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Guest (Luke Combs)
Here we go. Come on Bobby.
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Bobby Bones
Turn it up.
Morgan
This is a Bobby Bone shout.
Bobby Bones
Hey, I hope you had a great weekend. Welcome to Monday Show Morning Studio Morning I want to go to the guys first. What makes a perfect wife? I asked this because I'm going to tell you what the Journal of Operational Research says, but what Makes the perfect
Lunchbox
wife lunchbox D's and.
Eddie
What's he talking about?
Morgan
What do you think he's talking about, Eddie?
Bobby Bones
Stupid.
Guest (Luke Combs)
Oh, my gosh.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Lunchbox
I want a woman that can cook, A woman that cleans, does my laundry and has a good personality and just good body all around.
Bobby Bones
Feel like he wants one from the 50s.
Eddie
So was it one thing or, like, all the things?
Bobby Bones
Well, I have some things that's gonna list, but I just wondered where your mind would go.
Eddie
I mean, mine for sure. Beautiful, right? You'd want her to be beautiful. You want her to have a good personality. Funny. Preferably blonde. You know what else?
Lunchbox
Good with kids.
Eddie
And then. And then, like, want easy to just kind of like, let me do things, you know, like, don't give me too much of a hard time. Like if I want to go play
Bobby Bones
golf with the boys.
Morgan
So just breezy.
Bobby Bones
More of that 50s vibe for you two? Yeah.
Lunchbox
Non nagging.
Eddie
I guess you can put it that way.
Bobby Bones
I would have said the typical things you say when you look for a partner. Like, funny. Like, my wife's really funny. But also somebody. I need somebody who can check me, like, challenge me at times because I tend to push extremely hard in any way that I'm pushing. And I need somebody I trust that has my best intentions to tell me I'm doing it wrong. So I need someone that can have that in a partner. So I'd put that in there. But a lot of the other stuff, I don't think I need for, like, the perfect wife that you guys listed.
Eddie
You don't need a pretty wife.
Bobby Bones
I think she wouldn't be my wife unless I was attracted to her to begin with.
Eddie
Well, yeah, that's part of it.
Lunchbox
Yeah, that's part of it, man.
Bobby Bones
But that's a.
Morgan
So looks a relative. It's, you know, you're saying, like, obviously,
Bobby Bones
obviously I'm gonna be attracted to her if we're getting married.
Eddie
Oh, right, right. Okay.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
Yeah. I guess we didn't need to say that.
Bobby Bones
What do you think, as a former wife yourself?
Morgan
Well, I'm glad you said former wife.
Bobby Bones
Former. Are you a wife right now?
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Were you?
Morgan
Yes.
Bobby Bones
Okay. As a former one.
Morgan
Well, I'm glad you brought up the challenging because that's what I was thinking. Like, I think a man wants a woman that will challenge him and make him better.
Bobby Bones
They just want to go easy, breezy.
Morgan
I think that y' all want someone who is supportive and caring.
Bobby Bones
No. What do you think is. No, don't do us.
Morgan
Okay. Well, yeah, Challenging, supportive, kind Caring, loving. Like sports or will pretend to like sports.
Bobby Bones
I'm very fortunate. My wife comes from an extremely sports background. Her family, it's all they do is watch sports. She played sports. I got fortunate there.
Morgan
Yeah. I will throw in breezy, easy breezy.
Bobby Bones
I think thought she was gonna say D's.
Morgan
However, there are times when, like, you know, the challenging or the checks. Like you said, like, someone will check you. You can't be too breezy.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I feel like the challenging and the checking is for my own good, but also it's going to be uncomfortable, but I have to understand that I have to trust that person.
Morgan
Yeah, you said it. You said someone that has your best interests in mind. And I think that as partners, we want that in the other person. Like, oh, this person loves me, cares about me. I need to listen to what they're saying. Which brings me to my next part of a good partner or good wife. A good listener.
Eddie
Sure, sure. I mean, all those sound great.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
After years of marriage. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Researchers looked into some of these statistical factors that led to a good marriage and the perfect wife. They found it's important for the wife to be at least five years younger than the husband.
Eddie
That's weird.
Bobby Bones
Check on that.
Eddie
Check, Bobby.
Bobby Bones
Probably because the brains don't develop the same.
Morgan
Oh, like it's helpful for. Because the man is more mature. I saw something the other day that, like, y' all don't yalls brains.
Bobby Bones
Mine still isn't fully good for you
Morgan
because you're about five years away. I heard it's 50 years old.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, mine's not fully.
Eddie
Really?
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Yours like tomorrow then.
Eddie
I'm almost there.
Bobby Bones
She is from the same cultural background as her husband, and they had similar upbringings.
Morgan
Oh, yeah. Equally yoked. Yoked?
Bobby Bones
What are you talking about?
Morgan
Like, I'm thinking, like, your faith.
Amy
Oh.
Bobby Bones
When someone says they're yolked, that means they're like, ripped up. Like, they're strong, muscular.
Morgan
No, no, no, no. You never heard that in church. Equally yolked.
Bobby Bones
Not just the gym.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. And then she performs better on standardized tests than her husband and had a higher gpa.
Morgan
Interesting.
Eddie
Is she smarter than you?
Bobby Bones
I think my wife's smarter than me in a lot of ways. Probably not standardized tests, but probably higher gpa and she has far more education than I do. She got. She's like multiple masters. So that is what the perfect wife is supposed to be. Which is way different than what the rooms was initial ones.
Morgan
It's a different direction than I thought it was going to go. That's it's good to know yours are
Bobby Bones
like, like eating eggs or something. Got to like same kind of eggs or something. Bones.
Guest (Luke Combs)
It's the anonymous in
Morgan
box.
Bobby Bones
If there's a question to be had,
Guest (Luke Combs)
send it into the ma.
Bobby Bones
Bobby, what is something you look forward to every day no matter how busy you are? Is there something like a simple pleasure that you never get tired of? Signed B teamer. Interesting. I. I look forward to seeing the dogs when I go home. My wife's not always at home, so I can't predict if she's gonna be at home or not. I know they're going to be at home, so I look forward to seeing the dogs when I get home. So that's probably the first thing that comes to mind. I like, like I, I like to have a little time before I fall asleep to be on my phone. Like that time, like when I'm in bed, I'm in bed for the night, I'm fully in bed and then I've dedicated 20, 25 minutes to just doom scrolling. Like I like that time. Like I like that.
Morgan
It's like literally this like suggested not to do that, but that's what you love to do. It's like all research points are like don't do that. But Bobby's like I look forward to.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Morgan
And you will never give it up, I don't think.
Bobby Bones
No. And I, I show my wife my screen time a lot. I'm not on my phone a terrible amount. How long are you guys on your phone? Usually a day. Do you have any idea if you go to Settings a lot? See, but I tell her I also work on my phone through the day. Right. So that's a part of it. But if you go to settings and then you search screen time, it'll pull it up. And when I have any day that's below six hours, I show off six hours to her. I'm like, look, five, 34, 55, anything like that?
