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Amy
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Bobby
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Joel
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Bobby
John has never been anything but gay, but he really tried hard not to be.
Dr. Jesse Mills
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Bobby
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Bobby
A man with down syndrome tries the impossible, the grand slam in turkey hunting. 4:53 hits. We're legal, shooting light.
Eddie
And he gives us this one last oh, and he pitches off. And when he pitches off, he flies right into the gun barrel. I said to the cameraman, do you have him?
Bobby
He said, shoot him. I said, justin, shoot. You can download this episode and others from lines and tines with Spencer Graves on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know, we always say new Year, new me, but real change starts on the inside. It starts with giving your mind and your spirit the same attention you give your goals. Hey, everybody, it's Michelle Williams, host of Checking in on the Black Effect Podcast Network. And on my podcast, we talk mental Health, healing, growth, and everything. You need to step into your next season whole and empowered. New year. Real you listen to Checking in with Michelle Williams from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, let's go around the room. Amy, you're up.
Amy
Well, five human heads were found on the beach in Ecuador.
Bobby
I just feel like that's drugs.
Amy
Yeah, yeah, it is.
Eddie
Like, dumped in the ocean. Well, then they wash them out.
Bobby
Yeah, that's what I feel like.
Amy
They think it is related to that. But they were, like, on a stick, hanging there, and, like, fresh blood.
Lunchbox
Oh, I thought you meant, like, they washed up.
Bobby
Like. Oh, that's what I thought, too. Yeah.
Lunchbox
Like, the way you described it, like, they were hanging.
Eddie
Oh, that's drugs.
Bobby
Oh, that's still drugs.
Amy
They're sending a message.
Bobby
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Amy
I tried to understand exactly what the message was, and I don't f. With.
Bobby
Us, like, pay us or.
Amy
Well, I read it a few times of, like, exactly.
Lunchbox
Or mind your own business. Don't try to.
Bobby
It's all that.
Lunchbox
Be a snitch.
Eddie
That's usually the message.
Bobby
I got the message. I'm not even there, and I got the message.
Amy
So if you're vacationing in Ecuador right now, be careful.
Eddie
Hey, what's Costa Rica like? I had a buddy of mine, like, a few months ago. He's like, dude, it's amazing.
Lunchbox
Ray says it's the best place in the world.
Bobby
It's really cool in that they're so friendly. And I stayed there for two months, a month and a half. A month and a half? Yeah, Almost two months. They're so friendly. When you land, it feels a bit scary at first because there are people with machine guns in the streets, and you're going, is it so not safe that they have people with machine guns in the streets?
Eddie
Are they dressed like cops or they're.
Bobby
Dressed in black, like cops? However, once you ask a few of the nice people questions, you realize why they're with machine guns in the streets is because they run drugs through there. Not even really from that country, but I think I know because we got that Nicaragua sent up their army after us at one point, but. But they run drugs up through South America to get to us, and so they're trying to stop people running drugs through. It's not because of the rampant crime there. This is just my experience in being there for almost two months. People are nice at first. You're like, what the crap's happening? There's People with machine guns in the road. And then you realize why. It's not because of the crime happening around them. They're trying to stop the drug from going through their country. They do not have a military. It is a country that has no military. I forget what they call that, but they just are free and happy and, wow. They don't fight. I'm sure there's crime. But they were telling us it's so safe to go out and just walk around.
Eddie
Wow.
Bobby
Yeah.
Eddie
My buddy said it's amazing.
Bobby
And the beaches are really great. For a while, we went and stayed near a beach. We stayed at the airport for a long time. Hotel near the airport. It was when I was shooting snake in the grass. I completely get it if that's your thing. Climbing outdoors, beaches. The people are nice. Oh, it was amazing. Food was really good.
Eddie
Monkeys all the time.
Bobby
Saw monkeys and trees randomly.
Eddie
That's amazing.
Bobby
Yeah, a little bit. I had to work a lot, and so my experience there wasn't as positive. But I would take helicopters into the jungle, and it's super cool. There's snakes everywhere.
Eddie
Really?
Bobby
But they're so present that everybody is aware of snakes, and it's just part of their day.
Eddie
Well, how many snakes did you see? Like, just.
Bobby
We would see snakes everywhere. I had a guy walking with me all the time that was just watching for snakes because there are poisonous snakes everywhere. But they're not coming out to get you. They're not like humans are. Here, let's get them. If you almost step on them because they are so prevalent or if they're hurt or if they're hungry or whatever the case is with animals, it's excellent. Yeah.
Eddie
He said there are sloths, too, everywhere. Did you see sloth?
Bobby
I didn't see a sloth. Probably in a specific part of. And probably near water. I don't know. Never saw a sloth. But I found it. Mike, what was your experience? Yeah, I loved it. Like you said, they were really friendly. They'd all say, pura vida. And I don't know if you had a similar experience, but, like, I think they were nicer to me because I spoke Spanish, probably. Or maybe they were nicer to me because. Gringo.
Eddie
Yeah, See? Gringo.
Bobby
Gringo. Taurus gringo. But I really. Nero. But I really. Yeah, I really wasn't a Taurus gringo. I was working. But, yeah, it was super nice.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby
There you go, Amy. Thank you. I never saw any heads on sticks. That's what I say about that.
Amy
Well, there's two sticks, and then Like a rope and the heads are just hanging and they haven't bodies yet.
Bobby
Like art project. Send a message. They had to take the heads and string them.
Amy
Message written below.
Eddie
What was the message?
Bobby
Well then that's the message. You're like they're sending a message.
Amy
But I don't understand. Like I. But I didn't. I get. It's in Spanish. It is in Spanish.
Eddie
Okay. This land is ours, City is ours, land is ours.
Bobby
There's the message.
Eddie
So somebody trespassed.
Amy
Who is ours? Like who, who are they?
Bobby
I think it could even be another.
Amy
There's something about fishermen and vaccine cards. I made that part out.
Bobby
Could be a couple things. Could be America, you know, we're taking over everything else. Venezuela, Greenland. But probably it's probably another group like this area. This land, territory, territories are. Yeah, that's what I would think. So Amy, because they cut off heads of the people that came in. Were the people Hispanic? Ecuadorian.
Amy
The heads were blurred out in the picture and I don't want to see the actual real one.
Eddie
You probably don't.
Bobby
Basically saying don't steal from us or this is going to happen to you.
Eddie
I mean that's sounds like yikes.
Amy
So did the fishermen do it?
Bobby
It's probably somebody stealing from them and now they cut off their heads. I don't know. I don't know if fishermen did it, but if fishermen did it, they're probably part of another organization.
Amy
Yeah, true. I guess I was picturing like sweet little fishermen, but they could be a part of an organized crime.
Eddie
Sweet little fisherman.
Bobby
Could be both, right? They definitely could be both. Alright, edit your story.
Eddie
Okay, don't mean to sound the alarm here, but we might be in danger.
Bobby
An alarm is always sounded when someone says don't mean to sound the alarm.
Eddie
Scientists are saying that we are now in 2026 in danger of flying debris from space coming into our airspace and hitting an airplane.
Bobby
So most of it burns up when it comes through. So why are they saying this version won't?
Eddie
They're saying from the time that we started putting all of these satellites sending rockets and ships into space, and then these booster rockets, we let them go in space, they become space debris. And from the time that we've been doing that, it is now time for all of them to just come back down slowly into Earth. They're saying by 2030 there's a 1 in 1,000 chance that an airplane is going to get hit by one of these things.
Bobby
Why isn't it burning up though?
Eddie
They're saying they're too big to burn up.
Bobby
Got it.
Eddie
Like pieces of a satellite. Pretty darn big.
Bobby
So now one in a thousand by 2030. Okay, let's try this out. I'm going to write a number down between one and a thousand. Let's just show you the odds here. Go. Amy, pick a number between one and a thousand. I wrote it down.
