THURS PT 1: Should We Get Abby An Engagement Gift? + Poison Pill Trivia + Our Toughest Jobs

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – Thurs PT 1: Should We Get Abby An Engagement Gift? + Poison Pill Trivia + Our Toughest Jobs

Date: December 4, 2025
Host: Bobby Bones (Premiere Networks)
Main Theme: Gift etiquette for Abby’s engagement, “poison pill” trivia games among show members, and reflections on the toughest jobs they've ever worked.

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Episode Overview

This episode features a lively exploration of workplace mishaps, etiquette debates about engagement gifts, friendly but tricky trivia, and personal stories of the cast’s toughest jobs. Notable moments include a surprise etiquette expert appearance, a deep-dive mailbag on accidental “Instagram stalking,” and a visit from TV legend Maury Povich.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bizarre Work Stories & Office Overpayments

[03:01–05:54]:

• Bobby shares a news story about a man who collected a paycheck for ten years without working, now sentenced to prison and hefty fines.
• The crew trades anecdotes about being overpaid or underpaid at work.
  • Eddie: "Any money that comes in my account, I don’t look at where it came from or what. I’m just like, that’s my money." [04:36]
  • Lunchbox: Never been overpaid, always double-checks his payments.

2. Belly Fat and Health Concerns

[05:54–07:39]:

• New research discussed: abdominal fat linked more to heart harm than general weight.
• Cast jokes about where weight shows up first—belly, face, arms.
  • Abby: "Yeah, same. Maybe some double chin." [06:57]
  • Morgan: "Belly or arms, for sure." [06:54]

3. Mailbag: Accidental “Instagram Stalking”

[07:56–10:42]:

• Listener writes in, worried about accidentally liking an old Instagram post of a girl he just started dating.
• Bobby and Morgan agree honesty is the best policy.
  • Bobby: "You can say I was doing a little reconnaissance work on you … just a heads up." [09:38]

4. Abby’s Engagement Joy & Gift-Giving Etiquette

Engagement Announcement & Reaction

[11:12–12:06]:

• Abby is beaming after announcing her engagement. Fans have called in with heartfelt congratulations.
  • Abby: "I now drive with my left hand. I’m basically left-handed now." [11:59]
  • A fan called saying he cried listening to the engagement—one of only two times ever on the show. [11:41]

Engagement Present Debate & Etiquette Expert

[12:06–15:37]:

• Debate: Should Bobby or the team get Abby an engagement gift?
  • Eddie: "She got the best present ever,” meaning the engagement ring. [12:11]
  • Etiquette Expert: "It’s actually not a requirement to get someone an engagement gift. It’s more of a nice, optional gesture." [12:59]
  • Small gifts (wine, chocolates, candles) are thoughtful but not mandatory.
  • Bobby: "If I get her an engagement gift, does that clear me of getting her a Christmas present?" [14:30]
  • Etiquette Expert: Not necessarily—a separate thoughtful gesture for each occasion is ideal. [14:34]
  • Abby: Appreciates the thought, says it’s not expected. [15:04]

5. Feel-Good News: School Bus Driver Heroics

[20:20–21:13]:

• Eddie shares a wholesome story about a school bus driver in Minnesota who rescued a missing four-year-old from a lake, risking her own safety.
  • Bobby: "That is what it’s all about." [21:13]

6. Poison Pill Trivia

[21:24–34:07]:

• Listener Debbie plays "Poison Pill Trivia," where each show member faces their weakest category:
  • Eddie: Math trivia
  • Morgan: 80s trivia
  • Lunchbox: Music trivia

Highlights (Music Trivia: Lunchbox)

• Gets some right: Adele (“Rolling in the Deep” [22:08]), the Beatles (“Abbey Road” [24:11]), Rolling Stones (“Paint It Black” and “Satisfaction” [24:19]).
• Struggles with “Unbreak My Heart” (Toni Braxton [27:48], but guesses Whitney Houston).
• Relies on “from the heavens above” for answers, jokingly attributing help to Elvis’ spirit. [26:13]

Highlights (80s Trivia: Morgan)

• Stumbles over Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton—misses "Family Ties." [28:55]
• Nails “This is your brain on drugs” PSA. [29:51]
• Correctly names Madonna (“Like a Virgin” [31:47]), Pac-Man [31:54], but is stumped by the Police (“Every Breath You Take” [33:10]).
• Eddie and Lunchbox joke about missing Elvis on these questions. [29:01]

7. Special Guest: Maury Povich Interview

[35:27–38:48]:

• Bobby interviews legendary TV host Maury Povich.
  • Bobby: "Everywhere you go, people yell at you 'You are not the father,' or something like that." [35:32]
  • Maury recounts recognizing his broad influence through everyday interactions ("…everybody in the kitchen knew who I was." [36:31])
  • Iconic catchphrase: "I ain’t the daddy ‘til Maury tells me I’m the dad." [37:57]
  • Maury declares Bobby "the father" of his soon-to-arrive child in classic show style. [38:15]

8. Engagement Ring Shopping & Sizing Advice

[39:11–41:51]:

• Eddie seeks advice for surprising his wife with a ring—he doesn’t know her ring size.
  • Suggests enlisting a friend to discretely get the info, or sizing up and getting the ring adjusted later.
  • Morgan: "Make sure it’s a place that you can get it resized." [41:41]

9. More Good News: Alexa Saves a Life

[43:42–44:52]:

• Man with a chronic lung condition uses Alexa to call for help during a carbon monoxide leak, survives thanks to quick response.

10. The Morning Corny: Christmas Jokes

[45:26–46:36]:

• The team shares pun-filled, intentionally corny holiday jokes.
  • Eddie: "How much did Santa pay for his sleigh? Nothing. It was on the house." [45:51]
  • Lunchbox: What is Santa’s nickname for Mrs. Claus? "Ho, ho, ho." [46:18]

11. Toughest Jobs—Personal Stories

[46:36–53:08]:

• The crew shares their hardest jobs:
  • Eddie: Working for his dad doing warehouse and forklift work: "They were like gang members … but they were awesome." [47:03]
  • Bobby: Golf course maintenance, waiting tables: “Everybody’s just weird and different and awesome.” [47:16]
  • Lunchbox: Cart attendant at Sam’s Club, pushing shopping carts up a hill in 100-degree Texas heat: "For eight hours a day ... dragging those carts." [47:58]
• Discusses a list of jobs "tougher than people think" (caregivers, customer service, EMT, construction, teacher, call center, delivery driver, wedding videographer).
  • Lunchbox: Underplays the difficulty of teaching. Bobby and Eddie push back.
  • Lunchbox: Delivery drivers deserve tips, especially after heavy, complicated deliveries, but notes he detests tipping as a customer. [51:32]
  • Bobby/Eddie: Discuss why wedding videographer/photographer made the tough-job list.

