THURS PT 1: Big Cruise Drama! +  Will Amy Ever Get Pregnant? + You Die, Your Facebook Stays Alive!

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – Thursday, February 19, 2026, PT 1

Episode Theme:
A lively mix of parenting and technology debates, Super Bowl halftime controversies, tattoo regrets (and dangers), modern digital legacies, relationship trends, personal updates from the hosts, cruise drama, and a guest interview with Milo Ventimiglia. The episode blends humor, pop culture, and real-life dilemmas in the show’s signature conversational and comedic style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Should Kids Ditch Laptops and Go Back to Pen and Paper?

Timestamps: 02:26–06:20

• Debate on Handwriting Skills:
  • Many parents are choosing to take away kids’ laptops to encourage pen-and-paper learning, citing poor penmanship and overexposure to screens.
  • Amy: “Correspondence is feeling like a lost art. I think we need to keep it around.” (03:03)
  • Bobby: Argues that since handwriting isn’t commonly used anymore, it may not deserve so much school time.
    “I rarely write on anything. So why take and dedicate a whole bunch of time to something that kids don't use?” (03:53)
  • Digital literacy vs. traditional skills: the team acknowledges cognitive benefits from writing and touch-type proficiency.
• Cursive Conspiracies:
  • Joke about not teaching cursive being a government conspiracy to keep people from reading old documents.
    “Probably it is they don't teach kids cursive anymore is because they don't want them to read...the documents of the past.” (05:23, Bobby)
  • Amy admits to blending print and cursive due to ADHD tendencies.
  • Amy: “I alternate between print and cursive, even in the same word... that's a common trait of someone with [ADHD].” (05:43)

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2. Super Bowl Halftime: Bad Bunny Controversy

Timestamps: 06:20–08:33

• FCC reviewed Bad Bunny’s performance for indecency; found no violations. Critics were looking for offensive Spanish lyrics but Bad Bunny edited his set responsibly.
• Bobby: “You didn’t even know Spanish yesterday. Then, suddenly, you’re offended now, right?” (06:56)
• Frustration at manufactured outrage and hypocrisy compared to prior halftime shows.
• Discussion on Congresspeople and officials driving the complaints.

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3. Health News: Tattoo-Related Blindness in Australia

Timestamps: 08:49–10:47

• Reports of “tattoo-associated uveitis”—an eye condition from reaction to ink.
• Mini roundtable on tattoos, regrets, and removal:
  • Amy is removing her two tattoos, citing the complex, lengthy process.
  • Listener writes in regretting a large ex-girlfriend’s name tattoo; team advises removal or, if desired, smart cover-ups.
  • Bobby: “Let this be a lesson... Don’t get somebody’s name written on you.” (14:20)
  • Pop culture reference: Zach Bryan’s famous quickie tattoo.

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4. Digital Afterlife: Meta’s Patent on Auto-Posting for Deceased Users

Timestamps: 15:43–17:25

• Meta (Facebook) has patented tech to simulate and maintain your social media activity after death.
• Amy: “If you passed away and then every time you comment...I’m, like, reminded that you’re gone. That’s just weird.” (16:30)
• Team discusses ethical and emotional weirdness (likening it to “stuffing your dog”).
• Risks of manipulation or posthumous commercialization.

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5. Dating Terms: “Shreking” and Women’s Happiness

Timestamps: 17:25–22:27

• “Shreking”: Slang for dating someone considered “below your standards” so you always feel secure.
  • Amy: “My daughter told me about this.” (17:34)
  • Bobby: “My wife is shreking.” (18:28)
• When are women happiest—single or married?
  • Polls vs. research: Married mothers report the most fulfillment.
  • Amy reflects on adoption, fertility struggles, and the ever-present “will I get pregnant?” question.
    “I just don't know that at this point in my life that I want to start from the beginning.” (20:57)
• The group jokes about baby gifts, how they’re “never for you”.

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6. Big “Cruise Drama”

Timestamps: 28:58–33:52

• The crew prepares for a show cruise—revealing internal drama:
  • Lunchbox tries to score free gambling money from cruise organizers, believing his presence will keep people in the casino. “If they are playing blackjack or craps with me, they're gonna stay longer at the table—even if they're losing because I am there. That's a fact.” (30:07, Lunchbox)
  • He’s denied, threatens not to gamble (nobody believes him).
  • Concerns about having to buy drink packages; minor squabbles about room assignments.

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7. Corny Joke Segment

Timestamps: 34:31–36:34

• The team utterly fails to get Amy’s “corny” joke about why the chicken went to a seance (“to talk to the other side”).
• Light, chaotic back-and-forth: “You got a dumb [joke]!” (Lunchbox, 35:51)

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8. Savannah Guthrie Case Update

Timestamps: 36:58–42:36

• Latest developments: No breakthroughs, new ransom emails to TMZ, speculation over cross-border abduction.
• Side note about the sheriff’s office in charge having its own new reality TV show, “Desert Law”.
• Reflection on media coverage, pressure, and how missing persons cases differ by public profile.
• Amy: “There's people that are actively still looking for a missing loved one right now, and they're...trying to get every detail.” (41:21)

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9. Where Would the Crew Move if the Show Ended?

Timestamps: 42:36–46:29

• Listener calls in: Would the hosts move back home if the show ended?
  • Most say they’d remain in Nashville; Eddie wants to move to the beach.
  • Bobby would consider Fayetteville but acknowledges it’s now his wife’s “list” and decision time.
  • Amy reflects on losing her parents and how Nashville is now her home.
  • Bobby discusses the challenge and value of being the “new kid” at school.
  • Lunchbox: “I'm already in Austin. I'm gone.” (46:16)

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10. Lunchbox’s “Catholic Card” and Ash Wednesday

Timestamps: 48:04–54:35

• Eddie confronts Lunchbox for not having ashes for Ash Wednesday despite always asking off for Catholic holidays.
• Comedy of errors: Lunchbox spins a web of “oh I didn’t have time—physical therapy, soccer game, etc.”
• Ash Wednesday, Lent traditions, giving things up (Lunchbox hasn’t decided yet).
• Bickering about “Fat Tuesday” and fast food’s fish sandwich tie-in to Lent.
• Lunchbox: “You just said I would have more money if I...gave it away, then I would be in the same boat. Why wouldn't I give my chance self a chance to win money instead of just giving it away?” (51:29)

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11. Bonehead Story of the Day: National Guard Edition

Timestamps: 58:43–59:58

• Soldier leaves AR-15 in a hotel bathroom, found and turned in.
  • Lunchbox: “I'm just sitting right next to the toilet.” (59:17)
  • Team is incredulous that someone could forget a heavy, strapped rifle.

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12. Listener Calls & Quick Hits

Timestamps: 60:00–64:51

• Lactose Intolerance Tips: Bobby advises telling servers about dairy allergy, reflects on the now-ubiquitous nature of vegan menu items.
• Bone Marrow Donation: Listener gives update on meeting recipient; discussion of age limits and underrepresented groups for donation.
• Show Recommendations: Caller plugs “The Copenhagen Test” on Peacock; Mike reviews it as similar to “SWAT.” Bobby and Amy discuss “Hijack” (Apple TV)—initially cheesy, but gets better.
• Amy: “I think I’m gonna wait a couple more weeks. Cause then all the episodes will be out.” (64:51, on binge watching vs. weekly)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Bobby:
  • “I rarely write on anything. So why dedicate a whole bunch of time to something that kids don't use?” (03:53)
  • “I'm a big digital literacy guy.” (06:09)
• Amy:
  • “Correspondence is feeling like a lost art. I think we need to keep it around.” (03:03)
  • “If you passed away and then every time you comment on my stuff, I'm, like, reminded that you're gone. Like, that's just weird.” (16:30)
• Lunchbox:
  • “If they are playing blackjack or craps with me, they're gonna stay longer at the table—even if they're losing because I am there. That's a fact.” (30:07)
  • “I'm already in Austin. I'm gone.” (46:16)
• On “Shreking”:
  • Bobby: “My wife is shreking.” (18:28)
  • Lunchbox/Eddie: Entire group jokes about who's “shreking” whom in their relationships.
• On tattoo regrets:
  • Bobby: “Let this be a lesson… Don’t get someone’s name written on you.” (14:20)

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Guest Interview – Milo Ventimiglia (from "This Is Us")

Timestamps: 23:33–28:58

• Milo discusses career trajectory: “Gilmore Girls” put him on the map; “Heroes” brought international fame; “This Is Us” was a cultural phenomenon.
• Emotional artistry:
  • “What you do know is this made me feel something... If we can feel it, hopefully someone on the other side...can feel it too. That’s the job… We’re emotional professionals.” (24:52, Milo)
  • The power of subtle writing: “What Dan Fogelman and all the writers did was...shift, like, just 2 or 3 degrees one direction and just show it from a slightly different angle.” (26:06)
• Behind the scenes: Milo’s quick casting after his audition, building chemistry with Mandy Moore, and assembling the rest of the cast.

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Lighthearted & Rapid Fire:

• Corny Joke Fiasco: The team fails to understand “Why did the chicken go to the seance?” (“To talk to the other side”)—Amy’s frustration is palpable. (34:31–36:43)
• Physical Therapy for Lunchbox’s “Pelvic Floor”: Team can’t stop laughing at the phrase “testicle therapy.” (55:16–56:03)
• Banter on who would get their town’s “free babysitters for every once in a while.” (46:11)

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Additional Topics Covered

• Meta’s digital “afterlife” plans; talking about digital legacies and social media commentary from deceased people.
• The “Savannah Guthrie Case”: Ongoing missing person case, media framing, sheriff’s department’s reality show context.
• Cruise logistics, drink packages, and how the cast hustles for on-board perks.
• Personal updates: Fertility, family changes, new homes, dietary restrictions.

