The Bobby Bones Show - (Wed Early Bird) Bobby Has An Exciting Opportunity Happening + Why Was Amy Complimented On How She's Been Handling Her Divorce? + Mailbag: Honesty With Boss

Episode Date: May 24, 2023

Bobby has an exciting opportunity he's doing soon! Plus, find out why Amy got a compliment on how she's been handling her divorce and what she thought about it. Mailbag: A listener's boss is asking all of his workers to be honest and send in suggestions for their work environment, and not do it anonymously, including about him. Should our listener be honest about their feelings and suggestions or just write something complimentary? We share our thoughts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You could be anywhere in the whole wide world, but you're here with us, and we appreciate that. Let's go around the room. First, he really wants his face to be on one of the radio station vans. And he loves that no parenting Sundays makes his family have zero plans. Here he is, Eddie, everybody. Guys, I chickened out. I had the perfect moment, and I chickened out. Let me set the scene.

So at our baseball games, my kids' baseball games, all the dads, we all hang out or whatever. And in time, I mean, we've been in the same team for like three years. So in time we've talked about like, what do you do for a living? Well, I do this. I do this, whatever. So they know I'm on the radio. And really, like, every time I see them, they're like, hey, what did you do this weekend? Who'd you see?

Garth Brooks or whatever? So yeah, Garth is in the studio. Stapleton was in the studio. So that's kind of like. They think you're connected to everybody. Totally. Yeah. Well, then the other day, we're at the park.

And I see Eric Church. My kids playing his team. Eric Church's son's team. So Eric's there. And all the dads are looking at me like, hey, look, Eric's here. Like, guys, I don't know Eric. Like, really, like, I met Eric maybe three times. And he walks towards us.

And all the dads are, like, tapping me. Like, here you go. Here you go. Here's your chance. Say hi. And I see him. Why would you not say hi to your buddy? Mr. Connected?

Exactly. And then I'm waiting for Eric to make eye contact with me. Dude, he walks right past me. And all the dads are like, huh. So you didn't, all right, you didn't say how to Eric. I might, no, it's okay, man. He's here with his kids. That's like, cool, huh?

So I think all the dads are like, oh, maybe he's not that connected. Do you even know guard? Exactly. Yeah, that's embarrassing. Sorry about that, buddy. That's terrible. What if you just said, hey, Eric, and then he'd been like, hey, I'm Eric, nice to meet you. That would have been worse.

Way worse. Nice to meet you. That's what I thought. All right. Moving on, he spilled a tea on Morgan by saying she doesn't know how to drive, and he keeps asking for money for his car that's barely hanging on to survive. Here he is, lunchbox. Over the weekend, I stayed in my second Airbnb ever, and I had an idea. It dawned on me, because this one was not someone's home.

I didn't get to snoop and find out about their lives. It was Airbnb all the time. And I sat there and I said, Oh, you disappointed in that? Very disappointed. Because you were so excited to get back in someone's business. I was ready to find out about their lives, see what they do for a living, where they went to college, all that's very disappointing. But then it dawned on me, a light bulb above my head.

It went off. And I said, this is a business idea. Bobby, you and I, we need to own an Airbnb. I mean, a business idea. I mean, that's what people do all the time. What's the light bulb? No, the light bulb is. Bobby and I, like, we did store.

Why would I not just, if I were going to do that, just get in, just do it myself. Well, because we're, we're business partners now. And so when you go into business, we're going in together. But you would have to be equal money. Because I'm not going to trust you to run it because you couldn't even run a storage unit. Hey, hey. I can run it. I mean, I'm going to pass on this one.

No, no, no. We would be, and we could advertise it as Bobby Bones and lunchboxes Airbnb. It would be sold out every day of the week for 365 days a year. Oh, not a decade? Yeah. I mean, people would. on this one. We put pictures up from the studio and artists. People would stay in that thing all the time. I hear you. Thank you, though. I'm going to pass on that offer. I appreciate that. Thank you for thinking

about me, though, for doing what I could already do. We could do that together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I appreciate that, though. Thank you, lunchbox. Let's move on to Amy. Creating connections with others is what she wants to be remembered for. And she's been known to start crying randomly in the grocery store. Here she is Amy, everybody. So my daughter wanted to use one of my old wallets. We started. cleaning it out and I see all these gift cards and one of them is to bedbath and beyond and I'm like oh we actually need some stuff so I might as well go

use this. It was for 102.72 78 cents from a while back when I guess I returned something and I could just put it on a gift card. Well so I go and I guess they stopped accepting gift cards. Oh it died. On May 8 they shut off

gift cards and I was like but this is actually money on here that I... Yeah, we know how gift cards are. I think they do too. Yeah. But because they went out of business,

I guess they had to have a date to stop taking gift cards. Right. So they're like, yeah, we don't actually have that money anymore. It's gone. What he's going? So it's just a bummer that I found it.

