Counting Down The Best BBS Segments This Week

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show – "Counting Down The Best BBS Segments This Week"

Release Date: June 21, 2025
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Introduction

In this episode of The Bobby Bones Show, hosts Morgan, Bobby Bones, Eddie, Amy, and Scuba Steve dive into a variety of engaging topics, including movie reviews, adoption journeys, a special interview with country music star Chris Lane, and an insightful segment on genealogical research with Dr. Marcy Yates.

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1. Movie and TV Show Reviews

a. Tuesday Reviews Day ([03:24] - [11:17])

Each week, the hosts share their thoughts on recently watched TV shows and movies, providing recommendations and ratings.

• "Deep Cover"

  • Reviewers: Morgan and Bobby Bones
  • Details: A blend of comedy and action featuring Orlando Bloom and Bryce Dallas Howard.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5
  • Highlights: Morgan praises Bryce Dallas Howard's comedic performance and Orlando Bloom's acting prowess.
  • Notable Quote:
    • Morgan: "It's pretty good in that kind of funny. But also enough shoot 'em up that it doesn't have to be super funny." ([04:56])

• "The Materialist"

  • Reviewers: Morgan and Bobby Bones
  • Details: A romantic comedy starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans, revolving around a love triangle.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5
  • Highlights: Morgan commends Dakota Johnson's acting, especially contrasting her role in "The Materialist" with her performance in "Madame Web."
  • Notable Quote:
    • Morgan: "I give it 4.5 out of 5 dating services." ([05:37])

• "Pee Wee Peewee as Himself"

  • Reviewers: Eddie and Morgan
  • Details: A documentary exploring the life and creation of Pee Wee Herman.
  • Rating: Mixed; Dr. Yates notes a 91% positive reception on HBO.
  • Highlights: Eddie appreciates the documentary's deep dive into Pee Wee's origins but notes its unconventional narrative style.
  • Notable Quote:
    • Eddie: "I learned a lot about Pee Wee. I enjoy the documentary, but, yeah, it's a weird documentary. It doesn't give you great feelings." ([10:14])

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2. Adoption Journeys ([01:16] - [38:45])

Morgan and Amy share heartfelt stories about their experiences adopting teenagers, highlighting the transformative impact on their families.

• Personal Stories:

  • Eddie: "We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were family." ([01:20])
  • Morgan: "Like, he's like my best friend. At the end of the day, it's all been worth it. I wouldn't change anything about our lives." ([01:27])

• Encouragement:

  • Morgan: "Learn about adopting a teen from foster care." ([01:35])
  • Call to Action: Visit adoptuskids.org to learn more.
  • Sponsor: Brought to you by Adopt Us Kids, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Ad Council.

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3. Interview with Chris Lane – "Shade Tree" Album ([12:33] - [35:03])

Guest: Chris Lane
Topic: Launch of his first full-length album since 2018, titled "Shade Tree."

• Album Overview:

  • Title Significance: "Shade Tree" reflects on Lindley's upbringing in Kernersville, North Carolina, encapsulating themes of love, heartbreak, and lifestyle.
  • Songwriting: Unlike his previous records, Chris wrote most of the 12 songs himself, showcasing a more personal touch.
  • Notable Songs:

    • "What Am I Supposed to Tell the Dog"

      • Theme: Explores the emotional impact of a couple's breakup from the dog's perspective.
      • Quote:
        • Chris Lane: "It's about a couple who gets a dog together, they break up... I brought that idea in." ([29:57])

    • "Problematic"

      • High Energy Track: Inspired by a collaborator's instrumental, resulting in a vibrant song.
      • Quote:
        • Chris Lane: "We figured out we wrote it. And then we came out and that song was... one of the most reactive songs I've ever had." ([31:52])

• Live Reception:

  • Chris noted that "What Am I Supposed to Tell the Dog" receives significant positive reactions during live performances, with crowds actively singing along.
  • Quote:
    • Chris Lane: "It is probably one of the most reactive songs I've ever had." ([32:14])

• Call to Action:

  • Promotion: "Shade Tree" is available now. Listeners are encouraged to follow Chris on Instagram (@chrislane) and visit iamchrislane.com for tour dates.

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4. Genealogy and Ancestry Segment ([35:03] - [94:57])

Guest: Dr. Marcy Yates, Forensic Genetic Genealogist at Oklahoma State University
Host: Morgan

Morgan seeks to uncover her ancestral roots with the help of Dr. Yates, leading to surprising discoveries about her lineage.

• Introduction to Forensic Genealogy:

  • Dr. Yates explains:
    • "We work with unidentified human remains and use forensic genealogy, DNA extraction, and different methods to identify who these remains are." ([80:20])

• Morgan's Ancestral Journey:

  • Morgan shares her limited knowledge about her parents and grandparents, expressing a desire to uncover more about her heritage.
  • Quote:
    • Morgan: "I just don't know... I did one of those little results where it says where you're from, and it's like, basically you're just from where white people come from, which is like all Europe." ([78:07])

• Discoveries Made:

  • Ancestral Origins: German, Dutch, French, and English lineage traced back to the 1490s.

  • Notable Connections:

    • Morgan is related to Presidents James Madison and Theodore Roosevelt as 10th cousins.
    • Quote:
      • Dr. Yates: "You are about 10th cousins with James Madison and Teddy Roosevelt presidents." ([82:43])

  • Specific Ancestor:

    • Johan Whitman of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Germany:
      • Details: Morgan's seventh great-grandfather, a historical figure from the 1490s.
      • Quote:
        • Morgan: "So my seventh great grandfather was Johan Whitman of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Germany." ([91:04])

• Plans for Ancestral Exploration:

  • Morgan expresses excitement to visit Rothenburg, Germany, where Johan Whitman originated, and hopes to connect more deeply with her roots.
  • Quote:
    • Morgan: "I'm gonna go to Werther in Berg, Germany, and I'm gonna go look for the home of Johann Whitman." ([92:14])

• Support and Contribution:

  • Dr. Yates encourages donations to support forensic genealogy programs, emphasizing the importance of identifying unidentified remains.
  • Quote:
    • Dr. Yates: "We are sure we'll take it... helping people understand where their loved ones went." ([93:57])

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5. Fun Segment: The Hottest Ages Debate ([39:35] - [55:55])

The hosts engage in a lighthearted debate about the ages at which men and women feel their hottest, incorporating humorous banter and personal anecdotes.

• Discussion Points:

  • Women’s Hottest Age:

    • Morgan: Suggests around 34 years old.
    • Lunchbox: Argues that younger ages, like 23, are more fitting due to confidence and physical appeal.
    • Scuba Steve: Proposes prime ages in the early 30s, citing hormonal and confidence factors.
    • Quote:
      • Morgan: "So when women feel their hottest... it’s like 34." ([40:07])

  • Men’s Hottest Age:

    • Eddie: Believes 35 years old is the peak.
    • Morgan and others: Suggest early to mid-30s, balancing physicality and maturity.
    • Quote:
      • Eddie: "I think 35 years old. Because anything younger than that's like...." ([45:07])

• Humorous Interjections:

  • Bobby Bones: Questions answers and adds playful remarks about appearance.
  • Lunchbox: Brings energy to the conversation with jokes about swimming and confidence.
  • Notable Quote:
    • Lunchbox: "They're still young, you know, and carefree. Like, nothing has taken a toll on them." ([41:28])

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6. Parking Garage Mystery ([47:53] - [56:01])

A humorous and slightly paranoid segment where Bobby Bones believes a mysterious sticker on his car might be a tracking device.

• Scenario:

  • Bobby Bones: Notices an unfamiliar sticker on his car's headlight, sparking suspicion about potential tracking.
  • Host Responses:
    • Morgan, Eddie, Amy, and Scuba Steve engage in witty banter, speculating whether it's a tracking device or just a parking garage sensor sticker.
    • Notable Quote:
      • Bobby Bones: "Who put that there? I did not." ([50:11])

• Resolution:

  • The group humorously debates the possibility of tracking, ultimately leaning towards it being a standard parking garage sensor sticker.
  • Final Thoughts:
    • Lunchbox: Suggests it might have been added by security due to repeated access issues.
    • Morgan: Encourages Bobby to remove the sticker if it's unwanted but notes it's glued on.
    • Quote:
      • Morgan: "It's like, somebody from the building put it on your car without your knowledge." ([52:22])

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Conclusion

This week's episode of The Bobby Bones Show offers a blend of insightful discussions and entertaining segments. From thoughtful movie reviews and personal adoption stories to an inspiring interview with Chris Lane and a fascinating dive into genealogical research, listeners are treated to a well-rounded and engaging experience. The episode concludes with humorous debates and lighthearted mysteries, ensuring there's something for everyone.

Join the conversation and stay updated by following The Bobby Bones Show on all major podcast platforms!

Transcript

[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Dan Flores]

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[Eddie]

Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Morgan]

We asked parents who adopted teens to share their journey.

[Eddie]

We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were family. They showcased a sense of love that.

[Morgan]

I never had before.

[Eddie]

I mean, he's not only my parent.

[Morgan]

Like, he's like my best friend. At the end of the day, it's.

[Eddie]

All been worth it. I wouldn't change thing about our lives.

[Morgan]

Learn about adopting a teen from foster care. Visit adoptuskids.org to learn more. Brought to you by Adopt Us Kids, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council.

[Eddie]

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[Amy]

Listen to High Key, a new weekly.

[Eddie]

Podcast hosted by Ben o' Keefe, Ryan Mitchell and Yvie. Oddly, we got a lot of things to get into. We're gonna gush about the random st we can't stop thinking about. I am high key Going to lose my mind over all things Cowboy Carter. I know, girl. The way she about to yank my bank account.

[Morgan]

Correct.

[Eddie]

And one thing I really love about this is that she is celebrating her daughters. Oh, I know.

[Morgan]

Listen to High key on the iHeartRadio.

[Eddie]

App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you remember Vine?

[Amy]

It changed the Internet forever and it.

[Morgan]

Vanished in its prime.

[Amy]

I'm Benedict Townsend, and this is vine. Six seconds that changed the world.

[Morgan]

Untold story of genius, betrayal, and the.

[Amy]

App that died so that TikTok could thrive. From overnight stars to the fall that.

[Morgan]

No one saw coming, we're breaking down what made vine iconic. Listen to vine on the iHeartRadio app.

[Eddie]

Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

[Amy]

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

[Eddie]

Part two.

[Amy]

She's breaking down the top seven segments.

[Morgan]

From the Bobby Bones show this week.

[Scuba Steve]

Welcome everybody. Best bits this weekend. I'm so happ that you are here hanging out with me. Make sure you check out part one, Part three this weekend Lunchbox joins me and on part one we catch up on life, what's going on with his kids and summer vacation and we, you know, talk about life on all levels. Then part three, it starts with a little bit of a roast from Lunchbox because what's new? So go check those out. But if you're just here to catch up on the show, let's get into it.

[Eddie]

Woohoo.

[Scuba Steve]

Coming in hot in the seventh spot, we've got Tuesday reviews day. We all share some TV shows or movies we've watched that you should definitely or definitely not check out. And some people have some, some people don't. Just depends on how the week goes. But there's all kinds of stuff from Amazon prime to Netflix to theaters. So get a full range of things that you can check out if you're bored or relaxing at home.

[Morgan]

This weekend, number seven Tuesday reviews day. I watched a movie on Amazon called Deep Cover. It's kind of a comedy, kind of a action, you know, shoot up the bad guys kind of movie. It has Orlando Bloom and Bryce Dallas Howard, who is the daughter of Ron Howard, who was also in one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. Mike D. Have you seen this one? I clicked it and didn't start. Got a pretty good review on Rotten Tomatoes and we had a friend over for the weekend and so we're just looking for stuff to do. It's pretty good. It's pretty good in that kind of funny. But also enough shoot em up that it doesn't have to be super funny. I would give it three and a half out of five. Drug deals. Okay, Comedies are hard now, long form because we like our comedy on like 15 second doses and we like to flip the screen and go to the next one. But I think Bryce Dallas Howard's hilarious. The whole movie is about, she's an improv teacher and she has a bunch of improv students. And these cops are like, hey, we need somebody that can do improv because our cops get in drug deals, they're like, I don't know what to do. They freak out. So they like take them to do the drug deals.

[Bobby Bones]

That's funny because they Know how to just like, just go with it.

[Morgan]

Yeah, she's great. And Orlando Bloom's really good in it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

So, yeah, three and a half out of five drug deals. It's worth it. But don't expect that your life is going to change after Mike. Did you watch that materialist movie? Yeah, it's Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans. I saw that. People were saying it was amazing. It's in theaters, so I will not see it till it's not in theaters. I had kind of low expectations going into it because it's like a. It's a rom com, but I loved it. It's about them being in a love triangle. And. And I just thought she was really good in it. And after Madame Web, she was like, oh, man, that was terrible. She's a really good actor. What do you rate it? I give it 4.5 out of 5 dating services.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Morgan]

She plays like a matchmaker. Chris Evans is her ex boyfriend. Pedro Pascal is the guy she meets at a wedding. So then it's like, did she get back with her ex or she go with this new rich guy?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so where do we watch this in theaters?

