The Bobby Bones Show - TUES PT 1: Bobby Has Sad News + We Found Amy's National Anthem Performance + Listener Asks Bobby For $80,000!

Episode Date: July 28, 2026

Bobby was very much looking forward to something next month and is sad to report it's no longer happening. Bobby talked about a story of someone being taken hostage in their own car. He shares details of the time he was held at gunpoint and how you react in those situations. Bobby's Giving Tuesday returned and he shares why a listener asked him for $80,000. We found the audio of Amy, Eddie and Abby's national anthem performances. We were most surprised by Amy's that you must hear!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Come on, Bobby. Welcome to Tuesday show. Morning, studio. Morning. I got sad news to. report, I will not be getting to meet John Stamos next month. You're not going to the concert? They canceled it.

I heard, yeah, one of the Beach Boys needs a break or something? Yeah, I think they're really old. They've been at it for a while. Yeah. So John Stamos will not be here. I thought I'd get him in here on the show. My new texting buddy. Love Full House, but the Beach Boys aren't going to perform.

So kind of sad news, dear. I think Full House is a top five sitcom for me in my life. I think Fresh Prince's They have to have a laugh track To be a real sitcom Because if it doesn't have a studio audience It doesn't count Because the office wouldn't be a sitcom

One, a single camera Friends for sure Fresh Prince of Belle Air Full House And then after that You could probably argue a few No Seinfeld? No

Not even top 10 Really? Get out of here So did we decide If everybody loves Raymond had a laugh track? It does. It does. Raymond arguably top five. And that one really came on strong once they started to reshow it

on TBS because I never really watched Raymond while it was live. It felt too adult for me, two family. Yeah. But I think home improvement makes my top five. That's probably sitting there at number four. Family Matters? It was good. All that TGIF was good. Family Matter, step by step, dinosaurs.

I never got into Sabrina the Teenage Witch. I got a little aged out of that by the time that hit. But Raymond kind of made a late play into being top five. What about King of Queens? You like that. Oh, that's so good. So good, but it was all Nick at Night. Like, I've seen every single episode of that, but that one, I top ten it, but I never really watched it as it came on. I think I was in college by the time that show came on. I wasn't watching sitcoms in college. I was working and studying and just doing school stuff. How about the older, older ones? Like, Gilligan's Island?

No, what's it? Like, Pilate Lucey? Perfect strangers. I did like perfect strangers. Too young. My mom loved Roseanne. I saw every episode of like Roseanne, Grace Under Fire. But I'm talking about for me it's got to be friends, fresh prints, full house, depending on the day is the order there.

I think you got to put, what did I say four was a minute ago? Home Improvement. Oh, yeah, home improvement for sure. I thought people to watch Frazier were way out of touch because it came on at the same time Home Improvement did. I was like, those are only rich people. not from the south that watched Frazier because he was older

lived in Seattle talked about mental health on the radio so I will not get to meet one of my sitcom heroes John Stamos which I was very much looking forward to

but if you guys want to hear the podcast that we did together it is being go search for the Bobbycast with John Stamos there was a carjacking victim that was trapped in the car

while it was taken and so they told police about it have you guys seen this or heard this Ray, would you hit the clip? He had just finished walking a dog in Rice military when the suspect tapped on his window. James Chionts, as a suspect, Deshaun Johnson told him, move over, we're going for a ride.

He said he discreetly called 911, turned down the volume, and then began giving specific instructions on where the two were going. Don't go too fast over the railroad tracks in this 2006 Gold Lincoln Zephyr. and then we'll go ahead and stop at this Circle K gas station here at Shepard and I-10. And he didn't seem to pick up on that. That's so funny. Dumbest carjacker ever. Yeah, yeah. All the details.

Somebody says push over so I can get in. What do you do? Oh, I'm just going to be like, can I just get out? They're not going to let you. Why? No, no. You take the car. I'm out.

But they're not going to let you. They say, no, get over. Do they have a gun? I'm assuming, yeah. Otherwise, why would they say get over? Otherwise, there's no gun. I'm not moving over. What do you do?

I guess I'm going over. Yeah, I guess I'm going over to. And then I'm going to think of my... Yeah, I'm scooting. And then I'm going to think of my plan. You always think you would drive off. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I don't know what was in front of the car.

Because I got held at gunpoint, gun to my head, in my car. When I could have driven off, I was at an ATM. But I couldn't... There was a barrier that was kind of a curve. And for me to go forward, I easily could have smashed the barrier and been shot. And so I had to weigh that because I was in my car and the guy put his gun to my head and I thought I can just hit the gas. Now I did have someone in the passenger seat with me and I thought, what if they get shot? What if I get shot? So it's just funny though, the guy didn't take

his phone. Probably new to carjacking. This is first one. Carjacking rookie. That's ABC 13, Houston. There was a story about Arizona State. They are now teaching students how to become content creators. It's kind of a influencer class. Will you hit that? The idea is to teach students how to foster an online following, learn how to get brand deals and more. Students under this major would still need to take math, history, and writing. This major will be offered at their Cronkite School of Journalism in Arizona and their campus in Los Angeles. So it's a major. So people are upset that they're offering a major in influencing, but it's so much more than just influencing. If you're going to start a business, you need to know how to build a brand online.