Morgan
Four hours, 36 minutes.
Bobby Bones
That's your average?
Morgan
Yeah. Oh, that's a lot. Yeah, that's my average. So I guess some days it's two.
Bobby Bones
I can't figure it out.
Eddie
Am I misspelling screen? Because it's not finding it.
Lunchbox
Two hours, 12 minutes.
Bobby Bones
That, that tracks. Yeah. You don't stand your phone very much. No. What do you got?
Eddie
One hour and 39 minutes.
Bobby Bones
That's all.
Eddie
That's pretty good.
Bobby Bones
That must be just today.
Eddie
That's daily.
Morgan
This is why they don't know anything that's going on in the world.
Bobby Bones
Eddie.
Morgan
This is 11 hours.
Guest (Luke Combs)
Oh, my bad.
Eddie
I didn't see the one. 11 hour. I have my reading glasses on.
Morgan
Wait, how are you there now?
Bobby Bones
11 hours.
Morgan
Now I take back my comment. How are you on that device for 11 hours and you still don't know things?
Eddie
Good question. I don't know.
Bobby Bones
I mean, but how are you on your phone 11 hours?
Eddie
Well, I do use GPS everywhere I
Lunchbox
go, so, like, oh, my gosh.
Eddie
But I mean, I go to practices every day.
Morgan
I GPS to work every day.
Bobby Bones
This thing just gets weirder and weirder.
Lunchbox
You GPS to work every day?
Morgan
Every day.
Bobby Bones
Oh, you.
Eddie
You guys, don't.
Bobby Bones
I know how to get to work.
Morgan
There's an alternate route?
Eddie
Yes.
Bobby Bones
Oh, I don't. No.
Morgan
What if there's.
Bobby Bones
That's wild. You guys GPS to work.
Morgan
GPS everywhere. I check the time on same anything. Because, like, what if it's different? And that's crazy. I also don't trust myself.
Bobby Bones
I get that. Yeah, I GPS a lot of places, but I not never to work. That's crazy.
Morgan
Oh, wow. Every single day. Like, I pull up to the building and it's like, end route. And I'm like, every day?
Lunchbox
Unbelievable.
Eddie
It tells you what traffic is going to be like. So even if I practice across town, like, oh, my gosh, it's gonna take an hour to get there today.
Bobby Bones
No, I know, but 30 minutes practice across town. We're talking about GPS. Into work, guys.
Eddie
Yeah, same.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Lunchbox
Yeah, but then once you see that, okay, you're going the same route, don't you just turn it off.
Eddie
Now I leave it on because it tells me what time I'm gonna get there.
Bobby Bones
You guys are crazy. Anyway, I like to see my dogs when I get home than for asking. There you go. All right. Name a band with a number in their name. So we're gonna play the Bobby feud. We asked 2000 Bobby Bo show listeners name a band with a number in their name. It'll go Morgan, then Eddie, then Amy. We rolled for first. The lunchbox is out because he finished last place last time. All right, Morgan. Name a band with a number in their name.
Morgan
I'm gonna go with Blink 182.
Bobby Bones
Go number three. Answer Blink 182.
Morgan
Now I'm gonna go with three doors down.
Bobby Bones
Show me three doors down. Number eight. Good job.
Morgan
Okay, now. Okay, this one's popping in my head.
Announcer
You too?
Bobby Bones
You too. Sorry. Number two. Answer.
Announcer
Okay.
Morgan
Oh, we got Bowling for Soup.
Bobby Bones
We got Foo Fighters.
Morgan
We got Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Bobby Bones
Name a band with a number in their name.
Morgan
Yeah. Okay. Third Eye Blind. Third. Third is a number. Yeah, kind of.
Bobby Bones
Show me Third Eye Blind.
Guest (Luke Combs)
Okay.
Amy
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Third. Not really a number.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, Eddie.
Eddie
Gosh, this is tough, guys. The first one that came to my mind, though is 21 pilots.
Bobby Bones
Show me 21 pilots. Oh, no. Got that extended buzz, too.
Eddie
Dang.
Bobby Bones
Okay, Amy, over to you.
Morgan
Jackson five.
Bobby Bones
Jackson five. Number one answer. Jackson five.
Morgan
Number one.
Eddie
Good job, though, Amy.
Morgan
Yeah, but doesn't help me. Six pin. None the richer.
Eddie
That's pretty good. That's a number, though.
Bobby Bones
That's definitely a number. Okay, round two. Points are doubled. Morgan has 13 points. Eddie zero. Amy, one point. Morgan, what do you got?
Morgan
I think this is a van. I'm not entirely sure now. 741.
Bobby Bones
Some 41.
Amy
That's so good, Morgan.
Bobby Bones
So good. Number nine answer.
Morgan
That's huge points.
Bobby Bones
Go ahead.
Morgan
741. That was the exam. My number knowledge. Now. Let's go. Let's go. I'm trying to think of, like, the old school we. We had. Like, who. Who's saying Green Day? No, that's good. Charlotte.
Bobby Bones
No idea what conversation she's having with herself. None of that's right.
Morgan
The. The Beatles, the. I have bands coming to my acdc. That's not a number. Foo Fighters. That's not a number.
Bobby Bones
All right, Eddie. Wow.
Eddie
Okay. Give me Three Days Grace.
Bobby Bones
Eddie, that's a band, though, right? What do they say? I hate everything about you.
Eddie
That's it.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Amy, you have one point, and Morgan has 31. Number one answer is Jackson 5. Number two is U2. Number three is Blink 182. Number eight is Three Doors Down. Number nine is Sum 41.
Morgan
Yeah. Nine Inch Nails.
Eddie
Oh, my goodness.
Bobby Bones
Show me N I, N.
Eddie
I thought
Morgan
you had that same Z's.
Bobby Bones
Wow. All right, Morgan, you're dominating.
Morgan
I'm dominating, but there's nothing left.
Eddie
Yeah, it's over.
Bobby Bones
Five still on the board.
Morgan
Five.
Eddie
Is it only five?
Bobby Bones
There's five left on the board. Oh, there's five left it. When I read them each to you guys, you will take a pin and stab it in your eye. All the. All of you. Because you'll be like, oh, my God.
Announcer
I don't.
Bobby Bones
Morgan.
Morgan
I'm, like, just seeing pictures in my head, and I feel like there's. There's like, five finger death punch.
Bobby Bones
That's a van.
Eddie
It's a good van.
Bobby Bones
That's a weird one to come to, but that's a van.
Morgan
All I'm seeing in my head was a five. I don't know if that's good. That's all that's coming to my head, though.
Eddie
So.
Morgan
Five Finger Death Punch. That is a band, though.
Bobby Bones
That is a band. Eddie, you have zero points. You're gonna go home if you don't get one.
Eddie
All right, this is round three, right? Everything's tripled.
Bobby Bones
I got you. Go ahead.
