The Bobby Bones Show - TUES PT 2: Amy Slams Bobby + Bobby Went Above And Beyond For Listeners

Episode Date: September 15, 2026

It was very out of character, but Amy slammed Bobby over Giving Tuesday. He was shocked by what she said and sounded like a hater. Bobby talks to Listener Sara who was in-studio yesterday with her friend playing Bobby Bones Show Trivia. She rates her trip to Nashville and how Bobby went above and beyond to make her trip unforgettable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ray, hit me with number nine. I'm watching Monday Night's football tonight, and Tom Cruise is there with Taylor Swift. And I'm wondering, we had a debate in our house tonight. Who is more famous? Tom Cruise with Taylor Swift. The younger version in our house said Taylor Swift, there's just in the old version in our house that's Tom Cruise. So what do y'all think?

Thanks. I love you all. I think that's a really good question and both sides could be appreciated in that argument because Tom Cruise has been the number one actor for four decades. Yeah, yeah. Four decades. I don't think, though, at any point, now, I don't know how famous Taylor Swift is internationally. Now, I do know Tom Cruise's movies, they blow up in China.

and they blow up in some of those countries where they don't welcome Western entertainment or media. I do think that's probably way more of a valid argument than people think. Right now, man, I still think if we're putting China in... In America, it's Taylor Swift. Worldwide, I think I could accept both arguments. That's about the only actor you could compare to, though. he has been A plus plus for 40 years, maybe longer than that. Yeah, but you have to take the kids into consideration.

Do they know who Tom Cruise is? Yeah, but do old people know, like 70, 80-year-olds, are they fascinated with Taylor Swift? I would think that more of them know Taylor than the young kids knowing Tom. I would say, I'm just going to ask Chad GBT, because I think if the question is domestically, it's Taylor Swift. Worldwide, I might lean toward Tom Cruise because there's just some countries where Western music is not allowed or accepted or even appreciated

and Tom Cruise, his movies are. Mission Impossible for sure. Let's see here. Let's give it a run. I want to do... Man, the voice thing is so different with this now. I used to could just talk into it, but now I have to talk into it and it writes it out.

I miss her voice. Oh, I got it, got it. I can do it on chat, not work. Here we go. Hello. The debate is, who's more famous internationally overall, would it be Tom Cruise,

who has been an A-plus-plus actor for at least four decades, or Taylor Swift, who is the absolute biggest thing in music? Who would you say is more internationally worldwide famous? Thank you. I give it to Tom Cruise, barely. Right now, Taylor is bigger in pop culture, especially with younger people,

but if you ask people anywhere in the world across age groups, the person most likely to be recognized by more total humans is probably still Tom Curse. Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise. Bad internet affects her. Again, I think that's a really good argument.

I would have leaned to Tom Cruise internationally, but barely. Because Taylor's about the only person who can challenge that. Are we cool with Tom now? I'm never not cool, but I'm never as buddy. Yeah, but you see Tom, like, forever I see Tom Cruise and just like roll your eyes. But he's weird. but I don't think that makes him bad because I don't know what he's done that's bad

I don't know I'm not even saying like he's bad right I'm just saying like strange strange bird do we like him here's a thing as a celebrity I have no opinion as a celebrity I have an opinion as when he's in movies

are often really great that's true and if he's not hurting animals or hurting kids and I don't know he doesn't seem to me he does that I don't have a problem with them but I'm not celebrate just do your movies

I'm good. Yeah, yeah. You, Mike, what do you think? Do you like Tom Cruise? I like him now that he's kind of the ambassador for people going back to the theater. But as far as a person, I don't really care for him. Same.

But don't not like him so much. I'm not going to watch a great movie. I love his movies now. Did you know there's a Brad Pitt premiere on town Wednesday night? Yeah. Is it the one where he's in the wild? Are you going? Heart of the Beast?

Nah, it's like outside. So I had a friend hit me up and say, hey, you go to the Brad Pitt premiere. And I said, I don't go to stuff. And two, I didn't know about it in that order. Wait, Brad Pitt's going to be there? Yeah, he's going to be there. Why would we not go?

What do you mean? Why would we not go? You didn't invite it. You can go? I know, but if they'd invite me, I'd go. Who cares if it's outside? I'm confused by Mike Dees. No, this is not about that.

The thing is, I didn't even know what was happening. I didn't even know he had a new movie. I didn't even know they were doing it here. I did see him at the U.S. Open, though. He's 60, and he looks like he's about 40. I know. Looks awesome. That's crazy.

He's just sitting in a collared shirt, sitting in the thing with the hat, watching the ball go back and forth. chilling. Who? What? Huh? I would have thought he's 40 years old. I know, dude.

I thought the same thing. Did you see him? Yes, you're just sitting there with his is, is that his girlfriend? I don't know what it is. It's just like looking young. Like no makeup, no movie. Are you sure he didn't have makeup on?

Well, he was just at an athletic event outside. Okay. Like you're saying he wasn't in a movie where he's all made up. There was no, he was wearing a ball cap, if I remember correctly. And glasses. Yeah, some kind of hat.

Let me tell you, though, this movie looks good. What is it? Heart of the Beast. He, like, has a heart attack while he's, like, flying a plane with his dog and then has to survive in the wilderness. I'm in. It looks good. Aliens of time travel? No.

But I'm still in. I'm still in. Good question, though. I do like that. Tom Cruise, Taylor Swift. Nobody should be ashamed for being wrong in that because I think they're the only two you could put in the competition there. Lunchbox's your story. Yeah, we're going to go back to the surrogate that refused to abort the baby.

She was in California. She fled to Texas. the baby. They've been fighting over the rights. Well, a judge in Texas said that this is to be settled in the courts of California. They have jurisdiction because that's where the contract was signed. So now the parents are trying to take the baby back to California and the surrogate has filed an emergency injunction with the U.S. Supreme Court. And they're supposed to have a hearing today. What a mess. This is a disaster. What a mess.

