Necessary Things For A Disney Visit & Scuba’s Double Job Update

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: The Bobby Bones Show
Episode: Necessary Things For A Disney Visit & Scuba’s Double Job Update
Date: November 15, 2025
Host: Bobby Bones (with Morgan and special guest Scuba Steve)

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Bobby Bones Show centers on a fun, listener-driven Q&A between Morgan and Scuba Steve, covering questions about Scuba's radio career, dream jobs, childhood TV nostalgia, and—most importantly—practical tips for Disney park visits (including how to handle Disney in the rain). The show’s tone is conversational, slightly irreverent, and packed with personal anecdotes and insights, particularly about theme parks, media careers, and cultural experiences.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Childhood TV Nostalgia and Culture (04:06–06:21)

• Wienerville on Nickelodeon:
  Scuba Steve reminisces about the quirky Nickelodeon show Wienerville, highlighting its hand puppets and live studio audience, remarking on how TV was programmed for you as a kid—a contrast to today's streaming overload.
  • “That was the best thing about television back then was the fact that was programmed for you… You just would turn it on to the channel that you liked and watch whatever the hell was on.”
    —Bobby Bones (06:00)
  • Discussion about the shift from passive to active content selection in the streaming age and the nostalgia for low-effort, pre-scheduled TV.

2. Listener Q&A — Shoutouts & Birthdays (06:23–10:20)

• Questions Without Questions:
  Listeners sometimes just submit their names and states, which both hosts joke about.
• Scuba Steve’s Approach to Birthdays:
  Steve shares that he does not celebrate his own birthday or fixate on numbers, citing family trauma and a philosophical dislike of the concept of “celebrating numbers.” He celebrates his kids' birthdays for their sake but doesn’t make a big deal out of numbers.
  • “We shouldn’t fixate on any number or any age… time doesn’t really exist… if you just exist and live and enjoy, you shouldn’t be thinking about or celebrating a number.”
    —Scuba Steve (08:14)
• Anniversary celebrations are similarly low-key and family-focused.

3. Scuba’s Double Job Update: Career in Radio (10:32–16:08)

• Rock Show Progress:
  Scuba moved from nights to afternoons on the rock station and boosted ratings from 13th to as high as 6th in the slot, overcoming a legacy of poor performance.
  • Critique of radio rating systems as antiquated and not a true reflection of audience size; podcast and satellite platforms are praised for better data.
  • “The whole rating system...is a bunch of crap...but yet we live and die by it.”
    —Scuba Steve (12:59)
• Dream Job:
  Steve wants to build a nationally syndicated classic rock radio show akin to what Bobby Bones is for country—not just ‘voice tracking’ for many stations, but a distinct national show that brings fresh personality to the format.
  • He wants the audience to be part of building the show from day one.
  • “My dream job is to have my own show, which is what I have... but I want to be the national version... There isn’t anyone that owns that [classic rock] on a national level.”
    —Scuba Steve (14:00)

4. TV Shows as Culture Windows (16:08–18:58)

• Morgan on “Nobody Wants This” (Netflix):
  Morgan discusses watching the show for its blend of humor and cultural insight (esp. on Jewish life), noting how TV can provide “clarity and understanding” of cultures not experienced firsthand.
  • “That’s how you learn and consume information, even if it’s fiction or nonfiction...it’s how I consume and understand some cultures better sometimes.”
    —Morgan (17:39)
• Regional differences in cultural exposure come up (e.g., more Jewish culture in Florida than in Kansas).

5. Dollywood & Theme Parks: Expectations vs Reality (23:17–25:15)

• Dollywood Review:
  Scuba Steve is “jaded” by growing up with Universal and Disney, finding Dollywood “fine” but lacking in immersive theming compared to the big parks.
  • “If you’ve never been to any other theme parks… it’s great, it’s awesome. But if you’re like me and you’re jaded… it’s fine.”
    —Scuba Steve (23:22)
  • Key difference is between "theme parks" with immersive environments (like Disney/Universal) vs. "amusement parks" with less attention to detail.

6. Disneyland vs Disney World (25:49–27:23)

• Which to Choose?
  Both agree Disney World is the ultimate pick for its size, continuing expansions, and variety of experiences (hotels, water parks, etc.).
  • “If you could only have one more for the rest of your life, which one are you going with?”
    —Morgan (26:44)
  • “I have to go Disney World.”
    —Scuba Steve (26:49)
• Disneyland is praised for convenience and historical significance, but Disney World is unmatched for longevity and breadth.

7. International Disney Parks (27:51–28:10)

• Both express excitement about visiting Disney parks in Japan, Shanghai, and Paris, citing more affordable tickets and unique cultural experiences at each.