Eddie
Matchbox 20.
Bobby Bones
Matchbox 20.
Morgan
That's good.
Bobby Bones
Number seven. Ants are worth 21 points.
Morgan
Stabb myself.
Bobby Bones
Don't call it a comeback.
Morgan
Oh, no.
Bobby Bones
Go ahead.
Eddie
And the only one I have left, and it better be on there, is One Direction.
Bobby Bones
One direction.
Guest (Luke Combs)
Yes.
Bobby Bones
Number six, worth 18 points. And he taking the lead. Wow.
Eddie
And then that's all I got. So I'm going to guess Pearl Jam.
Bobby Bones
Okay, you're in the lead.
Amy
Come on.
Bobby Bones
39 points. Morgan has 31, Amy has one. You have three bands left. Jackson 5 you2 blink 182. One Direction, Matchbox 23 doors down and some 41 all off the board. There are enough points for you to win this thing.
Morgan
There are?
Bobby Bones
Oh, yeah. A point of triple.
Morgan
I mean, that would require me knowing any other bands.
Bobby Bones
Yes, yes, that's true. And obviously you would need to get one. Right.
Morgan
Matchbox 20. And one direction. I do want to stab my eyeballs out. One direction, two direction. Three direction. Four five direction. Six direction. Matchbox 80. I have. I've written down every number and I can't. 1, 2, 3.
Eddie
Every number you've written down.
Morgan
7, 8, 9. Because I. 15.
Bobby Bones
You have five seconds.
Morgan
I know. Alabama. One Direction. Amy.
Bobby Bones
I need an answer.
Morgan
59. Elvis.
Bobby Bones
Amy's gonna finish in last place with one point. I want to go to Lunchbox, though. Did you Google anything?
Lunchbox
No.
Bobby Bones
Okay, do you have anything?
Lunchbox
Yeah. Boys to men. Two.
Bobby Bones
Boys.
Lunchbox
Two.
Bobby Bones
Well, two Roman numerals.
Lunchbox
Well, isn't that a number?
Bobby Bones
Possibly.
Morgan
Okay, what else you got?
Lunchbox
I saw.
Bobby Bones
Okay, I'll give you the number.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
And you see if you can name the band.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
The number is four.
Guest (Luke Combs)
Four.
Lunchbox
Non blondes.
Bobby Bones
That would have been. Right. That's the number 10 Number 10 Answer. The next number.
Morgan
Oh, my gosh.
Bobby Bones
One.
Morgan
I'm an idiot.
Bobby Bones
The next number is five.
Eddie
Five. Nine.
Morgan
Five.
Bobby Bones
Non blinds.
Lunchbox
Five seconds of summer.
Morgan
Destiny's five.
Amy
Oh, yeah.
Eddie
Five seconds of summer. No.
Bobby Bones
Five.
Announcer
Five.
Bobby Bones
Five.
Morgan
So I was on to something with the five, which is the wrong one.
Eddie
Ben Fool's five.
Bobby Bones
Jackson, you remember that one?
Morgan
Number four.
Bobby Bones
Answer.
Morgan
I'm just Jackson.
Bobby Bones
Blank five.
Morgan
Blank five. Danity five. Destiny five link one hundred and eighty
Bobby Bones
five
Morgan
some five U five.
Bobby Bones
It's a color.
Morgan
Blue five bad 65 yellow five green five. Purple color.
Lunchbox
That's funny.
Guest (Luke Combs)
Dang.
Morgan
Adam Levine.
Bobby Bones
Okay, the last one, a gate. The number is higher than 85
Morgan
and
Bobby Bones
higher than 85 and lower than 100.
Eddie
So 86.
Morgan
19. 85.
Eddie
What?
Lunchbox
That's not higher than 80s.
Bobby Bones
What? That's not a banner. That's not a man. It's a song.
Morgan
Song.
Bobby Bones
Oh. 90. 90. 99.
Lunchbox
90 degrees. 90 degrees.
Bobby Bones
90 degrees. Oh my gosh.
Eddie
Way back.
Bobby Bones
90 degrees. Yeah. There. Amy's jabbing her eyes out with a pin. I told you. All right, good job. Our winner is Bones from executive producer Taylor Sheridan. A new era of Yellowstone begins in the new CBS original series Marshals. Tonight, KC Dutton is back and he's teaming up with an elite unit of U.S. marshals to bring range justice to Montana. With the Yellowstone ranch behind him and a new team at his side, Casey will balance family and duty as he faces his biggest fight yet. Lou grimes stars Marshalls tonight 8, 7 Central on CBS and streaming on Paramount.
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See full terms@mintmobile.com on the Bobby Bones show Now. Luke Combs, you posted a picture of you playing your first ever show. I think it was in Boone, North Carolina.
Guest (Luke Combs)
Yep. I mean, yeah, it's true. I mean, truly the first gig I ever played.
Bobby Bones
Like a paid gig?
Guest (Luke Combs)
Yeah, yeah. I mean, first. Yeah, I mean, really first gig where it was like, hey, I'm gonna like promote myself as a person that you would come see in concert, you know, So I had sang in front of people forever, I mean, my whole life. So it wasn't like anything that was particularly nervous about.
Bobby Bones
Oh, you weren't like super nervous, like, this is my big shot?
Guest (Luke Combs)
No, no, no, no. I was more excited because I was like. I just felt like I believed in my ability to like deliver. I sing enough and play just enough to like to actually do it. So there was no nerves there. And I knew like, basically it's my first show, so it's kind of like built in. Like I had a bunch of friends. So I was like, well, I know my friends are going to come. It's not like nobody's going to show up. Boom's not big, dude. It's a. It's a small town, so absolute. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Whenever you play that first show, are you playing any songs that you wrote or are you playing covers?
Guest (Luke Combs)
I don't have a set list. I probably played for like an hour because that was about like the all I could play. I'm just doing it's 99% covers. If I did an original, it was one or two max because I'd probably only written five songs at that point.
Bobby Bones
What inspired you to do that show then? Were you singing so much in. Were you doing chorus in college?
Guest (Luke Combs)
Not in college. I was in an acapella group my freshman year and like part of my sophomore year was singing, doing that. You know, I was always like in practice of like singing. But then by the time I do the show, like I had been playing for people in my living room, like at like parties and stuff. Not in an official capacity, but just like there's a Guitar around and you start messing with it, and people are like, play Play Cruise. Or, you know, like, whatever. That was a big song at the time. That was my big closer. Everybody wanted to hear it.
Bobby Bones
Were you getting a lot of affirmation when you're playing at these houses and for people and they're confused as why you're not trying it?
Guest (Luke Combs)
Basically at that time, like, I knew I was a good singer. Like, I knew that, and I was confident in that. And so it was just like, I feel. I felt like, well, man, if I play for people, they're going to like it. I think, you know, wasn't like an arrogance thing. It was more just confident. Like, I was never wondering if, like, I wonder if people will like this. It was like, man, all I got to do is put myself out there and I think people will like this. And I think it would be to the extent that it is now. But, you know, it. I mean, it worked, you know.