[Morgan]

You don't go to the movies, you don't watch it.

[Bobby Bones]

I figured he was about to say that. But when can we watch it at home?

[Morgan]

Probably two months.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Amy will love it.

[Bobby Bones]

I can't wait. I already. That's why I wanted to know where I have to go.

[Morgan]

I got sent this and I was given a heads up to check the mail. And I don't know what it is, but it was sent from a movie company.

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Amy]

Oh.

[Morgan]

So I have. I have an idea what it can be. Yeah. Oh, it's not. Look.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's Timothy Chalamet's autograph.

[Morgan]

Bob Dylan. That's a real autograph.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but like, did you. Did you order that?

[Morgan]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

They sent it to you because you watched it?

[Morgan]

Because I talked about it and said he did such a good job.

[Bobby Bones]

Did so I pretty much did that a week before.

[Morgan]

He didn't make it out to me. He didn't make it out to me, so. But the studio sent me that.

[Eddie]

That's amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, cool, Cool, cool.

[Morgan]

It's Timothy Chalamet as Bob Dylan.

[Eddie]

You got to put that up in the office.

[Morgan]

Yeah. I gotta frame it.

[Bobby Bones]

We could get a silver Sharpie and just add Bobby to Bobby.

[Morgan]

Did I mention I really love the Materialist with Dakota Johnson?

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Morgan]

I saw who it was from the timing of it and I thought, oh, I bet it'll be Something. And then when it came in a do not bend, I figured it would be something signed, but I did not know it was gonna be a picture of Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, man. Not bad.

[Morgan]

Signed by Timothee Chalamet.

[Eddie]

Was it from Timothee Chalamet on the.

[Bobby Bones]

Or from the studio? Right?

[Morgan]

It's from Tim. It's from Tim. It's from his home address. It's from the studio. Yeah.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, cool.

[Morgan]

Chef Raymond.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Pretty sure that was the movie that put Timothy on the map for me.

[Eddie]

But we all talked about that movie.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I said, I guess I had a friend.

[Morgan]

Oh, you think everybody should have got one? We all talked about it. I feel like I was late to talk about it too.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. We led to you finally watching it.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Okay. You guys can look at the picture.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Okay, good. So Mike and I did our reviews. Amy, go.

[Bobby Bones]

I watched one of my favorite types of shows to watch, you know, a drug documentary, and it's called cocaine air. 30 smugglers at 30,000ft.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I saw the I don't. I don't gravitate, don't waste time shows, but I did see that up on the.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought preview the story in itself. I'd never heard of it. So fascinating. But it's three episodes, 45 minutes each, and they could have done it in. In one, like a 11 hour documentary and gotten to the point. So.

[Morgan]

Yeah, no reviews. Not enough people have watched it, I guess.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I'll review it for you right now. 2. Two suitcases full of cocaine.

[Morgan]

For some reason. That sounds good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I want to watch it out of five. Well, I will say, Bobby.

[Amy]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

There was tons of suitcases on a private plane that they were in the Dominican Republic. All the pilots, like, you look in the back of the aircraft and it is just all random pieces of luggage and they are full of cocaine. And the pilots are like, we. We. We had no idea. We were. They're about to take off and they're like, we don't know what's in the luggage. We were just hired to fly. I don't know. The whole thing's kind of weird. Then they got arrested.

[Morgan]

You would think they would. If they're just flying bags, you would think, why are they just flying bags?

[Bobby Bones]

And then they were in Dominican Republic jail. And then why. Don't want to give it away.

[Morgan]

Good. Good for you. Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I didn't watch anything, man.

[Morgan]

Morgan. Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

I finished Jenny and Georgia season three. Obsessed. Like so Good. This season might be my favorite season of the whole series, which is crazy cuz normally season three, they kind of die off and it's not any good. But this one was amazing. I give it four and a half out of five Daughters and then. And that's on Netflix. And then I finished Friends and Neighbors, which was amazing. I really liked it. But it was pretty slow at the beginning. That's the only thing I wouldn't.

[Morgan]

Awesome, though, was pretty slow at the beginning.

[Scuba Steve]

But yeah, it took a while to finally get up. So for the slowness of it, I give it 3.5.

[Morgan]

Dang, that's low.

[Scuba Steve]

Out of five letters.

[Eddie]

It is low.

[Scuba Steve]

Well, yeah, it's just a slowness because, like, the last two episodes were really good, but Eddie.

[Eddie]

It took me a couple weeks, maybe three weeks, but I finally finished Pee Wee Peewee as himself.

[Morgan]

Were you not interested?

[Eddie]

No, I just didn't have. I mean, dude, it's like, busy. I can't really watch that one around my kids.

[Morgan]

Too busy. Reading therapy, books.

[Eddie]

Not doing that either. But my kids are around. Like, I can't watch that when my kids are around. So I got to wait till I go to bed and then I turn it on while I go to bed. And then like I fall asleep after 15 minutes. So it takes me a while. But I liked it. I mean, a lot of stuff I didn't know about Pee Wee.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, I wouldn't recommend it to everybody.

[Eddie]

Correct.

[Morgan]

But if you're like into art or you create something, I thought it was really good.

[Eddie]

I love the story of how Pee Wee came to be. Like, that's really cool to me. Just kind of like, man, when people create characters, like, that's cool to me.

[Morgan]

And he wasn't created as a kid show character.

[Eddie]

He was not. So I liked it. I learned a lot. I thought I knew everything about Pee Wee from Justice for Pee Wee is everything that I read about Pee Wee in the news. I thought I knew everything, but I really didn't. So there's a lot of stuff to learn about Pee Wee. I enjoy the documentary, but, yeah, it's a weird documentary. It doesn't give you great feelings.

[Morgan]

Pee Wee as himself on HBO gets a 91% positive. I don't think you start that if you're not into. I don't think that's gonna be something that people go and chase down if they're like, I don't know. I don't know if this is for. I think you go into it going, I'm Ready to learn about this creation by this guy and see what I didn't know. And I think if that's your mindset going into it, I think you're gonna like it. I don't think anybody clicks that doesn't know who Peewee Herman is.

[Eddie]

Correct. Yeah. And who doesn't know Pee Wee Herman is. You're, like, really young people.

[Morgan]

Like, I would think Morgan has no relationship with Pee Wee Herman.

[Scuba Steve]

I mean, I know him because of pop culture, but I don't know that.

[Morgan]

I ever watched, like, Peewee's Playhouse wasn't a thing.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

The big top Pee Wee, the second one. Yeah. He was big adventure, but, you know, that's 85. She wasn't born.

[Scuba Steve]

I think I saw one of it. Doesn't he have a movie?

[Morgan]

Two of them?

[Scuba Steve]

I think I saw one of the movies when I was really young, but.

[Morgan]

That'S basically the Alamo.

[Scuba Steve]

I have no idea.

[Morgan]

The third one, too, on Netflix, they did. Really? 2016.

[Eddie]

Oh, wow.

[Morgan]

They did a third peewee movie. Did you watch it? Yeah, it's. What's his name, the comedy director guy who did all the.

[Eddie]

Oh, Judd.

[Morgan]

Judd.

[Eddie]

Judd Apatow.

[Morgan]

Is Peewee in it? Yeah. Yeah.

[Eddie]

They talk about in the documentary. Judd comes out in the documentary.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I knew that.

[Eddie]

What's cool, too, is I think it's on. Is it on, Max?

[Morgan]

Oh, Pee Wee's Big Holiday. It's a Christmas movie.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, that's the one I saw.

[Morgan]

Yeah. It's Christmas movie, right, Mike? Or is it. Or is it a vacation? That's not a Christmas movie.

[Scuba Steve]

I do know he was at the airport.

[Bobby Bones]

That's about what I remember on the holiday.

[Morgan]

I don't think I've seen it.

[Amy]

What?

[Eddie]

Eddie, what's cool is, like all them. All the peewee movies are on Max.

[Morgan]

Did we have a Christmas special, though? Yeah, they talked about the special.

[Eddie]

Special.

[Morgan]

Got it, got it, got it. What's the difference in a special? In a movie?

[Eddie]

The special was just on TV one time and that was it. And then a movie is a movie. You can watch it.

[Morgan]

Some movies they show on TV one time and that's it. There's TV movies, too.

[Amy]

Oh, boy.

[Morgan]

Exactly. Anyway, we're done.

[Amy]

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

[Scuba Steve]

Number two, Chris Lane stopped by the studio. His first full length album since 2018 is out and he was talking all about the music on it. What song? You definitely have to check out for from it. And just a teaser. It's about dogs, so definitely go listen to it. And then Also, him and his wife are expecting their third child. And apparently they found out the hard way.

[Morgan]

Number six. Here we go on the Bobby Bones Show Now, Chris Lane. You ever think about being a Savannah Banana?

[Amy]

Honestly, I probably could.

[Dan Flores]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I'd do all right at it.

[Morgan]

We're on.

[Amy]

No way.

[Morgan]

Yeah, we're on.

[Amy]

Let's go.

[Morgan]

See this thing about Chris. Chris and I just talking. He didn't know we're on the air. Yeah, we're on. I think. Yeah. Yeah, I think.

[Amy]

I thought you said we're on the team. I'm like, let's go. Oh, no. Yeah, we do.

[Morgan]

We just got the call up. Bring us in. Chris finds out like you are. You don't need to do that because your career is doing great. But I'm saying, like, that. That is built for you because you can sing, you can play ball. You play ball in college. Like, you're. You're athletically still there, man. You'd be like the A plus Savannah Banana.

[Amy]

The only thing I couldn't do is dance.

[Morgan]

Yeah, but some of those guys can't dance that well, and they get in and do the very. You could sing and. You ever see the guy do back backflips, and that's great. In left field.

[Amy]

Do a freaking back.

[Morgan]

He does a. Catches the ball and does a backflip in the air. What is.

[Eddie]

What.

[Morgan]

What position did you play in college?

[Amy]

I played center field.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

I mean, I could definitely catch the ball behind my back. Did you do that kind of stuff? But I couldn't flip.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, maybe you could just twirl.

[Morgan]

You'd be a good. You'd be a great Savannah Banana.

[Amy]

Yeah. Hey, I would have so much fun with that. That would be awesome.

[Morgan]

You ever been to a game?

[Amy]

I've never been to a game.

[Morgan]

I haven't either.

[Amy]

I play. I just played in Savannah with Rascal Flats not long ago, and I think some of their team kind of came out and hung out at the show.

[Morgan]

That's cool.

[Amy]

But, yeah, I would love to freaking participate in that. How?

[Morgan]

With Rascal Flats. This is their tour. They got back together because, you know, they hated each other for a while, and they got back together. How was that? Like, people came. It was. So they sold out. Shows like crazy, right?

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, it was. They sold out fast. It was so much fun because I toured with those guys back in 17 or 18, one of the two. And I had so much fun with them then. And then I was supposed to be out with them during 2020. Covet hit, canceled. That Tour. So when I started hearing rumblings that they were gonna go back out in 24. Right. Or is it 25? Dude, I don't know what year it is. I was. I was hollering at him, saying, gosh, you got to take me back with you.

[Morgan]

You owe me. Yeah, yeah. So with those guys, because you'll do your own shows and you're headlining and people are there to see you, but whenever you are playing as a main support act, that's different mentally. Right? Because those people didn't really come to see you.

[Amy]

Yeah, for sure. It's a. It's a much shorter set. And on this one, I think I played for 40, 45 minutes, something like that. So it's like you blink and it's over with. And so all the songs that I've had success with, I had to fit a few new ones in as well. So what I was doing was verse, chorus, verse, chorus in that song. Verse course, first course in that song. So. So most of my so called hits, I'd cut in half just so I could.

[Morgan]

Why do you say so called hits? It hits a hit, bro.

[Amy]

Yeah, no, no, he's finger coating his hits.

[Morgan]

He goes, yeah, so called hit. No, I think you got. You got a list there songs.

[Amy]

I don't know about you. I definitely played all the way through. That's. That's like the hit hit.

[Morgan]

Do you have to not be as offended when not everybody cares? When you're. When you're the main support act for artists like Rascal Flats?

[Amy]

Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, my job is to get out there, hype the crowd up, get them ready for Rascal Flats, and honestly hope that I just make some new fans sell merch. And that if there is anybody there that was specifically there to see me, that they hear the songs that they wanted to hear.

