The Bobby Bones Show - Wed Part 1: Haliey Welch "Hawk Tuah Girl" Is On + Bobby's DM About Lunchbox

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

Haliey Welch, aka, "Hawk Tuah Girl," is in the studio! She shares how she felt about going viral, what she plans on doing with her newfound fame, how she ended up on stage with Zach Bryan and more! Then, Bobby got a secret DM from a listener about Lunchbox's negligence with his soccer team... find out what happened and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Come on, Bobby. Welcome to the show. Morning studio. Morning. I wanted to start with rejected segments. These are segments that did not make the show, and I saved them to highlight why they didn't make the show. Because some of them were great ideas. Oh.

But there's no way we could have pulled it off. But some of them were terrible ideas. Oh. And there's no way we could have pulled them off. I'll say this, though. I did have this listed as a rejected segment, and we ended up doing it. Oh, okay. So it went from rejected to non-rejected.

It was Lunchbox has a new business. He was doing in-birthday party surprises where he'd show up in the birthday party, and people would pay him. Well, it made it because he did it, right? And then he had audio. But he submitted all of it with audio. Yeah. And I was like, okay.

I mean, it's actually a good business. It's actually a good idea, smart. I mean, if you're going to... It's human cameo. Yeah, if you're going to be out of town and you need a celebrity to show up on your behalf, I'm here for you. You just have to build out the infrastructure to where people can go pay, connect. It's not the idea that costs money.

It's not the idea that people don't have. It's actually doing things about the idea. So that was a rejected segment, but we ended up talking about it. Boom. Congratulations. Unrejected. There it is. Rejected segments.

Let's go. The number five rejected segment. Number five. Hilarious idea. think we should pull it off because it was a bit disrespectful but funny. It's called the longest interview. So Mike D.

submitted this. We book an interview. It could be in person. We keep going until the guest asked to leave. It's like a torture chamber. We hold them in here. We just keep interviewing them for hours and hours and hours. And we have the whole... Hours? Hours and hours.

As long as they stay. As long as they stay. It's hilarious. Also, I didn't want to do it for hours and hours and hours. But you go take a break and we continue the interview. Somebody comes in. Man, I'm in a little thirsty. Lunchbox, would you mind coming in? Yeah. Tell me, I laughed out loud. This is Mike D's idea. He says, we book

an interview and keep it going until the guest has to ask to leave. Before we take bets on how long we can keep the interview going. We let each member of the show ask questions, including the glass room, the production room. Like, everybody gets a shot to come in and interview. Sales, like people walking by, how you got a question?

How funny would the longest interview be? I mean, I think, listen, do it with a new artist too because they're like man I can't get up and leave and it's uncomfortable and they're it would be hours long it would be so funny. Are we need an artist that doesn't show up with like management like Tim McGraw will come by himself? But Tim McGraw will leave too.

I'm like I got someone to be like guys what are we doing here? A manager through the glass room would be like hey you've got to wrap this up I think that's hilarious we can't do it maybe one day maybe like if we know we're getting fired or we know our contracts are up in a couple years we just like what about if you like play off of that and you know one that's doable would be the shortest and just ask one question and be like all right thanks for coming in very funny like it's very funny we're glad to have you um all right that's it thank you so a bit disrespectful to the person unless you let them in on the joke afterward of course we would and then we'd do the real interview

you know you're like they get up and leave and they leave the hallway and they're like they come back again we're just messing with you bah okay that's projected that's number five right number four Lunchbox took a stand against society. And he says he wants America to join him in the fight. And so what I wrote about this one was it was a two over the top, a very little substance. No, this is huge. It is creating to a lot of waste in America and we need to stop it. Party favors at birthday parties.

Had a birthday party for my son and you know what I did? I said, we're not giving out party favors. And people are like, oh, do we get a party? No, no party favors, guys. the party will favor is we had a party. Why am I giving you gifts for you coming to the party? The point is you bring a birthday present to the birthday kid. We throw a party and you leave.

I shouldn't give you a bag full of goodies because you decided to come to a party. I think the goodies you're giving are for your kid, for people to use it so your kid feels good. But anyway, I felt like this is a whole stand against society. We didn't really need it. No, we need it. We need America to adopt this because all it is in this party. the idea, what I'm saying is the stand against society seemed a little large. Like, when you do, it doesn't matter.

Yeah, like, it's a parent. It's your choice. Just listen to my moment. Next one, number three. Yes. Amy has a bit rejected. No way. I don't ever make this segment.

She said, an invitation for Bobby and Eddie. I'm very interested in ballet class. It's a beginner class for adults. My friend took a class and said it was the one. It was amazing, but she was the only one who showed up, so was a private lesson. Yeah. So they should do it too much access. ballet class. Yeah, I was thinking

y'all could go with me, try it out and then y'all, ballerinas, that's a pro athlete. If we were working with a professional ballerina, that would be funny for a show too much access. The natural ballet company. But like somebody who did the nutcracker, I demand a nutcracker only.

Okay, well, whatever it is, like yes, you could go, but you... Swan River. You know, Y'all been doing Black Swan. Black Swan. Y'all be doing softball, baseball, football, volleyball, y'all could do ballet. I think ballet's really hard and that is a very Right, but you and Eddie and your little tutus? Not little. Big tutus.

Okay. Rejected segment. Next one. Number two. Lunchbox wanted to do breaking news, but that it was fake news. And I don't know that he thought it was fake news, but I was not going to let him do this breaking news because it was fake news because he wanted to come on the year and announce that Old Dominion had broken up as a band. I saw I got an email that Brad Tersie formerly of Old Dominion was releasing an album. No, it's not formally. He's still in the band. He's still in the band.

Well, I didn't know that. It's a side project. Right, which is why we weren't going to let you say they were breaking up. Like, I literally saw the email and I was like, dang, so no matter how good you think a band is getting along, they don't really like each other on the inside. Which is not true. And they are getting along, which is why they can also do little side projects for their own creative fulfillment. Yeah, you added the word formula. He wanted to announce that Old Dominion is broken up.

And that just wasn't true. So that one's fake news. I didn't reject a segment number two. Number one. And now number one. Mike D's book-in did this thing. He had number five, the longest interview. And at number one, Mike D has the Craigslist dating game for Amy.

