MON PT 2: What Bobby Did For Wife’s 1st Mother’s Day + Delilah In-Studio On Radio, Rude Comments And Adoption

Summary

Podcast Summary: "The Bobby Bones Show" – May 11, 2026

Episode: MON PT 2: What Bobby Did For Wife’s 1st Mother’s Day + Delilah In-Studio On Radio, Rude Comments And Adoption
Host: Bobby Bones, with Amy, Eddie, Daniel, and special guest Delilah
Guest: Delilah (syndicated radio icon)
Date: May 11, 2026

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Episode Overview

This lively episode weaves together heartfelt conversations about Mother’s Day, competitive Price Is Right banter, and an engaging in-studio appearance by radio legend Delilah. The show features candid storytelling from the cast about family, parenting, and their own holiday mishaps, as well as a detailed, touching, and humorous interview with Delilah, covering her radio career, resilience in the face of rude comments, and her fierce advocacy for adoption and foster care.

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Key Segments & Timestamps

1. Mother’s Day Recap & Gifts (06:00–14:31)
2. Price Is Right “Viral” Debate (15:00–19:56)
3. Delilah In-Studio: Career, Radio, and Adoption (24:04–53:57)
4. Closing Thoughts: “Have the Day You Need to Have” (54:09–55:30)

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Detailed Breakdown

1. Mother’s Day Recap & Gifts

(06:00–14:31)

• The team shares stories of how they celebrated Mother’s Day, with a focus on both heartfelt gestures and inevitable family chaos.

  • Bobby’s First Mother’s Day as a Family: Bobby describes his creative efforts for his wife Kaylin’s first Mother’s Day. He orchestrated two handwritten letters (one “from” their baby Billy, written with his non-dominant hand), a heartfelt gift, and a few hours of picking up her regular duties. Instead, Kaylin chose to join him and the baby rather than nap alone.

    "I went up to the baby's bedroom, the nursery, just trying to let Kaylin take a nap, and I think she was like, ‘Eh, I’m over it.’ So she just came up and laid up in the nursery with us." – Bobby (07:14)

  • Amy’s Handwritten Gifts: Amy’s kids washed her car and wrote her notes. She’s grateful for thoughtful, no-cost gifts but wonders if her ex-husband suggested the idea. She also shares the importance of co-parents encouraging kids to celebrate both parents.

    "Shout out... you don’t have to have money to think of a gift." – Amy (08:54)

  • Eddie’s Family Card: Eddie admits his family's Mother’s Day card for his wife was painfully simple despite best intentions, causing laughter in the studio.

    "We sound so dumb… even mine was just like, 'I love you, you're the best mom in the world.'" – Eddie (10:11)

  • Daniel’s (Lunchbox) Mother’s Day Frustration: His story involves waking up his wife to keep a brunch plan, getting no flowers at the restaurant this year, and receiving a “Mother’s Day” poem that was mostly about him. The day ends with his wife sleeping and Daniel caring for the kids.

    "I really didn't see my wife on Mother's Day. It was pretty terrible." – Daniel (13:59)

2. Price Is Right “Viral” Debate

(15:00–19:56)

• The crew discusses the recent Price Is Right record win, where a retired veteran, Vanessa, scored the largest single-game award ($240,150) in the show's history.
  • Daniel (Lunchbox), who had his own “viral” Price Is Right moment, wrestles with being dethroned as the "most viral contestant."

    "The only reason she went viral is because the amount. It wasn't because of how she acted. I went viral because of me. My personality." – Daniel (17:52) "She may have won the money, but she didn’t win the fame." – Daniel (19:23)

  • The group teases Daniel for tracking views and comments on their respective Price Is Right clips.

3. Delilah In-Studio: Career, Radio, and Adoption

(24:04–53:57)

First Impressions and Radio Questions

• Bobby welcomes Delilah to the studio, sharing his childhood memory: “She just kind of existed everywhere on the radio when I was a kid” (02:10).
• Delilah describes being recognized in public, sharing, “I love that. Come on, you do, too!” (24:30).

Handling Rude Comments

• Delilah recounts how she recently confronted a snarky TikTok comment related to her appearance on the Bunny XO podcast, expressing the internal struggle between wanting to defend friends and taking the high road.

  "Restraint is difficult... How dare you be rude to somebody I now care about?" – Delilah (26:20)

Radio Journey & Consistency

• She shares the story of being cited in Bunny XO’s memoir as the only “parental” voice for a child enduring abuse.

  “You were the only parent in my life... a disembodied voice on the radio.” – Delilah (28:21)

• Bobby’s take: “That’s the highest compliment when someone says, ‘Your consistency mattered.’” (29:03)

Behind the Scenes: Delilah’s Routine

• Delilah explains her daily broadcast routine: live in the studio from 4:00pm to 10:30pm (West Coast time), living in a barn-turned-studio.

  "I'm in the studio from 4, leave at 5:30 for dinner, then go back in and finish the show." – Delilah (30:08)

• The importance of discipline and honesty about “not always being polite” (29:23).

Origin Story & Industry Lessons

• Delilah recounts her humble beginnings: on-air in junior high, multiple radio formats, and being paid “minimum wage.” A chance mentorship with Victor Stredocke led to her learning self-promotion, networking with music legends, and eventually syndication.

  "Morning people got all the press. Evening was a literally throwaway airtime..." – Delilah (38:35) "Victor… taught me how to become a star. And he did." – Delilah (39:23)

Adoption, Foster Care Advocacy & Her Family

• Delilah passionately advocates for foster children: “487,000 children in foster care right now... less than 5% will ever be adopted” (41:49).
  • Cites heartbreaking statistics: “Of those kids... 80% of the boys will end up incarcerated by age 25.”
  • Criticizes societal priorities—spending on sports venues vs. supporting foster care workers with impossible caseloads.
• Her family: 15 kids including biological, step, and children she’s received custody of; “Five at home,” with as many as eight living together at once.

  “I've got kids older than you.” – Delilah to Bobby (41:28)

• Farm and ranch life: describes raising animals (approx. 100 chickens, cows, horses, and even a zebra), and transporting them during a family move (45:15).

Memorable Calls, Advice, & Radio Moments

• Most common advice: Telling someone to “cut bait” from a bad relationship.
• Funniest call: A woman asks for a song for her boyfriend “who’s away” (in prison for making a bomb). Delilah responds appropriately:

  “I broke format and played the Gap Band: 'You Dropped a Bomb on Me.' Had to do it.” – Delilah (50:20)

• Most frequent song dedication: “Wind Beneath My Wings” and “I Will Always Love You.” (47:37).
• Her daughter, at 15, recorded the high-pitched “Delilah” jingle still used on air (52:07).

Professionalism, Parenting, and Being Present

• Delilah discusses never being late to her own show, the emotional needs of adopted children, and the unique difficulties of balancing career and parenting trauma-affected kids.

