WEDS PT 1: Why Is Our Show Falling Apart?! + Musician Ad Lib Game + Bobby Reveals Our BBS Christmas Gift Theme

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show — WEDS PT 1 (Dec 3, 2025)

Episode Theme:
This Wednesday, Bobby Bones and his team dive into the chaos of their "falling apart" show, tackle holiday office etiquette and gifts, test their music knowledge with an ad-lib game, and share personal and quirky health struggles. Along the way, they explore viral news stories, debate ethical issues, and keep the laughs — and dark corny jokes — rolling.

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1. Should You Buy Holiday Gifts for Coworkers?

[02:49–06:39]

• Discussion Starter: Bobby asks, “Should you get your coworkers a holiday gift?”
• Amy: “Yeah. I actually just got Morgan and Abby’s two days ago and I already have it wrapped up.” [03:01]
• Debates what constitutes a “thoughtful” gift, with Amy arguing homemade gifts matter more.
• Bobby shares that, according to office etiquette experts: “Do not get your coworkers gifts… times are tough… no need to shell out hard earned cash on people in similar positions.” [03:45]
• Solution:
  • This year, the show is partnering with giftcards.com for a random envelope gift card draw (ranging from $5 to $1,000).
  • Bobby: “This is just my way of eliminating us having to do little knickknacks... We'll all draw an envelope.” [04:52]
• Amy rebels: “I’m still bringing my gifts in the building.” [06:25]
• Debate about whether private gifting hurts office morale.
• Bobby relates feeling “frazzled” after Thanksgiving, comparing it to the week after daylight savings.

Notable Quote:
“A homemade gift is more thoughtful because it’s time.” — Amy [03:26]
“If you want to get a gift for anybody else, do it out of the building.” — Bobby [05:41]

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2. Listener Dilemma: Unpaid Loan & “Charity”

[08:23–12:59]

• Listener Letter: Someone loaned money to a friend who hasn’t paid it back, but flaunts charitable donations on Facebook.
• Bobby’s advice:
  • If you need the money now: “Just a text. Hey man, gotta do some Christmas shopping, any chance I could get at least some of that back pretty soon?” [09:13]
  • If not urgent: “Wait till after the holidays. You can’t bring up that you saw them donating to charity.” [09:38]
• Amy adds: “When you loan money out, you should loan it… and release that expectation depending on your situation.” [10:59]
• Bobby distinguishes family vs. friends in loan expectations:
  • “If it’s family, I realize I’m… probably not getting it back. If it’s a friend… I want my money back.” [11:21]
• Reflection on setting expectations when lending.

Notable Quote:
“Family, you may not get it back. Friends, you get your money back because they won’t be your friends anymore. You can’t not have family anymore. You can’t remove the blood.” — Bobby [12:41]

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3. Viral News & Ethics

[12:59–16:47]

• Fantasy Football ‘Kidnapping’ Prank:
  • UC Berkeley students staged a mock kidnapping as a prank; police investigated a real abduction.
  • Bobby: “That’s like traumatizing for your whole life.” [13:01]
  • Group debates whether the student could develop trauma even after learning it was a joke (“I think trauma happens in a lot of ways.” — Bobby [14:43])
• TV “Special Forces” Show & Trauma:
  • Bobby explains why he declined to appear on the military reality show — not just for the torture aspect, but for fear of long-term trauma.
  • Comparison with "Dancing with the Stars," noting everyone gets the same pay, unlike “Special Forces.”

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4. Odd News & Culture

[17:57–19:19]

• Nude Cruises Culture Shock:
  • Bobby reads about the rise in popularity of nude cruises, clarifying: “Our cruise next year, not nude.”
  • Reveals the only rule on such cruises relates to men’s behavior (jokingly alludes without explicit details).
  • Team jokes about societal expectations and who actually attends nude cruises.
  • “Never seen a nudist and thought, ‘I’m glad they got naked.’” — Bobby [19:10]

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5. Tell Me Something Good

[22:14–23:19 & 47:57–49:11]

• Free Food Vending Machine:
  • Bobby shares the story of a vending machine in a Bronx Boys and Girls Club offering free produce, eggs, and other groceries for families in need.
  • “As soon as it goes up, people are there ready to accept the food. That is what it's all about.” [23:08]
• Knitting Bus Driver:
  • Amy spotlights Tina Hutcherson, an Oklahoma City bus driver crocheting winter hats (“beanies”) for her students, with over 25 hand-made.
  • Students respond with homemade thank you cards and their excitement at choosing their own colors.

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6. Musician Ad Lib Game

[23:20–30:18]

• Bobby hosts a rapid-fire game where the team must identify artists based on ad-libs instead of lyrics.
• Playful competitiveness, some nostalgia, and lots of laughs.
• Standouts include:
  • Michael Jackson’s “oww!” [23:27] — Example
  • Lil Jon, Eminem, Will Smith, James Brown, Katy Perry, Whitney Houston, T-Pain, DMX, Cardi B, Pitbull
• “You know John, yeah, yeah.” — Lunchbox [25:04]
• Bobby wins, nailing obscure ones by ear: “I didn’t know, you had me at ‘woo’.” [30:18]

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7. Quirky Health Struggles: Why Is Our Show Falling Apart?!

[39:52–47:38]

• Each core member is facing health woes:
  • Bobby: Still limping post ankle surgery.
  • Lunchbox: Undiagnosed sharp pain by his belly button, after visits to five doctors (an MRI left his arms numb).
    • “The fact that they said, ‘I could send you to physical therapy, but I wouldn't know what to tell them to work on’… I'm here right now with this pain, and all you're telling me is, ‘I don't know.’” [42:14]
    • Jokes about Munchausen syndrome, but Lunchbox insists, “I don't have munch houses.” [43:22]
  • Scuba Steve: 20 pounds lost, conflicting diagnoses (possible hernia vs. tumor), can’t lift kids, awaiting specialist.
    • “I’ve got a lot of conflicting reports, so hopefully… they'll tell me what really is wrong so I can get it, get in surgery and figure it out and move forward.” [44:56]
• Team good-naturedly roasts each other, but the reality: “Our room is basically a disaster.” — Bobby [39:52]

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8. Debating Justice: Anklet Monitors Before Trial

[30:18–36:35]

• Discussion on the case of Lindsay Shiver, a Georgia woman accused of plotting to kill her husband and forced to wear an ankle monitor (pre-trial) in the Bahamas:
  • She requests removal for comfort, embarrassment, mobility.
  • Amy: “If I’m the judge in this case, she needs to keep the ankle monitor on.” [32:45]
  • Bobby notes the justice dilemma between reasonable precautions and presumption of innocence.
  • Debate whether technology should allow waterproof anklets.

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9. Show Segments & Humor

Morning Corny

[49:55–50:08]

• Amy: “Did you hear about the fire in the shoe factory? Many souls were lost.” [50:02]
• Bobby: “I think you found my niche — dark corny jokes.” [50:15]

Bonehead Story of the Day

[50:24–51:46]

• Lunchbox tells the tale of a bored Iowan man flashing his “ding dong” by the roadside for excitement.
• Jokes about what exactly was flashed and the importance of the man’s Chevy Impala.