[Morgan]

Yeah. It feels like it's a whole different mindset because you can easily go do your own shows and people are there for you. But you know, Rascal Flats, they're massive.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, it's. It's. I had. Honestly, I had a lot of fun on stage performing for the crowd, but to stand over there every single night on the side of the stage and watch them just play hit after hit after hit, and I would just sing to the top of my lungs. I was basically performing two shows, one for me and one for them.

[Morgan]

Did you guys come out and do a song with him at the end?

[Amy]

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Life is a highway.

[Morgan]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Bobby Bones]

Which.

[Amy]

The first night of tour, they told Lauren, Elena, and myself that they were like, just.

[Morgan]

You're.

[Amy]

You're gonna sing the second verse. Just figure it out. And that right before they were about to walk on stage.

[Morgan]

Oh, they told you that not two weeks prior? Like, right before they went on?

[Amy]

Yes, right before they went on. And I was scrambling, scrambling. Because then I started looking at the lyrics, and I'm like, I know the song, but I don't know if I, like, know the verse.

[Bobby Bones]

Especially the second verse.

[Amy]

Yeah, there's a lot of freaking words in that. And on top of that, Gary can sing really high. Like, I don't. So I'm like, lauren, I'm begging you to please sing the second verse. She was like, no, I don't know the second half of the verse. So you gotta take the second half of the verse.

[Morgan]

It's always easier to sing in the car with songs, but then when it's on the spot and it's like, okay, go. You're like, I don't know if I actually know that song.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Because I think, like, you. I know all the words. The life is a highway. And it's like, here's a microphone and no words. I'm like, I. Oh, I think I might be in trouble. Yeah, that's. Are you done with that tour?

[Amy]

Yeah, that tour ended in April. They gotta pick it back up, though.

[Morgan]

Now they hate each other again. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

[Amy]

I'm hoping they'll pick it back up. I mean, we played maybe 20 to 25 shows. They all sold out. They were all incredible. The energy was unbelievable. So I'd be very surprised if they didn't add more dates to it eventually.

[Morgan]

So you're having another kid. What's happening here?

[Amy]

Yep. We learned the hard way.

[Bobby Bones]

What does that mean?

[Morgan]

I think the hard way would be it just shows up. Like you're.

[Eddie]

That happens too.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

It's like, oh, my God, there's a head. I think that's the hard. What's. What's your hard way?

[Bobby Bones]

Tell us more.

[Morgan]

Because Sammy's friend had a baby once and didn't know she was pregnant.

[Amy]

Wait, okay, that's the hard way. How is that even possible exactly?

[Bobby Bones]

She went to the bathroom and the baby came out. It was right after college. Well, we heard about it. She was one of my sorority sisters, and suddenly she had a baby. And we were like, what? How did this happen suddenly?

[Amy]

So no one. None of y' all suddenly looked at her?

[Bobby Bones]

And we're like, no, no. We had graduated so we hadn't really seen her. It was just. And there was no social media back then. It was just like su. She had a baby and she was a virgin. She explained it that like the baby's name was. No, she wasn't a virgin, but that she was. Suddenly had these pains and she went to the bathroom and delivered the baby herself in the bathroom at her parents house.

[Morgan]

What my working theory has been she knew she was pregnant, didn't want to tell anybody, and all of a sudden the baby came alive.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, there can be psychological things that happen with that lady.

[Morgan]

Oh, you say 100% too?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, yes, like extreme denial. But they said that her uterus was set really far back Min.

[Amy]

Dude, God forbid.

[Bobby Bones]

So like it didn't. She just thought maybe she was gaining a little weight and then.

[Morgan]

That's the hard way, by the way.

[Bobby Bones]

And then the ambulance came and they went to the hospital and mom and baby were doing okay.

[Amy]

Wow, that is nuts.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I should try to track her down for an update.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

What is your hard way, by the way? Well, you said the hard way.

[Amy]

Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, like we weren't trying for a third. Like I think ultimately Lauren, she didn't like feel incomplete with two, but you know, she really wanted a girl eventually. But we weren't guaranteed that. I feel like all boys run in our family. And I kept saying, if we have a third, I know it's going to be a boy. That's just how it goes without truly knowing. So needless to say, we were trying to be careful. Like girls can track their cycles, all that kind of stuff, right?

[Morgan]

Keep girls keep going.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, that's.

[Morgan]

Oh, they can track. I thought I said girls can track. Like you can track something. I was like, I thought I was learning something. Like you can contract a cycle.

[Bobby Bones]

No, not contract.

[Morgan]

Explains how I got mine this month. Yeah, go ahead.

[Amy]

And so Lauren was doing that and it's worked for a really long time. But yeah, apparently it's not bulletproof. And.

[Morgan]

It was like what the Duggars say every, like every 10 months.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, they got us again.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait, so what, what is going to be the age difference between your middle and your.

[Amy]

So Dutton and Baker are 16 months apart or 15 months apart this time around. Hopefully it'll be a little bit easier because Baker turns 3 in October and then new baby comes in middle of November.

[Morgan]

And by the way, congratulations.

[Amy]

Yeah, thank you.

[Morgan]

I saw a woman, her babies were four months apart.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

How is that possible?

[Morgan]

Exactly. Figure it out. And it's not adoption. It's a riddle.

[Amy]

No, no, no.

[Morgan]

It's not a riddle. It's not a riddle. It's not adoption.

[Bobby Bones]

She had two uteri.

[Morgan]

Incorrect. How else would she have two siblings four months apart? Chris. Chris Lane. New album out today. You're up.

[Amy]

She'd have a siamese twin sister.

[Morgan]

Well, one would have to stay in there for four months. You got one hanging out, and the other one's still in there.

[Bobby Bones]

Mm.

[Morgan]

That. That's not gonna work.

[Eddie]

Is it a surrogate?

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's it. She got a surrogate because she didn't think she could get pregnant. Surrogate has the baby. Next thing you know, oh, I'm. You're four months. Four or five months pregnant.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Morgan]

I know. Now she got two kids.

[Amy]

Yeah. You basically have twins.

[Morgan]

That's the hard way.

[Amy]

That would be insane.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Morgan]

You always sounds pretty easy compared to these stories. Yeah. Congratulations.

[Amy]

Honestly. Thank you very much. Yeah, I think it'll be a little bit. A little bit easier this time around since they're be so far apart. You know, Dutton and Baker was so close. It was. It's been a tough four years, three years, whatever it's been.

[Morgan]

And you're not gonna.

[Bobby Bones]

Tough and awesome.

[Amy]

Yeah, tough and awesome for sure.

[Morgan]

Well, nothing's awesome.

[Amy]

That is our house every day.

[Morgan]

You're not gonna say you don't know what? The sex isn't revealing the sex. Which one?

[Amy]

Yes. We just. We just found out. You know, I haven't said it yet. Lauren and I both know.

[Morgan]

Got it. Okay. Would you ever do the thing where.

[Amy]

You don't know she wanted to do that. Yeah. I can't mentally do that, so I begged and begged and begged. I'm like, we got to open up this freaking envelope.

[Morgan]

Would she ever let you.

[Amy]

See, I said that. I suggested that. I'm like, you're more than welcome to not know, but I personally need to know. And she was like, oh, no, that's not fair that you get to know. And I'm like, okay, well, then let's just know.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, congratulations, buddy.

[Amy]

Thank you.

[Morgan]

Let's talk about this new record. What's. What. What's. What's the deal? Tell me something.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

So we've done this a couple times. Each record's been different. Like, what's the deal this time?

[Amy]

Yeah, I think this is my third record. I haven't had a record since 2018. I put out a lot of songs in between that time frame, but, yeah, this will be the first full record in ever. How many years? That is seven years, six years, whatever.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Covid doesn't count. It's like three.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

So Shade Tree.

[Amy]

Yeah, Shade Tree. It was one of my favorite songs that I almost didn't record. Like, it was one of those songs that I'd written, and it kind of got lost in a folder, and my wife found it and was like, what is this? I've never heard this song before. And, yeah, needless to say, I ended up recording it, and it kind of felt like the name of the record at the end of the day is a song about where I grew up at there in Kernersville, North Carolina. And I feel like it encompassed every single song, Whether it was a love song, whether it was a heartbreak song, lifestyle song. Just because that small town, you know, made me the man I am today, the dad I am, father I am, husband I am kind of thing.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So, yeah, I'm excited for it. 12 songs. I wrote most of them, which is a little bit different than my first two records. You know, I was always out on tour with. Back then it was Florida, Georgia Line. Then it was Brad Paisley, Rascal Flat. So I didn't spend a ton of time writing. So I have to say I'm probably most proud of this record just from that simple fact.

[Morgan]

So it says here, because I rarely look at the notes if I know the person, but then when I know the person, sometimes I'm like, let me say what I don't know about them. And it says, you're an adrenaline junkie. What do you do? That's adrenaline junkie.

[Amy]

Adrenaline junkie.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's what I said.

[Morgan]

No, that's what I said when I saw this is an adrenaline junkie. And I was like, that'll be a.

[Amy]

Dag on typo right there. Because I'm the least adrenaline junkie.

[Morgan]

That's what I thought. Well, I didn't know you're. I didn't say least, but it says, he's an adrenaline junkie. And I thought, I don't know that version of Chris.

[Amy]

So maybe a sports junkie, but definitely not an adrenaline.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, what's another word close to adrenaline? Did they mean, oh, just a junkie?

[Eddie]

Yeah, just straight junkie.

[Amy]

Yeah, exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's see.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's what my song Fix is about.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Do you get people that are making you offers to come and do weddings ever?

[Amy]

Yeah, I definitely see messages from time to time. Especially, you know, three or four years ago when Big Plans was, like, really Popular and. And kind of popping off. Everybody's like, will you please come? Saying, I got engaged to the song. Will you come sing at our wedding? But I've never. I met. I may have done that, like, one time where I showed up.

[Morgan]

Oh, just like, as a surprise.

[Amy]

Yeah, as a surprise. I think I was playing in a city that they just so happened to be getting married in that day. So at like five or six o' clock, swing by.

[Morgan]

How.

[Amy]

I think I had my tour manager reach out and just say, chris is willing to come do this, but show starts at this time, so we got to be able to do it before then. And they just kind of work it out that way.

[Morgan]

And so. But they were like, oh, this is great. Yeah, there's a whole cool thing.

[Amy]

Heck, yeah.

[Morgan]

Oh, that's.

[Amy]

It's fun.

[Morgan]

Because I'd imagine. I got that. I've been like, who?

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

That would. That would have been the. I'm so generic looking. I think they would have just thought that. Just a normal dude. Like, I'm like, guys, I'm here. And they're like, okay, cool cakes over there, you know? How much are you writing, like, now? You write much?

[Amy]

I've taken a couple months off just because I wrote so much in the early part of the year. But I'll start getting after it now that I've got all these songs recorded. I spent a ton of time in the studio. I'll start getting back after it now.

[Morgan]

What's your favorite song of all time.

[Amy]

That I've written, or.

[Morgan]

No, just in general.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Morgan]

I know it's a really difficult question.

[Amy]

Yeah. Because I would have so many. But I mean, the first one that comes to mind, Kenny Chesney, I go back.

[Morgan]

Why? Why did that come to mind first? I don't know.

[Amy]

I think it's just an I. I love nostalgic style songs. And that song in particular is very nostalgic for me. It kind of takes me back to high school. It makes me think of sports, like being on the baseball field and taking back practice. That song's playing in the background. I don't know. I just feel like I've heard that song a million times and it never gets old.

[Morgan]

Who's your Mount Rushmore? Favorite artists of all time? Four artists all time.

[Amy]

I mean, Kenny's definitely one of them. I would say Tim McGraw is definitely up there. I listen to a lot of Tim McGraw.

[Morgan]

Man.

[Amy]

I think Toby Keith was pretty great. George Straight.

[Morgan]

That's four.

[Eddie]

That's a good one.

[Morgan]

Is that is that you capping out there.

[Amy]

Man.

[Morgan]

You gotta pull something off. You gotta pull someone off, though. Now, at this point, I'm not gonna.

[Amy]

Pull anybody off, but definitely, I'm sure.

[Morgan]

You can't mention another one or you get shocked. We bring in a Taser. If you go five, we bring in a taser, are in tase immediately.

[Amy]

All right, I'm going leave it there. I'm going to leave it there.

[Morgan]

So people have short attention spans, and so if they go today and they're like, hey, I heard Chris Lane on the Bobby Bones show or the Bobby Bones podcast, I'm going to go check out his. His album Shade Tree, and they're going to listen to two songs and decide if they like the whole record. What two songs they listen to.

[Amy]

That's a great freaking question. How about what am I supposed to tell the dog?

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Amy]

By far my favorite song I've ever written.

[Bobby Bones]

The Dog.

[Morgan]

Can you play a clip of that, please, Raymundo?

[Amy]

Here you go.

[Morgan]

Supposed to tell the dog. What is that one about?