8. Tips for Visiting Disney Parks in the Rain (28:51–31:13)

• Best Advice:
  Don’t leave when the rain starts; stick it out and take advantage of the thinning crowds and short lines once the rain stops.
  • “As soon as they leave, you stick it out and you go to a gift shop...thirty minutes later, that freaking rain is gone and you get to go back out there. All the lines go from an hour to 10 minutes.”
    —Scuba Steve (28:59)
• Practical Recommendations:
  • Bring ponchos, not umbrellas (“pain in the ass” to carry).
  • Schedule outdoor rides for dry windows and prioritize favorites early in the day.
  • Embrace the rain for “a magical experience.”
  • “You just got to kind of embrace it and have fun with the rain. It’s kind of part of a magical experience, too.”
    —Morgan (30:27)

9. Scuba’s Upcoming Disney Trip (28:18–28:50)

• Planning a family trip for the summer. Practical family advice:
  • “Hotel close to the park, midday breaks for naps make it doable with little kids.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On birthdays/celebrations:
  “The only numbers I want to celebrate are ones that go into my bank account—which hasn’t been a lot of celebrating, but one day.”
  —Scuba Steve (10:22)
• On career ambition:
  “How can I be different? Just be myself and express that I want it.”
  —Scuba Steve (15:19)
• On theme park culture:
  “I think we’ve become the two Disney snobs on the show.”
  —Morgan (25:49)
• On Disney in the rain:
  “Just do it… it’s a badass experience, and it’s kind of… different. It’s unique… I recommend it, just do it.”
  —Scuba Steve (30:33, 30:46)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Start | End | |---------------------------------------------|--------|--------| | Childhood TV & Wienerville | 04:06 | 06:21 | | Q&A: Birthdays, Life Philosophy | 06:23 | 10:20 | | Radio Career / Dream Job | 10:32 | 16:08 | | TV as Cultural Window/’Nobody Wants This’ | 16:08 | 18:58 | | Dollywood Review, Theme Park Distinctions | 23:17 | 25:15 | | Disneyland vs. Disney World | 25:49 | 27:23 | | International Disney Parks | 27:51 | 28:10 | | Disney Trip Planning w/ Kids | 28:18 | 28:50 | | Disney (and Universal) in the Rain | 28:51 | 31:13 |

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Tone & Closing

The episode is lighthearted, friendly, and honest, mixing practical Disney know-how with personal career inspiration and plenty of pop culture. The camaraderie between Morgan and Scuba Steve makes the Q&A session both relatable and informative.

For Disney fans, theme park newbies, or anyone curious about radio behind-the-scenes, this episode is packed with advice, nostalgia, and a touch of ambition—plus, a reminder that you can enjoy the ride (even in the rain!).

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Find Scuba Steve’s show: 105.9 The Rock, 3–7pm Central (local in Nashville or on iHeartRadio).
Follow Morgan (@obgirlmorgan) and the show (@obbyboneshow) for more listener Q&As.

Transcript

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

Morgan and a show member answer almost all your questions. Welcome.

[Morgan]

Welcome to Listener Q and A. Hello, Scuba.

[Bobby Bones]

Hello, Morgan.

[Morgan]

Thank you for joining.

[Bobby Bones]

Welcome. Thank you for having me.

[Morgan]

We talking in, like, old enough.

[Bobby Bones]

I know you're doing that. All right. Hey, I'm working in the radio business. You're in a sports talk station. Call us now at 1-800-Sports Talk. Yeah, I talk like this all the time. I'm a sports radio guy.

[Morgan]

That's pretty good. I'm not gonna lie. You know a voice I've been using a lot lately. Have you seen the Harry Potter movies?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, of course. Which one?

[Morgan]

So you know when Ms. Weasley yells @ Ron like, how dare you?

[Bobby Bones]

Yahoo.

[Morgan]

I now use that as my dog's voice to respond everything. Think of a whole bit at my house, my boyfriend and I will just go into a whole thing in that specific tone of her voice.

[Bobby Bones]

Diagon Alley, diagonally.

[Morgan]

How dare you? That's all. That's all I can think of.

[Bobby Bones]

That reminds me of a character on a TV show from Nickelodeon called Wienerville. And there was a lady in there who would always.

[Morgan]

There's a show called Wienerville.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, Wienerville was awesome. It's one of the SNL creator writer guys, Mark Weiner. This is his real name, Wiener.

[Morgan]

That's very like south park esque.

[Bobby Bones]

It is. But it was like back when Nickelodeon was like, cool and different and trying to be against the grain and opposite of Disney but kind of be edgy but not adult. But could, could fit adults if you're watching with your kids. And they had a TV show that came on in the afternoons after school. It was called Wienerville A Wienerville. A Wienerville.

[Morgan]

I never saw this.

[Bobby Bones]

It's so awesome.

