FRI PT 1:  Eddie Wants To Fast For 20 Days! + How Much Do We YELL At Our Kids? + Fun Fact Friday + Easy Trivia Returns

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – Episode Summary

Date: January 9, 2026
Episode: FRI PT 1: Eddie Wants To Fast For 20 Days! + How Much Do We YELL At Our Kids? + Fun Fact Friday + Easy Trivia Returns
Host: Bobby Bones & Show Members (Amy, Lunchbox, Eddie, Morgan, Mike D.)

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Overview

This lively episode of the Bobby Bones Show blends classic segments, quirky trivia, genuine parenting confessions, and a deeper dive into New Year's spiritual resolutions. The team returns with Easy Trivia, explores Fun Fact Friday, discusses modern parenting habits (including how much they yell at their kids), analyzes the idea of fasting for spiritual growth, and exchanges a host of fun stories and listener questions.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Easy Trivia Returns

[01:32–11:27]

• The show opens with "Easy Trivia," testing Bobby, Amy, Lunchbox, Eddie, and Morgan on simple topics that escalate in difficulty.
• Categories range from “Rhymes with Stick” and 2000s Movies to 90s TV Families, Magic Animals, The Arts, and Math Terms.
• The round is full of playful banter, show members’ nervous deliberation, and gentle roasting.
• Notable performance from Amy, who pulls ahead after a tense showdown with Morgan.

Memorable Quote:
Eddie (on missing the Yo-Yo Ma question, thinking he played violin instead of cello):

"It was a string, though. Okay." [07:31]

Winner: Amy, now just behind Eddie in overall standings.

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2. Fun Fact Friday

[13:42–20:51]

• The crew rotates through a fast-paced round of facts, sharing historical oddities and strange truths:
  • Why movie previews are called "trailers": Originally shown at the end of movies, thus trailing the film. [14:03]
  • Lincoln as Licensed Bartender: “Making him the only US president with a bartender's liquor license.” – Amy [14:57]
  • Oppenheimer’s box office record: Highest-grossing movie to never hit #1, always kept back by "Barbie" [16:16]
  • Iceland’s protected sites for elves/gnomes: “It cannot be ruled out that elves and gnomes live there.” – Amy [16:28]
  • Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter co-stars) married & divorced; professional through it all [19:37]
  • Pumbaa: Disney’s first ‘fart’: “He farted.” – Eddie [20:09]
  • 50,000 scents the human nose can remember [20:15]
  • Movies exaggerate how fast chloroform works: Actually takes five minutes! [20:24]

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3. Parenting: How Much Do We YELL At Our Kids?

[21:22–23:36]

• Stats reveal that most parents yell at their kids 1–2 times a day; the team shares their own habits.
  • Amy admits improvement: "I've gotten a lot better at that. I used to be more of a yeller, but I've gotten things under control." [21:35]
  • Eddie: "I probably raise my voice, yell at one of my kids... five times a day, yeah, like, total." [21:57]
• Discussion touches on the emotional toll of conflict, especially for husbands, citing studies that marital disagreements hurt men’s health more.

Funny Analogy:
Eddie: "It’s like whack-a-mole, you know, you finally fix one problem, and then one goes down and another one pops up." [22:20]

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4. Plane Incident & Reflections on Safety

[23:36–24:23]

• Story of an Atlanta landing scare sparks musings on the actual safety of flying vs. driving, with Bobbie reflecting on how much more dangerous everyday driving is.

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5. Burning Clothes = Apartment Fire

[25:20–27:34]

• Wild story: Woman burns boyfriend’s clothes, accidentally causing a several-unit apartment fire.
• The team debates whether this is a red flag for future dating and muses on emotional reactions to break-ups.

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6. Applebee’s “Pre-Dipped in Cheese” Burger

[27:34–28:42]

• Applebee’s new cheese-dipped burger amuses the crew; Bobby discusses being vigilant about dairy due to allergies, including using AI to check ingredients.
• Side-note on Thin Mints not containing dairy.

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7. Eddie’s Plan to Fast for 20 Days

[28:42–38:19]

• Eddie shares about his church’s spiritual 20-day fast and his doubts about maintaining it.
  • Eddie: "I want to be part of it. I don't know if I can just not eat food for 20 days." [28:57]
• Amy opens up about how fasting messages can be problematic for those with eating disorder histories, recounts talking to her pastor about it [30:19–31:52].
• Bobby describes his experience with intermittent/longer fasting, pushing Eddie to consider trying at least three days, not lowering his expectations out of fear alone.
• Eddie relates how food has always been an “idol” and source of comfort, especially in his Mexican-American upbringing with family food traditions.
• They encourage him to “get uncomfortable”—and Eddie commits to a three-day water fast to start, with a plan to transition back to food after.

Standout Quotes:
Bobby: "Much weaker people have done much harder things." [34:13]
Amy: "Remember, your word of the year is serious." [35:52]

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8. Morning Corny

[39:01–39:07]

• Amy: "What do you call a snowman’s temper tantrum?"
  Mike: "What?"
  Amy: "A meltdown."

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9. Caller & Psychic Football Predictions

[39:17–40:44]

• Listener calls in to comment about Super Bowl picks and team mascots after Amy’s “psychic” playoff picks, centering on the Denver Broncos (spurred by her vision of the Denver airport horse statue).

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10. Mailbag: Selling an Unwanted Christmas Gift

[41:45–43:36]

• Listener wonders if it's rude to resell a (new and unused) body massager received as a gift.
• Consensus: Wait a bit, and sell on eBay (not Facebook Marketplace, to avoid the gift-giver seeing it).
• The team riffs on online selling features and privacy concerns.

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11. Diamond Hunt Jealousy

[44:13–47:39]

• A Texas family finds a rare 2.09-carat diamond at the Crater of Diamonds state park, provoking both awe and suspicion from Lunchbox—who once spent eight fruitless hours digging there.
• The crew jokes about "planted" diamonds and strategizes for a future return trip.

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12. Bonehead Story: Walmart Arson

[47:51–49:01]

• A woman bored in Walmart decides to burn cribs with lighter fluid, causing $5 million in damages. The team is baffled and wonders about her motives: “I wonder how fast this would burn compared to other things I’ve burned.” – Bobby [49:01]

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13. Awkward Hugs

[49:06–51:52]

• Hilarious truths about greeting co-workers—at work vs. in public vs. at home.
• Should you hug teammates if you see them at the airport during Christmas break?
• Bobby, a self-declared non-hugger, says: "I want my hugs to mean something, have value." [50:08]
• Crew agrees: holiday context may warrant a hug, but otherwise it's awkward.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Yelling at Kids:
  Eddie: "It’s like whack-a-mole... you fix one, another pops up." [22:20]
• On Fasting:
  Bobby: "Much weaker people have done much harder things." [34:13]
• On Gifts & Resale:
  Amy: "I'd give it a beat, but... you can make more when it's that way." [41:48]
• On Hugs:
  Bobby: "I want my hugs to mean something, have value. I don’t want to have to hug somebody because I see somebody." [50:08]

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Segment Overview & Timestamps

| Segment | Start | Notables | |-------------------------------------|----------|---------------------------------------------| | Easy Trivia | 01:32 | Eddie knocked out by Yo-Yo Ma/cello mix-up | | Fun Fact Friday | 13:42 | Movie trailers, Lincoln bartender, etc. | | Parenting/Yelling at Kids | 21:22 | Studies & personal stories | | Plane Incident & Car Safety | 23:36 | Reflections on everyday risk | | Arson over Clothes | 25:20 | Domestic dispute escalates badly | | Cheese Burger Chat | 27:34 | Allergy tips | | Fasting Discussion | 28:42 | Eating disorders—Amy’s story, Eddie’s plan | | Morning Corny | 39:01 | "Meltdown." | | Psychic Sports Prediction/Caller | 39:17 | Denver Broncos "horse" | | Mailbag: Re-selling gifts | 41:45 | eBay vs. Marketplace | | Diamond Hunt Jealousy | 44:13 | Lunchbox’s misfortune, future game plan | | Bonehead: Walmart Arson | 47:51 | "I wonder how fast this burns." | | Awkward Hugs | 49:06 | Holidays override hug-resistance |

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Final Thoughts

This episode balances game show fun, self-effacing humor, and relatable conversations about self-improvement, parenting, and communal traditions. The hosts are sincere, quick-witted, and supportive—even when poking fun at each other’s failures or quirks. For anyone needing a light, lively listen with understated depth, this episode delivers.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Mike]

Come on, Bobby. Transmitting Dry cross America.

