MON PT 2:  Bobby's Baby State Of The Union Address

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – "Bobby's Baby State Of The Union Address" (March 30, 2026, MON PT 2)

Podcast: The Bobby Bones Show
Host: Bobby Bones (Premiere Networks)
Episode Theme: An intimate, in-depth update on Bobby Bones' journey into fatherhood, listener interactions, and lighthearted banter on current news and pop culture.

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Overview of the Episode

This episode is centered around Bobby Bones' candid "Baby State Of The Union," where he addresses the realities, surprises, and emotional impact of becoming a father for the first time at 45. Surrounding this segment, the show maintains its familiar format: hilarious group commentary, news of the weird, listener calls, and speculation on trending stories, all in the team’s friendly, conversational style. The tone is warm, honest, and frequently self-deprecating, especially from Bobby as he navigates new parenthood.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Listener Voicemails & Recap of Recent Antics

[03:20–04:49]

• Caller Mario expresses how a prior guessing game had him "crying," referencing the show’s hit segment that’s gone viral.
• Hosts joke about a voicemail waiver for sampling Eddie's salsa, discussing the “risks” and logistics of sending homemade food by mail.

2. News Roundtable

[04:49–14:24]

• Bobby introduces a legal story: A man with serious criminal convictions (including child pornography) suing FedEx for retracting a job offer. The hosts are openly disturbed, questioning the rationale and legal grounds (“That’s like every job situation, life.” – Bobby, 05:36).
• Amy covers aviation safety: New footage from a 2025 DC air crash, renewed scrutiny over shared airspace ("If they've been talking about this for a decade, we might need to implement some change." – Bobby, 07:53).
• Morgan updates the Amy Lynn Bradley case: The FBI offers a $25,000 reward (the team jokes it should be $100,000) after Netflix popularity raises interest in the decades-old cruise disappearance.

3. Cruise Ship Disappearance Theories

[14:24–15:41]

• Team debates theories about Amy Lynn Bradley’s disappearance, ranging from accidental fall to trafficking, and muses on cruise ship safety then vs. now.
• Memorable moment: Amy and Bobby share they theorized on the cruise themselves, leading Eddie to quip, “That’s like people talking about a plane crash on a plane. I don’t like that.” (14:55)

4. Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Relationship Rumors

[16:30–19:20]

• The show's take: The internet overreacts to a candid camera moment at an awards show, spawning speculation about their relationship.
• Eddie introduces the “Gaylor” conspiracy theory about Taylor Swift’s sexuality, amusingly unfamiliar to everyone else. ("I have never even heard of this." – Bobby, 17:33)
• Light discussion on celebrity relationships faked “for show,” with references to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

5. Nashville Celebrity Sightings

[19:20–23:33]

• The team swaps stories about seeing Nicole Kidman and other stars living daily life in Nashville, discussing why famous residents go to local, non-touristy spots to avoid being mobbed.

6. News of the Weird: Grocery Store Incident

[23:57–26:06]

• Mike reveals a disturbing story: a man exposes and physically assaults a woman in a California grocery store. The group is appalled and highlights the weirdness and pervasiveness of bizarre headlines, especially in the viral video era.

7. Bots, Streaming Farms, and the Current State of the Internet

[26:14–29:20]

• Amy brings up news that AI-driven bots now outnumber human users online.
• Eddie and Bobby discuss “streaming farms” – operations that inflate song/video views using thousands of phones, and how it affects music industry hype.

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Deep Dive: Bobby’s Baby State Of The Union

[34:27–61:57]

Becoming a Dad at 45: Honest Reflections

• Bobby shares candidly about entering fatherhood later in life, not expecting to marry or have children until he met his wife.
  • “I didn’t even know that I was going to have kids. I didn’t know…until I met my wife.” (34:42)
• Candid about past political ambitions: "I think if I ever ran for political office, because I’d have been the weirdo that wasn’t married running for office."

The Early Weeks: Exhaustion and New Routines

• Explains how he pre-recorded weeks of content to ensure time off with his newborn.
• Fatherhood as a tiring, all-consuming experience: "It's been a blur. It feels like it was just yesterday, and it also feels like it was 10 years ago." (35:43)
• Amusing anecdotes about "dad brain," such as nearly losing a stroller due to forgetfulness, and falling over baby gates like a "giant wrestler."

Baby Care: Tasks and Teamwork

• Provides a detailed breakdown of his and his wife's diaper-change “pit crew” method.
• “I've done two solo changes – a pee and a poop. I was pretty happy with myself. Now, selfishly, I don't want to get too good at it because I'm going to be asked to do it all the time." (42:01)

Integration with Pets

• Talks about integrating two dogs, Stanley (“doesn't care, if it's not food”) and Eller (more energetic), with the newborn, using baby gates more for pet control than baby-proofing (36:44).

The Role of Music

• Two songs on repeat:
  • Imogen Heap’s "The Happy Song" – “scientifically created to make your baby happy.”
  • The Verve’s "The Drugs Don’t Work" – playing during labor, now emotionally charged for the family.

Top Five Moments with the Baby

1. Friend’s Reaction: Longtime friend Ahmad immediately returns a FaceTime when Bobby includes the baby. (“He called me back in 30 seconds.” – 47:20)
2. Parental Boundaries: Appreciating people not insisting to hold their vulnerable newborn (“I thought that was so cool” – 47:45)
3. Birth Anxiety: Relief at hearing his baby’s first cry immediately after birth (“Started crying immediately, so I never had that moment of being like, Oh my God, is the baby going to live?” – 48:41)
4. Daily Walks: Bonding via daily walks—a way to mark his wife’s recovery and competence with baby gear (“I’m pretty good at the stroller. Like, whack, whack, whack.” – 49:43)
5. Wife’s Happiness: His wife declares she’s never been happier, touching Bobby deeply (“That’s my number one moment, is her saying that this is the happiest she has ever been in her whole life.” – 50:52)

Lessons Learned and Perspective

• Profound new respect for his parents raising him as teenagers, recognizing how hard it truly is to keep a baby alive (54:05).
• Not interested in displaying the baby’s face online, due to privacy and past experiences with stalkers—opting to protect their child from the public gaze for now (59:15).
• The couple tracks all baby info (feedings, diapers) diligently using a shared Notes app.

Advice and Parenting Philosophy

• Not much outside advice fits his circumstances yet ("I don't know that I'm taking anybody's advice" – 55:33), acknowledges most advice is general and not applicable to newborns.

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Live Call-in: Listener Life Coaching with Mario

[61:57–66:35]

• Mario, a delivery worker, asks for motivation: debating whether to start his own business but worried about the financial risk of going unpaid during net 30 invoicing.
• Bobby’s practical, empathetic advice:
  • "Big decisions, you're going to have big nerves about them. If it were easy, everybody would be doing it."
  • Recommends saving up enough to cover the income gap and setting a deadline. “Put a date on a calendar and commit to it, because otherwise it's never going to be comfortable and you're never going to fall into it.” (65:52)
  • Mario is encouraged, commits to taking action.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I feel like we just had a baby – for the first time ever. So all this stuff is new to me.” – Bobby Bones [34:41]
• "You have to do everything for these little babies...that's a feat in itself is keeping a baby alive." – Bobby [54:05]
• "My number one moment...my wife said this has been the happiest she's ever been in her whole life." – Bobby [50:52]
• On advice: "Most people's advice is about being like macro parent...Most of it's not, you have a one week old. Here's exactly what you do." – Bobby [55:44]
• On the internet’s bot problem: “Bots have surpassed humans when it comes to internet traffic. Now, yesterday, the state of AI traffic report was released. It confirmed that artificial intelligence and bots have surpassed human users." – Amy [26:15]
• Re: Celebrity sightings: “Worldwide, super famous, and in this town you can just go to the mall." – Bobby [20:57]
• On launching your own business: "The world is bendable. If you want it and you strategize right, you can have anything you want." – Bobby [66:06]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:20 – Listener voicemails, salsa mail, FedEx lawsuit story
• 07:00 – Airspace safety & DC crash discussion
• 10:09 – Amy Lynn Bradley case / Netflix documentary discussion
• 16:30 – Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce relationship speculation / Gaylor theory
• 19:20 – Nashville celebrity life anecdotes
• 23:57 – Creepy grocery store story
• 26:14 – Internet bots & streaming farm segment
• 34:27 – Bobby’s Baby State of the Union (main feature, concludes at 61:57)
• 61:57 – Live call from Mario about entrepreneurship
• 66:40 – Closing thanks

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Summary: Why This Episode Stands Out

This episode delivers a moving, funny, and educational look at becoming a parent later in life. Bobby’s transparency about his insecurities, learning curve, and immense joy make the "Baby State Of The Union" both relatable and uplifting. The supporting cast lightens the mood with ribbing, news-of-the-weird, and pop culture banter, while also taking time to offer heartfelt advice to listeners wrestling with their own life changes.

