FRI PT 2: Bobby Questions Brown University Shooting Suspect + Eddie Makes Salsa For Almost Everyone + 2025 Events That Will Make The History Books + Why Did Jelly Roll Get Pardoned? + One Word To Describe Our Jobs

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – December 19, 2025 (FRI PT 2)

Host: Bobby Bones
Co-hosts: Amy, Eddie, others
Episode Theme: A candid, lively roundtable diving into recent headline stories, personal anecdotes, and introspective discussions about work and life.

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Episode Overview

In this relaxed and laughter-filled episode, Bobby Bones and the crew tackle a grab-bag of major news events from 2025, newly-breaking true crime, pop culture milestones, listener questions, and charming personal stories. They dig into skepticism around recent high-profile crimes, recall memorable moments from the year, discuss the meaning of a pardon (with a nod to Jelly Roll), and share how each would describe their job in a single word. Plus, the team celebrates Eddie’s legendary homemade salsa and riffs on the calming power of puzzles.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Brown University Shooting and Public Skepticism

• Bobby introduces details about the dramatic closure of the Brown University shooting case, expressing suspicion about the official story—specifically how the suspect, Claudio Nevs Valente, was found dead in a storage unit.
  • "I don’t trust anything from the government or the FBI... all of a sudden they find a guy that’s dead in a storage unit?" (03:32)
• Eddie mentions a Reddit post that allegedly helped crack the case, to which Bobby responds skeptically, suggesting law enforcement could have planted the tip for narrative convenience.
  • "If that was the Reddit post that made investigators look, it was probably put up by the investigators so they could say we found this Reddit post..." (07:46)
• Discussion expands to the interconnections between the suspect and a murdered MIT professor, with everyone questioning coincidence versus coverup.

Notable Quote:

• Bobby: "It’s just so easy to say that it’s him when he can’t say it’s not him because he’s dead." (05:50)

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2. Plane Crash – NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle

• The group reacts to the tragic North Carolina plane crash that killed NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family, clearly affected by the story’s sadness.
  • Amy: "His wife had sent a text to her mom, just said 'we’re in trouble.'" (09:20)
• They try to process a difficult news week packed with tragic events.

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3. Eddie's Salsa for the Office

• Levity returns as Eddie shares his homemade, fire-roasted salsa with the team.
  • Eddie: "I was smoking in the storm. You smoke all the ingredients in the smoker for the flavor." (11:15)
• Discussion includes who got individual salsas, with playful teasing (Lunchbox initially thought he was skipped, but Eddie assures everyone got some).

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4. 2025 Events That May Make the History Books

The team brainstorms the year's most significant events—real and pop culture:

• Major World Events:
  • Wildfires in Los Angeles (Jan 7–31)
  • First American Pope (Pope Leo, 5/7/2025)
  • Donald Trump takes office for the second time
  • Longest U.S. government shutdown
  • Stranded astronauts returning to Earth
  • Airplane/helicopter collision in D.C. (Jan 29)
• Cultural Oddities:
  • Pennies cease being minted
  • Gulf of Mexico renamed "Gulf of America" (controversially)
  • Trump-era buildings and centers named after himself
  • Diddy Trial and the Louvre Heist
  • Death of Charlie Kirk
• Bonus: Man finds an exotic python under his car’s hood in Tennessee.

Notable Quote:

• Eddie: "What, did that [Gulf of America] one stick?"
• Bobby: "Not really... I think he’s the only one that calls it that." (19:21)

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5. Why Did Jelly Roll Get Pardoned?

• Amy brings up that country artist Jelly Roll had his slate officially wiped clean by Tennessee’s governor—a story that prompts deep dives into the differences between a pardon and an expungement.
  • Bobby: "A pardon forgives the conviction, removes legal penalties, and restores some rights... Expungement destroys the record, making it disappear."
• They debate if fame played a role in Jelly Roll's pardon and celebrate his redemption arc and charity work.

Notable Quotes:

• Amy: "Absolutely, it draws attention to him. He’s been able to, on a large stage, do so much good." (24:32)
• Bobby: "So the goal is, once you get out of prison, just get famous and then give back." (25:24)

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6. Product Recall: So Delicious Dairy-Free Salted Caramel Ice Cream

• Eddie sounds the alarm about stones and other hard objects found in a popular dairy-free treat.
  • Bobby: "Stones? Oh no... at least you could say pebble to make it sound less severe." (26:19)
• Amy realizes she may have eaten the affected batch!

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7. The Power of Puzzles & New Year’s Eve Plans

• The team chat about different non-dairy milks, oatmeal, and favorite New Year’s Eve activities (most Americans prefer watching Netflix at home).
• A whole segment blossoms on the philosophy and community of puzzling—how it can bring relaxation, cognitive benefits, and, as Eddie jokes, a sudden sense of wasted time once finished.
  • Bobby: "You ever see those monks... as soon as they’re done, they wipe it away. It’s just about the process. It’s not about the result." (67:13)
• They brainstorm ways Eddie could livestream his puzzling for social media fame.

Timeline:

• 30:10 – America’s top New Year’s Eve activities
• 66:10 – Anthropology’s puzzle advent calendar

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8. Personal Stories: Family, Work, and Strippers (Yes, Really)

• Amy and Eddie recount memories of their dads—their shared love for Spanish, bookies, and workplace oddities like business meeting lunches at strip clubs.
  • Amy: "My dad said Hooters had the best wings." (43:55)
  • Eddie: "My dad went to a strip club called Tex Mex. Everyone knew—so when people would call, I’d say, 'No, he’s at Tex Mex.'" (43:05)
• The team also reflects on having “cousins” who aren’t really relatives, and on the cultural blurring between the South and Hispanic families.

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9. One Word to Describe Our Jobs [50:00]

• Bobby asks: "What’s one word to describe your job?"
  • Amy: "Lucky... I used to get in trouble for talking, now I get paid for it." (49:08, 50:07)
  • Eddie: "Early!" (49:25)
  • Lunchbox: "Strenuous... People think it’s so easy, but it’s hard to be on all the time." (49:36, 53:17)
  • Morgan: "Different." (49:46)
  • Bobby: "Constant... I’m constantly working on the next thing or the next show." (49:50)
• A longer discussion follows on the hidden demands of radio/podcasting, burnout (“I start to let myself burn because I know the end is coming”), and why work-life balance is a challenge—plus how Bobby’s now able to appreciate investing in family and non-work priorities.

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10. Listener Insights & Weekend Plans

• The show wraps with mutual appreciation, gift-giving stories (Eddie gets a Dolly Parton puzzle), and upcoming holiday plans. Amy plans some last-minute shopping for her son, and the gift idea brainstorming continues.
  • Amy: "Dolly is a safe blonde. She’s probably the only woman puzzle you could put together that’s not questionable." (62:32)
• Bobby floats ideas for content creation around puzzling and ponders how “constant” his job has become, wishing for slower moments.

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Notable Quotes & Time Codes

• "I don’t trust anything from the government or the FBI... all of a sudden they find a guy that’s dead in a storage unit?" – Bobby (03:32)
• "If that was the Reddit post that made investigators look, it was probably put up by the investigators..." – Bobby (07:46)
• "I was smoking in the storm. You smoke all the ingredients in the smoker for the flavor." – Eddie (11:15)
• "A pardon forgives the conviction, removes legal penalties, and restores some rights... Expungement destroys the record, making it disappear." – Bobby (23:02)
• "So the goal is, once you get out of prison, just get famous and then give back." – Bobby (25:24)
• "Stones? Oh no... at least you could say pebble to make it sound less severe." – Bobby (26:19)
• "I used to get in trouble for talking, now I get paid for it." – Amy (50:07)
• "Strenuous... People think it’s so easy, but it’s hard to be on all the time." – Lunchbox (53:17)
• "You ever see those monks... as soon as they’re done, they wipe it away. It’s just about the process. It’s not about the result." – Bobby (67:13)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:32 – Brown University shooting skepticism and Reddit’s alleged role
• 09:02 – NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s plane crash
• 11:06 – Eddie’s homemade salsa for the team
• 12:13 – Major events of 2025 that could make the history books
• 21:31 – Jelly Roll’s pardon explained
• 26:00 – So Delicious ice cream recall
• 30:03 – Top New Year’s Eve activities according to Americans
• 41:34 – Amy and Eddie swap family and gambling/strip club stories
• 48:44 – One word to describe their job
• 66:07 – The therapeutic and philosophical value of puzzles

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Tone & Delivery

Conversational, irreverent, and honest—with moments of levity and real introspection. The team’s chemistry shines, as they weave between serious events and ridiculous inside jokes, never shying away from skepticism or vulnerability.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a perfect introduction to The Bobby Bones Show’s blend of oddball humor, pop culture, and real talk. You don’t need to know the backstory to enjoy their banter or feel part of the crew. Whether unpacking a conspiracy, arguing about the best ice cream, or reflecting on why they really love (or tolerate) their jobs, the hosts invite you into their daily conversations with openness and a wink.

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Transcript

[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. The Brown University shooting where they didn't have a suspect and then all of a sudden they find one in a storage unit. I don't know. Seems sus. I don't trust. I don't trust anything from the government of the FBI. They searched for days, didn't know who it was. Then all of a sudden they go to a storage unit and they find the dead guy in there.

[Eddie]

But what does the Reddit post have to do with it? Did you see that? How somebody on Reddit said that they ran into a guy they should look into this guy.