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Conclusion

This episode expertly blends topical news (from pop culture to tech and crime), lighthearted debates, personal revelations, and rapid-fire humor—with a touch of heartfelt perspective. For fans and newcomers alike, the episode offers a thorough taste of the show’s unique voice and dynamic chemistry.

Transcript

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[Eddie]

Here we go.

[Bobby Bones]

Come on Bobby.

[Announcer]

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[Bobby Bones]

this is the Bobby Bone Show.

[Eddie]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

Welcome to Thursday's show Morning Studio.

[Lunchbox]

Morning Bones.

[Bobby Bones]

So a lot of parents are taking away their kids laptops and making them work on pen and paper for a couple of reasons. You're a parent with kids that have laptops. What do you think the reasons are they're taking them away?

[Amy]

Well, they don't know how to write.

[Bobby Bones]

That's one of them. Yeah, I think that's number two because you're Right. Kids don't know how to write.

[Amy]

Their penmanship is pretty terrible. I can only speak for, for my kids.

[Bobby Bones]

To be fair, though, what if someone said to us when we were in school and it's been a while, and you don't know how to churn butter anymore? Like, we always used to churn, but there's no need for us to churn butter when we were kids. There's also, there's almost no need for kids to write anymore. Like, where do you really write with pen and paper?

[Amy]

Correspondence is feeling like a lost start. I think we need to keep it around.

[Bobby Bones]

So churning butter, I don't know so

[Amy]

much about that part, but I think writing needs to happen. I should take that back to clarify for my kids because my daughter will be like, are you kidding, Mom? I have really good handwriting, which she does. I guess it's my son that we're, we're struggling with. But I think that that's one of the big things. And then also just more scre all the time, like screens, TVs, screens, iPads, video games, phones, computers.

[Bobby Bones]

NBC News had the story. Parents across the country are pushing back against school issued Chromebooks and iPads, arguing the devices create more distraction than they do benefit. And they, and they go through the list. They expose children to inappropriate content and they undermine learning. As if you're distracted, but also you're not doing the things like writing. I'm not a big we need to learn how to write guy.

[Amy]

I can tell

[Bobby Bones]

because we don't use it that often. I rarely write on anything. So why take and dedicate? I agree with the screens, everything you said, but I'm just talking writing. Why take and dedicate a whole bunch of time to something that kids don't use? Because you think they need it.

[Amy]

I do think they need it. I think that the pen to paper, there is something cognitively that is healthy about that.

[Bobby Bones]

I agree with that.

[Amy]

And trust me, they're not. They're also not typing right either. They're like pecking. I'm like, how is this what you use? Of course they can text faster than anybody. Anybody I know. But you want them to sit down and like, type efficiently, like we learned how to type. No, they're pecking. And I'm like, what?

[Bobby Bones]

Those little peckers.

[Amy]

If we're, if we're gonna use a computer, like, let's be like. Because that's good for your brain too, is like the memorization of where the keys are and using your fingers. And now typing's a lost art.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know asdf, jkl, Semicolons?

[Amy]

Yes, of course. I took tight. Like, I sat through typing class in ninth grade. A, A, A, A, S, S, S,

[Bobby Bones]

S. That's the only B I ever got in school. In high school. It's craz because I was not as fast as the other A kids. And I had hoped that my teacher would have given me an A, because first I got a B. And also I had all A's. Like, stupid typing. Give me an A. I got a B, and everything else I had was an A. Keep the street going. I was so irritated. So, okay. You know they don't teach kids cursive anymore.

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Which is crazy, because cursive is an efficient way of writing.

[Bobby Bones]

You follow conspiracies about cursive?

[Amy]

No, I don't know any, but enlighten me.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know that this is true.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

And probably it's not. But the reason they say they don't. Probably it is they don't teach kids cursive anymore is because they don't want them to read, like, the. The documents of the past, like, be able to translate them now.

[Announcer]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

Because it's so many of the fundamental issues that America or the world now is. Is breaking.

[Amy]

But is it that hard to figure out cursive?

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, that cursive back then is even hard to read for me because it's so extra.

[Amy]

You know what I've always done. And they say that a lot of people with ADHD have this, but I. I alternate between print and cursive, even in the same word. Like, some of my letters will be printed, and then I'll transition into cursive and then print. And I've wondered why I always do that. And then I saw this viral clip about someone with adhd, and they were like, oh, yeah, that's a common trait of someone with that. So I think I'm gonna start participating in correspondence through letter, and that's cute.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm a big digital literacy guy.

[Amy]

Okay. Yeah. So you're gonna send notes by email.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean, send notes? It's called an email.

[Amy]

No, I want to start corresponding that way.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I don't even go to my mailbox, so if you send me a letter, I'm gonna get it in. Okay. Next up, There are no violations in the Bad Bunny halftime performance. People were trying to find a reason to be even more upset about Bad Bunny's halftime performance. And what they would do is they would take his song lyrics and go, okay, we didn't Understand it. But he said all this in his song. Here's the problem. There were artists like Rihanna or the Weeknd that had bad lyrics in their song. You know what they did? They didn't say them. And just because they were in the lyrics didn't mean they said them on the Super Bowl. That's what Bad Bunny did. So you can put all of his lyrics of everything he's saying in Spanish. He did not say the bad words.

[Amy]

So it.

[Bobby Bones]

Of course he did. And everyone's like, I'm so offended. You didn't even know Spanish yesterday. Then all of a sudden, you're offended now, right?

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. It's just so. It's just, it's just infuriating and ridiculous. Like you're trying to find a reason.

[Bobby Bones]

Trying to find a reason to be upset. Stop trying to find a reason.

[Amy]

Were these same people upset when JLO and Shakira were on strip polls at the Super Bowl?

[Bobby Bones]

I can tell you I wasn't, if I'm being honest. I was not upset.

[Amy]

I'm sure. But I mean, there's, there's a lot to get upset about, but it's. They weren't. There wasn't this big controversy around JLo and Shakira?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, there was a controversy pre and because it ended up being such a, a positive show with nobody having any reason to be upset and he wasn't divisive at all. People wanted to find a different reason to hate it. So they go, well, let's look at the lyrics of his songs. We didn't know what it meant, but let's find a reason to be upset and offended. And so they tried that and the FCC reviewed it. And I can tell you I've had my run ins with the fcc, been fined seven figures in the fcc.

[Amy]

Wait, now that you're saying this, there were. Were there Congress people that were spearheading this to the fcc?

[Bobby Bones]

It has to be that.

[Amy]

I think I now, I remember seeing clips of some men that were. I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

There's always men where the losers.

[Amy]

Yes. I don't know what states they were from, but I'm like, you have other things to focus on.

[Bobby Bones]

Federal officials reviewed Bad Bunny super bowl halftime performance and found it did not violate rules banning indecent profane content during primetime hours because he edited it himself, just like every. Every other artist does.

[Amy]

And then he said crazy things like, God bless America.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, he's. Yeah, it was very inclusive. Let's go to our, our Mexican. Eddie, you're. You don't know much Spanish?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I do. What, what, what's your question?

[Bobby Bones]

Did you guys feel like it was dirty? No. Okay.

[Eddie]

Not at all. I'm with you. Like, and there were parts where I'm like, oh, he says a bad word here. And then even on the screen it would be like, you know, the fuzzy or bleeped. Yeah. Or the hashtag, exclamation point, whatever. To say that that was a bad word. But I'm not saying it.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't know because I don't know. Span. And again, I'm not a Bad Bunny fan, but I don't think I have to be a fan of everything. Everything's not for me. Next up. Dozens of Australians have been diagnosed with a rare tattoo related vision loss. I have 1, 2, 3, 5 tattoos. I've even been called that tattoo guy before because Eddie and I were playing go off once and Eddie showed up after me and he's like, oh, you with the tattooed guy out there, the

[Eddie]

guy with all the tattoos.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a highlight, highlight of my life because basically to him I was in a motorcycle game and I never am looked at like.

[Eddie]

And I was like, the guy with

[Bobby Bones]

five tattoos all on one arm. He's so OCD. He doesn't want on the rest of his body. 40 people in Australia have been diagnosed with an eye condition called tattoo associated uvitis. It's one of those words. I don't know. The condition stems from a reaction to tattoo ink.

[Amy]

I mean, we've already had the ink in us for a while, so I feel like, how long does it take to go blind?

[Bobby Bones]

A form of eye inflammation. It includes pain, blurred vision, and potential sight loss. It is caused by a presumed immune reaction. Tattoo ink. So it has to be something new, right? Like, it's not old, old ink. I'm not sure if it comes from one artist. We know he's using bad ink.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's a batch of B1 parlor.

[Bobby Bones]

Abc.net with that. Amy has tattoos as well.

[Amy]

I do, I have two and I'm getting them removed. I've tried.

[Bobby Bones]

You are?

[Amy]

Yeah, I've told you that.

[Bobby Bones]

But you haven't done it. I know you say a lot of stuff, so.