She's tried Hinge, but what about Craigslist? What if we look up singles on Craigslist with the best personal ads? We bring in a panel of potential of bachelors from Craigslist. What year is this? Craigslist? People are dating on Craigslist. Dude, I don't know if they are. I can't imagine it's the best picks.

14 years ago. I'm sure that draft is not a good draft. It's all supplemental draft to this point. I categorize that as you might die, so we didn't do that. Yeah, so out of concern for my safety, we'll go ahead and like... The Craigslist. Man, I'm looking up with some people on Craigslist right now. Like, who would go to Craigslist to put up an ad of all places?

Is it because you've been banned from... Facebook, Marketplace? Tinder? Oh, you mean a dating app? Oh, because that's a way, like, people were doing it. Yes, back in the day before all the apps. People were also getting murdered. Oh, but Amy, there's a good discussion for them on Craigslist called Divorce.

If you want to get in there and meet other divorcese? Can you imagine getting on Craigslist to meet dudes? You know what would happen? It'd be one of those dudes you would meet that you'd say knock three times and I'll already be in my room tied up and wear a mask. Oh, yeah. And then leave immediately after and don't tell me who you are. You could also be brand new to learning about the Internet, and you think that that's what?

Lunchbox just talked about podcast. People do. Like this one that says, I'm so incredibly angry. I feel used. And then the Skid Mike replies, I don't blame you. And blank anyone that does. Skid Mike. And then Johnny Salami.

Like Skid Mark? That's your name? Johnny Salami. Yeah, Johnny Salami said you should be angry. Johnny Salami and Skid Mike about to go do a two for one over there, I feel. Yeah, thanks guys. There you go. Rejected segments.

Thank you. That was Rejected segments. Start with the show with that. Glad everybody's here. It's something we call Bobby's Mailbag. Yeah. Hello, Bobby Bones. I'm a single mom of a 10-year-old.

We've recently committed to the soccer season. We've paid the fees. Now, my son says he wants to quit after playing for four years. He doesn't always enjoy it. I'm worried he's giving up too easily. He will miss out on teamwork and physical benefits. Should I encourage him to stick with it for the season or support his decision to stop? Signed, soccer mom.

Now, what's interesting, my general gut is to go, well, if you committed, you got to finish. I don't always think that's the case in life. I do think generally that is a great rule to teach your kids. And I'm going to pass this over to Amy in a second. But I do think if you think he's quitting and all of a sudden that popped up really unsuspected, I think it may be something that's not soccer that's making him want to quit. There could be like a bully on the team. There could be some sort of interaction that's happening that he does not like and does not feel comfortable with and does not want to play soccer anymore.

So I would investigate that as well. He may not tell you. But if all of a sudden he's not wanted to play anymore, that's a bit weird. I would also say this. You do want to teach, well, anyone, anyone young, that you can't really sign up for things and then quit without there being a penalty. So what I would do, because generally I would say you started it, you finish it. That's what I would say. I feel like that's what I would say.

However, you did pay the fees. and say, okay, if you want to quit, that's fine. But I need you to pay the fees back that we paid for it, which would then there would be some responsibility. There would be a lesson that would come from this. I would encourage him not to quit. And you could say, you never have to play again. Just finish this season.

I would investigate why he wants to quit. But if he's dead set on it, it's probably something that's not soccer related that makes him want to quit. And I think you should probably, if it's something that really is like hurting him, like not make him do it. But there is a penalty to be paid, which is he needs to work off the fees. There's some nuance to that answer. I'm big nuance guy. I'm not big black and white guy for the most part when it comes to stuff like this.

I also don't have a kid. I'm thinking about me at 10. Amy, you do have kids. Go ahead. Yeah, the first thing that popped up for me is what happened. And what fear came in around doing this, especially if he knew he was signing up. Like why right after you paid the fees and now the season is starting? So that was my first thought.

And then I also can get behind, you know, when you force a kid to do something like how is that going to impact whatever else is going on? Because then you're ignoring maybe the underlying issue and then they don't feel heard or seen. And then that can lead to more problems. So being that the money has been spent, I think it's fair to ask that the 10 year old works it off some way. So they understand that we need. to contribute towards stuff and that we can't just like spend money and then make a decision to not do it anymore. If he was six, you're committed.

If he was seven, you signed up, you're committed. Tends when you start to have those social interactions and you start to feel where older kids can bully you or there's, that you don't feel comfortable. Yeah. I guess I just also too, at parenting two kids myself, both of their personalities are so, so different. So I would maybe even handle it differently depending on what kid is having it. But I know my first go-to would be the why.

Like the why or the what caused this and figuring that out. And then maybe you as a parent can have better compassion and understanding of where your kid's coming from. That's very healthy because my first go-to is, no, you're going to finish without even really investing into why. But then I would go, okay, let me figure out why all of a sudden. There's got to be something new all of a sudden if he's feeling this way all of a sudden. And then maybe there's a compromise too. And maybe if you get to the what or the why, they realize like, oh, I can actually do this. And I want to.

I was just scared. and then boom, he still plays. You're not out the money and good to go. How fun would it be if I could go and just like play 10 year old soccer and everybody thought I was 10, but I got to be me or 10 year old football and just dominate. That would be pretty fun? But no one knows that you're an adult. Are you in a 10 year old body?

No, I'm saying body. That's why I get to be stronger than everybody else. But everyone's just like, yeah, I know he's a 10 year old. And I just get to wreck. Like football, can you imagine playing 10 year old football and everybody just celebrating you? That would be a dream. that would be pretty wouldn't that be cool

imagine playing baseball you don't think about that Amy because there were kids who were so athletically gifted and so much bigger than us I think lunchbox could agree to this too when we were 11 and 12

they were just so much bigger faster stronger that everybody just worshipped them and they dominated the game and we were just like man that would be the coolest so how I'd like to have that it'd be awesome

it'd be awesome I don't want to be 10 you're sure you just want to I mean, I kind of want to be 10 sometimes. I don't have to worry about some of the things I have to worry about as an adult. Hey, good luck, mom. I think you're... Essentially, the single mom.