[Bobby Bones]

I'd like to. And there was a car, license plate. I don't give too much credit to Reddit other than maybe one out of 20 times somebody's kind of Right. So then we have to look at. I don't give much credit to Reddit.

[Eddie]

This whole thing is weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And then the professor died at mit, the guy that was murdered. And they say that that had something to do with this guy. But I don't believe any of it. I don't believe our FBI, I don't believe our government. All of a sudden it's so convenient. They can't find him. They don't say who it is. They say the wrong guy. And then all of a sudden they find a guy that's dead in a storage unit. And you expect us to believe that?

[Eddie]

And they're saying he's the suspect. Right. He's the.

[Bobby Bones]

A man suspected of killing two and wounding nine others at Brown University and then killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in New Hampshire storage facility where he had rented.

[Amy]

A unit and then self inflicted gunshot. Right? Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You guys aren't as cynical as I am about everything. Did you believe it?

[Amy]

I don't know. I mean it definitely is suspicious.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't have somebody from Multiple dates. It is an embarrassment. You have nobody. There are videos. They're putting out new videos. They still can't identify the person. Heck, they identify the wrong person.

[Amy]

I know we don't always know everything, but they.

[Bobby Bones]

But again, it was so embarrassing and all of a sudden now they found the person.

[Amy]

Right, right, right. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I. I'm not in. Consider me somebody who's not in.

[Eddie]

Dude, I believe everything. I see it. I'm like, oh, wow, they found the guy.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what they want us to do.

[Eddie]

I know. And I fall for it every time.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm just not conspiracy guy. But this is such. Not a conspiracy to me that we get lied to all the time.

[Amy]

Like, have they released anything like from him or do they have any like a manifesto? Manifesto, yes. Or some sort or YouTube videos or social media clips where he's put up like hints.

[Bobby Bones]

It's just so easy to say that it's him when he can't say it's not him because he's dead. Claudio Nevs Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and former Brown student, was found dead on Thursday evening from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said at a news conference. Perez said as far as the investigators know, the suspect acted alone. Leah Foley, the US Attorney in Massachusetts, said at a separate news conference in Boston that the same person also killed Nuno FG Loreo, the MIT physics professor who was shot in his home on Monday. Quote, he took his own life tonight. That's from the Guardian. And you know what? Maybe it's true, but maybe it's Maybelline.

[Amy]

So did. What does the MIT professor have to do?

[Bobby Bones]

Same school. And they were. I think they. He was like in his class or something. There was a connection where they knew each other.

[Amy]

Well, I mean, they're about the same age.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. There was a connection where they knew each other. Mikey had.

[Amy]

Because like he went to Brown or he was enrolled in Brown in like 2000 or 2001.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And then he's 48 and the professor that died was 47.

[Eddie]

Are those in the same area? What, MIT and Brown?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Boston. Right.

[Eddie]

I think.

[Bobby Bones]

Or up in that Northern.

[Eddie]

Brown was in Boston. I thought Brown was like a New Hampshire.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah. That's all the same.

[Amy]

There's. It says that's a car ride.

[Eddie]

Is it?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. All that stuff is so close. That's a car. Like the fact that Connecticut and New York City were so close, like an hour away always blew my mind because David Letterman would do a show and drive home To Connecticut.

[Eddie]

Oh, he lived in Connecticut?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, he'd just drive home.

[Eddie]

Whoa.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you see as the connection there?

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you don't? Oh, I thought you were Googling it over there.

[Amy]

Oh, I am. I don't have anything yet. I guess I'm just. I was asking if y' all check Reddit.

[Eddie]

According to Eddie, it's all on Reddit.

[Amy]

Yeah, the part of this article that I'm reading says the tipster whose Reddit posts blew the case wide open.

[Eddie]

Yeah, see, that's what I saw. That a Reddit post is what made investigators look at this guy.

[Bobby Bones]

So here's what I don't believe that. If that was the Reddit post that made investigators look, it was probably put up by the investigators so they could say we found this Reddit post to make us look for this guy.

[Eddie]

The Reddit post guy, the guy that posted was a janitor at Brown University.

[Bobby Bones]

Or an asset. It was his former classmate. Got it. Any motivation?

[Eddie]

Mm.

[Bobby Bones]

Mm.

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

It all seems too easy.

[Eddie]

Like, is it when someone's found dead is when it's kinda like, huh, so like no one can talk when they're dead. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And the embarrassment of they couldn't find the person for days. Yeah.

[Amy]

And 25 years later, you take care of business.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So the professor was a former classmate from 95 to 2000.

[Amy]

Well, where was that? High school?

[Bobby Bones]

I think in Portugal. Sounds like they'd be friends.

[Amy]

Interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

Come to new town, don't know anybody.

[Amy]

Maybe they were.

[Eddie]

And then, I don't know, something happened.

[Bobby Bones]

Seems too. Too convenient. Okay, so there's that. The second thing was. How about that friggin plane crash yesterday?

[Amy]

Careful.

[Eddie]

Did you see it? See it? No.

[Bobby Bones]

We talked about it.

[Eddie]

Like what? The.

[Bobby Bones]

The race car driver, the die in a plane crash yesterday?

[Eddie]

We didn't talk about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Greg Biffle. No, you and I did. No, we didn't talk about another Hispanic feller, Greg Biffle. Died 55 years old, plane crash, Plane went up, they hit some issue, tried to turn around. I guess they weren't gaining altitude. They had to turn around for an emergency landing. Same airport, crashed.

[Amy]

Did you see his wife had sent a text to her mom? Yeah, she was like, the text just said, we're in trouble. And so Eddie's wife and his two daughters were on the plane.

[Eddie]

That's so sad.

[Bobby Bones]

Greg Biffle and his wife, Christina Biffle died. Also the kids, I'm sure the pilots. I thought at first maybe he was flying, but I don't think it was when somebody wants to fly their own plane. I think it was a bigger plane.

[Amy]

Yeah. I think I saw six people, so I assumed the other two people were the pilots.

[Bobby Bones]

If.

[Amy]

Yeah, but that was just my assumption.

[Bobby Bones]

Massive fire. I thought when I saw the fire of the plane crash that it was a. It landed and hit hard. Plane crash, meaning it was up in the air, had to do an emergency landing. I didn't realize what had happened. Where they couldn't get up, quiet, had to turn around, and then they hit the ground. The statement continues. We ask for privacy, compassion, understanding as we grieve to begin the process. Greg Biffle among the dead after a fiery plane crash in North Carolina. The Cessna C550, a light private jet registered to a company owned by the Star, crash landed near a Runway at a regional airport, I believe, in North Carolina.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Outside of Charlotte.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Wild. Not to start with. Two terrible stories. I want to make sure that I touched him. I don't know much about nascar, so I'm not super familiar with him as a NASCAR driver.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you?

[Eddie]

No. I don't really know who he was. I guess he was.

[Bobby Bones]

I heard his name. I think he's an older.

[Eddie]

He's like, early 2000s, five.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah, it sucked. You got anything good, dad? So far today? No.

[Amy]

Now I'm.

[Bobby Bones]

No, just general.

[Eddie]

Oh, I brought you guys salsas.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Amy]

Yeah, that was gonna be.

[Eddie]

There's that.

[Amy]

My thing is, I. I casually said to Eddie, I really want some salsa. And he said, just wait. And I didn't know what he had in store, but what he had in store is that he got all of us salsa.

[Eddie]

Homemade roasted salsa.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, you have to stop saying it like that, because now you're just doing it for effect.

[Eddie]

That's how I say it, man.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not.

[Amy]

It makes me laugh.

[Bobby Bones]

You say it now because, you know, we laugh at it.

[Eddie]

Hey, it was tough, too, yesterday. You saw the storm, dude. I was smoking in the storm.

[Bobby Bones]

Smoking Salte salsa.

[Eddie]

You smoke all the ingredients in the smoker.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Eddie]

Yeah. That's how you get the smoker taste.

[Bobby Bones]

Like all the vegetables.

[Eddie]

Yeah, everything.

[Amy]

I can't wait to just get some chips and dive into this.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Everybody have one? Do you bring one for even the glass room?

[Eddie]

Yeah, the glass room has it. And then there's a bowl outside for anyone else that didn't get one.

[Amy]

Oh, it's like what Morgan did.

[Eddie]

Yeah, like community bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

Who didn't get one? Of course I didn't, because he wants to make me mad. It's Fine.

[Eddie]

I don't give a crap. No, I'm just. I'm just saying.

[Bobby Bones]

Nah, it's cool. Whatever.

[Eddie]

There's a community bowl outside if you.

[Bobby Bones]

Want some, but it looks like everybody got one but Lunchbox. So that's his entire community bowl.

[Eddie]

I'm just joking. I brought him one. I just wanted to. I wanted him to not feel the way Morgan made him feel.

[Bobby Bones]

The way Morgan made him feel, you mean? Yeah. You want to do the opposite of what Morgan did.

[Amy]

That's all right. I'll have two.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I got you.

[Bobby Bones]

Events from 2025 that will most likely make it into history books. What do you think happened this year, history wise, that still you would think about? Because man, years go by and you're like, oh, that happened in the show.

[Amy]

Like a history book.

[Bobby Bones]

Big news events. Big news.

[Amy]

The fires at the beginning of the year.

[Eddie]

That's big.

