WEDS: Best Christmas Movies Draft + Would You Tell A Secret To Your Spouse? + Christmas Gift Expenses

Summary

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The Bobby Bones Show – December 24, 2025

Main Theme:
A festive episode packed with holiday spirit: the crew holds the Best Christmas Movie Draft, debates telling secrets to spouses, discusses Christmas gift spending, and shares fun banter and heartwarming stories. The tone is playful, honest, and very “morning show” in style, with Bobby Bones leading the panel (Amy, Eddie, Lunchbox, et al.) across various lighthearted and relatable topics.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Interview with Jackson Dean & “Don’t Come Looking”

Timestamps: 03:00–05:01

• Jackson Dean, country artist, shares a memorable story about his song “Don’t Come Looking.” He recalls a small, hot Spokane show where the crowd sang along to every word and how the experience was physically grueling but incredibly gratifying:
  • Quote:
    “I was in Spokane in this little...it looked like a 200-person shack on the outside. Maybe one of the hottest shows I ever played in my life. Walked off stage and projectile vomited after the show.” – Jackson Dean (03:23)
• Dean expresses pride in the song’s unspoken love and emotional weight, grateful for the audience connection and the song’s success.
• Bobby wishes Jackson well on future European dates; both exchange holiday wishes.

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2. Listener Dilemma: Adults-Only Weddings & Setting Boundaries

Timestamps: 05:03–08:09

• Listener “Annie” asks for advice about having a child-free wedding and handling friends’ and family’s reactions.
• Amy (self-identified people-pleaser) advocates for communicating honestly but kindly, allowing for exceptions (e.g., if kids are in the wedding). She recounts her daughter attending Bobby’s wedding as an exception (06:24).
• Bobby stresses boundary-setting:
  • Quote:
    “One of the hardest things in life is creating and holding boundaries.” – Bobby Bones (07:08)
• The group jokes about telling people “That’s what you get for having kids!” to keep the tone light.
• Advice: Be upfront and direct, acknowledge challenges, but don’t apologize for personal choices.

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3. Personal Health Discovery via Body Scan

Timestamps: 08:09–09:22

• Voicemail from listener Brandy credits Amy’s previous segment about “Craft Body Scan” for catching her breast cancer early. Amy explains the scan process and its life-saving potential.
• The conversation veers into Bobby and the crew awkwardly discussing anatomy and kidney stones, leading to some confused (and humorous) banter about “holes”—classic show humor, resolved with laughter.

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4. Best Christmas Movie Draft

Timestamps: 10:00–16:53

• The cast drafts their top three Christmas movies (snake draft style). Candid debate, rivalry, and nostalgia ensue:
  • Draft Results – as picked:
    • Raymundo: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Jingle All the Way, Home Alone 2
    • Lunchbox: Elf, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Love Actually
    • Eddie: A Christmas Story, Polar Express, Die Hard
    • Bobby: Home Alone, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, It’s A Wonderful Life
    • Amy: The Santa Clause, Four Christmases, The Holiday
• Good-natured smack talk about who’s got the “worst” lineup.
  • Quote:
    “Eddie’s is real bad.” – Bobby Bones (16:53)
    “Yeah, it’s pretty bad.” – Eddie (16:58)
• Polls posted for listeners to vote at bobbybones.com.

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5. Is It Okay to Tell Your Spouse a Friend’s Secret?

Timestamps: 23:11–27:22

• The panel debates whether it’s fair/ethical to share someone’s secret with your spouse, even if told “don’t tell anyone.”
  • Eddie’s View: “You and your spouse are one person. Whoever tells you something should automatically think you’re gonna tell your spouse.” (24:45)
  • Lunchbox’s View: “No chance. If someone comes to me and says, ‘keep this secret,’ I ain’t telling my wife.” (24:16)
• Amy shares that her ex-husband (military) would never share others’ secrets—even with her.
• Bobby feels generally indifferent about secrets (“I don’t care enough about people’s secrets to even have an interest…” – 26:53).
• Poll Result: Only 10% say it’s always acceptable to share a secret with one’s spouse; most agree it depends on context.

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6. Holiday Home and Travel Tips

Timestamps: 27:22–29:24

• PSA: When traveling for the holidays, unplug ALL chargers! Bobby cites fire risks due to heat and poor quality chargers.
• Group confesses to leaving chargers in and being surprised by the risk.

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7. Late-Night Snacking: Health Myth Busting

Timestamps: 28:53–30:26

• Bobby reads a new study: It's okay to eat after 8 p.m.; timing doesn’t matter as much as what you eat. Avoid “crap” and you’re fine.
  • Humorous aside: Bobby admits to recently eating three cinnamon rolls in one night, rationalized by the new guideline.

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8. Christmas Gift Expenses

Timestamps: 33:44–36:44

• Poll: Average spending is roughly $2,000 for 5–10 people.
• Amy buys for 10 people; Eddie’s family tops 25 because they don’t draw names.
• Money talk: Eddie shares, “I just supply the money… my wife uses my credit card to buy the gifts” (34:45). Amy and Bobby question his language (playfully)—Eddie clarifies it’s just their system.
• Discussion about tiers of spending (more for kids, in-laws capped, siblings less).
• General consensus: Drawing names is a good way to save.

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9. Heartwarming Good News Stories

• Mailman Delivers WWII Letters
  (21:12–23:06)

  • Eddie shares: Dallas mailman and Marine vet Alvin discovers 1942 Christmas letters at the bottom of a mail hamper and drives nearly 380 miles to deliver them to the family.
  • Bobby reflects on how being a veteran likely added personal meaning.