[Morgan]

Nickelodeon all the time too.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, right after school. It was a 30 minute show and it would come on and it was a guy, Mark Wiener, and all his puppets. And his puppets were mostly his hands. And he would have these like stages and. And they were like the size of like a computer monitor. And they'd be these hand puppets and Dottie was the character. They would always have some sort of like skit in the very beginning and it'd be this like, funny skit where it's like, mark, we gotta start the show. And Dottie would say something and she'd be like, oh. And she'd be like, oh well, welcome to Wienerville. And they'd be like wienerville, Wienerville, Wienerville.

[Morgan]

That's funny. It looks very like the signage kind of looks like spongebob esque.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

But I never saw this. It looks familiar but I can't tell if it's just the branding because of Nickelodeon.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Y actually saw one of these. But this is funny.

[Bobby Bones]

He's always in front of a live studio audience. Which was Nickelodeon's biggest. Like that's. That was her draw and it was during the stick stiggly time frame. Like after school. Like stick sigly. Right into stick to Siggly. A P.O. box. Whatever. New York, New York.

[Morgan]

Yeah, well I was really young. It came out in 93 and it ended in 96. So maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

Well they played the crap out of it until the 2000s.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Whenever that's thinking about when you're a kid you didn't realize things had seasons cuz they would just play them over and over and over and you had no idea. Like you just watched it. Sometimes they were new, sometimes they weren't. Sometimes the ones you just never seen because you didn't catch it at that moment. That was the cool thing about it.

[Morgan]

Like watching things in succession. You were literally just tuning in whenever you could and whatever was on, you were watching it.

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That was the.

[Bobby Bones]

That was the best thing about television back then was the fact that it was programmed for you. There was no thought into it. You just would turn it on to the channel that you liked and watch whatever the hell was on and you were totally fine with it.

[Morgan]

That was the best part.

[Bobby Bones]

So frustrating now to have to. You spend more time now being like what am I going to watch? When before you would just go flip through and find the channel and just sit back and chill. It was so much easier. Easier.

[Morgan]

Times have changed.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, and times suck.

[Morgan]

Okay, let's get into some questions.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh yeah, we're doing Q and A. I forgot.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Love when we can hear scuba laughing in the back on air. Hilarious. That's from Kennedy in Oklahoma.

[Bobby Bones]

What up Kennedy?

[Morgan]

Only the best Pebbles. And then some people just put their their name and state I think specifically for you. But they didn't attach a question.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, they didn't.

[Morgan]

I'm just going to shout them out.

[Bobby Bones]

I guess like please don't piss them off. Just give us name and say. And they got so nervous to even ask a question.

[Morgan]

Jordan in Idaho, we have Karen in New York. And we have Jalen from Fort Worth. All right, shout out to them.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you for getting half of It. Right now. The next half is to put a question in there.

[Morgan]

And sometimes I don't write it. I. But I. You put a question mark up like a question box.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

I assume, you know. Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe there's a follow up. You just didn't see it because there's so many coming through for when I'm on the show. They have lots of questions.

[Morgan]

So many.

[Bobby Bones]

So many to get. You don't know which one to pick from.

[Morgan]

You got Angela from Manchester. She said that my Abe's Garden interviews were the best.

[Bobby Bones]

Manchester by the Sea.

[Morgan]

Manchester, Tennessee.

[Bobby Bones]

Tennessee. Oh, okay, Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

It's like 45 minutes from here.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, I know where it's. Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool.

[Morgan]

But same movie.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

Thank you, Angela. It's very kind.

[Bobby Bones]

By the way, it wasn't a question, Angela.

[Morgan]

So those were all shout outs. That's. Remember, we start with shout outs.

[Bobby Bones]

Gotcha. It wasn't a shout out for me though, so I don't know. That's a shameless plug for yourself.

[Morgan]

She. I. There was only four shout outs.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, all right, whatever. It's fine.

[Morgan]

I would have given you another one if there was another, but there wasn't.

[Bobby Bones]

There was because there are so many questions.

[Morgan]

So many questions and random names.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, exactly.

[Morgan]

Bro, how old are you? No, hey, I'm guessing 38 to 39. That's from Michaela in Virginia, bro.

[Bobby Bones]

Michaela in Virginia. I have no idea because I weird about that. Because we shouldn't. We shouldn't fixate on any number or any age because by succumbing to time and. And celebrating an age then puts you in the trap that they want you to be in.

[Morgan]

Who's they?

[Bobby Bones]

The society and everything that pushes you down and. And puts this number on you. And then you get stuck in this. This celebration of another year when in reality, time doesn't really exist. It's all over the place. And if you just exist and live and enjoy, you shouldn't be thinking about or celebrating a number. So.

[Morgan]

So when's the last time you celebrated a number birthday?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, like when I was like 7 or 8.