Yeah. Probably, you know, a couple weeks too late. That's good to know, though, if our listeners have Bed Bath & Beyond gift cards. Don't waste your time because honestly a bed Bath & Beyond is not near me. You drove all the... I saw that fair, by the way,

that you took your daughter's to? Yes. And it wasn't even going yet. It's up now, by the... No, I know. I drove by it and I was like, that's the fair. My son went. Yeah. Oh, you did? Yeah.

And you have one of those rides that goes upside down and slings you and I was like, ain't one to one of those on the side of the highway. No chance. No chance I'm getting on that on the side of the interstate. I need that thing to be in a fixed position for life for me to get in it and know that it's been there and it's been doing right for a long time. I can't prove that the thing works at all. Anyway, good job on you for sharing that.

I know that's painful. All right, right, go ahead. From Mountain Pine, Arkansas. He's inspired kids to wear glasses to school because being nerdy, is cool. Bobby Bones. Thank you. Look, I can't say what I want to say here, but I'm going to say just enough that you maybe can figure out what I'm saying by me not

saying it, because I've been told I can't say it, okay? So, but I have to say it as an update, but I can't say it and don't say it after I not say it. Interesting. Okay. What's my favorite color? Are we supposed to say it? You can say that.

Red, okay, cool. That's my favorite color. What do you think my second favorite color is? Blue. Okay, one of you is right. Okay, I'm going to move on from that. Let's say that, remember the show Highway to Heaven with Michael Landon?

Yeah, not really now. Okay, John Travolta was in a show, and he wore wings. I was back. Michael. Michael. Now, do you have any idea what Michael was? An angel. Cool.

Now, a while ago, I talked. You're going to be on touch by an angel? A while ago, I talked about something that I said, I can't talk about. And I was like, should I even do this? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you figured it out. Did you guys already have it figured out? Yeah, I think so.

I'm still trying to figure it. I'm doing it. Like, it's confirmed. I'm doing it. I'm probably going to die doing it. But it's coming up in the next couple weeks. Oh, die. I'm scared to death.

Oh. Now I know what it is. I have it now. I was wrong, too. I have it now. What did you think it was? I got it. Real fortune.

tires, tires, wheels. Oh, no. But now I know what it is. I got it. Yeah. They called me yesterday and they were like... Oh, wait, hold on. Yeah, you were wrong. Amy, it's not what you just said?

It's not Will of Fortune. It's something else where I was like, I'm scared of death to do this. It's his second favorite color and Michael. And John Travolta played this in a movie. Yeah, got it. So I'm going to do it. I can't say anything about it after I do it. But they called and said, don't eat.

I mean, you can have a small meal. but don't eat before you do it because you'll vomit everything up. It's just a whole situation. Are we going to know when? I can tell you all through it. I just can't say anything about it until after it's over.

But I'm doing it. I'm letting everybody know that knows I'm doing it. Okay? We're all there? Can we watch? Yeah. How do we watch? I don't think it's pay-per-view.

I think I just go do it and they have video. Okay? Okay. So if you know, you know, if not, I'll let you know later. I just want to update our audience. Have you told your wife?

Yeesh. Why are you not answering that by the way? I don't know. What? Okay. You gotta tell her, dude. Yeah. I don't know. That's different work.

Like, you might need to get some stuff in order. I already have all that in order. Don't worry. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to go on the show here. Wow.

Start it off. Thank you. It's time to open up the mailbag. You send an email and we read it all the air. It's something we call Bobby's mail bag. Yeah. Hello, Bobby Bones. My boss sent on an email trying to make us all feel like part of the team and is now encouraging an open-door

policy where he wants employees to share our honest thoughts of him and with him. Admittedly, I'm not the most subtle person in the world, and I tend to play by the don't ask the question if you don't want the answer mentality. I've never really encountered this, but he's asked us all to submit five suggestions on how we feel about our jobs, the workplace, the management, including him, and so on. This question goes out to those who have been through this before. Does he really want this for me, or should I just play nice and continue to get paid, signed honest abe it's tricky if you're not in a situation where you have a relationship where the boss welcomes this so my advice to you is if you are going to say something that is not positive