It's a disaster. Edit your story. Yeah, real quick. So Japanese researchers found out that mice, when they eat chocolate, they make this high-pitch ultrasound noise that humans can't hear, but that they found in science with their equipment, but only when they eat chocolate. So I thought that was... They have any idea why?

It tastes so good. No, they think it's like us going like, mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, I'm saying. Mm-hmm. Isn't that hilarious that when they eat chocolate, they're like, E! Interesting. Okay, I'll do the 2026 Emmy winners.

I don't even know what this happened. I just saw pictures of a pop-up on my Instagram. I mean, what even are award shows these days? Right. I saw a teaser on TV. Oh, dang. We saw a teaser and one result. The result that I saw was that Noah Wiley or Wile,

I don't know I say his name, but I knew him from ER, but he's now the pit. Oh, uh-huh. That he won Best Actor and a Drama. series. That's one of those shows that I know is good. I just have not dedicated myself to watching it and I know I'm missing out but I

haven't. Yeah, everyone that watched it loves it. I'm convinced it's really good. I just haven't dabbled. You watch it? Yeah. Dabbled. None of us. You only dabbled? I watched all of season one and then you didn't go back. Some

of season two but it's very stressful in there. Because it's the medical field? Well, I mean, they're dealing with an emergency. I mean, the cool part is you're watching, it's all one, the whole season is one

night in the ER. The whole season is? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Like 24 though, huh? Yeah. That was a whole. I think it's kind of like that. It's like hour by hour. Yeah, like you, so you're watching, so it's like, golly, all this stress in one night. You imagine? That's a lot. Sounds like somewhere they'd have emergencies.

Yeah. Like the emergency room. Non-stop emergency. Some of the other ones. Best drama series was The Pit. Best comedy series. And I don't know this was such a comedy, but I enjoyed it was Widows Bay on Apple TV. There were no LOLs, but I... Did it have like a feel of funny? Kind of... Wow. Interesting.

I don't want to say much else about it, but it's Matthew Reese, who's he was in the Russian spy show. with Carrie Russell his wife Yes, uh-huh The main guy with her Yeah And he's actually from like Ecuador He's from Ecuador Nah, he's from more of that country

And about Wales I think Okay That's not Ecuador I know I know I'm been to either one so Yeah so Widows Bay won that And it was really good

But it just did not seem like a comedy to me Yeah he's from Wales That show's called the Americans And that was an excellent show But I couldn't recommend it to anybody because it's slow, but it's based on a true story of Russian sleeper cells

in the United States. Yikes. Are you guys watching Lioness? Yes, I love it. Are you caught up totally? No, not yet. I think I have two more episodes until I'm caught up.

So good. I think it's the best show on television. Okay, and it has no aliens? No aliens. No. Zombies? It's Taylor Sheridan. He doesn't do aliens or zombies.

It's like CIA type stuff. It's CIA, FBI. It's and if you haven't watched any Season one was really good Season two was really good Season three is the best season I've ever seen Oh there are three seasons, okay

Which is awesome because you would have a lot of You'd have a lot to watch I love that Yes and you don't have to wait for something to come out Right Best Limited was DTF St. Louis Oh, that was so good Yeah that was good

You wouldn't think it's good because it's just like DTF St. Louis That sounds weird I've had that on my list forever to watch And I don't know why I don't ever go to it But y'all have talked about it The reason that I'd say go get it when you can is there's not a season two.

It's just one season. It's all self-contained. Best actress and a drama was, I think your name's like Ria Seahorn. She was in Pluribus, that show that I watched about the world ending. Yeah, I remember that. And she's one left.

Matthew Reese won for Best Actor in a Comedy. So I don't know if there's really anything else I want to mention here because some of them just get weird. What's the comedy that Matthew Reese is in? The one I just talked about. What does it be? Oh, oh, he's in that one. Okay.

Do you say his name Reese? R-H-Y-S. I think it's Reese. Because I know a kid named Rees spelled like that. He also won Best Actor in a Limited Series for The Beast and Me when he did that, and that was not a comedy, and he did that with the blonde from the Middle Eastern show.

Claire Daines? Yeah, yeah, the show was that. Oh. Homeland. Gosh, that was so good. That show was awesome. With Mandy Pittinkin. I never finished the last.

season or two of it, but the first couple were amazing. Yeah, so good. Have you all seen that girl, she may have a million followers now, but she's gone completely viral because of her Claire Dane's impression. It's so, I hope this pops up on Y'all's phone because it's so good. It's so good. Trust this. It will now, yeah, for sure.

I wouldn't think that would be an impression that all these people will be drawn to because Claire Dane's famous, but she's not so famous. I mean, but she nails it because Claire Dane is definitely. I mean, she's white and blonde hair. But in all of Claire Daines's roles, she definitely has this similar vibe of like how she, her cadence and her eyes and her responses. And this girl, she'll do it with like everyday things.

Like, you know, like what she's going to have for lunch. But then you're like, oh my gosh, that's Claire Dane's like as any character. Very dramatic. In the tell me something good that we did, I had mentioned something about AI. I've now forgotten what I said I was going to talk about. The six months, time frame. Yeah, time frame.

That where the world's going to end because of AI. Yeah. And again, I'd have to rehear me, and I'd prefer not to. But I think what they're freaking out about, and I think something bad happened, and that's why they're all deciding we need to pull back, because they wouldn't just do that, because this is a capitalist country. They want to be the richest ever. They want to be the most powerful.

I think something bad has happened. But just imagine, and one of the fears that they have is that if these agents, these are AI agents, Just imagine a little bot, a Pac-Man. We'll call it a Pac-Man. That's an agent? That would be an AI Pac-Man. When I was talking to Mariana, she said, why do you not think this is the front page of everything?

Because this is the most important thing happening right now in the world. Like, it is that serious. And I said because I don't think there's a good translator of what's happening to people to know why they should care because it sounds so technical. And when you just say things like AI, computers, death of humanity, you're not actually saying how it affects everybody's everyday life.

