THURS PT 2: Has Amy Tried Out ‘Big Dog’ Yet? + We Got Invited To An Award Show + Was Eddie’s Dad A Drug Dealer?

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show — January 22, 2026

Episode: THURS PT 2: Has Amy Tried Out ‘Big Dog’ Yet? + We Got Invited To An Award Show + Was Eddie’s Dad A Drug Dealer?
Host: Bobby Bones (with Amy, Eddie, Morgan, and others)
Main Theme: Lighthearted, offbeat team banter about ongoing show jokes, viral social media moments, quirky news, and personal stories — with playful interrogation into Eddie’s family history and the team’s brush with the iHeart Podcast Awards.

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Episode Overview

This episode is classic Bobby Bones Show: a raucous, conversational blend of inside jokes, trending topics, audience engagement, and the group’s candid discussions about their daily lives.
Highlights include the ongoing “Big Dog” catchphrase saga with Amy, chatter about an unexpected podcast awards invitation, viral TikTok jingles, the accidental suspicion of Eddie’s dad being a drug dealer, and opinions on cultural issues from surrogacy shaming to swearing kids. Throughout, the group’s chemistry, quick wit, and tendency to veer into playful arguments keep things lively.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Amy’s “Big Dog” Greeting Attempts

[02:37-03:55]

• Morgan observes Amy with the general manager and asks if she tried the “Big Dog” greeting.
• Amy insists she didn't see him, and the group discusses the proper delivery (“less emphasis on the ‘g’”).
• Eddie and Morgan tease Amy about her attempts (“She goes too hard on the G though.” – Eddie, 03:29), reliving a moment when Amy used it unprompted.
• Memorable Quote:
  • "Let's walk out together, Big dog." – Eddie impersonating Amy [03:31]

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2. Blood Shortage & Bobby’s Health Mishaps

[03:56-06:38]

• Amy brings up the severe US blood shortage: “The American Red Cross has declared a severe blood shortage.” – Amy [03:56]
• Bobby describes his frequent “Power Reds” donations but jokes about trying to donate while on medication (including Cialis).
• The team spirals into jokes about blood flow and donation issues, especially concerning Bobby’s unique circumstances.
• Memorable Exchange:
  • Morgan: “Can you donate with a boner?” [04:45]
  • Bobby: “Luckily, I just Googled—oh, man... I was worried I wouldn’t be able to save lives next Friday.” [05:52]

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3. Social Virality: The Dr. Pepper Jingle Saga

[07:33-13:01]

• Eddie expresses frustration seeing a viral TikTok jingle turn into a Dr. Pepper commercial; he laments his own jingle attempts for other brands never took off.
• Morgan, Amy, and Bobby explain the role of TikTok’s algorithms and how following isn’t as pivotal as it once was.
• Insight: Social virality hinges on community “championing” and sharing above all else.
• Notable Quote:
  • “All of the attention that Dr. Pepper got from this thing going viral is what made them the money.” – Morgan [11:16].
• Eddie’s take: “You know what I got from Hershey? A bunch of candy bars.” [11:01]

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4. Blood Type Confusion & Doctor Access

[13:11-15:28]

• Brief tangent with Morgan logging into 23andMe, unable to find her blood type; Bobby jokes about constant new cousin alerts.
• They compare healthcare portal annoyances and the ability (or lack thereof) to text their doctors directly. Some get cell numbers, others wait days.
• Quote:
  • “You’re not big enough, Eddie.” – Bobby to Eddie, joking about celebrity privilege getting direct access [14:43]

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5. Real-Life Drama: Timothy Busfield Accusations

[15:28-17:24]

• Group discusses the complex, recanted allegations against Timothy Busfield. There’s skepticism about the charges, and sympathy about life-changing accusations possibly being overblown.
• Quote:
  • “Life-changing accusations here, people.” – Amy [17:22]
  • “I’m so much so on hey, innocent until proven guilty. Unless your name’s Diddy… Or Epstein or Weinstein.” – Morgan [17:24]

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6. “Was Eddie’s Dad a Drug Dealer?” Family Mystery

[18:12-26:24]

• Lunchbox shares a news story about a fisherman finding kilos of cocaine, leading to Eddie relaying stories from childhood about shady family members and a mysterious trash bag falling from the sky.
• The group playfully interrogates Eddie on the likelihood his dad’s streetlight refurbishing business was also a cover for smuggling.
• Each team member “percentages” the odds (ranging from 18% to 40%) his family was involved with drugs.
• Funny Exchange:
  • Morgan: “I put the odds at about 18%... Anything on the border, just—” [22:16]
  • Amy, increasing: “I’m at 40%.” [25:00]
• Eddie insists it was legitimate, but the crew isn’t convinced.

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7. The iHeart Podcast Awards Invitation

[27:20-28:12]

• Team excitedly realizes they’ve been invited to the iHeart Podcast Awards; RSVP confusion ensues.
• Eddie didn’t see his invite, thinks it was misaddressed. Team debates if they should attend, with Bobby pushing to “represent.”
• Quote:
  • “Dude, we gotta go. We gotta represent.” – Eddie [28:01]

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8. Parenting, Surrogacy, and the Megan Trainor Backlash

[33:19-34:19]

• Morgan summarizes internet outrage at Megan Trainor for using a surrogate and sharing skin-to-skin photos.
• Panel soundly rejects the online criticism, defending her right to privacy and choice.
• Quote:
  • “We have no idea her reasoning for choosing a surrogate...and we don’t deserve to know.” – Amy [34:03]

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9. Queer Eye Drama & Professional Conduct

[34:19-40:14]

• Dissects tensions on the Queer Eye cast, particularly Karamo’s absence from a major interview and the ensuing drama.
• Team stresses importance of compartmentalization and professionalism.
• Word Salad Watch:
  • “Families are complicated…we’re definitely not excluded from that...two things can exist at the same time.” – Queer Eye cast member [36:39]
• Morgan: “You asked for more drama by doing it the way that you did.” [40:10]

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10. Viewer Mailbag: Motion Sickness, Surrogate Parking, and Handicaps

[40:38-41:52]

• Listener advice for Bobby’s cruise motion sickness, speculating about possible connections with vision impairment.
• Panel jokes about using health excuses for handicap placards and whether Bobby should be allowed to drive.
• Quote:
  • “Should you even be allowed to drive?” – Amy [41:57]

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11. Random News & Riffing: Frying Pan vs. Knife & Swearing Kids

[43:29-48:05]

• Bizarre story: intruder with knife fights homeowner wielding a frying pan (“Knife versus frying pan—who wins?”).
  Amy and Morgan pick knife, Eddie stands by the pan. Ultimately, the pan wins after a scuffle.
• Later, debate over whether letting kids curse is really a big deal; all agree context and intent matter most.
• Notable Quotes:
  • “If my kid ever said the F word...in front of me, it's over.” – Eddie [46:24]
  • “I think it's all about intent.” – Morgan [46:41]

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12. Tips & Oddball Facts: Cayenne in Socks

[50:10-51:17]

• Morgan shares that LA Rams players used cayenne pepper in their socks for cold Chicago games; Amy explains the science.
• Team jokes that it’s a cheaper alternative to pricey medications.
• Quote:
  • “You could just put cayenne pepper on your poo-poo, dude, and have the same thing happen.” – Morgan [50:46]

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• “Let's walk out together, Big dog.” – Eddie (impersonating Amy) [03:31]
• “Can you donate with a boner?” – Morgan [04:45]
• “All of the attention that Dr. Pepper got from this thing going viral is what made them the money.” – Morgan [11:16]
• “You’re not big enough, Eddie.” – Bobby [14:43]
• “Life-changing accusations here, people.” – Amy [17:22]
• “I put the odds at about 18% there was some drug moving.” – Morgan [22:16]
• “I’m at 40%.” – Amy [25:00]
• “We gotta go. We gotta represent.” – Eddie [28:01]
• “We have no idea her reasoning for choosing a surrogate...and we don’t deserve to know.” – Amy [34:03]
• “Should you even be allowed to drive?” – Amy [41:57]
• “If my kid ever said the F word...in front of me, it’s over.” – Eddie [46:24]
• “You could just put cayenne pepper on your poo-poo, dude, and have the same thing happen.” – Morgan [50:46]

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Episode Flow & Tone

• Language & Tone: Lively, irreverent, quick-witted—banter is easygoing, sometimes sarcastic, and often self-deprecating.
• Energy: Playful skepticism (especially about Eddie’s family), supportive to one another’s quirks, peppered with pop-culture tangents.
• Listeners will enjoy: The group’s effortless chemistry, unexpectedly deep dives into family history, hot takes on social media dynamics, and their ability to find humor in news and everyday situations.