that is about him or something that he influences you better pat it with some really positive stuff too but that's not completely honest sure it is if it's true i just wouldn't throw all the negs i put all those negatives separate i could hit you with one if you're put four positives in there, you know what I mean? I'm separating a... Oh, do this ratio. Five to one. They say five positives cancel out to negative. Oh, that's good. So that would be my suggestion if you're

going to do it. First though, I wouldn't do it. I would just be pretty generic. And do something where it's like, I just wish our computer screens were a little brighter. But let everybody else, like, let them go first and be chum in the water and see if the shark attacks. Because if he started, if the boss

is a he, right? If he starts getting mad at them and being offended and... Let them go first. Canary in the coal mine, baby. Let's have a poison in there. So you could send a couple of things in there. There aren't real. Like, you know, I sure wish when we came in the morning, the coffee would be fresh. Ooh, good.

Doritos in the snack machine. Stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then still compliment. But then let's see who he kills first. And if it's nobody and he really values it, then you can go hard. Yeah, because what if you really do have feedback that would be helpful? I'm sure.

Everybody does. It may not be helpful, but everybody's got feedback. But just don't risk yourself. You make yourself vulnerable. offering up all this negative. Because sometimes people say, I just want to know how you really feel. No, you don't.

People really don't want to know how you really feel most of the time. They say it, but they don't really want it. I work for a company where they would do anonymous, you know, like, this is going to be anonymous,

but tell us some real feedback. And then they would ask for your name at the end of the sheet. And I'm like, that's not really anonymous. I guess it means they're not going to publish the news that.

Yeah, I wouldn't trust that, really. That's my advice, honest, Dave. Just take a second. Let everybody else go first. If they come back unscape, then you can hop in the water there. I mean, we want feedback, right?

Well, we have to have it or we lose our job. Like, we have to have, we get ratings, we get research. But do you want feedback from us? From you guys, I do not. Oh, you know? No, no, I get it from other people. I got some good feedback. I'm sure you do.

I get it from everybody else. I get it from listeners. I get it from research. I get it from ratings. Okay. So no, I'm all good. You're good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, you have any feedback? No. Come on, Amy. You're a great. It's anonymous. Go ahead. Give me a piece. Nobody even knows who's talking right now.

I like your shirt. Thank you very much. I like your hat. Thank you. I like your jokes. Three. Give me more positive. I like your organization.

Thank you. One more. I like how you can react on the fly. Go ahead. And the one negative? Hit him with a good one, Amy. I would like. You're fired.

Okay. Are you serious? I would like a show retreat. No. No, terrible. No. No. I think we can't help him.

We're not even retreat. Like, someone comes to us and leaves us in like, like bonding exercise. We'll send you. You come back, tell us how it went. We got your email and we read it. I was about the clothes. Bobby's Melty.

I've talked a couple times on the show about that movie Air. Have you seen it? Not yet. I thought you saw it. It's about Nike and Jordan. It's great. It's the only movie I went to the theater to see. It's on Amazon now.

You can watch it for free. But Eddie, you tried to watch it? Yeah, I just want to know what you liked about it because, and I'm not saying it's a bad movie. I just started watching it. Then I fell asleep. Like 45 minutes into it. Not only did I like it, but I'm looking at the audience score from Rotten Tomatoes, 98% positive. Oh, wow, wow, wow.

And, yeah, I mean, they're all 90s. Maybe you were exhausted. I was tired. I'm always tired. But I just felt like there was a lot of dialogue, like a lot of like, oh, man, what are we going to do? Do you need bombs? Do you need? I mean, I haven't seen Jordan yet.

Does Jordan come out in this movie? I don't want to say anything about. Can I say what's up with that or no? Oh, no. Okay, just watch it. Oh, I'm going to finish it. I can't believe you fell asleep. Man, like, he goes to the house and Jordan's in the house and I'm like, okay, they're going to meet.

And he never meets Jordan. That's the last thing I remember. And then I don't know. I'm going to stick to it, but I mean, you say it's really good. But you led with there's a lot of dialogue. I mean, you didn't lead to what I was so tired. Here's the deal too. Like, I'm watching it.

And my mind just went to like, oh, wow. look, it's goodwill hunting, but these dudes are like 30 years older. That's crazy. So you're blaming me for you not enjoying talking in a movie and for you associating it with a movie they did 30 years ago. Right. Every time Matt Damon talked to Ben Affleck, I'm like, oh, that's crazy, man. How you like them? I never thought about that once, oddly.