4. Closing Thoughts: “Have the Day You Need to Have”

(54:09–55:30)

• Amy shares advice from her therapist friend about embracing the kind of day you need, not just the "great" days:

  “Have the day you need to have. If it’s going to be a hard day, feel the feelings.” – Amy (54:23)

• The show closes with laughs, self-deprecation, and encouragement for listeners to be present and kind to themselves.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Delilah on foster care advocacy:
  "There are 487,000 children in foster care right now, this minute. Half a million kids... Less than 5% will ever be adopted. The rest will age out of the system... 80% of the boys will end up incarcerated by the age of 25. How can anybody with a heart think that is okay?" (41:49)
• On consistency in radio:
  "Your consistency mattered. Your kindness mattered. Your empathy mattered." – Delilah (29:03)
• On enduring rude comments online:
  "Restraint is difficult, because I'm like, how dare you be rude to somebody I now care about?" – Delilah (26:20)
• Funniest call received:
  "Her boyfriend is 'away' because he built a bomb and put it in an ex's truck. I broke format and played the Gap Band: 'You Dropped a Bomb on Me.'" – Delilah (50:20)
• Amy’s closing advice:
  "Sometimes you just need to have the day you need to have. If it's going to be a hard day, feel the feelings." – Amy (54:23)

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

This episode combines warmth, gentle ribbing among colleagues, and heartfelt advocacy. The cast’s candid sharing about parenthood and partnership creates a welcoming, familiar space, while Delilah’s interview stands out for her humor, industry insight, and passionate voice on behalf of vulnerable children.

Listeners walk away with laughs, stories worth retelling, and a reminder—courtesy of Delilah and Amy—to be consistent, kind, and present, both on the radio and beyond.

Transcript

[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Daniel]

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[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so you brought me this stat. T Mobile customers had the lowest wireless bills versus Verizon and AT&T over the past five years.

[Delilah]

That seems surprising.

[Amy]

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[Robert Smigel]

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[Delilah]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

Oh, yeah, of course.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't even know what station, but she was just.

[Amy]

I feel like in Austin I was magic 95.5.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, now that you say that, I feel like in little Rock. It was in the evening. What was it? In Little Rock. Because Magic was a rock station. That's why I'm confused now.

[Amy]

Oh, in Little Rock.

[Bobby Bones]

In Little Rock. Magic 105 was, like the rock station.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, I know. And Austin was, like, easily listening.

[Bobby Bones]

What the heck was that?

[Delilah]

Delilah?

[Bobby Bones]

Mike, will you see what Little Rock's easy listening station is? Because now it's gonna sit in my head all day until I figure it out. Did you have one in the Valley? Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

I don't remember the station, though. My mom would listen to it, so it was kinda one of those things where my mom would pick me up from school or whatever and we'd listen to Delilah.

[Bobby Bones]

But you don't know the station?

[Eddie]

No, I don't remember. Maybe B104.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, I think maybe ours was a B as well.

[Eddie]

Really?

[Delilah]

B?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. What's KRUB? Yeah, that would be B. Like B98 or something. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Is that it?

[Bobby Bones]

I think so. I don't know. I didn't listen to that station much. But that station was always on everywhere to make it safe, because they just played safe music. And then Delilah would come on at night and. Yeah, so we'll talk to Delilah coming up in just a few minutes. So did you stay and talk to her after?

[Amy]

No, I just caught her in the hall for a quick little video.

[Bobby Bones]

But what was the video?

[Amy]

Well, I was like, hey, can I be like Delilah? Because that's what I'd see.

[Bobby Bones]

You made her sing it?

[Amy]

No. Well, I. I asked if she. But then she had a good idea. She goes, how about you sing it and then I won't be in the.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, dang. She got you. She didn't want to sing it. How about you sing it?

[Amy]

It wasn't awkward, I promise. No, she was like, no, no, no. You say it and I'm gonna be off camera. And then as you're singing it, I'll, like, come into the camera, like, appearing like Delilah. It was cute.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That makes me feel like she's been asked that 10,000 times. And that's her move. It's. Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. Her move.

[Eddie]

Were you nervous to do that, Amy?

[Amy]

No, I just acted like I was casual. Cool. Go in the bathroom. Oh, hey. What are you doing here?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, Delilah, who we just had in studio for the past. She's coming up in a few minutes here on the podcast. Let's talk to Walt in St. Louis, if we can put him on. Hey, Walt. Yo, yo.

[Walt]

Good morning, studio.

[Bobby Bones]

Morning.

[Walt]

I just wanted to comment about Daniel's Winnings. If he's having his materials shipped to him, the trucking company will show up and they'll drop a pallet on top of the Ultima and leave. They're not going to carry it in his house. Because I went through a similar situation when I bought my wife a desk for the house. I was asked the seller to, you know, when I bought the desk at the company, they'd ask him if they could take it upstairs. Like, oh, no, they're just gonna do a drop ship. They're gonna just drop a pal at your house. So you need to get your neighbor friends to carry it in your house. Daniel.

[Daniel]

I don't know. I mean, they said they were gonna deliver it and that I needed to be home. So it sounds like to me they're gonna be bringing it in the house. But, I mean, I have no idea. I've never experienced a win like this or ordered something this big, so you might be right. But I'm not calling you. What do you say?

[Walt]

I. I'm. I appreciate that, but I think that's what's going to happen, my friend.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, well, we appreciate that call, buddy. We'll be. We'll be waiting for the news from lunchbox. You know you got tip them too, right? They're movers. They don't work. They don't work for the prices. Right. They're literally hired by the prices. Right. Just like, they move stuff all day. Oh, man, it's more taxes you got to pay.

[Daniel]

It's cost me more money.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Hey, Walt. Thank you, buddy. Hope you have a great day.

[Walt]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

All right. There he is. There's Walter. I did this deal with my wife yesterday on mother's Day. It's her first mother's day ever, and said, hey, I guess the mail came today. She was like, on Sunday. I was like, yeah. So I had her two letters, one which our baby Billy had written her. I wrote it. I don't want to spoil it.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

But I wrote it with the wrong hand.

[Amy]

Oh, even better.

[Eddie]

So it looks sloppy.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, man, it was hard to read. I thought if I try to write it with my good hand. But bad, that would be harder than if I wrote it with my bad hand. Good. I don't think I made the right decision because she was really struggling. And I was like, yeah, baby, just learn to write. It's hard. So I wrote her a letter from Billy and then I wrote her like a two page letter from me, which I was looking at it, and it started off pretty strong with Handwriting. But then it got worse too. I just don't have good handwriting. Can't draw, don't have good penmanship. Never my specialty. But I did that and then I got her a nice gift. And then I just tried to like do a lot of the. All the day to day stuff that she does for a few hours, like putting the baby to sleep, like doing all. Just to give her some time. And so I went up to the baby's bedroom, the nursery. And I was up there just trying to like, let Kaylin take a nap or something if she wanted to. And I think she was like, eh, I'm over it. So she came up and just laid up in the nursery with us.

[Amy]

Aw.

[Eddie]

She didn't want to be alone.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she was like, I'm good. Like, I'll just come hang out with you guys. So. But it was a good. It was a good Mother's Day. I mean, the baby's eight weeks old, so it's crazy.

[Amy]

She can already write.

