mission. he at least finishes that mission kill him. Like get something out of him, at least first. Not make them... Yeah, why would you send your worker to jail?

You need him to deliver other cocaine. Unless he's stealing it, which is kind of what Eddie's saying. But then you send him out all... Sure. Unless he gave it. Unless... The cops sent on it. Oh, I didn't think about that.

It's not, trust me. One gram of cocaine may cost anywhere from $60 to $200. That's a pricey habit. A gram is not a lot. Right. That one gram. could be, let's just go, call it 200. How much is a gram?

I would think gram, to me, don't know, but I think a gram's like a hard pinch. A hard, yeah, yeah. Like a hard pinch, like a three inch pinch. Yes. No idea? That's my mind. Oh, three inches is a lot, man. A three inch pin. Well, it depends on yes, buddy.

I would say that. It's a lot. That's a lot of COVID. I just tried to find out how many people can use a gram, but I can't figure that out. Amy, I feel like the more. you Google, the more the feds are on to you? I mean, no, I would just play them this clip. Okay. We delete it real quick

as a joke. No, officer, we don't. We were talking about that at all. So anyway, he put on Facebook, we have your cocaine, come get it if you want it. Which would scare me, though, and I'm thinking that they would, like, come and, like, break in to steal it and, like, do bad stuff to anybody in the way. Yeah, I don't think they do that. Like, that threat. The threat. I'm not even saying it's like cartel.

It could be just, like, somebody's a local drug guy. You think he'd go and try to steal his drugs back? Who knows? If there's only one person working at the sheriff's office at night. You like the movies. Yeah. The guys are sitting there whistling. Kick the door open.

Get your kilos back. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I just have in some of my documentaries and stuff I have seen, it's just not the same as it used to be. Nothing is, Amy. Nothing is. And it's ruined for people that used to really like it because of the fentanyl. And you can't, there's no way to guarantee and you could take it and then boom, die.

That sucks for them. So it's like not worth it, they say. Yeah. It sucks for that old cocaine user who used to like the way used to be. Right. Shannon and Texas is on right now. What in the world? Shannon, you're on the air.

Let's put her on. Shannon. Shannon. Shannon. Yes, I'm here. Okay. Go ahead, Shannon. You're on.

Yes. Hi. So I just listened to the segment that you guys had about the lady who got arrested for doing the illegal dental work in her home. Yes. And it made me think, I can understand why people would go to her because it's so expensive.

Dental is so expensive. Even the insurance is expensive for dental. Right. But it made me think about my husband who has pulled six teeth of his own at home. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. And that was my point is,

I don't think she was like up to saving teeth to, again, do something. to create or selling black market or I think she probably knew she knew how to do it and she probably helped people who couldn't afford it. And I think she also needed the money. I don't think she's doing it for charity. But yes, there's probably a lot of this happening that people don't know all because our health care system sucks. And even if you have insurance sometimes, that sucks. So, yeah, he pulled his own teeth. How was he numbing himself? Whiskey? He's not. He's not. He tried to own it with alcohol one time and he bled too much. So the first time he did it, we'd only

been together a couple years and he said he was in pain the next day I was supposed to make an appointment with a dentist and I woke up that morning and his tooth was sitting on the nightstand. He had done it with the pair of pliers while I was sleeping. And the reason he did it was because... Because he didn't want to wait for a dentist and we didn't have really the money for it. Right. Yeah, so if the judge finds out she wasn't up to no good or like weird stuff, I hope he gives her an appropriate punishment, but doesn't put her in jail or something

and understands why she was doing what she was doing, if that's the case. Yeah. So I appreciate you calling and sharing that with us, Shannon, just because I think some people, when I was saying a similar thing earlier, I thought I was kind of crazy. But yeah, that's it.

Thank you. You're very welcome. All right, see you later. That's so sad. Brandon of Florida. Brandon, you're on the air. Good morning, studio. Morning, buddy.

Hey, I wanted to reach out to lunchbox since he's the businessman making business deals and see if he wanted to sell one in Bartesian voucher. She got a couple months ago. Oh, man, I'd love to sell them to you, but I gave him away. I have friends and family that I gifted them to, and so I used them all. For Christmas? No, just like, you know, like my friend, oh, yeah, you know, you want one? Yeah, here you go, here's one.

I mean, I'm a man of the people. Like, I didn't sell any of them, unfortunately. The people are your friends. I mean, the people would be the general people. You just hooked your friends up. Yeah. Yeah. You're a man of your people.

Yeah, gave one to Garrett, gave one to Ryan, gave one to my cousin. I mean, everybody got one. Yeah. Well, Brandon. So sorry, Brandon, but I can maybe contact them, see if I can get another one. Okay, but nobody do the contacting for him. If he's going to say this, Morgan, don't contact Bartesian. Scuba, don't contact Bartesian.

If he's going to do it, he has to do it and stop leaning on focus. Yeah, I'm not doing anything for you, bro. Okay. I never asked you to, did I? No, but you were going to. At some point you would have reached out to me. This was going to go off the air and him go to one of you guys be like, hey, can you contact Bartesian and get me one of those? I need eight of them.

Yeah. Go ahead, lunchbox, finish your conversation. Yeah, so Brandon, I'll reach out to them so maybe, you know, call me, calls back in a couple weeks and I'll see what I can do. All right. Sounds good. Thank you, all. All right. See you, Brandon.

He's not going to do that. He might now just despite you. No chance. What's he going to do? Go to Bartizian at AOL.com. He doesn't know their email. Dude, you don't think we've DMed on Instagram? Yeah, no chance.