[Bobby Bones]

I do think that the wildfires make it. Yeah. The wildfires In Los Angeles, January 7th to the 31st. Yeah. I would have been confused on what year that happened. And also, it's so far from us, and there are a lot of wildfires out there, but these were extremely big. But for us, when we're far, we just see it on the news. We really don't know how big they are. Being all the way a country away. Like, we see them and they say to us, if we live closer, like flying over it. Because we did fly over. I did fly over once. You're like, holy crap. But there's just so much bad news now. Yeah. That's number two. Anything else? Taylor and Travis get engaged or her. Oh, Travis. Travis, Taylor and Travis.

[Eddie]

Would that make history?

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't make it.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, then. Her tour. Biggest of all time, right?

[Amy]

Do you mean like, actual history books?

[Bobby Bones]

That's what I was wondering.

[Eddie]

And do they even have those?

[Amy]

Okay, so, like, what kids will learn.

[Bobby Bones]

About one day of, like, number one big.

[Eddie]

The Coldplay.

[Bobby Bones]

The what?

[Eddie]

The Coldplay.

[Bobby Bones]

This happened May of last year of this 2025.

[Eddie]

May.

[Bobby Bones]

Number one happened in May. It didn't happen in America.

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

But it definitely affected America in a big way.

[Amy]

This stuff in Russia and Ukraine, is that.

[Bobby Bones]

No. And that's been going on for a while. Let me make sure that I know.

[Amy]

I just didn't know if.

[Bobby Bones]

The number one is the first American pope.

[Eddie]

Ah. Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

The death of Pope Francis in April prompted the gathering of Catholic cardinals from around the world to elect his successor, the new pope. The first American Pope Leo was 5-7-2025. Number three is Donald Trump takes office for the second time, number four. And this affects a lot of people. But again, unless you're right in it, and because it's happened so many times, I don't think you understand maybe the severity of it for some folks. But the US Government experienced as long as shut down in history. It didn't affect us directly. And it feels like the government shuts down about twice a year where they're like, we're not coming back till something happens. And so when it happens so often and it doesn't affect you, it just. It's a blur.

[Eddie]

The most I heard about it was like, canceled flights, you know, because of the government shutdown.

[Amy]

People would say, yeah, like the airports being crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Because that had a chance to affect us. Two stranded astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station at number five.

[Eddie]

I remember that.

[Bobby Bones]

I do, but briefly.

[Eddie]

So they were up there for a long time, and then they just finally came home.

[Bobby Bones]

They were launched in space.

[Amy]

Wait, are they home yet?

[Bobby Bones]

June 5, 2024. And they were supposed to spend eight days, and they came back in March of 2025.

[Amy]

Oh, they did. They did. Aren't they Chinese astronauts? They're not.

[Bobby Bones]

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. If that's Chinese, they've really accepted the American culture.

[Eddie]

Well.

[Amy]

Well, they're not the US Ones. I knew that, but I couldn't remember which space station.

[Bobby Bones]

Butch Wilmore is not an American. Sounds like the most American name ever.

[Amy]

Maybe they are.

[Bobby Bones]

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched into space June 2024. June 24.

[Eddie]

And they didn't. They were supposed to be up there for eight days and they came back in March.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. What country are they from? I mean, NASA. There's no way Butch. I'm looking at him. There's no way he from America. That dude loves college football.

[Eddie]

And a Miller Life could be adopted, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're American because also, it is NASA, dude.

[Amy]

Okay, wait, there were. There were three more Chinese astronauts that were stranded in space. That might be what it is.

[Eddie]

How pissed would you be when they're like, sorry, man, you got another month.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like, you want to spend a night or you're waiting for somebody to pick you up at school and your mom doesn't come.

[Eddie]

You're the only one there.

[Bobby Bones]

You're out there. Everybody's gone. All the buses are gone, the car riders are gone. Yeah, I don't know. Teacher has to take you in and be like, hey, come on back inside. We'll figure it Out.

[Amy]

I would be so scared.

[Bobby Bones]

At school or on. In space?

[Amy]

In space, man. Yeah, dude.

[Eddie]

The school thing was scary when you were the only one there and teachers weren't even there.

[Bobby Bones]

How about whenever you didn't get off your bus stop and all of a sudden you realize it and you're way beyond your bus stop. And so you have to ride the whole bus and go to the bus driver and be like, I have. I forgot my stop.

[Eddie]

Or are you sleeping back there? Like, what?

[Bobby Bones]

Possibly you guys didn't do that. Never had your stop and you had to ride the whole bus.

[Eddie]

I did that.

[Bobby Bones]

Ended up at the other trailer park. Made it seem familiar to me. And then you get off because you don't want to be embarrassed and you.

[Eddie]

Walk home and then you're.

[Bobby Bones]

What do I do? Two Minnesota lawmakers are shot in their homes. In the early morning hours of June 14, 2025, two lawmakers in Minnesota were shot by a gunman disguised as a law enforcement officer. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were injured by the assailant at their residence. The gunman then proceeded to the home of State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband. He shot and killed them both. That was wild that seeing that. That ring. Doorbell camera, the footage of that guy and his mask, because he looked like a cop, but he had like a. You could kind of tell it was rubber if you knew it was rubber. But if you're just looking at the camera, this looks like a dude. All the plane crashes make the list because there was a time where it was every day.

[Eddie]

And then a little after the. The United. The American Eagle in Washington, in Baltimore.

[Amy]

Well, there's the ice skating. A lot of them were that one.

[Eddie]

Skaters dude, after that one went down. Yes.

[Amy]

Lots of stories from Wichita.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that was this year.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

They ran into a helicopter. Helicopter. Helicopter ran into them.

[Bobby Bones]

2025, a rough year for air travel. There were more than 1200 aviation accidents, resulting in more than 220 fatalities. Most of the incidents involved small planes, but the bigger ones grabbed the headlines and then made us pay attention to the smaller ones. January 29, an American Airlines flight bound for Reagan national Airport near D.C. and a Blackhawk helicopter collided midair. There were 64 people aboard the passenger jet inbound from wichita, Kansas, and three members of the military aboard the U.S. army copter. Yeah, that was crazy. Number eight pennies ceased to be pressed by the U.S. mint. So this is the year they stopped making the penny. The renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. They're renaming a lot of stuff Gulf Of Mexico. They renamed the Department of Defense and they renamed the Kennedy Center. Now what is it to the Trump?

[Eddie]

Trump Center.

[Bobby Bones]

Kennedy Center. That's slippery to be name and stuff after yourself as a living president. Because every president would do that. It would all just, all the buildings would just be named after the person that was in. Yeah, you got to die and then let them name things after you manage have that power though, to name stuff.

[Eddie]

The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America.

[Amy]

He's doing.

[Eddie]

It's like, wow, did that one stick?

[Bobby Bones]

Not really.

[Eddie]

Okay. Because like other countries don't have to call it that, right?

[Bobby Bones]

No, but they all.

[Amy]

I think he's the only one that calls it that.

[Bobby Bones]

To me. I don't look at it and go Gulf of America yet, but it is right now like on Google Maps. It is on Google Maps, right, Mike? Gulf America. Gulf of America. Maybe with a 12 year old who has to start learning it that way it starts to be that. But for us it'll probably never be that.

[Eddie]

Like, who thinks of that? Who thinks of like, we need to change that name.

[Bobby Bones]

The death of Charlie Kirk comes in at number 10. That's Big Doge coming in, making all the cuts. And they just realize way later none of this works. Start hiring people back again. That was when Elon Musk went in and was cutting.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

The United States bombs nuclear facilities in Iran at 12. The Diddy trial and the Louvre heist make the list. As far as the biggest events of the year and news events, we've done pop culture. I love year end lists. But a man finds an exotic python under his hood in Tennessee.

[Eddie]

In Tennessee.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, exotic. Got quite the surprise when he popped the hood of his SUV to find a yellow python coiled up inside.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness.

[Bobby Bones]

Jesse Hodge had noticed a strange smell coming from the vehicle and he found the dead snake when he checked under the hood. Workers the animal center say the exotic python isn't native to Tennessee. It was likely someone's escaped or abandoned pet from wmur. If that's my escaped or abandoned pet, you're never gonna know it escaped or I abandoned it because it ended up a new story. And they pro. I don't know if you can even have those. I'm sure you can. But he found the snake, the yellow snake sitting atop the battery box. Luckily, it was dead. Although pythons for the most part are not going to bite you. Attack you.

[Eddie]

They don't.

[Bobby Bones]

They're swirl up and squeeze you.

[Eddie]

Squeeze you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, they can, but they don't have a venomous bite. I guess anything can bite. We can bite.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If we get in a tight enough situation, we'll bite, too.

[Eddie]

Sure, I'll bite.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. All right, let's go around the room.

[Amy]

Amy, Jelly rolls. Slate is officially clean. The Tennessee governor, Governor Lee, he pardoned all of his stuff.

[Eddie]

Oh, so he's not a felony anymore.

[Bobby Bones]

I just talked about this somewhere.

[Amy]

Not here. Where?

[Bobby Bones]

At the Bobby Cash yesterday. Is that what it was? Yeah.

[Eddie]

That's probably why you told somebody about the plan.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe. Man, I'm having crazy deja vu. I'm doing too much content.

[Amy]

Were you over there thinking I was about to be in trouble?