Bobby Bones
Was there a first out of town show that you were a little nervous about just because you had never played in a different town?
Guest (Luke Combs)
Yeah, we played a lot. Like, I did play a lot in, like, Charlotte. So I would go, like, that summer I moved in with my grandma. She was living in Huntersville, which is just outside of Charlotte, the town I was born in. I would go there, and then basically all I did all summer was I didn't. I didn't have to have a job that summer because I was making enough doing my shows in Boone and stuff to be able to not have to work. So that was my first step into, like, quote unquote, building a new market. Like, I wasn't thinking of it that way, but that's what I was unintentionally doing is, like, I went there, lived there that summer, and basically I would get online and just figure out when all the open mic nights were in Charlotte for anything. Like, just some of them were like, you could come do stand up or anything. Some of them were strictly music.
Bobby Bones
You would go play at open mics?
Guest (Luke Combs)
Oh, yeah. I mean, I would go. I mean, that's what I was doing any night. So, like, probably there wasn't one every night, but probably four or five nights a week I was doing that. And then as the summer went on, like, I would do good enough at some of these open mics where they'd be like, would you come play here on Wednesday night for an hour or two? And I'd be like, sure. And then I would make, you know, 200 bucks doing that, and then I would Drive up to Boone, do a couple gigs. Those are my big money gigs, you know, make, like, guaranteed 300 bucks or something, playing one of those. So I drive back up the mountain, play a couple nights in Boone so I wouldn't have to work, come back to Charlotte. And then I met a lot of different bar owners and stuff. Just through some owner of a bar would say, hey, this guy played here. I think he's really good. You should book him at your bar, too. And they put me in touch with some other guy that I would call. And then maybe that show was in Winston Salem or something. So I just continually, like, push further east into the state and then further west, like, into east Tennessee and stuff, and a little bit south into, like, South Carolina, Columbia, that kind of stuff. But I did that for, I mean, two and a half years and just slowly built out. Like, pretty soon I was playing in Georgia, like, North Georgia and Atlanta. Had some gigs in Atlanta bars and just kind of. I didn't realize I was doing anything good. I just figured this is what everyone does.
Bobby Bones
Was it a strategy to grow, or was it a strategy just to play music and exist?
Guest (Luke Combs)
Yeah, pretty much it was a strategy because, like, all I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life. Even in college, it was never, like, blatantly obvious what I was cut out to do. Which is weird to say now because I'd been singing forever. But once I picked the guitar up, man, I knew, like, this is what I'm supposed to do. Did I ever have any dreams of becoming, like, a big superstar? No, because again, I'm going back to, like, that blue collar mindset of, well, that just doesn't happen to people, so I'll just be fine. Like, I'm making enough money, paying all my bills, don't have to work. If that's it, then I'm happy with that, and that would be fine. If that was how it was forever. I would have truly been happy doing that. And so I kind of set myself up for success because there was never any, like, failure. I never viewed myself as being able to fail because I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve, which was sustaining myself on my own without help from anyone else and just playing shows. I could have lived the rest of my life that way if I wanted to.
Bobby Bones
So everything was house money?
Guest (Luke Combs)
Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was basically. It's like you go to a casino and they're like, here's $10,000, and you're like, oh, perfect. I'll never blow this because I'll spend a dollar at a time. You know that's not how you do
Bobby Bones
it in real life, though, right? Dollar at a time.
Guest (Luke Combs)
I don't. I don't even gamble at all.
Bobby Bones
You don't?
Guest (Luke Combs)
I don't sports bet. No.
Bobby Bones
You're not a casino guy?
Guest (Luke Combs)
I like playing roulette, but I don't do it like. I'm not a guy that's like, I could go to Vegas and not go in a casino and be like, cool. The most money I've probably ever lost in a casino is less than $500.
Bobby Bones
You ever play casinos?
Guest (Luke Combs)
I did, yeah. A bunch of radio stuff. They were always fun. They're kind of hard to like and be a weird way of saying this, and I'll probably say it wrong, but, like, a casino is a hard place to be famous at. If I'm playing a show, everyone's staying at the casino. So it's not like I can just walk in and sit at the poker. Like, everyone in there, like, there, and they know they're all there, and they know. So, like, you can't even really go in there and do the thing anyways. And then if you do, they're like, well, we could get you a private table, but it's. You got us. It's $1,000 a hand to get a private. I'm like, I'm not. That's a total waste. So I remember one time I got. They're like, we'll give you a marker, dude. One of the casinos, it was like, part of the payment was like. I remember. They'd be like, we'll give you $10,000 marker. And I'm like, how about you just give me $10,000? And they were like. They were like, well, we can't do that. I'm like, what do you mean you can't? Like, you're already paying me X amount. So just add $10,000, dude, and don't give me the chips. And they're like, well, we can either, like, give you the chips or not. I'm like, perfect. Took the chips, walked in, sat down at the roulette table and bet the max. Bet on red or black every. And then just took what I made and walked out. Because it was basically get $10,000 or nothing. So I'm like, well, at least could get maybe $5,000 of this. So I think I walked out with, like, seven grand. Whatever the rush people get, I just don't get it. I don't know why.
Bobby Bones
The pleasure center of your brain does
Guest (Luke Combs)
not go off whenever that for that thing? No. You throw down a bag of Taco Bell in front of me or it's in trouble.
Bobby Bones
Bones. I love wedding drama. So here we go. At a wedding, is this request from the bride practical or tacky? Go ahead.
Announcer
A bride is going viral after asking guests to pay $75 a plate for their own reception dinner. According to the New York Post, the payment request was included right in the invitation, with the bride saying it would help cover catering costs. Commenters didn't hold back. Classless and just a lope came up a lot. But with wedding costs soaring, some are asking, is this the new normal?
Bobby Bones
Fox 5 Atlanta with that, it does feel like it's the new normal, because there's one of these every day where someone's asking for money for something. I think it's fine. It can be practical and tacky at the same time.
Morgan
Yeah. I'm not going to be concerned if somebody else is doing this. Like, it's not going to bother me. I'm not going to do it.
Bobby Bones
But would you pay the money if it was somebody you knew?
Morgan
I. Yeah, I suppose so. If.
Bobby Bones
Yes.
Morgan
If my friend and I wanted to attend their wedding, I'd be like, okay, yeah, this is different. Haven't done this before. I wouldn't do it.
Bobby Bones
Anything about that is negative.
Morgan
But, no, but I'll pay it. And I'm not going to, like, comment on it or have a fuss about it or anything. I mean, privately, I think that most
Bobby Bones
people are upset because they think if you can't afford the wedding, don't have the wedding. And that's what's happening here. Right. They're not able to pay for it, so they want the guest to pay for it. But I have no problem with that. Like, people are going to be giving you money anyway. I think this should kind of count as the gift.