12. Bonehead Story of the Day

[53:18–53:57]:

• Young man in Chicago gets into a fight over what to watch on TV, then burns down his family’s home after police are called a second time. [53:45]

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• Bobby on gifting etiquette:

  • "Christmas gifts are mandatory to the people that are in your inner circle. Yes. Now, mandatory, do you go to prison? No." [15:17]

• Etiquette Expert on engagement gifting:

  • "It's actually not a requirement to get someone an engagement gift. It’s more of a nice, optional gesture." [12:59]

• Abby on her engagement:

  • "When I drive, I now drive with my left hand. I'm basically left-handed now." [11:59]

• Maury Povich on his cultural impact:

  • "I ain’t the daddy ‘til Maury tells me I’m the dad.” [37:57]
  • On Bobby’s soon-to-be-born child: "In the case of your little baby, you are the father." [38:15]

• Lunchbox on Sam’s Club cart collecting:

  • "For eight hours a day... in the 100-degree heat in San Antonio, Texas, I would be up the hill dragging those carts." [47:58]

• Morgan on 80s culture:

  • “Milk was a big thing in the 80s.” [29:38] (in a hilarious misfire during trivia)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Bizarre Work Story & Overpayment: [03:01–05:54]
• Belly Fat Health Discussion: [05:54–07:39]
• Mailbag: Instagram Accidents: [07:56–10:42]
• Abby’s Engagement & Gift Etiquette: [11:12–15:37]
• Feel-Good News Story: [20:20–21:13]
• Poison Pill Trivia Game: [21:24–34:07]
• Maury Povich Interview: [35:27–38:48]
• Engagement Ring Sizing Advice: [39:11–41:51]
• Alexa Saves a Life: [43:42–44:52]
• Morning Corny – Christmas Jokes: [45:26–46:36]
• Toughest Jobs Stories: [46:36–53:08]
• Bonehead Story of the Day: [53:18–53:57]

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Final Thoughts

This energetic episode mixes practical life advice, pop culture trivia, personal stories, and classic Bobby Bones humor. From engagement traditions to workplace tales, it’s a showcase of camaraderie and quick wit. Abby’s happiness and the banter over etiquette add warmth, while appearances from icons like Maury Povich and stories of everyday heroes round out the feel-good vibe.

Fans of The Bobby Bones Show will find plenty of laughs, touching moments, and relatable workplace wisdom—whether you’re debating what gift to give a friend, nervous about a social faux pas, or just needing help with trivia from the 80s.

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[Etiquette Expert]

Is.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's go. Welcome to Thursday show Morning Studio. Morning.

This person got paid and took the check home. Never went to work for 10 years. Now. Now they're going to jail.

[Eddie]

They got paid.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sentenced five years in prison. Ordered to pay a fine of over a million bucks. He collected a salary for 10 years, never went to work.

[Eddie]

How do you do that?

[Bobby Bones]

The man worked in the citizen service department, but didn't show up or do any work for a decade, even though his paycheck kept getting deposited into his bank account. He's got to do prison time and pay back $339,000 in salary that he collected. Plus there's penalty money as well. What was.

[Eddie]

What was he thinking? Like, you got it. You can't live your life and think, like, I'm going to get away with this for the rest of my life.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't you think, though, if you do happen to get away with it, you go, I can get away with this now they're never going to catch it.

[Eddie]

Ten years at that point.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

After like, four months, you're like, they're never going to catch this. And so they finally caught it. But also, like, what's the accounting department there? Like, somebody's getting fired in accounting.

[Eddie]

Right. You missed this the entire time.

[Bobby Bones]

Ten years we're paying somebody, and they are. But he's got to go to jail because he knew it was happening. But, like, I get it. Like, you're lazy and you're getting paid.

[Eddie]

I mean, who wouldn't do that, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I would. I wouldn't do that.

[Eddie]

Other than you're gonna get caught. Like, you are going to get caught.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but that's why you wouldn't do it.

[Eddie]

But, dude, how awesome would that be? You just get a paycheck.

[Bobby Bones]

You ever been overpaid at work here?

Yes. Me, too. It sucks.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I got somebody else's. Vice versa. I got somebody else's pay, and then somebody else got my pay. So kind of evened out another Eddie.

[Bobby Bones]

In the company who was making more.

[Eddie]

I think I was making more. But that other Eddie was cool enough to tell the company, hey, that's not my money.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, because you got to pay it back, though.

[Eddie]

I would never know. Like, I would never know. That's not my money. Like, Any money that comes in my account, I don't look at where it came from or what. I'm just like, that's my money.

[Bobby Bones]

Because your wife does your money as well.

[Eddie]

Totally.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

No flag went up.

[Eddie]

No flag went up. But, man, when this other Eddie, though, gave the money back, I'm like, that's legit.

[Bobby Bones]

I got a call once. Hey. Ah, twice. Hey, we've overpaid you significantly. We're gonna take it out of your next check stuff. You guys ever got that call lunchbox?

[Lunchbox]

No, unfortunately, I've never been overpaid. I wish. I always say, oh, you guys didn't pay me for this. And then they're like, no. And then they show me. I'm like, oh, you did pay me. All right, good. So I've never had that lucky opportunity where I get to get rich without doing.

[Bobby Bones]

They take it back. They always take it back. Always. They always take it back.

[Lunchbox]

How would they find out, though, if they accidentally pay me $500 extra? Do you really think in this big of a company, $500?

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe not.

[Lunchbox]

They wouldn't notice.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe not. But for mine, it was significant for this guy.

[Eddie]

This guy that got paid and so is the money gone? Like, he's going to serve the time.

[Bobby Bones]

But it's supposed to pay money back, but you can't, you know, get Mountain Dew from a turnip. So if he has no money, right, you're not going to get the money from him. Like, there's nothing he can do. So probably not, but a little bit of that's on the company. But this dude knew, and that's why he's going to go to jail. A man's beer belly may seem like laziness, but it could actually be linked to heart damage.

[Eddie]

Whoa.

[Bobby Bones]

So it's worse than just being lazy. A new imaging study shows that abdominal fat is more strongly linked to harmful heart changes than overall weight or bmi. What sucks as a dude, like, we. And I'm sure women, you get in different places, but it's like, where it comes for us is, like, right over the belt. At least for me. Yeah, the first place that shows up is right over the belt, right there in that little belly area. It's. It's the first place to show up. It's the last place to go to, like, I feel like I can be shredded and I still got. But also, I have scar tissue there, too, for my surgery, so it's a little thicker, but that's it for me. Where does yours hit first?

[Eddie]

Face Right around my ch. My cheeks.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that what you have? A beard?

[Eddie]

No, that's not why I have it, but it does. It stores up a little bit there, and then I start feeling it on the belly.

[Bobby Bones]

So cheeks first, like, face first.

[Eddie]

That's when I know, like, oh, man, I gotta do something.

[Bobby Bones]

What about women? Where do. Where did you guys. Where does it come first? Morgan?

[Morgan]

I don't like the gray hairs and stuff.

[Eddie]

Oh, you're extra.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, if you get. If you start to put on extra weight, where does it show up first?

[Morgan]

Oh, your belly.

[Bobby Bones]

Yours is belly, too, for girls? Yeah.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Belly or arms, for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Abby?

[Abby]

Yeah, same. Maybe some double chin.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, we're all the same. Equality. The study finds that adults should prevent belly fat buildup. Yeah, no crap.

I need to get my pelvic floor worked on. That's what the doctor told Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

That's why he told me just YouTube some exercises. Pelvic floor.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I had a C section when they had to cut my abs.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but that wasn't technically what they called it.

[Bobby Bones]

No, but it's the same kind of. In a C section, they cut through the abdominals, and when I rupture my spleen, they had to cut through my abdominal muscles the same way they do a C section.

[Eddie]

But they didn't cut your uterus because you don't have a uterus.

[Bobby Bones]

Some would say I do. Depends on who you ask.

[Lunchbox]

Bones.

[Bobby Bones]

Hello, Bobby. Bones. All right. So went on a first date with a girl, really liked her. I was casually scrolling through Instagram and I somehow accidentally liked a post from three years ago. I didn't mean to. I was just scrolling. How do I explain this without making things super awkward? Or should I just pretend it didn't happen and hope she forgets about it? Signed instastalker. The thing about accidentally tapping, because I've done this, not on girls, but, like, if I'm going to check out an artist, maybe even to bring on the show or the podcast, all go and scroll and search their profile and try to find clips of them playing live, etc. And if you're just scrolling, you don't. You can hit the screen in a scroll, and if you hit in the wrong place, it hits the heart. So you got to be very careful when you're scrolling down through someone's profile. So that's number one. This probably happens all the time. Number two, how many people actually have their notifications on for everybody that likes their posts? I don't know the answer to that because I have a lot of followers I have like Million point two or something. So if I had my notifications on for everybody like to post, it would be non stop notifications. As a matter of fact, I don't have any notifications on my phone. None come up. I've turned them all off. The only thing that pops up is if I get a text. Other than that, no apps can notify me. Nothing. So generally, do people keep their notifications on? Morgan, do you have yours on on your Instagram if anybody likes something?

