WEDS PT 2: Why Bobby Might Go Deaf + Bobby’s Gift Obligation List + Eddie Wants Us To Start A Business

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show — May 13, 2026 (WEDS PT 2)

Main Theme:
This episode blends Bobby Bones’ signature comedic (and sometimes chaotic) group dynamic with a focus on weird habits that could damage your health, social etiquette for gift-giving, and an in-depth, hilarious brainstorm on whether the team should invest in a vending machine business. The conversation also covers viral scams and bad luck, pop culture news, space discoveries, and dubious billionaire gatherings—with plenty of classic banter and notable tangents.

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1. Why Bobby Might Go Deaf (Ear Habits & Modern Tech Perils)

Timestamps: 02:34 – 06:45

• Bobby Bones shares his unhealthy nighttime habits: Sleeping with an AirPod in his ear and aggressively cleaning his ears with Q-tips, admitting he knows it’s bad ("I go hard in, like, kind of rough… I like it rough." — Bobby, 03:23). This segues into a news story about a woman who perforated her eardrum using a Q-tip and went deaf for six years—an actual cautionary tale.
• Amy relates: “I actually question people that don’t do it.” (03:10)
• Safety advice: Everyone agrees you should clean your ears gently, but it's an oddly satisfying habit.
• Modern tech dangers: Bobby brings up that high-res photos (like peace sign selfies) can capture your fingerprints, which might be stolen and used fraudulently ("If they're telling us this now, they've been doing it for 10 years… the government's been doing it," — Bobby, 04:20).
• Memorable moment: Bobby’s observation about shuffling a deck of cards — the order is likely unique in all of history (05:13).
• Fun fact: Photos from the 1800s have sad faces because they had to hold the pose for so long.

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2. Gift Giving Expectations: Bobby’s Obligation List

Timestamps: 07:00 – 16:22

• Listener voicemail: Do you have to give a graduation gift if there’s no party or invite? The team agrees: Unless you’re extremely close to the grad, there’s no obligation.
• Bobby’s “Gift Hierarchy”:
  1. Weddings: Always gift.
  2. Babies: Gift if you’re close, or if you missed the shower.
  3. Birthdays: Depends on relationship.
  4. Graduations: Only if you’re “aunt-close.”
  5. Christmas: Exempt because it’s an all-play (see 13:33).
• Notable quote: "If you go to a wedding, you have to get somebody a gift. That’s the number one on the list." — Bobby, 12:10
• Bobby shares: He’s now excited to gift for babies since experiencing kindness when becoming a parent.
• Amy’s unusual memory tool: She moves her ring onto her thumb for reminders, like to send a gift to her niece (14:52).
• Special occasions: Housewarming parties and niche celebrations (quinceañeras, bar mitzvahs, first communions) briefly discussed as rare but gift-appropriate.

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3. Recurring Bad Luck, Scams, and Listener Stories

Timestamps: 09:18 – 11:09

• Amy’s “bad luck” with repeated credit card scams: Amy feels victimized by recurring fraudulent charges, but Bobby jokes, “You make decisions that make your credit card sick.” (10:43)
• Lunchbox brags about never having recurring bad luck, except losing at lottery tickets.
• Bobby’s recurring expense: His bulldog’s constant health issues ("Bulldogs are not meant to exist, man," — Bobby, 09:55).
• Listener callback: A job Bobby supported that Lunchbox lost ("He said, ‘Thanks for having my back.’" — Bobby, 11:28).

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4. Eddie’s Big Business Idea: The Vending Machine Debate

Timestamps: 16:12 – 29:00 & 32:34 – 35:00 (sprinkled throughout)

• Eddie pitches: Buying vending machines as a side business, citing "Instagram guys" who made $20,000/year per machine.
• Team breaks down the numbers:
  • $7,000 for a machine
  • $16,000 in inventory over a year
  • $600 insurance
  • Alleged $20,000 profit
• Skepticism arises: As they check resale sites, most realistic sales are $300-400/month, so $3,600-5,000/year—far less than the viral claims. ("This Instagram dude was wrong," — Amy, 23:36).
• Bobby’s hesitations: He doesn’t want to maintain or invest; trust issues with Lunchbox and the idea that partnership business ruins friendships (“If you can help, I can tell you right now, it ain’t. That’s the worst part." — Bobby, 26:51).
• Memorable banter:
  • Amy: “I hate it.” (20:08)
  • Bobby: “I would for sure do something with Amy. No chance I would do thousands of dollars with Lunchbox.” (27:52)
  • Forest and Lunchbox reminisce about their 11-year-old lawnmowing “business.”

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5. Notable Pop Culture, News, and Oddities

Timestamps: 35:00 – end

Around the Room: News Highlights

• Amazon Now: 30-min delivery launches in select cities (38:50)
• The Fourth Wing TV Series: Amazon buys rights to the fantasy-romance book (40:13)
• Mexico Ending School Early for World Cup: Then walks it back after parental backlash (40:30)
• NASA’s Hubble Discovers 6,000 “Worlds”: Discussing exoplanets and the vastness of the universe (42:26)
  • Notable quote: "Going to the ocean, scooping out a coffee cup full of water and being like, well, there are no whales in here. I guess. There are no whales out there in the ocean." — Bobby, 44:39
• Murdaugh Trial Overturned: Due to a tainted jury (47:12)
• World Series of Birding: Bird-watching competition in New Jersey, won three years in a row by teens (48:24)
  • The “is this a sport?” debate: “If it has a ball, it’s a sport. … That’s not true. Is billiards a sport?” — Bobby, 50:52

Quickfire Pop Culture Moments

• Delta’s eight-hour “flight to nowhere”: Turned around mid-Atlantic, passengers end up back where they started (52:19)
• Defending Yourself in Court: Forrest brags about his traffic court “victory” (54:01)
• Apocalypse Warning System: Tracks private jets leaving cities as a sign the rich know something (“Super Bowl and Masters would create lots of false alarms,” — Lunchbox, 55:41)
• Annual Tech Billionaire Retreats: Sun Valley Conference is the “summer camp for billionaires,” with hundreds of private jets (57:01–59:57)
  • Bobby’s missed invitation story: Bohemian Grove (“I didn’t go. Too long a flight, I get dehydrated.” — Bobby, 61:42)

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6. Memorable Quotes, Laughs, & Show Moments

• Bobby on trusting business partners: "I would for sure do something with Amy. No chance I would do thousands of dollars with Lunchbox." (27:52)
• Amy’s graduation gift reminder: "I move my rings around on my fingers that are not natural. So then I'm like, why is my ring on my thumb?" (14:54)
• Bobby on hacking paranoia: "I'm telling you this. If they're telling us this now, they've been doing it for 10 years." (04:20)
• About seeing a friend’s ‘private’ area for medical help: “If you had a tick in your butthole, I would look … I would hope you would look at mine too.” — Bobby (64:52)
• Show banter about billionaire retreats:
  • “So what do you guys do? Oh, dude, we bought vending machines.” (59:43)

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7. Fun & Absurdity: The Show's Signature Tone

• Running gags: Constant asides about who is trustworthy, “I go hard, I like it rough” in reference to ear-cleaning, the “would you—or wouldn’t you—look at a friend’s butt for a tick” debate (64:52).
• Pop culture whiplash: From the Fourth Wing “romantasy” to the Murdaugh murders to whether bird-watching is a sport.
• Conspiracies & billionaire FOMO: The Sun Valley / Bohemian Grove talk gives the episode a quirky, secret society flair.

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8. Notable Moments With Timestamps

• Aggressive ear cleaning & AirPod Q-tip discussion: 02:34–04:01
• Peace sign/ fingerprint theft warning: 04:01–05:53
• Gift obligation list debate: 12:10–16:22
• Vending machine business proposal: 16:12–29:00 & throughout
• Listener calls – recurring scams/ luck: 09:18–11:09
• Space & exoplanet discovery: 42:26–45:25
• Butt-tick story: 63:37–65:44
• Bobby’s billionaire club invite story: 60:16–61:42

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Summary:
This episode is a lively patchwork of health warnings, etiquette guides, entrepreneurial schemes, and delightfully off-kilter conversations about butts, billionaires, and space. The group’s trademark honesty, teasing, and tangential humor shine, making this episode a snapshot of everything Bobby Bones listeners love.

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"If you had a tick in your butthole, I would look because... I would hope you would look at mine too." — Bobby Bones (64:52)

"If they're telling us this now, they've been doing it for 10 years." — Bobby Bones, about fingerprint photo tech (04:20)

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Listen if you enjoy:

• Playful group banter
• Social norms and etiquette debates
• Business “schemes” with dubious math
• Off-the-wall health/scam tips and pop culture tangents
• The feeling of hanging out with funny, candid friends

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Transcript

[Amy]

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[Bobby Bone]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Morgan]

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[Lunchbox]

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[Amy]

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[Amy]

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[Bobby Bone]

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[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

Two things I'm probably doing wrong. One is I go to sleep with an AirPod in and so if I'm always lay on my side, if I'm laying on my right side, I got the left one in. And if for some reason I flip over at night, I can take that same one and turn it upside down and put it in the other ear. It's a skill my wife taught me. Yeah. So I shouldn't do that. I get it. But it helps me fall asleep. But then I get wax buildup because of the airpod being in the ear. Then what I do is every morning, I clean my ear with a Q tip. And I mean, I go in there, and I shouldn't do that either. You shouldn't go in there with a Q tip. But I do.

[Amy]

I know. I don't think you're alone in that. It feels so good.

[Bobby Bone]

It does.

[Amy]

I actually question people that don't do it.

[Bobby Bone]

Well, there's a woman. She's in the news today.

[Eddie]

She.

[Bobby Bone]

She did it, and it perforated her eardrum, and she went deaf for six years.

[Amy]

Okay, well, maybe that's a good reason why not do it.

[Lunchbox]

Dude, we all do it.

[Amy]

Yeah, I know.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah. She's warning others not to use them in that way. She was left nearly deaf following the accident. Sky Van Rensburg first perforated her left eardrum while cleaning her ears in the shower. And anyway, I don't do that. Right. I go hard. I go hard in, like, kind of rough. I'm honest. I go hard enough. I like it. I like. I like it rough.

[Amy]

Well, maybe we needed to just go. Still do it, but gentle.

[Bobby Bone]

I know, but it's. Wax is not easy to remove.

[Amy]

Yeah, but you can gently.

[Bobby Bone]

It's like gently scrubbing the counters.

