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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
Everybody. Yeah. I remember once I was talking to my wife and I was like, I got really lucky that I have a young name because I'm never going to be Bob, and Bobby's like a young name. She was like, young. She goes, you think Bobby's a young. I was like, yeah, Bobby. It's like a young name. And she said, do you really think that?
Amy
Are you kidding?
Bobby Bones
I was like, of course I think it. So we look it up and it was like, at its height in, like, 1927.
Eddie
I didn't know that bobbies were really going.
Amy
I didn't know.
Bobby Bones
I thought it was like a young name. So how many bobbies can you name? Go back and forth until you fall out.
Eddie
All right.
Bobby Bones
Okay. Amy.
Scuba Steve
Bobby Flay, the chef.
Bobby Bones
Good. Lunchbox. Bobby Fischer, the chess player. Good. Eddie.
Eddie
Bobby McFerrin, the singer.
Bobby Bones
Don't worry, Be happy. Amy.
Scuba Steve
Bobby Bones.
Bobby Bones
That's me. Lunch.
Amy
Bobby Boucher.
Bobby Bones
Yep. Water boy. Eddie. Ricky.
Eddie
Bobby.
Bobby Bones
I'll accept it.
Scuba Steve
Bobby Brown.
Bobby Bones
The singer or the makeup? Both will be taken.
Scuba Steve
Okay. Bobby, the makeup is I. Oh, I.
Amy
Can'T take the other. Bobby Brown. Bobby Bonilla, Baseball player.
Bobby Bones
Pirates. Yeah.
Eddie
Bobby Darren.
Bobby Bones
Bobby. Darren Singer from, like, the 50s or 60s.
Eddie
Let's go.
Bobby Bones
Amy.
Scuba Steve
Bobby Jones, the golfer.
Bobby Bones
And also people think I am when I do anything where they don't know country music. Lunchbox.
Amy
Hold on.
Eddie
He's done.
Amy
No, not me. I would say Bobby winner.
Bobby Bones
Bobby, you must been somebody you knew in high school.
Amy
Balcony's Little League.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Lunchbox is eliminated. Eddie.
Eddie
Okay. Bobby. Bobby. Bob Bobberson.
Bobby Bones
Oh, my nickname. No, no, incorrect. Amy, I think you win the Bobby game. Can you name another one?
Scuba Steve
Bobby. Your real last name.
Bobby Bones
Bobby Wagner, the linebacker for the Rams. Probably I wouldn't have accepted Bobby Moynihan the comedian, but Bobby Helms, who sings this song, Jingle Bellrock. Oh, it's an old name. Bobby Helms. I did all that to get to this. Okay.
Eddie
It's like a fun game, though. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Bobby Bone Show. Bones.
Amy
It's the anonymous in box. Anonymous in box.
Bobby Bones
Hello, Bobby. My girlfriend recently broke up with me. I just bought her a pair of normatech compression boots. Ooh. Days before we broke up. Days she accepted them. I have the receipt. I am still in the window to return the normatech compression boots, but I need to act fast. To put in perspective, we're both poor college students and the boots cost 750 bucks, brand new. Oh, they cost that much? Yes. You bought me some of those. I have them.
Scuba Steve
I did.
Bobby Bones
Same ones. I use them.
Scuba Steve
Oh, I'm so glad you used them.
Bobby Bones
I still use them. Yeah, people use them. Yeah.
Scuba Steve
I feel like the ones I got were sunny bit more, but.
Bobby Bones
Oh, were they?
Scuba Steve
Maybe they're.
Bobby Bones
Oh, no, I've used them.
Scuba Steve
But I mean, you've given. You've been very generous to me. No need to break for your like 40th birthday or something.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Amy
Wow.
Scuba Steve
It was something.
Bobby Bones
Okay, there's no need to brag. I literally was like.
Scuba Steve
I'm not bragging.
Bobby Bones
Great gift.
Amy
Well, you did. You said mine were a little more.
Bobby Bones
I know you did do that.
Amy
Like you threw out. I got you a nice repair.
Bobby Bones
You flex anyway. Wait, wait, let me go. Would it be right for me to ask for the boots back? How should I ask? If so. Sincerely, boyfriend. Boyfriend given the boot. Ha. Boyfriend given the boot. So here's the thing. Would it be right? Sure. There's nothing that's going to put you in jail for going. Hey, do you mind if I take those boots back? You just can't be upset or hold it against her if she keeps them because they were a gift.
Scuba Steve
Yeah, but I don't think you can ask for them back. They were a gift.
Bobby Bones
It's very easy. You can ask for any gift back. If you wanted to ask me for those back. That. Oh, that's if I wanted that George straight shirt that I gave you that I don't remember giving you. You just wear it now.
Raymundo
No, no, you gave it to me.
Bobby Bones
Fine. But if I wanted to go like, can I have it back? Or the peloton. No, no, the Peloton treadmill. You just have. That's awesome. That's a great gift I got.
Eddie
You want it back and right.
Bobby Bones
Her now ex husband, I think got a little irritated. I've spent so much money on her.
Scuba Steve
Well, no, he was gonna get that for me for Christmas.
Eddie
Oh yeah, I remember.
Bobby Bones
And then how many friends in your life do you have, like Amy? I don't have. Oh, none.
Amy
Well, who got to keep it? Did you keep those?
Bobby Bones
You better have if he has it.
Eddie
Oh my goodness.
Bobby Bones
Oh my God. Oh my God.
Eddie
Amy.
Amy
You bought her ex husband that?
Scuba Steve
It is at my house. Calm down.
Bobby Bones
Why did you look at me funny?
Scuba Steve
Because I was just, like, letting y'all think it for a second.
Bobby Bones
I don't believe you.
Scuba Steve
I sent you a picture. It's at my house.
Bobby Bones
Amy has a Barry Manilow shirt that I have that she knows that you gave to me. I don't remember giving her these clothes.
Raymundo
What?
Scuba Steve
You're.
Eddie
Do you want it back?
Bobby Bones
No. But if I wanted to ask about, I could. But you don't have to give it back because you own it.
Scuba Steve
Well, I shall give them back. Since you don't recall giving.
Bobby Bones
No, you keep them on the house. Okay. You can ask for them back, but she's probably not going to give them back. She shouldn't give them back if she doesn't want to. So she shouldn't give it back. But you can ask.
Scuba Steve
But I wouldn't.
Bobby Bones
You wouldn't give it back?
Scuba Steve
I wouldn't ask.
Bobby Bones
I would.
Eddie
If you got asked, would you give it back?
Bobby Bones
Yes, absolutely. I wouldn't have broken up with him.
Eddie
I would have such a nice guy.
Bobby Bones
Or I'd have broken up with him. I would have taken the boots and been like, I can't take these because here's the thing. I can't be with you anymore.
Scuba Steve
Or you would have stayed at least a month.
Bobby Bones
Or I'd have stayed another year or so. Yeah. With him a year for 750 bucks. Yeah. All right. Good luck. Get the boots back. That's what I say. If you need us to call her, make a video and ask for them back.
Amy
We will.
Bobby Bones
I will. No.
Eddie
That's hilarious.
Bobby Bones
What do you mean, no, we won't? Okay, We. There's no.
Scuba Steve
We said we will.
Bobby Bones
Okay, I will. Anybody else on the show that wants to be a part of it?
Eddie
I'll do it.
Bobby Bones
Thank you.
Amy
I'll do it.
Bobby Bones
Okay, email us back. It's been 65 years since this song came out, rocking around Christmas tree, and she's here. Brenda Lee is here. What's crazy is, yeah, we know her for this, but she's in the hall of fame, like the Country Music hall of Fame. She's in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. She's got millions and millions of albums and strip. It's crazy how successful she's been, but she's here. Let's talk to Brenda Lee. I do want to talk to her about hanging out with George Jones and Little Richard and all those artists, too. Next up, Brenda Lee, who's in her Hyundai Green room in studio. We wish you a merry Christmas we wish you a merry Christmas We w you a merry Christmas from the Bobby Bone Show. On the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Brenda, Leita, so nice to have you in here. I see you driving around town sometimes, and I'm. And I always kind of geek out. I'm like, there's Brenda Lee.
Raymundo
Well, aren't you sweet?
Bobby Bones
I am very sweet, yes. Thank you. You're welcome. Very, very sweet.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So correct me if I'm wrong here, but the song that every Christmas is played all the time, over and over again. You sang that when you were six years old, is that right?
Raymundo
9.
Bobby Bones
Do you remember singing it? Because I don't remember almost anything at 9 years old. I do, yeah.
Raymundo
I remember the players that played on it. I'll never forget. I was sitting at home and the phone rang and I answered it, and it was one of my friends. And she said, brenda, did you know that your song is all over the movie Home Alone?
Bobby Bones
It says here that it was recorded in 1958. I guess I just assumed that it had always been a massive Christmas hit, because in our life, it mostly has been. Because Home Alone came out when we.
Scuba Steve
Were young, early 90s.
Raymundo
Yeah. And it was played, but it wasn't like nobody went crazy over it, you know? But it's a good song. It was written by Johnny Marks.
Bobby Bones
So was it weird to you that it blew up way later?
Raymundo
Yeah, it was. And that was really the catalyst that pushed it to where it went.
Bobby Bones
And you have a Christmas EP that you put out earlier this month, and you do. Rocking around the Christmas tree Santa Claus is coming to town Jingle bell rock a marshmallow world A reimagined rockin as we like to call it in the biz. Rockin'that's, what we call it. Don't. You guys. Don't call it that, but me and Brenda call it rockin'yeah.
Raymundo
We call it rockin'so.
Bobby Bones
Are you known as, like, the Christmas lady now? That's a big part of how a lot of us were introduced to you is rockin around the Christmas Tree.
Raymundo
You know, like I said, I never thought that that would be my signature song, that everybody, if they remembered me, would hear that and say, yeah, that that was her song. But it's become that on the Bobby Bones Show.
Bobby Bones
Now, Brenda Lee, how old were you when you recorded. I'm sorry.
Raymundo
14.
Bobby Bones
I'm sorry. So sorry that I was a joke. And as a kid. Were you just a very gifted singer from a young age?
Raymundo
I guess. I mean, I never took lessons, I never practiced.
Bobby Bones
So as a kid, though, who did?
Raymundo
And it just all came natural.
Bobby Bones
And at what age did you start to go? I think I'm going to do this as a job. Was it at 6, 7, 8, 9 years old? Did you start traveling around singing?
Raymundo
Yeah, I did. And I came from a very poor family, very poor background, and I was so thrilled that I was going to get to go and work and do what I loved, but get paid for it where I could help my family.
Bobby Bones
So would you get on a bus with adults and travel the country?
Raymundo
No, not at that point. It was by car and I slept up in the back window.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Raymundo
Because I was little, I could see it. Yeah. So, yeah, that is old school.
Scuba Steve
Because you didn't have to buckle and.