[Lunchbox]

Turn it up.

[Mike]

This is the Bobby Bone Show.

[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Mike]

Welcome to Friday show. We got a big one. Morning, studio.

[Lunchbox]

Morning bones.

[Mike]

Time for easy trivia. Eddie has the tiara on. The category is it rhymes with stick. So easy trivia, these are super easy questions. Eddie, you're first. What's a small baby chicken called?

[Eddie]

A chick.

[Mike]

Correct. Amy, what do builders use to construct walls of clay or cement?

[Amy]

What stick rhymes with stick.

[Mike]

Okay, it's a brick. Nobody goes home in the first round. What tool is used to hit a puck in hockey? Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

A stick.

[Mike]

Correct. Morgan, what word describes the action of striking a ball with your foot kick? Correct. Okay, if you do miss one from here out, you'll hear this sound.

[Lunchbox]

You've been boned.

[Mike]

Eddie has four wins. He's looking to repeat his champion. Eddie four, Amy two, Morgan one, Lunchbox zero. Let's play easy trivia 2000s movies. Is the question the category what 2001 movie features a young boy discovering he is a wizard at Hogwarts?

[Eddie]

Harry Potter.

[Mike]

Correct. Amy, who starred as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean?

[Amy]

Johnny Depp.

[Mike]

Correct. Lunchbox. What 2003 animated movie features a fish searching for his son?

[Lunchbox]

Finding Nemo.

[Mike]

Correct. Morgan in Shrek. What kind of creature is Shrek?

[Amy]

He's an ogre.

[Mike]

Correct. Everybody's in. The category is 90s Television Families. Eddie, Becky, Darlene and D.J. are from what classic sitcom? Becky, Darlene and D? They're kids from what classic sitcom that's Roseanne. Correct. Amy. In full house, what's the name of Danny Tanner's youngest daughter?

[Amy]

That's awesome.

[Mike]

In full house, what's the name of Danny Tanner's youngest daughter?

[Amy]

Michelle.

[Mike]

Correct. Lunchbox. On the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, what's the name of Will's cousin played by Alfonso Ribeiro?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, oh, oh. Carlton.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Lunchbox]

Oh. Jazz.

[Mike]

Morgan, in Family Matters, what's the name of the nerdy neighbor who says, did I do that?

[Eddie]

Urkel.

[Mike]

Correct. Eddie. The category is New Year, New Me. What boy band sang you Got it the Right Stuff. And the song step by Step, That's.

[Eddie]

New Kids on the Block.

[Mike]

New Kids on the Block. That's correct.

[Lunchbox]

Amy.

[Mike]

Trenton is the capital of what US State. New Year, New Me.

[Amy]

Oh, I have a couple of places in my mind. Is that shocking?

[Mike]

What are your places?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I'm curious.

[Amy]

I can talk about.

[Mike]

Talk them out, please. I'm curious something. Go ahead.

[Amy]

Okay. What's the theme of this one?

[Mike]

The category is New Year, New Me.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. New Jersey.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. Okay.

[Mike]

Okay. We were wondering if you were like, California. Like, you don't get the category. Okay, good.

[Amy]

New Mexico. But then I was like, okay, it's not that. New Hampshire. Not that. Okay, so I. I go with New Jersey.

[Mike]

Lunchbox. What city is known as the Big Apple?

[Lunchbox]

New York City.

[Mike]

Correct. Morgan, what US State's license plate slogan says Land of Enchantment? What US State's license plate slogan Land of Enchantment.

[Amy]

I believe it's New Mexico.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Eddie]

Wow. Wow.

[Mike]

It was 50. 50. New Hampshire or New Mexico.

[Eddie]

You understand the theme. Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But are there any other New states that I'm missing, though?

[Amy]

I don't think so.

[Lunchbox]

But it could have been New Jersey again.

[Eddie]

New Jersey.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Mike]

I just think of a question. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

What does enchantment mean?

[Amy]

I am picturing, like, Native Americans.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Like spirits.

[Mike]

Yeah. Mystic, mysterious spirits. Desert.

[Lunchbox]

Sorry.

[Mike]

Magical, Mystical animals is the category. Eddie, what's the largest land animal that can't jump?

[Eddie]

The largest land animal that cannot jump.

[Mike]

Categories. Animals. What's the largest land animal that cannot jump?

[Eddie]

Oh, well. Oh. Land. So not a whale.

[Lunchbox]

Oh.

[Eddie]

An elephant cannot jump.

[Mike]

Is that your answer?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Eddie]

I was not sure at all.

[Mike]

That's a hard one. Amy, what color is a polar bear's skin? Black. Correct.

[Eddie]

Good job.

[Mike]

Lunchbox. What is the only flying mammal?

[Lunchbox]

I don't even know what a mammal is.

[Mike]

Oh, boy.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, boy. So we'll go with this one. And I'm just gonna go with Amy's friends. Echolocation. Help them Fly in the sky. Give me a bat.

[Mike]

Bat is correct.

[Lunchbox]

Boom.

[Mike]

A mammal, basically. Whoa.

[Lunchbox]

Hair.

[Mike]

Warm blooded hair.

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's what a mammal is. They have hair.

[Mike]

For the most part. That's how I remember them. For the most part. Things with hair, but warm blooded for them.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, W. Learn something new every day.

[Mike]

Morgan, what's the only bird that can fly backward?

[Amy]

A hummingbird.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Eddie]

Good job.

[Mike]

The arts is the next category.

[Amy]

The arts.

[Mike]

Eddie, what musical instrument is Yo Yo Ma famous for playing?

[Lunchbox]

He'll know it.

[Amy]

He knows that it's going to come to him.

[Eddie]

Yo Yo Ma is either a violinist or a pianist. Those are my two guesses. I feel like yo yo is a violinist. I don't see him playing the piano. Give me violinist.

[Mike]

Cello.

[Lunchbox]

No, you've been bow.

[Eddie]

It was a string, though. Okay.

[Mike]

Similar. Not the same.

[Lunchbox]

Did you know Yo Yo yo yo is.

[Mike]

I did know Yo Yo Ma. Not because I'm a fan. I don't know singles. I think he just played, like, the songs people already made. For the most part. Amy, over to you. Who painted Starry Night?

[Amy]

You saw this, right? You went and saw it. Or was it Lunchbox? And y', all.

[Mike]

We both like.

[Amy]

It's smaller.

[Eddie]

You don't answer questions.

[Mike]

Oh, sorry.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, my bad.

[Mike]

Eddie, that's a great point. I'd like to apologize to the whole crew. I should not have answered.

[Amy]

That's fine. It's.

[Mike]

You know Amy, not to ask questions. I know. She got me. She lured me. I know I was just van Gogh. That's correct. And we both saw a version.

[Amy]

Y' all didn't see the same one they painted.

[Mike]

He has different starry nights depending how crazy he was in his life?

[Eddie]

Yeah, one. One was bigger.

[Lunchbox]

Mine was Tiny.

[Mike]

Lunchbox. What Broadway musical features the song Defying Gravity?

[Lunchbox]

Give me Wicked.

[Mike]

Is that your answer?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Wicked.

[Mike]

Correct.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Yes.

[Mike]

Morgan, thank you.

[Lunchbox]

To my wife.

