The Bobby Bones Show - Tuesday Post Show (2-13-24)

Episode Date: February 13, 2024

We start by talking about the Best and Least educated states. How romance scammers are taking advantage of people on Valentine’s Day. Amy talks about loving Fargo. Eddie said he has the solution to Bobby’s sleeping issue. Bobby on shark attacks being on the rise and a funny TikTok he saw with a guy describing how to survive an attack. Bobby talks about books he is reading after Eddie talks about wanting to read more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Money and Wealth with John Hope Bryant from the Black Effect Network on the I'd Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. It's time for the Bobby Bowie. Post Show. Here's your host, Bobby Bones. What's up? A new report on the most and least educated states.

Oh, no. And most of what happens is it's states with the most money because they can actually afford education. Yeah. That's what sucks about this. It's not like people wanting to not be educated. It's states that don't have as much money can't afford to put on the same education as states that do. So they used 18 indicators, educational attainment, school quality, achievement gaps between gender races. Most educated, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maryland, Connecticut, Colorado. Yeah. That makes sense.

Like Harvard and MIT's up there. Yeah. All the ivies. Yeah. Least educated. Uh-oh. I'm not guessing. Smart.

I'm not making people mad because we know the answers. If no one was going to get mad, what would you guess? Mississippi. Number two. Least educated. Go ahead. Arkansas. Yeah. Oh, man.

Number four. Alabama. Number six. So didn't that do top five, but yeah. West Virginia. It's just pick every SEC school, basically. West Virginia's number one, but they're not in the SEC, but yeah, number one. That's why I didn't want to guess, though.

I didn't know that. West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama. Doesn't really put a good taste in your mouth, Tom. Nah, no. What's up? Yeah, I didn't want to guess. When do you have a problem with people getting upset with you? I just, I'm just, I'm not, I'm just saying.

New Leaf? I met people from there. Wait, what did that have to do with anything? And he said, how'd you know? So you met people from those states. Oh, and you knew they weren't smart when you talked to them? I know. Oh, my gosh.

I have family from those states. They're smart. Bobby's from Arkansas. Hey, now you made him upset again. Yeah. A guy dies from Alaska Pox. What's that? It is a rare virus.

It's a new virus called Alaska Pox. The virus was first identified in Fairbanks, Alaska in 2015. There have only been seven cases. The guy who died was the first Alaska Pox infection that resulted in, hospitalization and death, it's not clear how the patient was infected, but there are no reports of human-to-human spread. The virus typically occurs in small animals. According to the statement from the Alaska Department of Health, the patient cared for a stray cat who may have caught voles or shrews and then clawed and gave the guy Alaskapox. Wait, is this the same thing as

the Bluebonnet Craig? A.B.B.C. News. I don't know. What? I've read something about somebody got the Bluebonic Craig. Are you saying the bubonic plague? Plague? But that was something that was passed around and millions of people died from it. And we also now take a vaccine so we don't get the bubonic plague. No? Bubonic or boobonic? Hold on. Hold on. I'm in the middle.

Bluebonate plague. People that get the old school diseases didn't get the proper vaccinations or care. It's like if you were to get polio or you were to get one of these viruses that are pretty much all eradicated but aren't fully. But if someone got

boobonic plague, now I can't even say it. It's because. Bluebonne. A cat could give you a boobot. That's what the story said. The cat did. In this case, the cat gave him Alaskan pox. Yeah, but if you are, from what I know about plagues, especially this one, you're a doctor, that we have the ability to not catch that if we take the proper steps. Let you know those vaccinations you get when you're like five. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, the article I read, somebody had it in 2017, and this is the first since then. Like the bubonic plague was like 1,300s. Really? Do you know what's really fascinating too is the London fog? Do you remember the London fog? There's a T called the London fog. Is that another plague? No, no, no, no.

It was just a time in like history when there was that dense fog in London where people couldn't leave their houses because they really couldn't even see their hands if they like stuck them out. Like that's how bad the fog was and no one could leave their house for like weeks. I'm confused how we got here. The blubonic plague. Bubonic plague It's not blue bonnet Pague

But now we're talking about fog Well he's talking about old things that happened a long time ago I think London fog was like in a long time ago too 80s No no no no I don't know much about the bubonic plague or the London fog I just know the bubonic plague killed a lot of folks And it's one of those that they

Mostly we don't get because we have The science and technology To study it learn it And get our bodies ready So it doesn't get it Yeah sounds terrible romance scammers are using AI to target people that want to meet people on apps, mostly elderly because they'll fall for anything, I guess, ahead of Valentine's Day.