Whether you’re preparing to become a parent, curious about the everyday life of a radio star, or just need a laugh, this episode is worth your time.

Transcript

[Bobby Bones]

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[Eddie]

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[Eddie]

Let's do a couple voicemails first.

[Caller / Mario]

Go ahead, Raymundo, Bobby and Eddie.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness. That guessing game of trying to guess

[Caller / Mario]

each other's people had me crying.

[Eddie]

Thank you so much. And I hope you do another one.

[Caller / Mario]

Thanks.

[Eddie]

Did you see that video?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Oh, I guess I can say. Who? Dr. Phil.

[Eddie]

And yeah, you can say, because Dr. Phil.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. I get nervous.

[Eddie]

That game. Who knew that game would take off like it has? I. I posted that on Thursday or maybe Friday. It's got over a million views already. But, yeah, that was a disaster of a game.

[Amy]

It really was.

[Eddie]

Yeah. So we put it up on Friday's podcast, as you guys may have heard it. We put it up separate, but it's also up on YouTube and whatever. That's stupid. Give me the next one, Petty. All right, man.

[Caller / Mario]

I promise I won't sue you if something happens with the sauce. Can you use this recording as proof of that? I'll try to make it more official. I, Lonnie Thomas Wilson the fifth, assume all risk and responsibility of obtaining and consuming Eddie's salsa.

[Eddie]

Appreciate it. All right, send the guy the sauce. Overnight it.

[Bobby Bones]

There you have it.

[Amy]

Overnight it. Okay.

[Eddie]

Why do you say that? You want to spend the money on it?

[Amy]

No, it's just. It's a process. The. The whole ice situation in a container that's not going to leak. And, like, if it doesn't get there in a day and then it's going to leak everywhere or the boss.

[Eddie]

It's not going to leak. You're gonna make it.

[Bobby Bones]

I was talking about leaking.

[Eddie]

But you're always an excuse. The whole.

[Amy]

It's not an excuse. I've thought about. You literally want to get Lonnie Jr. The third.

[Eddie]

You don't. Or you would have salsa. You would have. Okay, you guys, voicemails. If you want to hit us up, you can. 8, 7, 7, 70, 7. Bobby, I'll go first. This guy, Scott Dow, was offered a senior operations administrator position after a job interview last year. He's suing now because he interviewed with FedEx. They withdrew the offer after finding DUI, child pornography and harassment convictions on his record. He is now suing under Pennsylvania's Criminal History Record Information act, known as cria, which bars employers from rejecting applicants based on convictions unless they're related to the job.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait. Well, I mean, DUI could be related to the job.

[Eddie]

How about the child porn?

[Amy]

Yeah. You just know. No, you don't want him, Right?

[Bobby Bones]

That's any job. That's just like every job situation, life.

[Eddie]

And I'm not sure what happened with this, but I'm just reading the story. It said child pornography conviction on his record. So this guy, it's so public now. Like, why would this guy sue? Move on. They're not hiring you. You have child porn on your record. But now that you're suing, it's now so public that people like us, who had never even known about this story, maybe people didn't even know about him, are now going to know he's had freaking child porn on his record. Crazy. And if he does get hired for some reason and the court overturns, they have to hire him or they're just going to find a reason to fire him. They're just going to paper trail him. And also he's going to get beat up.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Could he be rehabilitated? I mean, or is it like.

[Eddie]

Well, yeah, I don't know, man. Child porn, rehabilitate somewhere else.

[Amy]

Right. Not at my company.

[Bobby Bones]

Right.

[Eddie]

I know Scott Dow was conditionally offered the job. Dow reacted by calling his attorney and is now suing. The lawsuit claims FedEx never explained how his specific convictions were relevant to the position. Dude, you got child porn on your record. That's it.

[Amy]

What's the job? Is he like a driver or.

[Eddie]

Doesn't say.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, that's why I was thinking maybe the DUI would impact him.

[Amy]

But even then, if you're a driver, you can be in contact with kids.

[Eddie]

That's from Penn Live. Is that story. That is. That's like the worst thing. The absolute worst thing. So we don't feel sorry for you. Nope. According to this story. Amy, what do you have?

[Bobby Bones]

So, new footage was released from the 2025 crash in D.C. of the plane that went into the Blackhawk, or the Blackhawk that went into the plane. However.

[Eddie]

Kansas.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. Full of ice skaters and. Yeah. Taken off from wichita. And then 60 Minutes had this Whole thing, because this has resurfaced. And they were going through newly released footage, newly released docs, and in the docs, it shows that a second incident happened just hours later, just a few hours later, where another helicopter approached as a flight from Connecticut was coming in for a landing. An alarm went off on the plane and they scrapped the landing to dodge the chopper.

[Eddie]

So we almost had two of those happen.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. But 60 Minutes went on to report the air traffic controllers have spent more than a decade telling the FAA that it's dangero to have so many helicopters and passenger jets sharing the airspace in D.C. and so I don't know, it just freaks me out of how many near misses that there are. And yeah, to think of the airspaces that are heavy with traffic, like airplane traffic, for one. But yeah, in D.C. there happens to be a lot of helicopters too. So if they've been talking about this for a decade, we might need to implement some change. Like, let's go, let's. Let's focus on that instead of some of this other ridiculous stuff. Sometimes we focus on the birds.

[Eddie]

Freak me out.

[Bobby Bones]

The birds, the geese.

[Eddie]

You can't control that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's. There's nothing.

[Eddie]

They flock of birds happens to fly up right around that time. Now, all those don't end up in horrific crashes and deaths, but some do. But, yeah, I didn't know there was one right after that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I had to avoid. When I. When I saw the newly released footage, I was like, scroll past it, scroll past it. Because I didn't want to watch it because they said it's. I mean, it's obviously horrific to watch.

[Eddie]

It's also back in the news because the airplane hit the fire truck. So any of the crash stuff is now trending clickable.

[Amy]

Has there been footage of that crash? The fire truck one?

[Eddie]

I've only seen pictures.

[Amy]

Yeah, I saw a simulation warning.

[Eddie]

A simulation? Like someone drew a cartoon?

[Amy]

Yeah, like a 3D animation of kind of the. Of how it went down. But I don't know how true that is.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you know how sometimes a video will say, you know, you know, sensitive. Keep scrolling and it'll give you like five seconds to keep scrolling. And so I kept scrolling, but I assumed it was about to show what happened.

[Morgan]

Oh.

[Eddie]

Oh, I never saw a video. Mike, is there video? Yeah, I've seen it. You have? Oh, maybe mine was a hardcore. It's pretty far away, so you don't fully know what you're looking at. What's the camera like? Was someone doing with her phone? No, it's like, just like a camera.

[Amy]

They have security cam.

[Jana Kramer]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

That sucks.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, totally. All right, so anyway, if you're flying into D.C. heads up.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Hell, anywhere.

[Amy]

Heads up.

[Eddie]

You really can't do anything. You can't do a heads up doing anything.

[Morgan]

You're just sitting on a plane.

[Eddie]

You can't be heads up. It's not like if you're at a softball game, you're watching for foul balls.

[Amy]

She's talking to the pilots.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, I'm talking about, like, the pilots on this one situation from Connecticut. The plane had a alarm that went off, and they're like, oh, abort landing.

[Eddie]

Did the alarm not go off on the other plane?

[Bobby Bones]

I got. I guess not.

[Caller / Mario]

I don't know.

[Eddie]

Okay. Lunchbox.

[Morgan]

Amy Lynn Bradley.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, missing at sea.

[Eddie]

Do we know the name? Oh, oh, is that who went missing on the cruise? I haven't thought about her in a while.

[Amy]

Oh, you should.

[Eddie]

Is there an update?

[Morgan]

There's an update.

[Amy]

This. How did I miss this?

[Eddie]

So this was a Netflix show, everybody, and, you know, she's missing, so we're not spoiling anything.

