September 8, 2026 • 34 mins
Bobby is back on a Tuesday! He answers the most asked questions he was asked recently on Instagram about dad life, if he’s going to cut his hair and what it was like traveling with a 5 month old. Bobby shares his Top 5 moments of his vacation from last week with his family!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Bones.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Hello, everybody. And it's Bobby here. And sometimes, well, once.
We did the five-question Q & A on a Monday.
I'm actually recording this on a Monday because we're not
working today, but this will be put up on Tuesday,
so first day of the week. So I'm going to
do this, these questions that you guys asked on my Instagram,
and then I will walk down the 5, 4, 3, 2,
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1 moments of my vacation. Here we go. let's go
to the questions that you guys asked on my Instagram
Q & A. Question number one from xyoob.os. Almost feels
like a burner account, but they did write this message.
Has being a father made you softer, more sympathetic towards life,
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or anything different in general? Question mark. It has made
me more tired, And it's not because I'm bench pressing
a baby all day. It's because as soon as my
focus gets off of work and I come home, my
focus directly goes right to the baby and to help
out my wife. So I did get a question too
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that I posted inside of my Instagram that said, you
guys have live in help. No, I would, I would
say I would love it. I want to pull that
reaction to that back. I don't really want anyone living
with us. So I was going to say, I would
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love it if we had, because I think the question
was asked and I did answer this one on my Instagram,
on the stories part. I did say no, LOL. And
then I felt like, man, it would be nice though.
But then I don't think it would be because it's
not like we have other helpers full houses on the
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property that they could live in because I definitely don't
want people just walking around the house all the time.
So yeah, no, we have no live in help, but
they were talking about a live in chef, a live
in nanny. No, all good. We do have a building
on the property that is the pool house, I guess
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you would call it. And it's pretty nice. except I've
completely turned into a studio. Everything about that building is just,
we work from there now. So the answer to that
is no. Another question that was asked is, are you
gonna let your baby have mayonnaise? And we are a
no mayo household. My wife is a no condiment person.
She's never had ketchup or mustard or mayonnaise, but I
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hate mayonnaise too. So there will be no mayonnaise. We
are a no mayo household. And being a father, has
it made me softer? I don't know if softer is
the word, but I do now see... people, especially women,
because I have a girl and go, man, that's somebody's daughter.
More so than that's just another person, but like that's
somebody's daughter. And obviously you know that, but you kind
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of don't feel that until you have a daughter. And
that may make no sense to you. But I don't
know if I'm more sympathetic towards life in general, like
you asked. I might actually be and not know it though.
So I'll give you that. All right, next up, When
will you cut your hair? This is from Michael underscore F-O-E-L-L.
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Michael Fowell. As of right now, I have no plan
to cut my hair because the baby I was just
talking about really enjoys being able to like grab the hair.
And when I shake it, she thinks it's funny. And
if I shake in her face, she thinks it's funny.
And so as of right now, I have no need
to cut my hair. I don't really have a consistent
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television job. I mean, I could say the Netflix, but
that's my own show. So right now I have no
plan to cut my hair. That doesn't mean I won't.
It also doesn't mean I will anytime soon. Right now
I can see riding this thing out to the end
of the year just to see what it feels like.
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Because it is kind of funny that every time I
post something, people are like, cut your hair. I don't
have vanity about that. And it's kind of a bit now.
Next up. From jwarner2313, what is your vacation rating on
a scale of one to 10? It's an interesting question
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because this vacation was different than any other vacation that
I've taken my entire life because we do have that
baby that I've talked about in the first two questions.
I would say that I would rate it seven and
a half out of 10. We learned a lot this
vacation having a five-month-old. It's also pretty wild because she's
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five months old and she's crawling now. I don't really
know when babies are supposed to crawl. I don't look
up the benchmarks because I don't want to be either
disappointed that she's not reaching them or me thinking she's
super advanced if she is. I just don't want to
have that pressure on myself or on her. I mean,
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she's not going to feel the pressure. So I don't know.
But she's crawling around all over the place now. which
is interesting. We got to watch her closer now. So
seven and a half, it was the first vacation where
we took her last vacation that we had at the
beginning of summer. We just stayed home because I think
we had a three month old at that point. And
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so we didn't go anywhere. We were still very new.
We didn't feel like flying anywhere with the baby. We
didn't feel like being in a hotel, having to figure
that out. So This one was a bit different because
we do feel like she definitely has some awareness and
we got to do a bunch of cool stuff and
we took her out and we went to a cabin,
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stay in a cabin in East Tennessee and there's lots
of woods and we had a golf cart that we
drove around in and I got a sneeze. So we
had all that happening and that was fun. And we
also had Caitlin's parents with us. And so they were
helping as well. But what we did learn, and we
learned something every time we go out and we experienced
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something new with the baby, is that at home, Billy's
room is completely blacked out. We put blackout curtains up.
So if she's taking a nap in the daytime, it's dark.
If she's sleeping at night, it's dark. We went to
this cabin and it said they had blackout curtains, but
I'm going to tell you, they weren't blackout. And the
room was so light in the day, we should have taken...
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some cheap throwaway, you can stick them on a window,
like temporary blackouts. We will do that from now on
if we go anywhere. But we learned the hard way there.
And also we're in central time zone where we live,
but we went to eastern time zone. And so obviously
everything's an hour earlier. And so she was waking up
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a bit earlier because they're on the far left side
of the eastern time zone. We're on the far right
side of the central time zone. So she was definitely
waking up a lot earlier. I think that was hard
on Caitlin a little bit. Way more Caitlin than me
because she gets up. If she hears even a cry,
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like even if she doesn't get up immediately, like she
wakes up, eyeballs open, like it is inside of her
that if the baby is crying, she hears it. It's
princess and the pea, except it's a baby's cry through
20 walls. Like she knows it. So seven and a half,
I did not rest much at all because when my
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wife wakes up, for the most part, I wake up. Now, honestly,
I might go back and fall back asleep for a
few minutes in the bed. We did have Caitlin's parents
there as well. So with them being there and they
can watch Billy for a while, I did sometimes get
what my wife likes to call second sleep for me.
But the only reason I wouldn't go nine or 10
is because this vacation is I did not really get
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to rest like a normal vacation. Because if we have
a normal vacation, I'm sleeping till nine. I might wake
up at six, but I'm going back to sleep, sleep
till nine, 9.30, 10. But it was a really good
first baby vacation. And again, part of that, if not
a lot of that, was because Billy's grandparents are with us.
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I just enjoy having them around anyway. So that would
be that question. This is from Corey Davison. Did the
pool company pay to refill your pool? So if you
hadn't heard the story, the quick version is I walked
outside about two weeks ago and just noticed the pool was, well, 93% empty.
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I took a picture of it. I texted Kayla and
I said, did we drain our pool for some reason?
