Bobby meets Max McNown for the first time and gets the story behind his unconventional rise in music. Max talks about growing up in Oregon, busking on the streets for more money than he made at Starbucks, learning guitar at 21 and using Omegle reaction videos to get his music in front of people. He also talks about going viral with “You and the Pines,” moving to Nashville and the pressure that comes with his growing success. The Anonymous Inbox asks: Is it rude to leave a wedding before the reception is over? Bobby has strong feelings about it! We also debate whether couples having their own rooms actually makes for a better marriage. Plus Easy Trivia and Fun Fact Friday.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hey, welcome to Friday's show, Morning Studio.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Morning!
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Alright, we're gonna play easy trivia in about three minutes.
Stretch it out. Everybody get loose.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Eddie's drinking water. Yeah, I gotta get the old throat wet.
Throat wet, get your brain. Lunchbox, what are you doing
to warm up?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I do my neck back and forth.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Alright.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Whip it back and forth.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Let's do a category, ninth grade math.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, great.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
My favorite.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
This is going to make me mad.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Amy, what's the square root of 81? Nine. Man, Nell,
she's ready this morning. Lunchbox, what's the perimeter of a
square with a side length of nine?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Nine times four, whatever that is.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
36.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (00:53):
Dang.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You got intimidated by the words, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Yeah, there's so many words.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But if you just sit in it, you can get it.
I'll try.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
He did.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
He said, okay, square four. All equal sides. Like, just
sit with it, okay?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What is the question mark? I don't understand. Maybe this
is too small for my eyes.
Speaker 8 (01:14):
See?
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Or it's too small.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I think the typing's too small. I got an Amy
thing going on right now. Let me do a different one.
What's the area of a rectangle with a length of
eight and the width of five?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Okay. The area is everything inside of it, right? Or
maybe it's the perimeter.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
What's the area of a rectangle with a length of
eight and a width of five?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I'm just going to take a guess. I'm going to
multiply eight times five, and that is 45.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's 40. You did the right process, but the answer
is 40.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Fives are the easiest. Gosh, I'm so dumb.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You are.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
Not dumb.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I have dyscalculia.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, but that's multiplication tables. Memorize them. I know. That's
not reading something backward.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
But that's also not, it's not just reading something backwards.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Thank you, Amy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But he can memorize it regardless.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I know, that's just a misconception of like things being
jumbled at some point.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, you're reading backwards. Just stop doing that.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Backwards reading you are.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Gosh, I was so close.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You were.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Were you?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You're hearing us backward now too. And now the easiest
trivia game in the history of the world. It's called
Easy Trivia Game. Amy had a big win last week.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They kept Eddie from winning the championship.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Sure did.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Saved the game, Amy.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
All right, category one, Bobby Bone Show tattoos. Eddie, you're
wearing the tiara. You're the champ. You'll go first. Who
has their mom and grandma's initials tattooed.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
On their arm?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Oh, that's you, Bobby.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That is correct. Amy, who has Joy tattooed on their wrist?
Speaker 8 (02:43):
I do.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Abby, who has a Pokemon tattoo on their leg? Mike D.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Lunchbox, who has the words mirror ball smally tattooed on
the back of their arm?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Oh, that's Bobby.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's correct. Good job. Nobody goes home first round. But
now if you miss it, you'll hear... You've been boned.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Don't get boned.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Eddie, if you win one more, you're the champ.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
I love it. Eddie, four.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
Amy, one. Hi, Abby.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Hi, Lunchbox.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh, four, one already? All right, here we go. Category one,
things the Bobby Bone Show hates.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Oh, great.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What creamy or crunchy sandwich spread does Bobby hate? Addie,
this is you first. What creamy or crunchy sandwich spread
does Bobby hate?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Peanut butter.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Amy, which animal does Lunchbox hate?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Snakes.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
He just acted like there was a snake right next
to him.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Got the chills.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Abby, what small... Fruit, some would consider a vegetable, often
found on pizzas and salads, and in martinis, does Amy hate?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Olives.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Correct. Lunchbox, what rock band, fronted by Chad Kroger, does
Eddie hate?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh, he's, what are their names? Nickelback. Correct.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Good job.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Next up, 80s music.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh, crap.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Eddie, which duo had the hit song, Wake Me Up
Before You Go-Go?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Wham.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Correct. Wham. Amy, which singer performed the hit song Like
a Virgin? Madonna. Correct. Abby, which singer recorded the hit
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Cyndi Lauper.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Lunchbox, which rock band sang the song Don't Stop Believin'? Journey.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Everybody's still in. If Eddie wins, he repeats his champion.
The category is Famous Amy's. Eddie, what singer is known
for hits like Baby Baby and That's What Love Is For?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Amy Grant.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Wow, good one.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Amy, which comedian starred in Parks and Rec as Leslie Knope?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Amy Poehler.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Correct. Abby, which Bobby Bone Show co-host also hosts the
podcast Feeling Things?
Speaker 8 (05:01):
I love this. Amy Brown. Correct.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Lunchbox, which British singer recorded hit songs Rehab and Back
to Black?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Amy Winehouse.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I was out of Amy's.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The category is... Easy trivia. The answer starts with K.
What green leafy vegetable is often used in salads and smoothies, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Kale.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The answer starts with K, Amy. What condiment is made
from tomatoes and used on french fries?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Ketchup.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Abby, what martial art from Japan focuses on strikes using
punches and kicks?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Karate.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Correct. Lunchbox, what toy consists of a colorful tail attached
to a lightweight frame and is flown in the wind?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh, a kite.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Correct. Next category. Hello around the world.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Eddie.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Konnichiwa is hello in what language?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Konnichiwa.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Konnichiwa. Is hello in what language?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Oh, man. It's either China or... Chinese or Japanese?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Konnichiwa is hello in what language?
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I have no idea. Okay, hold on. Give me a second.
Let me think. What's Chinese? Konnichiwa. Why are you bowing.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
To both and just saying konnichiwa?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
That's what they say, konnichiwa, when they say hi.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You're bowing for both and saying konnichiwa to both.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
I don't know the difference. Could it be both? Do
they do it in both places?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I got to go Chinese.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Chinese.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Japanese.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Oh, my gosh. What's the Chinese? Hello.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I don't know. I know Japanese.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Konnichiwa.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Been to Japan.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Konnichiwa.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I would have known that.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
All right. Get it wrong, guys.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Amy, aloha is hello in what language?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Amy, just answer it.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
How do I say this language?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yellow card.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
She knows what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yellow card.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You're out.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Yellow card.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Aloha is in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I need an answer.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But is the language Hawaiian?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I need an answer.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Or is it something not Hawaiian?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay. I didn't know if it was something else like,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Abby. Bonjour is hello in what language?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
French.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Ciao is a common way to say hello in what language, Lunchbox?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Ciao?
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Say it again.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Ciao.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
Ciao.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now I'm saying it like him.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Ciao.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah. Is a common way to say hello in what language?
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Pfft.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I'm not cultured enough to know this crap.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Australian.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I thought he was Italian. Is it Italian?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
It's French, right?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's Italian.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
No, bonjour.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I would have gotten them all wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Eddie was bowing to both going, Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa. And he
was doing nothing different and going, Chinese or Japanese? Konnichiwa.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I took my crown off. I don't deserve to wear it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So we have Amy and Abby left.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Okay. Good job, Amy.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Silent letters is the next category. Silent letters.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
What branch of science studies the mind and behavior, Amy?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
This is a part of science?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
What branch of science studies the mind and behavior? The
category is silent letters.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's got to be psychology. But I didn't know that
was a branch of science. But that's the mind and behavior.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Your answer is?
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Psychology. Psychology.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Correct. The P is silent in psychology. Psychology.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But I didn't know if there was another psychosis.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Abby, what prehistoric flying reptile had large wings and a
long beak? What prehistoric flying reptile had large wings and
a long beak?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Pterodactyl.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Correct. It's spelled with a P. Pterodactyl.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The category is round things. Amy, what round fruit is
red or green and keeps the doctor away?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
An apple.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Abby, what round object gives off light in the sky
during the day?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
The sun.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Correct. The category is? The answer rhymes. What object, Amy,
would a kid use in their bedroom to provide illumination
during bedtime?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
A nightlight.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Correct. Abby, what Quentin Tarantino movie stars Uma Thurman as
an assassin?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Kill Bill.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Let's rest.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Famous artists. What mysterious street artist is known for political
graffiti and identity being unknown?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Banksy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Correct. Abby, what Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Michelangelo.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Advanced animals is the category to remain.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Advanced animals.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
What is often recognized as the smartest farm animal?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
A pig.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
What a guess.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Abby, what land animal has the longest tongue and uses
it to eat insects?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh, I was going to say giraffe, but anteater?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Okay. Wow.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Both of you guys, good job.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I did a project in first grade.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Amy, what is the only mammal capable of true flight?
Speaker 8 (10:20):
A bat. Correct.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Abby, what's the largest species of bear? Still in the
category of advanced animals.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Oh, polar bear.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Dang.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The category is history.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
History.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Amy, what ancient Egyptian queen is known for her relationship
with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Cleopatra?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Abby dubbed the Black Death. What plague swept through Europe
in the 1300s? The Black Plague? No, the Bubonic Plague.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh, the Bubonic Black... Oh, man.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wow, what a game. And she just jumped too quick.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I did.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Great game, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Ha ha.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
By the way, Ni Hao is hello in Chinese.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Good, good.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
What a game. And here's what I want to say
before we leave.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Ciao. Ciao. Ciao, everybody.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Hello, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Do you think it's okay to leave a wedding before
the reception is over if you've already eaten and said congratulations?
Signed the early exit.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Of course. Now there could be many reasons. We had
a friend that got married. We just showed up to
the reception, said congratulations, and then snuck out immediately. Now
we had a two month old baby, eight weeks old.
So we had a real reason, but we didn't want
to be like, we got to go. We got a baby.
We didn't want to say we had to go. We
just said, congratulations. That's awesome. What a great wedding.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Love you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
All right, let's go to the team.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
We're out of there.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Um, Unless you are in the extremely close circle, the
people getting married aren't going to notice if you're there
or not. So you can leave. You can Irish goodbye,
rock star goodbye. Not sure which one of those you
can say, but you can leave. So go to the reception,
watch a couple speeches. When everybody starts to dance, that's
(12:22):
easily free time because people are walking out and around anyway.
So I would say that you.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, totally. I think it's fine. But I'm with you on, yeah,
it's a, it's a scale. Cause like a super close friend, you're,
Probably not going to do that, but also if for
whatever reason you need to, but the closer you are,
the longer you stay.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I'm very close to the person we had to leave for,
but we had a baby.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But yeah, that's what I mean. Also, they're close to you,
so they'll understand.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Like if it's your kid getting married, you should probably stay.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
For the whole day.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm just saying, you should probably stay for the wedding
and the reception at the end, maybe help clean up.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But- Your thoughts?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I always feel pressure to wait till you do the
whole throwing rice and like getting the limo and watching
them off. I feel like every wedding I've been to,
I have to stay for that. And that's the whole thing.
And maybe that's on me, but I always feel the pressure.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You're putting that pressure on yourself. You are a people pleaser.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
I don't want to feel bad for like leaving.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Because, you know, people.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's not a bad thing, dude.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
I know.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
But the couple usually likes to walk around and thank
their guests.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
But they're not going to notice if you're not there.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
They're not going to be like, man, where's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Not if you're like tier two.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
If you're a groomsman, you'd probably stay.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
The whole thing, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
You'd probably stay, probably stay. But no, you can leave.
But you do need to go to the beginning of
the reception or leave immediately after the wedding where no
one sees you because they're not going to notice even
when you get to the reception unless you have a
role who's there and not there. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's hard. It gets so late. Weddings are late.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
They last forever.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, I sneak out of.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
All of them.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You know, my friend is in a wedding coming up
that is on, it's an out-of-town wedding. I think it's
in Arkansas, Bobby.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Holy crap, I probably know them.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
They're my cousins.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
No, they live here.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
They're probably cousins.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They're having it in Arkansas because some venue they like there.
So everyone's having to travel in the weddings on a
Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Probably hard to get the venue then, huh?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I just thought an out-of-town wedding for most people, and
it's during the week.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
It's tough.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It's a big ask.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's a big ask.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It's a big ask. I'd probably leave that one early.
