THURS PT 1:  We Pay Tribute To 'James in Virginia' + Medical Fact Or Fiction? + Lunchbox Plays Music Trivia To Win A Listener Shoes + Facebook Babysitters (Radio Show)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show Episode Title: THURS PT 1: We Pay Tribute To 'James in Virginia' + Medical Fact Or Fiction? + Lunchbox Plays Music Trivia To Win A Listener Shoes + Facebook Babysitters
Release Date: March 6, 2025
Host: Bobby Bones
Author: Premiere Networks

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Introduction

In this heartfelt and engaging episode of The Bobby Bones Show, Bobby Bones and his co-hosts delve into a variety of topics ranging from paying tribute to a beloved listener, debunking medical myths, hosting a fun music trivia game, and discussing the nuances of finding babysitters through social media. The episode is filled with laughter, insightful discussions, and meaningful reflections, making it a must-listen for both regular fans and newcomers.

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1. Tribute to 'James in Virginia'

[56:59] Bobby Bones:
Bobby opens the episode with an emotional tribute to James from Virginia, a dedicated listener who was a constant presence on the show. James was known for his enthusiastic participation and the generous way he supported the crew by sending boxes filled with gifts.

Notable Quote:
"James was a constant part of our show for the past two years. We played his voicemails all the time, and he brought us all these gifts. It makes me really sad that he's no longer with us."
— Bobby Bones [56:59]

Bobby shares personal anecdotes about James, expressing regret over not having met him in person and highlighting the impact James had on the show. The episode takes a somber turn as Bobby reveals the tragic news of James's passing, leaving the listeners to mourn the loss of a cherished member of the Bobby Bones family.

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2. Medical Fact or Fiction?

[24:18] Amy Brown:
The segment kicks off with Amy introducing "Medical Fact or Fiction," where the team debates common health beliefs to determine their validity.

Example Debates:

• Applying Ice to Burns
  Amy Brown: "Never apply ice to a burn."
  Bobby Bones: "I'm betting that's a fact."
  Outcome:
  Fact.
  Bobby Bones: "Putting tobacco on a burn is a bad idea. There's no scientific evidence that it helps."
  Timestamp: [24:38]

• Sugar and Hyperactivity
  Amy Brown: "Eating too much sugar will give you diabetes."
  Bobby Bones: "That's tricky, but I'm going to say it's fiction."
  Outcome:
  Fiction.
  Amy Brown: "Type 2 diabetes is a problem with insulin regulation, not sugar intake alone."
  Timestamp: [29:23]

• Sitting Too Much vs. Smoking
  Amy Brown: "Sitting too much can be as harmful as smoking."
  Bobby Bones: "That is fact."
  Outcome:
  Fact.
  Bobby Bones: "A sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and even early death, much like smoking does."
  Timestamp: [44:13]

The segment serves as an educational piece, dispelling myths and providing listeners with scientifically-backed information to make informed health decisions.

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3. Lunchbox Plays Music Trivia To Win a Listener's Shoes

[11:21] Bobby Bones:
Bobby Bones introduces a fun segment where Lunchbox competes in a music trivia game to win a pair of his personal shoes. Listener Matt from the audience is the contestant hoping to snag either the stylish blue Nike Air Max or the high-end Alexander McQueen shoes.

Game Details:

• Format: Lunchbox answers a series of music-related questions.
• Objective: Achieve a score above four and a half out of seven to win.

Notable Moments:

• First Question:
  Bobby Bones: "Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young. Who's the band?"
  Lunchbox: "AC/DC."
  Outcome: Correct
  Timestamp: [13:37]

• Challenging Questions:
  Lunchbox struggles with questions about Pearl Jam and The Killers but manages to score several correct answers, putting Matt in contention to win the shoes.

Outcome:
Despite some tough questions, Lunchbox successfully answers enough to win Matt the shoes, showcasing his surprising knowledge of classic rock bands.

Notable Quote:
"Congratulations, Matt. Thank you very much. We're gonna put you on hold and get your information and send you these shoes."
— Bobby Bones [21:53]

This segment not only entertains but also strengthens the bond between the show and its listeners by involving them directly in on-air contests.

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4. Facebook Babysitters

[51:19] Bobby Bones:
The discussion shifts to the increasingly common practice of using Facebook to find babysitters. Bobby Bones raises concerns about the safety and reliability of this method.

Key Points:

• Risks Involved:
  Relying on social media for babysitting can lead to potential safety issues if proper vetting is not conducted.

• Participant Opinions:
  Amy Brown: "I'm just saying, if you're desperate, you might take more risks."
  Eddie: "There are definitely desperate times, but I would never go to Facebook for babysitters."
  Lunchbox: "You hire strangers to watch your kids. That's how they become babysitters."

Notable Quote:
"It's a bad look if I want to bring my kids."
— Lunchbox [54:05]

The team debates the balance between convenience and safety, ultimately advising listeners to use more secure and vetted methods for finding reliable childcare.

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5. Good News with Producer Eddie

[22:10] Eddie:
Producer Eddie shares an uplifting story about volunteers in New Orleans who launched a recycling program during Mardi Gras. Called "recycledat," the initiative successfully collected and recycled 10,000 pounds of aluminum cans, with proceeds donated to local charities.

Notable Quote:
"Good job cleaning up your city to all the people in New Orleans. That's what it's all about."
— Amy Brown [23:15]

Eddie reminisces about his own experiences collecting cans for recycling, adding a personal touch to the story and highlighting the positive impact of community-driven efforts.

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Conclusion

This episode of The Bobby Bones Show masterfully balances humor, education, and heartfelt tributes. From honoring a passionate listener to debunking medical myths, engaging in lively trivia, and discussing important social topics, Bobby and his team deliver content that is both entertaining and informative. The emotional farewell to James from Virginia adds a poignant layer, reminding listeners of the close-knit community that the show fosters.

Listeners are left with a sense of connection and appreciation for both the hosts and the stories shared, making this episode a standout entry in the series.

Transcript

[Amy Brown]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Will]

Hey Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days?

[Mango]

Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science I can't keep track of it all.

[Will]

Then it's a good thing. Our podcast Part Time Genius is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years.

[Mango]

That's right, Mango. We're talking animals.

[Will]

In a paper called, quote, Chickens prefer beautiful humans. This was actually the title of the paper. They all discovered that, much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Will]

We're talking medical miracles.

[Mango]

He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster.

[Will]

There's no way to make that not sound crazy.

[Mango]

We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the Part Time Genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bob Pittman]

Hi, I'm Bob Pippman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to introduce a brand new season of my podcast Math and Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. I'm having conversations with some folks across a wide range of industries to hear how they reach the top of their fields and the Lessons they learned along the way that everyone can use. I'll be joined by innovative leaders like chairman and CEO of Health Beauty, Tarang Amin, legendary singer, songwriter and philanthropist Jewel.

[Amy Brown]

Being a rock star is very fun, but helping people is way more fun.

[Bob Pittman]

And Damian Maldonado, CEO of American Financing.

[Bobby Bones]

I figured out the formula. I just have to work hard. Then that's magic.

[Bob Pittman]

Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math, and the ever important creative spark, the magic. Listen to math and magic on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Bobby Bones]

Here we go. Come on, Bobby. Bobby. Transmitting across America. Turn it. Welcome to Thursday's show Morning Studio Morning. If I'm watching a new show, I will give it a solid four episodes. If I've been told the show is good. If I'm like, plop, plop, plop, plop finding a show, 30 minutes. Cuz I'm probably already picked wrong anyway. But if someone says this show is good, I will give it four episodes. Amy, how many episodes of show should you watch before you give up?

[Amy Brown]

Two and a half.

[Bobby Bones]

I like the half because you follow the cliffhanger from the end of episode two. Figure that out.

[Amy Brown]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

And then go, this might suck. Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

But I, I probably should give it. I feel like 4 is probably a solid number because you gotta really give it a try. But I'm with you on if I've just found it myself and there's no recommendation, it could be the first 15 minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't even like their faces. I'm like, you know what? I'm out of here.

[Amy Brown]

Moving on.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

I give it two. Like, if there's so many shows out there and if two episodes doesn't grab me, like, I'm moving on.

[Bobby Bones]

There's so many great shows though, where the first episode is so just setting up characters that I almost expect the first episode not to be good. Because it's not that it's not good, it's that you don't know enough about the people for it to be good. And they got to do all the descriptions, who they are, where they're from, why they think like they think. So that's usually not conducive to, like, entertaining television when it's all backstory.

[Eddie]

Was that the problem with Severance Because I watched the first episode, that problem's just.

[Bobby Bones]

You're just intellectual.

[Eddie]

I didn't get it.

[Bobby Bones]

But I loved Severance season one, Severance season two. Not good. It's finally good. But it took like seven, six episodes to get good.

[Amy Brown]

And you kept going.

[Bobby Bones]

I did. Because I loved season one, one, maybe top five to seven seasons of any television show ever. I just felt like they, they knew they were cool and they knew it was a smart show. So they were like, we really gotta elevate this. They kept adding layers without, like taking any layers away. So I'm 42 layers deep over here in a club sandwich going, no, I want to figure out what some of this other stuff, it's now really good again. But it took forever. We would have quit had we not loved season one.

[Amy Brown]

I assumed you did quit because you were like, nah, this is not good. Which y'all would be proud of Me. At the million dollar show client dinner, TV shows came up and there's. Everyone's talking about shows. And I just was like, y, yes, that is a good one. And then I just stopped.

[Eddie]

Did you know what they were talking about?

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, like a paradise.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it didn't matter. You just don't want to spoil it.

[Amy Brown]

I'm just saying y'all would be proud of me because I was with clients. I didn't know that well. And we're sitting there and we're talking and we talked about a lot of shows and I just stuck to my script.

[Bobby Bones]

They're like, why was she weird about shows? Not knowing. She spoils shows all the time. Lunchbox. How many?

[Lunchbox]

Mine's an hour and a half, so if it's an hour long episode, I'll give it one and a half. If it's a 30 minute show, I give it three episodes. That's it.

[Bobby Bones]

There's a new study based on IMDb ratings that found that you should give a new show an average of six episodes to get good. Too much. And so here are shows that took a while to hit their potential. And some of this we may not even remember because it was so long ago. Breaking Bad 6 episodes before people consider it to be really good.

[Eddie]

I was in immediately.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know that I was. It's easy to say that now because that show ended up being so great, but I don't know that I was. I think I was in because people said it was so good. So I was like, all right, benefit of the doubt. One that's not on here. I thought the first season of succession was pretty terrible.

[Amy Brown]

Really.