• Nurse Adopts Patient’s Dog
  (36:59–38:25)

  • Desiree the nurse loses a patient and discovers their dog “Bear Bear” has no home; after searching, she finds and adopts the dog herself.
  • Bobby: “Nurses are angels among us. Like, to even do that job… big shout out to Desiree.” (37:53)

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10. Fun and Banter Highlights

• Corny Jokes: What do you call an elf that just won the lottery? … Wealthy! (39:03)
• Recurring Dream Discussion: Bobby describes dreaming his non-working right eye had vision, revealing some hidden sadness about his condition (39:12–40:16).
• Bonehead Story: Motorcyclist claims he was “just enjoying nature” when clocked at 147 mph, leading to jokes about autopilot and running red lights (40:22–41:46).

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Notable Quotes

• “One of the hardest things in life is creating and holding boundaries.”
  — Bobby Bones (07:08)
• “You and your spouse are one person…whoever tells you something should automatically think you’re gonna tell your spouse.”
  — Eddie (24:45)
• “Nurses are angels among us...Like, to even do that job, it’s like nurses and teachers and first responders. Like, I don’t have that in me.”
  — Bobby Bones (36:59)
• “I think people just know and understand me that when I say something, it’s not hurtful…It is just the way that we have decided to go.”
  — Bobby Bones (05:40)
• “I hope you can still make it.”
  — Amy (06:53)

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Memorable Moments

• The “holes” anatomy/kidney stone discussion devolves into confusion and laughter, illustrating the group’s chemistry and willingness to laugh at each other (09:22).
• The movie draft sparks competitive banter and show “trash talk.”
• Eddie’s deadpan delivery in the WWII mail story makes the good news section both touching and relatable.

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Flow/Tone

• Casual, comedic, sometimes poignant.
• Everyone’s “voice” shines through—Bobby is direct, slightly irreverent; Amy is empathetic; Eddie plays the good-natured straight man; Lunchbox leans into comical cynicism.
• Segment transitions are smooth; topics move quickly but not shallowly.

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Episode Guide (Timestamps for Key Segments)

• 03:00 – Jackson Dean interview
• 05:03 – Adults Only Wedding/Boundaries
• 08:09 – Body Scan and Health
• 10:00 – Christmas Movie Draft
• 21:12 – WWII Letters Mailman story
• 23:11 – Telling Secrets to Your Spouse
• 27:22 – Holiday Travel Charger PSA
• 28:53 – Eating After 8pm Myth
• 33:44 – Gift Costs/Gifting Habits
• 36:59 – Nurse and Bear Bear (Dog)
• 39:03 – Morning Corny
• 40:22 – Bonehead Story

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Perfect For:

Anyone seeking a mix of seasonal laughs, honest life convos, relatable family finance talk, and stories that uplift—all delivered in the Bobby Bones Show’s signature down-to-earth style.

Transcript

[Bobby Bones]

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[Eva Longoria]

This is Eva Longoria from Hungry for History with Eva Longoria and Maite Gomez Rejon. Like the song says, it's the most wonderful time of the year and. And also a wonderfully busy one. All that merriment can weigh down even Santa's sleigh. So keep it wonderful by keeping yourself wonderful with a crisp, cold Coca Cola. Ah, pause for fizzy joy. Look out for yourself and then look out for everyone else. And together we'll make this season as wonderful as it's meant to be. Enjoy a Coca Cola, refresh your holidays.

[Bobby Bones]

And Doug. Oh, what a horrible call. Hey, ref, open your eyes.

[Eddie]

Really not gonna call that.

[Lunchbox]

Come on.

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[Bobby Bones]

I don't think you get what we're doing. Sure I do.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

We're all just giving him advice. You guys on sports, me on saving money.

[Eddie]

Nope.

[Bobby Bones]

That's not it only pay for what.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

You [e-mail] Liberty, Liberty.

[Bobby Bones]

Liberty, Liberty.

[Eddie]

Here we go.

[Bobby Bones]

Come on, Bobby.

[Eva Longoria]

Transmitting across America.

[Bobby Bones]

This is Bobby Bone. Let's go. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Wednesday show morning studio Morning.

[Jackson Dean]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

We're going to start with a pretty cool guest. Here we go on the Bobby Bones show Now, Jackson Dean, give me a quick story about don't come looking. It can be like the first time you played it, the first time you played when everybody sang back, like this is, you know, first number one for you. Give me something about this song.

[Jackson Dean]

Absolutely. First time I ever really heard him sing it back. And it wasn't just this one that they sang back at was it was, you know, trailer park, fearless, don't take much wings. All my stuff. I was in Spokane and this little. It was like a 600 person shack and it looked like it was like a 200 person shack on the outside. Maybe one of the hottest shows I ever played in my life. Like walked off stage and projectile vomited after the show. Yeah, and it was, it was me and Brandon, you know, Brandon, my guitar player. It was me and him and it was awesome, man. They, they. I'll never forget. I was standing there, Guns N Roses cut off T shirt and try. I couldn't take. I wanted strip so bad.

[Bobby Bones]

But.

[Jackson Dean]

But yeah, we were all right on the edge of Spokane, the Nashville north out there. And they sang every word and but yeah, man, it was. We've had a lot of great times to that song. And you know, you just go up to the mic and if I don't come back and you drop and then they take it.

[Bobby Bones]

Take it. That's awesome.

[Jackson Dean]

It makes you. You want to run through a brick wall.

[Bobby Bones]

Heavens to Betsy. What do you want our listeners to know about this song?

[Jackson Dean]

That song is. Is a lot coming at you. It's one of my favorite written songs that I've done. We went so hard on the musical part of it because it's all the. The man died with. It's all unspoken love and everything that he never got to say and that I'm proud of and I just hope everybody that hears it loves it and.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but Jackson, dude, you're awesome. You know, I've been saying it to you for a long time. I appreciate the time coming on and hope you have fun on those European dates, man. See you soon.

[Jackson Dean]

Thanks, brother. I'll see you soon. Merry Christmas.