Now, a lot of these skills are skills that if you're really great at influencing, you learn just how to get people to engage with your content, et cetera. But everybody's upset, but they don't understand just to have a business now. You have to have the understanding of how to create and maintain a strong social media presence. So it is kind of funny, though. What did you major in? Yeah, influencing. That's from KTLA. Hey, I kind of been crushing it on our socials. Anytime I put a video up of just me talking to the camera,

it does so much better than all the show clips. Well, yeah, people like to see your face. It's not even that. Well, you, like, not your face just to look at it, but, like they like to hear from you. I don't even know if it's that. I think people just like videos, like, out in the wild. That's not in the studio.

Yeah, I agree with that. Okay. I guess that's also what I'm saying. Like, you from home just like chilling. and like not, because they hear from you every day with the video with the microphone, but like you just... I need to teach one of these classes.

All you got to do, talking to the phone, push record. Yeah. I've kind of used that as a science experiment to see what works just by talking about nothing. Like Stanley, the Bulldog, it was 110 degrees

and he's just laying on the outside, on the ground, on the tile, the concrete, just loves it. And I was like, yeah, my feet burned, but look at him. 200,000 views. That easy. That easy.

200,000 views, just like that. Another one was, there's a story of how the longer couple stay together, the marriages get better. And so this is from some scientific journal where the first few years of marriage have conflicts. But according to these UC Berkeley researchers, in time, the longer you stay together, humor, friendly teasing, jokes and silliness all increase while bickering in criticism to decline. Now, we have a couple instances here of, Eddie, you guys have been married for how long? 20 years. It says the longer the couple stays together, the marriages get better. I would say we're the strongest we've ever been, mostly because we've kind of, like, we met when we were really young.

So all the mistakes we were going to make, we just kind of went through it all, and then we got through them all. So now it's kind of like nothing is too big for us to handle. Does that make sense? You've been through it. We've been through it all. And so I feel like when we're arguing about who's taking the trash out, that's potatoes. That's nothing. So, yeah.

So, I mean, I agree with this because, yeah, the longer you're together, I mean, it's not, nothing's really a big deal. Amy. Yes. You were together with your ex-husband for? About 17 years, I think. What would you say to this story? I think it depends on how each person has evolved.

Like you're, like Eddie said, they're not the same people they were. when they got married in their young 20s, you evolved, but there's some things that happen that could impact a relationship in a way where it's not recoverable. Interesting. Right? I mean, I say Ben and I divorced are better than we were together. You two as a unit are better divorced than together. Well, we both evolved in ways where we're healthier now than we were when we were together.

there had to be some drastic moves that took place. And one of the drastic moves was a divorce. That's a pretty drastic move for the marriage. Right. But I don't know that we would, we may have remained stuck, which I think sometimes that's what happens because you're scared to make those moves that are big and bold. So, I mean, I agree you can build a stronger relationship over the years

and also you may have circumstances that grow you apart. What's wild to me is these couples that try to hire hitmen to kill each other. That's crazy, dude. Yeah, see, that's bold. That is a big bold move. That one's crazy because this story came out where this doctor has lost license after hiring a hitman to get his ex-wife addicted to heroin. What on earth? Yeah.

Like, to me, it's just like, just get the divorce. But also, you hire a hitman to get her addicted to drugs. Shouldn't you just hire like a really fun friend? Right. loser for him? Yeah, hitman's like a killer. So he wanted her to be addicted to drugs. Why? Okay. So they have taken away his license because he went to the dark web, tried to hire a hitman. He paid $62,000 in Bitcoin to hitman on the dark web, first ordering a violent beating to break the hands of a former colleague and later hiring a hitman to kidnap, extort, and drug his wife

with heroin to force her back into the relationship with him under threats to family and dog. I guess they were estranged but not divorced at the time. But I just don't think you want to give somebody heroin because then they're going to want more heroin. Yeah. But if you really want to wreck someone's life, that's, I mean, that's, you know. But he wanted her back. That doesn't make sense. Man, this is commitment.

He went on the, doctor. Oh, okay, doctor. Okay. Yeah. He went on the dark web. One. Two, paid $62,000 in Bitcoin. Three, two, a hit man.

Who even, what even is that? Yeah. Next, to break the hands of a colleague and then next after that, he just had too many things that could go wrong that eventually one of them is going to go wrong and he's going to get caught. Did the first one happen? Did the hands get broken? It doesn't really say. It says colleagues.

I'm wondering if it's not the doctor who was like a surgeon. If you break their hands, they can't do surgery anymore. Dang, this guy had some hair. And this is a doctor that people are going into the doctor's office for and taking his advice on their health and their life. That's from Cairo 7. I've never paid for anything in Bitcoin. I've had options like for like gambling sites, you know, but I've never taken that option. I don't want to get into that world by gambling.

I would say that's one of those offshore ones that, right back in the day. Yeah. The real ones, no, you can't do that. They found a python in a ninja compartment. a car. Is this in Florida? No, it's not. It's in Ontario. But they were going, okay, how did this big python get in here? And apparently, it just needed warmth. And so it found a place that was warm. And they went in and found this huge snake. Anytime we talk about snakes, lunchbox freaks out. I don't like it. I mean, just imagine, oh, in your car. No, there's no way. Why do you do that?