Amy
642.
Bobby
Lunchbox.
Lunchbox
326.
Bobby
Eddie.
Eddie
222.
Bobby
Morgan.
Dr. Jesse Mills
310.
Bobby
Mike.
Eddie
111.
Bobby
Ray, 7 11. Abby.
Amy
800.
Bobby
Scuba nine. Oh, he's not in there.
Eddie
Not there.
Bobby
419. So nobody hit it.
Eddie
Okay. I mean, no, you're right.
Bobby
I feel pretty good.
Lunchbox
Feel pretty good.
Eddie
But now we have to worry about flying space debris hitting our plane.
Bobby
That's I just think. And, but also they're saying one in a thousand that it hits one plane. Think of all the planes that are out there and you happen to be on that one plane.
Amy
Somebody's gonna be on, somebody's out.
Bobby
That's an odd hour to aveth. That's more than that. That's better odds than one in a thousand. There are more than a thousand planes up in the air. So you're talking about one in a thousand that hits a plane and then one in 218,000 that it's your plane. You know what? That's odds I'm going to take.
Eddie
Okay. I just thought it's weird that like, you know, we put stuff into space and we think like, oh, why doesn't it go the other way? Why does it come back down to earth?
Bobby
It feels like littering in the 70s. You just throw crap out, see where it goes and just like, hey, we have so much land, it doesn't matter. And then all of a sudden it's garbage everywhere.
Eddie
Yeah. Or like the ocean. And then you start seeing like toilet seats. Wash up.
Bobby
Morgan, your story.
Mike
All right, so in Phoenix they have those waymos, the self driving cars. Well, one of the waymos was caught going on some tracks, like rail tracks that are there. And you had to see the passenger completely flee the car because they were gonna get hit by the oncoming train.
Bobby
Wow. They thought it was a road.
Mike
Yeah, it was like in the middle. So not like the typical railroad train that you think of, but like a rail track system that goes through the city and it's in the median area and there you kind of see construction around, which is what Waymo's kind of blaming it on. It was construction there, but they're driving like straight down the middle of the rail track and the person had to get out because the train was coming.
Bobby
Hey, lucky that the car would unlock, right? Because that's a final destination scene where it's locked. But see, you're in a backseat and you're like the train coming. And then you realize you've gotten awaymo and you're like, oh, I can't get out. Whoa, that sucks. I'll do the. Okay, the standard. That sucks. But imagine at the same time all the human errored people that were crashing in head on, that were drunk, that were on their phone, crashing into people because people are like, well, look at how unsafe this is. I'm still gonna bet even with the incidents that are happening, the percentage of Waymos wrecked versus the percentage of humans that are crashing and killing other people, I bet you the Waymos is still much safer. And we're still in the beginning stages of this. I saw a listener yesterday go Waymo cut me off. That's how I know they're not safe. And I thought to myself, I wonder how many humans actually cut somebody off and either hit them for real wrecked or you know, like Lunchbox's story and with real, real consequences. I still, I believe that self driving cars are the future. And they're much safer than humans. Because humans are on their phones, because humans are drinking, because humans have a kid in the back, they're distracted.
Eddie
Yeah. So they're coming here. I saw one on the road.
Bobby
I saw, I saw humans driving. Yeah, they're doing the test right now.
Lunchbox
They're mapping it out right now.
Bobby
Yeah, I saw humans mapping it. Good. Let her. And there will be incident. There will be incidents for sure. There's always incidents.
Eddie
You've seen the one on the golf course. That's a good video. Look at the way my man driving on the fairway, just going circles the driveway and the golf course.
Bobby
I haven't seen that one. Yeah, there will be mess ups and people will go, oh, look at this. We told you. But if you did the look at this with humans every day the same way, it would be nonstop. Because humans are crashing and killing each other all the time, every day.
Mike
Well, my dad bought a new car and it has like self driving features where you can press a button and like you still have to. It's monitoring your eyes. So if you take your eyes off the road, you can't use it. But the technology is in there where he does not have to have his hands on the wheel. He can just sit there and not drive.
Bobby
I had a Tesla and this Is before they allowed you to go fully hands free, you could take your hands off and it would drive and it would stay in the road. Then every three minutes or so it would just remind you, hey, touch the wheel so we know you're still paying attention. Since then, they now have cars even here that you don't have to touch at all. I watched Craig Campbell do a TikTok where he was in a Tesla. It drove him all the way home, it parked, it did everything. And he's like, oh my God, is it whole TikTok of him going, I cannot believe this. And his daughter was in the back filming him and he said, we're coming up on our house, wonder how it's going to get into our tight driveway. Pulls right in the driveway. He goes, when are it's going to park? Goes up, backs in. It's crazy. Mike, if you can find the TikTok of Craig Campbell driving the car wild. Yeah, pretty cool.
Eddie
Remember we were in California and we were driving on a interstate and we look over and this dude is reading a book. He wasn't even like driving, touching the wheels, reading a book. Like, look at this. This is crazy.
Lunchbox
I mean, how relaxed do you have to be to be able to down at the book and not be freaking out the whole time?
Eddie
How trusting.
Bobby
Oh, you have to do it a bunch to trust it.
Eddie
Oh hell yeah. It took me a bit.
Joel
Can you pull it up?
Bobby
Cuz we have it here. And give us some audio, right? It might like.
Mike
My dad was using it on the highway and that was the part that was freaking me out.
Amy
I was like, how do.
Mike
Like you're not breaking, you're not anticipating. He was just letting it do what.
Amy
It had to do.
Bobby
So this is from Craig Campbell Music on Tik Tok. It's put it up three days ago.
Lunchbox
Been driving like this since Frankie.
Bobby
The car is doing all the turns, all the stop.
Lunchbox
It even stopped at a four way.
Bobby
Stop sign and waited on the other car to go and then it went.
Lunchbox
All on its own.
Bobby
Now what's about to happen is I'm going to see if it will pull into my driveway and if it does.
Lunchbox
Where is it going to stop? I haven't touched the steering wheel.
Bobby
I ain't touched the brakes, I ain't touched the gas. I ain't done nothing. But we're here. We are at the house.
Lunchbox
It's slowing down. Look, turned on the blinker.
Bobby
It turned. It turned the blinker on all by itself. My driveway is super narrow too. So here we. Oh my gosh he's blown away by it.
Eddie
What in the world?
Bobby
Where's it going to stop? Oh, where's it going?
Amy
Where's it going?
Lunchbox
Is it about to back in?
Bobby
It is backing in. Stop it right now. Wow, it's backing in.
Eddie
That's crazy. And then what?
Bobby
And then it puts itself in park.
Joel
Wow.
Bobby
Now it needs to plug itself in. That's crazy. And that's here. That's like not even California.
Lunchbox
Okay, okay. The fact that he is on a two lane road where you're just separated by the yellow line and he just has his hands like crossed, that is so crazy.
Bobby
After you do it a few times, you do start to trust it. Because when I had mine, I would trust. At first you're like, oh, you put your hands right on it. But then I would get on the interstate, it came. Oh, it's got it. And then, dude, four times later, your pants are off, you're laying, you're in the back. Hey, you're in the back seat.
Eddie
What is, what's it, is it going the speed limit? Like whatever the speed limit is.
Bobby
That's what the gas 42 you could see on his speedometer.
Amy
That's crazy.
Mike
Okay, but now what I want to know is like insurance. If you do get in an accident, like say Craig got in an accident, is that on Tesla or is that on him?
Eddie
Oh, you have robot insurance.
Bobby
Yeah, I don't know about that. I would bet you though that a lot of insurance gets a lot cheaper if it's all automated. I think that's generally going to help people's insurance rates because they're going to be less accidents. Less accidents is cheaper rates all the way around.