[Lunchbox]

No, you have to go, like.

[Bobby Bone]

You got to put some elbow grease in it. The counters, though, don't make you go deaf. But I'm sure I do both of those wrong. So another thing I saw this morning was, if you do peace sign and pictures, if you do bunny ears in pictures, cameras are so good now that they can steal your fingerprints.

[Amy]

No way.

[Bobby Bone]

No, no, because cameras are so great and the high resolution of the cameras that it is possible for your fingerprints to be extracted from the picture. And I'm telling you this. If they're telling us this now, they've been doing it for 10 years. Like, the government's been doing it for 10 years. Anything that we know technologically now, we're like, wow, this is crazy. We can't believe it. The government's been doing it for 10 years and not been saying anything.

[Amy]

The solution to that Is go. Nails facing, middle finger up.

[Forest]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Backward piece. That too.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. You don't have to do it.

[Bobby Bone]

So that's what's up. Don't. It's not something that's common that anybody can do, but if you have the ability. You ever watch those spy shows where they can, like, zoom in on stuff?

[Amy]

Yeah. No. This is crazy. I don't like it at all. And then that my brain starts thinking about our fingerprints. Isn't that so wild that all of our fingerprints are so different?

[Bobby Bone]

The thing that blows my mind, because it is a version of that, it's that if you take a deck of 52 cards and you shuffle them up, however that deck is shuffled, probably in the history of time, it has never been shuffled the exact same way, ever.

[Lunchbox]

That's crazy.

[Bobby Bone]

That's crazy because it's only 52 cards, but most likely the way that you shuffled those cards when that exact order has never happened in the history of time for as long as cards have been around. But with this. When they talk about the peace signs, it's mostly for up close, like, selfies. So let's say we're taking a group picture, and it's 15ft back, 10ft back, 7ft back. Harder to get those. But when you're doing one of those duck face, like, I like to do duck face peace signs.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

That's where it is.

[Amy]

That's where the trouble is. Good to know, because I definitely. I'm a millennial. I still. Peace sign oddity central.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah. People don't know what to do with their hands, just generally speaking. And so what I do with my hands is I put them in my pockets. A picture's a weird thing, right? Like, what do you do? It's fun to look at, like, the 1800s, when it wasn't the culturally acceptable thing to do to smile in a picture. You just look as normal as possible. Also, because you had to hold it for so long because it would take longer to take a picture. And so you don't want to be smiling like this for so long. It'll hurt. So everybody looks so sad back in the day, but that wasn't the thing to do. It's also weird that in pictures, you're supposed to look happier than you actually ever really are.

[Lunchbox]

Right.

[Bobby Bone]

Like, in a picture, we're supposed to look happier than we really ever are, except for, like, four times in our life. But no peace signs close to the camera.

[Amy]

That's where. Say cheese. I think we had this as a fun fact one Friday when we were Giving our fun facts. Somebody said that. Say cheese. That originated from a photographer trying to get people to smile. And that's why when you're taking a photo, say cheese.

[Bobby Bone]

Let's do some voicemails here. By the way, you guys can call us. We're here. Hit us up. We're on 87777. Bobby. That's our number. 8777 B O B ME.

[Listener Caller]

One of my friend's son is graduating high school. Now, I didn't get invited to any sort of party or anything, so I am assuming there isn't one happening. So my question is, if there is no party and nothing going on, are we still expected to give the graduation person a gift? Question mark? Thank you.

[Bobby Bone]

I feel like that's what I say when I'm talking into my phone. I do question mark when I'm doing the.

[Amy]

Yeah, or my son, he does that all the time when he's talking to me. Period. Question mark, exclamation point.

[Bobby Bone]

No, I don't think you're expected to get anybody a graduation gift. At least where I come from, we don't even get graduation gifts if you're invited and you're close to them. If you're like a relative or a really close friend and someone, yeah, you can slip them 20 bucks or something. Hey, congratulations. Where I come from, we didn't even do graduation gifts. And if there's no party and there's no invitation and it's somebody not really, really close to you, I would say no, there's no expectation at all. You?

[Amy]

Yeah, no, I don't think there's an expectation if it's a friend's kid. Depending on how close you are to the friend and the kid, man, you might.

[Bobby Bone]

You better be aunt. Like not real, but like aunt so and so. Like that close. I don't think there's any expectation for a graduation gift.

[Amy]

I was talking to a mom whose daughter is a senior this year and she said the graduation party has been stressing them out. And she didn't come from having graduation parties, but her daughter's friend group and all those moms are doing it. And the mom was telling me yesterday,

[Morgan]

she's like, I don't know.

[Amy]

She's like, this is not a wedding. But she's like, this is me. So I really think it's like the parties and the gifts, it depends on. Yeah, like how you grew up or what your social circle is doing.

[Lunchbox]

And do they have drinks there? Because when I graduated, those parties had drinks.

[Bobby Bone]

I think you're thinking of A party by the kids for the kids.

[Amy]

Yeah. No, no, I'm talking parents on a. On a Saturday morning at 11. You know, like a parent funded and orchestrated party for the group Mountain Pine.

[Bobby Bone]

We didn't have graduation parties like that. There might have been, like, field parties done by the kids after graduation. There wasn't like a. Hey, everybody, you graduated. That was not a thing. Next up, Raymondo.

[Listener Caller]

Hey, Bobby. This is Brittany from Ohio. I was just listening to Amy and her credit cards getting scammed. I was just curious if you or in the rest of the show have any bad luck, things that tend to keep happening to you. For instance, I keep hitting nails, random objects on the road where I have to get new tires, that kind of thing. So I was just curious if. If anybody else had anything like that as well. Thanks.

[Bobby Bone]

Anybody have any bad luck that keeps happening?

[Lunchbox]

Nope.

[Bobby Bone]

My most expensive bill over and over again is my bulldog being sick. So it's his bad luck more than mine.

[Amy]

Mel, it's your pocketbook, definitely.

[Bobby Bone]

So I'm happy to pay for it if he feels better, but he just. Bulldogs are not meant to exist, man. And so the constant thing that happens to me is there's always something wrong with him, and now he's getting old and he's a bulldog, and they had just been inbred for generations.

[Eddie]

That.

[Bobby Bone]

My credit card's pretty good. I don't want to jinx myself. Also, if anybody charges anything to my card, even a nickel, it pops up on my phone immediately. So I would know if something were happening. But Amy was getting, she thought, scammed by our garage here. She thought, turns out it's not our garage. It's a different garage scamminger.

[Amy]

Yeah. And I have no idea where the charges are coming from, but I'm on it. I'm paying attention. And it kind of makes me feel a little better that listeners are recognizing. It's kind of just like my thing, my bad luck thing.

[Bobby Bone]

It's like, I don't know that it's a luck.

[Amy]

It's a bad luck thing.

[Bobby Bone]

Like, I don't make my bulldog sick. You make decisions that make your credit card sick.

[Amy]

No, it's. It's out of my control.

[Bobby Bone]

You keep getting scammed.

[Amy]

If I give my credit card to someone and they decide to write down the number and then use it, you

[Bobby Bone]

need to give it to better people.

[Lunchbox]

Then Amy, you think that maybe they see you and they're like, ooh, she'll definitely.

[Bobby Bone]

A few times bad luck. 73, that's on you.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bone]

Anybody have Constant bad luck.

[Forest]

No, me, I buy lottery tickets all the time, and they come up losers.

[Bobby Bone]

That's not bad luck, though. That's just you not getting, like.

[Lunchbox]

That's normal.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

That's everybody.

[Bobby Bone]

That's everybody.

[Forest]

I mean, I keep applying for jobs. Don't get them.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah. You know who messaged me? The guy that got the baseball job.

[Lunchbox]

Oh.

[Amy]

What do you say?

[Bobby Bone]

He said, hey, I'm the guy that got the baseball job that Lunchbox tried out for. And he said, thanks for having my back.

[Amy]

Oh. Because you were like, he sounds good.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah. I was like, he sounds good.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, cool.

[Amy]

Okay, cool.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah. So we can bring him in as a guest if we want.

[Forest]

No, no, we're good. We don't need to.

[Lunchbox]

I'd love to meet that guy.

[Forest]

I don't want to meet him.

[Bobby Bone]

We had a listener that asked about getting a graduation gift for a friend's kid, but they're not having a graduation party. And there was no invitation. And I'm like, gifts weren't really a thing for us. Like, if you had an uncle, maybe slide you 20 bucks and be like, congratulations. But there wasn't that. But I made a list of the things in order that you should get gifts for people for. Number one is a wedding. If you're going to a wedding, you have to get somebody a gift. There, that's the number one on the list. Number two. And this is where it goes from have to, to. It would be nice. A baby. Someone has a baby.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Amy]

And you're not invited to the shower. It's just like, shower.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm talking about when they have the baby.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, just a baby gift.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah.

[Amy]

What if they had a shower and you got them a gift at the shower?

[Forest]

Then you're good.

[Bobby Bone]

Good question. I think you're covered.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, I'm just thinking about. People get us gifts all the time for the baby. I'm blown away at how kind people are. I've never once got somebody a baby gift. I never knew about babies.

[Amy]

But now you will.

[Bobby Bone]

Are you kidding? That's all I do. I look forward to it. Now, when someone has a baby. I've had, like, three friends have babies, and I just fire over UberEats gift cards, and I'm going, hey, I know people, like, want to bring you food and stuff, but I know how hard that is because you can't tell if the baby's gonna be sleeping when somebody comes over or maybe Mom's not feeling good. Here's such money to Uber Eats. Here's. I can't wait to buy people baby gifts now because people have been so kind to us.

[Lunchbox]

Well, great. Now that I'm done having babies, you're

[Bobby Bone]

just gonna get an Uber. Don't worry about it. If you need one that bad, I'll just send you one. Anyway, I got baby at 2. Big gap between 2 and 3. But I have birthday at 3.

[Amy]

Yeah, it depends on the.

[Bobby Bone]

If there's a relationship level. And that could also be like, hey, I'm gonna buy you lunch for your birthday. Something like that. And at 4, I have graduation. There's no expectation if it's birthday and it's somebody you're pretty close to something. Graduation. I just don't see it.

[Amy]

What about Christmas?

[Forest]

Yeah, we missed that one.

[Bobby Bone]

No, because that's. Everybody celebrates that at the same time. That is an actual gift giving holiday.

[Amy]

Okay, got it.

