WEDS PT 2: Is Lunchbox Playing Dumb Or Not? + Bobby's Criteria JFK Files Getting Released

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show

Episode: WEDS PT 2: Is Lunchbox Playing Dumb Or Not? + Bobby's Criteria JFK Files Getting Released
Release Date: February 12, 2025
Host/Author: Premiere Networks

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1. Morning Corny (00:38 - 05:15)

The episode kicks off with the "Morning Corny" segment, featuring a classic riddle:

Bobby Bones [02:38]: "What's pink oinks and shoots arrows on Valentine's Day?"

After some back-and-forth, Amy reveals the answer:

Amy [02:46]: "Q Pig."

This playful interaction sets a lighthearted tone for the show. The segment then transitions into a humorous experiment where Bobby attempts to discern if Lunchbox is genuinely unaware of certain office terminologies or intentionally playing dumb to snag a spot on air.

2. Lunchbox Experiment: Playing Dumb or Not? (05:15 - 15:15)

Bobby and his co-hosts engage in a revealing experiment to determine Lunchbox's understanding of the common office term "OOO" (Out of Office). They remove Lunchbox from the studio to prevent him from overhearing their discussions.

During Lunchbox's return, tension arises as he expresses frustration over Scuba Steve's out-of-office email reply:

Lunchbox [05:09]: "It said, 'ooh, until Monday. There might be a delay in my response...'"

The hosts debate whether Lunchbox was genuinely ignorant of the acronym or deliberately pretending to be clueless. Through a series of acronym games, Lunchbox finally grasps that "OOO" stands for "Out of Office," leading to a mix of amusement and relief among the hosts.

Bobby Bones [14:40]: "So, what do we think he didn't know or he was committing? He didn't know."

3. Acronym Challenge (08:20 - 15:15)

To test Lunchbox's knowledge, Bobby introduces an acronym game:

Bobby Bones [09:58]: "Name the acronym. If I said AI."

Participants correctly identify acronyms like AI (Artificial Intelligence), CEO (Chief Executive Officer), and FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations). The game intensifies when Bobby introduces "OOO," which stumps Lunchbox initially but is eventually solved correctly.

Lunchbox [11:55]: "OOO is out of office."

This segment underscores the show's blend of humor and interactive engagement.

4. Government Transparency and JFK Files (18:30 - 26:28)

The conversation shifts to a significant political topic: the release of previously classified federal secrets related to major historical events. Bobby discusses Representative Luna's task force aimed at declassifying documents on the JFK assassination, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), USOs (Unidentified Submerged Objects), the Epstein client list, COVID-19 origins, and 9/11 files.

Bobby Bones [18:30]: "Representative Luna from Florida will lead a new task force focused on the declassification of federal secrets..."

Bobby expresses skepticism about the transparency of the release, emphasizing the need for:

1. No Redactions: Complete transparency without any censored information.
2. Bipartisan Effort: Joint effort from both political sides to prevent bias.
3. Simplified Explanations: Information should be accessible to the general public.

Bobby Bones [19:36]: "I need no redactions and release all of it. Or don't. Because we're not losing anything by not getting them."

The hosts delve into historical instances like the Gulf of Tonkin incident and Operation Northwoods to highlight governmental mistrust, advocating for full disclosure to prevent conspiracy theories from flourishing.

5. Starbucks Updates (15:30 - 16:22)

Bobby shares insights about newly introduced features at Starbucks, encouraging listeners to linger longer during their visits.

Bobby Bones [15:30]: "They're now doing ceramics, like glassware. There's also a condiment bar. It's back..."

He highlights the convenience and enhanced customer experience, making Starbucks a more inviting space for social interactions.

6. Listener Call: Kyler’s Personal Struggles and Fraudulent Donations (40:26 - 57:51)

A heartfelt segment featuring a call from listener Kyler, who shares his mother's battle with stage four brain cancer and the challenges faced during the fundraising process. Kyler recounts the creation of a Venmo account to garner donations and the subsequent creation of a fraudulent account mimicking their profile picture, leading to stolen funds.

Kyler [40:39]: "Within two hours, somebody created a fraudulent Venmo to steal cancer donations..."

Bobby empathizes and takes immediate action to support Kyler by donating $500 via Venmo, demonstrating the show's commitment to aiding listeners in distress.

Bobby Bones [57:00]: "I'm gonna send over 500 bucks to my Venmo right now..."

Kyler expresses gratitude, highlighting the impact of the show on providing a sense of normalcy and support during tumultuous times.

7. Safety Concerns: Crocs Ban in Schools and Pepperoni Perfume (28:09 - 34:27)

The hosts discuss recent news about schools banning Crocs across 20 states due to safety hazards, especially during emergencies. Amy questions the practicality of such bans, while Bobby humorously debates the aesthetics and functionality of Crocs.

Bobby Bones [28:09]: "Schools are banning Crocs all across the country because they're a safety hazard..."

Additionally, they touch upon Domino's innovative yet unconventional venture into launching a pepperoni-inspired perfume for Valentine's Day, eliciting mixed reactions.

Bobby Bones [29:18]: "Domino's is launching a pepperoni inspired perfume for Valentine's Day."

8. Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Declines (29:31 - 34:27)

The discussion turns to the resurgence of diseases like measles and polio in the US, attributed to declining vaccination rates. Bobby highlights the irony of polio's historical context compared to its modern-day implications.

Bobby Bones [30:00]: "Distracted driving is what's really scary and even deadly."

The hosts express concern over the impact of politicizing medicine and the potential threats to herd immunity, referencing historical government actions to underline current apprehensions.

9. Miscellaneous News and Listener Interactions (Various Timestamps)

Throughout the episode, Bobby intersperses various news bits, including:

• A Kentucky woman's million-dollar lottery win sparked by an ice cream craving.
• A bizarre story of a man attempting to locate lost Bitcoin in a landfill.
• The financial inefficiency of producing nickels compared to their face value.

In addition, listener interactions reveal personal stories and preferences, such as discussions about the "Fourth Wing" book series and its overwhelming popularity among the audience.

Amy [43:30]: "We have a huge fanfare behind Rebecca Yarros' book."

These segments showcase the show's versatility in covering a wide range of topics, blending humor, information, and listener engagement seamlessly.

10. Closing Remarks and Final Discussions (58:03 - End)

As the episode draws to a close, Bobby recaps the day's major stories and reiterates the new features at Starbucks. The show concludes with a safety message from Scuba Steve and promotions for other podcasts like "Greatest Escapes" and "Cancellation Island." Bobby also highlights his upcoming podcast, "Lots to Say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle," emphasizing diverse topics from sports to pop culture.

Bobby Bones [60:01]: "Join me and former NFL quarterback Matt Castle every Wednesday for our new podcast, Lots to Say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle..."

The episode wraps up with a final note of gratitude towards the listeners and a reminder of the engaging content that awaits in future episodes.

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Notable Quotes

• Bobby Bones [19:36]: "I need no redactions and release all of it. Or don't."
• Lunchbox [05:09]: "It said, 'ooh, until Monday...' Why are you rubbing it in people's face?"
• Amy [41:29]: "It's disgusting to think that some of these people we trust could also be doing such terrible things."