[Bobby Bones]

See you, Jackson. Hello, Bobby Bones. My fiance is planning our wedding. We both seem to be leaning towards making it an Adults only wedding. I know there are only some friends that will have issue with this, but it will be an issue. And seriously, no kid wants to go to a wedding. And we don't want to deal with the drama that can come with boredom or loud kids. Obviously we get the final say. But I'm curious what negativity can come from friends and family when you tell them the kids have to stay home. Signed adults only. Annie. I did have a childless wedding, child free wedding, however you want to say. That wasn't dramatic at all because I think people just know and understand me that when I say something, it's not hurtful or not hurtful. It is just the way that we have decided to go and that's the way it is. I'm different because I'm not a people pleaser. It sounds like you are a bit emailer and so we're going to work with that. You are a people pleaser. So I'm going to go to my people pleasing friend. Amy, how would you handle this?

[Amy]

I'm working on it. I'm not.

[Bobby Bones]

That's not a bad thing.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I just think that you have to do what's best for you and that's what I would encourage you to do and people understand.

[Bobby Bones]

How did, how do they say it though? Because you have a heart.

[Amy]

You have a heart when you communicate. If there's someone that has kids in your life and you really care about them, there are exceptions to the rule that you could include their kids and that's okay. Like my daughter was at your wedding.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, only if they're in the wedding.

[Amy]

That's true. So you might have, you know, ring bearers, flower girls, stuff like that, where they could be in the wedding. If not, then you just say, hey, I know this is difficult and maybe if they're traveling or you have to make arrangements or you have to get a sitter, but ultimately we just decided this is what's going to be best for us. And I hope you can still make it.

[Bobby Bones]

No, Jonathan has to come with us. Oh, see, she's pleasing already. Yeah, she has a heart.

[Amy]

I would just be like, okay, well, sorry we're not doing kids, so I. If you can't make it, I totally understand that.

[Bobby Bones]

One of the hardest things in life is creating and holding boundaries.

[Amy]

And that was me holding it right there.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. We had to work with you to get there.

[Eva Longoria]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But that's okay. I got there.

[Bobby Bones]

You did get there. Just in general, it's hard to create boundaries because they're uncomfortable to create A boundaries. Because something is uncomfortable or can be uncomfortable. So you create a boundary. You stand by it. They don't have to like it, they do have to respect it. And to say, we have found that it's going to be easier for all involved. There are no kids. We've decided no kids, so we're not going to kids. I'm really sorry.

[Eva Longoria]

That's it.

[Bobby Bones]

The end.

[Amy]

I hope you can figure it out.

[Bobby Bones]

And then say, that's what you get for having kids. Like end with that.

[Eddie]

Your fault.

[Bobby Bones]

Like throw a little J child free. Weddings aren't normal, but they happen. So it's going to be met with an abnormal response of probably people not being happy about it, but look at.

[Amy]

It as a night out.

[Bobby Bones]

And also, you have so much money, only have so much money to spend. You can use that too. We only have so much money to spend on the wedding. And if kids are coming, we don't have. We can't pay for all that food. So we've decided to invite more adults that we couldn't get in and no kids will be there.

[Amy]

Yeah, I really feel for local people. It's not going to be that big of a deal. It's the out of towners and the.

[Bobby Bones]

Kids that really wanted to go. Oh, yeah, fourth graders everywhere, they love wedding cheer.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Good luck. Set the boundary. Boundaries are hard, but they're hard because they're worth it. They're healthy. And you know what? It's not fun to eat healthy food. We know it's good for you. Healthy food. Boundaries are healthy. Create your one. A voicemail from Brandy. This message is for Amy. I want to thank you so much for advertising about the craft body scan. My husband and I got it done in October. They ended up finding a lump in my breast. So now because of the craft body scan, they were able to find that I had breast cancer. I just love y' all show. I listen every morning. Thank you again, Amy.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eva Longoria]

Wow.

[Amy]

That's amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

Can you tell me what that is again?

[Amy]

Well, so you can go in and you get a full body scan and it'll show results at Craft body Scan. It's a place I've gone and done.

[Bobby Bones]

It myself in every, like, major city. Mid city.

[Eva Longoria]

Yeah, there's.

[Amy]

There's a few different cities. I do it here in Nashville, but they're in other markets as well. And you may not have any symptoms at all whatsoever. That's the crazy part. And then something will show up on the scan and then they can look further into it. Thankfully, all my scan showed was, well, I had some cysts on an ovary, but my doctor said they were fine. And then I have some pending kidney stones, but nothing's passed, so we're good.

[Bobby Bones]

I wonder if it's easier for a kidney stone to come out of a woman than a man because it's. The hole's bigger. Oh, I don't know what hole? Well, if a kidney stone's going to come out of you, it's going to come out of your pee pee hole and it's very, very painful. Sometimes I'll use a laser and bust it up again, but the holes is different. Should I explain that you out here?

[Eddie]

Huh?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Yeah, because I don't understand.

[Bobby Bones]

Woman hole, big manhole.

[Eddie]

Woman hole's bigger than the man.

[Eva Longoria]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

How do you think a baby comes out? You think a baby comes out of your peepee hole?

[Eddie]

That's a different hole.

[Amy]

He's think of a different hole. He thinks kidney stones come out of a different hole.

[Eddie]

Comes out of the pehole.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

What do you think a woman.

[Amy]

Wait, I don't.

[Eddie]

No, no, Bones, no, no. We need to talk about this off air. Cuz you are.

[Amy]

There's.

[Bobby Bones]

You are very wrong.

[Amy]

Multiple women.

[Bobby Bones]

But in the end, though, it's got to come out of the main woman.

[Eddie]

The woman pees out of the big hole.

[Amy]

Okay. And guys.

[Bobby Bones]

But eventually it does.

[Amy]

We're going to all talk about this at the end.

[Eddie]

Yeah, we need a big meeting after. After the show.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. But I guess my point is that big hole, though. I feel like that because the big hole, it says.

[Lunchbox]

No. Generally speaking, passing a kidney stone is not considered easier for women than men.

[Bobby Bones]

I would have thought so. I thought all. I thought all your bodies were like Stretch Armstrong through the history of time. More so than men's. Because we've never had to pass anything. True.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

I. I understand the different holes.

[Eddie]

We do pass something big sometimes the back.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

No, we need a whole.