I mean, those fees are a single dad. When you're paying those fees, I get it. The first reaction is just to be like, okay, we're not going to waste money and to not see where the child is coming from, but hopefully you can and maybe that will help solve some of the issue. And I think the lesson is you can't just quit things in life. So if you are going to quit, you've got to pay back. the fees, even though maybe they don't need the fee money. There's a lesson involved in that.

All right. Thank you for the email. We appreciate that. All right, close it up. We got your email and we read it on your air. Now it's about to close. Bobby's mailback. Yeah. The story is a beautiful woman makes a man stupid.

Researchers found that men's performance with working memory, with attention, any of the cognitive function declines after interacting with a beautiful woman. I thought it would go up because y'all want to impress her. No, no, you're just a drooling, man.

He's like, oh, all, went through the wall. Guys are cavemen. But I don't think it's us that's the problem. I think it's thousands and thousands of years of genetics. I think we're wired this way. We are, it's not our fault. We as men, as dumb as we are, are looking to mate and procreate. Right. I know that that's part of all, like, some of us deep down, different things we're attracted to or not attracted to, but also, y'all aren't dumb. You're not.

In our, in our, like, you've evolved. Some of us have, and some parts. Yeah, and like business, maybe, but. But even then. But when it comes a chick, we just see them and. I will say that I don't think it's the same way for women, although you guys do get attracted. But your brains are far more developed in this way. This is an insult to us. Yeah, no, I get it. But I also just feel like, y'all hear that and you're like, oh, okay, I can be dumb. You're not.

You're not. But I don't think you're dumb as in, you don't know two plus two. I think you act in different ways very soon after the interaction or thinking the interaction may happen again soon. Okay. Pretty women make guys act and do dumb things. That's why they fight a bars. That's why they do all this crap. Yeah.

Okay, you've never fought at a bar. No, I get beat up. Okay. Like, what's an example of you doing this? I don't want to get beat up in front of a pretty girl. Yeah. Your wife is very attractive. Do you know of a moment where you just like kind of felt?

I mean, I guess you often say she's way smarter than you. She has way smarter. She's way smarter. Everything that I am celebrated for in my career. Maybe that's because you're around her and you're so attracted to her that you're getting. You know what her nickname is for me now? And I hate it, but I laugh out loud. What?

She calls me. Yankee doodle dandy. Huh. Is this between y'all like a little thing? No, I'm about to tell you what it is. You got a feather in your cap? Well, she goes, what's up, Yankee Doodle? Now she's just been calling me Dandy.

Okay, why? Like, why do you call me that? But she'll have a nickname for me and not tell me what it means for a long time. Because I have dry scalp dandruff really bad in my back of my head. So she calls me Dandy. She's like, you got to get that fixed,anky doodle dandy. So she tells me dandy all the time. And that's funny.

That's hilarious. But I didn't know why forever. She doesn't care. She has their own little bits. And so she's like, how's your... They're not bits. She's like, how's your head dandy? Like, why are you calling me?

Yanky-Doodle dandy! And then finally it was, because I have Dandruff that falls onto my shirt. So what are you going to do about that? Nothing. I already have a pretty girl. What do I care? You don't have to change either? What do I?

You know, that's showbiz, baby. You know what I mean? I did get a DM. And Lunchbox, this is kind of about you. You can tell me if this is true or not. Oh, what about me? I got a DM about you. They do not want me to say their name.

Did you coach or manage your reg soccer team? Yeah, I'm the captain. Okay. What I heard from someone in DM is that the captain was sent the reward for your team for either winning or finishing second or third. We got first place, yeah. Okay, so the league sends out like a gift certificate. Yeah, $200. To a restaurant and lunchboxes did not give it to the team.

It has not even mentioned it to the team. And so... How many people are on the team? There's 10 people. So is the, yours was to take the 200 and everybody goes out to eat? Because how do you divvy that up? Yeah, yeah. You have a team party maybe?

I don't know. So you are admitting this happened. Yeah, we got a gift certificate. And it was valid until July 30th. And so it was coming up on the end of the, you know, and no one had mentioned it on my team. So family dinner out on. They didn't know. Hey, when you sign up for the league, it says.

But they're supposed to check in. with you. It says if you win, you will be given a gift certificate to this restaurant for $200. So you know when you sign up. But I wasn't going to say anything because I do a lot for the team. I sign us up every season. So you think

that's your prize. So the DM was they think he took the gift certificate. It is expired now. It expired yesterday. Because he used it. They think that he used it and didn't give it to the team. But he did. But now he's saying yes, he's not an apology. I mean, he's just like I do the jerseys. And no one on the team said, hey, did we

get a gift certificate, are we going to ever use the gift? So I didn't think they were interested in going. No one seemed to care. So I was like, you know what? All this time that I spend away from my family for this team, I'll reward my family with a little dinner out. We went and had a nice $200 meal. It's shady or no. That's not shady. It's shady. It's shady. It's shady. No, no. How is it shady? If they wanted to go, they would have said, hey, no, I think they wait for you, the captain to go, hey, I got the gift certificate. We're going to go. Your job as a leader. Yes, let's set the date and I'll go. they knew that, hey, we won the season and not one in the group text was like,

hey, did we ever get that gifts or two yet? No one even said a word. All they said was, hey, are we playing next season? Okay. How would you like me to respond to this? I'd just say you don't know anything about it. Okay, okay. It's time for the good news.

Oh, it's Bobby. Tell me something good. Sarah and Cade, they began dating on the first day of sixth grade at Braden River Middle School in Florida. They became friends. After sixth grade, they didn't date for a long time. Then their senior year, they started dating again.

They went to different schools. They did a long distance thing. But during the senior year, they're doing the yearbook situation. Everybody signing it. Cade's yearbook quote was, 20 bucks I marry Sarah Dill. Well, they just got married. Oh, that's so cute. They just got married.

It worked out. And Cade's friend gave him 20 bucks because that was who you bet. So at the wedding, they had pictures of their yearbooks up. That's fun. that his what he wrote they had it blown up as well that's pretty fun that's really cool i mean you gotta think of the times that people have said that and it doesn't work out this is cool that it did that's from my suncoast yeah they're actually when they walk down the aisle they're holding up a small picture too from the yearbook love that that's pretty cool what'd you write in your book did you

have like a saying i remember my friend evan wrote in mine he was like those railroad tracks may be pretty close together but they're really hard to get past in life meaning nobody ever left My small town. And I was like, dang, he been full Socrates. Deep. I know. I didn't have anything that I... I lived in a sawmill town, so I wrote that.