And people are struggling to get by every day. And so we don't really have the, okay, I should worry about eight months from now of what might possibly happen. I think that was my, I don't know if that's the right answer, but that was my answer to her was, I think it's because we don't have proper translators to tell us how serious this is and how close it is to happening. And when I say close it is to happening, I don't mean that the world dies or a bomb goes off. But imagine Pac-Man's AI agents. They're online. They can shut down the Internet. basically, right. They can shut it down. So we have no communication on the internet. They also can get into

weapon systems. So everything's connected. So they find a way to get into a connected weapon system. And they decide, well, for the goal that I've been given or what I've now taught myself that I need to do, I'm going to use these weapon systems to fire up on A, B, and C. Well, this country gets fired upon. What the heck, we just got fired up. You're saying it's a, yeah, yeah, right. That's what fire weapons back. Okay, nuclear. That's one very small. version of something that they think could happen. That is. Tell me something scary. Yeah, because the pack man's are out.

And I've spent only the last three or four days just reading about the singularity, which I may have mentioned yesterday, and I'm not going to bore you guys with more than two minutes of this. But it's, I would say it's so important, but the other thing I told her was gas is like five bucks a gallon. like you think people are going to worry about what could happen with AI because they just hear chat GPT or what you know yeah looking stuff up when they can't pay for gas right now and groceries are so much more expensive than they were two years ago four years ago like we're economically in a really bad time and so there's not uh the capacity to worry about possibly existential threats

so that's another reason why it's not on the cover of everything and then her reason was to you know if every magazine was like we're all going to die soon people would be like oh that sucks I don't want to see that or they would just get numb to it whatever we just had this conversation

so what was I saying I was going to go into one other thing but I'm also I could be boring everybody I don't remember that's not boring that's scary but not boring because it's a good

description of why we're not hearing Oh, singularity. Singularity is whenever we create AI that has now taken us over as being smarter than us in general, and they're so smart that they can now create their own AIs, they're even smarter than them. And so we are, we're ticks, we're ants. But does AI need to prompt itself to create more of them? Prompt would be playing on a Game Boy versus playing on PlayStation Now.

PC. But advanced, far more advanced. We need to write a prompt because what we're doing, we need an answer for something. That's very simple. You teach AI to not need prompts. What they've been teaching it is to make its own decision based on the variable surrounding it.

Like a kill switch. No. There has to be a button. Like universal. They did an experiment recently. I'm going to do 30 seconds on this. They did an experiment recently where they were like, hey, survive, get out of this room.

And not only did they surviving it out of the room, they found other AI agents that weren't involved in it. And they started sharing information with them on how to get out. and they had created a message boards just for themselves to read and so they were all learning from each other not even in the same experiment. This is Terminator.

I don't like calling them today, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Pac-Mans. Pac-Mans. But yes, it is absolutely a threat. Absolutely, it's a threat. It's so much a threat. And I compared it to how people must have felt

whenever the nuclear crisis was going on when Americans were scared to death because there could have been nuclear weapons being shot from Cuba at any time but those were humans. Did they have any? What? Missiles?

They did? Cuba did? They were Russia though. Yeah, yeah. Russia had used Cuba to... Yeah. Because that's the 60s, man. Cuba was close.

Anyway, that's all. But that's it. As far as AI, I wish I wouldn't have spent so much time invested in it, learning about it. To me, it is the scariest thing of my life. time. And then I started to go, man, having a kid in this is bad. But that's me. I hate it, man. It makes me sad. But I think something bad has happened. And that's why they've all agreed to

have a fight to scale back, except that China's not. And if they're not, if like our adversaries are not, we can't. I understand that part. But it's like, I wish collectively we could just Let's all get on the same page. I wish collectively churches cared about homeless people. That's just not the way humans work. I know. Even if we all agree on something. We do.

It's just not the powers. But even like if three of a four of us agree on one thing, you don't think lunchbox would be like, they won't know, but I'll just do it on the side. Like it's just the way it is. Like humans. Like yeah, we shake hands. We agree.

But then just like, what's better for my country? What's better for my family? I'll just do that. I get it. Power money. Power money. That's all. Like, I'm done.

Dang. Like what? decade or what year was like the best like the most peaceful. 96. I guess the economy had a surplus. We just go to that year. We can't remember that year, right? Like, we can't remember the best year because that, I don't, wasn't memorable.

We remember the bad ones, COVID 2020. Like, we remember that. I know, but I'm just like, can we just all be like, hey, what was the cocktail for that? Like, what was, and then let's recreate it and get everybody on board and just like. economic surplus in the 90s. So that was awesome? That's not happened. That's right now,

it's almost insane to think about. Yeah. And the music was good in the 90s. It is rocking. Were we at war in the 90s? Probably. There was desert storm. I guess.

But then we were kids too. We were in high school, so that's kind of fun. Well, I know. I'm just thinking like where we were as the United States. because 9-11 hadn't happened yet, but we still were. Let's ask Chabby-Chate-G-T.

The best year? Yeah, like what's the, you want to do of our lives? Sure. Okay. Hello, we're having a conversation here. What was the best year of our lives, meaning we were all born around 1980 up until today, and it could be for any amount of factors. Now, we're going to say in the United States, it could be any amount of factors to economy, safety,

health, social issues. It could also be pop culture. Which one year and why would you say is the best of our lifetime? It's a fun one. I'd probably go with 2019. Not because it was perfect, but because it was just before a stack of major disruptions. Health-wise, modern medicine had advanced a lot, and we hadn't hit COVID yet. Comically, for most of the world, unemployment was pretty low. Inflation wasn't a huge problem yet. Safety-wise, no major global conflict on the scale we're seeing now, like Russia-Ukraine or Israel-Gaza conflict. Tech was mature. We had streaming, smartphones, Uber, all kinds of convenience, but AI hadn't started disrupting jobs and culture quite yet. Socially, we were still gathering, traveling, going to concerts, movies,

and without the behavioral scars from the pandemic. Culturally, pop culture felt communal. Endgame was a global event. Game of Thrones was still a thing. Music-wise, Billy Elish was breaking big, old town road was everywhere. Basically, we had peak modern convenience, high global connection,

and the least disruption all at once. If I had to make a case, 2019 was the last year where things felt normal, but extremely advanced. Fair case. There's another one I just looked up was, and by the way, the last year that we had any sort of federal surplus,

it all went away after 2001. So we had it in the 90s up until 2001. Let's see here. That's from the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Portal. And the national debt has grown since then. Okay, so 2021, she said right? 19. She said 19.