Turns out a couple of calls later, something happened. I
did say on the show, I think they hit the
drain button. I didn't even know if the drain button
was an actual thing. And maybe there's a couple things
you have to do to actually drain the pool. It
didn't leak out because the yard wasn't wet. So whatever happened,
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I'm not quite sure. But we called the pool company.
The pool company came out and said, hey, yeah, we're
going to get on this. And they did pay to
have a few things replaced. And I'm not really sure
why they paid to have something replaced if they didn't
weren't somewhat at fault. They said, hey, we'll have this
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replaced and we'll give you a couple service fees for free.
I mean, I guess that works. I think all the
pieces were like 700 bucks and then I think the
service fees, I don't know what they are, 50 bucks
a time. I'm not even sure. I wouldn't have a pool.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't have a pool.
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Growing up, always wanted a pool. Idolized people that had pools.
Thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now, It's just
a big wet spot. I don't ever get in it.
So no, they didn't. And I bet you that it
cost $ 3, 000 to fill the pool up because you have
to deal with a water hose. You can't get a
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fire truck back here in the back. Someone said, you
should go to the local fire department. They don't do
that here. And secondly, there's no way for it to
come back here to fill it up. I shouldn't say
no way. As far as what I know, they don't
do that around here because I asked. So we get
the water hose out and there's like a pull refill
contraption they put on the top of it, and when
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it reaches it, it stops. And the pull's full now,
and whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's so annoying.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Maybe I'll love the pull later. Right now, I'll pass.
If you could change one thing in your career, what
would it be? This is from btn262. If I could
change one thing in my career, and you can tell
I did not read over these before I started answering them.
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What would I do? Maybe I would have stayed in
sports as well. But here's a story on that. So
when I was in Austin and the show was in
Austin and we had reached our peak, not that we
weren't going to get any better if we stayed there
or bigger, but we had reached our highest point before
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we left. And you probably heard the story. I don't
want to bore you with it, but when I started
syndicating that show, I did it with my own money
without anyone's permission. They didn't care that I did it,
but they didn't want me to do it. There's a difference.
They were like, they didn't care. I was in Austin, Texas.
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You don't syndicate shows from Austin, Texas. There may be
a couple, but I haven't heard of any. It was
always New York or LA. So I had just asked, hey,
do you care if I get on another station if
I pay for it myself? And they were like, nope,
not really thinking anything would come from that. So I
did it and I spent a bunch of money on
all this equipment and we got on one station, Wichita, Kansas.
And boom, we're up and running, except not really, we're
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breaking down all the time. And then we went on
in Lubbock. And then we went on in Beaumont. And
then we went on, trying to think of the other
places we went first, but we started popping up in
these cities, small towns, I should say. And it's going great.
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But every time we get two new markets, I have
to buy another, what they called at the time, and
they still do, but they were Comrex boxes. But for
every two stations, I had to buy another Comrex box.
So it was like 2,600 bucks. I didn't have that
money really. I mean, I had it, but it wasn't
that I had this extra income that I could just
use that was disposable. I think I was making $ 54, 000
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a year. And at one time I had eight boxes running.
So you're looking around 20 grand there. So it wasn't
like I had a bunch of money is my point.
And so I started syndicating the show. And at one
time we had before, again, our peak, we had almost
30 cities that, we were running from a back room
in Austin, Texas. And so that's when I decided to
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go to Nashville. But at the same time, I was
doing a national sports show on Fox Sports Radio on
the weekends. Now, at first it was Andy Roddick, the
tennis player, who's a good friend of mine and myself.
And we did this and he was still playing professional tennis.
So he would be in London. He would be in Madrid, Spain.
He'd be wherever we would connect up and we would
do the show. We do it every Saturday. It's three
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or four hours. And then I had Lunchbox in there
with me. I had Ray in there with me. And
we would just do the show, and it was fun.
And then I started getting some looks to do some
of the weekday stuff. And Jim Rome was leaving, and
they came to me and said, hey, would you like
to be in the mix for the Jim Rome afternoon show?
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And I really thought to myself, I can't do the
morning show to my full capability and the afternoon show.
And I was also going to move to Nashville. I
didn't want to take on the new job of country
music and all these new affiliates, all these new stations.
I knew it was going to be brutal for the
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first couple of years. And then also have to do
a sports show in the afternoon. It was also going
to be different from what people were used to. And
that was going to be brutal for a couple of years.
I just didn't want to take on the double brutal.
And I also didn't feel like I had capacity to
give them both my full attention. So I said no
to that Jim Rome spot and just dedicated myself to Nashville,
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but I stayed on the weekends and Andy left the
show and I was doing it solo. I was doing
the national show. I was in Nashville still doing it.
And I would tour, I was doing standup and I
was doing raging idiot stuff. And I'd go find a
studio on the weekends and I work in the daytime.
And then I'd go and I do my show that
night in whatever city I was touring in. And it
just got to be too much. So I stopped doing
the Fox sports show. Now, it wasn't that I was
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too tired, but it was hard to find studios in
certain towns. They weren't paying anything. It was like a
hundred bucks a show or something, but that has never
been my motivation. So I just gave it up for
a while, years. Actually, I wouldn't have done 25 whistles
had DraftKings not come to me and asked me to
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do a five day a week show to which I said, no,
I can't. I don't have the capacity. And they said, okay, well,
let's do a two day a week show. And that's
what we said yes to. They're a great partner. They
have spent a bunch of money with the show, which
is great because that's how we make our money. That's
how we have our salaries and insurance. It's all sponsor
and clients. Would I do anything differently? I think I
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probably would have stayed in sports a little more than
I did. I think I hear my nanit going off.
I do. It always stays up on my phone where
I don't even know And I hear her right now
in the room. Okay. Okay. Hold on. That Nana will
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stay on. I don't even realize it's on my phone.
It is on all the time. So I don't hear
it anymore. It's almost like some of those kids songs
that come off the little toys that we have. The
wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round.
And I don't even hear it anymore. It's white noise.
So the answer to that question is I probably would
have stayed somewhat in sports, even if it were to
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do a sports podcast for like a Fox Sports or ESPN,
instead of all those years, just get out of it.
Because now, and I've been doing it somewhat consistently for
the past four years or so, and not just 25 whistles.
The NFL show with lots to say has been great
in the last two years. Matt Castle and I do
that show. He's a former quarterback. That gives me a
little bit of credit. I need the credit because people go, oh,
you do sports? Still, I go fill in for Rich Eisen.
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That's a massive show that is on ESPN radio, their
national radio. you know, their national syndication for their sports
radio and it's on Disney plus. And so we've been
doing it a while, but people will still go, you
do sports, but I get it. You're really only known
for your main thing. It drives me crazy sometimes, but
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you're really only known for your main thing, even though
you've spent tons and tons and tons of hours doing
other things. I mean, I've written three books at this point.
two in a kid's book, but the kid's book was
such a process, a different process than the others. And
I don't get annoyed because I understand the situation. People
only know you for the main thing. And the main
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thing for me is the radio show. It's not even,
you're listening now, this is a podcast. Like we have
a massive podcast. I'm not saying that in a braggadocious way.