[Bobby Bones]

No, I wasn't. I started thinking, could you pardon me? Did I read this and just have a conversation within myself, or did I talk about it? Because I remember saying, and this is what I'll say, he's not in prison. So what's the pardon for? Because when you pardon somebody, usually they get out of prison. But there are certain. But he doesn't get to vote. There are certain things he can't do because of his crimes.

[Amy]

It says it removes the felonies from his record and he'll have an easier time booking international tour dates.

[Eddie]

That's huge.

[Bobby Bones]

I just always thought that was called expunged when they. Expunged from your record. And it's just uses of the word, I guess, because when someone gets pardoned. Now, people get pardoned all the time. They just pardoned that Honduras president who was a drug trafficker. He was just freed from prison.

[Eddie]

Oh, who pardoned him? The president. Of Honduras?

[Bobby Bones]

No, of America.

[Eddie]

Oh, he was here.

[Bobby Bones]

American jury said he was guilty. Big drug trafficker. We said, yep, you're good. We'll free you. A pardon forgives the conviction, removes legal penalties, and restores some rights, like gun voting or, excuse me, voting or gun ownership. Gun voting will be fun.

[Eddie]

I vote for guns.

[Bobby Bones]

Expungement destroys the record, making it disappear, acts as if the crime never happened for background checks. So a pardon is not as good as an expungement because a pardon, it still remains on public record. But there is a note that says pardoned.

[Amy]

Oh, it says that back in April, the Tennessee Board of Parole endorsed him for a pardon by a unanimous vote. And then it's just taken this long.

[Bobby Bones]

For the governor to, well, let's expunge that thing next.

[Eddie]

Get rid of it. But it is kind of weird that an elected official can just, like, say, you know what? You're good.

[Bobby Bones]

President and governors can do pardons.

[Eddie]

Like, that's crazy. Or like, they just don't like you. So you're not good.

[Bobby Bones]

It's also why when presidents, for the most part, are leaving office, they pardon.

[Eddie]

Like 200 people, like their family and.

[Bobby Bones]

Stuff, because they don't want to have to deal with it being. Yeah. I didn't know the difference in pardon and expungement. I would have thought it was the opposite. The pardon was the big one, but expungement's kind of the big one.

[Eddie]

So Jelly Roll can vote now and then.

[Bobby Bones]

He can. He can gun vote. Expungement is granted by the judicial branch, a judge. It's actually more common, but it's restricted to specific, often less serious offenses. And it is a complete disappearance of whatever you did. That's interesting. Yeah. Good for Jelly Roll.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you think that would have happened if you didn't get super famous?

[Amy]

Probably not.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Eddie]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Bones]

He is giving a lot back.

[Amy]

He's doing good things through his platform. He's been able to, on a large stage, do so much good. So absolutely, it draws attention to him.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm not hating. I wouldn't be a doctor if it wasn't for me kind of being whatever version of famous this is.

[Eddie]

But you're a doctor now.

[Bobby Bones]

But I am a doctor.

[Amy]

Yeah. Because he doesn't. I mean, I think this shows. I mean, his story is so redemptive. But. Yes, because he has chosen to give back in such a powerful way. Because he doesn't have to do that.

[Bobby Bones]

Had he just had hits and been.

[Amy]

Super rich and famous. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think he would have been met as warmly with things like pardons. I did see where he went at Thanksgiving and supplied like 300 dinners to inmates. Constantly going to prisons, talking to folks. Because, like, he was in. He was like, there's. When you get out, there's a way. Yeah, good for him. So the goal is, once you get out of prison, just get famous and then give back.

[Eddie]

And give back. You got to give back.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. But you got to get famous first. So you have the money to give back.

[Amy]

You got to be really talented.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You got to have a couple hits. Got to get a couple of country songs to pop. After your rap career did well but didn't turn you into a global superstar, then you go country, you pop globally, then you do whatever you want. That's the.

[Eddie]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

That's it. All right, Eddie, your story.

[Eddie]

This one kind of hits home a little bit. There's a recall on so delicious dairy free salted caramel cluster. Say it Ain't so.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know what you just said.

[Amy]

Oh, that's a good ice cream.

[Bobby Bones]

I've eaten that. Oh, it's an ice cream.

[Eddie]

Dairy free ice cream.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, start over. There's a recall.

[Eddie]

There's a recall on an ice cream called so delicious. Dairy free salted caramel cluster.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. You can tell I don't eat that kind.

[Amy]

Okay. But that's the best flavor they make, I think.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, what was in it?

[Eddie]

Stones. They say stones. Do they say stones and other hard objects?

[Bobby Bones]

Stones? Oh, no.

[Amy]

I would think that was like a cashew.

[Bobby Bones]

At least you could say pebble to make it sound less severe.

[Eddie]

You're gonna go stones, stones and other hard objects. So be careful when biting into the ice cream.

[Amy]

So I have stones and hard objects in me. Cause I definitely ate this within the last week.

[Eddie]

What, that one? That exact one.

[Bobby Bones]

If you would have known. Cause you would have bit it.

[Amy]

I'm hoping. Cause it.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't just swallow ice cream whole though. You have to melt it before you swallow it a little bit.

[Amy]

But the little clusters in it are like cashews. And like you chew those kind of.

[Bobby Bones]

Bits, there's no way you're just swallowing a spoonful of this without eating it. Like chewing it.

[Amy]

I mean, I chewed it a little.

[Bobby Bones]

Bit, but I don't know.

[Amy]

I don't know how big these stones.

[Eddie]

It says small stones, guys.

[Amy]

Do they end up chocolate covered coated?

[Eddie]

They don't say that.

[Bobby Bones]

Humor me.

[Amy]

Because the cashew is a chocolate covered.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. You get a spoon, you go into your ice cream, you put it in your mouth, then. Then what happens?

[Amy]

You chew.

[Eddie]

You don't really chew.

[Bobby Bones]

You do if there are things like.

[Eddie]

Cookies, nuts, small stones.

[Bobby Bones]

Small stones. If it's just ice cream, you don't just swallow. You don't go. You let it melt in your mouth and you kind of.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So if it's a stone, you would probably know somebody probably broke a tooth on it more than swallowed them.

[Eddie]

But okay, so these salted caramel clusters, are they hard? Do you chew on those?

[Amy]

Well, they're cashews. So they're soft. Cause that's a soft nut.

[Eddie]

They don't say cashew on it.

[Amy]

Aren't there? Yeah, I used to when I was dairy free by choice. I ate that kind all the time.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it says the stones are in the cashew pieces.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Eddie]

So you're gonna buy into that.

[Amy]

And those are yummy when you bite on them.

[Bobby Bones]

What, the cashews? Yeah.

[Amy]

Like I would want to bite them. Because they're like. It's like yummy.

[Eddie]

But you haven't encountered this cashew.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't eat that brand. Good for you.

[Eddie]

When I saw this story, I was worried for you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I don't eat that brand. I haven't really been in an ice cream kick. I ordered three cookies the other night. I think I told you guys I got three. Three tubs of ice cream instead.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Ordered three chocolate chip cookies individually. I got three tubs of ice cream and so they're still in there. I love ice cream, but I haven't been ice cream in it.

[Eddie]

You got dairy free chocolate chip cookies. How do those taste?

[Bobby Bones]

Vegan. So they wouldn't be dairy free. They list them as V. Oh, so there's. What's confusing is if there is a V beside it, it means vegan. So I can eat that. If there's veg, it's vegetarian.

[Eddie]

You can't eat that.

[Bobby Bones]

Can't always eat that. But things that are vegetarian can also be vegan.

[Eddie]

But vegan for sure means no milk, no dairy in this.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Because it comes from an animal. But I don't eat things that are vegan for the most part if they're like sandwiches, because I want meat. So I'm not a vegan. You're just no dairy.

[Eddie]

No dairy. Vegan.

[Bobby Bones]

And also I can do other kinds of milk. Almond milk, pecan milk.

[Eddie]

You do soy milk?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. I just stick with almond milk.

[Amy]

I mean soy milk, coconut milk, macadamia.

[Eddie]

Nut milk, soy milk the other day. It's not bad.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm sure if I didn't know the difference, it'd be fine.

[Eddie]

Well, you can taste it.

[Amy]

They have banana milk.

[Eddie]

Banana milk.

[Amy]

I saw it at Target.

[Bobby Bones]

That sounds pretty good.

[Eddie]

That sounds really good.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

We're eating a kind of oatmeal now. I wish I knew the name of it.

[Eddie]

Oatmeal or oat milk?

[Bobby Bones]

No, oatmeal. Oatmeal. Okay, Oatmeal. But they do have oatmeal accent. We're eating a great kind of oatmeal right now. Let me ask my wife. And I put almond milk in it because it's just a powder do. It's supposed to be overnight oats, I think, but I always forget to do it overnight. So then I just wake up in the morning and then I do pour the bag of oatmeal in. I do a half cup of almond milk. And before I put it in the microwave, I kind of get the texture a little right. Because you can't get it fully right. And then I put it in for a minute and I come out and mix it again. Is that how you make oatmeal in the microwave?

[Amy]

That's exactly how you make it.

[Eddie]

Is it still a little hard since it's not overnight?

[Amy]

No, no, because he's putting it in the microwave. The overnight oats. What's happening in that process is overnight. It's sort of quote unquote, cooking the oats because it's soaking overnight. But if you heat it up or you put boiling water or you put it in the microwave, you're cooking the oats that way.