[Bobby Bones]

We got like nine episodes in and I was like, this show. What? Why do people like this show? It got great. And the only reason we stayed is because so many friends that we trusted were like, your life will never be the same. It took forever. Friends, seven episodes. Seinfeld, 16 episodes, different time. You only had three. Three opportunities, three channels to watch, and.

[Eddie]

Not really any storylines we're waiting for on those.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, so you had to wait, like, 16 weeks to figure out if you.

[Eddie]

Liked Seinfeld A long time.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, four months is a long time. But not community. Seven episodes. Brooklyn996. It's always sunny in Philadelphia, eight. That's one where you just had to acquire that taste. And then once you acquire that taste, it. It just tastes so sweet. It's like a fresh berry. Any of you guys watch Sonny? No.

[Eddie]

Everyone says, I love it.

[Bobby Bones]

It's great. It's awesome.

[Lunchbox]

I just started, and I'm three seasons in.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, then you. Then you. You will.

[Lunchbox]

You love it. So, so funny.

[Bobby Bones]

It's dark, it's funny. But I'm about a four guy. Except for Succession. I was a nine guy, and we thought we had been pranked by everybody, that they had told us to watch the worst show just to be funny. But Succession is really right. It's really good, you guys.

[Amy Brown]

It's really good.

[Lunchbox]

Really good.

[Bobby Bones]

It ended up being great. Did you watch it?

[Eddie]

No, I never watched it.

[Bobby Bones]

Over your head.

[Eddie]

Did you ever watch Entourage?

[Lunchbox]

Of course.

[Eddie]

Was that awesome? Because everyone says it was so good.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't have hbo. Couldn't afford HBO when it was like, live, live. But when the DVD sets came out, I had, like, season one and season two while the show was still going. Loved it. Yes, loved it. Never watched the movie. You watch the movie Movie, Mike? No, I haven't seen that. I got into the show a little bit. It was cool for the time. Movie, Mike. Never saw the entire movie. Nah. Like the show. Wow. Okay. Thank you, guys. The anonymous in there's a question to be. Hello, Bobby Bones. A little over six years ago, my wife and I moved to New York because she had a job opportunity. It was really important. It was great for a bit, but after the pandemic, it never really picked back up. She got a different job. I was working remotely. Wasn't a problem for me. I was happy to support her dreams. Now I have a chance to make a big step in my career, but we'd have to move across the country. She's adamant that she won't make the move and says if I'm unhappy with my job, I should find something new here. I think it's incredibly selfish for her not to consider the sacrifices I've made for her. I did not throw that in her face, but I don't think I would be wrong to do so. What do you think? Does she owe me this signed yearning for the West Coast? Okay, you move for her, but she won't move for you. That sucks. Like, if you balance it out on the old scales of justice, that's unfortunate. And I don't think it's throwing it in someone's face if you present a fact to them in. I won't even say an argument. But in a conversation that is uncomfortable, where you are comparing notes, AKA an argument, you're free to say, hey, this hurts me because I did this for you and now you won't do this for me. There are other factors involved. So you are working remotely. You could do that. So let's. Let's weigh this into. You are working remotely. You could jump for her now. She has a job now that she loves. She's not working remotely. And although you may feel like she should do it for you, it's not exactly the same. I think you need to factor that in. But I would encourage you to know that it's not throwing it in her face if you don't aggressively talk about it. What I would say to her is, hey, you know how important this is for me. And whenever you moved, it was difficult for me to uproot because this is my home. But I did that for you. And I'm just curious as to why you will not make the same sacrifice for me. That doesn't mean she gets to say, you're right, I'm with you, but at least let her make her point. Maybe she has a job that she loves, maybe something she doesn't believe, something about the job that you're doing. What I would say to do at this point is, is to explain to her your sacrifices for her and let her explain why she is not willing to do that. She may actually have a good reason. I can already see one little difference. Where she has a job that she needs to be there and you don't. But you got to start with that. There is not an answer I can give you that's going to fix it. Except for you have to say how you feel. Because if you don't, eventually you're going to say how you feel and it's going to come out much meaner and it's going to be a festered resentment from now when you say it, in eight months when you get in a fight and you're like, you need to let me go take the job in la. So do that. See what she has to say. Understand, not all things are Equal. And she may actually have a good reason. That's a tough one. Good luck to you, my friend. And message us back afterward. Because I'd be curious to know what she says. Because I think she's kind of in the wrong. But I mean. But let us know what she says. But it is. It is not bad to say to her, how you feel. Okay.

[Abby]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Close it up, Bones. I've been bringing a lot of shoes from home and just giving them to listeners because I have too many shoes. I could keep them and it's all cool, but I don't want to have stuff I don't wear when people could actually use them. I'm Big Shoe Guy. So some of these shoes are really cool. I got a message in my DMs from a guy named Matt. Matt, are you there?

[Lunchbox]

Hey, Bobby. How's it going?

[Bobby Bones]

Good. Is it weird that I called you?

[Lunchbox]

It is. For a pair of shoes, it is a little weird.

[Bobby Bones]

You know what? They look sweet. Yeah, they are. I love them. So Matt messaged me just randomly into my DMs. He says, hey, how do I want a pair of those shoes you're giving away? The blue Nike Air Max. And the fancy white shoes look sick. So I'm gonna give him a chance to win. Now, I can tell you the Air Max, the blue Corduroy and Baltic Blue Elite. They said, I've worm once, maybe twice. No. No wear on them at all. Those are about 160 bucks. The Alexander McQueen's that I got for television, maybe twice. They're. They're really white, and they're all white shoes. Now, you wouldn't wear these as much, but those were $990. So it's like, which shoes would you wear? The blue Nikes or which shoes do you just want because they cost more. The Alexander McQueen. So you can pick one of them. And if you win the game, you win the shoes. I like the blue Nikes. The blue Nikes are sweet. I think I would wear those. I agree. I kind of want to keep them, but I'm not now. So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna give you a chance to win a game. Lunchbox will be playing for you. Oh, we're gonna play Name the Band based on the three members.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

So I'm gonna give him seven of these. And what you're gonna do will Lunchbox. Let's put it at four and a half. Will Lunchbox get over four and a half? Which means five or under four And a half. Which means four or less. I think he's going to get over. Okay, so, Lunchbox, you need.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh. Does he ever listen to the show?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. Sometimes you pull crap out of your butt. Why?

[Eddie]

You don't know music. Why?

[Lunchbox]

I'm not really big on music, man.

[Bobby Bones]

You need five out of seven.

[Lunchbox]

Well, maybe they're easy bands. Right?

[Bobby Bones]

They're. They're all very, very famous bands.

[Lunchbox]

Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

Very, very famous. Okay, number one. Brian Johnson, Angus Young. Malcolm Young.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, wait, no.

[Bobby Bones]

Where you don't. This is not your answer, but where'd your mind go?

[Lunchbox]

At first I went AC dc Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

But you changed your mind. Why? What? What made you change your mind? I don't know.

[Lunchbox]

Then I thought, man, I don't know if acdc. Because, man, I know Angus T. Young is one of the best guitar players of all time. Like, he shreds that thing, man. What band?

[Bobby Bones]

Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, the. Angus and Malcolm are brothers. I think Angus is a younger brother.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, you're just saying words.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I'm just telling you.

[Bobby Bones]

I hear you. I hear you. You want to give us an answer?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I'm gonna.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you. If it's not ac dc? What. What did your mind go to?

[Lunchbox]

I can't come up with anything else.

[Bobby Bones]

So then you have to go with.

[Lunchbox]

AC I have to go with acdc. Because that's just in my head. I. I don't even know if that's right. Give me AC dc.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct. Wow. How you like that? Okay, okay. Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Halfway to a sneaker.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, he's a one sneaker. Well, that's what I'm saying. He's not gonna get one. He has to get two or nine. Yes, yes. Okay, next one up.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Eddie Vedder. Did any of them sound familiar?

[Lunchbox]

The only one is Eddie Vedder.

[Bobby Bones]

And what do you think about him?

[Lunchbox]

I think Eddie loves him. Okay, but what is the name? No, Eddie doesn't like him. Is that who you like, Eddie? Or is that Eddie likes the other guy? I think they're the same guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Gosh. Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Eddie Vedder. Who's the band?

[Lunchbox]

Eddie Vedder is Foo Fighters.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

I'm so disappointed.

[Lunchbox]

Isn't that who Eddie likes?

[Bobby Bones]

No. Pearl Jam.

[Eddie]

Oh, come on, man.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, daughter.

[Bobby Bones]

Don't call me daughter.

[Eddie]

That's one of their songs.

[Bobby Bones]

Next.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, who is. They're the same guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Next up, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett.

[Lunchbox]

Metallica.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

[Eddie]

That was quick.

[Bobby Bones]

He's got two. You gotta get five.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I gotta get five, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Billy Corgan. Jimmy Chamberlain. James. Aha.

[Lunchbox]

Think that Billy guy passed away.

[Bobby Bones]

Billy. They can be dead. It's these.

[Lunchbox]

I'm just saying. I'm just talking it out. And I think you talked about that guy, Billy Corgan.

[Bobby Bones]

James, I high you.

[Lunchbox]

I relate him with a. A Halloween tradition. Smashing Pumpkins.

[Bobby Bones]

He is not dead.

[Eddie]

Oh, but you killed him.

[Lunchbox]

But I didn't know.

[Bobby Bones]

He's hurting right now. Yeah, but it is Smashing pumpkins. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Two more.

[Lunchbox]

What do they see?

[Bobby Bones]

Two more. Fame back. 1979, or the world is a Vampire.

[Lunchbox]

I've heard that one. I got that one.

[Bobby Bones]

They have a lot. Next up, you only need two more.

[Lunchbox]

I've got three already. I'm doing really good.

[Bobby Bones]

You've only missed one.

[Eddie]

You're doing great.

[Bobby Bones]

Brandon Flowers. Brandon flowers. Ronnie Vanucci Jr. Dave Cunningham.

[Lunchbox]

That's easy, man.

[Bobby Bones]

If you get this one. Cool. Yeah, go.

[Lunchbox]

That's easy.

[Bobby Bones]

Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

Dashboard confessional.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow. How do you know that?

[Lunchbox]

I have no idea. But that Flowers guy, you said it before.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

I think we had him in the studio one time.

[Bobby Bones]

That's crazy. You're. But your memory, it's wrong. It's the Killers. Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

And he's never been in the studio.

[Bobby Bones]

Never been in the studio?

[Eddie]

Never.

[Lunchbox]

Well, who's the Dashboard guy?

[Eddie]

His name's Dashboard, right?

[Lunchbox]

No, his name's Flowers.

[Bobby Bones]

Timothy Dash Dang. No, it's not Flowers. Chris Carrabba. Thank you.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, it's close.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, not at all.

