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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Okay, cap little food for you. So life. Oh it's
pretty Bay, it's pretty beautiful. Thankful, that's a little month
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said kicking with four Amy Brown sitting here with lunch
Box from the Bobby Bones Show, who's also co host
of the Sore Losers podcast, which you all actually had
me on your podcast the other day. We did have
you on our podcast the other day and it was
quite entertaining. Yeah, so that's when I thought, Okay, I
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need to have lunch Box on. And I also realized
the other day I got an email from a guy
and I forget sometimes that I have male listeners to
my podcast because I honestly, I am speaking to women mostly.
Majority of my listeners are women, but guys have the
same problems as women sometimes, right, is that what you're saying? No,
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but guys are listening and occasionally the email and remind
me so your mind right, Yeah, I'm like, wow, okay,
I forget that, and I need to make sure and
include them. And so I was like, who's the manliest man?
I know? Oh yeah, yeah, that's why you call me.
I got it. Yeah, And so I thought after I
did Soil Losers, and honestly, it was kind of fun,
and I'm not someone that likes sports, but I thought, well,
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maybe some of my guy listeners or even some of
my female listeners that might be into sports might want
to know more about what y'all do over on the
Soilersers podcast. And I thought I would have you share
four things or four let's make it for reasons that
people should go check out Soil Losers podcast. It's a
switch up from everyday life. And you know, I I
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was thinking about this, what are the four things? Why?
Four reasons people should listen? Like what is it about us?
So then I was like, oh, I know Amy can
answer this, So what are the four reasons you list?
And to THEE Well, because mostly I listened when y'all
are recording, because I'm still here working recording it, so
I listened. That's not really a selling point, right, Um.
I have subscribed and I do download, so you have
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my full support there. But honestly, sports are are not
my thing. I will say though, that y'all detour a
lot for you're not It's not like a typical sports
show from what I've heard, you know, not like again
that I listened to a lot of sports shows, but
y'all intertwined personal stories you engage with listeners from time
to time, like, y'all just did your first Little Sore
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Losers convention in Vegas and it was a huge success,
So you're just typical sports. Would exactly what I was
gonna say is we are not really a typical sports podcast.
We're not going to break down the xs and ohs
and tell you, oh, this is why they ran this
route or this is why they took that shot. We
sit there and give our idiot opinions three people that
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never played anything higher than high school sports. We are
not just geniuses, or we call ourselves geniuses, but it's
really like your friends sitting around at a barbecue. We're
sitting at the bar or just like people arguing about
your opinions. We're not on ESPN. We don't have you know,
I've been coaching for twenty five years, so I know intel.
We don't have inside sources telling us, oh, this is
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what's going on inside this team. We just make up
our own opinions and we laugh at each other. We
make fun of each other. I would say that's another
that's is that the second reason that it's funny? I
guess yeah, I think it's funny. I think it's I
think it's funny. Even y'all's intro cracks me up because
every day it's the same, but you'll do it live,
so some people might think that it's pre recorded, but
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I can hear Ray every day. We're doing it live.
And then it's like in the music Stars. And then
we are the one loss, and then uh, you know,
you know the most about sports, absolutely, and see that's
the thing. Okay, we are the one to three or losers.
What up, everybody, I'm lunchbox. I know the most about sports,
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so I'll give you the sports facts, my sports opinions,
because I'm pretty much a sports genius. And then Eddie,
I feel like, he goes something like, I'm Eddie, I
know the least about sports. I don't know the who's
who's and I don't know the what's what's but something yes,
something like that, okay, and then Ray goes, what up, y'all,
it's Ray. I'm from the West Side. He's from the
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West Side. He's married to Bay He chug seltzers on
the weekend. He's looking to move downtown. But his intro,
if you listen to it, it changes every single day.
Some days it's like, hey, my name is Sizzan, but
my friends call me Sizzle. Never heard him called sizzle
in my life, so yes, we are just it's really
just randomness. Is I think what our podcast is. It's
a sports quote unquote podcast because we talk about the games,
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but then we take on tangents and we just kind
of go off into our real lives and then we
talk about the players lives. And I mean, I'm not
good at describing why it's good. Because like when we
had our Swore Losers convention and we had all those
people show up in Las Vegas, I asked them, why
do you eyes listened to us, Like what made you come?