[Bobby Bones]

America voted the best New Year's Eve.

[Amy]

Activity is drinking, bar hopping, going to bed early. House party.

[Bobby Bones]

Number four, scroll through social media on your phone.

[Amy]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

Number two, what?

[Eddie]

Fireworks.

[Amy]

That cannot be an activity.

[Eddie]

Come on, guys.

[Bobby Bones]

People are stupid. Number three, get some sleep.

[Amy]

Okay. Yeah, that can cosign on that.

[Eddie]

Is that an activity?

[Amy]

Yeah, it's an anti activity.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's just what you do. Number two, go to a party. And number one, watch Netflix or some other streaming platform.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It's cold. If it wasn't cold on New Year's, it'd be much easier.

[Amy]

Yeah. I went downtown New Year's in June, Nashville, to do the big concert thing.

[Bobby Bones]

You did?

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. Like 13 years ago.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought you said last year. I was like, who are you? I haven't been that bitter cold.

[Amy]

Yeah, it was cold. I mean, and we also had, you know, we were doing it a different way because we were with the station, like, had, you know, like, in the tent, you're a little warmer. And it was still a. This was fun. Check the box. Don't think I'll ever come down here again.

[Eddie]

Have you guys so many people gone to, like, an awesome, awesome New Year's Eve party? Like, where you're like, that was epic.

[Amy]

Yeah. My wedding.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like New Year's is like prom. If it didn't have the expectation on it, it would be fun. But because there's such an expectation, if you go do something, you get dressed, you wear a funny hat.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You. It's a party. It's a celebration. All of that's happened. So I don't think it can quite live up to the hype. Generally speaking. Just like prom, it's super fun. But you spend all of high school going, I can't wait to prom. Yeah. It's romanticized in television shows and movies, so it's really hard for it to hit. So that being said, I think I've went to a couple good parties that probably would have been great had there not been the buildup to it, like, all year. The buildup to it?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Why? Have you.

[Eddie]

No, never. I've gone to, like, there was a time when, like, New Year's Eve, my dad. My dad would throw a party, and he'd always make us go to the party, and so I'd always be upset. Cause I'm like, man, like, my friends are throwing parties. Like, I want to go to that party. Then finally one year, I said, like, I'm gonna go to that party. I'm not going to my family's party. And it was like, that was stupid. Like, my dad's party's better than this. And I just felt like, you're right. I feel like the. The anticipation of, like, ooh, New Year's Eve party. It's gonna be awesome. It just wasn't. It was just like a normal party.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, then you hit that threshold of starting to get older, and it's not even worth seeing. If there's a thing of gold into the rainbow because you've chased a goal for so long, and it's just been fine. You're like, you know, I just don't think it's gonna be the pot of gold.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm gonna just stay home or go to bed or whatever.

[Amy]

Well, yeah. And we just don't feel the same. Like, staying up past a certain point or consuming certain amounts of alcohol, it doesn't feel the same. Recovery is.

[Eddie]

You can't handle, man.

[Amy]

So you're just like, it's not worth it. It's like risk, reward, Trace's oats.

[Bobby Bones]

Familiar?

[Amy]

No. But I was just about to ask you if you figured it out, because I want to.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't figure it out yet.

[Amy]

Stevenson is so into oatmeal right now.

[Bobby Bones]

She's my wife. They're great. Because this morning I tried and there's no milk in it, but I tried the strawberry milk flavor. It's wonderful.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's cool. Is it in a cup already or do you pour it in something?

[Bobby Bones]

It's in a bag. Kind of like the old oatmeal used to be.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Cute.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's good.

[Eddie]

The packaging and it comes in different flavors. Like that?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, wow. It's got 15 grams of protein and no added sugar.

[Bobby Bones]

I've even seen my muscles lately. And it's because all the oatmeal I'm.

[Eddie]

Eating once you got screens.

[Amy]

Glyphosate free oats.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know what any of that means.

[Amy]

Me neither. But I kind of.

[Bobby Bones]

If my wife puts it in our house, it's. I feel like it's safe for me.

[Amy]

Yeah, for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

We have a small refrigerator, like a college refrigerator, that is not in the kitchen. It's in like a. We have also like this weird wine cellar that we don't. It's not a cellar because it's not underground. But we don't have like a bunch of alcohol. No, we have like eight bottles of gifted alcohol. And so it's next to that. So it's in this area of the house that has like a little refrigerator in it. And she'll keep anything that I can't eat in that away from you. So I don't accidentally hop in and just start eating something and then get sick.

[Eddie]

That's funny.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

You looking at it still, they have a starter pack. It'll give you a variety of all the different.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what we kinds.

[Amy]

They've got strawberry milk brownie batter, blueberry muffin and maple vanilla.

[Bobby Bones]

I had the maple vanilla and there's not really flavors that I pursue, but it's really good.

[Eddie]

You don't like vanilla?

[Bobby Bones]

No, I like vanilla. I don't like maple as a flavor. I like syrup, but I don't like maple being a flavor of something I'm eating. I like to dedicate that to just syrup.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I do love pancakes and I do love syrup, but I don't like maple flavored stuff. Like, they don't make maple flavored Jolly Rangers for a reason.

[Eddie]

Sounds good, actually.

[Bobby Bones]

It does. Yeah.

[Amy]

Like Werther's Original is kind of like that.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I didn't think that people would think a maple candy is good.

[Eddie]

I love maple. Well syrup.

[Amy]

But what is. Wouldn't you say Werther's Original is kind of like a. Or that maybe it's more like caramel. A caramel hard candy that's like a.

[Bobby Bones]

Jolly Ranger Caramel, caramel, caramel, whatever.

[Amy]

I say it both ways. Caramel caramel.

[Bobby Bones]

A survey. Explore the causes of Christmas chaos. What would get most chaotic during Christmas for you guys?

[Eddie]

Chaotic.

[Amy]

Any last minute shopping.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, that could be something like having.

[Amy]

To get the shopping done if you're hosting.

[Bobby Bones]

So at number one, at 33% is the. The cooking. Like trying to get all the cooking done before people come over. You also have board games getting too competitive. The family's playing board games. You also have family politics. You also have TV remote wars. What to watch. What's fun about Christmas now is the sports world has allowed us to have a good docket of NFL games. Meaning just like three games, right?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

On Christmas couple on Netflix. You don't like that?

[Amy]

No, it just.

[Bobby Bones]

It allows for something to be on TV and for something to just have on that people can talk about. I know. There just isn't like a universal parade type thing on Christmas.

[Amy]

Yeah. There's Christmas movies.

[Eddie]

Yeah. The Christmas Story.

[Bobby Bones]

But then you have to hop. You got to start at the beginning, like a game.

[Amy]

You can just like casually just jump in. Okay.

[Eddie]

I love having sports on TV just on where no one. And if you want to sit and watch it. You can, but you have to. No, nobody has to.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like with a movie, I get annoyed because if I didn't start with the movie, I don't want to jump in halfway through. If I walk in on it, I don't mind if there's a game on, even if it's not my teams. Maybe I'm just a sports fan.

[Amy]

And that's why, like, sports at night doesn't bother me as much as I'm talking about a visceral reaction inside my body. So I can't explain it. But if, like, sports are on during the daytime, I've always, like. It's just been like a. I don't even want to be around it. And I tried to actually work through this. Like, what is my problem? What is this? Because it's been, you know, all. In my marriage, like, it was a problem. And I think that sometimes when I was with my dad and I, it must have been daylight out. He would be watching sports, and I would be trying to talk to him, and he, like, wouldn't hear me, you know, Like, I would talk and he was not listening.

[Bobby Bones]

Weren't met something about.

[Eddie]

Was he a Cowboys fan?

[Amy]

Yes. It could be football, golf. I mean, he would just sit on the couch with, like, his hands on his head, and he'd be.

[Bobby Bones]

Did he gamble?

[Eddie]

For sure.

[Bobby Bones]

He have a bookie?

[Amy]

Yes, he gambled and.

[Eddie]

But, like, that's why we didn't listen to you. I was so chill. I need to feel low here. Shush.

[Bobby Bones]

But do you know, did you ever meet the bookie? No.

[Amy]

No, we didn't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, he didn't come around the house?

[Amy]

No, it wasn't like, that would have.

[Bobby Bones]

To be then, because there wasn't.

[Amy]

I know. Well, I know that when my dad moved out, my mom at one point was cleaning out our garage, and she was finding cash hidden everywhere. And she knew. She was like, oh, yeah, this is probably his gambling money. But, like, in a gardening glove, like, deep inside, there'd be, like, a wad of. It'd be like $500, you know, so.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that has to be a thing.

[Amy]

Yes. I mean, my dad did. Listen, I found all kinds of things. Like, ugh, I'd be at my dad's house. You know, I was singing about this the other day, you know. You know, everybody had business cards back then, you know, and keep them out. Like, if you exchange information, you got someone's business card. And I don't know whose business card this was, but they worked at a.

[Bobby Bones]

Yellow Rose the strip club, Was it a woman?

[Eddie]

It was a woman.

[Amy]

No. I mean, it might have been a guy. I don't know.

[Eddie]

Manager, head of security.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think the strippers had cards.