Listener Voicemail

[51:46–52:37]

• Request for a Christmas morning dance party.
• Bobby: “Nobody listens on Christmas. I think if I did a dance party and you guys were in the room, we recorded it ahead of time, more people would be listening in this room than would be out listening that morning.” [51:58]

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10. Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “You are such a rebel. You fight the system, man.” — Bobby to Amy on giving gifts [06:30]
• “Berkeley Scanner with that story.” — Bobby, about the prank (deadpan) [14:53]
• “I think trauma happens in a lot of ways. I think for a while, if you think it's real, that's ingrained in you even if you're let up.” — Bobby [14:43]
• “Man, that's a weird flash.” — Bobby [50:50]

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11. Segment Timestamps

• Co-worker Gift Debate: 02:49–06:39
• Loan/Charity Dilemma: 08:23–12:59
• Viral News & Trauma: 12:59–16:47
• Nude Cruises: 17:57–19:19
• Good News Segment #1: 22:14–23:19
• Musician Ad Lib Game: 23:20–30:18
• Anklet Monitor Debate: 30:18–36:35
• Falling Apart Health Updates: 39:52–47:38
• Good News Segment #2: 47:57–49:11
• Morning Corny: 49:55–50:08
• Bonehead Story: 50:24–51:46
• Listener Voicemail (Dance Party): 51:46–52:37

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Conclusion

This episode balances lighthearted games, earnest debate on proper office gifting, and the team's medical mishaps — all delivered in Bobby's easy-going, comedic style. Whether you need advice, a laugh, or just want to hear a group of radio hosts commiserate over their ailments, this show’s got something for you.

Transcript

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

What's up everybody? Welcome to Wednesday show morning studio Morning. Should you get your co workers a holiday gift?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Why would you think that?

[Amy]

Because we typically always do and that's a bit. No, no, I get little things for everybody. I actually just got Morgan and Abby's two days ago and I already have it wrapped up.

[Bobby Bones]

You're very thoughtful.

Could it be on the thoughtful scale though that you're number one?

[Amy]

No. Morgan does homemade gifts. Like she makes those yummy little treats. I feel like that's a gift.

[Bobby Bones]

Or is that.

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Amy]

No, it's a gift and it's. I feel like that's more thoughtful because it's time.

[Bobby Bones]

What about a gift for somebody like me who can never eat it because they're. They're lactose intolerant?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. When she.

[Bobby Bones]

Then I watch everybody have Christmas in the window and I'm driving by. Oh, I wish I had that Christmas.

[Hank]

That's not good.

[Amy]

I mean that's very specific. So like, I just think in general a homemade gift is more thoughtful.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, the answer is office etiquette experts say the answer is no. Do not get your co workers gifts for a few reasons. Number one, times are tough. And since you all do a similar job, there's no need to shell out hard earned cash on people in similar positions as you. So guys, since we're all similar, we'll all be.

[Hank]

Oh yeah, we're all very similar.

[Amy]

But on that note, like, I don't have any expectation for anybody to return a gift like.

[Hank]

We rarely do.

[Bobby Bones]

Beyond that, you could make people feel bad in the office if you get them something. And there wasn't ever a concrete conversation of we're going to get gifts for each other. They do say a small five to ten dollar gift card would be great at some somewhere that's very easy, like a Starbucks. We're gonna do a whole our thing this year just so everybody knows Scuba. Am I good to talk about this? Yeah, you're good to go. Yeah, we're gonna do. We've partnered with giftcards.com and there's gonna be. What's the highest amount?

[Scuba Steve]

I believe it's. I gotta check. Give me one second.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, you can guess. You know, don't.

[Scuba Steve]

It's definitely a thousand or over.

[Lunchbox]

Oh my God, here we go again.

[Bobby Bones]

So there will be a bunch of envelopes.

[Hank]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

And this is just my way of eliminating us having to do Little knickknacks. And then me not being able to eat Morgan's food. And so we'll all draw an envelope, and because I'm involved, even though I don't know where they are, I'll go very last. You guys will all pick. I'll take the one that's left over, and then we open them, and then that's what your gift is. Oh, that's amazing.

[Lunchbox]

Goodness.

[Amy]

And then what?

[Bobby Bones]

Well, then you get to go use it.

[Hank]

That's.

[Amy]

Oh, I thought we. Last time we did this, we opened it and got a certain amount, and we had to go shop for other people on the show.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I liked it. Oh, man.

[Bobby Bones]

This is. It's yours.

[Amy]

It's just yours.

[Hank]

So it's all kinds of gift cards.

[Bobby Bones]

So giftcards.com has, like, a ton of places that you can use it from. Yeah. And so that's what it's going to be. There'll be, like, a low one of, like, $5. You could draw that one.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Or you could draw the thousand dollars. So that'll be what we do here. But that eliminates anybody from getting gifts from any for anybody else. If you want to get a gift for anybody else, do it out of the building.

[Amy]

Out of the building?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Like, in the garage?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

No way, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you. Are you Michelle Tanner? Hey. No way, dude.

[Amy]

No, no, keep it like we have in the past.

[Bobby Bones]

Meet me in the alley behind the Waffle House, midnight.

[Amy]

Like, just bring the little bag, Set it at the person's desk. It's not.

[Bobby Bones]

But then people who did gifts are gonna feel bad. You're gonna make us feel bad.

[Amy]

Nobody's. No, I've. I've been doing this. No one's. It's never been a thing.

[Bobby Bones]

I always feel bad.

[Lunchbox]

I feel bad because Morgan last year brought certain people things and didn't bring Everybody things.

[Scuba Steve]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

Mindtools.com has had that story there. Okay, so everybody good on that?

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm good. I'm still bringing my gifts in the building.

[Bobby Bones]

You're such a rebel.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, that's what people don't know about you.

[Bobby Bones]

You are such a rebel. You fight the system, man.

[Amy]

Yeah, because I'm not gonna be like, hey, can you meet me by your car at.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, that actually wouldn't be that hard, because it'd be like, hey, when.

[Amy]

You walk out, we all park in different levels. No way.

[Bobby Bones]

Half of Americans say they feel frazzled the week after Thanksgiving. I would compare the week after Thanksgiving to basically the week after daylight savings time. Because it's just a little off. Not because the time has changed, but because you realize that's the first holiday of really kind of forgetting what day it's going to be for the next month or so. You got a couple weeks in between this and like when Christmas starts to happen.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

But.

[Bobby Bones]

But even then, yeah, you kind of checked out, right?

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I feel like this is a glorious time.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. This is like you just got one foot. One foot in.

[Amy]

I think you're more frazzled if, like, you're the sole one responsible for gifts in your family or you're hosting and you have to get a bunch of stuff ready like that, or you're behind. Like, that's when you can feel really frazzled. But I say just, even if you have all those responsibilities, just be in the moment, soak this time up.

[Bobby Bones]

You know what? I'm going to accept that as your gift this year. You giving me great advice. Thank you. Thank you for that gift.

[Amy]

Well, you are definitely not in charge.

[Bobby Bones]

Of what?