Federal agencies are seeking anyone that's on an app that may be a bit older to say, hey, chill out because scammers are about, we're talking about this on Hinge. You have to be verified? Yeah. Or you don't have to be. You can opt to verify yourself on your account just so that people can trust. that the pictures you loaded are you? How do you verify yourself?

So Hinge will you click that you want to verify and then you have to take a real-time selfie in that moment and it like scans your face to make sure that your face right at that moment matches the pictures that you uploaded. They don't load that picture though, do they? No, nobody sees it. They say. They say.

And then if they approve you, like you're the same person, then you get a little blue checkmark. And I'm like, why wouldn't everybody, now if I see someone that doesn't have blue checkmark, I'm like, I don't, yeah, they pulled these pictures from the internet. That's from the New York Post. They're catfishing people. Yeah, that's good, though.

They have the technology to do that, but that same technology is also watching every move we make. Yeah, there's that. Hey, some good, some bad. A suspect pulls a knife during the Tacoma robbery. The store owner scares them off with an even bigger one. Yeah. There was a movie called Crocodile Dundee back in the day. Way back in the day.

I was a kid. There was like three of them, weren't there? Yeah, but like one, or maybe two. I don't know, one of them, the guy pulls out a knife in New York, and he's like, oh, that's great. I got a bigger one. And he pulls out. You call that a knife?

So, yeah, he owns Salina One Market. Somebody came in with a knife and I said, hey, listen, this is a holdup. Give me some money. And he goes, I don't think so. He pulls out a machete. Yeah. It's all on surveillance video. That's pretty funny.

It's from King 5. Did you watch Fargo? Yeah. Literally, he was just thinking of it as you told the story. Fargo season 5? Probably because of a knife. Are you done? Done.

And thoughts? Amazing. Eddie was acting like he didn't like it. What? That's one of the best shows you've recommended in a while. It's awesome. It's really good, but it just got weird on me. So what I've learned,

every season of Fargo is a crime with like a slight tinge of like paranormal. Yes, and no one told me that. That's the weird part. I didn't know it either. That's the weird part. I'm like, what is happening? But then I looked it up after season five

because it doesn't really dominate the whole season, but there's a slight tint. Just, and now that I've watched season two and we're on season one. It's just barely, but there's always some little paranormal thing in there. So season one also has paranormal? I don't know yet. Season one, we haven't seen it yet, but season two does. So season two was voted, well, at least in this one article I went to, because they ranked all the seasons. In season two, they had at the number one's slot. I would say five is better than two because it's just people we know. Two is really cool, but it's a little slow.

I saw that guy from Friday Night Lights. It's in the seven. Which one? The blonde guy. I never watched Friday Night Lights. Oh, well, that. Yeah. Season two was, it ended up being awesome.

It just took a minute. It was in the 70s. And then season one's pretty good. It's got Billy Bob Thornton in it. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I like it. It's awesome, though, right?

So good. I've never seen the movie. Me neither. Oh, you need to watch the movie, do it? It was really, really good. But there's no paranormal in that. There isn't? No, that's kind of what threw me off.

Why at the beginning of every episode do they say this is the true story? Because they found out when they were doing this that said they could say it and you can say that and it's not illegal. Yeah, but that's so, okay. They talk about it too openly. They're like, that's not true. I know. Okay. We just say that because there was no law against it.

And I get it the first episode, but then the second episode, third episode. No, it's every episode. They're going to start it with every episode. And I'm like, now you're lying to me again. Now I'm starting not like you. But now it's like a joke. Yeah. Did you finish season five?

I fell asleep last night watching the last episode. How did you fall asleep watching the last episode? I was just tired, dude. I'm telling me, I'm drinking this tea that's making me fall asleep. Is that the tea you told me to drink? I brought it for you. What is it called? Right here.