[Eddie]

We need a conference on this.

[Bobby Bones]

You know what? We need a whole whole story. I thought that women's bodies were a bit more elastic because of through time. You guys have had to. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I need to learn about this.

[Amy]

Maybe. Maybe.

[Eva Longoria]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I still think, like.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I don't think it comes out of the baby hole. Yeah, like in the same exact. Like, like.

[Amy]

But even that's super painful.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but it'd be easy. Listen, if I was out of the baby hole, that'd be much easier than an RP hole. I would just think RP Hole is so small. Ever seen one? Okay, okay, Bones, we're going to draft the best Christmas movies ever. Raymundo is the first pick. Ray, Best Christmas movie ever. Go. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. That's for you, baser. Your wife. Yeah, we've already watched it five times. Probably 20 before the month's over.

[Eva Longoria]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

What's the appeal for you guys? She knows every quote.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Second pick is Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

I didn't see that. I didn't see that coming. I'll go with Elf.

[Eddie]

That's a good one, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I thought that might be the first one, honestly.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that's why.

[Bobby Bones]

But Ray did it for his wife, you know? I respect that. Also respect. You lose almost every time. But you know what?

[Amy]

He's loyal.

[Bobby Bones]

He is loyal, Eddie.

[Eddie]

Man, those are definitely my top two picks, but I'm gonna fall down to a Christmas story. Just shoot your eye off, kid.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Only for irony. Going Home Alone.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

No.

[Amy]

You are so horrible, you know that? I actually think that's a Christmas movie, and it's one of my favorites.

[Bobby Bones]

My favorite Christmas movie ever. Home Alone Baby. A Mad Christmas. A movie don't exist without Christmas.

[Amy]

Okay, Santa Claus.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, you already jump up. I like it. You ready? Match the next pick. Amy jumped in with Santa Claus.

[Amy]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

Same chosen the Santa Claus. That's a. That's a great one.

[Amy]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's good.

[Amy]

I mean, you took Home Alone for me, but that's fine.

[Bobby Bones]

I've been a Home Alone Christmas fan forever.

[Amy]

No, you haven't.

[Lunchbox]

No.

[Unrivaled Basketball Announcer]

You're not even.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I know. A Home Alone Christmas is often the theme we do at our house, too. It's awesome. Okay, so first round, everybody's in. Amy will go backward. Now, since this is a snake draft, you have the Santa Claus. What's your next movie?

[Amy]

Four Christmases.

[Bobby Bones]

Another one you were in?

[Eva Longoria]

No.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's Holiday harmony.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Lunchbox]

Good one, Amy.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it.

[Lunchbox]

It's really funny.

[Amy]

No, this is with Vince Vaughn and reese Witherspoon.

[Eddie]

Tim McGraw's in that one, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so it's over to me. I'm gonna go with. How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

[Eddie]

Solid. Kids love that one.

[Lunchbox]

So good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And I feel like I'm gonna get credit for both the movie and the old school cartoon. Like, I like.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like people see that, whichever one, they think that's what they're gonna vote for.

[Eddie]

There's, like, four versions of that movie.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Okay, Eddie.

[Eddie]

I mean, no one's gonna pick. It's A Wonderful Life. So I'm gonna hold on on that one.

[Bobby Bones]

That is old.

[Eddie]

No one's gonna pick that one. So I'll take Polar Express.

[Bobby Bones]

I've never actually seen that.

[Eddie]

Oh, it's good, dude. You'd love it.

[Bobby Bones]

Or do you just love Tom Hanks? Both. Okay. Both. They talk in that one, or is it silent? No, no, no.

[Lunchbox]

They talk in silent.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know if it's like. Just like a train ride, like Charlie Chaplin. Okay, okay. Okay. Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Give me a Charlie Brown Christmas.

[Bobby Bones]

Solid, Raymundo. Just saw this one for the first time about a year ago. Jingle all the way with Schwarzenegger. It was really good. Anyone else seen that?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Never seen it.

[Eddie]

Never seen it.

[Bobby Bones]

I watch a lot of Christmas movies, but. So I'll just take a word for it. Okay, so that's two down, one round to go. Raymundo, you'll go first. So far, your team is Christmas Vacation and Jingle all the Way. Jingle all the Way. There you go. And what is your third pick? This one may just nullify one of your picks. Give Me Home Alone 2.

[Amy]

Not as good the show, the movie is. Just not.

[Eddie]

Is that where they go to New York?

[Bobby Bones]

Dude? I don't know.

[Amy]

Yes, I think.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think it's going to equal out mine, though, if I'm being honest. I don't.

[Lunchbox]

I'll be honest. I forgot there was a home loan, too.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. You have elf and a Charlie Brown Christmas. Your third pick.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, since Ray did it for his wife. I'll do it for my wife. Love, actually.

[Amy]

Dang it.

[Bobby Bones]

What he means is he's doing it for himself so bad. You know, he's crying over there.

[Eddie]

Love that movie.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. And Eddie.

[Eddie]

Oh, man. Do I just go with it because it's my. One of my favorites, It's a Wonderful Life. But I don't know if people are.

[Bobby Bones]

Gonna vote for that. Go with your heart. Amy really wants you to have it.

[Amy]

No, I like it.

[Bobby Bones]

I like that she really wants you to have it.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, Amy's gonna take it if you don't.

[Amy]

No, I watched it last Christmas. It really is good.

[Eddie]

It's so good. But I'm gonna call an audible.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Whoa. Go ahead.

[Eddie]

Give me Die Hard.

[Bobby Bones]

Nice. I'm gonna go with It's a Wonderful Life. No.

[Eddie]

You win.

[Lunchbox]

It just doesn't take it. I was shocked.

[Eddie]

I think I've picked it every year and I never win.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, you audible. I was like, I'll be accepting that. I don't know them. So that sounds good to me.

[Amy]

Amy, the holiday.

[Bobby Bones]

What's that? That one you're in?