Really? Yeah, I guess not. Oh, here's why I like it. Sports, one. two, the history of a product that I use. Three, Phil Knight. You get to see what he's kind of like. Four, Remind me Ben Affleck's a good actor and not just the guy who's always sad, smoking a cigarette, Dunkin' Donuts. Five, Matt Damon's a great actor.

Yeah, he's pretty good. The return of Chris Tucker from Rush Hour. That was awesome. The history of the scout, who used to go to these high school games to find players and how not only did he affect Michael Jordan in this movie here, but also he's the reason that athletes get paid now, that same guy. Wow. Because it all started with a video game and a UCLA basketball player and he was one of the front ones that was pressing that case of the Supreme Court. Did they get to that at some point? Nope, no, they don't, I'm telling you right now.

Okay. Thank God. Like, I'm just a... All of those elements I love. What about the dialogue? A lot of talking. I don't think there was enough dialogue. I mean, honestly.

I'm going to use more dialogue, actually, yeah. So it's on Amazon now. Ray, did you try to watch it or no? Oh, I've watched the whole thing. Thoughts? It was good. Too much dialogue? Just felt some stuff was missing, but it was good.

Like what? Dialogue? Jordan. Jordan was missing. I was all in on watching this and now I'm like, maybe not. Was dialogue missing or? It was good. It was a strong movie.

What's the cartoon, the kid's cartoon that flashes scenes every two seconds because it's Cocoa Mellon. Eddie needs Cocoa Mellon of movies. Dude, that's crazy. Because he cannot stay dialed in. I will not watch Cocoa Mellon. Now, don't give me a fake rating on it because I don't want you to act and now, oh yeah, I probably will like it.

Well, here's the deal. I don't want to give a rating. I haven't finished. No, right. Talking to Rating. You can finish it, Ray? Four and a half. Nike's out of five.

That's an amazing movie. But you acted like you didn't. Yeah, it's so good that I would watch it again. But my five is my personal five. I'm just saying it's a four. It's a solid. All our fives are our personal five. We're not on a scale that we're held accountable to.

I'm saying it's a really good movie. It could have been a five. What was missing? Bigger moments. I wish you would, boom. Confetti, huge celebration. Yeah, too much dialogue, right? Not enough confetti.

Any more explosions. He need Scotty Pippins. I didn't see any chance for confetti. I didn't see any opportunities for that. I saw a really good Scotty Pippen quote, but it was on social media. Was it? I hate Michael Jordan? No, no, no. I didn't get paid enough.

Michael Jordan screwed me. Listen, I'm going to say it now because I'm paraphrase it. But it's like, hey, you may have to wait 10 years to get to that one year that's going to totally change your life. Something like that. Yeah, I don't remember. I may have to wait 10 years to get paid the money that you deserve because Michael Jordan hates me. Is that it? No, but I just thought, wow, okay, that's a good thing.

Like, hey, it's coming. I'm looking at all the Scotty Pippin quotes. It's not on there? No? Scotty Piffin said sometimes the player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. Maybe by some other Pippin? Sometimes a, there's that one again. Once you get a taste of success, it's a hard thing to turn down.

That's good. I'll find it. I sure it wasn't Pippin's ex-wife on Real Housewives? Lisa Pippin, what's her name? Larsa. Larsa. She's hot. She's dating Jordan's son.

That's crazy. That's crazy. Michael Jordan's son? That's Scottie Pippin's ex-wife is dating Michael Jordan's son. That's a slap on the face. Jerry. Jerry.

Yeah, you know he's doing that because he didn't get paid. That's crazy. Is Michael Jordan held it against him? Okay, look, we said it all. I don't even know when we started this bit. Eddie, finish the movie. I will.

Amy, you haven't watched it yet. Okay. Scottie Pippin posted this on Instagram. Sometimes it takes 10 years to get... He posted it though. He write it like that day? Dude, I don't know. He doesn't like it's a famous quote?

I should know. Sometimes it takes 10 years to get that one year that'll change your life. Don't give up. Did he say it or did you post somebody else saying it? Don't know. Okay, he didn't say it. He just posted a meme of somebody else saying. If he were to put, wow.

So if I post like George Washington saying something, can I go, look at my quote. Look at what I said. Yeah, try it. Okay, I just went to his Instagram. And you know how when you don't look at somebody for a while? Because, like, I just see him as a young basketball player. Like he's... You see him as the young basketball player?

That's the only time I see him is... He's older now. Right. He's older. a few years. He's like 50 something. And he was rude to me. No.