[Lunchbox]

Hey, how's my guy feeling right now? Oh, that was a tough one.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, what's your guy's name?

[Lunchbox]

I have no idea. Rick.

[Bobby Bones]

Matt.

[Eddie]

No, it's Matt.

[Bobby Bones]

Matt. How you feeling? He needs one more. No, he needs two. That was tough. He needs two more, but he can't miss another one. He can't miss another one.

[Lunchbox]

All right, Rick, we got this.

[Bobby Bones]

I think we'll lunch. You got this, man. You got the first few. You were on fire. Oh, it was on fire.

[Lunchbox]

Gosh, I thought I nailed that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Next up, Trey Cool. Mike Durnt. Billy Joe Armstrong.

[Lunchbox]

Mike D.

[Bobby Bones]

Trey Cool. Billy Joe Armstrong.

[Lunchbox]

All right. We got it.

[Bobby Bones]

You feel good?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you feel good or do you just fake feel good?

[Lunchbox]

I feel good, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know why, but that Billy Joe. He's calling my name, I think. No, he might be dead.

[Eddie]

Killed another one?

[Lunchbox]

No, no. I think he is.

[Bobby Bones]

Him and Billy Corgan died together.

[Lunchbox]

No, he Was in Big Bopper, Frankie.

[Bobby Bones]

Valance, Billy Corgan and Billy Joe Armstrong.

[Lunchbox]

Billy Joe Armstrong. You know what he used to sing? What? Dookie. Give me Green Day.

[Bobby Bones]

Dookie was an album. But yeah, yeah, it's Green Day. Good job.

[Abby]

Guy.

[Lunchbox]

I've never heard that name.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's only three people in the band.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, really?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Didn't know that.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. If you get this one right, Matt wins. Matt wins. If you get this one wrong, I get the shoes. Matt loses. No, you don't get the shoes.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, Matt. Here we go, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Picking. I'm not gonna. I have a whole list of them. I want you to pick a number. So I'll just pick the one that you pick. So just pick a 1 through 13.

[Lunchbox]

Give me number four.

[Bobby Bones]

1, 2, 3, 4. Okay. I feel like this one's easy.

[Lunchbox]

Ask Matt what number he'd have picked.

[Bobby Bones]

Matt, what number would you have picked? Four is good. I think once picked a good number, four.

[Eddie]

Oh, you both would have picked for interesting.

[Lunchbox]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Doug Clifford. Oh, is that familiar at all?

[Lunchbox]

Nope.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Tom Fogarty.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's that guy.

[Bobby Bones]

John Fogarty.

[Lunchbox]

Hey, hey. Hey, Matt. What are you gonna wear?

[Bobby Bones]

Hey.

[Lunchbox]

What? Where are you gonna wear those shoes the first time you get them?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, probably out on a date with my girlfriend.

[Lunchbox]

That's what I'm talking about. She's gonna love you in those blue suede shoes, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Wait. Yeah? How confident are you?

[Lunchbox]

100.

[Bobby Bones]

What era would you put them in?

[Lunchbox]

70S.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, dude, it's over.

[Eddie]

He looks confident.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. You wanna. Hey, you wanna. You know what? You wanna know what song they sing?

[Bobby Bones]

Please.

[Lunchbox]

Little Smoke on the Water.

[Bobby Bones]

They don't.

[Lunchbox]

Credence Clearwater Revival.

[Bobby Bones]

They don't. First of all, they don't sing. They don't sing Smoke on the Water. That's Deep Purple. So. That's not true. But the Fogarty brothers and Doug Clifford are from ccr Cretus. Yeah.

[Abby]

The only reason I know that is.

[Lunchbox]

Cuz Bobby loves them and he talks about that guy.

[Bobby Bones]

I do love him. Wow.

[Eddie]

Now, are they dead or alive?

[Bobby Bones]

Run through the jungle.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, good point. Dead or alive?

[Lunchbox]

Well, they're probably dead. If they were around back then.

[Bobby Bones]

Billy Corrigan, Billy Joe Armstrong and John Fogarty. All deceased. Except all alive. Matt, man, I'm gonna send you these shoes. Now, I can give you a couple options here. I want you to have them wear them. I would prefer not to sign them. People are like. We sign them. I think they'd be better not signed. If you want Me to. I will. Or I can just send you a signed one of my books. If that's. If you could sign a signed book, that would be awesome. Awesome. Good. I love to wear the shoes. I don't want to ruin the shoes. Okay, I will sign a book. I'll sign. I'll sign Bare Bones, the book of my life, which, by the way, you can get on Amazon if you want to get it. Bare Bones. Matt, you are a winner. Lunchbox. You are a winner.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Congratulations, Matt. Thank you very much. We're gonna put you on hold and get your information and send you these shoes. Okay, buddy? All right. Thanks, Bobby. Thanks, guys. All right, there it is. Boom. It's time for the good news with producer Eddie.

[Eddie]

You know, Mardi Gras New Orleans gets crazy. People drink a lot of beer. They're in cans, and then they don't find the trash can. People just throw their cans on the street. Well, a group of volunteers in New Orleans said, you know what? Let's get together. We're gonna start a program called recycledat, and we're gonna pick up all the cans for two weeks during Mardi Gras and going to recycle the cans. And with all the money that they make from recycling the cans, they donated all to local charities. And this year, they did 10,000 pounds of aluminum cans.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that what that turned into?

[Eddie]

They didn't say the money amount, but I would think that's a lot of money.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you guys ever have your phase of recycling of can collecting and taking it in and getting your money?

[Amy Brown]

Oh, yeah. Well, mostly we would collect them. There was one particular guy, Allen, at our church. He would collect all the cans. He would go turn it in for money. That's how he made a living. And so we would all collect and take it to church. So Alan could collect.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, that's good. No, I was. That was part of my job. I was mowing yards of collecting cans.

[Eddie]

Would you crush the cans?

[Bobby Bones]

I would crush the cans, and then I would take them in. I'd have bags and bags and bags, and Arkansas Keys would load them up, and then we'd get in. They'd be like, all right, here's your $4. I'm like, what the crap? All that work, all these for $4.

[Amy Brown]

But Alan would be like, Miss. Never gonna guess. Never gonna guess. I got $4. Like, he'd be so excited.

[Bobby Bones]

And I'll be like, you're never gonna guess. I got $4. That's. That's a good story. Good job cleaning up your city. To all the people in New Orleans. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it's all about. Bones, just a heads up, I would love for you to come to this. It's basically how a songwriter round works in Nashville, but with some of the greatest biggest songwriters in the whole world. So Saturday night coming up, 8 Eastern, 7 Central, 6 Mountain, 5 Pacific, live at a movie theater all over America. Over 600 movie theaters nationwide. We're doing this thing called Music Night live from Nashville. Three massive songwriters telling stories about massive songs they've written. I'm hosting it. You can get [e-mail] could be a cool Saturday night thing for the family to go and watch. It's live, which is cool, too. So it's live and we're playing music. It's just like if you were to come into Nashville and go into a cool Nashville songwriter place. So musicnight.com Saturday night, two nights from now. Get tickets over there. Coming up, we're doing Medical Factor Fiction.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. I have some common health beliefs, and I want to know if you think that this is legit or not. Like, what you should do if you get a burn. Like some people run and get ice cubes and they put it on their burn. Like, should you do that or not? Fact or fiction?

[Bobby Bones]

You know what grandma used to do? Chewing tobacco on your burn.

[Amy Brown]

She would chew it up and then put it on your burn.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You don't put chewing tobacco. Not unchewed, no.

[Eddie]

So she'd spit on your burn?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, she'd chew the tobacco.

[Amy Brown]

Did that work?

[Bobby Bones]

Why Grandma's tail?

[Amy Brown]

I don't know. That's crazy. I never heard of that one.

[Bobby Bones]

Really?

[Eddie]

Your grandma's cool, man.

[Amy Brown]

But I mean, she chewed.

[Bobby Bones]

She didn't even chew tobacco. But she. But she kept some. She kept some there just in case.

[Eddie]

I thought that was kind of like throw some dirt on it. Instead of dirt, it's like, here, put this tobacco.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't think about that, but this is what it says because she. She did it. I can think of more than five times she did it. And so I looked it up. Putting tobacco on a burn is a bad idea. That's what it says. That's it. Period. There's no scientific evidence that it had. It helps. In fact, it can enter bacteria, toxins, and chemicals. Grandma. Grandma. There's a lot of those old grandma tales that we don't even know and they didn't know and they thought were true. Okay, we're going to do Medical Factor Fiction next.

[Amy Brown]

Hey, it's Amy Brown. Join me in supporting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for a chance to win a trip to meet Megan Maroney at the 2025 I Heart Country Festival in Austin, Texas on May 3rd. Hosted by Bobby Bones. We're going to hook you up with tickets, flights, hotel, food credits and a meet and greet with Megan Maroney. Take action now to support St. Jude and help cure childhood cancer. And you're going to be entered for a chance to win. Visit iheartcountrytrip.com to learn more.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks for me. Love Starbucks. Love to get a chai tea. And if I'm ready, if I really need a big day, I'll get that double shot of espresso ready to go. But the great thing now at Starbucks is is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're going to go, you're going to meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here. You're going to get it in a mug or a glass. There's also a condiment bar. It's back. Now you can add the finishing touches to your drink so you don't have to go, well, I need a little more of this. I need a little less of this. You can do the perfect amount of cream and sugar. You now have even more reasons to stay a while at Starbucks. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit.

[Will]

Hey, Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days?

[Mango]

Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science, I can't keep track of it all.

[Will]

Then it's a good thing. Our podcast Part Time Genius is counting down the 25 greatest science science ideas from the past 25 years.

[Mango]

That's right, Mango. We're talking animals in a paper called.

[Will]

Quote, chickens prefer beautiful humans. This was actually the title of the paper. They all discovered that much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Will]

We're talking medical miracles.

[Mango]

He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster.

[Will]

There's no way to make that not sound crazy.

[Mango]

We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the Part Time Genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years, starting Monday, March 3, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy, what do you have?

[Amy Brown]

I have medical fact or fiction?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Is it a game?

[Amy Brown]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Do we die if we lose medical.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, find out.

[Abby]

That would be interesting.

[Amy Brown]

You'll find out.

[Bobby Bones]

That would be a terr. Super bowl game show. Okay, go ahead. You're gonna give. So you're gonna give us something. We have to say if it's true or not.

[Amy Brown]

Right?

[Bobby Bones]

Go.

[Amy Brown]

Never apply ice to a burn.

[Bobby Bones]

That's. It's weird when it's never appli. Never do something. Never. Because it feels like ice would be. It's cold. It would feel good. But I'm betting. Because the question. I'm saying you're. My answer would be, you're not supposed to put ice on a burn.