Eddie
You know how like a person has like a rating, right? Like you've gotten into four accidents in your life. Let's say you're like more expensive. I wonder if like the vehicle, that vehicle's gotten in for two accidents, it's more expensive for that vehicle.
Bobby
It probably will have a way to know if the human was doing it.
Eddie
Or just the vehicle.
Bobby
Again, I'm just making stuff up now, but I would assume that that's probably it. Good question though. Yeah, it's interesting. Okay, lunchbox your story.
Lunchbox
Yeah. An 80 year old man was at the airport with his wife, had her in a wheelchair and he was going through security and security is like, man, she doesn't look too good. And they touch her, she's really cold. And they pick her arm up. No, that drops down.
Eddie
No, Bernie, she's dead.
Amy
Did he know she was dead?
Lunchbox
He Said that they arrived at the airport a few hours earlier, ready to get on the plane, and she was alive.
Bobby
It wasn't Weekend at Bernie's.
Lunchbox
That's what he's telling them.
Bobby
Oh, yeah. I don't believe him.
Eddie
Oh, you think she was already dead?
Bobby
Probably.
Eddie
Because how. I mean, it doesn't get cold right away. Right.
Bobby
And also, does she just stop talking like you just don't talk to her?
Amy
I mean, thought she was taking a nap. When does atrophy set in?
Eddie
I think the body takes a while to get out.
Amy
Rigor morsis.
Bobby
Rigor mortis.
Amy
Rigor mortis?
Bobby
Yeah. Not within three hours.
Eddie
Yeah, that's too quick.
Amy
Rigor mortis.
Bobby
Rigor mortis. Rigor mortis. Now you're making me say it. Weird.
Amy
Okay.
Lunchbox
12 to 24 hours.
Amy
Okay.
Eddie
Well, yeah. He knew then.
Bobby
I think he knew, I guess, how to transport. I've only heard this story for the first time, so I'm just assuming. Generally, I would assume that if it's me going make up a story, he's trying to take her body somewhere because A, her body's filled with something, drugs. Or B, he gets a check based on her being alive.
Lunchbox
Yeah. Or. I don't know. Like, if it's like he wanted to, she died, so he didn't. He wanted. Didn't want to. I don't know. But if you're going to transport her anyway because you had to pay for a ticket. You know what I mean? Like, if he wanted to bury her somewhere.
Eddie
Yeah. Is it cheaper just to buy a Southwest flight?
Bobby
Just put her on there. Then you gotta, like, pick her up. Don't put her in the seat. And that's gonna be weird if you're like, left them with your legs and.
Eddie
There'S someone already sitting in that row.
Bobby
Like, excuse me, ma'. Am.
Lunchbox
She's a window seat.
Bobby
Yeah. That feels sus.
Lunchbox
Very weird. So, yeah, they have him for questioning, but they haven't charged him with anything. But. Very weird.
Bobby
Police are searching for a movie star lookalike who stole $1,700 worth of caviar from the Daily Mail. A man resembling Jason Statham is wanted for stealing $1,700 worth of caviar from a Whole Foods in California. The Irvine Police Department shared a photo of a suspect who's been dubbed a less attractive version of Statham.
Eddie
Dang.
Bobby
The man disguised his theft by posing as a typical shopper, selecting random items before slipping the expensive fish eggs. So it sounds like he is just a guy who got caught shoplifting and they Went hard and compared him to an ugly version. How about that? You may. You go viral because someone says you're an ugly version of a celebrity. It's not even that your crime was, like, super brutal or didn't steal a car. 700 bucks. That's felony. But still barely.
Eddie
They didn't have to say less attractive at all.
Bobby
And that's. That's why it went viral. What if, Eddie, you stole something and they were like, yeah, a less attractive, dopey version of Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite. Just. You'd be like, why?
Eddie
Why did you have to say that?
Bobby
How did this become a thing? So, yeah, Daily Mail with that story. I've never heard of Sun Country Air.
Eddie
Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a different. Yeah, it's like Frontier Spirit.
Bobby
Never heard of it, never flown on it. But Allegiant is buying sun country at $1.5 billion.
Amy
What regions does it fly in?
Bobby
Does it fly here?
Eddie
I've taken Allegiant.
Bobby
Allegiant has flights here, I think, right?
Eddie
Yeah, I've taken Allegiant to Florida. I think. I've taken Frontier to Vegas, I think.
Bobby
I know Allegiant. I know Frontier. I've not flown either of them, but I know them. I didn't know Sun Country.
Amy
Me neither.
Eddie
I've seen it. I've seen Sun Country. You know when you go to the airport and you kind of see the.
Bobby
Different U.S. mexico, Central America, Canada, Caribbean, Sun Country. Maybe, like, the sunnier parts of America is kind of their hub, I guess.
Eddie
Sun Country.
Bobby
Sun Legion has agreed to buy sun country for $1.5 billion. Although that seems pretty cheap for an airline, if they were being.
Eddie
Well, some of these airlines, dude. I mean, it's like, I remember I flew to Florida on allegiant for, like, $30.
Lunchbox
Yeah, it's cheap.
Bobby
$30 you paid just for whatever you put in the plate. Walk on. It's like an offering. Whatever you want.
Eddie
Well, you have to pay for a bag, like, if you want to take a bag. So I stuffed everything in my backpack. That was my carry on, and it was $30.
Amy
That's crazy.
Eddie
And they charge you for, like, wall anything.
Bobby
Water breaths. They monitor your breaths.
Eddie
Seat belts.
Bobby
Yahoo Finance with that story. Yeah, I haven't flown one of those.
Eddie
I mean, it's like once you're on it, you're just like. It's like every other plane. You just gotta play Pay for my water.
Bobby
Did it feel. Did the safety feel as safe?
Eddie
Yes, it did.
Bobby
Okay.
Eddie
Feels the same. The seats aren't comfortable. They're a little hard, you know, not a lot of cushion.
Lunchbox
Not as much room.
Eddie
Not a lot of room. They kind of. They cram a lot of rows into the plane.
Bobby
I probably am more Southwest than anything else when it is airlines. And maybe if I'm flying West coast, it's probably Delta a little more because I have, like, rewards and they have first class. And so I have so many rewards, I just use them there. But that's about it. I think Delta is the best airline, but Southwest gets you the most places. So I think maybe I'd rank that over Delta and just. It gets you the most places nonstop. And we don't have a nonstop to Vegas from here. That's always Southwest, right?
Lunchbox
Yep.
Amy
That's a crazy Delta. You're always gonna have to go through Atlanta.
Bobby
It's crazy. We don't have a nonstop to Vegas from here except for Southwest, and it's.
Lunchbox
Only like once a day.
Eddie
But we have a direct to London. I believe in Iceland.
Bobby
Southwest.
Eddie
No, No. I don't know what.
Bobby
Oh, got it.
Amy
I don't know which one. Oh, yeah. But Iceland, that was like the big thing when it happened.
Eddie
Like, there's people going straight to Iceland from Nashville, but not Vegas.
Bobby
Southwest. That's a good point. Black Mirror has been renewed for an eighth season, which is. I love that show. So the consequence has that story. They've been renewed. Doesn't say when, but I love Black Mirrors. I went on Netflix last night and searched my face. It's up there.
Eddie
It's up there already.
Bobby
The show's not, but the square is up there and you can click it. And now it has a date.
Amy
Oh, it just says, oh, it has the date coming soon.
Eddie
That's cool.
Bobby
It's gone from coming soon to the date. That's cool. My face is the Bobby cast, and it says ma. The rating is ma. I guess with these shows that are going up, they just curse. So they just put that up there for everybody.
Eddie
But you didn't tell him you don't curse.
Amy
But I guess if a guest that you have on uses a bad word, do you leave it in?