[Amy]

I don't think they had business cards. It was like a. But I just remember in my dad's kitchen, like, there being a stack of business cards that he had, like, unloaded from the day, and I was like, oh, ew. He had a meeting there today. Like, that means he probably had. They probably had business meetings there. Like, lunches.

[Eddie]

I remember my. My dad went to. He went to a strip club club. Like, and we knew. Everyone knew. Like, so that when people would call the house, I would answer the phone and be like. They'd be like, hey, is your dad there? Like, no, he's at Tex Mex.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Like, that's really.

[Bobby Bones]

The place was called Texas.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Tex Mex strip club. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I'd stop in for a burrito, and I'm like, what the heck?

[Amy]

Yeah, well, that. Yeah, down there.

[Eddie]

Like, even my sister would answer the phone.

[Bobby Bones]

Tex Mex.

[Eddie]

Tex Mex. That's what it's called. Yeah.

[Amy]

Dang.

[Bobby Bones]

That's, like, on the border.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. I got some sausage because it was.

[Bobby Bones]

Known, like, your family knew food there, though. They have nice, good food.

[Eddie]

I never went.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

He took my brother. He never took me.

[Bobby Bones]

Dudes would. Dudes with dudes. Really?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

He took your brother to.

[Eddie]

And then my mom was like, you got to not do that. So I never got to go.

[Bobby Bones]

Dudes would be like, they make the best steaks.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's what they say. My dad said Hooters had the best wings.

[Eddie]

Yes, they would say that. Oh, dude, the lunch is great.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what they say about Playboys with the articles. No, there's some great articles. Yeah.

[Amy]

You learn so much. Yeah. But obviously, for my dad, it wasn't a hidden thing. I mean, we never talked about it, but my stepmom was in the kitchen. Like, it's not like he was high, you know? She probably knew. Oh, yeah. On his calendar, lunch meeting times, ma'.

[Bobby Bones]

Am. Yeah.

[Amy]

Weird.

[Eddie]

And my dad had a bookie. His name was. Well, we called him the Diablo.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you come around the house?

[Eddie]

The devil.

[Bobby Bones]

Either to give or to pick up his money.

[Eddie]

Correct. Either he was coming to collect or. Or he had an envelope with me.

[Amy]

I feel like Eddie's dad and my dad would have been best friends for sure, because also, my dad was fluent in Spanish, and they could just go to Mexico and have a good time.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Did it always surprise people like other white people when your dad could just rip Spanish?

[Amy]

Yes, I think so. Especially my dad and his brothers got together because they would just talk to each other. And my uncles were even better than my dad because they stayed in South Texas. And I remember at a family reunion once in Dilly, Texas, there was more Hispanics there than white people. And I was like, dad. And he goes, they're basically family.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, hey, that's like the south. And. And the Hispanic culture. Lots of cousins, lots of.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That you're not even related to.

[Amy]

He's like, yeah. This is just not to speak for.

[Bobby Bones]

The Spanish culture, Eddie.

[Eddie]

No, you're good.

[Bobby Bones]

But don't you guys have, like, a lot of relatives that aren't really related to you? Yeah, my wife gets confused. Kind of like, they're my cousin, but they're not really my cousin, but they're my cousin. Extremely. A Southern thing, too, because we had a lot of cousins. A lot of. This is your aunt. We weren't at all. It was just, like, somebody that lived close that would take care of you sometimes.

[Eddie]

There was one, literally, I found out when my mom was here over Thanksgiving, she's like, no, she wasn't your real aunt.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That's funny.

[Amy]

Yeah. No, I guess all their. Yeah, a lot of their. The people they worked with, like, everybody, I think my. My dad told me this story. Who knows? But my grand. My. His mom, because his dad died when my dad was, like, a month old, so she needed extra help. And so there was this Hispanic guy, like, literally, he was from Mexico, and he would come over and he helped a lot on her. She raised chickens, and they had watermelon.

[Bobby Bones]

He was a bunch of watermelon. It was a watermelon capital.

[Amy]

Watermelon capital of the world. They have a watermelon statue. And that's how my grandpa died. He got run over by his watermelon truck.

[Bobby Bones]

So it backed over him, right?

[Amy]

Yes. When he was unloading the watermelon.

[Bobby Bones]

Backed over him.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

That sucks. I know that doesn't sometimes get the respect it deserves in our conversations because we've talked about it so much, and.

[Eddie]

Watermelon throws it all off.

[Bobby Bones]

Because watermelon's, like, fun. Fun.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

And summer and refreshing. So.

[Amy]

And it's like that.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like when monkeypox was a thing, you put the word monkey on a terrible disease. You're like, that kind of sounds fun, but really, it was terrible. Died from a truck backing over him.

[Amy]

Yeah. And I guess in the Texas heat, too. With the watermelon. Like, to this day, my dad does not eat watermelon. He cannot stand watermelon because the. The. The heat, when it would spoil the smell, like, he just cannot even handle it well. Anyway, they had. Obviously this. Whoever this was that came to work with them a couple times a year would want to go back to Mexico to see his family, and my aunt would just go turn him in, and they would ship him back because he would be, like, illegal. And then he'd get to go back to Mexico for free. And then he would sneak back across and then come. And then my grandma would be like, okay, come on. And they were all in on it. She's like, I'll go turn you in now.

[Eddie]

Because the drive from Dilly to Mexico is not very close, so.

[Amy]

And then they would just go. And then they get a free ride back home.

[Eddie]

Yeah, dude, that was a thing.

[Bobby Bones]

That's like Otis on Andy Griffith to go check himself into the prison because he's too drunk. Same thing. That's wild.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I'm telling you, there was a lot of Hispanic influence. So I guess when my dad was down south, nobody was surprised. But I think when my dad was in Austin and he started speaking fluently or like. And he was really good at it. A lot of. Especially because he worked. He would build restaurants. A lot of the construct. Like, the workers he'd be. And I think my dad would show up on the job site, and probably a lot of the workers were like, oh, great, here's the gringo.

[Bobby Bones]

And.

[Amy]

And then my dad, they would, like, end up loving him right away because he was. He could talk to them fluently. And my dad was obvious. He was really cool, obviously.

[Bobby Bones]

Gambling, Strip club. Oh, yeah, Women.

[Eddie]

Cool.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the coolest dude.

[Amy]

But, I mean, he wasn't, like. I think sometimes, like, being. If he was in charge, like, the boss. Like, he wasn't one that was, like, too good. Like, he would pull up the grill and, like, cook lunch for everybody.

[Eddie]

That's crazy. So that's so much like my dad, I'm telling you.

[Amy]

I think they would have been best friends for real.

[Eddie]

Crazy.

[Amy]

And maybe they are now.

[Eddie]

Maybe they're hanging out right now. Look at all of us. They're like, who's gonna win in Alabama? Or ou.

[Amy]

They're at the Pearly Gate. That's the establishment up there.

[Eddie]

That was the joke at my dad's memorial. Like, you think he got in or not? I don't know. He's probably negotiating his way in right now.

[Bobby Bones]

They're both up at the Yellow Rose of Heaven.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Anna Nicole Smith. But the Yellow Rose in Heaven and Nicole Smith.

[Amy]

Oh, like, who's working up there?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. What's one word you would use to describe your job? You just get one. Add the top answers from American workers. So it's gonna be different than probably what you say. Our job is a bit different. But what's one word to describe your job, Amy? Gosh.

[Amy]

Well, the word that keeps.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, one word. You can talk after, but you need one word.

[Amy]

I'm probably doing it wrong.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you are. That's what I'm stopping you. I need one word.

[Amy]

Lucky.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So that's your relationship to the job.

[Amy]

That's the word that keeps coming to my mind.

[Bobby Bones]

There were no rules on this. Lucky works.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

We'll sit there. We can come back to it. One word, Eddie.

[Eddie]

One word.

[Bobby Bones]

Do not filibuster.

[Eddie]

I'm gonna go with early.

[Bobby Bones]

That's where I would have gone first. I'll pivot, but okay. Hold Lunchbox. Strenuous.

[Eddie]

Really taxing.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, one word. Morgan.

[Amy]

Different.

[Eddie]

That's good.

[Bobby Bones]

I think mine would be constant because it's. I constantly. As soon as it's over, I'm constant. And we can now elaborate a bit. I'm now constantly working on the next thing or the next show or podcast or whatever it is. It's constant with me. So I'm gonna go constant. Why? Lucky for you.

[Amy]

So in school, I used to get in trouble for talking all the time, and now I get paid to talk. So that is. So I just like, yeah, that's ironic. It worked out for me. It is like some of my teachers and be like, yeah, what's up now?

[Bobby Bones]

You said early.

[Eddie]

Yeah, just like it's. It's too early for your mind to be like, all right, let's talk last night.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm glad you said that. Last night, I did Kaitlyn Bristow's podcast, and I did it at like 6:30pm What?

[Eddie]

Yeah. That's bedtime.

[Amy]

That's late for you.

[Bobby Bones]

I was so on.

[Eddie]

Oh, really?

[Bobby Bones]

It was 6:30.

[Amy]

Yeah, but you'd been working all day.

[Bobby Bones]

All day.

[Amy]

I could see 6:30 being on if you got. If you Woke up at 10am I.

[Bobby Bones]

Actually had been so on because I'd gone from this show to a meeting. We did Bobby Cast. We had Kaitlyn Butts. We'd been working all day. It doesn't matter. Like, I stopped by the house for a minute, ate some food, went, 6:30pm is my. It's time to fly. And so it was. It was. I just felt so good. Like, this show would be so much better if it was 6:30pm Wouldn't get paid as much, but it'd be so much better. And it started storm. It was real bad storm last night. You guys get bad weather?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah, we did. Yeah.