[Morgan]

No, I don't.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you feel like people keep their notifications on because it's hard because we have a public job or we have a lot of followers? Do you feel like your friends that don't have public jobs keep their notifications on?

[Morgan]

Yeah, they do.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, that sucks then.

[Morgan]

My wife does, my boyfriend does.

[Eddie]

So, I mean, her phone buzzes all the time with notifications.

[Bobby Bones]

So this is what I would say. You can't pretend it didn't happen. If you guys are gonna go on a second date or something, I think you can say I was doing a little reconnaissance work on you. I was going through your profile and I double clicked one from like three years ago. Just a heads up. I think that's okay because it doesn't feel creepy because everybody does.

[Eddie]

It happens.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, no, everybody does it. Eddie, I don't think you've ever dated during social media age.

[Eddie]

No, I didn't, but I've accidentally hit a like.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but I'm talking about in a relationship or when you're dating somebody or you're thinking about dating somebody. Like everybody goes through everybody's profile if they're new in a relationship. Right, Morgan?

[Morgan]

Yeah. You can totally joke and just be like, I was, I was checking you out, seeing what your situation is. So I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't either, but I don't think you can ignore it. That would be my advice. Do not ignore it. Hey, did you get a notification last night? About 1am I was doing a little recon work on your profile. Accidentally hit. I think that's funny. And if she's going to think it's really cool or creepy, depends on how she feels about you anyway. Because if she kind of likes you back, she's going to think it's cool.

[Eddie]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

If she doesn't like you back, she's going to think it's creepy. But she already didn't like you back anyway, so that'd be my advice there. Good luck though. We've all done it. They've just made it too easy. The other thing that social media does, TikTok is really bad about this and Instagram a little bit is if you're scrolling and an ad pops up where there's a side scroll on different products, it makes you side scroll through a couple of them because it changes up your fingers on the screen scrolling. So you're scrolling and all of a sudden you're going to looking at different jackets. Like, I didn't want. I'm trying to get out of this. You guys ever hit that?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

And you're like, I'm not doing anything different. But now it's making me look at the three different jackets I didn't want to buy. Thank you very much. That's the mailbag. Close it up. Abby announced she got engaged. We're all super excited. Abby, I watched the video back. You can see the pure joy in your face. It was awesome because you sit all the way across the room from me. You're like in the glass room so I can see you but not close. Is that awesome video you guys follow us on Social if you want to see stuff like that at Bobby Boneshow. So what's been kind of everybody saying to you? Like, everybody happy for you?

[Abby]

Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh, they are. And a lot of people have called in too, to say congratulations, to say congrats. And like this one guy called and he was like, I've only cried twice listening to the show. And this was one of the times I was like, he sounded like a big burly man and he like cried because of this. I was like, that's really cute.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you still look down at your finger and just go, this is crazy.

[Abby]

I cannot stop. Yeah, when I drive, I now drive with my left hand. I'm basically left handed now.

[Bobby Bones]

Guys, how do we feel about engagement gifts? Is that a thing? Engagement presence?

[Eddie]

No. I mean, she got the best present ever.

[Bobby Bones]

I hear you, but like an engagement present. I was asked if I was getting Abby anything for her engagement.

[Eddie]

No way, dude. I've never given anyone a gift. Never thought about giving anyone an engagement gift. Never.

[Bobby Bones]

Abby, are people giving you gifts at all?

[Abby]

I don't even know. Is that a thing?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so to you it's not even a good. Yeah, okay, good.

[Abby]

I mean, I guess I thought maybe like a bottle of wine or something.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, so you did have some maybe. You did have some maybes, but usually.

[Abby]

People have like an engagement party maybe, and then that's when. So I don't know. Other than that, I. I don't get.

[Eddie]

Her a bottle of wine.

[Abby]

I don't really.

[Bobby Bones]

When you mean we just go downstairs.

[Eddie]

Get her bottle of wine.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, from Whole Foods?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Real quick.

[Bobby Bones]

Let me ask my assistant here. Hey, according to etiquette, should you get someone an engagement gift?

[Etiquette Expert]

So according to traditional etiquette, it's actually not a requirement to get someone an engagement gift. It's more of a nice, optional gesture. A lot of people will bring a small gift if there's an engagement party, but it's definitely not mandatory. It's more about personal preference and how close you are to the couple.

[Bobby Bones]

If it's somebody that I work with and I've worked with for a long time and have been friends with for a long time, not super close. We don't hang out. But sometimes she watches my dog. Like, closer than, like, normal. Is it someone I should get a gift for?

[Etiquette Expert]

In that kind of scenario, it could be a thoughtful gesture to give a little something since you've got that sort of friendly work bond and she even helps out with your job sometimes. It's really just a nice way of acknowledging that you appreciate her. It definitely doesn't have to be anything big, Just a small token if you feel like it. It's really up to you.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you think a good gift would be?

[Etiquette Expert]

Well, for something like this, I'd say keep it simple and personal, but not over the top. Maybe a night hand, rain, car with a small gift like a candle or a little decorative item for her home. Even something like a nice box of chocolates or a little plant in B suite. It's really just about the thought and showing you're happy for her.

[Bobby Bones]

If I were to get her a bottle of wine, because that's what she brought up, like, how much should I spend on that?

[Etiquette Expert]

Oh, sure, if she mentioned wine and you know, she'd enjoy that. That's a great idea. You really don't have to go overboard on price. Something in the range of, say, 20 to $40 is totally fine. It's just a nice gesture. And it doesn't need to be a fancy or super expensive bottle.

[Bobby Bones]

If I get her an engagement gift, does that clear me of getting her a Christmas present?

[Etiquette Expert]

You know, that's a pretty relatable question. In general, it doesn't necessarily get you off the hook for a Christmas gift if you usually exchange those, but what it does do is kind of show you've already done something thoughtful. So maybe you can go a little smaller or just keep it simple for the holiday. It's all about balance and Just doing what feels right for the relationship you have with her.

[Bobby Bones]

I appreciate that. Would you like to tell Abby congratulations?

[Etiquette Expert]

Absolutely. I'd love to. Abby, congratulations on your engagement. It's a really exciting time, and I'm wishing you all the happiness.

[Abby]

Thank you, Assistant.

I don't know what to call them. Him.

[Lunchbox]

Her.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't understand.

[Eddie]

I don't understand the mandatory thing. Like, gifts aren't mandatory ever. Right. So the fact that she kept saying.

[Bobby Bones]

I would say Christmas gifts are mandatory to the people that are in your inner circle. Yes. Now mandatory. Do you go to prison? No.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

But if you don't get your kids gifts. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's kind of a mandatory dad thing, or. Abby, I will get you a gift.

[Abby]

Oh, thanks. Okay. I like it. I like.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Anybody else jumping in?

[Lunchbox]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Etiquette Expert]

All right.

[Eddie]

I'll get that bottle of wine.

[Bobby Bones]

I guess you're gonna get a little bottle.

[Abby]

Oh, I don't know. You don't have to.

[Lunchbox]

That's just dumb. You got engaged. Like. Like Eddie said, the ring is your.

[Bobby Bones]

Gift, but you didn't get that for her.

[Lunchbox]

Right? So I shouldn't have to get her something?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. It's not mandatory, as Eddie said.

[Lunchbox]

I didn't get her. I didn't get engaged, so I don't want to get her anything.