[Mike]

What artist. What artist painted the Mona Lisa?

[Amy]

The Mona Lisa. You also saw this one, right, Bobby?

[Mike]

I will not answer a question.

[Eddie]

Thank goodness.

[Amy]

That was da Vinci.

[Mike]

Is that your answer?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Correct. Whoa.

[Lunchbox]

That's crazy.

[Mike]

Three people left. We got a break. We'll come back and finish Easy Trivia. All right. Easy Trivia. We're back at it. Eddie's been eliminated.

[Eddie]

I'm taking off my tr.

[Mike]

Well, you are still the champ, but you're eliminated.

[Eddie]

I know. I feel stupid.

[Mike]

Three people remain. Amy, Lunchbox, and Morgan. Next category, famous bobbies. Amy, what R B singer, formerly of New Edition, had a hit as a solo artist with the song My Prerogative Bobby Brown. Correct. Lunchbox. What famous actress stars in Stranger Things as eleven.

[Lunchbox]

Bobby. Millie Brown.

[Mike]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

You've been.

[Eddie]

Boo. Dyslexia, dude.

[Mike]

Can't.

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Mike]

It's mil. Bobby Brown.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Switch them.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

See, whenever we take a break, that's when I lose focus. Man. Gosh, I've never seen that stupid show.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Morgan, it's over. Oh, if you missed this.

[Lunchbox]

It's over.

[Amy]

And I don't know a lot of famous Bob.

[Lunchbox]

That's why we shouldn't take breaks.

[Mike]

Morgan, which celebrity chef is famous for his appearances on Iron Chef and his own head to head competition shows?

[Amy]

I do know that.

[Lunchbox]

Bobby.

[Amy]

Bobby Flay.

[Mike]

Correct. Two remain. Amy and Morgan.

[Eddie]

And Morgan has zero points.

[Mike]

Morgan has one.

[Eddie]

Oh, one.

[Mike]

Yeah. Amy has two. The category is math terms. Amy, what's the result of adding two numbers or more numbers than two called.

[Amy]

Wait. What?

[Mike]

What's the result of adding. Okay. What's the result of adding two or more numbers called the sum. Correct.

[Amy]

Yeah. Phew.

[Mike]

Morgan, what do you call an angle less than 90 degrees?

[Amy]

Is that enough? Too single? I don't know. I really hated math. It was the only B I ever got.

[Mike]

What do you call an angle less than 90 degrees?

[Amy]

I hated math.

[Lunchbox]

Super highly intelligent. I didn't hear her.

[Bobby Bones]

It was.

[Amy]

Oh, gosh.

[Mike]

If she's telling the truth, why. Why are you annoyed?

[Lunchbox]

Then we need to. We need to check Wichita.

[Amy]

I was really good at studying, but math always hurt my brain.

[Mike]

What do you call an angle less than 90 degrees?

[Amy]

It's an obtuse.

[Mike]

More.

[Amy]

What's a right angle?

[Mike]

Is.

[Amy]

Is 90. You have an obtuse angle and you have a little one. Oh, my gosh. Obtuse is stuck in my head five seconds. An obtuse angle.

[Lunchbox]

Donor.

[Mike]

That's more than 90 degrees.

[Bobby Bones]

I knew it.

[Mike]

But it was an acute angle.

[Eddie]

It's cute. It's little.

[Mike]

Our winner. Cute is Amy. Where did that put you in the old standings? You now have three and he's a four year three.

[Eddie]

She's right behind me.

[Mike]

Yeah. Playing for five. Amy's.

[Eddie]

I wonder.

[Mike]

Anything you want to say about that?

[Amy]

It's good.

[Mike]

It's good.

[Amy]

I wish I thought that that was gonna actually put me ahead of Eddie, but I didn't realize she's disappointed. So I'm like, dang. Feels good.

[Mike]

Oh, you heard it.

[Lunchbox]

Hey.

[Mike]

Vincent Van Gogh painted several famous starry night scenes.

[Eddie]

Right. But which one was bigger?

[Lunchbox]

Yours?

[Mike]

I don't think it was a big thing. I think we argued about seeing the real one.

[Eddie]

Oh. Because I thought you guys were talking about, like, mine was like, oh, wait.

[Lunchbox]

It was a combination of both because I was like, it was so small and you said it was so big.

[Mike]

And there were different ones and they were.

[Lunchbox]

We didn't realize there were different ones. And it was a big argument.

[Mike]

There are 21 variations. Van Gogh explored the view from his asylum window at different times and weather conditions, at least 21 times making sketches and paintings. That's pretty crazy.

[Lunchbox]

Wait, he was in the. The ward?

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, yeah. He got. He wasn't even famous or rich. After he died.

[Lunchbox]

I had no idea that's how he painted. He was in the psych ward?

[Mike]

Not always, but.

[Eddie]

And were his images blurry?

[Mike]

Well, in the. The Starry Night. Yes. So he voluntarily admitted himself to the St. Paul Psychiatric Hospital in May of 1889 after a severe mental health crisis that included cutting off his ear. He stayed there for a year where he experienced several psychotic episodes, but also produced some of his most famous works. Starry Night. Using art as a therapeutic outlet in the asylum's gardens and surrounding countryside.

[Lunchbox]

All right, so Starry Night is Vincent Van Gogh. You know, I'm gonna remember that. Van Gogh, go to the hole.

[Mike]

What? All right, all right.

[Eddie]

You gotta get to the hole.

[Lunchbox]

And then like, the hole would be.

[Mike]

Solitary confinement for prison.

[Lunchbox]

Vincent Van Gogh.

[Mike]

Let's hear how his mind works. Guys, before we break, Vincent Van Gogh was playing a song. Yeah. Vincent Van Gogh, Psycho. What about like a psychic psycho or psycho psycho? Oh, got it.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's a good rhyme.

[Mike]

What is a rhyme is a psycho.

[Lunchbox]

And so that's the same guy that cut off his ear. I'm gonna remember. Because he was Psych. He cut off his ear.

[Mike]

Okay. And Amy is our winner. Nice job. Fun fact. Do you know why movie previews, Amy, are called trailers?

[Amy]

Oh, man. I don't. I guess I don't. I'm trying to think like. Cuz it's like a little add on, like a trailer. You hitch it to the end and it carries what it is.

[Mike]

So that's kind of what it was at first. So what they did is they used to put them at the end of movies. Like a trailer.

[Eddie]

They should still do that.

[Mike]

No, we never watch them. Right. We're forced to watch them now because they're at the beginning. But movie previews are called trailers because they were originally shown at the end of movies. The name stuck even though they moved them to the front.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Mike]

They're not trailing a movie anymore. But that's why it's called a Trailer.

[Eddie]

That's interesting.

[Mike]

Fun fact. Friday, Amy.

[Amy]

Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.

[Mike]

Do you have to be licensed to be a bartender?

[Eddie]

I guess you do. Well, I don't know about back then.

[Amy]

You have to have something with a tabc.

[Mike]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Amy]

Or is that. Only in Texas it tea.

[Eddie]

That's the tea.

[Mike]

That'll be the Texas Alcohol Beverage.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So whatever state you live in, in.

[Mike]

Arkansas, is it the aaabc?

[Eddie]

I would think so. In California it be the cabc.

[Amy]

So he was a licensed co owner of a saloon called Barry and Lincoln in New Salem, Illinois in 1833, making him the only US president with a bartender's liquor license.

[Eddie]

So I guess they needed a license back then.

[Mike]

I know restaurants or bars have to have liquor licenses, but I thought that was only for the establish establishment, not for the person.

[Lunchbox]

No, you take a class if you're gonna be a bartender and you got to get your little certificate.

[Mike]

That can't be that hard then, huh?

[Eddie]

No, because I know some bartenders.

[Mike]

Okay, Just making sure. I used to work at a restaurant as a server. Waiter was waiter, not server. Now it's server. But. And the bartenders were just goofballs.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay. Just making sure.