Leapy time? Zanex. Oh, stress relief. No, it's not Xanax. I swear by it because I don't drink tea or anything like that. And I don't have a problem in sleeping bones, but my wife was having a problem. So I saw us at the grocery store. I bought it and she's been sleeping through the night since we started drinking it.

It's been four nights straight where she's sleeping. I've tried that before. It didn't help me sleep. That one? Maybe you got a special box. But see, there's one that's a sleepy time. I'm like, ah. I didn't say Tijuana and have a legrine leave.

That, make you go to sleep, man. I think your tea bags might be late. Here, here, take it home. Will you try it? Okay. Try it, and then let me know what you. Dude, why'd you have a good night's sleep tonight? What if this saves you?

The weird thing would be now if I got a good night sleep as I'm going to do the sleep study. Oh, the irony. We should wait then. No, no, no, I'll take it. Okay. Yeah, I'll take it. All right. Don't let me forget.

I'll give it to you on the way out. The Taylor Swift effect, 20% of Super Bowl viewers cheered for Kansas City specifically because of Taylor Swift. And I think that's probably because they didn't have a team anyway. The Super Bowl's on and most people don't have a team. If they're just a casualish fan, they're like, I'll root for the team with Taylor because Taylor's likable. That's from variety.

The Super Bowl is the most watched telecast, they say, in television history. It's got to be the biggest American. I don't know about the world because I've seen like the World Cup. There were World Cup games. Oh, yeah. Like individual matches that were bigger than that because all the countries that watched. But I'm going to go with America. in America, are there actually people that don't watch the game?

Oh, yeah, and more and more every year. That's crazy. That surprises me. Like, what do they do when the entire country is talking about something? You're so into it that you think everybody's into it. But, Amy, if Super Bowl was on and you didn't do the show and you're by yourself, would you watch it? Well, I mean, I would probably go do something. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

I go to a Super Bowl party. But to your point, if I was at home alone for whatever reason, no, I probably wouldn't turn it. on. Not even turn it on to have background noise? She turned it off in overtime. True. I didn't know that was going to happen. It was fourth quarter. I feel like I kind of wish I would have seen the

overtime. Well, yeah, I think because we're involved in it, it seems like so much but it is massive. It's a hundred and twenty-three million viewers, but how many people are in the United States? But we all grew up with like, around families that like sports. Like we have Super Bowl something that's been a part of our life. Maybe for some people, Super Bowl

wasn't a part of their home or their parents didn't really have Super Bowl parties. But for us, and I would say younger kids, too, they have more options. We didn't have. We had like four channels, five channels. But like at church, they're like, all right, guys, we're going to have to speed it up because it got Super Bowl today. I know everyone wants to get home to do that. It is a big deal. Yeah. It's huge. I mean, you walk into the grocery store and they had 500 balloons like advertising the Super Bowl. Yes, it's the biggest deal. But there are a lot of people

that don't watch Super Bowl or care. Like I did an Instacart order and I thought, oh, dang, it's probably not can be able to get delivered because nobody's going to be working. And sure enough, my Instacart order showed up during the Super Bowl. Some people ought to pay the bills. Well, I, yes, I understand that. And I made sure to tip extra because it was the Super Bowl. Oh, look at you. Hey, everybody.

Tell me something. It's saying, no. I think that. I see you, Amy. Props to you. Okay, no, that's not my point. Amy, that's what it's all about. That's what it's all about.

Never mind. I think I was going to say that when it's rank. raining or the Super Bowl's on. Yeah, those two things. You give a little extra, right? They don't call you an angel for nothing. That's right. I believe there are angels among us.

Right here. Her name is Amy. Let's do this. Midroll here. You can have opinions. You can have like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program. I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and hosts of the podcast a slight change of plans,

a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation. There is one finding that is consistent, and that is that our resilience rests on our relationships. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes. Listen to a slight change of plans on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On a recent episode of the podcast Money and Wealth with John Hobriant, I sit down with Tiffany the budgetista Aliche to talk about what it really takes to take control of your money.