[Bobby Bones]

And the show called, like, Where's Amy?

[Amy]

Yeah, it's called, like, Amy's missing or something.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I think it's called Where's Amy?

[Eddie]

No spoiler. Amy's not in this show. Brought to you by Netflix. Yeah, go ahead.

[Morgan]

28 years later, the FBI is looking for new leads. They will give you $25,000 if you can tell us where she is.

[Eddie]

Okay, so two things must have happened. One of two things. One, they got so much pressure from the show and people being so curious about it. Or two, there have been a couple things that have happened since that in all of the. From the notoriety of the show, from that they have discovered she could possibly be alive.

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm gonna go with option one.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I think it's just the. I think the hype from the show. So they're like, oh, but my whole thing is $25,000. Like, come on, guys. Like, she's been missing for 28 years. Let's go. $100,000.

[Eddie]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Where do they have to get the money from? I mean, they may not. Like, is it from people that donated FBI?

[Eddie]

It's probably federal money.

[Morgan]

The FBI is offering the money, so I assume they just make up a number. But I feel like 25,000. I'm like, and that's not really. For someone that's been a big case like this 28 years. If you want to get people talking. $100,000 gets people talking.

[Amy]

It sounds Like a check the box number. Like, hey, we tried.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

We offer, I don't know, 25,000 bucks. Like, if I had some information that could possibly lead to it, I'm like, you know, I don't want to get involved in this because it's probably not true, and I don't want to have to deal with the cops. It's like 25,000 bucks for information. I probably would call for 20. That's real money.

[Amy]

That's real money. But 25, they tax that?

[Eddie]

Is that your question?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, yes, because if it's a gift from the federal government and, you know,

[Amy]

they tax it, get some back.

[Eddie]

I don't know that, but I'm just like, you know, they do. So it's really not even 25,000 because the federal government takes it right back.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, Exactly.

[Eddie]

It's like 19.

[Amy]

You have to actually, like, your. Your clue has to solve the case.

[Eddie]

Your clue has to lead to them solving the case.

[Amy]

Correct. Because even if you have, like, a good clue and they just can't do anything with it, like, you don't get any of that money. Right.

[Eddie]

Sometimes this is not the case with this story because it's been 28 years ago, you say.

[Morgan]

Yep.

[Eddie]

Sometimes they'll start at 25 and move it up for two reasons. One, because maybe more money will invoke more attention, but also it's a way for them to keep having this story hit the news.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

So if you start at 25 and then you go to 50, it's going to be a headline again when it goes to 50, it's going to be a headline again when it goes to 100,000. So. But if you're just like, we still have $25,000. Anybody out there? No one that's not making the news if you still are only offering 25,000.

[Amy]

So do you guys think about it a lot when you're on the cruise?

[Eddie]

I not once forgot about it, really. I'm consuming so much media, watching so many shows. I don't even remember the shows that we watch.

[Amy]

Sometimes I'd sit on my balcony and just think about, like, well, could she have jumped out? Like, would she make it here? And then the neighbor across the way, like, look, I could literally. I would even, like, look at the panel, you know, separating the two rooms and be like, wow, like, that neighbor could have jumped over if you wanted to. I don't know. Yeah, I thought about it.

[Eddie]

So dangerous, though, like being on a cruise. One, I don't think from my room, I could have jumped out into the water.

[Amy]

Don't think same. It was too far. Like rescue boats.

[Eddie]

I think flip the rescue boats. I don't know if back then, 28 years ago. I don't know also the dimensions of this cruise ship in any way. So I'm speaking only from my one, experience. And two, why in the world would you climb across that thing out on the boat? Because you could probably go room to room if you hold onto the rail and go. That's so dangerous.

[Amy]

Yeah, because one of the clues was, well, wanna talk about it?

[Morgan]

It doesn't matter.

[Eddie]

It doesn't matter.

[Bobby Bones]

What if someone hasn't watched it?

[Eddie]

Who cares? But it's a new story and it's not a spoiler.

[Bobby Bones]

It also.

[Morgan]

But who did it?

[Bobby Bones]

We don't know.

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Eddie]

I think she. Okay, we're gonna play. We're just gonna guess based on what we've seen. And we haven't even seen a doll. Yes, Right. I think she just felt she was drunk and fell off. Okay.

[Amy]

I think that she was taken off the boat to get trafficked and she became part of that system.

[Bobby Bones]

And then.

[Amy]

But I also believe she had a baby.

[Bobby Bones]

That's why she doesn't want to leave.

[Amy]

Because Amy and I have talked about this. And why would she want to leave her baby?

[Eddie]

You guys doing your own podcast or what?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I think we talked about it on the boat.

[Amy]

On the boat.

[Bobby Bones]

We had it all figured out.

[Eddie]

That's like people talking about a plane crash on a plane. I don't like that.

[Amy]

Amy and I had a. We spent some time together on the way back.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, coming back. Because you guys came back together.

[Morgan]

I think it was the.

[Caller / Mario]

What?

[Eddie]

The bass player.

[Mike]

Yellow.

[Eddie]

Yellow.

[Morgan]

Yellow.

[Amy]

What I hated about the bass player,

[Morgan]

though, I think that was.

[Amy]

It is the documentary only had one shot of the bass player and it was him being all sexy on the side.

[Eddie]

He was. Man, he's grooving.

[Amy]

So you watch that. You're like, well, of course it was yellow. Look at him.

[Eddie]

He moves his hip like that playing bass. Of course, the guy's up to no good because I just.

[Morgan]

After being on the cruise ship, I don't see there's any way you get off that boat unless you get checked out. There's no way to get off the boat.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I would agree, except that's 28 years ago. I just don't know the protocol then to get off the boat. It's like falling off of it. How we had our ship. No way. But I don't know because I think There are probably different rules and standards 28 years ago.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Morgan]

Because I mean even the employees had to scan to get off the boat.

[Amy]

Yeah, I did, you know, watch when we were on port all the food that would be taken off and on the boat, you know, in forklifts. So that could be a way to, you know, taken down to one of the food containers and then like you're

[Eddie]

putting a body in that container, she's dead then.

[Amy]

Oh yeah.

[Eddie]

True.

[Amy]

Or passed out.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Hey, Scuba Steve, is he in there? Yeah, sometimes, you know, there. What's up? Any idea how our boat for next year selling?

[Amy]

Last I talked they haven't gave me an update as far as post cruise.

[Eddie]

Okay, don't worry about it.

[Amy]

Yeah, nothing from last time.

[Eddie]

I know you told us it did like 35% while on the boat.

[Amy]

Yes. Yeah, and they were pretty happy with that. So I'm sure they'll give us information here. They had a bunch of calls last week about it. So we should have some new information probably the next week or so.

[Eddie]

Yeah. If you guys want to come on the cruise next year. Topshelf countrycruise.com let's see.

[Amy]

Eddie Lunchbox is going to love this one. So the Internet is. They think they found something with Taylor and Travis.

[Eddie]

What's something mean?

[Amy]

Some kind of turmoil, something weird about the relationship. So at the Iheart Music Awards that happen, there was a camera that panned over to Taylor and Travis at a time. They weren't expecting it and you can see them kind of get busted by the camera. Like they were like in the middle of some weird whatever conversation. And then like, oh, let me hug and kiss. So now the Internet is like, oh, there's trouble there. Something was not right. So you think there's something going on.

[Eddie]

Even if they were fighting, they would not do it there. Where there are cameras everywhere. They're probably having a normal person conversation.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't sit where they were sitting and be like. I feel like they're always expecting the cameras to be on them at a thing like that.

[Amy]

I mean I. Guys, I don't believe it. I think it's. They're perfect together. I think this.

[Eddie]

You ever fall in the gaylor rabbit hole?

[Amy]

What's that?

[Eddie]

Gaylor? No, where there's all these theories that she's gay.

[Amy]

What Gaylor like Taylor.

[Eddie]

Oh yeah. This is sweet.

[Bobby Bones]

I have never even heard of this.

[Amy]

Neither have I. You act like that's so normal.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh. Over the years I've seen a lot of gaylor stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Eddie]

I don't believe it. But, like, her and Karlie Kloss were together. Morgan, you seen the Gaylor stuff? No, that's only Melor Swift

[Amy]

who comes

[Morgan]

up with this stuff.