Bobby
Yeah, I think so, right? For the most part. For the most part. We've bleeped it before. If we bring it on this show, we. We bleep it.
Amy
Oh, yeah.
Bobby
But yeah, so that's up on Netflix. You can go click remind me. And the first episodes go up on the 26th. It's generally going to be a Tuesday, but I think since that's a Monday and day one, we go Up. I think we're going to load up a new episode then. Oh, there's an episode of the Bobby cast update with me and Caitlin that we recorded. Forgot all about that, but that's up if you want to go over to the Bobby cast and check that out. Okay.
Eddie
Your wife, Your wife.
Amy
Your wife. Caitlin.
Bobby
What other Caitlyn would there Butts.
Eddie
Because you just did something with her, right?
Bobby
I did her podcast.
Amy
Yeah, Caitlyn.
Bobby
Oh, sorry.
Eddie
Caitlin Butts.
Bobby
Well, Kaitlyn Butts is coming up. I did one with her, but it'll come up. Yeah, there's one with my wife that we recorded. All right, cool. Is that everybody's story? Yep.
Amy
Okay, wait. My brain can't remember what lunch was.
Bobby
Oh, let's see if you can remember what everybody's was. Lunch boxes.
Lunchbox
Go, go.
Bobby
Amy, this is a good test for your brain. Think about what you can do it because you're gonna remember what's.
Amy
I know I can. But we've already talked about so many things.
Bobby
Like what is lunchboxes?
Amy
Sun. Sun to sun.
Bobby
Think about lunchboxes. What do you think it was?
Amy
I just need one hint.
Lunchbox
I mean, mine was literally the last one we did.
Amy
I know, but then we started talking about airlines.
Eddie
No, you can do it.
Amy
And Iceland.
Eddie
Yours was about heads on the beach.
Bobby
Okay. And lunchboxes was.
Amy
Morgan's was about. Then Morgan's was about Waymo. And we went on a whole thing about that. And then we watched the Craig Campbell thing and the Tesla.
Lunchbox
What was Eddie's?
Amy
I don't know.
Eddie
Do you remember mine?
Lunchbox
Oh, my gosh.
Eddie
Okay, she's losing it.
Lunchbox
She's losing it.
Bobby
Lunchboxes had to do with two people. Okay, that's your hint. Okay, Two people and a conspiracy. And I thought to myself, I don't believe what he's saying. Cause they're questioning one of the guys.
Amy
Was Eddie's about the language guy or that's the story you told?
Eddie
Something else that didn't happen.
Amy
I don't remember.
Bobby
Lunchboxes had to do with a wheelchair.
Lunchbox
Old.
Amy
Oh, yeah, and you taught me rigor mortis. Yeah, yeah.
Bobby
So that was that one.
Amy
And we learned that it typically sets in around 12 hours.
Bobby
And what was it? Eddie's was the worst. So this is gonna be hard. His was. His story sucked today.
Eddie
Oh, it was scary.
Amy
Lunchboxes. I'm actually. I'm gonna need a follow up on if the guy knew she was really dead. Or not.
Bobby
If you can name Eddie's, that's a big benefit. Cause his was terrible.
Eddie
I'll Say mine was scary. Scary.
Amy
Oh, Eddie. I know what Eddie's. Cause this is what led to the airplane talk.
Bobby
Go ahead.
Amy
Eddie's was. We now need to be worried about things falling from space.
Eddie
Boom.
Amy
Nailed it.
Bobby
Okay, nailed it.
Amy
But still, that. It shouldn't have been that hard.
Bobby
You mean for you. I think sometimes it's not your forgetting. I think you. I think your ADD or ADHD just makes you not pay attention.
Amy
But, I mean, I knew it once I got there. I was paying attention during it. But then we moved on.
Bobby
You know, lottery numbers used for 20 years, same numbers deliver a Michigan man a record jackpot.
Lunchbox
Oh, how much.
Bobby
He used the same numbers for 20 years.
Lunchbox
See, that's what I'm talking about.
Eddie
Consistency, lunchbox.
Bobby
Yeah, but you don't have numbers.
Lunchbox
I don't have numbers.
Bobby
Because you think if you were to use them all and then you didn't use them once and they hit, you'd kill yourself.
Lunchbox
Yep. What if I was on vacation and that's when the billion dollars hit with my numbers?
Bobby
32.91. Million dollar lottery.
Lunchbox
Oh, my gosh, that's so worth the 20 year.
Bobby
Wait, he's 73.
Lunchbox
Ooh.
Eddie
Oh, man, he's old.
Lunchbox
Dang, that's tough.
Eddie
Still, 73's I can live it up, I guess.
Bobby
Feels like Atlantis.
Lunchbox
Yes, ironic.
Eddie
Ironic, Dang.
Lunchbox
I mean, he can still live pretty good, but I don't know what condition he's in. Like, is he active now or is he kind of.
Bobby
It didn't say. He's on his deathbed or anything. Still.
Eddie
Come on, young dude.
Bobby
He's been playing for 20 years. He's always played the same sets of numbers, and that's what hit.
Amy
So at 53, he started this little side hustle.
Eddie
Side hustle?
Bobby
You want to call that recreation?
Eddie
What happened in ironic? They won a lottery and then died the next day.
Bobby
Won the lottery, died the next day.
Amy
It's a black fly, but I bet his family's excited.
Bobby
Chardonnay?
Eddie
That's weird.
Bobby
But yeah, man tore his own teeth out with pliers and used them to saw through duct tape to escape kidnapper. Dang.
Eddie
That's how bad he wanted out.
Amy
Wait, I think I just give up.
Bobby
I don't think I'm taking my teeth out. I'm just gonna be like, you know what? Consider me napped.
Amy
How sharp are his teeth?
Bobby
But it's anything. Imagine if you rip them out, how sharp the top will be. That are in your gums.
Eddie
Yeah, the roots, those are sharp.
Bobby
A New York man who was kidnapped and tortured by a former friend, helped secure a decades long prison sentence. Through his testimony, Sha Pal, 36, was convicted of kidnapping and torture. This is September 2023. At trial, Brown described being beaten with metal poles, bitten, burned with cigarettes, duct taped while unconscious. And testified that Powell. I get the names right. Is the guy pulled out his two front teeth with pliers. Brown said he ultimately used one of the extracted teeth. Oh, he. So they were pulled out and he used one of them to get out. Why is he torturing this guy so much?
Eddie
An ex friend?
Amy
Well, yeah.
Bobby
Powell claimed that Brown's injuries came from a fistfight over a drug deal. But prosecutors said he lied under oath. So if there are drugs involved, maybe as a punishment for stealing drugs, telling on him or something.
Eddie
And you said the teeth were taken out already. So he just part of the torture.
Lunchbox
Yeah.
Amy
Okay, that's different. That I could do.
Bobby
But see, but it says, man tore his own teeth out with pliers, used them to saw through.
Eddie
That's a misleading headline.
Bobby
Brown said he ultimately used one of the extracted teeth to saw through the duct tape and escape. Regardless. That sucks. You're tied up in duct taped and the guy's pulling your teeth out.
Amy
By a friend.
Eddie
An old friend.
Bobby
Law and crime with that story. I just want to know why, like, what happened? Who crossed who? That's sick. Because that's some cartel type stuff.
Eddie
Yep.
Bobby
A copy of Action Comics number one featuring the first appearance of Superman just sold for $15 million. This is the actual comic book that was stolen from Nicolas Cage in 2000. He got it back, but then sold it for $2.2 million. So it's the first Superman, right, Mike? Yeah. New York Post has a story. Did I tell you guys about the guy I know that bought this for a million dollars? Bought one of these for a million dollars. Have I tell this on this podcast?
Eddie
Does that sound familiar?