[Morgan]

So ever since then, you've had this mindset.

[Bobby Bones]

I've had this, like, idea of, like. Well, part of it was family trauma, and so we didn't celebrate birthdays anymore. Or if we did, I was just so checked out, I didn't even care to celebrate it. But then the other part of it is I just always thought birthdays were kind of. I mean, again, I never. Everyone can do Whatever they want to do. It's just how I live. But I always thought birthdays were stupid.

[Morgan]

Wait, but what about with your kids? Do you celebrate their birthdays?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, because they, like, they want to. Because they're kids and they want to do it. But at some point, you know, I'll give them some information and they can do what they want to do with it.

[Morgan]

But will your wife want them to keep celebrating their birthdays?

[Bobby Bones]

She does. She's not. She doesn't really care about birthdays either.

[Morgan]

Interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we just. We collectively don't really care about it.

[Morgan]

I mean, that's the only way it really matters, right, Is if you both are, like, on opposite spectrums of that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. I mean, we're grateful to be alive and grateful for all things we have, but we just don't celebrate the number each year and have that constant reminder of a timeframe when we just are trying to just exist.

[Morgan]

Do you celebrate your anniversary every year?

[Bobby Bones]

A wedding anniversary? We do, but we're so busy with kids and work that it's not like a big, big, grand thing. Like, it was for our first anniversary where we, like, went out and had a trip, and then our second one was. Then she was pregnant, so it was kind of like, you know, at that point, it just changed. And now we kind of celebrate anniversaries and places, holidays like Valentine's Day, as a family of just, like, showing love with each. All of us together.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It's an us thing versus, like, an individual or a duo.

[Morgan]

So even then, you're not really celebrating numbers and stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I really mean. Yeah. Okay.

[Morgan]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Like. Like, one day, my wife, like, oh, my God, we've been together for, like, for 13 years, and, like. Yeah. Holy crap. It's just. Time just goes by so fast because we don't even think about it, you know? All right.

[Morgan]

No numbers in the Scuba Steve house.

[Bobby Bones]

No numbers. Yeah, the numbers.

[Morgan]

You, like, swat a number when I.

[Bobby Bones]

Get out of here. Unless you got some zeros behind you. And it goes to my bank account.

[Morgan]

That's the only time.

[Bobby Bones]

Numbers I want to celebrate, which hasn't been a lot of celebrating, but one day.

[Morgan]

How's the rock station going? Alyssa in Illinois?

[Bobby Bones]

It's going awesome. I went from. I don't know if we talked about last time. I went from nights. Afternoons, maybe. We did talk about that. We did. Yeah, we did touch on that. So I've been doing afternoons for a while now and just doing well, because before it was, like, out of the top 10 again. This is, like, Inside baseball. But someone had been in there for a long time. So trying to crawl out of a day part that was performing so poorly for such a long period of time. Takes a lot to crawl out of it. But I've crawled it now. I think I was in sixth place after the first week.

[Morgan]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

And then there's two weeks of his fall vacation. So dropped back to ninth. And then I'm waiting for the fourth week to see how it, how it did now that everyone's back from a holiday vacation. But as long as, not as long as it's inside the top 10, that's progress. Because it was always like 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th place.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's huge.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So for it to go from like 13th to 6th immediately I was like, oh crap. All right, cool, there's some movement here. And then even ratings are bull crap because it's like you, for anyone that doesn't understand it, you literally get this. And you may be one of those people. And if you are, listen to 105.9the Rock from 3 to 7pm Central on a terrestrial radio station, not on the I radio app.

[Morgan]

Terrestrial meaning in your, in your car and like one of those handheld devices.

[Bobby Bones]

Something where you can pick up the meter, but they give you this like little beeper pager looking thing and that one pager will account for like 100,000 people. So it's like this most. I'm exaggerating a little bit, but it's like this. It's bull crap. It really what it is, you're not getting actual real data of true ratings. You're getting ratings based off, off of what they put out there to gather information. So there may be like.

[Morgan]

Think there's a better way of technology to do that now?

[Bobby Bones]

Totally. With everything being, with all these different tones and things being sent out that they can't ping cars or ping phones or whatever to get an actual real representation of the listening audience. Because the amount of callers that I get, there's more callers that I get and more interactions that I get and more feedback that I get than there are meters out there judging the show. And most meters usually go to people who only care about pricing. That's why we do contest every hour and all that kind of crap. So it's like you're not really getting a real representation of, of like the show and who's listening. That's why SiriusXM does well, or at least within the industry, because there's raw data, because there's people who subscribe to Sirius. So you have that number and then they can see how many are listening to your show or to your, your hour or your time slot.

[Morgan]

Because closer to podcasting numbers, on that side of things, there's raw.