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For anyone who hasn’t listened:
This episode captures the unpredictable, laughter-filled camaraderie of the Bobby Bones Show—think close friends catching up, ribbing each other, and riffing on whatever random topics come their way, from TikTok fame to family secrets and frying pan combat.

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[End of Summary]

Transcript

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[Bobby]

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[Morgan]

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[Morgan]

All right, let's go around the room. Let's go over to which, by the way, hopefully you didn't take offense to it. I do like your shirt.

[Amy]

Thank you. I didn't take offense. It's fine.

[Morgan]

Okay. We did see you standing out there with the general manager guy.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, Howard.

[Morgan]

Howard. And we wondered if you big dogged him.

[Eddie]

That was your chance.

[Morgan]

Did you not see him out there?

[Amy]

No, I wasn't. I didn't even see him.

[Morgan]

Oh, he was standing by the door, and I said, oh, there's a general manager. I wonder if I have any big dogs on.

[Amy]

No, I didn't.

[Eddie]

Are you procrastinating on the big dog?

[Morgan]

Have you given up on it?

[Amy]

No, I haven't.

[Morgan]

Come on, big dog.

[Amy]

I didn't have my phone with me, Big dog. And y' all said hi to record it.

[Morgan]

You're not saying it's too much emphasis on the guh. You almost gotta be like, is that big dog?

[Eddie]

Has she tried.

[Morgan]

There's almost no guh in dog. Like, if you're totally being cool about.

[Amy]

It, is it just like big dog?

[Morgan]

Yeah, kinda. It's like, hey, big dog. Hey, big dog.

[Eddie]

Okay, has she tried to hit you with a big dog?

[Amy]

No.

[Eddie]

She's trying to hit you.

[Amy]

I don't have to do it to y'. All.

[Eddie]

No. Yeah, you've done it to me twice. And I've been like, stop.

[Morgan]

She has it to you again.

[Eddie]

She does. What?

[Morgan]

She goes too hard on the G, though.

[Eddie]

Yeah, she. She was like. I think we were walking out at the same time. She's like, let's walk out together, Big dog.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Oh, no, no pause. You can't pause it.

[Eddie]

I thought that was weird.

[Amy]

Are you talking about when we were at Bobby's? Oh, did I say big dog?

[Eddie]

You did. And I'm like, stop.

[Amy]

That's funny.

[Morgan]

All right, what's your story?

[Amy]

I didn't even know I said that. I think you said, are you leaving right now? And I said, yeah, dog.

[Eddie]

No. You call me big dog.

[Morgan]

You didn't get the big.

[Bobby]

All right, you're up.

[Amy]

The American Red Cross has declared a severe blood shortage. So right now, it's the perfect storm for this, because donations are typically low during the holiday season. So we've just come out of that, and then we have record flu activity. And with the winter weather, all of those things impede donation efforts. So just spread the word. If you can get out and donate blood, do it. And I know we have a lifesaver on the show.

[Morgan]

He donates his power reds.

[Bobby]

I do. And it's like seven or eight but are you Don.

[Amy]

My question is, are you donating them now with all of your ailments?

[Bobby]

I do go in poisoning, folks. I do go in next Friday to do Power Reds.

[Amy]

Is this your first time donating, though, on Cialis?

[Eddie]

Oh, you have to tell.

[Morgan]

Can you donate with a boner? Yeah, that's the question.

[Bobby]

I don't know if I can donate with. Oh, no.

[Eddie]

Why? Why? Because of blood pressure.

[Morgan]

Because they'll just think it's weird.

[Amy]

But is it a blood.

[Morgan]

I don't think you go a lot of places.

[Amy]

It's gotta do something to the blood because it's sending blood.

[Eddie]

All the blood's down there.

[Morgan]

What if they have to go, take it out of that?

[Eddie]

Sir, all the blood's from one place.

[Morgan]

Sir, we can't get your vein on your arm.

[Eddie]

We're gonna have to try this.

[Morgan]

We're gonna have to go down.

[Amy]

I mean, I only picked this door because of lunch frogs, but now I'm regretting it.

[Bobby]

Oh, yes, you can generally donate Power Reds while taking Cialis.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Amy]

All right.

[Eddie]

But lunchbox, you got to tell them about all your stuff.

[Morgan]

You have to go in when you fill out the form, and it's like. And you have to go, excuse me. I just need to let you guys know I have a boner.

[Eddie]

Right?

[Morgan]

You have to tell them that.

[Bobby]

But I don't have one.

[Amy]

But you have to say, okay, but what Bobby means is you have to say, I'm on muscle relaxers and just.

[Eddie]

Letting you guys know, and I have.

[Amy]

Pains in my thing, and my one.

[Eddie]

Testicle gets really big swollen.

[Bobby]

Now, I will tell them all that.

[Morgan]

Yeah, of course.

[Bobby]

But I don't. I mean, luckily, I just Googled. Oh, man. That.

[Morgan]

Whoo.

[Bobby]

I'm so glad. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to save lives next Friday.

[Amy]

And they need your blood desperately. We have a unit. It's a shortage across the United States.

[Bobby]

I know. And that's why they keep texting me. Hey, don't forget about your appointment.

[Morgan]

Question. Isn't there always a shortage?

[Amy]

It's particularly low now. We've gone below 35, which they don't like to do.

[Morgan]

Got it.

[Amy]

It's so. It's. Yes, I think they're always in need of blood, but it's. They called it, like I said, the perfect storm.

[Bobby]

Yeah. And my blood type is really the one that's needed.

[Amy]

Yes, there are. There are various factors contributing to the extra shortage.

[Morgan]

I still don't know my blood type.

[Bobby]

Because my blood goes. Can go to everybody.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Universal Blood?

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

What's your type?

[Bobby]

Oh, something.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

You don't know?

[Bobby]

No. If you just. What is that?

[Amy]

Like, why is that something that's so hard for a lot of us to remember? We're not the only ones. But it's like, why it shouldn't be that hard?

[Bobby]

I'm negative.

[Morgan]

I'm logging into my 23andMe to see if I hack. I tell you, I get an email every two days. You got a new cousin?

[Eddie]

Really? And they claim. Like, they claim it?

[Morgan]

Well, it's not that. It's. They really are. They don't.

[Amy]

It's a match.

[Morgan]

Searching for me?

[Amy]

Yeah, it's a match. Which is weird because your cousin tree is supposed to be small, right?

[Morgan]

Yeah, but it's like third, fourth cousins, that kind of thing. I got to try later. I don't know my.

[Eddie]

Well, are you reaching out every time you get a. I never reach out. Do you should reach out.

[Morgan]

I never reach out.

[Eddie]

So cuz.

[Morgan]

So Big dog. Yeah, I can't get in. Oh, give me a second code. Okay, Eddie, I've got to your story. I'll try to log into my 23 and me.