What would that look like in our families if everyone was able to pass on wealth to the people when they're no longer here? We break down budgeting, financial discipline, and how to build real wealth, starting with the mindset shifts. Too many of us were never, ever taught. Financial education is not always about, like, I'm going to get rich. That's great. It's about creating an atmosphere for you to be able to take care of yourself and leave a strong financial legacy for your family. If you've ever felt you didn't get the memo on money, this conversation is for you to hear more. Listen to Money and Wealth with John O'Brien from the Black Effect Network on the I'd Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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We talk tanking. I mean, honestly, like, I might get in trouble for this answer, but I think it's like definitely happening in the WBA. And yeah, we talk about our mistakes too. They pulled me to the side and was like, hey, man, we got a call last night, man, you can't be rolling around the city like this tonight before games, you know, doing this, doing whatever. And of course, family stories.

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The reason they're more attacks is just more people in the water swimming and get going deeper. Florida Museum and Natural History. I reposted on my story and I said, you guys have got to watch this video and you've got to read the comments because it was a dude who's swimming and a shark comes up behind him.

But he's a train. And he's like, if a shark comes up, this is what you do. Don't flail. But it's a video of the shark coming. And then you grabbed its nose. The people in the comments is the funniest thing I ever read. Because nobody's going to do what he did.

Nobody's going to be, a shark's going to come. and we're going to be calm and wait for the shark to come and then push its nose away. Never. That's exactly what he did. Never. And...

Yeah, because that shark probably wouldn't go on like, clop, clop, clop. And most don't. Shark, what he said was, look for injured prey. So if you're flailing to get out, it looks like you're injured. And so he's going to come and try to eat you.

He's like, turn your face to it and face up to the shark. Okay. Okay, idiot. Let me see if it's still up because if so, I'm going to have to read some of these comments because I...

Oh, man, I'm most opposed to the last of 24 hours. Hold, let me go to... archive. I will say though, I've been going to the beach my whole life and I've seen more sharks in the last five months, five years than I've ever seen my entire life. Really? At the beach. Okay, check this out. It says, if you see a shark, never splash and run away. Okay. And then the comments are like, I'm in its stomach, now what do I do? And if the shark returns back, do we repeat the steps? And I'll say, he'd never find me in my cloud of diarrhea. Oh. I like that.

It's like pages and pages of hilarious comments Because the guy's serious He's like if a shark comes up behind you And this shark is just That's not happening But that's how it's approaching it Yeah And he says if you start trying to get away

The shark will follow you hoping you're an easy food source So he just starts slowly kicking his feet Nothing to it He said when I splash and swim away The tiger shark continues to follow me And there's this huge tiger shark following him in the ocean No cage Just him in the air

he goes, you never want to like injured or compromised. And so he's just looking at it. And finally, he says, you want to make sure you look like a fellow predator. And then he takes and he turns his body. So instead of running away, turn and face the shark. Massive shark. Swimming right up to him. No.

Make eye contact and stand your ground. No. And if necessary, push firmly down on the top of the shark's head. Okay. And he grabs the shark. This may even be a woman. I can't tell because she's in all this gear. Pushes the head of the shark and pushes the other way.

And the shark just goes, okay, whoop. It just goes the other way. Then exit the water as calmly and quickly as possible. How did they even figure out that would work? They probably tried a lot of things. This is the only thing that didn't get eaten. Everyone else got eaten. One says, tell the shark you, comments.

Tell the shark you don't identify as prey. Then you can't eat you. Hey, I am not prey. Tell the shark, I do not consent, and the shark will back off. What? That's interesting. Like HR. Yeah.

After grabbing the shark, no, should I make a honk noise? Someone wrote, I'm texting from heaven. Do not do this. Another one. This is shark produced propaganda to fool us and did not trying to swim away. Don't believe it. The sharks put that out.

Anyway, I thought that was pretty funny. What do most people lie about? How they feel. Money. That's a good one, Amy. How they feel. They're hidden past tops the list. Things they want to say buried in their past and don't want to be judged about.

That's followed by how much money they make. if someone asks they usually exaggerate their age who asks how much money are you making I don't ask people that I guess if it were to come up in a conversation where you're sharing that kind of thing

their age typically if it's someone you won't see again they'll try them a couple years off or what they do for a living they'll lie about how much they travel or say they have their boss's position it's from Vanity Fair I keep a list of my lies in my phone

and what happens is anytime I'm saying something's not true I find myself not stumbling. I stumble. I'm like, I can't. And then I correct it. Even little things. Like one,

I think I wrote this. I mentioned that I was talking. Eddie and I were doing a podcast. I think I said this already. And I told him I had talked to this guy named John Middilkoff. I said, I talked to him about a game. I didn't talk to him. I felt like that was a lie.