[Amy]

It's about couple who gets a dog together, they break up. And then I tried to write a little bit of it from the doll's perspective as well. And I had gotten that idea from my wife who said. Who was mad at me one day, and she was like, if anything ever happens to us, I'm taking Cooper. And I started laughing. I'm like, yeah, right. That's my dog. Needless to say, I got on the mower and I was mowing a yard that day, and I really got to thinking about that. I'm like, that's a freaking song. I've never. It's country music. How have I never heard that before? And so I just wrote down on my phone, I didn't know it was going to be the name of the song. I just wrote down, what am I supposed to tell the Dog? Like, the dog's like, where did this other person go that I love so much? Like, I'm with somebody that I do love, but where's the other person that I love so much? So I brought that idea in. Two songs. I wrote two album songs this day with Jameson Rogers, Lydia Vaughn, and Seth Mosley. And I threw that idea out early in the right. And everybody's like, ooh, that is a really cool title. I don't know how we write that, though. So then I threw another song title out called Problematic. And Seth had this really high energy track with no words on it, and we were like, oh, you should write to that. And then Everybody in the room was like, I love problematic. Let's write that song. So we figured out we wrote it. And then right as we were about to leave, Jameson Rogers said, chris, can we sit down for five minutes and just come up with a few words for what am I supposed to tell the dog? I have to be a writer on that song, and I don't want you to go write it with somebody else. I was like, sure. So we went into a separate room with just an acoustic guitar, and 45 minutes later we came out and that song was. We were like, oh, my gosh, this is the saddest song I've ever heard. But in like a tongue in cheek kind of way.

[Morgan]

You're right. I've not heard a version of that song where the couple splits up. Do you remember Feed Jake from the 90s, though? Pirates of the Mississippi? Oh, it was like, if somebody. If I die, Feed Jake. That was a Chris Stapleton, also a really sad song on his last record too, so. But that's the first time I've ever heard, like, if we break up dog song. Because I've heard if we die dog song, man. Feed Jake maybe made me sad.

[Amy]

It's definitely. What I will say is it kind of reminds me, not the song, but the. The moment that it kind of has live. When I play the song live, it's reminiscent of I don't know about you, where when I originally started playing that song, people were screaming the words back to me, and I'm like, whoa, that's like. This is like a legit hit like I've. I've never had from. From day one, people singing the song. So I was playing this song. What made me end up recording it was I was playing it at shows and people were going crazy over it. So then I thought, man, I got to record that song. And I have to say, it's probably over the last six years, probably one of the most reactive songs I've ever had. And I'm only basing that off of live right now and seeing people sing it back. So I have high hopes for that song.

[Morgan]

That's a good one. Maggie song is stapled in song. That's sad, though. That one's really style.

[Eddie]

Run, Maggie, run.

[Morgan]

Oh, I don't even think about. Don't start crying right now. Yeah, give me the other song on your record.

[Amy]

Honestly, Shade Tree, I. I really freaking love that song and hope. Hope that it kind of gets its chance and moment. It. It's like my version of Rascal Flats Mayberry in a Way, like when I was in the studio recording with Dan Huff, who had done all those Rascal Flats songs, I had said that I'm like, let's just try to make this a new school version of Mayberry. Like bring back a lot of those same sounds that you had for them. You know, the. The fiddle, banjo, mandolin, all that kind of stuff. I want to hear it.

[Morgan]

Check out Chris record. It is out today. It is called Shade Tree. The song is called Shade Tree. We're gonna play your single though. Now. If I die before you. Yeah, I don't know. Give us a little story about this. Just say something about it.

[Amy]

Yeah. If I Die before you is the slowest song I've ever had in my entire career, but probably one of the most heartfelt songs I've had. A tough conversation between a husband and a wife and. And one that you never like to have. But I think when you get married, you start thinking about stuff. When you have kids, you start thinking about stuff and passing away.

[Morgan]

So yeah, when you have as many as you.

[Amy]

That's true. Good lord. This will be the last one, though. I'll make sure the hard way, everybody.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you have to like. It is interesting. Like one of the first things you do when you're joining a life with somebody is a will.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

That was the first thing we did.

[Bobby Bones]

Huh?

[Morgan]

It wasn't the first thing we did.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, one of.

[Eddie]

That's right.

[Morgan]

I wasn't top 10. First 10.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, but why wait? Do you have one?

[Eddie]

Right?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Morgan]

But I left everything.

[Amy]

Daddy Bobby, I better be in it.

[Eddie]

Thank goodness it's you and me, Chris.

[Morgan]

All right, there he is, you guys. Check it out. It's called Shade Tree. Follow him on Instagram. I am Chris Lane. Same thing. All of his tour dates you can go to iamchrislane.com Chris, good to see you, buddy. Congratulations on the record and we'll see you again soon. There he is. Chris. Good to see y' all.

[Amy]

Thank you very much. It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.

[Morgan]

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[Amy]

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[Morgan]

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[Eddie]

Podcast hosted by Ben o' Keefe, Ryan Mitchell and Evie. Oddly, we got a lot of things to get into. We're gonn gush about the random stuff we can't stop thinking about. I am high key. Going to lose my mind over all things Cowboy Carter. I know, girl. The way she about to yank my bank account.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

[Eddie]

And one thing I really love about this is that she is celebrating her daughters. Oh, I know.

[Morgan]

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[Eddie]

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[Scuba Steve]

I want you to picture your life for a second. What age did you feel your hottest? Now I want you to think about other people. What age did you feel everyone else looked the hottest? That's what we debated on the show. It's all about hot or not, if you will. And we all had different perspectives on what was hot to us and what isn't.

[Amy]

Number five.

[Morgan]

I want to talk about the hottest ages of men and women. So this whole story came out about when women feel their hottest. Okay. And I'm gonna. This is gonna be equal opportunity.

[Eddie]

Okay?

[Morgan]

So just so everybody knows, it's gonna get us in trouble, but equal opportunity. What age do you think women feel they're hottest, Amy?

[Bobby Bones]

Is it late 30s, early 40s?

[Morgan]

I'm looking for an age here.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. I'm gonna go in their 40s.

[Morgan]

No, no, Morgan.

[Scuba Steve]

I feel like it has to be like 31, prime age.

[Morgan]

So when women feel their hottest. And I would say there are a couple factors here. One, just because you're younger doesn't mean you feel hotter. A lot of times you feel uncomfortable. You kind of. Kind of get in that spot that. That sweet spot of you're mature enough to know what you want, how your body. And also you still are able to look hot.

[Bobby Bones]

That was my thinking with the 40s. Is that too old?

[Lunchbox]

They've already had kids at that point.

[Scuba Steve]

Well, and I felt like in my.

[Eddie]

Oh, no. Oh, no.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my gosh.

[Morgan]

The answer is 34.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, okay, okay. I can get on board with 34.

[Morgan]

That's too old.

[Lunchbox]

I thought I was 24, but this.

[Morgan]

Is women feeling hot. Yeah, I think 24 year olds still feel uncomfortable a bit, yes.

[Lunchbox]

They're fresh out of college. Like, you.

[Morgan]

Ask you this then. Morgan, finish your statement first before I go back to Creepy McGee.

[Scuba Steve]

I didn't feel like until I hit my 30s that I really feel comfortable in my own body. So, like, 20s?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

I might have looked really awesome, but I didn't feel awesome.

[Morgan]

Now, what age do you think women are the hottest?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, there we go.

[Eddie]

Who's answering that?

[Bobby Bones]

Gross.

[Morgan]

No, I'm just. Everybody. Because we're going to switch it up into the guys, too.

[Bobby Bones]

I know, but we can't. Nothing that ends with a teen.

[Morgan]

You can't make lunchboxes. Rules.

[Eddie]

Amy, let him be.

[Morgan]

Let him say his thing.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. It needs to end with a what?

[Morgan]

Okay, Amy, you can answer first. At what age are women the hottest? It's an unfair question.

[Bobby Bones]

It is.

[Lunchbox]

I know it's not.

[Bobby Bones]

Gosh, I'm just so. I love. I'm in my 40s, and I think that a lot of my friendships, like the 30s and the 40s, the older we are, the hotter we get.

[Lunchbox]

Go to the pool.

[Morgan]

Okay, Lunchbox. She's not giving an answer. Right, Lunchbox.

[Bobby Bones]

What is my answer?

[Morgan]

What's the hot. What's the hottest age?

[Eddie]

Oh, no.

[Morgan]

For women, 23.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, 23. Fresh out of college.

[Lunchbox]

Fresh out of college.

[Bobby Bones]

At least we're fresh out of college. High school.

[Lunchbox]

It's fresh out of college.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

They're developed.

[Bobby Bones]

Actually, our brains aren't that creepy.

[Morgan]

I thought he was gonna avoid it. I thought he was gonna walk the line.

[Lunchbox]

And it's just a perfect time for them because they haven't had the, you know, adversity of the real world, the stress of the real world. They're still young, you know, and carefree. Like, nothing has taken a toll on them. They've just been living life in college and having the best time. Once you get to 26, 27, 28, you're out in the real world. You have the stress of a job, paying bills. It wears on you.

[Morgan]

So the hottest age to you is 23. Morgan.

[Scuba Steve]

I think there's a key part of this that lunchbox is missing. In college, you are letting loose. You're drinking a lot, you're eating a lot. There's a lot that happens in college with, like, your hormones as A woman. So I would actually say, like, prime.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Lunchbox]

Age.

[Scuba Steve]

If I look at, like, my body over the course of time.

[Bobby Bones]

Body.

[Scuba Steve]

Well, that's.

[Morgan]

Well, that's hot. It's physical.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, we're talking about hot, Amy. We're not talking about mind.

[Bobby Bones]

That's why I told him we're not about our brains developed yet.

[Scuba Steve]

What do you want with your answer 27?

[Eddie]

Eddie, do I have to answer this? Because.

[Lunchbox]

Why are you so scared?

[Eddie]

Because, like, I feel like it's no win whatever I answer.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's right. It's just one of those dumb bits.

[Eddie]

We do this gonna get us in trouble. But I'll be honest here. Will say 35 years old.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my. Shut up. You are such an idiot.

[Morgan]

I'll say. I'll say 32. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait, guys. What? I'll say 32. You just wait till you get older.

[Lunchbox]

You guys are lying.

[Morgan]

You're asking us a question. I'm giving an answer. I don't think it's fair for you to tell us our answers aren't our own opinion.

[Bobby Bones]

You didn't like my answer.

[Eddie]

What's wrong with our answer?

[Morgan]

You filibuster for 30 minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

Filibuster?

[Morgan]

Yeah. You didn't. You're just like. Well, I don't. Okay, guys, come on. What's the hottest age for a guy? We can just ask the ladies.

[Eddie]

Yeah, ask the ladies.

[Morgan]

What's the hottest age for a dude, period.

[Eddie]

And I'm 46. Just remember that.

[Morgan]

What kind of marker are they using?

[Eddie]

I'm just saying. Maybe she's gonna say 46. I just want people to know.

[Morgan]

What age are guys physically the hottest? Amy.

[Bobby Bones]

Physically the hottest?

[Eddie]

She says 46.

[Morgan]

Are you gonna filibuster? Are you gonna give an answer?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm trying to think of an answer, but all that keeps coming to My mind is 50.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my God.

[Morgan]

Morgan, what age are guys the hottest?

[Scuba Steve]

This is tough. Cause I feel like it would be like a young. Like a late 20s, early into 30s, because guys glow up later.

[Bobby Bones]

See?

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, they definitely have their glow.

[Morgan]

Like, 50.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not.

[Scuba Steve]

It's not like, that college range, because they're still a little quirky. They're still figuring it out. I feel like maybe 33.

[Morgan]

Okay. I would probably say 30, 233 as well, because your metabolism is still rocking pretty good. Anything you do physically that changes, your body will change because of it. Once you get up to, like, our age, like, I'm 45 now. It's like, you got to put extra effort in the change and not only that, when you get hurt, you don't bounce back quick. So I'm gonna go. Yeah, I'm gonna go. That's. I'm gonna go 30. I'm gonna go 33. Ish. You guys want to answer that? Let's walk. When's the guy the hottest?

[Lunchbox]

I have no idea.

[Morgan]

Yes, you do, Eddie.

[Eddie]

35. 35.

[Morgan]

35 for you both across the board.

[Eddie]

I think so. I think everyone's pretty, like, comfortable with who they are at 35, too, and that reflects on how good you look.

[Lunchbox]

Eddie, can we be real? You really think women look their best at 35 years old?

[Eddie]

Yes, I do.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Because anything younger than that's like. They don't even look like a woman.

[Bobby Bones]

What.

[Lunchbox]

What are you talking.

[Eddie]

I'm not. I'm not about.

[Morgan]

So Morgan doesn't look like a woman to you?

[Eddie]

No, she's like a little girl.