[Amy]

Well, this business failed. And good thing it did because I don't think after. If it. Like what if it had succeeded, he would have never become president.

[Eddie]

You'd have been the head bartender forever.

[Mike]

Sometimes I thank God.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Mike]

For unanswered pray. Lincoln's probably like, dear God, please make me the best bartender ever. Oppenheimer is the highest grossing movie to Never hit number one. It made 330 million at the box office, but it only peaked at number two. What do you think kept it from being number one?

[Eddie]

It's easy.

[Mike]

You know it.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but it's just dialogue. Dude. Boring movie.

[Mike]

No, not. No, no, no. Sorry, sorry. Not. What about the movie? It was super successful. It was more successful than. What movie kept it from being number?

[Amy]

Probably some Avatar something. Barbie.

[Mike]

It was Barbie. Because that whole weekend was Barbenheimer.

[Bobby Bones]

Look at you.

[Amy]

That's right.

[Mike]

Yeah. Barbie was number one. Oppenheimer was number two. And they both did massive numbers. So there you go, Morgan. You. You got that one. Go ahead.

[Amy]

In Iceland, certain places are protected and cannot be built on because it cannot be ruled out that elves and gnomes live there.

[Mike]

It cannot be ruled out. So is that like in America we have historical. So something happened here? There. There's an elf. Historical.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's like their folklore traditions.

[Lunchbox]

I was like, is it Gonna be proven. You could just sit there for 365 days and you see nothing. Nothing lives there.

[Eddie]

They're not real, right? I mean, elves and gnomes, they're not.

[Lunchbox]

Real people, but they do have little huts and stuff, like where they said that's where they live.

[Mike]

Interesting question. Because humans have evolved, and we're much bigger now than we were hundreds of years ago. And some in some parts of the world now, obviously, people are larger than others. You can go to the Nordic countries where the women and men are generally bigger than we are here, and we are generally bigger in America than some Asian countries. So I wonder if the smallest of the small used to be even smaller.

[Eddie]

Interesting. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

So gnomes are, like, based off, like, what they thought people looked. I thought they were just little funny characters you put in your garden.

[Eddie]

Well, they are now. Right.

[Mike]

But, like, would you like me to ask the Know It All? Yes, yes, my Know it all assistant. Hello and good morning. So my question is, were gnomes or elves ever real?

[Bobby Bones]

Good morning. That's a fun question to start the day. So in terms of whether gnomes or elves were ever real, it really depends on how you look at it. Historically, these creatures are part of folklore and mythology rather than actual historical beings. They come from cultural storytelling traditions, like elves in Norse mythology or gnomes in European folklore, rather than anything that we have evidence of existing in the real world. So, in short, they were real in the Zen of being a rich card of human imagination and storytelling, but not real in a historical or biological sense.

[Mike]

Some countries have larger people. I was comparing the Nordic countries to even us in the States and then us in the States, two countries in Asia. What country has the tallest people?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's always interesting to look at those height differences around the world. Generally speaking, the Netherlands often takes the top spot when it comes to having the tallest population on average. Dutch people are frequently cited as the tallest in the world, with the average height for men being over six feet tall. Of course, height can vary a lot by region and genetics. But if you are looking for the country with the tallest folks on average, the Netherlands is usually at the top of that list.

[Mike]

Who's the shortest?

[Bobby Bones]

So on the flip side of that, if we're talking about the shortest population on average, some Southeast Asian countries and some parts of Latin America tend to have shorter average heights. For example, countries like Indonesia or the Philippines often have some of the shortest average heights globally. And, you know, it's all just part of the amazing variety of human genetics and environmental factors. So it's kind of neat to see how different populations vary like that.

[Mike]

So would some of the gnomes or elves possibly be just short people from back in the day before they grew?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I mean, that's definitely one way to look at it. A lot of folklore and myths do have some roots in real world observations, so it's possible.

[Lunchbox]

There we go.

[Eddie]

A lot of words, but I get they're not real. Got it.

[Mike]

I got her there. Good story.

[Eddie]

Good story.

[Mike]

Lunchbox, what do you have?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, Michael C. Hall. You know who he is.

[Mike]

He played Dexter.

[Lunchbox]

Dexter. And his sister on the show was Jennifer Carpenter. Her name was Deborah on the show. They met on set, fell in love, got married, married three years, divorced. All while they were filming the show.

[Mike]

As brother and sister.

[Lunchbox]

And they continued to be on the show together.

[Mike]

Yeah, professional dated, married, divorced.

[Lunchbox]

Show kept going.

[Mike]

Show kept going.

[Eddie]

Amazing.

[Mike]

Great show. Great ending, too. Loved it. Pumbaa from the Lion King was the first character to ever break wind in a Disney movie.

[Eddie]

He farted.

[Mike]

I remember that first farting cartoon in the Disney movie. There you go, Eddie. You have one.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Speaking of the human nose can remember 50, 000 different scents. That's crazy, because I can only think of, like 10 that I know.

[Mike]

50, 000.

[Eddie]

50, 000. Isn't that crazy?

[Mike]

Unless you're Morgan, whose nose doesn't work fully because she still has long Covid. It would take five minutes to knock someone out by holding a rag with chloroform. Because sometimes in movies, you'll see people come up and put the rag over their face and they go and they fall out. It would take five minutes, not two seconds, like it does in movies. So if you tried it and you're like, I must be bad at this. No, no, it just takes. It's just longer. And also, don't try it. Fun fact Friday.

[Lunchbox]

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[Mike]

Most parents yell at their kids one to two times a day. Amy, your thoughts?

[Amy]

Yeah, I guess I could see that happening, but I don't yell at my kids every single day.

[Mike]

But do you do it sometimes four times in a day, which makes the average.

[Amy]

No, no, I've gotten A lot better at that. I used to be more of a yeller, but I've gotten things under control.

[Mike]

They also found that more than 90% of parents used a raised voice yelling or shouting to correct the behavior of a child when they act up. Eddie, how often do you yell? You have four kids or more options.

[Eddie]

Is it each kid? Like, is it two times for each kid?

[Mike]

It doesn't say that. It just says a day.

[Eddie]

I would say I probably raise my voice, yell at one of my kids. I would say five times a day. Yeah, like, total.

[Mike]

So is that. Oh, that's not 20 yells a day.

[Eddie]

No. Sometimes a kid is great, and I don't yell at him at all. Like, or they'll go weeks without yelling. Like, one kid will be great for one week, but then one will be rotten for the whole week.

[Mike]

Are they ever all four good at once?

[Eddie]

No, never.

[Mike]

Are they ever all four bad at once?

[Eddie]

Yes. Yes. It's like, I call it, like, whack a mole, you know, where, like, you finally fix one problem, and then one goes down and another one pops up.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Healthline.com with that story. Research has also found that fighting hurts husbands worse than wives. It's worse for the husband's health than the wives health. Husbands who disagreed with their wives on several topics had lower health scores compared to husbands who rarely disagreed. So does that say, be a pushover husband. You want to live a healthier life?

[Amy]

Yeah. I, I. What's up with y'?

[Eddie]

All?

[Amy]

Like, what? Why can y' all handle it?

[Eddie]

It hurts. I don't like fighting with my wife for wives. Oh, you don't win. Like, it's, it's a, it's a no win. Like, she's got to be happy for the fight to end.

[Mike]

I think my wife and I wait.

[Amy]

There's never real resolution.

[Mike]

I think we have a pretty good balance of. I think she knows when I'm so dug in on something that she'll fake give me a win sometimes.

[Eddie]

Oh, really?

[Mike]

Yeah. Even though she knows she's right, I think sometimes she realizes I'm so dug in, and I'm. I'm full terrier on it. I'm just not letting it go that she'll go. Yep. You know what? I think you got this one.

[Amy]

But if you know that's happening, then you know you didn't. She just surrendered.

[Mike]

Yeah, but I still won, so that's all I care about.