[Bobby Bones]

Abby, we're super happy for you. I owe you one gift.

[Abby]

Okay?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Abby]

Yeah, Sounds good.

[Bobby Bones]

Bring them in.

[Abby]

Yeah, bring them.

[Bobby Bones]

Remember the time we know now you're a fiance. Remember the time we brought in the dancer?

[Eddie]

Santa Claus. Santa Claus.

[Sophie Cunningham]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Sophie Cunningham]

Run a business and not thinking about radio. Think again. Because more people are listening to the radio and iHeart today than they were 20 years ago. And only iHeart broadcast radio connects with more Americans than TV, digital, social, any other media, even twice as many teens than TikTok. And that reach means everything. Just think about the universal marketing formula. The number of consumers who hear your message times the response rate equals the results. Now let's get those results growing for your business. Radio's here now more than ever, and iheart's leading the way. Think radio can help your business. Think iHeart. Streaming, podcasting and radio where the reach is real. Let us show [e-mail] that's iheartadvertising.com or call 844-844-iheart one more time, just call 844-844-Iheart and get radio working for you.

[Eddie]

It's okay not to be okay sometimes and be able to build strength and love within each other.

[Lunchbox]

Thanksgiving isn't just about food. It's a day for us to show up for one another. I'm Eliot Khani, host of the podcast Family Therapy, a series where real families come together to heal and find hope. What would be a clue that we'd be like, I've gotten lots of text messages from him. This one's from a little bit better.

[Morgan]

Of a version of him because he's feeding himself well. It's always a concern, like, are you eating well? He's actually an amazing cook.

[Bobby Bones]

There was this one time where we had neighbors and I saved their dog and I ended up inviting them over for food. And that was, like, one of my proudest moments.

[Lunchbox]

This is Family Therapy. Real families, real stories on a journey to heal together. Listen to season two of Family Therapy every Wednesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm Robert Smith and this is Jacob.

[Eddie]

Goldstein, and we used to host a show called Planet Money.

[Bobby Bones]

And now we're back making this new podcast called Business History, about the best ide and people and businesses in history.

[Eddie]

And some of the worst people, horrible.

[Bobby Bones]

Ideas and destructive companies in the history of business.

[Eddie]

Having a genius idea without a need.

[Bobby Bones]

For it is nothing.

[Eddie]

It's like not having it at all.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a very simple, elegant lesson. Make something people want. First episode, how Southwest Airlines use cheap seats and free whiskey to fight its way into the airline Business.

[Eddie]

The most Texas story ever. There's a lot of mavericks in that story.

[Bobby Bones]

We're gonna have mavericks on the show. We're gonna have plenty of robber barons. So many robber barons.

[Eddie]

And you know what? They're not all bad.

[Bobby Bones]

And we'll talk about some of the classic great moments of famous business geniuses, along with some of the darker moments that often get overlooked, like Thomas Edison and the electric chair. Listen to business history on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Lunchbox]

Come on.

[Bobby Bones]

It's time for the good news with producer Eddie.

[Eddie]

There's a school bus driver in Minnesota. She just finished dropping off all the kids at school, and she's driving her bus back by a lake where she sees a four year old kid walking on the side of the road barefooted, looks lost, and he's headed towards the lake. So she tries. She lowers the window and tries to yell at him like, hey, stop, stop, stop. What are you doing? The kid runs away. So what does she do? She gets out of the bus, starts chasing him. Turns out the kid had been missing.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Eddie]

The kid is running in the lake. Now, the bus driver has no idea how to swim, but she says, you know, I cannot let the kid just run in the lake. Follows the kid into the lake, finally rescues the kid before he got into the deep waters. And the kid's safe.

[Maury Povich]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You see a kid shoeless somewhere he's not supposed to be at a time he's not supposed to be there that young.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And it's Minnesota, so it's cold right now. And she realized didn't have a jacket. Barefooted, not good.

[Bobby Bones]

Great point. That is what it's all about. That was. Tell me something good. We're going to give Debbie in New York a chance to win this trivia game here. Hey, Debbie. Good morning.

[Lunchbox]

Morning.

[Bobby Bones]

How are you doing? Pretty good. So we're gonna play a game here, and you're gonna get to pick. Amy's not here today. So Eddie Morgan Lunchbox. But we're gonna play poison pill trivia, meaning it's gonna be their worst category. So you can pick Eddie to do math trivia.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness.

[Bobby Bones]

You can pick Morgan to do 80s trivia.

[Morgan]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's bad.

[Bobby Bones]

Or Lunchbox to do music trivia.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Bones]

So.

Okay.

[Eddie]

Wow, that was quick.

[Lunchbox]

All right. Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

So Lunchbox has to get five out of seven right in music trivia. And this is one of his weakest categories. So we'll see how he does. Okay, here we go. Question Number one.

Who sings Rolling in the deep?

[Lunchbox]

That's Adele.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, Barbara, we're on our way.

[Etiquette Expert]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

What band released the album? Rumors.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know. Rumors. Rumor has it. Rumor has it. That's the. That's a chick.

[Bobby Bones]

Rumors.

[Lunchbox]

A band. A band. Do I get a genre like country? Are we talking three seconds. Give me old dominion.

[Bobby Bones]

Fleetwood Mac.

[Lunchbox]

Thought that was like a. Trying to get me for.

[Bobby Bones]

On the musical scale, what musical note comes after G?

[Lunchbox]

Huh?

Do re fossil. That's not a G. A, B. I, G.

[Bobby Bones]

What musical note comes after G in the scale?

[Lunchbox]

An F.

[Bobby Bones]

That'd be before G.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, hi.

[Bobby Bones]

Actually, the answer is A because it starts back over after G. Oh. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A. Yeah. Tricky, tricky.

[Lunchbox]

Well, see, I was almost on. I was on the right path. Like, maybe they go frontwards backwards.

[Eddie]

You went the other way, though.

[Bobby Bones]

But who's saying unbreak my heart in 1996?

Unbreak my heart.

He kind of is on melody there. Believe it or not, he's never on melody.

[Lunchbox]

Ah, man. Can we circle back to that one?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we'll circle back.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you. Gosh, that's a tough one. That may come to me.

[Bobby Bones]

So you have to get five of seven, so you can't miss another one.

[Lunchbox]

I know. That's why I need to circle back.

[Bobby Bones]

Abbey Road is an album by which band?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's easy. That's the Beatles.

[Bobby Bones]

That's correct. So far, you've got two. You need five, three to go.

[Lunchbox]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

What rock band had hit songs such as Paint it black and Satisfaction?

[Lunchbox]

Rolling Stones.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

[Lunchbox]

Bam.

[Bobby Bones]

That's. Here we go.

[Lunchbox]

Let's go. 3.

[Bobby Bones]

You still have Unbreak my Heart. So you can get that.

[Lunchbox]

I just can't. That's gonna be a tough one. 1.

[Bobby Bones]

What state was Elvis Presley born?

[Lunchbox]

Gosh.

That's tough, man. Tough one.

I know that he has a thing in Memphis, but I don't know if he was born there and if he was born in Arkansas, we'd have heard about it.

Because I think. I think you talk about Johnny Cash being from Arkansas.

[Bobby Bones]

What state was Elvis born?

You can go to a lifeline, but it's not Eddie. Oh, so it's got to be Morgan.

[Eddie]

Oh, on any question, that one just that. Got it, man.

[Lunchbox]

Cuz that could be. I mean, there's two states it could be.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you think?

[Lunchbox]

It's either Alabama or Louisiana, but I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

You want Morgan to weigh in?

[Lunchbox]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Something just popped in my head. Something just popped in My head.

Something popped in my head. Mississippi. Something that. I mean, I don't know what it was, but it was like Elvis came down from the heavens above and said, idiot, I was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Give me. Elvis was born in Mississippi.