And they're like, man, it's just fun, that's it. It's
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just fun to listen to. It's like it's not your
every day everybody stressed out at work or in family
and we are just three idiots making fools of ourselves.
And they laugh. They said, it's just funny and it's entertaining,
and that's what we want. It's like, I don't listen
to you to learn sports knowledge. I mean some people
learn a little bit. They don't know anything about sports,
but they're like we don't care that you don't know
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anything about sports. That's the fun part because you're just
like us, where you just tell your opinions and you
know what, your opinions are completely wrong and they sound
idiotic a week later. Because that's the great thing about sports.
You have no idea what's gonna happen, so you take
your best guess and then you put it out there
and you make fun of each other. So kind of
the first reason would be like, y'all are unlike any
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other sports show, and then second thing would be like,
y'all are fun. The third thing would be like y'all
are an escape for people, even sports shows. We turn
on the news and that's heavy, but then even some
watch the news. No I don't. I mean it is
unbelievable to me. The news is ah year old male
shot female found dead under the bridge, and it's like, yeah,
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this is what people like? Why, Like I don't understand
what the news? Why that is what they show? Yeah? Well,
but but who watches that? Like well, I mean there's
a lot of people that still watch the news. I
feel like the news the big you know, the Fox,
that CNN, and its like they're just all have this
role to play, and they bicker and do their thing,
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and they're trying to be entertaining, even if honestly they
don't really deep down feel passionately about something. They're going
to argue about it on air because that's what they're
paid to do and be obnoxious and pick aside and
it's so polarizing. But in sports, I would say sometimes
they get that way with the sports shows that I watched,
which I'm sure Austin, but y'alls just seems a little
bit more lighthearted. Yeah, it's lighthearted. I mean, it really
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is just a laid back kind of three guys laughing
about different things in the news. And we don't only
talk sports. We talked about our lives. We talked about,
you know, make fun of each other for things we did.
And I mean, for the fourth thing, why don't you
share with me? Why's the podcast important to you? Oh
that's a great question. Man, you're getting deep on me.
I don't know, we're gonna go all deep. It's important
to me just because it gives me a release because
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I watched sports since I was a little kid. I
have loved sports with my dad, my brother, my grandparents.
I mean, just when I watched sports and I have
no one to talk to about it. I'll call my
brother just to talk about it. I want to talk
about sports, and I feel like something I have in
common with a lot of people is we like to
watch sports and I like to, you know, talk and
be an idiot. And like on the regular the Bobby
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Bones Show, what you all call the Big Show, the
Big Show, we get about two minutes to say something,
and that's it because it's so you know, you have commercials.
With a podcast, you can just rant on and on
and on and just talk about anything and everything. And so,
I mean, that's why it's important to me. It's it's
another creative outlet to just kind of get me to,
you know, get my energy out, because so I go
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home and my wife doesn't have to hear my boring
stories over and over again. Of you, Eddie and Ray.
I don't know if we broke that down. We did
the intros just you don't know all three of y'all
are from The Bobby Bones Show. Some I have some
listeners they don't know everybody from the show, or I
don't even know sometimes how they find this podcast. But Eddie,
Ray and Lunchbox are from the Bobby Bone Show. And
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then y'all broke off to do this because y'all all
like sports and you'll have fun together, Like you said,
you'll have that kind of relationship, the good banter the
back of fourth. But who's the leader. There has to
be a little bit of I mean, I think it's you, okay.