It's just that the radio show is about a third
of the Bobby Bones show podcast feed. And it's only
about a third. And we have a monster podcast that
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does tens of tens of tens of tens of millions
of streams and downloads a year. But I still really
can't even get people to be like, yeah, podcaster. Even
though I have a podcast on Netflix, that is not
the show. And I have to not be irritated at that.
People only know you for the main thing. But what
would I do different? That's a long thing to say.
I'd probably have at least kept my toe in the
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water with sports. and done more like filling in for
some of the big shows. Because I do, it is
fun for me. And I don't have to do really
any research because I am invested fully and wholly in
it as a hobby. So that's been fun. Top five
things from my vacation. I made a list here. Number five,
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the weather in the mountains. I don't know where you're
listening to me right now, obviously, but I'm going to say,
if you're anything like I am, you are over the heat.
It has been I feel in my bones and in
my guts, the absolute hottest summer in the history of
my summers. So bad. And we went to the mountains,
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obviously we're elevated. I think we're elevated about 3,500 feet.
So definitely not quite a mile because that'd be 5,280 feet,
but we're on up there. It was cooler up there
and it was nice. It definitely was still really warm
in the peak hours, but mornings were great. Evenings were great.
And I'd put number five on our vacation, weather in
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the mountains. And number four, I'm going to put playing
pickleball after we got back at 9 30 AM. Now
I get very jealous whenever I see my friends here
in Nashville. Now, and to be fair, my friends in Nashville,
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for the most part, are one of three things. They're
in the creative world, they are in the sports world,
or they're in law enforcement. That's it. I do have
a couple friends that have business jobs, but for the
most part, I would say 95% of the people that
I would call friends here in Nashville are either ex-athletes
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that moved here after their career was over or they
played for the Titans or another team, but they stayed here.
They are artists or like songwriters. Like Brett is an artist.
Ross Copperman is a great producer, songwriter. George Burge is
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a artist. Like those are my friends. And then I
have law enforcement friends. They have jobs where they don't
have to be at work at 8 a.m. So if
they want to have a 9, 9.30, 10 a.m. pickleball match,
it's no problem. Or if they want to have a
9.30 basketball game, I get invited so often out to
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Ashley Gorley, who I think has written more number ones
than anybody in the history of country music. I get
invited to his house to go play basketball or pickleball,
and it's 9 o'clock at night. But creatives don't have
to do what I and what you probably have to do,
which is have a regimented job where in the morning
you have to be at your job. So, and number
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four on my list is pickleball at 9.30 or 10 a.m.
because multiple times once we got back, I had a
friend come over and we played pickleball at 9.30 or
10 a.m. and it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It was the greatest.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Because I didn't have to wake up early to do it.
I didn't have to wait until late in the afternoon
like I do sometimes where I don't get to play
until 4 or 4.30. But now I got the baby
and the baby's 5.30. She's got to get her bath and...
I just woke up, took care of some baby stuff,
helped out Caitlin, ate breakfast, played pickleball. It was pretty great.
So I think that's number four, just being able to
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hang out and do something I enjoy at an hour
that is so convenient. At number three, and I bet
you this will be in Tuesday Reviews Day, but I
read two books. And the last vacation, I think I
watched 14 movies. I only watch one movie, but it
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takes a lot longer to read a book than it
does to watch a movie. And so I read two books.
I'm in the middle of a third right now. I
don't think I'll get it. I'll complete it before we
go to the show. So it was nice to just
grab my iPad, just chill and just read 10 pages
at a time, 15 pages at a time. Okay. You
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need to take the baby for an hour. No problem.
We're all hanging out as a family. No problem. All right.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I grab a book.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
All right, grab a book. So did a lot of reading,
which I've neglected. It's so hard to just take and
read a book whenever you have your phone there and
you can just be on TikTok or Instagram. But I
fought against it. Part of the reason too, is that
I have a phone that is a piece of crap
and it's dying all the time. I can be fully
charged whenever I wake up in the morning by noon, 13%.
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So it's always gotta be on a charger. And then
what I've done over the break is I go put
my phone on a charger in the different room. So
when it's in that room, I'm not always looking for
it or at it. And I just read. It's nice.
And I don't have my iPad hooked up to my iMessage.
So no text coming through, nothing. It is hooked up
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to the internet because I have to download the books,
but I don't have it through iMessage or anything. But
that would be number three. I'll tell you that probably
the books and Tuesday Reviews Day. But read two books,
watched a movie. Number two is that Howie Mandel was
really nice. So on Friday before vacation started, because I
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spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of not last week we
were off, but the week before that in Nashville, I
filled in for Rich Eisen on that Thursday and Friday
before we officially hit vacation. Now, what I have to
do though, is go to a studio in another state. Well, California,
it's not like it's a secret. You know where I
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am probably. Um, And so I go in that studio
and I record liners. And on Fridays, it's much easier
because we, most of the time, will do easy trivia.
And what you'll notice sometimes, this is not an in
the weeds, but I don't care. Sometimes the easy trivia
segment on YouTube will be so much longer than the
one that makes the radio. And so the reason we
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record that segment specifically, and sometimes we do it on
Thursday afternoon, is because sometimes it runs way long. And
if it runs way long, we'll just cut some of
it out for radio. On the podcast, it could be
as long as it is on YouTube. But Fridays are
much easier for me to not have to do as
much that day of, especially if we have a guest.
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So we had guests, we had easy trivia, we had
dance parties, we had all that. Thursday, I had to
go into that studio in Los Angeles and I have
to do a lot of client stuff. That's every day.
I got to record liners and record client videos. Liners
would be local things for affiliates in different cities. So
if the Boston station's doing some sort of concert or
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our Washington DC affiliates doing some charity event, like I
have pages and pages and pages of liners that I
read for stations every single day because I think we're
on 200 plus. I'm not sure. It could be 300.
I used to keep up with that. I don't anymore.
So I do that. And then I have commercials that
I do every day And then I record anything from
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the show that needs to be done. Sometimes it's half
the show. Sometimes it's live. So it just depends. And
I try to be as super prepared as possible when
I'm working out of another studio because if something goes wrong,
we just have stuff that we can plug in. But
did that on Thursday and then brief on Friday in
the studio before the Rich Eisen show and then rolled
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over and did Rich Eisen both those days. And Rich
Eisen is a former sports center anchor, When I was
a kid, he was a massive deal to everyone because
ESPN was popping as hard as it ever had. It
was a big part of culture. And those SportsCenter anchors
were on all the time. SportsCenter was so different than
anything else we had ever seen in our whole life
because we just saw sports as something that was on
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the news for four minutes. So Rich Eisen, Dan Patrick,
Stuart Scott, Craig Kilbourne, like all those guys, to me
when I was a kid, they were the absolute coolest.