Bobby Bones
No seat belt and people rolling smokes.
Raymundo
No seat belts back then.
Bobby Bones
That's right. Yeah. So you're traveling around the country. You're a kid performer. You're basically Justin Bieber before Justin Bieber. Do you know that?
Raymundo
I didn't know.
Bobby Bones
You're the original guys. We have the original Justin Bieber here, which is. Yes, yes. Which is super cool. Yes. What I think is remarkable about. Remarkable about your career is, you know, as we talk about the songs that, you know, you're like, I'm surprised. But you're in the Country Music hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll.
Raymundo
Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly hall of Fame. Yeah, yeah.
Bobby Bones
So you. You have, like, two, three different massive careers that independently, anyone would be super proud of. But the fact that you're in multiple hall of Fames just shows how versatile you were as a singer, as an artist. You know what. What years do you feel like you were thriving the most artistically? Like, what age for you? You were, like, on it. You felt like you were singing, creating, like everything was going right.
Raymundo
Probably 14. And I was getting the great songs, and you get a great song and it's not hard to sing, but it never was work to me at all. I loved it. And I think a lot of people in our industry are unhappy because they don't like what they're doing, but they love the money that it's bringing in and they love all that. And you'll finally burn out if you don't like what you're doing.
Bobby Bones
Did you ever burn out?
Raymundo
Never, because I had a lot of responsibility, even at the age I was. My dad died when I was 7, and it was almost like. And I love to sing. Nobody made me sing. It was like, okay, well, I can sing. Maybe I can make some money.
Bobby Bones
And you would send it back home.
Raymundo
I'd give it to my mama. Yes.
Bobby Bones
So I guess you would go back home with it.
Raymundo
Well, we lived in Georgia.
Bobby Bones
Got it.
Raymundo
So I was on a show called John Farmer and the TV Ranch Boys. And there was a place, a big, huge dance hall called Sports arena. And I used to sing there every weekend with the guys on the show as a kid.
Bobby Bones
So if you're a kid and you're in an industry with a lot of adults and times were different back then, though. But were there a lot of bad influences around you? Not because it was you, but because that's just the nature of that kind of business. You're just around adults and the road's hard and there's drinking and how did that affect you as a kid?
Raymundo
It didn't affect me, but I would see the drinking and I would see the. It was hard even as a kid to ride in a car. And I remember sleeping up in that back window. I was kind of kept away and hid from a lot of that.
Bobby Bones
Oh, that's good. So you had people around you that cared about you, that protected you.
Raymundo
Absolutely.
Bobby Bones
That's great. And when I look back at some of your career, like for example, playing Vegas at 12 years old, what was Vegas like? Just for. It doesn't even matter what year it was, but for a 12 year old to be playing Vegas, that had to be really exciting.
Raymundo
It was exciting and Vegas was exciting and Vegas was good. Not like it is today.
Bobby Bones
Evil now.
Raymundo
It's changed a lot.
Bobby Bones
Somebody pooped in my shower last time I was in Vegas.
Eddie
True story.
Bobby Bones
Not a joke. Went in there to make. Pooped in my shower. Brenda, that's so. It is evil. So. Yeah. No, I know.
Raymundo
End of interview.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I'm telling you, in a Vegas trip.
Raymundo
For me, you peeped.
Scuba Steve
He didn't poop.
Bobby Bones
Oh, no. Someone pooped in my shower. We went back in the room after we've been down.
Raymundo
I thought you said you knew.
Bobby Bones
No, I wish it had been me. I wouldn't have been as gross out. We walked back in the room and we was pooping our shower from somebody else.
Raymundo
What you do?
Bobby Bones
Called and said, there's poop in my shower from somebody else. Vegas has changed. That's why I'm asking about old time Vegas.
Raymundo
Yeah, I loved oldtime Vegas.
Amy
Yeah.
Raymundo
The days when Wayne Newton was the thing and all the good acts and the. And the quartets and all they were playing there. And it seemed like that was the place to be at the time.
Bobby Bones
Do you ever gamble?
Raymundo
No.
Bobby Bones
Oh, man. Never.
Raymundo
Never.
Bobby Bones
Let's go in studio with Brenda lee right now. 65 years since rocking around the Christmas Tree came out. But what we want to talk about next is Patsy Klein, George Jones, Little Richard hanging out with all of them. And then if you still make a bunch of money off of Rocking around the Christmas tree. More with Brenda Lee next. Happy holidays. Happy holidays Happy holidays Happy holidays from the Bobby Bones show on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Brenda Lee, Can I ask you about some people, like, for example, Little Richard. So exciting as a. As an artist, not just a player, not just a singer, but as a whole artist. And I know that you knew Little Richard. What was he like?
Raymundo
He was crazy, in a good way. He was very sweet. He supported a lot of people, and his show was one of the most exciting to this day that I've ever seen. And he's. But for him.
Bobby Bones
A lot of people would even know him that's younger than me from Full House. He went on and was the uncle on Full House. And so he went and he played the school show. But I was a big Little Richard fan.
Raymundo
I was, too.
Bobby Bones
What about someone like Patsy Clyde?
Raymundo
Patsy and I were the best of friends, even though I was a lot younger. I was a kid, but I'd go. And she talked to me about show business, and she taught me a whole lot about how to deal with people.
Bobby Bones
Crazy. I'm crazy for feeling so lonely I am lonely Crazy Crazy for feeling so.
Raymundo
Good And I lived on Kelly Road at the time, and her. We had 12 acres and it was all fenced, and her plane went down almost in our backyard.
Bobby Bones
That close, huh?
Raymundo
And it broke my heart because even though, like I said, she was older than me, I just loved her. I still. I'm close to her kids to this day.
Bobby Bones
What about someone like George Jones?
Raymundo
Well, George, I mean, what a singer. One of the best singers I've ever heard. But the studs he pulled.
Bobby Bones
And we see that, we hear about them or we see like a recreation, but we probably have no idea.
Raymundo
Well, he was funny and, you know, I could see him drinking a little bit, but other people say, we don't know how that he goes on stage, but he did, and he did great.
Bobby Bones
Now the race is on and here comes pride at the back stretch. Heartaches are going to the inside My tears are holding back they're trying not to fall My heart's out of the running Thrill of scratch for another sake the race is on and it looks Life heartaches and the winner loses all.
Raymundo
I never knew that side of him.
Bobby Bones
Because you stayed away from him in a personal life or Your age was so.
Raymundo
My age was so young. Mama wouldn't let me. When I got off that stage, Mama was waiting, and there we'd go.
Bobby Bones
Wow, that's a lot of love.
Scuba Steve
It is.
Raymundo
Yeah, it is.
Bobby Bones
That's got to be tough as you're getting famous. Your mom's still going. I'm still the mom. Even though you're getting famous?
Raymundo
Absolutely.
Bobby Bones
What was your mom like?
Raymundo
My mom was a beautiful woman. My dad died when I was 7, so mama had a lot to do. And she. She was. She was a pretty woman. And she was asked many times by bales in the industry for a date, and she never would do it. And I would say, mama, date them. Maybe you'll find somebody for yourself and be happy. And she would always say, I'm happy now. So I just kind of let it drop.
Bobby Bones
Sounds like she's one of the major influences on still who you are today.
Raymundo
Absolutely. I don't know who or what I would have been without my mother.
Bobby Bones
Do you ever go back to your hometown? Yeah. What's it like now?
Raymundo
It's still the same. Honest to goodness, I expected to go down and say, see, maybe one big building. I knew it wasn't going to be like Atlanta, but it's still the same precious little town that it was when I left.
Bobby Bones
Do you have a sign? It says home of Brenda, Anything like that?
Scuba Steve
No.
Raymundo
They have a. They have a sidewalk that goes all around the school I went to, and it's my. It's the Brenda Lee sidewalk.
Bobby Bones
Oh, that's cool.
Eddie
Because.
Bobby Bones
Do you want a sign? I'll make them put one up if you want one. Do you want one?
Raymundo
Yeah, do it.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. No, don't think I won't. Call and talk to the mayor.
Raymundo
Oh, do it.
Bobby Bones
Okay. Make that note, Scuba. We're gonna call. Dang it. And get a sign that says, welcome to the home of Brenda Lee.
Raymundo
There you go.
Bobby Bones
And then it's gonna say, quote, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. A couple more questions for you here. If you were to separate your careers individually, you have, like, three different massive, wildly successful careers.
Raymundo
Thank you.
Bobby Bones
And what people know now that are. That's my age and younger are rocking around the Christmas tree and still play currently. I mean, as a current Christmas song.
Raymundo
It is.
Bobby Bones
And then I'm sorry went viral. And still I. It's probably sampled for songs all the time, too.
Raymundo
It is. TikTok uses it all.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Raymundo
Yeah. So it is.
Bobby Bones
Do you still make decent money off the Christmas song?
Raymundo
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
Oh. Oh, good. I like that. All right, so that. That's. That supports you like you still get the checks?
Raymundo
I. I get the checks, but my husband is the breadwinner, so he supports us.
Bobby Bones
Hey, wink, wink.
Raymundo
And. And he makes sure that the royalties are right.
Bobby Bones
Oh, good.
Raymundo
For good and all that's right. And then he has his own separate business, which is a millwork company and makes all the trim for the wonderful homes here and.
Bobby Bones
Really?
Raymundo
Yeah. Does all that stuff.
Bobby Bones
And I need to give you guys a call then.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Well, will you sing?
Raymundo
As he puts it on, you are crazy. But, you know, he works every day, and I say, why are you working every day? You don't have to. He says, I love it and I want to take care of it. Because we have two girls, three grandchildren, and one great grandchild. We figure that we're going to try to leave them something.
Bobby Bones
If there's extra, I'm here, too.
Raymundo
Okay. Because you're being real nice to me, and I like that. Yes. You'll get a check in the mail, don't you worry.
Bobby Bones
Thank you. Well, not now.
Raymundo
No, I'm not dead.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, exactly.
Raymundo
Yeah. Some people think I am, but I'm not.
Bobby Bones
Let me say this. And Brenda, at some point, maybe even next year, I do this show that's like a different show. It's like an hour long. We really get into the career. I'm so just. Just wildly interested in your career other than the Christmas song.
Raymundo
Okay.
Bobby Bones
I would love for you to come over to my house studio sometime and us. Just because you have such a history of not just this town, not just this format, multiple. Just living different lives through the years.
Raymundo
When I go to foreign countries, I sing in their languages. I've learned.
Bobby Bones
No way.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Scuba Steve
How many languages?
Raymundo
French, Spanish, Japanese.
Bobby Bones
What song can you sing in Japanese?
Raymundo
I had a hit song there called One Rainy Night in Tokyo, and you.
Bobby Bones
Can sing that Japanese. I don't know if you're lying, so I'm just gonna go. Yeah.
Raymundo
A little bit. That's a big hit.
Scuba Steve
Wow.