Possibly. They possibly deemned him. Really? I don't know if he tagged him. I think he probably has a DM with them. The two things are, one, he never remembers to do anything, more so than he wouldn't do it. True. He had a set list from Jordan Davis in studio.

He promised a listener. How long until you got it to them? About a year. And you had it of that year. How long were you waiting for it? Oh, no. I got the set list at IHeart country in 2023. And I put it on.

I found it in my house like six months later. Okay. And go ahead. And I was like, oh man, I put this up on Instagram a long time ago. I said someone can have it. Who wants it? So you had it when you said who wants it? Yeah.

Got it, got it. And then they said, oh, I'll take it. You know what I mean? And I was like, yeah, I'll get it to you. And then a few months went by and I was like, man, I don't know where it is. And so I forgot about it. Then they called and let to voicemail and ratting me out saying I hadn't sent it. And it had been like seven months.

You consider that a rat? if they have something that you have said you were going to give them and it was seven months later? Yeah, they could have just sent me a message on Instagram. Would you have known though if they sent you a message or have never called, had never called? I knew I had not sent it because I couldn't find it. But I kind of just thought, oh, it's not that big a deal.

They'll forget about it and we'll move on with our lives. You know, like, come on. It's just a set list signed by Jordan Davis. That's a big deal. We see people up here all the time, so to us it's not as big of a deal. But that's a massive deal with somebody. Right. and they were going to give it to their brother.

It was their brother's favorite artist. And I don't know if it was going to be a birthday gift maybe. So then I had to go digging for it and I found it and sent it. And then I never got a thank you. And it was about how long from the beginning? About a year. Yeah. My only point was he will forget.

It's not that he can't DM them. He doesn't even know how to check his email on his computer. But he does know how to DM. No, I know how to check my email on my computer. I don't know how to check it on my phone. Okay. But his computer. Yeah, if I got the laptop around, I can check it.

No problem. Do you have to live? log in or is it one of those that's already logged in? Does it go through your email on your computer or do you have to like password and username? No, it makes me password every time and then it makes me send me a confirmation code every single time. That's annoying.

It's like here. When the email hits your screen, that's annoying. Would you like us to text you a code or call you? Take the call. They're always nice. Like, why would I want them to call me every time I'm trying to get my email? I've made a lot of friends doing that. I know.

Did they call you? That's an option? Yes. All it does is do this. Your number is K2.9. They're giving you that same confirmation code, but it's a robot voice doing it. It's not somebody at a phone bank going, okay, let's give this guy a call, see what's up. He's like, I don't want to talk to them.

How's your day there, sir? Nah. I hope you reach out and get him one. Yeah, what was that guy's name? I don't know. Brandon. Brandon. So you guys thought I already forgot.

Okay. And how are you going to get in touch with Brandon? He's going to call back. Oh, so you're going to get it first. Yeah. Have it at your house. Lose it for a few months. No, no, no.

I'm going to say, hey, you know, I got this. My buddy Brandon really would like one. They could be a great giveaway and see if they'll give Brandon one. And they say, in return, what do we get? Man, we've been talking about Bartesian. I mean, I'll send them this. And how are you going to get this? There's no chance.

How are you going to get this? How are you going to get this audio? There's a link. On the Iheart radio app. You just go to the Bibleone show. You can do that. It's not that hard. But then what, oh, you're going to send them the whole podcast.

Yeah. Go to listen to the whole podcast. minute 20. Got it, got it. Yeah, held that hard. I thought you were going to like pull the audio. You still could pull it like you could screen record it on your phone the specific part. Amy, that's too much. I can do that. You don't know how to screen record. Yeah. Oh my gosh. How do you screen record? He acts like we're shocked that he can do stuff when he can't even go get his email on his phone. All right. All right. Go, you got to pull this down. You get another phone and you record the screen.

He records it. You hit record. That's the time. That's not it. That's the alarm clock, dude. Hold on. Now how'd I get back to there? Oh, screen record right here. Three, two, one. It's recording my screen.

Well, why are you talking into it? I'm not. I'm just showing you guys. I know what I'm doing. Eddie? Okay. He knows how to screen record. My bad, I'm sorry.

But I can't give my email. You guys act like I'm dumb. The email on your phone, why it's difficult, is because somebody else has to set that up for you. Yeah, I don't know. No, no, that's what. somebody else has set that up for you. And I'm good.

Okay. Especially if it's coming from like an outlook. Well, that's part of it too. He doesn't really want it on his phone. Correct. Because he doesn't want to check his email. It's not like, let's be real. I don't get that many emails.

Let's also be real. I haven't looked at my company email over two years. Yeah, but you have, they reach out to you in other ways. Like they know if you, right? It's not that you're not checking emails from work because they just hit you up another. I don't get the company emails. Sure. People that can, they know my private email.

like aid to them. The people that matter. A lot of people matter, but I'm saying like the need to get things to me. They know my private email. But yeah, I haven't checked my company email. There was like, oh, the tickets we were talking about this morning. That came in the company email, right? Yeah.

So I wouldn't have seen that there. Good luck to. Oh boy, I'm getting that. Brandon. I'm getting that Bartesian. I think there's a 30% chance he gets it. You think so? That high?

I'm with you. But mostly now because he wants to spite you. Uh-huh. Because I said. Only for spiting you. Yes. Although I will do this. Lunchbox, do you want to thank Scoobo Steve while we're apologizing and thanking me?