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Conclusion

This episode of The Bobby Bones Show masterfully blends humor, critical discussions on governmental transparency, listener engagement, and diverse news topics. From dissecting workplace lingo to delving into deep political matters, Bobby and his co-hosts ensure a balanced and entertaining listening experience. Noteworthy interactions, such as the Lunchbox experiment and Kyler's poignant call, highlight the show's dynamic range and commitment to addressing both light-hearted and serious issues.

Transcript

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks. But the great thing now at Starbucks is, is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're gonna go, you're gonna meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here. You're gonna get it in a mug or a glass. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit.

[Amy]

The more you listen to your kids, the closer you'll be. So we asked kids, what do you want hear?

[Bobby Bones]

I feel sometimes that I'm not listening to. I would just want you to listen to me more often and evaluate situations with me and lead me towards success.

[Amy]

Listening is a form of love. Find resources to help you support your kids and their emotional well being. At sounded out together.org that's sounded out together.org brought to you by the Ad Council and Pivotal.

[Arturo Castro]

Hi, I'm Arturo Castro and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon Levitt.

[Bobby Bones]

I love storytelling and I love you. So I can't wait.

[Arturo Castro]

Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

$1.4 billion in NFL quarterback contracts. The untold stories behind the biggest deals in history. I'm A.J. stephens, Vice President of client strategy at Athletes first, introducing the Athletes first family podcast, the Quarterback series. My co host, Brian Murphy, Athletes First CEO and I are sitting down with the agents who have negotiated contracts for Justin Herbert, Deshaun Watson, dak Prescott, Tua Tongavailoa and Jordan Love. Listen to Athletes First Family podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Wake up, you wake up in the morning, then you turn the radio on and the dial just keeps on turning. Steve ran trying to put you through Mike D's riding his wigs. Next bit. Now Bobby's on the mic. So you know what this is? This is the Bobby Bone store. Now Amy's Morning Corny. The morning Corny.

[Amy]

What's Pink oinks and shoots arrows on Valentine's Day.

[Bobby Bones]

What's pink oinks and shoots arrows on Valentine's Day?

[Amy]

Q Pig.

[Bobby Bones]

That was the morning Corny. That's pretty good. We have to make Lunchbox leave the room just for a few minutes, and he's gonna come right back in. During this same segment. This is a bit of a science experiment. Make sure he can't hear out there.

[Lunchbox]

Bye, guys. Yes, Miss me?

[Bobby Bones]

Just sit him in my office. It'll be two, three minutes max. Lunchbox is walking out of the studio. I need a thumbs up whenever he cannot hear. Okay. They're walking out to make sure that he can't hear. Looking at the guys, they are putting Lunchbox in a controlled environment.

[Eddie]

Is he being stubborn or.

[Bobby Bones]

And now I have a thumbs up or.

[Arturo Castro]

Fine.

[Bobby Bones]

Now, okay, look, I'm gonna bring him in, and there's this bit that he sent, and I don't know if he's bit fishing where he believes it or if he's just, like, playing a character to get a bit on the air.

[Amy]

Okay?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Because he is outrageous and he does say stuff and he means it most of the time, but sometimes I. I think he can't be this dumb. I think he's playing. I think he. So we're gonna bring him in. He's just gonna do the segment. Okay. I don't think he's this dumb, but there's a chance. I just want you guys.

[Amy]

So when he's. What do we do when he starts doing it?

[Bobby Bones]

Just let him do the segment.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Eddie]

What is this?

[Bobby Bones]

What I just want you guys to think about is, do you think he's. And don't make the noise. Is he being for real or is he just creating this bit because he wants to get something on the air?

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Is he. This. Okay, all right, bring him in. He. He doesn't know what's going on. Obviously, he thinks we're playing a game or something.

[Eddie]

So.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Lunchbox is coming back in the studio. He's also gonna act kind of weird because he doesn't know what we're doing. He's gonna come and let's. Let's clap for him, make him feel like, oh, there he is.

[Eddie]

We missed you.

[Bobby Bones]

There he is. Okay, you're back.

[Lunchbox]

I like the fake claps.

[Eddie]

That wasn't fake.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know what's going on.

[Bobby Bones]

No, there's no reason to know what's going on. You'll find out later. Not so much now, but you'll find out later. So Lunchbox is a little irritated at Scuba Steve. I. Maybe not even irritated about his email.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah. He needs to be more professional. Like, he's the executive producer of our show. And, like, when he's not in the. And when he's not here, he has this message, and it's like, ooh, I'm on vacation. Like, I emailed him about something.

[Bobby Bones]

Hold on. It's out of office reply. Just so everybody knows. Yeah. Okay.

[Amy]

So it's out of office reply, which is actually responsible.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So what. What it say again?

[Lunchbox]

It said, ooh, I won't be back till Monday. Like, look at me, I'm out of town. Why are you rubbing it in people's face? Like, why not just say it?

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have the exact. Can you read it verbatim? Yeah, you know what?

[Eddie]

I did see this email lunchbox, and.

[Lunchbox]

I was like, wow, man, who knew you were going on vacation? Why are you rubbing it in my face?

[Bobby Bones]

And I don't think it was vacant. I think he had a Scuba took a personal day off.

[Lunchbox]

So it said, ooh, until Monday. There might be a delay in my response. I will get back to you as soon as I can. If there's an emergency, please text me. Thank you. And I'm like, who writes that? Who writes.

[Amy]

Wait, hold on. So it's the spell. You say, ooh. Oh, I would.

[Eddie]

Oh, no, that's Ooh, multiple O's.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, it's Ooh, multiple O's.

[Bobby Bones]

Stop, stop. Everybody stop. Everybody stop. Because you guys aren't you guys.

[Amy]

No, because I would be like, oh, no, you wouldn't.

[Bobby Bones]

Is everybody crazy? Is everybody.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

No. Bobby, you're okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Are you playing? Okay, Amy, you were convincing me. Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I started. You were selling me. Oh, oh, so you thought that that was in a. Yeah, he's rubbing it in. What if he just put that to you? What if he had said it where if you emailed him, you just got.

[Lunchbox]

Ooh, I'd be like, okay, why? No need to be mean about it. I'll just tell me that you're not gonna reply till Monday. I don't know why. Like, my email's gross.

[Bobby Bones]

I know what you have written. If you were to write, well, I.

[Lunchbox]

May have put more O's, too. I mean, if you want to really rub it in, put a lot of O's. But I got it, and I was just like, okay. I don't know why you'd write that for a weekend, but okay, cool.

[Bobby Bones]

And how do you. How do you write oh, oh, oh. Okay. Would you mind hopping out of the room for one second?

[Eddie]

See you, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Just real quick, Real quick science experiment. Okay, Let me know whenever he is clear. Okay, thank you. Going back to my office, guys. I have to find.

[Eddie]

I have to find another word dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, oh, oh. I mean, everybody. We all know this, right? Out of office. Out of office reply.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Is there any chance.

[Eddie]

No, no.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what I'm saying is that. Is he. Is he doing a bid on us? Ooh. Or does he really think that that's what Scuba Steve was saying in the email?

[Scuba Steve]

I think that's what he really thinks.

[Bobby Bones]

There is no way he thought.

[Amy]

He doesn't know. He does not know any version of shortened words.

[Bobby Bones]

You think it's ooh.

[Amy]

He knows. Like, hey, FYI, here's what we're gonna do.

