WEDS PT 1: Bobby's Shocking Christmas News + Update On Lunchbox's Swollen Testicle + Masterpiece Christmas Theater + Most Shocking Moments In Country Music In 2025

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show – Dec 17, 2025

Episode: WEDS PT 1: Bobby's Shocking Christmas News + Update On Lunchbox's Swollen Testicle + Masterpiece Christmas Theater + Most Shocking Moments In Country Music In 2025

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of "The Bobby Bones Show" brings listeners a mix of holiday advice, personal mishaps, pop culture recaps, and lighthearted team banter. The hosts (Bobby Bones, Amy, Lunchbox, Eddie, and Raymundo), along with guest callers, discuss last-minute Christmas shopping strategies, dive into listener emails about gift-giving gone wrong, relive the wildest moments in country music from 2025, and provide a health update on Lunchbox’s now infamous swollen testicle. The show rounds out with their annual “Masterpiece Christmas Theater,” a real-life heist story, feel-good holiday news, and a final Q&A riff on Christmas greetings.

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Major Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Shocking Christmas Shopping News & Last-Minute Advice

[04:02–06:36]

• Holiday Timing Tip:
  • Lunchbox reveals, “It ain’t winter yet!” and provides a quick seasonal science lesson about the solstice and equinox ([04:07–04:56]).
  • He advises waiting until the last minute for Christmas shopping: “Stores are actually desperate to sell out their stock. So if it's there and it's last minute, they're looking to cut deals” ([05:06]).
  • Warning: You may save money but risk not finding the gift or spend far longer parking/hunting. “Is it worth saving $2.50 on a Hug Me Elmo?” ([05:29]).
• Why Cold Makes Us Lazy:
  • Research from Columbia University: “Even a 2-degree drop in temperature reduces the amount of oxygen that gets to your brain, making you feel lethargic and maybe foggy headed” ([06:04]).
  • Lunchbox jokes about putting a shock collar on his unstoppable bulldog to cope with winter dog-walking woes ([06:39–08:04]).
• Training Dogs & Shock Collar Debate:
  • Amy: “My dog is so scared of it now that all I have to do is grab the remote…she gets super obedient” ([07:31]).

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2. Listener Email: Whiskey Collector's Christmas Disaster

[08:22–14:21]

• Story Summary:
  • A listener’s wife unknowingly took a prized 10-year-old Pappy Van Winkle (worth $800-1000) from his whiskey collection and gave it as a Secret Santa gift at her office party ([08:53]).
• Team’s Reactions:
  • Amy: “She owes him a thousand dollar bottle of whiskey” ([11:10]).
  • Lunchbox: “But that’s also his money too, right?” ([11:13]).
  • Consensus: It’s a loss; maybe just hope for a pour from whoever got it.
  • Anecdotes: Drinking pricey whiskey by accident or near-misses with risky guests at home bars.

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3. Most Shocking Moments in Country Music 2025

[14:21–21:00]

• Bobby Bones references a "Taste of Country" list of 2025’s most jaw-dropping country headlines, asking the team to recall the biggest shocks:
• Major Moments:
  • Zach Bryan’s wild moments, including trying to fight Gavin Adcock ([15:22]).
  • Keith Urban & Nicole Kidman’s divorce: “That’s one of the rare headlines that happens in this industry that I have no clue is happening…” –Lunchbox ([15:54]).
  • Maddie & Tae break up ([16:22]).
  • Brandon Blackstock’s (Reba’s son) death after cancer ([19:30]).
  • Jelly Roll’s significant weight loss ([18:28]).
  • Kelsea Ballerini & Chase Stokes’ breakup ([19:31]).
  • Cancellation of CMT Music Awards ([20:27]).
  • The team reacts to each, ranking what surprised them personally and as fans.

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4. Lunchbox's Swollen Testicle Health Saga

[24:14–28:58, 46:53–49:18]

• Listener Concern:
  • Laura calls in, asking why Lunchbox hasn't gone to the doctor about his symptoms ([24:19]).
• Medical Update:
  • Lunchbox: “I call urologist. They can get me in January 12th” ([24:55]).
  • Frustration at medical system delays; team insists he try urgent care or the ER.
  • Voicemail from nurse Kelly: “A hernia into the testicles can make that testicle bigger…Testicular torsion usually is very, very, very severe pain…So hopefully he gets it checked out soon and finds a solution” ([26:46]).
  • Kelly the nurse (call-in) strongly urges immediate medical attention: “The longer you wait, the less likelihood that it can be treated and you lose a testicle…It can become systemic and you could become septic, like it's serious…This lunchbox is an urgent situation” ([48:01]).
• Memorable Moment:
  • “People have died of sepsis. President Garfield died of sepsis. He got shot. And…it ended up not being the bullet that killed him. It was the sepsis that killed him.” –Lunchbox ([49:24])
• Show’s Tone:
  • Urgent but laced with classic show humor, as Raymundo jokes about Christmas-themed hernia movie titles.

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5. Masterpiece Christmas Theater

[28:58–32:53]

• The hosts act out iconic scenes from Christmas movies, with the team guessing titles:
  • Home Alone (easy, all ace it)
  • Elf (medium, Lunchbox is out with wrong answer)
  • It's a Wonderful Life (hard, Amy and Eddie get it)
  • The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (tiebreaker; Amy wins with a fast buzz-in)
• Amy: "Masterpiece Theater." ([32:59])

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6. Amy Witnesses a Real-Life Heist

[33:03–36:25]

• Amy describes witnessing a slick jewel heist at an antique shop. A man distracts a saleswoman, swipes a bracelet while she's distracted, and is gone before anyone realizes ([33:10–35:50]).
• Even with people nearby, “that's how good he was…Because we didn’t even see him swipe it” ([35:00]).
• Lunchbox theorizes “he’s done it before…he was cool, calm and collected.”

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7. Feel-Good Stories & Good News

[20:57–21:55, 36:37–37:47]

• Anonymous Secret Santa Couple:
  • "Elf32a and Mrs. Claus" handed out $100 bills around town. Since 2008, they've given out $245,000 anonymously ([20:57]).
• Grandma Stand Project:
  • In McKinney, Texas, “grandmas offer comfort, conversation, and advice during the holiday season.” Started by Mike Matthews to honor his own Grandma Eileen ([36:37]).
• Lunchbox on a fit Santa: “I’m telling you, he’s been doing some CrossFit. GLP1, but yeah, maybe so. Santa Claus looked great.” ([37:19])

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8. Briefs, Bits, and Banter

Rapid-Fire Highlights:

• Morning Corny: “What goes oh, oh, oh? Santa walking backwards.” ([38:29])
• Lottery stories, Bobby’s email etiquette (“Greetings…”), and the correct usage and meaning of “Xmas,” which actually derives from the Greek "Chi," meaning Christ ([51:15–52:21]).
• Time off for teachers sparks a mini-debate after a contentious voicemail ([54:48–55:51]).
• Interview Highlight: Bill Fagerbakke (voice of Patrick Starr from SpongeBob) shares favorite lines and memories ([44:03–46:49]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “If you’re gonna save two bucks but you’re gonna spend 40 extra minutes trying to find a parking spot – it ain’t worth that.” –Lunchbox ([05:29])
• “She owes him a thousand dollar bottle of whiskey.” –Amy ([11:10])
• “The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.” –Bill Fagerbakke, as Patrick Starr ([44:39])
• “The longer you wait, the less likelihood that it can be treated and you lose a testicle.” –Kelly, Nurse Caller ([48:01])
• “How morbid would it be if he ends up dying from this…6 days’ bits on it?” –Lunchbox ([28:55])
• “That’s how good he was…Because we didn’t even see him swipe it.” –Amy, on witnessing a jewelry heist ([35:00])
• “People have died of sepsis. President Garfield died of sepsis.” –Lunchbox ([49:24])
• “Every sip is like…dollars.” –Amy, on pouring prized whiskey ([12:29])