I'm sorry. 2019? Mm-hmm. So that's when Donald Trump got impeached. You just looked that up? Yeah, because I looked up events in 2019. I was going to ask who was the president in 2019. Yeah, because he was elected 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

The women's soccer team won the World Cup. Nice. That was cool. Wait. See what Google says, Mike. And then we'll wrap this. Because sometimes I just go to different ones and ask them. Now they all work together.

Obviously, they're all plotting in a back room. stupid humans, they're going to kill us all. I go to Claude. I don't think Claude has a voice, though. I never use Claude to talk to. What does it say? 99. Feels good.

The year 99 stands out. Economic boom, low unemployment, peak cultural optimism, unemployment lows. Gass is 96 cents. Sue the president was in 99. The dot-com boom, fiscal surplus, technological sweet spot, optimism, peep, pop culture peak.

Wasn't 99 Woodstock? The bad one? George Bush had not been elected yet, so it had to be Clinton before him, right? That's who was before George Bush. Because he was... Yeah. So that's who was president.

Yes, because George Bush was still governor at that time, and then he came on to be president. Here we go, let's try this. I've never done voice mode with Claude. Allow a microphone. Hello, I'm wondering what year since 1980 was the best year for people that lived in America. And I'm talking financial. I'm talking economically speaking, social,

pop culture, all factors. What was the best year from 1980 until today if you had to pick? That's a fun one to chew on. Honestly, if I had to pick a single year, I probably land on 1999. Economically, unemployment was around 4%. The lowest in decades, wages were actually climbing for regular work. We're two to one, 99. Wow. That's crazy. I think we go at 99. I'd roughly loosely pick 96 because I just thought the 90s rocked. You know, rock and rock.

They rock and roll. Okay. I mean, 99, I was having fun 99. I was from King in 99. All right, so at least one quick giving Tuesday. I go into my DMs and find people just to help out. This one is from we'll call the guy Ryan. He says, here's my request. My son's baseball team is requiring all players

to find $750 worth of sponsors or else we have to make up the difference. I really think we're going to struggle with this. So if you want to have your name on a blah, blah, blah, blah, team banner, it would be amazing. It would help the kids, those that can't afford it. Okay. And if there's one thing that you like.

It is? Your name on a banner. Oh, I was going to say helping kids that can't afford stuff for sports. That's the better answer. Well, yeah, because that's what I've done more than be on banners. I'm joking with you. I don't think you were.

I think you forgot. No, I think you forgot. I mean, I forgot your heart. What do you love the most? You think you forgot. Most I love. Hopefully, through my actions over the past 20 years, helping kids that can't play sports.

Obviously. Golly, that's so what I meant. No, it was it? But still. So that's one of them. Any critique their lunchbox? Yes, a huge critique. They should be paying $750 just to play on a baseball team.

It doesn't cost that much. Go to the Little League at $75. It sounds like it's for the whole program. gram of sorts. Yeah, yeah. You're playing some special league that you can't afford. It's not a special league. It's to play the league.

I think it's the, you do have to pay to play in a league. Yeah. It could be a couple hundred bucks. If they're, if they pay for equipment, I don't know what they have to do. You don't know, you don't know this stuff and you're saying it's so a matter of fact.

I am telling you, I have kids that play sports and none of them. And I mean none of them cost $750, period. Doesn't happen. But because yours don't, doesn't mean this league doesn't have that. That is not a normal little league.

And if there are kids that can't play and they aren't, only not playing because they can't afford it. I definitely do not mind hopping in and throwing some money at it. You're paying for a travel team. They didn't say they were a travel team. Eddie, your kids, is it called? It sounds like maybe a travel team because that's really

expensive. I've never paid that much. But again, it doesn't say it's a travel team. Doesn't say that, I don't know. He left that out on purpose so you didn't know. It's also not your money. Also, lunchwalk tells me to upgrade his flight for Vegas that I paid for. This isn't going to help him get there. No. Well, I got an email says, hey, upgrade your

flight, you're one click away. And I was like, oh, that's easy. I'll click on it. So I clicked on it. And it said, for $99, you can go frontier comfortable. And I was like, well, let me check with the guy that booked my flight. So I sent him an email to see if he'd upgrade my flight. Bobby, today's Tuesday. I don't check my work email. I haven't checked my work email in, I don't know, four years. If you want to pay me that money, I'll then put it on if you have to use my credit card. Oh, okay. Oh, no, no, no. I was thinking it would be part of my flight since it's my flight. You don't want me to be cramped and all, you know, stressed out because I didn't get a good flight when I'm going out there to work. Because that'd be good for, that'd be bad for

what work. But he's not, he's not going out there to work. I paid for his flight because he was crying that he didn't get invited to go. And he was embarrassed to admit to his neighbors that are going that he wasn't going. And the company said, okay, we'll give you a free hotel room for crying, but just do a couple of things with social media while you're out there. Makes sense. Yes. Oh, man, I got an email with a detailed list of hours of things. I got do. Okay, let's see it. All right. Yeah, pull it up.

Yeah, let's see the detailed list of of hours of things you have to do. All right. I have to post a couple times on the... Okay, that's not hard. No, leading up to the festival. I think that's everybody in our company, whether you're going or not.

If you're at home, you have to do that. Oh, really? I have to do that? Yes. Okay. Yeah, we're waiting. Well, it does double authentication, so I got to get this password.