[Bobby Bones]

Can we prepare a. An acronym game? We're gonna run this by lunchbox later. And then in the middle of it, we're just gonna go. I'll do like, yeah, psa, fy, mvp. Ooo.

[Eddie]

Do the aky. What is it? If you know.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but. But I'm gonna throw. I'm gonna throw. Oh, oh, ooh. In there.

[Eddie]

Yeah, good.

[Bobby Bones]

And see if he gets that. So the question is, do you think he's full of crap and just bitfishing here because he wants to get a bit on the air or he is ignorant as to what oh, oh means? Which is it?

[Amy]

He may not know.

[Bobby Bones]

He's an adult man who's been working in an office forever. It even says out of office. Like it's on the thing. It's this Scuba Steve's out of office reply until Monday. Until Monday. And then it says, ooh, he may.

[Amy]

Not be putting two and two together. I don't think he's ever even used that, though. Like, he's never put an out of office on or anything. So I don't think he's putting two and two together. Well, neither have I. I' never put that. Have y'all?

[Eddie]

No, never.

[Bobby Bones]

No, but it does say on top of ooh, it says in small, like official says out of office reply. Okay, we're gonna do the game with him. We'll do it next segment or something. Okay, but what's your vote? Is he.

[Amy]

I like the word ignorant. Ignorant's a good word because you've said before, like, if you don't know something, you haven't learned it yet. You can't judge somebody.

[Bobby Bones]

He's worked in an office, though, for 25 years.

[Eddie]

Right, but not everyone Uses it, and.

[Bobby Bones]

He thinks it's gonna go ooh. Okay. Okay, we will do that bit coming up. We'll bring. We'll bring it now. We'll play the song, but we'll bring him in during the song, but don't say anything about it. Okay? All right. We have a game here. We're gonna play. Name the acronym. Amy. If I said AI.

[Amy]

Artificial intelligence.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct. Lunchbox. If I said CEO.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's Chief Executive Officer.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct. Amy. If I said FBI.

[Amy]

Federal Bureau of Investigations.

[Bobby Bones]

Investigation. Yeah. Lunchbox. Irs.

[Lunchbox]

Internal Revenue Service.

[Bobby Bones]

Good. Amy. This is tougher. Cpr. Can you get that one? What's crazy is it's. It's a little unfair, but go ahead.

[Amy]

Cardio pulmonary respiratory resuscitation. There's only two words.

[Bobby Bones]

Cpr. It feels like it'd be three words, but yeah. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Lunchbox. Gpa.

[Lunchbox]

Grade point average.

[Bobby Bones]

Amy. Asap.

[Amy]

As soon as possible.

[Bobby Bones]

Good. Lunchbox. Diy.

[Lunchbox]

Do it yourself.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct. Amy. Lol.

[Amy]

Laugh out loud.

[Bobby Bones]

Correct.

[Eddie]

You guys are good at this.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. Oh.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, oh, oh. Officer open. Officer open. That's not audition. Original.

[Bobby Bones]

Five seconds. Oh, oh, oh.

[Lunchbox]

A rock. No. Original operating owner.

[Bobby Bones]

Incorrect. OOO is out of office.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I get it. I get it. Okay. I get it. Never mind.

[Eddie]

It just clicked.

[Lunchbox]

I get it.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Amy]

Does he really get. Is he still.

[Eddie]

What do you get?

[Lunchbox]

What do you get? So it's not so. Oh, gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

Go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

So Scuba's thing, when you emailed him.

[Bobby Bones]

And you got a reply, you thought.

[Lunchbox]

It said ew, and now it's out of office. Reply.

[Bobby Bones]

Out of office. Oh, three of office.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh. Okay. All right, well, maybe he's being professional. I. I thought. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So read his entire message to you as you read it. Because you. You sent him an email.

[Lunchbox]

Yes, and I got a reply, Ew until Monday. There might be a delay in my response. I will get back to you as soon as I can. If it's an emergency, please text me. Thank you. And I was just.

[Bobby Bones]

You're offended at the ew.

[Lunchbox]

Like, oh, you're actually at work. Like, what are you doing? Why are you emailing me over the weekend? Don't do that.

[Bobby Bones]

So. Oh, oh, oh. Now you realize is out of office.

[Lunchbox]

Why not just write that? Why write ooh, EW is eww.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, but why write GPA when it's grade point average? Why write any of these?

[Lunchbox]

But no one knows what OOO is.

[Bobby Bones]

Every one of us did. And the question. When you left the room earlier was first of all, do we know what OOO means? Yes, I told them situation and we said. Were you bit fishing? Just looking for a bit to get on the air or did you really not know?

[Lunchbox]

I've never seen that before in my life.

[Bobby Bones]

Above it, like on the email. This is out of office reply and very small. Like there's a reply that comes with it. That's okay.

[Lunchbox]

I don't know how to read what you're. I don't.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So it's all good. So now guys, do we think he didn't know or he was committing? You just committed to the bit because.

[Lunchbox]

I didn't even know he was going to be. He was what? He out of office.

[Eddie]

What do you say?

[Lunchbox]

I didn't know he was out of office.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's go to the judges.

[Amy]

This is hard.

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Amy]

I mean he's either fully committed, but I guess I'll just go give him this one. He doesn't know you'll give him. I'll give him that.

[Bobby Bones]

He.

[Amy]

He's ignorant on. Oh, oh, oh. He had. But now he knows.

[Lunchbox]

I've never had someone reply to me ooo before. Never in my life.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

I mean not everyone does reply o O. So I'm saying that he had no clue, Bones. He's ignorant.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, I'm gonna go now. I'm convinced. He didn't know. I did not know. Morgan, how do you feel?

[Amy]

Oh yeah, he didn't know. There's too many times he's. He's been like this before where he doesn't know things.

[Bobby Bones]

He's not above bit fishing. Right, Right.

[Lunchbox]

Gosh, I'm feeling an idiot that that was the experiment. Like is that standard office like talk?

[Bobby Bones]

As soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what it was, but we all did. If it bounces back immediately, it's an out of office reply and his was out of office. Doesn't matter.

[Lunchbox]

Got it.

[Bobby Bones]

Just not even. You're dumb if you don't know what it is. We didn't know if you were just messing with us to get a segment on the air.

[Lunchbox]

No, I mean I really hadn't. I.

[Bobby Bones]

There you have it.

[Eddie]

You feel dumb.

[Lunchbox]

I feel pretty dumb.

[Amy]

No, he's looking through his email again, trying to understand.

[Lunchbox]

I'm going back to the one that I like, the inbox.

[Amy]

I'm like, well, don't feel dumb. Feel educated.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

No. Now you know, the more, you know.

[Bobby Bones]

Weird melody to that, but okay. A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day Going without stopping by Starbucks for me. Love Starbucks. Love to get a chai tea. And if I'm ready, if I really need a big day, I'll get that double shot of espresso ready to go. But the great thing now at Starbucks is, is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're going to go, you're going to meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here. You're going to get it in a mug or a glass. There's also a condiment bar. It's back. Now you can add the finishing touches to your drink so you don't have to go, well, I need a little more of this. I need a little less of this. You can do the perfect amount of cream and sugar. You now have even more reasons to stay a while at Starbucks. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit.