Get back home from work the next day.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Close it up. Couples who have their own rooms, not
even just bedrooms, but have their own rooms they can
go to that's like their own space, are so much happier,
is what this says. Do you guys have a place
in your house that's just yours?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
No.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I used to.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
The bathroom oh yeah your game room well i.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Had three i have three tvs in a room and
i'd play video games in the middle and then in
both i'd watch games on the sides then we had
a baby and now all my stuff's gone there's a
big play mat in there my video game chair is
nowhere i don't even know where it is.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
They got rid of it it's totally gone it's.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Somewhere it's somewhere i don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Where that's crazy that's what happens man.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah and then i had a golf simulator gone oh
yeah yeah that's because we need a room so i
used to have yeah i used to be there now
i'm just a dad that Has to go sit in
the toilet.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah, that's it. That's my only privacy. And it's still
not private. Kids still come in there and ask you questions.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
And then you get out and your wife's like, why
were you in there for so long? I'm like, what
do you think I was doing?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
A survey said that couples who have a designated personal
space at home are happier and healthier in their relationship.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
So this isn't a sleep in a different room. This
is just.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, just like your own spot.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's like a home office, your workshop, a little reading corner.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
A reading corner.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Okay, nerd.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Okay, a game room.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Or a gaming room.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I used to have one of those.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
That was fun.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
A game room?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, that's where I go. That was the one. The
baby now has three TVs all beside each other. If
the baby wants to do DraftKings and Gamble, she's great
because she has three TVs there. It's wild.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I guess you have to go for a walk.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What do you do if you need to get away?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
The walk. The walk or I go.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Don't you drive?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
No.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I don't really drive.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That's just when you're really leaving.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
I'll take the dog for a walk, but my dog's
getting older now and I have to drag her sometimes
because I'm like, I don't want to go back. The
dog's like, I can't walk anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You have to carry your dog on a recharge walk
for you. Lunchbox, what do you do?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Dog walk is a good one or go play golf.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I mean, since I can't run with my pain, I
can't go for a run. That was what I used
to do. But I've been injured for over a year,
and so I haven't been able to do that.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So you go play a full nine holes or 18
holes of golf?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That's like hours and hours.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
It's getting away, man.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I mean, I used to do that, but now my kids.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Like to play golf.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You could also do the driving range, right?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That's not fun.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Or just go hit balls?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
If you just need a little space.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's not fun.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's not?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
No, because say you're hitting the ball really well, and
you're like, gosh, I could have done this on the course.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm sure we should have done the course doing it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Is that really how y'all think?
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well, why do I see so many people on the
driving range all the time?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Because they're learning how to play.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And they're probably doing it the right way, just practicing.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
That's how you get better, usually.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, that's the real way that you do it.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Right, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But did you have, when you were married, did you
have a space?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
The pool. Where the clothes are. Now you have the
whole house.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Is that cool?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Every other week, I have the whole place to myself.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Because no kids.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah. It is kind of nice. Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I had my little podcast room. Sometimes I'd
go hide out in there because I had a TV.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Wouldn't you hide in the closet some?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh, my closet. Oh, yes, you're right. That's mostly where
I would go to cry. I started to keep snacks
in the corner. Yeah, like in the back, I would
have some wine. I definitely hung out there a lot.
And I would call my sister.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Mm-hmm. You had wine hidden in your closet for cries?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Hey, man, that sounds like a problem.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, you know what? I think it ended the way.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It should have ended. No, it wasn't for a problem.
It was more for convenience. Like, I would just have it. Like,
if I would FaceTime my sister and I'd have a
glass of wine, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You had wine in your closet.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It wasn't abuse of wine.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Did you have wine in your closet?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, but you understand there was different reasons for that, too. Like, anyway,
it was fine. I did it in my own closet
because my husband and I, at the time, we had
his and her closets. Like, we didn't share a closet,
so he had his own closet and I had mine.
And I could go in there and, yeah, shut the
door and hang out.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And drink.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
No, have a glass.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's time for the good news.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
With Bobby.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Tell me something good.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Teenagers, a brother and sister from South Florida have created
an app. And so it's called Pizza for a Purpose. And, again,
they're just teenagers. And they had seen so many people
in their area that were struggling with food insecurity. So
they made this app. And businesses that have food that
they're going to throw away can just get on the
app and go, hey, we have all this food. Come
pick it up.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And then somebody, a volunteer, goes and picks it up
and they take it to these organizations where then people
can come and get the food.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So there's a lot of food not wasted because there
are literal restrictions that say you just can't give food
to people. But because of this app and because that's
how they're able to get around it, a lot of
it goes to like this pantry in Broward. And so, one,
it's a lot of pizza.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, you don't think about how much.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's not just pizza, right? Can be any food or
is it just pizza?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Calzones? Right now, well.
Breadsticks?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Stromboli?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
It does connect for the most part. They say pizzerias,
but there are a couple grocery stores and a couple
individual donors as well. But it's a lot of pizza. Yeah. No,
not yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Like, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's a lot of pizza. It's a lot of pizza.
So they launched this in 2024 and Just pizza-wise, over
25,000 slices of pizza they've been able to get donated
and serve over 600 people every month. I thought that
was a crazy cool story. Those are, again, just teenagers
that figured out how to make an app and how
to make a difference. That's from CBS News. That's what
it's all about.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That was Tell Me Something Good.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
This story comes to us from Idaho Falls, Idaho. A
27-year-old man was holding a grudge for about 10 years.
He got a bad grade from his high school teacher.
So he showed up at her house throwing rocks because
he wanted to have a word with her about his grade.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I would imagine he was that kind of student.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
If he's doing that as an adult, I can only
imagine what kind of kid he was in high school.
So what happens?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
He got charged with stalking because they told him to leave,
and he came back a couple hours later.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh, gosh.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
All right.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead Story of the Day.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Fun Fact Friday.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Every arm on an octopus... Has its own brain.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So they have eight brains.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Nine.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Nine because of the brain brain.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Oh, I assume they have one of their own.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The brain brain and then the arm brains.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Dang.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I wonder if they're smart.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
An octopus has a central brain, but over half of
its neurons live in its eight arms. Each arm has
a dense cluster of nerve cells acting as a brain
that lets it move, taste, touch by itself without having
to worry about checking in with the big brain.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Dang.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Possibly they're aliens.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Possibly.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And I think they're smarter than humans.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
But if they're smarter than humans, why aren't they doing
the internet and all that down there?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
They do. Maybe they don't need to touch a keyboard
to communicate.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Like they're not doing airplanes.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
But they don't need to. Maybe they have other modes.
What if their needs are different than our needs?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
They obviously are.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Yeah, because they're underwater. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I gotta think about that one.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Let me know when you're done making it.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
I'm going to ponder that one a little bit.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Amy.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Astronauts can't burp in space due to the absence of gravity.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Astronauts can't burp in space. There's no gravity, so nothing
comes up.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Help me out. Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You know the science of it?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Let me get the science real quick for you.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Google, what's the science? And we'll check back in.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Lunchbox.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
James Buchanan was the only president who never married. So
I thought this was the cool part. His niece performed
the role of the White House hostess when he was
in office. So she got to host parties and welcome guests.
What a cool thing if your uncle says, hey, you're
my favorite niece. Come to the White House and you
just get to be the party host.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
James Buchanan long believed by many to be the first
gay president.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
But he wasn't out. It wasn't like.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Correct. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Couldn't do that then, I guess.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah. So his niece.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I mean, that's a pretty cool job as a niece. Like, hey, man.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Again, not proven, as Eddie would say. I don't want
the Buchanan estate suing me.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
But they can't. You know what?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You can't slander a dead person.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Is that true?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president, remains our only lifelong bachelor.
Modern speculation often labels him as the first gay president.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Oh, didn't he have like a live-in?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, he sure did with Alabama Senator William Rufus King.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
What?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
They lived together, yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
I've heard this before.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
He lived in the White House?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
They lived together, yeah. And they were both not married.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So Buchanan and King lived together in a Washington, D.C.
boarding house for 10 years from 1834 to 1844. Get it, Buke.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Hey, you do you.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Amy, what's your science over there?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay, so gravity helps separate gas from liquids and solids
in the stomach. So when you don't have that gravity,
it's not separating them and therefore you don't burp, which
leads to the astronauts being very uncomfortable on their missions.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Because they can't burp.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It feels like my baby whenever she's like, I don't
want to eat anymore because I can't. Then I burp.
I'll take some more, please.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Because what's happening when you burp is the gas is
rising through the esophagus and then expelled through the mouth.
And then that's not happening.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
And then you make room in your stomach for more food.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Eddie, hit us.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Okay, so you've ever seen an American Express advertisement and
they show the actual card? There's a name that says
CF Frost on it, and they've been doing it since
the 60s. Well, CF Frost is a real person. It's
actually Christopher Frost, and he was the first account executive
for American Express. And they were like, you know what?
Just try putting his name on there when we take
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pictures of it. And it stuck. He's no longer with us.
But his name, CF Frost, is on every American Express
card on TV.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It feels like Kris Kringle. When you said that at first,
I thought it was going to be another name for
like their little joke towards Santa Claus's credit card.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
C.F.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Frost.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
No, he's just a dude.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
The phrase cut to the chase comes from the silent
film era when movies were usually long love stories that
ended with a thrilling chase scene. So people would just
say cut to the chase if it was boring. Like
skip all the boring stuff. Cut to the chase.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Even though Nevada's most famous for legalized gambling, it still
does not have a lottery. Lotteries have been illegal in
Nevada since the state's constitution was ratified in 1864.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Is it because they don't want anything competing with the gambling?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Probably.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Same reason you can't get on a lot of the
apps there. They want to keep it in the casinos.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Fun Fact Friday.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Bobby Bones!
Speaker 3 (25:10):
On the Bobby Bones Show now. Max McNown.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Max, good to see you, man.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Good to see you too.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We have not met.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
No, we haven't, but I know you very well.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Interesting. Well, thanks, I think. It's a good thing. I
really like your music. Your style, your sound is my
kind of style and sound.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I like your vibe a lot.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So what are you drinking there?
Speaker 8 (25:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's some weird orange drink in an unmarked bottle.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Yeah, it's not labeled.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Yeah, no, I found a packet of some sort of
salt and I'm just hoping that it's electrolytes, but if
it's not, then this will be a really fun time.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So someone just didn't hand that to you on the street?
Speaker 6 (25:48):
No, no, no.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Luckily it was in the green room.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Did you have a rough night last night? Not necessarily.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
We just moved into a new house, so I've just
been unboxing like crazy and I just got home from
the bus yesterday morning. And so I'm kind of in
a different universe right now. But I can talk.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Have a little drink there. Have a little electrolyte there.
He had the bottle open right when we hit go.
I wanted to. Yeah, let's watch him. Let's watch him drink.
Here we go. Let's watch Max.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
I'm going to try to swallow quietly.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Everybody watching.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Oh, that is good.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
That's good. I don't know what it is, but it's tasty.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Where'd you grow up? Oregon. What part?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
A little bit of Westland and Bend. So I lived
in Westland for pretty much my entire childhood, other than
a brief stint in middle school down to Bend, where
I fell in love with it. And then after high school,
briefly to Southern California and back to Bend for about
a year. And then now Nashville.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Any time that we've been in Oregon, if I think
about music, I think about there's a lot of buskings. Yeah.
Did you busk at all?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
I busked in Bend, but that was after I, so
I started busking in Southern California on the pier, which
there wasn't a ton in San Clemente. I was almost
always the only person out there. So you just get.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Your guitar and go play?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Would you make any money?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Much more than I was making at Starbucks at the time.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So you're working at Starbucks in Southern California.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
So what was your schedule in the day?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
I was an opener. So it was usually around 4.30
to 5.00. Start, get off around noon. And then I
would have the rest of the day to do whatever.
And so I started street performing about four times a
week for usually an hour and a half to two hours.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Did you have a shtick?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Uh, no, not really. Like everybody come around.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I'm going to play the best song you ever heard.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
No, that would not have aged well with my brand now. Uh, no,
I would just go out and it was more, I
was super timid and I, I love people and I
love conversing with people and that's why I was working
at Starbucks. And so I would just sing. And then
if someone came up, I would just have conversations with
people and it was fun.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
On the pier.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like originals or covers?