[Bobby Bone]

So that is automatically set in. Everybody experiences that if you're. If you celebrate Christmas. So that's baked in.

[Amy]

Got it.

[Bobby Bone]

But I'm saying if you go to a wedding, there are people that don't do gifts. You should always do a gift at a wedding. Baby pretty much birthday.

[Lunchbox]

Meh.

[Bobby Bone]

It just depends. Graduation, take or leave it. Who cares? It's just nice if you do a good call on Christmas, but not really

[Amy]

part of the Now I understand the difference in like things that either happen yearly, like a birthday or just events in life.

[Bobby Bone]

Anybody have anything they want to add? Now, I'm not Jewish, so like a bar mitzvah, a bat mitzvah. I don't have that. I'm sure that would make the list because that's one time quinceanera. Yep. Yeah. I'm not Hispanic or Mexican.

[Lunchbox]

Honorary.

[Bobby Bone]

Thank you.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, thank you. So now you know.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm really proud of that. Thank you. My honor. Anything else? But that would also be birthday though, to be fair. But it's a one time birthday in those instances. You with me?

[Forest]

Yeah. What about first communion?

[Bobby Bone]

Like a baby one. Baby Catholic.

[Forest]

It's a Catholic thing where you get your first.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm not honorary Catholic.

[Lunchbox]

I don't. That you're not.

[Amy]

This is a good reminder though, because my niece just graduated college and I need to send her like something like I. I'll move my ring to my thumb so I don't forget to do it.

[Bobby Bone]

That's your reminder?

[Amy]

Yeah. I move my rings around on my fingers that are not natural. So then I'm like, why is my ring on my thumb? This feels uncomfortable. And then I'll look at it and it might take. It might Be instant or might take five minutes, and I'll be like, oh, my rings on my thumb. I'm supposed to order or send my niece a graduation gift, which my daughter did graduate high school this year.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, you're looking at for gifts.

[Forest]

Oh, you're looking at Bobby.

[Amy]

No. Did we get her a gift?

[Bobby Bone]

Do we as in the parents? You gave her the gift of life.

[Lunchbox]

She's looking at us like, why didn't

[Forest]

we get her anything?

[Amy]

No, I just. This is just occurring to me.

[Bobby Bone]

I bought an ad in the yearbook celebrating her.

[Amy]

That's right.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm happy to get her a gift.

[Lunchbox]

How much was that?

[Amy]

No, you don't have to get her a. But it was $300 for the ad

[Lunchbox]

in the yearbook in the back.

[Forest]

Dang.

[Amy]

I think. Wasn't it you? I think it was.

[Bobby Bone]

I don't know you.

[Amy]

He went full page, which most of the time, it's like, a business. It's like eight to a page or, like, whatever. So there's just, like, huge picture of her, and it's like, we are proud of you. Love, Bobby and Katelyn.

[Lunchbox]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Bone]

Housewarming.

[Amy]

Housewarming.

[Bobby Bone]

Can't go if you don't bring a gift.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Bobby Bone]

But also, is there housewarming parties? I never had one of those. Like, who has that?

[Lunchbox]

I don't know. I've never been to one.

[Bobby Bone]

Is that, like, a different class of people that has a housewarming party?

[Amy]

I don't know. Sometimes you just want to, like, break it in. Like, I just moved. I'd love to have everybody over.

[Bobby Bone]

No, I'm good. Send a gift if you want, but I'm good. We'll do a virtual house morning party. Everybody get on zoom. Tell me. Thanks, Bones. Eddie has a business idea. We never do these. Like, we've literally never jumped in one. I guess Lunchbox did the palette.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, we jumped in on that.

[Bobby Bone]

But everybody always has big business ideas. Eddie, go ahead with yours.

[Lunchbox]

Guys, I've got two or three Instagram posts that have just popped up in my for you page. I don't know why, but three different stories of three different guys that bought vending machines and have made so much money.

[Forest]

I told you I bought this before.

[Bobby Bone]

Well, you laughed at me.

[Lunchbox]

I saw the numbers, and I think it's something that we need to do.

[Bobby Bone]

Break down the numbers.

[Lunchbox]

Here we go. Let me get the numbers out.

[Bobby Bone]

Well, you didn't have the numbers ready.

[Lunchbox]

No, I did.

[Bobby Bone]

Okay.

[Amy]

Solid.

[Lunchbox]

Good business. We got the numbers ready. Here we go. So, for the machine, it cost them $7,000 to buy a vending machine for the whole year. It cost $16,000 to buy all the products and restock the whole machine. Right.

[Bobby Bone]

So you're 23 grand under right now.

[Lunchbox]

Boom, $600 for the year in insurance.

[Bobby Bone]

Okay, I just say 24. Then that was it.

[Lunchbox]

And that's the expense.

[Bobby Bone]

$24,000.

[Lunchbox]

And he made in profit $20,000 after everything was paid off. And that's in one year. And that's one machine. So if we buy 10 machines. Let's go, baby.

[Bobby Bone]

Would you buy 10 machines and you've never done it before?

[Lunchbox]

Well, I mean, we start small. Start small with one.

[Amy]

Do they have recommended locations of where you put them?

[Lunchbox]

That was another post I saw. They said, just go to places that have, like, you know, like, warehouses are a really good one because there are people that are working that are working. They're like, they're thirsty. So you get all the Cokes or whatever. Then you have, like, workout facilities.

[Bobby Bone]

You know, you have to rent space a lot of times to put a machine.

[Lunchbox]

They said that if the person who's they. They said the guy that post, the guy that posted the video, they said that if the business has a problem with it, like, I don't want a vending machine here. Offer them 5% of your profits.

[Bobby Bone]

Then why don't you just do it by yourself?

[Lunchbox]

I don't have that money to invest.

[Bobby Bone]

But most people don't have the money liquid to invest in something. They go because they believe in it and they know they can make money off of it. They go and they get a loan to do it.

[Amy]

Also, it sounds like the 16,000 that was spent in the year. That's not upfront cost. You probably spend that along the way. The only upfront cost is the first time you load it full of goods, but also the machine and the cost of the machine.

[Forest]

So it's 7,000 and then all the snacks. And then you gotta decide which are the good snacks and how much are you charging.

[Lunchbox]

Right? Because it's not just. It's not just sodas, you know, it's chips, candy bars.

[Bobby Bone]

Soda machine's different than a snack machine.

[Amy]

You gotta pick which one.

[Forest]

You gotta pick which one you're doing.

[Bobby Bone]

Those are two different things.

[Amy]

Unless you want all refrigerated snacks.

[Forest]

A vending machine is snacks. A Coke machine is.

[Lunchbox]

I feel like the Coke machine would be the easiest because there's no, like. It's just Cokes.

[Bobby Bone]

What do you want from us?

[Lunchbox]

How much money did you say we needed?

[Amy]

You're not even ready, 24,000.

[Lunchbox]

We need $24,000 divided by four. And here's the deal, too. Like, who's gonna maintain it? Right. Who's gonna go stock it?

[Bobby Bone]

Why are you asking us?

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I'm saying for us as the investors, let's ask ourselves that question. Who's gonna do that?

[Bobby Bone]

Not me.

[Lunchbox]

I have no problem doing it. Okay, Lunchbox, I'll do Monday, Wednesday, Friday, you do the other day.

[Bobby Bone]

You guys have to go also. Find the places.

[Amy]

I don't think you have to stock it every day.

[Lunchbox]

If we're selling, Amy, you're gonna have to stock it every day.

[Forest]

And if we put the Bobby Bone show logo on it.

[Bobby Bone]

We're not doing that.

[Forest]

It'll sell a lot more.

[Lunchbox]

This just has a logo on the.

[Forest]

Yeah. Buy a gift from the Bobby and Bone Show. Buy a snack from the Bobby Bone Show.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm not doing that. Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Can we at least use your face?

[Bobby Bone]

No.

[Lunchbox]

Like you drinking a Coke.

[Bobby Bone]

The risk is Bobby's bites people taking a hammer to it. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

Do people steal these things?

[Bobby Bone]

Machines? Yeah. Like, it's a difficult steal.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Bobby Bone]

They're probably not worth it. It's too large.

[Lunchbox]

And then where do we buy one? Like.

[Bobby Bone]

Okay, you're asking us the questions. You just brought this. How do you have all the questions?

[Lunchbox]

It's just initial this, dude. I'm bringing you the initial idea.

[Eddie]

I've seen one on Facebook. Marketplace.

[Amy]

I'm looking on Marketplace right now.

[Lunchbox]

Do you guys like the idea?

[Amy]

I hate it.

[Bobby Bone]

I think it's a hilarious bit. But I'm having nothing to do with the maintaining of it. I don't want any work to do. But then, like, it's already risky because I don't want to give you guys money.

[Forest]

You won't, though.

[Bobby Bone]

You won't. You'll be over it in six months.

[Lunchbox]

No, we will not do that.

[Amy]

Do we need a machine that also takes credit card.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Forest]

You don't even want one that takes cash. You want it cash for you now.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

So that's extra money.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I'm looking on Marketplace to see.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm not fully opposed to this, which I've been fully opposed in the past when it comes to thousands of dollars. One lunchbox can't be running it. And I don't trust any him with money.

[Forest]

Here we go.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Forest]

I made you money on everything I've ever. You've ever invested with me.

[Lunchbox]

He won't run it, but can he be part of the investment? So he can be one of the Guys to stock it.

[Bobby Bone]

That's running it, though, if we're counting on him to go and do work for it.

[Forest]

I mean, I cannot believe you've made a profit in this storage unit.

[Amy]

Wow.

[Bobby Bone]

It's mostly the difficulty to get money back.

[Lunchbox]

I mean.

[Bobby Bone]

I mean, whenever it's like, hey, it's time to pay, and you just never want to pay like that. To me, is not someone that I want to go into business with at a higher level. No, no, no.

[Forest]

There was never not wanting to pay the pallet. There was nothing to pay. We hadn't made any money.

[Lunchbox]

And, guys, let's look forward. Let's look forward into the future.

[Forest]

That's what I'm saying.

[Lunchbox]

Let's not look backwards. Amy, what are you finding?

[Amy]

I mean, I'm finding a lot of vending machines.

[Bobby Bone]

Your mic's not on.

[Eddie]

I pulled some up here. Betty, you want to.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, hold on.

[Bobby Bone]

Are you gonna put them on the screen?

[Lunchbox]

See, man, I gotta work this.

[Amy]

I mean, there's some combo machines where they have a section that is for cold drinks and then a section for snacks.