[Bobby Bones]

Elvis was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Oh, my goodness.

[Eddie]

Elvis.

[Maury Povich]

Thank you, my man. Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

He did it from above.

[Eddie]

You're welcome.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, little daddy.

[Maury Povich]

I got you.

[Bobby Bones]

I got that one for you. All right. You need.

[Lunchbox]

That was unbelievable.

[Bobby Bones]

You're going to go back to this one. You need this one to win. Yeah, Debbie. He needs this underwent. Oh, it's Debbie.

[Lunchbox]

I kept calling her Barbara.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, I'm ready. How you feeling, Debbie? Pretty good.

[Maury Povich]

Pretty bad.

[Bobby Bones]

I. I'm. I. I'm feeling good. Okay, Lunchbox for the win.

[Lunchbox]

I got a question. Can I ask. Can I ask Debbie something? She can't say the answer.

[Eddie]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Lunchbox]

Does she know the answer?

[Bobby Bones]

You know, I'm not gonna say because I don't want her to slip up. So who's saying Unbreak my heart in 1996?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, he's 96.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm giving you a little extra here.

[Lunchbox]

I thought you said 86.

Oh, that changes everything.

[Bobby Bones]

Break my heart. Five seconds.

Break my heart.

Man.

[Lunchbox]

You know what? From the heavens above. She just spoke to me.

[Bobby Bones]

If you get this somehow, you're cheating. Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

She died in the bathtub. Give me Whitney Houston.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow. Wow.

[Lunchbox]

No, I didn't get it.

[Bobby Bones]

No, he didn't.

[Lunchbox]

Dang it.

[Eddie]

Someone else spoke to you.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, Debbie. Yeah, the wrong person came down. Whitney. Elvis. Like, when you come down here. Elvis screwed you.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, he did. He messed that up.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know the answer?

I don't. Unbreak my heart. Say you love me again.

[Eddie]

Who is that, Mariah?

[Bobby Bones]

Tony Braxton.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I don't know who that is.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

You know Tony Braxton.

[Lunchbox]

I literally don't.

[Bobby Bones]

I'll give you one more shot here.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

No, not to you.

[Lunchbox]

You lost.

[Bobby Bones]

You can pick Eddie with Math or Morgan with 80s trivia.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Morgan.

[Eddie]

Okay. Yep. Smart.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

80S trivia. Morgan, you got to get five.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Here we go. What 1980s TV show starred Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton?

[Morgan]

Alex P. Heaton. And I know Michael J. Fox was also in the. The Throwback movie Back to the Future, but Michael P. Alex P. Keaton.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Michael J.

[Abby]

Fox.

[Bobby Bones]

Michael J. Fox played Alex P. Keaton in what show? What TV show was he in? 5 Seconds. I don't know.

[Morgan]

No, not Family Matters. That's all that's coming in my head. It wasn't Cheers, was it?

[Bobby Bones]

Need an answer.

[Morgan]

Family matter.

[Bobby Bones]

Family ties.

[Eddie]

Oh, my gosh.

[Lunchbox]

Are you kidding me?

[Eddie]

Oh, where was Elvis on that one?

[Bobby Bones]

I almost went back home.

[Eddie]

Dude, he's gone.

[Bobby Bones]

Morgan, you can only miss one more.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Launched in 1987. Finish the line to this famous PSA campaign. This is your brain. This is your brain on blank.

Steroids.

[Morgan]

I don't know. This is your. This is your brain.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you guys know this one?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

This is your brain on drugs.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Was it.

[Morgan]

Was it was the. The campaign with the safe campaign or whatever?

[Bobby Bones]

This is your brain. This is your brain on.

[Morgan]

This is your brain on Milk. Milk was a big thing in the 80s.

[Bobby Bones]

She's not wrong about that, guys. Milk was a big thing in the 80s.

[Morgan]

This is your brain. This is your.

[Bobby Bones]

My brain is five seconds something.

[Morgan]

This is your brain on answer drugs.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

Like, one of them's like, the egg, and they're like, this is your brain. They crack the egg and put it on the. On the pan that's on the stove. This is your brain on drugs.

[Morgan]

Okay. I was in there somewhere.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep. Next up, you can only miss one more.

Skeletor is the arch nemesis of what 80s cartoon hero.

The Skeletor?

[Morgan]

He man is the. He man was the big toy for all the guys. Was there another Skeletor?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think Skeletor, the arch nemesis of what 80s cartoon heroes hero, leads.

[Morgan]

Me into He Man. But also, wasn't there GI Joe? I don't think there was a skeleton guy, though, in G.I. joe.

[Bobby Bones]

Need an answer?

[Morgan]

He Man.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Etiquette Expert]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

G.I. joe is Cobra Commander. That was the bad guy.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Skeletor was He Man's.

[Morgan]

I don't think I've seen anything, but.

[Bobby Bones]

He ended up being a movie too, later in the 90s. Okay, you're still in it. Who played the main character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

[Morgan]

Ferris Bueller. Wait, do I need the real name of the guy?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, because his fake name is Ferris Bueller.

Who played the main character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

[Morgan]

I can see him. He. He. What's his name? Martin? Was his name Peewee? Pee Wee Herman? Is that that guy? Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Is that Pee Wee Herman?

[Bobby Bones]

Is that your answer?

[Morgan]

He looks like him in my head, but I. Now I have him all jumbled. I know he has, like, funny dark hair. Is it Pee Wee Herman?

[Bobby Bones]

Three seconds.

[Morgan]

Pee Wee Herman.

[Bobby Bones]

Incorrect.

[Sophie Cunningham]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Matthew Broderick. Oh, yeah. Okay, now you can't miss anymore.

[Sophie Cunningham]

That was it.

[Bobby Bones]

That was it. No more misses. Here we go. Next up, 80s trivia for Morgan. What singer is known for her hit Like a Virgin?

[Morgan]

Like a Virgin. That's Madonna.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct. Get these next two right. You are the winner.

[Eddie]

Come on, Morgan.

[Bobby Bones]

Which 1980s video game character is a yellow circle that eats dots?

[Morgan]

That's Pac Man.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct. Oh.

Final question.

[Morgan]

My heart's being really fast.

[Bobby Bones]

Which band had a hit with the song Every breath you take? Every move you make? Every single day, every night.

[Lunchbox]

You there.

[Morgan]

I'll be watching you.

[Bobby Bones]

There you go.

[Morgan]

I know that song.

[Bobby Bones]

What band had a hit with a song Every Breath youh Take?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, come on.

[Morgan]

Okay, okay. I wanted to say Aerosmith, but it's not Aerosmith. Every move you make. Is it a boy band?

[Bobby Bones]

Is it a.

[Morgan]

Was that Boys to Men?

[Bobby Bones]

Five seconds.

[Eddie]

Do you have a lifeline on that one?

[Sophie Cunningham]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Do I have a lifeline?

[Bobby Bones]

Your only lifeline is gonna be.

No, because I think everybody else will get it.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

I think so, yeah. Pretty easy.

[Morgan]

What about Ray?

[Lunchbox]

Would he get it?

[Bobby Bones]

Ray usually has, like, an answer sheet with him.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Every move, it feels like. It feels like Boys to Men. But were Boys to Men big in the 80s or was that the 90s?

[Bobby Bones]

All right, need an answer.

[Morgan]

Boys to men.

[Bobby Bones]

90S.

Ray. Would you have known that? I saw the list before. Would you have known it though? Every breath. Every breath you take.

Not Meatloaf, but. Oh, so you don't know it right now?

[Eddie]

So you saw the list and you.

[Bobby Bones]

Don'T know right now? I did, but I didn't want to. I just didn't to want to cheat at all. Cuz I did see the list. He's not even playing.