[Eddie]

This story is kind of makes me mad a little bit. When I saw it. It's a girl that went viral a while back, like around Christmas time. She posted a video of her doing a jingle, like a funny little jingle for Dr. Pepper and Ray. Do you have the audio, by chance?

[Bobby]

Yep.

[Morgan]

Yeah, she made. Went big. It got so big. It wasn't a commercial that you're gonna do? Yes, I saw when they were building it out for her, they were like, why is Dr. Pepper not using this as an ad?

[Eddie]

I've done this so many times.

[Morgan]

Okay, you're upset.

[Eddie]

I've done jingles for all these companies.

[Morgan]

Play it. I have a theme song for Dr. Pepper and it goes like this.

[Amy]

Dr. Pepper baby is good and nice.

[Morgan]

And so then people started putting instruments behind it. And then there'd be like 10 squares. There was like all these musicians adding Dr. Pepper baby. It's good to end. Nice.

[Eddie]

It went super, super viral.

[Morgan]

And I saw the commercial, and then.

[Eddie]

Dr. Pepper was like, hey, let's make that into a real commercial. And they did. Yeah. That's what I saw aired during the national championship.

[Morgan]

I thought. I didn't know. It was the first time that they did that as a commercial. I thought, oh, they've just been using it now.

[Eddie]

No, and she just created it by just doing a dumb TikTok. I mean, it's awesome. I'm happy for her. I hope she got paid.

[Bobby]

Oh, I wonder if she got paid.

[Morgan]

Of course she got paid. Yeah. They can't use your stuff without paying.

[Eddie]

You, so that's great for her. But it made me a little mad because I've done jingles for Hershey, I'd done jingles for Morgan and Morgan, nothing. And I thought my jingles were pretty good. It's better than a Dr. Pepper, baby. It's good and nice. That's nothing.

[Morgan]

You selling Lunchbox right now.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Bobby]

Yeah. I'm not sure why it's that big a deal. Like, what was so great about it?

[Morgan]

No, what was so great is everybody got on to champion it.

[Eddie]

So I think what I'm gonna now is I'm gonna create a different TikTok account. Eddie Jingles.

[Morgan]

No, just do them on yours. Why would you create a second account?

[Amy]

Yeah, you already have followers, but I'm.

[Eddie]

Trying to do a food thing on mine.

[Morgan]

I think we're. We're. It doesn't matter.

[Eddie]

Am I thinking that?

[Morgan]

I'm not giving you my philosophy. It doesn't matter, but you're overthinking everything, Bobby.

[Amy]

I want to hear it. Say it to me.

[Eddie]

I hear, too.

[Bobby]

I'll listen.

[Eddie]

Say it to us.

[Morgan]

Social media used to be where you would get on and you'd follow somebody, and then you would just see what they do regardless of what they do. It's not so much that anymore. Your algorithm is feeding you things you like. And if somebody that you follow also does something you like, you're fed it first, but you're fed things that you like more so than you're fed the people that you're following. Following doesn't matter as much anymore. There's still absolutely some weight in. It doesn't matter as much anymore. So you can actually get on your feet and do 20 different things, and it's going to feed your jingle to people they think would like that. It's not going to feed everything you do to people. So you can do. You can get on your TikTok and talk about 20 different things. I think this has been a pretty big shift in the last nine months to a year where it used to be that you create an account, you do only that. TikTok especially. Instagram's different. Yeah, Instagram's rookie ball. TikTok's where people are going super viral. And this stuff's happening, too. You can do seven different things. So you have seven niches.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

They're gonna feed the niches to the people that want to eat the niches Instagram.

[Eddie]

You're gonna do food.

[Morgan]

Just stay on food.

[Eddie]

Okay, so, like, on my profile, should I put, like, you know, food Guy? It doesn't Jingle Maker.

[Morgan]

It does.

[Eddie]

Sure.

[Morgan]

It doesn't matter what you put on your profile, because she didn't have Jingle Maker. The original person, she just made it, and the video was like. It was like under her face.

[Eddie]

It's like nothing. It's just got her phone, like, listen to this.

[Morgan]

Yeah, Dr. Pepper, baby.

[Eddie]

It's good and nice.

[Morgan]

And then it was just the people that were championing her is why it went viral. Dang.

[Eddie]

That's so cool.

[Amy]

You're gonna hate how much you got paid for it, too.

[Eddie]

How much she get paid?

[Amy]

No, I think you're gonna.

[Eddie]

That's crazy. That's crazy. You know what I got from Hershey? A bunch of candy bars.

[Morgan]

The thing about that is, though, she made so much money for them, just it going viral.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's not from Dr. Pepper.

[Morgan]

No, no. You guys are missing the point. Sorry. Let me explain this differently. All. All of the attention that Dr. Pepper got from this thing going viral is what made them the money.

[Eddie]

Sure, I get that.

[Morgan]

And then they probably bought it not just for this commercial, but. But I wouldn't say in perpetuity, because you really don't buy the music for commercials of perpetuity, but probably for a couple of years or something, and so that she doesn't go, okay, never mind. It's Mountain Dew, baby. It's good. So, yeah, 2 million bucks sounds about right.

[Eddie]

10 to 2. Oh, I thought her.

[Morgan]

Okay, so how do I find my freaking blood type?

[Amy]

Morgan, what about the other.

[Morgan]

I'm in.

[Amy]

Musicians that hopped in on the video? I don't know.

[Morgan]

No, no, they didn't use them. Those musicians were just created. It was just.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they don't get anything.

[Morgan]

They're like. No, no, they. They didn't even use that.

[Eddie]

Huh?

[Morgan]

They didn't even use all the musicians.

[Amy]

Sorry, I didn't see the commercial, so.

[Morgan]

Oh, no, they didn't show in the commercial.

[Eddie]

No, the commercial is literally just cans of Dr. Peppers with her song on it.

[Amy]

Oh, cool. Okay.

[Morgan]

The musicians were. That was part of the virality of it. Like, a musician would hear it and there'd be a drummer, and then someone else would make another video adding a bass. And that's not the final, like, sound they used, but it's part of what made that so big.

[Eddie]

So there's like, 2 million from Dr. Pepper. Right. But then TikTok, whatever she got on that video is Probably a lot of money, too.

[Morgan]

I'm gonna make a statement here. I bet she didn't get much from Tick Tock because as soon as you get in the creator fund, they suppress your videos. I feel.

[Eddie]

Oh, they control that.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And I don't know how many views it got. She probably got a little bit. 44 million. She made that from TikTok. The original video got 44 million views. So she probably made $20,000 or something.

[Eddie]

Oh, okay. That is a lot.

[Amy]

Well, and now she's gonna hopefully get other jingles because, like, Subway, Panera, you had a bunch of brands. Comedy. And we're like, yeah.

[Morgan]

She started fishing a little bit too after and started doing other companies whenever she got.

[Eddie]

But you gotta change it up. She can't do that. Same song.

[Morgan]

How do I find my blood type?

[Bobby]

It's nice.

[Eddie]

Are you still looking for your blood type?

[Amy]

I'm in, baby.

[Morgan]

I'm in. I already did that joke. I said Mountain Dew, baby.

[Amy]

We're just.

[Eddie]

We're just piggybacking, dude.

[Morgan]

Nah, you guys just don't get me.

[Amy]

Did you. When you did 23andMe, did you get me? Did you donate blood to do it, or did you just donate saliva?

[Morgan]

That's a good point.

[Amy]

Because if you did saliva, I don't.

[Morgan]

Think they do sperm. Okay.

[Eddie]

That wasn't an option.

[Morgan]

It was, though. They didn't like, you're like, I know.

[Eddie]

It'S not an option.

[Morgan]

They didn't know. But you send in every sample, a.

[Eddie]

Stool sample, just in case.

[Morgan]

That's a good point, Morgan.

[Amy]

Yeah, I don't think, at least from just the quick search that I'm seeing, I don't know that 23andMe offers your blood type.