Bobby Bones
You're not making that up because I don't know Japanese. I can't fact check that.
Raymundo
No, you call, you get my Japanese.
Bobby Bones
Friend on the phone. I don't have any. Don't have any. I just have to trust you, Brenda. All right, all right. There she is. Brenda Lee, everybody. Thank you, Brenda.
Raymundo
Thank you.
Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
It's time for the good news with Bobby. Tell me something good. There's a program in Montgomery, Alabama, and with the ymca, they're helping people. It's called brown bag bus. And so what's happening is they have turned these old buses into a way to deliver meals to kids who can't get to grocery stores, have food insecurity. Can't have healthy food either. And so over 500 kids in these Montgomery school districts are benefiting from this. The bus drives around. It's basically like the ice cream truck. That's cool, but healthier. So maybe not as exciting to the kid at first.
Eddie
They have music.
Scuba Steve
Hey.
Bobby Bones
But way better. Yeah. I don't know. They have music. Unless, like a white snake on the radio, Here I come again on my own. The bus driver. Yeah. The program is all about children. Every lunch they distribute has a vegetable, fruit, protein, carton, milk. They even deliver on holidays. So the communities come together to raise money for it. They have people that Drive the buses. They even pay people that drive the buses so they also can work. It's a really cool program that the YMCA is doing down in Montgomery, Alabama. I just wanted to do a little highlight of that. So appreciate you guys. Keep it up. Hopefully other communities can hear and learn from this and do the same. That's what it's all about. That was. Tell me something good. We call him Cringe Kringle Slunchbox. You wanted a Christmas carol. I love that you're in the spirit, but the problem is you were doing in the bathroom.
Amy
Yeah, I was at the airport in San Jose and I was like, this is the perfect spot to spin the. Send the holiday cheer out to everybody else.
Bobby Bones
I'm just surprised you don't get beat up by some dude with his brakes around his knees. Okay, here we go.
Amy
Stall two, install one.
Bobby Bones
Oh, no.
Amy
What's up? You excited for Christmas? I'm gonna be working, but yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, man. Well, I'm sorry you're gonna be working on Christmas, but I'm. You want me to sing you a Christmas carol to kind of cheer you up? He sees you when you're sleeping. Your turn. Here's the end. You want to join me? Sounds like you're on the naughty list. You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town. Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas. Did that cheer you up a little bit? A little bit, yes. Should we take it from the top and sing it together? Yeah, I think. Okay. Oh, all right, man.
Bobby Bones
So the worst thing that could happen is you walk out of the stall at the same time as dude. Do you leave before him or do you wait for him to go?
Amy
No, no, I wait for him to go. Cuz I want another person to come in so I can sing to them.
Bobby Bones
Oh, you stay in one spot, I stay planted.
Amy
All right, stall two is stall one. How's it going, man? You ready for Christmas? Yeah, man. It's right around the corner. You. You want to sing a Christmas carol together?
Bobby Bones
No, I don't.
Amy
That's awesome, man. Go for it. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Your turn.
Eddie
I'll listen.
Bobby Bones
I do not want to sing.
Amy
You don't want to hear me sing? Okay, so you're not going to partake, but you're just going to enjoy.
Eddie
I'm going to consume.
Bobby Bones
I'm not going to partake. Ok.
Amy
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas with every Christmas card I write May your days be Merry and bright and may all your Christmases be white thanks, man. Merry Christmas.
Bobby Bones
So did you have the words in front of you?
Amy
I had him on my phone.
Eddie
Yeah. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
I didn't think you would know the words because you definitely did not know how the song went.
Amy
What do you mean?
Bobby Bones
Like, the melody of it.
Amy
I did. I nailed it.
Bobby Bones
No, no, I. I love your passion for it. Doesn't it stink in there?
Amy
You're just sitting there sometimes. Oh, it's part of it. That's part of the. Hey, it's part of the job, man.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. You guys want one more from Cringe? Yes.
Eddie
Yes.
Bobby Bones
There you go.
Amy
What's up, Urinal? How's it going? Not too bad.
Bobby Bones
How about yourself?
Amy
Good. Would you like to hear a Christmas carol?
Bobby Bones
Sure.
Amy
Yeah. Would you want to sing with me?
Bobby Bones
Was he standing at a urinal? Yeah.
Amy
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So you beat on your door?
Amy
Yeah, I'm on the stall and the urinal was to my left and another stall, which is to my right. It was a kind of a smaller bathroom.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Amy
Never, usually. I'm usually in the middle of the stalls. There's stalls on each side. I've never had a urinal. Stall.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, urinal. So you just haul it.
Amy
I was like, man, this is cool. I'm gonna go urinal instead of a stall. All right, well, you're. Wait, don't leave. I gotta sing to you.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Amy
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. Common and Cupid and Donner, Blitzen. But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? You remember who that is? A little louder. And that's it. You're done. You would even say it glows. Did you leave? No.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Amy
Stay there. Don't leave yet. All the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names day after left. Yep. What's the next line? There you go. All right. Merry Christmas. Have a great day.
Bobby Bones
Did you ever make eye contact with these guys outside of the bathroom?
Amy
No. They come and go. I have no idea who they are. They could be on the same flight as me.
Bobby Bones
Wonder if people think he's hitting on them too.
Amy
Oh, that was fun.
Eddie
Can I ask a question that might be a little. Well, like, is he a meth? Are you a method actor in there?
Bobby Bones
Like, you're actually using the bathroom as you're doing it.
Amy
This time I was using the bathroom. Yeah. This one I was using about. And you gotta imagine this was at like 6 in the morning. Like, it's like people are like, oh, my gosh, I'm so tired. They're not even awake yet. They just want to get on the plane and fall asleep. And I'm in there like, let's go. What's up, people?
Bobby Bones
Well, thank you, lunchbox. Merry Christmas.
Amy
Ho ho, ho. Merry Christmas.
Bobby Bones
We asked 5, 000 of our listener show Facebook page, what are the top 10 most returned Christmas gifts? We just said, what's most? And here are the top 10 answers. We're going to play the Bobby fume. We rolled the dice before the show segment here. Eddie, you're first.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Remember, first, second, and third rounds, the point values go up. Eddie, 5,000 listeners were asked, what. What's the most returned Christmas gift?
Eddie
I'm going to go with a necktie. A tie.
Amy
Oh.
Eddie
Think about it.
Scuba Steve
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, let's do it. Because I think that covers it. Go ahead.
Eddie
What I'm talking about.
Bobby Bones
The number one answer is clothes and shoes.
Amy
That's what I'm gonna.
Bobby Bones
It's only worth one point, so we're gonna go ahead and say that's that one.
Amy
I was like, man, I can't believe you went that detail.
Eddie
Well, that takes out a lot of my guesses.
Bobby Bones
All of Eddie's are clothes and shoes. Nikes, Adidas. Shoes, clothes and shoes. Number one answer. Eddie gets one point.
Eddie
Okay. I feel like I get this a lot and I don't use them because I already have them. Electric razors.
Bobby Bones
Electric razors. Show me razors.
Eddie
You thought about it, though?
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Yeah. And I'm gonna give you guys a hint after round one. Okay. So you're all gonna suffer the same consequences. Round one, Amy.
Scuba Steve
Kitchen gadgets.
Bobby Bones
Kitchen gadgets.
Amy
Wow.
Bobby Bones
And number four was home appliances. Oh, that's good, Amy.
Scuba Steve
Okay. All righty. Home applause. So that extends beyond the kitchen.
Bobby Bones
I know.
Scuba Steve
Okay.
Eddie
This is tough.
Scuba Steve
Really getting difficult. What about, like, perfumes or colognes?
Amy
Perfumes or colognes?
Bobby Bones
Most returned items for Christmas. Show me perfumes or colognes. Number six. Perfumes and colognes. Wow. Good job.
Scuba Steve
Okay, let's talk about neckties. I mean, people like to get this. You should be careful. If you do, like, any health care, wellness, like, workout type stuff, people might be like, what? Why'd you give me this? I'm returning it.
Bobby Bones
Show me workout equipment. Number five. Workout equipment. Good job.
Scuba Steve
Let's go. Okie dokie. Okay.
Bobby Bones
5, 000 listeners were surveyed on our Facebook page. What do they return most from Christmas?
Scuba Steve
I want to return these because games are fun, but maybe games.
Amy
Show me games.
Bobby Bones
Lunchbox.
Amy
Yeah. This tough, man.
Bobby Bones
It is, man.
Amy
I'm just gonna tell you.
Bobby Bones
Tell Me, man.
Amy
That's why I don't ever buy for my wife.
Bobby Bones
Go ahead.
Amy
Women are never happy.
Bobby Bones
Go ahead.
Amy
Jewelry.
Bobby Bones
Show me jewelry. That's good. Number two jewelry. Have yourself a Mary Little. Two points.
Amy
Yep. You're welcome. All right. Another thing. You should never get someone on Christmas because you. I mean, they say they want it, but it's like, man, a couple weeks later, it's like, I don't want this thing. It's an animal. Show them.
Bobby Bones
An animal.
Eddie
Yeah. How do you return?
Bobby Bones
Well, you take it back to wherever you got aim. It's actually a cat.
Amy
Oh, exactly.
Scuba Steve
Those were extenuating circumstances.
Bobby Bones
But you did it. You did. You're like, how do you return it? So I answered it like you did.
Amy
Yeah, like, like, Amy, did you. You gave up on it.
Scuba Steve
No, my dog was going to eat it.
Amy
I know, but.
Bobby Bones
Okay, so here's the, here's the hint I was going to give you. Figured it out. Be a little more general.
Amy
Yeah, yeah, I, I, I got that.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I know. General. Round. Two points doubled. Amy, there are still six answers on the board.
Amy
Eddie Stern. Eddie.
Eddie
Yeah, I'm here we are sorry.
Bobby Bones
We asked 5, 000 people. What's your most returned Christmas gift?
Eddie
Man, I'm gonna go with candles. Candles are easy to gift, but nobody wants them.
Bobby Bones
You're right. You're right about candles. No, I was always the easy, generic thing, and I'm like, there's no way they like this. But my wife loves candles, and we buy candles.
Eddie
I think I got your wife a.
Bobby Bones
Candle last year, and I think she really liked it.
Scuba Steve
Yeah, y'all got me a candle once, and I was my favorite.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Amy
I've never bought someone a. A candle.
Bobby Bones
You should show me a candle. Hey, number eight. Come on. Worth 16 points, Eddie.
Amy
My goodness. I am mind blown.
Eddie
Now I'm in trouble. So I'm just gonna take a stab at.
Bobby Bones
These are the top 10 most returned Christmas gifts. Go ahead, Eddie. Stab away.
Eddie
Give me an alarm clock show.
Amy
Go ahead and buzz it. Don't even have to repeat it.
Bobby Bones
Just buzz it.
Amy
Don't even have to repeat that.
Bobby Bones
It's not that. That's a bad one.