[Lunchbox]

He didn't want to cheat.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

So do you have. It's not. Your guess is Meatloaf? It's not Meatloaf. It's.

No. Abby. Do you know it? Do you know sings every breath you take?

[Abby]

Well, Sting, but I. I think it's. He's from a band and I can't remember the name of the band.

[Bobby Bones]

You're right, it is Sting. But he is a lead singer of a band. The band is.

[Abby]

Look, you think of it.

[Bobby Bones]

What is it? The Police.

[Abby]

Ah.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, wow. That's a tough one.

[Morgan]

I don't think I would have gotten there.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Debbie, you didn't win.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, man.

[Morgan]

I'm sorry.

[Maury Povich]

That's okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I. I had fun. She did have fun.

[Eddie]

It was really no chance for Debbie because, like, even if she picked me, like, I wouldn't have won.

It was just no chance. Sorry, Debbie.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Here, Debbie, wait on the line. I'm gonna give you a chance with Eddie in a minute.

[Eddie]

We'll do math.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I will. I'm gonna give you a chance with Eddie in a minute. Okay?

[Sophie Cunningham]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Wait. Do you have to go? I gotta go to work.

[Maury Povich]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm outside in my school. We'll play another. We'll play another time. Okay.

[Eddie]

Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

Bye. There's Debbie. Eddie, you want a couple questions?

[Eddie]

No.

[Etiquette Expert]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

All right. No winner today. Back in the day on daytime tv, it was Oprah, it was Maury Povich, it was Ricky Lake, and I got a chance to talk with Maury Povich because he would do these things, these paternity tests, and guys would be like, ah, I hope I'm not the father. And they would reveal it live on the air. And it was a culture thing. And so Even now on TikTok, you're seeing this is now being brought back. You are not the father. You are the father, man. When they would not be the father, these guys would dance on stage. It was so funny. They'd be like, I knew I wasn't the father. So Maury Povich has a new podcast called On Par with Maury Povich. Got a lot of great guests. And so this is us talking about his catchphrase, you are not the father, and just about his show in general. Let's go on the Bobby Bones show now.

[Maury Povich]

Maury Povich.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, Maury. Good to see you, Bobby.

[Maury Povich]

Nice to be with you.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey. I'm a massive fan for a long time, so this is really cool for me. So I just want to say that up front, congratulations on the podcast. Whole season two's about to start. We were talking about you before you came on. And my assumption is everywhere you go, people yell at you, you are not the father. Or something like that. Everywhere you go.

[Maury Povich]

Or they want me to give them an autograph to say they're not the father.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you have to sign that.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, of course.

[Maury Povich]

You know, hey, Jimmy, you are not the father, or you are the father.

[Bobby Bones]

That's funny. When you were doing those episodes specifically, could you tell culturally that was cutting through at the time?

[Maury Povich]

You know, I never thought about it, but when I used to go to events, it's amazing. My wife, Connie Chung, you know, and so we go to these media parties, and everybody would want to, you know, surround Connie and talk to Connie. And if I wanted to be noticed, I'd go to the kitchen.

And then everybody in the kitchen knew who I was.

[Bobby Bones]

That's funny.

[Maury Povich]

Then I knew. Then I Knew I was cutting through to the real people.

[Bobby Bones]

In the case of two year old.

[Maury Povich]

Darjan Tristan, you are not the guy.

[Bobby Bones]

But I am a massive fan of.

[Maury Povich]

Like, oh, that's too nice.

[Bobby Bones]

The different version, like, the different. I feel like you had different sections of your life that all were very instrumental in different ways. And I think that that's what I'm a fan of, of the different ways that you were able to A, make a difference or B, cut through and sometimes at the same time. But even like you're talking about, even with like your, Your talk show, like you were cutting through and you were doing on, in my opinion, with that show, what you talked about was happening with the idea of A Current Affair or Fox News, like you were doing that you were finding the underserved and actually giving them something they could relate to. Do you think that's. That's correct?

[Maury Povich]

You know, I never thought of it that way, but you're right. You know, I'm kind of proud of that. Even today, it doesn't matter. I see a caddy. Oh, I grew up watching you. I mean, in fact, I have a great caddy story in terms of the show. So a friend of mine said that he was. He always hung out in the caddyshack or the caddies at the golf course, and there was always a TV on and he's just listening. And one caddy. You ever. You ever had that situation where somebody accused you of being the daddy of their kid and the guy says, oh, yeah, yeah, all the time. He says, well, what do you say? He says, I tell them all the same thing. I ain't the daddy till Mari tells me I'm the dad.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, I'm gonna let you go, but, oh, so I'm about to have my. My first child. My wife is pregnant.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, wow. Oh, boy.

[Maury Povich]

Here we go.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have to. I wasn't gonna do it, but I have to do it. So I am the father. So. Do you mind, Maury?

[Maury Povich]

Yeah, yeah, but. But do we have a name?

[Bobby Bones]

We don't have a name or a gender yet.

[Maury Povich]

Okay, Bobby, in the case of your little baby, you are the father.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, yes, it's me. All right, every. Maury, I love your podcast again. I love the history of Maury and hope everybody checks out on par with Maury Povich. Season two's coming up, but go look, go, go listen to season one. I know season two is coming out, but I want to encourage everybody. You had some really great guests in season one. I was especially Lewis Black and Pablo Tory were two that I really loved, and so thank you for your time, and I hope and hopefully we'll cross paths at some time. Bye, Maury.

[Maury Povich]

Appreciate it.

[Eddie]

Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

Bye. The Bobby Bones Show.

[Lunchbox]

Come on.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a full interview that's up on the Bobby cast, if you want to hear that. There's so much more to it, but just wanted to play that clip for you. Just go search for the Bobby cast. Listen to that with Maury Povich on iheartradio or wherever you get your podcasts. Bones, we were talking about Abby's engagement earlier. Question, Abby, how did your fiance find your ring size?

[Abby]

So we went looking a couple times at rings, and then. So they put the little sizer on. You gotta figure it out.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie had this question. I talk about this.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

She's not listening.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think if it's like my wife, she ain't listening. Yeah.

So Abby's trying to get. Or Eddie's trying to get a ring for his wife for the holidays, but she doesn't.

[Eddie]

Abby, she doesn't have rings. Like, the only ring she has is her wedding ring, which she's wearing on her finger at all times. So I don't know how to get a size without, like, telling her, hey, can I have your ring?

[Bobby Bones]

Let's go to Amy's. Not here. But, Abby and Morgan, what would be your suggestion to Eddie? How does he figure out her ring size?

[Abby]

She doesn't have any other rings?

[Eddie]

No. No ring. She doesn't have, like. Like a. A toy mood ring that's been sitting kind of, like, by her bed, but.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't even know that's hers. Yeah.

[Eddie]

And you.

[Morgan]

Do you know her ringsides from the engagement ring?

[Eddie]

Engagement we got when I got engaged.

[Morgan]

I mean, could you call the place?

[Eddie]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't you.

[Eddie]

I don't even know that place still exists.

[Bobby Bones]

You've been married for how long?

[Eddie]

20 years. Yeah, it's a long time ago.

[Morgan]

Oh, okay. You could say, hey, I. Do you have a wedding ring?

[Bobby Bones]

Not like a real one, a rubber one.

[Maury Povich]

Dang, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Everett, you're striking out here. Okay, I will suggest this. Do you have someone you can call that's close enough to her who can ask her a question about a ring? Like, you can bring it up and get the answer and then feed it back to you?

[Eddie]

Yeah, like, so. So I can ask one of her friends to ask her what her ring size is?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it would need to be, though. Hey, not what's your ring size? It would need to be there has to be something about jewelry. And she's like, and your friend needs this. And like, my finger has just gotten so, so fat. Like, my ring size is now. Whatever.