Why, how do they get there? I'd rather be in the engine of my car than coming up my toilet. Oh, the toilet would be the worst. That's the worst. No. Well, we're not saying one. We don't have to compare them. They can both be bad independently.

But have you ever sat in the toilet and thought about that? Yes, because we tell stories of snakes coming up and nibbling. You always got to look, especially like if you go on a porter potty, got to look. There's a caller. And I thought lunchbox was alone and just hearing about it and it freaking him out. Ray, would you play that for? Oh, my goodness. You guys are banned from talking about snakes.

I'm listening to the podcast. talking about snakes and lunchboxes fear of snakes, I have that same fear. And you guys talking about it is making my stomach turn and my body tighten. And it is, they are frightening. No more talking about snakes. Y'all have a great day. No more snakes. When's the last time you've seen a snake, though?

Like in person? Yeah. I couldn't tell you. Oh, no, there was one in the backyard about two months ago. The kids ran and got me. Oh, Dad, come here. You got to see this. There's a little, the green one.

What'd you do? Ran back in the house. That's when they learned. Their dad is. Oh, no, no. They know that I'm scared of snakes, but that's why they said, Dad, you got to come see this. Is there anything where people talk about it that freaks you out,

just hearing about it? Yeah, mine's home intruders. When we talk about home intruders, that really freaks me out. Because since I was a kid, I think one of my neighbors, it happened to them. You know, somebody broke in. They were in the house, blah, blah, whatever. And since I was like five or six years old,

It's been a nightmare of mine. And so when we talk about home intrusions, that freaks me out. You? I mean, I don't enjoy talking about like spiders and snakes and stuff, but it doesn't... Yeah, I'm not affected either. It doesn't bother me to where I can't talk about it. Well, lunchbox starts shaking his fingers. Right.

His whole body. That gives me the chills. So you have nothing? I don't... To hear people talk about, I don't like people talking about poop or pee. Yeah, I don't love that either. I don't like... Yeah, that's gross to me.

I guess that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not my thing. So if we have to classify it as things we don't like to hear people talk about, my snakes and home invasion is poop and pee when people talk about that. Because this is... Well, you're doing it now when you do it. Giving Tuesday, so I encourage people to hit me in my DMs on Instagram only, Mr. Bobby Bones.

And what I'll do is I'll read a couple, and then Lunchbox just gives his reaction. Yep, can't wait to hear what these dumb ones are. So it's just me helping out however I can if people need the help. I did have somebody ask me for $80,000. 80? Well, relax. Is that a typo?

No, because they wanted to take a year off work. And they... To do what? They said they had a new baby. And if I could give them $80,000 would mean the world that they could just take a year off work and be with their baby. Okay. That's, I mean, hey, hey, go for it. That's too much of a shot.

That's never going to happen. Yeah, but I feel like if you catch, someone might catch you on one particular day where you're like, that day. That's hilarious. Yeah. That day. No, because I don't want to get scammed. And I might be getting scammed in some of these, but I don't mind getting scammed for $3,000 or $400. I'm not going to get scammed for $3,000 or $80,000.

Because with how many of these I've done, I've probably been scammed a couple times. But that's okay. I'm okay with getting scammed twice out of 14 if I can help 12 people. Just a couple here. Here we go. I know sometimes you have helped some people, and I'm praying you'd be willing to help me. I am needing to make two of my mortgage payments to get caught up and not going to foreclosure. I am this much money short.

Any help would be appreciated. So I did that one. Do they say why they're behind? You know, I don't interview them. See, you've got to ask. Like, oh, I decided to quit my job and now I'm out of money. I mean, you've got to ask. Maybe they got hurt.

Okay, get it. But just giving the money. whatever. I don't really ask anybody any questions. Well, you should. I don't feel like it's my business. They're asking for your money. So it is your business. It's like you're a bank. You go in for a loan. They ask you questions. What if I start hitting all these people back for my money back? Like loans. With interest. I just like, hey, all right. So six weeks ago, I helped you do this. Just wonder when I'm going to get paid back. I wonder what they would say. That's not the point. That's not what I'm doing.

It is not. No strings at all. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. even saying people's names, obviously. Here's another one. Hi, it's 2.30 a.m. I'm working at the local emergency room. I'm just reaching out to see if you're still doing giving Tuesday. I'm a single mom of two kids, and I'm struggling with getting back to school clothes and supplies this year.

Here's my Venmo. I mean, she has a job. She shouldn't be struggling. I don't think it works like that. Just because you have a job. Sounds like she works in the ER. She's got a good, stable job. I don't know what she does in the ER.

And I mean, I don't understand, like you go to a garage sale, you can get clothes for cheap. They have consignment sales all the time. Should I just forward these to you and let you take care of them and give them advice to fix their lives? Let me just respond to them and see what they say. I did get a message and a video from the kid I sent my guitar to. Oh, that's cool. He has learned G chord. Okay.

There we go. Progress. And he said he's learning C next. And so he sent me a video of him playing a G chord. Did he seem excited or sad? Yes, sir. Oh, he's the yes sir. I just think he's a quiet kid.