He's like, the railroad tracks are hard to get over, but, you know, nobody gets out, gets past them. Yeah. My daughter was going through my high school yearbook the other day and just making fun of everything. Did your daughter think, and I say this in a parent daughter way? Did your daughter think you're lame? Yeah. Did she think you were lame even younger when you were young, too? Yeah.

She was laughing at all kinds of things and just nothing. and my boyfriend. I was like, what? He's very cute. She's like, blah. Like, she just thought everything was hilarious to her. And I'm like, okay, never mind. Memory time is over.

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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 podcast. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know. Her name is Haley Welch. She got very, very famous, very, very quickly, because she is the Hawk toa girl. Hawk to her spit on that thing. It has been crazy to watch her blow up. She's 21 years old.

She's from Belfast, Tennessee, population 800. Her social media has millions and millions and millions of followers in just a couple weeks. So she's in studio now, and let's talk to her. The Bobby Bone Show. Haley, how are you? Good. How are you? Good.

I've got a lot of questions. So, do you remember that night? Do you record the video? Yeah, in Nashville. Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember actually recording the video or was it just? Because, I mean, we've all been to Broadway 500 times.

And it's like you just go one bar to the next. There are people everywhere. Did you actually remember talking to that guy? A little bit, but I didn't think I'd ever see it again. Yeah. Because he's probably just a dude with a little microphone out there talking to everybody, right? Yeah, and you see all sorts of them on the streets. So you don't ever think, oh, I'm just going to wind up talking to one that just happens to blow up.

And why did you talk to that guy? Well, I'm friendly. I just talk to anybody. And he was standing in a corner with his friend, and I was like, oh, hey, how are you? And even if he were to put it out, the fact that we even get to you before it even blew up would have been crazy. So who's the first person that told you, hey, I think I just saw you in a video, like way before it blew up? My girl group chat with my friends in it. What do they say?

They're like, uh, Haley, and they just sent the video. And I was asleep. I went to bed real early for work, and then I got up for work, and I was like, oh, no. How quickly did you put it up? maybe two days after. Okay. And so your friend says, hey, you saw it.

And then what do you think whenever you see that? I was like, oh, that ain't gonna go nowhere. That's just one of the videos they post and nobody ever pays attention to it. And how long was that

until things started to get like medium big? Probably like halfway through my work day. So it blew up in a day. It blew up. And then were people trying to search you out because were you on social media at the time?

I was not. I had a burner account. So I like, on there, but nobody could figure out who it was. Was there a reason you got off social media? I just never really got on it much, and I didn't care to see anything on there, post anything. What's your hometown?

Belfast. And so how many people are there? Not a whole lot. What was the drive? Do you drive, can you drive to Nashville and then drive home? I cannot drive in Nashville. Could you drive from Belfast to Nashville and then drive back the same day? Is it that close?

Or do you need to say they're not? Okay. You can drive back and forth. So you drove to Nashville. You record a video with this guy. how long until you start to feel that people are trying to find you from when it's loaded it was immediate they're like what's her at and i was like oh oh and you were seeing all the comments and stuff like what's her at i was sitting i was giggling i was like they're like where is she i'm like right here but you don't know it and then you would hear like all the songs that were made and it was slowly blowing up to where it had then crossed over it was on instagram like that's when you know something's really big when it like jumps platforms and is in all the places it went from instagram

to Facebook, to TikTok, it was everywhere. It was everywhere. When did you feel like I'm going to have to come out of social media retirement and at least be like, because I saw other people, they thought many people were you. And I would see like in the comments, this is her, this is her. At some point, though, you had to come out and be like, hello, it's me. Yeah, I come out maybe like a week and a half later. Why did you wait so long?

Because I didn't want anybody to find me. I was like, oh, that's embarrassing. I don't want anybody to find me. Did any of your friends hop in and say, hey, because you were with a friend in the video. Yeah, Chelsea. And you guys are still friends? Oh, yeah, great friends. And what does she say about the whole thing?

She's about the same way as me. She hid in the house with me for about two weeks. And why did you guys finally decide to come forward? Well, everybody was like impersonating us, like making fake accounts. So like, oh, I'm her. And then getting all these follows and everything else. And there was one woman. I can't remember what state she lived in that was like the teacher that got fired.

They had like a bunch of benefits for her because she got fired. And I was like, that girl's making money. She's not even the one in the video. Well, we had heard that you were a teacher. one of the first rumors even that you said wasn't true. And we had heard that you were a teacher, that video got out, and they had to fire you because of that. So do you feel like that was somebody else who made up that story

just so they could make money? Yeah, I did. Oh, damn, we got scam alerted. I shouldn't have sent that money. No, I didn't send that money. I didn't send any money. I was gonna say you better get your money back. No, I didn't send any money.

And then how quickly did all this stuff start to get bigger than you ever thought it would? It was really quick. Like from when you said, hi, I'm Haley. how long until people start reaching out going, we want to be in business with you? It didn't take long at all.

And how do you find the people that you want to work with? Because I'm sure your DMs of whatever account you started, it's all blue check marks going, we're this company, we're this agency. How did you pick?

So my best friend's mama is like our paralegal in my hometown and I told her I was like, I needed an attorney because I need to do something. So she reached out and found me an attorney from up here.

And then I signed with him me and him are good, and then he found me my team I work with. So you grabbed a lawyer first to make sure you're not getting taken advantage of? Yeah. What was the first thing you did to make money? Was it signed stuff? Yes, I done the hats first. That's pretty cool.

Oh, yeah, it was fun. Was it unbelievable that you were making money by just signing stuff? It was a little weird, yeah. I will say it's very weird. What was your job before what you're doing now? I worked in a spring factory. I don't know what that means. You know, boing, like a spring.

Oh, actual springs. Not the season. not the season and not a brand. It's literal boings. Yeah. Yeah. What do they, that you make springs

for all different stuff? What did you do there? See, I done the shipping and the quality. So like if somebody wasn't there, I'd have to do the quality. I didn't like it because you have to sit in a desk all day at a computer. And I can't sit still that long.