[Eddie]

Mike, you. I have seen that. Yeah. I didn't make it up. I also don't believe it. I just.

[Bobby Bones]

It's on Wikipedia. Gaylor, sometimes referred to as gaylorism, is a loose conspiracy theory that claims that Taylor Swift is non heterosexual and that

[Eddie]

Travis is also probably gay. And they're like, well, look at the clothes he wears. What?

[Amy]

Just baggy stuff like that.

[Eddie]

She's his beard. I don't believe it. But that's. But over the years, there's been a lot of gaylord, and they also, like, find lyrics in her songs. But again, you can assign a lot of things to song lyrics.

[Amy]

Is there a date? Like, there's a wedding day, right?

[Eddie]

I don't know. No, no, no, not that people know. No.

[Morgan]

No wedding date, man.

[Eddie]

Do they have one? Maybe, but we don't know.

[Morgan]

Just all for show, man.

[Eddie]

Oh, you still are on that.

[Morgan]

They're not real.

[Eddie]

They're not getting married.

[Amy]

Why would they keep doing this lunchbox?

[Morgan]

Tom Cruise did it.

[Eddie]

He got married, though, and he had baby. A baby, right?

[Amy]

Yeah, they were married.

[Bobby Bones]

But was his for contract? It wasn't a contract.

[Eddie]

No, Tom Cruise was.

[Morgan]

Yes, it was.

[Eddie]

People auditioned to be his wife.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. But his wasn't for being gay, right?

[Eddie]

No, his was. Oh, I don't know if it was gay or not. I don't think so. I think it's Scientology. Yeah.

[Morgan]

I'm not saying he was sort of gay. I. I'm. Or that Taylor and Travis is. I'm just saying I don't think it's real. It's all contract work and for publicity.

[Amy]

So Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were never like, just married and love married. And then it got weird?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think so.

[Eddie]

From the things that we've heard. No,

[Amy]

because I remember, like she was trying to get out or whatever.

[Eddie]

We don't. We don't know. We really don't know anything.

[Amy]

Right.

[Eddie]

But also what's weird is that Tom and Nicole Kidman were married and they had two kids. And like, I'm not gonna say I know her know her, but I've spent. We've had at least three long conversations, and we see each other, it's always warm and she. And sometimes I'll let her say hi first. I don't want to bother her. That type of thing. That's just. That's bizarre to think she's married to Tom Cruise. Yeah.

[Amy]

All you guys met her?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Wow. You never met her.

[Morgan]

Sorry about that, man.

[Amy]

Never. I probably won't now.

[Eddie]

I've been at her house. Well, yeah, no, it's still her house. Keith doesn't live there anymore.

[Amy]

That's crazy, man.

[Eddie]

I have a friend that lives right next to them and she's always walking. She has very perfect fair skin.

[Amy]

Really?

[Eddie]

So she's wears like a big, always covered big hat. Whatever.

[Amy]

I don't even think I've seen her. Maybe, maybe like with CMA's or something. From a distance.

[Eddie]

So nice. Like, could not be nicer. Like, we've been in the mall. What's the makeup store?

[Bobby Bones]

Sephora.

[Eddie]

We've been at Sephora. Her and her daughter in there. I didn't bother. I didn't even let her see me because I didn't want to have her start talking and then someone be like, that's Nicole Kidman. So, like, I saw. I was in Sephora with Caitlin and I kind of hid in the corner because I know if she had seen me, she'd probably said hi. But I didn't want to bring attention to her. Like, they're so. They're very normal. They have such an abnormal life, but it's very normal because again, they're just walking. She was just walking on the mall?

[Amy]

Yeah. I feel like you're not the only person that's seen her at the mall or seen them. They saw.

[Mike]

I saw the whole family at the mall.

[Amy]

There you go.

[Mike]

And they pet my dog, Remy.

[Eddie]

I've also seen her at the mall. You've seen her a couple of times.

[Amy]

It's crazy.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Like worldwide. Super famous. And in this town, you can just go to the mall. Because most people, if you live in Nashville, most people don't bother famous people if they live in Nashville. Where it gets tricky is tourists coming to town. Because I get it. You're like, oh my God, somebody's famous. But it's why people that live here that have public lives don't go to places where they're tourists because it'll be insane. But you can see everybody that's in country music or whomever. There's like 20 or 30 places that kind of everybody goes. I used to always say, if you go to true food, I don't think it's like that anymore. True food in Nashville, you'll see somebody there because it's just such a normal place. It's not fancy. It's in a part of town that's just Normal people. A lot of the artists would live around there if you're. They're young in that, like, apartment complex at Condo place. But I don't. I don't think that's the case anymore.

[Amy]

But yeah, Target Seen a couple of Target.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but it's usually the Target, like Franklin or Brentwood.

[Amy]

Yeah. Not downtown Target. No.

[Eddie]

Yeah. You know what's crazy? There's a Chick Fil A that's downtown that was a corporate Chick Fil? A. Now they've turned it into a corporate, and they serve out of it.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean by corporate?

[Eddie]

The corporate office.

[Bobby Bones]

Just like an office. Oh, so they didn't have. It wasn't a restaurant at all. Okay.

[Eddie]

And now it's corporate? I think so. This is my theory. I think so many people saw the sign, they would go to it thinking there was food there.

[Amy]

Oh, funny.

[Bobby Bones]

So they're like, man, we got to

[Amy]

turn this sign down.

[Bobby Bones]

It could be busy.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And so now it's just a walk in. It's like a window, only there's no restaurant in there. But I think they built a little kitchen in that corporate spot.

[Amy]

Do you know that there's a Cracker Barrel that campus?

[Eddie]

I've been to it.

[Amy]

You have?

[Eddie]

Yes, because I did a couple campaigns with them. And so I went to the campus

[Amy]

and I saw campus.

[Eddie]

I saw where they were building, like, the room. They had different versions of those. When you walk in the store, they would build fake stores.

[Amy]

Oh.

[Eddie]

Like the front of the restaurant and practice displays.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that where they train?

[Amy]

Yeah, I guess.

[Eddie]

I think corporate is there. And corporate does the picking of the selections. But I don't think they take all employees to train there. But corporate, you have to live. I mean, you have to live in that part of Tennessee.

[Amy]

Yeah, but it is big, Amy.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's big.

[Amy]

It's big. It's like a college campus, but it's all Cracker Barrel.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like when. If you've ever gone to Dave Ramsey's campus, it's huge.

[Amy]

Never been.

[Bobby Bones]

They call it a campus.

[Eddie]

It's like, I've done his show a couple times.

[Amy]

Isn't it a building?

[Bobby Bones]

It seemed I. Well, I was overwhelmed.

[Eddie]

Yeah, you may be like.

[Bobby Bones]

I was like, did you do a show? I did his daughter's Rachel. Rachel Cruz.

[Amy]

Recently.

[Bobby Bones]

A couple years ago.

[Amy]

Oh, that's cool.

[Morgan]

They haven't invited you. Ready?

[Amy]

No.

[Mike]

Amy, are you talking about the one that's like the giant building? All kind of. You can see it from the highway.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Dave Ramsey Solutions.

[Bobby Bones]

I just know There was, like. It seemed like there was multiple buildings. And where I was parking, it felt like I was on a campus. I thought they even called it maybe campus, but maybe the cracker Barrel one.

[Amy]

Looks like. It looks like a college.

[Eddie]

There's a gate and everything.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, yeah, this wasn't. I don't recall a gate, but.

[Eddie]

Oh, no gate, no campus. Emmy's like, yeah, I don't remember a gate at all, Morgan.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah. Okay. So this girl goes grocery shopping. She thought it was gonna be a normal grocery shopping trip. She bends down to grab something off of one of the bottom shelves, and there was a guy behind her who decided to expose himself.

[Eddie]

So he is behind her.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep.

[Eddie]

So he's not behind the shelf.

[Mike]

Nope. So she's squatting down, she's trying to grab something, put it in her basket that's on the floor. And he's kind of standing, like, catty quarter behind her. And she kind of turns around and sees him, and at that same moment, he shows her his penis.

[Eddie]

Just shows it? Or was he like, oh, it gets.

[Mike]

Yep, it's right behind you.

[Eddie]

Then I don't want to see his penis.

[Mike]

It's blurred out. It's blurred. But then he proceeds to put it on her ear, all while filming it.

[Eddie]

Is she.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

So she's down, and he just comes up and puts a ding dong on her.