Morgan
Oh, so. Oh, good. Little twist there. If you have to pay for your dinner, which is $75 a head, so if there's two of you, that's 150. Are you getting them a gift?
Bobby Bones
There's a consideration of not.
Morgan
Because I guarantee you they are registered and.
Bobby Bones
And they're getting food for the money that they're paying. True. I don't have a problem with it because, again, if it's someone's wedding, I don't care what they do. It's their own wedding. People don't have to go. People aren't being forced. It's not a tax. This isn't a tax on people that they have to pay or they Go to jail. But it's interesting. And what if you don't pay, but then you show up at the wedding?
Eddie
Yeah. Can you do that? That's what I was thinking.
Bobby Bones
BYO food.
Eddie
Like, I'll go to the wedding, but I just won't eat.
Morgan
Yes. What if you attend but don't eat? Is that an option?
Eddie
I like that.
Bobby Bones
I haven't seen the invitation. I think that would probably be tacky. That would be tacky.
Morgan
That would be tacky.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. It would be tacky to attend and not eat because there's going to be a place for everybody that paid.
Morgan
No, but I mean, if they. If you say, like, not eating, they won't set.
Announcer
Oh.
Morgan
Like in the rsvp, you just stand.
Bobby Bones
They probably don't go to the reception. Then they just go to the wedding and they don't stay for the reception. It's weird. But I don't have a problem with people asking for money for anything because you don't have to give them money for anything. It's like people getting upset at people putting tip jars in the cash registers. I don't care. It doesn't hurt me one bit to tip or not tip. It doesn't bother me at all. And you can scream about tipping culture all you want, but you don't have to tip. So there's no reason to get upset. But yeah. 75 bucks a plate, though, too. They're having some nice food. They should give you the option. Do you want the $10 fried chicken or up to the $75 a plate? Would you go to that wedding, Eddie?
Eddie
I think I would ask if. I'm just not gonna eat. Like, I'd love to go support you guys. Love you guys. Be there at the wedding, but I'm just not gonna eat. I'm not hungry. And then I'll just eat before.
Bobby Bones
Also, I bet you don't want to bring kids.
Eddie
No chance.
Bobby Bones
If it's 75 bucks a ticket, they
Morgan
have a kids menu lunchbox.
Bobby Bones
Would you go to this?
Eddie
Not a chance.
Lunchbox
You're gonna charge me to eat at your wedding? Your wedding sucks, and I'm not going. That means it's not going to be an open bar either. Sounds like a terrible wedding. Hey, have fun with your wedding. I'll see you afterwards.
Bobby Bones
So weddings without an open bar are terrible weddings that you won't go to?
Lunchbox
Yeah, they kind of suck. You already know. The mood going in is like, ah, this ain't gonna be that good.
Bobby Bones
Hey, Abby, I'm gonna ask you a question about. Because you're engaged. Have you guys started talking about your wedding yet?
Morgan
A little bit. Not that much planned, though.
Bobby Bones
So no open bar talk yet.
Morgan
Oh, there will be an open bar. No doubt.
Bobby Bones
So you're gonna. You're gonna pay for the bar?
Morgan
Yes. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Okay. The lunchbox will come, actually.
Morgan
Well, for him.
Bobby Bones
She wants to. Would you ever charge somebody 75 bucks a plate?
Morgan
No, I wouldn't do that. I don't think that's right.
Bobby Bones
What about asking for money for anything?
Morgan
No, I. I don't like that either. I've never been to a wedding where that happened, and I can't imagine. That just seems off to me.
Bobby Bones
How do you feel about registering for, like, your honeymoon where people do that?
Morgan
I think that's okay because it's kind of like. It's like the gift, you know, like they donate to the wedding fund. I mean, the honeymoon fund. So I think that's okay. That's different.
Bobby Bones
Isn't all the money going to the same place, though?
Morgan
Basically, something just feels different about it.
Bobby Bones
And then lie. Be like, donate to the honeymoon fund by the fish with that money.
Morgan
The fish?
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Morgan
The dinner.
Amy
Yeah.
Morgan
Okay. I guess that's it. And now I'm sitting here reflecting, like, what is it about me or what's wrong with me that I wouldn't want to do this? Like, I would just. Is it shame or embarrassment? Like, I don't want to have to ask. So, like, I would rather just. Yeah. Have a low key, small wedding or.
Bobby Bones
No, I think what you would do is what I would do. I would stay within my means, which I've done my whole life. If I couldn't afford something, I don't buy it.
Morgan
Right.
Eddie
That's.
Guest (Luke Combs)
No.
Bobby Bones
Shame on that.
Morgan
Okay, cool. Because. Yeah. Well, I started to feel like.
Bobby Bones
Why?
Morgan
Well, I mean, I don't want to judge anybody for if they choose to do this, but then me, myself, I would never.
Bobby Bones
Same.
Morgan
So then I'm like, but we're good.
Guest (Luke Combs)
We're cool.
Bobby Bones
Hey, Amy.
Morgan
Nothing's wrong with us.
Bobby Bones
We're all good. Bones. Amy says she has a weird story for us. What do you have?
Morgan
I need to know yalls theories on this. So my girlfriends and I are on a walk. There's two of us, and I have my dog. And all of a sudden, on the walk, this cute little doodle thing starts following us. I mean, it is so cute. And I'm like, who. Where did this dog come from? And who does it belong to? Well, we're about to approach a busier road, and the dog keeps following my dog And I'm like, when we get to the busy road, like something had happened to this dog. So I just decide to go up to a door on that street just to see if they recognize the dog. And the woman says, oh, yeah, I think it's belongs to that cul de sac down there. So I'm like, okay. So we turn around, we go to the cul de sac. I don't know which house. I just start guessing. Go to one house, nobody answers. Go to the next house, nobody answers.
Bobby Bones
Are you holding the dog?
Morgan
No, it's just following us. Like, I can't. We anytime we try to get near it to check its collar, it starts barking and, like, backs away, but it's following us, so it's fine. It follows us to the cul de sac. And then I walk away from the second house because nobody's coming. But as I'm walking away, a guy starts walking out, but not because he heard me at his door. He's just walking to his car. And I was like, oh, hey, excuse me. Like, do you know who's this dog is? Or is it yours? And he looks at the dog and he's like, no, that's not. That's not my dog. And I'm like, okay. And the dog's like. Starts barking, like, barking. And I'm like, what is this dog trying to tell us? Like, is there something going on? And then the guy takes a second look, and he's like, oh, yeah, that is my dog. And then calls the dog by name. And the dog follows him back inside the house. And then he goes and gets in his car and leaves.
Bobby Bones
What's your theory? You saw us. I want your theory.
Morgan
Well, so we had some time to think about this on our walk because we all. My girlfriend's. I. We looked each other. We're like, what just happened? Like, this was weird. And we think maybe he was, like, maybe just wanting his dog to disappear, you know, like, that would have been what I went to want the dog, his wife's dog to be brought back. Like, he wanted it to be out, and he wanted it to either get picked up or, heaven forbid, hit by a car. I don't know.