[Amy]

Of like cooking, hosting, shopping.

[Lunchbox]

I.

[Bobby Bones]

Cooking?

[Hank]

No, shopping.

[Bobby Bones]

Hosting, possibly.

[Amy]

Well, gift giving is your love language. So cooking or shopping doesn't stress you out cuz you like to gift give?

[Bobby Bones]

They don't like shopping, but I like identifying, purchasing and giving. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't like shopping. So. Yeah. Anyway, if you're all frazzled, hey, we feel you. Most of America is. That's from PR News.

Hello, Bobby Bones. A few months ago, one of my friends asked if they could borrow some money. Not a huge amount, but enough that mattered to me. They said they'd pay me back in a few weeks. Fast forward to now. They haven't mentioned it once. No timelines, no payments, not even a hey, I haven't forgotten, but. And what makes it even more awkward is a song post on Facebook about donating money to a holiday charity drive. They're out here giving away money publicly, but I'm still waiting on the money they owe me. I don't want to seem petty or like I'm counting their pockets, but I feel taken advantage of. Do I call them out directly? Send them a casual reminder, Drop hints, or. Or do I just let it go and chalk it up to an expensive lesson? Signed, frustrated friend.

Man judging somebody on donating to charity. That's a new one. That's a new wrinkle in this type of situation.

[Amy]

Judging or just curious, like, hey, yeah, judging me.

[Hank]

How about the one giving the money though? Acting like it's theirs, like they borrow money and then they're just, hey, little.

[Bobby Bones]

Charity, But I don't think it's a. I don't think they borrowed for the charities. I feel like they borrowed a while ago. Okay, so this is the way to handle this. First of all, if you need it for Christmas, if it's an actual need for Christmas, it's a conversation you can have now. Just a text. It's a friendly text. It's nothing to make them defensive. Like, hey, man, gotta do some Christmas shopping. I know I loaned you that money. Any chance I could get at least some of that back pretty soon? A little tight around here. You can do something like that. That's easy. If it's not super needed before Christmas, wait till after the holidays. You can't bring up. You saw them donating to charity, and that made you want your money. That's not. That's not to bring it up. So there are two way. If you can wait till after Christmas. We're at the point now where things that are getting done are just the things that need to get done. Because it's. Everybody's kind of like, well, we'll get to it after Christmas. If you can let it go. Let it go till after Christmas. And then that's the same kind of conversation. Hey, man, hope you're good. Happy New Year. Just checking on. Just checking up. Going through some of my notes. Still owe me 80 bucks.

[Amy]

Some of my notes.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what I say all the time. Because I keep everything in a note.

[Hank]

You write it down.

[Bobby Bones]

Going through my notes, that's something you get to at the first of the year, unless you need it now. And I would send the text message, like, now, but I understand why you would see that, and that would make you a bit irritable. But they're giving to somebody, somebody that needs it more.

[Hank]

Charity.

[Bobby Bones]

They kind of are. Robin Hood.

[Hank]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

They stole from the rich to give to the poor.

[Amy]

I think this also, too, could end up being an expensive lesson. Lesson of, you know, when you loan money out, you should loan it.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like, though, because he said it's not a huge amount. I think that's just a moderate lesson.

[Hank]

You thought 80 bucks.

[Bobby Bones]

That's where my mind went. 80 bucks said not a huge amount.

[Amy]

Okay, well, I just think that in general, if you have the money to loan out, you loan out, and then, yeah, sure, they may pay you back and you release that expectation, depending on your situation.

[Bobby Bones]

Can I. Can I. I just want to challenge that a little bit with family. That's it. With friends. I want my money back.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

If I. If it's family. I realize I'm. You know what? I'm loaning this, but I probably ain't getting it back. And if I do great, it's kind of a gift with the possibility of. If it's a friend. If Eddie's like, dude, I need 80 bucks. I want my money back.

I expect my money back from my friends. I don't. I want it back for my family.

[Amy]

Is there a level of friendship where you would just release that expectation?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I guess.

[Amy]

Let's say it's not 80 bucks for 80 bucks. No, let's say it's not 80 bucks. Let's say Eddie comes to me like, dude, I need. I need. I need. I need $5,000. I need it fast.

[Hank]

Okay.

[Better Picks Advertiser]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

Fast?

[Amy]

Family, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

What's up?

[Hank]

Hey, man, I can't get into that right now.

[Amy]

Right?

He needs it, and he needs it now. Like, I would think you would like to get that back. Obviously. I do think, though, I know you, and you would loan it with and release the expectation.

[Bobby Bones]

I think I'm in a different place, though, than most people when it comes to.

[Amy]

Yes, that's what I'm saying. I know you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But I'm saying I still would want it back out of principal, so it's like, I wouldn't have any problem being like, dude, everything okay? I loaned you that money. I don't need it all back now. But what do you want to do, like, 100 bucks a week? I see you over on DraftKings.

[Hank]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

What if I'm like, yeah, bet money on DraftKings. And I'm like. Because he would be.

[Hank]

No, that's drafting. What if I was like, dude, I gave it to St. Jude, man. We good, right?

[Lunchbox]

Charity.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, we are not good. And I need it back a little by little. Family, you may not get it back. Friends, you get your money back because they won't be your friends anymore. You can't not have family anymore. You can't remove the blood.

[Amy]

Yeah. I just know sometimes people are in situations where they loan friends money.

[Bobby Bones]

Extension. Extension.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Good luck, bud. But don't. If you can wait till after the first. Cuz now they're. They're charitable. They're given during the given season. All right, there you go. Close it up. Imagine you're walking down the street. Is like a TV show. A van pulls up, like, you know, non descript opens up, people jump out in masks, throw you in the van. That. That's like traumatizing for your whole life. And this is what happened. It Happened at UC Berkeley last month. They pull up, they grab them, throw them in the van. Cops, People around him thought it was a kidnapping. It was a fantasy football prank.

[Amy]

Oh, my.

[Hank]

Yeah, you can't do that.

I can't do that, man.

[Amy]

Crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

A group of people described a UC Berkeley student and threw him into the van. Did it as part of a prank related to their fantasy football league. The student is safe. He walked. He walked into the police department to clear up confusion. They thought he was still kidnapped. On Tuesday night, a witness saw a group of people described as 8 to 10 males carry another person and throw them in a cargo van. The witness reported the incident to police. Obviously, you see a van pull up and you grab.

[Hank]

You have to.

[Bobby Bones]

You have to immediately call the police.

[Amy]

Crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

And also, it was at 2:10am.

[Lunchbox]

They.

[Bobby Bones]

Said it was a kidnapping and an aggravated assault because that's what they saw.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

In an update Wednesday afternoon, the UCPD said the witness had not heard any sounds of distress, heard other noises. The student contacted the police that was abducted and went in and was like, no, it's fancy football.

[Hank]

We do it every year.

[Bobby Bones]

So.

[Hank]

So is it still traumatic once you find out it's just your buddies?

[Bobby Bones]

I think. I don't know.

[Hank]

Or is this just a funny joke?

[Bobby Bones]

I think trauma happens in a lot of ways. I think for a while. If you think it's real, that kind of. That's ingrained in you, even if you're let up.