[Eddie]

Oh, I like it.

[Bobby Bones]

What is your ring size? Like, I think she has to get the information out of her that, like, squeeze the juice.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but do girls know their ring sizes? Like, does Abby and Morgan know the ring size?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know my blood type, dude. I for sure don't know.

[Abby]

Yeah, I didn't until this. No, my. Mine are really small. My fingers. So it's hard for me to find rings anywhere. So I just, like, never bought them before this.

[Bobby Bones]

Morgan.

[Morgan]

Yeah, no, until, like, when I got this aura ring, I had to get a, like, sample rings to try on because I had no idea you. So yeah, Bobby's idea is great because you could get a friend to just call and she could find a way to. To talk about it. Just has to be a really close friend.

[Bobby Bones]

What if she doesn't know, though? It's a great point.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

But another option could be if you do get this ring, I would get it with an idea in mind, but make sure it's a place that you can get it resized. And then once you gift it to her, you can just.

[Eddie]

That's a good idea.

[Bobby Bones]

That's probably the best. Okay. It's why you don't ask me. Yes. Like, guess and let it. It's okay if it's wrong.

[Eddie]

And if I nail it, I nail it. That'd be cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you're probably not gonna nail it, but that's okay. I think you can just get it. But okay, so if you were to get a woman a pair of pants now, do you get them smaller if you're guessing on purpose? Because if you get them bigger, she's like, oh, you thought I was fat.

[Eddie]

I know. I know where you're going with this.

[Bobby Bones]

So with the ring, should he get it especially small or should he get it a little bigger if he's guessing?

[Morgan]

Okay, well, it's different than pants because.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Yes.

[Morgan]

Pants always, you know, size wise and clothes get smaller. But the ring, I don't think you can. You can size up a little bit, but you can't size up a whole bunch. Like, you can't add metal or whatever you're getting the ring made out of.

[Bobby Bones]

So you need to get it bigger so it can be like, sized down.

[Eddie]

Ah, good point.

[Bobby Bones]

And then hopefully she doesn't get offended. Is that my fat finger was this fat?

[Eddie]

Dude, I think it's a no win. Either way. Because if you get it small, she's.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, okay, just get her earrings, dude.

[Eddie]

No, you know what? I just thought of something. There is one time when she does take it off when she's cooking. Sometimes she'll take it off and I'll see it laying on the counter. Should I steal it? And then she's just gonna think it's lost for like.

[Bobby Bones]

But what are you gonna do with it?

[Eddie]

Take it to the jeweler.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait for a day. She's gonna get lost for a day.

[Eddie]

And then I just place it somewhere and like, oh, look, I found your ring.

[Lunchbox]

I don't think.

[Morgan]

No, if you do do that, though, you can find. They have ring sizers online, so get something on Amazon. You can just measure it at your house.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's not a bad idea.

[Bobby Bones]

Or you can just. You use AI Take a picture of it. If you take a few different pictures of it, it'll do that. Yeah, AI does everything.

[Eddie]

Okay, well, there you go. That's the way to do it.

[Bobby Bones]

Or one other option. Have you ever heard of chloroform? Knock her out, knock her out, take the ring off, get it, somebody put it back on. Next thing you know, she has. No. She might have a little headache, but she has no idea. It's time for the good news with Bobby.

Guy's in his basement, and all of a sudden he's like, man, kind of dizzy. Starts to be confused a little bit. Turns out carbon monoxide was pumping through the heater as he was down in his basement. He also lives with a chronic lung condition, so a couple of these things aren't working together very well. And so he collapses. But he calls out to Alexa and says, I need you to call my wife, because. And then he, like, passes out.

[Eddie]

No way.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but that Alexa called his wife, which it left, like, a weird message. And so she checks her phone, and it was just like, gibberish. And she was like, wait, what? So she goes and calls 911 Firefighters, run to the house, get them out just in time.

[Eddie]

Amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

High levels of carbon monoxide in the home at which they had to stay out for a while. But he's good now because he called out to Alexa, and Alexa called his wife.

[Eddie]

Good for him to realize something was up, because most of the time, people don't even realize that's happening, and they just pass out and it's done.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, most of the time, if I ask Alex anything, he doesn't quite understand me. The first three times I say it, I gotta be like, I said, so that's from News Nation. Now that's what it's all about. That was. Tell me something good.

[Lunchbox]

Bones.

[Bobby Bones]

Wake up. You wake up in the morning.

Then you turn the radio on and the dial just keeps on turning.

Mike D's riding his wigs. Next bit. And Bobby's on the mic. So you know what this is?

This is the Bobby Bone. All right, time for the morning corny.

[Lunchbox]

The morning Corny.

[Bobby Bones]

No Amy today. So we'll go around the room. It's hard finding Christmas jokes. That's a theme. That are good.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's tough. We're going to give it our best, though.

[Bobby Bones]

I got like 20, and they're all terrible. What do reindeer say before they tell a joke?

[Eddie]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, this one's going to slay you. Yeah, that's the best one I got. It sucks.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah, that's tough.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie, your Christmas joke.

[Maury Povich]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

How much did Santa pay for his sleigh?

Nothing. It was on the house.

[Bobby Bones]

Not bad. It's better than mine. I never saw that one. That was a good one.

[Morgan]

Morgan, why did Santa get a parking ticket on Christmas Eve?

[Bobby Bones]

Why?

[Morgan]

Because he left his sleigh in a snow parking zone.

[Eddie]

Like, no parking.

[Bobby Bones]

He left his sleigh in a snow parking zone. Yeah, got it. That's pretty good, too.

[Eddie]

Pretty good.

[Bobby Bones]

Those are both better than mine. Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

What is Santa Claus's nickname for Mrs. Claus, huh?

[Bobby Bones]

Ho, ho, ho. Okay, See, there we go. Sorry Amy's not here today. We usually do investigative Morning Corny, but she will be back tomorrow, so there you go. That is the morning corn.

That was the Morning Corny. The list of jobs that are tougher than people think. Right. I have them here. By the way, what was your toughest job you ever had, Eddie?

[Eddie]

Probably working for my dad, man. Warehouse forklifts. He sold, like, street lights. And so we would just move street lights to one pile, to another, load trucks, put them on forklifts. It was terrible.

[Bobby Bones]

You got to drive a forklift as a kid?

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, they would let me, daddy.

[Bobby Bones]

Meaning your dad?

[Eddie]

No, the two guys that worked at the warehouse. They were awesome, dude. They were like gang members.

[Bobby Bones]

But they were awesome. In South Texas.

[Eddie]

Yes. And then I was really like, eddie, you wanna. You wanna drive the park?

[Bobby Bones]

But they, like, were protective of you.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, they would let. They were in charge of the warehouse.

[Bobby Bones]

So they were trying to get you in the gang?

[Eddie]

No, no, they would never do that. One time they brought their cousin in. That guy had stories. He's from Chicago.

[Bobby Bones]

A gang stories.

[Eddie]

Yeah, dude. Crazy gang stories. I think he was actually down in South Texas because he did something bad in Chicago.

[Bobby Bones]

He's on the run.

[Lunchbox]

I think so.

[Bobby Bones]

So mine would probably be golf course maintenance because it just sucked. I had to wake up when the sun was up. We had to already be mostly done with mowing greens and weed eating. That was tough. But I think I learned most from waiting tables because you just have to learn how to deal with people and good people, bad people, rich people. Everybody's just weird and different and awesome. But those would probably be the two hardest for those reasons. Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, it's easy. Sam's Club 6416. Because all I had to do was get the shopping carts. And that sounds so easy. But my Sam's was at the top of the hill, so everybody parked downhill. So for eight hours a day in the 100 degree heat in San Antonio, Texas, I would be up the hill dragging those carts. I mean, it was miserable. And that asphalt, just think 100 degrees asphalt makes it 150 out there. Tough job.