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

• Shocking Christmas Shopping Tips: 04:02–06:36
• Whiskey Collector Story: 08:22–14:21
• Country Music’s Wildest of 2025: 14:21–21:00
• Secret Santa Good News: 20:57–21:55
• Lunchbox’s Testicle Update (Part 1): 24:14–28:58
• Masterpiece Christmas Theater: 28:58–32:53
• Amy’s Real-Life Heist Story: 33:03–36:25
• Grandma Stand Feel-Good: 36:37–37:47
• Bill Fagerbakke/Patrick Starr Interview Clips: 44:03–46:49
• Lunchbox’s Testicle Update (Part 2): 46:53–49:18
• Teacher Salary Mini-Debate: 54:48–55:51

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Tone and Atmosphere

The banter is playful and irreverent, underpinned with genuine concern when health and real-life mishaps arise. The episode is rich in jokes, pop culture callbacks, and candid admissions, remaining fast-paced and engaging throughout. The hosts constantly riff on each other’s quirks, fostering a familiar and friendly crew vibe that fans expect.

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For New Listeners

This episode is an ideal primer for the show's format: equal parts relatable life talk, pop culture coverage, wry humor, and unfiltered team dynamics. Whether sharing holiday mishaps, reviewing the year in country, or roasting each other’s Christmas greetings, the team combines goofiness and warmth—making for a fun, frenzied holiday listen.

Transcript

[Amy]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Bobby Bones]

When, when or with who.

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Rob Gronkowski]

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[Eddie]

Here we go.

[Lunchbox]

Come on, Bobby.

[Amy]

Transmitting across America.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Turn.

[Lunchbox]

What's up, everybody? Welcome to Wednesday show Morning Studio. Morning, Bones. You want to hear a shocking stat?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

It ain't winter yet.

[Eddie]

What it feels like. It.

[Raymundo]

It's.

[Lunchbox]

It sucks. It's cold. December 21st. Today's 17th, 18th, 19.

[Raymundo]

24 days.

[Lunchbox]

We have four days not even winter yet. This terrible. Kill the groundhog or whatever happens. I don't even know, is the groundhog come out, Tell us it's winter.

[Eddie]

Huck's a pony.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, huxtable, whatever. Huxtable the groundhog. Kill him. Is it terrible? December 21st is the first day of winter. Last through March 20th. Winter begins on the winter solstice, which is the shortest day of the year and ends with the equinox, which. Do you know what that means? The equinox. Think about it. You can nail it. Even if you don't, you can nail it.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. It's a great gym.

[Lunchbox]

I've never been in the gym, but equinox equal, it means it's. It's the most equal day and night.

[Amy]

Oh, okay. Oh. So as. As much as it's light outside, it's the same dark outside.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's cool. I thought that was every day.

[Lunchbox]

Why not? No, no.

[Amy]

Because the 21st is going to be the shortest day of the year. That means it's like little light.

[Lunchbox]

All right, I'm gonna give you some shocking Christmas shopping news. Ready for it?

[Amy]

Ready.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. Wait until the last minute to buy your kids presents because stores are actually desperate to sell out their stock. So if it's there and it's last minute, they're looking to cut deals to get them out. They're starting to mark down prices the closer it actually gets to Christmas.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Did you know that?

[Amy]

Well, I mean, I could see how you. You get lucky if you get a deal, but then you. You run the risk of not getting. Not getting it.

[Lunchbox]

I would say, too, if you're gonna save two bucks, but you're gonna spend 40 extra minutes trying to find a parking spot, it ain't worth that. Because if you're gonna go the 23rd and the Christmas is on a Thursday this year. Yep. You're going to go on a Wednesday. On Tuesday, it's The mall is going to be miserable. Like, is it worth. Is it worth saving $2.50?

[Raymundo]

I don't think so.

[Lunchbox]

On a Hug Me Elmo. Yeah. You know, so they do say though, find your target items. Check back the day before Christmas and good luck.

[Raymundo]

I just don't want to go.

[Lunchbox]

I don't want to go. That's from Woman's World, a publication I frequent often.

[Amy]

Yeah. Yes.

[Lunchbox]

And then finally, just speaking of winter and Christmas, if your motivation disappears as soon as the temperature drops, there is a scientific reason for that. Researchers found that even a 2 degree drop in temperature reduces the amount of oxygen that gets to your brain, making you feel lethargic and maybe foggy headed. It's important to bundle up when it gets colder, especially your head, hands and feet, because you can start to feel lazier because the cold weather. That's an excuse for everybody out there. It's cold, just not feeling it. But they do say that the drop actually reduces oxygen. So you do want to do less.

[Amy]

Okay. So we just need to get oxygen to our brain.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. But it's like cover your hands, head and feet. That's from Columbia University. It's so cold. Like, I have to take Stanley out. I'm thinking about getting a shot collar for him. And I've not been a big shot guy. Nothing phases him. He is a bulldog. And he runs through walls. Runs into. He's just. Is out of his mind tough. But he likes to run and jump and dive into poop.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

And it drives me crazy. And I can't get him to stop. I'm like. I'm like stop. And I spray water on. I do everything. I can't get him to stop. So I said I think I'll put a shot collar on him. But the problem is at night when it's this cold, I don't want to have to go full Eskimo to walk outside in the backyard. So I'm like, go, go, go. And he doesn't go. So. And then he runs and dives into. It's just a mess.

[Amy]

So I got one on Amazon that makes a loud noise. So it's.

[Lunchbox]

We've had to retry that. Then work doesn't go bam.

[Amy]

It has a shocking option. But I use the noise one.

[Bobby Bones]

But.

[Amy]

But it's. My dog is so scared of it now that all I have to do is grab the remote. I don't have to do anything if she sees me get the remote. She gets super, like obedient and submissive and all the things like she crouches down. Like, even if I just go to the drawer where the remote is, she's suddenly like, on her best behavior.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

If there's any word that starts with R, she's like, oh, gosh.

[Amy]

Yeah, I.

[Lunchbox]

All I want him to do is stop diving and poop. And it's just really hard now because it's so cold outside. Then it's the first time I've considered getting a shot collar. Nothing hurts him. He's unpenetrable. He's this big, thick bulldog. Yeah, nothing hurts him. So wish me luck.

[Raymundo]

Good luck.

[Lunchbox]

Hello, Bobby Bones. I don't know if I'm more angry or hurt. Last night my wife came home beaming because she was the hit of our work Christmas secret Santa gift exchange. I was so happy to see her happy until I found out why. One of my passions is collecting whiskey. And I have what I think is a pretty nice collection. It seems my wife was up against it, didn't know what to get, and she grabbed one of my whiskeys. She went downstairs, grabbed a bottle, wrapped it up. That bottle, it turns out, was a 10 year old Pappy Van Winkle.

[Eddie]

That's terrible. That's really expensive.

[Lunchbox]

I'm happy that she didn't grab the 20 year old bottle, but I'm not happy to lose what ended up being an extraordinarily nice gift for someone she barely knows. When she told me about it, I just left the room. We haven't talked about it since. Part of me wants to tell her that if she sees the co worker, would she ask if they return it? What would you do with this situation? Signed sad whiskey collector. I would need to see how much a bottle of 10 year old. Is it Pappy Van Winkle?