[Scuba Steve]

Snakes. Zombies. Public speaking. The list of fears is endless, but the real danger is in your hand when you're behind the wheel. Distracted driving is what's really scary and even deadly. Eyes forward, don't drive distracted. Brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.

[Arturo Castro]

Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and narcos and Roadhouse and so many commercials about back pain. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week, I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians to tell them a buck wild tale from across history and time. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoe Chao.

[Bobby Bones]

Titanic, Charles Manson, Alcatraz, Assata Shakur, the sketchy guy named Steve.

[Arturo Castro]

It's giving funny true crime.

[Bobby Bones]

I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait.

[Arturo Castro]

Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[John Cameron Mitchell]

This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled. In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes. But don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies like Bad Touch Football, Anti Racism, Spin Class, and Mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing. Karen, where have you brought us Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

I watched a press conference yesterday, and Representative Luna from Florida will lead a new task force focused on the declassification of federal secrets, including records related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 9 11, Covid. And they continue to walk through a lot of the stuff.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

That has been classified, hidden, or there are conspiracies around UAPs and USOs. You know what? UAP was new to us, which is the aerial phenomenon. USO. They've now added that, you know what that is underwater. Because so many of these things are underwater. They just throw that out there. Like, we know what that means already.

[Eddie]

Whoa.

[Bobby Bones]

I want to play you a clip of Representative Luna talking about this yesterday.

[Amy]

We'll be conducting investigations into the following. The assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin Luther King. Unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UAPs, unidentified submerged objects, also known as USOs, the Epstein client list, the origins of COVID 19 and the 911 files.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow. So to someone like me, who I'm not a conspiracy guy, I'm fascinated with conspiracies that end up being true. Most don't. The occasional one does. And I think with social media, conspiracies can run wild. But there's just been too much on the jfk, too many documentaries. Yesterday, somebody very prominent mentioned that there were probably two shooters.

[Amy]

Really? Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Which is the first time anybody. And again, they haven't released the files yet. The only thing that the President had signed was we're gonna release them. So it has to go to somebody first who has to look and then go, okay, we now release them. So this is. To me, I'm all. I'm not even fully believing it's going to be accurate, though. Here's what I need from them. Because we have to have full transparency. If you're going to act transparent, there has to be full transparency. Or don't act transparent at all. Because you can't come out and go, we're doing this and you get to see it all. You can't give us a but because that is. That's where conspiracies grow live, breed. So I'm going to need no redactions if you're going to Release it. Release it. No redactions and release all of it. Or don't. Because we're not losing anything by not getting them. Right. If they don't release the JFK files, we're not being withheld of food and water or oxygen. Nothing is taken away from us. So release it. No redactions. That's number one. Number two, I'm going to need a bipartisan release. I'm going to need somebody from both sides basically together holding a file. I just need this to be the theater of it to go. We together release this because depending on the party, they can protect their own party, which isn't full transparency. So I'm gonna need it to be bipartisan and I'm gonna need both sides to have to take some shots. Because if one side releases it and it's all the other side taking all the shots, I'm like, this is not true. You're protecting people in your own party. That's why I needed to be bipartisan and I need somebody at the top of both sides to go. We both sign off that this is legit. If that happens. Dude, this is better than severance season two coming out.

[Amy]

Yeah. Like how are. How do they. Can they deliver us all the information and the. Well, digestible way?

[Bobby Bones]

My third one was I need it to be there needs to be like an explain like I'm five version of it.

[Amy]

Yeah, like.

[Bobby Bones]

Or like the Kim J's version of the Bible for idiots. You know when you can read it and it's written like people talk today. Jesus said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jesus pulled up. Yes.

[Amy]

Great little, you know, cartoon or documentary that can just break it all down for us.

[Bobby Bones]

So.

[Amy]

So you need everything. You need the whole shebang. You need the whole donut.

[Bobby Bones]

If they're saying they're going to be transparent, I don't think it's too much to ask for transparency. And with that, because everything is so partisan, I need it to be bipartisan or I'm not going to believe it. Especially when it comes to things like the Epstein client list. Covid, I need it. I need both people to be taking shots.

[Amy]

Yeah, we need that epine list.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't need you to be protecting anybody. If you're going to release it, you need to release it. So I. Aside from like the Epstein and the COVID stuff, which is new, the 911 files, which I'm sure there are things there we don't know.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But one way or the other, are.

[Amy]

There things that maybe we.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes.

[Amy]

Don't need to know.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, that's always tricky, right? Like when we've talked about this, there are examples of our government doing things to us in order to get sympathy from us so we can attack other people. Remember talking about this. I'm not saying this is what happened, but this is. These are decisions that they make that you're like, is this in best interest or is this bad? And this could be with any of this stuff. But like the Gulf of Tonkin incident where an alleged attack on US Naval ships led to escalated involvement in the Vietnam War. Documents suggested, because they were classified, they became declassified that the second attack did not happen as initially reported. Which was they hit us. That wasn't true. Looks like we did it to ourself in order to have a reason to go attack. Another one was 1962 Operation Northwoods. It was proposed by the US Department of Defense to stage attacks on American soil and blame them on Cuba to justify an invasion into Cuba. However, it was never approved by President Kennedy. And why I say this was. This is also one of the theories as to why maybe he was shot because they took it to him and said, we want to do this, we want to attack ourself and say it was that. So your question is valid. As parents, you could take this down to a microcosm. Are there things that you're doing that you don't need your kids to know why you do it, but it's better for them overall. So you're going to do it? Yeah.

[Amy]

It just makes me think of watching Lioness because we all watched that recently and some of the conversations that are happening in the boardrooms where it's like on the news, it's one thing. And the behind the scenes, it's like, okay, this is what America needs to know. They don't need to know this part. End of story.

[Bobby Bones]

And yes. And that doesn't mean that those people are right. They're having to make decisions based on the. Basically the corporation that they're running that is America.

[Amy]

I know that's a TV show, but it like, stuff like that happens. So.

[Bobby Bones]

But when it comes to national security, CIA, if they're going to be transparent, I want full transparency. If not, don't tease us. Just don't tell. We're good.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like we're not missing anything by not getting this stuff. Right.

[Eddie]

They didn't tell us anyway.

[Bobby Bones]

Normal Americans who are going to work every single day are not missing anything by not getting these files.

[Amy]

I would like to know the Epstein names, though.

[Bobby Bones]

I would like to know the JFK stuff.

[Eddie]

That's mine, too. Yeah.

[Amy]

Well, I just want people to be held accountable if they were a part of any of that.

[Bobby Bones]

And I. But I think that's for all of this, for Epstein to the.

[Amy]

But do you think with jfk, like, some people are dead?

[Bobby Bones]

I think a lot, probably. But I mean, think about Martin Luther King.

[Amy]

Oh, well, yeah, that too.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, so many. So many stories of the CIA monitoring him the whole time. And that goes with other people, too, like John Lennon because of anti. Anti war ideas. And a war, by the way, which it turns out probably shouldn't have been in because we didn't win, which is the Vietnam War, according to historians. I wasn't alive but just reading about it, so I want full transparency or nothing. I want no redactions, and I want both sides to take a lot of shots. Otherwise, I'm just not going to believe it. I need it to be bipartisan. Let's go.

[Eddie]

It's exciting.

[Bobby Bones]

Aliens. That's not even. I don't even really.