[Amy Brown]

So it's fact.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I don't know about the fact because the question was weird, but I'm going to go f. Okay. Fact.

[Amy Brown]

That would be Right.

[Bobby Bones]

I would still put ice on a burn, though, because it would be hurting.

[Eddie]

You would think hot burn ice is the opposite.

[Amy Brown]

Would help cooling. Well, ice causes constriction of blood vessels. And that'll make the burn deeper.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I'm just doing it to feel good. I. I can understand why it would not be good long term. I would just. Ow. Put ice on it. Okay, go ahead.

[Amy Brown]

Eating too much sugar will give you diabetes.

[Bobby Bones]

That seems like it's right down the middle, like right over the plate. Eat a whole bunch of sugar your whole life, get diabetes. I mean, that's A plus B equals C. But it could be tricky. But I'm gonna go reverse tricky. I'm gonna say that's true. If you eat way a lot of sugar for a long time. Diabetes knocks on the door.

[Amy Brown]

This says fiction.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Amy Brown]

Sugar becomes glucose in your bloodstream. In response, your body makes insulin to regulate blood sugar. Type 2 diabetes is a problem with insulin regulation, not sugar intake.

[Bobby Bones]

So I don't know. I don't know what you said, but.

[Amy Brown]

It'S the insulin causing it, not the sugar.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't eat insulin, so I'm good.

[Eddie]

I guess your body produces it.

[Amy Brown]

You do.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I guess I would need to know that because I feel like they're always like, don't eat a bunch of sugar because you'll get. So I hear you. Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

And this is from study finds. And I'm just gonna start saying, allegedly.

[Bobby Bones]

You don't have to do that because no one's gonna sue you. I'm sure it's right. I just don't understand it because I've.

[Amy Brown]

Always heard that dive. Like, if you eat too much sugar. Like, even my daughter, she's heard it somewhere, because the other day, she was like, I feel like I've been eating a lot of sugar. Am I gonna get the diabetes?

[Bobby Bones]

The diabetes.

[Amy Brown]

Okay. Eating carrots improves your vision.

[Bobby Bones]

I know that's not true. And that's an old World War II situation where they told the. Where this is. I know this is true. It may not be on there. So what they did is they. I think America, or allies, had night vision goggles. And it wasn't known by the other side that we had night vision goggles. And so they were like, how do they have this? Like, no, no, we eat carrots and that's what gets up. It's that story.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. I think we had that on, like, Fun Fact Friday or something.

[Eddie]

And they fall for it too. They're like, oh, yeah, okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It's definitely a World War II thing and night vision goggles. So I'm gonna go, that's false. What Answer.

[Amy Brown]

Okay, so it is fiction. They won't improve your vision, but they are good for your eyes. They'll help improve overall good health. So you want to consume carrots, but it's not going to make your vision better.

[Bobby Bones]

A bug's bunny.

[Eddie]

Great.

[Bobby Bones]

Great vision. Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

A person having a seizure can swallow their tongue. I've always heard this.

[Bobby Bones]

O, yes. I'm going to say true. They. Because you didn't say they always do. I'm going to say they can. I would say a person not having a seizure also can swallow their tongue. Can you just.

[Eddie]

Can I just.

[Bobby Bones]

It's difficult. I'm gonna go. Yes. Okay.

[Amy Brown]

They cannot swallow their crap. It's fiction. You should turn a person seizing on their side to assist with breathing and to help keep them from biting their tongue. But they're not gonna swallow their tongue.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but then why will people swallow their tongues? That. That is a thing you.

[Amy Brown]

It is.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy Brown]

How do you do?

[Eddie]

I've never heard of that.

[Bobby Bones]

You never feel small in their tongue?

[Amy Brown]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, I'll find out in a second. Good. Can I read you the diabetes thing?

[Amy Brown]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Because your thing is. Right. No need to say allegedly. Oh, well, you know, eating too much sugar alone does not directly cause diabetes, but it can contribute if the other things that you're doing are increasing the risk. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition unrelated to sugar intake. Type 2 is primarily influenced by genetics and lifestyle factors, including Obesity and insulin resistance. But the obesity could come from sugar. So that's an element, but it's not the main element.

[Amy Brown]

Gotcha.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, and then what's the other thing I'm looking up here? How do you swallow your tongue?

[Amy Brown]

Yes.

[Eddie]

And you swallow your tongue.

[Bobby Bones]

Go. Okay.

[Amy Brown]

So while you look that up, I'll do another one. After a heart attack, you should usually return to your workouts.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. And if this is tricking us by. It's like once a train hits, you buy a ticket for the next one. No. Yes.

[Amy Brown]

You should return immediately.

[Bobby Bones]

You got to go to the doctor.

[Amy Brown]

Many people use a heart attack as an excuse to be less physically active.

[Bobby Bones]

No, not immediately. You made it sound like I'm doing a bench press. I have a heart attack clear there. It's like, I got three more reps. Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

But a low inactivity lifestyle may have contributed to the heart attack, so you should definitely work out.

[Bobby Bones]

I felt like we were lead led into that. Okay, okay, let me do this. Swallow their tongue. It's physically impossible to swallow your tongue. The tongue is anchored to the bottom of the mouth by a piece of tissue called the lingual tissue frenumbulum, which prevents it from being swallowed. However, during a seizure or when someone is unconscious, the tongue can relax and fall back into the airway and block the airway, which is why people think the tongue can be swallowed. That's why it's important to position an unconscious person on their side, because it will relax and cover the hole. What's crazy to me, growing up hunting my whole life, killing a bunch of deer. Whenever you kill a deer, immediately its tongue goes out, but out to the side, that's like, the relaxing. So sometimes when I'm gonna relax, I do that, and I'm like, this is not that relaxing. How many do you have over there? How many more, like, total? Do you have a lot more?

[Amy Brown]

I have four more.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's. Let's. Let's hold and do some more later. Okay. Yeah. This is fun. Yeah. This is not relaxing. I do a tongue, but when a deer dies, like, they're the.

[Eddie]

All the muscles.

[Bobby Bones]

All the muscles dead. So I'll be at home, like, man, I got 50 minutes. I need to do that.

[Amy Brown]

This part of my face fitness, we do a lot of exercises where you stick your tongue out. Yeah, it feels a little ridiculous, but apparently it works. The muscles in the neck area. Jawline. Get that jawline snatch.

[Bobby Bones]

What is that? Whatever you said was totally lit.

[Amy Brown]

Do people not say that anymore.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you ever say it? All right, lunchbox, over to you.

[Lunchbox]

There's a lady on Tick Tock. She's sitting at Disney sitting on a bench, and she sees a family, like a man, a woman. They go and they have a stroller, and they're about to get on a ride. So you're gonna take the baby with you, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Nope.

[Lunchbox]

They park the stroller and cover it in a blanket.

[Bobby Bones]

That stroller right there, There is a baby in there. As y'all can see, somebody's kid is in there. And their parents walked into guardians, and they have not been back yet. And before I knew there was a baby inside, I heard one of the dads say, oh, just put a chair right there to block dog.

[Abby]

What the.

[Bobby Bones]

So it's no. No big deal or huge deal. Yeah, if anybody says no big deal, you're. You're out of here.

[Abby]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

That is the hugest deal ever.

[Bobby Bones]

What if you. Because we have these tell me something goods where somebody, like, watches the baby, holds the baby while they get a pedicure. What if someone's like, yeah, I'll watch your kid while you do that.

[Amy Brown]

No, you're a. You're a Disney. You're at a. A big park where someone could say, I'm gonna watch your baby. But really they mean, when you get on the ride, I'm out of here with your baby fair. And then they could run into the crowd, easily exit the park.

[Eddie]

Baby gone.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you know, I get it.

[Eddie]

Baby gone. Never see it again.

[Bobby Bones]

Just a question I was asking.

[Amy Brown]

Baby gone. Sorry.

[Bobby Bones]

I can't believe parents would do that. What on earth. They would just cover. I'm worried the stroller with a blanket let the baby chill, and they go ride the ride.

[Eddie]

Now, I've been in situations where, like, I have the baby in the back seat, and I'm like, all I need to do is run in this convenience store, get milk really quick. Do I want to wake the baby up and take them in, or do I just run in real quick?

[Bobby Bones]

I think that's a bit different because you're within 30 seconds of it. Once you get up in the teacups, it's not like you can just jump off. If you see somebody grab the stroller while you're on the teacups, what do you do? There's nothing you can do except just enjoy the ride and then fix it when you're done. Yeah, that kind of sucks. Like, all jokes aside, it kind of sucks.

[Eddie]

No good.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm watching the Tick Tock now. And they're like, there's baby in that. They covered in their blanket. They moved it. They moved over the side.

[Lunchbox]

They did park it away. No one would see it. It's like, up against the wall, you know, in a corner in the blanket. And the baby, it appeared to be sleeping or taking a nap.

[Eddie]

What's your point? It's okay.

[Lunchbox]

I'm saying they did do a good job of putting it out of the walkway where no one is going to.

[Bobby Bones]

Be like, he's slowly starting to take the side. Is this okay?

[Lunchbox]

I. It's not the worst thing in the world.

[Eddie]

What are you talking about?

[Bobby Bones]

I would agree with that.

[Amy Brown]

It's not the worst thing in the world.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

Drug the baby on the ground.

[Bobby Bones]

Nuclear war.

[Amy Brown]

Right.

[Lunchbox]

Also, if they're with the stroller until the very last second when they're about to get on the ride and they just put it there. They get on the ride. What does the ride last? A minute, a minute and a half.

[Bobby Bones]

You got to be in line.

[Lunchbox]

I'm saying, what if they, they hold on to the baby until they're the last in line, then they put it to the side.

[Amy Brown]

A minute of your baby being so.

[Bobby Bones]

You have to, like, roll it away from you. Last minute.

[Amy Brown]

Like the baby can't do anything to help itself. What? A lot can happen in 60 seconds, huh?

[Eddie]

There's a whole movie about that. Yeah, it's called gone in 60 seconds. Oh, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

That's car stealing.

[Bobby Bones]

I in no way can I justify this. No way. No, but he, he doesn't. But he kind of is.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, I hate to tell you, Eddie, doing the same with the car.

[Bobby Bones]

Is the same, I don't think.

[Lunchbox]

Jump in that car, Baby. Gone.

[Eddie]

I didn't do, I didn't do it, though.

[Bobby Bones]

I thought about it. You can lock the car and also you can see it and have the ability to get to the car within 10 seconds. If you're on the Matterhorn, what the heck you gonna do? First of all, is that even the name of the ride?