Bobby Bones
Was he any chance drunk?
Morgan
Well, we had our theories of, like, maybe he didn't have his glasses on or had he been drinking. Like, why in the world would someone. I mean, there. This dog. There's no denying if any of us saw our dogs, like, right in front of us, we'd be like, oh, my gosh. Yeah, that's our dog. And then when he left the neighborhood and drove by us, like, I was thinking how I would handle this situation. I would roll down my window and be like, hey, guys, thanks again for taking care of my dog. Like, thank you. He just drives right by, like, we don't exist. I'm like, we just basically hand delivered your dog back to you. And it. The whole thing just felt so weird, like he did not want the dog to return. And it made me really sad.
Bobby Bones
Okay. I would think it can't be the glasses thing because I'm blind with no glasses and I can still tell a dog if it's mine. He. It had to be like his wife's dog or something that he didn't like and he was happy it was out and didn't want it back. Yeah, I mean, that's what I would think, you guys. Oh, I have a theory. Yep.
Eddie
He was burglarizing the house when he left the door open and the dog ran out. And he was. Oh, crap, the dog ran out. So he made up some name. The dog obviously knows that that's the house. So the house. The dog ran back in the house, and that's why he left immediately. He left right after the dog went in the house.
Bobby Bones
What time of the day was this?
Morgan
I mean, it was still light out, but getting dark.
Bobby Bones
Stupid answer.
Morgan
I would say 4.30pm we don't know
Bobby Bones
the real answer, but it ain't that one.
Lunchbox
It's easy.
Bobby Bones
What?
Lunchbox
He was high as a kite. He was high as a kite. He'd been smoking inside and he came out.
Bobby Bones
He's like, no. Oh, wait a minute.
Lunchbox
That is my dog.
Bobby Bones
You saw him. Thoughts?
Lunchbox
Yeah.
Morgan
No. Part of me thought he was high and, like, also his. I don't know. He didn't look like someone that would just be high, like, or his house. I know that. I know that.
Bobby Bones
He didn't have a high house. I hear you.
Morgan
Yeah.
Eddie
Did he look like a burglar, though?
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Was he wearing. Was he wearing just an eye?
Morgan
He was like, he was like us, like our age. Like, he looked like.
Lunchbox
Yeah, definitely couldn't be high then, huh?
Bobby Bones
I think it looks like a wife's dog. Be honest though.
Morgan
Like, yeah, definitely.
Bobby Bones
Like a little purse dog.
Morgan
Cute little dog.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, that's probably what it was.
Morgan
I know that had to be our work. That was our working period. But I'm telling you, like, it was so, like, I think that he finally just started to be like, oh, yeah, that is my dog. Because we were looking at him like the dog was trying to say like I'm yours. It was barking and I was like, and just how bizarre he was. Like we were just staring at him and so I think he just was like, oh yeah, that is my dog.
Announcer
How can he.
Morgan
It was so awkward how he looked right at and he was like no.
Bobby Bones
I'm surprised he came back to yes though, because if you go no, it's just no. And you commit.
Morgan
Yeah, that's why it's so weird because his nose and I think he realized like he had three women like staring at him and a dog barking. He's like, there's no way I'm getting out of this.
Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
Trying to put you through.
Morgan
M's riding this week's next bit.
Bobby Bones
And Bobby's on the mic.
Morgan
So you know what?
Bobby Bones
This is. The Bobby Bone. Now time for the morning corny.
Guest (Luke Combs)
The morning Corny.
Morgan
Call a cat that loves a bowl.
Bobby Bones
What do you call a cat that loves to bowl?
Morgan
An alley cat.
Bobby Bones
Alley cat. Got it.
Guest (Luke Combs)
That was the morning corny Bobby Bone show.
Bobby Bones
Bonehead Nori of the day.
Lunchbox
This story comes to us from Richland County, South Carolina. A 42 year old elementary school teacher is at Sam's Club getting some groceries and she goes to get a rotisserie chicken. Only problem is there's one left and another lady wants it, so they start arguing over it. The elementary school teacher punches other woman in the face for the chicken.
Bobby Bones
What do you do in that situation?
Morgan
I mean, golly, that's a hard one because the rotisserie chickens are coming. Clutch.
Bobby Bones
But isn't it the first person who touches it? Like if your hand touches the chicken first, that's your chicken. It doesn't matter. It's like a parking spot. Like if you're there and the blinkers on.
Morgan
Yeah, but if somebody fights me for it, I'm not gonna punch her. I'm not gonna get an altercation. So I'll surrender the chicken.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I guess. I don't know. If you touch the chicken, we're gonna make the rule here. If you touch the chicken first, it's your chicken. If someone touches the chicken in front of you, it's their chicken.
Morgan
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
It doesn't matter how long you've been eyeballing it, how long your drive was in, first person to touch it gets the chicken. Cause the worst is in a parking spot if somebody has their blanker on. If it's me and I'm parked across and I have to go across to turn right into the spot, but there's another car that comes up and gets out and is able to turn in quicker. Worse, I'm there first. Yeah, my hand was on the chicken first. My. I was there at the parking spot first. All right. That I'll fight over a parking spot. Yeah. Makes me mad. All right, go ahead.
Lunchbox
I'm lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day.
Bobby Bones
All right. So that was the radio show from this morning. As you will hear in part two, if you listen to part two, we didn't know what the technology was going to be on the boat. I am back in the studio this morning, the rest of the show is not back in the studio. I had to come back early. That being said, the ability to do the show from the open waters, not always the best, because there are a couple that you'll hear. It wasn't terrible, but obviously wasn't perfect. So you're going to hear that because we did an hour together as they were all on the boat. We recorded all that that you heard before we left in case the technology wasn't good, which it wasn't. So I'm glad we did it. That's part two. Don't miss that. I'm going to play now because we do talk about this game that I'm going to play for you. If you've seen this on my Instagram, that's awesome. If you haven't, go check it out. You can listen to it here. MrBobbybones is my Instagram. This is Amy and I. We have these things on our head. We have a celebrity written on our head. We can't see who's on our head. We're trying to guess who's on our head. So here's that game. And then we talk about some of the conspiracy theories about that game in part two as they're all on the boat. Enjoy this. Don't miss part two of the podcast. And yeah, we'll see you. Okay, you gotta guess the celebrity on your own head. Yes or no questions. Go ahead.
Morgan
Is. Am I a guy?
Bobby Bones
Yes.
Morgan
Ha. Do I.
Bobby Bones
No. No. It's my turn.
Amy
Okay.
Morgan
Sorry.
Bobby Bones
Am I funny?
Morgan
Probably to some people, maybe. Yeah. Yes.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Morgan
Am I an athlete?
Bobby Bones
No. No, You've done athletic things, but no.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Am I fictional?
Morgan
No. I mean. Just kidding. Just kidding. Okay, so am I an actor?