Yeah, yeah, of course. It's always something. You can go into my DMs on Instagram, and I check it every Tuesday. Because he's got a giving heart. And I, me. You. I don't know. You kind of went at me pretty hard. And you like being on banners. Yeah. Well, listen, I meant like in and outfield. Like you love a good, you know.

You know what happened? My brother-in-law is a head coach at Tulsa. I would like for him to succeed. College sports is really only won by money right now because you have to pay in order to get good players. And I said, I will donate a bunch of money to my brother-in-law. What can I do that's funny? And then they gave me some ideas that weren't funny. And I said, no, I wasn't the funny. I want something be called the Boneyard, so I bought the whole outfield. And then now, anytime someone hits a home run. I donate to a hospital. Exactly, because if there's one thing you love, it's giving.

Damn, hate her today. Hey, speaking of, my niece just moved to Tulsa, and I recruited her as a fan. She's going to go to a game. One game. Okay, I'll let DJ now. Well, her and her fiancé, so that's... Yeah. You have any more on your list over there?

You still triple authenticating? No, no. And finally, the internet finally went through. It's good. I have to post this graphic twice on my Instagram story. Oh, only a story. What time, what time, though? Because you said it was like hour by hour.

Leading up to the festival twice this week. Include the ticket link. And then I have to take over the BBS socials, create carousels focused on specific themes throughout the entire post. I have to go to Kenny Chesney's room at House of Music on Friday and hang out there and get social content from that. drive, tune in to watch a live stream on Disney Plus and Boo. Not drive somewhere. Again, that's just social. All he's having to do is post like three times and they're paying for a hotel room. And I paid for a flight with my own money.

I should have just held out and let the company pay for his flight too. But that's not what I do. And then he comes in and he asks me for more. Give me more. No, no. I just said, yes, yes, yes. I said, do you want to upgrade my flight? My answer is no.

Oh, that sucks. You'll pay $750 for some kid to play ball? Play ball. Yeah. And me, to be on work, I got to be on. Comfortable. What? Cramped in the seats.

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Morning. I just had a comment about launchback saying that it doesn't cost that much to play baseball. I paid $4,000 for my son to play select baseball. Keyword, select. You don't have to pay that. There is a Little League right down the street that you can go play at that they can play. no need to pay $4,000. You are insane. But that's also, again, I'm not justifying $4,000 or not.

This is what you think about your kids in your life. To put that on to other people's lives and to go, no kid should play baseball if it costs $750 bucks. What if the little league sucks and they have two teams? I come from a very small town. We did not have enough people to play a league. So you had to drive two towns over. My high school didn't even have a baseball field.

So we had to go and play in a league that was away. And the dues to just to get in that league was like $400, just to play in that league. So just because it's happening to you does not mean it happens everywhere else. And I don't think you understand that. Same thing with you and your kids. If you didn't get to do it as a kid, you don't want your kids to do it. That's not accurate.

That's pretty accurate. Yeah, yeah, we've heard that it's accurate. It's an alignment for sure. And also, what if you have a really good kid in the league he's playing in is so easy for him that he needs to play with better talent? That happens too if you want your kid to be better. So there's just a lot of variables. And also, why am I defending where I spend my money to help people?

I don't know. Let's go to for another Missouri call from Josh. Hey, Josh. Hey, how's it going? What's up, buddy? Good morning, you guys. Good morning to you. Good morning.

I was just calling because I was listening, and I know that lunchbox was so excited to go to the festival, and then you pay for his ticket, and now he was saying that it was just so much work that he had to do all of that stuff to get a free hotel after he already got a free ticket. I just thought it was pretty hilarious because it's really not that much to do. If you're always on your phone and doing stuff anyways, it shouldn't be a really problem. He's probably getting $3,000 and free stuff to go post for 30 minutes.

That's it. I am curious to see his carousel content. Exactly. He was in charge of coming up with a carousel post. And theme. I got to come up with a theme. for that post. Do you know how to put a link in the post? What do you mean? Link and bio? Yeah, link and bio. Oh my God. My point was he's getting

$3,000 in free stuff and he's complaining he has to go and do a couple posts. Right. Yeah, yeah. So, hey, Josh, uh, it's funny. I agree. I appreciate you calling. How's your day going so far, Josh? Pretty good, man. I'm on my way to work. I hope you guys have a wonderful day today. Yeah, you too. Hopefully we'll talk to you soon. See you, buddy. Appreciate it. Thank you guys for having my call. All right. call us if you would like to. We'd love to talk to you. 877, 77 Bobby.

This teenager in Ohio was missing for 263 days. Wow. And so they kept looking and they were saying, hey, we think it's this dude. Can you go check? And so they do go check the home of this guy who was a former science teacher at the school. And that's where she was. Like, and like, hidden.

somewhere or she was freely there? I think she went there because they said that he had been grooming her for two years. Oh, wow. They told the post that the guy, Joe Brinkley, according to the story, had been grooming the team when they met at school two years ago because he was a teacher.

That's terrifying. Brinkley was arrested in charge with one count of interference with custody, a first degree misdemeanor. He was later released on bond, pleaded not guilty. He had faced allegations of improper her behavior with students in the past, had denied police entry to his home twice before

during investigations into this teen's appearance. U.S. Marshals eventually entered the home August 21st and found the girl alive inside. Wow. I'm imagining she wasn't leaving. Yeah. The house at all, they would have seen her. They're bad people, man. And a teacher.

A teacher. No, the ones you're supposed to trust. A teacher. But, hey, there's more good out there than that. That's true. Well, we think. No. We hope.

It's true. We believe. I want to go to Tanya in Virginia, who's on line 7, Ray. This is Tanya. Hey, Tanya, you're on the show. I'm calling about the $750 for the Little League. Yes. Lunchbox is complaining.