I mean, I'm not gonna brag or anything. I'm not
gonna like brag, but it's absolutely me. We everybody knows
it's me. It's these you're brownies. I mean they're great,
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great people, they are. But everybody that listens to the
sore losers knows who is in charge and who is
the leader, and who does everything, who comes in with
everything to talk about, who has ideas, has topics. Every
once in a while they'll bring something. I mean, I'll
get emails from listeners that give us topic, ideas or
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something they wanted to talk about. That is more input
than they put in, which is totally fine because I
understand they're stretched out with the other job and it's
just a release. And like I said, most of it
is just kind of free for all. Like we talked
about one thing and then it leads to five different topics,
and so I'm laughing in my head right now because
you know, if I have both of them on, they're
gonna be like I'm the leader. They have Eddie. Eddie
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would be like, yeah, I'm the leader, and then will say, oh,
I'm definitely the lead. It's sort of like the the
Store Losers convention in Las Vegas. I came up with
that idea. I was taking a shower and I had
the soap and I'm rubbing my left armpit and I
was just like, thank you for that detail. Well, I mean,
I just want you to set just to know how
it was going down. And I was just like in
my head, I was like, man, our podcast is doing
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pretty well, and I think we wanted our listeners are
ready for something really cool. And I was like, I
got this idea to a party like in Las Vegas.
I think you know. I got out of the shower
and I talked to my wife about it and she
was like, I think that's a great idea. I think
you should do it. So I went to management, but
or I even went to those two before I even
told Eddie and Ray about the idea. I went to
management and they're like, we love it, Let's do it.
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So then I told Eddie on the golf course. Well
guess what. Now Eddie goes around telling people cap I
went to lunchbox on the golf course with this idea
about Vegas. So you know what I'm saying, like, yes,
they're gonna sit there and lie to you and tell
you that they are the ones that are you know,
the quote leader, and yes they know deep down that
I'm driving that bus. Yeah. Well, I also think too
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that your your story about coming up with an idea
and then actually going after it. A lot of people
may have ideas in the shower, but then they don't
take the next step and then the next step in
the next step, and you kind of you talk to
your wife first, you know, and of course the wife
is going to tell you it's a great idea, because
your spouse is, oh, yeah, it's a great idea. Yeah. Well,
sometimes your spouse might be like, I don't know that
you should pursue that. But you had that that little
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encouragement and then you took it to management and then
look what you made happen, Like were you nervous about
actually doing the convention? I think I have never been
more dressed out in my life because how do I
say this nicely? Management was taking a long time and
planning anything and getting anything done. It was just like, guys,
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we are a month away and we still have nothing.
Oh yeah, yeah, don't worry. It'll come together. It'll come together.
Don't worry about it. We got this work. And I'm like,
no, no no, no, we need more than that we need.
I was so stressed out that the people were gonna
fly to Las Vegas. And that's the wild part is
people booked airline tickets, they booked hotels, they flew, then
they paid the money to actually come to the live
podcast podcast and then watch parties and happy hour everything
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like that. So yes, the stress was just like, oh
my gosh, this is not gonna happen, Like do I
cancel this? Like you wanted people to have a good excision.
That's yes, because I felt like this is what I
looked at. And Ray even said it on the S
World Losers. He goes, you stress too much, he goes
the way I do things, he goes, I just kind
of in there. And if it's a huge success, yep,
I was a part of that. And if it's a failure,
I wouldn't my idea. I'm like, no, no, no, that's
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not how it's gonna work. Because I felt like it
was all on my shoulders because I had the idea,
and so yes, I was so stressed about the whole event,
the whole event, and even when we got there and
he pulled me aside and he was like, hey, man,
I want you to have relaxed and have a good
time this weekend. I was like, yeah, sure, but I
was so stressed all the way up until the welcome party,
where it was like a happy hour of meet and
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greet thing like where we met everybody and everybody was
so hyped up and so excited. And then we went
and put a big bet on red on the roulette
table and we had a hundred people around that roulette
table screaming and yelling, and we put all this money
on red and it hit and everybody goes Banana landed
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on Red. So we double our money and everybody is
going crazy crazy, And I mean I walked away to
go cashing all the chips and tears started coming down
my face and I was crying right there in the casino.
And I don't know why I was crying. Maybe it
was the alcohol all I don't know what, and my
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wife was like, it's because of the stress. It was
the relief of it actually happening. And I think that's
what it was. And it wasn't like I was bawling.