[Amy]

Oh, that's all you care about? You're not like, oh, yeah. But I only won because she gave up.

[Mike]

I'LL grow from it. Terror aboard a flight as it burst into flames, the tires on it right as it was landing at the Atlanta airport. So the plane is landing. It makes a hard landing on Tuesday night, causing multiple tires to blow out right as the plane landed. Witnesses reported loud bangs, smoke, and violent shaking, with some passengers fearing the aircraft wouldn't stop once it hit because it went boom, started dragging. No injuries were reported. There were some delays, but nobody got hurt. Nobody died. They just got a little scared. WSVN with that story. That also says something to the fact of. Fact of even when things go wrong, people aren't dying on airplanes a whole lot. It's so rare that people die on airplanes, especially in America.

[Amy]

I know. I try not to think about the whole, yeah, you should be more scared every time you get in your car.

[Mike]

Yeah. Because you're trusting hundreds of other people not to hit you.

[Amy]

But it's like, yes. And we get in our car all the time and don't even really think about it. Except for when there's these stories and I think about how driving is more dangerous. And then I'm gonna drive five more times today.

[Mike]

I've said it before. The fact that we feel like two yellow lines will stop someone from crossing over and crashing into us head on blows my mind. There's no media in there. It's two yellow lines, basically paint. We're just told so we're supposed to listen. And there are people on their phones, people drunk people with kids in the back seat. And we're just like, yeah, no problem. That's why if it's a yellow line, but it's two lanes on each side, I'm always over in the far right lane in case somebody does a little swervy.

[Amy]

Smart.

[Mike]

I'm over in the slow side almost always.

[Amy]

Also, sorry, did you see what airline.

[Mike]

Or some random airline?

[Amy]

Okay. I didn't know if it's one we. It always hits a little harder for me.

[Mike]

If it's Southwest, an apartment fire started by a woman burning her boyfriend's clothes in a barbecue pit. So this woman in Texas faces charges of reckless arson. And really it's about, can you ever date her if she's single again? If you Google her and read the story that she's burning her. It's not even about the fire to me. She's burning her boyfriend's clothes.

[Amy]

Can you look at her Clue app? But yeah, no, that's gonna be hard.

[Eddie]

I mean, it depends, right? We've talked about this.

[Mike]

If she's super hot and how big.

[Amy]

The fire was, and what did he do?

[Mike]

The incident occurred on Monday morning, January 5, when Randall allegedly burned her boyfriend's clothes in a barbecue pit on an apartment patio. According to the fire. Marsh fire started following a domestic dispute. Although she attempted to extinguish the flames, they rekindled and spread to the building, causing severe damage. You know, there's a point where she's like, oh. Like she's fighting it, spraying it. God. Oh, no. The fire department reported 13 units were heavily and irreparably damaged. But that's from Fox News. But let's just say she's single, they break up, and all of a sudden you're going on a date with Crystal D. Randall. You're like, well, let me Google her. Let's see if she had any videos of her high school talent shows or something online. And it's. She started a fire because she was burning her boyfriend's clothes.

[Amy]

Yeah. That's rough.

[Mike]

You see a picture of her?

[Lunchbox]

I can't find one. They don't have her mug shot, so I'm really disappointed. But I will say, at least she was doing it in a fire pit, shipped. It's not like she's.

[Mike]

No, but she's burning her boyfriend's clothes.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Like, I get that it was a domestic dispute, but what did he do?

[Mike]

But she's burning clothes. All of this. What? Yeah, just leave.

[Eddie]

Yell.

[Mike]

Breaks. Who starts a fire and burns people's clothes?

[Lunchbox]

Crazy women.

[Amy]

You were gonna say break something.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's fine. Even break something in the apartment. That's not going to hurt anybody else. Who burns people's clothes?

[Amy]

Who hasn't thrown a bowl of cereal across the room?

[Mike]

And even I would understand that that's a reaction.

[Amy]

Yeah, it happens. Who. Who hasn't?

[Mike]

Applebee's has a new burger that comes out pre dipped in cheese.

[Eddie]

What?

[Amy]

Pre.

[Mike]

That sounds so good. So, like, the whole Patty Applebee's a start. This is not a commercial, by the way. Applebee's is not a sponsor of ours. Applebee's is starting the year with a. Yeah, they take the whole thing, it looks like the whole burger, and dip.

[Amy]

It in, like, nice.

[Mike]

The all beef burger.

[Amy]

That sounds good.

[Mike]

Is pre dipped in all cheese.

[Lunchbox]

Oh.

[Mike]

Cooked, then topped with American cheese. The OM Cheeseburger. Oh, like, omg. OM Cheeseburger. That's. That's funny. I can't have it. No dairy for me. But you know what I do now is I take pictures of all the ingredients. Like, I was eating some thin mints the other day. Because I was told Thin Mints don't have any dairy. And so I just go into AI and go, does that. Do Thin Mints have dairy? And they're like, yes, they do. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. I've been eating, like, eight of these things. But then I take a picture of the ingredients, and it's like, oh, we're wrong. Looks like there's no dairy in this at all. I said, but it's made in a factory where it could be cross contaminated. Yeah, but I'll do that. I don't care about that.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, that's like a trace.

[Mike]

I'm strong.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I'm a man. I don't care about some cross contamination. So Eddie's supposed to fast for the next 20 days.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's like a spiritual fast. The church is doing it, and I don't know if I can just not eat food for 20 days. Like, I want to be part of it.

[Mike]

Are they telling you not to eat food for 20 days?

[Eddie]

It's like, it's modified, right?

[Mike]

Like liquid diet.

[Eddie]

You could do liquid diet and then.

[Amy]

Juices, smoothies.

[Eddie]

Like, the first week and then the second week, you can add a solid meal at the end of the day kind of thing. I don't think I can do any of that.

[Mike]

What's the purpose?

[Eddie]

Just get closer to God, dude.

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Mike]

How?

[Eddie]

Yeah, like by, like. So you clear your mind of food. Like, food. Food for me, too, is like comfort, you know, like, bad day, I'm gonna eat a lot. So you, like, stop doing that. And then when you stop eating the thought of food, you substitute that with prayer.

[Amy]

Prayer time. Yeah. The church does it at the beginning of the year every year.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And I've never participated in it. And my wife's like, do you want to do it this time? I'm like, I can't do that.

[Mike]

Can you just pray before you eat?

[Lunchbox]

Totally.

[Eddie]

That's what I'm saying. Or my wife's like, you can give.

[Amy]

Up something else, but it's also the time and preparation. So you're not spending so much time cooking and preparing meals so you have that extra time to pray. Yes.

[Eddie]

Get closer to God. Do you do it?

[Amy]

I've never done it. And in fact, this is a little. Thinking back, this is kind of embarrassing, but, I mean, I'm glad I did it. But I did have a talk with our pastor whenever I was in, like, you know, when I was recovering from. I had relapsed from my eating disorder, and then I was in recovery and the pendulum kind of swung a little bit far. Remember Bobby? I was a little ridiculous.

[Mike]

Which season? I'm gonna let you just walk with this.

[Amy]

So, yeah, I can even recognize. I can look back and recognize that like, so after my mom died, my eating disorder returned. And then it was several years, like several. Just a lot to get out of it. But then in 2020, I recovered and. But the pendulum swung and I was just really, like, not about restriction and just eat whatever I don't want. Food is. Doesn't have a moral value. It's not good or bad. And I remember our pastor, the time of year came around. It was probably 20, 21 or something. And it was January and they were doing this and he was over at my house and I. I had a talk with him about how I just felt like the message on Sunday, for anybody in the congregation that is has an active eating disorder or was in recovery, that some of the language that was being used could be a little bit triggering and give them a reason to restrict and not eat. And that maybe when he speaks on it, if he could reference that and that maybe if you are. If you have had an eating disorder or you're in recovery to maybe don't participate.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Amy]

Because I felt like it. For me, it was very triggering and. And he respected that. And then he. When he worked it into his message.