Eddie
I'm just being too specific.
Bobby Bones
You just said it's not alarm clock.
Scuba Steve
Amy, how many points do I have?
Bobby Bones
14. You're in second place. But remember, points are doubled.
Scuba Steve
Dang it. I know.
Eddie
Come on, Amy, really?
Bobby Bones
Four answers on the board.
Scuba Steve
Okay. General. General. General. General.
Bobby Bones
Show her a general in the military.
Amy
Oh, that's good.
Bobby Bones
That's good. General.
Scuba Steve
Okay, I'm gonna Go with, like, general.
Bobby Bones
D.
Scuba Steve
Toiletry type stuff.
Eddie
Oh, yeah, that's real broad.
Bobby Bones
Toiletry type stuff.
Eddie
Like a razor.
Scuba Steve
Trees.
Bobby Bones
Toiletry.
Scuba Steve
No, not like a razor.
Bobby Bones
Okay, like a razor lunchbox.
Scuba Steve
No, I meant like a bath bomb.
Amy
Easy, man. This one's. These.
Bobby Bones
Do it.
Amy
Tools.
Bobby Bones
Do it. Do it.
Eddie
Oh, that's so good.
Bobby Bones
Show the man some tools.
Eddie
Wow.
Bobby Bones
Number nine answer, 18 points. Lunchbox, not three takes the lead.
Eddie
Oh, my gosh.
Scuba Steve
Dang it, man.
Amy
Come on, guys, it's easy. You're walking through the bookstore. You're like, oh, I'm gonna get some of the book. I've already read that book, man.
Bobby Bones
Sorry.
Amy
I might take it back. Give me books.
Bobby Bones
Show the guy some literature. Incorrect.
Amy
You thought that was right?
Bobby Bones
I did.
Eddie
I really did.
Bobby Bones
Points are tripled.
Eddie
Oh, my God.
Bobby Bones
Score right now. Lunchbox, 20. Eddie, 17. Amy, 14. It's anybody's game, but you gotta get a. Gotta get an answer here, Eddie.
Eddie
Guys, this is huge.
Bobby Bones
There are 1, 2, 3 answers on the board. We're looking for the top 10 most returned Christmas gifts. At number one was clothes and shoes, jewelry at 2, home appliances at 4, workout equipment at 5, perfume and makeup at 6 and 7, and candles and tools at 8 and 9. I just spoiled one of them. It was makeup. So that one dead is dead.
Eddie
That's the one I had too.
Bobby Bones
There are two answers left on the board. I'm an idiot. I'm sorry. Go ahead.
Eddie
Okay. Check it out, though. You didn't spoil it, but I know it. You get a CD or a dvd, and you're like, I have no way to play this.
Amy
Hey, return five called.
Eddie
I'm returning it.
Bobby Bones
Show Eddie the mid-90s. No.
Eddie
That was part of returning it.
Bobby Bones
Guys, Eddie's like, you get a vhs.
Eddie
No, no, stop.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Scuba Steve
You can't return a gift card, can you?
Eddie
You can.
Amy
I think you can.
Raymundo
You can so do it.
Bobby Bones
Amy, there's two answers on the board, but if you miss it, lunchbox wins.
Raymundo
Y'all are lying.
Eddie
Okay, get. Don't do that one.
Bobby Bones
Two answers on the board.
Scuba Steve
Okay, I'm gonna go broad here. Like furniture.
Eddie
Furniture.
Scuba Steve
Well, it could be. That could be anything.
Bobby Bones
Show her an ottoman. No.
Amy
We missed the biggest one. Electronics.
Bobby Bones
Number three was electronics. That was the alarm clock eddie. And number 10 was.
Amy
Wait, wait, I'm still guessing.
Bobby Bones
You already won.
Amy
I know, but I like.
Bobby Bones
Go ahead.
Amy
I don't know.
Bobby Bones
Say lingerie.
Amy
Lingerie.
Bobby Bones
That's correct.
Scuba Steve
Wait, I had underwear on my list.
Eddie
You didn't say it, though.
Amy
I don't think underwear is lingerie.
Bobby Bones
Why Would you yell, wait, I had it on my list.
Amy
What are we waiting.
Scuba Steve
Was it really lingerie?
Bobby Bones
Yes. Number 10.
Scuba Steve
So underwear would work?
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Our winners. I'm gonna play you a clip from a Christmas movie. Name the movie, but if you miss it, you lose.
Eddie
Let's go.
Bobby Bones
And whoever gets it gets to open the doors. See if they win a prize. Okay. All right, so this one's.
Amy
It's.
Bobby Bones
The game is so easy. Just don't miss it. But here's an example. Go ahead. Oh, my God.
Amy
I know him. I know him.
Eddie
That would be L. L. Good.
Bobby Bones
Okay, here we go, team. Let's see how you do number one. Go.
Amy
You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Bobby Bones
Merry Christmas.
Amy
Ho, ho, ho. In amber the wind.
Bobby Bones
Amy is struggle face right now.
Scuba Steve
Can we hear it one more time?
Amy
You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Bobby Bones
Merry Christmas.
Amy
Ho, ho, ho.
Bobby Bones
Amy, what do you have?
Scuba Steve
Christmas story.
Bobby Bones
Lunch.
Amy
A Christmas story, Eddie.
Eddie
A Christmas Story.
Bobby Bones
Why do you feel I put this.
Eddie
Did you have something in your mouth?
Bobby Bones
What are you eating? All right, next up. Go.
Raymundo
Guys, I'm eating drunk and watching rubbish. You better come out and stop me. Guys, I'm eating drunk and watching rubbish. You better come out and stop me.
Bobby Bones
In.
Scuba Steve
In.
Bobby Bones
Lunchbox has.
Amy
I have no idea what that one is. Mean. Rubbish. Say it again.
Bobby Bones
One more time.
Raymundo
Guys, I'm eating drunk and watching rubbish. You better come out and stop me.
Bobby Bones
Oh, no.
Amy
I may be too old. Eddie's movie.
Bobby Bones
Is he playing possum or is he for real?
Eddie
I don't know. I can't tell.
Bobby Bones
All right. Lunchbox didn't answer.
Amy
A Wonderful Life.
Bobby Bones
He wasn't playing possum.
Eddie
Eddie, I'm shocked.
Bobby Bones
Home Alone, Amy.
Scuba Steve
Home Alone.
Bobby Bones
Correct. No, no.
Eddie
I'm knew you didn't know that.
Bobby Bones
You never seen that.
Amy
I've seen it. Yeah, probably 20 years ago.
Bobby Bones
All right.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
You too. Go. Look. Daddy, Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
Amy
I'm in for the win. You're out.
Bobby Bones
It's survival.
Amy
You're done.
Bobby Bones
You're done.
Amy
What?
Bobby Bones
We said that at the very beginning.
Amy
Well, that was stupid. That's not very Christmassy.
Eddie
Oh, that's true.
Bobby Bones
Okay, I'm in.
Scuba Steve
Amy, It's a Wonderful Life.
Bobby Bones
Eddie, the best Christmas movie ever.
Eddie
It's a Wonderful Life.
Amy
Correct.
Bobby Bones
Next.
Amy
Came without ribbons. Came without digs. It came without packages, boxes or bags.
Bobby Bones
Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a star. Amen.
Scuba Steve
Amen. Amy the Grinch.
Eddie
Eddie the Grinch that Stole Christmas.
Bobby Bones
I'm gonna give it to you both. Even though it's both. The action word is how the Grinch Stole Christmas. Oh. What? And I'm gonna give that.
Amy
Oh. Both out.
Eddie
Okay, fine. We're. They're both in then.
Bobby Bones
Then you're both back in. Love it the same way.
Eddie
Thanks.
Bobby Bones
Lunch. Yes. All right, next up. Nobody's leaving.
Amy
Nobody's walking out on this fun old fashioned family Christmas.
Bobby Bones
No, no.
Amy
We're all in this together. Ken.
Scuba Steve
Ken. National Lampoon's Christ, Eddie.
Eddie
Christmas vacation.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, we'll take him next. It is Santa. You killed him.
Scuba Steve
I'm in.
Eddie
I'm in.
Bobby Bones
Amy.
Scuba Steve
Santa Claus.
Bobby Bones
Eddie.
Eddie
The Santa Claus.
Amy
Good.
Bobby Bones
Next.
Raymundo
God bless us, everyone.
Eddie
I'm gonna play it more times.
Bobby Bones
God bless us, everyone's.
Scuba Steve
That movie called?
Amy
Oh, so good.
Scuba Steve
What's that movie called?
Bobby Bones
I don't know. What's it called?
Scuba Steve
Is it called this? Truly not. No.
Bobby Bones
What do you have?
Scuba Steve
Tiny Ship.
Bobby Bones
That is Tiny Tim.
Scuba Steve
I know, but what's it called, Eddie?
Eddie
It's A Christmas Carol.
Scuba Steve
Correct.
Bobby Bones
Come on. Eddie is the winner. Let's go.
Scuba Steve
So you've gotta hang on tight to what makes you. You. You have to remember that's what got you here. And I promise, if you do that. Gail.
Amy
I got it.
Scuba Steve
Sky's the limit.
Eddie
You're out. You're out.
Amy
Well, I thought we were doing it for fun.
Bobby Bones
No, just Eddie. Cause he won. It's tough, man.
Eddie
Can you play that again?
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Scuba Steve
So you've gotta hang on tight to what makes you you. You have to remember that's what got you here. And I promise, if you do that. Gail. The sky's the limit.
Eddie
Has anyone ever watched this movie?
Amy
No, I haven't.
Eddie
The holiday harmony.
Bobby Bones
That's Amy. Wow, Amy.
Eddie
That's good.
Bobby Bones
That's pretty good. Is it?
Eddie
It is good.
Scuba Steve
I haven't heard that in a minute.
Eddie
Like, listen, compare it to all those.
Bobby Bones
Other clips we played.
Eddie
It fits right in.
Bobby Bones
Hey, Tiny Tim can hold his jock strap. Nailed that.
Eddie
Hey, am I opening doors?
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I got five doors here, baby. So you can do whatever you want. If you get the door, it's money.
Eddie
Am I picking the door I want?
Bobby Bones
You're picking the door you want.
Eddie
Let's go. Door number four.
Bobby Bones
Go with door number five, please. Yes, go with door number three, please.
Eddie
Nothing in there.
Bobby Bones
Go with door number two, please. Yeah. So you pick door number four.
Amy
I did, I did, I did.
Bobby Bones
Please open door number four. Oh, no. That's a bad. No, that's door number one.
Eddie
Dang, dude.
Bobby Bones
So no money, but you didn't win. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. It's time for the good news with Amy. Tell me something good.
Scuba Steve
So there's this grandmother. She's been going to St. Mary's Church for years. She got married there. She witnessed her daughter's wedding there. Very special place to her. So when she heard they were going to knock it down, she was devastated. Well, her daughter and her granddaughter, they were able to get a pew from the church and restore it and give it to her so she can have it forever.