[Eddie]

Yeah, Pappy Van Winkle costs.

[Amy]

I don't know how accurate this is, but I'm seeing prices everywhere. From $800 to a thousand dollars.

[Lunchbox]

Of course.

[Raymundo]

That's a great gift.

[Lunchbox]

Wow. She had no idea.

[Eddie]

But why is she just grabbing stuff around the house? That's his collection.

[Amy]

It was last minute, like I would. I. Oh, my gift.

[Bobby Bones]

I get it.

[Amy]

She should have asked.

[Lunchbox]

It feels like the office episode where Michael Scott brings the ipod and everyone's fighting over the ipod. Do you guys remember that episode? Great.

[Eddie]

Good reference.

[Lunchbox]

Go ahead.

[Amy]

Oh, I just think that like, you know, Shirley's like, oh, alcohol is a good thing to take. Like, this will be good not knowing, you know, the cost of some of this stuff or being ignorant to his whiskey collection and just how much some of it is worth because I would look at him be like, okay, cool bottle of whiskey.

[Lunchbox]

Why are you going into like your dude's pride, right? Whiskey collection and taking something from it though?

[Amy]

Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not.

[Lunchbox]

That would be like my wife, she.

[Amy]

Fully thought it through.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Going in my baseball card to be like, I don't know this Mikey Mantle. I'll just take that in.

[Amy]

Yeah, exactly. That would be bad.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

So it's happened. Okay. Now I don't think you can ask her to go and ask for it back.

[Eddie]

Whiskey's gone.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. As lunchbox would say, whiskey gone.

[Raymundo]

Sorry.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, unfortunately.

[Amy]

What would y' all see? Cuz I'm like trying to picture if we had like a company thing like that and I showed up and brought it. But then the next day I came back and was like, guys, I so sorry. I didn't have no idea. I thought that was like a $50 bottle of whiskey. Turns out it's more like a thousand. So.

[Lunchbox]

So. And you get. And one of us got it.

[Amy]

Yes. I'm so sorry.

[Lunchbox]

I would say we're close enough that you could do that with us, but this sounds like a generic work party how it was described. I don't know. You can. I, I just, I. I think you just eat it. Morgan.

[Amy]

I think she owes him a thousand dollar bottle of whiskey.

[Lunchbox]

But that's also his money too, right? It is.

[Amy]

Helps if she's like, okay, you know what, go buy whatever whiskey you've been wanting to buy to make up for this. Cuz maybe he's been holding back because it is their money. So now he kind of gets a free.

[Lunchbox]

Free card. That's not free. You already.

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Lunchbox]

He's in the hole of Whiskey. What's a 20 year old bottle cost?

[Eddie]

Well, that's got to be way more, right? Well, cuz it's age.

[Amy]

Well, he has a 20 year.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like he's said he didn't care about this.

[Amy]

I see. 2400 enough.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Starting at 24 up to 4, 900.

[Eddie]

That's bizarre.

[Raymundo]

Whoa.

[Eddie]

But that's a good point that Amy's making though. Like if, if somebody came to me and said, I'm so sorry I accidentally gave you this Christmas spirit. Don't you just say like, yeah, like.

[Amy]

I would give it back.

[Eddie]

Take it back.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. You're probably not going to see them till after New Year's though, because people are on break. Oh, and they might drink it and. And there's no spirit left. It's all out. Because you just, you used all the spirit up. Once New Year's hits, there's no more Christmas spirit. We're now clawing for our life to get ahead of the year.

[Eddie]

And, and I will say, if I got that Christmas, I would drink it during Christmas.

[Amy]

Okay, well, maybe. What if you just ask him for a pour?

[Lunchbox]

Can I take him back a glass?

[Amy]

My husband didn't even get to take a sip of it, so can you just put a little bit in this mason jar?

[Eddie]

It's terrible.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know.

[Amy]

I mean, if you think about it, oh my gosh, like, every sip is like dollars.

[Lunchbox]

Like, Eddie had some. I had a friend who was having like a party and he was like, hey, come here to this party. And so we go into that party and Eddie sees a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle that was already being drank out of.

[Eddie]

It was part of the all the bottles that everyone was drinking. But I never, I'd heard of it. I think Ray's talked about it. Very expensive whiskey. So I'm like, why not?

[Lunchbox]

So he got a styrofoam cup and went over and drank some. I was like, how is it as.

[Eddie]

I mean, it's whiskey. I, I, I'm not a whiskey person.

[Lunchbox]

But not a mature enough palate to really appreciate it.

[Eddie]

Not even close.

[Raymundo]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Amy]

So if you were to do a standard shot out of a normal bottle of Papy Van Winkle and say it's a thousand dollar bottle, it's like $58 a shot.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, that's, that's heavy for a shot, but that's not so bad. Then you only stole like 120 bucks.

[Eddie]

Yeah, me? Yeah. Well, no, I was invited to the party too. Like, I stole it. I just happened to be there.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but you went right for it. You were like, there's a bottle.

[Amy]

We had some friends over and my boyfriend has kind of a whiskey collection that's on display that is like not touched. You know how you have things on display, they're not supposed to be touched kind of thing. Somebody went over and was about to open like A$500 of whiskey and he had to intervene and be like, no, no, no, no. Just about any other one you can have, but not that.

[Lunchbox]

So if you have alcohol on display. I don't have any alcohol on display. It's not for people to drink.

[Eddie]

I've never heard of, I've not alone.

[Amy]

It's not like our alcohol bar. Like, the bar itself has so much alcohol in it, but on top of it are very decorative bottles.

[Lunchbox]

They like, go to the bar, get whatever you want.

[Amy]

No, we were, like, opening it and saying, like, these are all the things like we're drinking. So we're trying to be very specific, but now we realize we probably need to not have those bottles out. Yeah, just put them away.

[Lunchbox]

Also, you have a big bar at your house.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Amy]

Yeah, I have a big alcohol collection.

[Lunchbox]

What's the bigger flex? That or Abby going. I got two cars. Two cars.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

All right. I thank you for the email. In the end, I'm just going to say that's a loss. Unless you're close with that person. I think it's a loss. That's a very awkward conversation after New Year. Hey, can I get that bottle back? That's. And you have to make it up to your husband somehow. Okay. There you go. Close it up. Taste of country did the most shocking country music moments of 2025. Now, I didn't give you guys any heads up to think about this, so I will give you, like, 30 seconds. So country music's most shocking headlines of the year. No shortage of crazy moments. According to them, here are eight of the wildest things that happened in country music this year. Amy, what comes to your mind?

[Bobby Bones]

Wild.

[Amy]

I mean, the first thing that popped in my head was, like, the Ella Langley, Riley Green.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's a good one. Like, their weirdness.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And then, like.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, like, they did a song. They probably were together, and then there's.

[Amy]

Like, Megan Maroney in the mix.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The love triangle they keep. They did another song, even though didn't make it. But that is a good one. Okay. Eddie.

[Eddie]

Zach Brian.

[Lunchbox]

Number one.

[Eddie]

Yeah, number one. Which one, though, girlfriend, was that this year?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, Zach Bryan. Well, you can just do Zach Brian in general. Yeah, right. Hopping offense to try to fight Gavin Adcock. And then they say they list other Zach Bryant issues as well. Number one. So that's number one. All right, you can go again.

[Eddie]

I feel like Luke Ryan falling.

[Lunchbox]

Isn't that every year?

[Eddie]

Probably fell a couple times this year.

[Lunchbox]

He just goes hard. No, it didn't make the list. Lunchbox.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Sadly, Keith and Nicole.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Coming in. Number six.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, six.