I don't think there's anything about him being disrespectful. He messaged me to begin with to say, hey, how can I get a left-handed guitar? Because everybody in my family's right-handed. And I said, I have one. I can send you. It's a really nice one. I never play this one.

And then we get him on. He didn't even say I wanted to come on the air. That's my fault for putting him on the air because he never presented as he wants to come on air and tell a story. I said, hey, let's put you on. Okay, it wasn't that great on the air. But he did send me a video and it was him playing the guitar and I was happy to see it. Not that. I said, send me another one every month. What?

And what did he say in the video? Did he be like, hey, man, thanks a lot. I don't think he's a kid with a whole lot of energy. I'm just asking. I know, and I answered it. So he wasn't. Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah, he's playing a G chord. But a clean G chord. Good job. job. Like, look, he's sitting there. Dude, that's cool. Yeah.

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The rug had been pulled from underneath me. Oh my God. It was right in front of my face and I didn't even see it. Listen to Betrayal Weekly on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We were talking about singing national anthems on the show that Amy, Abby, and Eddie have all done it at different athletic events. Amy and Eddie both did minor league baseball. Abby did an NHL game. So you want to go to Amy's first?

Oh my gosh. Oh, you have them? Where did we get this? The question is Do we want to play the full thing? Yes I mean we have to We can't disrespect

We're gonna play That's the thing I don't want to put the thing out there That's disrespecting if we turn it down Well we'd have to stand up and remove our hats And we're gonna play the whole thing I think we can casually listen to When we listen to celebrities

This is what gets in trouble You say crap like that We don't stand up in On camera you just got to show the flag Okay Like late at night on TV We're all standing up We can

We're just trying to do a bit here, man. All right, man, okay. Okay. Do you have to start with mine? Yes, Amy. Amy, you're the biggest on the show. We got to. Okay.

No, no. Let's start with Eddie's. Okay, so Eddie... Eddie's is good. Eddie, you did this National Anthemware. Yeah, here in Nashville is the Nashville sounds, the AAA baseball team. Raymond, how long is this file? Minute and a half?

Okay, not bad. It's not long at all, guys. Please rise. Okay, here is Eddie singing. the national anthem. Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early line. What so proudly we hail at the twilight's last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fights.

the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that star span Bangled Banner Producer Eddie They kind of dirty dogmed me on that Why? That's just dry audio, man That's the audio Yeah, but like

What do you mean dry? That's what it sounds like We need reverb on that That was rough How'd you feel? I thought My memories of it We're way better than that

Okay, okay Let's go to Abby's Oh man Abby you ready? I think I'm ready Can you set the Oh yeah, this was at the Nashville Predators game. This was the one that Ray, like, gifted me that I could sing the National Anthem before it.

What a great gift. I know. It was the coolest thing ever. Okay, here's Abby singing in an NHO game, the National Anthem. Oh, say, can you see by the dawns early? What's so proud had the twilight's last gleaming, whose brostripe? And bright stars through the past fight. Oh, we're so gastis. I mean, that was so good.

Thank you. I don't remember it being so good. I knew she did good. Abby, that was wonderful. Oh, dang. Thank you. Amy, did you hear the crowd? They were like, whoa, yeah.

I know. The camera was like right in front of me, too. And then you guys were all in the stands. So that was so good. We were in the scenes. I didn't go. I don't know. I mean.

We are. Well, everybody. Well, most of them. Did I go? I don't remember that. I was there, Eddie. What? We were there.

Yes. We were there. Was I there? No. Oh, okay. Okay. So I just don't remember being there. Yeah.

Okay. I think we're done. Abby, that was awesome. No, we're not done. We're done. We're not. Okay, now we're going to get to Amy's National Anthem. This is the Wichitae Wing Nuts.

Yeah. Minor League team. Forget the awesome as you just heard. Go ahead. Yeah, this is a Wichitao wingnut. That's baseball game. I was invited to sing the national anthem. And you tried.

And I tried. And my husband at the time, he was in Afghanistan. So I did it for him, and he thought that was really cool. Right, here we go. Here's Amy. Okay, Amy. All right. Go ahead.

On the potting home show, Amy. Oh, say, Ken. Rock strikes and frogs. I know. I was so. How long was it going? That was so important. How long was that one?

That was longer, right? We love our country and respect, respect. It's just living through that again. I mean, I didn't realize like how slow I was going because of the delay. Is that what that was? Yes, it was a delay, which I think that was our advice of the woman the other day. And I'm like, you just can't bandage into it. Yeah, yeah, because it's behind what you're actually singing.

So you were trying to like catch up to it. Have you ever heard that before? What? That, her sing that. Like a long time ago. I didn't know if you'd ever heard that. But thank you for letting me hear that again. Yeah, it had been a minute since I had heard it.

How do you feel? I feel proud of me. Yep. Yeah. And also a little embarrassed. And I still gave it a shot. So it's better than me not doing it at all. Amen.

And your husband, he thought that was real sweet that I was doing it for him, you know? Yeah. If he was overseas? There's like that. There's that unknown quote. Yeah, he was serving in the war. He's far away. And so how did you get that?