And I didn't tell it was over. I was like that was not true. I did not talk with them. That's not a lie, though. But I didn't feel like I was being accurate. But texting is communicating. Yeah, it's talking. I know, but I said, no, I talked to him.

And I feel like I presented that as I talked to them And so I wrote that down So I always think about that all the time now So I have a list of lies And I just I write them down But all it does is it keeps me from Not always lying But I think about it more

And so sometimes I don't That's good And I was trying not to lie to people to be nice But sometimes I just can't Sometimes you just got to But you said that this was the year I know I'm a lot better at it but sometimes I just don't want to get into it.

I'm selfish too. Because I'm like, if I don't just say this, I get out of the situation. So, yeah, most of the time. Holly, so you didn't have to tell the gift giver that that that wasn't your favorite song. Oh, yeah, I remember that. But I have it the other one. He brought the other one, though.

Also, I can't hide it. He brought me a gift of this, it was a nice gesture of this audio wave of a song. He said, this is like your favorite song? And I was like, it is? which tips them off immediately, it's not. And so then I said, no, no, no, no, no. I think you're thinking of blue eyes crying in the rain. See, that's tricky because it's good to be honest.

Like, you want to be honest. But in that case, like, you're, like, no, I know. Does it hurt their feelings? They're like, oh, well, then I gave you the wrong gift. I'm just, it's just for me. I do lie. I do lie about the, like, I read this somewhere, and I just saw it on TikTok.

But you did. Oh, I never read it. I never read it. I never read it. I don't read, really. I say that all the time. You know what? I read that.

Are you embarrassed of TikTok? No, I'm just saying like, I read somewhere about the Blue Bonnet Craig or whatever, and then it's like. Okay, that's what I call it Blue Monit Craig. Whatever. And that's about how you know he didn't read it because it wasn't spelled out for it. I just heard somebody say it. And what did it say about that Blue Bonnet Craig? It said that somebody had contracted that disease, and it's the first time since 2017.

It sounds like a wrestler. Here he comes, Blue Bonnet Craig. Yeah, but I need to stop saying that. I just say, like, I saw it on TikTok. Or you just say, I saw. Or you can say whatever you want. I didn't matter. It just sounds better when you say, like, I read it.

It's almost like from a trustworthy source. Right. Or if you saw it on TikTok, who knows anybody can post anything up there. Exactly. Doctors worn against the latest beauty craze of tattooed lipstick. Saying it could turn your lips black. Oh. The procedures cost anywhere from $200 to $1,400.

Turn your lips black. Well, no, it's tattooed lipstick, but it's, It could turn your lips black if it reacts wrong. Oh. Allergic reactions to cosmetic tattooing that your lips could turn black. There is no easy solution. They could go back and do correction laser, but it almost always turns black. Daily mail.

It's like when I had my microbladed brows lazered off. I don't know what you said there, boobonic plague. You had tattoo eyebrows? Yeah, microbladed. I got a microbladed, and I went to someone in town that I thought a lot of other girls I know had gone to her, so I trusted it. I've never said where, because I think she's having a bad day. But it was, I was like, this is my face.

We weren't going to ask where. Yeah. Oh, I know. I'm just making sure, like, if anybody, I wouldn't say who, because I think she is good at what she does, but the brows that she's on me were not. It was really, really, really bad. And I had to get them lasered off.

So, yeah, be careful who you go to. The laser part? No, because I think it's such a small area, and I had lidecane or numbing cream and then the laser, but I had to go multiple times. It hurt because it was like, great, now I purchased the brows and now I have to pay for the laser and then that hurt. Back to Eddie saying he didn't read, he just watched it on TikTok.

Didn't you read a book at some point? Do we make you read a book on the show? No. And you liked it? Yeah, just mercy. Oh, yeah. You all made me read that? Yeah.