[Morgan]

Oh, that feels pretty, too, for some reason.

[Eddie]

That's why I don't find her attractive.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait, no, wait.

[Amy]

I.

[Morgan]

When do you. Okay, when do you think the guys feel the hottest? So this is the other part of that women's question.

[Eddie]

Oh, feel.

[Morgan]

So. So that was.

[Eddie]

That's different.

[Morgan]

Yeah. When do you think guys feel the hottest, Eddie?

[Eddie]

I mean, younger. I think we feel like we're so hot at, like, 25. But, like. Like. Like Morgan said, though. We're like Bambi, dude. We're idiots.

[Morgan]

Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, I don't know.

[Amy]

You were.

[Eddie]

You were there once.

[Bobby Bones]

What about feeling? When have you felt when you're hot?

[Morgan]

The hottest.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, my whole life I felt hot. That's the problem.

[Eddie]

It's like, even when you're a kid.

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Morgan]

Do you feel as good looking now as you did when you were 25?

[Lunchbox]

Like, I still. Like, when I. If I go to the pool, chicks are like, there he is.

[Morgan]

That's true. They are like, there he is.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. And so, I mean, I don't know.

[Morgan]

That they're like, there he is, but they're like, there he is.

[Lunchbox]

And maybe my. Maybe my hottest was probably, you know, when I'm slamming shots and chicks are the bars going, man, that dude is good looking. He can drink with, like. Like a fish.

[Eddie]

Like a fish.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. So maybe 24.

[Morgan]

I think I would say 36.

[Eddie]

That's when you feel.

[Morgan]

It's definitely the 20th, because I just didn't feel comfortable in my own body till, like, yesterday. But I'm a little later.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Like, yesterday was the first day I ever woke up. I was like, you know, I feel pretty good Here. I mean, I think 36 guys feel the hottest. 32 is when they actually are. It's a pretty good little window there.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's good.

[Morgan]

Anything you want to say? You really haven't said much this segment.

[Bobby Bones]

What? Yes, I have.

[Morgan]

You said a lot of words. You haven't really, really said anything.

[Bobby Bones]

Just because my answers are different than.

[Morgan]

Everybody else given an answer, I've been like, hey, give us a number. And you're like, well, are we talking about their belief system? Are we talking. No, it's.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I was thinking overall attraction, but I did give an answer. I did. And I think that y' all probably feel your hottest. Yeah. In your late 20s.

[Morgan]

Oh, I didn't know.

[Eddie]

You didn't.

[Morgan]

Or you're not having money then.

[Eddie]

Well, yeah, that's true.

[Bobby Bones]

So now it's. Now you're equating money to the field.

[Morgan]

Feel is different than look.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Like, your confidence. That's part of your look.

[Morgan]

Like.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Eddie]

If you walk around all sad with.

[Morgan]

Your shoulders hunched over until, like, yesterday.

[Amy]

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

[Morgan]

Number two.

[Scuba Steve]

Amy thinks somebody may be tracking her, so he sent Lunchbox out, Scuba Steve out to go check things out with her car because she thinks someone placed a little thing on there to follow her movements. And there is definitely something on her car.

[Morgan]

Number four, Lunchbox, is in the parking garage. Amy thinks her car could possibly have a tracker on it.

[Bobby Bones]

There is something on my car.

[Morgan]

And you didn't put it there.

[Bobby Bones]

I did not put it there.

[Morgan]

We're not telling Lunchbox what it is, though, right?

[Bobby Bones]

I think he'll. He should come across it. Like it to me, it's like, is it one of those things where they try to hide in plain sight?

[Morgan]

Lunchbox. Amy has an suv. You're looking at her car right now. What do you see?

[Lunchbox]

I am gonna say I am impressed. Amy is in the lines, perfectly parked.

[Eddie]

Okay, that's.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not that hard.

[Lunchbox]

No, it's hard for you. And there are no dents in her car. That I see.

[Morgan]

Nice.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you.

[Morgan]

Okay, go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

I see some bird poop.

[Morgan]

Like, take your hand and run it over the car and see if there's any sort of.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you want me to give him hot, cold direction or.

[Morgan]

No, let's just give him a second.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no. Don't give me. Just give me. And it's dark in here in this parking garage.

[Morgan]

Perfect for creeping up on women. Isn't that what you like to do?

[Eddie]

He loves that.

[Lunchbox]

I do like to Jump out and say boo. It's kind of fun to see him go.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, man, this is amazing. I see a muffler, gas tank.

[Eddie]

That's normal.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I see a. Handprint it. Handprint it.

[Morgan]

Okay. Any sort of tracker or anything.

[Lunchbox]

The door is locked. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you see it? Do you see it?

[Morgan]

What part of the car?

[Lunchbox]

It's on the headlight.

[Eddie]

Yes, it's on the headlight.

[Lunchbox]

It's like a sticker.

[Bobby Bones]

He sees it.

[Lunchbox]

Like a weird sticker. That's the parking garage sticker.

[Bobby Bones]

No, but.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my God. That's Amy's parking garage sticker. Don't let it.

[Bobby Bones]

That's.

[Lunchbox]

That's how she gets in the parking garage.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I didn't put that there.

[Lunchbox]

It.

[Eddie]

Oh, no. Did she hit another car?

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't put that there. Who put that there? I did not.

[Lunchbox]

That is the. That. That. It has the sensor to let the gate up when you pull in the parking garage.

[Morgan]

So you put the parking garage sticker on your car? No, I didn't think you're being tracked. By you?

[Bobby Bones]

No, Bobby, I did not put that sticker on my car.

[Eddie]

Are you sure?

[Lunchbox]

I know who did. I bet. I bet you security put it on your car because they're tired of coming down and letting you in.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I get in just fine. That's happened, like, twice.

[Morgan]

Wait, security had to come let you in the. In the parking garage, like, twice. Oh, that's for sure. They put. They put it on. Okay, you're not being tracked.

[Bobby Bones]

But, Bobby, when I pull up to the gates, they don't just open.

[Morgan]

That's why I have a key fob on my key.

[Bobby Bones]

I have a key fob and all.

[Morgan]

I do is put it on the.

[Lunchbox]

Well, here's the problem. You put it. You did put it. It's on there, but you put it on the wrong side. The sensors on the left side, you have it on the right side.

[Bobby Bones]

Right, but you're not hearing me. I didn't put it on my car.

[Morgan]

No, they put it on your car.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't just put stickers on people's car.

[Morgan]

Well, you. You shouldn't just have to call the security to let you in to the building. Twice.

[Bobby Bones]

No, twice in months and months. That's great.

[Lunchbox]

Doesn't work. That's why it doesn't work, is it's on the wrong side. Guys, this is amazing.

[Morgan]

Well, Amy didn't put it on there.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't put it on there. So now we can just put stickers on people's car. That have sensors on.

[Morgan]

I don't think anyone's saying that you can just do that, but we can understand why they would do that.

[Bobby Bones]

Does anybody want to say if they put it on my car or not?

[Morgan]

Why would we. Why would we do that? We have no interest.

[Bobby Bones]

Are y' all implying it would be Tim, our security?

[Morgan]

No, Head of security. No, I'm applying to Price. Somebody from the building.

[Bobby Bones]

Who from the building would just put a sticker on my car that has a sensor on it? That's my point. And it doesn't open, so could that be a. A tracker that looks like the sensors?

[Morgan]

Oh, so now you think it's a tracker that looks like a building? I think you're a little too paranoid. I think you're too paranoid.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but, Bobby, you. You're telling me if you walked out to your car and all of a sudden I have not noticed this sticker before, and then suddenly I see it, and you notice someone stuck a sticker on your car without your knowledge, you wouldn't be a little weirded out?

[Morgan]

Well, I would go, why is there a sticker there?

[Lunchbox]

And then I don't think there's a tracking device. You want me to ask this lady walking by if she thinks it's a tracking device on your car?

[Morgan]

Why. Why not give it a rip?

[Eddie]

Sound good?

[Bobby Bones]

Sure.

[Lunchbox]

Ma' am, will you tell me if you think there's a tracking device on your car?

[Eddie]

Scares her?

[Lunchbox]

She doesn't to want. Oh, she. She doesn't know what a tracking device looks like, so she doesn't think so.

[Morgan]

Okay. I think somebody got irritated with having to let you in the building.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no, Bobby, it. I haven't needed to be let in that many times. That's if I forget my key fob.

[Morgan]

But that's twice.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but I need my key fob. I could get in the building. Like, the door. Like, they would have to come let me. That's happened such few times. I swear, too. I don't think anybody's annoyed by that. And then nobody in the building would know that I call Tim. So did Tim report me?

[Lunchbox]

I mean, let me. Let me check something. Let me check something. It does feel like it is glued on there. I can't really peel it off.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not right.

[Eddie]

Maybe whoever was tired of letting her in was like, I'm gonna glue this thing.

[Morgan]

No, maybe like, she can't get in the building. How do we know she can stick a sticker? So they glued it on there.

[Bobby Bones]

Y' all are missing the. The. I know Y' all are getting distracted. Okay, but why would. Maybe I needed help twice to get in the building. That has nothing to do with this. Don't miss the main plot, which is that somebody stuck something on my car without my knowledge that has a chip in it.

[Lunchbox]

And I really think it is the sensor to let the garage door up because it looks like the thing, but.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. Well, now we need to know who put it on my car. That is the mystery.

[Lunchbox]

I took a picture. Mike should have a picture in his phone so he could pass it around the room. You guys can vote, but I don't want it exactly like the thing.

[Eddie]

So, Amy, what's your best guess? Why would someone want to put that.

[Morgan]

Oh, that. That doesn't look like this stick.

[Eddie]

Oh, it doesn't.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks, guys.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Now, would you be more like a tracking sticker?

[Eddie]

Are you serious?

[Morgan]

I never. I don't know what tracking sticker is. I just said that.

[Bobby Bones]

But does it look like the strippy thing to you, Bobby?

[Morgan]

Oh, that is the strippy thing. Oh, yeah, that's it.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, who put it on my car?

[Eddie]

It's not for this gate, though.

[Bobby Bones]

Which gate?

[Eddie]

It's not for this building.

[Morgan]

You're being tracked, baby.

[Eddie]

Like, that's. I think that's what it is. Like, it's something to allow you access somewhere.

[Morgan]

But Amy's being trapped. Fact.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, thank you. Round and round we went through all of this.

[Lunchbox]

Amy, I got a question. Have you had your car worked on at all?

[Bobby Bones]

No. I mean, I've never taken it in for service. Well, when that. When they said that a road.

[Morgan]

Nice.

[Bobby Bones]

A rodent was eating.

[Eddie]

Oh, so the rodent left it there.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Under my hood, I had rodent activity.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. Because I'm thinking maybe when you took it in, maybe they put that on there and that's how they can scan it and tell you where in the system it is, like, along the way. And they forgot to take it off. You got out.

[Bobby Bones]

Have y' all ever taken your car in and had this kind of sticker put on your car to track where it is?

[Morgan]

Like, I don't think she's been tracked. Let's just peel the sticker off.

[Eddie]

It's glued. Dude, you can't.

[Amy]

He can't peel on there.

[Lunchbox]

Razor blade.

[Eddie]

He's trying to peel it off, and he can't.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, maybe we need to get some gooby gone.

[Morgan]

Do you care if we.

[Lunchbox]

But I don't have a. And I don't have a fingernail, so I don't really.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, before we remove it, can we also just internally figure out who put it on my car.

[Eddie]

We don't know.

[Morgan]

It could be like a car dealership, though, and not somebody here in the building. Building. Okay, don't vomit.

[Eddie]

Sounds like she's gonna.

[Morgan]

That's it.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not gonna vomit, but I just feel like this is very bizarre activity.

[Morgan]

But do you think the activity, though, could be a bit in your head? Since you think you're always having retaliation? Since you always are scared of things happening to you, do you think a bit that paranoia could be creeping in?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but if that's part of my filter and you know that for me, then I want you to. I want y' all to want to help me. Like, y' all just want to be like, oh, this makes sense. Somebody put that on your car. And I'm like, but. But if that's. If this happened to you, I'd be like, well, let's.

[Morgan]

Abby. We asked him if he put that on there. Is he here?

[Lunchbox]

No, he's out here with me.

[Morgan]

I asked him if he put that on our car.

[Lunchbox]

He said no. And we are. We have. Three people have attempted to take it off, and it is non removable.

[Bobby Bones]

That sticker thing should be removable. This is weird.

[Morgan]

Amy's being tracked.

[Eddie]

Yeah, she might be.

[Morgan]

Okay. Anyway, have a good day. Amy. We're gonna play. There's nothing else to do right now. We'll just try to figure it out.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Like, there's nothing else we can do on the air.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, well, maybe somebody techie would know.

[Morgan]

What to do if there's anybody techie out there.