Speaker 8 (28:07):
All covers at that, at that time. It was, I just,
I always say the people that kind of gave me
the confidence to sing were Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan.
Tyler Childers because of the way he projects his voice
and the poetry he writes. And then Zach Bryan for
the poetry and also the tone of voice. I grew up,
you know, constantly trying to sing, you know, in middle school,
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I was, I fell in love with the Shawn Mendes
type pop music and, their vocals are so thin and beautiful.
And when I would sing, I felt like I sounded
like I was tranquilized with just the width and the
airiness of my vocal. I never felt like there was
anybody that I knew that sounded like I felt like
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I sounded. Now, I also knew that you don't sound
the same as other people hear you in your own head.
And so Who knows? But Zach Bryan, his wide tone
of voice made me think maybe I could try this.
And so those were the songs I felt comfortable singing
was Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan. And so that's pretty
much all I sang.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So you moved back to Oregon?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
So from San Clemente, I was living off of ramen
noodles for a little too long and I was not
making enough money to survive there. And so I kind
of had to Get out of there. And I had
a really good friend of mine named James who had
a wonderful living situation that he invited me to come
into in central Oregon, which is one of my favorite
(29:34):
places on earth. And so I moved back there and
and then I started street performing in downtown Bend. for
a little while before moving to Nashville how did that
go performing in Bend um not as much traffic not
not quite as much money from what I remember but
(29:57):
great experiences.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Do you feel like you got a lot better because
you were playing all the time?
Speaker 8 (30:01):
I think so, especially in those early days. I had
never taken any vocal lessons or guitar lessons or anything,
so I was just winging it. And so with that
in mind, pretty much every time I got to sing
and play guitar was leaps and bounds better, I feel like,
than the night before.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Were you getting a lot of social media traction at
that time?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
No, no, not yet. I would say bend a little bit,
definitely not Southern California. I was trying to post just
me sitting in front of a camera and singing. And
I don't think I fully understood how many millions of
people are doing exactly that with arguably better voices and
better guitar skills. And so I figured there was something
(30:41):
I needed to do differently. And I had a friend
of mine named Alex who was about to go on
his first deployment in the Navy and go incommunicado for
a while. And he was talking to me about strategy
and he was like, people love reaction videos and you
like talking to people. So what if you found a
way where you could talk to people and sing to them,
get their reaction and post that. And that's where I
(31:02):
found a website called Omegle. And I started doing reaction
videos and that's what hit.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Tell me what you mean by a reaction video singing.
Cause I'll do reaction videos sometimes, but I'm not singing.
I'm just going, holy crap. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Oh, well, well, the reaction is reversed in this instance. So,
so you, I would go on a thing called Omegle.
Are you aware of Omegle?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
No.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Okay. It's probably good. It's a horrible place. It's mostly
just nudity and like dangerous humans that are trying to
expose children. It's really bad. So what it is.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
How did you get there?
Speaker 8 (31:36):
So do you know chat roulette?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
So it's that basically. So Omegle is you log on
and you get placed with somebody from anywhere in the world.
And you can try to direct who you're being placed
with with hashtags. Um, and how it works is at
any point you can skip them with the press of
a button and at any point they can skip you
and move on. And so you see a lot of
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really nasty stuff, but you also see just people just
kind of having a good time. Like, what are we
going to find today? And so, uh, I would come
across every once in a while, a group of friends, like,
you know, whether it's a bunch of dudes or, you know,
two girls that are on there to kind of just
having fun. And I would, uh, Come on, and you've
(32:21):
got to try to hook their attention immediately, otherwise they
skip you. And so I'd say, hey, my name is Max.
I sing for people sometimes. Would you want to hear anything,
or are you okay? And some of them would just
be like, I'm okay. Some of them wouldn't say anything.
They'd skip, and then some would say, yeah, play something.
And those people, I was always recording, so I would
screen record my laptop, and I would sing for them,
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and then I would ask them if it's okay if
I post, because I make videos like that. I asked
if it's okay if I post it. And so I
would get their permission and then I would post their
live reaction to me singing to them for the first time.
And something about that format, social media just loved and
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primarily TikTok at the time. And so I started to
have my first taste of virality through those videos.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
That's cool. And I do know the site because I've
seen magicians.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Yes, they do it too. And there's Harry Mack. He's
a really good freestyler.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, I've seen him.
Speaker 8 (33:20):
So he is considered like the Omegle shutdown. Thank God. Truly.
Thank God that Omegle shut down. But at the time,
I would always see people comparing me to Harry Mack,
not in the sense that we're singing the same way
or rapping the same way or whatever. He's far more
(33:43):
talented in that realm than I am. Uh, but it
was like, there were a handful of artists that were
trying to make it with that format. And, uh, the
whole thing was never skip a Harry Mack video. And
those were always Omegle reaction videos that I would see.
So I don't, I can't trace it back in my
memory exactly, but I bet you his videos were part
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of the reason I tried it as well.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Massive.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And once you started explaining, I was like, Oh, I've
seen it. And I feel like that side, just like
chat roulette, started with good intentions, but then people just
get on and ruin it. Chat roulette back in our day,
we thought it was fun and all of a sudden
it'd be a wiener. And you'd be like, oh my God.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So you know that.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
I felt judged when I was explaining Omegle from everybody
in this room. I was not the bad one in it.
But I did sadly probably cause people to try to
go on it and realize how bad it is, which
that's some guilt that I'll figure out how to deal with.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, when chat roulette started, it was so cool because
you would just randomly end up with people and it's
just like, here's somebody else in the world that's randomly looking.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
But then it was, okay, let's, oh, a bull. Yeah. Okay,
I'm getting off. What's always, what's.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
So interesting to me, and I've actually never thought about
this until now, I, one of the reasons I always
talk about when people ask me why I'm in music
is because music made me feel less alone in really
dark moments. And so I want to bring joy to
people that, feel alone in what they're going through. Um,
and the owner made a statement when it closed down
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and basically said, this started out as me wanting to
help lonely people find friendship just out there, you know,
to make people feel like they're not quite as alone
in this world. Didn't quite work out the way that
that person foresaw it, but again, good intentions, same intentions
as why I make music. So, you know, Good on
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them for starting it, but yeah, it definitely got off
the rails.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Did you have a specific video that hit so hard
you thought, I got to take advantage of this right now?
Speaker 8 (35:46):
Yes, and I didn't. And I look back at that
as a mistake in my career, but everybody makes mistakes.
My second song, so what happened was I was singing covers.
So I started out singing Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers. Those
are my primary. And then I sang a little bit
of Morgan Wallen covers, a little bit of Luke Combs. And.
I ended up realizing that it's more about the human
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connection than it even is the vocals or the song.
So I was like, what if I just kind of
Indiana Jones this thing and switch my own original song
into this same exact format? And I did that with
Freezing in November, my first song that I wrote. And
that's what kind of put me on the map. Within
three months, it had reached a million streams. So it
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was translating from those reaction videos into streams. So then
I write my second song called You in the Pines.
And way before I'd even started recording it or anything,
like right when it was finished, I did a reaction
video and it hit so hard. It got 16 million views.
And all of these people were asking where that song is.
And it took me three months to get it out.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Oh, no, it wasn't ready.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
And I just missed the window completely for that song.
But that was, yeah, that was tough.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
How fast did that 16 million happen?
Speaker 8 (36:58):
Within a week.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
And I was not able to capitalize. But it definitely
helped in its own way by keeping that engagement and
telling the platform that these videos are doing well. And
so I think that ended up helping Marley and later
songs that I ended up doing on there as well.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
So why move to Nashville? What happened that made you move?
Speaker 8 (37:21):
I went on three writing trips here. I had never
co-written or experienced Nashville at all, for that matter, before
flying out to write some songs and I had.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Written, I.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Recorded six songs, I believe, for that first EP, if
I remember correctly. And a lot more free was song
number six on the first writing trip. And that song
obviously changed my entire life. And the next two writing
trips were great. I loved the community. I really just
kind of fell in love with the city itself. And
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I felt like it was the right move just to
sheerly by proximity to producers, writers, Music City.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Which is kind of the reason people need to move here.
The infrastructure is here. You can get to it quickly.
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Don't get me wrong. I miss so much about Oregon,
especially the nature. You can't really replicate that very close
to here. But I will say, in Oregon, I barely
ever heard of Oregon artists when I was younger. Matt
Carney was who I looked up to a lot of
my life because he was an Oregon boy that ended
up moving to Nashville and making it, you know? And
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so I didn't, I also didn't have references or people
that I knew that understood and could guide me in Oregon.
Like my, my family with all the wisdom and beauty
that they've shown me, they don't know the music industry.
And so I had to kind of learn that before
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I could consider being being an artist in a serious way.
So I had to move over here and I've loved it.
I felt like I was welcomed with open arms. I
haven't had any bad experience that I can recall with
someone in the artistic community, songwriting, producing, all really good.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I just wait. It's like chat roulette.
Speaker 8 (39:14):
Eventually you'll see a hole. Yeah. Isn't that just life though?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
It is.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Are you a Matt Carney fan?
Speaker 8 (39:22):
I am. Have you met him yet? No. No.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
So he's a close, close friend of mine.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
When my wife and I got engaged, he sang when I.
Proposed to her, like literally was there at our house
and she thought it was playing over a speaker and
he was there, but he's the greatest dude. But when
you said organ artist, that's all I had.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
Who else? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
It's a, there's an artist, uh, Everclear.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Oh, yeah. Is it Everclear? Yeah, Everclear's from Oregon. They're
from Oregon? I know, isn't Nirvana from Washington?
Speaker 1 (39:51):
So Seattle.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Yeah, Seattle's its own thing.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, so, you know, we'll just go with Matt Carney. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:01):
Matt Carney's who I actually listened to. Like, there are
artists that, obviously there's artists that have made it at
some point in time from every state in the country,
but Oregon is definitely underrepresented.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Do you hike?
Speaker 8 (40:13):
I do, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Like, if you grew up there, I just picture you
and your What's a brand?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Patagonia.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Patagonia.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
You're in your Patagonia hiking all day.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You ever go sit in the woods with your guitar
and play for the animals?
Speaker 8 (40:27):
No, I want to. That sounds very on brand. I
definitely want to. Yeah, I grew up hiking a ton.
I have four siblings, and my dad's a chiropractor, and
he would typically have a half day on Friday. So
our vacations, I hadn't been out of the country until
I was 21. one, I want to say, uh, cause
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all of our vacations were all right, getting the expedition
and throw our suitcases or yeah, our suitcases and our
sleeping bags. Let's just go find a camping spot. And
that was how we vacationed, um, for my entire growing up.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
When did you start playing guitar?
Speaker 8 (41:04):
Uh, 20, 21, roughly. Um, I tried to learn a
couple of times. My dad tried to teach me, And
I was so competitive and not ready to learn an
instrument that I kept on getting so frustrated that I
would just quit before I even learned a chord. So
I had loosely the shape of G and C, the
finger shape of those chords, before 21. But other than that,
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21 is when I actually picked it up and was like,
I'm going to try to do something with this.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
What made you commit to it then?
Speaker 8 (41:36):
It was kind of happenstance. I was packed up and
ready to move to Southern California. And my dad literally,
it was like a movie. He reopened the door after
I closed it to drive away. And I was getting
into my car and he gave me his old Epiphone
that was one of the guitars he played for us
in my childhood. And he just told me, you know,
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people like somebody who can strum a guitar, like you
should try to learn some chords. I know that you've
tried before and maybe now you're ready. And I was like, okay, dad, sure.
You know, threw it in the car, drove down and
it took several, uh, providentially placed humans in my life
that encouraged me at the right moments to try something
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at the right time. And, and so when I, when
I say that, I mean like a coworker of mine,
his name is Jordan, uh, from San Clemente. We worked
at the outlet Starbucks together and he came over one
night and he saw my guitar and he's like, Oh,
you play? It's like, not really, but I've written some
random poetry over some strings that made certain noises. And
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he was like, well, play something for me. So I
played something for him, and he told me he felt
like I had a chance at actually pursuing this, and
I didn't believe that at all. And he was like,
if you're not going to do it for yourself, do
it for me. Just go down and sing in front
of people. And how he put it, and I've quoted
this hundreds of times now because it's a very turning
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point moment for me. He said, at the worst case,
nobody cares. And at the best case, nobody cares. Just
go out there and do it to show yourself that
you can do it. And that's where it started. I
wasn't really planning on pursuing. It wasn't like I went
to the pier and I was like, yeah, this is,
I'm going to be big someday. It was just like,
I want to, I love singing. Music has had such
(43:28):
an important role in my life. So I wanted to
see if I could do it. And then one thing
led to another.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
What did you learn most about working at Starbucks?