But the shipping. So people would place an order for like how many they needed, which we had regular customers. So they'd order some of the same stuff every other week. So I'd pack them out and put them in a box. And then my other partner that worked with me, She'd ship them out. And I was in the process to learn how to ship them out when I left.

Not in that process anymore? No. No, you're done with that process? Yeah. Have you moved to Nashville? No. Still living at home? Yep.

I can't drive up here. Meaning it seems too crazy for you. Yeah. Or you just can't drive. You have your license, though, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm from a town of like 700 people.

So for me, the first time I moved to like, even Little Rock. I was like, what the crap? The highways and interstates? Yeah. Yeah. I have a feeling you're going to have to catch on, though. I have a feeling. And so have you talked about moving at all?

Yeah, we've talked about it. I'm just not interested in it. I like where I'm at. You're going to stay there? Oh, yeah. I was watching a video. It was one of the first videos that your team released, that you released, and it was of your hometown, and it was of all your family. Like, you love your grandma?

I do. And how do you explain to them the first time? Because it's funny when you're just on Broadway, but then, like, my grandma raised me. And I'm from a small town in Arkansas. And I don't know. I would have difficulty explaining to her what was going on. How did you bring that to your family? Is it a whole meeting?

So it was just me and Granny when I first told her. And I had to explain it to her three times before she got it. And then she was like walking around. She was like, he said on it. She's so goofy. God bless her. Are you working to slowly move out of the Hoctua phase to just the Haley phase? I am.

Yeah, I would feel like that would be a priority. What do you want to do? Like aside from appearances and the, the things that you're doing now, which get all the money you can right now. But, like, what do you want to do? What are you investing yourself into that you can build a career out of this? So I've been doing a good bit of charity work. I like doing it.

And then I've met a whole bunch of comedians. And I'm kind of studying in, like, a podcast direction. And we've had words about, like, a, what do you call it? You know, kind of like Florida Bama Shore, but not like. Oh, like a festival? No. Oh, like a TV show. Yeah, got it.

So you want to do like a reality show? Yeah. Have you talked to the people at, like, CMT? I mean, I feel like that's right up your alley. I've met with a few people, yeah. I bet everybody wants to meet with you right now. Yeah, it's a little damn packed. Yeah, right?

Are you flying all over the country? Yeah, good bit. Have you been to L.A.? I have. First time? First time. Crazy hell. That was last week.

Who'd you meet? Let's see. I met the Bile Files people. I liked them. Whitney Cummings. I loved her. She's very funny. I met so many people.

I couldn't even keep up with them. And when you introduced yourself, you say you're Haley, right? I do. Do you say, at what point, because I agree with you, I think slowly you start transitioning away from Hock Tua so you can kind of have your own identity, at what point do you say, stop calling me Hock to a girl? I don't even really say it anymore.

Like the phrase, I don't say it at all because I just want to forget about it. Oh, that's good. Because I'm more than that. Do people ask you to do it? They do. And I just kind of. Yeah, I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it anymore.

If they do like a selfie video, they'd be like, hey, say the phrase. They do it a lot. They come up to you with their camera. They're like, can you say it? And I'm like, mm-mm. You know what I would say back? I would say, oh, can you say it? But be like funny.

That way they won't be like, oh, she's such a jerk. Yeah. But if they're like, will you say it? And be like, oh, how about you say it? And I'll just laugh. Yeah, you say it. Go ahead. Yeah.

Dang, that's crazy. I bet you could get, nah, you probably want to stay away from the phrase, though. You could probably make a lot of money saying the phrase like on cameo. Yeah. Have they come to you and been, stay away from that. Yeah, I don't want to do it. For now. Stay away from that.

Lunchbox. I know you have a million questions for Haley. Man. Yeah. Now, okay, this is already awkward. How much money have you made? You don't have to answer that. You don't have to answer that.

But you can tell us. So I saw a story that was like, it was like, you know, multiple thousands per event. That's probably accurate, right? Yes. I would feel comfortable with saying multiple thousands in event. And you've done a lot of events. Yes. More money than you ever thought you had make in a few weeks time.

Man, you're telling me. I logged in my bank out the other day and I'm a shit. I've got a stroke. Let me put it that way. You got somebody like for taxes though, right? Because this is different than working in the Spring Factory. Yes. Because I had to learn this too because they would always take the taxes out.

Yeah. That was my biggest thing. At a normal job. But they're not going to take the taxes out of your money now. So you have to have somebody to do that. And I do. Okay. So we're set there.

Now, wait. I've got a question. How many dudes are sliding into your DMs? Plenty. Any famous ones? I mean, you've had a few. Like? I don't want to tell you that.

Good, just say that. I don't want to put them on the spot. Anybody that asks you anything that you don't want to answer, just be like, I don't feel like answering that. I don't feel like doing that. Okay, have you chatted back and forth with these celebrity dudes? Like, hey, there's mutual interest? Yeah, a little bit.

Like to collab and stuff. Oh, not date. Oh, no, no, no. Do you have a boyfriend? No. Okay. But just a pro tip, if anybody ask you any question you don't want to answer, just be like, oh, man, I don't feel comfortable answering that. Because then you don't look like a jerk and you don't have to answer the question.

And don't feel pressure to answer any question you don't want to answer. What's your name? Lunchbox. Where did that come from? In the third grade, I stole a Superman. I tried to steal a Superman lunchbox from Walmart when I wanted it for school. And I stuck it under my shirt and my mom let me walk around the whole store with it. When we were leaving, she's like, is there anything under your shirt?

And said, nope. And she went, are you sure? I said, yeah, she goes knock, knock, knock. I said, I don't know how that got there, mom. You don't know how it got there? Yep. And that's a good tactic, too. Ask questions back.

If people are annoying to you, if you just ask them a question back. Oh, well, who said I was annoying to her? Well, I would say a bit uncomfortable. I mean, I feel a bit uncomfortable with the question you. Like, is it hard to walk around your hometown now? Are people just bugging you nonstop? I don't even think I really went out into public since all of this. Like, I used to go to the grocery store all the time and stuff like that,

but I don't really go anymore. Yeah, now you've got to. someone that does that for you because you got so much money, huh? No, I don't even do that. Just Uber Eats. Yeah, I could do that. Have Uber Eats come to your house. Okay, I have some other questions for you now.