Did you send him a clip? He sent him like the YouTube or something. And you know, there's that unknown quote. Like if you fail, congratulations. Like most people don't even try. Amen. So. That's us though.

I was invited. I accepted. I did it. And you tried as hard as you could and you took it serious. I definitely did. So I think you sang that in like 18. different keys. So many keys. It was like a janitor's

key ring. Okay. That's what's up. Thank you for the caller reminding us to go back and look at that. That was amazing. It's the anonymous inbox. There's a question to be had.

Hello, Bobby Bones. I've noticed that one of my closest friends has started using AI to edit every photo. She posted online. It's not just little touch-ups. It's in all of her vacation pictures. She's made herself noticeably thinner, changed her face a little, even edited out other people. The problem is it's so obvious. She keeps asking me which picture she should post. Every time I want to say something, I chicken out because I don't want to hurt her feelings. What should I do? Signed, trying to be a good friend. So just so I can say this, using a filter on Instagram is AI.

Some people think that, well, I'm not a big AI person, but just using a filters AI. There's so much AI inside of our social media that we don't call AI AI. And sometimes people just filter the crap out of themselves. And you know, and it's so obvious, but who cares? So when you use the Rio de Janeiro filter, I'm using AI. You are. Wow. Funny, that's the one you go to.

I like that one. Don't worry about it. Yeah, I would let them be. I have a friend that does this to all of her photos. even she updated her main photo. Oh, with AI. But she doesn't care. She doesn't care.

And clearly your friend doesn't care. That's what she wants to do. And so we just laugh at it now and we're kind of like, okay, wait, is this you or is this your AI person that's like you? I mean, she'll do whole photo shoots of herself. Like, who knew you could do that? I bet I could find some that she sent me where it's like Valentine's. day and she's like... Did she actually do the photo shoot or is it one picture she's made in this one?

It's her AI, but it looks like her. No way. But she's got on different outfits. Sometimes she's got a convertible, a dog. Dang. That's got she don't want to do. Yeah, like she'll do, oh, she's got one where she's leaning up against like this Rolls-Royce. It looks like her, but it's not. But she's like, I love it. She loves it. So your friend clearly loves it. You're just like, let her be. This is the new version of just over filtering yourself on social media. Yeah. When the filters existed and that was the thing. And it wouldn't show you that a filter was being used for a while.

And now her things, her posts say AI generated whatever. And she's like, ah, she was like, dang. That bothered her for about, I don't know, five seconds when I saw her realize that. She's like, oh well. People will know who cares. She loves her AI personality. And before that it was Photoshop. Yeah.

There's always been something. one of my good friends, Andy Roddock, a tennis player, was on the cover of a magazine once and they used his head. They used his head and somebody else's body. And he was like, what the heck when he saw it? He didn't know. Those aren't my arms. He didn't know.

He's like, that's not my body. That was funny. Yeah, just let her do her thing. It's not hurting you that she's using AI in her pictures, that she's using a filter. I have somebody that I know very closely that way, way, way, way, over filters their face in every picture. And it is so, so obvious.

But I don't know that they know it's so obvious. Oh, that's where it's hard. I know, but I don't say anything. You shouldn't say anything either. Let them do their thing. If it's not hurting anybody, don't invest any time in hurting their feelings possibly. Yeah. So let them live.

That photo shoot with a convertible, though. I got to figure that out. I'm trying to find it right now so I can show you. Lunchbox me with every muscle car. He'd be doing a photo shoot with every Lamborghini, every muscle car he could possibly find. Thank you for that. Close it up. So the artist is Stella Lefty, and I was talking to her about her song.

This one here called Boston, how it went viral. Boston, it's, I mean, it's killing. I saw it first from Gary LaVox. Yes. Who's a friend of mine, so I follow him. I love him. I love him, too. I don't know him.

I actually don't know him. I've never met him, but I saw him obviously singing Boston, and I was like, this is epic. Like, I sing Bless the Boken Road all the time. It was on a boat. Yeah. And he was singing the song. And I was like, that's a good song.

I didn't know what he was singing. I thought he may have been singing, like, a song that he was doing. And then I heard a couple of places. And I was like, oh, that song's really good. That song, did it blow up on your TikTok viral? Boston. Yeah. Is that where that song started to?

Oh, yeah. That's where every song for me has started. Who did you write that one with? I wrote that. I wrote the corset alone when I was out here. And then I brought it to Grace and Joe, who's like my producer in Nashville. And then we finished it together. And did you sing just a chorus of it on TikTok?

Or did you finish the whole song course? No, like on TikTok, the only thing I sang was like the first half of the chorus. So nothing else existed. So at the time the video was doing well, I was like, there's no song. You have success on an incomplete song. Yes, on like one line of a song. And I was like, there's literally no song. And I was like, I don't even know what the song is going to, like, I didn't even have an idea of what the verse is going to sound like.