[Amy]

The same vein as love, actually.

[Bobby Bones]

But Cameron Diaz, that's not the one you're in.

[Amy]

No.

[Lunchbox]

How did you not take holiday home?

[Amy]

Holiday harmony.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh.

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Amy]

Because that seems weird to make.

[Bobby Bones]

She didn't even know the one she was in when we played the clip of it last week.

[Eddie]

That's true.

[Amy]

Well, I. It sounded familiar. I just was surprised it was you. Right.

[Bobby Bones]

So here's what we have. Everybody has a team of three. We'll load them up on the Internet. We don't put the names on them. Take a minute, go vote on the team. Don't just vote the first round pick, vote for the whole team. And we have a winner. Raymondo has Christmas Vacation. Jingle all the Way. And who can Forget Home Alone 2. Lunchbox has elf, a Charlie Brown Christmas and Love. Actually. Eddie has A Christmas Story, Polar Express and Die Hard.

[Eddie]

I'm an idiot.

[Bobby Bones]

I have Home Alone, how the Grinch Stole Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life. Amy has the Santa Claus, Four Christmases and the holiday. Go put your votes up if you have a minute. Go to bobbybones.com they'll be up there. Good job, everybody. Except Ray. Oh, I ain't last, dude.

[Eddie]

I bet you are.

[Bobby Bones]

There ain't no way I'm lasting. Eddie's is real bad.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

[Bobby Bones]

The Bobby Bones Show.

[Amy]

Merry Christmas and Happy holidays. Carly Pierce here. My favorite thing about the holiday, other than red wine, is that I get to hang out with my family and so soak in all of the wonderful things that have happened in the year. And the wine.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

Call 877-8-Hopeny or text hopeny.

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

Bet must win to receive bonus bets.

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Commercial Announcer]

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[Eva Longoria]

Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000.

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This is where mindset comes in.

[Eva Longoria]

Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

The Good News with producer Eddie.

[Eddie]

Alvin is a mailman from Dallas, Texas, and he's been doing this for 20 years, but he's also a Marine Corps veteran. So he's at work, he's going through his mailbag, and at the very bottom, he finds these old letters. Like, what is this? It's a Christmas card from 1942, which is World War II.

[Bobby Bones]

Do we think that no one had gotten to. The bottom of the bag is.

[Eddie]

I guess they're like so many hampters in, like, the mail room or whatever that sometimes mail just gets lost in those things.

[Bobby Bones]

Would you call them a hampter?

[Eddie]

A hamper.

[Eva Longoria]

Hamper.

[Eddie]

Hamper.

[Amy]

But from 1942.

[Eddie]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

And he's, like, reaching the bottom.

[Eddie]

So he finds that and a bunch of other letters from that same time. He's like, this is crazy. He looks at them. They're addressed to Mr. And Mrs. Henry Lamb of Jacksonville, Arkansas. He's like, these are World War II letters from a soldier. So he got in his own car on his day off, drove 379 miles, found the people that it was addressed to and delivered to them themselves.

[Bobby Bones]

Are they still alive?

[Eddie]

They're still alive, yeah. I mean, the family. Somebody of the family, whoever owned that house, whether it's like a daughter, a son, or whatever. Yeah, they were still there in their 80s.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm gonna be willing to bet that if that mailman wasn't a former veteran. Veteran, sure. He's veteran now, but a former military member. He wouldn't have done that. I don't know. Some mailman are good, but I bet that meant extra to him because he had also served.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And also I hear that, like, if you can get a job as a mailman, that's like the greatest job. Why? Benefits like a government job. You get all the holidays off.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but they always seem like they're in a bad mood. Not my mailman. My mailman's, like, always nice. But people at the post office don't seem very happy.

[Bobby Bones]

But that's not a mailman.

[Amy]

But also, sometimes people in line at the post office, the customers are. Can be equally as rude.

[Eddie]

And the lighting in there.

[Bobby Bones]

But also not a mailman. Postal worker. There's a distinct difference there. I'm always weirded out by the mailman with the. Or mail woman, whatever. With the steering wheel on the wrong side.

[Eddie]

Yeah. You think they can go to, like, London and just, like, kill it?

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't think about that.

[Eddie]

Just like, driving.

[Bobby Bones]

They feel better driving in the uk. That's a great story. That's what it's all about.

[Commercial Announcer]

That was.

[Bobby Bones]

Tell me something good. Is it cool for someone to tell their spouse a secret that you told them and said, don't tell anybody? Because most people in a marriage tell their spouse everything.

[Eddie]

Correct.

[Bobby Bones]

So the question is, are you the spouse that tells your person everything even though it's a secret, or do you also keep the secret from your spouse if it's not about them?

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's pretty easy.

[Lunchbox]

No, it's really easy.

[Amy]

When I was married, he didn't tell me things.

[Bobby Bones]

He was military. Yeah.

[Eddie]

That's government class.

[Bobby Bones]

You'd have been on the air. I'd been like, beijing, we're coming. We've been like, oh, call it off.

[Amy]

No, not even work wise. Like, it's his.

[Eddie]

An invasion.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

If his best friend, like, he would be like, oh, well, he would just say, well, you know, that part's between me and Kevin or whatever he would say, and what a great cover. I would respect that.

[Eddie]

That's between me and Kevin. Get out of here.

[Bobby Bones]

Because if he tells Kevin's secrets, he tells yours.

[Amy]

Yeah, but we were all. Or like, and my sister's married to his best friend. It's sort of like, you know, he tried to respect that because then we're all close and that would have been weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

There ain't no chance someone comes to me and says, hey, keep this secret. I ain't telling my wife.

[Eva Longoria]

Okay.

[Amy]

That's how Ben was.

[Bobby Bones]

No chance. And she doesn't think that that's.

[Lunchbox]

She would respect that. She'd be like, hey, you're loyal. Like, that's good. Someone can trust you.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

If. Let's take the spouse out of it. If you tell somebody a secret, they should never trust you because you just told somebody else's secret. Why should they tell you theirs? You're just gonna tell theirs.