No, I did like. You just read it on your show? Yeah, yeah, I thought so. for a bit we made you read a book. I like that book. Okay. So... Book Club? No, no book club, because I want to force it on you. I wouldn't mind reading something. Would you like to be told what to read then? So it's not like you're going on to Netflix with no agenda and you can't pick. I would like that. Yeah, because I mean, I've read the perfect storm, which is they made a movie about that, like Mark

Walbert, you know, the... I never read it or saw the movie. I don't know. Sword Fisherman. It's really awesome book. I read Jimmy Buffett's Pirate Look at 40. So you, so you, but How long ago? For those two? Pirate looks of 40. I was probably in college. Okay. And then I read Matthew McConaughey's Green Lacks.

You read that recently? Yeah. So I've read about five or six books. So you just need someone to point you in a direction because you don't hate reading. I actually love every book that I've picked up and read, I enjoyed it. There's one that Lunchbox told me about a long time ago,

but they're making a movie about it now, the Roe Boys. Oh, boys in the boat. Oh, boys in the boat. Yeah. What's that? It's about a rowing team, and it is... Ooh, it's sad, but it's good.

Is it real? Yeah. The movie came out Christmas Day. Oh, it's already out? Yeah, I think so. Oh. It's about rowing? Oh, it's got a movie Mike.

Movie Mike doesn't give us a movie review for boys in the boat. Let's go. Yeah, it's pretty historically accurate, too. It kind of feels like a movie you would watch in school to learn about history. I like those kind of movies if there's also some entertainment. It's basically this one character who's going through a rough time, can't pay for college, so he joins the rowing team to make some... money and then they end up

watch the movie? So what did you review it? I'm moving Mike. What'd you give it? I thought it's pretty good. Probably a four out of five. It's like it's inspirational but not like super cheesy like you would expect. Yeah, it's fine line between the two. I think if, like what do you, I've only just recently started reading fiction books. Like I read a couple fiction books ever, but it was like I read Dan Brown whenever he did the Mona Lisa code or whatever read that and it was good.

The Vinci Code. Yeah, whatever. Before the movie. Like I read the book. before the movie I thought it was good. And then I obviously read all the Hunger Games books and tried to read Twilight, get nightmares. But so I just, I was like, it's such a pretentious thing to feel. And I was like, I only want to read if I can learn.

But I started to read some fiction books. And I've read a couple in the past, not since January 1st. I think I've read six books since the year started. But the two that were fiction were Chang Gang All-Stars, which is about in the future, if you're in prison and for a long, time you can actually sign in and it's basically MMA and so you have to go and you sign to fight but

you fight to the death and if you win certain amount of matches then you're freed see that sounds awesome but at the same time it's actually teaching you about the prison system a bit and it was a really good book okay chain gang all starts i'm not even recommending it no no just wrote it down because i what i've been doing is just grabbing just grabbing books off the list because i don't i'm not asking people for recommendations i don't i don't apple books whatever that is. Because I don't want people to feel like pressure. Committing to a book is a big commitment. And then I read the Midnight Library.

It's really good. And what's that one about? It's about a girl. She's depressed. She has killed herself. And then before she dies, she like goes to this library of all the books of her life, all her regrets, every regret she's ever had is in a book. And she gets to choose to take some of those and see what it would have been like. Had she not taken the, you know, had she done what she regretted doing? had she not whatever changed her regret that's all in the books yeah that's what the book is in the library

and so then it's that and it comes back around didn't even know what it was and so it's like between life and death is awesome that sounds pretty cool a little deep thinking but sounds cool no not if you don't not if you don't go there yes you can be but it's also just good on the surface that was really good um the stupid book that I'm reading now is great but it I didn't know it was 850 pages

because I bought it what oh my god Is it the Bible? Something called like Moby Dick. Yeah, exactly. It's called in the realm of ghosts. And right now, in the realm of hungry ghosts is what it's called. And it's all about addiction. And this guy who was a, he is a doctor.

And he worked at a clinic and where he just worked with a lot of addicts. And right now it's in the science part of it where it's all about neuro. transmitters. Yeah, no. And like the science behind. Fiction? No, no, no. This is, I'll go fiction, non-fiction. Oh, you're back to non-fiction. I'm doing that, yeah. And it's like all the drugs that we have are all really based in a plant, a chemical that people had found in, you know, hundreds and hundreds of years ago in certain parts of the world, they would chew the cocoa leaves because they, if they had to go on long voyages, they needed something to keep them from being hungry and give them energy. but we have figured out a way to make it into cocaine,

which then goes in, you know, what happens whenever, you know, the happy chemical? You familiar with that? Yeah. Do you know what that is. Do you know what the happy chemical is? Dopamine? Yeah, I was going to ask them.