[Morgan]

Literally right on top of it. You said catch.

[Mike]

Like he was looking at her product,

[Eddie]

so he didn't want her to see him.

[Mike]

Yeah, he was kind of like sneaking it, but then he brings it up and puts it on her ear, like, literally on.

[Eddie]

Freaking weirdo. This dude needs to have the crap beat out of him. Yeah.

[Mike]

And he's filming the whole thing in prison.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my.

[Eddie]

Because that's not. That technique there was not learned today. This guy has done this before, so we're looking.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, every time has to be a first time.

[Eddie]

No, this guy. But he's not nervous. He knows exactly where he's going. He knows where to stand.

[Mike]

Yeah. And he hasn't. They're looking for him. Like he hasn't been caught.

[Morgan]

I'll go back. There's this picture.

[Eddie]

Hasn't been caught.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

How was he not caught? How was store security?

[Mike]

Not like Whole Foods in California.

[Eddie]

Whole Foods?

[Bobby Bones]

What this is. I was thought this is more of

[Eddie]

a Piggly Wiggly type thing. Wow, that is creepy. You're just shopping for groceries, and now you got some dude's ding dong on your ear. Like, if it were. Hopefully if that happened.

[Morgan]

But she doesn't seem to react very well.

[Eddie]

I don't think you'd think that's what it is. Yeah, she's just kind of like, I think you're confused.

[Bobby Bones]

Very. I'd be very confused if you had

[Eddie]

the understanding of what's happening. Grab and freaking twist.

[Caller / Mario]

Grab.

[Eddie]

Grab the nuts and freaking twist. I really don't run. You should run.

[Amy]

That's crazy.

[Eddie]

You should run. That's. That's a weird story to come to the table with Morgan.

[Mike]

I saw it and I was like. I mean, people are weird right now, man. I don't know what's going on right now.

[Amy]

They've always been weird.

[Eddie]

Yeah. We just have more cameras and TikTok.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Bots have surpassed humans when it comes to Internet traffic. Now, yesterday, the state of AI traffic report was released. It confirmed that artificial intelligence and bots have surpassed human users. On the Internet, automatic traffic is defined as Internet traffic generated by software systems rather than human users. Cnbc, this is all what Twitter is. Because Twitter can be extremely harsh. Hardcore. You say something, it's all bought. It's 60, 70% bots.

[Bobby Bones]

So who's running the bots?

[Eddie]

Well, there can be bots running bots. There can be people that you program and look for these type of words and say this type of thing bad.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Yeah.

[Amy]

Hey, that video. That video I sent you of all the. Like, the bot farm with all the phones in there, whatever. They.

[Eddie]

So not really. Not really bot. Oh, yeah. Like streaming farms. So Eddie had sent me a video of they kicked in a door. This is not in America, by the way. And there's like a thousand phones, and they put them all to streams just

[Amy]

over and over again, like, the same content, whatever. They're trying to get stream numbers.

[Eddie]

Artists do this all the time in music now, too. They can. You can farm streams.

[Amy]

And all of these, like, thousand phones

[Eddie]

on the wall had the same video

[Amy]

playing the same video over and over. So that's how the numbers are up.

[Bobby Bones]

That's crazy.

[Eddie]

And my text back to Eddie was, how do I hire this?

[Amy]

He goes, I need that.

[Caller / Mario]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Like, how do I hire a bot farm?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. That's crazy. Like, you don't want that, though.

[Eddie]

No, but. So if you need a story, like, let's say an artist is like, I got my song streamed 300,000 times yesterday. I'm really blowing up. And then other people believe it, so they start to put you on playlists.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, gotcha.

[Eddie]

And so that's what you do. You use it to build a story. It's illegal. Don't do it. But, like, how do I. How do I do that? That'd be crazy.

[Amy]

Could you see what the video was? I couldn't see. No, I was trying to, like, zoom in.

[Eddie]

I couldn't tell. I did see a Madison Beer video on the Tonight show they pulled. That had nothing to do with bots. I don't know if that.

[Mike]

She.

[Eddie]

Her performance wasn't that good, but she went on to perform on Jimmy Fallon, and some of it was still up on Twitter, and now they've taken it down, and I don't know if it's because of the comments, and it wasn't that good. Mike, will you see if you can find that for me? You know she's dating, right?

[Amy]

I bet you if you told me, I'd be like, oh, yes, I knew that.

[Eddie]

He's a quarterback. Oh, Joe Burrow? No, for the Chargers.

[Amy]

Oh, Justin. Justin Herbert.

[Eddie]

Mm.

[Amy]

Wow. And did it air?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay, so it aired and then they pulled it.

[Eddie]

Yeah, from what I saw. Do you see anything about it, Mike? I'm still reading it. It is down, right? Yeah, it looks like it. Yeah. Maybe just wasn't a good performance. It just says due to licensing agreements or a shift in promotion strategy. Yeah, that's.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that code for, like, oh, yeah, she is hot. She's very pretty.

[Morgan]

She's got 40 million followers on Instagram.

[Amy]

Let me see.

[Morgan]

Hello. You want to see her, Eddie?

[Amy]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who she is.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. See?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she's pretty.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Is he good?

[Eddie]

Why do you two keep saying oh, yeah?

[Amy]

No, no, I know. No, don't wrote me.

[Eddie]

How old is she?

[Bobby Bones]

But you just said it, Eddie. You go, oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

No, I. Oh, you said, oh, yeah. Yeah. Then, no, no, yeah, I know her. I know her.

[Mike]

She's 27.

[Eddie]

Okay. I'm glad she's not 19. Who cares if she's 19? I kind of do.

[Morgan]

Anyone see a different one?

[Amy]

No, I'm good.

[Eddie]

I just.

[Amy]

I know her now.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that we're. We need to evolve past the. Well, they're 18, you know?

[Eddie]

Like, why?

[Mike]

Because it's still.

[Amy]

So what's the new number?

[Bobby Bones]

Listen, now that we are in our 40s, I see an 18 year old, I get very confused. They look so little. I'm like, there's no way you're old enough to drive. There's no way you're old enough to go off to college and take care of yourself on your own. Did we look this little yes, we did. And you know what makes me think about is men that were into that. And that's sick. Now that I'm the age, I'm like,

[Morgan]

well, Madison beer ain't got nothing to do with that. She was.

[Eddie]

Yeah, she's 27.

[Morgan]

She's got plenty of age and plenty

[Eddie]

of if they want to go, oh yeah, oh yeah.

[Amy]

I didn't say oh yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Y' all can oh yeah her, but

[Eddie]

then you can oh yeah her.

[Amy]

Oh yeah, I know her as long

[Bobby Bones]

as I move the tassel.

[Morgan]

Eddie, there was a pause before you said.

[Amy]

No, there wasn't.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah. He said, oh. He said, oh, yeah.

[Amy]

Oh yeah. I know her.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Morgan]

And I got a question. How did I accidentally add her to this? Well, I don't even know what that is.

[Bobby Bones]

Uh, oh, like what is that?

[Mike]

He favorited her Instagram. It's on his favorite spot.

[Morgan]

How to do that? How do I do that?

[Eddie]

Accidentally DM'd her.

[Morgan]

How do I. How do I. What is that?

[Amy]

Can I delete that or.

[Mike]

No, you can just keep it there. Yes, you can delete it.

[Morgan]

Okay. You'll have to show me how. I have no idea. I was trying to click on pictures and I don't know how that got up there.