[Amy]

Yeah. Well, then sometimes it takes. It's a process, like to get it started and then you can't have like sun on your skin. So then I was like, oh, you know, I'd have to like cover up that part like in my wrists are out in the sun a lot, so it's like hard. I just have to figure out a plan. You can't have self tanner on it. You can't. I mean, there's lots of things I didn't feel like.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a hard thing to live by.

[Amy]

Well, the sleeve.

[Bobby Bones]

And don't put self tanner on.

[Amy]

I know. I was thinking I could put a little, like.

[Bobby Bones]

It was like, I'll never make it. I don't know how I'm ever gonna do this.

[Amy]

And it's just like starting the process. And they said it could take like over a year to get it done. And I was gonna need 10 to 12 treatments. And I'm like, oh, gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

Or, like, go with initials because it's easier to change if you need to.

[Bobby Bones]

I have my wife's initial and I hope to never have to turn that into another B and write my own name on there because hers is a C and I could easily, you know, back in the day, you get a paper as an F, they say you turn it to an A. Yeah, yeah, I haven't thought about that before.

[Amy]

No, you're never gonna have to change that.

[Bobby Bones]

I have a little. I have a little C. With a heart on it. So, that being said, don't do it for everybody else. For you, sir. If it's as big as a fist, let's just do this. It's pretty big, and it's in a visible place, I guess. How much ink is it? It's harder. Like, I have on my left arm, I have a. The state of Arkansas, and it's fully blacked out. I don't think I could get that.

[Amy]

You could. It would. I think you could. It would just take a lot of time and be really painful, and it.

[Bobby Bones]

It would take such a long time that I don't know if I could ever get it fully off, though. I think there would always be, like. And I'm not. The state of Arkansas can never cheat on me.

[Amy]

Well, I'm thinking if it's someone's name, it's not totally blacked out. It's probably just. It's removable. I say go for it.

[Bobby Bones]

You do say remove it.

[Amy]

If you can afford to remove it and you have the time, do it.

[Bobby Bones]

I say, if there's another tattoo that you really want, I wouldn't get one just for the sake of getting one to cover it up.

[Lunchbox]

Up.

[Bobby Bones]

But if there's one you've been thinking about and it does fit into this, I would use that as a reason to go forth with that. But if there's not one, don't go and just get a skull because you have one you want to cover up if you're not a skull person.

[Amy]

So is that still a conversation of, like, you start dating again? Oh, what's that skull? And then it's like, well, I don't

[Bobby Bones]

think that's a bad thing, though. I don't think if you're dating somebody, hey, what's that skull? Well, it's a skull. I like death. I don't know if it goes beyond that, but if it does, it's like, yeah, I was stupid. I put my ex. Yeah, I put my ex's name on there, and I had to recap. I don't think that's a bad thing, though.

[Amy]

Okay. Yeah, no, it's not. I mean, but, yeah, you're either putting money into a talented artist that can make it something else or money into a laser.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm with Amy. I say you get it taken off if you can. Unless you've been eyeing another tattoo and you can easily make that into. That's my second option. But, yeah, you can't leave it. And also, let this be a lesson to everybody who's listening. Don't get somebody's name written on you, do you? Do you know the story about, like, Zach, Brian and Brianna Chicken Fry? Like, he got her name tattooed on him a couple weeks? I don't know.

[Amy]

He only was with her for a couple weeks and he did it. He's crazy. Well, he's kind of crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you just backed off a little bit. I would say he is crazy. Yes. Might you ever hear that story? I didn't know. Yeah, you may fact check that. I've been known to say stuff, but I think I was watching a clip of her and she said that they. He got a tattoo of her name pretty quickly on her. On his body.

[Amy]

What is it?

[Announcer]

Now?

[Bobby Bones]

That is a baller move, though. Like, to really show somebody that you're into them.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Unless you go to, like, a fake and you're like, hey, I'm coming in the fake tattoo. Give me a temporary. We'll act like it's real because I'm really trying to get some action.

[Amy]

I mean, if they're into that, then, yeah, that's like, okay. Baller or love ball? Me both.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, love baller. Mike. I guess they got matching ones that said, how lucky are we? Okay. So they got tattoos together, and she said she's keeping hers, but no names.

[Eddie]

Just, how lucky are we?

[Amy]

How lucky are we? Till we're not lucky.

[Bobby Bones]

How lucky are we that we didn't actually get married or you got me pregnant because that means we're stuck together forever. Yeah, that's the thing, dude. Go and have it removed or have it turn into something else, but don't feel bad. It happens to a lot of people. And for everybody out there, that's a lesson. Do not get somebody's name tattooed on you. All right, well, for example, you have. You probably regret it, but you have Jeffrey on your arm.

[Amy]

Don't. Don't remind me.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. All right, there you go. Close it up. So Meta, that owns Facebook and Instagram, has patented basically, how to keep your accounts running after you die.

[Amy]

Interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'll give you the story before you judge. It is going to feel creepy. The company was granted a patent that outlines how a large model can simulate a person. Person's social media activity, such as responding to content posted by real people. The language model can be used for simulating even when the user is absent, and posts they would make if they die is one of them. It could also be if you're just sick or, hey, I'm gonna check out for a couple weeks, but keep posting for me. So it can post similar things. It also can again, comment on other pages similarly and respond to people that are commenting on yours. What do you think about that?

[Amy]

I mean, it's not for me. I guess if somebody else wants to do that, that's fine. But I. I personally, like, say if you passed away and then every time you comment on my stuff, I'm, like, reminded that you're gone. Like, that's just weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, did that I was once alive.

[Amy]

So yeah, to me, I'm good. And then honestly, I'm gonna start to forget that you're dead. Oh, then what if you're like, really, like, it's just problematic.

[Bobby Bones]

It feels like the new version of stuffing your dog, the technique, the technology version of stuffing your dog.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Let your dog die.

[Amy]

Keeping something around that we just need to let go.

[Bobby Bones]

Because if somebody died, you could keep their page active and they would continue posting similar things, similar thoughts based on all the information that that meta has on them and all their postings.

[Amy]

Yeah. Until they want to hack into it and have it think whatever they want it to think.

[Bobby Bones]

Or do commercials.

[Amy]

Yeah. And then it's like, wait a second. That's not in alignment with what Bobby would support or say.

[Bobby Bones]

Have you ever heard of the term shreking?

[Amy]

I feel like I have, but I would need a reminder what it is.

[Bobby Bones]

Shreking is dating someone you consider to be below your standards or somebody you could do better than.

[Amy]

My daughter told me about this.

[Bobby Bones]

So, for example, Princess Fiona dated Shrek.

[Eddie]

He was ugly.

[Bobby Bones]

He was ugly.

[Amy]

He's an ogre. Right.

[Bobby Bones]

So shreking is that when you date someone that you would consider not up to the level that you normally are, that you normally date. So you're kind of out of the league. You date them. But you know why you do that?

[Amy]

Because you always feel awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, kinda. Because they treat you better.

[Amy]

Yeah. They don't want to lose you.

[Bobby Bones]

You're less likely to get hurt. You'll also get to call the shots in the relationship. There's a song that's never made. Never make. This song's playing in the background, so it's hard to hear. But it's like, Never make a pretty woman your wife.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah. If you want to be happy for

[Bobby Bones]

the rest of your life Never make a pret. Pretty woman your wife. That's what it is.

[Amy]

Personal point of view. Pick an ugly girl to marry you. Shrek.

[Bobby Bones]

Shrek. So it's fun. You've heard Shreking, though?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, my wife is Shreking.

[Lunchbox]

Good for her.

[Eddie]

She's Shreking.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Good for my wife. Shreking. Princess Fiona's got an ogre. Hopefully treating her good. So, Amy, you have been in your life single and then married and then single again.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

So.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, there's a story here about when women are the happiest together or single. What do you think?

[Amy]

I think together.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy]

I think. Well, for me, if that's what you want. Some people might. Not that I. This is a difficult thing to say. I'm trying to say it carefully.

[Eddie]

Say it.

[Bobby Bones]

Say it.

[Eddie]

No, don't think about it.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't think. You just let it go.

[Amy]

There comes a point maybe in your marriage where things are miserable.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So you get to work on that and maybe make it happy again or part ways, but. So I think you can find happiness in both places. But for me, like, I want a partner to share life with.

[Bobby Bones]

The Institute for Family Studies has put this out. Polls regularly show that single women think the lives of single women are the happiest and most fulfilling. But according to research that is not true. Women in America who have the most meaningful, full and happy lives are married mothers. You made a grind.

[Amy]

Well, because thankfully, I got to be a mother because I adopted.

[Bobby Bones]

They overwhelmingly report that most of the good days were in that time. In fact, mothers are nearly twice as likely to be very happy with their lives as single, childless women. Is that though partially because of a standard that we put on single childless women? They feel like they're not enough because. Yes, an unfair standard is put on them.

[Amy]

Yeah. Some of it could be society or a deep yearning within them to want that. And they. They can't. Like, if you can't get pregnant, you can't get pregnant unless there's a miracle, of course.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you ever think you'll get pregnant?

[Amy]

I don't know. We don't. I don't know. Because honestly, my ex husband and I, we were never given a solid answer from our fertility doctor as to why it wasn't happening. We had all the tests done, all the things. Now we chose not to go the IVF route. We went the adoption route. So we didn't. I'm sure I could have gotten pregnant that way.

[Bobby Bones]

Cassie. Kelly. Charles Kelly from Lady A's wife. She is in her 40s.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And did not know and thought she couldn't have a kid. And then surprise, dang. Had a baby.

