Best 7 Segments From The Bobby Bones Show This Week

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – “Best 7 Segments From The Bobby Bones Show This Week”

Date: May 23, 2026
Host: Bobby Bones (Premiere Networks)
Episode Theme:
A lively, heartfelt, and humorous highlight reel featuring seven of the most engaging, relatable, and memorable segments from the past week of The Bobby Bones Show, including listener-favorite games, life updates, superstar guest Trace Adkins, and an in-depth look at health and parenting challenges the cast faces in real time.

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Episode Overview

This “Best Bits” episode, hosted by Morgan, serves as a fast-paced wrap-up for listeners who want to catch up on all the major moments from the week. The segments cover everything from playful aging laments and relatable family drama to a deep, informative conversation about hormone health, offering plenty of laughs, honest advice, and a dose of country music nostalgia with Trace Adkins.

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Key Segments & Highlights

1. “Time Marches On” – When Life Makes You Feel Old

[03:19 – 09:15]
Panel: Bobby Bones, Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox
A callback to a fan-favorite segment about the signs of aging, now sans the original theme song due to podcast copyright rules.

Highlights

• Bobby admits: he now uses a headlamp to read paper books because the print is too small and the lighting never seems bright enough.
  • “Now I have to do, because I’m using books...I wear a headlamp when I read.” – Bobby [03:41]
• Amy worries: about the right light for better sleep and aging eyes.
• Eddie & Lunchbox: admit to reading restaurant menus with their phone flashlight and always carrying glasses now.
• Lunchbox shares: he’s now a “shirt-on at the pool guy,” opting for full long sleeves to avoid sunburn and skin damage.
  • “Time marches on, her memory…” – Bobby, teasing Amy [08:14]
  • “I am now shirted on at the pool guy.” – Lunchbox [08:20]
• The crew bonds over aches, glasses, loss of stamina, and gentle ribbing.

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2. “Tell Me Something Suck” – Flip Side of the Feel-Good

[12:16 – 17:01]
Panel: Bobby, Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox, Morgan, Mike D
A tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating alternative to their signature “Tell Me Something Good” positivity segment.

Highlights

• Amy recently got her second-ever cavity:
  • “I had a streak for a long time till my 30s...never had a cavity. Here I am at 45 with my second.” – Amy [13:04]
• Bobby shaved off a mole/zit/pimple on his neck by accident.
  • “Now it could have been that, and I shaved it off. I don’t know. But it hurts. And so it sucks.” – Bobby [15:04]
• Mike D is a week and a half without internet – “going crazy.”
• Eddie’s car is leaking red (transmission fluid or coolant) – out of commission.
• Lunchbox has a perpetually leaky shower.
• Morgan had to chase her escaped cat around her yard, panicking about losing her for good.
  • “For five minutes there, I was anxious that I was never going to see her again. It was rough.” – Morgan [16:54]

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3. Lunchbox: 911 Hero (With Family in the Car)

[17:22 – 21:00]
Lunchbox stumbles on an abandoned, wrecked car blocking traffic, calls 911, and is commended by the state trooper for his quick thinking.

• “I told the wife, I gotta make a U-ie… They made me get out and go look in the vehicle… I was the first one to call.” – Lunchbox [17:50, 18:02]
• “Thanks for being a good citizen.” – State trooper, as quoted by Lunchbox [19:29, 19:36]

Notable Moment:
Lunchbox theorizes it was a stolen car and gets praise from the show for a "valid" 911 call, with Bobby joking Lunchbox almost made the news.

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4. Trace Adkins In-Studio: 30 Years in Country Music

[21:21 – 43:48; Key segments 21:21-25:55, 27:00-43:48]
A relaxed, candid discussion celebrating the 30th anniversary of Trace’s debut album.

Key Topics

• Iconic Hits: Behind the music of “Every Light in the House Is On,” “There Ain’t No Thinkin’ Thing,” and the infamous “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk.”
  • “I never get tired of singing that song. That’s the one that put me on the map.” – Trace on “Every Light in the House” [21:47]
  • “That’s the reason I haven’t retired yet…I keep hoping I’ll do something to top Badonkadonk.” – Trace [24:09]
• Storytelling: How “Badonkadonk” was born drunkenly after a night at the Wild Horse, and why some singles flop.
• Honest Reflection: On aging, hurting himself falling off a scaffold (with bones sticking out), and almost requesting a leg amputation to shorten his recovery.
  • “I fell off a scaffold…bones sticking out of my pants…” – Trace [28:05, 29:06]
  • “I asked him to [amputate], because when he told me what the recovery was going to be like…I was like, just cut it off.” – Trace [29:38]
• Raising Five Daughters: Offers only this advice – “Be patient. You can’t discipline them like you do boys. I don’t think you can.”
  • And: “I’m five times more confused about girls than you. That’s where I’m at. I don’t know.” [31:00]
• Tour Life: 30th Anniversary Tour, playing the hits – “It’s a greatest hit show. You know, do the stuff that they’ve heard and are familiar with and don’t get on the stage and do your new album.” – Trace [39:41]
• Acting & Hollywood: Faith-based films (“Mom’s Night Out”), working with McConaughey in “Lincoln Lawyer” – “He’s the guy. He’s that dude.” – Trace on McConaughey [42:11–42:28]

Memorable Banter:

• “How good are you at memorizing scripts?” (Bobby)
• “Always come pretty easily for me.” (Trace) [39:58–40:16]
• Gentle joking about Bobby’s “ladylike” shoes at the Opry.

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5. Amy’s Co-Parenting & Track Meet Updates

[46:46 – 55:07]
Amy shares a very real update on family logistics and modern co-parenting.

Highlights

• Carpool Buoyed by Comedy: Her ex decides at the last minute they should drive separately to their son’s state track meet, fearing confusion for the son, not rekindling.
  • “He actually just texted me saying it’s probably a good idea we ride separate.” – Amy [47:24]
• Track Meet Details: Their son’s team places 4th in the state; Amy handles long, sweltering hours on the bleachers and a solo return trip, consoled by BUC-EE’s snacks and an audiobook.
  • “We hung out the whole time we were there…Make it make sense.” – Amy [51:24]
  • “About 7pm, I think…I just stopped at BUC-EE’s. Yeah, I was alone.” – Amy [54:06–54:13]

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6. Bobby’s Parenting Mishap: First Meal Out With Baby

[55:20 – 60:54]
Bobby and his wife Caitlin attempt their first restaurant trip with baby Billy, carefully planning around her nap…only for everything to go sideways when they leave too soon.

• Parenting Lesson:
  • “She was fussy the whole rest of the night…It was all on me. The lesson: I should have just said, whatever you say Caitlin.” – Bobby [57:29]
• Bonus Hack:
  • Billy sleeps best with running bathwater and bouncing on a stability “gym” ball.
  • “The thing that’s best is like this gym ball…all this other crap we bought doesn’t work.” – Bobby [58:00]
• Casts reminisce: About what worked for their own kids — from drives to “Baby Bum” on Netflix.

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7. Eddie’s Low T: Gynecologist Panel Explains Hormones

[64:22 – 93:54]
A standout, medically informative segment where Amy brings her gynecologist, Dr. Pascal, and nurse practitioner Megan, to analyze Eddie’s extremely low testosterone and vitamin D levels.

Key Insights & Moments

• Eddie’s bloodwork: “Extremely low” testosterone – Dr. Pascal is shocked he’s even functioning.
  • “I’m just wondering who is this guy, where is he? …Extremely low.” – Dr. Pascal [66:26, 66:39]
• Symptoms of Low T & D: Fatigue, “pseudo depression,” lack of focus – commonly misdiagnosed as psychiatric or lifestyle issues.
  • “Men and women, they have the same symptoms when their hormones are off…” – Dr. Pascal [68:13]
• Diet & Sunlight: Most Americans are vitamin D deficient – need 5,000-10,000 IU, processed foods are a major culprit preventing absorption.
  • “Protein is your best friend. Eat less processed food.” – Megan [77:29–77:53]
  • “Processed food is changing the microbiome…affecting your natural, innate bacteria…” – Dr. Pascal [77:56]
• Pellet Implants:
  • Plant-based, bioidentical hormone pellets used to treat hormonal imbalances in both women and men, misunderstood due to earlier synthetic replacements.
  • “100% plant-based, bioidentical, or isomolecular. The same chemical that’s coming out of her ovary.” – Dr. Pascal [79:28]
  • “I think a lot of people learned a lot of things…” – Bobby [93:54]
• Entertaining Detours:
  • Amy’s “tailbone” (prominent coccyx), gets a gentle exam and declared a “variation but normal.” [88:14–88:55]
  • Bobby inquires about butthole sunning (“perineum sunning”) and the efficacy for vitamin D absorption to much laughter. [71:25–71:45]
• Key takeaway:
  • “Low T” and “low D” can masquerade as many things; the solution may require lifestyle change, improved diet, targeted supplements, and sometimes, modern hormone pellets for both men and women.
  • Eddie commits to getting more sun, less processed food, and is open to pellet therapy if improvement doesn’t materialize: “If there’s no improvement, you think about the pellet?” – Bobby [90:41]

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Notable Quotes

• Trace Adkins: "That song is the one that put me on the map. I never get tired of singing it." [21:47]
• Dr. Pascal (on Eddie): “Extremely low. I’m wondering, who is this guy? Where is he?” [66:26, 66:39]
• Morgan (on her escape-artist cat): “For five minutes there, I was anxious that I was never going to see her again. It was rough.” [16:54]
• Lunchbox: “I am now shirted on at the pool guy…full long sleeve pool shirt.” [08:20]
• Bobby (self-aware dad moment): “The lesson: I should have just said, whatever you say Caitlin.” [57:29]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Timestamp | Segment / Topic | |------------------|----------------------------------------| | 03:19 – 09:15 | Time Marches On: “Aging” Moments | | 12:16 – 17:01 | Tell Me Something Suck | | 17:22 – 21:00 | Lunchbox’s Valid 911 Call | | 21:21 – 43:48 | Trace Adkins In-Studio | | 46:46 – 55:07 | Amy’s Co-Parenting & Track Meet | | 55:20 – 60:54 | Bobby’s Parenting Mishap w/ Baby Billy | | 64:22 – 93:54 | Eddie’s Low T/Hormone Health Panel |

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Episode Tone & Flow

The episode is a classic Bobby Bones blend of playful self-deprecation, country wit, genuine personal revelations, and practical, sometimes surprising wisdom. The tone shifts smoothly from laugh-out-loud banter and relatable “we’re all just getting older” admissions, to heartfelt family moments, and deeply informative advice about health—always staying authentic and personal.

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For New Listeners

This “Best Bits” episode is a perfect entry point: you’ll get a sense of the cast’s chemistry, their willingness to overshare, and their ability to mix entertainment with down-to-earth, real-life advice—whether on parenting, aging, or fixing your hormones. Plus, the appearance of a bona fide country legend (Trace Adkins) and medical experts makes for a truly varied, engaging listen.

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Listen for: Authentic stories, sage advice, and big, genuine laughs from a show rooted in Southern charm and modern reality.

Transcript

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[Trace Adkins]

All?

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[Eddie]

You hear something, you stay a little longer.

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[Eddie]

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[Bobby Bones]

with Morgan Part two. Just the bits.

[Morgan]

What's up, friends and happy weekend. I'm excited that you're here to catch up on the Bobby Bones show from this week. That's what we do here in part two. It's a rec podcast. So everything big that happened on the show from this week is right here now. Part one, completely different. It's always with the show member and we talk about life and touch on things that maybe we didn't get a chance to discuss on the big show. And we also answer listener questions. So all that goodness is wrapped into part one, and I highly encourage you to check it out this weekend with Eddie. Otherwise, if you want to get caught up on the show, then let's get into it. We used to do a segment called Time Marches on, and we had to stop doing it because of the copyright of the song. But time is still very much marching on. Everybody shared some things that are happening in their lives where they feel old.

[Commercial Voice]

Number seven, Bobby Bones Hill.