Yes. Yes. 100%. Yeah, but you're aggressive with celebrities. I was 12. Can you imagine you at 12? Oh, my goodness. That's the only reason, though, I can't get on board with Scottie Pippen was totally rude to you because of how you run up and scare people now.

Well, I mean, I did run up to him with, I mean, I saw him at a mall in Chicago. I ran in the store, bought the exact same hat he was wearing, ran up to him as he's walking towards the food court. And I said, and he's with one other guy. I said, Mr. Pippin, can I have your autograph? You said, Mr. Pippin? I didn't. It doesn't seem like you. He looks like, I had a walker, and I walked out. I was like, Mr. Pippen, all I need is one's autograph to save my life.

And he looked down at me without breaking stride. No. Kept on walking. If that is, as you said. And 100% accurate. You can call my Aunt Mary. She was there. Get his Aunt Mary on the phone.

Call her up. She's the one that had to go back in the store and yell at the store clerk to give me my money back because the clerk wasn't going to give me my money back for the hat. If that's a true story, that stinks at scotty pippin however you have a lot of strikes against you in running up to celebrities yeah it's started young 12 years old

remember when they said don't touch gwen sophany yeah i put my arm around her to take a patient and they said no touching sometimes takes 10 years to get to that spot on the fox heard that before yeah all right go watch air amy let us know it's time for the good news with amy tell me something good this man buys an engagement ring

and his soon-to-be stepson accidentally flushes it down the toilet. Like a kid just putting stuff in the toilet? Oh my God. Yeah. So he hired someone to run a camera down the plumbing and they were actually able to spot it. But there really was no way to get it. I mean, city maintenance workers were involved.

They had their eye out for it. Let's just say that. 14 months later, they spot it. And they're like, oh my gosh, there's the ring. So it went through a thorough sterilization process and has been returned. Probably not really. Anybody just claimed it. Like the little dawn,

dishwashing liquid claimed. Who cares? You got your ring bag. Yeah, that's got to be. How do you not? It's like being upset at my dog if he eats a pen or he chews up a $20 bill. He doesn't know.

It's probably like the kid in the ring in the toilet. I mean, my four-year-old, he ruined PlayStation controllers, remote controls, all in the toilet. I mean, dozens. Is that like when a dog digs a hole and puts stuff in there? Is that what he would do? He'd go to the toilet and put stuff in there? You thought it was really cool that you just put it down.

a hole and you never see it again. That is kind of cool, though, because I don't really know where it goes. Well, that's a good story. He got it. But would she want to wear the ring when it's been in the sewer, or do you sell it back, get the money and buy another ring? It says, again, thorough sanitation. I hear you, but does she go, you know, I know you were going to use this?

But then when you sell it, do you have to disclose this thing? No, it's not like to me dying the house. You just sell the ring. You said it. Thore. Thoreau. Thoreau. All right.

great story. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. Here's a new game I just made up called Shady or Not Shady, where each member of the show that has one of these situations will give it to us and we'll tell you if you're a shady person or not. Okay, I like it. Okay. Let's go over to, let's go to Eddie first. Okay. Eddie, Shady, not Shady. What's your story? Okay, so last weekend, my kids wanted to go see Fast and Furious, so they bought tickets to go to the movie.

They spent about 10 minutes, 50 minutes in there, and apparently there was blood. there was a lot of like there was like a little sexy scene and so they're like we can't watch this so they walk out the kids said that so it was my 15 year old and my two next kids the eight the eight the nine and the eight year old and so they're like we can't watch this so they walk out and they're like as they're going to the front they're like hey check it out there's gardens of galaxy it just started so they walk right in the gardens of galaxy and I'm like that's great that's what you're supposed to do back in the day I used to just like go from a movie to another movie to another movie like for five hours I'd watch three movies so I said that's That's great. Whatever you did was perfectly fine. Shady, not shady. That's what I'm saying. Listen, I'm torn because they left a movie. It's not like they stayed and watched the entire thing.

Had they done that, shady. But they just did a little switch, so not shady. Not shady. As long as they didn't get the full other movie. Now, here's kind of the economics of a movie theater work for the most part. And I can bring movie mic on this. when you buy a ticket to the movie really the movie company's getting that

not the theater not the local building you're in what they sell is the stuff that you buy the food that popcorn that's why they don't want you sneaking stuff in because that's the only way they make money they're making it off the movie they're making their money off of the video games the popcorn the joganots

yeah the candies I don't even know what those are anymore milk goods so if you were to bounce to every movie they ain't really losing any money gotcha Is it a little dishonest, sure, but not in this situation. I think because you didn't watch the movie and you paid for a movie, it had been the same price. Probably to go to this one.