That's $750 so it's not for that kid to play. That was for sponsorship money. They have to pay those umpires a lot of money to coach a, or a rough a game. So that money's going to pay for empires. It's going to pay for field maintenance. It's going to pay for, you know, equipment that they need. It's not going for that. kid to play. I did get a message too where there is like 150 bucks from every kid that goes into

just the maintaining of the field. Oh yeah. And the operations of the field, the lights. So it seems like a lot of that is built into actually playing it is not a travel team. I want to say too much because I never want to say who it is that asked that I helped. But that wasn't the case. It's not a travel team. Okay. But he was sure it was and he screamed it was. So still. And pretty much kids shouldn't be doing that. $750 is absolutely insane for Little League. Tanya, can I give you a gift? Would you mind that? What? Can I give you a gift? Would you mind if I gave you a gift? No, not at all. Okay, so here's what I'm going to give you. There's this amazing company called Air Tasker, where it doesn't matter what you need at your house. It could be a handyman, a cleaner, personal assistant, make a Halloween costume for a 13-year-old. I'm going to give you a $500 gift card with Air Tasker.

Oh, my God. And they can get, it is the graded. Pet Sitter, it is the greatest. Mounting a TV. You know how hard mounting a TV is? So hard. Well, to me, you know how hard mounting a TV is? No, it's hard. It's hard. Okay, good.

So hard. Eddie kind of said it, but yeah. Because I can do it, but then sometimes it's crooked and I'm like, why didn't somebody else do this? If you need help moving, they can do that. So you'll find local taskers wherever. And so again, it's called Air Tasker. I'm going to give you a $500 gift card.

Set your budget. Book with confidence. Download the Air Tasker app or visit airtasker. Thank you for calling. Tanya, I have this for you. I hope you have an amazing rest of the day. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right. There you go. On yesterday's show, we had Sarah in, Sarah and her friend on social media.

They won, I don't know, a meet and greet. Sounds kind of weird, but they got to come up to the studio. You heard them on the show. Hey, Sarah, how are you? Good. How are you, Bobby? Are you back home? Yeah, I'm at work. Lame day.

Are you supposed to be talking to us at work? Is that okay? Yes. Okay. So we just want to check in because when we talk to you, that was like pre, pretty much everything happening. Like you played the games on the show and that was super fun. But then what happened, just kind of walk us through the rest. What happened after you left the show? So after we left the show, we went and got coffee at Killebrew. That was awesome.

That was recommended by Morgan. And then we went to the Country Music Hall of Fame. So we did that for about an hour, hour and a half. Was that cool? I sent him over there. I think it's the coolest thing ever. But did you guys have fun there? Yeah.

Yeah, it was awesome. I felt like it was something. I wouldn't have. Why didn't we think to do this? I know. Already. It's so, if you come to Nashville, because they said, what should we do?

And I'm like, okay, I'm going to hook you up. Country Music Hall of Fame. You might think it's like too educational, but you're going to see so many cool things. And so, and it's large. And they change out the exhibits every year. So you did that. Okay, then what you do?

You did that? And then we went to your studio, and so that was cool, seeing all the different setups, and then watching you do an interview. That was, like, unreal. Yeah, they came over to the Netflix studio, not this studio. Oh, got it. I didn't bring them back up here for round two. Yeah, it was like way.

They came over to where I'd do a bunch of the Netflix stuff. Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, that was awesome. And then we went and got dinner at, is it Luogo? Yes. Am I saying it correctly? That was so. So my friend Christy, the one who came with me, we actually went to Italy together last year.

And we were like, oh my gosh, this is like comparable to like real Italian, true authentic. It was so good. I couldn't even tell you what we got because it was whatever was on special. And just phenomenal. Did you get the chips that I told you to get? Yes. Yes. That was the first thing we ordered before we even got drinks.

Yeah, so get the chips. I can't have cheese anymore, but it's got chips and like cheese. It's the best over there at Lua. Okay, okay. So then you do that, then? Then we went to Bluebird. And that was, again, unreal. It was super kind of quaint.

It felt like an old, like an old cafe. And we sat with a couple that were from Franklin. And I guess one of their friends gets them in like all the time because he comes like every Tuesday. He's just always there. And so he talked with them for a little bit. And then there were four people there. And that was fun.

That was, it felt like we were doing something that people that aren't, that are from Nashville do, not like just touristy. That was my hardest get. That's my hard. That's my hard one. That's tough. I had to call on some favors. We appreciate it.

Yeah, no, it's that. I now have to name my next child, Bluebird if we have one. Yeah, Bluebird bones. I'm so happy. We never made it over to 12 South, though. So that's okay. That'll be next if we come back. I'm so happy you got to go to Bluebird.

and the Country Music Hall of Fame, and this studio. And so, okay, right, right, your, like, what was, rate your trip. What did you think about it? What was your expectation? 10 out of 10.

What was your expectation coming into it? My expectation, honestly, coming into it was just that we were going to meet you guys and then possibly maybe be on the post show, post show pre show. I'm like, that's what,

that was my hope. I was like, I really hope they let us on the post show pre show. It was just way more than I could ever expect. And then everything else. Like, because I had told people, we're going, we get to meet them.

Well, what else are you going to do? I don't know. We'll figure it out when we get there. And then it was like, well, this is what we did. And this is what Bobby sent us to. And this is what happened. And they're like, oh my gosh, he like hooked you up. Well, I'm happy you got to enjoy the experience. And now when you're in the room with all of us, some people may think, I don't know, that we're in here acting, that we're, we obviously don't read scripts, but that we're playing characters. Now, you were in here for a long time. What would you say to those people? Oh, I had to like remind myself.

a couple times, like, consciously be like, I'm actually sitting in the room with Bobby Amy Lunchbox and Eddie. Like, I'm not just listening, because I listen on my car. I have drive an hour to work every day. So I listen on my car ride usually. And I had to like, this is real life. Like, I'm sitting in here with them. It's exactly as you are on the show. It's wild. So when we're not on the microphone, you're saying we act the exact same way, maybe even worse. It's just you guys are who you are, who you say you are and what you do. You're all so kind and sweet. Like even lunchbox, I was like, is he going to be, how's he going to be?