Bobby
Yes. He went. How do you remember that? I don't know. The rest of the show's like, we never even heard that. A guy. No. Wanted it, paid a million dollars for it. Went up. No. Security just had him put in his backpack. He just went and left because he's like, if I'm no one will think anything. I'm just a guy. And so he walked out with that, paid a million bucks for it in his backpack. Roll the subway. Roll the subway and everything. I kind of know him. I don't know him. No.
Lunchbox
That's wild.
Eddie
What year are these?
Bobby
But he bought it for a million bucks. When Nic Cage bought his. He bought it for like $150,000 in 1996. Sold it back for 2.2 million, but now it's 15 million. The Logan Paul Pokemon card is now at over $5 million with 30 days left. And he bought his. He bought it for $5 million, and there's 30 days left in the auction. That's crazy. What were you saying?
Eddie
Oh, how old is this magazine? How are this comic book?
Bobby
I think it's 1938.
Eddie
38.
Bobby
It's pretty old, but it's the first Superman is why. Like, it's not even a Superman. He's just in it. The first. Yeah, the first time you ever see him. But it's Action Comics. Amanda Nevada tried to run over a police with a bulldozer.
Lunchbox
That's funny.
Bobby
After he ignored commands. The bulldozers are so slow.
Eddie
That's what I was gonna say. They don't very fast.
Bobby
It's like, yeah, snail almost got me, but I moved.
Eddie
I moved out of the way.
Bobby
Yeah, police won with that story. See if there's anything else. All right. Move over to this list. Ray, you texted me. Yeah, I hit you up on Saturday night and I never got a text back. You must be texting my old number. Yeah, I actually think that's what it is. It was a funny text, too. Well, why don't you just copy and paste it and send it over my new number? I may need to get that.
Eddie
You don't have his new number?
Bobby
I don't have my new number. I could have swore I had it.
Amy
Well, so what did it say?
Bobby
It was about the baby shower. I was like, hey, bro, mad props. The timing of this thing couldn't have been more perfect. My wife leaves at the exact time that the football game was starting. So I had six hours of straight football. Pizza, beer, and the TV was on, volume 100. It was amazing.
Eddie
Ray, you can't do that when your wife's there.
Bobby
Oh, no.
Amy
Well, you're welcome. I picked out the time.
Bobby
Yeah, but also, that hurt me because I had to miss it. Yeah, I had to miss the Arkansas game and missed a.
Amy
Well, I'm sorry about that.
Bobby
Thanks, Amy.
Amy
I didn't know. I didn't know. Originally, it went from a brunch to a lunch to a dinner. Sorry. It evolved.
Bobby
Yeah. And my wife, she's really picky about the announcers now. She can tell in their voices if they're cheering for a certain team. And almost every time they're going against the Vols, and she's like, I'm done with it. Turn it off. Turn it off. So it's always mute, for the most part, that we watch games. She can tell if. If he's kind of leaning towards a team she doesn't like. If it's against the Titans, if it's against the Vols. Up. Turn it down. Volume off. Okay, I'm sorry. It's Herb Street. She can tell. Or she just gets triggered when someone says something that isn't pro. Her team. Oh, it's every time. It's Herb Street. Oh, look at these dogs. They came to play tonight. The Vols are slow out there. Like Herbie. Calm down, bro. But he should be Vols. No, he shouldn't be anything. I think he does a good job being impartial. I have him coming over to the Bobby cast on Netflix.
Eddie
Oh, yeah.
Bobby
Unless he can't. I mean, he can always cancel, but, yeah, next couple weeks.
Eddie
He lives here, right?
Bobby
He does. He's definitely down the middle, but I would say Fowler. And people don't know these guys, but Fowler goes all the way on a team that I'm not rooting for. Well, I'm sorry I didn't respond to your text. You must have texted my old number. Yeah, I'll get the new one.
Eddie
You know what's funny about your new number is I save it under a different name. Like, you're not Bobby. You're a different name. And now my kids are like, hey, will you call? And then they refer to you by that name.
Bobby
Oh, the new name in your phone lunchbox has a tipping etiquette question about a bartender.
Lunchbox
Yeah, so we were at a restaurant, and we were sitting at a table, and the bar was empty, and we sat there, we ordered our food, whatever, and the kids thought it'd be funny to go sit on bar stools. So they got up on the bar stools, and the bartender was nice and came over and, oh, can I take your order? And gave him waters and then orange slices, and they ate orange slices. And then she brought him more orange slices. Then they're like, all right, thanks. We're gonna go back and eat our food now. So was I supposed to tip the.
Bobby
Bartender for doing all that extra work, all that extra effort?
Lunchbox
Yeah, like, but she wasn't our server. She was just entertaining them for, like, five minutes while we waited for our food.
Eddie
Did they order anything?
Lunchbox
Yeah, they got waters and orange slices.
Bobby
They ordered orange slices or did she just bring them?
Lunchbox
She brought orange slices.
Eddie
I see. Yeah, they used the bar.
Bobby
I mean, that's someone going above and beyond with service.
Amy
Exactly.
Bobby
When in no way did. Were they expected to. It's not even their job to do that.
Amy
Yeah. So I think. Yeah, you throw a little something her way.
Eddie
A little something.
Amy
What'd you do?
Lunchbox
No, I mean, I didn't tip. I didn't buy anything. I didn't buy anything from her, so I didn't tip her.
Amy
Classic.
Lunchbox
And then I just thought about it, and I'm like, so could have. I told my server, hey, man, you need to split that with the bartender.
Bobby
No, you're tipping him on what he did.
Lunchbox
That's what I'm saying. How would I tip her?
Bobby
Then you give her five bucks. You go, hey, can I Venmo you?
Lunchbox
Oh, yeah. Well, I didn't tip her. I just thought about it later. I was like, oh, I wonder if that was a.
Amy
Because, like, let's think of it this way. The bar is like a seated station now. They've got glasses there to clean that. It's taking it like if your kids were just go over to another random table and sit down.
Bobby
But I think it's more about the service of get in the waters, get in the orange slices.
Amy
No, I know, because if someone just.
Bobby
Sits at a bar, I don't think you tip if you're not getting anything, like, buying anything. And the kids didn't buy anything.
Amy
Oh, true.
Eddie
I think you missed a good opportunity of teaching them how to be at a bar. Right. Like, you order a glass of water.
Bobby
Right on the rock. You teach them all the things. This is dry.
Lunchbox
No, no, they did. Then they started watching whatever sporting event was on tv. They turned, look at the tv, you're.
Eddie
Watching the game, and then you're about to leave. Give him a couple bucks.
Lunchbox
All right. I just didn't give her a couple.
Bobby
Bucks because of the service she provided.
Eddie
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lunchbox
Because on the bill, it'd be zero dollars. So, I mean, 20% of zero is.
Eddie
But you're not looking at the percentage. You're just.
Bobby
Because you didn't buy.
Eddie
You're just tipping the bartender, man, for being awesome.
Amy
All right.
Lunchbox
I didn't. I didn't do it. I just didn't realize that was it.
Bobby
We know you didn't do it.
Lunchbox
I didn't realize that was what we were supposed to do. Thanks. That's. That was my question.
Bobby
Supposed to. I don't know if you're supposed to. Would it have been nice? And did she go out of her way to help you? Yeah. And does she live on tips? Yeah. So that probably would have been welcomed. But I don't think you were supposed to because she wasn't supposed to come over and help you, but she did out of the kindness of her heart. So you could have met that with the kindness of your heart.
Lunchbox
She wasn't. I mean, I told her, thank you.
Bobby
Well, there you go.
Lunchbox
So I met her with kindness. With kindness.
Eddie
Thank you.
Bobby
She was able to pay a bill with that?
Eddie
Yeah, yeah.
Bobby
This is electric bill. Well, I got a thank you from a guy look like Doug. Funny.