[Hank]

Oh, man, that's. That's crazy, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Berkeley Scanner with that story. You know, there's that show Special Forces. That happens. You guys seen that? Like, Shawn Johnson won it this year.

[Amy]

Oh, the celebrity.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, you win that show?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You last. And two people lasted.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know who the goudice person was.

[Amy]

Oh, Therese Goodyce.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Her daughter, I don't know. But Shawn Johnson, east, because she's married now. She was the Olympian. She won. She lasted the whole time with the other person who wasn't familiar.

[Amy]

But like Real Housewives New Jersey, there.

[Bobby Bones]

Was a ton of professional athletes that did not make it. Sean Johnson, east husband Randall Cobb played for the Packers. Eric Decker, I think he got hurt. And so they didn't make it. And they, like, do torture stuff. I get. Anyway, I got invited to that show, like season two. I was like, this is to do it. Yeah. To be on it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm like, this is not something I want to do. Like to just to go and be tortured because I think I would come out of that. And my point is, I think I would have, like, trauma.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

From that.

[Hank]

What's the prize on that one?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think. I think you just.

[Hank]

No, no, no.

[Lunchbox]

You have to get money, right?

[Hank]

You have to.

[Bobby Bones]

I think you get paid to do the show. And then there's pride if you last. There's no prize money or cash winning. Special Forces world's toughest test. The winners get bragging rights. The show explicitly states there's no prize and no special treatment. And winners like Shawn Johnson east and Gia Guda.

[Amy]

Goudice.

[Bobby Bones]

Gia.

[Amy]

Yes. It's Teresa's daughter. Daughter Teresa was on Real Housewives New Jersey. And then her daughter was on Next Gen nyc and it was a bunch of the kids.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, she's definitely young. She's 24. Yeah.

[Amy]

Like kids of reality TV. People have a own. Their own reality show.

[Bobby Bones]

She survived. She's small.

[Hank]

Wow. That.

[Bobby Bones]

The Gia one is really surprised.

[Amy]

It's like Giudice or Goudice.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

The Shawn Johnson east isn't so surprising. She was an Olympic athlete, so obviously physically, mentally. But she did that at 16. But what's crazy is that the NFL players didn't last, which just shows you it's not just about how much you can lift.

[iHeartMedia Announcer]

Okay.

[Amy]

Did you say this part? They get an appearance fee?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, well, yeah, I said they paid to do it.

[Amy]

But it ranges depending on their fame. Someone might get 100,000 and it can go up to 500,000.

[Bobby Bones]

The thing about Dancing with the Stars is you. Everybody gets the exact same amount. Yeah, it doesn't matter. You. I think we got like 125 just to show up and do it for two weeks because nobody gets kicked off. And then you make money as the weeks go. But yeah, Dancing with the Stars different. Because now that's like a cool thing again. That thing has gone through the cycles, huh? Like after this last season, massive. But I think even from that, even though I know it's a TV show, I think I might have some trauma built in. Because they're, like burying you. They're doing hours and hours of, like, making you listen to things with the headphones, like torture type stuff. For that show.

That was one I didn't want to do.

[Hank]

That's smart.

[Bobby Bones]

The timing was wrong too, when they asked me to do it. But that was one I didn't want to do because I just didn't feel like there was nothing fun about that. And I knew I would win because I would just torch. I wouldn't give up Like I would die.

[Hank]

Yeah, you're stubborn.

[Amy]

You should do it now.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't. And I'm about to have a baby.

[Lunchbox]

He's got a bad ankle and his. Yes. Foot.

[Amy]

All the more reasons.

[Bobby Bones]

Nude cruises are getting more popular. Which, by the way, our cruise next year. Not nude.

[Hank]

Okay, good.

[Lunchbox]

I'm glad.

[Hank]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Bobby Bones]

A cruise. By the way. Anybody that wants to go nude, we don't want to go nude.

[Hank]

Right?

[Bobby Bones]

For the most part. If you've ever seen, like, nude beaches or nudists, never really people you're like, sure would like to see them naked. Cruise company called Bare Necessities revealed that the only rule that applies on nude cruises is to men. What do you. What do you think that is? I can't really say. So that's what. You know, it is.

[Better Picks Advertiser]

I'll do this.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm just gonna do a sound effect, but don't make any. Don't make any reaction to it, okay?

[Hank]

That's a rule.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, Amy, how do you know.

I can't take.

[Amy]

I can't take a.

[Hank]

No, you just can't happen.

[Bobby Bones]

You can't.

[Amy]

That's why I think you like.

[Bobby Bones]

Man.

[Better Picks Advertiser]

What do you.

[Hank]

Do you have to go to the bathroom?

[Lunchbox]

I don't get it.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm doing my finger over here.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I don't get it.

[Amy]

I get it now.

[Bobby Bones]

Ours will not be a new cruise.

[Amy]

How can y' all control it?

[Hank]

You know what? Probably, though, with the people that are on the boat. You're good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I think I've never seen a nudist. And I'm like, I'm sure. I'm glad they got naked.

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[Bobby Bones]

Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Planning a trip. Always sounds fun until you actually sit down to do it. Because suddenly everybody's got demands. You've got one friend who wants to be right in the middle of the action, then another who only cares if place has a gym. Because vacations are basically just leg day and someone else who wants total peace and quiet as if they're on a meditation retreat. That's exactly why you should use booking.com. because no matter how picky or particular the group gets, booking.com has a stay that works for everybody. Hotels, vacation rentals, big places, small places close to the beach, close to the mountains, close to nothing at all all across the U.S. booking.com really does make it easy to plan a trip. So instead of stressing, just scroll through until you find your perfect stay that checks everybody's boxes. It's there and booking.com has it. Find exactly what you're booking for. Booking.com booking yeah, that's booking.com booking yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Amy]

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[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

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[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

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[Bobby Bones]

It's time for the good news with Bobby.

[Lunchbox]

Tell me something good.

[Bobby Bones]

There' vending machine filled with groceries and it's now available for free at this boys and girls club in the Bronx. Change Food for Good was installed last month and what it's meant to do is increase access to food and also access to healthy food. The founder's name is Samia says that the response has been overwhelming. So much so that they're trying to do multiple machines. And that does take donors. And there's a QR code, and you. You can request, but it's like produce, eggs, and other items that volunteers pack. And because it's needed, the stuff doesn't spoil because pretty much as soon as it goes up. And this is something that's sad, but also awesome. As soon as it goes up, people are there ready to accept the food change for Good buys Food in bulk. They accept cash donations. But these machines are popping up in more and more places. So big shout out to Samia for having the idea for following through on all the donors. That story is from Newsweek. It's a good story. That is what it's all about.

[Better Picks Advertiser]

That was.

[Bobby Bones]

Tell me something good, bones. We're gonna play a game. So basically, in a song, if you're an artist, do, like, an ad lib. Like, oh, yeah, Ray, play one for an example.

That'd be Michael Jackson. Like, that's not a lyric. That's Michael Jackson, right?

[Scuba Steve]

Yep.