[Morgan]

So that would be the only way I would know.

[Amy]

You could get, like, I just got my finger pricked. And they can determine it that way.

[Morgan]

I'm going to ask my doctor.

[Eddie]

You can text him. Huh? You can just text your doctor. Yeah. I have to go through a portal.

[Bobby]

Oh, the portal. Wait three days for a response. I mean, it's like, guys, healthcare is so dumb.

[Eddie]

But what's dumb about that is it says, give the doctor. Allow the doctor two to three days. And he always texts back in three days.

[Bobby]

Yep.

[Eddie]

It's like he waits till the last minute.

[Morgan]

I say, greetings, do you know my blood type?

[Eddie]

Greetings.

[Morgan]

We'll see what they say.

[Bobby]

Yeah, you're sick, dude. You got these pains. Oh, just wait three days for a response. Cool, man.

[Eddie]

How do you get your doctor's number? Do you just Be like, hey, man, can I have your number?

[Morgan]

No, he just gives it to me. Really?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I'm gonna try that next time because, like, they've never offered, like, hey, anything you need, call me.

[Bobby]

Eddie, you're not big enough, Eddie.

[Morgan]

Oh, what?

[Amy]

It's different.

[Eddie]

What do you mean, big enough? Is this your general practitioner or whatever? Like you're.

[Amy]

Yeah, but it's just different.

[Bobby]

Yeah, Eddie, duh.

[Eddie]

You go to the. The medical center, right? Like doctor's office?

[Morgan]

No, I go to his office.

[Bobby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Eddie, you're just not big enough.

[Eddie]

It has nothing to do with being big.

[Bobby]

No, it does.

[Amy]

I don't think so.

[Eddie]

So what does it have to do with?

[Amy]

How many.

[Bobby]

Jimmy down the street ain't getting his doctor's number. Guess who is. Keith Urban.

[Eddie]

Forget Jimmy. Eddie's not getting the number.

[Amy]

I don't think it has to do with notoriety. I think it has to do with what you pay.

[Eddie]

Oh, so you pay for the number?

[Morgan]

I gave him five bucks. He gave me his number.

[Eddie]

Like, can I get your number?

[Morgan]

Timothy Busfield. You want to get back into him?

[Amy]

Oh, I have the story. I don't know the update.

[Morgan]

Timothy Busfeld, accuser walks back, claims the little.

[Amy]

The boys or which one.

[Morgan]

This is cracking like crazy, man. Hairstylist Dinelle Vigil says her statements about Timothy Busfield were misconstrued by authorities and lacked full context. She claims she was emotionally distressed and unaware her conversation with police was being recorded or that her name wouldn't be redacted from her statement. Busfeld has denied all allegations. So she was a hairstylist on the cleaning lady, which was the movie or the TV show? Right.

[Amy]

One of the two TV show filmed in New Mexico.

[Morgan]

So she's speaking out after her remarks about Timothy Busfield surfaced following his sexual abuse charges, saying her words were being misconstrued. She previously described to authorities that she witnessed Busfield kiss two child actors on the forehead while working on the Fox drama. At the time of the call, I was contacted by a detective regarding what was being described as child related investigation. This immediately caused me significant emotional distress. My intention was never to speculate, accuse or harm anyone, but to speak truthfully about my own perceptions. She said she did not know the conversation was being taped. It's just so many people now backing off of just feels. It's always felt like there was a good shot that what they're claiming happened didn't happen. It's felt that since the beginning. It's such a heavy charge.

[Eddie]

And what's crazy too now Is like, I didn't know who he was really until we talked about him. So now like Timothy, was it Busfield? Busfield to me will always be related to that.

[Morgan]

I did not feel that my words were accurately or fairly representative. I believe they were used to support a narrative that does not align with what I meant or how the conversation unfolded. There's just one after the other every day. People are like, I don't know if this is it. I heard this person say this. She's like, I don't. Didn't mean it like that.

[Amy]

Life changing accusations here, people.

[Morgan]

Big time holy man. And we don't know if he did it or not. I'm as I get older and I've just talked about so much news in my life. I'm so much so on. Hey, innocent until proven guilty. Unless your name's Diddy, it's pretty much it. Or Epstein or Weinstein.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

Do you see the SNL sketch Harvey Epstein running for Congress.

[Eddie]

But it sounds, he was like, I'm.

[Morgan]

Harvey Epstein, I'm running for Congress.

[Eddie]

Yep.

[Morgan]

I got a raw deal with both my names.

[Amy]

Very unfortunate.

[Morgan]

It was really funny. And then this woman goes, they would cut in ads. And she said something like, you know, I think you'd be great for Congress. I'm not gonna let around my kids. He goes, no, no, that wasn't me. Not no charges. And then it cuts back. It's really funny.

[Eddie]

It's funny.

[Morgan]

It's really funny Story Lunchbox.

[Bobby]

Yeah. There's a boat captain in Florida. He's out in the Keys doing his little thing in the boat. He's like, what's that floating around in the water? Kilos of cocaine.

[Eddie]

Don't touch it.

[Bobby]

So what's he do? Pulls it into his boat.

[Eddie]

Nope.

[Bobby]

And he's like, man, what do I do with this? Went and got a storage unit, put it in the storage unit and said, you know, I think I'm going to try to sell this.

[Morgan]

I felt that, buddy. God gave you a little treat.

[Bobby]

And he sold it to an undercover cop.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

And then he was like, well, I got more of my storage unit. And so they went and searched that and found all the cocaine.

[Eddie]

And he for sure was just a dude on a boat.

[Bobby]

Yeah, that's what they're saying.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

He just found.

[Amy]

No priors.

[Eddie]

No.

[Morgan]

They seize 23 kilograms of cocaine, 8,000 bucks in cash, and his boat.

[Eddie]

Because I could also see like a drug dealer being like, no, man, I'm just a guy on a boat. Like. And I found this thing.

[Morgan]

I Don't do anything.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Bobby]

Nobody just opened up to was like, well, there's more in the storage unit. Like, yeah.

[Morgan]

It's not really what a drug dealer does, go and take you to more drugs.

[Eddie]

Not really. That's great.

[Bobby]

I mean, first of all, if you end up selling it, whoever dropped that there is going to come looking for.

[Eddie]

You ever tell you that's just.

[Morgan]

It's just a loss? Yeah.

[Bobby]

Move on.

[Morgan]

I think the person could get in trouble by the people that gave them the drugs, but I think it's just a loss.

[Eddie]

No.

[Morgan]

There's so much money happening now out there that I think sometimes you just lose some.

[Eddie]

You don't think that was a pickup?

[Morgan]

What?

[Eddie]

The kilo floating. That was a pickup. That's not a loss.

[Morgan]

I'm saying if you. If for some reason you lose it, somebody steals it. I think there's just so much that they're got. We have 11% of our money that we're making is just going to be lost.

[Eddie]

Oh, I got you.

[Bobby]

So they're not going to look for vengeance if some guy finds it in a boat.

[Eddie]

I got you.

[Bobby]

Because it's not worth their time.

[Morgan]

And also, if it's just floating in the water, you got to give like super specific coordinates and they don't even stay in the same coordinate if it's just moves. I don't feel like that was something left out there on purpose.

[Eddie]

You just feel like they try all kinds of things to move those.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah, stuff. We don't even know that they're so advanced, man.

[Eddie]

When I was a kid, I'm not. Not kidding. And I was the only one that saw it, but we were driving in South Texas in the middle of nowhere, and I saw a place like a trash bag fall from the sky. And it was, boom. Landed right on a piece of. In the middle of like a pasture. And I told my dad and my mom and they're just like, oh, yeah. I don't know. I'm like, no, no, it fell from the sky.

[Morgan]

Do you think they thought it was drugs? They were just telling you, hey, leave it alone.