There was just a little few tears rolling down my
cheeks and it was just like wow. And I was
hugging Eddie and right, and I'm like, it was just
it was wild. Well, yeah, your vision was coming true
and it was like you were. I think your body
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was able to just relax and that's what you needed
to release. Your wife is totally right. It is crying
something that you do naturally. I mean, because people probably
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wouldn't picture a lunchbox from the body. Don't show crying
too much. But no, I don't cry that often. I
mean I can't. I mean, I cried when my kids
were born, when I find out my wife's pregnant. I
cried at the store Loser's convention. But besides that, I
don't know. I mean, I can't tell you the last
time I cried. Besides all your baby these like little
children and then your podcast by right, and that's it. So,
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I mean, I I don't know many other times that
I've cried. I mean, I guess when people die that
you cry, But I mean, of course some people it's
still it's hard for them to do that even then
if you know, have a wall up. Yeah. So I
mean like when you talk about crying all the time,
I'm like, dang, she cries all the time. Like I can't.
I can't imagine crying that much in life. But I
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guess it's good for some people to cry that much.
But it's just like, yeah, well, there's actually like a
chemical that's released in your body when you cry that
is helpful. Really, Like is it the same thing when
you like work out, like when you sweat? Is it
the same? Yeah? That thing? No, I can't remember what
it's called. Let me look it up. Researchers have established
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that crying releases oxytocin and endogenous opioids has endorphins. Yes,
these feel good chemicals help both physical and emotional pain.
Serotonin is also found in emotional tears. Natural opioids, which
used to be called endorphins, are shown to decrease crying
particularly blah blah blah blah. Now we're getting to I'm
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sure someone listening to this that knows what they're talking
about is like, Oh, my gosh, how many times a
week do you cry? Well? I mean there's been seasons
in my life where I've cried every single day. Okay
right now in this season right now, you're in, Oh,
I haven't cried in maybe a week or two. A
week or two, okay? What? Okay? Do you cry just
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because of life stuff? Do you cry from stuff you
see on TV? Stuff you read? Like what I think
if I'm stressed, like I'm more in depending on well,
I mean, you're married, so you know this kind of thing.
If it's that time of the month for me, if
I tend to be more emotional, if something triggers me,
then I might just have a breakdown. I guess. The
last one I can remember, I got a card in
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the mail and I opened it up and it was
someone from my family that had sent me a bunch
of photos they found of my parents and me when
I was a kid. I opened it up and I
look at the actual like photos from like and another
picture of my mom from I don't even know, nine
seventy nine or something, and I just it was unexpected.
It's not like, but it's crazy how you can open
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up an envelope and instantly be hit with emotion that
you can't control. So it ranges anywhere from yeah, something
that surprises me and happens, or stress building up and
just needing that release, or learning of you know, sad
news or watching a sad movie, like do you have
a movie that you cry to? Surely there's something what
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about like sports related Rudy? Well, well, see, here's the
thing I don't Rudy is great, and that's one thing
I don't like people. Some people cry like when their
team wins or the and I never cried when my
team has won something because I'm a huge sports fan,
but I just I get excited. But I've never cried
over a win or a loss. I've been sad, like man,
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my day's ruined, but I feel like I'm getting better
of that, Like I don't let it ruin my day now,
Like it's like, oh man, that sucked, but okay, let's
move on with life. There's one movie I cried in
way back in the day. It was called The War
with Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood. It's about this family
and this dad works in the mine and they're real
poor and trying to buy their mom a house, and boy,
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I cried. I mean it was just like WHOA. I
don't want to spoil the movie because it's from so
I don't want to tell you that close. I'm looking
at it. And I cried in the movie theater with
at that movie I went with No Teeth Keith and
I was just sitting there crying in the movie theater
and Forest and Aaron were with us, and they're like,
let's go and keep and keep us like it's okay, kid,
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he was my old baseball coach. Kid, it's okay, let
it out, let it out. And I cried right there
in the movie theater. It has positive on Rotten Tomatoes.