[Eddie]

I did a baby State of the Union on YouTube. It's about a half hour. We're gonna play that now and then we have a caller. We're gonna talk to you about some stuff. So we're gonna play this baby State of the Union. We'll take a break and we will come back. It's the perfect time to get that Hyundai car or SUV that you've been wanting. Because the Hyundai getaway sales event is happening now. Enjoy great deals across Hyundai's entire award winning lineup. Like the Tucson with next level tech and safety features. Or the Santa Fe with three full rows of premium comfort standard. Or the bold and super stylish Elantra. Or go all electric with their breakthrough SUV, the Ioniq 5. You can't go wrong with whatever model you choose. And getting away with a great deal is just the beginning. Because every new Hyundai is backed by America's best warranty. Which means you can shop with confidence and drive with unrivaled peace of mind. So get down to your local Hyundai dealer and get away with a deal so right it almost feels wrong. But don't wait. The Hyundai getaway sales event won't be around for long. Visit HyundaiUSA.com or call 562-314-4603 for more

[Amy]

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[Eddie]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Eddie]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Eddie]

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I mean, I was 45 years old until we actually had a baby. And so if you're watching this, you're like, what's up with the old guy talking about a baby? Like, we just had a baby for the first time ever. So all this stuff is new to me. And so, I mean, I didn't even know that I was going to have kids. I didn't know that I was going to get married. I don't think until I met my wife. I thought I was going to get married because I was 37 or 38 before I met my wife. I'd kind of given up on thinking that I would actually meet somebody that I felt like would make me better, that I would not settle for so on my mind, I kind of given up. I had always thought, hey, having kids would be fun, but I was never going to have kids or get married for the sake of just getting married, which would have hurt me politically. I think if I ever ran for political office, because I'd have been the weirdo that wasn't married running for office. It's hard to get votes whenever you're not married with a kid because they want to see that traditional nuclear family. Also, I wrote a kid's book without a kid. How weird is that now? A bit. It makes sense. And I didn't write the book to get kids. It's weird to say I wrote a book that I thought I would have liked as a kid. But, yeah, when I was doing prayer for my book Stanley the Dog and His First Day of school, it was a little weird doing interviews when I didn't have a kid and I wrote a kid's book. I'm not going to lie. But now that I have a kid, please buy my book Stanley the Dog the first day of school. So we have a child. She's a couple weeks old now, and it's been a blur. And it feels like it was just yesterday. And it also feels like it was 10 years ago at the same time, because we have dedicated all of our time to that. The first week, I took off work completely. I had been working with the show for a couple of months prior to make sure I had recorded full shows. And we had all these shows that went up on our Bobby Bones show stream and even secondary podcasts. And we had done interviews for my Netflix podcast called the Bobbycast. We were working. We were grinding for three or four months to make sure we recovered so I could take a week off work. And that's what I did. Took a week fully off work, and the second week I worked from home. So if my wife needed anything, I was there. I could walk out of the studio and help her. So now we're in, like, the third week, which I'm back to work 75%, but it's a lot of attention paid on one thing. I would compare it to a long, long road trip where you really haven't done a lot of work, but you've been so focused on something to make sure that nothing bad happens that you're exhausted. Like, the first week we'd be like, why are we so tired? Because we didn't really do. It's not like we were doing curls with the baby. We weren't, like, lifting her above our head. Just Focus on it and building out a schedule. And so my brain was and still is in a bit of mush. So much so to what I was talking about is I was leaving the gym yesterday. It was the first time I'd been back to work out in like a trainer capacity. And I've been boxing a bit and my coach comes out of the front door because he has a small boxing studio and he's like, hey, hey. And I'm thinking he's gonna tell me, man, you're really crushing it. Like day one back, you could be a pro boxer. He was. And he was like, hey, your trunk's open. And not only was my trunk open, but the stroller was like halfway hanging out of the back. So got a little bit of dad brain there. Thankfully he saw that I'd have been driving down the road, I'd have lost the stroller. And those things are not cheap. Stroller, the bassinet that goes on top of the stroller, all that hanging halfway out the truck. So that happened yesterday. We had installed these gates in our house and not so much a baby gate so a baby can't get somewhere, but we had put these gates up in one place specifically so the dogs don't have free run in the house. It has been a bit of an introduction phase with the dogs to the baby. And we have a bulldog and Stanley's been great, mostly because he doesn't care. So you know, we did the whole let the dog smell the baby, let the dog be around the baby a little bit, but don't give up full access to the baby. You know, people say put blankets in the dogs kennels or beds and so we've done that type of stuff. And so for the first week, Stanley was around her a lot and he just doesn't care. If it's not food, he doesn't care. He's an 8 year old bulldog at this time. He just wants to be fed. Eller a little more high strung. She's definitely taller, more athletic, so she can get to places that Stanley can't. And so with her we've had to really be precious with the time that we allow her around the baby. And she's now great. It just took a second. But we have these gates that we've put up to block different entrances in our house so the dogs can't get to the baby. Not so the baby can't get to the dogs. That being said, it's annoying with the gait because the gate goes up to about a little higher than the top of my hip, and I'm a little more than six foot tall. And there was a wrestler back in the day, WCW, named Elegante, and he 7 foot 7, he would step over the top rope. So I kind of picture myself as being Elegante. And I would step over the top of the gate, and I had some diapers. I had, like, a cloth on my shoulder. I had the peanut that you changed the baby on. And I'm stepping over the gate, and my foot catches and I wipe out face first on the freaking floor. Like, I'm talking hit hard, shoulder hits, head hits. I had surgery on my ankle. My ankle hurts. So also, a bit of probably dad brain is that I wasn't super focused on getting over the gate, but I wiped out hard. Everything still hurts. My back hurts, My neck hurts. That happened. Now, I have other questions from you guys, specifically, because I did a Q and A on my Instagram, and I was like, hey, ask your questions. And it was 99% baby questions. So here we go. Any music you play for the baby, there's two songs that we play the most for the baby. Number one is this song by Imogen Heap. It's called the Happy Song. And I know Imogen Heap from back in the day. She was like an emo. I don't want to say electronic artist, but kind of in the Bjork world. And so there's this song that they commissioned an artist to do because scientists had come up with a lot of different things that you should put in songs and different melodies that work. And she was the one they asked to do it. And it supposedly calms your baby down, which is crazy. And I don't know that it works, but I do know that sometimes the baby gets calmer while it plays. But this song was scientifically created to make your baby happy. Imogen Heap, the Happy Song. We play it all the time. So much so that I sing it just randomly now, because we hear it all the time. It is on a loop, that one. And the Drugs Don't Work by the Verve. And that song goes, drugs don't work. And then it's about drugs and stuff. But that song was playing when my wife went into labor, and now I can't stop thinking about it. We've played it so many times. So those are the two songs we play the most. The Happy Song and the Drugs Don't Work by the Verve. The drugs don't work they just make you worse But I know I'll see your face again it has nothing to do with Babies. It's really a really sad song about drugs. So as far as music goes, that's where we are. We haven't played any of our kids Album Raging Kitty. It's to the baby mostly because I don't want to hear myself sing songs. Do you change diapers? Was a question in a bunch of forms. I've been at 95% of the diaper changes. Like I've been an assistant at 95% of the diaper changes. We have a pit crew technique of baby goes down onto the peanut. And the peanut is actually a place. I didn't know this. All this is new to me. The peanut is shaped like a peanut, and it's a rubber thing that you lay the baby on to change the baby. So if she pees or poops on it, it's rubber. So you just wipe the peanut down, clean it up, and it's good for the next time. So the peanut gets carried around the house a bunch. We have two peanuts. Now we lay her on the peanut. I go right to the wipes. One, two, three wipes. Boom. On the side of the peanut. Then I unzip the onesie. I pull the legs out, double leg lift, put the diaper underneath her. Now, then my wife goes in, undoes the diaper, goes down, make sure it's all good. She does the cleaning of the baby, straps the diaper on. If she needs more wipes, I hand her more wipes. As soon as she's done with that, I'm then handed the dirty diaper. I take the dirty diaper to the trash and I put the dirty diaper away. When I come back, it's now time to zip her up in the onesie. I have the right leg, she has the left leg every single time. She's already done the arms while I was away. Right leg, left leg, zip up, Boom, Done. So we've got that down. I have done two solo changes. That's right. I did a P solo change. And then recently I did a poop solo change. I was pretty happy with myself. Now, selfishly, I don't want to get too good at it because I'm going to be asked to do it all the time. But I do need to know how to change a diaper. And I'm there for pretty much every single one of them. I've been at work a little more now, so I've not been able to do them all in the morning, but I know the timing of it all. We were having to feed her every two to two and a Half hours. And now we're on a three to three and a half hour schedule. So it's change her. So she wakes up, feed her, then she goes to sleep while she's eating, which is very difficult to get her to wake up sometimes while she's eating so she can eat enough food. And then she takes a nap, and it just stays on a schedule like that until nighttime, which now she's sleeping at times five and a half to six hours. So I've been at 95% of the diaper changes, and I've done two solos. Could I do it if my wife said, hey, let's do a diaper change, or, hey, I'm going to be gone? Can you? Absolutely. I can do everything that I need to do with the baby if my wife is gone for three hours? I feel completely comfortable with that. There are times now where for like an hour, hour and a half or so, it's just me and the baby. I'm good with that. If something goes wrong, I got it. I don't want to be the person that doesn't know what they're doing. I don't want to be that dad that doesn't have a clue. I want to be the dad that knows how to do everything, but then doesn't have to do everything because they're kind of grossed out by it. That's where I am now. I'm also not as grossed out by it as I think I was at the beginning because I've just been exposed to it so much. So the other day when I was changing the first poopy diaper by myself, I wasn't that grossed out by it. Now I'm being told that when they start eating real food, it gets gross. I'm probably going to forget how to change diapers when that happens. I'm going to go back to that where I'm like, oh, I thought it went on her head. You know, I'm probably going to get back to that area. But that's where we are now. Here's another question. What are your top five moments with the baby? Ah, good question. I made a list. Here at number five, I have a friend that I'm really close to, except sometimes he won't answer my call for, like, three months. That's a weird juxtaposition, but it's my friend Ahmad. I love Ahmad. I'd give him a kidney. We've been friends for 20 years. He was in my wedding. He's a groomsman, right, Eddie?