Speaker 8 (43:38):
Uh, person skills. Uh, I learned how to converse with
people from every walk of life imaginable. And I think
that's really helped me in my career because as an artist, especially, um,
an artist that is very, I don't, I don't know, straightforward, uh,
(44:02):
kind of vulnerable. Like I, I'm not I'm not playing
a part in any way. I mean, this is really
just who I am and how I was raised. You're
talking to Max McNown. I don't have a stage name.
Like for someone that is in my career, it's so
important to be able to talk to people and see
people as people, no matter where they come from. And
I think Starbucks really helped me with that.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Where people are just wrong sometimes though. And you knew
they were wrong, but you had to act like they
were right. Yeah. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
It's like every day.
Speaker 8 (44:32):
Of course, yeah, yeah. Luckily, in this career, I have
a lot of creative freedom and I don't have to
tell people they're right when they're wrong because it's my art.
So I don't have to do that anymore. But yes,
I have definitely remade many drinks that I know for
a fact I made correctly.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
And do you make it the exact same?
Speaker 8 (44:53):
No, no, no. So I love, I think it's so
funny because there were certain repeat offenders that would come in.
And if I made their drink by standard, they would
give it back and say, it's, this is wrong with it, whatever.
It's not sweet enough. And so I just started giving
them double pumps every time they came in. I would
just get like, if it was, you know, if it
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was four pumps of pumpkin spice, I'd give them eight
and they wouldn't even say anything. And that's double the
recommended intake for the drink. And it's already a sugary drink,
but you know, they're going to complain three times in
a row. I'm just going to give them what they want. So, yes,
definitely I started to figure out. You get to know.
There's a lot of regulars that come in, so you
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get to know the people and their stories and their drinks.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
What's been something from your new record that maybe you
didn't think would resonate as much as it has, something
that surprised you?
Speaker 8 (45:45):
Oh, Firstborn Daughter. We didn't discount it. Yeah, so Firstborn Daughter,
I've kind of found this interesting– situation where I keep
writing songs about my wife that are really specific and
then it ends up reaching some sort of algorithm on
social media where it's those exact people that have the
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same you know feelings and characteristics as what I'm writing
about same thing happened with brown eyes better me for
you and uh I don't with better me for you
for example I I didn't even want to single it
because I'd listened to it so many times and I
was like this is just kind of too straightforward about
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who my wife is. I don't really think it's going
to relate to that many people. And then it completely
proved me wrong. And Firstborn Daughter is that same thing.
So on this next album, I didn't even know if
it was going to be a single. We were just like, hey,
this is a cool song. It's a good piece for
the overall project. And then I posted it once on
social media, and it just forced our hand. We're like,
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we have to single it. And it's always very interesting
when you don't. some of the songs I think will
be the biggest are not at all. And then some
songs where I'm like, yeah, it was a cool personal song.
It was, uh, they ended up going crazy. So I'd
say firstborn daughter is that one for.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Something you think is very specific actually is way more relatable.
Speaker 6 (47:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Then, then maybe you thought it would be.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (47:11):
Yeah. It's really interesting. And, and I, you'd think I
would have learned with better me for you and I didn't. So, but,
but I'm going to keep on, you know, I think
it was Rick Rubin that said, uh, The best thing
you can do for your fans is write music for yourself.
And so it can sometimes be really enticing to try
to write the hookiest line and the biggest hit, and
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then that ends up not being the biggest hit. So
I'm constantly trying to keep that at the forefront of
my mind because there's a lot of pressure. When I
wrote most of Night Diving, my second album, and my
first album, I had never played a show in my life.
None of that music had ever really... found its way
(47:53):
into the world yet. And so I was just writing
from my own experiences. And now that I've played upwards
of 300 shows and I've released so much music, there's
a lot more pressure now, which is an interesting obstacle
to face.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
The record comes out September 25th, Leave on a Light.
Is that one of the songs too, or did you
just name it that?
Speaker 8 (48:15):
Leave on a Light is taken from the song Slow Down.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I didn't see a title of a song there.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (48:22):
But the reason we chose that title, we went through
a couple phases of titles. And the reason I chose
that title is because I felt like it most closely
related all of the songs with a congruent theme throughout.
And so Leave on a Light, what that means is
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it's a request to the people that take care of
who I am beneath the music. You know, like I'll
be on the road, I'll be mentally occupied. I'll be
going and going and going. And then when I see
my parents, it's like, I've never left. And I'm the
same person. And my wife, I feel the same way.
My siblings, my friends, you know, my close friends from home.
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And so the whole album, just about every song has
some sort of congruent hint of a thank you. to
those people that are keeping the light on underneath the
Max MacDonald musical brand. And so that felt like the
most fitting title for me.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
The Summer Vacation Tour, and they can just go to
your socials or website and get tickets. How's it going?
Speaker 8 (49:32):
It's good. I mean, we just, I sadly got sick
with some really frustrating chest congestion and had to postpone
two shows from it. But other than those two shows,
we actually just finished the final scheduled show, uh, in
New York. Oh, so you're done with it just a
few days ago.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
Yep. I see dates till the September 27th here. You're
doing bourbon and beyond that festival looks awesome.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (49:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (49:56):
I think the dates, the dates that are going on,
that's because of the, the shows that were still, you know,
they're still part of the summer vacation tour. They just
got postponed. So Got it. Like the initial, my mind
has seen New York as the completion for so long
that that's still how I think. So I think you
actually have it correct. But anyway, I interrupted you.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
No, I love hearing that. I'm inserting dates here. He
didn't even know he had. Max, I really appreciate you
coming in, man. Yeah. Like really like your music. Quite
a thoughtful guy.
Speaker 8 (50:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Like he's like way smarter than most people. Like most
people come in here and they're like, six strings. I
hit them.
Speaker 8 (50:31):
I write lyrics.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (50:33):
I think I get it from my dad. My dad
has spoken to me in analogies for my entire life.
Anytime there's something that I couldn't quite understand in real
world terms, he would use some sort of example in nature,
something else that made it click. And so that's basically
what songwriting is. So I thank my dad for that.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Leave on a Light, out September 25th. And he has
no more shows except the ones that he's still going
to do that he hasn't done. And there he is.
You guys follow him at Max McNown. Thanks, Max.
Speaker 8 (51:05):
Yeah, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
And now time for the morning corny.
Speaker 7 (51:10):
The morning corny.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Why did the gamer play so many video games after
his breakup?
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Why did the gamer play so many video games after
his breakup?
Speaker 2 (51:23):
He needed to console himself. Console. Console. Gamer console. Console.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
That was the morning corny.
Speaker 7 (51:39):
You're a gamer.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
I thought you would like that. Am I a gamer?
I haven't played a game in.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Well, before you had a baby, you were a gamer.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Yeah, well, my wife got pregnant. I didn't even go
to the video game anymore.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
But you have your own gaming chair.
Speaker 1 (51:49):
And you know where it is? In a corner somewhere
that I haven't even sat in.
Speaker 6 (51:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
I'm a retired gamer.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
So if you were still gaming with that.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
I'd have laughed so hard, guys. That'd have been the
funniest joke.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's time for the good news.
Speaker 5 (52:01):
With Amy.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
Tell me something good.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
This woman, Julie, was taking the train in New Jersey
when she went to the bathroom. When she left the bathroom,
her wedding ring was gone. And she's like.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
Is that because she took it off to wipe?
Speaker 7 (52:18):
To wipe?
Speaker 6 (52:18):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (52:19):
Oh, good question.
Speaker 8 (52:20):
Why would you take it off?
Speaker 2 (52:21):
It doesn't clarify how it happened, but no, I don't
know women to do that.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
We're not asking to be gross. I just wonder why
she took her ring off in the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (52:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
My thought would be to wipe.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
I think when you wash your hands, it's the soap
and the water. Come back to wipe.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
We sidetracked you. Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (52:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
I don't know exactly how it happened because I am
perplexed at where the ring was found because you would
think if she was washing her hands, maybe it would
be in the sink. She called the New Jersey Transit.
They pulled the train from the line, took it out
for service so they could try to find it. Sure enough,
employees put the train up on jacks, removed the toilet tank,
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opened it up, and her ring was right there.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
They put the train up on jacks?
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, just to look for the ring.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
And it was in the toilet?
Speaker 2 (53:09):
And it was in the toilet.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
All right, I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (53:11):
She was wiping.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
No, that's not it. Precisely.
Speaker 8 (53:14):
That can't be right. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (53:15):
It fell off while wiping.
Speaker 8 (53:16):
Precisely.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Yeah, maybe it fell off, but I don't think she
took it off to do that. So, you know, just
a feel-good story that now feels a little weird.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
It doesn't feel weird. That's natural. Everybody needs to wipe.
I'm just surprised they stopped the train and put it
up on Jack. That's the commitment.
Speaker 6 (53:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Good for them. I bet she's happy. Also, I don't know,
leave it on to wipe.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
She probably does.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
And it just fell off while wiping?
Speaker 2 (53:42):
I don't know, guys.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
That's some aggressive wiping then. You must be going to town. Okay,
there you go. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (53:50):
That was Tell Me Something Good.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Who did you pick as a celebrity that you've never known,
but if they died?
Speaker 2 (53:58):
George Strait.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
Couldn't remember yours. That makes sense. Mine was David Letterman.
We have listeners call too.
Speaker 8 (54:03):
Ray, would you hit that?
Speaker 1 (54:04):
My name is Maddie. I'm calling from Wichita, Kansas.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
You're talking about who would you get emotional about or
cry about if they passed away, like a celebrity or
someone you have no connection to. It would make you emotional.
If any one of you guys would pass away, I
definitely would be emotional, and I would cry about that.
So that's my answer.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Love you guys. Bye.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Dang, that would be crazy.
Speaker 6 (54:26):
Lunchbox did say that.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
I did. You said America.
Speaker 5 (54:30):
America.
Speaker 4 (54:31):
Would be sad. There would be a lot of tears.
All our listeners would be in mourning if one of
us died.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
I think they'd be like, oh, man, that's sad. Well,
we've got to get to work. Move on. Play the
next one.
Speaker 5 (54:41):
I feel like if Bobby were to pass, I would cry.
I've never met Bobby. He's not some bro of mine.
But he's always come off as such a regular guy,
so approachable. Just seems like a dude. Just seems like
one of my bros. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Well, thank you. I don't know that I'm a bro.
Do you think you're a dude's dude?
Speaker 6 (55:03):
No.
Speaker 5 (55:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
I think you can definitely approach me and say hi
and I'm normal-ish, but I'm not a bro in any way.
I don't think he meant like bro.
Speaker 6 (55:13):
He just meant like one of my buddies.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
Like friends. Yeah. Even buddies feels too masculine. Let's be honest.
Speaker 6 (55:19):
One of my friends.
Speaker 5 (55:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (55:20):
My pals.
Speaker 1 (55:22):
Still maybe too masculine.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
Pals?
Speaker 1 (55:25):
That's not.
Speaker 5 (55:25):
Maybe. No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
One of my friends. But I appreciate that. I know
where his heart is. Yeah, but nobody... In real life,
I'm not a bro. I can probably bench press more
than anybody here, but I'm still not a bro.
Speaker 6 (55:35):
You're not a bro.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:37):
More than Ray?
Speaker 1 (55:38):
Probably, yeah. At this point. Ray doesn't lift.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
Oh, okay. Thought you did.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
Why are you hating? Ray, who can bench press more?
I would say you. A couple weeks ago, I got
off the creatine. It's not because he's not strong. I
think if you're not doing it, it goes away.
Speaker 5 (55:54):
Right, right, right.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah. Why are you a hater, though?
Speaker 2 (55:56):
That is not hating.
Speaker 5 (55:58):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
I'm sorry if you're trying to bro out with Ray.
Speaker 5 (56:00):
Bray.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
With Bray.
Speaker 5 (56:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
Thank you for all the calls. We're going to try
to stay alive.
Speaker 6 (56:06):
So no one's sad.