[Bobby Bones]

We used to do this segment many moons ago called Time Marches on, and it was to the Tracy Lawrence song. And we'd say something, and something in our life was making us feel old, and we'd hit the clip and it'd go, time Marches On. Well, down on the podcast, we couldn't use it anymore because we can't play music on the podcast. But I have a Time Marches On. I think mostly I just want your interpretation of it. Okay.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I mostly read from an iPad, and that's great. The one thing that I've had to do a long time ago is make the words a little bigger because my vision isn't good now. I don't think that's as much of a Time Marches on as I was just born. One eye doesn't work. And not good vision in my left eye. Maybe a little age because I'm having to make it grow a little bit. Now what I have to do, because I'm using books. I'm reading a book right now that's really great. And I bought it in paper form. I can't see because the lights are almost never bright enough. So I wear a headlamp when I read.

[Amy]

Now is a special reading light.

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's like one of camping. Yeah. Yeah. We need to figure this. Okay.

[Amy]

Okay. Because I'm worried about the type of light because we are getting older and sleep is so important. You need it to be like a red or amber.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, no. It freaking lights up.

[Amy]

It's like a bright light. Like. No, no, no, no.

[Bobby Bones]

I was trying to take a bath and read my book because that's what I like to do. Low reading. But I don't like to do with the iPad because that falls in. That's an expensive bath.

[Eddie]

It's done.

[Bobby Bones]

So I got on Amazon and ordered a headlamp, and it works awesome. It's a little annoying for my wife because she's laying next to me in the bed and there's this huge ball of light.

[Eddie]

Is it like a hard hat with a light on it?

[Bobby Bones]

No, but it's a strap.

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Commercial Voice]

Oh.

[Lunchbox]

It's like a. What do you call them? Cave people.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

Miners.

[Lunchbox]

That's what I call them.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's it.

[Amy]

I mean, yeah, it's a little time marches on. And also, I think you can do better.

[Eddie]

What do you mean?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not asking for you to judge the quality.

[Amy]

No. So those are quality strategies. Like, those are great if you're digging or looking for something, but. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that a time march is on? Yes or no? Does that happen with age, where it's harder to see in dark?

[Eddie]

It's definitely happening to me for sure. Yeah. Like, dark restaurants is worse. Like, if I go to a restaurant at noon and there's a lot of light in there, I have no problem reading the menu.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I do that with my phone too, where I have to look at the menu with the phone light on. But I don't know if that was age thing or just, like, restaurants are getting darker.

[Amy]

That's an age thing. I think younger people don't.

[Eddie]

They don't do that.

[Amy]

Get out their flashlights like we do.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, crap. Okay, well.

[Amy]

But now you can take your headlamp to the rest.

[Lunchbox]

Ooh, that's a good point.

[Bobby Bones]

My wife would slap it off my head if we're in a restaurant. I'm like, hold on a second.

[Eddie]

Everyone in there is like, what's that bright light? Gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. All right. So that's my time marches on. I have found that we have this massive spotlight in the backyard, though, because Stanley. Stanley's our bulldog, and he. He doesn't listen to me as good as he used to. It's not even a bulldog. Time marches on. I just have not been able to dedicate as much time to. To him and Eller as I used to before the baby. I'm slowly kind of getting back on track, which is great, but I'm still. It's. It's not good, and I feel so bad. And so when I take him out at night, that bulldog would only listen to me. Like, back in the day a year ago, three years ago, he listened to anybody else. That's fine. He's a bulldog. He listens to me. I said, jump, he said. But he did. He listened. He doesn't listen to me as much anymore. And I know it's because I haven't invested the time in him, but I have this massive spotlight that we keep, and that's how I Watch him in the backyard now because he runs off and so I got a spotlight him to find him. Now those spot little spotlights are awesome. Now I can just put the headlamp on and chase them.

[Eddie]

Is the spotlight charged? Do you charge it?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. It's so cool how many things are chargeable now and not just battery. Yeah, kids don't even know what that was. Like batteries died. It's. We threw it away basically.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Kids, if you. If we use the light and it slowly would dim to then like what's happening? It's not as bright as it used to be. Battery's dying.

[Bobby Bones]

So spotlight A plus to find the dog headlamp. It's been great to read the book. It's kind of annoying for my wife. I just wondered if that was an older thing.

[Amy]

Yeah, I think you guys vote.

[Eddie]

Yeah, we're gonna say yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You guys are free to add. That's just mine. I didn't tell you guys I was doing this segment. Anything making you feel old?

[Eddie]

I mean, what do you want, dude? Pick it.

[Bobby Bones]

Low T. Point to any part of your body.

[Eddie]

Low T. My back hurts. The. I mean eyeglasses. I went from, speaking of eyeglasses, I went from carrying eyeglasses in my backpack to where like oh, if I need it, they're there to now I have them all the time in my pocket.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's a transition to always have it readily available.

[Eddie]

And your father in law who is a optometrist told me that that was going to happen. So yeah, it's happening.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm sorry, dude. Time marches on. Amy, do you have anything?

[Amy]

I'm sure I do.

[Bobby Bones]

But it seems to us like you're getting younger though. To be honest, we talk about it a lot. We're like, Amy's cool and getting younger.

[Amy]

Well, things, things do happen. I just can't think of them right now.

[Bobby Bones]

Time march is on her memories.

[Eddie]

Wow. The memory.

[Amy]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. Anything?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I got one. I mean it happened on the cruise and it's gonna transition into pool season. I am now shirted on the shirt on at the pool guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Why?

[Lunchbox]

To the sun, man. It's just not good for you. It's not too much sun on your body. Like there's studies so. And I'm not talking short sleeve shirt. I go full long sleeve pool shirt. Ordered them. They are there. I wore it at the beach when we were on the cruise and it was great. Didn't have to worry about the sunburn. And now the pool season's coming up. I will be the guy with a long sleeve shirt on at the pool.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yours is age, mine is shame. I don't know which is worse.

[Eddie]

I mean, it's all the same, dude. We're all just getting old.

[Bobby Bones]

Shame. And I wore the shirts for shame. Oh, yeah, Yeah. I thought about sunburn. I just don't. Just embarrassed. All right, hang in there, everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

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[Morgan]

We always do a segment, and if you're a podcast listener, then you see it. It's called tell me something good. However, we decided to do the other side of that and do a tell me something suck. Everybody had something sucky that happened because, let's be real, there are a lot of great things that happen in life. There's also a lot of sucky things.

[Bobby Bones]

Number six, we do Tell me something good. I think we're gonna do tell me something suck right now. And Amy came in, was holding her hamstring this morning.

[Amy]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm trying to, like, massage it and, you know, I don't know, loosen it up. It's a little tight for my sprints, I guess.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy's punching her leg right now.

[Amy]

It feels so good.

[Bobby Bones]

When she started doing sprints, I just said, hey, that's awesome, but be very aware, that's how you hurt your hamstring. If you haven't done sprints in a while, then you run hard. It hurts your hamstring.

[Amy]

I felt a little invincible at the moment, at the time when you said that. And then now I'm like, yeah, you're right. I give anything for a little tennis ball right now.

[Bobby Bones]

I have tennis balls if you want one.

[Amy]

Sweet. I might sit on it.

[Bobby Bones]

So that's not hers. I just saw that, wanted to bring it up. So tell me something suck. You want to do your real one?

[Amy]

Sure, go ahead. I have a cavity.

[Eddie]

Oh, no.

[Amy]

Or I had. It's fixed now, but it just sucks. Like, I had a streak for a long time till my 30s that I'd never had a cavity. I'm in my 30s. I got my first one, and that was a real bummer. And then now here I am at 45 with my second cavity.

[Bobby Bones]

Which tooth?

[Amy]

I guess back second from the very

[Bobby Bones]

back on the bottom.

[Amy]

On the bottom.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's 22.

[Amy]

Is it? I don't know the number, but one of those far back ones, it had even cracked.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, dang.

[Amy]

So then the whole thing, like, I had to get a big shot into my mouth and then filled it and did whatever they do to make it, and now it feels good to go. I mean, well, a little tender, but dang.

[Bobby Bones]

Hamstring, gums. Amy's struggling. Everything's tender.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I don't know what causes it. Like, I'm real. They. They complimented my oral hygiene. They said, wow, you take really great care of your teeth. You must floss. And I'm like, yep, yep, yep.

[Bobby Bones]

You could have fractured, like, microscopically fractured your tooth, even biting on it hard, which. Then you have holes in it. Then food gets in that, and you can't brush or floss that out, and that causes that could cause a cavity.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy]

See, I thought the cavity caused the crack, but to your point, maybe I cracked it and then you're. It let the food in. Which. Did you know that when you bite down on food, they told me it's like £2,000 of pressure.

[Bobby Bones]

I did not know that. Thoughts were, like, 1300 pounds. No, I had no idea. Yeah.

[Amy]

I was just like, wow. That's why our bite. That's why you can bite an ear off.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what you thought. All right, tell me something suck. I'll go, I had either a mole or zit or something on my neck, and I shaved it off.

[Amy]

Wait, you alone did it yourself? I thought you didn't.

[Trace Adkins]

What?

[Amy]

And I go to a doctor.

[Eddie]

No, it was an accident.

[Bobby Bones]

It's an accident.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

You don't shave off moles.

[Amy]

You did it on purpose.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it's. And it hurts. You see it?

[Amy]

I do.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know if it was a pimple or, like a small. Whatever it is, it's killing me. And I accidentally shaved it off.

[Amy]

Mosquito bite.

[Bobby Bones]

Now, it could have been that. And I shaved it off. I don't know. But it hurts. And so it sucks. It's my. Tell me something suck. Is that all morning long I've been holding my neck because I shaved off some piece of skin? Mike D. I'm going on 10 days with no Internet, and it's going to be another week until I have it.

[Eddie]

Yikes.

[Dr. Pascal]

That's bad.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm going crazy. Why can't they get Internet to your house? They have to send a crew out to, like, fix something outside, and they can't get there for another week. That's why. That's worst of all. More than a cavity hamstring.

[Amy]

Like, no.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm using my phone as a hot spot, going to Starbucks, downloading stuff on my computer. It's tough. Tell me something suck, Eddie.

[Eddie]

Man, I don't have a car right now. My car is in the shop. I noticed a leak under the. Under it the other day, and I was like, this is not good. It was red, like, reddish pink. So it's either that transmission fluid or a coolant leak or something, but it's not good. Mike's going to have to take me to the garage after the show today, so we'll see what happens.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you drive him here?

[Eddie]

No, I got. I got dropped off.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you did?

[Eddie]

I did.

[Trace Adkins]

Oh.

[Amy]

So when did you hit up Mike about taking you to the garage?

[Eddie]

Just about an hour ago.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Not right now. You walked here? Lunchbox, tell me something stuck.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah, man. If you want to take a walk into my shower, this is what you hear.

[Bobby Bones]

Leak. Yep.

[Lunchbox]

It is just dripping from the shower head. Just drip, drip.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we heard it drip.

[Amy]

Yeah, and the knobs all the way.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, the knob is all the way off, and I cannot get it to stop.

[Bobby Bones]

Morgan, tell me something sucked.

[Morgan]

Well, my cat got out of the

[Amy]

deck, and I had to chase her

[Morgan]

around the yard yesterday, which was a terrifying five minutes. It was like wrestling a pig trying to capture her from not running away forever.

[Bobby Bones]

What'd you think she was gonna say?

[Eddie]

I thought the cat was wrestling a p. I got out.

[Bobby Bones]

You run down cat and pig, but you got your cat back.

[Morgan]

I did. I did. But for five minutes there, I was anxious that I was never going to see her again. It was rough.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, well, everybody. Sorry.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's tell me something sucked. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.

[Morgan]

Number two, Lunchbox is back at it again with the 911 calls. This time he got complimented by a police officer for his quick action thinking, and it was all because he stumbled upon a car accident.

[Bobby Bones]

Number five lunchbox had to call 911 again.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, what's the story, man? We were driving, had the family in the car, and there's a median in the middle, and I look over in the westbound lanes, there is a car. Sideways axle is broken, Windshield wipers are going. It's not raining out. The car still running, and it's blocking half a lane of traffic. And I'm like, man, something's wrong. And I'm driving and no one's wrong.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, dude, you think something's wrong?

[Lunchbox]

I told the wife. I was like, I got to make a ui. And I was like, give me the phone. And I called 911. I was like, hey, we got a situation here. Wreck car. And they're like, is anybody in the vehicle? And so they made me get out and go look in the vehicle.