I do. I mean, well, I'm not going to apologize. No, no, no. Eddie had to apologize to you. I'm saying while we're apologizing and thanking you, this is your type of thing. Yeah, I mean, I guess I'd like to say thank you to Scoobo Steve. He didn't take me to dinner like he said, so it's a half thank you. But you did feed my family, kids included with two massive stakes that were as big as

my head. A little fatty. Oh, I like the fat, though. Yeah, you need the fat. I like the fat. You need that. It wasn't cheap steak. It was a good. No, no, it was a really good steak. It was cooked on Sunday on the grill for dinner. So we had that and mashed potatoes and some green beans. So I appreciate it, ma'am. What about the judge that made it happen because he was not going to do anything? And the judge. Exactly. Thank you. Scoob won it out completely. Hey, thank you for running a fair courtroom. Just justice, man. It's all I care about. justice.

When people in America are trying to dodge the judicial system, they go on the run like that and you put them in their place. Scales a mother justice, I say. It felt great, man. Nats take was huge. And they were good. Yeah, they were real. I mean, they were massive. Why did you have to throw the fatty part in there, though?

Just curious. I'll just make it, knock him down a notch. Yeah. You can't lift them up too high that knock him down a little bit. You know his style? Yeah, yeah. So yeah, thanks, scuba, man. Hey, you're welcome, man.

And you said we were going to face time and eat together. Like, you were going to cook steak at your house, but you never facetime. FaceTime me either. Your phone works right? He was busy screencording. He's recording. He couldn't do it face time. It's lunchbox here. He's sending cameos to himself. Hey. Hey.

Hey me. Eddie thinks our company is proud of us. Yeah. It's pretty cool. The whole show? No, no, just you and me. Why? Because if you walk around the building, they have pictures of all these artists. Like major, major artists, Britney Spears,

No Mars. Like everyone that's played IHeart Festival and then us. A picture of us in that mix. I would think like they don't have to do that. I haven't seen the picture. You've played the festival. It doesn't matter though. They don't have every artist up there.

That's a good point too. Like I don't think like I mean Jordan Davis has played our festival. I don't think his picture's up there. Like they have us up there which to me means the company likes us. Where is it and what picture is it? It's two halls that way. I just, dude, I got lost like you did. Dude, I got lost this morning trying to heat up.

I have like a Starbucks tea or whatever, and if I'm running behind, I'd be like, Abby, would you mind? And I had a few minutes. I walked and it's going to heat it up myself. Got lost in the building. Yeah. So now I'm just back to Abby full time. I tried to do my own. But you're done now.

Couldn't do it, yeah. What's the picture of? You and me playing? Just us too? Yeah, I think we're wearing our white shirts with the black ties. Really? Oh, it's not the one from the old building? No, no.

I have that one. You took that home with you? Oh, yeah. Because when we were moving from the old building, they said all those pictures, we don't on them. So take them. Well, they said we were moving and said, take them all lost. Everybody took them, and then we didn't move and then they put new pictures up. Correct. Oh, so you took him before I moved. Yeah. Oh, dang, that's a good picture. I have those up in my office.

I'm going to take this one in here. You just take it. You went to a restaurant and they wouldn't let you watch UFC. Oh, dude, it's crazy. So it's like Saturday night, right? Like, the one thing I look forward to, love UFC. And my wife and kids wanted to go out to eat. So, like, oh, that's fine. Let's go. I can watch on my phone. But the place we went to, they had TVs everywhere. They're playing basketball games. all sorts of stuff like five TVs so I asked the server I'm like hey could you put that on the

UFC fight like that TV right there he's like yeah look into it it was on ESPN no problem he puts it up the fight got crazy dude there was blood everywhere and then somewhere in the middle he comes like hey I'm going to change that there's people complaining about the blood oh yeah oh yeah and think about that I was like but no one can watch that TV that was right next to our table is perfect for us perfect for you and no one else being able to watch that TV are two different If they were going to watch it, they were watching it from a distance. But somebody had to rat, rat us out and be like, I can see if I'm eating and people are getting, not for me.

I don't care. They're all sweaty. No, I sweat the blood. But some people, yeah, they see blood and they get sick. I can see where that if you're eating in a restaurant, maybe you don't want that. I didn't know that wasn't allowed. Did you find out who it was? No, I looked around though.

There was an older couple, kind of like. Looked around for what reason? You're trying to eyeball somebody's giggling, they turn the TV off? Exactly. Talking about us, looking at me and being like, it's on matlock. See, for the old people? Murder She wrote They demand it to be gun smoke

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Is walk like a penguin And there's a reason Penguins walk like a penguin It's so they don't fall down So just a tip And I don't like watch people fall down But I'll watch ice falls all time on That's terrible dude

I don't like watch people fall I don't mind the ice fall As long as they don't As long as their head doesn't balance. I don't like when they hit their head. But ice falls are hilarious. Like when they're walking down steps and they hit all the steps on the way down? As long as it's not head.

As long as it's not head, I can watch it. And I don't like falls. I'm not that. That's not my thing. That's not my content to consume. But they say walk like a penguin. Keep your knees relaxed. Point your feet slightly outward.

And then just shuffle. Do you do the hands too? You probably could for a little extra balance. It does not recommend doing the hands. Who does that wattle? Jalen Waddle? Yeah, wait a waddle. Yeah.

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I leaned away from the microphone, though. Well, we heard it. I hear you, but it was one of the two. I could have gone right at the microphone. Been right on it, but I leaned away, and it happened so quick. That's like our cough buttons. Like, you guys hear that, right? No, but my microphone was still on.