[Hank]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not a lyric. It's not written, but it's him just doing an ad lib thing in the song. So we're gonna play. I'm gonna play, too. How many do you have? We got 12. If you want them all, let's go. Seven. All right, everybody ready?

[Lunchbox]

Ready.

[Bobby Bones]

Write your answers down.

It's a good one. So do we just get the artist? Is that all we need? Yeah, you would just name the musician.

[Hank]

Okay, got it.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm in.

[Amy]

I'm in.

[Lunchbox]

I'm in for the win.

[Bobby Bones]

Play it again.

Everybody. One, two, three.

Is that. Oops. I did it again.

[Hank]

I don't have that.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it is.

[iHeartMedia Announcer]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, okay.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, next up. Yeah.

[Amy]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, come on. You got that one.

[Lunchbox]

I'm in for the win.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

You know that.

[Hank]

Come on, Amy.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy, Amy. Go back to the club, Amy. Oh, don't. Don't do him. Why are you doing this?

[Lunchbox]

What are you doing?

[Amy]

That doesn't.

[Bobby Bones]

But still, you can't do, like, after.

[Hank]

The show's over, go to the club.

[Amy]

Hold on.

[Hank]

Tonight.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

Run, Master dmc, run.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm master.

[Amy]

No, no. I have lots of things going in my head right now. Like funk Master.

Daddy, Daddy.

[Bobby Bones]

Funk Master Daddy. Go with that. Go with that.

[Amy]

No, that's not it. Not Ja Rule.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Amy, answer.

[Amy]

Not Ja Rule.

[Bobby Bones]

But like that. Everybody else.

[Better Picks Advertiser]

One, two, three.

[Bobby Bones]

Little John. Yeah, yeah.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

Yeah.

[Hank]

What did Lunchbox say? I feel like it says something different.

[Lunchbox]

Little John.

[Hank]

Okay, I heard something different.

[Bobby Bones]

Say Papa John.

Okay. All right, next up.

[Amy]

Oh, I'm in.

[Hank]

I'm in.

[Lunchbox]

I'm in for the win.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy, you can go first.

[Amy]

Eminem.

[Bobby Bones]

Eminem.

[Hank]

Chicken.

[Bobby Bones]

Chicken. Slim Shady.

[Lunchbox]

Eminem.

[Hank]

Eminem.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Will you play that again?

[Hank]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

How many? Three, Four we've done so far. One was an example, so, yeah. Three. Okay, go ahead.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

Amy.

[Lunchbox]

What in the world?

[Bobby Bones]

She missed Little John, so now she wants to overcompensate with being. Wait, go ahead.

I'm in.

[Hank]

That's cool. I'm in.

[Lunchbox]

What is that?

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

Oh, come on.

[Amy]

You know it.

[Lunchbox]

Well, do I need to go to the club?

[Hank]

I'm not anything.

[Lunchbox]

Can you play it again, please?

[Hank]

Play impossible.

[Lunchbox]

Brown. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, five seconds. He's doing yosemite sand or no. Tasmanian devil.

[Lunchbox]

No idea.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Ed sheeran.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy.

[Amy]

Will smith.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie.

[Hank]

Will smith.

[Bobby Bones]

Will smith. Hit it again.

That probably is. Huh? That is.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Eddie, it's just me and you right now in the lead.

[Hank]

Let's go.

[Lunchbox]

All right, go ahead.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I'm in.

[Hank]

Whoa.

[Bobby Bones]

Again?

Does that sound familiar?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Hank]

I just don't know who it is.

[Lunchbox]

I know the song.

[Bobby Bones]

This is a hard one.

[Lunchbox]

Can I get a point for a song?

[Hank]

I'm in.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy.

[Lunchbox]

I'm in for the wing run.

[Bobby Bones]

Dmc is dj cool. Let me clear my throat. Let me clear my throat.

[Hank]

Okay, I'm gonna be honest.

[Bobby Bones]

What?

[Hank]

I'm just gonna be honest here, and I could get it wrong, and it's okay if I do, but I know.

[Bobby Bones]

The answer is dj cool.

[Hank]

Cool hurt.

[Bobby Bones]

Huh?

[Hank]

I put dj cool hurt, and I don't know why.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. No, it's not right. Because cool hurt's not a person.

[Hank]

It's not. It's just cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I don't know, mike. Is his name cool hurt? I don't think it is. It's a different person. Oh, it is. Cool hurt is. Oh, wow. I never heard of cole grc.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, cool herc.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that what you said?

[Hank]

Nah, I said hercmine.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

I got let me clear my throat by biz marquis.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, all right, next up.

[Amy]

I'm in.

[Hank]

I'm in.

Gosh, it's amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Lunchbox]

What is his name?

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

Ah.

[Lunchbox]

All right, I'll go with that guy.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Prince.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy.

[Amy]

James brown.

[Bobby Bones]

James brown.

[Hank]

James brown.

[Amy]

Get back.

[Bobby Bones]

One more. No. Yep. Okay, go ahead.

[Hank]

Whoa. That could be anyone.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

What's the score? Mike? You have six, Eddie has four, Amy and Lunchbox have three. Oh, I can't lose.

[Hank]

Wait, I've lost two to you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I don't know if that's true. I don't know. Have you missed two in no, five. Sorry. Oh, I can lose. Oh, crap. Okay. I don't know that one.

[Hank]

Let's hear this one again.

[Bobby Bones]

Will you play it again?

[Hank]

Who is that?

[Bobby Bones]

You hear it again?

[Hank]

Yeah.

I'm in.

[Bobby Bones]

I do not have it.

[Hank]

Not certain.

[Amy]

I'm in.

[Lunchbox]

I'm in for the win.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. Katy Perry, Amy Shania Twain. I don't have either one of them.

[Hank]

It's gotta be Shania.

[Bobby Bones]

I have Nelly Furtado, but I don't think that's right either.

[Hank]

Eddie, I have pink.

[Bobby Bones]

Is anyone right?

[Hank]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Whitney Houston.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

Is that.

[Bobby Bones]

I want to dance with somebody.

[Lunchbox]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

I want to dance with somebody.

That's a hard one. Did I win?

[Hank]

Is that it?

[Bobby Bones]

That's. That's seven.

[Amy]

Did you win? You know you won.

[Bobby Bones]

How many more? Five?

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Four, I believe. Okay, go.

That would be T pain.

[Scuba Steve]

I just know it from the auto tune.

[Bobby Bones]

Auto tune? Yeah, go ahead.

That's DMX.

That's Cardi B.

That's Mr. 305 Pibble.

[Hank]

I mean, good job, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that it?

[Scuba Steve]

Yep.

[Hank]

You would have won the whole thing anyway because you nailed those.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't know.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Woo.

[Bobby Bones]

You had me at woo. If you got that one. If you had that one. So this woman, she's from Georgia, she got in trouble because she's accused of plotting to kill her husband. And so they have her on an ankle monitor. You ever see anybody in the wild walk around with an ankle monitor?

[Hank]

I knew someone I worked with someone that had one.

[Bobby Bones]

But you knew they had it. Ever just see somebody with an ankle monitor? I guess I don't look at ankles enough.