[Bobby Bones]

No way.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, there was no one in the vehicle.

[Bobby Bones]

They had you get out and go look in. So you were the first person to call.

[Lunchbox]

Then I Was the first one to call.

[Eddie]

There was no one there.

[Lunchbox]

No one there.

[Trace Adkins]

Weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Door open, Windshield wipers moving.

[Lunchbox]

Yep.

[Eddie]

Axle broken.

[Lunchbox]

Axle broken. Front right axle broken. Snap. It was turned sideways, and it was blocking half a lane of traffic. Like, it was halfway into the lane, and it was like the entrance ramp to the highway.

[Bobby Bones]

So then what happens?

[Lunchbox]

So then I call 91 1, I tell them where I'm at, and they're like, okay, did you see anybody run from the vehicle? I might know. I just saw the vehicle. They asked me for the make, the license plate. They said, we'll get officers right out to you. And then me, worried that someone was going to crash into it. I blocked the lane of traffic. I stayed there till the cops arrived.

[Eddie]

With your body or your car?

[Lunchbox]

The car.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

And people were still pulling up, like, getting. Going around our vehicle, getting up behind it and honking at it. Like, guys, it's turned sideways. I don't think it's going anywhere.

[Bobby Bones]

Were your kids in the car?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Were they in the car while you're blocking traffic?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So someone could have ran into your car with your kids in it.

[Lunchbox]

They could have.

[Bobby Bones]

You didn't get them out.

[Lunchbox]

It's safer to stay in the car.

[Bobby Bones]

But if you're blocking traffic, though, is it still safer?

[Lunchbox]

But, I mean, I had my flashers on so they would see me.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, how'd this end? The state trooper showed up or whatever, and he was like, were you the driver? And I was like, no, man. I just came upon the vehicle, and I thought, you know, something bad had happened. And he goes, all right, thanks for being a good citizen.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Lunchbox]

And then they took over from there.

[Bobby Bones]

Key to the city?

[Lunchbox]

Nope. I drove off.

[Eddie]

That make you feel good when he said that?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Being a good citizen.

[Lunchbox]

I was like, no. And then I was blocked. I was just, you know, blocking it. So no one came up on it and ran into it. You know, it didn't want people. Another accident. He goes, thanks for being a good citizen.

[Bobby Bones]

That's pretty cool, though.

[Lunchbox]

But now, question.

[Bobby Bones]

What's your theory?

[Lunchbox]

My theory was it was a stolen car. They wrecked it, and they said, oh, we're out of here strong.

[Bobby Bones]

What's your question?

[Lunchbox]

Was that valid, 911?

[Eddie]

Yeah, 100%.

[Bobby Bones]

This is the one that's valid?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Like, as you were explaining everything, I was thinking, yeah, you have to call 911 when you see this.

[Bobby Bones]

That's valid. Yeah. Good for you. It's a good citizen there, man.

[Lunchbox]

How. How crazy is that?

[Bobby Bones]

What if Someone would have been in it, like struggling. Do you made the news, dude? Do you wish someone had been in struggling so you could have made the news, like hurt?

[Lunchbox]

No. Well, okay. Like a broken leg.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, broken leg. Maybe like some contusions, but not.

[Lunchbox]

That's fine.

[Bobby Bones]

And you have to pull them out.

[Lunchbox]

That have been good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

My initial thought. Yeah, I was like, oh, I don't want to see that. I don't want to see that.

[Bobby Bones]

But you went in anyway.

[Lunchbox]

I went in.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a good citizen.

[Lunchbox]

Because they asked me, they said, is anybody in the car? And I was like, I don't know. And they go, can you look, Scuba Steve?

[Bobby Bones]

You got to go dig this one out.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah, I'm working on it for you.

[Bobby Bones]

All 911 calls are public. You go in, we'll get it. Do you feel good about us getting it?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I mean, I feel like a hero.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, you told the story the real way.

[Lunchbox]

I told it the real way.

[Bobby Bones]

Then, hey, he almost saved a life. If one would have needed saved, you'd have been there. That's a good citizen. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Thanks for being a good citizen, man.

[Bobby Bones]

It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.

[Morgan]

Number two, the legend that is Trace Adkins was in the studio this week and I'm gonna tell you guys, it's so cool when iconic country stars stop by. I don't know if it will ever not be cool to me. It's very much a pinch me moment. So here is Trace Adkins in the studio number four.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's go on the Bobby Bones show now.

[Announcer]

Trace Adkins.

[Bobby Bones]

Trace, it's really good to see you again.

[Trace Adkins]

Good to see you.

[Bobby Bones]

Always a pleasure. I would like to start by saying something I said before you came in. I feel like my favorite song of yours. And we're celebrating. That first album came out in 96. Is every light in the house alone? That's my favorite. Is that your favorite one of them?

[Trace Adkins]

I never get tired of singing that song. Every night I, you know, get to that one in the set list and I always. I have a really. A real appreciation for that. That's the one that put me on the map, you know, so that that one really started at all.

[Bobby Bones]

Was that the first single?

[Trace Adkins]

No, Girl in Texas was the first single, but Every Light in the house is on was a top five, so it was legit hit. I think Girl in Texas got to 17 or 18 or something like that.

[Amy]

Wait, it wasn't number one?

[Bobby Bones]

It's funny how massive songs sometimes weren't number one. Songs. That's crazy, because that song, to me, when I think of you, there's two. It's that one, and then, you know, the other one.

[Trace Adkins]

You know, somebody told me really early on in my career, I think it was Bill Coutino, Capital Records, he said, look, man, when you have a song that gets into top five, some. Some even top 10, but top five, especially the public out there, the ones that don't look at the charts and stuff, they don't know the difference between a number five and a number one. Because chances are, in the market where they live, that song was played in heavy rotation. So it got played just as much as the number one record did. And then there were a few markets where you didn't get that kind of push. And that's the only reason your song didn't go to number one. But for the majority of the country, it's. It was the same as a number one record.

[Bobby Bones]

Then you go to Des Moines and you sing it like we never heard that song. Yeah, we don't really.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah, I had some songs like that, you know, where they would come out and. And they would be big hits in certain markets. And then other stations just refused to play it. And you'd do a show there and. And nobody knew that song, you know, but that was a different time.

[Bobby Bones]

The other one from that record that I think about a lot, where I remember where I was in life. There ain't no thinking thing. Yeah, that's a good one too. You like that one?

[Trace Adkins]

I like that one. Yeah, we. We do it a little differently now.

[Bobby Bones]

It's why.

[Trace Adkins]

A little different groove to it.

[Bobby Bones]

Got bored playing it so much?

[Trace Adkins]

No, we just. We just start. It just kind of morphed into this thing where it's got a little bit. A little bit more of an R B groove to it now than it did on the record. And I just like it better that way.

[Bobby Bones]

It wasn't on the first record, but the song that probably a lot of people think of you for is Badonkadonk. What do you think about that song?

[Trace Adkins]

I love it.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. All right.

[Trace Adkins]

I mean, I don't want that chiseled on my tombstone, you know, that's the reason I haven't retired yet is because I keep hoping I'll do something to top Badonkadonk. So that's not the only thing I'm remembered for, you know, Because, I mean, come on, it's not the most high browed tune that's ever come out, you know. So anyway. But I just. I Mean, when I heard that song, it made me laugh out loud. And. And, you know, I got the demo of it and, you know, Randy Houser and Dallas Davidson and Jamie Johnson wrote that. And this the story of it. You know, they were all down at the Wild Horse one night, drunk up on the balcony, watching them do a dance, line dancing lesson. And somebody said, oh, look at the donkey, donkey. And then one of them said, honky talk, badonka donk. And then the next day, after they sobered up, they wrote it and then Jamie sang the demo. So the demo that I got of the song was country ass Jamie Johnson singing that song. And it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. It made me laugh. And I told Scott Hendricks, I said, we got to cut this. You know, we got to cut this. Ended up, I did it with Dan Huff, but I heard it first in Scott Hendricks office.

[Bobby Bones]

But did you think that would be a single or did you cut it thinking it would just be fun for the album?

[Trace Adkins]

I thought it could be a single, but I didn't know if they were going to have, you know, the guts to do it, you know, because it could. That's one of those. You just didn't know. I mean, I've pulled the trigger on a couple of them in my career. That the label was going, this is not going to work. I'm like, yeah, it is. And it didn't, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, it still didn't.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah, I was totally wrong. Like, brown chicken, brown cow, though. Oh, my God, everybody's going to love that now. They didn't.

[Bobby Bones]

Why do you think brown chicken, brown cow didn't hit? Because I pretty were about.

[Trace Adkins]

There were about 60% of the panel, they told me, they said, we think about 60% of the panel will play this song and about 40% aren't going to touch it just because it's nasty. And I was like, okay, I can deal with that. I can, I can. I'll take 60%. That'll be, you know, that'll be good enough. And. But it was the opposite. There was about 40% that would play it and about 60% that wouldn't touch it. So, yeah, yeah, we pulled that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Whenever you're playing live shows, will you do the song that you did with Blake, Hillbilly Bone?

[Trace Adkins]

I do just a little snip. I do kind of a medley thing of some songs we've had on the radio over the years, and I. And I tag it with that. And I just say at the end of it, I just Put that on there just to piss Blake off, you know, because I think it sounds a lot better without him on it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I feel. Yeah. You and Blake still talk? You guys still close? You and Blake?

[Trace Adkins]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You guys hunt all together?

[Trace Adkins]

No, we don't. I don't hunt much anymore.

[Bobby Bones]

You just don't like being in the woods?

[Trace Adkins]

No, I'm. I'm too lazy to clean stuff. I, I. I got. I must. I made enough money. I can afford groceries now. I don't. You know, I mean, I grew up. You. You ate what you killed and you hunted, you know, to put meat in the freezer. I don't do that anymore.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a bit. Why I don't hunt at all anymore either. I grew up hunting in Arkansas my whole life, and we ate it all. And then I kind of just started to feel bad about killing, honestly, about killing animals. And when I didn't need the meat anymore.

[Trace Adkins]

And I like to look. I mean, I. I keep them fed, you know, out on my place. I've got feeders out. There's just, you know, deer and turkey. I like looking at them, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

You have cameras out there? Yeah, all over.

[Trace Adkins]

Not all over. I keep them close to the feeders.

[Bobby Bones]

You ever see people?

[Trace Adkins]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, there shouldn't be. Oh, no, no. I'll never see people sneaking around.

[Trace Adkins]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Last time I saw you, you were on a cane. We had talked. We were both playing the Opry, and I was doing some jokes. You were after me. We were talking for a minute, and you'd said that you'd hurt yourself. Did you ever say how you hurt yourself?

[Trace Adkins]

I fell off a scaffold, but I was about 12ft high.

[Bobby Bones]

Like roofing. Were they roofing?

[Trace Adkins]

No, I was. I wasn't. I was. They were working on something on the house, and I climbed up on the scaffold, and I was just watching. I wasn't even doing anything. I was watching these guys work, you know, and watching what they were doing. And then I lost my balance and fell off the scaffold.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you remember it?

[Trace Adkins]

No, I don't remember, really, the fall. I remember waking up and some dude was cradling my head in his lap, and I was like, well, this is bad. You know, anytime you wake up and your head's in another guy's lap, especially

[Bobby Bones]

when you didn't sign up for it.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah. This is not how this was supposed. This day. This wasn't on the bingo card.

[Bobby Bones]

So then what happens the rest of that day? They call an ambulance.

[Trace Adkins]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And so they get you to the hospital?

[Trace Adkins]

They took me to Williamson Medical at first and they just took a look at it, went, whoa, you need to go to Vanderbilt, because there were bones sticking out of my pants. You know what I mean?

[Bobby Bones]

Did you see the bones?

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And how did that freak you out?

[Trace Adkins]

Well, it didn't freak me out, but I just passed out. That's the only time I think I've ever done that, looking at an injury. I've had a lot of. A lot of injuries over the years, but that one is like, when you look down, you see that I just went you back out.

[Bobby Bones]

How long were you in the hospital?

[Trace Adkins]

Man, I must have been in there a couple of weeks or something, because there was. Yeah, I mean, they didn't know, you know, they thought they might have to cut it off. And. And when he told me.