[Amy]

Yeah. And what a beautiful time for them

[Bobby Bones]

with Charles getting Clair Danes. Claire Danes.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Had a baby.

[Eddie]

Gosh, Amy, that would be so.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, that would be crazy.

[Amy]

I know, I thought about it.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm thinking about it right now.

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[Eddie]

We're all thinking about it.

[Amy]

It would be so crazy and could be really cool. But I just don't know that at this point in my life that I want to start from the beginning. You know, right Now I have 18 year old, 15 year old. We're, you know, got a groove.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean I'm 45. We're just about to have our first. So like eddie has an 18 year old.

[Amy]

Well, I would want to be in a marriage. I don't have that yet either. So I need a solid.

[Bobby Bones]

Crap.

[Amy]

Yeah, I kind of want that commitment.

[Eddie]

You can do anything.

[Amy]

I definitely don't want to raise a baby by myself or like, I don't know. That's just not, not where I am.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm rooting for you.

[Amy]

Well, thank you. I don't know exactly for what, but thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't either. Really.

[Amy]

Yeah, but just happiness. Yeah, just root for happiness and success

[Bobby Bones]

and you know what's kind of annoying about having a baby though? All the, all the gifts that you get.

[Amy]

Why is that annoying?

[Bobby Bones]

Because they're not for you.

[Announcer]

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[Eddie]

Interesting.

[Amy]

But it's first. Yeah, but you made what they're for half of you.

[Bobby Bones]

I hear you, but it's like hey, I got you something. It mostly is the presentation of I got you something. And then when you get something, it's for the baby.

[Amy]

So that you would just rather them say hey, I got the babies.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that'd be good. Because then I get my hopes up. Yeah. Because I love, I love a gift. Love a gift. And I haven't met the baby yet so I don't even know. I'm sure it's different once you meet

[Amy]

the baby but in what way are you talking about? What's different? Like you're gonna suddenly want it to get gifts?

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe. Maybe I feel different about the gifts.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Right now it's just in my wife's stomach.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Isn't that crazy?

[Bobby Bones]

It comes out of the belly button. Right. I'm not fully sure on how this works yet.

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[Bobby Bones]

It's a Bobby Bones show interview, in case you didn't know. I'm going to talk to Milo Ventimiglia, who was Jack Pearson, the dad on this Is Us. He was also in Gilmore Girls. He was also in Heroes, and so pretty exciting to talk to him. Let's go on the Bobby Bones show now. Milo Ventimiglia, what do you consider your first major.

[Milo Ventimiglia]

Yes, I had a few. Definitely ahead of Gilmore Girls. Early days of, like, building a resume and whatnot, and like, working in town and being kind of a working actor. I hit early. 21 is the last time I had, like, a job job. Gilmore kind of put me on the map. And then I did Heroes, which put me, like, above the map, where it's kind of like, oh, I went from, like, known in the industry to known globally with Heroes. And then it was, I think this Is Us that hit like, a whole

[Bobby Bones]

other stratosphere when this Is Us hit. That was one of the last, I feel, at least for me, one of the last cultural network phenomenons.

[Milo Ventimiglia]

Totally.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you feel that?

[Milo Ventimiglia]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

It was so big, so fast, and

[Milo Ventimiglia]

we knew it going in. We knew the impact it had because I think it impacted us on the inside that we're reading the scripts and a part of this beautiful show that Dan Fogelman put together.

[Bobby Bones]

But you never really know, right?

[Milo Ventimiglia]

You don't know if it's gonna be a hit. What you do know is this made me feel something. And that is what we try and do as artists. If we can feel it, hopefully someone on the other side of a movie screen or a television screen can feel it, too. Like, that's the job, you know, that emotional vulnerability, that emotional connection. That's what we do for a living. We're emotional professionals. But you don't know the successes with it. It could be like, the most feel, feeling show ever, and nobody watches it. It just. That's how it goes. But to get them both the same where, like, we on the inside were feeling it, and then everybody on the outside is feeling it, and then it just kind of kept going and going and going. I think it was also this moment in the world that people needed something like that. They needed family and community and to understand that we're all going through some times, and we kind of need to open the valve of communication and understand and recognize our differences. And I think this is Us gave that to audiences to take into their own lives, to actually make their lives more connected and make their lives more validated in a way, sometimes. And we hit so many different subject matters, you know, but without trying or preaching it or.

[Bobby Bones]

It didn't feel forced.

[Eddie]

You're right.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Milo Ventimiglia]

You know, what Dan Fogelman and all the writers did was they were able to take a point of view and then shift, like, just 2 or 3 degrees one direction and just show it from a slightly different angle, slightly different lens. And then you're able to really understand something and then take it almost as a lesson to apply it to your own life, which I think is a wonderful gift. As artists, you know, you get to, like, hey, we're handing this to you to do what you will with it.

[Bobby Bones]

Was that an audition?

[Milo Ventimiglia]

Actually, that was. That was amazing. And that was a yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you audition for the role that you ended up getting?

[Milo Ventimiglia]

I did. So when I read the first script, I was like, wow, man. I think maybe I'm. Am I more Kevin? I'm like, but I don't think I'm a Kevin. But then they wanted me for Jack. But it wasn't that they wanted me. They just said, hey, you know, they want you to read for Jack and John and Glenn, our directors. We had some common ground with a good friend, Dan Fogelman, who created the show. We had common ground with a good friend. And so I walked into a very warm room, and on the page, Jack Pearson, which was not named Pearson in the pilot, he, as Fogelman likes to say, didn't look like me. Like, I. I was off my motorcycle, was holding my helmet, walking in, you know? And so we just kind of were talking about the people that we knew, and then they were like our casting director. Like, okay, so you want to read? I'm like, yeah, cool. Let's do it. I'm not pulling pages out. I'm not there to, like, read lines. Like, I already have this in my head. And they were like, oh. I'm like, yeah, no, I'm ready. Let's go. And we just start doing it, and we do, like, a take, and I Kind of glance back at the end of it, and I see Dan sitting like a little boy about to open a bunch of presents of Christmas. Just this big smile on his face. And I'm like, okay. I think that went pretty well. I walk out. By the time I get back to my motorcycle, like, I get a call from my reps, like, hey, they want you. I was like, that quick? Yeah, it was that fast.

[Bobby Bones]

It wasn't like, when you do a chemistry, we need to.

[Milo Ventimiglia]

Well, it was. They want you. But of course, like. Like, you know, for studio purposes and network purposes, like, they're gonna have a couple backup guys. They are. But now, Milo, you're the person to be. They, the creatives all want you. They would like you to read with other actresses to play your TV wife. So Mandy Moore was in there, and then I think three. Two or three other actresses were in there that I read with. And so they just pulled me into the process. And, like, I think they were also testing out the waters. And, like, they had an idea about the other actors. Like, I think John and Glenn had worked with Sterling, and Fogelman knew him. So it's kind of like they were eyeballing Sterling. They didn't have Christy Metz yet. They didn't have Justin Hartley, who's. I mean, that guy. Such a talent. One of the best actors I'd worked with or seen. And they didn't have Mandy and I. You know, it's like. It kind of had ideas, but then I think I was the first one. They're like, okay, cool. This guy's gonna anchor the family. He's the patriarch. He's the dad. And then once they saw what Mandy and I were doing together, like, oh, wow, there's mom and dad. Got the two of them. I think at that point, Sterling came on and then brought Justin and Chrissy, and it all made sense and took shape.

[Bobby Bones]

So our show is going on a cruise next week with a bunch of listeners, and so we're excited about it. We actually have another plan for 2027, I think it's called Top Shelf Country Cruise, and Riley Green's doing next year. This year's Keith Urban. A lot of artists, but there's always drama with anything that we do. And so you guys had a meeting yesterday. Yeah.

[Eddie]

With the cruise people.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, really? It wasn't just internal.

[Eddie]

It was internal, but they have the schedule for what we're doing.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So what I hear is because they do have casino. A casino on the boat.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And these guys here are very pumped about going to Gambling. That lunchbox was asking for gambling money on the cruise.

[Eddie]

I mean, I walk in the meeting, the first thing I hear is, are you gonna give me money to gamble with?

[Bobby Bones]

What did you ask them, Lunchbox?

[Lunchbox]

I said, how much money? How many chips are they gonna give me to play with? Because they want me in their casino so other people will stay in the casino to be around me. That's the whole point. They want a celebrity in the casino, and she goes, they're giving you nothing. What?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I don't think they should give you money to gamble.

[Lunchbox]

What do you mean?

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's a casino.

[Amy]

If you.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't have to go to the casino, you don't have an appearance in the casino.

[Lunchbox]

Right. But it will keep people in their casino longer. It will be proven. If they are playing blackjack or craps with me, they're gonna stay longer at the table, even if they're losing because I am there. That's a fact.

[Bobby Bones]

That they should give him money to gamble. No, I think if with whatever terms that we agreed to at the beginning, you were to take any pay you're getting, I'd like certain amount of it in chips. I think they could probably do that

[Eddie]

because he's gonna be there anyway. Gambling. Right.

[Bobby Bones]

So no guy loves a casino.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Right. So they told you without a doubt, no money for gambling free.

[Lunchbox]

Absolutely zero.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Absolutely none.

[Bobby Bones]

What was your answer to that? What's your response?

[Lunchbox]

So now then, I probably won't be at the casino.

[Bobby Bones]

Anybody believe that?

[Eddie]

No. No chance he'll be there.