Okay. When you decided to come out at the Zach Bryan show, how did that get lined up? So, I think they reached out to my managers, but we wanted to keep it a surprise because I haven't launched my social media just yet. And they're like, where is she? You still couldn't find me. And then I was like, okay, here I am. Were you going to go to that show anyway?

Yes, I had tickets beforehand. And how did they know who your management team? was because at that time, I didn't know publicly it was even out there. I really couldn't tell you. But I told my managers we had tickets for it because we had these tickets for like six months. So I'm sure they got in contact with them. They're like, oh, she probably needs like some security or something because she hadn't been out yet. And you met Shaq, I saw?

Yes. I loved Shaq. Was he super nice? Yes, he's everything he's made up to be. How did you meet Shaq? Where was that? We made about Peering Nashville. I couldn't tell you where, but somewhere up here.

Like at a bar or something? Yeah. How did that come together? Were they like Shaq wants to meet you or were you guys in the same place at the same time? Yeah. The second one? Mm-hmm.

You were in the same place at the same time as Shaq? Oh, no, the first one. Oh, they said, okay, got it. We got it all set up. But he's great. That's pretty cool. Did he buy you a car or a house or anything? Because he seems to buy people of everything.

I DJed with him and he stepped on my toe. That would hurt. You DJed. Yeah, he squished the pain off of my toe. What do you mean you DJed with him? Well, I stood beside him. I wouldn't. Oh, got it.

You weren't doing that. Well, he had a big red button over there. Like when you smacked it, you like let the, what do you call it, I guess, fog? The fog machine? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he let us hit that. So you fogged.

You fogged while he DJed. I did. That's cool. So when are you going to start, like your podcast? Do you know, yeah? We're working on it. I'm still deciding on, like, an agency to go through and stuff. Can you sing?

Absolutely not. Did you not see the Zach Brown video? Yeah, but that's such a big stage. You don't have ears in, you know, maybe you can sing a little bit. What did people in high school? What do they think, like, do they give you any, like, most likely to blank? Like, what were you doing in high school? Most, like, funniest.

Yeah, I'd say you can sound funniest. Yeah. Superlatives? Yeah. Most likely to go viral. Yeah, I never would have personally thought that either. Well, Lunchbox asked you about guys in your DMs, but what about, you know, long-lost cousins or random people you've never heard of and they're like, hey, remember me? I've had those.

Yeah. Or people that were mean to you in school, but now all of a sudden they're your best friend? Yeah, I've had some of that, too. There's a girl that I went to school with. I wasn't real crazy about. Tell me why she coming past my house, taking pictures of my house. Exactly. She wasn't so nice to you back in like 11th grade.

Oh yeah, she'd tell on us all the time. Exactly. So you're doing a lot of anti-bullying stuff too, huh? Yes. Why is that important to you? It's just not right. People need to be nice in the world. And I'm sure with the internet and social media now,

you're probably dealing with... Because if you just get to a certain spot, it doesn't matter how much you're beloved, there's always going to be a group of people that are... Angry, jealous, or mean. Yeah. Yeah. You're exactly right. And I'm sure you're dealing with that yourself now probably shed some new light to the whole situation.

Oh, yeah. What have you learned from this whole experience? Don't read the comments. You're exactly right. Don't read the comments. I say that too and every once in a while, I still, I will go over to like the Facebook page. You'll still kind of like glintz. Yes.

I do it too. I regret it every single time. And I always find myself drawn to the negative ones. Before the good ones. More so the good ones. And I don't like that about me. I think that's human nature. but I do and I'll find the negative ones.

Sometimes I'll reply. Never to the nice ones. I think they're kind of funny though. Like you get a couple funny ones. I'm like, where'd you come up with that? So people can, your real account, because I was looking, there's a lot of fake accounts. Yes. It's at Hay underscore Welch.

Sure he is. Was Haley Welch already taken as one name? Because people, do you know? I really don't know. Was that your account before all this blew up? It's just Haley Welch. Like there wasn't nothing in it. It was just straight my name.

That was your account before all this blew up. But you're not using that one anymore. Got it. I got rid of it like months before this. Okay. Her official socials are at Hay underscore Welch. Anybody you're dying to meet that you haven't met yet? I'm excited to meet Matt Rife in person.

Yeah, I saw with Whitney Cummings. They did the FaceTime. Yeah. Do you have that lined up? Yeah. So he invited us to a show. It's sometime this coming month. Oh, in town? Or like here?

Yep. You're going on stage on that one too? I'm going to sit that one out and just watch. Do you get upgraded? Like, so the Zach Bryan show, did they give you upgraded seats? Because you must be nice. Oh, yeah. I tag you along, don't worry.

Who do you want to go see? Let's go, whatever. What do you mean, whatever? You got to tell me what. He wants to go to anything you can get him in for free. Anything for free. That's right. He wants to go.

He wants to go. So this week, how many events will you do? How many appearances will you make? Do you know? Do you have a couple? Well, I'll go back to Los Angeles, so. We'll see what's going on. What are you doing in L.A.?

I'm finally getting to have fun up there. See, I was there last week, but I was there for business last week. So I didn't get to have any fun last week. So this time, you're going to have fun. I get to go to the beach. Oh, that's cool. Have you made any money off the video alone, or is that just that guy's property? That's true.

Have you talked to that dude? Have you said thank you? Tell him thank you for what? Making you famous? Well, see, we reached out to him, and I, I asked him to stop posting those videos, and he never did. He blocked us all on everything. So I'm not telling him thank you for anything.

Really? So you reached out to go, hey, would you chill on that? And he blocked you? Yeah. Because, I mean, he posts one. I'd be like, oh, that's it. Here would come another one. A few days later.

I was like, man, maybe that's it. Here's come another one. Then just so I want. So in the beginning, you just wanted it to all go away and make it stop, and you just continue life at home and at the Spring Factory. And then now, since he wouldn't stop, you're just like, okay, what does this make possible for me? Yep.

But you don't need to thank him. I get that. Okay. Wow. What did you say to the people at the Spring Factory? I assume you had a good relationship. You put two weeks in or did you go? This has gotten crazy.