Because he was the only one that I was like, is he really who he is? Or is he over the top in real life? And not that he was really over the top while we were there. But, I mean, he was funny. He kind. I mean, we all felt welcome. We didn't feel like we were, you know, like I said, another. thing you guys had to do to get through your workday. Well, the only reason that you even rang that up

is because Lunchbox told you you were just something else we had to do to get through our workday. Yeah. Yeah. And then I made a big point to check that off the list. Yeah. Well, I'm so happy that you guys got to come in, hang out, sit on the couch, be part of the show, and then just do a bunch of really fun stuff. To me, that makes me happy that you guys had a great time and it was worth, you know, that couple of days that you spent to come hang out with us. Oh, yeah. I've said it a million times just unreal and you went above and beyond you're so kind and thoughtful and we felt very special and it's probably nothing we'll ever get to do again and so that makes it even more special that like you really knocked it out of the park for us what did your friend think that you brought

with you oh she so her i've i'm a little ridiculous with um how much i bring up the bobby bone show because it's like the only thing i listen to other than you know spidey and friends and so i'll be like oh yeah on my podcast i listened to on the bobby bone show on the bobby bone show because it's like the Bone Show, Amy said, or whatever. And so she's kind of picked back up with the Bobby Bone Show since her and I have become friends in the last year. But she thought it was more than you could ask for as well. Like she loved it.

And she was very thankful that I took her with me. And I'm, check that off the list. We got her. Okay, got her. Followed up. There we go. And she's getting people back, recruiting people back. We could use them.

Yeah. That's always nice. That's nice. When people fall off, it's like, do y'all have that thing where if people comes up, like, what you do or whatever? And, like, they're like, oh, yeah, I used to listen to that. I'm like, we're still on. I had somebody come to me and say, hey, is the Ballybone Show still on? Do you still work there?

Like, yes. Yeah. I mean, but I get it. People have different seasons of life. They're like, oh, I just, I was in the car every morning for several years. And then my life changed. And then I wasn't in the car. So I'm not on the.

So there's always like a reason and I get it. I go in and out of stuff too. But it's like when you've been doing it as long as we have and it's like sometimes those comments are like, oh, it's like me walking up to them talking about their career and being like, oh yeah, I used to be into what you do. Well, Sarah, it was so nice to meet you guys. I'm so happy you had fun.

And thank you for listening. And one day may we meet again? Yes. Well, thank you so much. Get back to work now. We don't want to get you in trouble. All right. My boss is right here.

All right. Hi, Sarah. All right, let's go to Candace in North Carolina. Hey, Candice, it's Bobby. How are you? Good morning, Judy. Morning. Yay, I love that.

I'm good. How are you all doing? We're doing pretty good. What can we do for you? I just wanted to call about lunchbox and all his complaining. I think you guys should have, like, a protocol for all his complaining. Like, gosh, I forgot what I called it just a minute ago. But like...

But every time he... Like we shock them? Yeah, punch him in the face. Oh, that would be fun. That would be cool. Yeah. That would be fun too. But no, make him work harder.

The squeaky wheel protocol, that's what I called it. What does that mean? Every time he complains, make him do something he doesn't like and do it more. So, like, on this trip that he's going on, if he complains again, even though he's getting to go on this trip, then make him do some sort of prank that is going to be really embarrassing or make him do extra work that's just, against everything he wants to do. Interesting. How about this? She gave me an idea. What about this game?

Imagine it. There's a bathtub. It's full of water and he's in it. And there are five toasters and one of them is plugged in. And he picks the number. And he picks one of them and we throw one of the toasters in the water. And then it's only 20% chance. We just see what happens. That seems a little crazy. Yeah, just crazy enough.

Just crazy enough that we should try it. If Candace, we could do something to make him work harder, I do believe we'd have already done it. Yeah, that's tough. It is tough. But I do like to squeak, I think I'm going to steal the title, the squeaky wheel rule. And whenever he complains about something, like we do add something. I don't know what it is yet, but I like where Candace's mind is. And I think you have motivated me to come up, maybe not even motivated me. Maybe she just gave me the whole idea. I just got to figure out what it is. Hold on. Can we do a squeaky collar wheel? I mean, they seem to call in and complain all the time. Are you going to implement that?

familiar with well I mean if they want to add something to my plate why don't we make her donate to charity every time she calls in to complain I mean she didn't call to complain she didn't she complained about me that's complaining she gave us an idea because of your complaining right candis yes absolutely I'll donate to charity too if you want to me do it I'm not yeah I do it you can't just don't fall for his little games I like your next paycheck no no no no I'll match his donation well that wasn't what I said that's smart

It's not what I said. Candice, thank you for the call. I like it. Thank you. You're having a great day. I think I'm going to use this and it's going to be inspired or fully given to me by Candice. I just don't want to forget whenever we do it. So it's the squeaky wheel protocol?

You will figure out a good name, but I do like squeaky will or like annoying will or like annoying guy or something. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Candace, thank you. Thank you. Have a great day. Bye. Kathy in Chicago.

Hey, Kathy, you are on. Hi, can you hear me? Yes, I can. How are you? Hi, morning studio. Morning. Yeah, I just wanted to comment. My daughter plays softball.

Well, did. She's in college now, but, you know, and I don't know if it's a travel. We don't know that, right? But if it is a travel, sometimes that's really your only choice because high schools and colleges will not even look at you if you don't go into a travel league because you expand your talent. And if your kid has even an ounce of talent and they want to pursue high school, sometimes that's their only choice. But out here in Chicago, even I don't know where lunchbox, $75, that's a steal because our rec league alone is like upwards to $250.

The boys, baseball is even more. And then there's on top of that, you end up having to sell like popcorn tins or candy bars. and you have to make an extra 500 stipend to, you know, offset the cost of the fields or the cost of the uniforms or, you know, like the equipment or whatever it is. So you're paying that on top of everything else you have to sell. And if you don't sell it and you don't have family members or a lot of friends to buy that, you're on the hook for that. So sometimes you just really don't have a choice. I mean, I know lunchbox is going to come back and say, yes, you do have a choice because you don't have to do that for your kids. But, you know, if you really want your kids to succeed, you know, you sacrifice some things and, you know, do what you have to do.