[Bobby Bone]

How much does that machine cost?

[Amy]

The combo one, 500.

[Bobby Bone]

The whole machine's.

[Amy]

But it says the drink part needs Freon.

[Lunchbox]

I bet you that's renting the machine. Amy, we don't want to rent. We want to own our machine.

[Forest]

Oh, it must go by Saturday. We gotta get that one. It's. It's gotta go. Guys. It's only $850 to buy.

[Lunchbox]

That seems really cheap. This guy said how much?

[Bobby Bone]

7,000 if you buy a machine.

[Forest]

Oh, that one doesn't take credit dollars.

[Bobby Bone]

You're gonna get an $850 machine.

[Forest]

Yeah, it doesn't take credit cards.

[Lunchbox]

You mean one that breaks all the

[Bobby Bone]

time you're gonna get takes credit cards?

[Forest]

That one does.

[Lunchbox]

See, look at that one. You got candy bars.

[Bobby Bone]

But see, that's probably also got to pay for the credit card subscription service, the Internet, the WI Fi, and then

[Amy]

what's the credit card processing fee?

[Bobby Bone]

That doesn't say.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, they didn't say that.

[Amy]

Oh, here's one for 5K.

[Lunchbox]

See, that's kind of what we want.

[Bobby Bone]

We just need to do more research.

[Eddie]

This one has the location included.

[Bobby Bone]

Wow.

[Amy]

Wait, how much is that one?

[Eddie]

Monthly sales of 150 to 300.

[Amy]

Oh, that's the one I'm looking at.

[Lunchbox]

You guys found the same one?

[Amy]

Is that a sign?

[Lunchbox]

That might be a sign.

[Bobby Bone]

300 bucks a month. Eddie said you make like 10,000amonth or something.

[Lunchbox]

Not for the year is the most

[Eddie]

you can reach is 400amonth in this one.

[Forest]

Yeah. So that's $3,600 a year.

[Lunchbox]

This is 10. This is $20,000.

[Amy]

So we might need a better location.

[Lunchbox]

Wait, what did you say $20,000 a year?

[Bobby Bone]

No, no, hold on.

[Forest]

If $400 a month, it says gross monthly sales is. I put it up at the high end, So I said $300. And I said.

[Bobby Bone]

Mike said 400. That's why your. I thought your math was $3,600.

[Amy]

Hmm.

[Lunchbox]

So this could be, like, the Bobby Bone show vending machine.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm not putting my name on a vending machine. No, no, no.

[Lunchbox]

I'm just saying, like, it's our vending machine. Like, will, this is our project.

[Bobby Bone]

I don't know that I want to go into a project with a whole bunch of people, though. Where.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. I found another machine similar to the other one, and they said their monthly average of revenue is 400 as well,

[Lunchbox]

so this Instagram dude was wrong.

[Amy]

We need higher traffic. No, we just need, like, we just need more machines.

[Lunchbox]

No.

[Bobby Bone]

Oh, my God. We're not going scale. No, no, no. We've never done it.

[Lunchbox]

What do you mean by higher traffic? Like, you need more people.

[Amy]

More people that will stop at the machine.

[Lunchbox]

Okay. Broadway. There's so many.

[Amy]

Dude.

[Lunchbox]

Broadway.

[Bobby Bone]

You know, you just walk around with it hanging off your chest.

[Forest]

Yeah. Open your jacket and have all the chips.

[Lunchbox]

That's not a bad idea.

[Bobby Bone]

Hey, you got Twitch Bar right here.

[Amy]

Until some drunk guy punches you and takes the chips.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, of course.

[Forest]

Yeah. You know, where you need to get into is, like, a middle school. Those kids will buy anything.

[Amy]

Yeah, but I'm sure the school has that set up so they get the money.

[Lunchbox]

Well, you can go to the. The school district, then just kind of.

[Bobby Bone]

Eddie said, offering 5% off.

[Lunchbox]

Five percent, it be yours.

[Amy]

I think we really need to do Laundromats.

[Forest]

I've already.

[Bobby Bone]

This is all the stuff I've already seen.

[Amy]

All of this is already in business.

[Bobby Bone]

I hear you. Car wash. Laundromat. That's, like, the most cliche thing, and I'm sure it works. It just takes a lot of time and attention and detail and money until.

[Amy]

It doesn't.

[Bobby Bone]

No, it always does.

[Lunchbox]

But we can split the deals.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm not. We don't.

[Lunchbox]

We can split the duties. Like, I can check it on Mondays.

[Bobby Bone]

You three or you two should do something.

[Forest]

Guy. This one's good. This one has five machines.

[Bobby Bone]

Dang.

[Lunchbox]

Which one? The one Mike pulled up.

[Forest]

Yeah. $12,000. Five machines. No profit sharing or contracts keep 100% of the profits.

[Lunchbox]

But who is this? Who's giving you that and the location?

[Forest]

This guy.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I don't trust.

[Forest]

Turnkey vending machine route for sale. Start earning day one. That means they already have it in place and we just have to take over the machine.

[Bobby Bone]

What's the cost on that?

[Forest]

12,000.

[Lunchbox]

And what are they getting from it?

[Amy]

So we do three grand.

[Bobby Bone]

Probably not having to do the work anymore.

[Forest]

It's gross sales. Look at that. Total sales from February through December was $10,000.

[Lunchbox]

You're saying we're buying them out?

[Forest]

Like, yeah, we're buying them out.

[Bobby Bone]

And if it were. But if it were so profitable, they probably wouldn't.

[Amy]

Maybe they're in. They have to move.

[Bobby Bone]

They could. You're right. You guys should do that. You three. And then just keep me updated.

[Lunchbox]

You don't want him.

[Bobby Bone]

No, I don't want a part of any four part thing where we have to stay connected for years and years to make money.

[Forest]

And the reason they're selling is their trans.

[Amy]

We do every day. We stay connected for years and years to make money.

[Lunchbox]

Like. What do you mean? Great point, Amy.

[Amy]

What we're doing here.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, we've been doing it for years.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

Guys, I'm good. I'd do something with you, Amy, if you wanted to go.

[Lunchbox]

What in the world? Why do you do that in front of us?

[Bobby Bone]

Why do you do that?

[Forest]

That is so disrespectful.

[Lunchbox]

So disrespectful.

[Bobby Bone]

I trust Amy, but what I mean, Amy doesn't scream a bunch of stuff and then not do it her whole life.

[Lunchbox]

That's not true.

[Forest]

I've never screamed and not done.

[Lunchbox]

You scream and do.

[Amy]

What about a claw machine?

[Forest]

No, those will make them. That's money.

[Lunchbox]

That sounds awesome.

[Amy]

Why don't you just say no?

[Forest]

That is so easy money. Because you can loosen the claw and they never win a prize because there's

[Amy]

a claw machine for 950.

[Lunchbox]

We don't want to be those people, though.

[Forest]

But there's a documentary on that.

[Lunchbox]

I know, but we want to give people prizes. Like, we don't want to not give. It just never takes a bear.

[Forest]

Look, Amy, look at that circle. Look at how close those vending machines are to each other. Right behind your right shoulder. Look, the reason he. He's going for larger clients. So he doesn't want the combo machines anymore. That's why. So it's not that. There's not.

[Bobby Bone]

Why don't you just do it yourself?

[Forest]

I don't have that Much money.

[Bobby Bone]

You can take a loan, though, if you believe in it.

[Lunchbox]

They will.

[Bobby Bone]

They loan you the money.

[Forest]

I mean, I'd love to have some partners.

[Lunchbox]

Why would you want.

[Forest]

That's the fun part about business.

[Bobby Bone]

No, it's not.

[Lunchbox]

No, it's not.

[Forest]

You don't.

[Bobby Bone]

If you can help, I can tell you right now, it ain't. That's the worst part.

[Forest]

You guys are different.

[Lunchbox]

Dude, my dad had a partner, and, like, they didn't talk. Like something went south and they just never talked again.

[Bobby Bone]

He said, you don't know, like you have a partner in any business.

[Forest]

I did. Forrest and I, we did lawn mowing.

[Bobby Bone]

How old were you?

[Forest]

How old were we? Like 11 or 12.

[Lunchbox]

He asked the same question.

[Forest]

Yeah. And he would. Yeah, it was good. It was really good.

[Amy]

Okay. All right.

[Bobby Bone]

So now I am what you're presenting at this point with this dynamic. Yeah, it's gonna be a no from me. Dang it. But that doesn't mean you can't do it. I am not the only thing that makes the world go around.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, but you got cash.

[Bobby Bone]

Well, everybody have to have equal cash. Well, no, everybody have to have equal cash.

[Lunchbox]

Amy.

[Amy]

Yeah? What? Would you think he would pay more

[Lunchbox]

than us for more return? Why not?

[Bobby Bone]

If I'm putting it on you guys to do the work, no chance.

[Lunchbox]

You just don't believe in us, Correct?

[Bobby Bone]

Correct.

[Forest]

That means he doesn't believe in you.

[Lunchbox]

Dude, no.

[Bobby Bone]

Y' all said us. I would. I would consider doing something with you. I would for sure do something with Amy. No chance. I would do thousands of dollars in lunchbox. He won't even pay Amy her thousands back from getting hacked.

[Lunchbox]

That's so true. I forgot about that.

[Amy]

Well, he's going to. I mean, I don't want to.

[Lunchbox]

You've been saying this for months. How?

[Amy]

Well, right now I'm just waiting to see what he does, but I. If I need to get legal involved, then I'll get. That's.

[Forest]

I mean, that's part of doing business.

[Amy]

Sometimes things happen awkward. It's going to get real awkward.

[Forest]

Sometimes business, it goes south. And that, I mean, that is part of investing.

[Lunchbox]

You're right. I don't want to do this lunch.

[Bobby Bone]

You don't. He keeps talking about what you're supposed to do in business, what he's done, and it's like, what have you done? When I was 11, I did a lawnmower business.

[Forest]

We've made profit in everything I've done with Forest. We made a lot of money.

[Lunchbox]

How much money? A lot a year.

[Forest]

Oh, we did it in the summers, man. It was great.

[Lunchbox]

How much? How much in the summer?

[Forest]

A lot.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bobby Bone]

For an 11 year old dude.

[Forest]

For an 11 year old, I mean, making $800 is a lot of money.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. So that's how much you made? 100, 800, probably.

[Forest]

I mean, we would just stuff it in a jar and then at the end of this summer, we split it. Weren't allowed to spend it all summer.