[Eddie]

He worked it in. I heard that.

[Mike]

Oh, you did shine the spot on Amy. No, no, no, no, no.

[Amy]

And I didn't want it on me. I just felt for a lot of. Of people that like, something like that could be a great excuse to like, not eat. Because you're looking for that when you're in it. You're looking for any which way to feed your disorder. So that's what I did.

[Eddie]

That's crazy. He did say that at church.

[Mike]

You remember that?

[Eddie]

I didn't know that was Amy's conversation.

[Amy]

So I'm a little embarrassed now.

[Mike]

But don't be embarrassed. You were in that season.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And I think you probably helped somebody. Don't. No need to be embarrassed. I fasted before. I've done intermittent fasting. I've done 48 hour fasting.

[Eddie]

48 hour.

[Mike]

It actually gets a lot easier the longer you do it. But it is very uncomfortable. And I understand the need of fasting in general is to get you back to the essentials.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

[Mike]

Like to remove a lot of distraction, which can be food. It can be other things too. What are you thinking you're going to do?

[Eddie]

Like, I can Do a modified version of it.

[Mike]

You're saying everything wrong.

[Bobby Bones]

You can.

[Mike]

You can do whatever you put your mind.

[Eddie]

Oh, no, I cannot go.

[Mike]

No, that's loser mentality.

[Eddie]

No, no, I. I'm. I will be hangry. You don't want me around.

[Mike]

That's everybody.

[Amy]

But that's the thing. You power through that. You persevere.

[Eddie]

I don't think I'm like everyone in that. In that regard. Dude, I need food.

[Mike]

Everybody needs food. You have an active human body. It would be uncomfortable. You would be cranky.

[Amy]

Oh, actually, the only thing you really need for a few weeks is water.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Water.

[Mike]

I think you can do. I don't know that you'd want to do 20 days. I think with a job and being a dad, I think that would be difficult on your body.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Mike]

But I think you could do three days and it would be uncomfortable. But after, like, a day and a half, it starts to feel really good.

[Eddie]

All right. Three days of just water.

[Mike]

Just water.

[Amy]

But he can have. Yeah, but Juice and smoothies and.

[Mike]

But you know what's gonna happen if you allow yourself to have a little, Then you have a lot of the little.

[Amy]

Just three days with no food. He's going to suffer.

[Eddie]

I'm going.

[Amy]

His body is going to be detoxing.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Amy]

His liver is freaking out.

[Mike]

He is going to suffer.

[Eddie]

But why is my liver going to be freaking out? Because no one kidneys deliver.

[Amy]

Your kidneys, your liver, they detox. And, like, you'll start. Your body will be.

[Eddie]

When can I do this? We need to go on vacation, and I'm gonna do this.

[Mike]

No, you should. On a Thursday, you should wake up in the morning. Oh, even next week. Week on a Thursday. And then we only have to deal with one real day of you not eating, which is the Friday.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Mike]

And then you have Saturday and Sunday, and then you trickle back in.

[Eddie]

Oh, I love Saturday and Sundays. We get wings or watch football.

[Mike]

Then don't do it. Then don't do it.

[Eddie]

No, I. I want to do it. I really do.

[Mike]

But you can.

[Amy]

It doesn't sound like you do.

[Mike]

You trap.

[Bobby Bones]

You.

[Mike]

You catch yourself in the bear trap of I can't do this when you can. Much weaker people have done much harder things.

[Bobby Bones]

Right.

[Eddie]

You know, my. My resolution word was serious. So if I'm gonna do this, I gotta be serious about it.

[Mike]

Once you ate, like, only an egg a day for eight months or something.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I did the Matthew McConaughey diet, but that was unlimited wine, dude. Unlimited wine. He's like, drink it up.

[Amy]

Well, so can you. Question, Question. That's liquid. Can you have wine during this?

[Eddie]

Okay, let's go. Can I do water and wine?

[Mike]

You can do whatever you want. If you can turn water into wine.

[Amy]

You can have unlimited it's the large juice, I think.

[Eddie]

All right.

[Mike]

You should stop limiting yourself by what you think you can't do, because that will feel uncomfortable.

[Eddie]

Okay. Start Thursday morning.

[Mike]

That's what I would say.

[Eddie]

Let's do it.

[Mike]

You should do whatever you want.

[Eddie]

No, I mean, I'm in. I really want to be part of this, so I can do that. Dang.

[Mike]

You could actually go before that. You do more than that. But I think for someone who is so against you, you having the ability to do it. I think you have the ability to do it. You just don't until you, you know, realize you do. Yeah, but you can't just drink water or coffee. Black coffee.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I do that.

[Mike]

That counts.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Mike]

Then after three days, you can implement smoothies, come up with your own plan.

[Eddie]

After three days, we're done, Right?

[Mike]

If you go and you just start eating. After three days of not eating.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's bad.

[Mike]

Your body's not going to react in a way that you enjoy.

[Eddie]

So you think this will be the start of my 20 day?

[Mike]

Your 20 day? I would just ride out.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

Let's just do 40 days, guys.

[Mike]

I don't care what you do, but if you really want to do this, you'll find a way to do it.

[Eddie]

Okay?

[Mike]

If you don't, then you won't. That's just generally how it is.

[Amy]

And remember, your word of the year is serious.

[Mike]

So what do you think you're gonna do?

[Eddie]

I mean, I want to. Okay, let's start Thursday. Thursday. Friday. Just water and wine.

[Mike]

Thursday. Friday. Satin. No, not wine. Don't drink wine before you come to work.

[Eddie]

I said liquids.

[Mike]

No. Water. Black coffee.

[Eddie]

Water, black coffee. Wine at night?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I don't care if you drink wine. Okay. And then on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you come back.

[Eddie]

Sunday, I can start doing smoothies. Right?

[Mike]

On Sunday, you have a smoothie.

[Amy]

And then also, you need to update us on your, like, what you're praying about. Spiritual parting about.

[Mike]

Well, that's the whole thing.

[Amy]

Reading. Yes.

[Mike]

He forgot what it was about because.

[Eddie]

He'S the food man. It's gonna throw me off. Okay, I'm in.

[Amy]

That sounds like food's an idol.

[Eddie]

It was a huge idol. I mean, dude, I grew up every. My whole world revolves around food. I'm eating, and I'm thinking, like, all right, what are we gonna have for dinner while I'm eating?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

So you're eating lunch, thinking about what you're gonna have.

[Eddie]

Correct. Been like that my whole life.

[Mike]

Was it ever a reward?

[Eddie]

Like, I do something good. My parents like, here. Here's some fajitas.

[Mike]

Hey, don't be racist, man.

[Eddie]

Yeah, no, no, no. But. But I remember lifestyle. Like, I remember, like. Like, fun activities, being. Being surrounded by food.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Mike]

That's our.

[Amy]

That's in a lot of people, generally.

[Mike]

American culture, but also, it sounds like. Sounds like Mexican culture. If it's like, merry Christmas. Here's a fajita.

[Eddie]

If the sun was going down, my dad was grilling. You know what I mean?

[Mike]

You know what? I. Because, again, I had, like, 15 years of my life where all my friends were Hispanic or Mexican. And what was odd to me because we didn't do this in Arkansas, Caucasian culture is you guys would give as Christmas gifts, tamales.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, yeah. My dad did that, too.

[Eddie]

And, you know, I realized recently why we do that. Like, tamales are so hard to make.

[Amy]

Labor of love.

[Eddie]

So hard to make. And it takes everyone to make it. You got to make the inside, then you got to make the masa, and then you got to wrap it.

[Mike]

It's like a labor of love.

[Eddie]

Yes. So the gift is like, here, I worked hard. Yeah, here you go.

[Mike]

I always love that because my friends would give me tamales.

[Eddie]

Tamales. Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And data.

[Amy]

Golly, tamales are so good.