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

Ahmad was a groomsman. At my wedding, sometimes he just didn't have to answer the phone for months at a time. He does this to other friends, too. He just disappears off the face of the earth. I had my daughter on my chest, and I didn't FaceTime many people to show them her, but I wanted to show Ahmad. And so I FaceTimed Ahmad. He didn't answer. Well, now FaceTime allows you to send a video as a hey, you didn't answer, but here's a video. So I sent a video, and I was like, dude, you didn't answer. Now he's avoided my calls or just been too busy to call me back for two months. He called me back in 30 seconds. And so then I talked to him for a long time, which shows you he just doesn't answer because he doesn't want to. And that sucks. And, Ahmad, if you're watching this, that sucks. But my number five moment with the baby was getting one of my friends to answer my FaceTime because I had the baby with me. And number four, I've never been someone to hold babies. I've held one baby in my life ever. One time before my wife had our daughter, and it was my nephew, and it's because they were like, hold this baby real quick. And I was like, oh, God. And I just was weird because I just never held a baby. I didn't want to drop a baby. Really had no. I wasn't drawn to babies, and so I was never the person to be like, let me hold your baby. So I didn't really understand this was a thing. But we went to the pediatrician, and you go like, two days after you give birth, maybe one day. But ours led into a weekend, and the pediatrician said, hey, we're still at the back end of rsv. You don't want your baby getting that. You don't want flu, all this stuff. So don't let people around the baby if they are feeling 1% sick, don't let them around. If they've been on an airplane, don't let them around. And don't let kids around the baby right now. So those three things. So my wife has been super vigilant about that. Now. There have been times, like, we were on a walk yesterday and we saw somebody we knew, and she came over the person we knew and was like, so conscious to not grab and want to hold a baby. And I thought that was so cool. I don't have consciousness of that because I never wanted to hold a baby. But there have been a couple times where we've been with people we know and they don't like, grab to hold the baby. And I think that's super cool. They probably know people that aren't the mom and the dad this early shouldn't be grabbing and holding the baby. But I think that's been a top moment of the baby is seeing other people appreciate the fact that we don't want anybody holding their baby because we don't want anybody getting the baby sick. That's number four. Number three. I'd always heard the stories about when your kid is born, there's going to be this moment of anxiety that happens after the birth when there's not a noise made because they have to clear the airway of the baby. And so I was always nervous about that few seconds. Baby comes out, baby can't breathe. Oh, God. Is the baby going to breathe? Is baby going to breathe? Is baby going to breathe? And it starts crying and you're like, whoa, I didn't have that happen now. I didn't look. I kept head up. I kept head at head. I kept my head up near my wife. I was rooting her on. It was like I was at Budwalton arena, like, let's go. Woo. Pig Suey. I was rooting for my wife and they were like, okay. And it was pretty quick. Like, when my wife went into labor, it was less than an hour. It was super quick. So the baby was born. They were like, here it comes. Wow, it's got a lot of hair. Oh, my God, here's the baby. Wah. Started crying immediately. So I never had that moment of being like, oh, my God, is the baby going to live? They. Yeah, that was a great moment for me because I was concerned about it going in. And once we got there, I didn't even think about it until it was over. Because luckily for us, I don't know if the baby was breathing immediately or they cleared the air and I just wasn't down there looking. So that was number three. Number two, top five moments with the baby. My wife and I have been going on walks with the baby every single day. The baby's not walking, obviously, but that's been fun. They're not long walks. Because my wife has been in recovery after having a baby, which shout out to women. Who knew? Who knew? I just thought, like, you know, you had a baby, rub a little dirt on it, get to raising. Because I've never been around babies. Dude, that sucks for you guys. Like, I'll be honest, that sucks. Like, it doesn't just come out. It's not flush. It just come out clean like a slip and slide. And all of a sudden it's out there with no. Like it's. Man. How about you guys for that? Like, thumbs up. So we've been going on walks and we go a little further each day as my wife has been recovering and she's been recovering like a champ. Like, even going to the bathroom is hard for you guys. Who knew? I didn't know. I didn't even think about it. So going on walks because it's represented a couple things. One, my wife is recovering and two, I'm pretty good at the stroller. Like, whack, whack, whack, whack. You ever see that George Clooney movie where he flies all the time. Anna Kendrick's in it. And so he's like so good at going through security at the airport where he's like. And so that's what I am with the stroller at this point. Like, but un. Collapse it, boom, on top of it. Right now we're bassinetting on top, handle out, boom. Walking. I'm getting pretty good at the car seat too. So that's where we are there. And then number one, my number one moment with baby so far has been. It's been definitely more taxing on my wife because she's been doing most of the hands on. I've been with her every step of the way. But obviously I just mentioned she's changing the diapers and she's been exhausted and her body obviously has gone through it. Having to deliver a baby and there's so much adrenaline. I mean, it took four or five days for the adrenaline to come out of my wife's body to where she was. You know, she got exhausted after that was over, but so I was. I've been super concerned about her. I think most of my energy has gone into making sure that she feels good or feels as best she can while doing it. So it's not like I've done nothing. Where she's been super attentive toward the baby. I've been pretty attentive toward the baby, but I've been super attentive toward her. So every single thing she could ask for or want, hopefully I've been able to provide that. I got a call at the gate. It might be something for the baby. Let me answer it. Here we go. Oh, yeah, it's another baby coming over to play. It's not. So I've worried about my wife and I've tried to meet all of her needs. And predict all of her needs. And I was talking to her the other night, and I was just asking her, like, how do you feel? Baby was asleep. And she said that this has been the happiest she's ever been in her whole life, which I thought was amazing for her to say that. And I think that's my number one moment, is her saying that this is the happiest she has ever been in her whole life. She's taken to it like a duck to water, man. You ever see a baby duck that's never been in the water, hatches out, hops on the water? That's kind of what this has been like with her. So that's my number one moment for sure. The best thing I've ever seen is her be a mom and love being a mom so much. It's crazy. It's like a different kind of love for my wife because no doubt I loved her and I really liked her. Both of those things are super important. Like, I think she's super funny. Like, everything I ever wanted in a wife, I got it from her. But to see her now embrace being a mom like this, it has been a different kind of connection and a different kind of love. So that's been pretty cool. A few more here. What has having a baby taught you that was unexpected? Did I have an appreciation for my parents keeping me alive when I was a baby? Because you have to do everything for these little babies. Obviously, I'm assuming most of you guys watching this have had a baby, but you have to do everything for it, and you're super concerned about everything. And I think back, and I don't have a relationship that is super warm with my parents parenting me, but my mom got pregnant at 15 years old. My biological dad was 16 years old. Like, you're talking about teenagers having kids. And for me to be alive through the baby stage, like, I have an appreciation. They kept a baby alive when they were 16, 17, 18 years old. That's crazy, because we're doing everything we can to keep this baby alive. And I'm a 40, my wife's in her 30s, and we're pouring everything into it. So there is an appreciation for my teenage parents that they just kept the baby alive because that's a feat in itself is keeping a baby alive. And also, they didn't have the resources that we have, not even technology wise. But, like, I have money now. I've been working for a long time. I'm also in my 40s, so I have money saved up. So it's easier whenever you can buy stuff. Peanut ain't cheap. They probably threw me on a picnic table when I was a kid. Make sure I didn't roll off. So I think that has been probably the thing most that I've appreciated since I've had a baby about being a baby. All right, we got a live question. Out of everyone who gave you advice, what is the most true and what advice are you actually taking? It's a great question and it's a live question. So I definitely didn't get to make a note here. I don't know that I'm taking anybody's advice. I started looking and reading some stuff from books, and mostly it's people's perspective or mostly it's people's, like what they went through that was specific to them. I don't have a good answer for that because most people's advice is about being like macro parent. Like, this is what's going to happen to you as a kid. They're going to grow so fast. Most of it's not. You have a one week old. Here's exactly what you do. So I don't know that I'm against advice. I don't think any of the advice anybody's given me has been able to come to fruition yet for me using it because we just had the baby and it's all super newborn stuff. So, yeah, live question. I should have really vetted that out. Here's another one. I think I answered this one accidentally. Do you wish you'd had started a family younger? No, because younger I wouldn't have had Caitlin, so I wouldn't have started a family. I guess I never thought I'd get married. And mostly too, I think, you know, I was really scared that I was going to have a kid and not have the money to have a kid. And I know there are a lot of people having kids. I mean, look at my teenage parents. They were able to have me, but I guess I didn't want to have a kid at 6, 7, 8, 9 years old, not be able to afford the things that kids need to have just to go to school, because I wasn't able to afford those. There were times when I was a kid where I didn't go to school on the days that there was like a field trip or there was. You had to bring money for the cause. I couldn't afford it. So I would just be like sick when I was a kid. So I just didn't want to put a kid in that situation. But no, I'm Good. I also don't want to be 100 years old. Al Pacino, 86 years old, having a baby. That's hey. But more power to him, you know, other than that, I'm just kind of getting back on the train after a couple. A few weeks. Other than one workout, I haven't worked out at all. I stopped taking vitamins. I was doing nad like I was on, like, formula. My formula was every day, wake up, do this. That's been completely off. So I got to get back there. I've never been so tired doing nothing because I've done nothing. I've worked. I'm talking about with a baby. You don't do anything. You just sit around, but you just make sure everything's always, you know, being paid attention to. So I've never been so tired from doing nothing. But that's kind of how you feel also after you drive a car for a long time, you're like, I didn't do anything except sit in a car for nine hours. Why am I so exhausted? So that's it. That's the baby. State of the union. Other questions are like, are you going to show your baby on social media? And I've talked about this a lot. We don't really have a plan right now on what we are or aren't doing right now. My wife has decided she doesn't want the baby's face on social media. My wife doesn't need the love from social media. She doesn't care about that. And so she also doesn't then want to have to deal with people saying negative things just to try to get at me. So we've decided right now no baby face. And my wife went through it. My wife had a stalker like the FBI had to get involved with for a long time. That just simply came from social media and Internet and my job. So I think a little bit there's some trauma to that. It's like, why would we do this with our kid? Whenever the adult had to deal with it, Imagine if the baby's having to do something. So right now, no, we're not dead set against it, but right now we've decided for us, at this point, we're going to keep the baby's face off the Internet. And that's all. We do have an app. Everybody has the app, but we do have a tab in the app. It's the notes app. And on this notes app, we've got a feeding schedule. What time, how many ounces, wet diapers, what time it happened, dirty diapers. What time it happened. And like we keep it all. We've been tracking it. So we've been doing pretty good. My wife's been doing pretty good. My wife's been doing great actually. And I worried too when I went back to work, like how she would feel or react. And she'll just text me pictures and be like, we're killing it, we're doing good. Her heart breaks whenever like the baby is sick or fussy and she can't figure out like fix it immediately. But I imagine that's just a parent thing. So. Thank you for all the questions. I think I've pretty much answered generally all the questions that are mostly asked over social media and that is the baby. State of the union. Thank you. Let's go to Mario who lives in Denver. Mario, you're on the show. What's up, buddy?