[Amy]

What was the U.S. unidentified Submerged Objects.

[Bobby Bones]

Because so many of them are in the water.

[Amy]

So many of them.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. So many of the things that they. They say what. That they can't figure out what they are, are under the water. Whatever them is, if it's Russia or an unknown or it. They're underwater. So, yeah, that's what's up. And by the way, season two is not even that good of severance. Oh, well, we're three episodes in.

[Amy]

I could have told you that.

[Bobby Bones]

Season one's one of the greatest television series I've ever seen in my life. I loved it. I was moved by it.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Season two, I think they realized how popular they got, and people were like, wow, this show's really smart. And now they've tried to outsmart and, like, be cool. We're watching it and we're like, did it just go over our heads completely? So, yeah, we're not.

[Amy]

We're jumping ship.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like the dumbest show Night Agent. And like the show that's way too smart Severance. We're just lost in between that, the floor and the ceiling. Anyway, that's what's up. Is excited about that. We can probably hopefully get the real news and what's happening here. All right, that's what's up. You guys can call us if you want. 877-77-Bobby. 877-77-B O B B Y Bones. Schools are banning Crocs all across the country because they're a safety hazard. Dozens of schools in at least 20 states across the US have banned crocs because students are more likely to struggle to walk when wearing the shoes and could be deadly in an emergency. Amy, thoughts?

[Amy]

Deadly in an emergency.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, if you gotta run and there's a fire.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Or a school shooting, which probably happens more than fires, honestly, which really sucks.

[Amy]

I mean, I don't know. I feel like I could maneuver well in Crocs, but I guess maybe kids are having issues.

[Bobby Bones]

I can't maneuver well in Crocs. What? I look like Bozo. Flop, flop, flop, flop.

[Amy]

Okay, well, I guess it's probably been a minute since I wore them, but kids are going to be so disappointed. So many of them wear Crocs all the time.

[Bobby Bones]

I like wearing Crocs, but, man, are they ugly.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And you have to think the croc people are like, we're gonna make this. Gonna be a comfortable shoe. There's no chance. Oh, my God, this thing's catching. They gotta be, like, blown away.

[Amy]

Oh, you know what? I remember, like, in the pile, not too long ago, we had, like, a doctor. I told a story about a doctor that was saying kids should no longer wear Crocs because that they're a hazard. Like, even the little holes could get caught in something, like, while they're walking and make. So, I mean, I guess there is something to it. But, I mean, gosh, that's sad that you have to be prepared for emergency at school.

[Bobby Bones]

New York Post with that story.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, I know. You should be able to go to school, and now you have to be prepared to run.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but that's been like, the last 20 years, not even about Crocs, you know?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Next up, Domino's is launching a pepperoni inspired perfume for Valentine's Day.

[Amy]

Disgusting.

[Bobby Bones]

You know what? Most of these are done. They're, you know, just for news, fun, pr. I don't think I'd mind this one. Of all the weird ones, I think that would smell interesting. No, it wouldn't smell pretty, but I think that'd be fun. I don't think it has to be perfume. I think guys can wear it, too. Unisex. I think pepperoni pizza is unisex. Oh, yeah. I'll say it. It's the guy who brings a purse to work every day. I'll say it. This perfume is unisex. I would like to smell it. Can we see if we can get some of this, Scoob? Steve? Yeah. Who's making it? Domino's is launching a pepperoni inspired perfume for Valentine's Day. All right, on him. See if we can find it. That's from ABC7. Widespread outbreaks of diseases like measles and polio starting to re. Emerge.

[Eddie]

What year are we.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, it's because now the people aren't wanting to do vaccines at all.

[Eddie]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Bones]

So it's bringing back these diseases but.

[Eddie]

Like back in the day those were just normal vaccines. Like you go to school and like. All right, put in my arm.

[Bobby Bones]

Health officials in western Texas are trying to contain a measles outbreak among mostly school aged children with at least 15 confirmed cases. This is the bad thing. When politics gets involved in medicine, when science and politics start mixing this. Polio. Polio.

[Eddie]

That's like when our parents were young.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no. Grandparents and great grandparents. It's the latest outbreak of a disease that's been virtually eliminated in the US as vaccination rates are declining, jeopardizing the country's herd immunity from widespread outbreaks. Polio, that doesn't feel. That feels like horse and buggy, that disease. Okay. I think of being in a wheelchair. Yeah.

[Eddie]

People that couldn't walk.

[Bobby Bones]

That's from CBS News. Next up, an ice cream craving leads to a one million dollar lottery prize. Lunchbox. Listen up. A Kentucky woman went out to get some ice cream at Dairy Queen. Ended up winning a million bucks. The player told Kentucky lottery official she had a hankering for a blizzard. Hey, who doesn't love a good blizzard? And while on her way to the eatery, she stopped at the Mount Sterling Shell station to buy a Kentucky jackpot scratch off. She scratched 20 bucks and won the million dollars. $20. I have been playing tickets every day since the beginning of the year and I am probably playing $50 tickets every day. I'm probably down about 100 bucks now.

[Eddie]

What's been your biggest prize?

[Bobby Bones]

200 looks pretty good. Maybe 250 one day. Whatever it was was on the air, but not. I'm not quitting until I hit a thousand or go broke or the year ends.

[Amy]

That's crazy. You're only down 100.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. I've had some pretty good scratches so far. Pretty satisfying scratches. Like when you get to that one spot in your back with your hand. Did you just get there? It's been pretty satisfying so far. A man wants to buy a landfill. Why? Well, as hard drive with bitcoin that he can't find is somewhere in the landfill. And so they were like, hey, you can't be here and do this. Because he's like searching for it and he's like, fine. I'll just buy the landfill. The bitcoin is now worth about $620 million.

[Eddie]

It's an investment.

[Amy]

Like, how is. How is this possible?

[Bobby Bones]

He accidentally threw out a hard drive with 8,000 bitcoin and bitcoin. I haven't looked this morning. They're like, it's like a hundred thousand a coin. It's like 95,000 yesterday a coin. But he has 8,000 bitcoin on it. Wants to buy the landfill where it's ended up. It may be gone forever, but they don't want them there anymore. They don't want people there looking for it because it's become a thing. You find it. So he wants to just buy the whole. The whole landfill.

[Eddie]

And there's no guarantee really that the hard drive will still work if you find it.

[Bobby Bones]

There's no guarantee on anything. But to him, if he could buy it for a million bucks, that is worth that investment. The government's going to stop making new pennies. We saw this on super bowl night. And so for every penny, it takes like two to make. Did you know nickels? It costs more to make a nickel than even a nickel.

[Amy]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, this has been a thing for a while. Yeah. Experts say we have to make more nickels. But nickels also are losing money. So it costs more money to make a nickel than a nickel is worth.

[Eddie]

Is that because nickel's just expensive? Like the.

[Bobby Bones]

Well pennies, it's bigger and thicker. So I don't know. I don't know.

[Eddie]

That doesn't make a lot of sense.

[Bobby Bones]

Copper's penny, and you don't know if it's copper, it's cheaper or if the penny is less copper than the nickel is made of.

[Amy]

So should we start collecting some pennies and saving them later? Will the. No, no.