Was it just kind of a throwaway when you wrote Because it was so limited So did you just go I'm just going to do this Put it up for something to post or did you think I'm going to do this And if it works I'll continue to grow it No I wasn't even thinking about I was honestly like I just had a second to kill before I was going on a date And so I was like in Nashville to be writing

And I hadn't written anything that day And so I was like feeling like I needed to be more productive And so I was like I'll just sit at the piano And just see like whatever comes out and then like go on the date and like you know do whatever else tomorrow like i'm sure i had like a session or whatever it was but i so i wasn't thinking about it like i wasn't thinking about anything i really just posted the song because i was just in this phase where i was just posting all the time which is i guess the phase i'm always in posting all the time do you do that now still do you have time

do that now yeah post all the time even as busy as it is yeah but i was really viral for my accents before what do you mean your accents i was viral for doing like a French accent when I was like a freshman in college. What's your French accent? Do you want me to do it? Yeah, of course. Oh, but what if it's bad now? Like, it could be rusty. So it's been a while, huh? No, actually, I think I did it the other day. I'm gonna do yesterday.

Let it read. Okay, it's like when you like took in the French accent, like there's a lot of like, um, grasp and like, I don't know. That's the gist of it though. So was it, was the embarrassment thing part of the act there? Yeah, like I would post, like, yeah, it was part of it. I'm Ruby Carr, the host of the podcast, Encore. Check out our brand new episodes featuring music from the show that everyone is reheating as we speak.

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Were you learning music though in high school at all? I was playing the guitar in high school. But like very as a hobby. Like it was so not taken seriously. Were you the guitar playing kid in high school to your friends? Or were you just doing it in your room? In my room. What inspired you to get a guitar?

Somebody in your house play guitar? No. No, I started. I actually don't even know why I was so young when I started learning I was like seven or something but I was just like I really want to learn who was it that you loved like Taylor I loved Taylor and the first song I learned how to play was Tim McGraw so I think I probably just wanted to learn how to play off her songs but I don't really remember like it was so long ago I was so young but I just I always wanted to sing I loved singing always and so I think maybe

that was my way of like I'll be able to sing if I can play the guitar and I can you know and you never sang though no publicly no never My friends, like, didn't even know that I, like, when I, like, moved to L.A. to, like, pursue this and, like, really give it a shot. Like, they were, like, so, like, when I did my first ever shows, they were, like, we've never seen you like that. Like, seeing you on stage is, like, weird. Like, it's off-putting.

Like, we didn't even know you, like, saying, really. Like, this is bizarre. Is it weird to kill it now? What do you mean? You're just killing it? You're killing it? You're selling it? Yeah, it's weird.

It's definitely weird. But I really don't, now there's, like, not so much time to even, like, think about that, you know. I'm more just like I want to maintain what I had going on before, like, the way that I was writing all the time. Like, I want to just, I want to keep that. When you come to town, are you normally jam-packed because you don't live here and you're just getting, you got to do like 11 things? Yeah, now. Has today been a pack day? Yeah. Walk me through it. Okay, but we did a CMA event for CMA EDU. Yeah, CMA EDU. Yeah, that's right. CMAEDU. But it was awesome. Like there was 50 students there. So I sang for them, which was truly,

terrifying. Singing for people that are close in age to you is like one of the scariest things in the world. Because? Well, it's just like, I don't know, like none of us know how to act right now. I don't know how to act and I know that you don't know how to act. Like, you know what I mean? Because they're not gonna, like, they don't, they're not singing back the words. And if they are singing back the words, it's like, shy. And then I feel shy because, you know, I'm like, oh my God. If you want to hear that full interview, you can either go search for the Bobby Bone. Bobbycast wherever you get your podcasts, or you can go watch it on Netflix. It is fantastic.

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All right, Tuesday, Reviews Day, everything we watched in the past week. I'm going to go first. I did watch Rebel Ridge on Netflix. It was amazing. It was one of their top 20 movies the last four years. I just saw that story come out. If you haven't seen Rebel Ridge, it's like I shoot them up, but it's really great. Four and a half Pugh's.

So, man, I don't like Pue Poo's over 90 minutes. This one deserved it. So that one, if you have Netflix, is up there and free. I watched Disclosure Day. It's two and a half hours. And that was the Stephen Spielberg movie where he was going to tell you about aliens. Yeah. They just promoted this wrong.

There's marketed wrong. And I'm glad Mike told me this. This is basically War of the Worlds meets Jurassic Park, the feel of it. They're not revealing anything new about aliens. Now, do they probably take some information doing research and put it in? I give it four out of five little green men. It's good. Emily Blunt's amazing in it.

But I think all their marketing was, we're going to reveal the truth. And it got us interested, but it's not that. It's a Spielberg movie. There's music playing at times whenever. dramatic scenes are happening. So Disclosure Day, four Little Green Men. And then the other thing that I watched was Widows Bay, that series on Apple Plus. And I give that four out of five scary islands.

And so they're already working on season two of that. That thing was nominated for like 15 Emmys. So three things. Boom. Tuesday, a review day. Amy, you? A toxic love story is a documentary on Netflix, an hour and half long. and it's a very twisted love story situation that happened in Orange County.

Ray, would you play that voicemail? Bobby, has anybody seen a toxic love story? I just got them watching her on Netflix and it is crazy. I can't say too much because it's not as crazy as the baby one, but this is probably number two. The documentary just came out and I want to say something so bad about it, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone. Have a great day.