So when I started to fill in for Rich, I
thought it was so cool. The first time he came
on 25 Whistles, highlight for me because I was interviewing
Rich Eisen, one of these people I looked at and
admired as a child. And so for me to get
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to go and fill in for his show, because I
don't get money for it. They do offer to pay
me kind of in the weeds here. I think there's
some fee they pay their guest hosts. To me, it's
just such an honor to get to go do that.
I just have Rich donate the money to an animal charity.
So I pay my whole way out there, pay for hotel,
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pay for everything myself. Like to me, that's super fun.
And it's an honor to be asked to do that
because that is such a massive platform. And then we
get to give to charity. So everybody wins. So on
Friday's show, Howie Mandel was coming in. I reached out
to Howie whenever I was going in because they say, hey,
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who do you want on the show? And the guest
booker for that show, I know I've worked with her
before because she works with us and books some of
our lots to say NFL guests. And so same person
works great. It's how he even knew to use her
because I'd worked for their own rich. And I said,
I would love to have Howie Mandel because he was
on the Bobby cast and we did 45 minutes or so,
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but it was virtual. I'd love to honestly just meet him.
And she was like, I'll check it out. He said, yeah,
she said he's in. So he came up and not
only did he come up, he was so nice.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
He hung out.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Before we did 20 minutes, two different segments and, He
hung out after, he was excellent. So I'm gonna put
number two there. Howie Mandel was really nice. And then
number one is gonna be that Caitlin's parents were with
us on the vacation and not even just because they
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were helpful in watching Billy. I just like having them around.
They are wonderful. It is a better day when Caitlin's
parents are either staying with us or we're off somewhere together.
It is just a better day. So for me, that's
A plus when that happens. That's my number one. And
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then we did a bunch of cool stuff while we
were out. Again, you may be hearing a little repeat
of this because I'm sure we'll talk about this on
the show or at least part two of the podcast.
But we did pottery, like a pottery class. I suck
at pottery. Caitlin's dad was like, I've never done this.
This is going to be weird. And then he actually
was pretty good, which was kind of funny. We did
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a ropes course, like through the trees, through the woods
that they had built. And that was a lot of fun.
So that's going to be my number one. Caitlin's parents
with us on vacation. And listen, they really do a
great job of making an effort to get over. They
did even before we had a baby. but now that
we have a baby, one of them or both of
them are here every couple of months at least. And
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it is not like they live next door. This is
not everybody loves Raymond. They live in Oklahoma near Tulsa
and they drive a lot, a lot of times, almost
every time, nine hours or so. So We always really
appreciate that they come, and I really like them to come.
So there you have it. That would be the questions.
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That would be my top five things from vacation. You're
still going to get some Tell Me Something Good. Thank
you all for being here, and goodbye.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
It's time for the good news.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
With producer Eddie.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Tell me something good.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
There's a group of eight friends from Idaho and they
decided to start an Instagram page called 208 boys. I
guess that's the area code where they live 208. So
the whole thing was going to be, they're going to
get cameras. They're going to go into the rivers in
their town and they're going to find treasure, look at
fish or whatever. But turns out when they went down there,
all they found was trash. And so they're like, guys,
we got to do something. They thought their page would go,
(30:43):
I don't know, 5,000 or 10,000 followers. They started picking
up trash and letting people know, guys, these rivers are disgusting.
They're full of trash. So they start cleaning them up.
Now the town is cleaning up trash, and they have
180,000 followers because they did something good with their Instagram page.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Wow. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. It's weird how
much trash is in water sometimes.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You don't even realize.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
No. You'll see a cleanup, and they'll put all the
bags out after they've gone to the lake and cleaned
up the water, and it's like 40 bags.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Or you go fishing, and you pull up a water bottle,
and you're just like, what?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
A tire.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Individually, yeah. Yeah, good for them. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
That was Tell Me Something Good. It's time for the
good news.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
With Lunchbox. Tell me something.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Jaron's a third grader in Georgia, second day of school,
in the lunchroom with his friends, doing your mama jokes,
when all of a sudden he starts choking on a hamburger.
His teacher sees it, calls for help. Assistant principal, Dr.
Mary Payne, runs across the cafeteria, grabs him. Heimlich maneuver.
(32:00):
Out comes the hamburger.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Wow. Saved. That's amazing. Glad to see a life saved. Yeah.
I think if, I don't know, if you're 10, 11,
12 years old, you don't know how awesome yo mama
jokes used to be.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I have a question though. Does it say in the
story they were telling yo mama jokes?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
No, I just assumed third grade is when you start
telling those.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
I thought it was like specific yo mama.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, me too. Because I had some yo mama jokes
I was going to share.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You do?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
It's never about anybody's mama.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, do lunchboxes.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
No, I'm not doing anybody's mama. Oh, okay. And also
people would do them to me and I'd be like, so?
Then they make fun of me and I'd be like, oh,
that sucks. Yeah. That's how you get me. You make
fun of me. Like my physical limitations. But my mom
can defend herself. Your mom jokes never hurt me. Your
daddy jokes. Oh, yeah. Oh, that hurts. Your mom is
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so fat, once you stepped on the scale, the scale
said to be continued. Oh! What?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Amy, you have to do that.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Oh!
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Okay, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Heard that one.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Your mom is so old, her birth certificate's in Roman numerals. Oh! Oh!
Your mom is so dumb, she sat on a glass
of orange juice because the box said concentrate. Oh!
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Got him.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Your mom is so poor, I saw her kicking a
can down the street. When I asked what she was doing,
she said moving.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh!
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Oh, no!
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Dang.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Your mom is so short, she got carpet burn giving birth.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh! What?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Your mom is so hairy, Bigfoot takes pictures of her. Oh!
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
All right, one more. Yo mama's so tall, she tripped
in Michigan and bumped her head in Florida. Oh!
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Wait, wait, wait. Lunchbox is choking. Hamburger. Get him.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
I only know two your mama jokes. I only know two,
and you didn't say them.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Oh, can you give us one?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
They don't want to fake me, though.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yo mama jokes never got me. Let's see, Amy.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
This isn't me saying it. These are just ones I
heard as a kid. Your mama's so fat, she has
to iron her clothes in the driveway.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Oh! Oh!
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Or your mom is so fat, she sits on a
rainbow when Skittles came out.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
That's a good one. That's what it's all about. There
you go.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That was Tell Me Something Good.
The Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Bones.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Hello, everybody. And it's Bobby here. And sometimes, well, once.
We did the five-question Q & A on a Monday.