So cough button, it's hard for them to hear it. I turn my cough all the time and talk to Mike and nobody hears it. Okay. Because he doesn't have ears, so I can. just hit my button and be like, hey, would you hand me this? Hand me this. Nobody ever hears it. That's a lot of rather than a cough. Okay. By the way, good job. Everybody, you're hitting your desk less?

Thank you. We're trying. Me too. I try too. So thank you for not hitting your desk. A few things. A woman accused of sneaking on a Delta flight from New York City to Paris has been arrested again. She's trying to sneak into Canada. There must be like some trick that she knows on how to get all the way through and in. Well, she had an ankle bracelet on and somehow she got that off. Yeah, but I'm talking about the trick to get.

on the plane. I'm not talking about the ankle bracelet and then monitoring her from the last time she got in trouble. There's got to be a trick that she knows on how to slip by, slide by to get on the plane when we think it is so, or it's impossible to do so because of all the security measures. She was arrested yesterday. She had been in trouble, which is why she was wearing the ankle bracelet. She did cut it off. I know how she did that. Shook some scissors to cut it off. I don't know how she got on the plane, though. She was trying to cross the Canadian border, taking into custody, ABC News. There's something wrong with her, right?

That or she's done this many times. It's never been caught, and finally she got caught. Yeah. And she's figured out a way for, like, cheap airfare. I do feel like if you dress up like a pilot, they'll let you right in. Dude, there is no chance. That would be the craziest. I would never recommend that bit.

I would love to see how that turned out. Lunchbox, if you did that, I bet you can get in. You still have to have a tag and they have to see it. No, no, no, that's just TSA. Once you're at the by the jetway or whatever. But you can't get through TSA without a ticket, so you're buying a ticket somewhere else to get on that flight. Yeah, but then you can get on any flight. Say you buy the cheap one that goes to Albuquer, uh, uh, Birmingham, right?

And then you want to go to Hawaii, you get on the Hawaii one. I would just be worried, this is me talking, that I'd get on and it'd be a totally full flight and there's nowhere to sit. So I'm just seat filling the whole time when someone gets up. Well, that's when that lady got in the bathroom, right? Yeah, or you'd have to just hide in the bathroom. Yeah. Because there's nowhere to stand unless you dress like a flight attendant, then you walk and you serve people.

Just get to work. Yeah, just okay. That's what you're doing. Keenan Thompson leaves a $1,500 tip at the S&L after party. That's cool. He left a $1,500 tip on a $1,400 bill. Let's go away like that. He's really nice.

I met him once. You did? I did the Today Show. I hosted it, and he was a guest. Was he funny or normal? There really wasn't the environment to just be hilarious or write a sketch. We were just interviewing him about a book or something. And so, yeah, he was funny, but we weren't like, be hilarious.

It was like, hey, why did you write the book? it's good. Yeah. He wasn't not funny. There just wasn't the opportunity for him to, like, show his skills because he was just interviewing to do a book. The craziest thing was, and I look back now at how lucky I was, I got to interview Derek Jeter on the Today Show. I never got to meet Derek Jeter. That's pretty crazy. And he was one of the guests. Like, I've never met Derek Jeter. And they were like, because I did maybe three days. Is hosting the Today Show? I know one of the days is when the queen died, I think, and they were covering that and all of a sudden had to go into serious mode. all right, let's go to our Kensington Square where they were concerned.

And I was like, I would talk about serious stuff all the time. Like, don't worry about me doing that. But yeah, I know we sat with Derek Jeter. And he was really nice. Pre, during, Post. That's cool. Yeah, he's awesome. Yeah, why was I talking about that?

Oh, Keenan Thompson leaving the tip, yeah. Younger adults are more likely to consider themselves a lucky person. Overall, 40% of people think they're more lucky than not. which I guess mathematically, that really wouldn't add up. If 45% think they're lucky, lucky would meaning you're over average. So I guess some people are just dead wrong about it. 14% say they're less lucky and 38% say they are. Nothing.

Neither lucky nor unlucky. Where would you put this on the scale am I? I mean, I think... Let me give you all the options. Okay. You have very lucky. somewhat lucky neither

you're just an existing thing somewhat lucky very unlucky I feel like I feel like luck is weird but I guess I would consider myself overall pretty lucky

so would you be in somewhat lucky category is the second one? Sure I'm yeah somewhat lucky because I do think just just the life I've lived like being born into a family

that cared for me and provided and yeah. Being born in the country that you were born in. Exactly. You have rights and no control over that at all, yeah. So that, I think it would be hard for me not to consider all of that because that's just like I didn't make any of that happen. I do think other things, opportunities that happen can be a mixture of luck

and because of right time, right place and opportunity, but also then there has to be work alongside it for you to maintain certain things. But being born into the family of your boy, like I, you know, I didn't work for that. Somewhat lucky, she says. Eddie. Yes. I'm going to do the half and half.

You're going to do neither? Yeah, neither because I feel like I've had some really good luck at times and then I had some really bad luck at times. So you're not saying neither lucky nor unlucky. You're saying you even out. Yeah, I pretty even out. Like sometimes I'll have a good year and then I have a bad year. Okay, okay.

So we'll go with that one. But in reality, you're saying you're somewhat of both. You're just kind of your baseline. You're just on the zero. Yeah. Absolute zero because up and down the same. You think it's the same though, basically. You think you've been more lucky or unlucky or unlucky or lucky or lucky or it's all even down for sure.

Maybe I'm a little bit on the lucky side, but I'm maybe 1%, 2% on that scale that tips it to the lucky side. But I'd be right in the middle for the most part. Just do it. What? You? No. Just do it. Oh, lunchbox.