[Amy]

I have a hole in my roof of a leak, and it was leaking. Well, I have. I cut a hole out to see if there for sure was a leak.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait, you cut a hole to see if I could.

[Amy]

Well, I hired somebody.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness. Okay.

[Amy]

Okay. So it looked like. Because it wasn't. It looked like there was some water, but I wasn't for sure because I was like, is that just a spot? And I got paranoid on the ceiling above my shower. So then I hired somebody to come cut a hole, but then we had to wait for it to rain. And it's such a small hole.

[Bobby Bones]

They cut a hole a long time ago. And you waited. Yes, but I've been waiting, like, okay, clouds on the Apple app. Let's. Let's get a hole up there.

[Amy]

No, but I've been waiting. And even if it's just a. A moderate rain, it's not that obvious. It's so hard to tell what's really happening. But if it pours, like yesterday, we know now.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you bucket it confirmed?

[Amy]

No, because it's dripping right into the shower. So it's fine. But now I know, which is great. Now I just need to get that handled.

[Bobby Bones]

Does it go. Do you hear it? The water hit in the shower?

[Eddie]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Or is it going whoosh?

[Amy]

No, it's not like that. But it's like, I'll step away, and then I come back and I know my shower floor wasn't wet at all. And then I'll see all the little drops because that's how it's very. I don't. The hole must be tiny up in the roof. But when you get a lot of rain, it got a lot of drops. So now I know. Now I know. And I can't wait to patch it up or figure out the hole and then patch it up, because it is getting cold in my bathroom. Cause I basically have a whole.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, winter.

[Amy]

Yes, winter.

[Eddie]

Winter has the rain yesterday, too, though. It was like coming sideways. It was that. It was like that kind of rain.

[Amy]

I think that's why it got more action. Like, I got more. Because it was like.

[Bobby Bones]

Morgan, your word was different. Go ahead.

[Amy]

I think I've just realized when I, you know, I talk to other people about their jobs and mine this is just such a different job. It's hard to relate to other people because it's not the same thing. And different in a good way, too. It's a really cool job that's so isolated, you can't really replicate it. Like, this is a cool job in itself.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. You said strenuous. Yeah, it's just very strenuous. People think it's so easy, but it's very hard to be on all the time, have great things to say, be smart about things, always be feeding off other people. It's a lot harder than people think. They think, oh, I can do that so easy. No, you can't. Maybe they could. I find that a lot of people. Because everybody has a podcast, not everybody has a podcast, and they're not good. I find that a lot of people can do six really good podcasts. And it's not the ability to tell a story. It's the ability to constantly come up with more and more stories. A lot of professional athletes do really great podcasts for like, five or six episodes, and then you run out of stories to tell. And that's the hardest thing about doing a podcast, is the consistency of it. Like, you have to do one or two a week, and it's so fun and it's great. But people quit because it takes a hundred of them to get any sort of traction. And that's a small number, especially if you're not super famous. And even if you are super famous now there's 10,000 people with a podcast. So it's so hard to get anybody to listen because there's only so many hours in the day, so many free times people have to listen, listen to a podcast. But I think a lot of people could do a really good podcast. But it's hard because it's a muscle. You have to work to be able to constantly. I use the word constant online to constantly have material. And I think for me, I'm glad we have a break soon. I burn, and I think a little bit, I start to let myself burn because I know the end is coming because I'm doing this show and then this podcast, and then we do 25 whistles, and then I do the show. We work for the NFL. And then I do two Bobby casts a week. And so I'm having to constantly go, did I talk about this? And I keep notes of almost everything. And I look at things before, I didn't this morning as much because I didn't know why I talked about that story earlier, the plane crashing. So I'M starting to get a little burnt, a little crack. But, yeah, that's the hard part is constantly going not being amazing, but just constantly being pretty good to good, not being smart.

[Eddie]

Like Lunchbox said, I don't feel like.

[Bobby Bones]

I say smart things all the time. I feel like sometimes I have to trust that I wasn't extremely unentertaining because I'm not feeling good. I'm like, man, that sucked. That day sucked. And I have to go, you probably didn't feel good, and that's why it didn't feel that good. More so than you tell yourself that I have to, or I'll spiral out. And then I have to really not spend a lot of time looking at what I just finished because I've got something else to do. Because we do this show every day, and I have another at least hour, hour and a half of different podcasts every single day to do. I'm not complaining at all because it's. I've built it, and I've built it for me, and I love doing it, but. And I think everybody could be really good at it for a second and then some for an hour. But then usually what separates is, can you do it constantly? Over two years, now that everybody has a podcast, too. All right, there you go, Soapbox.

[Eddie]

We do have a cool job, though. I feel like everyone always asks me, like, hey, tell me about your work. Like, what'd you do? What'd you guys do this week? You traveling? Who'd you talk to? Who'd you all interview, like, all the time? And it's. It's. I mean, I'm not asking them, like, what happened in court today? What was your spreadsheet, like, what you copyright this week?

[Bobby Bones]

I think I have a problem understanding that some people's priorities aren't to get ahead in their career. I think for a long time, even when I would hire people, I would go, okay, here's how I can invest you. Here's the long term. Here's what you can. And some people just want to work, but invest in their home life way more. And I think I had a hard time understanding that some people's job is just their job. And I think I wish I was a little more like that at times. I mean, I sacrificed a lot to build this, but now I understand, like, my wife is such a family person that I can now see for the first time the value of investing in things that aren't your job, your career, money, that type of thing. So it's really the first time that I'VE been able to see that because forever, I would hire somebody, and they wouldn't really want to weigh up. They wouldn't really want to build. They would be like, I just love the job. Wait, what? You don't want to grow? I'm good. Ray did that. I tried to move Ray up a couple times. Ray's like, the greatest worker, and he's like, I'm good, man. You don't want to, like, run the show? No, no, no, no.

[Amy]

I'm good.

[Eddie]

Ray was gonna run the show.

[Bobby Bones]

No. But definitely have the ability to do more. But he does so much. He's like, I feel great where I am now. He's made more money, obviously, through the years, but Ray loves his hometime. But he's the first one here. Most consistent person we have here. Ray, do you love your home time more than work time? Home time's different now. My wife works at home and her job's gotten a little stressful. Nice to see his wife at home. So it's not the same. So I do enjoy being home, but it's all about compartmentalizing stuff. So do I like my home time when I go at, like, 1pm? No, because she's doing calls and stuff. I love it at 4pm when she's done, though. Why did you never want a promotion? Just didn't like the stuff that it entailed, and I just didn't feel like I'd have any power. Kind of felt like I'd be pushed around. So I was like, definitely not. I never really understood it. I do now more so because you just value different things. And Ray always valued different things. But it's always. It is. Still, it had no effect on his work ethic. I always thought people want to work hard for sure. Want to move up. Ray was like, no, I got an awesome job. I'm good. I don't want to screw it up. Do you feel like that's fair of me to say? Yeah. Okay. I don't want that to feel like it's insulting. I would look at it and go, man, that's really cool. I wish I had a little bit of that. Yeah. I just knew. I mean, we're talking, like, five or more years ago. That was a while ago. Maybe I changed my mind now.

[Eddie]

You wanted to change.

[Bobby Bones]

Now my wife works at home.

[Eddie]

He's like, I want to run things now, man.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. Does that sound weird when I'm describing it?

[Amy]

Uh, no. I mean, I don't know Ray's whole situation.

[Bobby Bones]

No, not Ray's.

[Amy]

Even that aside. No, I think, yeah, it makes sense what you're saying, that you don't, you don't. You didn't get it. Now that you have a wife and have other things to. She's opened your eyes and your heart to family life. Not that you're gonna pivot much, but you maybe now can see where other people have been coming from all these years.

[Bobby Bones]

I can understand and appreciate the value of investing in things other than just your career.

[Amy]

Ye.

[Bobby Bones]

Which I couldn't because it's really all I had for a long time. So that's what I did. It was like, this is all I have. I'm gonna kill it. Yeah, it's kind of great. Like, I root for Oklahoma to win football games. Like, that's the big. That's the craziest thing that I could ever say. And that's all because of that. Like, I like my father in law to have joy. Not about my wife. She's kind of annoying about it. It's about my father in law. I like for him to win those games.

[Eddie]

Sweet dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, they play tonight. I hope they beat Alabama. I don't think they will. I think Alabama rolls. But I want Oklahoma to win because I want to see him happy now if they do lose, I don't know, I'd kind of like to see my wife suffer for a minute on that one because she rubs it in, we suck. It's like, haha, you only got two wins this year, huh? It's playful, but still, you know. But the fact that I can look at another team and go, I really hope they win for someone else, that's top of it. Because I don't do that.

[Amy]

That's how you know you've got.

[Bobby Bones]

I won't even let Amy's boyfriend have two favorite teams.

[Eddie]

You shouldn't.

[Amy]

Guys, I made him choose. I made him choose. He chose uva.

[Eddie]

Okay, good.

[Amy]

With a side of Auburn.

[Eddie]

He should thank you for that. With a side of Auburn.

[Amy]

All right, so I guess he'll be cheering for Oklahoma though, tonight.