Eddie
Can I pay with that?
Bobby
How much would this pay for?
Eddie
I told you guys that I was at a restaurant one time, and the wait was like 30 minutes to sit down. And so my mom and I went to the bar, we ordered a drink, and we sat there to drink it, and the guy was like, hey, if you're waiting for a table, like, get off my bar. So someone else can come and sit down. Yeah.
Bobby
Cause you're taking it space if the bar is full. Yes.
Eddie
How do you know I'm waiting for a table? I didn't tell you I was waiting for a table. What if I'm drinking my beer at the bar?
Amy
Are you going to take your beer to your table or are you going to close out at the bar?
Eddie
I will when they call my name. But at the moment, I am your customer at the bar.
Bobby
Did you buy a beer from him?
Eddie
Yeah, my wife, my mom got a wine, I got a beer. We sat there.
Amy
But you closed out with him.
Eddie
I did close out.
Amy
Okay.
Eddie
Because we're waiting for a table, and he says, all right, you got your drink. Get out of here so someone else can come. I'm like, no, I'm sitting here with my drink that I ordered. He was just a jerk, too. And I didn't. I didn't move. I showed him.
Bobby
Yeah. Weird. He would say that. But also, you would hope that if you were sitting there a long time, just nursing one drink, you would get up just because that's his money. That's how he's gonna make his pay, his bills, his people sitting there. It's like sitting at a table after you finish eating in prime time. You know, each food, have your conversation, get out, because they're flip. They're gonna turn that table and somebody else is gonna sit down so they can make more money. Like you're keeping them from making money.
Eddie
I know that's how he saw it.
Bobby
No, I know that's how it's seen in service industry.
Lunchbox
If you order the drink at the bar, you sit there as long as.
Eddie
It takes to drink the drink.
Bobby
Yeah, yeah, but you were nursing it. You know that you were nursing it, just waiting on a table.
Eddie
He didn't even give me a chance to nurse it. I was just. I just got to answer the question.
Bobby
Were you nursing it waiting on a table?
Eddie
I took one sip, right? And when he said, you can go.
Bobby
Now, but answer the question. Were you gonna nurse it until your table's open?
Eddie
I didn't get there, so I couldn't. I can't answer that question.
Bobby
You've seen a hundred people come in and do what you were doing, which made him say and react that way. And I agree. It's weird for him to say that.
Eddie
So weird.
Bobby
But that's why, like, if you're taking up spots and you're not there for the bar, you're actually there to eat dinner. If you're taking up a spot, they see you as someone's keeping them from making money and paying their bills, because you are.
Eddie
It was so weird that it probably happened six years ago, and I remember what the dude looks like.
Bobby
I wouldn't have done that. It feels a little rude, but that's why. But it's like if someone's sitting at a table and they finished eating a long time ago, and they're just there for 45 minutes, you're keeping that server from making more money. Yeah, because you're holding up their real estate. When someone else could sit down, they could be serving them.
Eddie
All right.
Bobby
Also, he could have been having a bad day.
Eddie
I think he did.
Amy
But Eddie's like, I still remember exactly.
Eddie
What he looks like. I still remember what he looks like. Picture him right now.
Bobby
Let's see. I think that's it. I think we're pretty good. Anything else, Amy, you want to add before we go?
Amy
No, but I'm gonna do.
Bobby
We'll take a break here.
Amy
I'm gonna do a fast with me. No, I'm not gonna do a fast with you. But I'm gonna. Tomorrow, I'm gonna play my own little game after y'.
Eddie
All.
Amy
Do y' all stories. You know how after you meet somebody, you say their name three times? Like when Lunchbox says a story in my head and be like, old guy with a dead wife and a wheelchair going through the airport.
Bobby
You do that with these stories.
Amy
Old guy with a dead wife.
Bobby
You just walk around whispering that, though, because you're crazy.
Eddie
Old guy with a dead wife from the airport.
Amy
Yeah. Stuff's falling from space.
Eddie
Three heads.
Amy
Stuff's falling from space.
Eddie
Blood everywhere.
Bobby
Heads on a stick. Heads on a stick.
Amy
That was my story, guys.
Bobby
Yeah, you started it off.
Amy
Yeah.
Bobby
Your story's heads on a stick.
Eddie
Heads on a stick.
Amy
That's right. Good job.
Eddie
You don't remember us talking about that? Oh, gosh. This is not good.
Lunchbox
She don't remember her own.
Eddie
This is not good.
Bobby
Like, one second before she asked that I was going to Heads on a stick. Heads on a stick.
Amy
No, I know. I knew y' all knew, but I just was like, oh, I didn't ask y' all if y' all remembered mine earlier, and we were playing that game. But that's gonna be my thing. Like, tomorrow when y' all do your stories in my head, I'm gonna be just like. I'd memorize someone's name when I meet them.
Bobby
All right, that's it. We'll take a break. Thank you, guys.
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Eddie
Being honest about what we know, what.
Bobby
We don't know, and how messy it can all be. I like to sleep in late and sleep early. Is there a chronotype for that, or.
Eddie
Am I just depressed?
Bobby
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Eddie
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Bobby
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Eddie
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TJ
Empathy and some compassion.
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TJ
As somebody who has fasted quite a bit myself, if you're gonna do a three day Fast Eddie where you're legit not going to eat any food, you're gonna want electrolytes in your water and you cannot drink wine on the fast, that will screw everything up for you if you're doing it for health reasons. And so Spiritual reason. Love your show. Bye.
Bobby
Yeah, I think we need to get our language right too, because it's a 20 day fast.
Eddie
Yep.
Bobby
But you're only saying liquid.
Eddie
Liquid for four days. Yeah, straight liquid.
Bobby
So that means nothing until you come back on Monday. So you're gonna go Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you can eat nothing until Monday.
Eddie
Correct.
Bobby
But you're right. How close are you gonna get to God if you're drinking?
Eddie
Probably closer, I think.
Lunchbox
Yep.
Eddie
Expand your mind.
Bobby
See, you're not doing lsd, you're drinking wine.
Eddie
But I would.
Amy
I don't think he's gonna have a ton a glass.
Bobby
Wouldn't it be crazy to do lsd?
Amy
Yes, it would, very much so.
Eddie
Like, have you ever wanted to do that though? Oh, I've never.
Bobby
I've wanted to do every drug. I've never done a single drug. I've wanted to do every drug.
Amy
I mean, I would want to be in a very controlled environment.
Eddie
Me too.
Bobby
With tied up, my feet tied up, my hands tied up.
Lunchbox
Yes.
Amy
I don't want to do it at a party.
Bobby
I'm afraid that I would just be running down the street butt naked, like. Cause I lose control.
Eddie
Oh, that's why you want to be tied up.
Bobby
Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need somebody to restrain. Yeah. I think of. I just need my mind to relax and open up. The one time I got on laughing gas really hard.
Eddie
Dentist.
Bobby
Oh, yeah. I mean, I went in and had some major work being done. And it's hard for that gas to even like set in because I'm wired so tight and my dentist knows hit me hard, hit me fast, because it won't affect me. And so I remember being. So would the term be high on laughing gas?
Amy
Sure.
Bobby
I remember being so high on laughing gas that I understood that life was all about love. And all I could see, I was in space. It was black. It was black. There were no stars. It was black. And I was like, I get it. Life is all about love and relationships. And then it felt like I was in there for five minutes, but it was an hour or so. And what I started to hear was Vertical Horizon. She's everything. But it was playing from a like a speaker because they could keep music on.
Eddie
Okay, that was real.
Bobby
It was real.
Amy
But I heard it like fading in imaginary speaker.
Bobby
And I was like, I'm hearing Vertical Horizon. But that was me coming back too. And it was the greatest, like just feeling full with no worries moment that I've ever had. And if I'm just afraid if I took some drug I'd be butt naked or, like, pooping in someone's yard or humping a door.