I'm actually recording this on a Monday because we're not
working today, but this will be put up on Tuesday,
so first day of the week. So I'm going to
do this, these questions that you guys asked on my Instagram,
and then I will walk down the 5, 4, 3, 2,
(00:25):
1 moments of my vacation. Here we go. let's go
to the questions that you guys asked on my Instagram
Q & A. Question number one from xyoob.os. Almost feels
like a burner account, but they did write this message.
Has being a father made you softer, more sympathetic towards life,
(00:50):
or anything different in general? Question mark. It has made
me more tired, And it's not because I'm bench pressing
a baby all day. It's because as soon as my
focus gets off of work and I come home, my
focus directly goes right to the baby and to help
out my wife. So I did get a question too
(01:13):
that I posted inside of my Instagram that said, you
guys have live in help. No, I would, I would
say I would love it. I want to pull that
reaction to that back. I don't really want anyone living
with us. So I was going to say, I would
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love it if we had, because I think the question
was asked and I did answer this one on my Instagram,
on the stories part. I did say no, LOL. And
then I felt like, man, it would be nice though.
But then I don't think it would be because it's
not like we have other helpers full houses on the
(01:59):
property that they could live in because I definitely don't
want people just walking around the house all the time.
So yeah, no, we have no live in help, but
they were talking about a live in chef, a live
in nanny. No, all good. We do have a building
on the property that is the pool house, I guess
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you would call it. And it's pretty nice. except I've
completely turned into a studio. Everything about that building is just,
we work from there now. So the answer to that
is no. Another question that was asked is, are you
gonna let your baby have mayonnaise? And we are a
no mayo household. My wife is a no condiment person.
She's never had ketchup or mustard or mayonnaise, but I
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hate mayonnaise too. So there will be no mayonnaise. We
are a no mayo household. And being a father, has
it made me softer? I don't know if softer is
the word, but I do now see... people, especially women,
because I have a girl and go, man, that's somebody's daughter.
More so than that's just another person, but like that's
somebody's daughter. And obviously you know that, but you kind
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of don't feel that until you have a daughter. And
that may make no sense to you. But I don't
know if I'm more sympathetic towards life in general, like
you asked. I might actually be and not know it though.
So I'll give you that. All right, next up, When
will you cut your hair? This is from Michael underscore F-O-E-L-L.
(03:31):
Michael Fowell. As of right now, I have no plan
to cut my hair because the baby I was just
talking about really enjoys being able to like grab the hair.
And when I shake it, she thinks it's funny. And
if I shake in her face, she thinks it's funny.
And so as of right now, I have no need
to cut my hair. I don't really have a consistent
(03:52):
television job. I mean, I could say the Netflix, but
that's my own show. So right now I have no
plan to cut my hair. That doesn't mean I won't.
It also doesn't mean I will anytime soon. Right now
I can see riding this thing out to the end
of the year just to see what it feels like.
(04:14):
Because it is kind of funny that every time I
post something, people are like, cut your hair. I don't
have vanity about that. And it's kind of a bit now.
Next up. From jwarner2313, what is your vacation rating on
a scale of one to 10? It's an interesting question
(04:36):
because this vacation was different than any other vacation that
I've taken my entire life because we do have that
baby that I've talked about in the first two questions.
I would say that I would rate it seven and
a half out of 10. We learned a lot this
vacation having a five-month-old. It's also pretty wild because she's
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five months old and she's crawling now. I don't really
know when babies are supposed to crawl. I don't look
up the benchmarks because I don't want to be either
disappointed that she's not reaching them or me thinking she's
super advanced if she is. I just don't want to
have that pressure on myself or on her. I mean,
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she's not going to feel the pressure. So I don't know.
But she's crawling around all over the place now. which
is interesting. We got to watch her closer now. So
seven and a half, it was the first vacation where
we took her last vacation that we had at the
beginning of summer. We just stayed home because I think
we had a three month old at that point. And
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so we didn't go anywhere. We were still very new.
We didn't feel like flying anywhere with the baby. We
didn't feel like being in a hotel, having to figure
that out. So This one was a bit different because
we do feel like she definitely has some awareness and
we got to do a bunch of cool stuff and
we took her out and we went to a cabin,
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stay in a cabin in East Tennessee and there's lots
of woods and we had a golf cart that we
drove around in and I got a sneeze. So we
had all that happening and that was fun. And we
also had Caitlin's parents with us. And so they were
helping as well. But what we did learn, and we
learned something every time we go out and we experienced
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something new with the baby, is that at home, Billy's
room is completely blacked out. We put blackout curtains up.
So if she's taking a nap in the daytime, it's dark.
If she's sleeping at night, it's dark. We went to
this cabin and it said they had blackout curtains, but
I'm going to tell you, they weren't blackout. And the
room was so light in the day, we should have taken...
(06:51):
some cheap throwaway, you can stick them on a window,
like temporary blackouts. We will do that from now on
if we go anywhere. But we learned the hard way there.
And also we're in central time zone where we live,
but we went to eastern time zone. And so obviously
everything's an hour earlier. And so she was waking up
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a bit earlier because they're on the far left side
of the eastern time zone. We're on the far right
side of the central time zone. So she was definitely
waking up a lot earlier. I think that was hard
on Caitlin a little bit. Way more Caitlin than me
because she gets up. If she hears even a cry,
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like even if she doesn't get up immediately, like she
wakes up, eyeballs open, like it is inside of her
that if the baby is crying, she hears it. It's
princess and the pea, except it's a baby's cry through
20 walls. Like she knows it. So seven and a half,
I did not rest much at all because when my
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wife wakes up, for the most part, I wake up. Now, honestly,
I might go back and fall back asleep for a
few minutes in the bed. We did have Caitlin's parents
there as well. So with them being there and they
can watch Billy for a while, I did sometimes get
what my wife likes to call second sleep for me.
But the only reason I wouldn't go nine or 10
is because this vacation is I did not really get
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to rest like a normal vacation. Because if we have
a normal vacation, I'm sleeping till nine. I might wake
up at six, but I'm going back to sleep, sleep
till nine, 9.30, 10. But it was a really good
first baby vacation. And again, part of that, if not
a lot of that, was because Billy's grandparents are with us.
(08:40):
I just enjoy having them around anyway. So that would
be that question. This is from Corey Davison. Did the
pool company pay to refill your pool? So if you
hadn't heard the story, the quick version is I walked
outside about two weeks ago and just noticed the pool was, well, 93% empty.
(09:03):
I took a picture of it. I texted Kayla and
I said, did we drain our pool for some reason?
Turns out a couple of calls later, something happened. I
did say on the show, I think they hit the
drain button. I didn't even know if the drain button
was an actual thing. And maybe there's a couple things
you have to do to actually drain the pool. It
didn't leak out because the yard wasn't wet. So whatever happened,
(09:28):
I'm not quite sure. But we called the pool company.