[Bobby Bones]

They told you they may have to

[Amy]

cut it off, like amputate.

[Trace Adkins]

And I asked him to, because when he told me what the recovery was going to be like and how long it was going to take and that, you know, the damage to the nerves and all that kind of stuff, he said, you know, you're going to have trouble picking your foot up and blah, blah, blah. And all this now just. Just cut it off, man. How long will the recovery be if you cut it off? Because it was going to be below the knee, so it's not like up here, you know, so anyway. And this, this knees fake anyway. I mean, I had a total knee replacement years ago, but my wife wouldn't let him do it.

[Bobby Bones]

You just said, well, recovery is not going to be as hard if you cut it off, chop it.

[Trace Adkins]

And all the work that I've done with vets over the years, I've seen the advances that they've had in, you know, orthopedics, and it's like, you know, they got some good stuff, you know. So, yeah, I thought if the recovery be shorter, just cut it off.

[Bobby Bones]

That's wild. No, not for you. Because you're strong and big and cool. No, I just had my first daughter. You have five daughters?

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a lot of daughters in a row.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you know it was daughter every time?

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Leading into it. So it was never. Let's see what this one is. Daughter. What have you learned about being a dad of daughters?

[Trace Adkins]

You have how many daughters?

[Bobby Bones]

We just had my first kid. She's a girl then.

[Trace Adkins]

I'm five times more confused about girls than you. That's where I'm at. I don't know.

[Amy]

Each one you get a Little more confused.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Trace Adkins]

I don't. I'm not any more of an authority on girls than anybody else is.

[Bobby Bones]

So you have no advice for me on having a daughter?

[Trace Adkins]

Be patient. You can't discipline them like you do boys. I don't think you can. You're not supposed to.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, yeah, I really thought I was gonna come out with some real daughter knowledge here, Trace. How's everything else going? Like, what's. What's. I know you're doing these shows.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And you're. Are you doing more of the anniversary album, just generally speaking, than you would in your normal shows? Because it is, like, 30 years, just really.

[Trace Adkins]

Girl in Texas, you know, we didn't always do that song, you know, because, like I said, it was my very first single, and it wasn't a massive hit. It was respectable, but not. Not a big hit. So we haven't always done that song, but this year, you know, I put it back in the set just to set it up and say this, you know, June 20th. Something is the 30th anniversary of this song coming out on the radio. 1996.

[Bobby Bones]

So does that feel like forever ago or yesterday?

[Trace Adkins]

In some respects, it's. It's a strange thing. Some. In some ways, it was yesterday, and in other ways, it was a lifetime, you know, Were you.

[Bobby Bones]

Was your desire to be a massive solo artist ever when you moved to national?

[Trace Adkins]

I didn't want to be in a band, if that's what you're talking about.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. Or just.

[Trace Adkins]

I was. I did the band thing for about four years, you know, playing clubs and stuff, and it just always ended. Not good.

[Bobby Bones]

Group dynamics.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah. I mean, you eventually all end up in a big fight and everybody goes their separate way. That's been my experience with bands, and. Bands are hard, man. Bands are hard.

[Bobby Bones]

When you decided you wanted to be a solo artist, were there folks that were like, hey, your voice really isn't that of a solo artist?

[Trace Adkins]

I heard that. I thought that, you know, I thought. Because when I first started out, I was a bass singer and a gospel quartet, and I did that for a few years, and. And I thought that was. That was my thing. I was going to be a bass singer, you know, and then I have this very vivid memory of seeing the Grand Ole Opry while it was still on television one night, and Ed Bruce was on Grand Ole Opry, and he had that deep, rich bass voice, and I went, hey, he's pretty old. Somebody's gonna have to step in when he's done, right? So Thought that. I thought I'd give it a shot.

[Bobby Bones]

You ever watch a movie and it makes you cry?

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah, sometimes.

[Bobby Bones]

Like what? What kind of movie?

[Trace Adkins]

It's hard to remember. I mean, there's been a few times. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm really curious. I'm gonna let you sit on this.

[Trace Adkins]

I have a feeling or two. Well, the yearling. The yearling?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, no, I've never seen the yearling.

[Trace Adkins]

The year. You've never seen the yearling?

[Bobby Bones]

No, I don't know what the yearling is. I know what a yearling is as

[Trace Adkins]

far as where the red fern grows.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. When they shot the dog, that made me cry. Are you kidding me?

[Trace Adkins]

That's terrible.

[Bobby Bones]

That's terrible. Any animal dying in a movie. I'd rather humans die.

[Trace Adkins]

Kids usually too. Like, if something bad happens to a kid, you know, that affects me. Man, that's rough.

[Bobby Bones]

I've never seen the yearling. Has anybody seen the yearling? Does anyone? Can you tell us what the yearling is about?

[Trace Adkins]

It's about this kid that takes in this fawn and then he grows up and just becomes a nuisance and eats their. And it's set way back in the middle 1800s or something like that. And he loves this deer and it eventually does what deers do. It eats their garden up and all that kind of stuff. And so, yeah, he has to kill it.

[Bobby Bones]

He has to kill. Did you ever see Marley and Me?

[Trace Adkins]

I think maybe dog. I can't remember it, but probably dog died. I know the movie Cry. I don't remember watching that one.

[Bobby Bones]

So I was trying to really trigger that. That memory. I was just gonna keep feeding you questions until you nailed it. So, no, I wonder what it.

[Trace Adkins]

I don't get to watch many of those movies, you know, where. With dogs and animals and stuff like that. Because my wife just won't watch them

[Bobby Bones]

because they make her so sad.

[Trace Adkins]

Oh yeah, she won't watch.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't like animals in movies for the most part because I get more nervous about the animal, even if they don't die. Or if I'm watching like a. An apocalypse show and they have a dog with them. They found the whole time. I'm not worried about the people, I'm just worried about the dog dying. You have dogs?

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

How many?

[Trace Adkins]

Well, I only got one now. I had two Doberman's brothers, but they died just a few months apart, couple years ago. And I haven't replaced them yet.

[Bobby Bones]

How long they live until my wife's

[Trace Adkins]

got a little 12 pounder.

[Bobby Bones]

You know those Dobermans how long. How long they live?

[Trace Adkins]

Nine years.

[Bobby Bones]

What's that? What's the lifespan for a Doberman?

[Trace Adkins]

About nine years.

[Bobby Bones]

It really. It is. We have a bulldog and their lifespans are not long. No, but I would expect a Doberman to live longer than a bulldog.

[Trace Adkins]

Well, they were pretty big. They're about £100. It's big. I don't know. Bigger dogs just don't live as long.

[Bobby Bones]

You have.

[Trace Adkins]

You have little ones live too long.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. It's like little people, they live long too. That's. Oh, that's sensitive. You're big.

[Amy]

Yeah, well, cardiovascularly, yeah, pumping more. I'm talking about in the dogs, not you.

[Bobby Bones]

But when he came in, he's like, everything hurts. As soon as he sat down, like, trace, what's up? How you been? He goes, everything hurts.

[Trace Adkins]

Everything hurts.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. All right. Everything else good? Yeah.

[Trace Adkins]

You know the one, my voice is still, you know, still what? I can still sing all those songs in the same keys that I recorded them in. And it's like, man, just, you know, knock on wood. I mean, so far it just, it's as good as it's ever been. And so, you know, I guess as long as that is the case, then I'll, I'll keep doing this. But it's like, it's like any other thing, you know, and like, as an old jock, I mean, after I'd had a couple of knee surgeries and whatever it was, if you could. If I couldn't play at 100%, I wasn't going to do it. I mean, what's, you know, why, why do that? You know, I didn't want to do that. So. And this is kind of the same thing. I mean, when I can't go out on stage and, and satisfy myself and, and perform up to my expectations, when I can't do that anymore, I'm done.

[Bobby Bones]

You got enough money to be good?

[Trace Adkins]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That's awesome. Just say. Oh. Not even. Yeah, but. Oh, yeah, yeah. And he laughed. And then he laughed. Yeah, yeah.

[Trace Adkins]

Man, this career has been great for me. You know, it's like, it's like you. I mean, you've taken whatever it is you have and, and just made it a very profitable enterprises. You know what is.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Eddie]

I love the laugh.

[Bobby Bones]

What is it that I have?

[Trace Adkins]

I don't know. Whatever it is, I don't know. You tell us. Tell us the secret.

[Bobby Bones]

I just wonder what you think I have. I know what you have.

[Trace Adkins]

I don't know what I have.

[Amy]

How do you know what he has?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, he's not money wise. I'm talking about, like, the qualities he has that make people like him and his talent that he has that draw people to him.

[Amy]

Oh, my bad.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, like, like he is. Don't be fooled. He's a very warm guy. If I ever see Trey's outside of this place, he's a very warm guy, and I like to be around him now. He's, you know, he's cool. You know, he's in here.

[Trace Adkins]

I'm being warm.

[Bobby Bones]

You're very warm.

[Trace Adkins]

I thought I was being warm.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you're good.

[Lunchbox]

You're good.

[Bobby Bones]

I like Trace a lot. And he's a good singer, has good songs. He's a very warm person. He's very authentic and sincere all the time. I think when you say something in real life, people believe it. I think people like that about you. I think there's a lot of things that make people like you come from where a lot of us come from, and we feel like you kind of speak to what we come from. I would say that was. Those are the elements, I think. Yeah. Okay. You do me.

[Trace Adkins]

That's what you do too.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, fair enough.

[Trace Adkins]

I come from where we come from.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So Trace is Trace's 30th anniversary tour, traceadkins.com, he's doing two shows at the Ryman this weekend. One tonight, one tomorrow, and then he's in Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, all the places that our show is. So if you get a chance to go to a Trey show, go to a Trace show. Because you play all the hits.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah, it's. Yeah, I mean, that's what it should be. You know, it's the greatest hit show. You know, do the stuff that they've heard and that they're familiar with and don't get on the stage and do your new album.

[Bobby Bones]

At least not the whole.

[Trace Adkins]

They don't want to hear that. You know how to hear the whole.

[Bobby Bones]

How good are you at memorizing scripts?

[Trace Adkins]

Scripts? Yeah. Like if you're acting, man, it's always come pretty easily for me. Yeah. Fortunate that way. I mean, I use. I get on set and I know my lines and that's, That's. I think that's the way you should be.

[Bobby Bones]

What is your favorite acting role ever? Personally, your favorite?

[Trace Adkins]

Hmm. Wow. You know, I. I would say probably that thing I did a few years ago, it was kind of a faith based movie called Mom's Night Out. That character that I played in that movie I think is probably the most fun because it was not. There were times when he was serious, but most of the time it was just.

[Amy]

You were a biker character named Bones?

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah. And I didn't know it was a faith based movie. They sent me the script. Well, they sent me my sides and so, okay, I'm reading this and it's. Oh, that's kind of funny. I'm playing a biker. That's cool. And then I got on set and CMT was there that day and we were shooting it in Birmingham and first day I got on set, they said, hey, CMT set up in that room over. They won't do interview with you. And I said, okay. So I went. And then the first thing the guy said, he's like, trace, you're doing a faith based movie? Wow, that's. I didn't really expect you to do that. And I just went, this is a faith based. He, like, yeah. I was like, dude, I didn't know. Swear I didn't know. I didn't read the whole script. That's my bad. You should always read the script. But I didn't in that case. And I didn't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have to audition?

[Trace Adkins]

Not for that. I don't think I've ever gotten. I have auditioned a few times and I don't think I've ever gotten a part that I auditioned for.

[Bobby Bones]

It's always parts that they just think you're perfect for.

[Trace Adkins]

They know what I do. They. They know what I'm going to give them. And so, you know, they call me to just go in there and do this, you know, and say the words they want me to say the way I would say them. I also enjoyed that biker role in Lincoln Lawyer. I like that one.

[Amy]

Oh, Eddie.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah, she knows. Eddie McConaughey was really nice to me and.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's cool. Yeah, he's met him a couple times. He's like the guy that you see on. I mean, he's the guy.

[Trace Adkins]

He is.

[Bobby Bones]

He's that guy.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not like a different person. He's that dude.