[Lunchbox]

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman announced their divorce after nearly two decades together. That's one of the rare headlines that happens in this industry that I have no clues happening, and I go, wow. And then I start. I'm like, did you know this? I had no idea that was coming.

[Eddie]

That was crazy.

[Lunchbox]

None. Okay, much Watch. You're still up.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Raymundo]

What else happened in country music this year, man. That's a good question. Definitely. Definitely shocking. Maddie and Tay, call it quits, number five. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Were you just throwing that out there?

[Raymundo]

That was the only other breakup I was. I'm going with a theme here.

[Lunchbox]

The fact that that was five and Keith and Nicole were six. I feel like their list is a little off.

[Raymundo]

A little off.

[Lunchbox]

I respect that it's on the list, but Maddie and Taylor, maybe because the.

[Amy]

Maddie and Tay is more recent.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, possibly. I don't know. The Keith and Nicole made me go, wow.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Like, what planet am I on? Am I in a different timeline?

[Amy]

Yeah, I had a audible gasp at my phone.

[Lunchbox]

Lunchbox. Anything else?

[Raymundo]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot more that went on in country music this year, man. I'm. I'm getting there, Eddie. Thank you. And that was. Yeah. Shocking moments.

[Lunchbox]

For three seconds this year was Morgan Wallen. I don't think that happened this year. I think this year he was pretty calm.

[Raymundo]

I was just hoping.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Just something. Yeah. All right, so we'll go around one more time. Amy, do you have anything else?

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Zach Brown and Kendra Scott get together.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Well, his whole drama with relationships. But, I mean, I think that was another audible gasp, like, oh, wow, they're together.

[Lunchbox]

Do you think it's because we know Kendra Scott? I think maybe.

[Amy]

But then also his ex, the tumultuous.

[Lunchbox]

It didn't make it, but that was bizarre. I just wonder if. Because we had a relationship with Kendra. Okay, so. No, not in there, Eddie.

[Eddie]

Okay, this is. Has to be on the list. Old Dominion getting on the Walk of Fame.

[Lunchbox]

You know, if you listen to Lunchbox. Yes. He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe it. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Is that on there?

[Lunchbox]

It didn't make it because, you know what? Not controversial. Not shocking, because they deserved it.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Lunchbox]

But your point has been made, Lunchbox. Oh, no. Are you serious? What's happening?

[Raymundo]

No, I just swallowed wrong.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, honest question. Does that hurt your testicle when you cough like that? No. Okay, that's good.

[Amy]

I think that's a good sign.

[Eddie]

Great sign.

[Raymundo]

That's. It's easy. Country music. You guys were thinking all artists. What about someone that's in country music? The one Dancing with the Stars. Bobby Bones and Dancing with the Stars.

[Eddie]

This.

[Lunchbox]

That's one, like, six years ago.

[Raymundo]

The controversy this year.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no. Didn't make it. Okay, so here we go. What do you have? Another one.

[Raymundo]

I won.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Well, this isn't, like, controversial, but it was, like, big headlines throughout the year, like jelly rolls, weight loss, Number eight. Ah, nice.

[Lunchbox]

Good job, jelly roll. Lost a dramatic amount of weight. He does look like a different person. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah, dude.

[Lunchbox]

All right, go ahead. Anything else?

[Amy]

Sorry, that was the last thing that came.

[Eddie]

What did you have? Lunchbox. You said I had one.

[Raymundo]

No, I said I won.

[Lunchbox]

Oh.

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Lunchbox]

Influential songwriter Brett James dies in a plane crash.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that was. That was shocking to mostly the community because, I mean, we. We knew him, he didn't live here. But I don't think most people know country writers, though, for the most part that are just music fans. But it was shocking to Nashville for sure. Let's see. Keith and Nicole, Maddy and tay. At number four, Brandon Blackstock dies at 48 after a private cancer battle. And Brandon Blackstock is Norval's son. Oh, yeah. And Kelly Clarkson's ex. Yeah. Reba's son.

[Raymundo]

Yeah. Reba's son.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Reba's son. I just get the McIntyre thing. It takes me a second because number three, Kelsey Ballerini and Chase Stokes into their three year relationship. I don't think that, I mean, I don't think people in country music really were invested. I think like E was wasn't like.

[Eddie]

Chase Stokes kind of shocked.

[Amy]

I mean, it's definitely a pop.

[Lunchbox]

He was also shocked culturally.

[Amy]

Yeah. Because Chase is so like, he. His show has such a following.

[Lunchbox]

But did you feel like.

[Amy]

Well, I remember thinking like, they. I was like, oh, wow. You know, they seem like they're a good fit and they're gonna make it and not. You felt like that then I was like, golly, it's so weird how people can, like, invest. Like we go not.

[Lunchbox]

I feel like that was like the least invested.

[Amy]

I'm saying, like, people, they're invested in their own relations three years and like, then just. They break up.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

I mean, it happens.

[Lunchbox]

Happens on marriages too.

[Amy]

Yeah, I know. So I'm not as shocked by those.

[Lunchbox]

The CMT Music Awards were canceled, and then CMT canceled all their original programming, and then Zach Bryant won. So those were the most shocking country moments of 2025. It's time for the good news with Bobby. Tell me something good. They didn't want their names out there, so totally anonymous. This couple known as elf32a and Mrs. Claus carried on their Secret Santa tradition for the 18th year, just handing out cash to people. They spent the day giving out hundred dollar bills at restaurants, two schools, bus stops. Since 2008, they've given away $245,000.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

They did 12 grand this year. I don't know how they know exactly how much if it's anonymous.

[Amy]

Oh, unless someone's oh, true. I was like, well, duh. They're keeping track of it, but you can't know.

[Lunchbox]

At one stop, a man told Mrs. Claus he'd missed single bus stop last year and feared he'd never have the chance again. Seeing them return, he says, made him feel like that his turn had finally arrived. So they rewarded him as well. I don't know. They've given away a quarter million dollars just anonymously and for no reason other than the holiday spirit. Pretty good. I never run anybody giving away anything like that. And if I did, I would think it was a scam. I wouldn't even take the money. I would think it was a scam. I'm so just everything's a scam now. To me, every video I see on the Internet's fake. Everything is something to get me, because it is. But Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry Christmas. That's from Freep. There you go. That's what it's all about.

[Amy]

That was.

[Lunchbox]

Tell me something good.

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[Amy]

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[Lunchbox]

This is where mindset comes in.

[Amy]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Bobby Bones]

Pressure is coming down.

[Lunchbox]

Trainer games are on Prime Video January 8th.

[Raymundo]

Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season 2.

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[Amy]

It even better this month as you.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Amy]

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[Lunchbox]

Want to save even more money on what you love?

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[Lunchbox]

U N D Laura's on in South Carolina because she is concerned. Hey, Laura, you're on the show.

[Caller 1]

What?

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

I was calling about Lunchbox and Testicle and I wanted to ask Lunchbox why he has not gone to the doctor or the er.

[Lunchbox]

Well, that is a great question. We do have an update.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, well, I mean, I have tried to go to the doctor. See, I have gone to so many doctors. And then I noticed the swelling and so everybody told me, call a urologist. Right? Yep. So I was like, yes, I'm gonna get to the bottom of this. I'm gonna call a urologist. They know what they're talking about. So I call urologist. They can get me in January 12th.