[Bobby Bones]

No chance. That's super fun. You're gambling on a boat, man.

[Eddie]

You know what my concern was, though? Because I asked and I was like, how am I gonna, like, get drinks? Like, do I buy my own drinks or whatever? Like, you have to buy a package. A drink package. So I can't go buy, like, one pina colada? I gotta buy a package for the whole weekend.

[Amy]

Wait.

[Bobby Bones]

Or the week? Wait, now Amy's getting mad.

[Amy]

No, I'm just thinking, like, what? So it's just drinks, but, like, not, like food?

[Bobby Bones]

No food.

[Amy]

Just alcohol.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, Food recovery.

[Eddie]

Well, they even said Cokes, too. And I'm like, what if I wanted a Coke?

[Bobby Bones]

There's no way. I'll make sure you guys get Cokes if I have to step in a

[Amy]

fully stocked mini box.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we were in a different room.

[Lunchbox]

Don't bring it up.

[Bobby Bones]

If you guys missed that podcast it's on Mondays, Part two, where we didn't know we were all opening up. What? Our rooms Were on this cruise and it turns out we're all in different kinds of rooms.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

We would all be on the same floor. Except for maybe Bobby.

[Bobby Bones]

I assume we all would be. We weren't.

[Amy]

Okay, well, then we would all be elevated.

[Bobby Bones]

We weren't. So no free gambling money, but I think that's fine. I would have said that was it.

[Amy]

I'm a few chips to get him started.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think you give somebody free gambling money.

[Amy]

You can't. Okay.

[Eddie]

What if he wins a million dollars?

[Lunchbox]

That would be great for their cruise.

[Amy]

Well, then maybe they'd be like, oh, sorry, it's. It's invalid. Doesn't count because we gifted you that.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. I think they. They would possibly give him. Funny.

[Amy]

So it's sort of like play money.

[Bobby Bones]

If they give him play money and he can't win anything, he wins. He doesn't win.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, no. Trust me. Because there was a blackjack tournament. They're like, oh, you want in? I was like, yeah, you can't win the money. And I'm like, well, then why would I play?

[Bobby Bones]

Because it's going to look like it's set up if you go. It's like if I were to get in one of those St. Jude dream homes and I. You in the home and I put in whatever to win and I win. It's for.

[Amy]

Yeah, like on trucks. This is work.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. So I was like, no, I don't want to play in the tournament if I'm not gonna. If I can't win the money, what's the point of playing? Like, I get all the way to the championship, and it's like, oh, sorry, we're gonna give it Tim here. Well, screw Tim.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, screw them.

[Lunchbox]

You know what I mean? Like, I beat Tim.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that's fine.

[Eddie]

Sounds awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

That sounds. So did. Did you ask for anything?

[Eddie]

And mine was just my big concern was the chip or the. The drinks. I'm like, yeah, yeah, tell me about the drinks. I don't know what to do. Like, I'm not gonna pay for my own drinks all. All weekend, But I am doing, like, a wine tasting and, like, can I take some bottles from there? Because, like, that'll do it.

[Bobby Bones]

I. Yeah, yeah, I. I bet you. I bet you'll be fine.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

And you got to understand, Eddie, you're never going to pay for a drink on the boat anyway. You know, listeners are going to buy everything for you.

[Amy]

No

[Eddie]

lunchbox. Good idea.

[Bobby Bones]

Probably doing this segment just so I can get money from listeners to gamble.

[Lunchbox]

Like, how dumb are we? Like, guys, when you're at the bar, a listen. Oh, let me get that drink. Okay, go ahead, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Now, they probably will.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, absolutely. Feel free.

[Bobby Bones]

We leave not this Friday, but next Friday. The boat. I think the boat goes off in the afternoon, right?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that what it is? Okay. No, I understand. No gambling money. The drinks. I'm surprised not giving you guys a few drink tickets. Right? But I'll make sure that you get Cokes, my man. Okay. I'll make sure that everybody gets free Cokes. And the dial just keeps on turning. His wigs. Next bit. And Bobby's on the mic.

[Amy]

So you know what this is?

[Bobby Bones]

This is the Bobby. All right, we have 90 seconds. Amy will ask us as many corny jokes as possible. Let's see how many we can get. Right. 90 seconds on the clock. Are you ready?

[Amy]

Ready.

[Bobby Bones]

And go.

[Lunchbox]

The morning corny.

[Amy]

Why did the chicken go to the seance?

[Lunchbox]

The what? I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

It's for a psychic or a psychic, like, talks to somebody dead.

[Eddie]

Got their. Oh, talk to someone dead.

[Bobby Bones]

A seance.

[Eddie]

Slaughter chicken. Got their head cut off.

[Bobby Bones]

Chicken, Chicken. Chicken. Psychic. Psychic.

[Eddie]

Kfc.

[Bobby Bones]

Kf. Oh, see the dead.

[Amy]

Why did the chicken go to the seance?

[Bobby Bones]

When you do your hand like that on my face, it doesn't help anything. Kfc. Kfc, the future.

[Eddie]

That's pretty good, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Come on.

[Amy]

Why did the chicken go to the.

[Bobby Bones]

To get to the other.

[Eddie]

To get to the other side?

[Bobby Bones]

No. To get to the other what, though? That's aside.

[Eddie]

What.

[Lunchbox]

What's the. The get to the dark side.

[Amy]

To the seance.

[Eddie]

To get to the.

[Lunchbox]

I. I don't know. You're using a big word.

[Eddie]

To get to the afterlife.

[Amy]

Seance.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know. What? Seance.

[Amy]

Why did the chicken go to the seance?

[Bobby Bones]

We're not gonna get one, guys.

[Eddie]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

Golly. I kind of thought y'.

[Lunchbox]

All.

[Amy]

Y' all have got.

[Bobby Bones]

They didn't even know what to say on.

[Lunchbox]

Amy, you got a dumb.

[Amy]

I'll tell you what it is.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Well, not the answer, but what's. Sounds.

[Amy]

Well, no, I was gonna tell you what a seance was.

[Lunchbox]

That would be great.

[Bobby Bones]

115.

[Eddie]

Oh, great.

[Amy]

Why did the chicken go to the seance?

[Eddie]

To get to.

[Lunchbox]

To the dance.

[Amy]

To.

[Bobby Bones]

To reach the other side. To talk to the other side.

[Amy]

To talk to the other side.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Amy]

Why?

[Bobby Bones]

Time.

[Eddie]

That was it.

[Milo Ventimiglia]

That was it.

[Bobby Bones]

1:30.

[Amy]

To talk to the other side.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good joke.

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And that's what they do say on.

[Bobby Bones]

Why did they talk to the dead to. Yeah.

[Amy]

Talk to the other side.

[Eddie]

And the joke goes. The chicken to get to the other side.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, that's it. That's a quality joke. But she just kept screaming and put her hands in my face going, well,

[Amy]

because I was trying to. Y' all weren't. Y' all were stuck on, like, kfc.

[Bobby Bones]

Tell me that wasn't a good one. Kfc. What was the joke?

[Eddie]

I said, kfc. See the dead people.

[Bobby Bones]

No, right.

[Eddie]

Kfc. Dead people.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, I'd have been a little more elevated than that. I don't know. We got one. They didn't know what it seance was. That hurt us.

[Lunchbox]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So I guess the update in the Savannah Guthrie case is that TMZ got another letter. I'm starting to think maybe TMZ just writes letters. Yeah, I really don't think that, but I think that's the source. They know that if they get it to tmz, it gets widely reported.

[Amy]

What's the song you were singing the other day? I got a letter.

[Bobby Bones]

There's a Blues Clues clip where he would get a letter and he'd be like, I just got a letter. I just got a letter. And I said, that's what Harvey Levin does at TMZ when he gets one. Oh, we got another Savannah Guthrie. I just got a letter. Obviously, it is not something to joke

[Amy]

about, but listen, at this point, levity is fine.

[Bobby Bones]

Joke so you don't cry.

[Amy]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

So going to the story. The FBI has reached out to Mexican federal authorities as it searches for Nancy Guthrie, as it fears that what we've talked about is she may be taken across the border. And then we did the math. Takes about 51 minutes to get there. From where they were, it was a little over 60 miles. And investigators have examined Border Patrol camera footage and other electronic data. They say no significant breakthroughs. But they also wouldn't be saying this is a possibility unless they felt there was something to lead to it being a possibility. TMZ reports receiving a new ransom email demanding a sum similar to the earlier 6 million requests. So if there was a request for money and then I didn't give them the money, and they had threatened if I didn't give them the money, something was going to happen, and then nothing happened when I didn't give them the money, I'm probably thinking I'm not giving them the money because they're not going to do what they said or they don't have what they say they have.

[Amy]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

Exactly. But again, we know nothing.

[Eddie]

Gosh, that's so risky, though. If someone was asking for money and there's a chance that they have her.

[Bobby Bones]

Ugh.

[Eddie]

Like, how do you make that decision to be like, we're just not going to do it.

[Bobby Bones]

They asked for the money twice. They didn't give the money either time, and still nothing happened.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So why would you do it the third time? Unless there's some other thing they're now saying where again, they're probably saying things that we don't get to see. We don't have access to every. Some new detail that is concrete proof

[Amy]

they have her, which I'm totally fine with not knowing all the details. This is just getting really bizarre.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. TMZ got a new ransom email.

[Amy]

Did you see the Prima County Sheriff's office? That's the sheriff's department handling the case. They have a reality show that just premiered this year.