Yeah. He's going to, we already know. What's you going to say, I'm unlucky. I'm the unluckiest person in the world. Lunchbox. I would say unlucky. Just like, I mean, I was born in this country that's lucky. But besides that, I haven't really had much luck on my side.

I still remember like when my brother and I were walking through the park when we were kids with my dad and we were behind the tennis courts and my brother found a $100 bill and I found two ones. It's just like, why can I never get the big pot? Why can I never have the luck where I hit the boom? Imagine though you didn't, the comparison wasn't a thing and you just found two frigging dollars. That's pretty lucky. Yeah. But then when my brother had a.

$100 bill. I mean, that's the first time I'd ever seen a $100 bill. But you are, that's all comparison based, right? Comparison, Thief of Joy, you ever hear about that? Yeah. But you could actually just feel lucky that you got $2 more than you did to begin with. No, but I got, I got, I could have had $98 more. So I was unlucky that I was the one that found the $2 and he found the $100. Like, that was unlucky.

Just, it was lucky to find out, but it's not as lucky as your brother. And so I just think I am unlucky. Okay. Like the lottery. Like I can't seem to figure out how to win the big money. It's unlucky. There's no figuring it out. I think that's probably part of the problem.

Right. That's the thing. So I'm unlucky because I don't ever win. But you said you can't seem to figure it out. There is no figuring it out. Okay. What if you just haven't won yet? Right.

But I've been unlucky to this point. Oh my God. You don't agree? I don't. We don't. Lunchbox. How do you guys not see that as luck? And my luck being bad.

The jealousy kind of gets in your way. It dilutes the vision of luck. Like, you are lucky in many ways, but you're so jealous of what other people have that you don't, that it brings your vision of luck down a lot. What am I lucky for? Your health, your job. But having a good family is not lucky. I know people that have bad families.

You work towards having a good family. No. You could. Yes. Okay, but what about this job? He's missing our point. What about this job? I earned this job.

Earned it. I found you in a bar. Right. But if I wasn't good, I wouldn't be here. Don't you think meeting him was lucky? You don't think the meeting part was like a coincidence? That was a coincidence. That's where I said you can combine luck with work.

But also it was lucky that Bobby met me. Like, you understand? I do. I understand. It's just not the lunchbox show. Do you not feel like that we were lucky we'd get fired whenever we'd freaking rob the store and caught us at gunpoint? Well, we didn't rob a gunpoint.

Well, we didn't rob us. store. You know what I mean? That was a boss having vision, like understanding, hey, we were doing what we were supposed to do. We were trying to get ratings. And he, he could see past the idiotic. That's actually not the case. But, okay. Okay. And listen, I think that was a business decision. He looked at us as like, man, these guys are good. Okay. Remember that time? Do you don't think so? It doesn't matter what I think. Right. At this point, I'm just asking you your decision and what your answers are. Yeah. No, I'm serious. You don't. think he looked at the show was like man the show's good i need to keep them around no we were really

new i think he bet on me he didn't know any of you guys yet because we were all new i think he was bet on me right but well i was part of that show and he was like that show is good it wasn't not it doesn't matter um i think that it is a yes that is good for you no luck you're very unlucky i feel like you've we're all fortunate in ways i'm not a big believer in luck anyways i'm the bad i'm the worst person talking about this you're pretty lucky i think if i had to pick i'd be very unlucky just because if we're going to go how we were born, I was born to teenage parents, one that left immediately,

poverty kid my whole life. Like, that's pretty unlucky. I didn't get to choose that. Or was that lucky because it gave you the drive to change? Well, it didn't give me the drive because there are a lot of kids that grew up, they weren't given that drive. I think...

Make it out of that. I think from what I saw, I decided I did not want to be a part of this any longer. It's why I've never had a drink. I'm scared of it. I wish I could. Let'd be drunk right now, after this segment.

That'd be cool. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I'm not a big believer in luck in general. I'm the worst person to ask. I just wanted to ask the deal. But if I had to pick, I would say very unlucky. But I don't believe in luck anyway, so I don't even believe I'm unlucky. I believe every situation I put myself into, and then there are options presented

because of the situation or the place that I've been, and I've chosen, and those have all created a result. Even if you get a lottery ticket, you had to go to the store that day. and are there elements that you can't control involved? Yes, but that's every day for every situation in life ever. Because you'd be like, yeah, it's totally lucky. You bought the ticket. You could say anything that ever happened to you, period, is luck or unlucky.

If you choose to decide it's lucky or unlucky. So I'm, anyway, I go unlucky. But there's no need, you don't want the TED talk for me on this. That's a tough question. No, it's not very easy. I do not believe in luck. Not at all. So the roulette well is just all skill?

Or you can call it, what about like any... You actually have to decide to go play roulette. Like there is a decision to you to go, I would like to go and play roulette. I've made this money or I've stolen this money or I have this money that I have acquired through maybe working hard, through a job. All of these decisions have to be made leading up to that spot. So are there elements of it that happened then? Yes, but luck would be if all of a sudden you're standing here and you just look in your pockets and you have 10,000 dollars and you're like, well, that's like magic. That's like.

Okay, but what you pick on the roulette wheel, that's luck. Well, you have to pick the number. Something in your life has told you or in your brain. That there's a number. And you had to pick that table to go to, that's luck. You picked, you walked to that table and decided of all the tables that are there, these are options to you. See, I think that's fate.

But when there are options, it's not luck. Nope. When there are options, is it luck? That's the question. Yeah, what about anything like, yeah, fate, something divine? Yeah, man. I don't believe in fate. Intervention.