[Amy]

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

[Eddie]

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[Amy]

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[Eddie]

But not everyone was convinced it was that simple.

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[Eddie]

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[Eddie]

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[Dan Flores]

The American west with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. Hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores and brought to you by Velvet Buck, this podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by going guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best selling author and meat Eater founder Stephen Rinella.

[Amy]

I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say when cave people were here and I'll say it seems like.

[Morgan]

The Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves.

[Dan Flores]

So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th where we'll delve into stories of the west and come to understand how it helps inform the west in which we experience the region today.

[Eddie]

Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

The OGs of uncensored motherhood are back.

[Morgan]

And better than ever. I'm Erica.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm Mila and we're the hosts.

[Eddie]

Of the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network every Wednesday.

[Bobby Bones]

Historically, men talk too much and women have quietly listened.

[Eddie]

And all that stops here.

[Bobby Bones]

If you like witty women, then this is your tribe with guests like Corinne Stephens.

[Eddie]

I've never seen so many women protect predatory men. And then me too happened and then everybody else want to get pissed off because the white said it was okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Problem.

[Amy]

My oldest daughter, her first day in ninth grade and I called to ask.

[Lunchbox]

How I was doing.

[Amy]

She was like oh dad, all they.

[Morgan]

Were doing was talking about your thing in class.

[Amy]

I ruined my baby's first day of.

[Eddie]

High school and Slumflower.

[Morgan]

What turns me on is when a.

[Bobby Bones]

Man sends me money.

[Morgan]

Like I feel the moisture between my.

[Eddie]

Legs when a man sends me money.

[Morgan]

I'm like oh my God, it's go time. You actually sent it.

[Bobby Bones]

Listen to the Good Moms Bad Choices Podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect podcast network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you go to find your podcast.

[Morgan]

We asked parents who adopted teens to share their journey.

[Eddie]

We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were female. They showcase a sense of love that.

[Morgan]

I never had before.

[Eddie]

I mean he's not only my parent, like he's like my best friend. At the end of the day, it's all been worth it. I wouldn't change thing about our lives.

[Morgan]

Learn about adopting a teen from foster care.

[Bobby Bones]

Visit adoptuskids.org to learn more.

[Morgan]

Brought to you by Adopt Us Kids, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services, and the Ad Council.

[Eddie]

High key. Looking for your next obsession?

[Amy]

Listen to High Key, a new weekly.

[Eddie]

Podcast hosted by Ben o' Keefe, Ryan Mitchell, and Ethan tv. Oddly, we got a lot of things to get into. We're gonna gush about the random stuff we can't stop thinking about. I am High Key. Going to lose my mind over all things Cowboy Carter. I know, girl. The way she about to yank my bank account.

[Morgan]

Correct.

[Eddie]

And one thing I really love about this is that she is celebrating her daughters. Oh, I know.

[Morgan]

Listen to High key on the iHeartRadio.

[Eddie]

App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Scuba Steve]

Lunchbox made an attempt to call me out because he thinks that I was replacing something really big in my life with something else. It was a whole ordeal, all because my phone sits on the desk, and this man looks at my phone and my computer all the time. And if you. I don't know, listen to me, I think that's kind of creepy. Regardless, this happened.

[Amy]

Number three.

[Morgan]

I'm gonna let Lunchbox talk about this, but he saw Morgan's phone, and he wants to bring up something he saw on Morgan's phone and go. Go ahead, man.

[Lunchbox]

I didn't mean to interrupt, but this is big. This is big news. This is breaking news. Morgan moves real fast. Like, she's known this dude for a day and a half.

[Morgan]

No, that's not true. Her boyfriend, she's known for more than that. Morgan, how long you known this guy?

[Scuba Steve]

We've been dating for over three months.

[Morgan]

Okay?

[Bobby Bones]

Over three months. Time flies, man.

[Lunchbox]

Three months. Right?

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

And she's had this dog, remy, for, like, 10 years.

[Morgan]

This dog, it's like her dog. Like, her love.

[Lunchbox]

That's what I'm saying. The love of her life. Like, she'll do anything, saying, move heaven and earth, mountains and anything, rainstorm, sleet, to save this dog.

[Morgan]

Is she a mailman?

[Lunchbox]

She has kicked Remy off of her lock screen for a smooching picture of her and her boyfriend. It is like, wow. Let's move real fast and just move him straight to the lock screen on the phone. That is super fast. Remy, you don't even exist anymore. I gotta smooch this dude on my phone.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

Now you want to talk about that dude having her wrapped around his finger? He made the lock screen in three months.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like three months is.

[Lunchbox]

That's a long time.

[Morgan]

It's a lot of kissing pictures, though. They're posting a lot.

[Amy]

A lot.

[Morgan]

Like, I'm not a hater. I'm not a hater in any. Anyway. But also, I think they're only posting the kissing pictures so they don't show his entire face. Oh, that's exactly why I don't want.

[Bobby Bones]

To show his whole face.

[Scuba Steve]

I'll get there.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, he went lock screen, so he might as well be revealed.

[Morgan]

It ain't that private. Lunchbox is dying to talk about it. Ye.

[Scuba Steve]

I didn't know I needed to put a lot, like, lock protector on my phone.

[Morgan]

You need a lock on your lock screen.

[Scuba Steve]

So let's watch this.

[Morgan]

Do you ever wonder that he's watching you text or anything, Morgan?

[Scuba Steve]

Yes, he does all the time. He actually. I actually know that he does because one of my girlfriends is on his soccer team, and she was like, hey, Lunchbox came up to me the other day and was like, stop texting Morgan. And I'm like, what?

[Eddie]

Why is he.

[Morgan]

Why are you watching her phone?

[Lunchbox]

I'm not watching her phone, man.

[Scuba Steve]

He's watching my computer.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no. Here's the thing.

[Morgan]

Thing.

[Lunchbox]

She sits to my left, Bobby. You look. The angle you sit at when I look. Her screen is in my.

[Morgan]

My line of sight. In your face. You have no choice.

[Lunchbox]

She is sitting there putting it in my face. Like, I can't help but look. Do we feel like I have no choice?

[Morgan]

Morgan's three months in with this dude. Is it too early for the lock screen? Over.

[Eddie]

Remy, Over.

[Morgan]

Well, here's the thing about dogs. They don't know what a lock screen is.

[Lunchbox]

Remy is what was on there. So Remy was replaced. Replaced for this?

[Scuba Steve]

Remy's not been replaced at all.

[Morgan]

Amy, you go first.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's totally fine.

[Eddie]

Eddie, I think it's early. Over. Remy. Remy's the love of her life, dude. I thought Remy would be there forever. Even when you did fall in love, Morgan can't believe it.

[Scuba Steve]

She's still there.

[Morgan]

Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, way too soon. I mean, Remy is your dude, like, your companion. Like, I mean, you take days off work when Remy has a little cough, and this dude comes in and watches.

[Morgan]

True.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, this guy comes in with an allergy.

[Morgan]

Yeah, the dog almost died. Let's be honest. And, like, called Dr. Josie in. Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, this dude comes and sticks his tongue in your throat. See you later, Remy.

[Morgan]

Hey, was that thought Morgan, did that thought creep in like, I'm replacing my dog with my boyfriend?

[Scuba Steve]

Not even a little bit. I've had her on my Locks clearing for like 10 plus years. Sometimes you just want a little change on your phone.

[Morgan]

So it's more about a change than him.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah. I need a new updated photo with her. No, her and I are actually going to take some photos together.

[Eddie]

Oh, and she's going back in the lock.

[Morgan]

You go back on the old lock.

[Amy]

Yeah, I want a new photo.

[Morgan]

No, I should say we lunchbox. Just peer pressured Morgan to change her lock screen back to her dollar.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I'm curious what is on his lock screen?

[Scuba Steve]

We are. It's a picture of us.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Oh, she matched his energy.

[Morgan]

Did he did that first?

[Scuba Steve]

He did it first.

[Morgan]

First you kind of had to do it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she matched it.

[Morgan]

Has he said I love you?

[Eddie]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Morgan]

I mean, you don't have to answer, but.

[Scuba Steve]

All I did was giggle.

[Lunchbox]

Bobby.

[Morgan]

No.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh.

[Morgan]

Oh my gosh. I haven't done anything. You've said nothing. You have said nothing.

[Eddie]

But you said it all.

[Morgan]

No, you said nothing.

[Scuba Steve]

I just giggle because it was a funny question.

[Bobby Bones]

I love you or like I think I'm falling in love with you?

[Morgan]

You or Amy. She didn't say any of that.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh, I literally just giggled because of the question.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Morgan]

I got lots of questions. Let's take. We got to take.

[Eddie]

Take a break.

[Morgan]

I'll play a song. I'm not gonna ask any more. Just give me a minute. I need to compose myself.

[Amy]

It's the best bits of the week.

[Morgan]

With Morgan number two.

[Scuba Steve]

And speaking of boyfriends, Amy's boyfriend and her ex husband met for the first time and she got to share the whole story. What went down? Her thoughts throughout the whole thing. And the guys think it may have been a little bit of an alpha.

[Morgan]

Off number two voicemails. Let's go.

[Eddie]

Question for Amy. Has your ex husband met your new boyfriend yet?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

I'm in the similar boat where I.

[Morgan]

Have an ex wife and my new.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Girlfriend is going to have to be her. Please give me advice.

[Morgan]

Love the show, Amy.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, my headphones missed that. We have to restart it.

[Morgan]

Oh, like you're wearing them.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. I. I got them in and then it's like not. I don't hear anything. You want to come here? I heard something like somebody's gonna have to meet her.

[Morgan]

So. Yeah, there's another. Hey, ray, play voicemail 5.

[Bobby Bones]

I just had an idea that maybe.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Amy could segment called Random Thoughts with.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy where she kind of channels all.

[Scuba Steve]

Of those squirrel thoughts that she has.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that'd be kind of funny.

[Morgan]

I think we're in the middle of that now, if I'm being honest. Honest. Headphones working over there.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Morgan]

Did you even hear that one?

[Bobby Bones]

No. Okay, I heard something about swirling thoughts.

[Morgan]

No. Squirrel.

[Eddie]

Squirrel.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, close. I could hear it through somebody else's headphones.

[Lunchbox]

You really can't hear it?

[Bobby Bones]

No. I don't know. It's like cutting in and out. I think I need a new.

[Morgan]

You know why? Because those headphones have cords from the original Apple iPhone one. Amy. That's why.

[Bobby Bones]

You're, you're not wrong.

[Morgan]

Yes, I know she's been wearing those headphones. It's like Steve Jobs came out and.

[Amy]

Said it's the iPhone.

[Bobby Bones]

So I think it's time, guys.

[Morgan]

I think it's time too.

[Bobby Bones]

Like right now I just hear, Now I hear static. I have to like get it just right if you stick it in there.

[Morgan]

And now she laughs at her own pervy joke. Okay, so let me, let me share the two questions that happen. Number one, has your ex husband met your new boyfriend yet?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Morgan]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Whoa, whoa. I would say if you have kids, eventually that has to happen.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it happened very, very organically. And it was at my house. They were both a little weird about it, but also my ex in laws were there too.

[Morgan]

His parents.

[Bobby Bones]

My ex husband's parents. Yes. Who I'm still close to. So we had all gone to dinner, but my boyfriend didn't go and it was for our kids. And then he came over to the house later and at dinner I said casually, because then my ex husband brought up some girl he's been dating. And so it felt like we were having a moment of just being cool. And so I was like, well, you know, Alex is going to be coming by the house later and your parents drove me here, so they're going to be dropping me off, so they may meet him. You should stop by and just meet him so we can just get this over with. Because I don't want anything to be.

[Morgan]

Weird that doesn't feel very organic if he's having to drive.

[Bobby Bones]

What I mean is, it was. We didn't plan it out to happen that night and I didn't know for sure if I had no idea, no plan of bringing that up at dinner at all. And so I just brought it up. And then he was like, okay, yeah, let's just, let's do it.

[Morgan]

Did they fight?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, so normally, here's the thing, like at my house, Ben always comes to the back door, parks in the driveway, comes through the screening porch, the back door, you know, kind of Knocks, but then walks in. We're all hanging out in the living room. There's windows. You can see we're all in there. The kids, his parents, everybody. He parks. Walks all the way to the front door. Like, the door's open. You can just open the screen door. He knocks, and, like, we have to go get the door. It's very formal all of a sudden.

[Morgan]

Yeah. That's showing respect, though.

[Bobby Bones]

I. I agree. He's a very respectful person.

[Morgan]

Yeah, you, like, you just pee on the porch. Be like, I'm here.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. It was just interesting because I was.

[Morgan]

Like, whoa, I like it. That's very respectful of the new guy.