[Daniel]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's wild. So that was mine. I think my wife would give it a solid a minus. I think she probably had given it a plus if she would have enjoyed the time away a little more. She just. It's still too early.

[Amy]

Too new. Yeah, I think it's fresh.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. She was like, I appreciate it, but I'm gonna come hang out up here with you guys. So what, did your kids do anything for you?

[Amy]

Car notes. Handwritten, like actually. And washed my car.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, they washed your car.

[Amy]

That's nice.

[Eddie]

That's really cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Who did that?

[Amy]

Stevenson.

[Bobby Bones]

How'd that go down?

[Amy]

He did the best that he could. You know, I think we might need to work on a few things, but he even vacuumed out the inside. Wiped down the inside.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you just walk outside? He was washing your car?

[Daniel]

No.

[Amy]

He was like, hey, I don't have any money. Well, first he said, I need you to put your car in the driveway, cuz it was in the garage. And I was like, why? And he's like, well, I don't have any money, so I'm going to wash your car for Mother's Day. And I was like, okay, that's.

[Bobby Bones]

That's really sweet.

[Amy]

Yeah, I don't know if he got that idea from his dad or not, but that's okay. Either way, his dad's a big car wash guy, like always washing the car. So I could see him suggesting like, hey, maybe you should try to wash your mom's car. So either he got help from his dad or he thought of it on his own. Either way, I'm grateful. And then, of course, it rained. I was like, okay, cool. You know you want it to rain. Wash your car.

[Bobby Bones]

It's about the effort.

[Amy]

No, no, no, I know. Yeah, it's good. I was very grateful. It was very sweet and thoughtful. And also shout out to him or anybody else, like, you don't have to have money to think of a gift.

[Bobby Bones]

There you go.

[Amy]

Because that was a.

[Bobby Bones]

You're like questioning your ex husband, though, a lot. You said like three times. I think it was his dad.

[Daniel]

No.

[Amy]

Well, at first I was like, wow, did he just come up with this on his own? And I was like, oh, I bet his dad mention. But either way, that's okay. And I have gratitude for that. As I also got a text from my ex husband, his dad, on Mother's day saying, happy Mother's Day. You're doing a great job. Like, that was really thoughtful. That is nice too, so. It really is. Okay. I'm not trying to be weird.

[Bobby Bones]

You are being weird about it, though. You're talking about it weird.

[Daniel]

Your tone is weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Dress it. Because our listeners are like, she's being weird about that.

[Amy]

Okay, well, maybe it's to any other co parents out there. If you're the guy or the girl, it's Father's Day or Mother's Day, whichever it is, like, you can still be an encouragement to your kids for the ex is my point.

[Bobby Bones]

Great and point taken.

[Amy]

You don't have to be weird about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you're being weird about it. Eddie, how to go at your house?

[Eddie]

Pretty good, man. You were talking about a card or whatever. What was funny about our card is I bought a card and I had all the kids write a little note on it and sign it. And my wife, I didn't see really what they wrote, but she opened it up in front of everyone. She's like, all right, let me read it. And dude, we sound so dumb. Like, all of us, even me, everyone's like, I love mom. Mom is great.

[Bobby Bones]

You are my favorite of all the moms.

[Eddie]

Yes. We are, like, the dumbest group of dudes ever. Even mine was just like, I love you. You're the best mom in the whole wide world. Like, thank you for being great. It's like, so dumb.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you give her, like a break or a gift or anything?

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did all that. Like, she didn't cook. She didn't do anything. She slept in. Like, I. If we were going somewhere, I drove, which is a big deal because, like, she drives her Car. I drive my car. I drove. I got us there. We went to, like, a putt putt place, though. And, like, I felt like, do you really want to do this? But she said, you know what? Like, if the boys are happy, I'm happy. And I just want to spend time with you guys. So I give it a solid day. It's pretty good. And we got gifts, too. Like, showered her with gifts.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like you're making it up as you go.

[Eddie]

No, no.

[Bobby Bones]

After you finish. And we don't respond, it's like, oh, and we did this.

[Amy]

And I drove and we did this.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I did drive.

[Bobby Bones]

I did drive. Okay, good.

[Eddie]

No, it's real. Like, that's what we did.

[Bobby Bones]

You put. I drove before. You said we gave her gift. That's why we feel like you made that up.

[Eddie]

Well, the gifts. And the gifts.

[Amy]

Then you said we showered her. Like, was it a few gifts or like, a lot?

[Eddie]

Four gifts from each of you.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Why is everybody weird?

[Daniel]

Lunchbox man. I'm going to tell you what. I don't know how my Mother's Day went, but I didn't enjoy it. Let's just say my wife slept till 9am and at that point, the kids are getting grouchy because they're hungry. And I'm like, well, I guess I got to go wake her up. And I'm like, hey, are you going to get out of bed today? Because the kids are getting. Oh, I didn't know. So then we went to a restaurant, and we went to the exact same restaurant last year. And it was great because at the end of the meal, they give flowers to the mothers. And so we go and we beat the rush. Luckily, we got there, like, 15 minutes where it got crowded into the meal. No flowers.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, if she's sleeping, why didn't you just handle the kids and their food?

[Walt]

No, no.

[Daniel]

The whole point is, like, she's going to get well, then she wakes up.

[Amy]

Well, they're going to go to brunch.

[Bobby Bones]

I hear you. She's wanting to sleep. He went and woke her up.

[Eddie]

Like, what are you gonna do about this?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, what are you doing about this?

[Daniel]

They're hungry. Like, we're gonna go, hey, are we gonna go eat or not? Like, I mean, the whole.

[Robert Smigel]

Right?

[Daniel]

I had to have her to go to brunch for Mother's Day.

[Amy]

Bobby's saying, why didn't you just cook the kids something?

[Bobby Bones]

She'd probably like to sleep more than she would have liked to.

[Daniel]

The plan was to go to brunch.

[Amy]

Okay?

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Daniel]

So that's what I'm saying. Like, eventually, she has to get out of bed or else the whole plan is ruined. To go to brunch and get flowers in this restaurant. And they don't get flowers this year, so. Great. Thanks a lot, guys. So now my wife doesn't have flowers on Mother's Day. And so then we went. Went back home, and my kids gave them the gifts that they made at school. Like, little handprint things. My son wrote a poem, is like, you're as nice as my dad. And it said, you're not as funny as my dad. And so it was really a poem about me. So I kind of like that. That was fun.

[Bobby Bones]

And then, like, a Mad Libs driver crazy.

[Daniel]

Yeah. Then we were like, all right, we're gonna go to the dog park. And my wife's like, I don't think I'm gonna go.

[Walt]

What?

[Daniel]

And so she went back upstairs and went to bed, and we went to the dog park. And then I texted her. I said, hey, head home. Can you get lunch ready? Got home, no lunch.

[Amy]

We had brunch.

[Bobby Bones]

We had brunch. But if you had brunch and brunch is lunch.

[Daniel]

No, no, no. Not when you have kids. Cause it's two and a half hours later.

[Amy]

They're hungry, so a snack will suffice.