The pool company came out and said, hey, yeah, we're
going to get on this. And they did pay to
have a few things replaced. And I'm not really sure
why they paid to have something replaced if they didn't
weren't somewhat at fault. They said, hey, we'll have this
(09:52):
replaced and we'll give you a couple service fees for free.
I mean, I guess that works. I think all the
pieces were like 700 bucks and then I think the
service fees, I don't know what they are, 50 bucks
a time. I'm not even sure. I wouldn't have a pool.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't have a pool.
(10:14):
Growing up, always wanted a pool. Idolized people that had pools.
Thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now, It's just
a big wet spot. I don't ever get in it.
So no, they didn't. And I bet you that it
cost $ 3, 000 to fill the pool up because you have
to deal with a water hose. You can't get a
(10:34):
fire truck back here in the back. Someone said, you
should go to the local fire department. They don't do
that here. And secondly, there's no way for it to
come back here to fill it up. I shouldn't say
no way. As far as what I know, they don't
do that around here because I asked. So we get
the water hose out and there's like a pull refill
contraption they put on the top of it, and when
(10:55):
it reaches it, it stops. And the pull's full now,
and whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's so annoying.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Maybe I'll love the pull later. Right now, I'll pass.
If you could change one thing in your career, what
would it be? This is from btn262. If I could
change one thing in my career, and you can tell
I did not read over these before I started answering them.
(11:33):
What would I do? Maybe I would have stayed in
sports as well. But here's a story on that. So
when I was in Austin and the show was in
Austin and we had reached our peak, not that we
weren't going to get any better if we stayed there
or bigger, but we had reached our highest point before
(11:55):
we left. And you probably heard the story. I don't
want to bore you with it, but when I started
syndicating that show, I did it with my own money
without anyone's permission. They didn't care that I did it,
but they didn't want me to do it. There's a difference.
They were like, they didn't care. I was in Austin, Texas.
(12:17):
You don't syndicate shows from Austin, Texas. There may be
a couple, but I haven't heard of any. It was
always New York or LA. So I had just asked, hey,
do you care if I get on another station if
I pay for it myself? And they were like, nope,
not really thinking anything would come from that. So I
did it and I spent a bunch of money on
all this equipment and we got on one station, Wichita, Kansas.
And boom, we're up and running, except not really, we're
(12:39):
breaking down all the time. And then we went on
in Lubbock. And then we went on in Beaumont. And
then we went on, trying to think of the other
places we went first, but we started popping up in
these cities, small towns, I should say. And it's going great.
(13:01):
But every time we get two new markets, I have
to buy another, what they called at the time, and
they still do, but they were Comrex boxes. But for
every two stations, I had to buy another Comrex box.
So it was like 2,600 bucks. I didn't have that
money really. I mean, I had it, but it wasn't
that I had this extra income that I could just
use that was disposable. I think I was making $ 54, 000
(13:23):
a year. And at one time I had eight boxes running.
So you're looking around 20 grand there. So it wasn't
like I had a bunch of money is my point.
And so I started syndicating the show. And at one
time we had before, again, our peak, we had almost
30 cities that, we were running from a back room
in Austin, Texas. And so that's when I decided to
(13:47):
go to Nashville. But at the same time, I was
doing a national sports show on Fox Sports Radio on
the weekends. Now, at first it was Andy Roddick, the
tennis player, who's a good friend of mine and myself.
And we did this and he was still playing professional tennis.
So he would be in London. He would be in Madrid, Spain.
He'd be wherever we would connect up and we would
do the show. We do it every Saturday. It's three
(14:09):
or four hours. And then I had Lunchbox in there
with me. I had Ray in there with me. And
we would just do the show, and it was fun.
And then I started getting some looks to do some
of the weekday stuff. And Jim Rome was leaving, and
they came to me and said, hey, would you like
to be in the mix for the Jim Rome afternoon show?
(14:32):
And I really thought to myself, I can't do the
morning show to my full capability and the afternoon show.
And I was also going to move to Nashville. I
didn't want to take on the new job of country
music and all these new affiliates, all these new stations.
I knew it was going to be brutal for the
(14:52):
first couple of years. And then also have to do
a sports show in the afternoon. It was also going
to be different from what people were used to. And
that was going to be brutal for a couple of years.
I just didn't want to take on the double brutal.
And I also didn't feel like I had capacity to
give them both my full attention. So I said no
to that Jim Rome spot and just dedicated myself to Nashville,
(15:15):
but I stayed on the weekends and Andy left the
show and I was doing it solo. I was doing
the national show. I was in Nashville still doing it.
And I would tour, I was doing standup and I
was doing raging idiot stuff. And I'd go find a
studio on the weekends and I work in the daytime.
And then I'd go and I do my show that
night in whatever city I was touring in. And it
just got to be too much. So I stopped doing
the Fox sports show. Now, it wasn't that I was
(15:36):
too tired, but it was hard to find studios in
certain towns. They weren't paying anything. It was like a
hundred bucks a show or something, but that has never
been my motivation. So I just gave it up for
a while, years. Actually, I wouldn't have done 25 whistles
had DraftKings not come to me and asked me to
(15:56):
do a five day a week show to which I said, no,
I can't. I don't have the capacity. And they said, okay, well,
let's do a two day a week show. And that's
what we said yes to. They're a great partner. They
have spent a bunch of money with the show, which
is great because that's how we make our money. That's
how we have our salaries and insurance. It's all sponsor
and clients. Would I do anything differently? I think I
(16:19):
probably would have stayed in sports a little more than
I did. I think I hear my nanit going off.
I do. It always stays up on my phone where
I don't even know And I hear her right now
in the room. Okay. Okay. Hold on. That Nana will
(16:41):
stay on. I don't even realize it's on my phone.
It is on all the time. So I don't hear
it anymore. It's almost like some of those kids songs
that come off the little toys that we have. The
wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round.
And I don't even hear it anymore. It's white noise.
So the answer to that question is I probably would
have stayed somewhat in sports, even if it were to
(17:03):
do a sports podcast for like a Fox Sports or ESPN,
instead of all those years, just get out of it.
Because now, and I've been doing it somewhat consistently for
the past four years or so, and not just 25 whistles.
The NFL show with lots to say has been great
in the last two years. Matt Castle and I do
that show. He's a former quarterback. That gives me a
little bit of credit. I need the credit because people go, oh,
you do sports? Still, I go fill in for Rich Eisen.
(17:24):
That's a massive show that is on ESPN radio, their
national radio. you know, their national syndication for their sports
radio and it's on Disney plus. And so we've been
doing it a while, but people will still go, you
do sports, but I get it. You're really only known
for your main thing. It drives me crazy sometimes, but
(17:48):
you're really only known for your main thing, even though
you've spent tons and tons and tons of hours doing
other things. I mean, I've written three books at this point.
two in a kid's book, but the kid's book was
such a process, a different process than the others. And
I don't get annoyed because I understand the situation. People
only know you for the main thing. And the main
(18:09):
thing for me is the radio show. It's not even,
you're listening now, this is a podcast. Like we have
a massive podcast. I'm not saying that in a braggadocious way.