[Lunchbox]

That's actually quicker than I thought. So everybody that's listening, you're like, what are you guys talking about? So a few days ago, I mean, really, it was like a month ago, he had a problem in his stomach. Like, and then he went to the doctor and the doctor's like, watch YouTube or something. Yes, go to another doctor. My stomach hurts. Watch YouTube. So finally he admits to us, not only is a stomach hurting, but it's like a triangle of pain that has now gone into one of his testicles. And then he goes. And then my left testicle is swollen. And we're like, dude, you have to go to a doctor. Even. We said, call a urologist. But I also said, you need to also go to one of those.

[Raymundo]

Urgent care.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, urgent cares, because they're not going to be able to get you into a urologist today. And that's what you learned. But that's quicker than I thought.

[Raymundo]

Well, see, that's what I'm saying. Like, the medical situation makes no sense. It's like, hey, you need help, call a doctor. We'll see you in a month. In a month I could be dead. And it's just like.

[Amy]

Well, that's when you have to advocate for yourself and maybe say that and like, push your way in or go.

[Lunchbox]

To the emergency room. Yes, because the emergency room will get you into a specialist faster if there's an emergency. Ray, would you play that voicemail right here? I cannot believe that Lunchbox and Eddie are in their 40s and have to depend on the women on the show to help them look up information on doctors. And they continue to say, I don't know. Do they not know how to use Google?

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks.

[Lunchbox]

Long time listener. I feel like Eddie's getting put into something.

[Rob Gronkowski]

What did I do?

[Lunchbox]

Nothing. You're just. You're just part of grouped.

[Raymundo]

I don't need people to tell me that I need to go to a doctor.

[Lunchbox]

Yes, you do. We told you, you need to go to a specialist. And you finally called.

[Raymundo]

I've been going to other doctors. And then the swelling came on and so I was afraid to admit it and I admitted it. And then I called a urologist and they can't see me for six years. It's amazing.

[Lunchbox]

Hit me with the next one.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

A hernia into the testicles can make that testicle bigger.

[Amy]

So if his testicle is swollen, that.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

Could be a cause.

[Amy]

Testicular torsion usually is very, very, very severe pain that will put you into the emergency room.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

So hopefully he gets it checked out soon and finds a solution.

[Bobby Bones]

Thanks.

[Lunchbox]

Bye.

[Amy]

That was my diagnosis.

[Lunchbox]

But it doesn't hurt.

[Amy]

Muscular torsion?

[Raymundo]

No, it's not like I'm in excruciating pain. It's just there's times that it's uncomfortable and I'm Christmas.

[Lunchbox]

It's going to be the testicle Christmas. That's going to be a terrible Hallmark movie. But it's going to be hard to get into the emergency room because there's going to be like two doctors working and 78 people and testicles. And testicles.

[Raymundo]

And in the hernia thing I have been to, I've gone to two doctors saying, hey, man, I think this is a hernia. And they both tell me, no, no hernia. So I don't understand.

[Lunchbox]

Did you show them?

[Raymundo]

No, they didn't ask about that.

[Lunchbox]

That's not what you do at a doctor. You don't go in and go. All right, doc, ask me, ask me, whatever. No, you have to tell them every single thing that's happening.

[Amy]

Yeah, like, you don't want a ho, ho, ho, hernia, Chris.

[Raymundo]

Okay?

[Amy]

I mean, there's so many good names for this movie. You gotta go.

[Lunchbox]

You have to go to the emergency room or you have to go to one of these urgent cares. And if it's bad, bad, they will get you in faster to somebody that can fix it. If it's not bad bad according to how they feel about your description of it, they will make you wait and go to urologist on January 12. But honestly, to a specialist. That ain't that long. Just calling, Cold calling.

[Raymundo]

I don't understand how you have a practice and if someone is in dire.

[Lunchbox]

Need, they don't know how dire you are.

[Raymundo]

I gave my symptoms. I told the girl in the front, the answer the phone. I'm like, listen.

[Eddie]

Do you tell her the size of the tennis ball? Like, lie to them, say it's you.

[Lunchbox]

Go to the emergency room or go to urgent care?

[Raymundo]

I feel like if I go to the emergency room, they're like, dude, you, this isn't an emergency.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, but then you know it's not an emergency, and you can wait till January 12.

[Amy]

So which is it? Is it like you're. Like you're mad that it's January 12th, but you don't want to go today?

[Raymundo]

But when do you want to go? No, I'd like. I feel like the ER is for people that are dying.

[Lunchbox]

No, if you break a leg.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, true, but I didn't. I mean, and I could be dying. Like, that's the scary part. Freaking crazy.

[Lunchbox]

How morbid would it be if he ends up dying from this? 6 days bits on it? So I don't know what you're gonna do, but this is another day of us saying, go to the emergency room. Now, we will act out Christmas movies in a segment called Masterpiece Theatre. Raymundo and I will act out three movie scenes. You guys write the answer down. One's really easy, one's medium, one's hard. All Christmas movies. Here we go. And action. Everybody in the family hates me. Then maybe you should ask Santa for a new family. I don't want another family. I don't want any family. Families suck. Just stay up there. I don't want to see you again for the rest of the night. I don't want to see you again for the rest of my whole life. And I don't want to see anybody else either. I hope you don't mean that. You feel pretty sad. If you woke up tomorrow morning, you didn't have a family. No, I wouldn't. Then say it again. Maybe it will happen. I hope that I never see any of you jerks again. Scene.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you. That was super. Thank you.

[Raymundo]

And these are all Christmas movies?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Eddie]

I'm in.

[Lunchbox]

Only Eddie Clout. I jumped in. Amy, you gave us one. At the end. You gave us one Florida gator.

[Amy]

Chunk. Because I was writing down my answer.

[Lunchbox]

Huh?

[Raymundo]

I'm in for the win.

[Eddie]

Good. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Lunchbox.

[Raymundo]

Home Alone.

[Lunchbox]

Amy.

[Amy]

Home Alone.

[Raymundo]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

That's Home Alone.

[Lunchbox]

Correct. Everybody's in. Let's go to the medium movie. And action. Who the heck are you? What are you talking about? I'm Santa Claus. No, you're not. Why, of course I am. Ho. Ho. Ho. Ho. Ho, ho. Well, if you're Santa, what song did I sing for you on your birthday this year? Happy birthday, of course.

[Raymundo]

Ho.

[Lunchbox]

How old are you, son? You disgust me. How can you live with yourself? Just cool it, Zippy. You sit on a throne of lies. Look, I'm not kidding. You're a fake. I'm a fake? Yes. How'd you like to be dead, huh? You smell like beef and cheese. You don't smell like Santa. Scene.

[Eddie]

I'm in.

[Raymundo]

I'm in for the win.

[Lunchbox]

Amy. Elf Lunchbox.

[Raymundo]

The Grinch.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

I have elf.

[Lunchbox]

It is Elf. Lunchbox has been eliminated. Two remain. This is the hard one. Well, you look about the kind of angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you? What happened to your wings? I haven't won my wings yet. That's why I'm called an angel second class. I have to earn them. And you'll help me, will you? Sure, sure. How? By letting me help you. I know one way you can help me. You don't happen to have 8,000 bucks on you?

[Amy]

No.

[Lunchbox]

We don't use money in heaven. That comes real handy down here, buddy.

[Raymundo]

See?

[Lunchbox]

This one's hard.

[Eddie]

I'm in.

[Amy]

Is this the one I brought up the other day and now I can't remember? Okay, Man.

[Lunchbox]

Amy.

[Amy]

It's a Wonderful Life.

[Lunchbox]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

It's a wonderful Life.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, Good, good, good. Let's do Right. Do you have the tiebreakers? Yep. Guys, buzz in whenever you know it. Just say your name and we'll stop the acting. Okay?