[Lunchbox]

That's right.

[Eddie]

You're not understanding.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. I hear it's not spouse, but go ahead, Eddie.

[Eddie]

You're one. You're. You and your spouse are one person. Like, what? Whoever you tells you something should automatically think that you're gonna tell your spouse 100.

[Bobby Bones]

So that should be in. Like, I'm gonna Tell you the secret.

[Jackson Dean]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Tell anybody. Parentheses. About your spouse.

[Eddie]

Exactly.

[Bobby Bones]

Then you gotta trust if the spouse has got them.

[Lunchbox]

No, see, you can't. That's too many loose lips.

[Eddie]

But then you tell your spouse, hey, this is between us. Don't tell anyone.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, right. But then you're. I mean, people talk, man. You get. The less people that know, the less.

[Eddie]

Chance it gets out that loose lips sink ships.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Has Caitlyn told you what I told her?

[Bobby Bones]

No, and I don't think it's. I think if I really were, like, I really need to know something. I don't know what that means. That's very vague.

[Amy]

Well, I've just seen what your face did.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, no, she don't. She won't. But I don't even want to know.

[Amy]

Okay. Yeah, good. She didn't.

[Eddie]

Then we'll give him a hint, because he doesn't know what you're talking about.

[Amy]

He did it. He doesn't. He doesn't know.

[Bobby Bones]

I could tell. I don't. Yeah, no, I don't know anything. I don't. Also don't want to know.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I'm good with that, too.

[Bobby Bones]

The lesser I'm involved in stuff, the more I got, more drama I got to deal with. Yeah. I don't know that I. The only thing. She'll tell me something sometimes that has nothing to do with you guys. Like, a secret of hers. And she'll be like, you can't tell anybody. And I'll go, can I please tell Eddie?

[Amy]

Because y' all are one.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, we're one.

[Eddie]

Boom.

[Lunchbox]

Then Eddie goes and tells his wife. Because Eddie tells his wife everything, Right?

[Bobby Bones]

True.

[Eddie]

But my wife's not telling anyone, okay? It's one person who.

[Eva Longoria]

She won.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Crap.

[Amy]

And it makes it back in a.

[Bobby Bones]

New poll, 10% of people say it's always acceptable to tell your spouse other people's secrets.

[Amy]

It's not always. Always is not.

[Bobby Bones]

10%. It's only 10%, Amy. Now it's 10%.

[Lunchbox]

You're in the minority.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, another 29% say it's usually fine. Oh, 20% say it's never acceptable.

[Lunchbox]

That's the one I'm talking.

[Amy]

I don't know that.

[Bobby Bones]

It's never about never.

[Eva Longoria]

I don't like.

[Bobby Bones]

And it's pretty much the same, men.

[Amy]

And women, definitive words.

[Eddie]

Amy, do you tell him stuff now even though you're divorced?

[Amy]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

What if he's like, I'm dying to hear secret.

[Amy]

No, he wouldn't.

[Eddie]

That's it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I'm Dying to know a secret. You don't tell him.

[Amy]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Yeah. We're not. Big secret house. What do you mean she didn't tell me? I don't. She doesn't.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

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[Amy]

Y' all are one, but you're not one.

[Bobby Bones]

No, it's just like, I don't care enough about people's secrets to even have an interest in secrets. But I also know I'm good. I'm all good.

[Eddie]

I don't like gossip, but if she tells you, she tells you.

[Bobby Bones]

But she would.

[Lunchbox]

She also thinks.

[Amy]

She's not.

[Eva Longoria]

She's not Tell him.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, she's probably also not gonna tell me. And she also is. Doesn't like gossip. At least not to me, because I'm just like. That's stupid. I want to waste my time worried about that.

[Eddie]

I get that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You like. You like a little gossip, though.

[Eddie]

I don't. I don't like gossip. But, I mean, I'm all ears. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. We wish you a merry Christmas we wish you a merry Christmas we wish you a merry Christmas from the Barbie Bum Show. Officials are reminding people that when you travel for the holidays, don't forget to unplug all your battery chargers. Like, all your chargers.

[Amy]

Whoa.

[Eva Longoria]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Because they just stay plugged in. And we think about. We leave our lamps and stuff plugged in. Because I definitely don't walk around the house, unplug, unplug, unplug. I don't. No. But they say. And that's not what the story is saying, but this is why I'm reading it here. All your chargers. They're the most dangerous thing that catch fire in your house.

[Jackson Dean]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

So if something goes wrong and look. And some are better than others. Like, I would say the quality of the apple charger is better than one. And I've bought them at the gas station last minute because I don't have a charger in my car.

[Amy]

Those get hot, right?

[Eddie]

They do get hot.

[Bobby Bones]

And so if you just leave these things plugged in for a long time, they can explode. Start a fire. They can also release toxic gases.

[Amy]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

So. Yes. So if you're leaving your house and not even saying they're bad to be plugged in, but if you leave of everything plugged in, they are the most dangerous. Unplug your chargers.

[Amy]

Okay. I guess I'm going to have to do that now.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm going to do.

[Eddie]

When I go to work.

[Eva Longoria]

Yeah, I know.

[Amy]

I wanted to unplug it all the time. But I leave everything plugged in, even.

[Eddie]

If it's not plugged into the device, like, right?

[Bobby Bones]

No, plugged in the wall because the box could get hot. I never unplug those, especially the gas station ones. Those are bad news.