[Lunchbox]

I was at the golf course the other day, and the dude checking in in front of me, ankle monitor.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you go, what are you in for?

[Lunchbox]

I didn't talk to him. I was hoping. I was like, hopefully they don't pair me up with that guy.

[Bobby Bones]

You think he felt the same?

[Lunchbox]

Probably, yeah. But, yeah, he was in front of me the whole day. So I was ankle monitor all day long.

[Bobby Bones]

Lindsay Shiver, the Georgia housewife accused of plotting to kill her husband, is asking a Nassau court to remove the GPS ankle monitor she's been required to wear for over two years as she's awaiting trial in the Bahamas. She argues the device causes bruises. And so far I'm like, okay, that's part of it.

[Lunchbox]

Deal with it.

[Bobby Bones]

It's not going to be comfortable. It disrupts sleep. Okay. Embarrasses her three children. Got it. And prevents her from swimming or going to the beach because it can't get wet.

[Hank]

Oh, that's tough.

[Bobby Bones]

She also wants permission to move back to Thomasville, Georgia, where she says she has job offers, including modeling and influencer work. But she needs the tracker off so she can begin. She was previously allowed to live in the United States ahead of her trial for allegedly conspiring with her lover to murder her husband in 2023. Amy, do you let her take her ankle monitor off? Do you let her move back to the States?

[Amy]

I mean, how guilty is she? Ish?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't really think that's a question.

[Amy]

No, no, I need.

[Bobby Bones]

Because you don't really have a guilty ish before you go to trial.

[Amy]

But why is she on trial? Like, is. I don't know this story, so I don't know.

[Lunchbox]

I can tell you the story, but.

[Bobby Bones]

The story shouldn't matter because we can't do ish on how guilty somebody is before they go to trial and then let that affect what the punishment is leading up to it. But I'd like to hear the story. Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

She was a married to a former football player. They had this great wife in Georgia, and they had a place in the Bahamas, but she had a Bahamian lover. Bohemian, maybe. I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

I think Bahamian and Bohemian are different things.

[Lunchbox]

Bohemia is where my grandma's from. This is the Bahamas.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

And so she wanted to get, I guess, the money from the husband, so she plotted with her lover to execute the dude. And they found out, and now she is going to trial.

[Amy]

I do recall this.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And I think if I'm the judge in this case, she needs to keep the ankle monitor on.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Because it's two parts, though, because you got the ankle monitor and then you got her wanting to move back to the States.

[Amy]

Well, she can.

[Bobby Bones]

No. Because the Bahamas is not America.

[Lunchbox]

Right.

[Amy]

Well, she has to stay where the crime was committed.

[Bobby Bones]

I agree.

[Amy]

And. And. And figure out I'm a Bohemian judge. Right. That's her judge.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, they're trying.

So.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I think it happened over there.

[Lunchbox]

That's where it happened over there. Because they had, like, a vacation home or something over there where they would go.

[Bobby Bones]

Beach house. Be cool to have that, right?

[iHeartMedia Announcer]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Right. No, I'm sorry you can't go swimming with your kids. But, like, yeah. You allegedly plotted with your boyfriend to kill your husband.

[Bobby Bones]

So I feel that they should make an ankle monitor that can get wet, though.

[Hank]

I'm surprised they don't have.

[Bobby Bones]

Where are we on that development?

[Hank]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, we got. Apparently we can take a bath with our phone and Then comes out just fine.

[Hank]

And you can cover it. Like, if your kids are embarrassed, you can cover it. But I guess it's hard in the.

[Bobby Bones]

Bahamas because everybody's in flip flops, shorts. Yeah. You're really not wearing long pants a lot. Yeah. And she didn't. I don't know that she did the crime, but if you possibly did the crime, you gonna do the time or where the.

[Amy]

Yeah, Like, I'm gonna feel horrible if she's just been completely framed.

[Bobby Bones]

The judge, though, must feel there's enough reason to keep her there and to keep a monitor on her if there's a monitor on her, because.

[Amy]

Let's see if he lets her go back to Georgia.

[Hank]

Like, you can't get her back.

[Bobby Bones]

I think I probably extradite you. I don't know what our extradition laws are with them.

[Lunchbox]

And then also, if you're back in Georgia, you're closer to the dude you were trying to kill. That's like.

[Bobby Bones]

But I don't think I'm gonna try to kill him again.

[Amy]

Oh, so it was.

[Bobby Bones]

She's saying she's not guilty.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Dude's still alive.

[Bobby Bones]

She didn't get him.

[Amy]

So what's he want?

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

Is he.

[Amy]

Is he like.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, I think he probably wants her to be monitored. Arms, legs.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's keep her as far away.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Send her to other islands.

[Amy]

What influencer opportunities does she have? Are some brands just like when I'm.

[Bobby Bones]

Dancing with the Stars coming at the bit to work with her with an ankle monitor. She danced on Dancing with the Stars. That's, like, two seasons ago. And she was. She was the one that stole tons of money from people because she was acting like something she wasn't.

[Amy]

I do think that fraud in the Anna Delvey way is different than murder.

[Bobby Bones]

I would agree with you. But they're both crimes, though, where there is. I agree, but I'm not saying they're the same. But she had already been. What? She wasn't even up for trial. Like, she'd already finished. She has to wear the monitor as part of her guilty. This is. This is somebody who's like, they're not even sure. Wink, wink. But they probably think she did because.

[Hank]

The keeping up at night and the uncomfortable. Like, you gotta deal with that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Hank]

That's just part of it.

[Bobby Bones]

That's how I feel about the brace I gotta wear when I sleep for my surgically impaired ankle. So. Okay. So my thing would be, lady, you're just staying where you are. Also, let's get her to trial. Two years and you're in the Bahamas. How many cases they got? They got. They got a lot of people who live there. Like what. They got six judges in the whole.

[Amy]

And thankful that you're able to be out. Like, I don't know what the prisons are like there, but I imagine. Not great.

[Hank]

Yeah, I imagine.

[Bobby Bones]

I also imagine you could pay whatever amount of money just to bail out of that.

[Hank]

I feel like in those other countries.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like the farther. This is unfair, but the, the more island you are, the more corrupt the place is.

Except Hawaii, part of America. But if you're an island nation, like who's. Who's even watching what you're doing?

[Hank]

Island life, baby.

[Amy]

I mean, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like I feel like. But there. But that being said, there's a ton of corruption here too.

[Lunchbox]

No.

[iHeartMedia Announcer]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Anyway, okay. So I'm team keeper in the Bahamas and keep her ankle monitor on. Heck, put one on the other ankle for being annoying. That's what I say.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Bobby Bones]

Our room is basically a disaster. Like, I got a foot that doesn't work. I had surgery on my ankle. It still sucks. Hurts. It's not even the worst of the room. You got lunchbox? Who? He's got something in him. The doctors keep saying, I don't know, man. Go try somewhere else. Because you've been to how many doctors?

[Lunchbox]

Five.

[Bobby Bones]

And explain your issue.

[Lunchbox]

There's a pain to the left of my belly button. It's a sharp pain. If I run. Sometimes just getting off the couch, I feel it. And like, when I get done running, I can feel it when I'm running. But then, like, I can't move afterwards. Like, I'm just stuck there for like 10 minutes and I can barely walk.