[Bobby Bone]

Nice.

[Lunchbox]

All right, all right.

[Bobby Bone]

Hey, speaking of money, did a listener tell you who brought up the hundred dollars?

[Amy]

Oh, a listener. So I did a. A, A book. Like, I ordered a pack of books by Kristen Hannah, and one of the books in the pack I'd already read. So I was like, I'm just gonna give this away. So, like, I was like, comment something you're grateful for. And I randomly picked somebody, and the person that I randomly picked, she was like, is so cool. I've been listening to y' all forever. Like, even back when y' all were in Austin. She's like, way back to the days when Bobby used to pay people a hundred dollars if they didn't like the show or something.

[Bobby Bone]

It's not quite what that was, but I couldn't remember.

[Amy]

I was like, what you.

[Bobby Bone]

Well, the most famous instance was when we moved to town. What I would do is pay people if they hated the show initially. I would go, if you listen to the show for two weeks every day and you still tell me you hate it, I'll give you a hundred bucks. And I did that a couple times in Texas, and then we moved here and we did it with someone in Kentucky.

[Lunchbox]

Somerset.

[Amy]

Somerset, Kentucky.

[Lunchbox]

We all went and then, well, we

[Bobby Bone]

bought all the listeners that met us in Somerset ice cream.

[Lunchbox]

I met someone last year, or maybe on the boat, maybe on the boat that said that they were there.

[Bobby Bone]

Oh, yeah.

[Lunchbox]

At that Sonic, we first moved here.

[Amy]

It's brutal.

[Bobby Bone]

And everybody's like, we hate. You hate your show. And I was like, if you just listen to it for two weeks and you still hate us, I will drive up to Somerset, Kentucky and give you 100 bucks. And so I made that bet with her. And then two weeks went by, and she was like, yeah, I still hate the show. We all jumped in the car and drove up and gave her 100 bucks. Then all the listeners that met us, we met him at a Sonic, and Sonic wasn't a sponsor or anything. And then we just bought everybody ice cream.

[Amy]

Okay, I forgot about that. But yeah, that's something that she mentioned to reference, like how Long she'd been listening.

[Bobby Bone]

Did you go to that? You went right to Somerset.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, I did go to that, but I forgot the whole $100 thing. And then she was talking about from.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, I did it a couple of times in Texas, too. Yeah, that was. I was like, if you hate the show, I never didn't pay the money. Every time I ever made that deal with someone, they still hated the show, and I paid them the money.

[Lunchbox]

You're a man of your word.

[Bobby Bone]

Kind of a bad investment.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

First couple times, probably stopped doing that. That podcast that you're listening to, the one about the Bachelor, Love Trapped. Yeah.

[Amy]

I finally listened to episode two. Slowly making my way through it. And it does get crazier.

[Bobby Bone]

It does.

[Amy]

He warned us in episode one, if you think it's crazy now, just wait. And it has so far left. Lived up to that hype. So much so that now I can't wait for the crazy for episode three, which turns out. Remember, you were on her podcast, which is so random and weird.

[Bobby Bone]

How was I to know years ago

[Amy]

that she was, I know, possibly allegedly

[Bobby Bone]

love trap someone and say she was pregnant with somebody's kid and they never even had sex?

[Lunchbox]

You didn't get the vibe she's done

[Amy]

it four guys, but she's.

[Bobby Bone]

She's done it to more than one.

[Amy]

Yeah. I think that the Bachelor guy is the fourth, but. But I haven't gotten to that part of it.

[Bobby Bone]

Like, allegedly.

[Amy]

This is allegedly. And I haven't gotten to that part of the podcast yet. I think that maybe comes out when they go to court.

[Bobby Bone]

Are you spoiling anything?

[Amy]

No, because this is stuff that I've read. It's out there. Like, it's not. No. And I'm not even. I don't even know if I'm telling you facts. I'm just telling you what I've heard, and it is a hot topic right now, which is. It's crazy to me. So I did some research after. In episode two, they talk about her parents. Her dad is some big famous radio guy out of San Francisco. I don't know if he was syndicated or what, but I'm like, he's in the radio hall of Fame. You're in the radio hall of Fame. How did. How did you get on her podcast? Is it maybe because of your connection to her dad?

[Bobby Bone]

I have no idea. I don't know her dad.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Amy]

Well, I was. I'm trying to piece together how in the world. His name is Ron Owens. He has a Wikipedia page.

[Bobby Bone]

Oh, nice. I'm sure he's very successful, and that's

[Amy]

how I learned he's in the radio hall of fame. But then I'm like, okay, so her and her mom were hosting the podcast

[Bobby Bone]

I was on with her and her mom.

[Amy]

That was her mom and her mom were the hosts. And then you were a guest.

[Lunchbox]

You remember that?

[Bobby Bone]

Sure don't.

[Amy]

I guess the mystery will still live on as to how you got booked for that, because it's not like you do a lot of podcasts. So that's what I'm thinking. There must have been some connection of, like, I thought I was going to bring this union. Like, oh, Ron. Yeah, Ron Owens. That's how I got on there. But anyway, that's her dad.

[Bobby Bone]

It probably was. Somebody reached out to, like, my PR team and was like, well, Bobby, do this. And then there's only a few of them that are like, yeah, we'll run it to them because they don't bring everything. And then most of the time it goes like this. Hey, do you want to do this podcast? I don't. Why not? I do 19 podcasts. Everything I want to say, I say through one of my outlets. So I'm kind of good. And I'm not promoting anything. I don't have a book or anything. I don't need to go on, like, a tour. So I'm good just doing it with my people in my contained area. And they're like, yeah, but we really think this would be a great look to this audience. And I'm like, okay, fine. And then I agree to do it. That's usually how that goes. Maybe it was one of those.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

Was that podcast ever. Was it popular?

[Amy]

Her podcast? Yeah. I'm not sure. I don't know. I already forgot.

[Bobby Bone]

What? I didn't get Love trapped. I saw it coming.

[Lunchbox]

Atta boy.

[Bobby Bone]

I said, no, no, you are.

[Amy]

The thing is, we were saying, good thing you're already married.

[Bobby Bone]

Oh, is that when it was. Was that recent?

[Amy]

Yeah. You did it in 2023.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Amy]

So you were. That's what the listener wrote me. The listener was like, good thing Bobby didn't get messed up with her, because she was just. Oh, man. Relentless. He. He couldn't have been more clear of, like, what happened with us the other night is never going to happen again. I just want a professional relationship with you, period.

[Bobby Bone]

But what happened was they hooked up. They didn't go all the way.

[Amy]

Correct.

[Bobby Bone]

No penetration.

[Amy]

No, no.

[Bobby Bone]

Right. But.

[Lunchbox]

But she's also agreeing to that.

[Amy]

What do you mean?

[Lunchbox]

Or is she saying no, there was penetration.

[Amy]

No, there wasn't. No. She's saying, I know this is crazy. We didn't do that. But like, I haven't gotten to what episode three says. But in episode two, they allude to a fact that just some of it was near there and on her body, like dry humping. And just.

[Bobby Bone]

I guess if you're a dude and you're naked and you don't do penetration, but it was close and there was like rubbing of it. You're like, I don't know, maybe some did get in there. Like, I could see that if it was so close. Because if like, we're just like in underwear, I'm not going to believe it. There's no chance if like there's skin on skin and like possibly some fluid.

[Amy]

But what are the.

[Bobby Bone]

None. I mean, very so, so, so low. But dudes are stupid. I'm just telling you now, we don't know anything. Generally speaking, we're stupid.

[Amy]

Yeah, well, I'm not going to give things. People still want to listen, but it is. It's just crazy. The Bobby Bone show is proud to be supported by Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, nonprofit Christian university based in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. They say higher education is outdated, irrelevant. Well, GCU doesn't settle for the status quo. They shatter it at gcu. Academically rigorous, industry driven programs are built to move at the speed of relevance, with practical skills, career readiness and opportunity for every learner. GCU believes education shouldn't be a privilege, but an affordable path forward for all. Grounded in Christian truth, GCU works to empower the next generation to lead with integrity, serve with purpose and help transform their communities, building a future that matters. GCU is purpose Driven education. Take action. Find your purpose at gcu. Private Christian, affordable nonprofit. Visit gcu. Edu to learn more.

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[Forest]

It feels good to get good news.

[Bobby Bone]

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[Amy]

Amazon has launched Amazon now where they're going to deliver things to you within 30 minutes. They announced this yesterday. It's starting in certain cities. Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia, Seattle. Here it's expanding to Austin, Denver, Houston, Orlando, Oklahoma City, Phoenix. By the year end it's going to roll out across the U.S. the one I mentioned there. Nashville?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Not yet.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

Who do you think? I mean we Earth.

[Amy]

Well, we have listeners everywhere. I don't know.

[Lunchbox]

Lunchbox. Go ahead, ask her.

[Amy]

Oh, somebody already had this story.

[Lunchbox]

No, ask her.

[Amy]

What?

[Bobby Bone]

How does that work?

[Lunchbox]

How is this possible?

[Amy]

Oh, well, they have warehouses and then you place the order and bam, they go to the warehouse, pick it up and deliver it to you.

[Lunchbox]

Bam.

[Amy]

Just like that.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm ready for the next level. When I predicts what we're going to order and they just have it, they just drop it off.

[Amy]

I think they could easily like your fridge will start taking note of what you're missing and make a grocery list for you. It'll just start. I know, that's what I'm saying. Like is it going to be like just assessing your entire house and all of a sudden it shows up on your porch creepy and cool. Also Amazon, Remember that book we all. I guess we had a wheel or competition. I had to read it. The fourth wing.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

It was like dragon. Dragon penetration.

[Amy]

Yeah. It's called Romantasy. Romance and fantasy combined. And why did I have to read that?

[Forest]

You lost the wheel.

[Bobby Bone]

Lost the wheel.

[Amy]

I was the wheel. Okay. And I saw that Amazon bought the rights to that and they're making a fourth wing TV series.

[Bobby Bone]

Oh. It's a massive book. It makes sense. Yeah. All right, Good for you. You can watch the pictures now.

[Amy]

Nah, I'm good.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm good around the room. Let's go to lunchbox.

[Forest]

Yeah. So the World cup is starting a little over a month, and Mexico was still going to be in school. Like, the kids were going to still be going to class. So they came out and said, we are ending school a month early.

[Lunchbox]

That's cool.