[Lunchbox]

Stop.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's called Desert Law.

[Eddie]

Amy.

[Amy]

I'm not joking. I saw. I'm not joking. And they have YouTube, but it was just interesting because the head sheriff was like, I'm just not used to all this attention or whatever. And now people are like, you signed your whole force up for a reality show.

[Bobby Bones]

Last year, the Pima County Sheriff's office filmed back to back seasons of the reality show the Desert Law. Every Wednesday, A and E airs the Desert Law.

[Eddie]

But it's already shot.

[Amy]

It just for me. I know, but it just for me. But he. The thing they were comparing was that he's like, I'm not used to, like, being watched so much in my every word being, you know, I bet this

[Bobby Bones]

is totally different, though. And if you're recording a show that gets to go to edit and there's a, you know, weeks and weeks and weeks before even an episode gets made. But yeah, no, that's wild coincidence. They have nothing. Again, this is correlation.

[Amy]

I know, I know. There's several little correlation thingies that are popping up that are just bizarre. Not causation. I know.

[Bobby Bones]

I can't believe they haven't found her yet.

[Eddie]

In a world where there are cameras everywhere and just people talk, social media, that they haven't found anything.

[Lunchbox]

Not even a crack, not even like a lead. And what's weird is this going around to the gun stores. Allegedly this gun store owner saying they're. They're bringing in packets of pictures saying, hey, do you recognize any of these people? Like, maybe this could be the person that bought the gun here. And they're going through it and they're like, no, I didn't sell any of Those people, a gun. That's so crazy.

[Eddie]

It's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think that's that crazy. I think you got a missing person, and you're going to every single person who possibly could be connected to somebody connected to the missing person.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I'm not saying it's. I'm just saying the way they have to go about it that they're printing, they're just going online and finding social media pictures of random people in the area that could look like the guy in the mask, stapling them together, going to. It's just like they have nothing, it seems like.

[Amy]

That's why I feel like that's part of what a lot of people are doing. And the crazy part is, when you really think about it, this case is getting so much attention, and it's like people go missing all the time, and they don't have.

[Bobby Bones]

Not relatives of famous people.

[Amy]

Oh, I know, I know. But, I mean, there's people that are actively still looking for a missing loved one right now, where it's been weeks or months or a long time, and they're in. There's investigations just like that, where they're going around trying to get every detail to gather the person, and people get upset.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, there's all these missing people. Why aren't they doing that? Had they done a day of this case and there not been a million clicks on it, this wouldn't have been a public case like the public demands.

[Amy]

Yeah, everyone wants to find Nancy.

[Bobby Bones]

Sounds like you know her.

[Eddie]

I kind of feel like I do.

[Amy]

That's great.

[Eddie]

Yeah, let's find Nancy.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't know. She's probably in Mexico.

[Eddie]

Do you see the Mexican government being like, yeah, we'll use a lot of resources to look for her? No, I don't either.

[Bobby Bones]

None. But it could be a big PR move for the cartel to find her or bring her back. True.

[Eddie]

Whoa. Positive. Look at the cartel.

[Amy]

They want to earn some favor. Cartel's like, return Nancy.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, we got her. And you know what? The guy who took her, we killed him. This is for you, America.

[Eddie]

We like them all of a sudden. These guys are good dudes.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a wild show. I want to go to Ashley in Knoxville, talk to her. Hey, Ashley, you're on the show. Hi. Morning, studio. Morning, studio.

[Amy]

Morning.

[Bobby Bones]

I was just calling, and I was wondering if you guys, if the show was to end tomorrow, would you guys

[Amy]

move back to Texas and Kansas or would you stay in Nashville?

[Bobby Bones]

I think we would stay here now. I think my wife has Definitely found her community. Had it been earlier in our relationship and marriage, we probably would not have stayed here because she didn't have any friends here. She moved here from California, but she was only in California for, like, a year. She was in Texas before that and then Oklahoma before that, but I don't think we would have stayed here. But now I think she loves it here and she's found a community of people and. I don't know, according to everybody else, it's a good place to raise a kid. So I'd probably stay in Nashville.

[Milo Ventimiglia]

I would love to.

[Bobby Bones]

And I've said this before, I'd love to move to Fayetteville.

[Eddie]

I love her.

[Amy]

You're acting like that's not what you would do.

[Bobby Bones]

We wouldn't. I don't think we would.

[Amy]

I mean, I know that's not the top of her list, but.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And it would be her list. It's her list time.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

At this point, it's her. It's been my list for so long. It's now her list time a little bit. So I. Yeah. Would stay here at least. Yeah. For a while.

[Amy]

You're definitely summer there?

[Eddie]

Oh, for sure.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And spring, man.

[Eddie]

And fall.

[Bobby Bones]

There's just so many games. I just want to go to some. I'd probably teach. Teach at the university. Amy, what would you do?

[Amy]

I would stay here. Yeah. I always thought I would go back to Austin, but, I mean, since both my parents have passed away and my sister moved to Colorado, going back to Austin also. Austin's just not the same anymore. I think I would still love it. It'll always have a piece of my heart being from there. But Nashville's home now, and my kids have a life here. Their dad is here.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, gosh.

[Amy]

Raising kids, you know.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that'd be tough, Eddie.

[Bobby Bones]

I bet with four kids, you'd be here too, right? You wouldn't move them out?

[Eddie]

I mean, I would. I would just. Guys, I need the beach.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, oh, you would leave, I'm telling you, but you're going to a place you never even lived before.

[Eddie]

It sounds like I think about the beach every single day. And so I would tell the boys, like, hey, you'll find friends at the beach. Like, let's all go. We'll all find friends at the beach.

[Amy]

That'd probably be great for them if they love the beach as much as you do. Like, do they?

[Eddie]

They love the beach.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

See that? I think there's something good about moving to a new place. As a kid, I moved around a lot, mostly because we didn't have a choice. So I had to go to a bunch of new schools if we got kicked out of somewhere. And so I went to many new schools, so I had to be the new kid over and over. That's very hard. But you do develop a set of skills. Being the new kid and having to learn to acclimate, that's very valuable at this point in my life. It sucked as a kid. It's 11am the door opens. Hey, everybody, this is Bobby. He's new. And everybody, every kid at the desk looks up and goes, huh? And they walk you to a random desk 3/4 of the way back, and you sit down, and the teacher just tries to continue on with the lesson, but everybody's looking at you the whole time. And then it's time. Go to lunch. And you know, nobody. And there's always the one kid that's like, hey, you can sit with me. But, you know, that one kid kind of is weird.

[Eddie]

And I was just about to say, I was that one kid, and you're like, oh, cool, we got a new kid.

[Bobby Bones]

And so you're like, what? This kid wants to be my friend. Why? And then turns out you're weird, too. And so that becomes your friend. It's just a whole thing. But it happened many times, and I do. I'm thankful for it now. I hated it as a kid. It was as close to hell on earth as could be. Hell on earth because you just also get beat up a lot or picked on a lot by the cool kids because they want to prove, oh, look at this little twerp.

[Eddie]

Dang.

[Bobby Bones]

But adversity is awesome after it's over. So.

[Amy]

So we all should move.

[Bobby Bones]

Everybody should move right now. Move your kids to a new school every year.

[Amy]

We should all move.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox, what'd you do?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I can't hear you. I'm already in Austin. I'm gone.

[Amy]

He's gone.

[Lunchbox]

Truck packed up, moved good. I mean, I've made a community here, but being closer to family would be amazing to have help. You could have free babysitters for every once in a while. Oh, my goodness. Amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

I never heard that term, free babysitters for every once in a while.

[Lunchbox]

I don't think they would do it every day. But I'm saying, like, you know, I

[Bobby Bones]

just never heard the term for every once in a while. Yeah, I like it, Ashley. That's how we feel. What do you think about that? I love it.

[Amy]

Thank you for answering the question.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, thank you for calling everybody else. You can call if you want. 877-77-Bobby even for questions like that. We weren't talking about that but Ashley was like I would like to know this. So she called from Knoxville and jumped in. So we appreciate that. 87777 Bobby.

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[Bobby Bones]

So Eddie has a little beef with Lunchbox about him, his religion.

[Eddie]

I just thought he was Catholic.

[Bobby Bones]

He always talks about how he wants off work for Catholic holidays.

[Eddie]

Yeah. All the time. Yep. And then I was walking around yesterday and I see people with ashes on their foreheads. I'm like, oh, it's Ash Wednesday. Where is lunchbox's ashes? I didn't see any post about ashes on your forehead.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, see I, I listen to my preacher and you know, the, the, the father of our church. And I say, he says, you know,

[Bobby Bones]

the first problem, there's a lot of,

[Amy]

you know, I believe a priest.

[Lunchbox]

Priests, Father.

[Bobby Bones]

He said preacher and father of the church.

[Milo Ventimiglia]

Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

Anyway, he is father, whatever you want to call him. It's not to brag about it. Like, you know, you, you came on here and your, your preacher got mad at you for bragging about your fast and you saw he didn't get. Maddie, I don't think you're supposed to really be talking about it publicly. You're supposed to just do it and be with, be with God. And I was still at work yesterday, you know what I mean? Like, I hadn't left work, so I had no time to go to church when you saw me. If you wanted me to go out to an ashtray and put some ashes on my head so it looked Like, I went before work. I would have lied to you. And I would not want to lie during Ash Wednesday Holy day.

[Bobby Bones]

Many, many days. Though you did get income in the next day just to prove that you got it. So that's usually how it worked. You went in.