[Bobby Bones]

And you've been to doctors five?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And they say basically, I don't Know.

[Lunchbox]

It could be your pelvic floor, maybe. Maybe just Google some stretches on YouTube. All different diagnosis. I mean, great, great work.

[Bobby Bones]

So what was your latest doctor experience?

[Lunchbox]

I went to a sports medicine doctor because I'm like, okay, it has to be something there. They send me for an mri. The most painful thing I've ever done. I have to keep my arms over my head for 30 minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you in the coffin?

[Lunchbox]

I'm in the coffin.

[Hank]

Wait, your arms are hard to pick up because of your hand?

[Lunchbox]

No. Just sitting there for 30 minutes with your arms like this, and they can't move. You start losing feeling in your arms. And they call me and say, all right, come in for your results.

[Bobby Bones]

You lost feeling in your arms? They're not hanging you upside down.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I lost feeling in my arms.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, but they're not hanging you.

[Lunchbox]

Like, when I got done, I had, like. I don't know what you call them. I couldn't move my. My fingers were all just blah. And it took, like, five minutes for them to be able to move my. I think.

[Bobby Bones]

I think your whole body. I think your whole body's.

[Hank]

Yeah, man.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I know, but I'm saying to our listeners, he. We're not. He's just laying down normal, but he can't put arms above his head.

[Lunchbox]

I had to do this for 30 minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Which I don't. I think anybody else that would bother them.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh. It was like the last 10 minutes, I was like, oh, my God, this is killing me.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

But anyway, they call me for the results, and they tell me to come in. I go in, doctor sits me down. It's like, I got nothing, nothing wrong. I'm like, no, no, no. Like, I'm not making this pain up. And the doctor's like, well, you know, I. I could send you to physical therapy, but I wouldn't know what to tell them to work on. I could send you to another doctor, but I don't know what doctor to send you. And they said, so. I honestly don't have anything to tell you or give you any advice, but we're here if you need us.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you think that they think you're faking it?

[Lunchbox]

Yes, they think I'm making this up.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, you make stuff up for bits on this show sometimes. So maybe they listen to the show and like, oh, this is him doing his thing.

[Hank]

It's lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

The fact that they said. I mean, I don't know what to tell you, but we're here for you. No no, you're not here for me, because I am here right now with this pain, and all you're telling me is, I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you worry it's so rare you might be dying and they don't know? Yeah, it's so rare they can't pick it out. And all of a sudden, it's going to be like, oh, this is a rare disease called hemoglobinobin. And then you're like, oh, I've thought about that. You got two weeks left to live.

[Lunchbox]

I've thought about that. Like, is there something like, am I dying inside? And they don't know.

[Amy]

He might have Munchausen syndrome.

[Hank]

Oh, I've heard of that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, It's. We just can't stop munching on stuff.

You're in your house and you just munch all the time. Munchausen.

[Hank]

Very common during the holidays.

[Amy]

It's where you pretend to have symptoms for sympathy.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, well, a lot of times parents do that to their kids, right? Like, they make their kids sick for this Munchausen, and they have it, but it's not them who's sick. They're making their kids sick. So maybe get the attention.

[Amy]

He's going to the wrong. He should probably go to a psychiatrist. Let's see what's really going on.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, guys. Like, this is for real. Like, I. I can't.

[Amy]

This is a real syndrome.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I don't.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He does.

[Lunchbox]

I don. No, I don't have munch houses.

[Bobby Bones]

You just want the attention. So you created this.

[Lunchbox]

I don't want any attention. I want to go out for a run. I want to go play soccer. I want to do something, but I can't. And that's what I'm saying. Like, I don't understand it. When they tell you, good luck over here if you need me. No, you're not, because I'm here, and you're. You don't even know where to send me. You're just.

[Bobby Bones]

That's.

[Lunchbox]

That's weird.

[Hank]

What do they mean by we're here if you need me? Like, they've already done it.

[Bobby Bones]

So we're just guys. We're just accepting he's telling us the truth about what they say, go, hi. The other doctor's appearances, when he's come in, he's been like. They were like, yeah, we don't know. YouTube some crap.

[Amy]

Yeah, I guess. Might as well get a colonoscopy just for fun.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it sounds like a fun Saturday.

[Lunchbox]

That's what they said also.

[Bobby Bones]

So we got another one. And I think we've elevated these. There's mine. It's the lowest at surgery in my leg. It just hurts. We got lunch boxes at 2. Have you guys looked at Scuba Steve lately?

[Hank]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

He's lost 20 pounds because of, like, the tumors in his stomach.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

What?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, is that what's wrong with him?

[Scuba Steve]

Well, that and I was, like, sick, sick over the Thanksgiving break.

[Bobby Bones]

But that you don't lose 20 pounds from, like, being, like, sick. So first of all, what's happened in your stomach?

[Scuba Steve]

So I'm going to see a specialist this week, towards the end of the week, to see what it really is, because I was told at once it was a hernia. And then I went to Ascension St. Thomas, like, no, it's a tumor, because I had, like. They gave me, like, a sonogram, which I guess was the wrong test. According to another doctor, it's like, lunchbox. You get all these comparisons.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you're not lunch, dude. Don't compare yourself, Lunchbox.

[Hank]

You might be really sick.

[Bobby Bones]

You are actually sick. You've lost. I saw Scuba this morning. He's like, hey, you good? He's like, I lost 20 pounds. I'm like, add a boy. And he goes, no, no, that's sick. I'm like, oh, that sucks. Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

So I've got a lot of conflicting reports, so hopefully when I see a specialist this week, they'll tell me what really is wrong so I can get it, get in surgery and figure it out and move forward.

[Bobby Bones]

So what's happening in your stomach?

[Scuba Steve]

So in my stomach, I haven't been able to pick my kids up for about two and a half, three weeks because if I pick anyone up, I have this sharp abdominal pain right above my belly button. But I have a bump, though. Like, I have a physical bump that I could feel.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have a bump?

[Lunchbox]

No, there's no bump.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, go ahead.

[Scuba Steve]

And the bump. So one doctor was able to, like, manipulate the bump and push it back in. He's like, oh, that's your intestine. That is pushed through.

[Bobby Bones]

Hernia.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, a hernia. So we can push that back in and put a mesh piece on it, and you're fine. But then when I went to see the other doctor, they're like, no, that's a tumor. We should look at getting that removed. So now I've got these reports. I got to figure out which one's right.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, they've given you two options, though, at least. Yeah, at least they're not, like, I don't know, how about a colonoscopy?

[Hank]

All right, Google this. What about, like, the losing weight, though? How's that part of what you're talking about?

[Bobby Bones]

£20. Scuba is way more than just getting the flu or you didn't have the. I don't know what you had. It was kind of a congestion thing, too, right?

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah, I could pick up flu. Yeah. Because I had a little bit of fever and then congestion, and I wasn't eating a lot for a week. I cut out coffee and sugar, so that could also be part of it, too.

[Hank]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna die for four months. Yeah. Yeah.