[Bobby Bones]

I do, too. But it just felt like, what is going on? So I let him in, and then he comes in, and they both sort. Sort of start walking, like, towards each other and their hands out, and they, like, they just. It was like the firmest, most manly handshakes you've ever seen. And Ben was like. It was like, first and last name. He's like. And he's like. And then they shake hands, and he's like. And we're all witnessing. And my friend Cat was there, and she looked over and she was like, it's alpha.

[Morgan]

Awesome. It's an Alpha off. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

They're trying to out handshake each other.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Did they squeeze to see first one let go?

[Bobby Bones]

No, but it was sort of awesome. It was almost like I was watching, like a. You know.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Two animals fight.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like a science experiment.

[Morgan]

Yeah. No, they're saying that they're trying to determine who the alpha is there. Awesome. And which one rightfully claims you.

[Bobby Bones]

They both are. And. No, I mean, Ben and I are. No, he was already.

[Morgan]

Hey, the king of the jungle. Tell the king. Tell. Somebody takes him down.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Well, so they met, and it went really well. And then they started talking. Ben had just had a fundraiser for foster care, and it went really well. And, like, my boyfriend knew some people that were going and so out.

[Morgan]

Oh, what if they're best friends now?

[Bobby Bones]

Because I was like, what are they gonna say next? And then Alex is like, hey, how was your event the other night? And then Ben's like, you know about that? And he's like, yeah, my buddy. And so I was like, look at them.

[Morgan]

They can't be friends, though.

[Lunchbox]

No, they cannot.

[Eddie]

Well, do you want them to be friends?

[Lunchbox]

No.

[Morgan]

No, they can't. No. They both made out with you.

[Bobby Bones]

No. But here's something that I said to Ben.

[Lunchbox]

True.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, way early on in our divorce. Divorce. And he was not down with it at all. But I was like, you know, there's some.

[Morgan]

You're already suggesting that.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I just said, you know, there's some divorced couples that, like, swing.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

Weirdo. No. That they go, you know, go on vacation together with their kids. Why are you suggesting suggesting it? I was just saying, like, it's what's good for the kids, which I'm not saying that is what we're gonna do, and that is always what's best. But you see other people successfully navigate and friendly and amicable, and. I don't know. Ben and I had a conversation later after that, and I was like, I feel like we're one step closer to vacay.

[Morgan]

If I'm Ben and I open a gift from Amy and it's a pineapple, I'm running.

[Bobby Bones]

No, not like that.

[Morgan]

When you said that, though, do you see? It sounded just like it felt kind of weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, yeah, I just was saying I.

[Morgan]

Love the alpha off, though, between the dudes.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I share this story as hope because you just have to have patience and you never know, like, how. Because, like, there. There was a time where this just would not be happening.

[Morgan]

I agree.

[Bobby Bones]

And come a long way. Yeah. And even with who he is dating now, because he's dated people before where it's just hot mess, you know, and this is.

[Morgan]

I don't know about that. So, no, I'm gonna step back and say I don't know about a hot mess, about him dating stuff. So did you. Did you alpha off his girl? Do you like.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I have not met her.

[Eddie]

Oh, you have not.

[Bobby Bones]

They're not this new. No, he's dated. Listen, he's been. He's d.

[Morgan]

Get back in the mood.

[Bobby Bones]

He has. He is dating. And now I don't know exactly what's going to happen with this next relationship, but I do look forward to meeting her. There have been people he have dated in the past where I've tried to be friendly, and it.

[Morgan]

Would you dress all hot, though, to, like, see her the first? If he's like, hey, you got to meet her. You freaking put on a prom dress and show up?

[Bobby Bones]

No, but I already googled I sound psycho.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, you do.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

You're free here. You don't even know if we're on the air. Your ears aren't working. Your headphones are working.

[Amy]

We're just talking.

[Morgan]

Yeah, we're just talking in the room. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead.

[Bobby Bones]

This is normal, right? To, like, you want to.

[Morgan]

You want to compose your thoughts. And come back.

[Bobby Bones]

No, there's no thoughts to compose. I googled and she's very pretty and very successful.

[Morgan]

I don't think it's weird to Google who it is.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think. I don't think so either. Especially if my kids are going to be around her.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I don't think that's weird. Unless there's more you're not telling us.

[Bobby Bones]

No, it just felt weird to say that. I don't think I've said that out loud.

[Morgan]

Like you saw her donation Ben go to the store, then you went and bought those clothes and went them.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, that's. That would be.

[Morgan]

That's over the line.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that would be weird. But I did look her up and all good.

[Morgan]

Send me a picture of her. Let me see how hot she is now.

[Bobby Bones]

That feels weird.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

I can't believe you agreed to that.

[Amy]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Morgan]

Let's go.

[Amy]

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

[Morgan]

Number two.

[Dan Flores]

The American west with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast network. Hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores and brought to you by Velvet Buck, this podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode I'll be diving into some of the lesser known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best selling author and meat eater founder Stephen Rinella.

[Amy]

I'll correct my kids nouns. Then they'll say when cave people were here. And I'll say it seems like the.

[Morgan]

Ice age people that were here didn't.

[Amy]

Have a real affinity for caves.

[Dan Flores]

So join me starting Tuesday, May 6, where we'll delve into stories of the west and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today.

[Eddie]

Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast Podcasts. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no.

[Amy]

Across the country, cops called this Taser the revolution.

[Eddie]

But not everyone was convinced it was that simple.

[Dan Flores]

Cops believed everything that Taser me told.

[Eddie]

From lava for good. And the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1 Taser Incorporated.

[Morgan]

I get right back there and it's bad.

[Eddie]

It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new Episodes of Absolute Season 1 Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21 and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4 ad free at Lava for Good. Plus on Apple Podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

The OGs of uncensored motherhood are back and badder than ever.

[Morgan]

I'm Erica.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm Mila.

[Eddie]

And were the hosts of the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network every Wednesday.

[Bobby Bones]

Historically, men talk too much and women have quietly listened.

[Eddie]

And all that stops here.

[Morgan]

If you like witty women, then this.

[Bobby Bones]

Is your tribe with guests like Corinne Stephens.

[Eddie]

I've never seen so many women protect predatory men. And then me too happen and then everybody else want to get pissed off because the white said it was okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Problem.

[Amy]

My oldest daughter, her first day in ninth grade and I called to ask how I was doing. She was like, oh, dad, all they.

[Morgan]

Were doing was talking about your thing in class.

[Amy]

I ruined my baby's first day of high school.

[Bobby Bones]

And slumflower.

[Morgan]

What turns me on is when a.

[Bobby Bones]

Man sends me money.

[Morgan]

Like, I feel the moisture between my.

[Eddie]

Legs when a man sends me money.

[Morgan]

I'm like, oh my God, it's go time. You actually sent it.

[Bobby Bones]

Listen to the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect podcast network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you go to find your.

[Morgan]

Podcast Podcast High Key.

[Eddie]

Looking for your next obsession?

[Amy]

Listen to High Key, a new weekly.

[Eddie]

Podcast hosted by Ben o' Keefe, Ryan Mitchell and Yvie. Oddly, we got a lot of things to get into. We're gonna gush about the random stuff we can't stop thinking about. I am High Key going to lose my mind over all things Cowboy Carter. I know, girl. The way she about to yank my bank account.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

[Eddie]

And one thing I really love about this is that she is celebrating her daughters. Oh, I know. Listen to High key on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts. You get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

We asked parents who adopted teens to share their journey.

[Eddie]

We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were family. They showcased a sense of love that.

[Morgan]

I never had before.

[Eddie]

I mean, he's not only my parent.

[Morgan]

Like, he's like my best friend.

[Eddie]

At the end of the day, it's all been worth it. I wouldn't change thing about our lives.

[Morgan]

Learn about adopting a teen from foster care.

[Bobby Bones]

Visit adoptuskids.org to learn more.

[Morgan]

Brought to you by Adopt Us Kids, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council.

[Scuba Steve]

Bobby finally knows some family history. This is a really cool segment. He came on the show earlier this week saying, hey, I really want to find out my family history. I might hire a genealogist to get some more info. Well, somebody reached out to him from Oklahoma State University and did some digging of his past and got a whole lot of info. And there is a huge shocker in here of someone that he's related to. So get ready for this. Bobby may just be royalty number one.

[Morgan]

We have Dr. Marcy Yates on with us who is a forensic genetic genealogist at Oklahoma State University. We rarely have highly educated people on the show. Let's clap our hands for someone highly educated. Dr. Yates, thank you for coming on.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Hi. No problem at all.

[Morgan]

So I said on the air I was looking to figure out where I was from because I want to go on a pilgrimage voyage. I don't know. I don't. I don't know where I'm from. I don't know. I don't know my, you know, I know like one of my grandparents, my grandma raised me. Her husband died before I was born. My other side of the family, I don't know my dad, but that grandfather died when I was very young. That grandfather, that grandmother's pat. So I just don't know. And I did one of those little results where it says where you're from, and it's like, basically you're just from where white people come from, which is like all Europe. It just, it was just like a big map of Europe. So she messaged me. She was, so what do you do? And I don't want to ask you about anything specific you do for other people specifically, because that's their information. But, like, what do you do day to day? What is your job?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah, that is a good question. So kind of in lay terms, what we do here is we work with unidentified human remains and we use forensic genealogy, DNA extraction and different methods and then kind of open source intelligence. And with genealogy, then we use that to work on identifying who these remains are.

[Morgan]

Tele Danny Crazy.

[Eddie]

That's amazing.

[Morgan]

Do you ever get called into court like Karen Reed, where they be like, Dr. Yates, come talk to the Karen Reed trial.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

I'm not that cool, but my boss does for sure.

[Morgan]

Like you bring in an expert. How did you get into this? What, what made you want to get into this field?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah, so I started working in forensics. I teach in forensics and they said were trying to build up the forensic genealogy program. Would that be something that you're interested in? And I said, heck, yeah, let's freaking do it. And so that just opened some doors. And then we work on forensic genetic genealogy cases all the time now.

[Morgan]

So I saw her message in my general. I was just. And I don't get to all of them, but I was drawn to that message for some reason. I clicked and opened it, and she was like, I'd like to help you find yourself story. And I was like, that's so nice of you. And so I got her number and we called her up. Now, just to protect a bit of. I mean, I'm not very private, but my privacy or my dead relative's privacy, if you know anything, let's just call them by their first names. I don't even know what their first names are. So what did you find out about me? Or have you? Because I Googled me and I couldn't find anything other than, like, my grandpa.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, yeah, but does she have access to database?

[Morgan]

Like our bones? Did she go find their bones? Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh. See, I was thinking she may need to see you in person and, like, withdraw. Draw things from your body.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Take some of your DNA.

[Morgan]

Great point. Do you need any. Do you need. Do you need, like, stool blood? What do you need from me?

[Bobby Bones]

Bone marrow? No.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah. Definitely not stool. But since you are identified, it is pretty easy to find you on the Internet just because of who you are. And so I started with your birth date and your name, and then from ancestry, there's a lot of kind of public. Public documents, so it's not even really. You have to have all these paid subscriptions to know any private details. You just kind of need to know where to look. And then from there, then it's just kind of off to checking different public records. So I can see Bobby. Like your yearbook pictures, which. They look great, by the way.

[Morgan]

What? My yearbook pictures? That was the biggest door. You did tell me that's not a dorky kid, though.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

I think it looks great. I mean, you're born to be a star.

[Morgan]

Thank you.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Not your fault. Yeah.

[Morgan]

What? Okay, so what did you find? Okay, could. So did you see my parents?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yes. Yeah, I can see your parents. I can see. I found your mom's obituary. And so different kind of public records like that, you can't always find obituaries. And the thing is, is that family members write those. And so they're not 100% accurate all the time, but it does kind of give you a good picture of what you're looking at. And so I. I kind of got a family picture from the obituary, and then I know who her parents are. And then you just go from there. So I've traced you back to about. About the 1490s.

[Morgan]

No way. What if it's Columbus?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Oh, no. 1492. My great, great, great, great uncle.

[Eddie]

No, that'd be terrible.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

There's one fun fact is I saw, which I have not, like, gone through every public document to absolutely confirm this, but back in, like, the 1500s or so, you're related. You're about 10th cousins with James Madison and Teddy Roosevelt presidents.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Morgan]

Whoa.

[Eddie]

This makes sense.

[Morgan]

Okay, hold on. Cousins? Aren't we all 10th cousins to, like, Adam and Eve type thing? Or is it 10th? Is this.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

I mean, basically. But you don't see that in everyone's tree. So you can see a direct line to. To their grandfather in your tree.

[Morgan]

No way. Okay, so where am I, like, from? Like, if I were gonna go on a trip, because I don't know anything above my grandparents, like, where did that. Where. When did we come here?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Come here as in the U.S. yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

Like, yeah. Not to Arkansas or to Earth. Good point, Good point. Do you know, like, where my ancestors lived? In what other countries?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah, you have some German lines, you have some Dutch lines, some French, and then obviously some English. So I'm trying to see exactly when you cross over into Virginia. You are? Yeah.