[Mike]

Why don't you make your plan? And I'd like to hear it Monday or Tuesday, and then you can start on Thursday.

[Eddie]

Love it.

[Mike]

So you can do it. There's so many things that we don't do because we think we can't do it when easily we could do it if we just get to the uncomfortable part. This is that. Because it's going to become a part of this day, two or three, where just. It's a lot easier.

[Eddie]

So you say, I've never done this, so.

[Mike]

Okay. Okay. On Monday or Tuesday, we'll follow up with the plan I got. You wake up, you turn the radio on, and the dial just keeps on turning. This week's next bit, if I. Bobby's on the mic. So you know what this is? This is the Bobby Bone store. Over to Amy with the morning corny.

[Lunchbox]

The morning corny.

[Amy]

What do you call a snowman? Temper tantrum.

[Mike]

What's that?

[Amy]

A meltdown.

[Mike]

Ah, there you go. That was the morning corny. Hey, let's go to James in Texas. Hey, James, you're on the show.

[Lunchbox]

Hey, what's up, buddy? I was just calling. I was listening to Yalls picks, Amy's picks for the super bowl, and I know y' all said the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars for the cat, but the horse. She forgot about the Indianapolis Colts as well.

[Mike]

They're not in the playoffs, though.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, no, I, I, I knew that she was just.

[Mike]

When she was naming them, I was.

[Lunchbox]

Just saying that there was also the Indianapolis Colts.

[Mike]

Yeah, I hear you. It was, hey, there are a team. She doesn't know who's in the playoffs, but tell us who to pick in the playoffs. And she saw a horse.

[Amy]

I didn't even know there was a horse in the playoffs.

[Mike]

Yeah. So Colts aren't in the playoffs. I get it. That is, That's a horse.

[Eddie]

Sure. Yeah.

[Mike]

But the only horse in the playoffs is the Broncos, and that is who you psychically predicted, Correct? Yeah. When this music hits those. When she starts to get psyched.

[Amy]

Also, I didn't get specific with y' all about it, but it was the statue at the Denver Airport.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Which is crazy.

[Mike]

She only said that after we said Denver.

[Amy]

I don't want to get too specific, but that's what I was picturing when.

[Mike]

I said just picture something. Yes. You picture the city of Denver.

[Amy]

No, I didn't picture the city of Denver. I pictured the horse and the Denver Airport.

[Mike]

That's the city of Denver. Everybody out there. If you're betting on DraftKings, it looks like that's. You should go with the Broncos.

[Eddie]

That's the pit.

[Mike]

According to Amy. Psychic prediction.

[Amy]

Who's like the top player on that team?

[Mike]

Bo Nix. Patrick. Certain depends on offensive defense.

[Amy]

Okay. The quarterback. Okay.

[Mike]

That's whose helmet I have right here signed.

[Bobby Bones]

Sick.

[Mike]

Okay, Just for our listeners, Amy, I psychically picked the city of Denver, the airport of Denver, and a horse, which is the Denver Broncos. Anonymous in box. There's a question to be had. Hello, Bobby Bones. I received a body massager as a Christmas gift. It's a nice one, but I have no real use for it. When I Googled it, I found it surprisingly expensive, but I don't know where they bought it from, so I can't return it. I told my wife I was going to sell it on ebay or Facebook Marketplace. She thinks that's a rude idea. How do you feel about selling, Selling a Christmas gift that you're never going to use? Signed ebay bin selling it. So it's not re gifting it, it's not returning it. This is an interesting wrinkle. Selling it, Amy.

[Amy]

I mean, I think it's fine. I would give it a beat, but.

[Mike]

That'S a good point.

[Amy]

Like, I would just give it some time, because if he had used it for a year or two and then decided to sell it, this would be. No question. Nobody have a problem with him selling it. But it's just that it's so quick and new.

[Mike]

It is not even taken out of the box.

[Amy]

But, I mean, you can make more when it's that way.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. If you're gonna. Wait a minute. I agree. The problem is if you follow each other on Facebook and this person that gave it to you happens to be a marketplace, and they see you put up that. That. That could be awkward.

[Amy]

Oh, it's not on, like, your page, though.

[Mike]

But I wouldn't put it on. I think I would just put it on ebay, because there's not really a social media component of ebay. There is on Facebook. Marketplace. Gotcha. Because I could go to your Facebook page and click through and see what you put on Facebook. Marketplace?

[Amy]

Really? Oh, no.

[Mike]

What are you putting on there, weirdo?

[Eddie]

We're all gonna need to check that. All our gifts from the past five years.

[Mike]

No, it's stuff she's taken from our desk. She's been doing A lunchbox. Has been doing, but secretly.

[Amy]

Can you see what I bought, too?

[Mike]

No.

[Eddie]

Why? Is that a problem?

[Mike]

What are you buying?

[Eddie]

Oh, boy.

[Mike]

She's buying massagers for a different reason.

[Amy]

No, but. Okay. I didn't know.

[Eddie]

I'm gonna need to go to her page.

[Mike]

You can't tell what people have been buying.

[Eddie]

No, you can't.

[Mike]

No.

[Amy]

Or selly. Can you?

[Mike]

Oh, yeah, you can. I thought you could. No, you can.

[Eddie]

My.

[Amy]

My sister will message me all the time, be like, oh, that's cool. You're selling that. Oh, okay.

[Lunchbox]

Go check. Amy.

[Amy]

I don't know, guys.

[Mike]

Okay. I would say. I would go ebay. There's no social media component, but I would not do it on Facebook for the reason I thought that someone could see. And if they follow you on Facebook, that would be possibly awkward. But I think you can. I think you can sell.

[Amy]

I don't know why I thought marketplace.

[Lunchbox]

Is, like, a little deleting.

[Amy]

Well, so it doesn't, like, show up on your feed. Separate, like, thing.

[Mike]

If someone goes to your page and they can then go and see what you. It doesn't show up when you post something into the feed.

[Amy]

Okay. It's like, it just more so is likely to show up in theirs because you guys are friends. So it gives. It's kind of like a for you page in the Facebook marketplace. Like, oh, you may know them and so you may want selling.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Why are you so rich?

[Mike]

You're buying?

[Amy]

I don't know. This is just news to me.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Mike]

Sell it on ebay. That's what we say. Email us if you have questions for the mailbag. Mailbagobbybones.com There you go. Close it up. We got another one. Somebody found a big old diamond at the crater of Diamond State park. Where lunchbox went and couldn't find anything.

[Lunchbox]

Here you go.

[Amy]

Well, Texas family finds a rare diamond on a holiday trip to Arkansas. While visiting crater of Diamond State park, high school teacher James ward discovered a 2.09 carat brown diamond. They went to the park after asking Siri for nearby mining locations. The family nearly left early due to the cold, but returned the next day uncovering the rare find.

[Mike]

Two point. When they say 2.09 carat diamond. Yeah. 41 year old high school teacher again, they just asked their Siri, what do we do? And so they said, okay, cool, here's where you go. And they went and found it.

[Amy]

Almost left.

[Lunchbox]

But I got a question.

[Eddie]

They went back.

[Lunchbox]

Is this like the lottery? Where are they planting these? Are they planting these diamonds?

[Mike]

Are they planting them? But when they are found, they do have a good PR team that shares.

[Lunchbox]

The story because it's like it goes like four months. It's like we haven't heard anything. So like, oh, man, we got to get back in the news. Throw. Throw a diamond out there and boom. Like, do the workers sit there in mine while they're at work and then save some and then like, okay, it's been a slow day, been a few months.

[Eddie]

That's interesting.

[Mike]

If you're a worker, you find a diamond, you keep the diamond. You don't throw it back out there.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, maybe that's part of their contract is they work there and they got to sit there and search diamonds.

[Mike]

You find one, it's not part of their contract. I'd assume they don't have a contract if they're working at the. The mine here.

[Lunchbox]

Gosh, this is so annoying. That's so frustrating. Eight hours, man.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

You pay to mine.