But sometimes that's your only choice to go into those sports and pay that type of money. Well, Kathy, I appreciate the call. She does bring up a point about getting recruited as a college softball player. I'm my brother-in-law as a D-1 coach. And he's almost never going to just travel to high school to watch one player play. He goes to travel ball games where there are multiple. because most kids that are good get invited to play on travel teams, especially if they're being recruited.

Oh, that makes sense. So then the coaches just have to go and they can watch tons of people. Because they don't have big budgets for softball teams. You know, we talked about softball teams don't make money for schools. So again, there's some nuance here. I'm sure I didn't want to read it all because when people ask for help on Giving Tuesday, I don't want to rat them out. Or maybe they just don't want it shared.

But I know not all, and neither does he. but it's also not his money. He gets so mad about my money. And lunchbox is coming from. His kids are little. Like, your oldest is how old? Eight years old. Eight years old.

It's still cheap at eight years old. It's a nickel. Yes. Kathy, thank you so much for calling. Hope you have a great day. Thank you. You guys, too.

Keep doing what you're doing. Love listening to you. Thank you. Thank you. One more call from Phil and Delaware. Hey, Phil, you're on the show. What's up, buddy? Hey, morning, Bobby.

Good morning, studio. Morning. Morning. I've got some for a lunchbox. He needs to stop drinking his hater rate. He's complaining about getting a free trip to Vegas, free room and board, free flight, and he wants to be upgraded.

If somebody DM due about being upgraded to first class for a better plan or a better sheet, he'd be the first person to be crying that they don't need to deal with it. They just need to get on the seat and suck it up and fly where you got to fly. Yeah, lunchbox is very, very, much a do what I say, not what I do type guy.

No, I was just asking if you wanted to upgrade me. I didn't say, hey, Bobby. I didn't want to buy you a ticket. And nobody, and listeners are asking when they DM, they're not saying, hey, do this for me. Yeah, they are. They're saying, hey, pay for my son to pay baseball, $750. Also, the last caller brought up a good point about fundraising with chocolate bars. Lunchbox did that.

Oh, also, I should say this. The 750 wasn't per kid. It was a donation level towards the team. Yeah. I took it as that. Oh, I thought it said per player. No, it's not per player. There were levels of donating

and it was $750. And so they needed a certain amount because I could have given them $50. But like Amy said, I wanted to get my name on the banner. You love that. That's right. Because it's why I live.

That's not lie. It's really honestly why you're here right now. They just don't put me on enough. Look at all the screens. Oh my gosh, she's right. The only way that I even did this show is it put my name on the screens in the room. Everywhere.

Yes. Yes. Phil, you know, I think a lot of people feel the way that you feel. And oddly, a lot of people don't as well because he does have a lot of support. I do try to get support for him on as well. It's harder sometimes to get his support on, but he does have supporters out there. What do you agree? Oh, I got a lot of supporters.

Yeah. They just don't have phones. Wait, what? Yes, they do. Why do they don't have phones? Why wouldn't they have phones? Either they're seven or they're... Well, I mean, because there's not a lot of calls.

So, I mean, I just... If you get any, I put them through. That's what I mean. They must not have phones because I know there's a lot out there. Oh, so when you get a lunchbox fan. I put it on. Same thing with voicemails. Oh.

Because I will purposely say I look for lunchbox supporters and I put them on. But we dig. But they don't have phones, he said. Yeah. They're living in caves, apparently. Phil, thank you for the call. I hope you have a great day. I got a question for lunchbox again.

Yeah. If he's such a celebrity like he says he is, that this so-called high dollar stuff, then why does he get automatically you get upgraded? I don't know. I've never really been on Frontier, so I don't really have status.

And maybe when I go to the counter, they're going to see me and be like, oh, you're upgraded anyway. I have no idea. This was just a guaranteed upgrade. There's nothing guaranteed in life. Amen, Phil. Literally, there is guarantees.

If you buy a ticket to a game, you're guaranteed to get into that game or a concert. That's a guarantee. not unless it rains Doesn't mean nothing If you buy the ticket But you're not buying nothing It's given to you

Correct You were giving a gift You were getting a gift for somebody Give me the ticket I'll go I'll sit in the seat I don't care Phil didn't give a crap You're getting shot for nothing

You know what Give Phil Phil just take the flight for no reason Just to turn around And come back home Yeah But if I show up at the airport on time I am guaranteed

A spot on that plane So Phil you're wrong But you're not Because like a senator could show up or someone can take your seat and then all of a sudden you're out. I don't think that's how it works. It is how it works. Like someone could show up and you get bumped.

Really? Yeah. It almost never happens, but it could. Yeah, they can bump you from a flight. Okay. And they could have oversold the flight too. You ever hear those? Oh.

I heard that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and there's another guarantee in life. This call with Phil is going to end. So it's guaranteed. That's going to happen. So Phil saying there's no guarantees in life, absolutely inaccurate.

Hey, Phil, can you stand the line? Yeah, Phil. For the rest of the show. All right, Phil. Phil. Have a great day, man. I appreciate your call. Thanks, Bobby. Take care, guys. All right, see you later. All right, that's it for the podcast today. Thank you very much for listening.

You guys, they call us. We love it. If you leave us voicemails, we love it. It adds so much to the show. You can always, because you'll listen to the podcast. Now, if you heard something you want to comment on, 877-77 Bobby, it could be about something from part one. It could be something from part two. It could be the ten questions that I did.

It really doesn't matter. We do have the voicemail lines open for a reason all the time. So call. Again, thank you so much for listening. Scooby, do we fix the outro credit? Yeah, I got all the current updated stuff, yeah. There ain't go. All right, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye, everybody.

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