[Daniel]

So she had no lunch ready. She was upstairs sleeping. I'm like, awesome. Okay, cool. So I got lunch together. We watched Dr. Dolittle. Then we started watching Dr. Dolittle 2. And my wife finally emerged from her room awake. And then she got on FaceTime with her family for an hour and a

[Bobby Bones]

half, and that's what she wanted. To sleep and just be on FaceTime.

[Eddie]

Just sleep.

[Daniel]

And that was it. So I really didn't see my wife on Mother's Day. It was really pretty terrible. Like, I don't really understand what we did. It was not exactly what I would say is a good Mother's Day.

[Eddie]

It's funny, because my wife wanted to sleep in, too. Like, they really want that.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. They don't be woken up. Yeah, let's let them sleep. I hope everybody had a good Mother's Day out there. Thank you to all the moms, all the people serving as moms that maybe aren't biological moms, but I hope you had a good Mother's Day. Our first. So there was no showering of gifts. It was just a gift. It wasn't like, Eddie's house.

[Amy]

I feel like your gift is pretty legit.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Amy]

The baby, Bobby's gift. I know he's not going to talk about it,

[Daniel]

but you can't say it's pretty legit.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy's the only person told what the gift was in the whole world. Like, there's only one person in the whole world that knew what I was getting my wife, and it's Amy. No, I'm not. No, no. Time and place.

[Amy]

It's very special.

[Eddie]

I thought she was talking about the card. I'm like, okay,

[Bobby Bones]

we have possibly the most viral person in the Price is Right history that just happened.

[Amy]

Oh, did you see it? That's really.

[Eddie]

Oh, it's someone else.

[Daniel]

It was brutal.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not him.

[Amy]

So what? I haven't seen it.

[Bobby Bones]

It made the news. News. It was so big.

[Delilah]

Aw.

[Amy]

Like, what they do? Do they wear tugs?

[Bobby Bones]

The Price is Right gave away the largest amount in a single game in the show's history. A retired veteran won $240,150 in cash and prizes from the Lions Share game. I had to look up because I watched her play the game. She had to go to the screen. There are little balls up there. And so it's like grocery pricing, risk, reward. It's. But I just never seen the game. I like the old game. Hello. That was a good one. But. So she wins. And she is a retired veteran named Vanessa. She won a luxury trip to Morocco. The previous record was 210,000 from the cliffhangers game. Is cliffhangers the yodel? You're the expert.

[Daniel]

No, he's the mountain man.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that not called cliffhangers?

[Daniel]

Not that I know of. I don't think it's called. I think.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, damn. Dang.

[Eddie]

You don't know the game, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Cliffhangers is a. Here she is winning the biggest ever.

[Delilah]

Here we go.

[Bobby Bones]

227, 500.

[Eddie]

And number eight is.

[Daniel]

It is a mother daughter trip to Morocco.

[Delilah]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby Bones]

$240,150.

[Eddie]

Vanessa, nice job. Almost a quarter mil.

[Bobby Bones]

Almost a quarter mil.

[Amy]

That's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

He's fuming over there.

[Daniel]

Like, I watched it and it's like all these numbers, and it's like, all right. She had all these numbers selected, and you can keep going or you can stop because there's lose it all. There is lose it all. And, like, one of them was like 10,000, then 15,000. She's like, I gotta believe I'm gonna keep going. It was a hundred thousand dollars. So she's at like $125,000. And she's like those last two numbers on the board. Are my daughter's birthday. So I gotta believe I gotta keep going. And it's another hundred thousand dollars. So she said $225,000. And she has one number left. And they say, what do you want to do? And she goes, that's still part of my daughter's birthday. I gotta go again. And that's when she got the trip. She didn't lose it all. And I'm like, dang, man. She kind of surpassed me.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, no, she's the most viral person ever in the history.

[Eddie]

Sure.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And she didn't have to go all crazy and wear a tux. She just won the game.

[Bobby Bones]

How's that make you feel?

[Daniel]

A little disappointing. It's sad, but, I mean, eventually there was going to be a bigger prize and bigger than me because the money just gets bigger and bigger as it goes on and.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, your prize wasn't big.

[Daniel]

Right.

[Amy]

I mean, you got a desktop computer.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Like you. You got a home gym set.

[Daniel]

Correct.

[Bobby Bones]

So I do feel, like, shipped to Temecula, California.

[Daniel]

The only reason she went viral is because the amount. It wasn't because of how she acted. I went viral because of me. My personality.

[Amy]

Well, her strategy of, like, that's my daughter's birthday. I'm going to keep going. Like, the whole story is powerful.

[Bobby Bones]

And she was a veteran.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Retired veteran.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

And a mom.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So all those things. Yeah. Anyway, what month were you on? April.

[Daniel]

March 31st.

[Bobby Bones]

March.

[Timbo]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It wasn't April 1st.

[Daniel]

No. That's when we were able to talk about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it. All right, well, there you have it.

[Eddie]

Dang, man.

[Daniel]

Oh, it sucks.

[Bobby Bones]

New leader this year and most buy roll on price is right.

[Amy]

Happy for her.

[Daniel]

No.

[Delilah]

Yeah. Really?

[Amy]

Why not?

[Bobby Bones]

You don't know her. Who cares?

[Amy]

I mean, just be happy for her.

[Bobby Bones]

That's great.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Her winning took nothing from you.

[Daniel]

I'm gonna look it up.

[Bobby Bones]

They haven't even called you back?

[Amy]

Well, what is he getting his phone for? What are you looking up?

[Daniel]

I'm gonna check the views, man. I wanna know.

[Bobby Bones]

Hers just went up. Yours was up.

[Amy]

I just Google it. Every news outlet is covering this story from that crossed over local to national to page six.

[Bobby Bones]

Yours was fun on their Facebook. Hers crossed over into mainstream.

[Eddie]

Their Facebook.

[Bobby Bones]

It was. Yeah.

[Daniel]

Oh, my. Guys, hold on. You guys are way overrating her. I mean, it made all the news. She only has 334,000 views.

[Amy]

Okay. It's still growing one.

[Bobby Bones]

It just happened. And it happened. It's not counting all the news that showed it.

[Daniel]

Oh, My gosh, guys. You guys are overselling the virality.

[Eddie]

What do you have?

[Daniel]

Oh, over like 1.8 million. I mean, she's not even in my ballpark. She may have won the money, but she didn't win the fame. 334, 000 views. Oh, that's hilarious. Me, 1.7 million. Hey, congratulations. She's not the most viral.

[Bobby Bones]

All the news source it's been correct. All the news sites. That doesn't count on the views for this one view.

[Daniel]

I'm just saying. Can't measure it. I would say I'm more biased.

[Eddie]

Can you measure it by the like, people are probably talking about this more than that dude in the tuxedo.

[Daniel]

Let's see.

[Eddie]

I don't know, like, you know that girl that won all that money and a trip to Morocco versus that dude and the tuxedos.

[Daniel]

She has 880 comments on hers. Let's go to mine. 3470.

[Bobby Bones]

She has 800 already after just a few days.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, it's gonna keep climbing like yours has been up for a month.