[Forest]

So the kids can watch the World Cup. We don't want them to miss any of the action. We love soccer. School's not important.

[Lunchbox]

A month early. Why a month early?

[Forest]

So they can watch all the games and they won't be in class. You understand?

[Lunchbox]

No. So they're gonna let him out a month early.

[Bobby Bone]

That's literally what he said.

[Amy]

Twice before they would normally.

[Morgan]

Now.

[Lunchbox]

Okay, listen to Amy. She understands me.

[Amy]

I don't.

[Bobby Bone]

I don'.

[Lunchbox]

I thought he meant they're going to let him out a month early to get ready for the games that are going to be in a month. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

[Amy]

They wouldn't be out till a month after. Like, during that month that would be happening.

[Lunchbox]

So they're going to start some early.

[Bobby Bone]

Got you there. No, she did.

[Lunchbox]

She.

[Amy]

I understood that I needed to explain it to him, but I. It's not because I thought what you thought.

[Bobby Bone]

That's what I'm saying.

[Amy]

Okay, thank you.

[Lunchbox]

No, I didn't.

[Bobby Bone]

I thought you were broken for a second.

[Lunchbox]

No, no.

[Forest]

I thought you were being funny.

[Bobby Bone]

No.

[Lunchbox]

You understand what I'm saying, right?

[Amy]

I mean, yeah, but we don't know how you got there.

[Bobby Bone]

You're saying a month before the game. I never thought that. I thought a month early. So school is out just in time for the games to start.

[Lunchbox]

Right. And I was like, what's the point of them getting out a month early before the games even start? But now I get it.

[Forest]

But. So they announced that last week and everybody was celebrating. The kids were going crazy. Well, they got backlash on the parents. And this morning they came out and said, never mind, we're going to Continue with school and you don't get the month off.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, well, there you go.

[Bobby Bone]

You let us go through that whole thing and then you could tell us there at the end.

[Forest]

Well, no, you guys, I mean, I didn't think it was going to be that crazy, but it was just like, oh, man, how exciting. And then it's like, no, I'm sorry. You're gonna finish school, huh?

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, you really got us there. All right, Morgan, do you want a

[Morgan]

space story or a murder trial story?

[Bobby Bone]

I love choose your adventure. Space. Duh.

[Morgan]

So NASA has officially, with the Hubble telescope, discovered more than 6,000 worlds that are out there in the universe beyond

[Bobby Bone]

our galaxy define world.

[Morgan]

So they're exoplanets. They are basically like hot Jupiter's super earths is how they define them. They have similar characteristics to ours. They orbit. They have like a sun that they orbit around and there's 6,000 of them.

[Lunchbox]

They have a sun.

[Morgan]

It's a different variation of. That's what they're looking for.

[Bobby Bone]

Sun is just a star.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I know, but they have their own. Where they, they. What do you call it? Orbit around. That's. I mean, that's a world. Well, but they're not saying there's living.

[Morgan]

Well, now that they've discovered far away. Yeah, like they just had to discover them first because the Hubble telescope was launched in 1990 and we didn't know anything about any planets.

[Bobby Bone]

Is it just coming back? It's taking that long to come back?

[Morgan]

It's, I think over the course of time that it's reported back, it's just. They just hit the milestone of 6,000 recently. So like now that they know about all of them now they can start understanding the worlds if there's potential of life there, all of these other things.

[Bobby Bone]

But it just takes so long to get it back.

[Lunchbox]

Because if it's light years.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, it takes, you know, if I think if something so far away. I was reading a story the other day where if it was millions of light years away and they were to have taken images of Earth during like the Roman days, it would just now be like parts of it just would get into them.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bone]

And they think that's what was happening right now. That's wrong how I told it, but that's what it is. It takes a long time for it to travel. But yeah, there's stuff out there.

[Morgan]

Well, and I don't know how you. Like, there's like, I look at this picture. This is like they, they mocked up what all of the planets potentially look like how you look at this, and you're like, yeah, there's. There's no other life out there.

[Bobby Bone]

I want to see that second version of sexy Uranus. There's hot Earth, spicy Jupiter, sexy Uranus. Yeah. It's wild that we think. Because

[Morgan]

isn't that cool?

[Bobby Bone]

Like, what we can see. There's nothing. That means what we can't see, there's also nothing. It'd be like scooping. I've heard this comparison. Going to the ocean, scooping out a coffee cup full of water and being like, well, there are no whales in here. I guess. There are no whales out there in the ocean.

[Amy]

Yep.

[Morgan]

Because it's so vast.

[Amy]

There's so much.

[Bobby Bone]

How can you say there's nothing?

[Morgan]

Well, and there's, like, a lot of people who are saying that they're searching for other Earths, but just because we're assuming that the only other version of life is an Earth like ours, when there's potential for all other kinds of

[Bobby Bone]

life, it's dimensional anyway.

[Lunchbox]

What do you mean by that?

[Bobby Bone]

Aliens finger quotes. They're not little green men from far planets, if you ask me.

[Lunchbox]

Can they be just like us? They have ball caps on, too.

[Bobby Bone]

It could be. There is a theory. It's people in the future.

[Amy]

Like, it literally is us.

[Bobby Bone]

Like, they've discovered time, a way to travel through time because of that.

[Lunchbox]

What you were saying light year because of the delay time like that.

[Bobby Bone]

No, but that would be interstellar, and that is an A plus movie. Oh, it's. It's maybe the best movie ever. Ever made.

[Lunchbox]

That's McConaughey.

[Morgan]

Was that better than Project Hail Mary? Because I'm considering.

[Bobby Bone]

We haven't started that yet. I've read the book. I think it's a different Project. Hail Mary is kind of fun.

[Eddie]

Yeah. More dramatic.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Mind blowing.

[Bobby Bone]

Same guy?

[Eddie]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Bone]

Martian. Martians.

[Lunchbox]

That's Matt Damon.

[Bobby Bone]

No, no, no, no. The writer of the Martian is also Project Hellman. Right?

[Eddie]

Yeah. And then Interstellar is Chris Christopher Nolan.

[Bobby Bone]

He didn't write it, did he?

[Eddie]

Yeah, wrote and directed it.

[Amy]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Bone]

Really? That's cool. Yeah. Interstellar might be the greatest movie of my lifetime.

[Amy]

I've never. I've just never that. I've never seen it.

[Bobby Bone]

You can't be distracted and watch it.

[Amy]

That's fine.

[Eddie]

It's a movie.

[Bobby Bone]

You're distracted right now.

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm looking at.

[Lunchbox]

No, I'm just.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm just saying, generally speaking, you're like. You live. Distracted.

[Amy]

No.

[Bobby Bone]

You didn't. Like. Whatever.

[Amy]

I didn't like what?

[Bobby Bone]

Nothing.

[Eddie]

I was like, It's a movie I had to watch, like, two times to fully appreciate it.

[Bobby Bone]

And you probably watched it dialed in. Yes.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Are they even in the same category or did I just make that up? Like, are they both sci fi projects?

[Eddie]

Space movies?

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah. Give us the murder story, too.

[Morgan]

Oh, so Alex Murdaugh. We all know who that is.

[Bobby Bone]

I don't. Remind me.

[Morgan]

The Murdoch trials.

[Bobby Bone]

I never got into it.

[Amy]

Is it spelled Murdoch, but then they call it Murdoch, correct? I don't know.

[Morgan]

Is it Murdoch?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Okay, so, yes, he's the one who was convicted of killing his wife and

[Amy]

his son after his son had a boat crash.

[Bobby Bone]

This is in Idaho. No, no. Okay. This is the one I, I got in late, so I never got in.

[Lunchbox]

Where is it? South Carolina.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Amy]

A Southern town.

[Bobby Bone]

Is he rich?

[Amy]

Yes, yes.

[Bobby Bone]

Family. Got it, got it, got it.

[Amy]

Legacy of legal, like, lawyers and judges and their family. So they just got a lot away with. Got away with a lot for a century.

[Bobby Bone]

Okay, so what happened?

[Morgan]

Well, he was convicted and acute, and it all went through, the whole thing, but now his murder convictions have been overturned.

[Bobby Bone]

Wow.

[Morgan]

There's now a new trial that is happening all because the county clerk, I guess, showed a sealed crime scene photo to a reporter. And so they now have grounds to overturn the conviction, which they did. And now there's gonna be a new trial.

[Bobby Bone]

So it's probably nothing. No new evidence. It's just you can't show a report or something that is.

[Morgan]

Yeah. So, like, it's a tainted jury now. So what they convicted him of, it's not a fair trial for him.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Amy]

That's crazy.

[Lunchbox]

They're just redoing it.

[Amy]

Definitely did it.

[Lunchbox]

But you allegedly know.

[Bobby Bone]

Well, he was convicted. So what do you say if it's overturned, though, you can't say that anymore. Like, all of a sudden, do you have to go allegedly again? Like, do you have to put allegedly in front of it if it's overturned again?

[Lunchbox]

I think so. Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

He was convicted. Now he's being retried digitally. Yeah, I, I, My interest isn't there because I didn't follow it initially, but

[Amy]

that's why you should go.

[Bobby Bone]

I'm good. There's, there's a lot of us, and

[Lunchbox]

there's a whole movie or like a series on that.

[Amy]

Yeah. With actors.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Really good pass.

[Bobby Bone]

Okay, Eddie. Already.

[Lunchbox]

I haven't done it, but, Amy, you're going to love this. So did you guys know that there is a birding birding competition. It's been going on for 43 years in New Jersey. So this is what, 24 hour birding competition where groups of people go out into the woods for 24 hours and identify as many species of birds that they can. And whoever identifies the most, they got to get confirmed. Confirmed they win the competition.

[Bobby Bone]

So does the judge go with each group to confirm they're not making up that they saw the blue peckard Willow Hill?

[Lunchbox]

I don't know because otherwise.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, yeah, otherwise. This is like I saw the blue peppered willow.

[Lunchbox]

They have to have audio recordings of the sound of that bird.

[Amy]

So not only have to see the bird, but the bird has to make a sound when in their sight.

[Lunchbox]

Correct. And then they jot it down. That is a speckled crocod. Crocker, croc, whatever. So what's crazy though, this is the craziest part. The per. The people that have won the last three years in a row are all teenagers. The fact that there are teenagers in this sport is amazing. I would think they're all in their like 80s.

[Bobby Bone]

You have to move pretty swiftly through the forest probably.