[Eddie]

Okay, here we go.

[Lunchbox]

It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages. Amy.

[Amy]

Oh, the Grinch that stole Christmas.

[Lunchbox]

We'll give it to you.

[Rob Gronkowski]

There you go.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

All right. Let's act it out here. It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore. And then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little more.

[Raymundo]

There you go. See?

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

Good job on that. Ray jumped in there. Nice. You are a winner of Masterpiece Theater. Now say it, Amy.

[Amy]

Masterpiece Theater.

[Lunchbox]

Do it again.

[Amy]

Masterpiece Theater.

[Lunchbox]

It's very exciting that one of us here on the show got to see a heist in action. And this h. Do you guys know about this yet?

[Eddie]

No.

[Lunchbox]

Amy saw a heist.

[Amy]

I did.

[Lunchbox]

What?

[Amy]

I mean, it was right in front of my eyes, except it was so good that I didn't actually see it happen until they were like. Everyone was perplexed. Like, the sales people were like, wait, this just happened. It's gone. So this guy is in front of us. We're looking at jewelry in a case. My boyfriend and I are there. It's, like, at an antique store. And the guy asked for the case to be opened. So the woman opens the case, and then he says, hey, can you look at that thing way down there? And he's pointing. So she has to bend down and kind of go under a shelf and get it. Well, while she's doing that, the shelf that's, like, at his hip level, which is easy for his arm to get to, he goes, gets a bracelet, and then puts it in his pocket. And she shows him whatever. And he was like, oh, okay, yeah, now I'm good. And then he walks off, leaves. Another salesperson saw him acting suspicious. And, you know, they have those big. Like we have here in the parking garage, those big mirrors, round mirrors that give you different angles. I guess the. The person working there that also saw that he was suspicious. Like, she saw the girl bend down the thing, and she just said she couldn't see exactly what he was doing, but that he was just up to something. And at this particular antique place, like, there's different. There's different owners of each little booth. So they got on the phone with the person that owns that booth and said, hey, on this shelf, what bracelets did you have? And she started describing them. And then there was, like, this empty spot. And they're like, yeah, that's exactly. That's where the bracelet was. He's. He did take it, and he was out of there. He was gone. But she was like, okay, I want you to look at the footage. Let's pull the footage. So they do have cameras. And I don't know if they're going to be able to track down the guy or figure out who he is.

[Lunchbox]

But you saw it all.

[Amy]

It was a heist, right? We were right there.

[Eddie]

How did you see it? Like you saw the.

[Lunchbox]

You didn't see it?

[Amy]

What I'm. You just were saying is we were looking in the same case as the guy and then he asked for it to be open.

[Lunchbox]

You saw him do that?

[Amy]

We saw him do that, yeah. And then my boyfriend, like, dang, he's good. Because we didn't even see him swipe it. Like that's how good he was. Cuz we were looking at like another little section. But it all like the salesperson was right in front of me, bending down.

[Lunchbox]

They caught all them Lou people, right?

[Amy]

Or still on. Yeah, but this guy, he's still on the loose. He's. It's clever, like. But she started describing him, okay. He had this jacket, this beanie. I do think that this must be a method either that has worked for him before or he thought, I'm gonna try this out and see if it works. Because getting her to bend down, I mean that was it. It was brilliant. A little risky for him to do it with us standing right there too. But we were busy, like paying attention to other stuff. Like there was no reason for me to think that he even stole until all the ruckus after.

[Lunchbox]

What would make me think he's done it before is the fact that he was cool, calm and collected when she came back up and he had in his pocket. He just didn't take off running.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Like a rookie does it and then feels weird and just walks out. He gets up because. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna go with that, but thank you, merry Christmas.

[Amy]

And then walked out.

[Lunchbox]

All the loof people have not been caught.

[Amy]

Oh, so they're not. Some of them have. Right?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Authorities have arrested several suspects believed to be a part of the four person commando team and their accomplices, totaling around seven arrests. The fourth direct perpetrator is still at large. And the precious jewels still are gone.

[Amy]

Oh, wow.

[Lunchbox]

So that's success. Success, you think?

[Eddie]

Is it? Say anything about maybe possibly being in Tennessee?

[Lunchbox]

Good point. Let's see if it's the same person. That's a great point. It's time for the good news with Amy. Tell me something good.

[Amy]

So the city of McKinney, Texas recently introduced the grandma stand, which is a booth downtown where three rotating McKinney grandmas offer comfort, conversation and advice during the holiday season.

[Lunchbox]

They just sit up there and talk and chill.

[Amy]

I mean, it's the cutest thing you've ever heard of. Yeah. There are stands in New York, Omaha, Denver, and now McKinney.

[Lunchbox]

There are multiple stands of grandma just hanging out.

[Amy]

Yeah. And there's more locations planned.

[Lunchbox]

I was at the mall and I saw a grandpa of Santa Claus. Santa Claus has grandkids, right? Don't you think at this point? Yeah, yeah, he's a point.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Look great. Yeah, like, look trim, like Santa Claus that I saw.

[Eddie]

Oh, no cookies yet.

[Lunchbox]

I'm telling you, he's been doing some CrossFit stretch lab. I don't know what he's been doing. GLP1, but yeah, maybe so. Santa Claus looked great. That's all. That's all I want to say. Grandpa Santa. But yeah, the grandma stand looks good. It looks like a lemonade stand, kind of.

[Amy]

Yeah. So shout out to Mike Matthews. He started the Grandma stand project in 2012 in New York, and it was all inspired by his grandmother Eileen, and she was involved in the project until she passed away. And so it's something that's spreading and I just think it is so precious.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, it's good. All right. There you go. Good story. That's what it's all about.

[Amy]

That was.

[Lunchbox]

Tell me something good. Wake up, Wake up in the morning. Then you turn the radio on and the dial just keeps on turning. Then you hear Eddie, Emmy, Lunchbox, more Game 2, Scooby, Steve, Red Habits, trying to put you through. Mike D's riding this week's next Bobby's on the mic. So you know what this is? This is the Bobby Bone. And now time for the morning corny. The morning Corny.

[Amy]

What goes oh, oh, oh, what? Santa walking backwards.

[Lunchbox]

That was the Morning Corny Bobby Bone Show.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

Bonehead story of the day.

[Raymundo]

This story comes to us From Annapolis, Maryland. 312 year old girls decided to get in the Christmas spirit and go caroling. Ring a doorbell. Jingle bells, jingle bells. And the guy goes, what makes you think I want you singing? And pulls out a gun. Get out of here.

[Eddie]

No Christmas cheer there.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

I mean, I can understand the. What makes you think I want you singing? Even though that's not really how I live. But pulling out the gun, I don't understand. Some people are just cranky. But the gun, Golly. How old are they?

[Raymundo]

12.

[Lunchbox]

Not a threat.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's terrible.

[Lunchbox]

Take his gun. Okay.

[Raymundo]

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

[Amy]

Bones.

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[Amy]

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[Lunchbox]

This is where mindset comes in.

[Amy]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Bobby Bones]

Pressure is coming down.

[Lunchbox]

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[Raymundo]

Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season 2.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Lunchbox]

U n D A woman in Burtonsville, Maryland, sent her husband out to buy a lottery ticket and he brought the ticket home. Didn't normally play the lottery, but hit $50,000.

[Amy]

Nice.

[Lunchbox]

Did anybody win the big one?

[Raymundo]

It's tonight.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, it wasn't last night? No, man, there's just so many of these I get confused on what night they do this stuff. She told the Maryland Lottery she was having dinner at her home. She felt an urge to buy a Powerball ticket. They didn't normally play the Powerball. It was just an urge. Try to listen to our show. We're talking about it, probably.