That's what I'm talking about. I'm going to go, not shady. Come on. Now, we'd probably have a different discussion if it was after the movie. But even then if the movie wasn't sold out, you could convince me, since no one's actually having money taken from them except the big company, even though that's probably not right. I wonder if they would have gotten in the front and told them, like, hey, we've been in there for 15, 20 minutes.

They probably would have said you can go to the other movie. Okay. But I'm going to go not shady. Eddie, not shady. All right. All right. Let's go around the lunchbox. You're up.

So this weekend, this past weekend, we went to Oklahoma City for a wedding, and I have a one-year-old, and we didn't have a bed for him to sleep in because he rolls around, so he sleeps in a crib. We didn't want to lug a pack-and-play all the way to Oklahoma City, onto the airplane, through the airports, all that. Explain a pack-and-play to me? It's just a portable, basically crib. It's a pop-up, like crib.

It has four sides on it. Boom. comes in a little case. Really easy, boom. So I went to the local store, big box store. You have them in every city. Oh, my gosh. There we go.

I know he's going to say. Go ahead. Let the guy say what he's going to say. I'm not made my decision yet. I like to wait as a juror until all the evidence is out. When we arrived in Oklahoma City, I stopped by, went to the kids section, bought one, paid for it, went to the Airbnb, popped it out. Kids slept in it for nighttime, naps. It was awesome. Kids slept great, used blankets in it, and then packed it.

up, put it in the box, boom, on the way back to the airport, stopped into that same big box store, and returned it. Shady or not Shady? That's shady. Yeah, it's so shady. What we're talking about here? Because you used a product without giving them

anything for, and that thing's not going to sell for the same price now. You actually took value from it. Oh, yeah. I decided I didn't want it anymore. No, you did it. You knew you were taking it back. You went in with the intent to borrow it for a night. I think if you took it back because something was wrong with or is the wrong side.

Then I would go, not shady, but you did it with all intentions of taking it, buying it, returning it, using it, but not actually paying for any part of it. Yeah, I basically rented it. No, you didn't. You didn't rent it because they didn't make any money off the rental. You didn't pay anything. No, no, but it was like rental and it was like, oh, you know, if you return it within three days, it's like a car. Like a car. If you buy it and you get like two weeks.

No, it's a rental car. You have to pay for a rental car. You still spend money on it. No, a rental car you have to pay for it to rent it. Correct. This one, you got your money back. I didn't get my money back. I said, oh, you just want it back on the card?

Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, that's shady. I don't think anybody would disagree with that. Shady? Shady. It's shady to buy something with the intent of you're going to go use the product and then take it back. Now, taking intent out, though, what's the difference? Your heart?

That's it. It's like people that wear a shirt, you know. What's shady? Shaddy is your heart. Sometimes you may do bad stuff. And it may be on accident. But it didn't meet. That's not a shady thing to do.

It's an accident. That sucks. It worked out. That's shady. But like with my story, you wanted to say like, well, this is how the movies make money. And so since there was no money lost, it's not shady. Well, they lost money. They didn't lose money.

They did lose money because they can't. They can't sell it back at the same price. Yeah, they can. No, they can't. Oh, my goodness. No, there's going to be tape on it. It's used now. They're going to send it over to one of these stores where they sell it for much cheaper because it's been returned.

So really, I did someone a favor that made they can't afford it full price to get it cheaper. You're the Robin Hood. You're the Robin Hood of Playpins. So actually, I did something good. So thoughtful. Eddie, not shady, lunchbox, shady. What I'm talking about. That's it.

Court is dismissed. Was this court? Shady court? Yeah. Shady court. Shady court is called in session. We don't do this a lot, but I'm just going to ask you. How's divorce life, Amy?

Wait, why did you go? Oh, we don't do it a lot, but sometimes I just want to check in. She announced it. It's free to talk about. So, Big D, don't mean Dallas. How's it going? Well, I have been proud how we've handled the whole thing all along. I mean, we have our moments.

But I had to go by Ben's lawyer's office and someone that worked there said to me, and I'm pretty sure she told him the same thing, that like, y'all should teach a class on how to get divorced because we've never seen anything like this. In what way? Good or bad? Good. That, you know, we've just remained thoughtful and kind or respectful and kind, which has been our motto the whole time. and we've been able to work together and come to agreements,

quite honestly, that our lawyers completely don't support. So you guys, the people that you've hired to give expert opinions, you guys have said we're going to do it a different way? Yes. Wow. But that could be good. And they really could be great. I think, yes.