[Scuba Steve]

My gut's completely gone. I'm actually. It looks pretty good, my stomach. But then that bulge is sticking out, which scares me a little bit.

[Bobby Bones]

Yep. I'm sorry about that, man. What's the next step?

[Scuba Steve]

So the next step is to go see this next specialist at Vandy.

[Bobby Bones]

When do you have a date?

[Scuba Steve]

The date is supposed to be tomorrow.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Can you ask them while you're in there if.

[Bobby Bones]

About lunchbox.

[Lunchbox]

Asking them what the pain to the left of my belly button could be?

[Hank]

What dog is that?

[Bobby Bones]

Imagine Scuba's in for a tumor, possibly, and he's in, going, hey, before we do this, I got this friend.

[Lunchbox]

It would just be a really nice thing, dude, because I've asked so many people. Where do you go?

[Scuba Steve]

Like, what doctors are you going to say? Have you gone, like, Vanderbilt, like, an actual, like, accredited doctor? Yes, but you said, like, sports medicine, all this crap. Like, what is that? It sounds like mall, shopping mall type stuff.

[Lunchbox]

No, they're right.

[Bobby Bones]

Stops. There is a little place near the helicopters in the mall.

[Scuba Steve]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, in the middle when they fly a little helicopter.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I've been to real doctors, man. I don't want to give him a shout out because I don't want to give them credit for not doing anything.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Scuba, yours is the most serious of all.

[Lunchbox]

Why? Talking about mine's been going on for months.

[Bobby Bones]

Least Scuba has tumors and lost weight. You just come in and go, I can't move my fingers.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I.

[Hank]

The worst part was your mri, dude.

[Amy]

You said it's the most painful thing you've ever been through, and it was 30 minutes.

[Bobby Bones]

Scuba's going to die just laughing. Look, listen at him. We got to get this guy, okay?

[Amy]

I don't want to joke about him dying.

[Bobby Bones]

We're not joking. We're not joking about him dying.

[Amy]

Going to die laughing.

[Bobby Bones]

Dying. You ever heard of dying of laughter?

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think that we, like, don't use that phrase at the moment, especially.

[Bobby Bones]

When I'm in so much going to pass away laughing. It's time for the good news with Amy. Tell me something good.

[Amy]

I love it when a bus driver goes above and beyond. So shout out to Tina Hutcherson. She's 63 years old, and she's been crocheting and knitting since she was 12 years old. Well, then she got a new knitting machine as a birthday gift, and this really helped her, like, get some hats made because she noticed some of her kids getting on the bus didn't have knick hats. Like, that would help them, like, little beanies stay warm. Right?

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So she's a bus driver in Oklahoma City, and she's knitted at least 25 winter hats for elementary school students in Putnam city Schools, that school district. So shout out to her for doing that.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm looking at her. I'm looking at all of her. Okay. We would call these in Arkansas toboggans. I know you guys don't call them that.

[Amy]

Beanies.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah. So it.

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[Bobby Bones]

She did. They're good, too. I like to have one of these. She does a good job, but it's. That's what it is. When you say crocheting, I never. I just picture big needles. Those big needles.

[Hank]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like, scarf.

[Bobby Bones]

Or like a blanket. Like a grandma blanket on a couch. But these are legit beanies, as you guys would say, for us in Arkansas. Toboggans. Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. She's been driving for the school district since 2013 and currently transports more than 100 students, students from elementary through high school. And the students have responded with homemade thank you cards. And they said they're excited about getting to choose their own colors.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's awesome. If she wants someone up here, I wouldn't be mad. Big shout out to all the bus drivers out there, too. That's what it's all about.

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[Bobby Bones]

Tell me something good.

Wake up, wake up in the morning.

And the dial just keeps on turning.

Lunchbox more Steve Red trying to put you through. M's riding this wig's next bit. And Bobby's on the mic. So you know what this is?

This is the Bobby now. The morning corny.

[Lunchbox]

The morning corny.

[Amy]

Did you hear about the fire in the shoe factory?

Many souls were lost.

[Hank]

Oh, man, that's so stupid.

[Bobby Bones]

That's a good one.

That was the morning corny. I think you found my niche. And corny jokes. Dark corny jokes.

[Hank]

Because that was definitely dark.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I think you found what I like.

[Scuba Steve]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I like them dark and corny. Okay, Gonna keep them dark and corny.

I know you shouldn't do that every day, but I think that's why I like that one. Bobby Bone Show. Bonehead. Glory of the day.

[Lunchbox]

This story comes to us from Iowa. A 30 year old man was sitting at home and he's like, man, my life is boring. Where's the excitement? What can I do for some excitement? So he got in his Chevy Impala, drove to the intersection, got out, and when cars would drive by, he would flash.

[Bobby Bones]

Man, that's a weird flash.

[Amazon Five Star Theater Narrator]

What?

[Bobby Bones]

What do you mean? No, not his lights.

[Amy]

That's illegal too.

[Bobby Bones]

No, his Ding dong. Okay.

[Amy]

Or his bomb. His bum.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, which one? I'm gonna bet that's called Mooney.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's called Mooning and flashing.

[Hank]

I'm going with Ding dong.

[Amy]

Okay, guys, sorry. Like he's in his Impala. Maybe he's like flashing.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no.

[Lunchbox]

He got out and stood next to his Impala.

And he did that on two occasions just cause he was bored. That's what he told police when he got arrested. Like, hey man, my life was kind of boring. I needed something exciting. Okay.

[Hank]

Why was the Impala such a big part of this story?

[Lunchbox]

I don't know.

[Amy]

That's what he got into.

[Lunchbox]

Because he was standing next to the.

[Bobby Bones]

Impala, that could have have been any car brand.

[Lunchbox]

That's how police find him, is because he was driving a Chevy Impala. Someone called in and said he's standing next to an Impala.

[Bobby Bones]

There you go.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, I'm Lunchbox. That's your bonehead story of the day. All right.

[Bobby Bones]

Voicemail. Quick question. Hope you don't mind. Couldn't you kind of maybe do a Christmas morning dance party? Be great.

[Amy]

And it would be great to put some bread Aldridge in.

[Bobby Bones]

Hope you do appreciate it. Bye.

Nobody listens on Christmas. I think if I did a dance party and you guys were in the room, we recorded it ahead of time. More people would be listening in this room than would be out listening that morning.

[Amy]

I bet there would be somebody.

[Bobby Bones]

But still there's like eight of us.

[Hank]

Yeah. So.

[Bobby Bones]

No, I don't think so. I'm not totally against it. I think if people are asking for it, it means maybe the people want it. I just don't think people will be awake. But I don't know. I don't know that that can't happen. So just listen Christmas morning and find out if we did it.

[Hank]

There we go.

[Bobby Bones]

How about that? All right, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Goodbye. Everybody.

The Bobby Bones show theme song written, produced and sang by Reed Yarberry. You can find his Instagram @reedyarberry. Scuba Steve executive Producer Raymundo Head of Production I'm Bobby Bones. My Instagram is mrbobbybones. Thank you for listening to the podcast.

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Hank]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Hank]

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[Lunchbox]

All.

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