Speaker 8 (56:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
We want to make everybody happy. Voicemail anytime.
Speaker 8 (56:10):
877 77 Bobby.
Hey, welcome to Friday's show, Morning Studio.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Morning!
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Alright, we're gonna play easy trivia in about three minutes.
Stretch it out. Everybody get loose.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Eddie's drinking water. Yeah, I gotta get the old throat wet.
Throat wet, get your brain. Lunchbox, what are you doing
to warm up?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I do my neck back and forth.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Alright.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Whip it back and forth.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Let's do a category, ninth grade math.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, great.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
My favorite.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
This is going to make me mad.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Amy, what's the square root of 81? Nine. Man, Nell,
she's ready this morning. Lunchbox, what's the perimeter of a
square with a side length of nine?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Nine times four, whatever that is.
Speaker 7 (00:51):
36.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (00:53):
Dang.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You got intimidated by the words, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Yeah, there's so many words.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But if you just sit in it, you can get it.
I'll try.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
He did.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
He said, okay, square four. All equal sides. Like, just
sit with it, okay?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What is the question mark? I don't understand. Maybe this
is too small for my eyes.
Speaker 8 (01:14):
See?
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Or it's too small.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I think the typing's too small. I got an Amy
thing going on right now. Let me do a different one.
What's the area of a rectangle with a length of
eight and the width of five?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Okay. The area is everything inside of it, right? Or
maybe it's the perimeter.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
What's the area of a rectangle with a length of
eight and a width of five?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
I'm just going to take a guess. I'm going to
multiply eight times five, and that is 45.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's 40. You did the right process, but the answer
is 40.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Fives are the easiest. Gosh, I'm so dumb.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You are.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
Not dumb.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I have dyscalculia.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, but that's multiplication tables. Memorize them. I know. That's
not reading something backward.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
But that's also not, it's not just reading something backwards.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Thank you, Amy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But he can memorize it regardless.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I know, that's just a misconception of like things being
jumbled at some point.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, you're reading backwards. Just stop doing that.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Backwards reading you are.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Gosh, I was so close.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You were.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Were you?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You're hearing us backward now too. And now the easiest
trivia game in the history of the world. It's called
Easy Trivia Game. Amy had a big win last week.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They kept Eddie from winning the championship.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Sure did.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Saved the game, Amy.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
All right, category one, Bobby Bone Show tattoos. Eddie, you're
wearing the tiara. You're the champ. You'll go first. Who
has their mom and grandma's initials tattooed.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
On their arm?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Oh, that's you, Bobby.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That is correct. Amy, who has Joy tattooed on their wrist?
Speaker 8 (02:43):
I do.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Abby, who has a Pokemon tattoo on their leg? Mike D.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Lunchbox, who has the words mirror ball smally tattooed on
the back of their arm?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Oh, that's Bobby.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's correct. Good job. Nobody goes home first round. But
now if you miss it, you'll hear... You've been boned.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Don't get boned.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Eddie, if you win one more, you're the champ.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
I love it. Eddie, four.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
Amy, one. Hi, Abby.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Hi, Lunchbox.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh, four, one already? All right, here we go. Category one,
things the Bobby Bone Show hates.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Oh, great.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
What creamy or crunchy sandwich spread does Bobby hate? Addie,
this is you first. What creamy or crunchy sandwich spread
does Bobby hate?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Peanut butter.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Amy, which animal does Lunchbox hate?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Snakes.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
He just acted like there was a snake right next
to him.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Got the chills.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Abby, what small... Fruit, some would consider a vegetable, often
found on pizzas and salads, and in martinis, does Amy hate?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
Olives.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Correct. Lunchbox, what rock band, fronted by Chad Kroger, does
Eddie hate?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh, he's, what are their names? Nickelback. Correct.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Good job.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Next up, 80s music.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh, crap.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Eddie, which duo had the hit song, Wake Me Up
Before You Go-Go?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Wham.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Correct. Wham. Amy, which singer performed the hit song Like
a Virgin? Madonna. Correct. Abby, which singer recorded the hit
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Cyndi Lauper.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Lunchbox, which rock band sang the song Don't Stop Believin'? Journey.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Everybody's still in. If Eddie wins, he repeats his champion.
The category is Famous Amy's. Eddie, what singer is known
for hits like Baby Baby and That's What Love Is For?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Amy Grant.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Wow, good one.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Amy, which comedian starred in Parks and Rec as Leslie Knope?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Amy Poehler.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Correct. Abby, which Bobby Bone Show co-host also hosts the
podcast Feeling Things?
Speaker 8 (05:01):
I love this. Amy Brown. Correct.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Lunchbox, which British singer recorded hit songs Rehab and Back
to Black?
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Amy Winehouse.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I was out of Amy's.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The category is... Easy trivia. The answer starts with K.
What green leafy vegetable is often used in salads and smoothies, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Kale.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The answer starts with K, Amy. What condiment is made
from tomatoes and used on french fries?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Ketchup.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Abby, what martial art from Japan focuses on strikes using
punches and kicks?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Karate.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Correct. Lunchbox, what toy consists of a colorful tail attached
to a lightweight frame and is flown in the wind?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh, a kite.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Correct. Next category. Hello around the world.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Eddie.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Konnichiwa is hello in what language?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Konnichiwa.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Konnichiwa. Is hello in what language?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Oh, man. It's either China or... Chinese or Japanese?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Konnichiwa is hello in what language?
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I have no idea. Okay, hold on. Give me a second.
Let me think. What's Chinese? Konnichiwa. Why are you bowing.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
To both and just saying konnichiwa?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
That's what they say, konnichiwa, when they say hi.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You're bowing for both and saying konnichiwa to both.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
I don't know the difference. Could it be both? Do
they do it in both places?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I got to go Chinese.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Chinese.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Japanese.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Oh, my gosh. What's the Chinese? Hello.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I don't know. I know Japanese.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Konnichiwa.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Been to Japan.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Konnichiwa.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I would have known that.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
All right. Get it wrong, guys.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Amy, aloha is hello in what language?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Amy, just answer it.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
How do I say this language?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yellow card.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
She knows what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yellow card.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You're out.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Yellow card.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Aloha is in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I need an answer.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But is the language Hawaiian?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I need an answer.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Or is it something not Hawaiian?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay. I didn't know if it was something else like,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Abby. Bonjour is hello in what language?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
French.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Ciao is a common way to say hello in what language, Lunchbox?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Ciao?
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Say it again.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Ciao.
Speaker 8 (07:30):
Ciao.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now I'm saying it like him.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Ciao.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah. Is a common way to say hello in what language?
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Pfft.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I'm not cultured enough to know this crap.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Australian.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I thought he was Italian. Is it Italian?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
It's French, right?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's Italian.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
No, bonjour.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I would have gotten them all wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Eddie was bowing to both going, Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa. And he
was doing nothing different and going, Chinese or Japanese? Konnichiwa.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
I took my crown off. I don't deserve to wear it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So we have Amy and Abby left.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Okay. Good job, Amy.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Silent letters is the next category. Silent letters.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
What branch of science studies the mind and behavior, Amy?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
This is a part of science?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
What branch of science studies the mind and behavior? The
category is silent letters.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's got to be psychology. But I didn't know that
was a branch of science. But that's the mind and behavior.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Your answer is?
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Psychology. Psychology.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Correct. The P is silent in psychology. Psychology.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But I didn't know if there was another psychosis.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Abby, what prehistoric flying reptile had large wings and a
long beak? What prehistoric flying reptile had large wings and
a long beak?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Pterodactyl.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Correct. It's spelled with a P. Pterodactyl.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The category is round things. Amy, what round fruit is
red or green and keeps the doctor away?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
An apple.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Abby, what round object gives off light in the sky
during the day?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
The sun.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Correct. The category is? The answer rhymes. What object, Amy,
would a kid use in their bedroom to provide illumination
during bedtime?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
A nightlight.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Correct. Abby, what Quentin Tarantino movie stars Uma Thurman as
an assassin?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Kill Bill.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Let's rest.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Famous artists. What mysterious street artist is known for political
graffiti and identity being unknown?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Banksy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Correct. Abby, what Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Michelangelo.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Advanced animals is the category to remain.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Advanced animals.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
What is often recognized as the smartest farm animal?
Speaker 8 (09:58):
A pig.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
What a guess.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Abby, what land animal has the longest tongue and uses
it to eat insects?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh, I was going to say giraffe, but anteater?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Okay. Wow.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Both of you guys, good job.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I did a project in first grade.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Amy, what is the only mammal capable of true flight?
Speaker 8 (10:20):
A bat. Correct.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Abby, what's the largest species of bear? Still in the
category of advanced animals.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Oh, polar bear.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Dang.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The category is history.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
History.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Amy, what ancient Egyptian queen is known for her relationship
with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Cleopatra?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Abby dubbed the Black Death. What plague swept through Europe
in the 1300s? The Black Plague? No, the Bubonic Plague.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh, the Bubonic Black... Oh, man.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wow, what a game. And she just jumped too quick.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I did.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Great game, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Ha ha.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
By the way, Ni Hao is hello in Chinese.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Good, good.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
What a game. And here's what I want to say
before we leave.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Ciao. Ciao. Ciao, everybody.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Hello, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Do you think it's okay to leave a wedding before
the reception is over if you've already eaten and said congratulations?
Signed the early exit.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Of course. Now there could be many reasons. We had
a friend that got married. We just showed up to
the reception, said congratulations, and then snuck out immediately. Now
we had a two month old baby, eight weeks old.
So we had a real reason, but we didn't want
to be like, we got to go. We got a baby.
We didn't want to say we had to go. We
just said, congratulations. That's awesome. What a great wedding.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Love you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
All right, let's go to the team.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
We're out of there.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Um, Unless you are in the extremely close circle, the
people getting married aren't going to notice if you're there
or not. So you can leave. You can Irish goodbye,
rock star goodbye. Not sure which one of those you
can say, but you can leave. So go to the reception,
watch a couple speeches. When everybody starts to dance, that's
(12:22):
easily free time because people are walking out and around anyway.
So I would say that you.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, totally. I think it's fine. But I'm with you on, yeah,
it's a, it's a scale. Cause like a super close friend, you're,
Probably not going to do that, but also if for
whatever reason you need to, but the closer you are,
the longer you stay.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I'm very close to the person we had to leave for,
but we had a baby.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But yeah, that's what I mean. Also, they're close to you,
so they'll understand.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Like if it's your kid getting married, you should probably stay.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
For the whole day.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm just saying, you should probably stay for the wedding
and the reception at the end, maybe help clean up.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But- Your thoughts?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I always feel pressure to wait till you do the
whole throwing rice and like getting the limo and watching
them off. I feel like every wedding I've been to,
I have to stay for that. And that's the whole thing.
And maybe that's on me, but I always feel the pressure.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You're putting that pressure on yourself. You are a people pleaser.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
I don't want to feel bad for like leaving.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Because, you know, people.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
That's not a bad thing, dude.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
I know.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
But the couple usually likes to walk around and thank
their guests.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
But they're not going to notice if you're not there.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
They're not going to be like, man, where's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Not if you're like tier two.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
If you're a groomsman, you'd probably stay.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
The whole thing, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
You'd probably stay, probably stay. But no, you can leave.
But you do need to go to the beginning of
the reception or leave immediately after the wedding where no
one sees you because they're not going to notice even
when you get to the reception unless you have a
role who's there and not there. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's hard. It gets so late. Weddings are late.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
They last forever.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, I sneak out of.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
All of them.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You know, my friend is in a wedding coming up
that is on, it's an out-of-town wedding. I think it's
in Arkansas, Bobby.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Holy crap, I probably know them.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
They're my cousins.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
No, they live here.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
They're probably cousins.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
They're having it in Arkansas because some venue they like there.
So everyone's having to travel in the weddings on a
Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Probably hard to get the venue then, huh?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I just thought an out-of-town wedding for most people, and
it's during the week.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
It's tough.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It's a big ask.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's a big ask.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It's a big ask. I'd probably leave that one early.