Amy
Yeah, that part of desire.
Bobby
All that. But, yeah, it'd be cool. How do we get here? Oh, you're fast.
Eddie
Drinking wine on the fast.
Amy
Yeah, wine.
Eddie
Getting closer to God with the wine.
Bobby
I'm telling you, I felt like I was. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful moment.
Eddie
So what's crazy, though, is you come back, right? And then you just like. Yeah, all that.
Bobby
Yeah, it's fine.
Eddie
You're back to.
Bobby
Back to normal. Back to being wound tight. Yeah, but I. If that's what people experience whenever they get, like, high, like, I get it, it was awesome. But I'm just afraid I would be pursuing it all the time, every day, and it would completely wreck my life because it would be all I'd be focused on.
Amy
Right. That's.
Bobby
And I think that's what happens ends.
Amy
Up being the problem.
Bobby
Yeah.
Amy
Okay, so Eddie, can he have one glass of wine?
Bobby
He can have whatever he wants. Sure. I think he's gonna use that as a crutch, though, to get hungry. Let him drink.
Amy
Yeah, because Eddie doesn't have an alcohol problem.
Eddie
Correct. Thank you, Amy, for clarifying that.
Amy
I don't.
Bobby
No one said he did.
Eddie
Well, just because you were thinking it.
Amy
No, we needed to clarify. I was just saying, like, you would just have like a glass at night.
Bobby
Are you gonna continue this, though, for 20 days? Meaning not the no food, but as your church is doing, where on Monday again, like Amy said, you're gonna have to slowly bring yourself in with a smoothie or something.
Eddie
Correct.
Bobby
So you are gonna do the whole 20 days?
Eddie
When I do 20 days, baby, it's four with nothing. Yep.
Bobby
Okay. That starts Thursday morning.
Eddie
So good luck.
Bobby
Not tomorrow. But. No, you're not punishing us.
Eddie
No, I'm just saying Thursday. I think I'll be fine.
Bobby
Right.
Eddie
Because I'll just start it Thursday. Friday, dude, I may be just disgusting.
Bobby
Friday will be bad. Friday, will you add, like.
Eddie
Don't even look at me.
Bobby
If you're setting yourself up to feel that way, you'll feel that way for sure. You guys can call us if you want. We'd love to hear from you. 877 77. Bobby. Let's go to TJ, who lives in Indiana. Hey, TJ, you're on the show.
TJ
Hey, guys.
Bobby
What's up, buddy?
TJ
Hey. Not a lot. So I am a pastor, and for quite a few years. I. I like to start every year off with a 30 to 40 day fast. I do A pre fast diet that helps prepare the body. It's a seven day diet. You lose a lot of weight during that, that seven day prep. And then my kids love when I fast because one of my outlets is I cook and I try a lot of new recipes and they get to taste everything.
Bobby
So you cook but don't eat?
TJ
Correct.
Bobby
That's like going clothes shopping but not wearing anything you buy for yourself.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby
That's crazy.
TJ
Well, it's one of those things that, you know, the first, like one of your other callers said, the first few days, you know, you try to eat out of habit and you get hungry. Those first three days, I don't have to leave the room when my family eats. I said I'll drink tea or. B, you know, something like that. And I said, I have no problem. It's again after the third, fourth day when the habitorial eating kind of goes away.
Eddie
Yeah.
TJ
And again, you got to make sure for me again as a pastor, and I know you said you were doing it with your church, you've got to make sure you're substituting the eating with the prayer because otherwise you're just dieting.
Bobby
Dear God. Made me less hungry.
Eddie
Right, right, right.
Bobby
That'd be part of the practice, that one. Tj, I really appreciate that call. Thank you very much. Sounds like you're in a pretty windy place right now.
TJ
Hey.
Bobby
Yeah.
TJ
Oh yeah, I've got my moon roof open here in Indiana. 37 degrees. Feels like 28. Enjoy. Enjoying it, man park polar bear.
Bobby
That's awesome. Well, thank you for the call. Hope you have a great rest of the day.
TJ
Hey, thanks you guys too. Be blessed.
Bobby
That's a pretty solid way to hang out. That's a pretty solid way to hang up. I'm not gonna lie. It's a good, it's a nice feeling. Goodbye.
Amy
Probably his signature thing.
Bobby
I ate a whole sleeve of thin mints last night.
Amy
Speaking of eating, speaking of fasting.
Bobby
Yeah, Whole sleeve of thin mints. It was a rough day yesterday.
Amy
So what, what happened?
Bobby
Just in general. I went to physical therapy for my ankle, my foot. Because I had surgery, what, two and a half months ago and it was, I got cleared to do some work on it. So I got on this treadmill where they take some of your weight off. You get in basically a contraption and it holds a little bit of your weight up. And I was doing 70% and I just felt like an electric shock really bad on my bad foot ankle. And I was just, it was demoralized. Just demoralized.
Amy
So did you speak up?
Bobby
Oh, yeah, I stopped, and then I stopped and you know the.
Amy
Physical therapist?
Bobby
Yeah, Peter.
Eddie
That guy?
Bobby
Yeah. It's awesome. His name's Daniel, and he was like, we're stopping. And I was just going, oh, this sucks. I hope it's not hurt. He's like, it's not hurt. You're not re. Injured. But I had a bad day, so I went home and medicated with Thin Mints. It is what it is, man. I'm not proud of it.
Eddie
I get that.
Bobby
A whole sleep frozen, though. I had him in the freezer. They were ready. It was ready for me.
Amy
Is it Girl Scout season?
Bobby
It was. We ordered them.
Amy
Oh, dang.
Bobby
I missed it a few weeks ago.
Amy
Okay.
Bobby
I ordered, like I told you, three boxes after I won the lottery.
Amy
Oh, yeah.
Bobby
You remember that?
Amy
That's the way you celebrated.
Eddie
That's right.
Bobby
Yeah. And so I'm on my third box now. I went hard. The thing about frozen Thin Mints, they're great, but they warm super quick. They get back to room temperature way quicker than normal cookies.
Amy
Do you freeze other cookies?
Bobby
I freeze a lot of stuff, yeah. You ever do Fruit Riot? Oh, my goodness. What is that?
Lunchbox
What?
Amy
Fruit Riot?
Bobby
Yeah, you guys are. If you haven't done Fruit Riot.
Amy
Is that the chocolate covered fruit?
Bobby
No, no, it's like grapes that have, like, the sour sugar on it. Mango that's, like, has the cayenne pepper on it. You ever had Fruit Riot?
Eddie
Yeah, I have.
Mike
They're really good.
Bobby
I freeze Fruit Riot. I like to freeze everything.
Amy
And so do people do that with Mukbang?
Bobby
Mukbang is when you get on video on YouTube and you just eat and people watch you eat.
Amy
Yeah, but I feel like. Did they eat Fruit Riot?
Bobby
I think they eat everything. Oh, well, maybe your algorithm is feeding you Fruit Riot. Mukbang.
Eddie
Frozen grapes, though.
Bobby
Those are delicious frozen grapes. But it's Fruit Riot grapes with all the sour on it.
Amy
So do you make them?
Bobby
It's Fruit Riot.
Amy
You buy it. Or it's made at home. Like, you get the grapes and then put the stuff on it and freeze it.
Lunchbox
Is that a brand?
Eddie
I think he buys it.
Bobby
You think? I made something and named it Fruit Riot. Guys, I got this new thing.
Amy
Okay, let me clarify. Did your wife make.
Bobby
No, no. Fruit Riot is like a. It's like a candy fruit.
Eddie
Oh, look it up.
Bobby
It's in a bag.
Amy
Okay, I see it now.
Bobby
Yeah. Did I make. I don't do anything. I.