[Amy]

No, no, no, no. Sometimes I go and I touch it and I'm like, this is so hot right now. But I'm like, oh, well, charge my phone.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, go get you a packet of yellow jackets and a charger for the G. Call it a day. You know what I mean? There's another thing too I wanted to talk about was we'd always heard that if you eat like after a certain hour, that that's bad for you. And I'm going to read this from Oregon Health and Science. So this is from Oregon university. Eating after 8pm has traditionally been the normal sleep schedule. A time not to eat because you go to bed and your body can't process it and you gain weight. They say if you feel like a bedtime snack, go for it. You can eat after eight, but it does kind of matter what you eat, which always is the case. They're like, look, sweets and treats doesn't matter when you eat them. It's going to affect your body differently than if you were to eat something a bit more nutritious. But if you were to eat something that isn't terrible for you. Like last night after 8, had a cinnamon roll. Big one. It's great. It doesn't make this list. It doesn't make this list of good things, but they're like, if as long as you're not eating crap after eight, it's not going to do the same thing. So you can't eat after 8. Or a bedtime snack. Don't deprive yourself is what they're saying. But that cinnamon roll was eight. It was so a plus. I warmed it up.

[Amy]

Was it homemade or what?

[Bobby Bones]

No, we got from somewhere. Yeah. St. Jude sent them to the house.

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

And they were awesome. Yeah. And so they were frozen and I put them in the microwave and it was awesome.

[Eddie]

You did that last night?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I think I had three. And I don't really do a lot. I try not to do a lot of sweets at night, but they were. I. This is not an exaggeration. I was walking in a room and I heard Bobby. I said, what's up?

[Jackson Dean]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

And I've. I felt crazy. And I went to open the bedroom, Bobby and I. And it was a cinnamon rolls.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

They were talking to me.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow. I know. They called me in and I had.

[Eddie]

Three when they had to eat them.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. Yeah. It's great.

[Lunchbox]

No choice.

[Bobby Bones]

It's great. So after eight's okay. Just be careful with what you eat after eight.

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[Bobby Bones]

Polls have found people will spend about 2,000 bucks buying gifts. And for about five to ten people. How many people are you buying gifts for? Let's not count. It's kind of a bit. What. What's your gift list?

[Amy]

I actually have a little thing. I have even a tally on my computer right now, so I just pulled it up. Work people don't count. Okay. Yeah, about 10.

[Bobby Bones]

Good. I mean, work people. You kind of have to. If you're buying it, it's not because you really want to. It's because you probably feel like you need to. But 10 is good. Eddie, what about you guys?

[Eddie]

So, like, you kind of my whole family. Because we. We buy for, like, in laws and all. I mean, we might be at, like, 25.

[Amy]

Do you all not draw names?

[Eddie]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

And we do now, too, because we didn't want that happening.

[Amy]

Yeah, once.

[Bobby Bones]

We have to buy everybody everything.

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Amy]

It's good to draw.

[Eddie]

Never draw names.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, you guys spend over $2,000 in total. Yeah. Yeah. You have to draw names every year, dude.

[Eddie]

It's brutal.

[Amy]

And are you the one shopping, or is it your.

[Eddie]

No, no, I don't buy any of it. I just, you know, supply the money.

[Eva Longoria]

Yeah, that's.

[Commercial Announcer]

Excuse me.

[Eddie]

You know, like, you know, typical.

[Bobby Bones]

If you're gonna say it, they'll say it. You don't say what? Dance around, whatever you just said. Yeah, I don't know. Supply something. But if you're gonna say it, say it.

[Eva Longoria]

It.

[Eddie]

So, like, my wife uses my credit card to buy the gifts.

[Amy]

Your credit card?

[Eddie]

I'll say that.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

What do you mean?

[Lunchbox]

You're the breadwinner. You bring home the bag.

[Amy]

She has her own credit card?

[Eddie]

Well, no, it's got my name on it.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Amy]

She doesn't have one with her name on it?

[Eddie]

I don't think so.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It's just interesting how you look at that.

[Eddie]

But she has her own card. It just has my name on it.

[Lunchbox]

That's legit.

[Eddie]

No, it's not legit. It's just the way it is.

[Bobby Bones]

And you See that? It doesn't matter. So you guys spend over $2,000, clearly.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

All credit card?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you pay it off immediately? Like, try to. So you don't have the interest?

[Eddie]

Absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. Majority of people put on a credit card for extra savings. On average, you'll be working until May of 2025 before you pay off those 2024 holiday credit card bills from talker research. Do you have conversations with your wife about, like, a budget on gifts?

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah. She'll clear it with me. She'll be like, hey, I think this is what we're going to buy for so and so. I'll be like, that's perfect.

[Amy]

She'll clear it with you. What? Why do you talk this way? So.

[Eddie]

No, no, no, I'm not. It's just. Just the conversation we had, you just.

[Amy]

Said, yeah, my wife does it with my money and my credit card, and she clears it with me forever. And you have four kids.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Anything you'd like to say, though?

[Eddie]

No. Merry Christmas, man. It's a beautiful.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what you're saying? Just. Merry Christmas.

[Eddie]

Merry Christmas.

[Bobby Bones]

Merry Christmas.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Is there a limit?

[Eddie]

Yeah, it depends on who it is.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, so the closer the person, the more you can spend.

[Eddie]

Correct. Like, the kids. Like, I'll just say, for my kids, they have one big gift and there's. After that, there's like, no, there's a limit.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but what about people that aren't, like, in laws?

[Eddie]

Yeah, in laws.

[Bobby Bones]

So are some of them tiered? Do you have favorites you spend more on than others?

[Eddie]

No, no, not the in laws. They're all equal. But there is a cap on the in laws. And then brothers, sisters, Way lower.

[Bobby Bones]

Like your brother?

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

Sister.

[Eddie]

Yes, like her sisters. Way lower. My brother and my sister, way lower.

[Bobby Bones]

And who made the rules?

[Eddie]

We both did. Collectively, of course. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, thanks for sharing that, man.

[Eddie]

Merry Christmas, everyone. Beautiful time of year.

[Bobby Bones]

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets credit cards and jeans or something. Yeah.

[Commercial Announcer]

It's time for the good news with Bobby.