I don't believe in. No. I think fate is something people believe in whenever they need to think there's something in control that's not themselves, that it all isn't on them. But also, I could be totally wrong. I also had the understanding. of I'm not right. There's no chance that I'm absolutely right. I don't think anyone's absolutely right. But no, I don't believe in fate. I think a lot of people believe in fate because they think that,

well, whatever happens is supposed to happen. And I think there's a comfort to that and the security to, well, whatever's supposed to happen will happen. So that's fate. Well, do you think there's a middle part of that? Like, it's not just like you're just surrendering and not trying and doing anything. I don't know that I'm right. Because I'm not fighting for it. I'm just telling you what I believe. I'm just having a conversation. Yeah, no, no, but I'm just saying I don't think that, I think for people to believe, well, whatever's going to happen should and will happen. I think that's, some people need that comfort. Well, we have free will and there can still be a bigger picture.

But then that's not total free will if there's a bigger picture that's telling you what the picture is. It gets complicated, but there can be a bigger plan. It depends on how you choose to navigate it. Yeah, I know. If it's total free will, though, there is no picture that's already made because you get to choose. choose the picture. I know. I believe

into complete free will. Yeah, I think we have. But also I believe I could be wrong. Because I don't know jack crap. I don't know anything. I know what I either touch and have seen or have been exposed to or been taught

or what the people around me that I've been touched or they've seen or they've been taught. And that's all we really know. What our environment has given us. So no, I'm terribly unlucky. But also, I could hear the other side. like, I see why you feel that way.

But I'm just not a believer in luck. I think you make decisions, decisions have not always just consequences, but like he says, walk up to a roulette table. If I were, if I didn't get to choose, I just closed my eyes and I opened them and I popped up at a relay table and a number was just going that I didn't pick and a ball was there. And they said, and you win 10 million. I'm like, holy God, dang, that's crazy. That's lucky.

All that is super lucky. But I believe decisions factor in all ways. And if a decision is, I don't think that's pure luck. I think there are elements at times, but no, I'm not a big of a lot of good. I think it's kind of lucky that I ran into you at Culver's that day, but I had to make the decision to go say hi to you. You did, absolutely. And I had to make the decision to get my stupid tires rotated, which I never do. And then I was hungry. I got to make a decision which place I want to go to. So, yes, decisions do lead to opportunities or consequences. And I think that was an opportunity that we took advantage of.

But you don't think certain opportunities can be put in our path for us to then make the decision. That would mean there's not free will. No, there's free will, but I had the opportunity to say hi to you or not say hi to you, and I chose to say hi. And I'm glad you did. Right. But I, what if the opportunity was there for me and then I missed it? That's on you.

Exactly. Because something even better could have happened. Let's say you didn't say hi to me. Yeah, I know. We'll never know. We were talking, but then some guy sits down that was the love of your life that you didn't talk to because you were over there dicking around with me, and you never met him and didn't get married to him. No, that wasn't her fate.

that wasn't in the plan and you know what maybe it wasn't and I would argue that you could absolutely be right but all I'm saying is especially when people are like man this thing had if this wouldn't happen

I'd have never been here it's like or something better or worse could have it not happened so nothing's ever like serendipitous for you ever? I think that word though it was a word name you ever see I know that most I know it for the movie

because it's awesome Cape Beck and sells in at John Cusack like the guy being at the table. So it's sort of like, okay, if I missed him there, then maybe I would see him somewhere else. And if he's supposed to be in my life, then I would come across him. I think serendipity in a way,

which is like, that's like chance in a beneficial way, a chance in a beneficial way, basically, right? I think serendipity happens. It's a numbers game. So many things happen to so many people, so many times that occasionally get a couple serendipitous situations. I know, but sometimes stuff just feels like divine.

Absolutely. Like, it's orchestrated in a way that you can't explain. But you probably could explain if you really broke it down. But, like, the kids, like, I adopted, like, one of them could literally be my biological child. Like, the way he looks. Not physically, but, like, same color skin. If my wife and I looks like my other two kids, like, sometimes it's just like, man, that's just too perfect. And I would have never, ever thought that that was going to happen this way.

But the other one doesn't. Right. But that could be for another reason. So, okay, but it could be for another reason the same way this one could have been. again, I would even go into socioeconomic part of this story, but there's no need to. I can tell you that one off the air. But also, guys, I'm not fighting for it.

I know, I know. I'm fighting for it. I think I'll have fun talking about it. I'm not fighting for it. No, no, but I know what's going to happen. I'm going to get just railroaded, and I just don't want to deal with people being like, you're wrong. I'm not fighting for it.

This is what I believe. I believe, and I think because of my environment and how I grew up, that every, all the benefits that I have been given, I've had to make choices, and then opportunities were presented because those choices. I think some that I've missed are choices

that's been presented because of certain work and I've chosen wrong or made bad strategy decisions. I think there are things I've screwed up just merrily. Same thing. But I don't think that...

For me, I don't believe that there is a fate, but I also don't need fate to exist to feel comfortable. I don't need to think there's a plan for me that already is existing. Therefore, if anything goes wrong, I can always lean on, well, it must not be fate or it must not be what is planned for me. So I don't need that, and not that you have to need it. I don't need that. That doesn't pop into my life. I believe in

complete, I have the freedom to make my own choices. Some choices, I don't have the freedom to make that aren't about me, but I can try to alter somebody else's decision if it comes to me, and I can't always do that either. Yeah. I don't know that I lean on. that saying as a crutch at all. I try to see... Didn't say crutch. Okay, well, I don't lean on it as comfort of like, oh, I guess this is part of the plan. I try to see, okay, this sucks and also how can it be used for good, processing both of those things. And I think that works perfectly. I mean, I do the same thing, but I don't think it happens for a reason. Well, there's the other side of it too, right?