Amy
That actually came up at the other day at the shower.
Bobby
What came up? That I don't do anything.
Amy
Never mind.
Eddie
Oh, no, you got to tell us now.
Amy
Not that you don't do anything at all. It was more of. Well, it was a bunch of us girls sitting around.
Bobby
Say it. You're in the shower. It's all you guys. All of my wife's closest friends. Go ahead.
Amy
It was like, I'm not going to.
Bobby
Disagree, by the way.
Amy
Right. No, it wasn't slamming on you at all. It was more of.
Bobby
Doesn't sound like it's loving.
Eddie
What did they say?
Amy
No, it was more of a genuine curiosity of how you survived before. Like, how did you do. How did you do laundry, you know.
Bobby
Like, before you do laundry now?
Amy
Because I said, well, you know, he would. He had clean clothes. I think in our 20s and 30s, you did laundry. Yeah, right. And it just was sort of like, I don't know how, because it's as if now it's not. But also the words, the term weaponized incompetence came up from some of the others about men in general.
Bobby
No, I do that all the time that I weaponize incompetence because it's like.
Amy
You were able to take care of yourself. You had been with her now five years. How did you do it before?
Bobby
It's a great question. Thanks for asking. When I was really broke, I washed my own clothes, and I didn't have nice clothes. And you can wash them all the same color. You can wash them all hot water. Oh, that's very easy.
Amy
You did it all in hot water?
Eddie
Well, yeah, that's when you have to separate the colors. Yeah, you get it in cold. You don't separate anything.
Amy
Yeah, yeah.
Bobby
I would explain a lot, but Bobby's.
Amy
Colorblind, so he probably was like, everything looks good.
Eddie
That's a good point.
Bobby
That would explain a lot. So when I would do my laundry like that, when I had no money, that was fine. And then when I started to have some money and I started to have no time, I just sent everything to the dry cleaner. But I would dry clean the nice stuff and have them launder the clean stuff, the not nice stuff, like T shirts and stuff. It was cheaper. So I would just get laundry delivered.
Amy
So you would send it off and they wash it and fold it and bring it back.
Mike
Okay.
Amy
So that's how he did it.
Bobby
And so food wise, thank you for asking. I used to go to Galaxy Cafe every day, like twice a day near my house, and they had a standing order. I drive home from work, grab a bag of food, go back home. But it was all about efficiency. Then it wasn't so much about, you know, nourishment, nutrition. It was just like, gotta eat so I can keep going. Yeah, those were the days. But, yeah, no, I don't. I don't. I mean, I load the dishwasher, sometimes I take the trash out. That's my thing very much. I'll take the trash out without her even asking. Yep.
Lunchbox
Wow.
Bobby
Thank you.
Eddie
Wow, man. Big deal.
Bobby
Thank you. And she'll come back and go, you took the trash out. I was like, sure did. Thank you for noticing. I do that. I always take the dogs out. Dogs are very much my thing.
Amy
Right.
Bobby
In the morning, at night, in the day, I feed the dogs. I definitely have my chores. I don't do as much as she does. But also, I. I don't know how.
Amy
Oh, yeah, you don't know how.
Eddie
Weaponizing. What is it called?
Amy
Weaponized incompetence.
Bobby
Yeah. She hit me with that last night, by the way.
Amy
Oh, really? About what?
Bobby
Well, I was like. She was making dinner, and she was like, I made dinner. It's up on the stove. And I said, will you make me a plate? And she was like, well, why don't you do it? I said, well, it's been out a little bit, and it's kind of cold. It's cool. And you heat it up really good. And when you make the plate, it's all divided into perfect. And she's like, you know how to do that. Like, you're smart. And I'm like, I don't do it.
Eddie
As good as you.
Bobby
And she goes, you just weaponize the confidence. And then she made me a plate. It was awesome.
Lunchbox
So it worked. Good job. It was great.
Bobby
I think she doesn't want to hear the whining.
Amy
Yeah, yeah. That's sometimes how it is with our kids.
Bobby
It's like she is taking. It's like, what's the. What annoys her the least, actually making it and heating it up for me or hearing me whine. And I think what annoys her least is her having to heat up food. And because she does, she divides it.
Eddie
Perfect on a plate that's nice.
Bobby
And it's heated properly. Like, she'll. Blows my mind. She'll heat something up, and then she will, in the middle, open it up, stir it, and put it back into heat again, where I heat it and I go in it. Like, I had some mashed potatoes I was heating up yesterday for lunch, and I was doing it myself. She wasn't there, and they were smoking hot on the outside. And Inside.
Amy
Cold.
Bobby
Cold. You knew it because.
Amy
Yeah, you're a sister. You know what?
Bobby
We've done this before, but you know what? I just ate it. I just ate it and ate it.
Amy
Cold and medicinal like a man.
Bobby
So, yeah, that's what's up.
Amy
Okay.
Bobby
How do we get on this thin?
Eddie
Oh, yeah. Freezing things.
Amy
Yeah. Cooking. I don't know.
Bobby
You guys can hit us up if you want. 877 77. Bobby. Thank you. All right, that's it for today. Thank you, everybody, for listening to part two here. Appreciate you. If you don't mind, if you find something funny we talk about, you don't mind sharing on your Instagram story. That'd be awesome. Tag us too. We'd love to see it. That helps us. Otherwise, we will see you guys tomorrow. That's all. Bye, everybody.
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You or just stood out the most?
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Date: January 13, 2026
Host: Bobby Bones
Key Cast: Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox, Mike D, Ray
Main Theme:
A lively, wide-ranging discussion among the Bobby Bones Show crew focused on strange news stories, technological advances (especially self-driving cars), personal anecdotes about marriage dynamics and household survival skills, plus continued banter about fasting, life meaning, and their own ADD-inspired memory lapses.
This episode is classic “around the room” Bobby Bones: each member shares a quirky or shocking story, sparking tangents about crime, technology, airlines, relationships, and the perils of being forgetful or incompetent (on purpose). Throughout, Bobby and co. riff with their usual blend of irreverence, pop culture observations, and personal revelations. The running joke: Amy can’t remember anyone’s story, which becomes its own hilarious segment.
On Ecuador crime, Bobby:
“I got the message. I’m not even there and I got the message.” ([03:40])
On Costa Rica’s safety, Bobby:
“When you land, it feels a bit scary at first because there are people with machine guns in the streets… but then you realize they’re just trying to stop drugs running through. It’s not because of rampant crime.” ([04:02])
On the odds of space debris, Bobby:
“There are more than a thousand planes up in the air. So you’re talking about one in a thousand… then one in 218,000 it’s your plane. You know what? That’s odds I’m gonna take.” ([10:19])
On self-driving cars, Bobby:
“I believe self-driving cars are the future… They’re much safer than humans, because humans are on their phones, drinking… distracted.” ([12:07])
On weaponized incompetence, Bobby:
“She hit me with that last night… I don’t do it as good as you. [She says] ‘You just weaponize incompetence.’ Then she made me a plate. It was awesome.” ([57:31])
On life’s meaning (laughing gas revelation), Bobby:
“I remember being so high on laughing gas that I understood that life was all about love… It was the greatest, just feeling full with no worries moment that I’ve ever had.” ([46:37])
This was a “classic” Bobby Bones hour: a hopscotch of weird news, honest life advice about marriage and travel, bold opinions on tech, and a group of friends making each other laugh by admitting what they forget, misunderstand, or intentionally avoid doing (laundry, tipping, and honest housework, most of all).
Not to mention, you’ll hear Bobby’s “meaning of life” while high on laughing gas, debates about the statistical threat posed by falling satellites, and why it pays (literally) to tip the bartender who brings you orange slices.
Takeaway: Life is about connection, not sweating the little stuff—or remembering everyone’s stories right away.