[Bobby Bones]

There's raw data. With radio, there should be raw data. But the whole rating system and any. You talk to anyone on radio. Yeah. No one agrees with the rating system. It's a bunch of crap. But yet we live and die by it. But it's a stupid system that. It's so antiquated. It's like, it's. It's the oldest archaic way to measure. And like, even tv. Tv, they can, you can now see households. So if you can see households, why can't you see radios? So it's all. It's a bunch of bull crap.

[Morgan]

Star like starlink satellites, like everywhere now.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Who knows what other satellites are out there.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Surely there's things that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

About that we can.

[Bobby Bones]

But it's, It's. It's a whole thing.

[Morgan]

It's going really well, though.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Yeah. Now that I got that, it's going well. It feels like it's going well. The risk, the, the feedback that I received has been great. I'm having fun doing it, which is great. So. Yeah.

[Morgan]

Little creative juices flowing again.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

What is your dream job? That's from Amy in Mississippi. I felt like that was a good follow up to this.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it was a good follow up. Did you plan that?

[Morgan]

No. They both just came in, though, so I put them next to each other.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. My dream job is to have my own show, which is what I'm. I have. But building towards like a big. But I want to. I want to be the national version of like. Because every format has like top 40. Ryan Seacrest, hip Hop, Breakfast Club, Country, Bobby, News Talk, I guess for the longest time was Rush Limbaugh. Now it's Clay and Buck. There isn't. They've had a classic rock show, but they're retiring at the end of the year. And they've been, you know, they've been at the retirement stage for the last five, ten years. John Boy and Billy, which were around when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. And so I want to be that for the classic rock because there isn't anyone that owns that on a national level. So that is my dream is to be the syndicated and not syndicated like you do voice track for 60 stations. I want to flip a satellite like we do, but for classic rock, slash rock and own that Lane, that's exciting. Yeah.

[Morgan]

I mean, you're on the path to that. So that feel pretty good, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it feels really good. Yeah. Yeah, totally. And I put it out there. Right. We're doing it right now, but I've even voiced what I want to do, so I put it out there, and I feel like the only way you could do it is by saying you want to do it. And no one really owns that, Lane. There are a bunch of. There's a bunch of guys have been doing it for a while, but they're all, like, towards retirement age or they're. They're not bringing anything different or new or unique or anything, whatever. So I was like, okay, how can I be different? Just be myself and express that I want it.

[Morgan]

So, yeah, no, and I gotta build.

[Bobby Bones]

A show because it's just me right now. So I gotta build a show at some point. But I also feel like I could just do it solo for a minute and then figure that out and build a show through syndication and let the audience be a part of the journey from day one versus throwing a show at their face. Now I could build a show with the audience so they feel like they're part of it, which I think would be kind of fun.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that is really fun for you. You're on the right path. You're headed in the right direction. And that's exciting.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Exciting in itself. Outside of everything else.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Yeah. And then through a syndicated show, would then also check another box. Then I could, like, do, like, voiceovers or acting like other kind of things on the side.

[Morgan]

Dip your toes back into that water.

[Bobby Bones]

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be cool.

[Morgan]

Yeah. I love this. Okay, well, see, hey, I didn't set it up, but you did pretty good. I like that. The last question before we go into a break, speaking of shows, this is. This was actually one for me, and it kept getting asked. I feel like I should address it, but it's what made you watch. Nobody wants this. That's from Quinn.

[Bobby Bones]

Nobody wants this.

[Morgan]

So this is with Adam Brody and Kristen Bell. Very popular Netflix show right now. And it's the show that I didn't watch when I went through my breakup.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, there's a question for you.

[Morgan]

You were like, thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Get out of here. I haven't seen this show. Like, what are you talking? Like, I'm like, googling real quick. I'm like, no, nobody wants us. I don't.

[Morgan]

Wait, why didn't. Why didn't I watch that? What did I talk about?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I said, I Watched that. Did I lie to somebody? I don't lie. I always tell the truth.

[Morgan]

No, no, no. I got a few of these, and I was like, I should probably finally.

[Bobby Bones]

Gotcha. Okay.

[Morgan]

Say why. But I talked about it on my podcast, too. So Morgan and I went a little in depth on it, but.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Yeah, I see it now. Yeah.

[Morgan]

You know what show I'm talking about.

[Bobby Bones]

I haven't seen it, but I have. I have. I'm familiar with it.

[Morgan]

She's a podcaster. He's Jewish. He's a rabbi.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. And they were, like, dating some Gossip Girl.

[Morgan]

Right Thing. He wasn't Gossip Girl. Yeah. But he's more for O.C.

[Bobby Bones]

Gotcha.

[Morgan]

His wife, Leighton Meester, was Gossip Girl.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the connection. Okay. Yes. Okay.

[Morgan]

And then obviously Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool.