[Bobby Bones]

Nurses are angels among us. Like, to even do that job, it's like nurses and teachers and first responders. Like, I don't have that in me. A big shout out to nurses. And here's one specifically. So the nurse's name was Desiree, and there was a patient. The patient was not doing good. They knew the patient wasn't going to make it, but the patient had a dog named Bear. Bear. And patient passed away. But Desiree also wondered what happened with the dog because they'd bring the Dog up. They'd see the dog occasionally and she was like, man, what happened? She couldn't find the dog, knew nobody was had taken the dog. So she searched for it for 11 days. Finally, because the dog was just run out of the house, because he wasn't, he didn't go home. So the dog's out. Finally, the SPCA of Texas rescued him from animal holding and then she adopted him. She adopted Bear Bear because she knew Bear Bear's owner and he died and the dog didn't have a home.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Angels among us nurses, man. I know. So big shout out to Desiree the nurse and Bear Bear. I wonder if my dog would even care if I would even know if I died.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they do.

[Bobby Bones]

Or would he just be weight? Like if he got fed? He probably doesn't even. Dogs don't have concept of time.

[Eddie]

I hear that's what they say. Yeah, but you know that sublime singer, when he died, his dog died like a month later or like a couple weeks.

[Bobby Bones]

That doesn't absolutely mean that one affects the other.

[Lunchbox]

Broken heart.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, maybe. Hey, man, thank you. That's what it's all about.

[Commercial Announcer]

That was.

[Bobby Bones]

Tell me something good. Wake up.

[Jackson Dean]

You wake up in the morning. Lunchbox more Game two. Scooby's riding this week's next bit and Bobby's on the mic. So you know what?

[Bobby Bones]

This is. Time for the Morning Corny. The Morning Corny.

[Amy]

What do you call an elf that just won the lottery?

[Bobby Bones]

We call it elf that just won the lottery.

[Amy]

Wealthy, wealthy, wealthy.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

That was the morning Corny. I believe if you talk about your dreams, don't nobody cares. If you talk about your fantasy football team, nobody cares. But I have a recurring dream that my right eye works. It's crazy. I woke up and covered my left eye to see. It was so real that I thought my right eye worked. That's how bad all my eyes work. My vision to work. My right eyes never worked. I didn't really realize I was that sad about it until I woke up and it didn't work. So my right eye, I think, is 8% vision. My left eye is not great either. It's why I wear glasses. My right eye is so bad, glasses don't help at all. But I woke up this morning, I was like, oh, my God, is my eye like something didn't just say it didn't work?

[Amy]

Well, what do you think that's trying to tell you?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know.

[Eddie]

I don't tell you something?

[Bobby Bones]

No, I don't think it's giving me a sign, you guys. I know you guys love signs.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I just think. I think I'm a little more sad about that.

[Eddie]

I don't have.

[Bobby Bones]

I've never had good vision in my life.

[Amy]

Well, that could be maybe a sign that this is something you need to fully grieve.

[Bobby Bones]

Why would I. I can't grieve a bad eye.

[Eddie]

Yeah, you can, like, have a funeral for your.

[Bobby Bones]

No, Great point.

[Amy]

Grieving is.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe we do that funeral. I mean, maybe later this week we have funeral for my right eye and I can move past it.

[Eddie]

Okay. Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

We are gathered here. Bobby Bone show Bonehead story of the day.

[Lunchbox]

This story comes to us from Cleveland, Ohio. A man was out just on a drive on his motorcycle, enjoying nature, when all sudden he hears behind him, and he pulls over and they go, sir, you were doing 147 miles an hour.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, man.

[Lunchbox]

He's like, oh, sorry, man. I wasn't paying attention. I was just looking at nature.

[Bobby Bones]

Any chance he wasn't paying attention? Doing 150? No chance, right? No chance. And also, you're probably not looking at nature.

[Lunchbox]

He's just enjoying the drive.

[Bobby Bones]

You're probably dialed in because you're like, all right, let's go. Let's try to.

[Lunchbox]

Because you're flying past cars.

[Amy]

But I gotta say, like, this morning, I must have gone through multiple lights, but I don't ever remember actually doing it or seeing that they were green. And I found out that they were red, and I just ran them. I don't know. Like, I just. I'm on autopilot. Like, maybe he's just cruising.

[Bobby Bones]

I just don't think 147 cruises, because it's. You got to put in work to get it to go that fast. Like, extra work. Yeah. And you, on the other hand, I'm not quite sure what's happening here, to be fair. I will get places, too. And go. I don't remember anything about getting here because I've been thinking about something.

[Eva Longoria]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But I just trust that I didn't.

[Amy]

Run a red light.

[Bobby Bones]

That. Yeah. That your subconscious is guiding you because you've done it so many times and knows exactly what to do. Yeah.

[Amy]

I hope I saw green.

[Bobby Bones]

That's crazy that you.

[Amy]

That's what I was thinking, because I know I have multiple lights.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, scary.

[Amy]

Yes. That's why I'm sharing it with you.

[Bobby Bones]

No, not real.

[Eddie]

For all of us.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

For people. We share the road with you.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But I'm also concerned. I don't want to hit anybody.

[Bobby Bones]

I guess it's just focus. I have to focus on not grinding my teeth now. Yeah, I grind really badly. And so I have to. And I'll catch myself doing it and be like, whoa, okay, I'm aware.

[Amy]

Like during the day or when you sleep.

[Bobby Bones]

Day and sleep.

[Liberty Mutual Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And so maybe that's what you should do when you drive. You have to check in every once in a while. Be like, okay, am I running red lights? Am I risking other people?

[Amy]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

I'm Lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day, Bones.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, thank you guys for hanging out. Really appreciate you guys being part of the show today. For listening, for calling, for tweeting Mr. Bobby Bones on Twitter and Instagram. Thanks, guys. Come on, Bobby Bones Show. The Bobby Bones show theme song written, produced and sang by Reed Yarberry. You can find his Instagram @reedyarberry. Scuba Steve executive Producer Raymundo Head of Production I'm Bobby Bones. My Instagram is mrbobbybones. Thank you for listening to the podcast.

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Bobby Bones]

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