I got to go. So the day that was my last day, I decided that morning. I was like, okay, well, I'm fixing to start traveling. So I can't use all my points and stuff here because I'm going to be traveling so much. But they asked me like all week that week. They're like, all right, when's your last day? And I was like, I'm not quitting, y'all. Well, I did.

Were they happy for you? They are. That's pretty cool. They're great people out there. That's pretty cool. Anybody driving by your house or anything weird? Yeah, I've had a few reporters going to my house. Really?

Yeah. What do you say to them? Not a thing. I peep through the blinds and look at them. They don't come on the property, though, right? Yes, they do. And they run up on my pawpaw, which wasn't very good. What do you do?

What do you say? Not good. Yeah. You don't want to know that. Well, I'm super excited for you. I hope you run like crazy with it. Make your money while you can, but start building out your thing. Thank you.

While it's shiny hot. You know, because you could get big guests right now. Oh, yeah. What did you think, what happened to the Jelly Roll Warren's Ider's concert? Oh, it was fun. Yeah? It was really fun. I met Warren, and I didn't get to meet Jelly Roll just yet.

I was very upset about that. But we had to go or we'd have been stuck in like three hours of traffic. Did you watch the show? Were you able to stay? Oh, you did? It was really good. Did you have like a side stage spot, or were you in the crowd? It was like a path you could go.

Like the crowd's like back through here. Then there's like a path through the middle of them. I got to go through there. So I got to see everything. That's pretty cool. and people weren't all over you the whole time? They were just like a little bit, but it wasn't anything crazy or nothing.

They're just, oh my God, it's out to. So I was like, hey. Well, what, so I appreciate you being here and talking with us. What can we, is there anything you're promoting right now other than your social media handle? Because I'm happy to promote whatever it is. Your home address? If there's something new that you're like,

hey, I want to promote this, let us know. We're happy to help. Oh, merchandise. Yes, that's it. There you go. So I'm launching you into it. I got it in my bone. So if they go to...

16 minutes. What, say it again? 16 minutes. Meaning more than 15? Yeah. Yeah, I like it. See, I'm a little bit of a smart aleck. So they're like, oh, she's got 15 minutes of fame.

Well, I want 16 minutes. So that's where that comes from. So if they go to at Hey underscore Welch, Lincoln Bio. Yep. Or a Spencer store. Or you'll deal with Spencer's? Yes. You already have a deal with Spencer?

That's awesome. Like every Spencer's everywhere? That's a great deal. Good for you. That is. crazy. What can I go buy a Spencer's ears? I will take you in there myself and let you frolic and pick out whatever you want. A shopping spree.

That is crazy. Like hat shirt. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Well, Haley, I am super pumped for you. You know, like my grandma used to say, you know, eat while the sun's out. I know it. The sun is out right now. So get all you can get and start building. And we'll be watching and rooting for you. And lunchbox, any final question? Yeah. Do you consider yourself rich now? I won't ever flunt like I'm rich because I know where I come from and that's how I'm going to stay. Do you consider yourself, though, like, secretly rich?

A little bit. I mean, the first time I made $50,000 a year, I thought I was rich. I was like, oh my God. Man, you're telling me. It was a life changer. I mean, she's making $20,000 an appearance. I know, different times.

That's different times. Now, question. What's the worst part about being famous? Everybody looking at you when you walk into a room. You don't like that? No. Makes me nervous. That's weird.

Have you walked into any rooms in public by yourself or non-famous lately where you're just going somewhere and still everybody kind of slowly figures out it to you? Yeah, I went to a gas station by myself to get gas and everybody was just kind of looking at me. I was like, oh, no. Does that feel unsafe a little bit? Yeah, it's a little bit, but that's the places I go is like in my hometown. So I'm not really worried about them there. You got a bodyguard when you go on the road? In big places, yeah.

But when I'm at home, no. Amy, any final question for Haley? Yeah, I mean, if you're working on the podcast, I'm curious too. You said, you know, you like comedy and you like, well, sarcasm, a smart aleck. But like what kind of content do you want to put out there that you hope people will gain from listening? So I'm leaning towards more like a podcast for the girls. Okay. That's what I want to do with it.

So I can't listen. Dang it. I mean, you can. You can take in some advice. You could learn about women. I was really looking forward to it, Haley. Now I can't listen to it. Golly.

Yeah, well, we look forward to that and saying, you know, what comes of that and stick with it. Like, I love that your first answer when Bobby asked, like, what you've been up to with it and what you're passionate about is giving back in charity. Well, somebody needs to. That's true. Somebody needs to. There's not enough of it. That's right. Remember, though, you can only shine that light on a lot of these organizations if you stay famous.

Yeah. So you have to stay in the limelight so you can keep shining on the charity. good. And don't give all your money to charity. You'll go broke. Well, she's not. She's lending a voice to it too. I've never met or heard anybody who gave all their money to charity and went broke. I've never actually heard that happened before. I'm just saying, don't get too like, oh, I have all this money. I can give so much of charity. I would say more like, don't waste it on like dumb stuff. Yeah. More than give it all to charity. You can buy a couple houses because you can sell those back.

A couple houses. Haley, good to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you for coming in. You guys follow at Hay underscore Welch and the link is right there in her bio. And you can get some 16 minutes merch. That's cool. All right, there she is. Haley Walsh, everybody. Nice job. Thank you. A win is a win.

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Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts. or wherever you get your podcasts. Cooper Allen got massive on TikTok. I would watch his videos. And he has a song on the country top 30 that's called Take Forever. Good artist, like has blown up, like all naturally as far as like no record label, but just social media.

And so he came over, we did an hour together. And he talked about how he started playing trumpet in middle school. I started playing guitar in sixth grade. I was playing the trumpet. That was like my first instrument because I was like heavy into disco. You know, Casey and the Sunshine Band, Abba.