[Eddie]

I don't think so.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, whatever.

[Eddie]

But how do you even enjoy the ride? Thinking, like, I'm hopeless. My baby's hopeless.

[Bobby Bones]

Now you enjoy the ride because you wouldn't even do that if you had the capacity to not enjoy the ride. You're just like, finally, a little time for us.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so big deal or no big deal, Amy?

[Amy Brown]

I mean, it's huge deal. I, I, I mean, they're gonna have to get looked into.

[Bobby Bones]

I cosign. Hugest deal.

[Eddie]

Huge, huge deal.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Not as Big a deal as you guys are making.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Hey, everybody gets their opinion. Don't agree, but okay, Bones, More medical factor fiction. What do you got?

[Amy Brown]

Okay, you don't need eight glasses of water a day.

[Bobby Bones]

So I think my reasoning would be that every person, every body is different. Now, this may not even be why it's fact or fiction, but I would think somebody 6, 5, 2, 60 may need more water than lunchbox. Who's 5, 9? Is that what you are?

[Lunchbox]

5, 11 and a half.

[Bobby Bones]

Your little feet thing down there.

[Lunchbox]

I do have my foot rest, and it is awesome, man.

[Bobby Bones]

So I would say the answer is no, because I think everybody's different. What's the actual answer?

[Amy Brown]

So, yeah, you don't need eight glasses of water a day. That is a fact. Well, because it depends on, like you said, your body size, the climate of where you live, and then also your activity level. How much are you sweating?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Because all those things, but we just.

[Amy Brown]

Kind of hear, overall, it's like, oh, got to get my eight glasses.

[Bobby Bones]

But I think that's great because that's the branding of it, that you do need to drink water. So I'm up for the branding being slightly wrong, but I got you. All right, what else?

[Amy Brown]

Sitting up straight can be bad for your back.

[Bobby Bones]

That sounds stupid.

[Eddie]

Yeah. No chance.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, what am I. Hunch back all day. Hunchback, Notre Dame. I'm gonna say sitting up straight is good for your back.

[Amy Brown]

No, it's bad.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Amy Brown]

Sitting up straight without a break can strain your back. When you're sitting, keeping your lower back supported and your legs uncrossed and your knees at a 90 degree angle is ideal, which is look like I don't.

[Bobby Bones]

Know what you're doing. I need you to say that again, because I lost all of it. So how am I supposed to sit?

[Amy Brown]

Keep your legs uncrossed.

[Bobby Bones]

I would never sit with me.

[Amy Brown]

I crossed mine all the time. I just had them crossed.

[Bobby Bones]

You're a lady.

[Amy Brown]

I know. And then, well, some men, like, put their ankle up on their knees.

[Bobby Bones]

That's fine.

[Amy Brown]

Okay, so. And then lunchbox, it has this little pad thingy to make your legs 90 degrees.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm talking about the back. I don't care about the legs.

[Amy Brown]

You said, well, that's gonna help keep your lower back supported. If you sit up too straight for too long, it strains your back.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know about that one.

[Eddie]

We've had chiropractors in here saying, straighten your back.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but this is Dr. Felicia Faith. Yeah, Felicia Rashad.

[Amy Brown]

Okay. Bar soap is covered with Germs.

[Bobby Bones]

I assume everything is covered with germs, so I don't think bar soap would be any different.

[Amy Brown]

Fiction.

[Bobby Bones]

When you do factor fiction, I get lost. But what.

[Amy Brown]

You might leave germs on the soap when you're handling the bar, like when you're washing up. But research has shown that bacteria on a bar of soap dies within minutes and it's not transmitted to the next person that uses it. I. I'm still not going to be.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, then I should stop. I usually wash my soap with other soap, make sure it's clean before I use it. But if you go to a.

[Eddie]

Like a rest. Like a rest stop bathroom, and they have a bar of soap, are you using that?

[Amy Brown]

No way.

[Bobby Bones]

That sounds disgusting.

[Eddie]

But according to Amy and science, yeah, you can use it.

[Amy Brown]

Okay, that's true.

[Bobby Bones]

Give us another.

[Amy Brown]

You cannot get the flu more than once a season.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, good one. I guess. Listen, I don't know, but I'm gonna think they're different strains of flu or as if there's a different strain of single flu every year. But then your antibodies. But I'm gonna say you can get. I wouldn't bet any money on this. You can get multiple flus.

[Amy Brown]

Okay. Yes. You're. You're on the right track. You cannot get the flu more than once a season was the question. And that is fiction, because more than one flu strand is circulating every year. Or strain.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. What is it?

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. Okay. Being sick with one of them doesn't protect you from the others.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang.

[Amy Brown]

So, boom. You can get multiple flus.

[Bobby Bones]

So you can get multiple flus and use bar soap at a rest stop.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Go for it.

[Amy Brown]

Yes. Which I don't think.

[Eddie]

He said so.

[Amy Brown]

I said so. But no. Think of it like in your own home. Like, I've started to use bar soap, and I'm thinking, like, if one of my kids were to come into my shower and use my bar soap, I would be annoyed. I'd be like, don't touch my bar soap, please. But according to this, ain't no problem.

[Bobby Bones]

Next up, I got a couple myself.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, you do?

[Bobby Bones]

Fact or fiction? Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis.

[Amy Brown]

That is so fiction, I hope.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you. You had a lot of confidence, and then you. I hoped it. Studies show that cracking knuckles does not cause arthritis. It may weaken your grip strength over time.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, I don't want to do that.

[Bobby Bones]

But it does not cause arthritis.

[Amy Brown]

I want to be able to open a jar when I'm older.

[Bobby Bones]

Sometimes I like to open one now, and I can't. Then I Have to do hot water, then I have to go on the bottom. Fact or fiction? Sugar makes kids hyperactive.

[Eddie]

Oh, 100.

[Abby]

Fact.

[Eddie]

I've seen it. I see it every day.

[Bobby Bones]

Fact, fact, fiction. Studies show no strong link between sugar and hyperactivity. The sugar rush is more psychological or due to excitement because the kids are getting to eat sugar.

[Eddie]

Go to my house. You'll see it immediately. Dude, they drink. They open a crash, take two sips.

[Amy Brown]

And they're like, but, Eddie, Bobby's onto something. It could be the excitement.

[Bobby Bones]

Could be like, we get Coke.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Fact or fiction? You lose most of your body heat through your head. Fact, Fiction. Heat loss depends on heat loss. Depends on what part of the body is exposed. If you're bundled up, but your head's uncovered, the heat. Yeah. But if your head's covered, another part of your body's not bundled up.

[Amy Brown]

I thought that's why we wore beanies.

[Bobby Bones]

One more. Fact or fiction? Sitting too much can be as harmful as smoking.

[Amy Brown]

Yes. Fact or. I mean, yes, I hope.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's hard. That's what I'm saying.

[Amy Brown]

I was kind of. Honestly, when I was doing Factor fiction to y'all, I was like, what are they morons that you figure out this.

[Bobby Bones]

It's weird. It's like. Especially when you're like, fact, fiction, don't. On the. Yes. No. No. Yes.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. Like, I kind of thought y'all were a little slow. And now I'm like, okay, I get it. I get it.

[Bobby Bones]

I get it. Sitting too much can be harmful. A smoking factor. Fiction. It is fact. A sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and even early death. Much like smoking does. Regular movement is the key. Smoking. Because you don't smoke as much as you are sedentary and sit, that. That is actually worse for you. Wow. Imagine if you just sit and smoke all day.

[Eddie]

That's double worse.

[Bobby Bones]

You want one more? Yeah. Fact or fiction? Holding in a sneeze can be dangerous.

[Amy Brown]

Whoa.

[Bobby Bones]

Holding in a sneeze can be dangerous.

[Amy Brown]

I'm gonna say fact because obviously your body has something it needs to get rid of.

[Bobby Bones]

Holding in a powerful sneeze. Fact can cause pressure buildup, potentially leading to ear damage is one of them. Or even small blood vessel ruptures.

[Abby]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Fact or fiction is awesome. It is. It's hard to, like, play because everybody's like, I don't know what to say. But, yeah, that's a good one. Good game.

[Amy Brown]

I mean, we could switch it to, like, true or false.

[Bobby Bones]

Even then it's like, do you believe this? That kind of would probably be what it needs to be. It's time for the good news with Bobby. Tell me something good. This is a dog saving a dog. So Freddy's a golden retriever that was missing. Now there's somebody hiking. His name's Colin. He's with his dog named Bass. Now Bass does not know that Freddy's missing. I don't even know if a dog knows what missing means. I don't know if they have a concept of the English language, actually. And so they're walking, but Bass keeps pulling him off the trail. He's like, what's. Is it a dead animal? Is it food? And so finally pulls him off the trail and they find Freddy. Temperatures had been below freezing. Freddy wasn't good, but he was still alive. So they get Freddy, take him into the. And they immediately start working on it and they save Freddy. Like, Bass saved Freddy.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. They've been best friends ever since going to the movies.

[Amy Brown]

I'm like, if my dog was pulling me, I'd be like, come on.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, me too.

[Amy Brown]

We have to go.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I would jerk against them the whole time I've been fighting it. So big shout out to Bass and Colin who went and found Freddy and his family thought they'd never get their dog back. That's an awesome story. That's from sunny skies. And that is what it's all about. That was. Tell me something good. 90 seconds on the clock. Amy will do her morning Corny, but it's the investigative Corny. As the team here of Lunchbox Eddie and myself have that 90 seconds to get as many right as possible. I believe the world record is six. I think people all over Earth have been trying to beat this world record. It's tough.

[Eddie]

It's not easy.

[Bobby Bones]

Actually, it's just us.

[Lunchbox]

We've.

[Bobby Bones]

We're the only people that have tried to beat this. Amy, are you ready?

[Amy Brown]

Ready.

[Bobby Bones]

And the timer starts at the end of this.

[Abby]

Go.

[Bobby Bones]

The morning Corny.

[Amy Brown]

What do you call a small British mother?

[Lunchbox]

Tiny time.

[Bobby Bones]

Mom. Tiny mom.

[Lunchbox]

A mom. Baby mom.

[Bobby Bones]

Little mom?

[Lunchbox]

Baby shark.

[Bobby Bones]

Mom. Mom.

[Eddie]

It's got to be a mom, right? Because that's what they call them.

[Lunchbox]

English muffin.

[Eddie]

Oh, boy.

[Amy Brown]

What do you call a small British mother?

[Eddie]

Mommy.

[Bobby Bones]

Mom.

[Lunchbox]

Mom. Tiny mom. Tiny Tim.

[Bobby Bones]

Mom. It's got to be mom.

[Eddie]

It's got to be something with mom.