[Morgan]

But so that's why. And I had never watched it, and so I decided to watch it because it's like that genre of TV show is my favorite. I love a little, like, romantic.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

I don't know. I just love a good show.

[Bobby Bones]

Rom Com. Ish.

[Morgan]

Yeah, very much so. And so I just decided it was time, and I'm in such a great place that I could watch it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Hell, yeah.

[Morgan]

Gave me a lot of clarity and a lot of just information that I think. I wish I had. I think the coolest thing about. Do you ever feel like this when you watch TV shows and movies, that you just get more information on things then, like, that's how you learn and consume information, even if it's like fiction or nonfiction. I feel like it's how I consume and understand some cultures better sometimes. Nobody wants. Has kind of did that for me with the Jewish culture that I didn't really ever have. And maybe it's because it, like, I wasn't exposed to a lot of that growing up.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

But there wasn't a whole lot of Jewish people around me. I don't know that that's a popular culture, I guess, in Kansas or Wichita.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Probably not. Like, I grew up in Florida, and there's a lot of Jewish people, because I feel like a lot of. A lot of people move from New York or would come from New York on vacation and eventually move there. And there's a lot of people that were Jewish, New York Jews that would come down to Florida. So I was exposed to a lot of Jewish people.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And see, that's really.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my boss was a Jewish guy. Yeah. In.

[Morgan]

In Kansas. And I don't know why. I don't know the history behind that. We had Amish. But yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't think just knowing Jewish people, I'm like, I don't really think that Kansas is their spot. Just knowing that's true lifestyle and what they're into, it doesn't strike me as like, hey, let's move our Jewish family to Kansas.

[Morgan]

Probably not either.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. But yeah.

[Morgan]

So it gave me a lot more information on that culture and just gave me more clarity and understanding, which was a cool experience.

[Bobby Bones]

That's cool. Yeah. Heck yeah.

[Morgan]

And I like it. It's a great show. The soundtrack is phenomenal. Netflix has been killing it on soundtracks lately. Yeah, I'm, you know, listening to more soundtracks than I think I've ever had in the last probably five or ten years.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Which is exciting.

[Bobby Bones]

So that's awesome.

[Morgan]

That's where we are.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Answer that question. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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[Morgan]

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[Morgan]

Max in Massachusetts wants to know, is Dollywood worth going to see?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm jaded because I, I grew up on like the Ultimates, which would be Universal and Disney. So from someone who was exposed to that, I think it's fine. But if you have never been to any other theme parks and you've been to like Six Flags or other ones that are like that Dollywood esque, then it's great, it's awesome. But if you're, but if you're like me and you're jaded because I went to Dollywood one time, it's fine. I mean, I'm not.

[Morgan]

I've never been so okay, it's fine.

[Bobby Bones]

I'd say if you've never been, you definitely got to Go once.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

But you've been to Universal and Disney, so you're going to be a little bit disappointed because the theming is of, like, nothing. You know, it's like a wooden roller coaster. All right, cool. Like, it's.

[Morgan]

So you're telling me that the queue lines aren't completely done up and made up, stuff like that.

[Bobby Bones]

The queue lines are literally like roped lines where you're going back and forth and back and forth and back. Like, there's no. That's the other thing. That's the thing about theme parks that do so well like a Universal or Disney is because even when you're on a line, there's still a theming within the line. There's still some sort of, like, magic in between beginning, middle, and end. Whereas these amusement parks. I won't even call them theme parks.

[Morgan]

Amusement parks, probably the difference between them.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's just like they're just lines and then a ride, and in between, there's some random crap that doesn't really have a connection to anything. So it's kind of like.

[Morgan]

So it's not like Dolly themed?

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's Dolly themed, but, like, I don't care about Dolly.

[Morgan]

Okay, so there's some Dolly themed Dolly, but.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but it's like, it's not full on Dolly. Top to bottom, the entire park.

[Morgan]

It's like, that's what they should have done.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like Dolly mixed with, like, Southern charm mixed with, like, apple pie and like. I don't know.

[Morgan]

I do like apple pie.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's fine. I mean, it's a great. I mean, it's much better than other. Other parks.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

And the part that always annoys the crap out of me when someone. I'm always like, man, we need a theme park around here. And someone's like, well, you got Dollywood four hours away. That's not a. That's not a day trip. You can't drive there, go to the theme park and drive back.

[Morgan]

That's true.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, if I. It's like, doesn't make this, like a.

[Morgan]

Water park or something.

[Bobby Bones]

We don't have a theme park. We don't have a Disney or Universal. Yeah, there is no actual real. That's theme park here.

[Morgan]

Theme park, theme park, amusement park.

[Bobby Bones]

And a water park isn't a theme park or amusement park. It's a water park.