[Daniel]

And I mean, let's see. I was on TV Guide. I was on the news station.

[Bobby Bones]

You did local news?

[Daniel]

I mean, come on.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, well, congratulations to her. That's pretty cool.

[Amy]

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[Timbo]

Last night, a blown call changed the game. This morning, the Internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source. The athletes themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff that nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight reel. From viral moments to historic games. From buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context and ask the questions everybody wants answered. Sports Slice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to Sports slice on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slice Life 12 and the TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok.

[Robert Smigel]

Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier this week. My guests, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an acapella band with their between songs banter. The worst singer in the group.

[Bobby Bones]

The worst.

[Robert Smigel]

Yeah, me. Is there anything to the idea that because you're from Harvard, you only got in because your parents made a huge

[Delilah]

donation to the group? To the group, the Yardbirds.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Delilah]

That's the name.

[Robert Smigel]

The Harvard Yard.

[Daniel]

But they're open.

[Delilah]

Do you have a name suggestion?

[Amy]

We're open.

[Robert Smigel]

Since you guys are middle aged, one erection, listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Delilah]

Humor me. I need some jokes to make me seem funny.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Delilah]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't tell Amy you were coming. And she's like, delilah's coming. I should have gotten more dressed up.

[Delilah]

And then I walk in in blue jeans. Yeah, this is actually a dress that I had on to go on tv, but as you can see, it's kind of short. And they showed me the stool I was going to be sitting on Local 2 today and I'm like, okay, I'm going to put the pants on.

[Amy]

It was very cute.

[Delilah]

Yeah, thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, they gave you a heads up. You were going to be on a stool. That's at least nice of them.

[Delilah]

Yeah, it was. Otherwise I would you Know, looked half nakey out there.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you talk about when you go on local tv?

[Delilah]

What did they ask me? You know, stuff. Radio stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Like what? I'm curious what people would ask you that aren't in the business. What's your most asked question?

[Delilah]

Is that your real name? It's usually what they ask me. They didn't ask me that today, but they asked me, you know, like, any colors recently. That really stuck with me and stayed in my heart.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have those loaded up as answers? Because you know what questions are going to be asked the most?

[Amy]

No.

[Delilah]

No, I didn't, but they were. Oh, my God. The girls there, the women there are amazing on the local two show they do in the morning. Amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

Why? What about them?

[Delilah]

Professional, beautiful, smart, funny. We had a great conversation. I could have stayed there all day.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you ever find out when people find out that you're Delilah, they, like, they freak out. Like, they don't know at first. We're just meeting somebody random. They're like, oh, my God, you're Delilah. And they freak out.

[Delilah]

Yeah. I love that. Come on, you do, too. Be honest. You love that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. I would say, though, I think we have a different impact. Some people want to punch me in the face. Nobody wants to punch you in the face.

[Delilah]

Why would anybody want to punch you in the face? You're so damn nice.

[Bobby Bones]

I would agree with you. I'm on your side. I love you.

[Delilah]

Thank you. I love that you love kids. I love that you care about the kids at the hospital. I love that you care about the community. Why would anybody want to punch you?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I just have a lot of opinions, and sometimes people don't agree with my opinions, and I get it. But I feel like you are universally loved. Like, there's not a single person that would be like, delilah.

[Delilah]

I had somebody say something not nice to me on TikTok today.

[Amy]

Who?

[Bobby Bones]

Tell us, we'll go get them right now. You just point the direction. We will annihilate them.

[Delilah]

Well, I was on TikTok. I'm in town because I got to go be on the Bunny XO podcast yesterday, and I had such an amazing time with this woman. And we talked and we prayed and we connected, and she was lovely. And I, you know, posted a picture on social media, and somebody put a snarky comment today. And I said to Aaron, who brought me here to town, I'm like, I want to respond. He said, do not respond. Do not engage. We just ignored the naughty people and just move on. I'm like, okay, Restraint is difficult. Yeah, it is, because I'm like, how dare you be rude to somebody I now care about?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, they were rude to her.

[Delilah]

Well, they were rude to me because I was on her podcast, and they have judgmental thoughts that. Whatever. Whatever.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you ever meet people 10, 20 years later that you talked to a long time ago, and they were like, you gave me advice and changed my

[Delilah]

life all the time, which is really cool, because I'm old, you know? So I meet a lot of young people, and they're like, I listen to you. Well, Bunny. That's how I met Bunny. She wrote a book. It's been on the New York Times bestseller list now for umpteen weeks. And in one of the last chapters, it starts with my name, and I'm like, what? And she grew up listening to me. And while she was being horrifically abused and ignored and abused and abused and abused and abused, she said, you're. You know that this woman Delilah was the only parent in my life, you know, a disembodied voice on the radio. And my stepdaughter got the book the day it was released, and she took a picture of the page and sent it to me and said, mom, did you. Did you know this? And I'm like, how would I know this? So I ordered the book, and it took me. I'm a fast reader. Like, I can read a book in a day. And it took me days to read her book because it's so emotional, so painful. And she's, you know, she's younger than my stepkid. She's just a couple of years older than my firstborn biological child. And I'm just like, why did nobody love this kid? Like, why did nobody advocate for her? Why did nobody fight for her or stand in the gap for her or protect her? So it just brought out all my mama bear.

[Bobby Bones]

That's pretty cool that she would credit you with some consistency in her life, even though you didn't know it. Like, it was meaningful to her. Yeah, like, consistency's tough.

[Delilah]

That's the highest compliment that I can receive when somebody says, you know, your consistency mattered. Your kindness mattered, your empathy mattered.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you ever just have a bad day, though, and you're in and you're like, screw your problem. Hang up on them.

[Delilah]

Never.

[Eddie]

Not my problem.

[Bobby Bones]

Get a life.

[Delilah]

Maybe to my husband.

[Bobby Bones]

No, Never. No, that's good. That's why people want to punch me in the face sometimes, because I'm like, duh.

[Delilah]

I mean, there are people. I slap the microphone. Like, those calls never make it on the air.

[Bobby Bones]

How do calls get through to you? Do they call and live while you're there or they leave a voicemail and you call them back like, how did that.

[Delilah]

I ain't nobody got time for that, Bobby.

[Bobby Bones]

They just call live.

[Delilah]

They call live. I'm in the studio 4 o' clock my time because I'm on the West Coast. I go in usually around 3:45. I'm in from 4. I leave the studio at 5:30 and put dinner on the table. I then walk back into my studio because I live in a barn and it's closer. The studio is closer to my kitchen than I am to you right now.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Delilah]

And go back in and finish the show. And I quit taking calls around 10, 10:30 and then go brush my teeth and say my prayers and go to bed.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Delilah]

I set my alarm and get up at 6:03. I set up for six, but I give myself three minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you hit the snooze?

[Delilah]

No.

[Amy]

Snooze is nine as universally. If you hit snooze, it's going to be a nine minute delay.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Delilah]

Listen to her. Knowing this snooze. How many times you hit snooze?