[Bobby Bones]

What's small? What's another word for small? Tiny bitty miniature mom. Mini mom.

[Amy Brown]

Okay, what does the Mozart have against chickens?

[Eddie]

It's Got to be it, right?

[Amy Brown]

What does he have against chickens? What is they just say all the.

[Eddie]

Time, good job, lunchbox.

[Amy Brown]

Why was the egg feeling so good?

[Bobby Bones]

Shell lazy, egg cracked it, got laid. That's it. What? I can't believe he put that in there. I'll be honest with you if it feels a little morning corny after dark. Okay.

[Amy Brown]

How do you you get a chicken to read your blog Back URL.

[Eddie]

What pecking order you chicken to read your blog?

[Lunchbox]

Put it on the other side of the road.

[Bobby Bones]

Type it beak be it. Say it again.

[Amy Brown]

How do you get a chicken to read your blog?

[Bobby Bones]

Bl. Bl.

[Lunchbox]

Bl.

[Bobby Bones]

Bl.

[Eddie]

Got laid.

[Amy Brown]

Clickbait.

[Bobby Bones]

Clickbait. Oh, that's funny.

[Amy Brown]

Hey, it's Amy Brown. Join me in supporting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for a chance to win a trip to meet Megan Maroney at the 2025 I Heart Country Festival in Austin, Texas on May 3rd. Hosted by Bobby Bones, we're going to hook you up with tickets, flights, hotel, food credits, and a meet and greet with Megan Maroney. Take action now to support St. Jude and help cure childhood cancer. And you're gonna be entered for a chance to win. Visit iheartcountrytrip.com to learn more.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks for me. Love Starbucks. Love to get a chai tea. And if I'm ready, if I really need a big day, I'll get that double shot of espresso ready to go. But the great thing now at Starbucks is, is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're going to go, you're going to meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here. You're going to get it in a mug or a glass. There's also a condiment bar. It's back. Now you can add the finishing touches to your drink so you don't have to go, well, I need a little more of this. I need a little less of this. You can do the perfect amount of cream and sugar. You now have even more reasons to stay a while at Starbucks. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit.

[Will]

Hey, Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days?

[Mango]

Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science, I can't keep track of it all.

[Will]

Then it's a good thing. Our podcast part Time Genius is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years.

[Mango]

That's right, Mango. We're talking animals in a paper called.

[Will]

Chickens prefer beautiful humans. This was actually the title of the paper. They all discovered that, much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Will]

We're talking medical miracles.

[Mango]

He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster.

[Will]

There's no way to make that not sound crazy.

[Mango]

We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the part time genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years, starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

This mom says she keeps seeing people post on Facebook. Hey, guys, can anybody babysit our kids tonight? Like, can anybody baby like anybody? Yeah, it's like, hey, we're looking for someone to watch our kids. Can anybody babysit our kids? Message me if I just wonder. You guys all have kids? Amy, would you do this?

[Amy Brown]

No. No, not. I mean, I guess.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, I mean, did. So there's a maybe a little.

[Amy Brown]

Well, because now that I'm thinking about it, people on your Facebook, you know them?

[Bobby Bones]

It's a Facebook group. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's not like your followers.

[Amy Brown]

I'm gonna say overall blanket. No. But I do think that there are times you're desperate.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So it's. It's okay to be riskier with the kids if you're desperate. Interesting, Eddie.

[Eddie]

There are definitely desperate times. But no, I would never go to Facebook. And is anyone.

[Bobby Bones]

Can anybody watch the kids?

[Eddie]

I have used an app before, and.

[Amy Brown]

That'S strange, but they're vetted.

[Bobby Bones]

They are on the app. Yeah, but what if you go, can anybody watch the kids? And someone goes, I can. Then you can kind of check them out a little bit to see if they have. Yes, like that is a thing.

[Eddie]

Interview them at home.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you can mess them. Hey, do you have any kids or any history of babysitting? Like, I can call and talk to somebody. You b.

[Eddie]

You could easily.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, but then I call them.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, like you need a reference.

[Bobby Bones]

Like a reference.

[Abby]

Oh, I don't know, man.

[Bobby Bones]

If you just keep saying, yeah, I'm not gonna hire you, lunchbox, I don't.

[Lunchbox]

See anything wrong with it. I mean, you hire strangers to watch your kids. That's how they become Babysitters.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, that's a weird way to talk about it.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but it is.

[Amy Brown]

It's true.

[Lunchbox]

How else do you get a babysitter? I've never had an. I've never interviewed a single person. You have to just be like, oh, you know what? All right, you say you babysit. I've taken someone off Instagram before. Their mom DM me and was like, hey, my daughter goes to school in Nashville. She'll babysit for you. I'm like, okay, sounds good. She came out of the house, watched kids. It was fine.

[Bobby Bones]

No vetting at all.

[Lunchbox]

No vetting. I mean, the mom.

[Bobby Bones]

The DM from the mom.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, the DM from the mom said my daughter would babysit. She's in college. I don't have a problem with it. That's how you find new babysitters.

[Amy Brown]

I'm address that.

[Bobby Bones]

Why were you mad at Eddie about taking his kids to the Ryman show a couple nights?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah, because every time I want to bring my kids somewhere, it's like, oh, my gosh. How dare lunchbox want to take his kids? It's not a kid event. You don't need to bring your kids. And then I'm backstage, and there's Eddie's kid just hanging out with the rhyme, and I'm like, oh, so it's okay for Eddie to bring his kids to events, but when I want to bring my kids, I am the worst person in the world.

[Eddie]

It was a kid event.

[Amy Brown]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

You know, for St. Jude, it's a kid event.

[Amy Brown]

Eddie's playing.

[Bobby Bones]

And also it's Eddie's show. Yeah, like, that's like saying, aldine, you can't bring your kids to your show, man. I think there's a difference. But this is an event where kids were also there.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, so I could have brought my kids.

[Amy Brown]

It's plural.

[Lunchbox]

See, that's what I'm saying. It's a bad look if I want to bring my kids.

[Bobby Bones]

But the difference is you could have brought them and got tickets and sat in the. In the audience. Because Eddie had a dressing room backstage. Eddie literally had a dressing room, and it was his show. Like, it was our show.

[Eddie]

You're not understanding this at all.

[Lunchbox]

Okay? I mean, so next time we have a station, like, I mean, our cruise is our cruise.

[Bobby Bones]

Kids can't go on the cruise legally. Like, right? That's in the words. Kids can't exist on the cruise.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, that's what it says.

[Bobby Bones]

Nobody under 18. Kids can't exist on the cruise. Abby, what was your deal? Was Eddie Asking you watch his kids at this. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Here we go. Okay.

[Amy Brown]

Like, well, he. Before the show, he's like, how are you going tonight? He's like, I may need you to watch my kids.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't see multiple kids there. I just saw your oldest.

[Eddie]

The plan was I was going to take multiple kids, but then finally I just took my oldest. But I just told Abby, like, I'm on stage. I'm not gonna be able to just hang out with him or, like, see. Will you just keep an eye on him?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That's on you, though. That one you can't do.

[Eddie]

But it's. Abby's a friend, and I just.

[Bobby Bones]

But Abby wants to watch the show. Abby was there to watch. Yeah, Yeah. I just thought it was so random. Like, I was on your side for most of that until you wanted to bring the whole family and then have somebody on the show. Watch the family.

[Eddie]

It's a favor, man. I'm playing the show. Can you just watch my kids for a little bit?

[Bobby Bones]

If, like, your wife is there and the kids are there and they're backstage in your dressing room, and that's kind of the hub, that's fine. It's your show.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's different than him just showing up standing side stage with eight kids.

[Eddie]

Absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No Cruise. Zoba.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, no Cruise. I mean, no show. But, hey, next station event, I'm bringing my kids.

[Bobby Bones]

You know what? Don't give a crap. Do your deal.

[Eddie]

You can take them to the sore losers convention. Why don't you take them there?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, it's at bars 21 and up.

[Eddie]

Well, there you go.

[Bobby Bones]

That's like cruise.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I didn't know that. When I told them that they couldn't go, and they were not happy, but I didn't tell them legally that they couldn't go. I didn't know that part.

[Bobby Bones]

Wake up. You wake up in the morning, then you turn the radio on, and the dial just keeps on turning his wigs. Next bit, and Poppy's on the mic. So you know what this is? This is the Bobby Bone story. I'm gonna do something that I don't normally do, and nobody in the studio knows I'm about to do this, so I know our attention spans are short, and if you're listening to, like, the show and something's not for you, you change it or. So I'm just gonna ask you to hang with us for a few minutes, even if you're bored, because I have something that I need to say and something that I Need to share. So first we have a listener named James who brought us all these boxes. And James calls all the time. Here's a clip of James poking fun at Lunchbox. James from Virginia. And this is 12 seconds. And this is when Lunchbox was going to do Thunder from Down Under.

[Abby]

Morning, Bobby. Morning, studio. Thunder. Thunder, y'all. Too much fun. I love Bob. Bums family. Have fun tonight. Lunch.

[Bobby Bones]

And then lunch. Went and danced with a bunch of dudes. It was hilarious. So he showed up at the building and he left. Kaskuba was trying to get him, but he left all these boxes here.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah. He's like, I'll be there at 9:30. We think he got here a little earlier and dropped off nine boxes for everyone on the show.

[Bobby Bones]

I got goldfish. It's on the post show from Tuesday. So there were a lot of two dollar bills and so we. You got how many?

[Amy Brown]

I got like four of them.

[Bobby Bones]

We didn't know what was going on. There was just money in the box, but it ended up being $2 bills. So this is James who told us he was here for the Million Dollar show. And then due to where he does a morning Corny in the backstory of the bills.

[Abby]

Have Morning Corny for Amy. Do you know what a dentist's favorite day of the year is? Halloween. And on that note, what I've done for the past several years is to my beloved local bank, I get a hundred crisp two dollar bills. And that's why I hand out no Double dipping. I love bubble family. Happy Halloween, everybody. No double dipping much. Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

So his sister called and left a message. James came to town. James passed away while he was here.

[Amy Brown]

No, he didn't stop.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

What wa.

[Bobby Bones]

So this is his sister, Dottie Ray play that.

[Abby]

I called about James from Virginia who passed away in Nashville this year concert. Anyway, I can be re. I'm his sister. He loved y'all so much. You were family to him. I am very grateful. So I'm sorry. Give me a call. Okay, Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

This is James letting us know that he would be here for the Million Dollar Show. And he explains the boxes that he brought all of us.