Hold on. Let me let me finish her thing. Go ahead. Well, I'm just talking things out. I'm listening to you. I don't want to interrupt while you're in the middle of it. No, I don't. I think, well, you know, you and I had conversation years back when ever my adopted son needed some stuff. And I was really struggling with the decision and what to do. And I feel like part of your encouragement to me was, like, you just have to be grateful that you can provide what he needs.

And I don't know, I received that as like, thankfully we are his family because we do have the resources and we could figure it out to what was going to be best for him because it's one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make but now on the flip now we're on the other side of it it's like the best decision we ever made but a phone call that we had was very encouraging to me and that decision and I felt like what I was hearing from you was encouragement of like he you're his mom for a reason like this will you'll be able to do this and he's going to be better for it you just have to to trust that, you know? I think if I'm looking back, you're his mom and he's very fortunate that

you're his mom because in a lot of these same situations where the people don't have a mom that either care so much or has the resources to do what you guys did, they wouldn't be able to do that. Right. And he was very, was very fortunate that you care. Okay, so just like he was fortunate, okay, yeah. Yeah. Like in that, Ben and I were making certain choices as the parents to do the hard thing, hoping that it would work out. But I can, I, I, I, I, I, I, just think, I, I've been through hard things and it's worked out. You've been stronger. But I mean, I really walked away from that like, oh my gosh, this is why we adopted him.

Like, this is literally why. And that's awesome. And I think if that helps anybody for whatever reason, that's amazing. And I think if it makes everything feel more positive, do it. I also could be wrong. Yeah. It doesn't make me feel. Oh, I know.

And if anybody's weird about any of our opinions, I mean, opinions, nobody really knows with 100% certainty. So don't get annoyed. One, Home Alone is not a Christmas movie. And two, I don't believe in. luck. Those are two things that I pretty much. And you know, at this point in my life, I also don't feel like I don't give a crap and I also don't really know anything. I know nothing. And anytime I ever think I really know something is when I really realize I know nothing. Like, but I know what helps me cope and gives me hope. God dang, write that down.

I know it helps me cope and gives me hope. And it's that I have the ability to change anything at any time in the world, it's completely bendable, and there is not a plan that's already been made for me, because if there was, I'd be totally screwed from where I came from. Because that's not fair to everybody else. That's their plan. Everybody where I came from, that's their plan to be on opioids or be stuck, have dead husbands and wives and drug. That's not their plan.

That's not good. That's not fair. That's our plan. Like, I cannot deal with that, having seen what I've seen where I come from. You're telling me that was the plan that they must remain in poverty and be addicted to drugs or have family in jail because, again, there's no financial resources. The only way to get it is to go and steal or. But they have the free will at times to continue. I just don't think it's free will and that time.

But I understand it's, can be very different. I don't think it's, but again, this is all, I'm product in my environment. And so if it's fate, I get angry at fate because all those people had, their fate was that? Yeah. That's their fate. To have a family full of addiction, half of them are dead, a third of them is in jail, and the rest of them are struggling and they'll never get out. That's their fate? I don't like that.

I can't take that. And that's not even about me. That's the reason I don't think there's a fate involved because there are a lot of people that. Yeah. No, a lot of stuff is just, I mean, well, everything's just broken and hard and doesn't make sense at times. I just think that there can be a bigger picture. It's sort of sometimes we just see the up close. Like if a mosaic is like taking up the entire wall and we're up so close looking at it.

I know when you stand, but then if you step back and see every little piece and you see the whole mosaic, it's like a beautiful. But I don't think it's painted fully until we're done painting. I think we get to choose. be willing to, like, trust that you're going to... Don't trust, just do. Trust to me would be I trusted that the right decisions are going to be made regardless, and if something's wrong, well, that just means it's not over yet because it'll be right eventually. I don't trust that because then I think about everybody back home.

And they trusted that and look where it left them. And that makes me sad to believe that fate for people from where I come from, a lot of my state. A lot of even like Appalachia. That's their fate to die early. I mean, like hopefully we have some choices. So my belief is you have complete free will. And you go do whatever you want to do, make the decisions you want to make. You will either suffer the consequences from them.

Sometimes consequences enter being the greatest thing to ever happen to you because you learn from them. Or you will receive the rewards from them. And at the end of it, we'll see if you get into heaven or not. Yeah. But yes, no, I don't believe in fate at all. Yeah. Because then I have to believe that it was the fate of people that have it really, really bad and never really had a huge shot. That was their fate.

And that sucks. And I can't, I can't, like, resolve that. That that's their fate. Yeah. Even like my mom's fate. She was 15. Died in her 40s. Drug addict.

That was her fate. That sucks. Like, that's the worst. That's the worst. And that sucks. So, again, I'm a product in my environment. so I cannot take that. I cannot accept that as fate.

That's all. So yes, that, home alone. And... You can do it. Go back. 10 minutes. Home alone, not a Christmas movie. And there's no luck.

And there's no luck. There's no luck. That's how we started on this. Okay. Hey. But don't you think it was kind of cool that when you were in town for dancing with stars and they needed a seat filler and Caitlin showed up? Well, they didn't need a seat filler.