[Bobby Bones]

These are the jobs that are much tougher than we think. So it's not like the absolute toughest job because I'd probably like a logger. Had friends that were loggers.

[Eddie]

Oh, man. Rated that for a little bit.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, they'd all come back like this.

[Eddie]

Missing fingers.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, of course. Yeah. Or parts of fingers.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, here we go. Number one, caregiver. That'd be very tough.

[Eddie]

I couldn't do that.

[Bobby Bones]

You know what? I think about two things with caregivers so big shout out to caregivers out there. One, the poop and pee. You have to deal with.

[Eddie]

Oh, this is for older people, just.

[Bobby Bones]

In general, but I think older people. Yeah, but also could be babies and then also the death.

[Eddie]

That's tough. You get close to someone and they just die.

[Bobby Bones]

Number two, any customer facing job. So I worked at Hobby Lobby away to tables. Like retails. Again, just dealing with people. And generally people are good. But if you're dealing with a lot of people, you get enough crappy people that it does affect your day. Next UP, paramedics and EMTs. I would have expected that one to be really hard. You got. That's going to be a hard job. And you got to have a big heart because you're not going to get rich doing that. You just got to have a heart of somebody who wants to help save people.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but I think what happens in those jobs so many times is that people just get, you know, numb. Numb to what? They're seeing every day.

[Bobby Bones]

I need them to.

[Eddie]

I know, but then they're not a person anymore after, like, so many years of being a paramedic.

[Bobby Bones]

Not my problem. I need them to be numb and be efficient and. And I need them not to be overly emotional so they can make good decisions.

[Eddie]

I got you.

[Bobby Bones]

Next up, construction labor, like tile or roofing. I did roof houses. It was awful. It was so hot. The cleanup is the worst part. That was my first part of roofing, doing cleanup, because all the roofers would go up and clean up and throw it on the ground. They just throw it on the ground. They take the shovels, put the shovel under the shingle, push your foot through, throw it over the shoulder, and here I am down there catching it and putting in the back of a tray. Cleanup is the worst.

[Eddie]

I feel like the heat is.

[Bobby Bones]

The heat's brutal. Brutal. Custodian at five, teacher at six.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, teacher. Come on.

[Eddie]

Dealing with kids all day, dude, you.

[Bobby Bones]

Think teach it as easy?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I mean, they just hand a worksheet out, put a movie on.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't agree with him, by the way.

[Eddie]

I just want to do that every day.

[Bobby Bones]

I just want to give him a little space to talk.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, you guys act like teachers are just like, whoa, it's so back breaking.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, and they don't make that much money, but that doesn't mean.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, they chose that profession. Like, let's not act like it is so hard.

[Bobby Bones]

I think it's very hard.

[Lunchbox]

They're in the air conditioning, sitting down behind a desk.

[Eddie]

It's got to be hard being a good teacher. Yes. Are there teachers like lunchbox Saint?

[Bobby Bones]

Probably the mail it in.

[Eddie]

Yes. Let's watch a movie.

[Bobby Bones]

They're numb to it. Like the paramedics. Teacher at 7, call center operator. Raymundo, stop. You did this? Yeah, telecommunications. The worst part is you have to do over 100 calls a day. I mean, do the math on that. You're taking 10, 15 an hour when you don't take your breaks. So you get a call. How do you answer? Grinding Communications, this is Raymundo. How can I help you? My Internet won't connect. Let me transfer you. We're supposed to help them. I would only help people where I could upsell, so then I would just send them over to the tech. Okay, so if you get upsell, like, they want a better package. Yeah, I was just. I'm trying to make money in deals, but I was supposed to lightly help them with their issue. If they said problem, boom. Next line. I Need somebody needs a deal. I give you two more. Delivery driver. Which lunchbox did at Jason's Deli.

[Eddie]

Is that tough?

[Lunchbox]

That was tough. Just because you would haul all this stuff across the hospital. You know, three buckets of iced tea, five party trays and those stupid drug reps. No tips. Like get out of here.

[Bobby Bones]

Somebody that gets so offended by not getting tips, he hates tipping.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, here's the deal. I, I tip if I have a delivery driver that carries three gallons of iced tea with their five gallon bucket of ice. And then.

[Bobby Bones]

Very specific though.

[Lunchbox]

I'm just telling you.

[Eddie]

And this happened to you one time.

[Lunchbox]

No, a lot of times. I'm telling you, these drug reps, it was so crazy how cheap they were and they weren't even spending their own money. It's like, dude, you got a billion dollar company and you're not going to give me 10 bucks? Like, get out of here.

[Bobby Bones]

Delivery driver now though, is.

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

I feel like that's kind of fun because you have to deal with anyone.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. But you're depending on people to tip you and you don't even have a chance to create a relationship. You're. You're depending on blind generosity.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And people just picking the lowest option because while they're just delivering it, you don't have to make eye contact with them. A waiter, if you step them, you just spent 45 minutes with her. There's a human element to it there. The last one is wedding videographer. Photographer.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, stop.

[Eddie]

I did that.

[Lunchbox]

Stop. That's easy.

[Eddie]

That's easy money, dude. Easy money.

[Bobby Bones]

Why does it say it's harder than we think?

[Eddie]

I don't know. Maybe because people are so picky with what they want.

[Bobby Bones]

Or maybe because these the people that do it. Well, yeah.

[Eddie]

Not just melted in.

[Bobby Bones]

You're the teacher of the wedding videographers.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, you just take a hundred, 100 pictures and a couple of them are gonna be good. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, good. Got you some pictures. Here you go.

[Sophie Cunningham]

Stop.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't, I don't think it's that easy.

[Lunchbox]

I think it's hard because everybody's partying and you don't get to party.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what makes it hard being around the alcohol. Not able to drink it. Yeah. If we missed any, let us know. Bobby Bone show Bonehead. Story of the day.

[Lunchbox]

This story comes to us from Chicago, Illinois. A 21 year old man was at his family's house for Thanksgiving and he wanted to watch something on tv, but they wanted to watch Something else. They're getting an argument, yelling and screaming. So police are called, and he's like, all right, I'll calm down. I'll leave it alone. We'll watch whatever they want to watch.

[Bobby Bones]

Can you imagine? You're a cop, you're getting called or 911, and you're getting a call about somebody fighting about what to watch on tv.

[Eddie]

So dumb.

[Bobby Bones]

That is a waste of taxpayer money. Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

So about an hour later, they get a call to the same address. He was still mad. He burned down the family's home.

[Eddie]

Oh, my.

[Bobby Bones]

Can you imagine getting a call, a second call after that?

[Lunchbox]

I'm lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, a voicemail.

[Morgan]

I just wanted to tell each and.

[Bobby Bones]

Every one of you how grateful we are for the show that you guys.

[Morgan]

Put on every single day.

[Bobby Bones]

My husband's currently deployed overseas, and you guys have given us that constant in our daily routines of waking up every.

[Morgan]

Morning and listening to you guys. So I just wanted to let you guys know.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you for everything you do. Happy holidays. Hey, thanks. I really appreciate that. Thanks for leaving that voicemail. Glad that we could be something that you guys bond over even though you're so far away. But really, thanks for the call. You guys can also leave us voicemails at any time. 877-77. Bobby, we will see you tomorrow. All right, everybody.

[Lunchbox]

Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

Bobbybones.com the Bobby Bones show theme song written, produced, and sang by Reed Yarberry. You can find his Instagram @reedyarberry. Scuba Steve executive producer Raymundo, Head of Production. I'm Bobby Bones. My Instagram is mrbobbybones. Thank you for listening to the podcast.

[Sophie Cunningham]

This is an I heart podcast.

[Morgan]

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