[Trace Adkins]

He wanted me to come over to his trailer and rehearse the scene, you know, before we went to set. And I was like, okay, dude, you got your clothes on. You know bongo there, right? You're not playing the bongos, are you? I'm not coming over there.

[Bobby Bones]

Get tickets to go to Trace's shows. Traceadkins.com it's the 30th anniversary tour and we're going to end this interview and what happens behind. And once the cameras go off, I Come over there. And I sit down and you stay sitting. We take a picture. What I'm nervous about, what I did not think about before I came in today, when I knew you were coming in, is you're not going to remember this because it was such a quick moment as we were passing. You made fun of my shoes that I was wearing at the Opry. And so you gave me the business because you thought those are pretty, a term that you used. Pretty, ladylike shoes is what you said to me. And you're right. But the shoes I have on today are also quite ladylike. So now I'm a little nervous about hopping over just because I've been through this.

[Trace Adkins]

Well, I don't have boots on either, so I'm a little worried about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, wait till you see mine. Yeah, wait till you see mine.

[Amy]

Maybe you can just cut the feet out of the photo.

[Trace Adkins]

That's what I'd do.

[Amy]

Cause it sounds like he's a little insecure about his shoes right now.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

What size shoe do you wear?

[Amy]

Like 15.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I wear 15s.

[Amy]

No, you don't.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, hey, respect, huh?

[Trace Adkins]

How do you keep them? All

[Bobby Bones]

right, there he is. Trace Atkins, everybody. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

[Malcolm Glebel]

Hello. Hello, this is Malcolm Glebel from Smart talks with IBM. Today, we're diving into a fascinating conversation with Stefano Pollard, head of fan development for Scuderia Ferrari hp.

[IBM Host]

Your pronunciation is strongly American. It's more Scuderia Ferrari.

[Malcolm Glebel]

I'm still working on rolling my R's, but what I was able to learn from Stefano was the importance of engaging the Tifosi, the Ferrari superfans in the digital age.

[IBM Host]

Ferrari fans and superfans want to be part of something, want to belong to something. So they want to be part of a community, and ultimately, they want to be part of a winning team.

[Malcolm Glebel]

You've got Ferrari, which has a long history, design history, and now you're interacting in a kind of digital space. I'm curious how you balance those two traditions.

[IBM Host]

When it comes to fan engagement, it's really digital technology. And digital channels are being able to create a deeper connection with our fans.

[Malcolm Glebel]

To learn more about how Ferrari and IBM are using technology to build deeper connections with fans, visit IBM.com Ferrari

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[Morgan]

This is a two for one situation, so you're going to hear two segments back to back because they're all kind of wrapped into one. Amy shared an update on a co parenting situation with her ex husband involving her son's track meet. And then on the other side, we heard how the track meet went, what her son did, the whole situation. So you're getting two segments wrapped into one. So you get the complete update number three.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy's gonna go watch her son run in state today, right?

[Amy]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

And so the weird thing from the guys on this show is that they think you're gonna fall back in love with your ex husband because you guys are carpooling together. That's been said.

[Amy]

Well, yeah, I have an update on that though. I mean, if they overheard me saying I was gonna carpool, he actually just texted me saying it's probably a good idea we ride separate.

[Trace Adkins]

Oh, see? Oh, see?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, okay. Breaking news. Hey, Breaking news. Breaking news. Wow, wow, wow. Okay, so what happened initially was you were gonna ride three hours with him.

[Amy]

Well, yeah, I just thought that made sense, Right? Made sense to me.

[Bobby Bones]

That makes it to you. Yeah.

[Eddie]

I mean, save gas, right? One car, they're both going to see their kid.

[Amy]

Yeah. But you definitely made me feel like it was weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Me?

[Amy]

Yes, you were like, that's weird. Y' all are gonna fall back in love.

[Eddie]

That's what I thought initially. I was like, dude, they're gonna spend three hours. Either two things gonna happen. They're gonna fall back in love. Like, oh, I love this Song.

[Trace Adkins]

Me too.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, like hands touch about going to the dial.

[Eddie]

Yes. Or they just fight the whole time. It's gonna get real bad.

[Bobby Bones]

And then you're not even riding together.

[Amy]

No, I get it. It's fine. He, you know, our son will be in the car too. I thought, this still makes sense. He thought this could be confusing for our son. I was like, I'll sit in the back on my computer. I won't even shock to y'.

[Trace Adkins]

All.

[Eddie]

It would be confusing though, if you guys fell back.

[Amy]

I hate driving. We're not going to. My. My ex husband has a girlfriend.

[Bobby Bones]

Is she going now? I don't know. Why?

[Amy]

I don't know. I don't know if she goes to other races. I doubt it. Because she has a bit. She has a business. She has something. I don't know how she would take a day off for that. Because she runs her own business. That's pretty reliant upon her actually physically being there. So I'm not.

[Morgan]

I'm not sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Were your feelings hurt when he said you can no longer ride together?

[Amy]

No, he. No. Because I understand. I did respond with just a okay, period.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang.

[Amy]

I get it though.

[Bobby Bones]

And maybe he felt like he's going to fall back in.

[Eddie]

Yeah, like some could happen.

[Amy]

No, I think he's very much in love with his girlfriend. That's not it at all. I know that. That's like, haha. Could that happen? I don't think so. And I don't even. I don't want to disrespect their relationship at all in any way, shape or form. I like her. She's really nice. I do know.

[Bobby Bones]

You just keep talking, okay? You just keep talking.

[Amy]

I'm just saying because he's also dated other people where I think that you didn't like. It just wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't. Wasn't good vibes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Amy]

And not because I didn't want them.

[Bobby Bones]

There she goes again, guys.

[Amy]

So I think that makes sense. It's just. Yeah, it's weird. We have to. We're both from the same place. Gonna get in a car and gas prices these days. We're gonna drive. At first I thought, well, maybe he'll wanna. Maybe he loves to fly. And he. I was like, maybe he'll want to rent a little.

[Bobby Bones]

The pilot?

[Amy]

Yeah, he's a pilot. So I was like, he's done that before for different things. Like that'd be sweet if he fly. But now I know if he flew, I might not even be invited on that.

[Bobby Bones]

I got A feeling you wouldn't be. Dang, dang, dang. Breaking news. Breaking news. Amy's not even going at all. Wow. But you're still going. Are you driving by yourself?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Alone?

[Amy]

Yeah. But then I was like, does anybody

[Eddie]

else want to go like us?

[Amy]

Let's go. Road trip.

[Bobby Bones]

We all. We all fall in love with each other.

[Eddie]

We don't want that to happen.

[Bobby Bones]

Phone. So yesterday your son had state track. So you guys drove over to the University of Tennessee. They got to run on the campus. It was pretty awesome.

[Amy]

Yeah, it was really cool. Long day, you know, but that's track.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like every time you talk about the track meets, it's a long day.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's what I feel like. I don't know what it is. And my ex husband and I were there together looking at each other like, when are we gonna learn? When are we gonna learn? Why are we not like these other awesome track parents that bring umbrellas from the sun? Because it was 90 degrees, sun is blazing, and people have got their umbrellas, their face fans, their spritzer fans. They are said, get their cool earth back here. And we roll in nothing when you get there. That's our first time to state, to be fair. But track meets are always long, so

[Bobby Bones]

we should know how long until Stevenson ran.

[Amy]

Oh, hours. Oh, it's always. But it's always hours.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you waiting that. It could be any minute, though. So why don't you just go somewhere else for a while?

[Amy]

Well, I kept thinking that, like, any minute there. Well, I got there a little later than my ex husband because again, he didn't want to ride together, but we hung out together the whole time we were there. I was like, make it make sense. So then we were. He's sitting in the bleachers in the blazing sun, and I'm like. Which he was sitting, coincidentally, next to some listeners. So I got to meet them. Shout out. They had a niece there running. And then I was like, we got to get out of this sun. So we go over to the shade and we're like, okay, it's about to happen. It's about to happen. From that moment, if it's about to happen, it was at least another hour

[Bobby Bones]

and 20 minutes and he was running the four by 800. So there were four people and they each had to run two laps.

[Amy]

Correct.

[Bobby Bones]

And.

[Amy]

But there's.

[Bobby Bones]

Was it a whole different competition, like, level of competition?

[Amy]

Yeah. And I don't know what it was. I mean, the boys did great. Like, I was really proud of them, but they Were seven seconds slower than their best time as a. As a team. So each one of them was a couple seconds off. They finished fourth in the state.

[Bobby Bones]

So that's good.

[Eddie]

Still pretty good.

[Amy]

That's great.

[Bobby Bones]

And he's what grade?

[Morgan]

8th grade.

[Bobby Bones]

So he gets to run in junior high again next year?

[Amy]

No, he's going to high school.

[Bobby Bones]

His ninth grade. My school?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Ninth.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Our school is totally different small school, so I don't.

[Amy]

Yeah, they were sort of like when they got fourth place and they were a little bummed about it. They're like, onward, we're going to high school.

[Bobby Bones]

So ninth grade, you're running against seniors.

[Amy]

No, he's in eighth grade.

[Bobby Bones]

No, next year.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, you can if you run varsity.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but. But is there not like a junior of ours?

[Amy]

Well, there may be. I don't know what team he's going to make yet.

[Bobby Bones]

Like Mountain Pine here. We had two buildings. One was at the bottom of the hill, one was the top of the hill. That was our whole school.

[Amy]

So were you single A, double A or triple A?

[Bobby Bones]

Double A.

[Amy]

Okay. So see, that's what was taking so long too. Was that all the small kids?

[Bobby Bones]

All the small school kids you guys made fun of?

[Amy]

No, I'm all about it. That's fine. But there was, you know, the 4 by 800 starting. Well, the girls go first, which is fine, but it was like, how many heats for single A, double A, then triple A. And it was like, okay, finally.

[Bobby Bones]

How did he feel about finishing fourth?

[Amy]

He had a great time. He was a little bummed that they were all. He wanted to be faster. And I. Who knows what it was, if it was the heat or I don't know what causes them.

[Dr. Pascal]

They.

[Amy]

They did switch up the order. This is the first time they ever ran in that order.

[Bobby Bones]

Why would they switch up the order?

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Championship.

[Amy]

We have to trust what the coach was thinking.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't. I don't trust the coach. Not now.

[Eddie]

Doesn't sound like the right move.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I'm gonna be couch coach.

[Amy]

Yeah. And none of the boy. All four of the boys. They were all. Apparently one of the other dads is saying that they were all like, I don't wanna be fourth. I don't. Nobody wants to be fourth. Like, because there's a lot of pressure on the fourth. So Stevenson was second. He's normally first. And then they moved him. And so he was like, yeah, shoot, why'd we switch up the order? But, oh, well, they did great. I was proud of him.

[Bobby Bones]

That's Fun. When'd you get home?

[Amy]

About 7:00pm, I think.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you guys stop and eat on the way back?

[Amy]

I just stopped at BUC EE's.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah, I was alone.

[Bobby Bones]

No, that can't. Oh, you were alone. So he rode up there with you, but back with his dad?

[Amy]

No, he was with his dad.

[Bobby Bones]

He rode up with his dad and back with his dad.

[Amy]

It's his dad's week.

[Eddie]

So you were alone the whole time?

[Trace Adkins]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Bones]

So you drove what, three, almost three hours there alone? Three hours back alone.

[Amy]

But that's.

[Bobby Bones]

But you could have shared Stevenson from one of the trips and just dropped him back off with his dad, right?

[Amy]

No, it was his week. And honestly I didn't mind because then again, Stevenson had to be there a little bit earlier. I. I didn't get there too far behind them, but.

[Bobby Bones]

But the way back, justice for Amy had to stop at Bucky's by herself, going and listening to a sad song.

[Amy]

I listened to a book on tape. I still call it a book on tape, even though I downloaded on Audible on tape.

[Bobby Bones]

Ah, got it. Old school. Well, glad. Glad that it worked out.

[Amy]

Yeah, it was great.

[Bobby Bones]

Good experience.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel worse for you than I do. Stevenson, she had to go ask for beaver nuggets for one.

[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.

[Morgan]

Number two, Bobby and his wife Caitlin had their first outing with baby Billy and things did not go quite as planned.