[Raymundo]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

We talk about this every time. It gets like a billion. The husband returned home with 20 bucks worth of quick pick tickets, and they hit for $50,000.

[Amy]

That's crazy.

[Lunchbox]

She said, you need to sit down for this one. When she told him the winner said, some of the money will go toward taking a family vacation. It's at 1.25 billion. Oh, my. And the drawing is. Yeah. Wednesday, December 17th. Yeah. Somebody's gonna win, right? Eventually. They may not win this one, but eventually somebody will win. Nah, that would be crazy. To win $50,000 would be crazy.

[Eddie]

It would.

[Lunchbox]

I played for a whole year. I did the math because my New Year's resolution. I sat down last night. I kept track of my tickets. My New Year's resolution was to play scratch offs and win something over 500 bucks. I didn't. I didn't hit a single ticket. I bought over 200 tickets at 50 bucks a piece. And I ended up negative. After I'd won some, like, 50 bucks here, 75 bucks there. I ended up losing, like, 3, 600 on the year.

[Amy]

That's terrible.

[Lunchbox]

Bad resolution.

[Amy]

But you never really had a. You never really had a gut feeling to go buy one. You just made the resolution like, she.

[Lunchbox]

Had a. I bought over 200 tickets, and I still never hit.

[Amy]

I know, but you. You didn't have the urge.

[Lunchbox]

I had a lot of urges. I think. You always have an urge, and then if it wins, you go, oh, I had the urge. It's like people that fell in love at first sight. Do you know how many people in your life that you see you're super attracted to, and if you end up with them, you go, oh, I knew immediately. But there were so many people that you felt, oh, they're hot. And you didn't end up with. So you don't say that because it didn't work out that way.

[Eddie]

I know my wife, though. I knew immediately. Immediately.

[Lunchbox]

You're also 12.

[Amy]

Dated her for, like, 20 years before you didn't know. You weren't even thinking about marriage.

[Eddie]

I wasn't, but she was about to give.

[Lunchbox]

You knew immediately that she was the one that would give you the ultimatum to marry you.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

You guys can call us if you want. 877-77. Bobby, if I say Bill Fagerbachi, that is.

[Amy]

I have no idea, because I would remember that name. Foggerbaki. I don't know. I don't know.

[Lunchbox]

He's the voice of Patrick Starr on spongebob.

[Amy]

Oh, okay.

[Lunchbox]

So he played. He was on Coach back in the day. He played Dawber on Coach.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, I know who that is.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, big blonde dude. And he's been Patrick Starr for 25 years, maybe even 30 years at this point. They have a movie coming out, the new SpongeBob movie, but we interviewed him on our football show, and when you interview somebody that does voice work, you never want to go, hey, do the voice. So you got to kind of warm up and then lure them in. But because I love spongebob, I had asked him because again, he's the voice of Patrick Starr. What is all time favorite joke or line as Patrick Starr is for my character?

[Bill Fagerbachi]

The one that just, like blew my mind when I saw it in the storyboard when I was preparing for the record was the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma. And then in the storyboard, it showed it. It showed the visual of a live action pitcher of milk spilling its contents as Patrick said that, and he goes right into the. The one tooth open mouth drool afterward. That was fantastic.

[Lunchbox]

It was so fun to talk to a cartoon character. And then I said, hey, what's a real memorable moment from working on Spongebob for, again, 25, 30 years?

[Bill Fagerbachi]

Maybe my favorite line of all time is directly tied to the performance of Roger Bumpus, who does Squidward. And that's in the pilot where spongebob, to Squidward's consternation, is applying for a job at the Krusty Krab, which is where Squidward already. Already works. And he's really worried that Mr. Krabs is going to hire him. And then he hears Mr. Krabs not taking Spongebob seriously and sending him on a fool's errand, saying, I want you to go get me a spatula boy with the turbos attachments and blah, blah and all this stuff and. And hydro bubble and. And SpongeBob. Yes, sir. And he takes off and. And then Squidward walks up to Krabs and says, hydro what? Oh, Mr. Krabs, you're horrible. That line blew my mind. And Roger's performance is so perfect.

[Lunchbox]

I thought it was so much fun. We did probably 40 minutes with him, I think, on our football podcast called Lots to say, which is up today. You can check it out. But it was so cool. Interviewing Patrick Starr I've seen so many spongebobs. Not all of them, but so many of them. Because you could watch as an adult and think it's super funny. Yeah, there's a lot of that hidden humor in there.

[Eddie]

So funny.

[Lunchbox]

You never watched spongebob?

[Amy]

No, I watched it. Yeah. When I would babysit, too. Cause to your point, it's something the kids would enjoy. And then I remember I also enjoyed it, but I haven't dabbled in a long time.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, man, it is awesome. Hit me with voicemail 3. Ray.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

My husband had a hernia, and it had fallen down into his testicle, and it was very sensitive. He had to go and have surgery to get the hernia fit, but they had to pull all the hernia stuff out of his testicle. I just thought I would share. Happy holidays.

[Lunchbox]

Happy holidays. Lunchbox. Yeah, man.

[Eddie]

Merry Christmas.

[Lunchbox]

Merry Christmas.

[Raymundo]

Yeah, I don't. I guess maybe I'm confused. What falls down? What is they. What do they mean? Something falls down.

[Eddie]

So whatever is torn, the whatever's in it falls down.

[Lunchbox]

There. It's going down.

[Eddie]

Down to your.

[Lunchbox]

Let me go to Kelly, who's a nurse, by the way, if you're a new listener. Lunchbox has pain in his stomach. It is now in his left swollen testicle.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

And he tried to get into. Not an oncologist. Urologist. Yeah. What?

[Raymundo]

Urology? Yeah, urology.

[Lunchbox]

They said January 12th, I think.

[Raymundo]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

We're like, dude, go. Go to, like, the Quick Minute clinic or urgent care, any of that stuff. Kelly, you're on.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

Hi, Bobby. Good morning, studio.

[Raymundo]

Morning.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

Listen, I'm a nurse, and this was an emergent situation days ago. Here's what's concerning. You have a swollen casticald. It's not typical if you have epididymitis or some sort of infection or whatever is causing your testicle to swell like this, it may have been treatable. The longer you wait, the less likelihood that it can be treated and you lose a testicle, which, again, isn't the.

[Lunchbox]

End of the world.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

People live with one testicle all the time. But what I'm telling you is the longer you wait, the more you put yourself at risk for what your options are to fix it. In addition, if it's an infection of some kind, it can become systemic and you could become septic, like it's serious. This is a serious situation. That does absolutely warrant a visit to the emergency room. The emergency room is for emergent situations. This lunchbox is an urgent situation.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you, Kelly. We agree. We've been telling him that he does not want to listen. He didn't even want to tell the doctor that one of his testicles was bigger than the other. He's like, if I'm being totally honest, one's a lot bigger. We're like, no, you have to be honest. Yeah. So I'm Kelly. Thank you for calling and having concern.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

You're welcome. Have a great day.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you.

[Raymundo]

Oh, man.

[Eddie]

Is that what you want? You want to lose a testicle?

[Lunchbox]

People have died of sepsis. President Garfield died of sepsis. He got shot. Really? And they couldn't find the bullet. And it ended up not being the bullet that killed him. It was the sepsis that killed him.

[Eddie]

Now, I don't know what that is. I don't know what septis is.

[Raymundo]

It's like an infection that gets in your blood.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, good job, dude.

[Rob Gronkowski]

Thank you.