[Bobby Bones]

Why?

[Amy]

Because he hates Alabama.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh. Because his side of Auburn.

[Eddie]

His little side.

[Amy]

Because of his side of Auburn.

[Bobby Bones]

His side. Chick's enemy.

[Amy]

He hates it.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, that's it. What are you doing this weekend?

[Amy]

Finishing a little bit of shopping that I need to do for my son. Mostly. I have all of my daughter's stuff. I think.

[Bobby Bones]

I think I'm done shopping. By the way, I. It's different because you and my wife are friends and she said you were coming over Next week or something.

[Amy]

Mm.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Whatever that was. I was like, hey, should we do take Amy's present and. Cause she's. She's like, no, she's coming over next week. Yeah, I don't have any present for you here.

[Amy]

Yeah, I know.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Amy]

Oh, I already gave everybody else their gifts too.

[Bobby Bones]

Here in the garage.

[Amy]

No, no, I did wait for everyone to leave though. I kind of do it one month. I did kind of do it one on one. I didn't like just willy nilly it out for everybody, but hopefully everybody liked their little things.

[Eddie]

Loved it.

[Amy]

I work. I. I try. Ed knows what his is and I got him a puzzle because now he's puzzle guy.

[Eddie]

So yeah, there's a Dolly puzzle and.

[Amy]

Dolly Parton, but I looked for a Gwyneth Paltrow puzzle. I couldn't find it. So Dolly was.

[Eddie]

I'm kind of glad you didn't give me the Gwyneth one, because my wife would be like, what? Really? Like, what is that?

[Bobby Bones]

Did you consider the goop vagina candle?

[Amy]

That is funny you say that, because I did order candles for some of the others on the. In the group, and that would have been a good one.

[Eddie]

My wife definitely would have thrown that away for sure.

[Amy]

That also would have been really weird and disrespectful to Eddie's wife. And I figured Dolly is a safe blonde.

[Eddie]

That's great.

[Amy]

She's probably the only woman puzzle you could put together that's not questionable.

[Eddie]

500 piece. I can probably do that in like one day.

[Amy]

Show off.

[Bobby Bones]

A dedicated day though, right?

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You wake up in the morning, you're like, my goal today is to do this puzzle and I have nothing else to do.

[Amy]

Her hair is going to be the hardest part.

[Eddie]

Yeah. All the blonde hair.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you wanting more followers on social media? Like, is that a goal of yours?

[Eddie]

No. Why?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay then, great.

[Amy]

Why. Why are you asking that?

[Bobby Bones]

You could live stream you putting it together. A 500 piece puzzle. You'd have to do it all in the stream. You'd gain a lot of followers. Oh, dang.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, if that's something you really wanted.

[Eddie]

That'D be kind of fun.

[Amy]

Like, just set it up and like he leaves the live stream running the.

[Eddie]

Entire while I'm working on the puzzle.

[Bobby Bones]

People would watch that. Come back on that if like you had a. You had the box up where they could see what it was going to be and there was a puzzle there and you just livestreamed it for three or four hours.

[Eddie]

Great idea.

[Bobby Bones]

That would be relaxing. For some people, I think it would be fun.

[Amy]

Does he talk?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you don't have to the whole time. It's not like you're playing video games. But people really wouldn't be there for the entertainment. They would just be there for the puzzle. And that's how you would get the new people that didn't know you as a person on this show, they would just be like, oh, this guy does puzzles. That literally could be your thing.

[Eddie]

I'm a puzzle guy now.

[Bobby Bones]

You could get so many followers by live streaming, putting together puzzles. You'd have to do it consistently. Yeah, but that would be a thing.

[Amy]

Where'd you find the time?

[Eddie]

I mean, I have to, like, kick everyone out of the house. Like, all right, guys, I'm gonna put a puzzle together.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you could do an hour a day or something and not finish every puzzle and just constantly go back.

[Amy]

Oh, I thought he was just on a Saturday.

[Bobby Bones]

He's just like, wait, code. You could do the whole thing.

[Eddie]

But that'd be baller, dude. If I get. Went live and finish the whole puzzle.

[Amy]

Set a timer, a clock.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So I had an idea of putting together a puzzle while doing an interview, and you have to live stream the whole thing or and record it for a podcast. But the problem with that was you don't know how long it's going to be. So let's say I have. I'll use Caitlin Butts as an example. She was over yesterday. We're recording a podcast. I was like, hey, we're going to put together this dolly puzzle. It's 500 pieces. It's. We're going to clip it. It's going to go up as a podcast and we'll clip it and it'll be a live stream that's, I think, fun and novel. But also, I can't say it's only going to take an hour.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but you guys would work on it together, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we do that while we were doing. It's like Comedians in Cars getting coffee. It's just an activity that you're doing while you're doing the interview. And you're able to, you know, ship it off to India and have them clip the crap out of it for 80 bucks. And you get all the clips. You get the full audio of the podcast, the full YouTube. I mean, it's good idea. Just quite. You have to dedicate. You have to have somebody you're comfortable with. That would take a couple hours. I guess you get a smaller one, huh?

[Eddie]

You can do 100 piece.

[Amy]

Yeah, they have 100 ones. Yeah.

[Eddie]

You probably get that done in 30 minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Amy]

I think so.

[Eddie]

100 piece. Maybe the key is to start with the edges. You start with the edges first and then you fill in the middle.

[Bobby Bones]

Should we do that on the Netflix show, Mike? Get a smaller puzzle and get someone to put. Put a whole puzzle. Thing about that is we can't. We can't really go over an hour 10, hour 15 our episodes. Because we signed a deal for 80 episodes for the year 100 piece puzzle. Most adults take 20 minutes to an hour. I'll for sure be in the hour part. But is that one adult? It says most adults.

[Eddie]

So does it work? So if you have two, does it.

[Bobby Bones]

Cut the time in half? Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. Is it like you can put. It's, you know, double the power, make it harder.

[Amy]

But everybody has their different method. Like some people do. Like to do the border first, some people like to color sort.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe we can do a small puzzle episode. You guys have.

[Amy]

They have one of 50 states to have an understanding.

[Bobby Bones]

There's 50 people that there's less than. Yes, that's fun. We put that together in three minutes.

[Eddie]

Hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I just assumed all those puzzles were big. Like what's the use of putting together a hundred piece puzzle? Because it would take 10 minutes.

[Amy]

You know what? I really wanted to get Eddie, but I saw it too late because he'd already had bottle handle. Maybe next year. I found out he was into puzzles after the advent calendar started. But at anthropology they had an advent calendar, so it was 24 little hundred piece puzzles. So each day your advent, the thing you pulled out was a different hundred piece puzzle.

[Eddie]

Wow, that's intense.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow. Kill me. No.

[Amy]

It looks so cool.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm sure it does look cool, but that is cool. You're committed every day. How big are the puzzles? 100 piece is that. I'm forgetting you said 500. 100.

[Eddie]

So 100 is the 30.

[Amy]

Do enough.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, kill me. Give me a 20 piece puzzle every day. Maybe I could do that. I wonder how. If that helps your brain. Yes, I know, it helps you relax. No, no, it's focused on something there.

[Amy]

No, it acts. It's one of the. It can be relaxing, it can be therapeutic. But yeah, no, it is good for your brain.

[Bobby Bones]

I love it.

[Eddie]

But it's such a time waster. Like when you're. When I'm done, like when I finish my thousand piece, I'm just like, what did I do? Like, and now I'm just gonna tear it apart and Give it to my neighbor.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you ever see those monks that are always put. That are doing the. The making of the. Really the cool art. And as soon as they're done, they wipe it away. They spend like months and years building this. It's really intricate art. And then as soon as they finish, it's because it's just about the process. Okay. It's not about.

[Eddie]

I get that.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'm talking about it's a plus level art and they may be Buddhists. Again, I'm trying to recall from something that I saw a documentary on. Yeah. And as soon as it's done, it gets erased. It is wild. It is the Tibetan Buddhist sand mandals, I think. What is that, Mike? How do you say it? Mandala. It's an intricate, colorful creation made by monks. Oh. You can be both Buddhist and monk. Okay. Using colored sand only to be ritually destroyed. Dissolved shortly after completion to symbolize the Buddhist teaching of. I don't know what the word is. Of all material life and spread healings energies. Also my vision, what I'm seeing on the screen is so small. I have to do the. Make it bigger now.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Hey, man.

[Amy]

So the cognitive benefits of puzzles, Bobby. Improved memory, enhanced problem solving skills. Increased concentration, slowing cognitive decline.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what I need.

[Amy]

And so those are the brain benefits. But then like we said, there's the emotional benefits like stress relief, enhanced mood. They can be a solo activity. But if you do it with family or friends, then you got some social interaction.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe you fight with them.

[Eddie]

I don't really let my kids do it because they lose. They'll force pieces together. No, don't do that.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, we're done. So we will have a podcast Monday, probably Tuesday as well. But we are done for the day. All you part tours. We really appreciate you listening if you are a part tour because again, I think there's a preference. I think everybody has a preference. Part one, a little more fast paced, a little more. Little more precision involved. Part two is just us hanging out, talking about stuff. You can always let me know in the DMs which one you prefer. Part one or part two? Because they are two totally different types of shows. But we appreciate you guys. Hope you have a good weekend and we will see you guys soon. Bye everybody.

[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

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[Amy]

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[Amy]

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