[Bobby Bones]

There's so many. Nickels are made of 75% copper. I have your mind blown. And 25% nickel. So analysts say this will cause prices to rise for consumers. If the penny is phased out, prices would be just rounded up. A 5 cent amount, you know they're going to round up more than that. You give any of these businesses an opportunity to get us for anything. But Canada did this. They stopped doing $0.01 in 2012, but then they found out that Canadians paid about $3.27 more every. So it's a situation. But yeah, it doesn't make sense. You. I guess it does make sense. My brain just doesn't know why it makes sense to spend 2 cents to make 1 or 7 cents to make 5.

[Eddie]

I saw an article where that was. The play on words just doesn't make sense.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I didn't even mean that. Yeah, I know.

[Eddie]

I was just.

[Bobby Bones]

To my little brain, I just didn't get it. Amy, I was thinking about the news story we're talking about a minute ago where she goes up and she's like, yeah, we're gonna release and have a. Have a department about all these. These files. JFK and Martin Luther King. We talked about the Epstein list and you mentioned the Epstein list a couple times. Why for you, is that so interesting?

[Amy]

Oh, well, because I just listened to all the podcasts and watched all the documentaries, and it just made me curious about all the different ways it was covered up for so long and like, who powerful is involved. And I just. It's disgusting to think that some of these people that we think that we trust that are in charge of so many things and making so many decisions, could also be doing such terrible things to young women.

[Bobby Bones]

To me, obviously, that is a terrible part of it. I wonder who was controlling Epstein. CIA, Mossad. Like, he was obviously something. Yeah, he was obviously being used by something of power to get other powerful people and then have information on them by. That's. That's the only reason he. Can one be known to be doing this, have all this money. They can't figure out where the money's from. And then the prison guards are gone, the cameras aren't working when he's killed.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's just disturbing.

[Bobby Bones]

So, you know, one of the theories is, you know, he was an asset of. Could be CIA, could be Mossad, could be any of those groups. And so, like, tell us.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

You think his death would be part of the reveal or whatever they. The documents.

[Bobby Bones]

If full transparency.

[Amy]

Yeah. Like, how high does it go? Like, that's, you know, as absolute high.

[Bobby Bones]

As it possibly could.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's like presidents.

[Eddie]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Many probably.

[Amy]

See, that's why I want.

[Bobby Bones]

Of other countries. The Prince. Prince Andrew, like, it was like his boy.

[Amy]

Well, yeah, I mean, that stuff's already out there. Who. Who are the people that, like, why did he get murdered? That's who. That's.

[Bobby Bones]

Because if he's in. If he's working for a group, that's again, just a theory. A CIA. Any of these groups, they obviously have the power to get in and going as well. So I. I think, you know, the press conference is all cool and stuff. There's. I don't think there's any way they could release everything. And if they don't release everything, I'm not going to believe anything.

[Amy]

Yeah, but they probably heard your demands this morning, so maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

But mostly I need to explain. Like, I'm. Five versions. I'm not going to understand a lot of it when it comes to.

[Amy]

They're going to be in a meeting. They're like, well, Bobby Bones has three requests.

[Bobby Bones]

Play it back. Let's hear it back here. What he has to say. Okay, that's the news. Thank you. Those were Bobby's big stories. A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks for me. Love Starbucks. Love to get a chai tea. And if I'm ready, if I really need a big day, I'll get that double shot of espresso ready to go. But the great thing now at Starbucks is, is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're going to go, you're going to meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here. You're going to get it in a mug or a glass. There's also a condiment bar. It's back. Now you can add the finishing touches to your drink so you don't have to go, well, I need a little more of this. I need a little less of this. You can do the perfect amount of cream and sugar. You now have even more reasons to stay a while at Starbucks. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit.

[Scuba Steve]

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[Arturo Castro]

Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse and so many commercials about back pain. And now I'm starting a podcast because, honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week, I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians to tell them a buck wild tale from across history and time. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoe Chao, Titanic, Charles.

[Bobby Bones]

Manson, Alcatraz, Assata Shakur, the sketchy guy named Steve.

[Arturo Castro]

It's giving funny true crime.

[Bobby Bones]

I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait.

[Arturo Castro]

Listen and subscribe to greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[John Cameron Mitchell]

This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently cancelled. In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes. But don't worry, worry. We'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies, like bad touch football, anti racism spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the council to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.

[Bobby Bones]

Karen, where have you brought us?

[John Cameron Mitchell]

Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bobby Bones]

Want to go over to Jill in St. Louis who's on the phone? Hey, Jill. Hi.

[Amy]

How are you doing?

[Bobby Bones]

Pretty good. What can I do for you?

[Kyler]

So I was listening yesterday and I have and I had a question for you first. Bobbi.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes, go ahead.

[Kyler]

And I was just curious. I've had stomach issues my whole life and I was wondering if you have ever been tested for celiac's disease.

[Bobby Bones]

I have because that was a popular theory to maybe this is what it is, much like you're saying here. I don't know if you have it, but Dr. Was like, we should check this out because your symptoms are with that, tested with that. I've had the colonoscopy, endoscopies, we've done the tubes, done the blood work. I mean, yeah, it kind of boiled down to with, you know, like an IBS thing. But then it's like, why do you have it? And it was like, maybe you just have so much stress. But then possibly I have scar tissue now that we've kind of learned about in my stomach that's pushing on my organs from my surgery. So who knows? I quit. I don't eat anymore. I give up.

[Amy]

Oh, gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. All liquid diet. Yes, I appreciate you asking about that. Do you have celiac disease?

[Kyler]

Yeah, I was diagnosed about 12 years ago and I don't know if even if you've just tried to eat gluten free, because that is even just. I mean, I've heard people who have had stomach issues before and that even just trying to eat gluten free has helped them.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And I do for the most part, even though, again, I've been tested specifically and gluten really doesn't affect me. I don't have a gluten allergy, but I'd eat mostly gluten free anyway because my wife eats mostly gluten free. Otherwise, I would just literally eat handfuls of gluten, even though I don't even know what that is. And I now I don't really eat cheese, which sucks. I have to avoid cheese. I love cheese. I avoid cheese. Just trying to figure it out. But I got all these microplastics in my brain anyway, so.

[Amy]

We all do. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's all gonna be over soon enough. What was your other question, Jill?

[Kyler]

So it's more of a. Just telling you guys a little bit of a story for Amy. So I was listening yesterday and I heard you lost a bet. Read 4th Wing. I don't really think that's any sort of punishment because Fourth Wing series is amazing. But I just want to let you guys know there's like a huge. I don't know how much you know about it. Fanfare behind that Fourth Wing series. I just went to an event with Rebecca Yarros and there was over 1600 people there. People were dressing in cosplay. They were dressing up as dragons. Different characters from the book. They had like a bracelet making station and we handed out bracelets. They were doing temporary dragon cat. There was a photo booth. I mean, we had to wait. We were in a waiting room for over four hours just to get tickets. And my friend Brittany was able to secure them. I did not get any. But, yeah, it's like a huge thing behind her book. The question and answer was actually about her third book that just got released.

[Bobby Bones]

Sixth Wing.

[Amy]

No, Onyx something.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, everyone's on a different wing.

[Amy]

Yeah, some of my friends. Yeah, some of my friends are already on Onyx.

[Bobby Bones]

And the punishment, just so we can be clear, was not because we thought the book was bad. It was so long and 500 pages.