Oh. Yeah, I was going to ask them. Oh, I thought you were just calling it the happy chemical. No, no, so dopamine. It talks about how some people's brains, you know, because addiction is a disease and how some people's brain chemistry, like it takes one time and it's like injured brain matter.

and some brains are more susceptible to addiction and they go and they talk about a lot of the people in the uh vietnam war were doing a lot of heroin just like feel okay it was being opioids past like soldiers and that like 8% came back addicted of those that did it and that everyone doesn't have that addictive either the brain isn't predisposed to having that condition or they didn't do it so much but it's just that and at times it's really good but at times i feel like i'm learned and it's 800 pages I didn't know it was 800 pages That's a lot It's good So will you What if you just decide to move on? Let me read just I won't do that

You have to finish it? No I'll suffer it yeah I'll suffer it out But I'm not suffering It's good I just hate the number at the bottom On the page that says You know

312 of 850 Here you go It's the real life story of addicts Who are so often denied The space to do so alongside science-based analysis of why people get addicted It's really great

My therapist is who recommended it to me It helps would help people have more compassion for others? Absolutely. To me, when I started reading it, I started to feel it hit really, really, like, close to home. It felt like someone was punching a bruise. I didn't know I had, like, a spot.

But yeah, it's called In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and it's hardcore. How quickly you're reading that, like 10 pages a night? Or, like, how fast do you read? It depends. I can read 100 in a day. Oh, 100 a day? But then I might not read, if I'm super busy, I might not read for a couple days.

Are you doing that thing where you skip words sometimes? I read my normal pace. I don't try to go fast. I think I naturally sometimes read the, just read the first half of the word and assume that's the word. But I don't do it on purpose. I do that reading liners here. And Kevin will be like, hey man, it's not the word. The word's Saskatchewan, you said skating rink.

And I'm like, I just said SK and ran with it. So, but yeah, it's good. It's long. But it's called in the realm of hungry ghosts. doctor, it's like Gabor Mete or whatever his name is. Oh, Gabor Mante.

Yeah. Oh yeah, Gabor Mote. Right at it? Gabor Motee, yeah. Yeah, so does he get into attachment theory stuff in there? I think he has other books about that. Okay, yeah, because Therapy Cat loves him.

I've listened to my podcast, but I wasn't going to read this book. I was going to go read like the new Hunger Games where they ride the dragon and stuff. What? There's like a new... Do you know what's called, Mike?

Ballard of song versus the name? No. It's not Ballardous... That's the prequel. No, no, it's not Hunger Games. It's a new one, though. Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Somebody was reading this. She's in the military. My uncle. And her dad, her mom was also... Percy Warner? Percy something? Percy Jackson? No, no, that's old.

It is? Yeah, Percy Jackson's like, maybe a movie... My wife will know. So it's like a new trilogy of sorts that we're going to really love? I haven't started it. Okay.

But it's... If you go to the fiction list right now, I bet you there are people listening that are like, What is it? My wife all know. Hold on. They're yelling at her.

I think she read it. I read them. House of flame and shadow. Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, House of Earth and Blood. Are those the same books? Oh, those are all different. So maybe Fourth Wing and Iron Flame are the same person. I don't know.

But I just hit auto text. And so I text all that my wife, me talking about it. Like an idiot. All right, let's see if she'll answer. So, yeah, that's what. Eddie should. Are they saying what it is? No, nobody knows what it is.

No, I'm probably not explaining it right. It could be Iron Flame. Let me just call her real quick. Yeah, I think that's it. Iron Flame. Hey, what's the book where the girl rides the dragon? Hmm? Hello?

The book you're reading where the girl rides the dragon and like... Labyrinth. No, it's not labyrinth. Dragon Girl? We're talking it. Never-ending story. We're literally talking about it right now on the podcast. That's it.