Yeah, I don't want to say too much either. So I'll give it four and a half out of five. Although your scale sometimes you go five pretty easily. Well, I was entertained, no problem. Yeah. Shall I watch it? I was dialed in. Shall I watch it?

Yeah. Four out of five Craigslist ads. So is this one or a series? One and done. Hour and a half. Love it. That's perfect. Get out.

Yeah, good. Okay. I think that's what I'm interested. It keeps you on your toes. Eddie? I'm just going to say the Odyssey because I went to the movie theater. I watched it. I loved it.

But I want to give it a four and a half pigs out of five only because there were a couple of scenes in there where I could have cut out to make it less than three hours. Because the three hour mark did feel like, okay, we're kind of getting a little fatigue. Dude, it's funny. You see people on the movie theater kind of one decides to go to the bathroom. Then they all decided to go to the bathroom. kind of around the two-hour mark. That's the mark of the bladder? Yeah.

Maybe they should just do an intermission. Well, I've said that for a long time. And then I also say, well, if it's too long and you have to have an intermission, just do two movies. You just start seeing, like, human nature kick in where everyone's just like, all right, I'm getting a little bored. I'm going to go walk around a little bit. Four and a half, though, huh?

Four and a half, dude. It's a great movie. I think you will love it. Movie Mike? I watched The Dink on Apple. It's a story about a watched-up Tennis Pro who gets into pickleball. Yeah, my friend Andy's in that. Oh, yeah.

Andy's good at it. He plays himself, but it's really hard to play yourself. And I was like, that's Andy. Yeah. I thought I saw Andy in the graphic, but I was like, is that, I didn't know. So he's like in it, in it. He plays himself as like. Oh, that's hilarious.

He's the rival of the other guy in the movie. And it's on Apple, right? You like it? I wish it would have just been like that story. The overall, like, comedic story gets kind of boring after a while because like I don't play pickleball, so I didn't really fully get into that. So I give it 3.5 out of five battles. Lunchbox anything?

Yeah, season four of hacks on HBO. I thought season three gets. kind of at season four it is back i give it four headwriters out of five really funny every episode was great and then i watched the mitchells versus the machines on netflix uh kid movies some kid movies are really bad this was fantastic i give it four out of five road trips that's it for hackso right one more season five i guess there's one more that they've already shot though yeah oh you're already out i'm just behind got it got all right there you go uh Tuesday reviews day we'll put it up on a graphic on our social so you guys can see that. Good luck, everybody. So you had to help a woman

get dressed in the bathroom. Well, she asked me to zip up her dress in the bathroom at a restaurant. And I am still curious to this very moment as to why she had to take her dress off. And I didn't ask. And I should have just asked. Because with the dress, you just lifted up. Yeah. Like, I thought, okay, since then, did she get something on it and she needed to clean it? And then she couldn't get it back on or is she one of those people that have to fully undress in order to use the restroom those people are weird well they exist yeah yeah yeah yeah how does someone ask and she is she in the stall and does she go hello anybody out there she came out of the stall and then it wasn't zipped in the back and she's like hey do you mind helping me and in a girl's restroom i mean

we ask her help all kinds of things like oh you know tampons stuff like that you know and if you're in a urinal and baba comes around and goes hey i'm a zip pants won't zip uh i i won't zip uh i would quickly go to like, no I'll go English. Oh, you'd use that. I'm out. Right. I would not help him. But a question about this, how do you guys get dressed alone? Do you always need help

zippering up a dress? Yeah, did she have to get dressed before she came and did she need help then? Well, good question. Whoever she was at dinner with maybe helped her get dressed, but she couldn't walk out of the bathroom into the restaurant with it unzipped that way. So when she's at home, maybe she had someone there to help zip her up. And sometimes you're able to like,

oh, just get it just right. And get it. But she just wasn't able to get it or she walked out and saw me and thought, well, this is going to be a lot faster. I've just been dying to know why she had her dress off. Number one theory? She has to take her clothes off to use the bathroom. Like all our clothes.

Yeah. Because why wouldn't you just lift up your skirt? I don't know about skirts. I don't know. But yeah. Or the other theory, like I said, is maybe she got something on it, got water on it. and then took it over the sink got water on it, went into the stall, was scrubbing it, and then put it back on.

That's a big. I know. We had a guy at our old building that used to get completely naked to use the bathroom. And you could see all his clothes on the floor. He'd be in the stall. He wouldn't do it at a urinal because that would be weird. You go out of his butt naked at a urinal. So a guy at my high school was like that.

And I still think about him from time to time. Like I wonder where he is now and if he still has to do that. Because he would talk about it openly. And why do people have to do that? Well, I laugh now, but one of my sons, he does that. And I feel like I need to... He gets all the way naked to pee? Every single day.

Like, every single day. And I feel like I got to nip it in the button now. Like, be like, hey, this has to stop. I don't want you being an adult doing this. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if it's an OCD type thing, though. Like, does he have any other tendencies?

Not that I know of. It's just, I mean, ever since he's gone to the bathroom, he does this. I wonder. Let me ask my AI. It's got to be a thing, like a disorder. Let me ask here. Like, you've staged fright unless you're... Completely naked.