[Eddie]

We never talked about it again. I don't know what they thought, but I was just like, guys, there was a huge trash bag that fell. Like, I just saw it. And they were like, oh, well, okay. Wonder what that was.

[Bobby]

You think they've seen it all the time. And they were just like, we don't want to tell our kids what your family was.

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Morgan]

You said you had a bunch of drug dealers at Work.

[Eddie]

My uncles.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

They just moved. They were like mules. Yeah, they were mules.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Is there any chance, like, that was happening there?

[Eddie]

No, no, no. Because we were just driving, like, our.

[Morgan]

Whole family was driving about, like, hey, like, where you lived.

[Eddie]

Drugs.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

In the valley.

[Morgan]

No, where you lived at your house?

[Eddie]

No, there were no drugs in my.

[Morgan]

House or the factory, the warehouse?

[Eddie]

No, no, no. My dad did street lights.

[Morgan]

He did. This is like, when I found out that my dog really wasn't sent to a farm.

[Eddie]

You know what my dad did? Like, so my dad.

[Morgan]

No, you go to Mexico, find all and bring them back and refurbish them.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Mexico. No, no, no. American utility companies didn't want their street lights because they wouldn't pass certain codes. So my dad would buy them dirt cheap, and then he would fix them to where they worked, and he would sell them into Mexico. My dad lit, like, half of Mexico in, like, the early 90s, late 80s. So, like, that's the warehouse. I worked there.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

You don't think there was a chance?

[Eddie]

No.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Bobby]

How much does a. Like, how does he get in contact with Mexico? Hey, I got these lights.

[Morgan]

Okay. You're contracted by the government.

[Eddie]

And it started with, like. And he would work with governors and mayors of different cities, and he'd be like, all right, so the mayor. You need street lights.

[Morgan]

And you don't think him going back and forth.

[Eddie]

There were some shady people that would come to my house sometimes, you know, like. But I just figured that was just their style, you know? Like, it's just their style.

[Morgan]

I put the odds at about 18%. There was some drug. Some drug moving.

[Eddie]

I never went there. I never.

[Morgan]

Not 50. 50. But, Mike, I mean, they could put something else in the boxes.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I worked at the warehouse. I would have stuffed them.

[Morgan]

Would you, though? You're a kid.

[Eddie]

I mean, there were only four of us working there.

[Morgan]

How shady were the people coming around?

[Eddie]

And they weren't all shady. Like, I would say, like, out of 10, one looked shady.

[Morgan]

Well, there's probably a legitimate business happening, too.

[Eddie]

Oh, I'm not gonna fall for this.

[Morgan]

There's no. There's no Amy. Doesn't it sound a little sus.

[Amy]

Little sus.

[Eddie]

That's south. That's sound.

[Amy]

That's okay. Sometimes we have to realize our parents aren't everything we thought.

[Eddie]

No, no, no. Guess. No, no. They weren't drug dealers.

[Amy]

No, I mean, I'm not saying. I mean, I've had to come to terms as a lot, as an adult. Like, you learn things you're like, okay, yeah, I guess they're just human.

[Eddie]

And then, like, I don't understand how this happened, but, like, NAFTA came around, like the Free Trade Agreement, and then it shut the business down. Like, my dad couldn't do it anymore.

[Morgan]

Did they have.

[Eddie]

So what did that have to do with anything?

[Morgan]

Did some of them say nafta, but then was spelled different, like D A, D A.

[Amy]

Okay, no nafta.

[Morgan]

Okay. Just spend some time thinking about it.

[Eddie]

And my uncles were on my mom's side.

[Morgan]

It doesn't matter.

[Bobby]

So he married into the biz.

[Eddie]

No.

[Morgan]

What if she was running it?

[Eddie]

She wasn't. And my uncles, there were only like, there were three uncles out of like 10 uncles that I had.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And that's 30%. I only put it at like 19%. I think that. I think drugs. 18%.

[Eddie]

And they got caught. They went to jail, all of them.

[Morgan]

And you don't think there's a chance?

[Eddie]

No, no, no chance. What do you think?

[Morgan]

Chance there was some drug activity happening with this business?

[Amy]

Amy, percentage it 25%.

[Eddie]

Wow, that's high.

[Morgan]

Lunchbox.

[Bobby]

I was gonna say 25%.

[Morgan]

That's okay.

[Amy]

You can.

[Eddie]

That's high.

[Morgan]

She doesn't. She doesn't own 25%.

[Bobby]

25%. Because you don't think I. I understand you were in the warehouse, but once you leave, they can't put stuff inside the light poles that they're sending down or coming back. I don't understand.

[Eddie]

Like, why would we all try to, like, like, see. Oh, this one works.

[Morgan]

And then there's probably a real business happening as well.

[Amy]

Yeah. Like when drugs are hiding in the bottom of, like, you know, avocados. They still sell avocados being transported.

[Eddie]

You don't think my dad would have gotten busted, though? Like, he would have gotten busted. He did this for so many years.

[Amy]

I don't know. I think a lot of times about, you know, my dad's business partner went to jail and my dad didn't go. Oh, but my dad didn't.

[Eddie]

I wasn't falling out with a business partner.

[Amy]

My dad didn't.

[Bobby]

Falling out.

[Eddie]

Never, never saw him again.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah. Morgan percentage.

[Amy]

Well, I have a follow up question. How long did he own the business? Like, when did he sell it?

[Eddie]

Do you remember that? I think he ran it for like 15 years. 15.

[Amy]

He didn't sell it, though.

[Morgan]

It just dissolved.

[Eddie]

No, I just dissolved because he couldn't trade anymore.

[Amy]

Okay. I'm at 40%.

[Eddie]

I don't even know what that means. Like, he would always Be like, ah, nafta, man got us. Don't know what that means. I still don't know what that means.

[Morgan]

Probably regulating what could be sold from one country to the other, because that's free trade. Right?

[Eddie]

Is that like today's tariffs? Terrorists, man got us.

[Morgan]

Kind of sort of a tariff is a tax on yourself. Like, whenever we make all this money from tariffs, it's from us, it's not from other countries. Like, we're. We're paying more. But yeah. Okay. You probably put in the same bucket if you're having a conversation about the things in the bucket. Yeah, Mike, I put about 35%, 35. Anything on the border just.

[Eddie]

But that's our lives.

[Morgan]

I know. That's exactly why we think if you were doing this again in Oxford, we probably wouldn't think much about it.

[Eddie]

I would think there was something if, like, I was born into Oxford and then we moved to McAllen, you know what I mean? And then my dad started doing this business that would make more sense to me. But we're born and raised there. My dad was born and raised there.

[Bobby]

Yeah. I'm just trying to see what NAFTA would have to do because you said, you know, once NAFTA came, you had to stop. And I said, so does NAFTA restrict businesses in the US Selling stuff to Mexico? And they said, no, they're aiming to open Mexico's market to US goods. So they're really trying to make you.

[Eddie]

Oh. So they probably cut the middleman out. Probably, like, it went, like, directly from American governments to maybe Mexico governments. That's probably what it was.

[Bobby]

That makes more sense.

[Morgan]

Hey, man, whatever.

[Amy]

You need to understand.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And my dog went to a farm.

[Eddie]

It's different.

[Amy]

We don't think any differently of your family.

[Eddie]

No, no, I do.

[Morgan]

You gotta do what you gotta do.

[Eddie]

No, now I'm starting to. Then call my mom today. Be honest with me. Mom.

[Amy]

I'm just kidding. I hope it's not, because. But you never know. I mean, you never know the situation that put him there.

[Eddie]

No, stop. My dad wasn't a drug dealer.

[Amy]

I'm not saying he was.

[Morgan]

He could have just been the guy in transport.

[Amy]

I don't think he was. I don't think he was. Sometimes people get put in tough situations where it's like, hey, we need you to do this or we're gonna kill your family.