I know it's going to be good. Like I have been, we've also just been together open to creative solutions and brainstorming. I get it as lawyers. Like it's your job to protect your client. And so I think both of us have heard multiple times. Okay, I'll write this up for you. But just so you know, it is my duty to tell you that I completely disagree with this. Wow.

But also at the same time, they're like, wow, we've done, handled a lot of different breakups. And this is by far like the most amicable one they've seen. And I just, I can pop us on. ourselves on the back and I want to celebrate things like that. It's not a not like a braggy moment, but more so that I'm celebrating the fact that we've done something really hard and we navigated it as well as we possibly could. And I don't take that for granted knowing that some people are not in a similar situation. One person might be willing to operate this way and then the other person is not. So I do have gratitude for the fact that we're both have done a lot of work and are on a path

of continued work and healing, and I think that that's brought us to a place where we can, you know, make decisions that completely throw our lawyers off. So, divorce's been pretty good? I don't know what you mean by good. I don't know. I don't know that there's really anything good about it.

I don't recommend it. But I share this as hope for anybody else that, you know. What would you call your class? Do you teach? That's good. I'd have to talk, I don't know, talk to Ben about it. I advise as you're turning not to do that.

Let's see. I don't know. How to do something hard. And listen, we've had our moments. Don't get me wrong. But I would say, we have a quick turnaround, you know? It doesn't linger. It's more so like in the next 30 minutes, one of us is saying, oh, okay, good.

Step back. Well, good. All seriousness, that's great. Because there are other people involved you. Oh, I know. I hear from them. And so I... No, kids.

Oh, yes. He hears from them, too. I hope you hear from them. Well, that is our number one priority. That's what I'm saying. That's why it's great. Other listeners I've heard and I know that people are going. I know what you do?

I know people are going through something similar. They may be starting the process and I just want to share this as hope. I like it. All jokes aside, that's great. Right. That is hope. For a lot of people where it's they're on the very, very front side of it, which I know when you were, it was not a good time for you.

No. But celebrate. Or selfishly, me. Right. Yeah, or you. But celebrate every win. and I think that will lead you to more wins. And also, just because your lawyer says something,

doesn't mean you have to do it. I'm not even going with that. I'm just saying you should listen to it. You should. And then you can make your own decision. I'm okay with that, but most times listen to the lawyer. Because they know a lot. Yeah, because they just been through it a lot.

You know, I know. We still have TBD, some of the ski back fire. I don't know. All right, let's play. I'm glad to hear it. Seriously. Thank you. Voice mail from Annie in Pennsylvania.

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we would all die from being cold. That's my fun fact Friday and my joke from morning, Corny. Bye. Thank you. I'm not even going to fact check it because it's so interesting. That's pretty cool. I started with all facts. Interesting.

Don't need a fact check it. Great job. Thank you, Annie. Call us anytime, leave us a voicemail. 877-Bobby. Here's Amy's pile of stories. There's a trend happening on TikTok right now, and it's going to help women feel better in their high heels.

And I had no idea this is a thing, and I can't wait to try it out and see if it works. It's got 10 million views. And what you do is you tape your third and fourth toes together, and it releases pressure and makes wearing home. high heels more comfortable. Is it because that third and fourth toe all the pressure goes down into that spot? I don't know.

I've never worn high heels. Good. You haven't? Good. So I don't really know. So explain to me why they think that helps. It's a hack from a shoe company. And they're saying this is legit going to bring comfort when you wear it.

It's the nerve that controls the most pain comes between the third and the fourth toe. So when you bring them together, it releases the pressure. the person that works at the company that posted it said that their aunt taught on that and it's good to go you can use a band-aid or any other kind of like tape that would be easy to remove why not tape all three of the toes together the pinky that's third and the fourth i don't know that that's necessary because why not tape your whole foot ankle all the way down like the NFL players do it why do they do that what do you mean why do they tape it all the way down into their foot so they don't bend and like that's like support yeah Yeah, mostly for that, yeah. All right, what else? A dad spent $21,000 for last minute Taylor's script tickets. Okay, so I did see this.

I think they're rich, though. Because didn't they buy other tickets for like $20,000, too? No, his first round of tickets were $1,800 on StubHub. Oh, I thought it was $18,000. No, 1800. And then I guess with Stubhub, you don't get the tickets delivered till the day of or sent to you. and then he was like, oh, I never got him. Still 1800, let me say.