[Lunchbox]

And you got to stay up for

[Bobby Bone]

24 hours, all that matters. Maybe older people try, they just like fall asleep or pass out.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, I thought that was so interesting. There's a birding competition out there.

[Morgan]

But Bobby, is it a sport?

[Bobby Bone]

No, no, no.

[Forest]

Yeah, don't call it a sport.

[Bobby Bone]

Definitely not.

[Lunchbox]

Did I say sport competition?

[Amy]

Well, it's called the World Series of Birding.

[Lunchbox]

Is that what it's called?

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, but the World Series of Poker exists. That's not a sport. And I like poker. And that's definitely a skill. To be a good poker player, but not a sport. Cheerleading is definitely a sport. I saw somebody fighting about that. There are only a few things that cross into the criteria of no ball, but still a sport. Cheerleading for sure. A sport like you're throwing people in the air, you're flipping. If gymnastics for sure. A sport like there is, you have to be an athlete. There's scoring competition at multiple levels. Olympic. Yeah, it's a sport.

[Lunchbox]

So I feel like the difference is

[Bobby Bone]

like sport, game, competition and all can be the same. But I think you can also have individuals as well. But are you all three of those? Because like golf is golf, any sport is also competition. And what was the other one you said?

[Lunchbox]

Game.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, all that's still there. But there are certain things, like a game only Monopoly is a game that can also be a competition, but not a sport. But then, but then there's like What's a stupid game? Lunchbox plays Wordle. Like wordle is a game you just play by yourself.

[Lunchbox]

Not a sport.

[Bobby Bone]

But you're really not competing against anybody. Just yourself. And not a sport.

[Lunchbox]

Because you can make the argument that

[Bobby Bone]

if it has a ball, that's a ball. It's a sport.

[Lunchbox]

It's a sport. Yeah. But that's not true. Is billiards a sport? Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

It takes physical ability, strength, touch, strategy. Yeah, it's a tough one. But I'm gonna go yes, because there are balls. You have to hit the ball hard sometimes. It takes hand, eye coordination.

[Lunchbox]

Sure. English.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, I'm gonna go yes on that.

[Lunchbox]

Huh?

[Bobby Bone]

It's definitely on the edge. I'm gonna give you that. That's a good one. But I'm still gonna go with sport because how hard you hit helps. If you're tall, short, you got to find different angles. Yeah, I'm gonna go yes. I'm gonna go yes. On billiards.

[Lunchbox]

Okay.

[Bobby Bone]

Controversial. Yes.

[Lunchbox]

I do like, I like how you took time on that. You pause and you're like, Let me think about this for a second.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah. Because it's close, man.

[Lunchbox]

Billiards.

[Bobby Bone]

It's close. I love the episode of Fresh Prince where they go and they get, they're gonna, they get hustled and then they get doctor. They get Uncle Phil. And Uncle Phil was a hustler back in the day, and he pulls out his own old pool cue and he, he goes to the bar and takes all the money back. One of the best Fresh Prince episodes.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

Okay. Is that good? You good? A Delta Airlines plane got halfway across the Atlantic Ocean before turning all the way back. Passengers had to go on an eight hour trip to nowhere. They were actually going somewhere. But there's an operational issue, and they decided for us right now the best thing is to turn around. So they got, I believe, four front, four back. They had to fly and they just landed at the same airport.

[Amy]

How much was left till they got to the next.

[Bobby Bone]

This place they were leaving Atlanta, it Sundays, endured an eight hour flight to nowhere. I'm assuming that's because it was 4 and 4.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

But Delta Flight DL54 took off from Atlanta. Reverse course halfway through. It had to be, I'm assuming, going towards Europe. Yeah, because that's all water that direction. If you're going the other way, you won't have to go four and turn around.

[Lunchbox]

You can land, you can go.

[Bobby Bone]

Even if you go past California, you only have to come back an hour to turn around.

[Lunchbox]

But how bad was It. Did they say what it was?

[Bobby Bone]

They were going to Nigeria.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, gosh.

[Bobby Bone]

Well, they also could have been going south, I guess.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, that way.

[Bobby Bone]

Watery fair life. That sucks. You're. You're on the flight for eight hours, and you're the same exact place. You were nowhere.

[Forest]

That's terrible.

[Amy]

But you're alive.

[Bobby Bone]

Can you imagine, though, when you land? No. When the pilot tells you what's happening.

[Amy]

Oh, you don't tell.

[Bobby Bone]

You have to because there's a little map up on the screen.

[Lunchbox]

Right. And you don't feel the plane just make a U turn.

[Amy]

Well, I mean, you. You say there's something going on, we got to go somewhere. But you don't tell them it's back to where they came from.

[Bobby Bone]

You know, the whole cabin goes, oh,

[Amy]

you better hope everybody on that plane is mentally well.

[Bobby Bone]

That sucks.

[Amy]

And odds these days.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, odds are not good.

[Bobby Bone]

We talked about a story where a guy stole and swallowed Tiffany diamonds, and now there's an update. He's now representing himself in the. That case. So he's going to be his own lawyer. That'd be fun. To be your own lawyer just for the, like, thrill of it. You're probably gonna lose. That part sucks. But, like, to be able to be your own lawyer would be cool.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Forest]

It's fun. It really is. To represent yourself. Oh, you've done it in front of a judge and bring evidence. It's pretty exhilarating.

[Bobby Bone]

Like traffic ticket court, though.

[Forest]

Did I stand in front of a judge and argue? And then they had a. Their witness come up and I argue against me and I won.

[Bobby Bone]

I don't know that it happened like that, but I don't know that it does.

[Forest]

No, it did.

[Lunchbox]

He dropped the case, right?

[Forest]

Yeah.

[Listener Caller]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

I don't know.

[Forest]

The cop was there and he was. He tried to defend his ticket, and he lost.

[Bobby Bone]

The X rays of the diamonds were in him, and they have.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bone]

So, yeah, that's what's up. He's got 30 years in jail. Looking at him, though, the rush of defending yourself against 30 years in prison, like, you're probably gonna lose. But the serial killer did that.

[Lunchbox]

Which one?

[Bobby Bone]

The one that jumped out and escaped prison. They killed all the people.

[Amy]

Who was that?

[Bobby Bone]

And had the old documentary series about Ted Bundy. Ted, he represented himself. Really smart guy. And then escaped prison. Remember that? When he jumped out of the top. The window.

[Lunchbox]

I remember that. Will Hunting. Will Hunting also represented himself.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah. He's genius, though.

[Lunchbox]

So smart.

[Bobby Bone]

You guys remember Ted Bunny escape in prison?

[Forest]

No.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I remember that documentary.

[Bobby Bone]

It's crazy. Good looking dude. And back in the day you could just do whatever you wanted. Just drive across state line. They don't even keep records. Do some murdering, move to a new state.

[Lunchbox]

And John Morgan has his beetle.

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, that's true. Let's see if there's anything else. An artist has created a system. Now this isn't art per se, but this person is known as an artist. And what he's doing, he's saying his art. But it's true. It is a apocalypse early warning system. The tracks private jets around the world. If a large number of jets suddenly flee cities, it is a warning sign for the rest, the non rich, that all of the rich people know something and they're all getting out of there.

[Lunchbox]

I feel like during the super bowl this could go off.

[Bobby Bone]

Washington Post, super bowl and Masters.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, or the Masters. False alarms. Just Super Bowl.

[Bobby Bone]

Right. Is there anything else?

[Lunchbox]

Or that. What's that meeting that all the CEOs go to?

[Bobby Bone]

I don't know, is there one of those.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, don't they all go to like a location?

[Bobby Bone]

I don't think so. Not that we know about.

[Amy]

Like the Illuminati ones that do that.

[Lunchbox]

The tech guys.

[Amy]

The tech guys, they go to some mountain.

[Bobby Bone]

But that's only like 12 people, isn't it?

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no, it's.

[Amy]

Oh really? Well, the movie they did about it with Steve Carell, they had.

[Bobby Bone]

I think you just get in that convention in Las Vegas.

[Amy]

Poor guys.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Bone]

The nes or whatever it is.

[Lunchbox]

No, I've been to that. No, I've seen it and they've had pictures of the airport where it's just like hundreds of private jets.

[Bobby Bone]

I mean look that up though. I'd be curious to know more about it.

[Forest]

Yeah, CEO convention.

[Bobby Bone]

Because I don't want to discount you.

[Lunchbox]

And you be right because I've seen the, the image.

[Eddie]

Cold.

[Lunchbox]

What's it called? No, I don't know what it's called, but all the tech guys like Bezos Musk.

[Bobby Bone]

Okay, you're just saying rich people right now.

[Lunchbox]

No, no. Who's the Facebook guy?

[Bobby Bone]

Zuckerberg.

[Lunchbox]

Zuckerberg. All them have been there.

[Amy]

That's like a tech summit. Billionaire summer camp.

[Lunchbox]

That's it.

[Amy]

Okay, don't just grab an invitation only retreat in Idaho.

[Lunchbox]

Idaho.

[Amy]

Where tech and media titans like hundreds of Tim Cook, Sam Altman meet for private discussions. Let me see.

[Bobby Bone]

That's not hundreds of people.

[Amy]

No, look, there's no way it's hundreds.

[Lunchbox]

I saw the picture in.

[Amy]

The airport was packed Maybe there was other people just at the airport in Idaho.

[Bobby Bone]

There's not going to be some private deal with Tim Cook, Zuckerberg, Etc, where it's this general mission.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Bone]

You're a CEO.

[Lunchbox]

No, it's invite only. It's invite only.

[Amy]

Oh, wow. Okay. Well, no, no, no, no.

[Bobby Bone]

I think Eddie jumped on a story

[Amy]

that you found Sun Valley Conference.

[Lunchbox]

That's it.

[Bobby Bone]

That's what I thought he was doing.

[Lunchbox]

Where is that one? I don't know.

[Amy]

There's 300 guests. That's got.

[Lunchbox]

That's it, dude. But that is it.

[Bobby Bone]

No, you just said the other one was it.

[Lunchbox]

I swear I probably did a story on this maybe like two years ago.

[Bobby Bone]

Lunchbox. What'd you find over there?

[Forest]

It says 60 high profile moguls and at least 25 billionaires attend.

[Bobby Bone]

Okay, that's not really what he's saying that any. All the CEOs go to this.

[Amy]

The Sun Valley Conference.

[Forest]

That's the Sun Valley. The other one, it didn't really say.

[Lunchbox]

I remember being called a summit of some sort.

[Amy]

Well, I just said billionaire summer camp and you said that's it.