[Morgan]

He could have just been transporting it.

[Amy]

Like, they're not good people. Not.

[Eddie]

You know, I do remember we were watching narcos, and he was just like, oh, I remember that dude. He did say that one time. And I'm like, you. You remember that guy? He's like, oh, yeah. You know where the Whataburger is? Like, yeah. Like, I remember him being there one time. Okay, that's crazy.

[Morgan]

Eddie slowly talks himself into it.

[Amy]

Right?

[Morgan]

Okay, so we got invited to the iHeart podcast awards.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby]

We got an RSVP.

[Eddie]

You got an email?

[Amy]

Yeah. Did you not?

[Eddie]

No.

[Bobby]

Oh, I got one. It said RSVP, and I'm like, what's the date? March 16th.

[Amy]

But you have to RSVP by February 2nd.

[Eddie]

When did you guys get this email?

[Amy]

Yesterday.

[Bobby]

Yeah, man.

[Morgan]

March. What?

[Amy]

It says the Bobby Bone Show. Please RSVP to this email by Monday, February 2, to lock in each individual podcast host attendance.

[Eddie]

Let me check the trash.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

March 16th.

[Amy]

Eddie, you're on here.

[Morgan]

I am, yes.

[Amy]

Check your mail.

[Morgan]

I don't think we're going, but.

[Bobby]

What?

[Eddie]

Dude, we gotta go. We gotta represent.

[Amy]

Represent?

[Bobby]

Showtime.

[Amy]

We haven't been in forever. We went.

[Morgan]

We're going in May, right after that for iHeart Festival.

[Amy]

That's different.

[Eddie]

Who's this from?

[Amy]

IHeart Podcast Awards. RSVP.

[Eddie]

That's literally sent to the other Eddie Garcia.

[Morgan]

I don't think that we're going to. If for sure we were winning, I would send Ray down to accept the award for us. But they don't tell you that you're winning.

[Amy]

Are you E. Garcia, too? Yeah, that's you.

[Eddie]

Thank you, Amy.

[Amy]

But I didn't say the at. I didn't say the at and the at no one would ever get.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Are you going to Memphis still for your birthday?

[Eddie]

We had to pull the plans, and it's tough because, like, it's my son's birthday and he wanted to go to a Grizzlies game, and we've gone for the last three years. And I was thinking, like, man, I can do it. We can go in the Jeep and I can, like, if it snows, but honestly, I'm just scared of the other drivers.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And you don't want to get stuck out there.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that'd be terrible. So, yeah, I think we're going to postpone.

[Morgan]

Will you go at a later time?

[Eddie]

Yeah, my wife's looking at, I don't know, February.

[Morgan]

He disappointed.

[Eddie]

He says he is, but at the same time, he's like, you know what, though? At least we can watch some football on Sunday. That'll be good. So he was looking forward to football, and if we would go to the game, it would have been on Sunday, like, earlier. In the day, so he's a little disappointed, but he's good. This show contains information subject to but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? This your boy, Nav Green from the Broken Play podcast. Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. But guess what? It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast network. Work another team who ain't going to the playoff? The Chiefs. What's a wrap? It's time to rebuild. Who your MVP right now. Then Drake May up there. Josh Allen up there still. Oh, my boy Matthew Stafford.

[Amy]

Where did Nicks at?

[Eddie]

He ain't too far behind.

[Amy]

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[Eddie]

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[Morgan]

Have you been seeing the stuff about Megan Trainor?

[Amy]

Her denying that she's in the mom club?

[Morgan]

No. So she had another baby.

[Amy]

Oh, no. Okay. I didn't see that part.

[Morgan]

And she had it via surrogate. And she posted a picture of her holding the baby and she was doing skin to skin. And everybody was just. I say everybody. The Internet, and the Internet's an awful, vile place. Yeah, but people were just letting her have it for having a surrogate.

[Amy]

It's not their problem.

[Morgan]

It is just not their problem. It's not their. It's not their business at all.

[Amy]

This is really how I feel about things right now. It's like, stay on your side of the street, bro. Like, what? Who cares?

[Morgan]

It's also. And they're doing this whole moral, like, I can't believe you're going to rip the baby away from the mom who had it. And skin to skin, the. The woman who had the baby should do. And I'm just like, you guys have nothing to do with your life.

[Amy]

And we have no idea her reasoning for choosing a surrogate. It could be.

[Morgan]

And we don't deserve to know her reason.

[Amy]

Yeah, it doesn't matter what it is. But also, I don't think they would say the same thing if they knew it was a life or death situation. She really wanted a baby and she couldn't have another one like that.

[Morgan]

There are. It was just thousands of comments. It makes me hate the Internet. I have a thing where I only look at comments on Tuesdays. Oh, yeah. Of my own. I'll jump in anybody else's torture Tuesday. Basically what it is. But if I don't look at them, they do not affect me, which tells me they don't affect me anyway. Like, period. They really don't affect me if I don't let them affect me. And that's so much of how life is. People talking crap about you and you're only affected if you choose to be affected. Unless they're physically doing something to you or threatening you, you're not affected. And so I only look at my comments on Tuesdays. I jump into Megan Trainers or anybody else's constantly. But yeah, people were letting her have it. I was also watching. Gayle King was interviewing the guys from Queer Eye because I think they're doing their last season and Karamo did not show up. And the other guys didn't know Karamo wasn't showing up. And so he didn't show up. And then she like reads the statement while they're doing the show. And so this is Gayle King reading the statement. Go ahead. One of the Fab Five is not here. We received word just less than an.

[Eddie]

Hour ago that Karamo Brown is not going to be joining us today. He said in part because I want.

[Morgan]

To rip the band aid off and.

[Eddie]

Just get it out of the way.

[Morgan]

So we can really talk about the show.

[Eddie]

He sent a statement. He apologized for not attending this interview. He thanked the audience. He said in part, I hope everyone.

[Morgan]

Remembers to focus on and to protect.

[Eddie]

Their mental health, peace from people or a world who seek to destroy it. Which is why I can't be there today. His assistant also says that he's worried about being bullied.

[Morgan]

So I see this. I'm like, dang, they like punch him in the head or something. That's how I got bullied. I got stuck in the toilet. But what happened was. Have you heard the hot mic?

[Amy]

His mom and.

[Morgan]

Yeah, so his mom had headphones on while they were shooting the show. And I, you know, there's five dudes there. They're the. The queer five. The five Five. Okay, good. And so there's five dudes, and I guess, like, three of them were like, they don't like Karamo for some reason. So they were just like, yeah, it kind of sucks. And so the mom heard and went and confronted him, and then Karamo didn't show up.

[Amy]

Those hot mics. Look at you.

[Morgan]

Here is the cast reacting after the statement. Go ahead.

[Eddie]

What do any of you have to say?

[Morgan]

You're as surprised as we are, I assume that he wasn't here, I think.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby]

Surprise is a fair understatement. I will say. Our Queer Eye family, we've been doing.

[Eddie]

This for almost a decade, which is.

[Morgan]

Pretty wild to believe.

[Eddie]

And families are complicated.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Eddie]

And we're definitely not excluded from that. But I think two things can exist at the same time. And while that is definitely true, we're also here to showcase these incredible heroes that we have and really honor the legacy of this past decade of our lives and all these wonderful heroes that we've had the blessing of getting to meet and to have conversations with.

[Morgan]

Yeah, he's doing a word salad right there. And I get it, because he was asked. And so Karamo unfollowed all but one on social media. Look, here's the thing. He just could have not shown up and, like, I'm sick, right? Yeah. And then we wouldn't know about all this drama. And if this is the worst drama, it ain't that much drama.

[Amy]

Yeah. And I get that he has to protect his mental health, but also, at the same time, sometimes we have to compartmentalize and, like, show up for our job.