A lot of them happening. But okay, so he never got the tickets. And his daughter with her friends, they were expecting to go. They were the Christmas present. Like, so he was thinking way ahead. And then the tickets never showed up. And he was pretty determined. So he had to go to some other seller and bought them for $21,000.

However, Stubhub is supposed to refund his original price, which will offset some of the expense. Not even 2000. So he still paid $19,000 for tickets. Go to the venue. You can probably get some for, it's still expensive, but in front of somebody's scalping tickets, they won't be as good as seats,

but there is no way. No way. Even if I have the money. Well, if I have the money, who knows, it's all relative. But I'm talking about normal folks. Oh, yeah, no way. No way. You're talking about a car.

Did this guy say it was worth the $20,000? in the story Like it was totally worth all the As a dad He says Expectations met Dad You know he didn't want his

Daughter to be disappointed Oh man Golly What's the craziest thing Your parents ever did for you Well My biological I played hide and seek with me

When I was Oh my And he he rocks I think he's a champ Never found him Until I was like over 30 He's good Yeah yeah

He was in He was somewhere good. Oh, Amy, why jazz? Yeah, I know it was awesome. I just didn't know how hard that game was. For a lot of my life, I just looked and looked and looked. And I'm like, Dad? Daddy.

Nothing? Never found him. And then I even said stuff like, Marco, hoping he'd go polo. And then we'd hug and be like, oh, how fun is this? Never. He was so good to hide and seek. Terrible. So when you found him?

It's really awkward. He'd been in that same place 30 years, hiding behind a tree. I just didn't look behind that tree. Oh, man. Would you clarify that in case someone's just listening for the first time? No, I won't. He said what he said. I said what I said.

He was mad at a treat for 30 years. Yep. Well, Jelly Roll is a very present father. Yeah. As he posted him teaching his daughter, Bailey Ann, how to drive. And as a parent, I can relate to this because he was, you know, kind of using some language, like, oh, my God. You know, like very colorful words. and I thought that's, I was recently driving with my 16 year old and both me and her dad, we've both done it where it was like a bad word has slipped out while she's on the highway.

It's just like, that's the scariest place to be like, I need a map of all the back roads and how to get there because I just don't think I want her on the highway. Stars are just like us. Yeah. Yeah, jelly roll. Just like you. Why in the world would you ask any of us a question as open and it is? And you look at me like, what did your parent ever do the surprise? Like you know where that's going.

I think I probably knew where you might take it, but in it was, it's either that or I'd just be quiet because I don't have an answer. They maybe, your grandma maybe did something nice for you. You didn't say grandma. But she was pretty much a mom to you. But you said parent. Maybe. My grandma, okay.

She adopted me. That's a big deal. That is huge. What a surprise that was when I found out way later because I didn't know it was a kid. Oh yeah. Because she did that just so she had legal custody of me when my mom left. Any more stories in there? Amy.

Yeah, Amy, go ahead and ask you it it. Bobby's something else. I didn't bring this up. It added a little depth. Yeah. You know, I could be a little shallower. I'll be honest with you. You know?

A little too much depth sometimes. All right, is that it? I mean, that's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With Bobby. Tell me something good. Detroit traffic officer.

Linda Edge received a, well, financial boost when a TikTok influencer highlighted her monetary struggles to his 16 million followers. That's a lot of followers. So what he did first is he gave her 500 bucks and a trip to a Detroit Tigers baseball game because she loved baseball.

And so, boom, thank you for doing what you do. Here's this. Posted on social media. The video got to over 10 million people and people started watching going, hey, we'd like to actually give her a little bit more because we're moved by what she does and her story, which he shared.

The campaign, which wasn't even supposed to be a campaign, just kind of organically happened, raised over $54,000 within three days. And it happened so quickly that they were able to give her that check at the baseball stadium. She didn't know what was coming. So she went to the game to experience that. They get her down there and they give her a check for $50,000. Wow. Boy, that's why.

Like, you're doing your job and you don't even know. Somebody's recording you, and you're thinking, what kind of shenanigans are they up to? But they give you $50 or $500, and that's awesome. You're like, I just have the greatest day ever, $500 and take you to a baseball game. And then you go in there like, Lenita Edge. Come down to first base. I give her $50,000.

So pretty cool. It's viral kindness. I mean, what he did was cool, but then what everybody else did because they were moved is awesome. That's what it's all about right there. That was tell me something good. A win is a win.

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