Get back home from work the next day.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Close it up. Couples who have their own rooms, not
even just bedrooms, but have their own rooms they can
go to that's like their own space, are so much happier,
is what this says. Do you guys have a place
in your house that's just yours?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
No.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I used to.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
The bathroom oh yeah your game room well i.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Had three i have three tvs in a room and
i'd play video games in the middle and then in
both i'd watch games on the sides then we had
a baby and now all my stuff's gone there's a
big play mat in there my video game chair is
nowhere i don't even know where it is.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
They got rid of it it's totally gone it's.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Somewhere it's somewhere i don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Where that's crazy that's what happens man.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah and then i had a golf simulator gone oh
yeah yeah that's because we need a room so i
used to have yeah i used to be there now
i'm just a dad that Has to go sit in
the toilet.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah, that's it. That's my only privacy. And it's still
not private. Kids still come in there and ask you questions.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
And then you get out and your wife's like, why
were you in there for so long? I'm like, what
do you think I was doing?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
A survey said that couples who have a designated personal
space at home are happier and healthier in their relationship.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
So this isn't a sleep in a different room. This
is just.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, just like your own spot.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's like a home office, your workshop, a little reading corner.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
A reading corner.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Okay, nerd.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Okay, a game room.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Or a gaming room.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I used to have one of those.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
That was fun.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
A game room?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, that's where I go. That was the one. The
baby now has three TVs all beside each other. If
the baby wants to do DraftKings and Gamble, she's great
because she has three TVs there. It's wild.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I guess you have to go for a walk.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What do you do if you need to get away?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
The walk. The walk or I go.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Don't you drive?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
No.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I don't really drive.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That's just when you're really leaving.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
I'll take the dog for a walk, but my dog's
getting older now and I have to drag her sometimes
because I'm like, I don't want to go back. The
dog's like, I can't walk anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You have to carry your dog on a recharge walk
for you. Lunchbox, what do you do?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Dog walk is a good one or go play golf.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I mean, since I can't run with my pain, I
can't go for a run. That was what I used
to do. But I've been injured for over a year,
and so I haven't been able to do that.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So you go play a full nine holes or 18
holes of golf?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That's like hours and hours.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
It's getting away, man.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I mean, I used to do that, but now my kids.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Like to play golf.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You could also do the driving range, right?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That's not fun.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Or just go hit balls?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
If you just need a little space.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's not fun.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's not?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
No, because say you're hitting the ball really well, and
you're like, gosh, I could have done this on the course.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm sure we should have done the course doing it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Is that really how y'all think?
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well, why do I see so many people on the
driving range all the time?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Because they're learning how to play.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And they're probably doing it the right way, just practicing.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
That's how you get better, usually.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, that's the real way that you do it.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Right, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But did you have, when you were married, did you
have a space?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
The pool. Where the clothes are. Now you have the
whole house.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Is that cool?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Every other week, I have the whole place to myself.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Because no kids.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah. It is kind of nice. Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I had my little podcast room. Sometimes I'd
go hide out in there because I had a TV.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Wouldn't you hide in the closet some?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh, my closet. Oh, yes, you're right. That's mostly where
I would go to cry. I started to keep snacks
in the corner. Yeah, like in the back, I would
have some wine. I definitely hung out there a lot.
And I would call my sister.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Mm-hmm. You had wine hidden in your closet for cries?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Hey, man, that sounds like a problem.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, you know what? I think it ended the way.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It should have ended. No, it wasn't for a problem.
It was more for convenience. Like, I would just have it. Like,
if I would FaceTime my sister and I'd have a
glass of wine, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You had wine in your closet.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It wasn't abuse of wine.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Did you have wine in your closet?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, but you understand there was different reasons for that, too. Like, anyway,
it was fine. I did it in my own closet
because my husband and I, at the time, we had
his and her closets. Like, we didn't share a closet,
so he had his own closet and I had mine.
And I could go in there and, yeah, shut the
door and hang out.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And drink.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
No, have a glass.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's time for the good news.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
With Bobby.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Tell me something good.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Teenagers, a brother and sister from South Florida have created
an app. And so it's called Pizza for a Purpose. And, again,
they're just teenagers. And they had seen so many people
in their area that were struggling with food insecurity. So
they made this app. And businesses that have food that
they're going to throw away can just get on the
app and go, hey, we have all this food. Come
pick it up.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And then somebody, a volunteer, goes and picks it up
and they take it to these organizations where then people
can come and get the food.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So there's a lot of food not wasted because there
are literal restrictions that say you just can't give food
to people. But because of this app and because that's
how they're able to get around it, a lot of
it goes to like this pantry in Broward. And so, one,
it's a lot of pizza.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, you don't think about how much.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's not just pizza, right? Can be any food or
is it just pizza?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Calzones? Right now, well.
Breadsticks?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Stromboli?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
It does connect for the most part. They say pizzerias,
but there are a couple grocery stores and a couple
individual donors as well. But it's a lot of pizza. Yeah. No,
not yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Like, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's a lot of pizza. It's a lot of pizza.
So they launched this in 2024 and Just pizza-wise, over
25,000 slices of pizza they've been able to get donated
and serve over 600 people every month. I thought that
was a crazy cool story. Those are, again, just teenagers
that figured out how to make an app and how
to make a difference. That's from CBS News. That's what
it's all about.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That was Tell Me Something Good.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
This story comes to us from Idaho Falls, Idaho. A
27-year-old man was holding a grudge for about 10 years.
He got a bad grade from his high school teacher.
So he showed up at her house throwing rocks because
he wanted to have a word with her about his grade.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I would imagine he was that kind of student.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
If he's doing that as an adult, I can only
imagine what kind of kid he was in high school.
So what happens?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
He got charged with stalking because they told him to leave,
and he came back a couple hours later.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh, gosh.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
All right.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead Story of the Day.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Fun Fact Friday.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Every arm on an octopus... Has its own brain.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So they have eight brains.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Nine.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Nine because of the brain brain.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Oh, I assume they have one of their own.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The brain brain and then the arm brains.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Dang.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I wonder if they're smart.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
An octopus has a central brain, but over half of
its neurons live in its eight arms. Each arm has
a dense cluster of nerve cells acting as a brain
that lets it move, taste, touch by itself without having
to worry about checking in with the big brain.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Dang.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Possibly they're aliens.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Possibly.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And I think they're smarter than humans.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
But if they're smarter than humans, why aren't they doing
the internet and all that down there?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
They do. Maybe they don't need to touch a keyboard
to communicate.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Like they're not doing airplanes.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
But they don't need to. Maybe they have other modes.
What if their needs are different than our needs?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
They obviously are.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Yeah, because they're underwater. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I gotta think about that one.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Let me know when you're done making it.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
I'm going to ponder that one a little bit.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Amy.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Astronauts can't burp in space due to the absence of gravity.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Astronauts can't burp in space. There's no gravity, so nothing
comes up.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Help me out. Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You know the science of it?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Let me get the science real quick for you.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Google, what's the science? And we'll check back in.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Lunchbox.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
James Buchanan was the only president who never married. So
I thought this was the cool part. His niece performed
the role of the White House hostess when he was
in office. So she got to host parties and welcome guests.
What a cool thing if your uncle says, hey, you're
my favorite niece. Come to the White House and you
just get to be the party host.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
James Buchanan long believed by many to be the first
gay president.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
But he wasn't out. It wasn't like.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Correct. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Couldn't do that then, I guess.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah. So his niece.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I mean, that's a pretty cool job as a niece. Like, hey, man.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Again, not proven, as Eddie would say. I don't want
the Buchanan estate suing me.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
But they can't. You know what?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You can't slander a dead person.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Is that true?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president, remains our only lifelong bachelor.
Modern speculation often labels him as the first gay president.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Oh, didn't he have like a live-in?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, he sure did with Alabama Senator William Rufus King.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
What?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
They lived together, yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
I've heard this before.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
He lived in the White House?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
They lived together, yeah. And they were both not married.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So Buchanan and King lived together in a Washington, D.C.
boarding house for 10 years from 1834 to 1844. Get it, Buke.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Hey, you do you.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Amy, what's your science over there?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay, so gravity helps separate gas from liquids and solids
in the stomach. So when you don't have that gravity,
it's not separating them and therefore you don't burp, which
leads to the astronauts being very uncomfortable on their missions.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Because they can't burp.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It feels like my baby whenever she's like, I don't
want to eat anymore because I can't. Then I burp.
I'll take some more, please.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Because what's happening when you burp is the gas is
rising through the esophagus and then expelled through the mouth.
And then that's not happening.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
And then you make room in your stomach for more food.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Eddie, hit us.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Okay, so you've ever seen an American Express advertisement and
they show the actual card? There's a name that says
CF Frost on it, and they've been doing it since
the 60s. Well, CF Frost is a real person. It's
actually Christopher Frost, and he was the first account executive
for American Express. And they were like, you know what?
Just try putting his name on there when we take
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pictures of it. And it stuck. He's no longer with us.
But his name, CF Frost, is on every American Express
card on TV.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It feels like Kris Kringle. When you said that at first,
I thought it was going to be another name for
like their little joke towards Santa Claus's credit card.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
C.F.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Frost.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
No, he's just a dude.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
The phrase cut to the chase comes from the silent
film era when movies were usually long love stories that
ended with a thrilling chase scene. So people would just
say cut to the chase if it was boring. Like
skip all the boring stuff. Cut to the chase.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Even though Nevada's most famous for legalized gambling, it still
does not have a lottery. Lotteries have been illegal in
Nevada since the state's constitution was ratified in 1864.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Is it because they don't want anything competing with the gambling?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Probably.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Same reason you can't get on a lot of the
apps there. They want to keep it in the casinos.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Fun Fact Friday.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Bobby Bones!
Speaker 3 (25:10):
On the Bobby Bones Show now. Max McNown.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Max, good to see you, man.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Good to see you too.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We have not met.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
No, we haven't, but I know you very well.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Interesting. Well, thanks, I think. It's a good thing. I
really like your music. Your style, your sound is my
kind of style and sound.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I like your vibe a lot.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So what are you drinking there?
Speaker 8 (25:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's some weird orange drink in an unmarked bottle.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Yeah, it's not labeled.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Yeah, no, I found a packet of some sort of
salt and I'm just hoping that it's electrolytes, but if
it's not, then this will be a really fun time.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So someone just didn't hand that to you on the street?
Speaker 6 (25:48):
No, no, no.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Luckily it was in the green room.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Did you have a rough night last night? Not necessarily.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
We just moved into a new house, so I've just
been unboxing like crazy and I just got home from
the bus yesterday morning. And so I'm kind of in
a different universe right now. But I can talk.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Have a little drink there. Have a little electrolyte there.
He had the bottle open right when we hit go.
I wanted to. Yeah, let's watch him. Let's watch him drink.
Here we go. Let's watch Max.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
I'm going to try to swallow quietly.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
There it is.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Everybody watching.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Oh, that is good.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
That's good. I don't know what it is, but it's tasty.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Where'd you grow up? Oregon. What part?
Speaker 8 (26:32):
A little bit of Westland and Bend. So I lived
in Westland for pretty much my entire childhood, other than
a brief stint in middle school down to Bend, where
I fell in love with it. And then after high school,
briefly to Southern California and back to Bend for about
a year. And then now Nashville.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Any time that we've been in Oregon, if I think
about music, I think about there's a lot of buskings. Yeah.
Did you busk at all?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
I busked in Bend, but that was after I, so
I started busking in Southern California on the pier, which
there wasn't a ton in San Clemente. I was almost
always the only person out there. So you just get.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Your guitar and go play?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Would you make any money?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Much more than I was making at Starbucks at the time.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So you're working at Starbucks in Southern California.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
So what was your schedule in the day?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
I was an opener. So it was usually around 4.30
to 5.00. Start, get off around noon. And then I
would have the rest of the day to do whatever.
And so I started street performing about four times a
week for usually an hour and a half to two hours.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Did you have a shtick?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Uh, no, not really. Like everybody come around.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I'm going to play the best song you ever heard.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
No, that would not have aged well with my brand now. Uh, no,
I would just go out and it was more, I
was super timid and I, I love people and I
love conversing with people and that's why I was working
at Starbucks. And so I would just sing. And then
if someone came up, I would just have conversations with
people and it was fun.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
On the pier.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like originals or covers?
Speaker 8 (28:07):
All covers at that, at that time. It was, I just,
I always say the people that kind of gave me
the confidence to sing were Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan.
Tyler Childers because of the way he projects his voice
and the poetry he writes. And then Zach Bryan for
the poetry and also the tone of voice. I grew up,
you know, constantly trying to sing, you know, in middle school,
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I was, I fell in love with the Shawn Mendes
type pop music and, their vocals are so thin and beautiful.