Bobby Bones
Yes. Yeah, you're an. I'm going to say absolutely you're an actor. But it's. But I don't think that that's the main thing.
Morgan
Okay.
Announcer
Okay.
Morgan
That's your turn.
Bobby Bones
Am I a guy? No.
Morgan
Oh, dang.
Bobby Bones
I had Kevin Costner in my head.
Morgan
Am I a musician? An artist?
Amy
Yeah.
Morgan
That accent is athletic.
Amy
Yeah.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
What am I Older than 40?
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Morgan
Am I in country music
Bobby Bones
these days? It's a little weak, right? I'm gonna go, no. I'm gonna go, no.
Amy
What?
Bobby Bones
I'm gonna go, no, you're not in country music.
Morgan
Is this you answering in some weird
Bobby Bones
way that I'm just saying, no, you're not in country music. My answer is no, you're not in country music.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Was I on a Disney or Nickelodeon type show?
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Female under 40. And that's not what she. Okay.
Morgan
Am I married?
Bobby Bones
No.
Announcer
Okay.
Bobby Bones
If I'm fact checked, but I don't think you are, no. Okay. Am I an artist? Music artist?
Morgan
Yes. Okay. Am I under 40?
Bobby Bones
I do think so, yeah. Have I met the person on my head?
Morgan
Yes. Do you know who it is? Okay. Have I met the person on my head?
Bobby Bones
No. No. Under 40. It's a female. It's got to be a country artist. And so it had to be had. It has to be somebody big enough that they would even make the list of this. So. Is it a female singer, songwriter that's, like, played our show?
Morgan
No. Oh, well, I mean, depends on how you're. The way you're asking that. No, they haven't played our show.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Lunchbox
Dang.
Bobby Bones
Okay,
Guest (Luke Combs)
okay.
Morgan
Little asterisk by that one.
Amy
Dang.
Morgan
Am I an art? Am I in a band? Like, no, I'm a solo artist.
Bobby Bones
You're not in a band. Your question was, are you in a band? You're not in a band.
Morgan
So I'm a solo artist.
Bobby Bones
You're not in a band. Your question was you're not. You're not in a band, which would make me annoying.
Morgan
Okay. So, like, it's not a band name, but it's not like a trio.
Bobby Bones
You get nine questions.
Morgan
Okay, I'm a band.
Bobby Bones
What was your question?
Morgan
Am I in a band?
Bobby Bones
No.
Morgan
So I'm an athletic y man that's acted. But my primary gig is music, and I'm not married, but I'm under 40, and I've not met him, and I'm in. And I've not met myself, and I'm in a band.
Announcer
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Oh, that's accurate.
Morgan
All right.
Bobby Bones
That's great. You remembered all that. All I know is I'm a country artist.
Morgan
You never asked that question, by the way.
Bobby Bones
I know. I was just trying to get a little extra.
Morgan
No. You don't even know the answer to that.
Bobby Bones
Am I a country artist?
Morgan
How do I answer this?
Bobby Bones
Yes or no? But I gave some nuance to some of you.
Morgan
I asked if I was going to
Bobby Bones
say I gave some nuance to some of yours.
Morgan
Okay. There. Yes.
Bobby Bones
You're playing the game.
Morgan
No, no.
Bobby Bones
You're faking the answer. You're faking the answer.
Morgan
No. No. I have to say yes to it.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Morgan
I have to say yes to it.
Bobby Bones
It's your question.
Morgan
Okay. Okay. Do I. Do I live in nashville?
Bobby Bones
No.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Female country artist under 40. I've met. So I was thinking it was like a Megan Maroney or Ella Langley type. Whenever I was asking that singer songwriter question. Under 40. But before that, I was thinking it was like, Selena Gomez or Demi Lovato because they had, like, the kids shows and they're famous and they're a country artist and they're under 40. Uh, Okay. Oh, I just kind of want to guess now. I don't know if she's under 40, though. Is she on American Idol right now?
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Oh, it's not Carrie Underwood? Son of a gun.
Morgan
I'm not married.
Bobby Bones
No. Okay, my question.
Morgan
No, that's not my question. I. I mean, do I have. I'm not in control. I'm not. I'm athletic. E. But I have me.
Bobby Bones
Like, what?
Morgan
Who? I'm under 40. I'm under 40. I don't know a lot of boys under 40 anymore. Okay. Am I. Oh, no, he's married. Am I? Mm. Did I just get arrested?
Bobby Bones
That's a lot of passion for that question. I'm not even sure who you're referring to. I don't either, because the answer is no.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
A country Music Female under 40 years old. Is she married?
Morgan
Hold on, hold on. Let me think about her age right now.
Bobby Bones
Well, I asked that three questions ago. Is. Is she married?
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Everybody in the room. Is this driving you guys crazy that neither one of us can get it?
Eddie
It's kind of fun.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Morgan
Oh, do I have a beard?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, right? Yeah, you have a beard. Do I have blonde hair?
Morgan
Yeah. Do I have brown hair?
Bobby Bones
I'm colorblind, but I'm gonna say yes. But Mike. Yeah. Eddie. Brown hair? Yeah. Dark hair. Am I Miranda Lambert?
Morgan
She's married.
Bobby Bones
Oh, crap. Okay, back over to you.
Morgan
Do. Am I on tmz?
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Lunchbox
Yeah.
Morgan
Okay. I'm on tmc.
Bobby Bones
What? Oh, blonde. No, wait your turn, cuz I can get it right now.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
What blonde haired, under 40 country singer that I've met? Female. Was this person married to one of my friends?
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Okay, what if it was Kelsey? I don't know.
Morgan
She has performed.
Bobby Bones
Oh, that's true.
Morgan
On our show.
Bobby Bones
That's right, that's right. That's right. I just can't think of any more blonde female country singers that are under 40. Like, I'm out.
Morgan
Well, trust me, I can't think of any.
Amy
You're gonna.
Bobby Bones
You're gonna be so frustrated with yourself when you see yours. You're gonna go crazy.
Morgan
Same with you.
Bobby Bones
I know, I know.
Morgan
I'm like, I sort of am athletic y and I have a beard, and I'm in music, but, like, is my primary language English
Bobby Bones
no, you gotta wait till you return. I think she's got it. I gotta get it right now. I have to get it right now. I have to get it right now. Okay. Okay. I have to get it for the win right here. Okay. Blonde under 40. Like who would have been in a band singing in our. But she didn't perform in studio. But I also don't know color. So it could be the hair. Could be something that I don't even consider blonde. Okay. Is it. Are you. Is it so weird that I haven't got it to you guys? Well, I mean, what you're saying is weird. She said. I'm saying everything. She said. What did you say about under 40 is a country singer? Has I've met her? Yeah.
Eddie
What did you say about a band?
Bobby Bones
No, I'm just trying to. I'm just trying to place if anybody's in a band. Okay, my answer is going to be for the win.
Morgan
Can I say mine?