[Lunchbox]

Correct.

[Bobby Bones]

And then you wanted us to know because you did want to brag about it.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. And I would wear it, and then you guys would be like, why did you ever shower? That was yesterday. And I'm like, Like, guys, I can't win with you guys. Trying to show you I'm one with

[Bobby Bones]

the Lord and that none of that happened. Like, none of. None of the things that you're saying actually happened in the way that you're saying them.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. And so yesterday was Ash Wednesday. It was a great day for us Catholics. And now we are doing 40 days. No, I, I. Time kind of got away from me yesterday.

[Bobby Bones]

You just let us through that whole maze of why you didn't do it before work. Because you couldn't.

[Eddie]

Why didn't you ask for the day off? Like, usually you do that too.

[Lunchbox]

Well, because it gets denied every time. Like, I. I thought about it, and then I'm just like, I'm just barking up the tree and there is no one up there. Like, there's no cats.

[Amy]

The wrong tree.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, I think he just says words.

[Amy]

Okay, well, so speaking of lint, would you give up?

[Lunchbox]

Well, you know, that's still in a work in progress. Like, I. I thought about.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you supposed to start today?

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I am, but, I mean, I haven't had anything today, so it's not like I have, you know, committed a sin.

[Bobby Bones]

So you've given up everything so far? So far I've given up everything.

[Lunchbox]

Awesome, dude. Yeah. I am really dedicated to the cause, and so, I mean, I've really got to think about it. I don't know. What should I give up? Like, you guys got suggestions?

[Eddie]

Well, it's a sacrifice. Right?

[Lunchbox]

That's what I'm saying.

[Eddie]

So something you would sacrifice?

[Bobby Bones]

Talking loud. Rage. Jealousy.

[Lunchbox]

I don't really have jealousy.

[Eddie]

Yes, you do. Every time somebody gets, like, a job, you get.

[Lunchbox]

I have annoyance.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Or like a room and a cruise ship jealousy.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's annoying. I'm still ticked off about that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

Could you give up playing the lottery?

[Bobby Bones]

He's done that before.

[Lunchbox]

I've done that before. But here's the problem. Then I can't win.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Lunchbox]

That's 40 days.

[Bobby Bones]

The problem has been for the past 40 years is you haven't won.

[Lunchbox]

You Know that I'm gonna be poor.

[Amy]

No, you'll actually have more money because you're not spending it on the lottery.

[Lunchbox]

Right.

[Amy]

You'll have that money back, and for a double win, you could donate it instead.

[Lunchbox]

Amy, come on. You just said I would have more money if I. If I. If I gave it away, then I would be in the same boat. Why wouldn't I give my chance self a chance to win money instead of just giving it away?

[Bobby Bones]

You haven't thought about anger.

[Amy]

We should revisit that.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. So I don't know why you have a bone to pick with me, dude. Just because I'm Catholic and, you know, I do my thing.

[Bobby Bones]

And mostly I think it's because you always want off for every Catholic holiday,

[Lunchbox]

and I never get it.

[Bobby Bones]

But you don't do the things like,

[Lunchbox]

Good Friday's coming up in 40 days. 40 nights, man.

[Eddie]

40 days.

[Bobby Bones]

40 nights.

[Amy]

40 days and 40 nights. You think he was, like, saying 40 days and 40 nights?

[Bobby Bones]

So, yeah.

[Eddie]

Are you gonna ask for that day off?

[Lunchbox]

Probably.

[Bobby Bones]

If you haven't, though, already started. I'm not Catholic. Like, do you get to start anytime you want? Can you do, like, 38 days now?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, you probably. Well, no, it starts today.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it does?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It didn't start on the day that you missed yesterday.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

What? Are you sure?

[Lunchbox]

No,

[Amy]

I think it's Ash Wednesday is the start.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Because you get. You get it all out. You're supposed to get it all out on Fat Tuesday, you know what I mean? And go crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought that was like, Marty, girl. I don't know.

[Lunchbox]

That's what it's tied into.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

And then you wake up on Wednesday and you're supposed to cleanse. That's why you go.

[Bobby Bones]

Really called Fat Tuesday in the Catholic Church?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Eddie]

I mean, I really thought that was just Mardi Gras.

[Lunchbox]

That's why you go New Orleans.

[Eddie]

Fat Tuesday.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Like, eat a cake with a little king in it.

[Lunchbox]

Fat Tuesday leads in.

[Bobby Bones]

It might lead into. But is it officially part of the Catholic doctrine?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

No, like, the Pope actually says Fat Tuesday.

[Bobby Bones]

Welcome to Fat Tuesday, everyone.

[Lunchbox]

He's like, I know you guys are going out to the pubs after this,

[Bobby Bones]

but I need to know if Fat Tuesday is real.

[Amy]

It is real.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, I know it's real, but I'm saying to what he's saying, it

[Eddie]

is like, is it part of the church?

[Amy]

No.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Amy]

I did a Google search. It says Fat Tuesday is deeply connected to the Catholic religion.

[Bobby Bones]

Touch Shrove Tuesday.

[Lunchbox]

But that's Fat Tuesday. That's what I'm saying. You guys, I'm Catholic, right?

[Eddie]

Right.

[Lunchbox]

Why do you not believe me when I talk?

[Bobby Bones]

Because you lie a lot.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

It is a day to catch up on rich foods. Eggs, butter, sugar.

[Lunchbox]

And this is fun.

[Bobby Bones]

It involves partying. It has deep Catholic roots. As a farewell to meat.

[Lunchbox]

Because on Fridays during Lent, no meat.

[Eddie]

Are you doing that?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. That starts tomorrow, man.

[Bobby Bones]

And you're gonna do no meat.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

He hadn't thought about it.

[Lunchbox]

That's why, like. Like these fast food restaurants, like, you'll see, around this time, all the fish sandwiches come back. Oh, yeah, the Filet o fish and the

[Amy]

what?

[Lunchbox]

The Filet o fish.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So you're telling me the filet o fish is because of Lent?

[Lunchbox]

Yes, 100%.

[Amy]

Well, they do capitalize.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm just. I learned that right now, like, even

[Eddie]

Sonic will come out with, like, fish. We catch of the day on Fridays. Correct.

[Lunchbox]

They target it towards the Catholics.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so Shrove Tuesday.

[Lunchbox]

Fat Tuesday.

[Eddie]

Otherwise known.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So what I'm reading here, Fat Tuesday is very much a Mardi Gras thing, but Shrove Tuesday is what it's officially called within the church.

[Lunchbox]

Church.

[Bobby Bones]

But there is. They do coincide.

[Lunchbox]

Amen.

[Eddie]

Thank you, lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

You're welcome.

[Milo Ventimiglia]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

All right.

[Lunchbox]

In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen.

[Bobby Bones]

But you're. But you're not giving up anything. You forgot about it?

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I didn't forget.

[Bobby Bones]

Why didn't you go yesterday, though? Seriously?

[Lunchbox]

No, listen, guys, time, like, there is no time in the day.

[Eddie]

Did your kids go like your family go?

[Lunchbox]

No kids, I'm telling you.

[Bobby Bones]

What did you do yesterday kept you from going?

[Lunchbox]

Let's see, what did I do yesterday? I worked.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but until 11:30.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, no, no, no, no, NO.

[Eddie]

Okay, 12:12.

[Lunchbox]

I didn't get home to my house till 1:30.

[Bobby Bones]

We didn't stay that long.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I did. No. I know you guys may not have, but I did. You know what I mean? I was here.

[Amy]

And what'd you have? Commercials?

[Eddie]

Oh, podcast.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Sore losers. So I got home at 1:30, I sat down, I had lunch, and then I pooped.

[Eddie]

I participated on that Wednesday.

[Lunchbox]

No. Then I got a call and said, hey, we have an opening for a physical therapy appointment. Can you come at three? Oh, you know what? Is that a sign from the man above? Does he want me to go to physical therapy or does he want me to go to church?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know which ailment.

[Amy]

I don't know which ailment Were you working on

[Bobby Bones]

lower region testicle?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You do physical therapy for your testicle?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, wait, what are you doing testicle therapy?

[Amy]

Oh, I think it's for his pelvic floor.

[Eddie]

Testicle lifts? Really? Dude, you do that?

[Bobby Bones]

You do testicle therapy?

[Lunchbox]

They. The urologist thought it could be my pelvic floor is too tight, so they sent me to a recommendation to go to physical therapy for my pelvic floor.

[Amy]

And that tracks.

[Lunchbox]

It's been a month and a half trying to get in.

[Bobby Bones]

What time did that start?

[Lunchbox]

3.

[Bobby Bones]

So you're out by 4.

[Lunchbox]

4:15. Ish. Because, you know when you go to an appointment. I'm familiar with appointment, they never run on time.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm familiar with appointment, so I probably

[Lunchbox]

walked out of there. 4:15, 4:20. By the time I got home, it was 4:40.

[Bobby Bones]

You didn't want to stop by?

[Lunchbox]

Well, you got to go when it's on. You can't just walk in, be like, yo, Father, what up? I'm here. Give me some ash.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I thought at the Catholic church, it was always open. The priest was always available.

[Lunchbox]

Well, if you want to do confessional. But they have masses, like mass time.

[Eddie]

Then like Ash Wednesday, though, they have it like an hour.

[Lunchbox]

They have a lot more.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct office hours.