[Morgan]

I'm a native Virginian.

[Amy]

Whoa.

[Eddie]

Take the Arkansas helmet off your desk.

[Morgan]

Oh, no, I'm a hokey. So, okay, so if you had to pick one place, where do you think I should go to look at my homeland.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Okay, this is gonna be surprising. Well, not surprising. You have a lot of ancestors from Tennessee, so I feel like you're in the right spot.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Eddie]

You were destined to come here.

[Morgan]

That's crazy. So I could run for governor of this state too, not just Arkansas. Oh, my goodness. So I'm already. Okay, but if I wanted to go to one of those European places, find.

[Bobby Bones]

Out, like, you're related to two presidents, and now you're running for governor again?

[Eddie]

Well, yeah, he's got political background now.

[Morgan]

Back, baby.

[Amy]

I'm back.

[Morgan]

Yeah, so, yeah, tell me, like, European, because obviously. Right. I wasn't. I. But my family, they were immigrants at some point. We all were, for the most part. Unless you're Native American. Where do we come from?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

You come from Ireland. You come from Germany. I'm trying to find the. The exact places for you.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Like, I need a town to go to and be like, I'm Home. Like, I want a picture of me with my arms up in whatever town this is going, I'm home.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Let's see if she goes, Richmond, Virginia.

[Eddie]

Irish go the other day.

[Morgan]

I've been there, like, four times. I didn't know that was home.

[Eddie]

That was.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Let's see. I'm trying to find all this.

[Morgan]

Where my family, like, all criminals or anything, because, like, this version, this. The last few years, there's been a lot of. We had. We had a lot of issues. We're a lot of. They're still in jail, a lot of them. Like, my family didn't, like, burn down towns or anything, right?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

No, not. Not that we can see on a public document, so don't worry.

[Morgan]

Perfect.

[Bobby Bones]

She doesn't come across that good.

[Morgan]

Yeah, good, good, good.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean. Yeah. What if you hear, like, oh, we can tell you were related to John Wilkes Booth.

[Morgan]

Exactly. I don't want any part of that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Or if you're like, you were Boris Yeltsin.

[Eddie]

Who's that?

[Lunchbox]

Russia.

[Morgan]

Right, Right.

[Bobby Bones]

So so far, you have no Russian lineage.

[Morgan]

Okay, all right, all right. I'm just giving her time. Okay. Did you find a home for me to go to?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Okay. On your mom's side? No. Now I'm going to look on your dad's side because it just will give you General ir. Ireland on your mom's side. But then on your dad's side, I've been to Ireland.

[Morgan]

They didn't treat me like, I'm back. They didn't be like, he's back.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you get a feeling when you landed there?

[Morgan]

Were you like, yeah, like, I wish I drank. That was the feeling. Maybe that's all my family. We have alcohol issues because we're born in Ireland.

[Eddie]

You like to drink.

[Morgan]

That's just a culture. Brought it over. Brought it over on the boat.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Okay, let's see. I'm sorry, I'm getting.

[Morgan]

No, take your time.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Pretty far here.

[Morgan]

Time, dude.

[Eddie]

What if it goes to Mexico?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm trying to picture what she's doing. Is she, like, flipping through papers or on the Internet?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

I'm. I'm on ancestry. And what happens when you build out a family tree? You can go back, I mean, depending on your tree, but your ancestors double every time, every generation. If you can find your grandparents and then their grandparents. So from Bobby's tree, there's actually a ton of people that we can see.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, she's bigger than you, but.

[Morgan]

I had double cousins.

[Bobby Bones]

But that's closer to you. But as you get further away from that, you expand.

[Morgan]

I Just expected them all to be marrying each other. Cousins, sisters.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

I did find some cousins married to each other, so sorry to tell you.

[Eddie]

That makes sense.

[Bobby Bones]

That track.

[Morgan]

We don't. No, it doesn't.

[Bobby Bones]

It does.

[Morgan]

You guys need all shut your mouth right there. Ex. No, you shut your holes.

[Bobby Bones]

I bet if she pulled up our family tree, she'd find the same thing.

[Eddie]

I don't think so.

[Lunchbox]

Not mine.

[Bobby Bones]

I've had mine. That's.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

That's in most trees, actually.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Yeah. Why do y' all think y' all are immune to.

[Morgan]

So all. My goal here with Dr. Yates is I just want to find a homeland to go to, because I don't really have a home. And so whenever she tells me this. This is. I'm putting it on a map and I'm going to this home.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

But you have multiple homes, so is there, like, a country that you are leaning to. Towards.

[Morgan]

No, I just want to go where they. Where everybody knows my name.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Okay. And they're always. And they're always glad I came. You know, I want to go where people. You know.

[Eddie]

Where would that be?

[Morgan]

Cheers.

[Bobby Bones]

I was trying to sing in my head. Where things are all the same.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah, me. Cheers.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Okay. Sorry. I.

[Morgan]

She can literally also just make up a town and be like.

[Bobby Bones]

Like.

[Morgan]

Yeah, no, Berlin. Looks like that's you're booking your ticket. I'd be there with an Instagram post. She be telling her friends, I totally lied. I was. I don't even work for Oklahoma State.

[Bobby Bones]

What if she's like, North Korea?

[Morgan]

Oh. Oh, that's a tough one.

[Bobby Bones]

Probably.

[Morgan]

I am who I am, though. I know I am who I am can't deny you. Like, deny me for so long. Kim Jong Bones.

[Eddie]

It's got a nice ring to it.

[Morgan]

It doesn't.

[Amy]

It doesn't have a nice ring.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no. Nothing nice about that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Bobby Jung.

[Morgan]

Bobby John. All right, let's give her. Let's give her time, guys. Yeah, let's give her time.

[Bobby Bones]

Focus.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah, No, I wouldn't be able to focus.

[Eddie]

Maybe she's just taking time on how to break it to you. Whatever it is, she's like, how do I tell him?

[Morgan]

It's like German. Hitler.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I was thinking Middle East.

[Morgan]

Hussein. Oh, well, that's. That's my life. I'm not Middle Eastern. Like, if they said to Eddie, I'd be like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Okay. There is one place that I'm gonna absolutely butcher, but it is the Kingdom of Wurttemberg. Germany.

[Morgan]

I'm a king.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Morgan]

I Just I'm a king.

[Eddie]

You might be a villager in the kingdom.

[Morgan]

No. Okay, how do you say. Spell it?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Okay. It's W, U, R, T, T, E, M, B, E, R, G. Oh, Ruthenberg.

[Eddie]

Of course.

[Morgan]

Of course. That's my middle name. Bobby Ruthenberg Bones.

[Eddie]

Dude, that's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe that's why you like that big wiener thing.

[Morgan]

Other people had other theories, but you do like bratwurst? I do big ones.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But wasn't that in. Was that that in Germany?

[Morgan]

It was in Germany.

[Bobby Bones]

And you were like.

[Eddie]

That was your favorite.

[Bobby Bones]

It was the best thing ever put in your mouth. Yes.

[Morgan]

So where this. This Rothenburg, Germany. Who lived there? Do you know?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah. His name is Johan Whitman.

[Morgan]

Classic Johan. Hey, that's.

[Eddie]

That's your great grandfather, dude.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Morgan]

And what?

[Bobby Bones]

Got to be further than that.

[Eddie]

Great, great, great.

[Morgan]

What is he to me? Do you know?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

He would be. Yeah, let me check. He's your seventh great grandfather.

[Morgan]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Like on his dad's side?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yes. No, on his. Actually, yeah, on his dad's side.

[Morgan]

So my seventh great grandfather. So that would be. Let me walk down the road with me, guys. There's my grandpa. There's my great grandpa. Now, do I do seven more or is that already two down?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

It's okay. So your grandpa and then your great grandpa is one.

[Morgan]

So, so six more. So my great great grandpa, my great great grandpa, my great great, great grandpa, my great great, great, great grandpa. My great great, great, great, great, grand. That's who it is. My great great, great, great, great grandpa.

[Eddie]

Seven times.

[Morgan]

No, because my great. My grandfather would be one. So it's six. Six grades.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought she was. Said you. You don't count one till you get to great grandpa.

[Morgan]

I don't know. Will you tell us again what you said?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah, it's. It's grandfather. And then great grandfather would be first great grandfather. So he's seventh great grandfather.

[Morgan]

So great, great, great, great, great, great, great. So seven greats.

[Bobby Bones]

Seven greats.

[Morgan]

I made that way too complicated.

[Bobby Bones]

Because grand isn't great.

[Morgan]

So seven. My Gr. Is from Rutenberg. His name is Johan Whitman. Johan.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Morgan]

And it's both. It's. And it's a kingdom.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

That's what it says.

[Eddie]

And was Johan. Was Johan the king of Great question.

[Morgan]

Great question. I bet he was. I think so, guys. I bet he was. Do you mean King Whitman? Is that what you meant to say.

[Eddie]

King Whitman, or was he a radio personality?

[Morgan]

He yelled from a tower.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

I can't tell you. No, so we'll just go with yes, he's not here to say no.

[Eddie]

Dude, he would be so proud of you.

[Morgan]

Worth that. Impossible. So, okay, I'm going to Werther in Berg, Germany, and I'm gonna go look for the home of Johann Whitman.

[Eddie]

Home? How you can find that?

[Morgan]

It's got to be a historical marker. He's something. He had to be something there. Okay. Wow.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Morgan]

I had no idea. Is there any way one that. Do you. I don't know. Is this stuff, like, printed out, is in like a PDF file or something?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah, I. I can. I can download it and then definitely send it to you.

[Morgan]

And then is there like some sort of. At your school, do people, like, donate so you guys can do projects or something? Because I'd be happy to do that. I know you didn't ask for anything, so I will. I'd rather help the cause.

[Eddie]

You mean like nil money for.

[Morgan]

For genealogists? Yeah. Is there. Is there something like that?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

I mean, to our program? Yes, yes, definitely don't donate your bones. But money, we are sure we'll take it.

[Morgan]

Okay. So what I'll do is I'll put it on hold and we'll will get her the email address and I'll get the organization, and that's how I'll pay my debt to this information that I've just learned.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, yeah. And your money is gonna be going towards the program of unidentified bodies. Right?

[Morgan]

I don't even care. I don't care if it goes to Dr. Yates at Starbucks.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but I mean, that's cool. Cause you're gonna be part of, like, helping people understand where their loved one went, maybe missing people. And I'm very curious, like, how many of those. Those do you have in like a week or a month? Like, how many cases are there?

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Yeah, so these are typically cold cases. And so we're kind of working backlogs different places, and it depends on who kind of reaches out to us. Right now I think we have about five cases in the works, and then we already have a couple lined up beyond that. But then. Then it's just kind of different. Like sheriff's offices or stuff like that. Who? They have cases that have been sitting on the shelves for a while because they're cold cases.

[Bobby Bones]

Can you imagine? You have this body and you have no idea who it is.

[Morgan]

Have you seen Department Q on Netflix? Yeah, there you go.

[Eddie]

You ever seen Cold Case Files?

[Morgan]

There you go.

[Eddie]

But it is.

[Morgan]

Hey, wow. I think I'm Dr. King.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not saying Dr. King, Bobby.

[Morgan]

About TV show Fake Doctor and a Fake king and I'm pretty excited about that.

[Eddie]

Awesome.

[Morgan]

Hey, thank you, Dr. Yates. We really appreciate this. You have one, given us a lot of stuff to talk about. But two, like, I'm generally curious about this because I didn't know. I really don't know anything other than kind to my grandparents. So thank you for the time and thank you for the time spent with us.

[Dr. Marcy Yates]

Of course.

[Morgan]

No problem, Abby. We'll put her on hold. Good information. Awesome. There she is. Dr. Marcia H. Let's give her a round of applause from Oklahoma State University.

[Amy]

It's the Best bits of the week.

[Morgan]

With Morgan Number two.

[Scuba Steve]

That's it for me this weekend, friends. Thanks for hanging out and being here. I always appreciate when you guys listen to Best bits and subscribe and rate this show feed. Give it a five stars because it always helps us out. And while you're at it, go subscribe to our Bobby Bones Show YouTube page. If you want something new to check out that's totally separate from the show, go check out my podcast. Podcast. Take this personally. This week I had on co founder Kaylee Tol of Let Music Fill My World. And it's really cool. They're trying to provide music education to all the students across America who don't have it and I was actually surprised how much music education really plays a role in all of our lives. So that's just this week. And then coming up, I have a lot of my senior living community residents and employees coming on the next few episodes. So go listen to that and and if this is where I leave you, thank you for being here. I love you all. Stay safe. Goodbye.

[Amy]

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[Morgan]

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