Bobby Bones
That's super cool.
Scuba Steve
Here's the clip of her.
Bobby Bones
You know where that came from. Oh, that's so nice.
Amy
Oh, thank you.
Raymundo
Beautiful.
Bobby Bones
Oh my goodness. That's awesome.
Scuba Steve
Clearly an emotional gift. That's super special.
Bobby Bones
Made me emotional. There you go. That's what it's all about. That was. Tell me something good, Bones. Here's a little tip for all the music fans out there. Discover is accepted at 99 of places that take credit cards nationwide. You heard that right, 99%. And every time you make a purchase with your card, you automatically earn cash back, which means you could earn rewards for those almost front row seats, the ride share to the venue, even the concert merch that you've had your eye on since it dropped. If all that sounds like music to your ears, remember, it pays to Discover. Based on the February 2024 Nielsen report. Learn more at discover.com credit card hey, it's Bobby Bones from the Bobby Bones Show. Nothing feels as good as driving a new Hyundai. And now you can get a great deal on your favorite model at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Visit HyundaiUSA.com today to find the dealer nearest you. Whether it's Tucson, Santa Fe or Palisade, the technology packed Elantra or an all electric Ioniq. You'll find a deal to celebrate way past this season. Plus, every Hyundai is backed by America's best warranty. Make your next getaway your best one yet yet. Visit HyundaiUSA.com or even better, visit your nearest dealer and test drive your next Hyundai today during the Hyundai Getaway Sales event. Drive away now in one of our most popular models with 0% APR and 0 payments for 90 days only during the Hyundai Getaway Sales event. Offer ends January 2nd. Call 562-314-4603 for complete detail. Imagine walking into a bakery where it smells awesome and you smell all the freshly baked desserts. You can just feel it in the air and somebody yells welcome to Crumbl. You know that's Crumbl, a gourmet bakery founded by two cousins on a mission to bake the best chocolate chip cookie in the world. Since 2017, that mission has grown into a delicious Sensation with over 1000 locations all rooted in the perfect combination of ingredients. With their iconic pink box, each dessert is beautifully packaged and ready for sharing with friends and family. Crumbl's rotating menu features an exciting mix of desserts like Snickerdoodle Raspberry cheesecake. You know there's always a new flavor to try. They got four packs, they got six packs. They even have party packs for fun occasions. Each week, a freshly imagined menu is waiting to be discovered. And with an open kitchen concept, you can watch bakers whip up these treats right before your eyes. For nights in, you can order delivery straight from the Crumble app. If you are ready to treat yourself, visit your nearest crumbl or download the Crumble app and dive into dessert bliss today.
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Scuba Steve
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Raymundo
Yeah.
Scuba Steve
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Bobby Bones
Hey, thanks for listening everybody. Let's go over to Alicia in North Dakota. What's going on? Alicia?
Scuba Steve
Hi, how are you?
Amy
We're Doing pretty good morning.
Bobby Bones
So I had to tell me something.
Raymundo
Good really quick that happened to my mom.
Bobby Bones
Love it.
Raymundo
She was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester to get their follow up cancer treatments there. And my stepdad had a bank envelope that had $1,500 in cash, and somehow he dropped it. Well, the people that found it, they looked at the bank receipt that was in it, called the bank. Now they're out of state, so they had to call the out of state bank, track down who it belonged to, and met my stepdad, and gave them the money back.
Eddie
Amazing.
Bobby Bones
Wow, that's awesome.
Raymundo
Give them money to thank them, and they wouldn't take the money.
Eddie
Good people out there, man.
Bobby Bones
Just cash. They easily could have got away with cash. Yeah. No track back. That's a great story. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that with us. Great. That's a great story.
Scuba Steve
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
That's a membership bounce. That dude must be doing some good stuff. Got the membership bounce?
Amy
Yeah, you got it. But you.
Eddie
Noah, don't. Don't ruin it.
Amy
Don't know.
Bobby Bones
You gotta take a hook up a hundred.
Amy
If you have fifteen hundred dollars, you got to be more careful with it.
Scuba Steve
Nobody wants to lose that.
Amy
I'm just saying you got to teach people how to be responsible. Yeah. And so it's a life teaching moment. They. They aren't good with their money, so you keep it and let them have that. Life lessons. Like, you know what? When I have things that are important anyway, I need to keep it closer to my best.
Scuba Steve
Hey, Mr. Potter.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
Thank you, Amy.
Bobby Bones
I don't know.
Scuba Steve
It's a wonderful guy.
Eddie
It's a wonderful life. You got to watch it to understand that.
Bobby Bones
Got it.
Scuba Steve
I'm not gonna spoil anything.
Eddie
You might have.
Bobby Bones
Why not? Let's go over now to get in the Morning Corny. Let's go the Morning Corny.
Scuba Steve
What do you call Santa when he takes a break?
Bobby Bones
What?
Raymundo
Santa.
Scuba Steve
Pause.
Bobby Bones
That was the Morning Corny. Coming up in a couple segments, our. Our gift exchange. It's not a con. It's not a competition. It's not. It's not. It's not a competition. All right, let's draft Christmas songs. We'll each put these teams together. Lunchbox won the dice roll, so he'll go first. The first overall pick. Lunchbox.
Amy
Yeah. I mean, I think this. Everybody loves this one. And it's. It's the one by Mariah Carey, what's called all I want for Christmas is you.
Bobby Bones
It's good. Yeah. Solid.
Eddie
I mean, that's number one.
Bobby Bones
Morgan. No, you're Out.
Eddie
Okay, I'm in.
Bobby Bones
I just wanted to make sure Morgan remembers she was out. Eddie, you're up next.
Eddie
I'm back in, Bones. And for my number one pick, I am picking Ms. Brenda Lee.
Bobby Bones
That's what I wanted.
Eddie
Rocking around the Christmas tree.
Bobby Bones
It's good because I went number one.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Raymundo Oldie.
Eddie
A classic top three.
Bobby Bones
Easily. White Christmas. Bing Crosby, the jam. You know, I'm gonna also go with White Christmas, but I'm gonna do White Christmas. And on that thing, I wanted to say the drifters, parentheses. Home alone. Home alone version. Oh, yeah, it goes. Wait, hold on. I'm all messed up.
Amy
You do Boo boo.
Eddie
Yeah, I got you.
Bobby Bones
Boom. So people know.
Amy
I don't know.
Bobby Bones
You got it Here, guys. Christmas. Okay, Amy.
Scuba Steve
Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. In sync.
Bobby Bones
Oh, that's good. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. That's good. All us, like, so good. Millennial ladies. Older millennial ladies.
Eddie
I remember that one.
Bobby Bones
You don't. Your baby boomer. All right, so, Amy, you have to go again. You start the second round.
Scuba Steve
Yeah, so I'm gonna go. Last Christmas, Wham.
Bobby Bones
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart.
Eddie
Very next day, you gave it away.
Bobby Bones
That's good. It's tough now because now we're in that category of they're fun if they come on, but you don't chase them down. I'm gonna go with. Okay. I'm gonna go with Brett Eldridge. Baby is cold outside.
Eddie
I really can't stay.
Bobby Bones
That's all I'm gonna go with. Okay, Raymundo. Rest in peace. Melikiliki Maka. Jimmy Buffett. It's good. I don't think you said it exactly.
Eddie
Right, but Buffett did that one.
Bobby Bones
A lot of people have. Dude. Yeah. I see Mike struggling to write that name that went down there. Malik. Yeah. Eddie Bones.
Eddie
Let's go with my go to. Every Christmas time. I love singing it.
Bobby Bones
It.
Eddie
It's one of my favorite songs. Let's go with Feliz Navidad.
Bobby Bones
Any version.
Eddie
I mean, it's Jose Feliciano, but, I.
Bobby Bones
Mean, I think you can just do straight up.
Eddie
He's the only one.
Bobby Bones
Lunchbox, you did have the overall first pick, so now you're at the end of the second round. What are you gonna add to All I want for Christmas this year?
Amy
Yeah, I'm gonna do this one. It's called Santa Claus is Coming to Town by the Jackson 5.
Bobby Bones
Oh, that's good. That's a good one. Yeah, you know Santa, he's coming. You better watch it. Ask him. All right, Lunchbox. Now you got two. You got. All I want for Christmas is you. Santa Claus is coming to town Hit me with your final pick.
Amy
Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm gonna take Elvis. Blue Christmas.
Eddie
Damn, he stole that.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, he's got a solid, solid list there, Eddie.
Eddie
Oh, man. I'm gonna go out on a limb here. Give me Wonderful Christmas time by Paul McCartney. Always having a wonderful Christmas time.
Scuba Steve
That's good.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I had to sing it to get it, though.
Eddie
I know.
Bobby Bones
That is a good one.
Eddie
Worried about that.
Amy
It's a good limb to go out on, though, Ray.
Bobby Bones
This is a new one. Y'all don't know it. It is. Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Sam Smith and I got a clip if you want. No, because we didn't play this for ours. We had to sing our own.
Eddie
And that's a strategy.
Amy
Raid.
Eddie
Pick one that we don't know.
Bobby Bones
Hey, right stuff up.
Amy
You can sing, right?
Bobby Bones
I'm gonna do the collaboration between Taylor Swift and Jesus when they sang together and.
Eddie
And Travis Kelsey.
Bobby Bones
White Christmas. No, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do Gene Autry in the. The song that he did was. Oh, I don't want to mess this up.
Eddie
Is it Rudolph?
Bobby Bones
The most wonderful time of year. The most wonderful time of the year by Andy Williams. Not Gina Williams.
Eddie
It's the most wonderful.
Bobby Bones
It's the most wonderful time of the year. Andy Williams. The most one. I'm not going to win this one. I'm just trying to finish last. Amy.
Scuba Steve
Santa baby. Taylor Swift.
Bobby Bones
Oh, I should have gotten it.
Eddie
That's a good one.
Bobby Bones
Did she really do that, or are we just making stuff up? No, she really. So go vote for your team. Don't pick one song you like. Make sure all three are your favorite three. And whomever has the best votes gets the championship belt. Although Amy never puts her belt on her desk. She's two times a champion. She just throws it on the ground.
Scuba Steve
Yeah, at times I have too much. Too many papers on my.
Eddie
Well, right now all you have is a highlighter. Garbage.
Scuba Steve
We have it, though. Okay. It's not garbage.
Bobby Bones
All right, vote.
Amy
Wait, wait.
Bobby Bones
Can we hear Ray song right now? We can hear your song. Go ahead.
Eddie
Have yourself. Oh, Merry little Christmas.
Bobby Bones
That Millie Kamaka.
Amy
Whatever.
Bobby Bones
I like Casey Muskey's version better.
Eddie
Yeah. Do you have Buffett's version, Ray?
Bobby Bones
No.
Eddie
No, you don't have all.