[Amy]

500 pages. And what I thought would be funny is obviously if it landed on Bobby Lunchbox or Eddie, because them reading like a Romantasy would be hilarious.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Yeah, I bet it's great. It's like I've never watched Sopranos. Absolutely believe there's a reason to watch it. And it's probably really great, this book, I'm sure because of the amount of success it has. I'm sure it's Great. I'm sure it's a wonderful story.

[Amy]

I was at the hair salon the other day, and a listener came up and was like, oh, my gosh, you have to read Fourth Wing. And so she was really kind to come say hi. But you said. She said fourth Wing. And it's like something just went off. And a domino fell throughout the salon because someone turned around, I'm reading it too, and someone said, oh, I just finished it. And it's like everybody there had read it. So I was like, okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Have you started?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

What are you in?

[Amy]

Probably close to chapter 10, maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know. How many pages are the big words?

[Amy]

Me neither.

[Bobby Bones]

Pictures.

[Amy]

I'd have to. I just know where I am. It's probably like that inch and a half, but that book is this fat.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's a pretty fat book. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 39 chapters overall, so you're about a quarter of the way through.

[Eddie]

That's pretty good.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Good job. That's some heavy. That's a quick read.

[Amy]

No, I feel my. I mean, most of my friends have already read it, so I'm trying to catch them because they're on the third.

[Bobby Bones]

Book in chapter 22. There's a steamy kiss, but I won't spoil it.

[Amy]

Yeah, I don't have that. I haven't gotten to anything steamy at all. Nothing.

[Bobby Bones]

And one explicit scene. A dragon. No, I'm just kidding. Jill, thank you for the call. We really appreciate you listening. I hope you have a great day.

[Kyler]

You, too. Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

All right. Bye. Bye. Lobby Bone show. Bonehead.

[Lunchbox]

Story of the day. This story comes to us from Nashville, Tennessee. A man needed a ride to the bank, and he didn't have a car. So he calls an Uber, says, hey, I'm going to the credit union, says, wait for me out here. I'll be right back. Goes inside, produces a note, says, this is a robbery. Give me all the big bills. Runs out, jumps in the Uber. Well, they were able to get the license plate from the camera, and they tracked him down pretty easily.

[Bobby Bones]

The Uber? He was still in the Uber?

[Lunchbox]

Well, no, no, they. The Uber dropped him off back at home, but they went home.

[Bobby Bones]

He got dropped off back at home.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but they. They tracked down the Uber driver. I'm just an Uber. And so they went and said, what account ordered this? And they went to the guy's house, got him.

[Amy]

Easy peasy.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, I can't believe you went home. Obviously, you go somewhere else to get dropped off with all your bank money.

[Amy]

And you use somebody else's Uber account.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, that may, yeah, that may have been tougher, but yes. Amy, do you see the stories? I see them on TikTok where and they were happening here in town. I don't know if I believe it. I'm not saying I don't believe it, but the girl was like, I was in the backseat of an Uber and this guy opened up like his middle compartment and this gas came up and I started to feel woozy and so I had him stop and I jumped out of the car. And I'm not saying it didn't happen, but who's got like a gas compartment in the middle of their Uber that they can release? Like I don't even know what gas knocks you out. Chloroform.

[Amy]

Yes, that's what they say that it was. And yeah, I don't remember which carrier. I think there's just warnings going around that any rideshare app or if you're getting into the car, even if it's a taxi, you don't know person so you need to be on guard. So like don't be distracted with headphones looking down at your phone, not paying attention. They were advising, maybe even call a friend when you get in so that way it's aware you're talking to someone, they know where you are and if you see anything.

[Bobby Bones]

All that I get? No, no, all that I get. I think that's great. You should do that when you don't know who you're with. I'm talking specifically about gas coming from the middle of like the middle section.

[Amy]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

And that's the history of the world that the an Uber driver, again, not saying that it hasn't, has opened up a compartment and chloroform floats in the air and knocks somebody out. Is that even possible?

[Amy]

I do think it's possible, yes. I, I, I don't know how the driver avoids also getting, you know, impacted by the.

[Bobby Bones]

They also say the one I saw he put on a mask at first and then he opened it up. But I'm thinking to myself, if you have the money to build like a chloroform department in the middle of your car, like should. Well, I guess you're only Ubering then to abduct people. You're not ubering for money.

[Amy]

Well, maybe a little bit of both. You do the Ubering to pay for the or that you do the ride share to pay for the clover looks it, I don't know like we snopes.

[Bobby Bones]

That I definitely think that there are bad intentioned Uber Lyft taxi, milkman, ice cream truck men, coaches, priests. I definitely think there's bad intention people everywhere, but sometimes could definitely be wrong about the story about somebody opening up a gas chamber in the middle of their car. Sometimes people will just say stuff for clout. The gas chamber one felt a bit odd to me. Mike, can you. I found the story. There's no, like, credible source reporting it. Of course. It's the person on TikTok who said the gas came out and the driver just put his shirt over his nose. Like, how would he not be affected by the. Yeah. I don't believe it. I'm gonna say it. I don't believe the chlorophyll. Amy, you. You're believing something.

[Amy]

Well, I. What. What I want to know and you just said for clout is why would this girl who looks perfectly normal when she's delivering her scenario, why would she put false information out there like that? Why?

[Bobby Bones]

For clicks, for views. That's what TikTok is half the time. You don't think half that stuff is staged on TikTok, just in general?

[Amy]

Well, I don't really like to think that it is. I like to think that people if. Especially if they're telling a terrifying tale like that, that it would be true.

[Bobby Bones]

That one. I started sniffing on that one immediately and was like, it's going to be a hard. I don't believe it. That an Uber driver opens up a gas container in the middle, only covers his nose, and. I don't know. Where do you even buy chlor. It's just too much again, bad people everywhere could be wrong. Just felt like it was a little too sophisticated for a random Uber pickup. Anything else? Mike, over there. On it. Well, she got 2.4 million views on it. And then she also has music on her TikTok. Okay, so what are future. No. Amy says she doesn't know why people would do that. That's funny. She's doing it. Get to people to go to her page to find music.

[Amy]

That's shady.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, Amy, that's the world.

[Amy]

Whatever.

[Bobby Bones]

I got news for you.

[Amy]

I just want. I don't know. I don't.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the. No.

[Amy]

Either way, I take it as a warning to always be aware. Although I always feel safe. I know that they've been vetted. There's nothing to likely worry about at all. However, I just want to be on guard and pay attention.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Good. I hope you do. They call in the gas coming from the middle of the car. I just knew that that smelled like a Complete fabrication. But again, I could be wrong. But I'm probably not. All right, thank you. Lunchbox, go ahead.

[Lunchbox]

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

[Bobby Bones]

We have Kyler on the phone now. Who? Kyler calls us every year, and he keeps stats of every single game that we play.

[I]

Good morning. How's it going?

[Bobby Bones]

Pretty good. We look forward to this call. What news? What information can you deliver us?

[I]

We'll start off with, there's one person that went 100% won every game they played on the Bobby Bond show in 2024, and that man is George Burge. Went 1 for 1 with 100 win rate.

[Bobby Bones]

What a game. Did George play? Do you remember?

[I]

I do not remember. That was, like, at the very beginning of 2024.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[I]

My memory decent, but it's not that good.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. The game or George or either one. Okay, so George is 100 on the year. Okay, go ahead.