It's just that the radio show is about a third
of the Bobby Bones show podcast feed. And it's only
about a third. And we have a monster podcast that
(18:31):
does tens of tens of tens of tens of millions
of streams and downloads a year. But I still really
can't even get people to be like, yeah, podcaster. Even
though I have a podcast on Netflix, that is not
the show. And I have to not be irritated at that.
People only know you for the main thing. But what
would I do different? That's a long thing to say.
I'd probably have at least kept my toe in the
(18:52):
water with sports. and done more like filling in for
some of the big shows. Because I do, it is
fun for me. And I don't have to do really
any research because I am invested fully and wholly in
it as a hobby. So that's been fun. Top five
things from my vacation. I made a list here. Number five,
(19:13):
the weather in the mountains. I don't know where you're
listening to me right now, obviously, but I'm going to say,
if you're anything like I am, you are over the heat.
It has been I feel in my bones and in
my guts, the absolute hottest summer in the history of
my summers. So bad. And we went to the mountains,
(19:35):
obviously we're elevated. I think we're elevated about 3,500 feet.
So definitely not quite a mile because that'd be 5,280 feet,
but we're on up there. It was cooler up there
and it was nice. It definitely was still really warm
in the peak hours, but mornings were great. Evenings were great.
And I'd put number five on our vacation, weather in
(19:57):
the mountains. And number four, I'm going to put playing
pickleball after we got back at 9 30 AM. Now
I get very jealous whenever I see my friends here
in Nashville. Now, and to be fair, my friends in Nashville,
(20:17):
for the most part, are one of three things. They're
in the creative world, they are in the sports world,
or they're in law enforcement. That's it. I do have
a couple friends that have business jobs, but for the
most part, I would say 95% of the people that
I would call friends here in Nashville are either ex-athletes
(20:41):
that moved here after their career was over or they
played for the Titans or another team, but they stayed here.
They are artists or like songwriters. Like Brett is an artist.
Ross Copperman is a great producer, songwriter. George Burge is
(21:03):
a artist. Like those are my friends. And then I
have law enforcement friends. They have jobs where they don't
have to be at work at 8 a.m. So if
they want to have a 9, 9.30, 10 a.m. pickleball match,
it's no problem. Or if they want to have a
9.30 basketball game, I get invited so often out to
(21:28):
Ashley Gorley, who I think has written more number ones
than anybody in the history of country music. I get
invited to his house to go play basketball or pickleball,
and it's 9 o'clock at night. But creatives don't have
to do what I and what you probably have to do,
which is have a regimented job where in the morning
you have to be at your job. So, and number
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four on my list is pickleball at 9.30 or 10 a.m.
because multiple times once we got back, I had a
friend come over and we played pickleball at 9.30 or
10 a.m. and it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It was the greatest.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Because I didn't have to wake up early to do it.
I didn't have to wait until late in the afternoon
like I do sometimes where I don't get to play
until 4 or 4.30. But now I got the baby
and the baby's 5.30. She's got to get her bath and...
I just woke up, took care of some baby stuff,
helped out Caitlin, ate breakfast, played pickleball. It was pretty great.
So I think that's number four, just being able to
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hang out and do something I enjoy at an hour
that is so convenient. At number three, and I bet
you this will be in Tuesday Reviews Day, but I
read two books. And the last vacation, I think I
watched 14 movies. I only watch one movie, but it
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takes a lot longer to read a book than it
does to watch a movie. And so I read two books.
I'm in the middle of a third right now. I
don't think I'll get it. I'll complete it before we
go to the show. So it was nice to just
grab my iPad, just chill and just read 10 pages
at a time, 15 pages at a time. Okay. You
(23:05):
need to take the baby for an hour. No problem.
We're all hanging out as a family. No problem. All right.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I grab a book.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
All right, grab a book. So did a lot of reading,
which I've neglected. It's so hard to just take and
read a book whenever you have your phone there and
you can just be on TikTok or Instagram. But I
fought against it. Part of the reason too, is that
I have a phone that is a piece of crap
and it's dying all the time. I can be fully
charged whenever I wake up in the morning by noon, 13%.
(23:31):
So it's always gotta be on a charger. And then
what I've done over the break is I go put
my phone on a charger in the different room. So
when it's in that room, I'm not always looking for
it or at it. And I just read. It's nice.
And I don't have my iPad hooked up to my iMessage.
So no text coming through, nothing. It is hooked up
(23:52):
to the internet because I have to download the books,
but I don't have it through iMessage or anything. But
that would be number three. I'll tell you that probably
the books and Tuesday Reviews Day. But read two books,
watched a movie. Number two is that Howie Mandel was
really nice. So on Friday before vacation started, because I
(24:15):
spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of not last week we
were off, but the week before that in Nashville, I
filled in for Rich Eisen on that Thursday and Friday
before we officially hit vacation. Now, what I have to
do though, is go to a studio in another state. Well, California,
it's not like it's a secret. You know where I
(24:35):
am probably. Um, And so I go in that studio
and I record liners. And on Fridays, it's much easier
because we, most of the time, will do easy trivia.
And what you'll notice sometimes, this is not an in
the weeds, but I don't care. Sometimes the easy trivia
segment on YouTube will be so much longer than the
one that makes the radio. And so the reason we
(24:57):
record that segment specifically, and sometimes we do it on
Thursday afternoon, is because sometimes it runs way long. And
if it runs way long, we'll just cut some of
it out for radio. On the podcast, it could be
as long as it is on YouTube. But Fridays are
much easier for me to not have to do as
much that day of, especially if we have a guest.
(25:20):
So we had guests, we had easy trivia, we had
dance parties, we had all that. Thursday, I had to
go into that studio in Los Angeles and I have
to do a lot of client stuff. That's every day.
I got to record liners and record client videos. Liners
would be local things for affiliates in different cities. So
if the Boston station's doing some sort of concert or
(25:41):
our Washington DC affiliates doing some charity event, like I
have pages and pages and pages of liners that I
read for stations every single day because I think we're
on 200 plus. I'm not sure. It could be 300.
I used to keep up with that. I don't anymore.
So I do that. And then I have commercials that
I do every day And then I record anything from
(26:03):
the show that needs to be done. Sometimes it's half
the show. Sometimes it's live. So it just depends. And
I try to be as super prepared as possible when
I'm working out of another studio because if something goes wrong,
we just have stuff that we can plug in. But
did that on Thursday and then brief on Friday in
the studio before the Rich Eisen show and then rolled
(26:23):
over and did Rich Eisen both those days. And Rich
Eisen is a former sports center anchor, When I was
a kid, he was a massive deal to everyone because
ESPN was popping as hard as it ever had. It
was a big part of culture. And those SportsCenter anchors
were on all the time. SportsCenter was so different than
anything else we had ever seen in our whole life
because we just saw sports as something that was on
(26:44):
the news for four minutes. So Rich Eisen, Dan Patrick,
Stuart Scott, Craig Kilbourne, like all those guys, to me
when I was a kid, they were the absolute coolest.