[Morgan]

That's true.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Okay, so we really need one of those here. We have plenty of freaking space for it. We have enough families that would buy annual passes and we have enough tourism Enough apartments and enough people that would work there. It's like, give us a damn theme park already. What are we waiting for?

[Morgan]

I agree with you. And this is all geared towards really Disney.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

I think we've become the two Disney.

[Bobby Bones]

The snobs.

[Morgan]

Yeah. On the show. So we got Shiloh from Cali wants to know Disneyland or Disney World?

[Bobby Bones]

They're both beautiful in their own way.

[Morgan]

Yeah. But you have to choose one.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, man. Because Disneyland is the originator. And it's so much more convenient and it's cool to like see where everything started and how it. How it all then grew into Disney World, which is a monstrosity and it's just massive.

[Morgan]

It's incredible.

[Bobby Bones]

So much. And it's incredible, man. It's like, it's like if you like simple or do you like extravagant? So I would say based on your personality. Like, growing up, I was always like, screw Disneyland. But I've never been. So I was like saying something I didn't really know. But then I went to Disneyland. I'm like, Disneyland's pretty cool.

[Morgan]

It's like to walk that back a little bit.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And it's like they're. And like both. Both parks are right across from each other. It's like so much more convenient. Especially when you're looking for convenience versus having to go from one to the other. And you can do Disneyland in a day, whereas Disney World's like a week.

[Morgan]

That's true.

[Bobby Bones]

So I guess so. I mean, if she's looking for herself.

[Morgan]

What would you ultimately choose? If you could only have one more for the rest of your life, which one are you going with?

[Bobby Bones]

I think I'm going the rest of my life. I have to go Disney World.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I really have to. Yeah.

[Morgan]

It's just because I. I love Disneyland.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And I enjoy it. It's a cool place.

[Bobby Bones]

I need no passes. I went like once a month. It was two, three times a month. It was all. I love it so much.

[Morgan]

Yes. But they also keep evolving. Disney World. That keeps being added.

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Morgan]

If I can only do one for the rest of my life, I think I'm going Disney World.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that.

[Morgan]

I feel like that's a. That's a no brainer.

[Bobby Bones]

Because then you get water parks and you get all the hotels and all the stuff in between. It's like there's so much.

[Morgan]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And they, they just keep adding on. So that makes it easy. So I would say Disney World. But if you do just want, like, if you are actually trying to decide between which to go to. I would still say Disney World.

[Bobby Bones]

Disney World. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially. Yeah. Or if you're looking to build up to something, then you do Disneyland first so you can see where it started and it's easier to digest and easier to take in for a two, three day trip and then do Disney World as your next one.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Or just, you know, say full sin and do Disney World in Japan.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that'd be really cool.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that'd be really cool because that's the one I want to go to. I want to do the Japan one. I want to do the one in Shanghai.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I even saw admission is like 50 bucks to get in.

[Morgan]

Yeah. It's super cheap over there.

[Bobby Bones]

So cheap.

[Morgan]

So I want to go to those. And Paris.

[Bobby Bones]

I just want to go in Paris too. Yeah, me too.

[Morgan]

So just full send it, you know, somewhere.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah.

[Morgan]

Love you, Scuba. When is your next Disney World trip? That's from Amy in Orlando. I really think they think we're Disney people.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. I'm planning one for the summer because that's when my kids get out of school. So right now we're. We're soft planning one for this coming summer.

[Morgan]

And they'll be how old when you get to take them all?

[Bobby Bones]

The oldest will be eight. A middle will be four, and the youngest will be three. Okay, so the eight and five are, like, perfect for it. The three maybe kind of pushing it, but she'll be fine. We'll get a hotel. So, like, halfway through the day, we can go back to the hotel, shower up, take a power nap, and go back out. Yeah.

[Morgan]

And just have her. She. But she's probably active and stuff and moving around, so she's definitely active. Yeah, she'll enjoy it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it'll be fun. Yeah. Yeah.

[Morgan]

Fun trip coming. And last one, I'll be at Disneyland for three days, and it's gonna be raining most of the trip. Any tips for Disney in the rain?

[Bobby Bones]

Disney in the rain. That's actually the best time because it doesn't rain the whole time. And then tourists will leave and go back to their hotels, or they'll sit there for a little bit, and then they'll fight it and they'll get out of there. And then once, as soon as they leave, you stick it out and you go to a gift shop or go to a restaurant or get a snack. Thirty minutes later, that freaking rain is gone and you get to go back out there. And all the lines go from an hour to 10 minutes. So my advice is just suck it up and stay at the park. And you're looking between 10 minutes. Sometimes it may go an hour, but, like, at the most part, it's like, 10, 15 minutes of a blast of rain, and then it's gone. And then if you're in the summer, it's so damn hot that while you can see the water literally evaporating off the ground the moment the sun comes back out. And, yeah, I mean, you're fine.