[Lunchbox]

Well, I don't know.

[Amy]

Yeah, every summer they gather summer camp for billionaires.

[Bobby Bone]

How about the CEO Super Summit?

[Lunchbox]

I'm surprised you haven't heard.

[Bobby Bone]

Would that be it? The CEO Super Summit?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, yeah.

[Forest]

Wow. The guest list is exclusive. Attendance has grown with 628 names listed in 2012.

[Lunchbox]

That's it. Lunchbox. What's it called?

[Forest]

That's the.

[Amy]

Okay. Oh, here.

[Forest]

Company. Sun Valley Conference.

[Lunchbox]

That's it.

[Amy]

No, no, no, no.

[Bobby Bone]

Hey, I respect it, dude. I respect what you're doing. You're committed.

[Amy]

I think I found it. It says an estimated 175 private jets touched down in Sun Valley, Idaho on Tuesday, kicking off the secretive annual retreat on. Colloquially. Colloquially, colloquially known as the summer camp for billionaires.

[Lunchbox]

What year was that?

[Amy]

2025.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah, last year. So they'll have another.

[Bobby Bone]

You don't just say, yeah, last year. Telling you, dude, I'm sure there's something

[Amy]

they need to keep better secret of it because then now you know where all these rich powerful people are.

[Eddie]

I think that is it because I'm seeing that photo Eddie was talking about of all the private.

[Lunchbox]

So you see it at the airport?

[Eddie]

Sun Valley one?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bone]

How do you get to that one?

[Amy]

You fly.

[Lunchbox]

You pulling up?

[Amy]

What do you mean?

[Bobby Bone]

No, like how do you get an invite? Eddie made it sound like any CEO of any company can go.

[Lunchbox]

I try to pull it off the computer. It's the Diamond One. It's different.

[Eddie]

Yeah, you have to be a top tier CEO, mogul or leader in tech.

[Lunchbox]

So we're not invited?

[Bobby Bone]

I don't know, dude. We get a few of those little vending machines,

[Lunchbox]

we're on our way.

[Bobby Bone]

Next thing you know, dude, we're at Sun Valley.

[Lunchbox]

All of us.

[Bobby Bone]

We made it.

[Lunchbox]

So what do you guys do? Oh, dude, we bought vending machines.

[Bobby Bone]

We bought 11 vending machines. 400 bucks a month. Slime Valley.

[Amy]

It says while not a guarantee, a net worth in the billions is the standard baseline to be invited.

[Lunchbox]

They're like, you guys are the pallet ones too.

[Bobby Bone]

You guys.

[Amy]

It says what? Select political leaders, prominent philanthropists and public intellectuals are occasionally invited. So I would imagine their net worth isn't the same, but they contribute in some way.

[Bobby Bone]

I'll never be invited now, and I think I've said this before, I got invited to the one in San Francisco.

[Amy]

What do you mean?

[Lunchbox]

But the summit. You got invited this thing and you played dumb the whole time.

[Bobby Bone]

Not that different.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, what camp? Oh, Illuminati. Oh, Bohemian Grove.

[Bobby Bone]

Yes.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's a cool one. What is that, scuba?

[Forest]

My ex wife's uncle or something used to run that.

[Bobby Bone]

It's like, it's like, like world leaders

[Amy]

go like, yeah, how do you get invited?

[Lunchbox]

What were you gonna do? Tell some jokes?

[Amy]

How do they invite you? Like with a pigeon?

[Bobby Bone]

No, I just got a call.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, that's cool.

[Amy]

You're like a bird flies to your house.

[Bobby Bone]

It's like, hey, we'd like to invite you out. And I was like, oh.

[Amy]

Oh, it's all male.

[Bobby Bone]

What does that mean?

[Amy]

Oh, it says all male.

[Lunchbox]

Great.

[Bobby Bone]

I didn't. I didn't go.

[Forest]

Is that bad?

[Amy]

It looks scary.

[Bobby Bone]

Well, it.

[Amy]

I think there's some private, all male Bohemian club Annual summer retreat. What else is going on there?

[Lunchbox]

Do you think there's some, what, crazy parties?

[Amy]

Some bath houses?

[Bobby Bone]

Yeah, because I don't know. I didn't go. I didn't go.

[Amy]

Wait. You would have to pay an initiation fee.

[Bobby Bone]

I didn't go.

[Lunchbox]

You have to get initiated.

[Bobby Bone]

I didn't go.

[Amy]

I wonder what initiation is.

[Lunchbox]

I don't want to know.

[Bobby Bone]

I didn't go. Mind me saying I got invited. I'll never get invited again, but that's okay. Too long a flight. I get dehydrated.

[Forest]

That's why you didn't go? That's what it was.

[Bobby Bone]

This is too long a flight, man.

[Amy]

The one of the activities is a cremation of care ceremony.

[Bobby Bone]

They have people that speak like the President, like Bill Gates. Like, I'm just picking prominent people. And then you hang out, you learn, you share information, and you move on with life.

[Lunchbox]

Wow.

[Bobby Bone]

But you stay in contact.

[Lunchbox]

What's the Cremation of Care, Amy? Like, don't. Don't care about certain things?

[Amy]

Question. I don't know. It's just one of the activities listed. That sounds a little.

[Bobby Bone]

I got Cremation of Care of this podcast at this point.

[Lunchbox]

Right.

[Bobby Bone]

Tired and ready.

[Lunchbox]

Don't care anymore.

[Amy]

Ominous. Is that the word? Women? Although no women. No woman has ever been granted full.

[Bobby Bone]

Why don't you say woman?

[Amy]

Because I. Correcting.

[Bobby Bone]

You're a weirdo.

[Amy]

No woman, although no woman has ever been granted full membership in the Bohemian Club. Four women have been named honorary members. I don't know. Elizabeth Crocker.

[Bobby Bone]

Betty's mom?

[Amy]

No. Elizabeth Crocker Bowers. Margaret Bowman.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And Sarah Jane Lippincott.

[Bobby Bone]

Loved her on Sex in the City.

[Listener Caller]

Oh.

[Amy]

Who are these women?

[Lunchbox]

But they're honorary. They're not part of it.

[Bobby Bone]

All right, everybody good?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. All right.

[Bobby Bone]

I think that'll do her. Anything from you?

[Amy]

Oh, I found out what Cremation of Care is. It's a theatrical production in which some of the club's members participate as actors. So it's not like the Burning.

[Bobby Bone]

I told them, I'll only come if

[Lunchbox]

we do butt stuff, and they said, you're in.

[Bobby Bone]

They said, well, you'll find out. And I said, you can't guarantee I'm not gonna come.

[Amy]

Oh, so this is kind of related to butt stuff.

[Bobby Bone]

That's what your follow up story is. Here we go.

[Amy]

Last night. Okay.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, my gosh, this gets worse.

[Bobby Bone]

This is our last story. Go ahead.

[Amy]

Last night.

[Bobby Bone]

Last night we did some butts up.

[Amy]

No, Jay saw me. That. My friend Jay was saying that to some other guy. He said that he had a tick, like, near his butt, but he couldn't tell because he couldn't see. So he's like, I need you to look. And the guy was like, no, man, I'm not looking. He's like, no, I'm serious. Like, this could be bad. And he went on and on about, like, what ticks can do to you if they stay in your body for that long. And he really needed help. And then finally the guy was like, okay, fine, I'll look. And he's like, oh, you're disgusting. I can't believe. I can't believe you look at my butt. Like you're so.

[Lunchbox]

It was a trick.

[Bobby Bone]

That's a stupid thing we think was funny.

[Forest]

Totally that's hilarious.

[Lunchbox]

Totally. But that's not fair to think.

[Bobby Bone]

It's disgusting. It's not.

[Amy]

No, I know, but he got it. Like, he was like. He made it to where, like, he. He convince this guy to then be compassionate and look at his butt. And the minute he was finally willing to help him out, turns on him, and he's like, oh, you sicko. I can't believe you want to see my butt.

[Lunchbox]

That's messed up, man.

[Bobby Bone]

That's weird. You know what it is. Any of you guys needed? If you had a tick in your butthole, I would look because.

[Lunchbox]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bone]

And I would hope you would look at mine too. It wouldn't be something I would want. At first. I take my phone and try to bend down with a camera and record a video, right? Like, I'd spread and try to find it.

[Lunchbox]

That'd be the first thing.

[Bobby Bone]

That'd be the first, like, admit.

[Listener Caller]

Sure.

[Bobby Bone]

In fact, it was like, man, I don't know. I'd hope you guys. It'd be uncomfortable, but I would hope you'd do it for me, because I'd do it for all of you, but

[Lunchbox]

Are you messing with us? Are you gonna do what this guy.

[Forest]

I'm not agreeing to this.

[Lunchbox]

I was about to be like, totally, dude.

[Bobby Bone]

No, I would do it. I would do it.

[Lunchbox]

I would do it.

[Bobby Bone]

I do it. All right.

[Amy]

Would you do it, man?

[Lunchbox]

Think about the scar. You would get scarred for life for

[Bobby Bone]

having a tick or looking for looking.

[Lunchbox]

Even if you saw a tick and you helped him out and he saved his life. Right.

[Bobby Bone]

You wouldn't be scarred for life.

[Lunchbox]

Who cares?

[Amy]

Butthole looks like, but it is what it is.

[Bobby Bone]

We all have them.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, I would forever in my mind be like, yeah, I mean, I know what his butthole looks like.

[Amy]

So you would do it?

[Lunchbox]

I would definitely do it.

[Bobby Bone]

Oh, got him.

[Lunchbox]

Weirdo.

[Amy]

You do it.

[Bobby Bone]

All right, we're done. Thank you, guys, and we will see you tomorrow. Bye, everybody.

[Amy]

Mom, can I have Lingokids?

[Bobby Bone]

Dad, Lingokids, please.

[Lunchbox]

When did we become the Lingokids house?

[Amy]

No idea. Last week it was dinosaurs. This week it's lingo.

[Lunchbox]

Kids, why Lingokids?

[Amy]

Because it's the best thing ever. We can play games with astronauts, wild animals, and superheroes.

[Bobby Bone]

With more than 4,000 interactive games, songs, and shows, LingoKids is the number one entertainment platform for young kids.

[Amy]

So no dinosaurs and dinosaurs, Lingokids, everything

[Lunchbox]

kids love, download it for free.

[Geico Gecko]

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[Forest]

It feels good to get good news.

[Bobby Bone]

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