[Morgan]

Yeah. These guys talk about crap about me all the time. I show up, don't I?

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah, we do. Yeah.

[Morgan]

Like, all I walk around sometimes, they're like, he sucks. Yeah. His head's so big.

[Eddie]

Look at this.

[Morgan]

We're still here physically. His head's so big. Like, it's a monster.

[Eddie]

Look at that thing.

[Morgan]

It's huge.

[Bobby]

And Bobby still shows up.

[Morgan]

Yep. Every day. It feels a little dramatic, doesn't it?

[Amy]

Yes. I don't know exactly what was said, but I would think I would have to set that aside and show up for the job part and then have boundaries with them, however I need to moving forward. But I don't think you're gonna show up to a Gayle King interview and get bullied.

[Morgan]

Well, and that's where the drama comes in. I think you can have boundaries and never hang out with these Guys again in your whole life. Right. But when you go and you put out a statement to go, you know this is gonna be an even bigger story. You know that everybody's gonna talk about it. Like, you're inviting more of it onto you.

[Amy]

Like, I'm thinking, like, if you wanted to be out there, like, show up, do your job, and then put out a story later that your mom was. Had headphones on and you were talked about.

[Morgan]

And also, I don't know, but did you suck as a person to work with? Like, was there some validity to, man, he sucks? I don't know that, but maybe you do. And if everybody else has a problem with you, you could be the common denominator in the problem. Maybe they. There's just a lot here. I just thought it was hilarious. They get on the show and Gelking has to read a statement, just say, you got a cold, you know, but protect your mental health. For sure. Protect your mental health. And you don't want to go on, but, you know, when you do that, everybody's going to talk about it. It's going to be pop culture news for days and days. I would feel like that would make my mental health worse.

[Amy]

Yeah, but some people thrive in the drama.

[Morgan]

I know, but I don't know what's going on. I never know what's going on. But I saw it, thought it was wild, man. The fact that he unfollowed all of them but one.

[Amy]

The one that didn't like.

[Bobby]

Yeah. Tells you which ones were bullied.

[Morgan]

It was the new. The new guy on the cast wasn't talking, and I wonder if he just didn't get in yet.

[Amy]

He didn't know.

[Morgan]

He didn't. Well, he didn't. He had some stuff to say, too, but the mom jumped up a little too early. Yeah.

[Eddie]

He didn't get to say it.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Listen. I don't know what they're going through. I hope everybody, you know, has a good time. And this show is. I haven't watched it a long time, but they do, like, good stuff for people. So I hope people take the message from it and this doesn't overshadow that.

[Amy]

And when he kept saying heroes, is that who they were working with? Like veterans or.

[Morgan]

I didn't watch this. I probably.

[Amy]

Okay, see? Yeah. I'm like.

[Bobby]

So what do they do? They get them a new wardrobe.

[Amy]

Yeah. They make them over. Give them confidence.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah. I haven't seen it a long time, but.

[Amy]

Yeah, me neither.

[Morgan]

I hope everybody. Hope it all works out for him.

[Eddie]

Good luck, guys.

[Morgan]

Do you have any other thoughts for that on that?

[Amy]

No, I just think, yeah, he asked for more drama by doing it the way that he did.

[Morgan]

Bingo.

[Amy]

And I guess, are they done?

[Morgan]

I don't want to be around the drama, but I'm going to create more drama.

[Eddie]

They're not done though, right?

[Morgan]

I think this is their last season. Is it? Yeah, they gotta be.

[Amy]

Because otherwise you're like. Then you're jeopardizing your career because you have bosses. Like, they're. It's their show, but it's like you're letting people down when you don't show up and, like, put on a game face and do the job.

[Eddie]

It's like senioritis.

[Morgan]

I think this is Queer Eye Rides Away.

[Eddie]

This is it.

[Morgan]

Last run. I got a dm. Good afternoon, Bobby. Listening to part two from your podcast on Tuesday, and I heard you talking about possibly getting sick and getting motion sick everywhere and possibly on the cruise you're going on. I too, get motion sick in a lot of situations, and most people don't even notice the movement whenever I get sick from it. Like you, I also feel motion sick on elevators, watching a carousel, etc. Oddly enough, I am also vision impaired like you. I personally believe there's a connection between the two regarding the cruise. I've been on two cruises. I do not get motion sick on the ship. Almost never. The couple instances where I felt a little woozy were inside hallways with no windows, and I lost focus on a focal point. Also, Dramamine does not work on me either. Good luck. I think you'll be fine. From Julia. Oh, good.

[Eddie]

Positive.

[Amy]

And I bet it is related to your eye stuff.

[Morgan]

I don't know.

[Eddie]

I don't.

[Morgan]

I don't. I don't need an excuse.

[Eddie]

But, I mean, it makes sense. The two eyes balance, you know, I.

[Morgan]

Don'T need an excuse.

[Eddie]

Dizziness.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Because if it's that bad, I should get a placard in my car.

[Eddie]

Oh, handicap. Dude, that'd be legit.

[Bobby]

Yeah, that'd be really cool.

[Morgan]

But I don't think. I don't need that unless it really is so bad and I just don't notice it.

[Amy]

How does it make you handicapped, though?

[Eddie]

That's a handicap.

[Morgan]

One eye. That.

[Bobby]

That's an issue.

[Eddie]

And it's probably hard to go.

[Amy]

I'm not fighting for it.

[Morgan]

I'm not fighting for it.

[Amy]

Should you even be allowed to drive?

[Morgan]

I've cheated on many of those tests where they have you put your head in.

[Amy]

Say it louder.

[Morgan]

I'm saying it low so they can't hear me, just ask.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Okay. I take my good eye and I move it over to the bad eye spot.

[Eddie]

And they don't see you do that, dude. They don't look.

[Morgan]

They don't care. They've been like.

[Amy]

Because if you have a say, you don't have an eye or a patch or whatever, you can still drive.

[Morgan]

I don't risk it. I don't know.

[Amy]

Right? I mean, I'm.

[Eddie]

Yeah, my cousin has a patch. He drives. Got shot, baby gun.

[Amy]

Don't we know somebody? Do they drive? Don't they fly?

[Morgan]

Don't we know somebody and they.

[Amy]

I'm not gonna say who, but, you know.

[Morgan]

Well, I'm just saying if it's so bad that people keep feeling sorry for me, maybe I should get to park closer.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Morgan]

We have not found a single pregnancy spot, though.

[Eddie]

Not one.

[Morgan]

Not one. My wife finally gets pregnant, and we could really use the spot, and I think they. They did away with all those. So.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Wah, wah. You guys can call us if you want. We'd love to talk to you. 87777 Bobby. That's our phone number. Back in a second. This guy's house is getting broken into, and he realizes that. And 2:40 in the morning, he grabs a frying pan. When he goes to confront the guy breaking into his house, that guy has a knife. So they kind of get into it. The guy with a knife, the intruder chases the guy outside into the yard, stabs him in the leg. So then they start fighting knife versus frying pan. The intruder with the knife, the homeowner with the frying pan.

[Amy]

Who wins?

[Morgan]

What would you rather have, a knife or a frying pan?

[Amy]

I want the knife. I just. I don't know. I'm picturing, like, my iron skillet, and I feel like when I would lift it up to swing it, it'd be too heavy, and then I wouldn't have a good enough swing. And then I just go to his hip and he'd be like, okay, lame.

[Morgan]

O. He'd laugh at you.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Morgan]

I think I want the knife too, in the battle of the knife versus the frying pan. Because you kill somebody with a knife.

[Amy]

Yeah. Especially if you go right for the. Whatever that artery is in the leg.

[Eddie]

You. Oh, I'm going frying pan. I think there's more real estate with a frying pan because it's wider, you know, so, like, you. You're gonna hit something with a knife. You can reach out and try to stab and miss over and over and.