I think I saw Mama Mia when I was in like third grade. And then got into more of the disco scene. Then my brothers were like, dude, you got to, you got to stop playing the trumpet. It's just, there's nothing cool about it. He was a young guy, but he played the trumpet and loved, like, the disco stuff. And he talked about one of the regrets because he got massive on TikTok was how he handles mean comments in TikTok. I forget when this trend was, I was, but it's like me and my wife were standing in the bathroom. and it's like you flick the light on with the beat and the light turns off and it turns on and I'm wearing her clothes and she's wearing mine and like it was kind of weird how comfortable that elastic skirt was yeah I got it made you feel yeah I felt that you just kind of have those days that like one comment will just get to you but most of the time it's like dude they're not gonna like you whether you do something they want or not that's a good point you can do whatever you want they already aren't liking you but why do they follow that's my thing I get people that come to me every day in my comments if I look same person I'm like why don't you're like why

you follow me. Stop follow me. Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't make sense. They follow me home sometimes. I don't follow me home. No. Check out of Cooper Allen on the Bobbycast.

Go search for it. It's a really good hour interview. Here's Amy's pile of stories. So Americans love their sports, right? Yeah. Very invested. And New poll shows that sports fans watch 120 games

of something per year. Wow. It is the number one rated everything. When sports are on. Football. football sports what I'm saying it's the number one

of all shows all year long not even just a Super Bowl like 12 of the top 13 things are like Sunday night football Monday night football like it dominates so much even the bigger shows but yeah

so there's different categories of fans there's the raging fan and then there's the moderate fan and then there's someone in between like the average fan yeah I think that I am raging on the

inside fan. The only time that I ever see red, ever in my life, is when Arkansas loses a game, a close game. Well, it's not just how it impacts you emotionally, it makes you raging. It's the amount of money you will spend on your team, whether it's like seeing them live or buying little outfits

or... They're not called little outfits, first of all. And second of all, jerseys. If you go to an away game and you lose, it's the worst feeling ever, because you just want to get home. You don't want to be in this town. You hate everybody in this town that's representing whatever team. It sucks. You don't want to be in the hotel. You figure the people that work at the hotel desk are fans of that team too and you hate them.

It's awful. Going to an away game and losing, terrible. I'd rather go to the dentist and have no Novocaine or whatever they do. It's the, it's the god, if I have to go to Tuscaloosa one more time and get beat, it's, it's awful. Well, and the amount of money it costs to be a big, like a raging fan and like going to a game, the average ticket, $879. Yeah, yeah, no, that's not $879. Yeah. A ticket's not $8.709.

Fans say they spend on average $800, $700 on the tickets concessions. Okay, now we're talking about flight. We're talking about everything on the way. No tickets $879 unless you're buying like you're going in... Apparel? Yeah. Okay. Now, nobody's buying a new what a cute outfit for every game either.

It's not the Ares Tour. Memorabilia's on here. Okay, we're not buying that. I mean, I'm buying that, but not for the game. Okay, so some pre-game habits of people that love sports, flaunting team gear, tailgating, chanting, dancing and praying. I do all that before every play, I think.

And then some people even light candles for their team. I get so excited, but the problem is I just, it's like I'm ready to be heard again. It's that Michael Scott meme from the office. I think I'm ready to be hurt again because college football is about to start back. And I convince myself every year we're going to be good. And I don't know how I'm doing it this year, but I'm ready. And I think I'm ready to be heard again. Light candles for your team.

Speaking of sports I saw just today, Krispy Kreme is doing something in regards to the Olympics. Like you can get a dollar dump. nuts. There's no limit. Nothing more Olympic than a good Krispy cream. There's no limit. TikTok is dropping a new song search tool. All you have to do is sing into your TikTok

or hum and then it's going to tell you what the song is. What if you're really bad though? I would bet you TikTok will not be able to identify a lunchbox singing songs into it unless he gets a lot of the words which he also doesn't do very often. What is that game we used to do

with lunchbox or he'd like go in the room with headphones and like he wouldn't have anything and he'd have to That was a time three or five songs. Yeah, he would listen to the song, but we couldn't hear what he's listened to, and he would just sing it. As it was in, we'd have to guess the song he was singing. Oh, we should bring that back. That's been, like, I don't know. We did that for a long time, and a lot of other shows started taking it from us, and I was like, you know what?

I don't want to be one of the 50 shows doing it now. Oh. Even though we'd just, we could, but I don't even care about other shows anymore. But back in the day, I was like, man, everybody's doing our bits. All right, what else? Hardy was recently asked, out of every country music star, who was the one that he would least like to date? his sister. He probably said Morgan

because they're friends, right? Yeah, he laughs. You always pick your really good friend in that because you don't want to... Sure, that'd be awkward. He laughed and then said Morgan Wallin. Yeah.

He said, he'd only break her heart, man. Yeah, you can do that to your friends. They do that in the locker room. They'll go to players and be like, who would you not want to date your sister? And everybody ends up picking like a funny wide receiver that's a player.

That they're close to. Yeah. I made me. That's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With lunchbox. Something good.

McKenzie Schaefer from Ohio was in Pennsylvania at a festival going crazy, rocking out, having a good old time. And then she looked down her custom engagement ring gone. And it's a festival. How is she going to ever find it? She spent hours on the grounds after it was over looking for it. Came back with her family for two days, looked everywhere, never found the ring. So she posted a video on TikTok, said, hey, I'm looking for this ring.

I need to get it back. It's my engagement ring. She was crushed. Well, it started getting shared and shared and shared. And this girl saw it and said, hey, my friend found that ring. So she goes to her friends like, hey, you need to return the ring. Friends like, I'm not giving it back. Oh, so?

The friend stole it and gave it to a police officer and said, hey, this is the ring. The cop wasn't going to give it back? Nope, said, went to the friend and the friend didn't want to give it back. So she took it and got it to a police officer who facilitated. to the return of the ring. You know, if you were a real friend, you don't tell on your friend for not wanting to give it back, you just steal it and then give it away.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I was like, you know how to sell her out? But then I'm like, did she actually lose it or did she set it down to wash her hands and that friend stole it? Oh, gosh. And then also, instead of the friend going, I'm not giving it back, why would she not just pawn it?

Maybe there's a really cool ring. She's going to hold it and wear it. I'm glad she got it back. And good for that second friend for stealing it from the other friend and getting it back to her. But now they're not going to be friends. friends. Yeah, I don't think you can be friends after that.

It should probably steal from you and then keep it and not give it back. Yeah. Good story. Glad she got her back, though. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. And that is the end of the first half of the podcast. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep,

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