[Mike]

Okay, what is it, like 12 bucks or something?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, 12, 15 bucks, I think it was.

[Mike]

You just go out and it is. It's not like a cave with a pickaxe like the seven dwarfs. Yeah. It's just an Open field. Old.

[Lunchbox]

Just dirt. Yeah, dirt and dust.

[Eddie]

And how big is the field?

[Mike]

40 acres.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Mike]

Huge or so. It's about 40 acres. Again, we went there when I was a kid as a field trip. Nobody found anything. But also, it's just like, land, but it's the only, like, diamond mine in North America. And Lunchbox went. Abby went. They didn't find anything.

[Lunchbox]

Nothing.

[Mike]

But we bring these stories up.

[Eddie]

But Lunchbox did nap during all.

[Lunchbox]

But it was like 100 degrees out there. Yeah, I was.

[Eddie]

You're there for one reason.

[Mike]

This person. It was like 20 degrees miserable.

[Lunchbox]

And they left. Left, and then came back the next day when it was warmer. Okay, maybe we need to go back, man.

[Amy]

Yeah, maybe.

[Mike]

Maybe you should buy scratch offs the whole way down.

[Eddie]

You didn't stop at the casino, though.

[Lunchbox]

I did stop the casino right there. It was awesome.

[Mike]

Did you win?

[Lunchbox]

No. I was trying to teach Abby how to play black jack. She had never played, so I wasn't really concerned about making money at that point. I was just trying to teach her the rules. And I would have won big, but this idiot on the other side table didn't hit when he needed.

[Mike]

So you would have won, but something happened. As always.

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Mike]

It's always somebody else's fault.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, he.

[Eddie]

He hit on something.

[Lunchbox]

No, he had a 14. The dealer was showing 20, didn't hit. And it's like, what are you doing, dude? And then.

[Mike]

But you don't know the next card.

[Lunchbox]

Right? But what happened is then the dealer flipped over and had a 6, and they got a 5. 21.

[Amy]

Boom.

[Lunchbox]

Beats us. Thanks, dude. I mean, it was just brutal.

[Mike]

It's always somebody's fault.

[Lunchbox]

They have remodeled that casino so I could stop there on the way.

[Mike]

Abby, would you want to go back with him?

[Eddie]

Them?

[Amy]

Yeah, I could go because now I feel like I'm more prepared.

[Mike]

We.

[Amy]

We didn't know what we were doing.

[Lunchbox]

We didn't.

[Bobby Bones]

We were.

[Lunchbox]

We were so lost. We were just, like, flying by the seat of our pants.

[Mike]

You took a nap in the field.

[Lunchbox]

You saw these people getting out of their cars. They had all their systems and their equipment. And you're like, oh, so what?

[Amy]

Now you're gonna have systems and equipment?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I gotta get buckets.

[Mike]

I gotta do. If you guys want to go back in spring, you can go back in spring or just tell me when you want to go. If you want.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, spring is better.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Not winter.

[Amy]

Yeah, spring.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Amy]

We need to wait a few months so they can plant a diamond.

[Mike]

We will see.

[Lunchbox]

We gotta wait till the Four months.

[Mike]

Four months. Bobby Bone show Bonehead story of the day.

[Lunchbox]

This story comes to us from McHenry County, Illinois. A 21 year old woman was inside Walmart and she was bored. And she's like, I wonder how quick things would burn. So she got some fluid, poured them all over the cribs.

[Mike]

How quick things would burn, as in, she just wants to see stuff on fire.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And so she poured lighter fluid on the cribs, threw a match.

[Amy]

Boom.

[Lunchbox]

$5 million in damages.

[Eddie]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

Yikes.

[Mike]

I'm surprised lighter fluid would boom like that. Gas for sure would.

[Amy]

I think that's just his reenactment.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know if it said any.

[Mike]

Boom, but I took it as the gospel when he said boom.

[Lunchbox]

I think it was more like, yes, I wasn't slow. They said all the cribs instantly went up in flames.

[Mike]

And she was someone that has bought a crib recently. Not cheap.

[Eddie]

Mm. How much worth of damage?

[Lunchbox]

5 million. All the sprinklers went off, you know, damaging all the product.

[Mike]

What happened to her?

[Lunchbox]

She got arrested for aggravated arson.

[Mike]

If she just wonders how fast things will burn, I would bet it's not her first time ever burning something, because she probably wants to compare it to something like, I wonder how fast this would burn compared to other things that I've burned.

[Lunchbox]

All right, there you go. I'm lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day.

[Mike]

I always think it's weird to have to hug somebody when you see them all the time. If you see them out somewhere, that's not common. But this was happening. Eddie and Mike saw each other, like the airport or something. Yeah.

[Eddie]

It was like, right during our break, and I see Mike at the airport and I give him a hug, like.

[Mike]

But it's weird. You two are sitting four feet from each other every day. Every day.

[Eddie]

Every day. And I never think about giving Mike a hug. But the fact that we were not at work and there were a lot of people there, but in the group of people I see Mike, I gave him a hug.

[Mike]

Was that weird?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I don't remember the last. I don't remember the last time I've hugged Eddie. And it was weird. I was like, dude, I see you every day.

[Eddie]

Maybe it was a little like, merry Christmas. I don't know what it was, but I just felt like, ah, there's Mike. Let me give him a hug.

[Mike]

And I didn't expect him to go in for the hug either. So I was like, all right, I guess we're Hugging. That's a little bizarre.

[Eddie]

It was a little weird.

[Mike]

Amy came to my house. I'm not a hugger unless I really have a reason to hug because I want my hugs to be. I want them to mean something, have value. I don't want to have to hug somebody because I see somebody. But Amy came to the house. Did I hug you?

[Amy]

Yep.

[Mike]

Dang. I probably didn't want to, but I guarantee I don't mean that as like you don't deserve a hug. But it's like we see each other all the time. I know, but it's a different environment. But I think Amy probably hugged my wife and then it rolled over and she was just hugging her next to me and I was just like, oh.

[Eddie]

Yeah, cuz that would be rude. Hug the wife and then look at you. Be like, hey, what's up?

[Mike]

Rude. Or also good for you. I'm just not a big hugger. It's nothing.

[Amy]

But I know you're not a big hugger. And don't worry, I wouldn't take an offense. But you hugged and no problem.

[Eddie]

Like Bobby, when I saw you, but.

[Amy]

He doesn't even know if he did. He's like, did we hug?

[Mike]

I can imagine. I was like, oh, no, don't hug, don't hug. It's not about you. It's not about you. It's just we see each other all the time and I feel like if it's.

[Amy]

But also not on, not over the.

[Mike]

Break, but we could hug even here if it meant something. I feel like you're just. You're close to each other, so you feel like you have to hug because you're close and you're in a place that you aren't normally. I don't have a weird hugging culture.

[Amy]

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. I think that's an appropriate hug. Same thing with Eddie. Seeing Mike, it's like, it's like also during holiday season and you're looking at.

[Eddie]

All the people don't know you, don't know you.

[Amy]

Because I kind of do wonder if they had run into each other at the airport in August, I don't know that they would hug.

[Mike]

What do you think about that, Eddie?

[Eddie]

August, like not Christmas time.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Was it a Christmas hug? I think it. Was it a different.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Mike]

In a different surrounding.

[Amy]

And we were on break.

[Eddie]

That's interesting. I think holidays maybe played a role in it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

You know what got awkward though, is like after we landed in Austin, I. We just followed each other all the way to the rental car place and.

[Mike]

We'Re like, all right, talk to you later.

[Amy]

You go together and then you hug again.

[Lunchbox]

And did you hug a second time?

[Eddie]

No, I just told my family, like, let's go this way.

[Mike]

You said bye, like, three times. All right, we're out. Thank you, guys for listening. Bye, everybody.

[Eddie]

Come on. Bobby Bones Show.

[Mike]

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[Amy]

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