[Amy]

Well, so I used to be a snoozer. Fun fact. And but you know, you would, research, would show and then Bobby would talk about it. And I can't remember how many years ago it was maybe five or six years ago. Bobby did a challenge with a listener and me, like partnered us up so we could be accountability buddies because there's a listener called in like, I want to stop snoozing, but I can't. And I'm like, I want to stop snoozing, but I can't. So you've got kids though. Yeah.

[Delilah]

How do you snooze with kids?

[Amy]

Well, but I was waking up well before they were like, I would be gone doing the show before they would go to school. So. Because you know.

[Delilah]

Okay, so you get up at the.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Really early.

[Amy]

Yeah. So it's really early. So. Because I now had a listener accountability partner, I did it and I powered through and I don't snooze anymore.

[Delilah]

So that worked. Very clever.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Delilah]

Were you showing up late? Like, was there a reason you.

[Amy]

Oh, no, we can't be late, Delilah, if we're late. No, no, no. It's just I would, I was a self proclaimed.

[Delilah]

Oh, come on. I've been in radio 52 years. We can be late. We're outside the door. We're outside the door. And we're supposed to be on the air in 13 seconds.

[Amy]

No, no. If we're late to this show.

[Bobby Bones]

Not even the show. There's a time.

[Amy]

Yeah, okay. If there's a deadline, yes, there. But this is what we're consistently showing up for. We would be sent home.

[Delilah]

By who?

[Amy]

By Bobby.

[Eddie]

You're looking at him.

[Bobby Bones]

Nobody's been late on this.

[Delilah]

Punch you in the face.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, nobody's been laid on the show in seven years.

[Delilah]

Oh, my gosh. Do you know how many days of my life when. When I was, you know, in a single station? Now I'm in my barn, you know. Come on. That. I would. I'm supposed to be on the air at 7. They wanted me there at 6. I would show up at 6, 59 and 58 seconds.

[Bobby Bones]

But that worked. You're still on time.

[Delilah]

I was, yeah. I was never on time for a staff meeting in my life. I had a general manager that pissed off about that. No, I wasn't nobody, you know, nighttime, I was lower than the janitor to those people.

[Bobby Bones]

How did it start for you? What was the first show you did ever?

[Delilah]

The first show I did ever. I was in junior high. Delilah Luke on the warpath.

[Bobby Bones]

Were you angry? We go back to the tapes and she's just yelling at people.

[Delilah]

No, we were the Reed Sport Braves.

[Bobby Bones]

Like the school mascot?

[Delilah]

Yeah. Now it's the Reed Sport Brave because there is no local indigenous tribe to approve the braves. So we are the Reed Sport Brave, meaning brave and bold, like bravery. Our logo is no longer a Native American. It is an anchor. Cause it's a fishing town. Except there's no fish. Sucks to be a fisherman when there's no fish left in the ocean. And I started in junior high doing school news and school sports. And then I got into high school and the two men that owned the local radio station put me on the air every afternoon. We were a sundown station. So as soon as the sun went down, the station went off the air. And I was on the air from like one o' clock until the sun went down.

[Bobby Bones]

What was your role?

[Delilah]

I was on the air just like.

[Bobby Bones]

Like doing songs.

[Delilah]

Songs, commercials. That was 1974. 75. And we had these things called turntables and records and carts. Our commercials were on carts. We had cart decks with the commercials and we were day parted. So from like three until four, 4:30 or five, I got to play rock and roll. And then five to six, we played adult contemporary or country. On Saturday mornings we had the Scandinavian Hour where we played hornky. Dorky Snorky.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Delilah]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So when did you start doing or at least wading into what you're doing now?

[Delilah]

I started the show that I do now in 1984 when my son was a couple of days old. So I always know how old my show is by how old my son is. I took two weeks maternity leave and came back and started this show.

[Bobby Bones]

And did you know you wanted it to be, like, something that would touch people's lives? Yes, that was the goal.

[Delilah]

That was the goal.

[Bobby Bones]

And so callers would call and just tell you their stories. But how did you start to spread? Like, who saw you and who saw what you were doing and thought, man, this would be great in a lot of different places because it resonates.

[Delilah]

A guy named Victor Stredocke actually is the reason that I am successful today. He's, I think, in his 80s or 90s, but he was a local columnist for the Seattle Times, and every Sunday, he did a big column. We had a Parade magazine that was inside the newspaper, and the inside cover was always on the dial, and it was radio news. And so I don't know if anybody else in the world gave a damn about the article, but every radio or television person dove on the Sunday paper on, you know, Saturday when it was actually released, to see who made it in the on the dial. He was also the editor of the comic page in the newspaper. And Victor decided when he started listening to me that he wanted to help me and mentor me. And he took me under his wing and he taught me about our industry, which nobody had ever done. I had been on the air already for 10 years and done jazz. I did country. I was an airborne traffic reporter. I did news talk. I had done all these formats and gotten fired consistently. And Victor said I'd probably been doing. We called it lights out back then. Probably been doing lights out two or three months when he started listening. And he called me up out of the blue and he said, I'd like to write an article about you. And he started talking to me. He's like, you really have no idea how this industry works, do you? Like, you have no idea how this industry works. And I didn't. I mean, all I knew was how to open the mic and entertain people. So he started teaching me, and damn, he was good. And he said, obviously, they're not going to put any money into promoting you or shine a spotlight on you, and so let's do it ourselves. And he hired a photographer to take a headshot. I'd never. I mean, I had Done modeling. But no station had ever thought of, you know, using my image for anything. That was the morning show. You know, you morning people get all the press and the evening was a literally throwaway airtime. They didn't sell a commercial at night. They sold commercials in morning drive or afternoon drive and then they bonus them at night. So if you bought 10 spots, you know, for your car dealership in morning, you got 10 free spots at night. And it had no. The show had no value to them at all that time. From 6 o' clock at night, 7 o' clock at night until 6 o' clock in the morning, the station had no income, no value. And I was paid minimum wage. And Victor said, we're going to change that. And he said. And I said, but they don't care. He said, exactly, because they don't care. They're not going to pay attention to what we're doing. And I'm going to teach you how to become a star. And he did. He taught me how to self promote. Hired a photographer, had a headshot done. He screened it back then. Now we got these fancy color printers on our phone and. And you can have a picture printed in living color in half a second. But back then you had to have a screened black and white picture or that separated the tones and then you had to take it to a print shop. And he did all that for me and had cards printed up. They were half a sheet of paper on cardstock and came up with a logo, came up with a slogan, came up with jingle ideas, said call your friends. Because I had met, you know, Elton John and Lionel Richie and all these great people. And he's like, call him, ask him to do a jingle for you. They'll do it. They love you. They like being on your show. Call them. I'm like, you can't just call Elton John. It's like, try it. Column. I had Diana Shore do a jingle for me. She was a jazz musician with one of the best female voices you've ever heard in your life. He taught me that. He said, you got to become friends with the salespeople. I'm like, ew, salespeople? He's like, yeah, salespeople. The ones that are going to help you get rich. I'm like, what? I can get rich doing this? Well, maybe not rich, but you'll make more than you're making now. Which was like five bucks an hour. And so I started meeting the salespeople and I took the sales director out to lunch and I said, why are you throwing away this time at night. He said, because it's got no value. Nobody listens. I said, well, if I bring people to listen, will you bring me commercials? So we had a handshake deal, and I said, okay, I'm going to. I'm going to bring in ratings like you've never seen before, and you're going to bring in commercials like I've never seen before. And it worked. So.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

He's alive.