Bobby Bones
What other songs do you have up there? Just that one. Winter Wonderland. Tony Bennett.
Eddie
That's a good one.
Bobby Bones
Are you listening? White Christmas. Bing Crosby.
Eddie
That's perfect.
Bobby Bones
Sleigh Ride. The Runettes. Good. Who's that? Ronettes. And then also Natalie King Cole. The Christmas song, Natural. Is it Nat or Natalie? Both. His daughter. Okay. I was trying to cover you. Right. So did you have the one that I picked? The Drifter by Christmas. Oh, not up Christmas. All right, you guys go to bobbybones.com and vote and Merry Christmas, everybody. And if you vote for me, maybe I give a little extra Christmas cheer. But I won't. I don't know who you are. All right. Thank you, Bones. All right, we have a good amount of dudes on this show. Lunchbox, Eddie, Self. So the four of us here, we're going to take this quiz. Are these things that we do because if we do them, it drives our wives or girlfriends, but we're all married. Yeah. Crazy. Number one, when you go into fix it mode, meaning not allowing a problem to be solved over time or having patience, you just want to fix it right now. I would say this is what I'm absolutely the worst at. If there's something that is bothering her or she is upset about something, I only go, I'm gonna fix it right now. It doesn't matter what it is, but I will take care of it. I don't even really want to listen anymore. I just want to go and kick down the wall and fix the problem.
Eddie
That's not good.
Bobby Bones
And sometimes they don't need the problem fixed. Sometimes she just wants me to hear her feel what she's feeling.
Eddie
And that's all I would say most.
Bobby Bones
Of the time, that's crazy to me. The fact that there's a problem and you don't want me to go and stomp out the problem by either stomping or massaging, Right? Sure. There's two ways. Oh, this is the number one for me. I'm terrible at it. So, yes, I would get that. Eddie's happen to you 100 man.
Eddie
You would think as long as I've been married, I would know that. But I still try to fix everything.
Bobby Bones
Lunchbox.
Amy
I'm a fixer. I try to help my wife. She has problems. I'm gonna fix it. She tells me something's loose. The door handle.
Bobby Bones
No, they're not talking about literal. We're talking about problem. Like issues in life.
Scuba Steve
Like, sometimes we just need to vent and share and have someone listen.
Amy
No, I don't try to fix those problems.
Bobby Bones
You don't, do you? Just listen.
Amy
I listen to that, yeah.
Bobby Bones
Okay. Ray. Yeah. We're gonna fix it. It doesn't Linger too long. Yeah. Okay, next one up. When you don't balance your hobbies well, meaning if you have a hobby and you spend 8, 9, 10 hours doing it, it takes time away from everybody. I would insert work into this for me, where that's a big struggle, where sometimes I will just lose track of time because I'm so dialed into a project or writing something. And she's like, hey, you've been working for, like, 15 hours a day. You know, any chance you want to eat or, you know. Yeah. And that is. That is something I'm trying to work on. I'm trying to do better at it. But I wouldn't say it's hobbies, but I will say I will sit on the PlayStation sometimes and lose track. And then what will happen, too, is I will work for all day, 12 hours, and then I'll go. I just need to go and relax and play PlayStation for a little bit for four hours, and all the time go to bed. And I haven't seen anybody except work and PlayStation. So the balancing I'm getting better at, But I'm still pretty bad, Eddie.
Eddie
Nah, I have no problem with balance. I. I'm pretty good at doing whatever I'm gonna do on the sides. Hobbies, go. And then spending family time, wife time. I can do all that.
Bobby Bones
The next one is not complimenting her, Ray. Do you have an issue with this? Are you good? I try to compliment her, especially at the pool, rocking that bikini. Oh, nice. I compliment my wife a lot. I make a point to do that. So that one I'm okay at. The next one they say is when you can't leave work stress at the door, meaning you bring it home, Eddie.
Eddie
I mean, I have about two hours of where I can decompress without them being there, because my kids and my wife don't get home till about 4, so I have that time.
Scuba Steve
But you don't get home till three.
Eddie
I get there about three, and then I play.
Bobby Bones
You don't need to be.
Scuba Steve
But you're always here till three.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I'm working, Ray. Yeah, Eddie, you're funny, man. You're funny. No, no, no, no. I'm good. You don't have to worry about me. Lunchbox.
Amy
I don't stress over work.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
Zero stress.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I. I don't think I stress it, but I just always am in it. But maybe that is stress. These are things that your wives or girlfriends find that will drive them crazy. Fighting dirty, meaning if you get into an argument, you say things, you're like, oh, man, I wish I wouldn't have said that. Yeah, I. I just am too competitive in every part of my life that I just want to win everything all the time. It doesn't matter what it is. A game on the show, a disagreement. I probably could do better at this. Yeah, probably a lot better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anybody else?
Eddie
I'll say the same.
Amy
I go low blow.
Bobby Bones
Oh, you do?
Amy
I go low blow? No, that's the first thing you go for.
Eddie
Like what?
Amy
You just go low blow or bring up something she did in the past.
Eddie
She did in the past?
Amy
Yeah, because.
Bobby Bones
Let me write this down. Hold on. Go ahead.
Amy
Yeah, yeah. Just listen. So you're in this argument and maybe if you're gonna lose this argument, maybe she has a point. You' dang. You go, well, you did this, remember, two weeks ago, and it's something. You just bring up an old argument like, see, you do things wrong too, and take the whole focus off that argument. And then she gets mad that you went back to the past.
Bobby Bones
We'll focus off argument.
Eddie
Don't write that down.
Bobby Bones
No, no, I'm gonna use this.
Scuba Steve
Hit her with like, what she's most insecure about. Stuff like that.
Amy
Yeah, that gets them all. Right.
Bobby Bones
The final one is. Do you ever compare her to other women?
Amy
Oh, yeah. Don't do that.
Bobby Bones
I would never do that.
Eddie
Never.
Bobby Bones
I would never do that. Yeah, no.
Eddie
What do you, what do you say? Lunch?
Amy
Well, it's just easy. It's sort of like, oh, you don't see her doing this or, you know, you don't see her eating that or.
Eddie
You don't see, like, Sally wears a thong.
Amy
Yep.
Lunchbox
What?
Bobby Bones
I don't know that I've ever met a Sally that I want to wear a thong.
Amy
Yeah, Sally Jesse Raphael.
Bobby Bones
That's it.
Scuba Steve
I'm just thinking Sally Fields.
Amy
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Amy
That's only two Sally's. I know.
Bobby Bones
Comparing your wife to other women, Ray, ever for any reason?
Amy
No.
Bobby Bones
My wife's been throwing these women out there like movie stars and stuff and I'm just like, nah, not into that. Same. Yeah, I'm like, what do you mean you're not. I'm like, this just lied to it. Stop. So those are the things that we do that drives them crazy and we got to stop doing it. Compare them to other women fighting dirty, not leaving stress at the door, not complimenting her enough, not balancing well. And then we try to fix problems. Not doorknobs, but like emotional.
Amy
Yeah, I know. That's her deal.
Bobby Bones
That's what?
Amy
That's her deal when she has an emotional problem, solve it. Like she doesn't solve my emotional problem because guess what? I ain't got any good point.
Bobby Bones
Why don't you?
Amy
What is there to get emotional about?
Scuba Steve
Everybody does.
Eddie
You know, anger is an emotion, right?
Amy
I don't have anger.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Amy
I have annoyance. I feel like you.
Bobby Bones
All right. Thank you. The more, you know, wake up. You wake up in the morning and you turn the radio on and the dial just keeps on turning, turn to put you through. And Bobby's on the mic. So you know what this is?
Eddie
This is the Bobby.
Bobby Bones
All right. Our gift giving contest. It's not a contest, it's an extravaganza because it turns into. And so we had all the gift cards. You can watch the full YouTube video of the whole thing. Lunchbox was just grumpy the whole time because he kept yelling he was only gonna get the $10 card because Macy's gave us gift cards. $1,000, $500, 175, 50, all the way down to zero. We didn't know. We drew it blind. You just didn't want that $10 gift card. You just didn't want because that meant you got the less stuff. So Abby, her gift to Mike D. And this is Mike D. Opening up the gift card. His gift. And it was $10. I'm gonna play this one first. Mike got the crap. End of the stick. Sorry, buddy. It's all good. This is Abby and his gift for Mike D. Let's see here. We got some socks.
Amy
Oh, well, that might be $10.
Bobby Bones
What's the eye? Izod socks.
Eddie
Eyes on.
Bobby Bones
So they all had to be eyes.
Eddie
That was tough.
Bobby Bones
Lunchbox is praying the whole time angrily that he does not get the $10 card because he keeps going, I'm getting screwed. I'm getting screwed, I'm getting screwed.
Amy
I mean, the more I went on, I was worried that $10 coming my way and it was going to suck.
Bobby Bones
And I got. So Morgan and Ray, by the way, we knew this was a dollar five hundred one, cuz we had. We had knew that number before. It was one of the only ones we knew. This is Morgan's gift for Ray, and she had $500 from Macy's.
Amy
Oh my gosh, is this an ice cream maker?
Bobby Bones
Let's go. Good idea.
Eddie
Starts with I. Oh, Jimmy Choo.
Bobby Bones
Is this like a man bag? Is this glow?
Scuba Steve
Yeah, it is.
Bobby Bones
Hey, Popcorn.
Scuba Steve
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
With M M's in it.
Scuba Steve
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
And my favorite, gummy bears. Belgian chocolates. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. We got New sunglasses.
Scuba Steve
That's awesome.
Bobby Bones
Oh, I got new sunnies, Ray Ban peas. I don't know where the eye is, but eyes.
Scuba Steve
Your eyes.
Bobby Bones
What's up, y'all? Eyes and eyewear, man. So lucky to get the $500 gift card. Raymondo felt pretty good about that. I'm wearing all that stuff, baby. Yeah. That's awesome.
Scuba Steve
It was so hard to spend $500 there.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Scuba Steve
I mean, that's where the snacks came.
Bobby Bones
In, because I literally was like, I have to spend this gift card.
Amy
Tell me how much is left, and.
Scuba Steve
I'll just keep grabbing things.
Bobby Bones
And they have such good stuff. And there's a lot of sales going on right now, too, so even that we'd buy, and then you'd be like, oh, this is 30% off. Then you have to go back and get more. Okay, here's it. So Eddie got for me, and this is me opening my gift. Here you go. Okay, first up, isotone or gloves.
Eddie
But.
Bobby Bones
I think they fit. I was just thinking to myself, I needed some Isotone or Smart Dries, so thank you, man.
Eddie
The eye was hard, dude.
Bobby Bones
From the bottom of my heart. Yeah, it's a pillow. It's a natural comfort memory foam pillow.
Eddie
Yeah. Wait, no one.
Bobby Bones
So I like the pillow, though. I can use it in my office. I put it on.
Eddie
My pillow is good. But you don't like the gloves.