[Morgan]

Stay.

[Bobby Bones]

Unless you're at the water park. It's different. The water park, they do take you out. They shut it down. It's a whole different thing. But at the theme parks, you just got a duck and cover and wait till everyone bounces, and then you're good.

[Morgan]

Mm. I would say bring a raincoat and just buckle in for the ride.

[Bobby Bones]

Poncho. Yeah, like, totally.

[Morgan]

Because you can do the indoor rides when that's happening, and, like, but you. You just got to be really strategic. You got to plan your outdoor rides when it's not happening or when you think it's not happening, or if you're really excited about one, make sure you hit it first thing in the morning. That way, you know, you got it in 100%, and then you can just, you know, kind of bounce around the rain. I. We had so much fun. There was one day when we were at Universal, and I was running across the park and drenched rain, and I ran to go ride Spider man, and I wrote it, like, five times because I was just sitting there waiting for the rain.

[Bobby Bones]

That's awesome.

[Morgan]

So you just got to kind of embrace it and. And have fun with the rain. It's kind of part of a magical experience, too.

[Bobby Bones]

It is. So it's a badass experience, and it's kind of. It's different. It's unique. And when it's raining and Florida rain is beautiful, because when it rained, like, I'm telling you, it's just so cool to see the different. You know, I don't know. It's just. I recommend it. Just. Just do it.

[Morgan]

Yeah, so just keep, you know, ride it out. Just make sure you bring stuff. I wouldn't bring an umbrella because you won't be able to really use it.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a pain in the ass to bring an umbrella.

[Morgan]

And the extra.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think I want my hand is my kids. That's the only. I want to be holding anything. Even when we go shopping, I like to do it until the very end.

[Morgan]

Of the trip because you have to hold Things around.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. The whole time. I don't want a bag of my hand the whole time. It's so inconvenient.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's fair. So do a poncho, like a really solid poncho.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And you'll be good to go. You'll be fine. So that's what we got. Anything else you want to add before we jump out of here?

[Bobby Bones]

I think that's pretty good.

[Morgan]

Okay, cool. Well, bye, everybody. Scuba, thanks for hanging out later.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

[Morgan]

Go check out his rock show, 105.9 the Rock. You can catch that on iheartradio anywhere.

[Bobby Bones]

Or locally here in national Nashville, 3 to 7pm Central.

[Morgan]

Love that.

[Bobby Bones]

And do you love it though?

[Morgan]

I do. I love it.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, cool. Sweet. Thanks.

[Morgan]

Don't not mean that now.

[Bobby Bones]

These people are like, love that.

[Morgan]

No, if I love that for you.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Morgan]

If I say love that, I'm like, yeah, I actually love that. But if I say I love that for you, I'm kind of messing with you. So that's where you know, if I. If you ever hear me say that I love that. But if I say love that, I actually do.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, cool.

[Morgan]

That's what I mean it. So love that. Scuba. Go check it out. And at Scuba Steve Radio, I'm ObgirlMorgan and the show is Obbyboneshow. Bye, everybody.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms obbyboneshow. And follow ebgirlmorgan to submit your listener questions for next week's episode.

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Hey, I'm Kyle McLaughlin. You might know me as that guy from Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, or just the Internet stand. I have a new podcast called what Are We Even Doing? Where I embark on a noble quest to understand the brilliant chaos of youth culture. Each week I invite someone fascinating to join me to talk about navigating this high speed rollercoaster we call reality. Join me and my delightful guests every Thursday and let's get weird together in a good way. Listen to what are we even doing on the iHeartRadio app? App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The Rich Russians Falling out of Windows podcast is back. Sad Oligarch Season 2 Since we left you in 2023 after season one, many politically motivated Russian millionaires have continued to die in suspicious circumstances. Season two gets very weird. Listen to Saad Oligarch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Morgan]

Hey, I'm Nora Jones and I love playing music with people so much that my podcast called Playing along is Back.

[Bobby Bones]

I sit down with musicians from all.

[Morgan]

Musical styles to play songs together in an intimate setting. Over the past two seasons, I've had special guests like Dave Grohl, Leve, Rufus Wainwright, Mavis Staples. Really too many to name.

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And there's still so much more to.

[Morgan]

Come in this new season. Listen to Norah Jones is Playing along on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

The one extremely fluid and common factor when it comes to war is fear. This Veterans Day, the Good Stuff podcast honors those who've served and the stories that remind us what strength really looks like. Like had over 50 operations and had 23 blood transfusions. We're talking about resilience, purpose and finding hope through community and connection.

[Morgan]

There are blessings that will happen in the most unexpected places.

[Bobby Bones]

Listen to the Good Stuff podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Morgan]

This is an iHeart podcast.