[Bobby Bones]

Number two, we took the baby to a restaurant for the first time. Now we've taken the baby for walks, but we have not taken Billy to a public place yet. And so my wife's like, we just gotta do it. And so we try to time it with a nap. Hopefully she'd fall asleep in the car seat while driving there. And she did. Excellent. And so she's asleep in the restaurant and she's getting a little fussy. So my wife was like holding her while we were eating. And it was a restaurant that you could pay at the beginning because I thought if she starts to freak out, we need to be able to jump and I don't want to feel like, check please. So baby's great. Sleeping the whole time. We're there about 25, 30 minutes and I'm like, alright, let's go. And my wife's like, I don't think we should go yet because if we go, we gotta then semi wake her up to put her back in the car seat, strap her back in, carry her in the car seat, put her back in the car, click, click, Door slam. She's like, if she wakes up, she's go fussy all the rest of the day because it's hard for her to nap, wake up, and then fall right back asleep. And I'm like, no, no, no, we'll get it. We'll get the transfer just fine. She's like, can we not just wait here like another 30 minutes and let her get her full nap in? We can just hang out. My wife's like, I haven't been out of the house like this since before we had the baby. And I'm like, she'll be fine. She was not fine. I totally screwed up. She was not fine. So put the baby in the car seat. We get her in the back. She's awake. We woke her up halfway through the nap, it was all me. And then she was fussy the whole rest of the night and like crying. It was all on me. And so I learned a lesson. I should have just said, whatever you say, Caitlyn. Yeah, that's the lesson I should have just said. I really felt like it was time for experimentation though. We went to a restaurant. She's asleep, but let's see if we can keep her asleep through all the steps. I was stupid, so I would like to say I was very wrong about that. And I'm just going to say whatever you say, Caitlin. One of the things that we've learned though with the baby over the past couple of weeks is she will pretty much fall asleep if there's bath water running. So at first we would get her ready for a bath because we do bath time at like 8:30 and she'd get real sleepy because the water's running. And then I thought, what if I just run the water when she's fussy And I can, like, because we bounce on this ball. We have this ball we bounce on. We've bought all this crap. But the thing that is the best is like this gym ball that you can just bounce on one of those like, I don't even know what you call medicine balls.

[Amy]

Aren't they?

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's not a medicine ball.

[Amy]

They're really big ones.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's full of air.

[Amy]

Yeah, I know. What are those called though?

[Bobby Bones]

Squishy air balls. Regardless, you all know what it is, right?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And so we'll go in and I'll bounce her while the bath water is running. The problem is that's a lot of water that's just running. So now if I do that, I must take a bath after so you

[Eddie]

don't waste the water.

[Bobby Bones]

So I run the water for me.

[Eddie]

That's funny.

[Bobby Bones]

And then I go, okay, I got her. I gotta take a bath, I guess. And so. But the water, that is an A plus. Did you guys find anything when you had babies? Anything? Because that ball is like six bucks. We bought all this other crap we spent way more money on. Doesn't work. That ball.

[Amy]

Stability ball.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That ball and the bathwater running are just saviors right now. You guys have anything?

[Eddie]

Yeah, ours was the car. Like, so our baby, my oldest, would love the car. Just be in the car seat and driving around. So I mean, one in the morning, two in the morning, we'd be in the car driving around the neighborhood.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Eddie]

In circles. And it worked every single time.

[Bobby Bones]

Do babies get car sick?

[Lunchbox]

Some do. Mine would throw up every time we went somewhere.

[Eddie]

Really? Every time?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Interesting.

[Lunchbox]

My second one. Yeah, it was bad.

[Bobby Bones]

Does that same child still get car sick?

[Lunchbox]

No, grows out of it. They just said it's something about, you know, they're getting used to moving around and being out in the world and the turns on the road, I guess. Doctor said it'll go away. And it did.

[Bobby Bones]

Number one away from me.

[Eddie]

You're still car.

[Bobby Bones]

I still get car sick for any time I'm in any moving vehicle. Did you have anything that worked for you?

[Lunchbox]

Baby Bum on Netflix. It's like little nursery rhymes and just I guess the melodies. I don't know. You would turn it on and I mean 10 seconds, baby, stop crying every time.

[Bobby Bones]

I have found, because Billy is what, 10 weeks old now? I have found that if a screen is on, she's locked in and she doesn't even know what's up.

[Eddie]

It's a lifesaver.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I'm.

[Eddie]

It really is. Like, we got judged so hard when we went out to eat one time and we gave everyone screens, like, because they were all little. And we're like, everyone gets a screen.

[Bobby Bones]

But how little? Because she said she doesn't get a screen. She can't even hold a screen.

[Eddie]

Right, right. No, no. This is already when they were like one or two. Like they were older.

[Bobby Bones]

And I think that makes sense. A 10 week old should not be magnetically attracted to a screen.

[Eddie]

But they are.

[Bobby Bones]

It doesn't matter what's on. She's just like the lights.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And I mean, I don't know if they were watching it, just hearing the little. Whatever. Whatever the beat was or rhythm. I don't know what you call it. They were just like, oh. And they'd go back to sleep. I'D stop crying, dude.

[Eddie]

You know what amazing you're going to find crazy is when you give them a phone. Like when they're one or two, right? You give them a phone, they know how to navigate, swipe right, go down, click that.

[Amy]

Like when they're one or two, makes

[Eddie]

so much sense to them that they're just like, huh, Open that app, close that app. Next one. It's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you think they build those phones? They can get kids addicted way early? Like, they make it so kids can figure it out so quick.

[Eddie]

Possibly.

[Bobby Bones]

And they have them for life.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they're set for life because they got them early. Yeah, they.

[Bobby Bones]

They were addicted early. Well, the learning lesson from this segment is I'm trying to do better at just saying. Katelyn, you're right. We're gonna do what you say instead of doing what I think is best. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Hello?

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[Malcolm Glebel]

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[Morgan]

Amy brought another surprise guest into the studio. It was her gynecologist for Eddie because of his low T. And I'm only giggling because gynecologist and guy in the same word Feels weird, but it actually was a great conversation for a whole lot of people to hear. So if you've ever been concerned about your hormones, male or female, this is the conversation that you'll want.

[Bobby Bones]

Number one, Eddie's been dreading this segment because Amy has brought in her gynecologist to meet with Eddie.

[Eddie]

Guys, I don't need a gynecologist.

[Bobby Bones]

His low testosterone. So who's coming in?

[Amy]

So my gynecologist coming in and also her nurse practitioner who has worked very closely with me. She's the one that draws my blood and has given me all my results. And I went ahead and printed off Eddie's blood work, all the results.

[Eddie]

Is that legal?

[Bobby Bones]

You can't do that.

[Amy]

Well, you had sent it to me.

[Bobby Bones]

Here they come. Now we're all. Hey, come on, Have a seat. Have a seat over here. So. So, Amy, you gave them.

[Amy]

Well, they're holding it. They've got Eddie's paperwork in their hands and they've reviewed it and they know what's going on. And. Yeah, so this is my team. They've helped me get my hormones on track.

[Bobby Bones]

There's a microphone right over there beside you, doctor.

[Dr. Pascal]

Great.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. And. And is it doctor. How do you say your last name?

[Amy]

Pascal.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Dr. Pascal.

[Dr. Pascal]

Pascal like Pascal from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. And then you are. Megan.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Do I call you.

[Megan]

Megan's fine.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. I just want to make sure everybody gets their, you know, their due. What they've. And Megan, you are a physician assistant. Okay, Amy, now you gave them Eddie's Is that legal?

[Amy]

I'm really not quite sure if. But. But since Eddie had forwarded.

[Bobby Bones]

We did this all in the air. Everything was public.

[Eddie]

Not the paperwork. Whoa. Like, all that was. I.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you not want your help?

[Eddie]

Yeah, but what was that called? My complete blood work results or.

[Amy]

Yeah, your total. Like y' all would know what it's called.

[Dr. Pascal]

Metabolic profile.

[Eddie]

This is everything, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Complete metabolic profile.

[Dr. Pascal]

This is everything. But it's pretty much a lot. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Dr. Pascal, so have you ever worked on a man before?

[Dr. Pascal]

Absolutely.

[Eddie]

Oh, now, doctor, why would you work on a man as a gynecologist?

[Dr. Pascal]

Well, we have training in all fields. I was actually. I had my early years. I was a pharmacist. I was also an internal medicine doctor, so I did everything. Prostate exams, cardiac.

[Bobby Bones]

Can we get four of those right now while you're here?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So, doctor, you saw Eddie's numbers, right?

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Low, huh?

[Dr. Pascal]

Absolutely. I'm wondering. I'm wondering, who is this guy? Where is he? Yeah, is he walking?

[Eddie]

Would you say low or extremely low as they've said?

[Dr. Pascal]

Extremely low.

[Eddie]

Oh, my.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, even a doctor said it.

[Dr. Pascal]

Extremely low.

[Lunchbox]

Could he be a chair?

[Amy]

She's wondering how he's walking.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. What do you mean? Like, when someone has testosterone this low, what's happening in their body?

[Dr. Pascal]

There's a lot that's happening. I'm looking at these other labs to see is there anything metabolic going on? Is there diabetes? Does he have hypertension? Is he a heavy drinker? Are his liver enzymes, are they out of whack and they're not. So his liver looks good.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, that's good.

[Eddie]

I'm not a heavy drinker, so that's good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep. And what about diabetes?

[Eddie]

I have history, family history of diabetes.

[Dr. Pascal]

But I'm a little suspicious here because I'd like to know when the sugars came back. I don't know if you were fasting or not.

[Eddie]

I was not. And here's what the guy that took my sample said. He's like, hey, when you get these back, don't look at the glucose numbers

[Dr. Pascal]

because, well, it depends on when you ate too.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I had just eaten so far,

[Dr. Pascal]

so the sugar is. That's appropriate if you've just eaten.

[Bobby Bones]

Ding, there's two.

[Eddie]

Love it.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so, Megan, what did you think? You saw the numbers. What do you say?

[Megan]

I am in the same boat with Dr. Pascal. Just wondering how you're living your day to day life and still upbeat and happy.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what he said. He said he would wake up, guys, and he would be dreading going in because he was so exhausted from the moment that he opened his eyes.

[Dr. Pascal]

I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised at all.

[Eddie]

Lunchbox. This isn't funny, man.

[Bobby Bones]

It has nothing to do with four kids. It mostly has to do with tapping into the body.

[Dr. Pascal]

That's what most people think. Think. And it's interesting. Meg and I were having this conversation. I take care and has no implications of Eddie whatsoever. But I've been able to see a lot of men in the last 10 years because I was working with addicted women, pregnant women. And so their significant others, they brought their significant others in. And so I've continued to see men also throughout the years. And here's the crazy thing that I've noticed is across the board, men and women, they have the same symptoms when their hormones are up. Obviously, men, we're dealing with testosterone alone, but decreased energy, fatigue, pseudo depression, focusing ability. I've had psychiatrists now that are sending patients to see me, which is hilarious, because the antidepressants, anti anxiety, ADHD medications, they're like. Well, I don't like the side effects. It's not treating them. They're bottoming out. They're not getting the results. And I thought, wait a minute. These guys are just like my hormonal patients. Why don't we just check their labs and see what's going on?

[Bobby Bones]

And it turns out low T. Low

[Dr. Pascal]

T. So I started thinking, wait a minute. We are misdiagnosing so many patients and not getting to the bottom or the root of it, which is low T. But then also, Meg, what else? What else do we look.

[Megan]

Coupled with the low vitamin.

[Dr. Pascal]

Low vitamin D. Sunshine.

[Eddie]

The sun.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Or do we need to supplement sunshine with, like, actual.

[Dr. Pascal]

No. Well, that's what I do. I end up supplementing patients. His D is 20.

[Bobby Bones]

His D is 20?

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah. What do you think it should be?

[Bobby Bones]

Your D is 20. That's a little D. That's a little

[Amy]

D. Okay, wait, I'm glad. Wait, somebody just said, like, we've been. We've been talking about this. Like, Eddie swears with his numbers that his libido is still high.

[Bobby Bones]

He's like, it's through the roof. He brags about it.

[Amy]

Is that possible?