[Caller / Mario]

Morning, studio.

[Amy]

Morning.

[Caller / Mario]

So that's awesome. I'm calling, I need some, some life coaching and motivation for you guys.

[Eddie]

All right, give it up.

[Caller / Mario]

I, I deliver and install appliance for a big box store currently and I work under somebody else and I've been reached out with the opportunity to get my own contract. It's all under, it's all subcontractors that do all the work. So they reached out to me, they've asked me if I wanted to get my own contract and do it on my own. So I'm basically starting my own business and working for myself. What has me really nervous is of course there's a lot of upfront cost. I gotta purchase a bunch of, I mean insurance, liability insurance, all this stuff. But also there's become a contractor with them. They pay a net 30. So I'm going to be working for a whole month before I get any type of income from, from them. So that has me nervous. Potentially I could own my whole business and you know, it's great. But in the short term, it's really, really hard for my family and I having trouble pulling the trigger on again, going a month without income and working and what am I going to feed my kids, you know, so, so I'm struggling with that.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's definitely different whenever the question is what am I going to feed my kids? So this is the encouragement that I would give you. And it's going to seem at first not like encouragement, but whenever you do this, it's going to be nerve wracking. Anytime you pull the trigger on this, if it's today, if it's three years from now, you're going to feel this way. But big Decisions, you're going to have big nerves about them. And if it were easy, everybody be doing it. But it ain't easy, and everybody's not doing it. And here you are, you're at the crossroads. Do you make this big decision or not? What I would advise you to do, just only knowing what you've told me, is I would work and try to save up enough of a nut that you can not get paid for a month. So if that's cutting back on some things for the next three, four, six months while you work your regular job, I would also, on a calendar, put a date to where you need to move to the next step. Because we can continue to kick the can whenever there's something that we can keep kicking the can for. Because you could go, you know what? I'm not quite there. I'll do it in three months. I'm not quite there. I'll do it another three months. Put a date on a calendar, put something definitive on it. It could be six months, nine months. And you need to save a little bit, little bit each month, even if it's very hard. And then you need to commit to doing this. If it's something that you think you need, you want, and you should do so, you should do it. If you were single, I would say, bro, eat ramen, go at it, make it happen. Yep, it sucks, but everything that's worth having sucks at first. But you have kids, so put a date on a calendar. What is today? March 30th. Put a date on a calendar, say September 1st. And until September 1st, every extra 5 bucks, 10 bucks, 20 bucks, you get. You're putting it away to give you a month so you can start this other opportunity that will long term macro, be more beneficial to your family because you can make your own hours, you can be your own boss. You have a ceiling that you can lift yourself. You're not just working hourly and hoping that you get overtime. So that would be my advice to you in the state that you're in right now.

[Caller / Mario]

Yeah, no, that's great advice. I hadn't thought about that.

[Eddie]

You got to do it, though. So I'm not saying don't do it.

[Caller / Mario]

It's freaking out.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but you should. Like, that's what's awesome. Like, you only have a few opportunities in life to be nervous about possible good things happening. This is a good thing. This is an opportunity that you are going to create for yourself. There are some risks. So what you need to do is mitigate as much of that risk as possible. So save up 10, 20, 30 bucks, whatever you can to make sure that you can work and not get paid for a full month as you start. What's going to be even better for your family down the road,

[Caller / Mario]

right? Yes.

[Eddie]

Make it happen. It's all on you. Make it happen. I'm a big believer. The world is bendable. If you want it and you strategize right, you can have anything you want. And I think you can do this. But you've got to put a date on a calendar and commit to it, because otherwise it's never going to be comfortable and you're never going to fall into it. It's going to be uncomfortable in September when you do this. So just know that. Okay?

[Caller / Mario]

Yep.

[Eddie]

All right.

[Caller / Mario]

Thank you. I appreciate it. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

[Eddie]

Go get it, Mario.

[Caller / Mario]

Thank you. I will.

[Eddie]

All right, buddy, we're rooting for you. See you later, man.

[Caller / Mario]

Thank you. Bye.

[Eddie]

All right, we are done with today's podcast. Thank you very much. All you have to do is. I don't know. Have a good day. Come back tomorrow.

[Amy]

That's all you gotta do.

[Eddie]

That's all you gotta do.

[Amy]

Pretty easy.

[Eddie]

That's it. So thank you for being here, and we will see you guys tomorrow. Bye, everybody. We have something really special for you. A chance to win a trip for two to our I Heart country festival in Austin, including airfare, hotel, and a meet and greet with Russell Dickerson.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Eddie]

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