Bobby Bones
No, hated the gloves. But there had to be an eye involved.
Eddie
Sure.
Bobby Bones
So I'm just not a glove guy.
Eddie
I thought you maybe would turn into one.
Bobby Bones
You could have got me some workout gloves.
Eddie
Oh, you can cut the fingers off.
Bobby Bones
Boom. I got a set of workouts now. So Eddie's gift card that he drew for me was $75. And we're going through the stuff, and Lunchbox is still waiting. He's like, the thousand dollar gift card is out there. He's wondering if it's him. The thousand dollar gift card is still out there. So then Lunchbox gave his gift to Amy, and I want to play this one here. Go ahead.
Scuba Steve
I'm opening it.
Eddie
Did you wrap that lunch?
Amy
I did.
Bobby Bones
Lunchbox, what'd he get you?
Eddie
Oh, no, he did.
Scuba Steve
Okay.
Eddie
He did that underwear when I was.
Scuba Steve
Married, and that just went terribly wrong with my husband. And I guess now that I'm single, I don't even know how. This is an eye.
Eddie
Let's see it.
Scuba Steve
No, y'all don't need to see this.
Bobby Bones
We'll just say what it is.
Scuba Steve
It's got to be underwear, a nighty.
Amy
Hold it up.
Scuba Steve
I mean, it's cute, but I don't know where the eye is.
Bobby Bones
I'd like to see you in it. That's gotta be it.
Amy
No, it's called eye candy, and it was lingerie. Yeah, but you didn't even show it off. You didn't let people see.
Eddie
What?
Bobby Bones
You felt weird that you bought her lingerie.
Scuba Steve
Yes.
Amy
I mean, but the whole point is for her to feel beautiful.
Bobby Bones
No, the whole point was for you.
Amy
To make her feel awkward.
Bobby Bones
Yes. So again, there's still some gifts out there.
Eddie
Good times.
Bobby Bones
And so Mike got Abby some lip balm and a bag of cashews. That was 25 bucks. Amy got Scuba Steve. She drew a $50 gift card and that. And she got him some glove. Big eyes toner glove day.
Eddie
I still scored big with us.
Amy
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Big eyes tone today. Here. So then it was time for me to give Lunchbox his gift. The thousand bucks was still out there. Was he gonna hit it? After all these years of him complaining, was he gonna hit the thousand dollars? Hit it.
Amy
It's pretty light. Open this up. Red, white, and paper. Tissue paper. Some green. Oh, okay. Oh.
Bobby Bones
What?
Amy
It's a shirt, man. It's a Calvin Klein shirt. Yeah, I know what this is. What is that tie?
Scuba Steve
That's awesome.
Amy
That's good.
Eddie
Lunchbox.
Bobby Bones
I pray to God he wears that instead of a hoodie to an award show. And that's the eye. I pray to God he wears this instead of a hoodie to an award show. I got him a nice shirt and a tie.
Eddie
Funny.
Bobby Bones
Something he would also use because my gift card was only $75. So he didn't get the thousand.
Amy
I was so close.
Bobby Bones
Well, and then it came. There was one left. And. Well, Eddie was the one that was sitting there. Eddie was the last. And Eddie got the thousand dollar gift card. He knew it because he was the last one. And here is that number one.
Eddie
This is not for you.
Bobby Bones
Oh. Oh, Scuba Steve.
Eddie
Who's it for?
Bobby Bones
Wow.
Eddie
Okay. It says R.H. macy and Co Fine Jewelry. Oh, my goodness. It's a diamond bracelet.
Scuba Steve
Oh, my gosh.
Bobby Bones
What? Thousand dollars.
Eddie
Okay, number two, Kind of long. Kind of maybe like long, rectangular. Oh, again, from Mr. R.H. macy and Co. Fine jewelry. Oh, is this another diamond? It's for you so you can match your wife bracelet. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
So at this point, I'm at Macy's and I have, I think about 300 something dollars left. And my daughter's crying and she wants something. And so I look over her and she wants these pink shoes. So I bought my daughter a pair of shoes with my gift card. With your gift card.
Scuba Steve
Oh, nice.
Eddie
Yeah, but it's your favorite one, though. It's the middle one, the one that you like a lot, that you have a bond with. Oh, yeah, she's awesome. Okay, number three, the last one. This is for you.
Bobby Bones
Oh.
Eddie
For your boys. Hit the third floor and take them to Toys R Us. So is this a gift card? Yeah, this one. There's the remaining amount. 234. But because I spent so much too, they also gave me a $40 gift card. So you have $273 left to spend on your kids. That's awesome.
Bobby Bones
So when Eddie yelled at the bracelet was a thousand. It was on the original price, but it was marked down.
Eddie
It was on sale.
Bobby Bones
Toys R Us is now a brand at Macy's. Yeah, that's what he means by that too. You can go up to Toys R Us with the other 200.
Eddie
I saw the toys, but I wasn't gonna get you anything from there, so I didn't even go in that section.
Bobby Bones
Thank for the gloves, man. Crap. Thanks to Macy's lunchbox. Sorry I didn't get a thousand. But you did get a middle. He definitely hit in the middle. We did one year where we had money in an envelope. He got $1. And one of the most hilarious Christmases of all time. But thanks to Macy's because we had to spend our own money.
Amy
Yeah, that was a huge deal.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. What was?
Amy
Not spending my own money.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Scuba Steve
So you won.
Bobby Bones
There you go.
Amy
I didn't win. I mean, Eddie.
Bobby Bones
Eddie won. I won.
Amy
Eddie won for sure.
Bobby Bones
So the whole video, the whole thing is up on our YouTube. It's gonna be on the podcast. We sat and just open all the presents. No, we have to stop for anything. Go watch it. Bobbybones.com our YouTube channel. Or it'll be on the podcast later today. And if you're shopping and looking for last minute gift ideas for the holidays, let Macy's be your guide to gifting Macy's dot com. Awesome. Thank you, guys. The Bobby Bones Show. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Jordan Davis here. And this is my favorite time of year. Just because of family. Christmas is when they all come into Nashville and I love it. Happy holidays from the Bobby Bones Show. Bobby Bones Show Bonehead story of the day.
Amy
This story comes to us from San Bernardino, California. Guys, this might be the biggest bonehead in the history of boneheads.
Bobby Bones
Okay?
Amy
So a guy shows up at the county jail on Sunday and hits a little buzzer and they say, yeah. And he goes, I Need to come in. I got a delivery. And they're like, oh, what are you delivering? He goes, I got drugs for the inmates. They're like, yeah, just wait outside. Someone will be right out to bring you in. And they go outside, and he has 2 pounds of marijuana in his back pocket.
Bobby Bones
Drugs for the inmates. Doesn't he know you should get tennis balls and stick the drugs in the tennis balls and hit them over the walls?
Scuba Steve
Oh, is that.
Eddie
Never heard of that.
Amy
A lot of people do that. Or they're doing drone drops. Anything you don't just show up and has to be buzzed in.
Scuba Steve
Oh, maybe he thought the guard, whoever was working the buzzer was cool or.
Bobby Bones
Hiding in plain sight. He's like, they'll never believe I'm really here for it. That's why. Was he under the influence of drugs and alcohol?
Amy
They believe he was under the influence.
Scuba Steve
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Wild that he would be like, I'm here and it's all legal, but I like to bring it in. Hey, come on in, buddy. Like, is this Trent messing with us? Go out there. All right.
Amy
I'm Lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day, Bones.
Bobby Bones
I thought we'd end the show today with a little Christmas caroling. That's what we've done all day. Except it's not the singers we brought in. It's actually Lunchbox.
Eddie
Oh, great.
Scuba Steve
Interesting.
Amy
Love it.
Bobby Bones
What did you decide to do?
Amy
I decided to go to different drive throughs and get people in the holiday.
Bobby Bones
Spirit because, oh, you know, they were so annoyed when some guy comes up and starts singing in the speaker.
Amy
And the first one I went to, it doesn't have a speaker. You order at the window.
Bobby Bones
Oh, you sang it right to their face.
Amy
So she's sitting there and she has her little thing ready for me to order, and I just start singing to her.
Bobby Bones
Okie dokie. Here is Lunchbox driving up and singing Christmas carols.
Amy
All right, you ready? I'm here to get you in the Christmas spirit. You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why. Oh, Santa Claus is coming. Come on, take it.
Raymundo
See, I can't think about Santa Claus right now.
Amy
My birthday tomorrow. He's making a list, he's shaking it twice? Trying to find out who's naughty or nice.
Bobby Bones
Santa Claus is coming to.
Amy
He sees you while you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake. You better watch out, you better not cry.
Eddie
I'm telling you.
Amy
Is that y'all look, the lyrics for real Santa Claus is coming to.
Bobby Bones
I mean, she did like it.
Amy
She kept trying to insert, like. Are you going to order?
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I was wondering if. You're wasting your time. They have to turn people over quickly, and the computer can show how fast people got through, and that affects, you know, their grade, their rating.
Scuba Steve
Is there a car behind you?
Bobby Bones
She's like, bro, Santa Claus is coming fast. That is funny, though. She sang along. Here is lunchbox doing White Christmas.
Amy
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know where the tree trail tops glisten and children listen.
Raymundo
Is that it?
Lunchbox
No.
Amy
You want me to keep going?
Bobby Bones
You can keep going. First window.
Amy
Oh, no, I. I. Did you like it? Was that good? It was cool. Like. Like. Like a 9 out of 10. You're in the holiday spirit now or like, eh, improve. Bye.
Bobby Bones
Okay. I feel like we just heard him sing and we could have heard that in here.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So I have one more clip and it says Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer, but it says 81 seconds.
Eddie
Okay.
Amy
Oh, you gotta play it. I mean, it's so good.
Bobby Bones
I mean, are you not feeling in the Christmas okay? It's just. Okay, go ahead.
Amy
How's it going? Hey, what's going on, man? Not a lot. You know what I mean? I just think you need to get in the Christmas spirit. So I'm here to get you in the Christmas spirit.
Bobby Bones
Oh, are you gonna sing me like a Christmas carol?
Amy
Rudolph the red nose reindeer reindeer, reindeer had a very shiny nose and if.
Bobby Bones
You ever saw it, it's crazy. He doesn't stay on the melodies of the biggest songs of our childhood.
Eddie
Yeah, that he's probably been singing his whole life.
Bobby Bones
He's like, Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer. It's like every Counting Crows show I've ever been to, except the last one where they have big hits, but they sing them weird and you can't sing along. And if she wanted to sing Rudolph, she'd be like, rudolph. What? Cause he just sings it so weird. Go ahead.
Amy
You would even say it glows like a light bulb. All of the other reindeer Reindeer used to call him names they never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games Then one foggy Christmas Eve.
Bobby Bones
Okay, does she ever come in?
Amy
Do you not.
Scuba Steve
What's the 81 seconds for?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I mean, this is really long.