[Eddie]

Doctor, I'm not lying with this little

[Bobby Bones]

D. Is there any way his libido,

[Dr. Pascal]

you know, it just depends. And a lot of things control libido, not just testosterone. So he could be very well.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Trace Adkins]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Thank you, Doc.

[Bobby Bones]

So if he had.

[Dr. Pascal]

There's so many other benefits, though. I mean, you've just Told me you no energy.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's like peaks and valleys, right? Like early in the morning, like you can't get out of bed. I don't think I'm gonna make it through the day. Once I get to work, I feel good for about two hours then.

[Dr. Pascal]

How much coffee did you have before you get to work?

[Eddie]

I only do one cup.

[Dr. Pascal]

Okay.

[Eddie]

I don't do more than a cup. But it's every day, all day. It's up and down. So I hear what you're saying and I mean it makes sense now. My question for you though is what can I do on my everyday just activities to get this up? Like my vitamin D. I drive a jeep. Can I just keep the top down, take my shirt off and just get some sun on the way home?

[Dr. Pascal]

Sure you can.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that effective though? In a short term at all?

[Dr. Pascal]

It is. But long standing, no, you have to have direct sunlight.

[Eddie]

Take my shirt off.

[Bobby Bones]

Can I ask you a weird question? And I mean this and I promise you it's going to be a funny question, but I mean, I mean it. There was this thing going around where people would get naked and they would do their. Their butthole in the sun.

[Amy]

Oh, perennial.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Is that a real thing? And does it work? And why the butthole?

[Dr. Pascal]

You know what, I'm not aware of that. I'm honest. So I really don't. I can't comment either way on that.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel you. I just didn't.

[Dr. Pascal]

Have you heard of that?

[Megan]

I haven't heard of it. But just the full body sun exposure, I feel like that's definitely helpful as opposed to being clothed.

[Dr. Pascal]

But.

[Bobby Bones]

But generally speaking, like you don't need the perineum.

[Dr. Pascal]

I don't know about that

[Lunchbox]

white area.

[Bobby Bones]

It's gonna burn quickly too.

[Amy]

That area is called perineum.

[Dr. Pascal]

Perineum. Uh huh. It's actual word. Vaginal health is actually a word. If I can say that on.

[Bobby Bones]

You can say that. Yeah.

[Dr. Pascal]

Because it's all female anatomy.

[Amy]

Well, so should. Should Eddie be on the protocol you gave me, which Megan is the one that put the pellet in my hip. Dr. Pascal like figured out what the pellet needed to be composed of and then it was inserted and then also I'm on a vitamin D weekly. So Eddie, you can just like any.

[Dr. Pascal]

I can be on the vitamin D. Especially as you're coming off the winter months. We don't get direct sun rays. Air. We're always inside. We're on our computer and I think more so almost everyone in America is vitamin D deficient. Why because we're in indoor more, we're not getting direct rays and then we're also sunblocking, which has its benefits. But you know, it takes a toll on you long term.

[Bobby Bones]

You would say then for most people even listening that aren't like little D Eddie, that you need to have vitamin D more. But we probably like, we don't drink enough water and we probably don't have enough vitamin D. Correct.

[Dr. Pascal]

But see you also need to have it monitored because you can get vitamin D toxicity also. So you really want to, you don't want to be 20. The lower limits of normal is 30, 30 to 100.

[Lunchbox]

Oh my goodness, dude, you're below the

[Eddie]

lower D. You're a little D. So, so what about going to the store and getting vitamin D vitamins?

[Dr. Pascal]

Well, that's another question. I mean that's another concern because there are lots of supplements, they're not getting absorbed. So it mean like I've had to tons of patients. Well, I'm taking D, I'm doing. And how many times that we had to prescribe like the mega dose and over every week, 50,000 units. One of the problems that we've seen is a lot of the supplements are not what it says. And D is a fat soluble vitamin, which means it doesn't absorb easily. The thing that I've seen in our American diet is we have so many what's called pro inflammatory foods that binds up to the D and you pass it on your stool so you're not getting it. Some people will swear I'm taking it every day for the last year. We check the levels and it's low, so it really needs to be paired with K and preferably vitamin A also increase the absorption. Or you can do a sublingual and bypass the gut totally. And that's really coming out from our diet is what we've seen.

[Bobby Bones]

What about like a multivitamin?

[Dr. Pascal]

Not enough. Not enough. There's usually like 200 IU units in there. It's measured in international units daily. We usually would recommend 5,000 to 10,000. What did Amy.

[Amy]

I'm on 50,000.

[Dr. Pascal]

Right. Once a week. I use once a week. Once a week.

[Bobby Bones]

But what is that? Are you taking a pill?

[Amy]

I am taking a pill.

[Dr. Pascal]

She's taking a mega dose.

[Amy]

So I'm on a mega dose every Thursday. I take it same time Thursday morning. But then also I try to get outside with my limbs showing my arms, my legs for just five to 10 minutes during a peak. I don't want to stay longer than that because all My skin is. I don't want to damage my skin, but that's enough to.

[Dr. Pascal]

And that's. That's one of the concerns we see. You know, we know that sunlight and aging and the whole aging process.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks. You said aging quietly. We appreciate that. We appreciate it.

[Megan]

Maturing.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we appreciate it maturing.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

So what can Eddie do today?

[Lunchbox]

Squats.

[Eddie]

Can I do squats?

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah, you can if you want. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Does that help with the testosterone?

[Dr. Pascal]

I don't think so. Now, if squats reduce your cortisol in an indirect way, it probably can. So, you know, to say straight out, no, squats is not. It's not going to do it well if it relaxes you. Because we do know there's a connection with cortisol and affecting the hypothalamic pituitary axis, which is causing releasing chemicals to make testosterone. So if you don't easily.

[Bobby Bones]

So if someone relaxes.

[Dr. Pascal]

Too technical.

[Bobby Bones]

If someone relaxes more, yeah, that can help their testosterone.

[Amy]

And he always says he's stressed because

[Bobby Bones]

of all the kids. So should he get rid of the kids?

[Dr. Pascal]

That's it.

[Bobby Bones]

Tell me, doctor, not advisable. Not advisable.

[Dr. Pascal]

But you if going to the gym and doing squats for, you know, 30 minutes a day, that might release it because he's by himself, relaxing, not necessarily going to the gym.

[Amy]

So, Megan, were you going to say something about the squats?

[Megan]

I mean, any kind of large muscle group activation like squats is going to increase your natural boost of testosterone, but I would say that it probably would not get you more into like an optimal level where you're going to notice that kind of difference.

[Dr. Pascal]

Correct.

[Bobby Bones]

So what does he do? What does Eddie do when he leaves this room that he can do to improve my life, to improve his testosterone?

[Dr. Pascal]

What is he willing to do and what's going on?

[Bobby Bones]

No, that's the exact question. He doesn't.

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Dr. Pascal]

What is he willing to do and what's his time? What. What can he do?

[Eddie]

Honestly, what I want to do is I want a better quality of life. Right. Like, I do want to wake up and feel like I'm getting ready to take on the day. Right. I want to feel that way, but I don't want to necessarily put things in my body yet. I want to see what I can do naturally first.

[Bobby Bones]

So what would you say to him?

[Dr. Pascal]

Well, look at your diet pizza last night.

[Bobby Bones]

Eat more. What?

[Megan]

Protein is your best friend, okay. Always. It's not only cleaner, but it's making sure that you're diverting some Protein to your muscle so that we're engaging in that testosterone boosting activity. But it's also like just keeping your overall skin healthier, your hair healthier. Protein is your best friend.

[Bobby Bones]

Eat less. What?

[Megan]

Processed.

[Dr. Pascal]

Processed food.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes. This is the culprit is we're seeing more and more. It's the processed food that is changing the microbiome. Big, long word in the gut that's affecting your natural innate bacteria, that it, you know, provides all the good, healthy stuff that you want.

[Eddie]

Dang. Yeah, that speaks loud. I mean, chips, right? Chips.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

Get rid of that stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Chips. Pretty processed, man.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. All the toxins on there.

[Eddie]

It's a part of my life. You know, I get home, hadn't eaten all day. I'm like, just give me a bag of chips and let me snack on that. It's part of my life.

[Megan]

And it's. It's easy. It's not like we're back in caveman days where we used to go hunt and find our food and eat it right? Then, like, the process of processed foods just makes life easier, more convenient. So it's hard to get away from that.

[Dr. Pascal]

So the ultra processed food, also a lot of the foods have been lading with tons of sugars. I'm sure you guys have now seen. We are zero sugar. Well, we have been inundated with so much sugar. And that's one of the reasons for the massive obesity and the GLPs, that's what they're doing. They're trying to give you back that bacteria that you once were making. So it all connects. The gut, the hormones, the brain, it all connects.

[Bobby Bones]

When he says he doesn't want anything in his body, I feel like he's talking about testosterone replacement. And I don't feel like that's what you're doing at all With Amy. Like, you put a pellet in her, right? Like, what's in the pellet?

[Dr. Pascal]

100% plant based, bioidentical, or the other word would be isomolecular, the same chemical that's coming out of her ovary. Okay. Which was one of the big confusions the FDA had on hormone replacement. And what we've learned in the last 22, four years, when they put that warning that estrogen caused breast cancer, as doctors, we all, we were like, well, the study was flawed to begin with, but yet you had this overwhelming publication that went out everywhere, I think prematurely, but did not explain that there are many different kinds of estrogen. They ran that Study on a synthetic estrogen. What we found out. Now, in the last 20 something years, women avoided estrogen eight times more likely to have Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and dementia, increase risk for cardiac events and increase not only broken bones, but more hip replacement, more knee replacements.

[Amy]

Right. So I know a lot of women had fear of breast cancer by doing any type of hormonal replacement, but the. When you said plant based for what's in my pellet, that's.

[Dr. Pascal]

It's 100% yam, yam, yam.

[Bobby Bones]

Where is her pellet?

[Dr. Pascal]

Well, Amy will have to let you know that.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy, where is your pellet?

[Eddie]

Are you gonna show us?

[Amy]

Well, Megan put it in.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you can just tell us.

[Amy]

I'm pretty sure it's right here.

[Megan]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

So do you have to do it? Cut, slide it in?

[Dr. Pascal]

It's a little nick that we place it under. There are other ways to do the hormones. There are patches, there are creams. What we have found is the patches and creams, depending on metabolism, you may not get optimal doses. But yet some women prefer that. It's a more economical. Insurance pays for it. So you make a little slit, just a little nick. And we calculate precisely what Amy needs based on her weight. We have a big AI sort of, which runs algorithm. Algorithm. It runs all the calculations for us. Looks at her weight, her height, bmi, her metabolism and look at some key numbers, how they would affect her. And then we come up with what she needs. We'll check her blood in six weeks after we place it and see where she peaks. And then that will slowly release for about four or five months.

[Amy]

And so I'll have to go back and get another pellet.

[Bobby Bones]

Could you put a pellet in Eddie? Yes, but not the same pellet that's in Amy.

[Dr. Pascal]

Well, Eddie's gonna be more testosterone and a higher level because men require more.

[Bobby Bones]

Would you do that?

[Eddie]

Is that still a yam?

[Dr. Pascal]

It's still a yam. 100% yam.

[Bobby Bones]

Why would you not do that?

[Amy]

Yeah, why would you not join me? We could

[Bobby Bones]

go together.

[Eddie]

It's interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, because it's not. I understand your fear. Yeah, because you don't want to inject yourself with some testosterone replacement.

[Dr. Pascal]

We've talked about that and I understand that. And here's what you know. You have to look at how much has the cell phone advanced in 20 years? Well, just think about how much we have learned in 20 years while we practice misinformation or misinterpreted data. So a lot has evolved with these yams. Technology processing all of this. I used to be a pharmacist, and it hit me because I was so against them. The earlier pellets, we had tons of problems with them because they were bounded with a steroid. And we now know the steroid. Synthetic steroid changes everything. And that was one of the big confusions. And when you read anything, you're listening and people are just using this one word, estrogen or testosterone. They're not telling you they're like five or six different synthetics, which changes what you're putting in your body. And so I understand. No, I don't want to do anything synthetic. What we're learning, the more you can mimic exactly what's coming out of your organs. Your body does not know that it's a synthetic because it's not. It's. The word I use is isomolecular. It is the same.