So when I started to fill in for Rich, I
thought it was so cool. The first time he came
on 25 Whistles, highlight for me because I was interviewing
Rich Eisen, one of these people I looked at and
admired as a child. And so for me to get
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to go and fill in for his show, because I
don't get money for it. They do offer to pay
me kind of in the weeds here. I think there's
some fee they pay their guest hosts. To me, it's
just such an honor to get to go do that.
I just have Rich donate the money to an animal charity.
So I pay my whole way out there, pay for hotel,
(27:28):
pay for everything myself. Like to me, that's super fun.
And it's an honor to be asked to do that
because that is such a massive platform. And then we
get to give to charity. So everybody wins. So on
Friday's show, Howie Mandel was coming in. I reached out
to Howie whenever I was going in because they say, hey,
(27:49):
who do you want on the show? And the guest
booker for that show, I know I've worked with her
before because she works with us and books some of
our lots to say NFL guests. And so same person
works great. It's how he even knew to use her
because I'd worked for their own rich. And I said,
I would love to have Howie Mandel because he was
on the Bobby cast and we did 45 minutes or so,
(28:10):
but it was virtual. I'd love to honestly just meet him.
And she was like, I'll check it out. He said, yeah,
she said he's in. So he came up and not
only did he come up, he was so nice.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
He hung out.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Before we did 20 minutes, two different segments and, He
hung out after, he was excellent. So I'm gonna put
number two there. Howie Mandel was really nice. And then
number one is gonna be that Caitlin's parents were with
us on the vacation and not even just because they
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were helpful in watching Billy. I just like having them around.
They are wonderful. It is a better day when Caitlin's
parents are either staying with us or we're off somewhere together.
It is just a better day. So for me, that's
A plus when that happens. That's my number one. And
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then we did a bunch of cool stuff while we
were out. Again, you may be hearing a little repeat
of this because I'm sure we'll talk about this on
the show or at least part two of the podcast.
But we did pottery, like a pottery class. I suck
at pottery. Caitlin's dad was like, I've never done this.
This is going to be weird. And then he actually
was pretty good, which was kind of funny. We did
(29:22):
a ropes course, like through the trees, through the woods
that they had built. And that was a lot of fun.
So that's going to be my number one. Caitlin's parents
with us on vacation. And listen, they really do a
great job of making an effort to get over. They
did even before we had a baby. but now that
we have a baby, one of them or both of
them are here every couple of months at least. And
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it is not like they live next door. This is
not everybody loves Raymond. They live in Oklahoma near Tulsa
and they drive a lot, a lot of times, almost
every time, nine hours or so. So We always really
appreciate that they come, and I really like them to come.
So there you have it. That would be the questions.
(30:06):
That would be my top five things from vacation. You're
still going to get some Tell Me Something Good. Thank
you all for being here, and goodbye.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
It's time for the good news.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
With producer Eddie.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Tell me something good.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
There's a group of eight friends from Idaho and they
decided to start an Instagram page called 208 boys. I
guess that's the area code where they live 208. So
the whole thing was going to be, they're going to
get cameras. They're going to go into the rivers in
their town and they're going to find treasure, look at
fish or whatever. But turns out when they went down there,
all they found was trash. And so they're like, guys,
we got to do something. They thought their page would go,
(30:43):
I don't know, 5,000 or 10,000 followers. They started picking
up trash and letting people know, guys, these rivers are disgusting.
They're full of trash. So they start cleaning them up.
Now the town is cleaning up trash, and they have
180,000 followers because they did something good with their Instagram page.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Wow. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. It's weird how
much trash is in water sometimes.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You don't even realize.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
No. You'll see a cleanup, and they'll put all the
bags out after they've gone to the lake and cleaned
up the water, and it's like 40 bags.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Or you go fishing, and you pull up a water bottle,
and you're just like, what?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
A tire.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Individually, yeah. Yeah, good for them. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
That was Tell Me Something Good. It's time for the
good news.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
With Lunchbox. Tell me something.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Jaron's a third grader in Georgia, second day of school,
in the lunchroom with his friends, doing your mama jokes,
when all of a sudden he starts choking on a hamburger.
His teacher sees it, calls for help. Assistant principal, Dr.
Mary Payne, runs across the cafeteria, grabs him. Heimlich maneuver.
(32:00):
Out comes the hamburger.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Wow. Saved. That's amazing. Glad to see a life saved. Yeah.
I think if, I don't know, if you're 10, 11,
12 years old, you don't know how awesome yo mama
jokes used to be.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I have a question though. Does it say in the
story they were telling yo mama jokes?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
No, I just assumed third grade is when you start
telling those.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
I thought it was like specific yo mama.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah, me too. Because I had some yo mama jokes
I was going to share.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You do?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
It's never about anybody's mama.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, do lunchboxes.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
No, I'm not doing anybody's mama. Oh, okay. And also
people would do them to me and I'd be like, so?
Then they make fun of me and I'd be like, oh,
that sucks. Yeah. That's how you get me. You make
fun of me. Like my physical limitations. But my mom
can defend herself. Your mom jokes never hurt me. Your
daddy jokes. Oh, yeah. Oh, that hurts. Your mom is
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so fat, once you stepped on the scale, the scale
said to be continued. Oh! What?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Amy, you have to do that.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Oh!
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Okay, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Heard that one.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Your mom is so old, her birth certificate's in Roman numerals. Oh! Oh!
Your mom is so dumb, she sat on a glass
of orange juice because the box said concentrate. Oh!
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Got him.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Your mom is so poor, I saw her kicking a
can down the street. When I asked what she was doing,
she said moving.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh!
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Oh, no!
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Dang.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Your mom is so short, she got carpet burn giving birth.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh! What?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Your mom is so hairy, Bigfoot takes pictures of her. Oh!
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
All right, one more. Yo mama's so tall, she tripped
in Michigan and bumped her head in Florida. Oh!
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Wait, wait, wait. Lunchbox is choking. Hamburger. Get him.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
I only know two your mama jokes. I only know two,
and you didn't say them.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Oh, can you give us one?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
They don't want to fake me, though.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yo mama jokes never got me. Let's see, Amy.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
This isn't me saying it. These are just ones I
heard as a kid. Your mama's so fat, she has
to iron her clothes in the driveway.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Oh! Oh!
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Or your mom is so fat, she sits on a
rainbow when Skittles came out.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
That's a good one. That's what it's all about. There
you go.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
That was Tell Me Something Good.
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