You know what? Use the bathroom when you're clothes? Is that what you're saying? Or you just won't be able to go. Like, you need to go, but you can't go. Okay, here we go. Hello, I've heard about people and I've seen people that take all their clothes off when they go to the bathroom. Why do they do that?

Yeah, it sounds odd until they think about comfort and sensory stuff. Sometimes people feel restricted or just too hot. And it's kind of like a sensory reset. or, you know, anxiety can make clothes feel suffocating, so removing them can be calming. Else is just practical depending on what they're wearing. It's all about the bathroom vibe. One, she sounds like she's drunk. And then two, she had a long day.

What's wrong with her? She just woke up. A sensory thing, okay. That makes sense. Right. I can give it to that because I did that. But I think the guy that I saw doing it, I don't know. a sensory thing man but amy's lady though

like a dress could be tight you know to sit down and do the bathroom yeah like the top part's so tight you can't bend down maybe if you see her again ask her I don't think I'll ever see this person again burn her face into your brain this story this story comes us from Ellisville

Mississippi police got a call that a woman just came through the drive-thru and she was completely naked so they respond oh man they respond and they pull the woman over. She's 22 years old.

They give her a sobriety test. She's under the influence. Then they find some marijuana and they find illegal guns in the trunk. Wow. I think it had been more surprising if she wasn't under the influence, had no weed and no guns in the trunk.

Also, if you're a teenager working that window, I don't think you call the cops. I think you just tell your friends. Yeah. I think you're going, there's a naked person that drove through here. Yeah, probably. That would be wild.

Maybe they were concerned for her. If it was someone that's an adult. Again, if you're 19, you're just like, Sean? Check this out. That's crazy. But she's okay. Yeah, she's okay, but she's facing a lot of charges. Yeah, yeah.

Holy cow. Okay. I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead Story of the Day. I was talking to Stella Lefty about her relationship with Vincent Mason. Your boyfriend is... Vincent? Yeah.

And he's... You can say his whole name. Vincent Mason. Yeah. Vincent Mason. Yeah. I really like him. I really like his music.

His music is my vibe as well. So not only is he really talented, but like I would like, I listen to that music whenever I'm just like by myself. How'd you guys meet? He DM me on Instagram. Let's do what. Let's do 120 seconds of us talking about this

because I was not going to make this about this, but you open the door. I open the door. 120 seconds. Ready? Okay, yeah, I'm ready. Start the timer. How'd you meet him?

I met him via DM. He DME. What was his DM? He said he liked thinking about you and I was teasing it. So he sent me the song. Did he really like that song or was he just trying to use that to get to you? He says he really liked the song. But what do you believe?

Well, I actually, he was in a really weird, I don't think he was like looking for love. I don't think that he was. Classic line. You know. He wasn't looking for that. Playing hard to get. Yeah, yeah. No, but that's what he says.

So, you know, I don't know. First date. Oh, what was it? Oh my God. I don't know the name of the restaurant, but we went to go eat steak. Here? Yes. Does he fly out to California?

Yeah, he's in LA a lot. Do you come here a lot to see him? How long he has been dating? Like six months, five months. What's your favorite song of his? Ooh, speak of the devil. Does he have any songs about you? No.

Does that hurt your feelings? Yes. Okay, that's enough. That's enough on him. All right, that was a good one. That's a good one. Good run there. This is fun. I didn't know what to expect with you honestly.

Really? I didn't know you would. Okay, do you want to play the game? Yeah, what did you think? Do you want the honest game or no? Yeah. want on this game. I don't want you to lie to me. You just never know. You thought I was going to suck. No, I just didn't know if you were going to suck. There's a difference. But do you think I

look like I suck? No. But, and I'm going to tell you why I thought you might suck, even though you look like you didn't suck. Because you have, just from what I've seen of you, you seem very approachable and likable. Thank you. And it might be, yeah, because that happens. It's not, though. Like, you're very warm. You're very warm. You're very friendly. So I didn't know that. And also, you don't live here.

So there's not a lot of references where I can be like, does she suck? Right. Because sometimes that'll happen and I'll go, hey, does this person suck? And they're like, yeah, I'd rather not. Because I don't want to not like somebody. I'd rather just not know. And then, yeah, who knows? So I didn't know.

But yeah, you're awesome. You're cool. You're real cool. Thanks. Yeah. I think you're cool too. Thanks. Thanks.

All right. That's it. That's it. Stella Lefty. Tell your boyfriend I said, what up? I will. I'm a big fan. I will.

He knows that. I tell him. I love him. He's awesome. And I can't wait to, you know, see what's happening with your career. I'm rooting for you. I was kind of... I know.

I'm really glad that you were honest about that. About what? Well, you were like, you know, I didn't know what you were going to be like and you were apprehensive. Is that the word? Apprehensive. But it wasn't about you specifically. But that's just the nature of this town. But this is also why people don't like me because I say stuff like that at times.

But the honesty is really refreshing, actually. Like, you know who sucks? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm not going to say anybody. I was like, there's no way. I was like, go. Tell me.

Okay. Great to see you. Stella Lefty. I'm a big fan. And next time, we'll do this again. Bobby Bones. Okay, to hear that full interview, you go watch it on Netflix. It's fantastic.

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