[Lunchbox]

And so then I got home, so

[Bobby Bones]

they weren't doing ashes at 4:30.

[Lunchbox]

At 4:49. I don't know about 4:30, but 4:40, definitely not.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Lunchbox]

You know, and so then I got home, and then we had to have dinner, and then I had a soccer game. Seven o'. Clock.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, good.

[Eddie]

Whatever.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I'm not. I'm the judge. Not yet. You be judged.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you. I just thought, thou shall not judge is what I've been told in church. He always says, yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. He uses every Catholic excuse ever. So it is a bit ironic when he doesn't know.

[Lunchbox]

I know. I know all about it. I told you all about.

[Bobby Bones]

You didn't know anything about. You're like, I forgot. I'm supposed to give something up.

[Lunchbox]

No, I. No, I just haven't given anything up is what I said yet. Yet. Thank you. See, don't say I forgot. I never. Those words never came out of my mouth.

[Bobby Bones]

What if you give up gambling?

[Eddie]

Oof.

[Amy]

Does he really gamble?

[Eddie]

Oh, he gambles.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, no, no, I don't really gamble.

[Eddie]

Yes, you do.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, you're lying in the Lord segment right now.

[Lunchbox]

I winked.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh.

[Valspar Announcer]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

If you wink.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I didn't say it.

[Bobby Bones]

You got the wink pass.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I got the wing.

[Bobby Bones]

Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe lottery. Oh, God.

[Bobby Bones]

Why'd you say God in the middle of that?

[Lunchbox]

I'm asking God.

[Bobby Bones]

You were in the middle of prayer right there?

[Lunchbox]

Yes, guys, I was talking to God. I was like, oh, God, is that a good time to give up? Like, it's lottery. Is lottery what you want me to do tonight?

[Bobby Bones]

You know, like, Eddie, you brought something up. I'm glad you did.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I was just wondering.

[Bobby Bones]

He has proven to you, though, that he is still the man that we all thought he was devout Catholic to the core. Devout and dedicated. Yes. Okay. Bobby Bone Show Bonehead story of the day.

[Lunchbox]

This story comes to us from New Orleans, Louisiana. A member of the Louisiana National Guards, on patrol in the French quarters. Like, man, I gotta go to the bathroom. Goes into a hotel lobby, uses the bathroom, goes back out on patrol. Someone comes in the bathroom after him. And what did the soldier leave behind?

[Eddie]

Oh, his gun.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm guessing it's not his shoes. That wouldn't make the story.

[Lunchbox]

His AR15.

[Eddie]

Is that a rifle?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Valspar Announcer]

Oh, boy.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you think AR stands for? Assault rifle.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Eddie]

And he just left that hanging, like, in the stall.

[Lunchbox]

I'm just sitting right next to the toilet.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness.

[Lunchbox]

And so someone posted a picture of social media, like, what should I do with this? And luckily, they turned it over to the authorities, and the National Guard said they are handling it internally.

[Bobby Bones]

The crazy thing about that is it is a very long gun. I'm not saying it's easier to leave a handgun, but it is because it's

[Lunchbox]

smaller and isn't it heavy? Like, aren't you carrying?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. And they usually have it, like a strap.

[Eddie]

Strap. That's what I thought.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And then I guess you can just kind of lean it up against the wall.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's what happened.

[Amy]

Yeah, he just leaned it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. It wasn't like he was holding it as he was sitting on the toilet. Yeah, that's crazy.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead story of the day.

[Announcer]

Bones.

[Lunchbox]

Hi, Bobby.

[Bobby Bones]

Hi. So I was just diagnosed as lactose intolerant. And I was wondering, Bobby, what in the world do you order at restaurants? I'm having the worst time.

[Lunchbox]

Thanks.

[Bobby Bones]

Welcome to the world of not being able to eat dairy. So I tell the waiter I have an allergy. I hate being that guy. Because forever I was proud that I had no allergies. The waiter would come to the table. Anybody have any? No, I do not. I am made of steel now. It's. I have a dairy allergy. And so we ordered some pigs in the blanket. The other night, we went to dinner. Me, the wife, Eddie, his wife, and I love pigs in a blanket. And I said, I can't have dairy. He said, you can't have the blanket. So there was one order that Caitlin and Eddie's wife had pigs and blanket. And there's an order that Eddie just ate with me, and it was just pig, no blanket. So it is frustrating. But I will tell you that they are getting a lot better at it. It's not so much about dairy. It's about vegan. Vegan food is just getting better. I'm not a vegan. Tell the waiter. And mostly you just eat meat and. But butters on everything. It's just. They take butter off stuff. It's a. Life's a little less flavorful, but it's not as bad as you think once you get used to it.

[Amy]

I know. I almost had a recommendation for you because, you know, you got me on the blaze thing, and I ordered a blaze pizza because I was craving it, but I love their cauliflower crab. And I was like, oh, Bobby needs to make sure to try this. And then when I got it delivered, I saw on the receipt in cauliflower crust, it says, contains dairy and eggs. And I was like, oh, dang. He can't even try this.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, no dairy. It sucks, but it's okay. Mike, you're a vegan. Do you find it's getting easier and easier? Yeah, I've been vegan for probably nine years now. When I first started, like, you go to a restaurant, nothing would be marked. But now it's like, they have the V on it, and V. Isn't that for vegetarian and veg is for vegan, or is it the opposite?

[Amy]

No, veg is vegetarian.

[Bobby Bones]

See, I don't even know yet. Like, I'm still new to the game. I'm a rookie. You'll get there. I'm sorry that happened to you that you have to be lactose intolerant. It sucks. All right, next one up.

[Lunchbox]

I have a personal. Tell me something good. I donated bone marrow almost two years ago, and I got to meet my recipient for the first time this past week.

[Bobby Bones]

And I did ask how old you

[Lunchbox]

need to be to donate, and this is for Eddie. You can do it as long as you're under 55 years old. So Eddie is really just wasting time and lying to you all.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks.

[Eddie]

Well, I'm not lying to you guys.

[Bobby Bones]

You're saying you're too old.

[Eddie]

I think it was bone marrow that we talked about when, you know, my sister, who's a nurse, she said, you're too old for that. And then I think another nurse called and said, you're too old for that.

[Bobby Bones]

But if he's saying you're doing a lot of. I thinks.

[Eddie]

Because I don't remember for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you see the guy? I shared his page where he's like, my son, I think, needed something and he's like. He's Hispanic. And it's hard to find Hispanic donors.

[Amy]

Colombian. Yeah, I shared it, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, don't. No.

[Eddie]

Does it help to be Hispanic?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Eddie]

For Hispanic, Yes. What did he need?

[Amy]

His son, I mean, I think it was platelet.

[Bobby Bones]

It was platelets.

[Eddie]

We can do that.

[Amy]

Some sort of donation. Maybe it was even bone marrow. I don't remember exactly, but actually.

[Bobby Bones]

Stop hmming.

[Eddie]

Interesting.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm just glad the caller called.

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Next up, I just wanted to leave a show recommendation that I think Bobby especially would love. Secret Service type show, which I know he loves. But anyways, it's called the Copenhagen Test on Peacock, and I give it 5 out of 5 nanites. It's amazing. Anyways, have a good day. Bye. Thank you. By the way, you can leave us a voicemail at any time. 877-77. Bobby. Did you watch that, Mike? I did. It's Simu Liu, who's the guy from the Marvel movies. You like it? Yeah. Not five out of five. Maybe like a strong four out of five. Would I like it? I think because you love these spy shows so much, you would. But it's a little on. Not as hardcore as, like, a task. It's like a daytime TV show version of that. It's tough.

[Amy]

Oh, so maybe like swat?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, more like a SWAT swat. So I made a reference to Mike about the show Hijacked. Did you watch Hijack Season one on Apple? Idris Elba. He's on a plane, gets hijacked. Okay. To me, that show started, the little corny, ended great. I loved the show. They came back with Hijack season two. Now, this is not a review, but it's out now. I think there are five episodes out, six episodes out.

[Amy]

Let's go. I have something to watch now.

[Bobby Bones]

Couldn't wait. And I told Mike I watched the first two episodes and I was like, it's weird. And this happens in the first episode instead of, he's on something, get a hijacked. He's a hijacker now. It's like they had to figure out a reason to make it happen. And after two episodes, I was like, I can't. Like they just sit in a boardroom and like, how do we get the show to go again? Let's make him the hijacker. I've now seen four episodes or so and I will lean back on Mike and go, you're right, it does get a lot better. It picks up and it starts to make sense more. So I couldn't wait. I watched it and then I thought, this is the corniest thing ever they could think of. No idea. So they just make the hijacked person the hijacker in season two. But Amy. Yes? Watch it.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not a full review, but I was wrong about it being bad. I gave it more time.

[Amy]

I think I'm gonna wait a couple more weeks. Cause then all the episodes will be out.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the move.

[Amy]

Cause like I'm already having to wait to watch other things week to week.

[Bobby Bones]

So that's the move. Yeah, times are tough. I know that's how you know times are tough. Other than that, I hope you have a great rest of your Thursday and we'll see you tomorrow. Bye everybody. The Bobby Bone Show.

[Lunchbox]

Bobby Bone Show.

[Bobby Bones]

The Bobby Bone Show Theme song written, produced and sang by reedyarberry. You can find his Instagram reedyarberry Scuba Steve Executive Producer Raymundo Head of Production I'm Bobby Bones. My Instagram is Mr. Bobby Bones. Thank you for listening to the podcast.

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

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