The Girl and the Dragon. You don't own the book. She's no permission. Okay. What's it called, please? I thought you were reading it. Yeah, you didn't remember your title. I do that too. No, I do that too.

I don't know the book. Is it called Iron Flame? Okay, well, you just, we're about to be done. Put her on hold. Does this sound familiar? The plot centers on Violet, a 20-year-old student, enrolled in Bosgouth War College with aspirations of becoming a skilled dragon rider. Despite facing physical, despite facing physical,

She's lying. Despite facing physical challenges. Okay, there you go. That's it. Bye, I love you. That's it. Okay. It does sound like never-ending story, though. It sounds like Lord of the Rings meets Hunger Games.

New author? I can get into that. Yeah. I think. I don't know if I'm going to... I still have to finish my Willie book, though. Yeah, I got him... That's taking me forever.

...audible. It's audio book. I like it. It's taking me forever, though, because I stop it and I start listening to songs. Because he really goes by song by song and just explains it. And so I'm like, I've never heard that song and I listen to it. But it's not him, though, right? It's somebody doing it.

It's Ethan Hawke reading the book. Was you talking about wearing something two days in a row if that's okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because what I do, I mean, you've given me a lot of cool clothes, like throughout the years. And so every Sunday I go to church, I'm like, I'm going to try something different. I've never worn this shirt with these pants or whatever So I kind of get dressed up and I wear it to church and then I'm like ooh I like it So I wear the rest of Sunday and then the next day at work I'm like just wear that again

Awesome But then my wife's like you're still wearing that shirt who cares? Who cares? Like it's been too much as not like mustard on the pants right and as long as you feel clean Yeah, or you don't smell you're good let it rip dude three days in a row three days Let's go because I do think like oh am I going to see the same person that I saw Who cares let's normalize this I feel like sometimes If it's dirty or stinky, don't wear it.

Right. So let's not normal. I want a dirty, stinky clothes. No, but. I'm not talking to you. You say who cares, but people are all like, oh, like. No, they're not. When does someone ever said that to you?

When does someone ever said that to you? Wow, you're wearing that shirt two days in a row. When has someone ever said that to you? It's your thinking that people are thinking that about you and really they don't care, really. Or they're not even noticing. But we tell lunchbox. I mean, he wore that shirt. But he wears the same shirt every day.

We can't tell what day we're doing the show by his video clips because he wears the same thing all the time. But that's his time. No, no, no, no. By a shirt, you mean jacket. A hoodie. A hoodie is a jacket. 100%. It's not a jacket. It's a jacket.

It's a sweatshirt. Okay. So it's a shirt. I have a shirt underneath it. Yeah, a t-shirt. Do you change that shirt or you wear that one? Yeah, yeah, I wear a different t-shirt. Right, so would you say a sweatshirt's a shirt?

I consider it more of a jacket. But what's it called? Sweat shirt. Sure. Right. What's the second half of that? Shirt. But I don't sweat in it.

So it's not a sweatshirt. I don't pant when I wear pants. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Man? All right. That's a weird argument. Thank you guys. It's a new episode

of Too Much Access Up If you want to watch it. You can comment in the comment section Get a sign ball from Eddie and I And other than that, new episode of the Bobbycast up today. Amy's got a fifth thing up today. Yeah.

And the four things with Amy Brown is what you search. Fifth Thing, yeah. Hey, they know. Some people don't. Trust me. They might Google Fifth Thing and... Trust me, they know.

Okay. Amy, did you get that author I sent you? I forward you another email about an author? What? email address. Splitting up divorce stuff. No, I just thought it was to be a good fifth thing or a fourth thing.

Did you send it to? I mean, your work email. Well, you're going to have to, I don't check that often. Dang, you check your work email? No, you don't either. Oh, I haven't years, but I like to do that. No, I know not to email you. Do I haven't logged into it in three years?

But I'm interested. Yes, Eddie, send it on over. I got a lot of PR firms sending me like doctors about stuff like that. Stuff like divorce. Divorce. Divorce is a big one. It's something a lot of people go through. Yeah.

What else? Mostly just divorce. Okay, cool. I wonder why. I don't know. All right, we're done. All right, we'll see you guys later. It's Financial Literacy Month, and the podcast, Eating While Broke, is bringing real conversations

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