Or whatever, her friend was the producer. producer. You're mixing all this up. Okay, but still. So was I fortunate? Kind of crazy. Was it a, so I had to develop a friendship with her friend, who was my PR person for Idol and Dancing with the Stars, from Oklahoma. I developed friendship with her because she was like the only normal person. Had I not developed that friendship and actually spent time cultivating that relationship,

she would have never thought to introduce me to her friend, Caitlin, who's from Oklahoma. And who knows, that may not have even ever happened. I think we can look at a lot of cool stuff that happened and go, wow, dang. I think that was fate. I think that was some circumstances that happened. Like lunch, by six, about a family. I put the work in to have a friend that I trusted to do those two shows. She then had a friend. And she was like, hey, you guys should meet. And then we met. So, but I don't think that was complete luck. No. Because had I not had a friend and spent time being a friend to her, and had she not been, had she not been good at her job that they moved her to a different show, none of that would happen.

and if it wouldn't have happened we wouldn't have known the difference so we wouldn't have been like I knew there was some fate supposed to happen I never would ever happen to that you just wouldn't know the difference

100 of those similar things could have happened to you and they never happened but you don't know they didn't happen because it didn't happen yeah I know maybe you just would have met her

another way but that would be fate and probably not but the odds then you can do odds one and 10 million you know she's from near where I'm from

who knows we could have been driving on the street crashed in each other on the I remember I'm going to go unlucky. But I don't believe in luck, so I can't even go unlucky. Because I've not been unlucky. I've not been unlucky at all.

Just been living. I've been making decisions, learning from the consequences, and reaping the rewards after I've learned from the consequences. But I shall not fight you over this. Nobody's fighting. I do not care about if you feel my opinion is right or wrong, because it is neither. Because it is an opinion of something greater than that it is not tangible. I cannot present it in a book and say, here are the facts.

Some people will believe it. Some won't. Just like anything else that's bigger than us. No need to have a holy war over it. Anyway, past this played around in a collection. Anything else? No. Eddie?

No, man. When you were rudely interrupting me out of, I don't remember what I was going to say. I was really sorry to do that. I had a good point, but it's okay. You forgot it? Oh, man. It's a long time ago. Life changing.

I hate when I have a good point. I forget it. Man, it's like right there. You know, like, ooh, this is good to say, but you know what? I don't remember it anymore. Ray could say I'm unlucky because he's not as tall as a twin brother. Or did he get lucky because at times maybe there was a saw that was coming over top of the head and he missed it. Didn't even know.

Or is he lucky because maybe, you know, bigger people die earlier. Larger people with larger organs. Body have to do more work. You can find a way to make anything work in any way. That sounds exhausting. It is. It's how politicians do it, though. They can make anything hard.

They just say crap. Anyway, subscribe to my TED Talk. Thanks for coming to it. Malcolm Middle coming back for four episodes. This is a genius thing. I'm going to end on this. It's new?

They're bringing it back. Wow. For four episodes. This is how they should do these shows like this. When they do a bring back, they should bring them back for two, three, four episodes, and that's it. The Office in the UK did this.

They only did two seasons of the office ever. The Brits have TV perfected. It doesn't matter how good the show is. They do two seasons, and they're done. but 95% of shows. The greatest shows. Two seasons, done, move on to the next thing. Because they want them to be the highest

of quality for all of time. Because you can look at shows that are 5, 6, 7 season long. Episode 3 is hearts of lull. They start to get off track. Five. It doesn't happen with the really great shows over there. But what they would do on the British office, they would have like a Christmas episode they'd come back. They'd every once in a while bring episode back of everybody.

And that was awesome. And I wouldn't, like when they brought Roseanne back. And I know it was good for ABC for a little bit. and then it ended up being the Conners. Like, it's just like four, four episodes. But again, we, American television, we just make the most squeeze the most money as possible, even if the product gets watered down and crappy.

They brought her back for like four episodes. Powerful. Everybody's see what they're up to. Beginning and end storyline, that have been amazing. Do it again in three years. That have been amazing. Not the best for revenue, but for the art of it, it's pretty cool.

And I like that Michael Middle is coming back, and for four episodes. I love that show. Like the middle. They came back. for four episodes. Oh, man, he's in both those shows too. Hank? How?

Brian Cranston? No, the mom is. The mom is. Yeah. Yeah. Who sings that theme song? Yes, no. Maybe. I don't know. I don't remember the question.

They might be giants. That's it, Mike. You know what else? They might be giants sing. Istanbul. Istanbul. You know that one, Mike? I do know that one.

Why, they changed it. I can't say. I guess they like it better that way Didn't they do like a kid's album or something? Yeah I think so yeah I remember them like at ACL Fest All right

I think we're done I think we're done And I think we're done That's the way I don't care about Tomorrow we will do our gift giving Extravaganza I don't want to call it competition Extravaganza sounds fun

Somebody will have a gift card Worth a thousand dollars And gifts bought for them We do not know who it is We all drew gift cards Thank you to Macy's for all the gift cards and I appreciate Macy's for being a great sponsor. One of the gift cards is only $10,

one of them was $1,000 and there's everything in between. We drew cards without knowing what they were. Nobody looked at them in the building, but somebody's going to get $1,000 worth of gifts, somebody's going to get $10 worth of gifts. And that to me is exciting. That's a fun bit. Right, everybody?

Yeah, I can't wait. Although we do know two of them already, Morgan and Ray's. They bought for each other, and we drew their name just to see, to give everybody an idea of what was left. $500 was from one to the other? Yeah, I gave $500. Well, I had the gift card of $500 for Ray.

And then Ray, yours was? Honda. Okay. All right. Thousand in the 10. Both left tomorrow. Let's go, baby. All right, we'll see you guys on tomorrow's show.

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