[Abby]

Good morning, Bobby. My studio. I did get a couple tickets to the Million dollar show for St. Jude's children. I have a specific gift box for all y'all. I got something for security guy Tim as well. But I think everybody's gonna be happy. Scuba. Please don't mess that up for me because this is the funnest project that I've put my heart into. Plan on Delivering it. I'm not trying to meet y'all. That's not what it's about. It's about saying thank you because you are just awesome people. I just think the world. All y'all. I love my boss family. All right, I'll hear you all in the morning. I'm talking too much. You're awesome. I'm out. Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

So Scuba tried to find him, though, but he left him and then was gone. I'll give you a couple more clips and I'll give you some more information. This is James from Virginia explaining his love for the Bobby Boncho family.

[Abby]

But there is an I in family, and that's what the Bible family is. Certainly from the bleacher seat from me, hey, it's an eye. I am family because that's who we all are together. I love Bob Bone family. Please take care of Amy. I'll be the best of the bestest. Love, y'all. You're on the morning. Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

There's James signature. Goodbye.

[Abby]

Anyway, I love Bob Bones fam. I truly do. They're awesome. All right, back to your regularly scheduled programming here, y'all, tomorrow. Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

So here's what I know. James passed away somewhere between Tuesday night after Eddie and I's Raging Idiots Million Dollar show. Some people were saying that they saw him there. I couldn't find him. So then his sister didn't think he went scuba. Do we think he went to the show? We do.

[Eddie]

I think just based on some comments, Abby saw some stuff. People. So they met James. They're excited to meet him because he's this, you know, this focal point in our show.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But the thing is, there's no picture, though. I've never seen the guy and I couldn't find him. Yeah, we couldn't find him because we don't know what he looks like. We just know what his voice sounds like. So I'm like listening for this voice because it's such a signature, you know, it's very synonymous to him. And we never saw him.

[Bobby Bones]

So what happened was someone called the police station from a gas station to inform them they found someone unresponsive in their parked car. Cause of death is tbd. No foul play. An autopsy is being done today. So that sucks. And that's extremely sad. And James was. Yeah, in the past two years, a constant part of the show because we played his voicemails all the time. We would call him and talk to him on the post show. We even had to say, hey, James, like when you leave seven minute messages, we can't play him. Like, you got to cut your messages down a little bit. And so he did, and he brought us all this stuff. This. This is my James Bell that I have. And so I don't even really know what else to say except for I just found out just a little bit ago and very sorry for his family. I wanted to play this. And this is one of those where I go, hey, you may go. Normally, you change it. I get it. But this is the kind of the one that I didn't play ever. And it's a:30. We did not air it because of the run time. And I've talked about my stepdad and how I didn't have a dad growing up. And then my stepdad came into my life. And when I was 12 or 13 years old, I was already wired in a way, but I was then wired in a way with some security because I had a stepdad that cared for me and loved me. And, you know, that's Arkansas Keith, who isn't my stepdad anymore because my mom and him got divorced. They'll never not be that. And so we were just talking about that. And James always has stories about our stories, like something that related to it. So here's a:30. It's James's story about being a stepfather and taking him fishing. Here you go.

[Abby]

Good morning, Bobby. Morning, studio. Your show is all about positivity. So I don't know how you do the spin on this one, but I'm older now at the sunset of my lock. Anyway, I dated this lady like five years. She had a son, J.D. he wasn't doing very well in school and lived with his father, and he came live with us. He is all eight years old. I've never been a father. Don't even know what it's like to be a father. Had no idea. But I tried to find something to bond with. Oh, my God. I took that kid fishing. If not nine times, 90 times. Little JD could not catch a fish. It wasn't gonna happen. I took them to where the fish literally jump on the hook. Oh, I tried so hard. And then the grays were coming in. Tried to help with his homework. And I told him, bring home your report card and I'll take you fishing. 6:30 in the morning. Oh, my gosh. Me and his mom were out late and Katie was knocking on that door, hey, you're taking me fishing. I got my grade where he couldn't catch a fish. And I told him, you're gonna have to turn Your tackle box. That man. That young man could outfish me. I mean, he'd catch five bass, I'd catch three. His were bigger than mine. One of the proud moments of my life, you know, sorry his mom, you know, cheated so much. When I left her, he was pulling him on things, crying, trying to hug me. Don't go. Don't go. But I had to for my own mental health.

[Bobby Bones]

So that was James, who we spent a lot of time with on this show. We spent a lot of time calling the show, who I'm thankful that he felt like we were his friends and, like he says, family, you know, on a bigger note, I hope that a lot of you guys feel that way. We come in this room, and we have all been friends for so long, decades even, and we hope that you feel like you have a relationship with us. And James did. And we felt the same way about James because there were times we just wanted to get him on and talk with him more than just voicemails. But we'd always play the voicemails. And, yeah, it makes me really sad. I do not know what he looked like is what's crazy. We looked for him, but it's hard to look for somebody when you don't know. But that was the problem. I was like, is James here? And they were like, what's he like? I don't know. And even when he was here, Scuba was trying to get him, and he left before we could get him. But he sent us all these gifts, like, huge boxes.

[Amy Brown]

Huge boxes full of all kinds of things. And then he just. Yeah, poof. Disappeared.

[Bobby Bones]

So that makes me very sad. It makes me happy that he feels like he had some friends and family in us, and that sucks. Don't know what happened. They don't know what happened. But he was here. He went to our show. Maybe that was a really fun final thing for him to do, because I know he drove all the way here and said he was coming. I regret that we didn't just, like, meet him.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So, James, rest in peace, buddy. We appreciate you being a part of the show. We appreciate you feeling like we're your friends. You felt like a friend to us. It's gonna be weird not having your voicemails, because for everyone I played, there were 11. We didn't get to. Because he called. He called a lot, and we loved it, so.

[Amy Brown]

And it's just another reminder how fragile life is. I mean, he said he was older in that one clip, and I like how he said, he's in the sunset. Sunset side of life.

[Bobby Bones]

And I don't even know if that's because he was older or sick.

[Amy Brown]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

We.

[Amy Brown]

We don't know. And who. We would have never thought, like, with him coming up here and delivering packages and going to the show, that that would be the. The final.

[Bobby Bones]

Or.

[Amy Brown]

Or did he know something?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. That is where my mind went. So rest in peace to our buddy James. Thank you, everybody, for listening through that. We appreciate it. And we will come back. Do you remember Octomom, Amy?

[Amy Brown]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Her name.

[Amy Brown]

Nadia. Nadia Suleiman.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's right. She says she regrets not suing the fertility doctor after having 14 kids. So her biggest regret is not suing her doctor to help with her family's finances because she didn't want to have all those kids. Like, that wasn't the plan. It wasn't Johnny, Kate plus eight, where they kept having kids. And some of them were twins. Like, she was octomon because eight kids came out at once.

[Amy Brown]

Well, they often implant multiple because they don't all survive.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct. In her case, they implanted 12, which is well above the standard practice of two to three. Okay. All right.

[Amy Brown]

Well, I didn't. I didn't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Despite tell. And this is where it gets even dicier. This is according to page six, despite telling Solomon he had implanted only six, which was even more than normal. They actually implanted 12, which is above the standard practice of two to three.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, yeah. Then he needs to be held responsible.

[Bobby Bones]

Thinking back, she says she wishes now that she would handle that differently. I do regret not suing the infertility doctor. I definitely regret that because his insurance would have been the one paying. It wouldn't have, like, wiped him out. And it would have been money, and it would have been helpful for my family because she had eight kids at once, plus other kids.

[Amy Brown]

We need to hear from him. Why did he do that? Why. Why would you do 12 if standard is 3?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, he did. And again, he did 6, so I wonder if the conversation was even about the six. Like, hey, look at your body, your hormone. Whatever it is, your eggs. We'll do more than the normal because we feel like it may not work right. We'll do six. But then he snuck in an extra six.

[Amy Brown]

Like, double. One for you, one for you.

[Bobby Bones]

What if he didn't even one for you? I didn't mean to.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, it was an accident.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Like, there are times when I'm like, I don't know if I fed the dogs yet. And I'll double feed them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, I know I've an hour. Then I realized I've had Stanley. An hour ago I just had him again. He tricked me. He ate twice.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, something like that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Amy Brown]

Like I think I turned off my curling iron and I go back and check like 10 times.

[Bobby Bones]

But I'm also not a doctor. Well, I guess I am, but not that kind of doctor. A Michigan lottery player turned a ten dollar win into a five hundred thousand dollar jackpot because she hit. And then she took that money and bought the other ticket. 73 years old, wants to be anonymous. She used the Michigan spend to win game. Hit it. Half a million bucks. The lucky winner selected a 20x game ticket based on the store clerks recommendation and was overjoyed when she hit for half a million. A million dollars. That's from CBS News. I haven't scratched mine today. I'm scratching every day. I'll be scratching this one. Just a minute. My jumbo bucks. It's a 50 ticket and I can win up to 5 million. Wow. I'm down like 300 on the year. Oh, I've been on kind of a cold streak if I'm being honest.

[Amy Brown]

You gotta spend money to make money.

[Bobby Bones]

I've gone Titanic. I've hit the iceberg. Ah, yeah. I'm trying to get out of it though. Quote, I needed a liver transplant. A stranger at a NASCAR meet saved my life and then we fell in love. So the whole story is Nicole had a life threatening liver disease, needed a donor, she ended up sitting next to a man who was a match and then became her husband.

[Amy Brown]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

In 2001 she was told she needed that transplant or she was unlikely to make it out of her 30s. She had a rare blood type and so she was going to a NASCAR meet just because what she liked to do. So she made the four and a half hour drive from Vegas to Phoenix. And she's sitting there and her friends are sitting there, but she's sitting on the edge and she sit next to a guy in a cowboy hat and they started talking and there's one coincidence after another. And the guy, Jess Coleman, who was from near her hometown anyway, which was weird because she didn't know him, that ended up coming up and so he was like, I'm gonna go and get tested. They did, didn't expect it to be a match because the blood type was rare match. It was a freaking match. And so doctors say, well we can't believe this because the odds were like 1/ hundreds of thousands. And so they swapped a honeymoon suite for A hospital one. They checked in the Mayo Clinic, had dual surgeries. It was a success. They're married.

[Eddie]

What a cool story.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's a. That's a good one. And finally, an increasing number of people are sleeping with white noise machines. Not white noise machines. White noise machines.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Gotcha.

[Lunchbox]

Big difference.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. Because I'd be like, why are you gonna be racist toward noise machines?

[Eddie]

They're all the same.

[Bobby Bones]

The other colors. Yeah. White noise machines. Because they can't sleep in silence. People today are so immersed in their tech. Tv, computer games, phones, virtual reality that when it comes quiet, they get all weird. When it comes time to go to sleep, they need electronic noise. It's from the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine. Raymundo kind of has this issue. But yours is not white noise, right? Yeah. Mine's nightlight. Are you scared?