[Amy]

So you said. Mine mimics what's coming out of my ovaries, which Eddie doesn't have ovaries.

[Bobby Bones]

Debatable at this point. Debatable.

[Dr. Pascal]

He has a little estrogen going on here.

[Amy]

Okay, what's it mimicking? Coming from where?

[Dr. Pascal]

It'll be his. His gonads, his testes.

[Amy]

His testicles.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So, okay, I'll just use me. Since we're making fun of Eddie. If I. If I were to come in and get a pellet put in me.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That would be basically my body reacting to what it feels is natural inside of me.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

And it would naturally produce whatever I was deficient in, which could be testosterone.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Which is way different than like a TRT or any sort of replacement that someone.

[Dr. Pascal]

Well, a lot of the replacements that they may be using something. And I can't comment. Right, Megan. But we've seen that there's some of the. Some of the side effects that we take care of are due to a synthetic. And the pharmacy background is what automatically I went, wait a minute. People are really confused when they say the word T or testosterone. They're not realizing that there's so many. Cypionate, decanoate, enanthenate. They're all synthetic.

[Bobby Bones]

Again, fake.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Dumb guy term for me. Fake.

[Dr. Pascal]

It's fake. Yes, it's fake. Just like that study was done on Premarin, was on the urine of pregnant mares. Okay. You don't want another animal product. Okay. And that's why the body reacts differently.

[Megan]

Which is great with the pellets, though, because the pellets, not only are they bioidentical with the injections, they are synthetic. So you're having to do those once or twice a week just to maintain levels. But with the pellet, it's compressed powder, so they eventually dissolve over time. So with those, they're uptaken by the blood vessels that pass over the pellets over time. So it's cardiac output that is actually helping to absorb those. And it's just a lot more consistent of a dose.

[Dr. Pascal]

What's interesting, imagine like wet sand on a beach. Okay. So the powder is compressed. There's nothing holding it together. But think about wet sand. Eventually that wet sand washes off with the waves, gets into the ocean. And that's. That's a good analogy of how it gets into your bloodstream.

[Bobby Bones]

Would you do the pellet?

[Eddie]

Think about it.

[Bobby Bones]

You think about everything. I'm not even saying. I'm not making you commit. I'm saying, would you consider doing the pellet?

[Eddie]

It sounds like something I would definitely consider more than, you know, an injection. Injection, sure.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah. And this is the misconception a lot of folks have, because when you use that word, t, most folks are thinking, because that's what you're reading, all of the synthetic side effects. And that's one of the things we have to tell women also. No, you're not going to grow a beard. You're not going to.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I thought that, like, if women got testosterone, they're going to grow a beard. I literally thought that.

[Megan]

Well, women don't get the degree of testosterone that men are getting. If they did, we want a little bit. Yes. If we did.

[Bobby Bones]

If, like, you put 10 pellets in Amy on accident.

[Dr. Pascal]

Oh, Lord, that'd be a big accident. But no, it would not be an accident.

[Amy]

But that's why y' all wanted to. Six weeks after you monitor my blood, because if it was too high, I. I could get facial hair. Correct. So it could happen.

[Dr. Pascal]

But if she did, I. I know what to do and how to bring it down.

[Bobby Bones]

You guys make me want a pellet.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah, I know.

[Amy]

Come on.

[Dr. Pascal]

Come on.

[Bobby Bones]

So it's just a small incision and it goes in.

[Dr. Pascal]

It's a tiny incision. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you bring any with you?

[Dr. Pascal]

You know, we should have, but it looks like a little tic tac.

[Eddie]

And how long does it last? You may have said this already, but how long does it last?

[Dr. Pascal]

For women, four or five months. For men, six even eight months longer.

[Lunchbox]

So four months for you, Eddie.

[Bobby Bones]

And aside from men are getting like,

[Megan]

a bigger, like, diameter size of testosterone.

[Amy]

So like a big tic tac.

[Bobby Bones]

Like an acorn. So, yeah, like a big Tic tac, Big Tic Tac.

[Amy]

Yeah, extra large.

[Eddie]

Amy, can you feel it, like, if you touch your.

[Amy]

No. Honestly, I try to. It freaked me out at first, so I really tried not to touch it. And now I can go back there a little bit and feel. But for the first couple weeks, I was so scared, I, like, didn't want to. I mean, I had to wear a band aid over it. I mean, it bled like. Like, it's a real. Like, y'.

[Dr. Pascal]

All.

[Amy]

They had to numb me. It's a procedure, but I don't feel it now. And now I'm not scared to touch back there.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you guys ever see Amy's tail?

[Announcer]

Her tail?

[Lunchbox]

She has a tail?

[Eddie]

She has a real tail.

[Amy]

Do you want to see it?

[Bobby Bones]

She has a. She's told us many times.

[Amy]

Dr. P has seen everything.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, she can't say, though. She's locked up.

[Amy]

She's like, I can't see.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she's. Hip it up.

[Amy]

Yeah. Amy can.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy claims she has the tail. Like, her bone goes down.

[Amy]

I don't. I. We call it a tail now, jokingly, but it's my tail bone. But it protrudes and it feel. Feels really weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Does that.

[Dr. Pascal]

Have y' all ever noticed variation? Everyone has.

[Amy]

Do you want to feel it?

[Dr. Pascal]

Sure.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait. Has she not.

[Amy]

Well, she. She's not.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you want. What do you want from. What do you want from this, though?

[Amy]

Well, just. Has she. Is it normal?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Dr. Pascal]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Come on, Amy. Bring your butt over there. Amy's gonna get her tail.

[Lunchbox]

So weird.

[Eddie]

All right, interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

The doctor is now feeling it's a little sharp, Amy.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So what does that mean for her?

[Megan]

I do.

[Bobby Bones]

Everybody's feeling. She's doing show and tell right now.

[Megan]

Yeah, just a variation, right?

[Dr. Pascal]

It says variation. It's normal. Yeah, it's a little sharp variation, but that's not abnormal.

[Announcer]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Why would it?

[Megan]

As long as it's not bothering you?

[Amy]

I mean, sometimes when I sit too long, it does get a little. I'm like, I have to reposition or squish my cheeks together to give it some batting.

[Bobby Bones]

Sometimes when she gets excited, you see it wiggle.

[Dr. Pascal]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

Stop.

[Bobby Bones]

No. Okay. Okay, Eddie, so what have you learned?

[Eddie]

A lot.

[Bobby Bones]

What have you learned, though, that you're gonna take from this room?

[Eddie]

I think one of the biggest things I. The big takeaways is that me and Amy have the same problem. Like, that's crazy to me that Amy both. And we both have low T, and we're both deficient in vitamin D. Crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. But one.

[Amy]

Well, that's a lot of people.

[Bobby Bones]

One leads.

[Dr. Pascal]

That's a lot of people.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. One leads to the other a bit, right?

[Amy]

Well, yeah, from what I understood, from what I recall when you first told me, you said you can do everything. You want to build the testosterone to get it back, but if you don't have vitamin D, it's not going to happen. So, like, that has to happen in order for the testosterone to happen. But maybe to help Eddie feel a little bit more comfortable. You said you've worked with men, but you've inserted pellets into men.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes, I have.

[Bobby Bones]

So you're going to.

[Dr. Pascal]

We've done quite a few, actually.

[Bobby Bones]

You're gonna get more sun.

[Eddie]

More sun. We're gonna work on more sun.

[Dr. Pascal]

Okay.

[Eddie]

And then we're gonna work on that diet.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep.

[Eddie]

This is what I'm going to do. The work on the diet's very important because, yes, the gut seems like it's a problem. Work on that diet. Stay away from processed foods. Get more sun. And then if we're not where I want to be, which is where do I want to be if I have a physical coming up in, like, two months?

[Dr. Pascal]

Eh.

[Eddie]

Is that not enough time?

[Dr. Pascal]

It's enough time. I don't know if your d. It usually will Recheck it in three months.

[Eddie]

Yeah, maybe I push back, but we'll

[Megan]

still see some improvement at that point.

[Bobby Bones]

If there's no improvement, you think about the pellet.

[Eddie]

I'm gonna think about the pellet.

[Amy]

How consistent does he have to be with this, though?

[Bobby Bones]

Cause he's not. He's Mr. Inconsistent.

[Eddie]

No, but now that I know it's serious.

[Bobby Bones]

You've said this a hundred times. About 100 things.

[Dr. Pascal]

But see, you know, the thing about Eddie, what's going on now, this is not unusual, and I don't want to mention your age, but this.

[Bobby Bones]

It's okay. He says it.

[Eddie]

I'm 47.

[Dr. Pascal]

Okay. This is very common. And I' seen men as young as 25 with low T. Whoa. Yes.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that sucks.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

And that sucks.

[Dr. Pascal]

Yeah. And this young man, the mother. Well, see, how these men come is their moms or their wives feel incredible. Then they start learning, and they recognize. I'm like, can I bring my son in? He's being treated for depression right now, and I can't figure out what's going on. And he's not responding to any of the medications. Sure enough, his t was like 100.

[Bobby Bones]

So you're saying that a lot of people may not even think it's their T. It could be many other reasons, but in reality, they should check this fundamentally. It could be their testosterone, the load that's affecting everything else about them.

[Dr. Pascal]

Correct.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, this has been good.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Very eye opening, for sure. It definitely explains too how I've been feeling and definitely now have a better understanding of why that's happening. So.

[Dr. Pascal]

And traditionally, you know, as women came in and one of the comments that I, you know, patients come in and unfortunately my gynecologist tells me that I'm not in menopause, I'm 35, and they just roll their eyes and send me out the room. And I thought, well, no, no, no, we need to look at all of it. No one was looking at testosterone for women. Sure enough, for women, it's like legs of a table. You need to have your testosterone in a normal range, your estrogen, progesterone. And for women also, we look at a little thyroid. Okay. Which can be affected by diet iron. And so when that's not, when that's not in line, you feel sort of wonky. The table's not balanced. And so even women that are still having periods, they could be off. And a lot of the reasons the vitamin Ds off, the Ts off, or if their iron's low, their thyroid might be borderline low. And they're struggling with all the similar symptoms of menopause.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. You have some action items and you're gonna, for a couple days, say you're doing them, and then we're gonna check in again and you're gonna go like, oh, I kind of forgot. But if you want it to be better, you have got to do the work.

[Megan]

It's really like a whole lifestyle again. And that's hard to say. Like what you've been doing for the last life. Yes.

[Eddie]

Forever.

[Megan]

You have to change. You have to put all of this down and completely pick up.

[Dr. Pascal]

And if you want your life in the next, you've got kids, you're gonna have grandkids one day. You want to be able to not only be around, but active and mobile. We have 70 something year old women come in. I just want to have energy and be able to move and play with my grandkids.

[Amy]

But you could do that now.

[Dr. Pascal]

You can do that now. So what you do now, you're gonna, you know, reap or you're gonna pay for it in the next five to ten years.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Megan, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Paschal, thank you very much.

[Dr. Pascal]

Thank you guys for having us on here.

[Bobby Bones]

I think this has been educational not just for Eddie, which was the reason we'll say acutely you came in. But I do think for a lot of listeners too, they are able to learn that there's much more to it than just I feel bad because of whatever simple solution they've been fed when it really is possibly something as fundamental as you're just not getting enough vitamin D. That could be one of the reasons. So we really appreciate you guys coming in. I think a lot of people learned a lot of things. And Amy, thanks for bringing your folks in and thanks for having me vulnerable with your tailbone. That meant a lot to us. It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.

[Morgan]

And that wraps our recap podcast from the Bobby Bones show this week. I hope you enjoyed it. You feel all caught up. You're ready to take on the weekend now again, check out that part one this weekend with Eddie. I highly encourage you to do so if you've never done it. It's an enjoyable podcast. I get a lot of messages about that particular portion of the podcast every weekend. If you're looking for something completely different, you can go check out my podcast. Take this personally. I was talking all about personality assessments the last two weeks. We deep dove the Enneagram. We talked about past, which is another personality assessment you can do. And next week I'm bringing my fiance on to do conspiracy theories. So all good stuff over there if you want something totally different. Otherwise, if this is where I leave you, have a great weekend. Be safe. Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social

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