Bobby Bones
Mine's not right because the age thing. But yeah, you're gonna win. When I miss this and I'm on a timer. Put me on a 20 second timer. I'm so frustrated. Five seconds. Dolly.
Morgan
Dolly.
Bobby Bones
I know.
Lunchbox
I can't.
Bobby Bones
Who do you have?
Morgan
Say cheese. Am I bad bunny?
Bobby Bones
You're bad bunny. There you go. Look at it. Okay, let me see who I am. Good job. Oh no.
Morgan
Oh no.
Bobby Bones
That sucks.
Eddie
Good job.
Bobby Bones
You win. Good game. Hope you guys have a great rest of the day. Goodbye everybody. Bones the Bobby Bone show theme song written, produced and sang by Reed Yarberry. You can find his Instagram at Yarn Readyarberry Scuba Steve Executive Producer Raymundo Head of Production I'm Bobby Bones. My Instagram is Mr. Bobby Bones. Thank you for listening to the podcast.
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This episode kicks off the week with classic Bobby Bones Show banter, a unique “lost dog” mystery, a lively debate about the concept of a “perfect wife,” and a music trivia showdown. The team also welcomes country star Luke Combs for a candid chat about his early days in music. The episode is full of personal anecdotes, playful arguments, and some hilarious, relatable moments from the whole cast.
(02:22 - 07:29)
Bobby throws the question to the room before sharing a study’s surprising conclusions. The debate quickly reveals generational gaps, personal insecurities, and some laughs.
Lunchbox’s Answer:
“I want a woman that can cook, a woman that cleans, does my laundry and has a good personality and just good body all around.” (02:47)
Bobby jokes Lunchbox is seeking someone from the 50s.
Eddie’s View:
“Beautiful, right? You want her to have a good personality, funny, preferably blonde… and then, like, want easy to just kind of let me do things, you know, like don’t give me too much of a hard time. Like if I want to go play golf with the boys.” (03:10)
The "breezy/50s" theme continues.
Bobby's Perspective:
Bobby desires a funny partner who will “check” and challenge him—someone to reign him in when necessary:
“I need somebody I trust that has my best intentions to tell me I’m doing it wrong.” (03:42)
Morgan (as a “former wife”):
She agrees that challenge and support are crucial:
“I think a man wants a woman that will challenge him and make him better.” (04:38)
Amy & Morgan Expand:
They suggest kindness, a good listener, and shared interests like sports (or pretending to like them) complete the picture.
Bobby Shares the Study:
“She performs better on standardized tests than her husband and had a higher GPA.” (07:03)
The cast is amused and surprised by how different this is from their own priorities.
(07:49 - 11:00)
Question from a Listener: [07:49]
“What is something you look forward to every day no matter how busy you are?”
Bobby:
“I look forward to seeing the dogs when I go home. My wife’s not always at home… I know they’re going to be at home.” (07:53)
He also values unwinding with some mindless scrolling before bed.
Morgan observes:
“It’s like literally this is suggested not to do that, but that’s what you love to do. All research points are like: don’t do that.” (08:31)
Screen Time Reveal:
“This is why they don’t know anything that’s going on in the world.” – Morgan (09:39)
Much laughter and ribbing ensue, especially about some cast members using GPS to get to work every day.
(11:00 - 18:49)
The team faces off: Name a band with a number in their name. Answers are fast, furious, and, at times, ridiculous.
Top answers included:
Memorable Moment:
Morgan: “Five finger death punch. That is a band, though.” (15:09)
The mix of obvious and obscure answers, and the team's struggle to remember, brings good-natured frustration.
(21:25 - 28:49)
Luke Combs shares openly about:
His first paid gig in Boone, NC—mostly covers, a few originals, and zero nerves.
“No, no, no, no. I was more excited because I just felt like I believed in my ability to deliver.” (22:00)
Playing open mics in new towns, bar gigs, slowly expanding his playing radius—sometimes by word of mouth.
Surviving on his music:
“I never viewed myself as being able to fail because I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve, which was sustaining myself on my own without help from anyone else and just playing shows. I could’ve lived the rest of my life that way.” (25:58)
Attitude towards fame and casino gigs:
“A casino is a hard place to be famous at. If I’m playing a show, everyone’s staying at the casino… so you can’t even really go in there and do the thing anyway.” (27:26)
Not a gambler at heart, but he tells a funny story about being given free chips as part of his payment and simply betting big just to get actual cash.
(28:42 - 33:59)
“I think it’s fine. It can be practical and tacky at the same time.” – Bobby (29:15)
“You’re gonna charge me to eat at your wedding? Your wedding sucks, and I’m not going. That means it’s not going to be an open bar either. Sounds like a terrible wedding.” (32:05)
(34:00 - 39:06)
Amy recounts a mysterious and slightly unsettling story:
“He looks at the dog and he’s like, ‘No, that’s not my dog.’… then calls the dog by name and the dog follows him in. He goes and leaves.” – Amy (34:49)
(41:44 - 43:24)
Morning Corny:
Morgan delivers:
“What do you call a cat that loves to bowl? … An alley cat.” (41:49)
Classic groaning ensues.
Bonehead Story:
Lunchbox recounts the story of an elementary school teacher punching another customer for the last rotisserie chicken at Sam’s Club.
“If you touch the chicken first, it’s your chicken… If someone touches the chicken in front of you, it’s their chicken.” – Bobby (42:53)
This leads to a hilarious tangent about the politics of grocery shopping and parking lots.
(44:37 - 56:34)
A silly, prolonged bit where Bobby and Morgan try to guess the celebrity written on a card stuck to their own head using yes/no questions.
On the “perfect wife”:
“I need somebody I trust that has my best intentions to tell me I’m doing it wrong.” – Bobby Bones (03:42)
“That’s…from the 50s.” – Bobby to Lunchbox after his “cook-clean-laundry” answer (03:01)
On paying for your dinner at weddings:
“Your wedding sucks, and I’m not going. That means it’s not going to be an open bar either.” – Lunchbox (32:05)
Luke Combs’s grounded view of fame:
“I never viewed myself as being able to fail because I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve, which was sustaining myself…just playing shows.” (25:58)
On “screen time” reality checks:
“How are you on your phone 11 hours and you still don’t know things?” – Morgan to Eddie (09:50)
The conversation is spirited, quick-witted, and often self-deprecating. Bobby keeps things flowing with wry humor, while Lunchbox and Eddie bring bold, sometimes old-fashioned opinions that spark debate. Morgan and Amy add a mix of playful sarcasm, curiosity, and empathy. Special guest Luke Combs is down-to-earth and relatable, offering genuine insights about career and life.
This episode delivers quintessential Bobby Bones Show: good-natured arguments, relatable daily dilemmas, pop culture games, and honest conversations about relationships and life—all mixed with humor and heart.
If you missed this episode, you’ll want to check it out for a little bit of everything: laughs, music, heartfelt life stories, and the joy of a team that genuinely enjoys each other.