[I]

Eddie played 167 games. Amy played 167 games, and Lunch played 189 games.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow. Beat them by 20 as far as games played.

[I]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Apparent plate appearances. He's got more plate appearances.

[I]

And Amy and Lunch tied with their percentages, though. Amy went 52 for 167 with a 31% win rate. And Lunchbox went 59 for 189 with a 31 win rate.

[Arturo Castro]

Boom.

[Bobby Bones]

You guys are the same. Boom.

[Lunchbox]

What up?

[I]

Lunchbox had three ties, and Amy had two ties.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so Eddie.

[I]

Eddie went 64 for 167 with a 38 win rate.

[Eddie]

Dang. All I do is win.

[Bobby Bones]

So Eddie is the grand champion of the year.

[I]

He is. So this is my third year in a row. Keeping track. And in the last three years, Eddie has won 184 games, Amy has won 119 games, and Lunchbox has won 143 games.

[Bobby Bones]

So did you keep track of my games at all?

[Amy]

You're 100.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't win every game. You had a.

[I]

You didn't do as good as last year. You went one for one out of four.

[Eddie]

Really?

[I]

But it's because you start winning, and then you're like, okay, this last one's worth, you know, three points. You know, see if you can beat me. And then you kind of. It's like you went one for four, but with an asterisk because, like, you start feeling bad and you give him.

[Bobby Bones]

A chance to beat you or something.

[I]

I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

It's like dad playing with his kids, and he's like, okay, sure, come on guys, we'll give you a chance. You make.

[I]

This is for 10 shots worth 10 points.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Anything else in your stat?

[I]

Keeping everybody else went pretty. Like, obviously the. The big three played in most games, but Morgan went 10 for 47 with 21. Abby went three out or 11%.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Eddie]

But Abby is going to therapy.

[Bobby Bones]

That's true. Because she gets really tired. She gets really nervous for no reason whatsoever. Okay.

[I]

I expect the 2025 to be higher than 11%.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Again, because she spent money to go to therapy to get better at games.

[I]

Absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

Is there a game? Because you've. You've listened to all this and you are straight data analysis and at times that can be very boring. Is there a game after all the games that you enjoy hearing?

[I]

My favorite games are the like the one offs. Like, hey, we just thought of a new game. Let's give it a shot. Because a little bit of chaos trying to figure out how to play the game. Nobody really has a strategy. So just new games in general and then. But like the, the one that I always like is the Feud. I think the Feud is the most entertaining and it's the most fun to like play along with.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that's good to hear because, you know, we play these games so often and you know, Mike and I decide what games are going where all the time. We're like, I don't know, are people tired of this game? So that matters to us when you say things like that. So we appreciate that. So the Feud. So keep going with the Feud. Okay.

[I]

Absolutely.

[Bobby Bones]

Anything else you have asterisks by or anything else that you need to share? Because I feel like this has been a thorough report. We've kept notes of it. Eddie is the grand champion again. Wow. For the whole year.

[I]

Again. Three years in a row.

[Eddie]

That's hall of Fame numbers right there.

[Bobby Bones]

If you do another year four. Now we're talking. Because my home's only got three titles. Right, Right. Gotta beat him. Okay, well, Kyler, we really appreciate it. Anything else you want to add?

[I]

I have a. What's wrong with people? If you got time, wait for you.

[Bobby Bones]

We have time. Go ahead.

[I]

If you notice, I'm a little later this year. Usually I try and call like the first week the show's back, but we. I've had a crazy first month, month and a half this year at the, you know, New Year's Eve, our whole family was hanging out, celebrate New Year's Eve. And then within three days, my mother in law thought she had like a pinched Nerve. And then fast forward three weeks later, and she got diagnosed with stage four brain cancer. So it's been a crazy beginning to this year, and she is the breadwinner of her household. And so in order to help build and stuff, we started a Venmo, like, to donate to, like, to help pay bills and stuff. And it was Sheila Yuri or Dash Healing. Within two hours of creating that Venmo, somebody created one with the same profile picture that was Sheila Yuri dash healing with two GS. And no, we got donations to it, and. But we'll never be able to get those. So within two hours, somebody created a fraudulent Venmo to steal cancer donations, essentially. And so I just want to say, what's wrong with people?

[Eddie]

What's wrong?

[Bobby Bones]

That one sucks. Hey. And so how is she now?

[I]

We are. So. We live in the Springfield, Missouri, area. We're waiting to transfer her to MD Anderson because they are the best suited to. It's a. In Houston gliosarcoma, which is a really rare cancer. And, like, Springfield pretty much said they haven't. They don't have the resources to really tackle it properly. So we're trying to transfer all the paperwork, scans, all that to Houston, and then we're waiting on that call to go down there and see what they can do.

[Bobby Bones]

What. Say her name again? Like, the real one? Because unless you want me to donate to the fake one. What's. What is her. What's her name again?

[I]

It's Sheila Yeary Dash Healing. S H E L I A Y E a r y dash healing with.

[Bobby Bones]

One G. Oh, there is a second one with two GS, and it's the same picture, but they, like, screenshot it, and it's not even good.

[Amy]

Gosh, that's terrible.

[I]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

So evil.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang. Okay, here's what I'm gonna do, because I. We know you. It's been years. I'm gonna. I'm gonna send over 500 bucks to my Venmo right now, so.

[I]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby Bones]

Pop this over here. Boom. I put the pizza emoji. It was just the one I clicked. You don't have to buy pizza with it. You know, use it.

[I]

$500 worth of pizza.

[Bobby Bones]

It's gonna give me the whole thing. Like, are you sure you know this person? Last four digits, but you don't have to say that. But one G and she's in. Okay. I'm just gonna.

[Amy]

For sure it's the right one.

[Bobby Bones]

One G. We have no mutual friends, which sucks, because I think Kyler and I are Friends. Okay, let's see. I'm gonna push. And let's. Let's. Let's make sure you're paying the right. Sheila. Your payment's on the way. Boom. Okay, I know that wasn't the reason you called, but happy to help in a little way that I can. And we always appreciate your calls.

[I]

Much appreciated.

[Bobby Bones]

And you can't argue with data is what I always say. So we're looking for you.

[I]

Can't.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm very sorry to hear what you're going through, and please update us when you can.

[I]

I will. And I appreciate you guys. Like, I know a bunch of people call and say, hey, you know, you give me through hard times, but it really is true. Like, it's a. It's a bit of normalcy, you know, like, life is absolutely nuts. Nothing's the same. My schedule's all out of whack, but I still got the podcast listened to, and it. It's just, like I said, normalcy. It brings me back a little bit. Something take my mind off of it, and it's always happy, uplifting. So I really do appreciate you guys.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, buddy. We appreciate you. Have a good day, man.

[I]

All right, you too. See it.

[Bobby Bones]

There he is. Okay, that's gonna do it for today's show. Thank you. See you tomorrow. Goodbye, everybody. The Bobby Bone 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 MrBobby Bones. Thank you for listening to the podcast. A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks. But the great thing now at Starbucks is, is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're gonna go, you're gonna meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here, you're gonna get it in a mug or a glass. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit.

[Scuba Steve]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Arturo Castro]

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[Bobby Bones]

I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait.

[Arturo Castro]

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