[Lunchbox]

But you may. So you. Since you know that, you need to go.

[Raymundo]

I know.

[Amy]

This is all he talked about at the Christmas party last night.

[Lunchbox]

I want to talk about the next segment because I didn't go. And everybody. I was told that Mike and I were the only two that didn't go to the party. And I said, completely tracks. Makes sense with just all of our personalities. So I do want to talk about the Christmas party that you guys went to last night.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I mean, it was like, you know, we're trying to eat, and he's talking.

[Raymundo]

Everybody asked me about it. Sorry. Topic. Conversation.

[Eddie]

He even wanted to toast about it.

[Lunchbox]

He did? Okay, we'll talk about it in a second. How many ways can you say merry Christmas? Similar. Ish. What else could you say?

[Amy]

Happy holidays.

[Lunchbox]

One. Go ahead.

[Amy]

Feliz navidad.

[Lunchbox]

Ah. From Mexico. Okay, good.

[Eddie]

Love it.

[Lunchbox]

It's not really a language thing, but I do like that. And that kind of counts. Unless you say it. It's kind of weird. If you're walking around with you going, feliz navidad. You're like, why is the white girl yelling Spanish? If you're singing it, it's different because that song gets stuck in your head. I'll accept it. Go ahead.

[Amy]

Okay. Happy Christmas.

[Lunchbox]

No, that doesn't make the list.

[Amy]

To you and yours.

[Lunchbox]

No, that's cool.

[Amy]

Merry and bright.

[Lunchbox]

No, now you're just doing lyrics from Christmas songs.

[Amy]

Oh, joyful holiday season. Joy to the world.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. No. Amazing grace.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Have a holly, jolly Christmas.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, so take a breath. Take a breath.

[Amy]

Yeah. I have no idea. I don't know. This is.

[Lunchbox]

So you have happy holidays and you have Feliz Navidad.

[Amy]

Not this. Because to Me, this is for the devil, but. Merry Xmas.

[Lunchbox]

But X is the sign of Christ. That's literally what that means.

[Amy]

I was being sarcastic.

[Lunchbox]

I don't think people knows that.

[Amy]

They don't know that.

[Lunchbox]

I don't think people know that. Yeah, sorry. Peoples don't knows that.

[Amy]

All right. For people that don't knows that, I was being sarcastic because when I was little, I was so terrified to shorten it to Xmas because same, I thought.

[Lunchbox]

I go to hell.

[Amy]

Pretty sure my pastor did an entire sermon on it.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. And people be like, do not allow X. But X is literally the sign of Christ.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And you know, just because how I was, I would put Christ in all caps and then do mas lowercase.

[Lunchbox]

You show them in case they're wondering about you.

[Amy]

Just in case.

[Lunchbox]

Hey, Peter. She's good. She did all caps. Yeah, she's. You have any other ones here?

[Amy]

Let's see. Happy holidays.

[Lunchbox]

I really don't, by the way. For those that want to fact check me. For those that want to go, X means whatever. The X in Xmas is a Christian symbol representing the first letter chi, or X, the Greek word for Christ, which is. I can't pronounce it. Exumbika. Something like that.

[Eddie]

Pretty close.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. So it's a root of Christ.

[Raymundo]

But.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. I was also told growing up, don't do Xmas because that means you're taking Christ out of Christmas. But that's not what it is.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, Eddie, anything else?

[Eddie]

Seasons greetings.

[Lunchbox]

Yes. That's number two.

[Amy]

Oh, good one.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But that's all I got.

[Amy]

Seasons greetings.

[Eddie]

Like, that's tough. Seasons agreeing.

[Bobby Bones]

There are more.

[Lunchbox]

Do you know how I start every email?

[Eddie]

Greetings.

[Lunchbox]

Greetings. Every email you do? Every single one of them.

[Amy]

But, like, since when?

[Lunchbox]

Probably three or four years. I like to have consistency in the formula with how I do things. And so I can be told that I seem short on emails without a lot of fluff. And so I always. Greetings. And it's very. It's distinct. It's formal. It feels retro. More than formal.

[Eddie]

Like you're riding. You're riding it in a suit.

[Lunchbox]

In the 50s. In the 50s is what it feels like. Yeah. Anything else? There are two. Wait, one, Two. There's only really two more on the list. The other ones I don't really consider real. Okay. You have. Merry Christmas, Felicia Navidad, Happy Holidays, season's greetings, Joyful tidings.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's old school.

[Amy]

Oh, Yuletide.

[Lunchbox]

You're just saying a word.

[Eddie]

Yuletide. Carols.

[Lunchbox]

Warmest wishes. I don't feel like that counts as Merry Christmas. Nah, I could send warm wishes at any part of the year.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Then they also have stupid ones like May your days be merry and bright. You're just picking words from a Christmas song at that point.

[Eddie]

That's definitely a song.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I don't know if you guys thought.

[Amy]

No, I just keep it traditional. Merry Christmas. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Or that.

[Lunchbox]

All right. A voicemail from another female named Darren. We had this whole talk we'd never met a female named Darren.

[Kelly (Nurse Caller)]

This is the female Darren. I am not. Not sure where to even start. I'm in shock that my 14 year old daughter left that voicemail. I have had the boy's name Darren my whole life. So I'm 42 and never have met another female Darren. So just wanted to call and follow up.

[Amy]

Bye.

[Lunchbox]

I feel like a Darren should have a mustache. A girl Darren, just any Darren. I feel like that's the most mustache name. That and Frank. Darren and Frank. You almost gotta have a mustache with those names. So that's the only female Darren, I guess. Thank you for the call. Appreciate that. All right, let's go. Next one.

[Raymundo]

I agree with Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

You know why so many teachers have second jobs?

[Raymundo]

Because they have so much time off to have a second job. You prorate their salary to a full year. Just imagine how big that salary would be.

[Lunchbox]

Go Lunchbox. He's now so loud about this, people are joining up with him. If you just have an opinion, it can be the dumbest opinion ever. There are still people that will be on your side. This is how the Internet works. You just yell it loud enough, long enough, and people will go, you know what? Guys got a point. So. All right. Anything you want to say?

[Raymundo]

I mean, he didn't make a valid point. I didn't even think about it. For as little as they work, they make a lot of money. Everybody say, oh, they don't get paid enough.

[Lunchbox]

Whoa.

[Raymundo]

Making quite a bit of cash for six months of work.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. You know, you know, it's more than six months. More than six months.

[Amy]

Like now. You're minimizing how many months?

[Lunchbox]

Also, it's. I think it's even more than it used to be.

[Amy]

I think it's like nine months.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Or more.

[Lunchbox]

We respect our teachers. We love our teachers. We wish they got paid more. Especially if you want our students to be smarter and live productive lives. Lead us into the next generation. You don't want idiots raising idiots.

[Amy]

Yeah. We need quality.

[Lunchbox]

Yes, that's correct. Okay. Thank you. We're done. We will see you tomorrow. Bye everybody. Bobby Von 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.

[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Amy]

10 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.

[Lunchbox]

This is where mindset comes in.

[Amy]

Someone will be eliminated.

[Bobby Bones]

Pressure is coming down.

[Lunchbox]

Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th.

[Raymundo]

Watch the trailer on trainergames.com Season 2.

[Bobby Bones]

Of Unrivaled Basketball is here and the talent is unreal. The best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments and bigger stakes. Don't miss as Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Briana Stewart and more take the court and redefine the game. This isn't your regular season. This is unrivaled where the pace is faster, the energy is higher, and every athlete shines unrivaled. Basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO. Max, this is an iHeart podcast.

[Amy]

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