[Delilah]

He is. He is. He spent Thanksgiving with us last year.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Delilah]

And his wife.

[Bobby Bones]

That is awesome.

[Delilah]

Yeah. He was, like, in his 60s or 70s before he fell in love and married his wife. And they have a beautiful and so.

[Bobby Bones]

And you have a barn. You live on a farm.

[Delilah]

I live on a ranch. I lived on a farm for the last 24 years. I have 55 acres that I've lived on, but I own a ranch in Oregon that my husband has lived on. So we've had a commuter marriage our entire relationship. And two years ago, he had some health issues, and I went down to help, and my daughter, who was a freshman in high school, said, I'm not going back, Mom. I love it here. I love the school. I love the people. I love the environment. I'm not going back. So I'm going to stay here with dad. I'm like, oh, no, you're not. Your dad can't keep track of a dog. No, not happening. So I had a studio built down there, and we're staying there until she finishes high school.

[Bobby Bones]

How many kids?

[Delilah]

Fifteen that are mine. Five step kids and three more that I just got custody of. So I have five at home. I mean, I've got kids older than you.

[Bobby Bones]

What inspired you to be so giving to children?

[Delilah]

There are 487,000 children in foster care right now, this minute. Half a million kids in foster care. Less than 5% will ever be adopted. The rest will age out of the system. Of those kids that age out of the system, half a million children, 80% of the boys will end up incarcerated by the age of 25. How can we not. How can anybody with a heart who loves a kid think that that is okay? We have two domes in Seattle, two sports fields that are one block apart that cost millions of dollars, billions of dollars. They raised our damn taxes in Seattle so that even if you hate sports like some people do, you still have to pay for the privilege of having a damn sports team under a damn dome thing. In our city, we have two of them. We used to have one, and everybody shared, but that wasn't good enough. Now we have to have two of them that my taxes pay for for a sports team. But the average caseworker in our state has 38 children on their caseload. How is that okay? How is that okay that my taxes are raised for an entertainment opportunity while we've got hundreds of children that are sleeping in hotels because there are no foster homes to care for them?

[Bobby Bones]

What do they tell you when you ask that question?

[Delilah]

Who? When I. When I asked the director of the foster care program in America a couple of years ago when I got an audience with them. Oh, no, the system works great.

[Amy]

The system here in Nashville. I know of caseworkers that have kids that have had to sleep in their office. Not even a hotel room, but the office, because the kids didn't have anywhere to go. And the caseworker was like, well, this is a long.

[Delilah]

The reason I know about the hotel is because my oldest biological son is a police sergeant and it's on his beat. Is there is a long term, long stay hotel, whatever it's called, Long stay America or something. Extended stay. That there are no rooms that you or I could rent, even though it's near the airport, because it's contracted out to the state every damn night for dozens of children. They don't get a room that becomes their room. They have to move rooms every night depending upon who's there. So they don't even have a damn Chester drawers to put their clothes in. Their clothes are in a garbage bag. That's their life. That's not okay. It's not okay.

[Bobby Bones]

How many kids at one time have been at your house living most?

[Delilah]

The most. 8.

[Bobby Bones]

What's that grocery bill like?

[Delilah]

Oh, geez. Well, because I live on a farm, we raise all of our own chicken, all of our own beef, all of our own eggs.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang you.

[Delilah]

Do I have a lower grocery bill than most? I do have a higher hay bill and feed bill.

[Bobby Bones]

What kind of animals you got?

[Delilah]

I have probably 100 chickens, maybe more. Ducks. I have geese called Sebastopol. Geese that have curly wings, curly feathers. They're called frizzle geese. They look like they have dreads. It's kind of cool. I've got cows, donkeys, horses, goats, sheep. No, the sheep ran away. I had sheep, but they ran away from home. Emus, peacocks, and a zebra.

[Amy]

So what's going. And if you're at the ranch. Now, hold on, hold on.

[Bobby Bones]

You have a zebra.

[Delilah]

I have a zebra.

[Bobby Bones]

How'd you get a zebra?

[Delilah]

I'm not gonna tell.

[Bobby Bones]

Fair enough. Okay. I just didn't want to not acknowledge the zebra.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, no. But the. So you're on the ranch now. At the farm. Where are all the animals?

[Delilah]

They're at the ranch.

[Amy]

They're at the ranch. Okay.

[Delilah]

So I took three trips in. Very large animal haulers to take. Yeah, I transported them. They're my babies.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow, that's crazy. How many calls do you think you take a night?

[Delilah]

We air 25 a night. I usually take 30, 35.

[Bobby Bones]

And do you spend a lot of time with people and then find the best parts to put on?

[Delilah]

Some people I spend a lot of time with and oftentimes we turn those into podcast. And then the average, we keep. We. We added our calls down to three minutes, you know, because there are controlling idiots in our industry that. Come on, move it, move it, move it, move it. We got to move it. We got to move it. Nobody's going to listen that long. Oh, let me stop. To play a 7 or 10 minute spots at. Wait a minute. Wait, wait a minute. Are you the same idiot that just told me I couldn't air a call more than three minutes long? Because nobody has the attention span. Everybody's got the attention span of a gnat. You got to move it, move it, move it. But you're telling me that they'll sit there and listen through eight or ten minutes of commercials? That. That's really stupid. And that is why I get fired a lot.

[Bobby Bones]

Have you ever looked at the data to see which song you've played the most and talked into the most?

[Delilah]

No. I'm sure it's Wind Beneath My Wings, though. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

That one's kind of, like, universal for a lot of, like, wonderful things.

[Delilah]

Yeah, Yeah. I. I don't even have any clue how many times I played that.

[Amy]

Is it because you've opted to be like, okay, this is gonna be the perfect song for this? Or they've asked for it.

[Delilah]

Both. Yeah, both there for a while. Every other request was for that song.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Delilah]

Or. Or I will always love you.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you ever have someone and you just have to go like, hey, cut bait. That dude is bad news.

[Delilah]

Oh, all the time. All the time. That is my most common piece of advice is, what are you doing? Like, what are you doing? You just said he slept with your sister and you're thinking he's trying to hook up with mom, but you love him. Really? That is my most common piece of advice is girlfriend. Sometimes for guys, there are some very pathetic men who will, like, grovel on my show and, like, I just want her back but she moved in with your best friend.

[Bobby Bones]

I know, but I just.

[Delilah]

I want her back.

[Bobby Bones]

Are there songs for, like, those instances, or do you just go to commercial?

[Delilah]

Yeah, there's. There is a song for everything. Yeah, there. Yeah, there's a song. The funniest call I ever got was a woman who wanted a song for her boyfriend because he's her rock. And she had a very strong Southern accent. And she said, but right now he's away. And when somebody draws out away, and it's like, you know, two minutes long, you know that he's not away at college.