[Morgan]

Over, but one good hit with the knife. One good stab. That's really gonna do some damage. I'm picking the knife. But the frying pan won.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Morgan]

I think probably because the adrenaline, the guy was protecting his daughter. But again, they're fighting, they're out in the yard. The homeowner does get stabbed, but then he beats the crap out of the dude with the pan. The daughter sees it, calls 911. The daughter was not hurt. Both the homeowner and the suspect were taken to the hospital. What if they're putting in the beds beside each other? Hey, man, they're still fighting. They're rolled in. The other guy was placed under police guard. Yeah, obviously, but yeah, the guy's been arrested on charges of burglary and felony assault. Wdbo. I'm still taking the knife, but it's close because I think I can win with either one because the frying pan is heavy enough to actually. You have to hit him in the head, though.

[Eddie]

Oh. To knock them out.

[Morgan]

There's a story about parents letting their kids swear more these days. What do you think about that kid saying bad words?

[Amy]

Yeah, it's weird because as a parent, I use bad words sometimes and it feels really good, but I don't want my kids using it. I also have the judgment of when it's appropriate to use or who I'm around. And I don't know that my kids will always have that discernment. So generally speaking, I don't allow it. Now, my daughter has said stuff in front of me at times and I've just said, okay, we're not going to speak that way. But, I mean, I'm sure she does with her friends. I just hope she knows when to use it and when to not. It's not like I grounded her for it, though.

[Morgan]

I don't think it's that big a deal because what if someone says that flipping stinks? The intent is still exactly the same.

[Eddie]

If my 10 year old said that.

[Morgan]

I'd be like, what, that flipping stinks?

[Amy]

If they said the word flipping.

[Eddie]

Oh, I thought you were saying that.

[Morgan]

No, I'm saying if they do say that, if they substitute it, the intent is still the same.

[Eddie]

They do things like that.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I mean, we all do.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

Like crap.

[Eddie]

No, I. I don't do that. I say the word.

[Morgan]

On this show, you don't say the word.

[Eddie]

But I never say flipping. Like, I would never say, like, if I'm gonna say the word, I'm gonna say the word. If not, I'm just gonna be like, well, that Stinks, you know what I mean? Or like whatever. Without saying that. But if my kid ever said an F word, dude, in front of me, it's over.

[Amy]

Really? Even though you say, have you ever said it in front of them?

[Eddie]

No. They would be in so much trouble, though. So much trouble.

[Morgan]

Curse in front of them.

[Eddie]

Never.

[Morgan]

You don't.

[Eddie]

I did it one time in front of my oldest kid and I didn't mean to. He. He was there when I was talking to another adult and I said the F word and he was. I heard him go, whoa. Yeah, that was crazy.

[Morgan]

Half of parents think it's okay for children to use swear words Again, we don't have a kid yet. I don't feel like words are that big of a deal. There are also times you can't say words because it'll make you look bad. But I don't. And I don't curse at all. But I don't think words. I think it's all about intent.

[Eddie]

So they can just say the words.

[Amy]

No. And discernment. You have to know we're not just going to walk around cussing because we can't.

[Eddie]

And their teachers don't allow it.

[Morgan]

Like, if it's not allowed.

[Amy]

That's what I mean.

[Morgan]

It's not allowed. You can't do it.

[Amy]

Obviously there are places like at work, at. In. In front of certain adults, like other people, but maybe like in our house. I don't know. I've actually thought about this a lot, especially someone. I didn't grow up cussing. I was. I just really didn't. I wasn't a cusser until my late 30s or so.

[Morgan]

Also, if you make it a big deal, it's a big deal. If you don't make it a big deal, not that big of a deal.

[Amy]

Like, but they need. God, they need boundaries and guidance of when to say it and when to not. Because they'll just go willy nilly.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they'll go hard for a minute.

[Morgan]

But then once you get it out of your system, you only curse. Look, there's no right answer here. There's a funny TikTok video. I think of where this dad is in the car and he drives up beside the mom in an suv and three of the kids are with the mom in the SUV and she rolls down the windows and the kids are like 4, 7, and 12. And all four of them flip the dad off and it's hilarious. And everybody in the comments gets all butt hurt. Like, I can't believe you would teach your kids. It's so Funny. But it's like, who cares?

[Amy]

Yeah, it is funny. Some family dynamics are just so different.

[Morgan]

It doesn't make you a worse person. Nothing about you is any worse because you make a sound that some people associate with a certain feeling or emotion. Because you can make the same feeling or a different sound.

[Eddie]

Words.

[Morgan]

To me, intentions of words matter. The actual sound doesn't because you can travel across the ocean and make the same exact sound and nobody cares. It's not even a word. Yeah, I think about this a lot.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I can tell.

[Morgan]

Yeah. I don't think I'll have a problem with it. Except for you can't do it in places where you're gonna get in trouble because that will make us look bad. And you will be penalized for saying certain things in certain places. Like, I can't say the F word on the show just on the actual broadcast part of the radio show because we'll be fine by the fcc.

[Eddie]

Right?

[Morgan]

I don't say it anyway, but it's not because I think I'm good. It's just a discipline thing. To me.

[Amy]

It's weird because, like, with kids, it's, like, cute until it's not. Because, like, When I was 4, I said the F word. And, like, they were like, oh, that's so funny. So cute. But I was obviously just mimicking something my dad had said. But then my mom, if I was 14 and I were to just say the F word like that, I would be asleep.

[Morgan]

Situationally though, I bet it would still be funny.

[Amy]

I don't know. It just, like, wouldn't be as cute, I guess, because at 4, I didn't realize, like, what I was saying.

[Morgan]

I think it sometimes.

[Eddie]

The curse word. Yeah. Like, you think of saying it.

[Morgan]

I just think it. If, like, I stub my toe or something, I think it in my head. So I don't think it's wrong. I just don't say it. But it's just a discipline that keeps me from saying it, right? So, yeah, I think it all the time. Right now, I'm thinking one of you.

[Eddie]

No. Really?

[Morgan]

Hey, guess what? I'm thinking about you right now.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I got it.

[Morgan]

It ain't good, buddy. It ain't good. All right, I think that's it. Everybody feel good?

[Bobby]

Yep.

[Morgan]

Morgan, did you get your story? Okay. I get lost sometimes. Morgan, do your story.

[Amy]

Well, we might need this with the cold weather that's coming. So you know how the LA Rams played the Chicago Bears in Chicago?

[Morgan]

It was terrible. It was a terribly cold game. Yeah. Yes.

[Amy]

And so obviously LA players, a lot of them, are used to more warmer weathers, so apparently they put cayenne pepper in their socks to keep them warm.

[Morgan]

I mentioned that to Abby during telling me something good a minute ago, and I wasn't kidding.

[Amy]

Yeah, so, like, it's a whole story about it. Like, there's proof of how it does it. It widens the blood vessels, allowing for an influx of warm blood and creating a warm sensation.

[Morgan]

That's why I take Cialis, too.

[Eddie]

Same thing, same deal.

[Morgan]

You could just put cayenne pepper on your poo poo dude and have the same thing happen.

[Amy]

What, on his what?

[Morgan]

On his poo poo? On his poo poo stick.

[Eddie]

So, while we're trying to get ready for this winter storm, Cayenne pepper. That'll keep us warm.

[Bobby]

Put on your feet.

[Morgan]

Your socks. Yeah.

[Amy]

They say to put it with an ounce of foot powder and you put in your socks. Distribute the powder by scrunching the sock, and then you can warm up your.

[Morgan]

Cold feet or your underwear.

[Eddie]

It's risky.

[Amy]

There might be some more burning sensations.

[Eddie]

Yeah, we don't want to do that.

[Morgan]

Okay, that's it for us. Thank you, everybody. We will see you tomorrow. Hope you have a great day. Bye, everybody.

[Amy]

This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.