Scuba Steve
Why the need?
Eddie
I feel like she left. Is she still there?
Amy
I don't know.
Bobby Bones
She turned the lights off and went home.
Amy
Here's the problem. I didn't know she was still there. But you see, you got to keep going. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean. I mean, she does talk to me at the end.
Bobby Bones
Okay, go ahead.
Amy
Santa came to say Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight? Then out of the reindeer Loved him, loved him and they shouted out with glee Yippee. Rudolph the Red.
Bobby Bones
Okay, so you could have just like got to the part here at the end, you know.
Scuba Steve
She still hasn't.
Bobby Bones
Or you could have been like, Rudolph. You'll go down in history. And then she comes back on, you know?
Amy
Oh, you mean I could have fast forward. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
We didn't have to hear the whole song of you singing, but you just.
Amy
Didn'T know what we did. The anticipation of. Is she gonna join? Is she gonna.
Bobby Bones
I'm anticipated out. Show's over. You know, I've been dissipated for the last five hours. I do like it, but go ahead, finish it up, Ray.
Amy
Thank you. Christmas.
Bobby Bones
Merry Christmas.
Amy
Does that. Did that work? Did that you get you in the spirit.
Bobby Bones
Oh, yeah, man.
Amy
That wasn't very convincing. All right, I'll work on it. I'll get better. I thought you'd sing with me, but you didn't even join in, ever.
Bobby Bones
I did. I'm so sorry.
Amy
That's all right. Maybe next year.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Amy
All right. Merry Christmas.
Bobby Bones
Like, do you want a burger?
Eddie
Hey, so what can I do for you?
Bobby Bones
We learned a lot here. One. I like that. That's fun. I'm in the Christmas spirit now. More.
Amy
I felt like she thought I was.
Bobby Bones
And two week. Yeah, you have two weekends. Get to the meat of that. Speaking of burgers.
Amy
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
You know, I'm here. Rudolph. The rest you'll go down in his story.
Eddie
You mean like his editing?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, but here's the problem.
Amy
You only want two lines of the song.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, we just wanna get to the joke.
Amy
Then what's the point of Carolyn?
Bobby Bones
We can play any art. We can have an artist sing the song. If we wanna hear the song. Oh, you know, I liked it though. But we learn it. I messed up like 1, 2, 37 times today. And you only did once. It was a good day for you.
Amy
I'll go down in history. You'll do what? Go down in history.
Bobby Bones
Mm. Okay. All right, that's it. Instagram, Mr. Bobby Bones. Thank you. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye. The Bobby Bones Show. Ho ho, ho, ho, ho. It's no, it's not Santa Claus. It's me. It's ddp Diamond Dallas Page.
Amy
And I want to wish everybody a.
Bobby Bones
Healthy merry good God, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays from the 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 Mr. Bobby Bones. Thank you for listening to the podcast. From hobby farmers to weekend gardeners and everyone in between, tractor supply trusts 5G solutions from T Mobile for business to make shopping more personal. Together, we're connecting over 2,200 stores with 5G business Internet and powering AI so team members can match shoppers with products products faster.
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Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show
Episode: WEDS FULL SHOW: Our Annual Christmas Gift Exchange! + Brenda Lee In Studio!
Release Date: December 25, 2024
Host: Bobby Bones
Produced by: Premiere Networks
Timestamp: [03:10 - 05:00]
In a lighthearted segment, Bobby Bones engages his co-hosts—Lunchbox, Amy, Eddie, and Scuba Steve—in a game centered around the name "Bobby." The discussion begins with Bobby pondering whether "Bobby" is truly a young name, sparking a playful debate among the hosts.
Bobby Bones [03:10]: "I got really lucky that I have a young name because I'm never going to be Bob."
As the game progresses, each host attempts to name as many notable individuals named Bobby as possible, leading to humorous exchanges and friendly competition. The segment highlights the camaraderie among the hosts and sets a jovial tone for the episode.
Timestamp: [05:06 - 08:03]
A listener, referred to as "Boyfriend," calls in with a dilemma: he gifted his girlfriend a pair of Normatech compression boots worth $750, only for their relationship to end shortly after she accepted them. Faced with a potential return, he seeks advice on how to retrieve the expensive gift.
Caller [05:06]: "I need to act fast to return the compression boots, but I'm still in the window to return them."
The hosts discuss the ethical considerations of requesting a return on a gift, emphasizing understanding and forgiveness. They suggest that while it's possible to ask for the boots back, it's crucial to approach the situation with sensitivity to avoid further conflict.
Bobby Bones [06:01]: "You can ask for any gift back. You just can't be upset or hold it against her if she keeps them because they were a gift."
The conversation concludes with humorous but heartfelt advice, reinforcing the show's supportive atmosphere.
Timestamp: [08:12 - 24:07]
One of the episode's highlights is an in-depth interview with legendary singer Brenda Lee, known for her iconic Christmas hit "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree." Brenda shares insights into her illustrious career, early beginnings, and personal anecdotes.
Early Career and "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree"
Bobby Bones delves into Brenda's early success:
Bobby Bones [09:10]: "You sang that when you were six years old, is that right?"
Brenda recounts recording the song at 14 and how it became a perennial Christmas favorite, especially after its feature in the movie "Home Alone."
Brenda Lee [10:11]: "It was written by Johnny Marks... Home Alone was the catalyst that pushed it to where it went."
Influences and Collaborations
Brenda discusses her interactions with other music legends like Little Richard and George Jones, highlighting their personalities and the impact they had on her career.
Brenda Lee [16:56]: "Little Richard was crazy, in a good way. He was very sweet... One of the best singers I've ever heard, George Jones."
Personal Reflections
She shares touching stories about her family, particularly her mother's unwavering support after her father's passing when Brenda was seven.
Bobby Bones [20:34]: "My mom was a beautiful woman... She's happy now."
Legacy and Continued Success
Brenda reflects on her lasting legacy, her induction into multiple Halls of Fame, and her ability to remain relevant through various reimaginings of her classic hits.
Brenda Lee [22:05]: "TikTok uses it all. So it is."
The interview concludes with Brenda expressing gratitude and discussing her multi-generational influence in the music industry.
Timestamp: [28:31 - 29:44]
Bobby shares an inspiring story about the "Brown Bag Bus" program in Montgomery, Alabama, a partnership between the YMCA and local communities to address food insecurity among children. The initiative repurposes old buses to deliver nutritious meals to over 500 kids in school districts, ensuring they receive a balanced meal even on holidays.
Bobby Bones [29:11]: "The program is all about children. Every lunch they distribute has a vegetable, fruit, protein, carton milk."
The segment emphasizes community support and the positive impact of collective efforts to combat hunger, highlighting the importance of programs that provide essential services to those in need.
Timestamp: [35:00 - 48:05]
Engaging with his audience, Bobby Bones introduces a game based on a listener survey determining the top 10 most returned Christmas gifts. Co-hosts Eddie, Amy, and Scuba Steve participate, guessing the items and earning points based on their accuracy.
Round Highlights:
Clothes and Shoes
Bobby Bones [35:54]: "Number one answer is clothes and shoes."
Jewelry
Amy [38:27]: "Jewelry. Have yourself a Mary Little."
Home Appliances
Amy [36:33]: "Home appliances."
Perfumes and Colognes
Eddie [36:16]: "Like a razor."
Throughout the rounds, the hosts make humorous attempts to guess the remaining items, culminating in Amy correctly identifying "lingerie" as the tenth most returned gift. The segment showcases the hosts' chemistry and provides entertaining insights into common consumer behaviors during the holidays.
Timestamp: [56:00 - 75:38]
In a festive tradition, the co-hosts participate in their Annual Christmas Gift Exchange. The process involves drafting Christmas songs and exchanging gift cards of varying denominations.
Gift Drafting Process:
Gift Unwrapping:
As gifts are unwrapped, humorous reactions ensue, particularly when Lunchbox anticipates drawing a $1,000 gift card but ends up with a $10 card. The segment captures genuine surprise and laughter, emphasizing the playful nature of the exchange.
Lunchbox [74:05]: "I pray to God he wears that instead of a hoodie to an award show."
Ultimately, Eddie draws the coveted $1,000 Macy's gift card, leading to celebratory cheers among the hosts. The exchange highlights the generosity and fun spirit of the annual tradition.
Timestamp: [77:57 - 79:04]
In the "Brainhead Story of the Day" segment, Amy shares a cautionary tale from San Bernardino, California. A man attempted to deliver drugs to inmates by claiming he brought "drugs for the inmates" but was caught with two pounds of marijuana in his back pocket.
Amy [78:04]: "A guy shows up at the county jail... he has 2 pounds of marijuana in his back pocket."
The story serves as a humorous yet insightful reminder of the consequences of ill-thought-out actions, reinforcing the show's blend of entertainment and valuable lessons.
Timestamp: [81:00 - 84:12]
The episode features the "Morning Corny" segment, where Lunchbox takes on the role of a drive-through caroler, attempting to spread Christmas cheer in unconventional settings like public restrooms. His exaggerated efforts to sing Christmas carols to unsuspecting individuals result in comedic interactions.
Amy [79:40]: "I'm here to get you in the Christmas spirit. You better watch out..."
Despite mixed reactions, the segment underscores the hosts' commitment to entertaining their audience through creative and humorous endeavors, embodying the festive spirit of the season.
Timestamp: [84:16 - End]
As the show wraps up, Bobby Bones reflects on the day's events, emphasizing the importance of family, generosity, and the shared joy of the holiday season. He invites listeners to watch the full video of the gift exchange on their YouTube channel and encourages participation in future episodes.
Bobby Bones [85:06]: "Healthy, merry, good God, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays from the Bobby Bones Show."
The episode concludes with festive music and well-wishes, leaving listeners with a sense of warmth and community.
Notable Quotes:
Bobby Bones on Returning Gifts:
"You can ask for any gift back. You just can't be upset or hold it against her if she keeps them because they were a gift."
[06:01]
Brenda Lee on Her Signature Song:
"TikTok uses it all. So it is."
[22:05]
Good News on "Brown Bag Bus":
"Every lunch they distribute has a vegetable, fruit, protein, carton milk."
[29:11]
Gift Exchange Humor:
"I pray to God he wears that instead of a hoodie to an award show."
[75:03]
Bonehead Story Reflection:
"That's a great story."
[54:57]
Conclusion:
This episode of The Bobby Bones Show masterfully blends humor, heartfelt stories, and engaging interactions, all wrapped in the joyous spirit of Christmas. From the annual gift exchange antics to the insightful interview with Brenda Lee, listeners are treated to a rich tapestry of entertainment and meaningful conversations. The show's ability to seamlessly integrate games, listener stories, and celebrity interviews highlights its dynamic format and the strong rapport among its hosts.
Whether you're a regular listener or tuning in for the first time, this episode offers a comprehensive and delightful experience, embodying the essence of holiday cheer and community.