[Amy]

Oh, he's in prison.

[Delilah]

He's away.

[Amy]

He's away.

[Delilah]

And I'm like, okay, well, why. Why, baby, is he away? Well, because he made a little mistake. I'm like, little mistakes usually don't lead to away. They might lead to away for a night. I said, what. What exactly did he do? She said, well, he got jealous of my ex boyfriend, so he built a bomb and put it in his truck. I'm like, writing a hot check. That's a little mistake. A bomb. That's. That's a big. That's a big mistake. She goes, I know, but I love him. I just said, what. What's gonna happen when he gets out from being away and he gets jealous again? I don't know. I'll worry about that. I love him. So I broke format and played the Gap Band.

[Bobby Bones]

You dropped a bomb on me.

[Delilah]

Yeah. Had to do it. Had to go there.

[Eddie]

That's funny.

[Bobby Bones]

That's funny. Well, I just think you're the best. I know. We've got to spend some time together prior to this. And they said you were coming. I was like, if she'll give me time, I would love to just sit with her and talk about stuff that I wouldn't even bring up to in real life because I wouldn't be like, tell me about your first job. I'd be like, what's happening? How was the day?

[Delilah]

How was the day? How are the kids?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, so that's.

[Delilah]

I brought one of them on this trip, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Have you been to Nashville? A bunch of.

[Delilah]

Not a bunch. Not nearly as much as I would like. Most of the kids that I adopt have so much trauma that they have issues that require a lot of energy. So traveling is not an easy thing for Mama Bear to do. And with one of my children in particular, he was so traumatized when I got him that I am his only bond. And when Mama Bear is not in direct eyesight, like line of view or accessible within Five minutes, he has a meltdown. So he's on a. He's got an iep. He's got a very modified schedule at school. He only goes a couple hours and we are pretty much like together all the time. So I brought him on the trip because if I didn't, there would be a meltdown by the time I got to the airport. And that makes it hard on the other kids. Cause then that's not fair for them. And so it's kind of challenging right now.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, we're glad you're here. Thanks for spending some time with us.

[Delilah]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Do people come up to you and sing the jingle? All the time.

[Delilah]

All the time.

[Amy]

Oh, when she walked in, I was singing it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Delilah]

You guys want to know something sweet about that?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Delilah]

There's like four different versions that you'll hear throughout the night. You know, we drop them into every spot set and stuff. But the one that's the kind of high pitched girl's voice, that's my daughter. Oh, wow.

[Amy]

Love that.

[Bobby Bones]

That's great.

[Delilah]

She recorded it when she was 15 and we still use it.

[Bobby Bones]

The one that we play is Shay from Dan and Shay. Not a sweet, but it's like. Yeah, that is what it is.

[Amy]

The Bobby Bones show.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not Delilah. We don't play Delilah on us. We would if you wanted us to.

[Delilah]

We could.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we would.

[Delilah]

That would be cool. Could you do that like every time you go to break with the Delilah

[Amy]

jingle, or we have to give advice or tell someone to cut, we hit it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Delilah]

Or maybe you could just talk to your boss and say, you know, Delilah really needs to be back in this building because it was for a long time.

[Bobby Bones]

On what? What station?

[Delilah]

On the iHeart station.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, I don't know what we even have here. Do we have what?

[Amy]

Maybe the.

[Bobby Bones]

Do we have like a hot AC pop. I don't know what. Because you're on all those different kinds.

[Delilah]

I am.

[Bobby Bones]

So I don't.

[Delilah]

Which is really weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Do we have a station here, though, that they didn't change the format of?

[Delilah]

They changed the format a little bit when they said goodbye, but they could, you know, I'm adaptable, damn it. I play. I'll play country.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't say that. You'll take our job. Yes, Delilah does not play country. No, Delilah does not want to do country at all.

[Delilah]

Seven to midnight. Come on.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that. I mean, is that a conversation you want me to have? I'll have it. I don't care. Yeah, tell me the station.

[Delilah]

I know people just talk to Barbara. Say Barbara. Barbara Bridges. You know, there's this girl, Delilah.

[Bobby Bones]

New to the business, new to the biz. You'll like her. Yeah, I think there's something there. Delilah, awesome to talk to you. Thank you so much for coming by.

[Delilah]

You guys are great.

[Bobby Bones]

The wonderful Delilah, everybody. Yes.

[Walt]

Bones.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, that's gonna do it for us today. Thanks to Delilah for stopping by. Thanks to you guys. Amy, anything else before we go away?

[Amy]

I just hope everybody has a day they need to have.

[Bobby Bones]

Man. Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Eddie]

Whatever day we need to have.

[Bobby Bones]

Whatever day we need to have.

[Amy]

If you need to have a great day, have a great day. If you need to have a little bit of a bad day, have a little.

[Bobby Bones]

Why would someone need to have a little bit of a bad day?

[Amy]

Well, sometimes you just need to have the day you need to have if it's gonna be a hard day. Feel the feelings.

[Eddie]

Did you make that one up or have you.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I feel like that's something she learned from Instagram, but she just wasn't expecting to be asked to elaborate on it.

[Amy]

No. My co host on Feeling Things, she's a therapist, and it's something she has said for years.

[Bobby Bones]

So do you ever go, like, but what does that mean? Or do you just let her say it?

[Amy]

No, she said that because she said that actually she used to be a spin instructor and someone she used to work with, like, at a studio. She was at. Like, she was having a particularly rough day, and the instructor of that class looked at her and was like, you know what? Have the day you need to have. Like, feel those feelings. And she's like, you know what? I love that. So she tells it to a lot of her clients, like, hey, if this is the day you need right now, not every day has to be great and awesome and perfect. Like, let's feel the feelings.

[Bobby Bones]

I like that, though. I'd like to have an awesome, perfect day. Yeah.

[Amy]

Well, you can then have that day. What day do you need?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm sure that awesome, perfect day.

[Amy]

Okay, but if it's not, then have the day you need to have.

[Eddie]

You're trying to sub out. Have a great day.

[Daniel]

Yeah. You're trying to get rid of that.

[Eddie]

No, like, all the mats that they made, you gotta throw them away.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because really, maybe you're not meant to have a great day.

[Bobby Bones]

I am. I need one. Need a great day. Okay, thank you, everybody. We will see you guys tomorrow. Don't forget, go over to Netflix. We do a whole show on the weekends, on Netflix now, too, which is just basically talking about current events. But you can check that out. Just go search for the Bobby. Just search Bobby Bones on Netflix. It'll pop up. All right, that's it. Bye, everybody. Service opens doors, and at American Military University, it can open doors for the whole family. If you have a loved one who served in the military, you may qualify for reduced tuition. AMU offers flexible online programs designed to fit your schedule so you can keep moving forward wherever life takes you. Learn [e-mail] Military open doors to the future for you and your family with the help of American military university. That's amu.comapus edu military last night, a

[Timbo]

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[Robert Smigel]

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[Timbo]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Delilah]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Delilah]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Delilah]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Delilah]

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[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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