[Lunchbox]

I've just always slept one as a.

[Bobby Bones]

Kid, and it continued through college into adulthood. My wife hates it, but she's actually worked with me. She got me a dresser that has a little nightlight underneath it. Oh.

[Amy Brown]

So she doesn't really have to see it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. It's kind of just on my side. And it's not because of monsters. It's because you just need light because you always had it. Yeah, I've never. It's. Why sleep in a cave, guys. There. There should be a little bit of light in the room. I'm not trying to just be terrified at night and not know. Well, you don't have to, like, convince us and make us feel stupid. Like, your tone is like, you guys are idiots, and we're good. We're even here for you. But we felt like you came at us a little aggressive. There was just never a time when somebody said, hey, you should probably not do a nightlight until adulthood. Until I was married, my wife said, hey, you should not do a nightlight. I slept with a TV my whole life on because I never had a bedroom growing up. And so I slept on the couch in the living room. TV was always on. Right. And so I became an adult. TV stayed on everywhere. And then my wife was like, this TV's tough. And she slept with it for a while. She's like, this is hard for me to go to sleep because it was just bright like a sun ball in there. And they'd be talking. You know how TV does? They talk on it. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they do. And so then I would do Sleep Timer, and then I slowly migrated from having it on to a podcast, and so I would keep the Podcast on and be real loud. And then I migrated from that to. Well, I haven't yet.

[Amy Brown]

The podcast stays on, but that's better than, I think having the light. And I do wonder how the light is disrupting Ray's sleep. Like he's not getting the quality sleep.

[Bobby Bones]

And that is a fair question. The fair response I would have is the anxiety that he may get from not having that light would be. So he'd have to go through like a.

[Amy Brown]

You just have to wean himself off of it.

[Bobby Bones]

Because funny word, like rehab.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. Like you just need to start going lighter and lighter and lighter and lighter and then see how you feel. Because I feel like it's disrupting his circadian rhythm.

[Bobby Bones]

It's lock him in a dark room for an hour a day here. I can just sit in there. One other thing. On Saturday night, I'm hosting something called Music Night live from Nashville. It's three of the most accomplished songwriters, massive songs from like, Carrie Underwood, etc. And so we're gonna do what they do in Nashville, which is called a songwriters round. It's in 600 movie theaters nationwide. Wherever you're listening to this, you can go to movie theater and watch it live. So Saturday night, 8 Eastern, 7 Central, 6 Mountain, 5 Pacific. Go to musicnight.com to get tickets. Or you can check the movie theater, but it is live. I'll be on the movie screen. I wonder. I just want to get an Oscar. It's my goal. I don't think you can for live performances, but we could try. We'll submit you anyway. It'll be. It's gonna be awesome. They tell the stories behind the songs. They play the songs. Musicnight.com or you can check your local theater because it's all over the country. Super excited about that. That is the news. Those were Bobby's big stories. Bobby Bone Show. Bonehead Nori of the day.

[Lunchbox]

This story comes to us from Gainesville, Florida. A 20 year old man showed up at the BMW dealership. Is like, hey, I want to test drive that M4. They said, sir, it's $110,000. We got to do a financial check, make sure you can afford it. He couldn't afford it. He got mad, went out, got in his car, drove a couple laps around the parking lot, and then boom, Drew drove right into the dealership.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, wow. Probably couldn't afford that either.

[Bobby Bones]

I couldn't afford much after that.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Or had the ability to buy anything while he was in jail. Oh, man. Okay, I'm lunchbox. That's Your bonehead story of the day, a technology segment. Only 13% of Americans would trust a self driving car. Now while the number may seem low, that's got to be up 10% because I mean five years ago I had to be like 1 or 2%. But now there are certain cities that have these waymos that the cars just drive. I would love a self driving car because I just take a nap. I love a good nap. I need some time for a nap. Hey scuba, you've done these. Can you take a nap at them or do they make sure you're awake?

[Eddie]

No, you can take a nap. You just can't like smoke in there or do things or.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't smoke or do things or.

[Eddie]

Try to touch the wheel. Can't do that kind of thing.

[Bobby Bones]

Wouldn't do that even with a real driver. Wouldn't try to touch the wheel.

[Eddie]

Sleeping is fine though.

[Amy Brown]

You're good.

[Bobby Bones]

Self driving cars still have a long road ahead, but they are happening in some major cities, mostly all west coast. I believe 13% of Americans would feel comfortable letting a car just take the wheel and drive. I have not been in one. I would feel a bit uncomfortable, as in like, wow, I can't believe this is happening. But I think eventually I'd warm up to it. This is from kbb, but think about how flawed humans are and how they don't pay attention, how they look at their phones, how they're doing everything. And then all of a sudden we're like, we don't want a computer that sees everything and pays attention all the time. And like one computer car has a wreck and they're like, see, I told you. 700 million human cars have a wreck. And we're like, yeah, we'd rather drive with them. You know, Am I making a point at all?

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, no. I can't wait for the day where we're all trusting our cars to do it. Because I do think it will be safer, I think unless somebody hacks the system.

[Bobby Bones]

But somebody could hack stuff now and they're not.

[Eddie]

I mean, that's different. Right? If they were all computerized, it'd be perfect.

[Bobby Bones]

It'd be so perfect.

[Eddie]

But with humans mixed with computer. Ooh, that's, that's true.

[Bobby Bones]

But the computers are dodging humans when humans don't dodge humans. Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

We've seen footage of a car reacting to like a person on a scooter in Austin and it was like, I think if a human had been driving they probably would hit her.

[Bobby Bones]

If a Car that is self driving hits a person or a car. Big news. If it's like one out of 200 days, 700 million wrecks a day because of idiots driving. No news. So it would be weird. But I'm here for it. I think that will be. I think we all drive stupid. Even I drive well and slow. But still. If it's a red light, I'm looking at my phone. I gotta get the. To go forward. There are times where I hit a curb. I don't mean to. My car's long, so I'm up for it. It'd be weird. Was it weird the first time, Scuba Steve?

[Eddie]

It was weird, but it was just so freeing and liberating and just thinking about the future.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you naked?

[Will]

Well, no.

[Bobby Bones]

It was just so cool to not.

[Eddie]

Be able to drive because I always drive.

[Bobby Bones]

It was nice to see I could be myself.

[Eddie]

But it was also just like the future of the world. Like this is where we're going. It was so cool.

[Bobby Bones]

I agree. So cool.

[Amy Brown]

There is anywhere. Like the numbers vary, but about. Let's just call it 20,000 car accidents a day in America.

[Bobby Bones]

A day?

[Amy Brown]

A day.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a lot. Wow.

[Amy Brown]

About.

[Bobby Bones]

And then there's like one every two weeks of like a Tesla or one of these hitting somebody. We're like, we told you. Mike, you been in one of these? No, I've seen them. I thought they were like the Google cars taking maps because it has like a big camera on top. But yeah, they're just driving themselves. I saw someone just getting their makeup, doing their own makeup, sitting in the passenger seat. So you thought someone was doing their makeup in a Google car. That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Another one. Apple is being sued over forever chemicals now. I can guess what that is. I feel like. Amy, have a better idea of what forever chemicals are.

[Amy Brown]

They la. They impact us forever. I know, I've heard it. I don't know how to define it. Is it something like they stay in us forever or they don't dissolve anywhere?

[Bobby Bones]

So that my thought would have been they just don't go away. Like they're here. You can't recycle them. You know, I'd say they're forever.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Like the name.

[Bobby Bones]

Apple's been hit with a class action lawsuit for selling watch bands containing excessive levels of. It's a word I'm not even going to try. But it starts with poly. Poly flora. Some stuff. There's some substances in it known as forever chemicals. These chemicals are good at resisting Water, sweat and oil. They're found in many consumer products, including nonstick cookware, mattress pads, waterproof cloth, and watch bands. The chemicals take, quote, forever to break down, and exposure beyond certain levels can increase the risk of cancer. They've been around so long, there is a pic, there's an actual picture of a stegosaurus wearing an apple watch. Really? Same one still exists? Yeah, forever ago. It's still just chilling.

[Amy Brown]

There you go. Yeah, it doesn't dissolve so many chemicals.

[Bobby Bones]

That are all around that we have no idea what they're doing to us. We're all cool with it now because we don't know the difference. In 15 years, we're going to know the difference. But 15 years ago, there are things that we didn't know then that we know the difference. That's life.

[Amy Brown]

The thing about them too is they're toxic at really, really low levels. Like, sometimes you feel like you need a lot of something. And the ones that fall into this category, you can consume a low amount of it and it can impact you.

[Bobby Bones]

My excitement is to take one of these self driving cars to the Forever Chemical Store. That's the future. That's the future. We're done. Bye, everybody. The Bobby Bones Show. Bobby Bones.

[Abby]

Anyway, I love Bob Bones fam, I truly do. You're awesome. All right, back to your regularly scheduled programming. Here y'all tomorrow. Bye.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks. But the great thing now at Starbucks is is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're gonna go, you're gonna meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here, you're gonna get it in a mug or a glass. So you go to Starbucks anyway, next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit.

[Will]

Hey, Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days?

[Mango]

Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science, I can't keep track of it all.

[Will]

Then it's a good thing. Our podcast, Part Time Genius is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years.

[Mango]

That's right, Mango. We're talking animals in a paper called.

[Will]

Quote, chickens prefer beautiful humans. This was actually the title of the paper. They all discovered that, much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Will]

We're talking medical miracles.

[Mango]

He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster.

[Will]

There's no way to make that not sound crazy.

[Mango]

We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the Part Time Genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bob Pittman]

Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to introduce a brand new season of my podcast Math and Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. I'm having conversations with some folks across a wide range of industries to hear how they reach the top of their fields and the lessons they learned along the way that everyone can use. I'll be joined by innovative leaders like Chairman and CEO of Elf Beauty, Tarang Amin, legendary singer, songwriter and philanthropist Jewel.

[Amy Brown]

Being a rock star is very fun.

[Bobby Bones]

But helping people is way more fun.

[Bob Pittman]

And Damian Maldonado, CEO of American Financing.

[Bobby Bones]

I figured out the formula. I have to work hard. Then that's magic.

[Bob Pittman]

Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math and the ever important creative spark, the magic. Listen to math and Magic on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm Mark Seale.

[Bob Pittman]

And I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli.

[Abby]

The five families did not want us.

[Bobby Bones]

To shoot that picture.

[Bob Pittman]

This podcast is based on my co host Mark Seals best selling book of the same title. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, James Caan, Talia Shire and many others.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, that was a real horse's head.

[Bob Pittman]

Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.