And when I would sing, I felt like I sounded
like I was tranquilized with just the width and the
airiness of my vocal. I never felt like there was
anybody that I knew that sounded like I felt like
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I sounded. Now, I also knew that you don't sound
the same as other people hear you in your own head.
And so Who knows? But Zach Bryan, his wide tone
of voice made me think maybe I could try this.
And so those were the songs I felt comfortable singing
was Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan. And so that's pretty
much all I sang.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So you moved back to Oregon?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
So from San Clemente, I was living off of ramen
noodles for a little too long and I was not
making enough money to survive there. And so I kind
of had to Get out of there. And I had
a really good friend of mine named James who had
a wonderful living situation that he invited me to come
into in central Oregon, which is one of my favorite
(29:34):
places on earth. And so I moved back there and
and then I started street performing in downtown Bend. for
a little while before moving to Nashville how did that
go performing in Bend um not as much traffic not
not quite as much money from what I remember but
(29:57):
great experiences.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Do you feel like you got a lot better because
you were playing all the time?
Speaker 8 (30:01):
I think so, especially in those early days. I had
never taken any vocal lessons or guitar lessons or anything,
so I was just winging it. And so with that
in mind, pretty much every time I got to sing
and play guitar was leaps and bounds better, I feel like,
than the night before.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Were you getting a lot of social media traction at
that time?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
No, no, not yet. I would say bend a little bit,
definitely not Southern California. I was trying to post just
me sitting in front of a camera and singing. And
I don't think I fully understood how many millions of
people are doing exactly that with arguably better voices and
better guitar skills. And so I figured there was something
(30:41):
I needed to do differently. And I had a friend
of mine named Alex who was about to go on
his first deployment in the Navy and go incommunicado for
a while. And he was talking to me about strategy
and he was like, people love reaction videos and you
like talking to people. So what if you found a
way where you could talk to people and sing to them,
get their reaction and post that. And that's where I
(31:02):
found a website called Omegle. And I started doing reaction
videos and that's what hit.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Tell me what you mean by a reaction video singing.
Cause I'll do reaction videos sometimes, but I'm not singing.
I'm just going, holy crap. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Oh, well, well, the reaction is reversed in this instance. So,
so you, I would go on a thing called Omegle.
Are you aware of Omegle?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
No.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Okay. It's probably good. It's a horrible place. It's mostly
just nudity and like dangerous humans that are trying to
expose children. It's really bad. So what it is.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
How did you get there?
Speaker 8 (31:36):
So do you know chat roulette?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
So it's that basically. So Omegle is you log on
and you get placed with somebody from anywhere in the world.
And you can try to direct who you're being placed
with with hashtags. Um, and how it works is at
any point you can skip them with the press of
a button and at any point they can skip you
and move on. And so you see a lot of
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really nasty stuff, but you also see just people just
kind of having a good time. Like, what are we
going to find today? And so, uh, I would come
across every once in a while, a group of friends, like,
you know, whether it's a bunch of dudes or, you know,
two girls that are on there to kind of just
having fun. And I would, uh, Come on, and you've
(32:21):
got to try to hook their attention immediately, otherwise they
skip you. And so I'd say, hey, my name is Max.
I sing for people sometimes. Would you want to hear anything,
or are you okay? And some of them would just
be like, I'm okay. Some of them wouldn't say anything.
They'd skip, and then some would say, yeah, play something.
And those people, I was always recording, so I would
screen record my laptop, and I would sing for them,
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and then I would ask them if it's okay if
I post, because I make videos like that. I asked
if it's okay if I post it. And so I
would get their permission and then I would post their
live reaction to me singing to them for the first time.
And something about that format, social media just loved and
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primarily TikTok at the time. And so I started to
have my first taste of virality through those videos.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
That's cool. And I do know the site because I've
seen magicians.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Yes, they do it too. And there's Harry Mack. He's
a really good freestyler.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, I've seen him.
Speaker 8 (33:20):
So he is considered like the Omegle shutdown. Thank God. Truly.
Thank God that Omegle shut down. But at the time,
I would always see people comparing me to Harry Mack,
not in the sense that we're singing the same way
or rapping the same way or whatever. He's far more
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talented in that realm than I am. Uh, but it
was like, there were a handful of artists that were
trying to make it with that format. And, uh, the
whole thing was never skip a Harry Mack video. And
those were always Omegle reaction videos that I would see.
So I don't, I can't trace it back in my
memory exactly, but I bet you his videos were part
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of the reason I tried it as well.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Massive.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And once you started explaining, I was like, Oh, I've
seen it. And I feel like that side, just like
chat roulette, started with good intentions, but then people just
get on and ruin it. Chat roulette back in our day,
we thought it was fun and all of a sudden
it'd be a wiener. And you'd be like, oh my God.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So you know that.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
I felt judged when I was explaining Omegle from everybody
in this room. I was not the bad one in it.
But I did sadly probably cause people to try to
go on it and realize how bad it is, which
that's some guilt that I'll figure out how to deal with.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, when chat roulette started, it was so cool because
you would just randomly end up with people and it's
just like, here's somebody else in the world that's randomly looking.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
But then it was, okay, let's, oh, a bull. Yeah. Okay,
I'm getting off. What's always, what's.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
So interesting to me, and I've actually never thought about
this until now, I, one of the reasons I always
talk about when people ask me why I'm in music
is because music made me feel less alone in really
dark moments. And so I want to bring joy to
people that, feel alone in what they're going through. Um,
and the owner made a statement when it closed down
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and basically said, this started out as me wanting to
help lonely people find friendship just out there, you know,
to make people feel like they're not quite as alone
in this world. Didn't quite work out the way that
that person foresaw it, but again, good intentions, same intentions
as why I make music. So, you know, Good on
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them for starting it, but yeah, it definitely got off
the rails.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Did you have a specific video that hit so hard
you thought, I got to take advantage of this right now?
Speaker 8 (35:46):
Yes, and I didn't. And I look back at that
as a mistake in my career, but everybody makes mistakes.
My second song, so what happened was I was singing covers.
So I started out singing Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers. Those
are my primary. And then I sang a little bit
of Morgan Wallen covers, a little bit of Luke Combs. And.
I ended up realizing that it's more about the human
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connection than it even is the vocals or the song.
So I was like, what if I just kind of
Indiana Jones this thing and switch my own original song
into this same exact format? And I did that with
Freezing in November, my first song that I wrote. And
that's what kind of put me on the map. Within
three months, it had reached a million streams. So it
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was translating from those reaction videos into streams. So then
I write my second song called You in the Pines.
And way before I'd even started recording it or anything,
like right when it was finished, I did a reaction
video and it hit so hard. It got 16 million views.
And all of these people were asking where that song is.
And it took me three months to get it out.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Oh, no, it wasn't ready.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
And I just missed the window completely for that song.
But that was, yeah, that was tough.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
How fast did that 16 million happen?
Speaker 8 (36:58):
Within a week.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
And I was not able to capitalize. But it definitely
helped in its own way by keeping that engagement and
telling the platform that these videos are doing well. And
so I think that ended up helping Marley and later
songs that I ended up doing on there as well.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
So why move to Nashville? What happened that made you move?
Speaker 8 (37:21):
I went on three writing trips here. I had never
co-written or experienced Nashville at all, for that matter, before
flying out to write some songs and I had.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Written, I.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Recorded six songs, I believe, for that first EP, if
I remember correctly. And a lot more free was song
number six on the first writing trip. And that song
obviously changed my entire life. And the next two writing
trips were great. I loved the community. I really just
kind of fell in love with the city itself. And
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I felt like it was the right move just to
sheerly by proximity to producers, writers, Music City.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Which is kind of the reason people need to move here.
The infrastructure is here. You can get to it quickly.
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Don't get me wrong. I miss so much about Oregon,
especially the nature. You can't really replicate that very close
to here. But I will say, in Oregon, I barely
ever heard of Oregon artists when I was younger. Matt
Carney was who I looked up to a lot of
my life because he was an Oregon boy that ended
up moving to Nashville and making it, you know? And
(38:32):
so I didn't, I also didn't have references or people
that I knew that understood and could guide me in Oregon.
Like my, my family with all the wisdom and beauty
that they've shown me, they don't know the music industry.
And so I had to kind of learn that before
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I could consider being being an artist in a serious way.
So I had to move over here and I've loved it.
I felt like I was welcomed with open arms. I
haven't had any bad experience that I can recall with
someone in the artistic community, songwriting, producing, all really good.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I just wait. It's like chat roulette.
Speaker 8 (39:14):
Eventually you'll see a hole. Yeah. Isn't that just life though?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
It is.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Are you a Matt Carney fan?
Speaker 8 (39:22):
I am. Have you met him yet? No. No.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
So he's a close, close friend of mine.
Speaker 8 (39:26):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
When my wife and I got engaged, he sang when I.
Proposed to her, like literally was there at our house
and she thought it was playing over a speaker and
he was there, but he's the greatest dude. But when
you said organ artist, that's all I had.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
Who else? That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
It's a, there's an artist, uh, Everclear.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Oh, yeah. Is it Everclear? Yeah, Everclear's from Oregon. They're
from Oregon? I know, isn't Nirvana from Washington?
Speaker 1 (39:51):
So Seattle.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Yeah, Seattle's its own thing.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, so, you know, we'll just go with Matt Carney. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:01):
Matt Carney's who I actually listened to. Like, there are
artists that, obviously there's artists that have made it at
some point in time from every state in the country,
but Oregon is definitely underrepresented.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Do you hike?
Speaker 8 (40:13):
I do, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Like, if you grew up there, I just picture you
and your What's a brand?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Patagonia.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Patagonia.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
You're in your Patagonia hiking all day.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You ever go sit in the woods with your guitar
and play for the animals?
Speaker 8 (40:27):
No, I want to. That sounds very on brand. I
definitely want to. Yeah, I grew up hiking a ton.
I have four siblings, and my dad's a chiropractor, and
he would typically have a half day on Friday. So
our vacations, I hadn't been out of the country until
I was 21. one, I want to say, uh, cause
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all of our vacations were all right, getting the expedition
and throw our suitcases or yeah, our suitcases and our
sleeping bags. Let's just go find a camping spot. And
that was how we vacationed, um, for my entire growing up.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
When did you start playing guitar?
Speaker 8 (41:04):
Uh, 20, 21, roughly. Um, I tried to learn a
couple of times. My dad tried to teach me, And
I was so competitive and not ready to learn an
instrument that I kept on getting so frustrated that I
would just quit before I even learned a chord. So
I had loosely the shape of G and C, the
finger shape of those chords, before 21. But other than that,
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21 is when I actually picked it up and was like,
I'm going to try to do something with this.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
What made you commit to it then?
Speaker 8 (41:36):
It was kind of happenstance. I was packed up and
ready to move to Southern California. And my dad literally,
it was like a movie. He reopened the door after
I closed it to drive away. And I was getting
into my car and he gave me his old Epiphone
that was one of the guitars he played for us
in my childhood. And he just told me, you know,
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people like somebody who can strum a guitar, like you
should try to learn some chords. I know that you've
tried before and maybe now you're ready. And I was like, okay, dad, sure.
You know, threw it in the car, drove down and
it took several, uh, providentially placed humans in my life
that encouraged me at the right moments to try something
(42:20):
at the right time. And, and so when I, when
I say that, I mean like a coworker of mine,
his name is Jordan, uh, from San Clemente. We worked
at the outlet Starbucks together and he came over one
night and he saw my guitar and he's like, Oh,
you play? It's like, not really, but I've written some
random poetry over some strings that made certain noises. And
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he was like, well, play something for me. So I
played something for him, and he told me he felt
like I had a chance at actually pursuing this, and
I didn't believe that at all. And he was like,
if you're not going to do it for yourself, do
it for me. Just go down and sing in front
of people. And how he put it, and I've quoted
this hundreds of times now because it's a very turning
(43:06):
point moment for me. He said, at the worst case,
nobody cares. And at the best case, nobody cares. Just
go out there and do it to show yourself that
you can do it. And that's where it started. I
wasn't really planning on pursuing. It wasn't like I went
to the pier and I was like, yeah, this is,
I'm going to be big someday. It was just like,
I want to, I love singing. Music has had such
(43:28):
an important role in my life. So I wanted to
see if I could do it. And then one thing
led to another.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
What did you learn most about working at Starbucks?
Speaker 8 (43:38):
Uh, person skills. Uh, I learned how to converse with
people from every walk of life imaginable. And I think
that's really helped me in my career because as an artist, especially, um,
an artist that is very, I don't, I don't know, straightforward, uh,
(44:02):
kind of vulnerable. Like I, I'm not I'm not playing
a part in any way. I mean, this is really
just who I am and how I was raised. You're
talking to Max McNown. I don't have a stage name.
Like for someone that is in my career, it's so
important to be able to talk to people and see
people as people, no matter where they come from. And
I think Starbucks really helped me with that.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Where people are just wrong sometimes though. And you knew
they were wrong, but you had to act like they
were right. Yeah. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
It's like every day.
Speaker 8 (44:32):
Of course, yeah, yeah. Luckily, in this career, I have
a lot of creative freedom and I don't have to
tell people they're right when they're wrong because it's my art.
So I don't have to do that anymore. But yes,
I have definitely remade many drinks that I know for
a fact I made correctly.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
And do you make it the exact same?
Speaker 8 (44:53):
No, no, no. So I love, I think it's so
funny because there were certain repeat offenders that would come in.
And if I made their drink by standard, they would
give it back and say, it's, this is wrong with it, whatever.
It's not sweet enough. And so I just started giving
them double pumps every time they came in. I would
just get like, if it was, you know, if it
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was four pumps of pumpkin spice, I'd give them eight
and they wouldn't even say anything. And that's double the
recommended intake for the drink. And it's already a sugary drink,
but you know, they're going to complain three times in
a row. I'm just going to give them what they want. So, yes,
definitely I started to figure out. You get to know.
There's a lot of regulars that come in, so you
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get to know the people and their stories and their drinks.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
What's been something from your new record that maybe you
didn't think would resonate as much as it has, something
that surprised you?
Speaker 8 (45:45):
Oh, Firstborn Daughter. We didn't discount it. Yeah, so Firstborn Daughter,
I've kind of found this interesting– situation where I keep
writing songs about my wife that are really specific and
then it ends up reaching some sort of algorithm on
social media where it's those exact people that have the
(46:06):
same you know feelings and characteristics as what I'm writing
about same thing happened with brown eyes better me for
you and uh I don't with better me for you
for example I I didn't even want to single it
because I'd listened to it so many times and I
was like this is just kind of too straightforward about
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who my wife is. I don't really think it's going
to relate to that many people. And then it completely
proved me wrong. And Firstborn Daughter is that same thing.
So on this next album, I didn't even know if
it was going to be a single. We were just like, hey,
this is a cool song. It's a good piece for
the overall project. And then I posted it once on
social media, and it just forced our hand. We're like,
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we have to single it. And it's always very interesting
when you don't. some of the songs I think will
be the biggest are not at all. And then some
songs where I'm like, yeah, it was a cool personal song.
It was, uh, they ended up going crazy. So I'd
say firstborn daughter is that one for.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Something you think is very specific actually is way more relatable.
Speaker 6 (47:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Then, then maybe you thought it would be.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (47:11):
Yeah. It's really interesting. And, and I, you'd think I
would have learned with better me for you and I didn't. So, but,
but I'm going to keep on, you know, I think
it was Rick Rubin that said, uh, The best thing
you can do for your fans is write music for yourself.
And so it can sometimes be really enticing to try
to write the hookiest line and the biggest hit, and
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then that ends up not being the biggest hit. So
I'm constantly trying to keep that at the forefront of
my mind because there's a lot of pressure. When I
wrote most of Night Diving, my second album, and my
first album, I had never played a show in my life.
None of that music had ever really... found its way
(47:53):
into the world yet. And so I was just writing
from my own experiences. And now that I've played upwards
of 300 shows and I've released so much music, there's
a lot more pressure now, which is an interesting obstacle
to face.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
The record comes out September 25th, Leave on a Light.
Is that one of the songs too, or did you
just name it that?
Speaker 8 (48:15):
Leave on a Light is taken from the song Slow Down.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I didn't see a title of a song there.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (48:22):
But the reason we chose that title, we went through
a couple phases of titles. And the reason I chose
that title is because I felt like it most closely
related all of the songs with a congruent theme throughout.
And so Leave on a Light, what that means is
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it's a request to the people that take care of
who I am beneath the music. You know, like I'll
be on the road, I'll be mentally occupied. I'll be
going and going and going. And then when I see
my parents, it's like, I've never left. And I'm the
same person. And my wife, I feel the same way.
My siblings, my friends, you know, my close friends from home.
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And so the whole album, just about every song has
some sort of congruent hint of a thank you. to
those people that are keeping the light on underneath the
Max MacDonald musical brand. And so that felt like the
most fitting title for me.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
The Summer Vacation Tour, and they can just go to
your socials or website and get tickets. How's it going?
Speaker 8 (49:32):
It's good. I mean, we just, I sadly got sick
with some really frustrating chest congestion and had to postpone
two shows from it. But other than those two shows,
we actually just finished the final scheduled show, uh, in
New York. Oh, so you're done with it just a
few days ago.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
Yep. I see dates till the September 27th here. You're
doing bourbon and beyond that festival looks awesome.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (49:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (49:56):
I think the dates, the dates that are going on,
that's because of the, the shows that were still, you know,
they're still part of the summer vacation tour. They just
got postponed. So Got it. Like the initial, my mind
has seen New York as the completion for so long
that that's still how I think. So I think you
actually have it correct. But anyway, I interrupted you.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
No, I love hearing that. I'm inserting dates here. He
didn't even know he had. Max, I really appreciate you
coming in, man. Yeah. Like really like your music. Quite
a thoughtful guy.
Speaker 8 (50:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Like he's like way smarter than most people. Like most
people come in here and they're like, six strings. I
hit them.
Speaker 8 (50:31):
I write lyrics.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (50:33):
I think I get it from my dad. My dad
has spoken to me in analogies for my entire life.
Anytime there's something that I couldn't quite understand in real
world terms, he would use some sort of example in nature,
something else that made it click. And so that's basically
what songwriting is. So I thank my dad for that.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Leave on a Light, out September 25th. And he has
no more shows except the ones that he's still going
to do that he hasn't done. And there he is.
You guys follow him at Max McNown. Thanks, Max.
Speaker 8 (51:05):
Yeah, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
And now time for the morning corny.
Speaker 7 (51:10):
The morning corny.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Why did the gamer play so many video games after
his breakup?
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Why did the gamer play so many video games after
his breakup?
Speaker 2 (51:23):
He needed to console himself. Console. Console. Gamer console. Console.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
That was the morning corny.
Speaker 7 (51:39):
You're a gamer.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
I thought you would like that. Am I a gamer?
I haven't played a game in.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Well, before you had a baby, you were a gamer.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Yeah, well, my wife got pregnant. I didn't even go
to the video game anymore.
Speaker 2 (51:48):
But you have your own gaming chair.
Speaker 1 (51:49):
And you know where it is? In a corner somewhere
that I haven't even sat in.
Speaker 6 (51:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
I'm a retired gamer.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
So if you were still gaming with that.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
I'd have laughed so hard, guys. That'd have been the
funniest joke.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's time for the good news.
Speaker 5 (52:01):
With Amy.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
Tell me something good.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
This woman, Julie, was taking the train in New Jersey
when she went to the bathroom. When she left the bathroom,
her wedding ring was gone. And she's like.
Speaker 1 (52:15):
Is that because she took it off to wipe?
Speaker 7 (52:18):
To wipe?
Speaker 6 (52:18):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (52:19):
Oh, good question.
Speaker 8 (52:20):
Why would you take it off?
Speaker 2 (52:21):
It doesn't clarify how it happened, but no, I don't
know women to do that.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
We're not asking to be gross. I just wonder why
she took her ring off in the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (52:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
My thought would be to wipe.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
I think when you wash your hands, it's the soap
and the water. Come back to wipe.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
We sidetracked you. Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (52:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
I don't know exactly how it happened because I am
perplexed at where the ring was found because you would
think if she was washing her hands, maybe it would
be in the sink. She called the New Jersey Transit.
They pulled the train from the line, took it out
for service so they could try to find it. Sure enough,
employees put the train up on jacks, removed the toilet tank,
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opened it up, and her ring was right there.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
They put the train up on jacks?
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Yeah, just to look for the ring.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
And it was in the toilet?
Speaker 2 (53:09):
And it was in the toilet.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
All right, I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (53:11):
She was wiping.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
No, that's not it. Precisely.
Speaker 8 (53:14):
That can't be right. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (53:15):
It fell off while wiping.
Speaker 8 (53:16):
Precisely.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Yeah, maybe it fell off, but I don't think she
took it off to do that. So, you know, just
a feel-good story that now feels a little weird.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
It doesn't feel weird. That's natural. Everybody needs to wipe.
I'm just surprised they stopped the train and put it
up on Jack. That's the commitment.
Speaker 6 (53:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Good for them. I bet she's happy. Also, I don't know,
leave it on to wipe.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
She probably does.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
And it just fell off while wiping?
Speaker 2 (53:42):
I don't know, guys.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
That's some aggressive wiping then. You must be going to town. Okay,
there you go. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (53:50):
That was Tell Me Something Good.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Who did you pick as a celebrity that you've never known,
but if they died?
Speaker 2 (53:58):
George Strait.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
Couldn't remember yours. That makes sense. Mine was David Letterman.
We have listeners call too.
Speaker 8 (54:03):
Ray, would you hit that?
Speaker 1 (54:04):
My name is Maddie. I'm calling from Wichita, Kansas.
Speaker 5 (54:07):
You're talking about who would you get emotional about or
cry about if they passed away, like a celebrity or
someone you have no connection to. It would make you emotional.
If any one of you guys would pass away, I
definitely would be emotional, and I would cry about that.
So that's my answer.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Love you guys. Bye.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Dang, that would be crazy.
Speaker 6 (54:26):
Lunchbox did say that.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
I did. You said America.
Speaker 5 (54:30):
America.
Speaker 4 (54:31):
Would be sad. There would be a lot of tears.
All our listeners would be in mourning if one of
us died.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
I think they'd be like, oh, man, that's sad. Well,
we've got to get to work. Move on. Play the
next one.
Speaker 5 (54:41):
I feel like if Bobby were to pass, I would cry.
I've never met Bobby. He's not some bro of mine.
But he's always come off as such a regular guy,
so approachable. Just seems like a dude. Just seems like
one of my bros. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Well, thank you. I don't know that I'm a bro.
Do you think you're a dude's dude?
Speaker 6 (55:03):
No.
Speaker 5 (55:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
I think you can definitely approach me and say hi
and I'm normal-ish, but I'm not a bro in any way.
I don't think he meant like bro.
Speaker 6 (55:13):
He just meant like one of my buddies.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
Like friends. Yeah. Even buddies feels too masculine. Let's be honest.
Speaker 6 (55:19):
One of my friends.
Speaker 5 (55:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (55:20):
My pals.
Speaker 1 (55:22):
Still maybe too masculine.
Speaker 2 (55:24):
Pals?
Speaker 1 (55:25):
That's not.
Speaker 5 (55:25):
Maybe. No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
One of my friends. But I appreciate that. I know
where his heart is. Yeah, but nobody... In real life,
I'm not a bro. I can probably bench press more
than anybody here, but I'm still not a bro.
Speaker 6 (55:35):
You're not a bro.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:37):
More than Ray?
Speaker 1 (55:38):
Probably, yeah. At this point. Ray doesn't lift.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
Oh, okay. Thought you did.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
Why are you hating? Ray, who can bench press more?
I would say you. A couple weeks ago, I got
off the creatine. It's not because he's not strong. I
think if you're not doing it, it goes away.
Speaker 5 (55:54):
Right, right, right.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah. Why are you a hater, though?
Speaker 2 (55:56):
That is not hating.
Speaker 5 (55:58):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
I'm sorry if you're trying to bro out with Ray.
Speaker 5 (56:00):
Bray.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
With Bray.
Speaker 5 (56:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
Thank you for all the calls. We're going to try
to stay alive.
Speaker 6 (56:06):
So no one's sad.
Speaker 8 (56:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
We want to make everybody happy. Voicemail anytime.
Speaker 8 (56:10):
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