It's okay. So, but that's from the expert people. What
about the The audience score is boom. See that's what
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I'm saying, honestly, lunch Box, I have never even heard
of this movie. Yeah, so big actors Elijah Wood and
Kevin Costner. I'm telling you it's a good one. Whatever
wrapped Elijah Wood, he was a big actor for a while.
I haven't no idea where he is now. Kevin Costner,
he's in everything good. Well. Elijah Wood, he was in
um Lord of the Rings. I mean, I'm sure he's
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done way more since then that's Daniel Radcliffe. No, Daniel
Radcliffe is Harry Potter. Oh what Lord of the Rings?
Maybe then? I don't know what Lord. I guess I've
never seen Lord of the Rings. I don't mean either
the reds to I am tempted to watch it. Remember
when Bobby did it, I don't know, several years ago
he took like Christmas break and watch all the Lord
of the I don't have that in me. I mean neither.
He told us not to do it. But people that
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watch it, they love it. If there was a TV
show you had to recommend right now for someone to watch,
what would it be? Oh good? Oh Ted Lasso is
I mean that's an easy one. Yeah. Well, so we
do something here on the podcast called four Things Gratitude.
So I asked people, which you didn't get to prepare
for this, spine means on you. But we do a
TV show recommendation, a book recommendation, and Instagram follow like
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something that you enjoy that makes you happy that you
follow online, and a drink recommendation. So we'll start with
the TV show. The TV show right now I mean,
I'm watching American Auto and it's hilarious, Like it's it's
on NBC. It's from the same people that did uh, Superstore.
I don't know if you ever watched that. It was
like a it was making fun of Walmart basically, like
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it was like Cloud nine. They worked there and it
was blue and white. Hilarious show. If you've never seen that, Like,
if you have never seen Superstore, go back and watch it.
It's over now, but you can start at the beginning
and you will laugh so much. Amera Ferrera, America Ferrera,
she was in it now that This American Auto is
so funny. It's about like a working in the auto
industry and the auto plant coming out and everything is.
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It's only one season so far. It's like seven episodes in.
I think it's hilarious. It's so funny. It's so good.
And another one that I watch and I don't even
know where you watch this and it's so simple and
you're gonna laugh at me. It's called Detectorists. Detectorists, Okay,
I got it. Detectors. It's a British television comedy series.
It is so funny on BBC four. I don't know
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where I found it. I think my sister in law
recommended it, and I watch it. It is so simple
and it is so good, so good. Dang. Okay, so
you you've got more than just one recom or Survivor
or the Challenge. I mean, they're neither of them on
right now, but whenever they're on, they're the best thing
on teams. What about Amazing Race. Amazing Race is back,
but it's a little weird because they here, here's crazy
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about Amazing Race. This season they started it, did three legs,
and then COVID hit so they stopped production. So everybody
got to go home and you could train and work
out and get back in shape. And then nineteen months
later they started it up again. Some of the teams
didn't come back because there was like a guy and
a girl they met on a reality dating show and
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so they were dating and in the they were on
the Amazing Race for three legs. In the nineteen months break,
they broke up, so they didn't come back. Man, they
couldn't even pull it together. Just what I'm saying, guys
like you gotta suck it up to be on TV. Yeah,
And then there was one couple they were former d
one basketball players. I was like, they're gonna go home
and get in shape. They didn't get in shape. They
ain't in shape. They they're probably worse off than they
were the nineteen months ago. Like I was like, guys,
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this is your one chance to win a million dollars.
Like you know, you were struggling those first three legs,
Like let's go home, let's work out, let's do it. Nope, Nope.
We'll move on to a book recommendation, which some people
would be shocked to learn that you're a pretty avid reader.
So what does a book recommendation you have for us? Well,
I mean with three kids now, it's hard to read.
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There's a couple of books that I love. Just Mercy
is amazing, it's older. The Boy who Harnessed the Wind
freaking incredible. This dude grew up in poverty, and I
believe it was Africa. I think that's right. Don't quote
me on that. But they had no money. There's a famine,
like they're starving to death. Like, I mean, it was crazy,
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The Boy who Harnessed the Wind. Okay, I just mentioned
that some people might be surprised to learn that you're
an avid reader. But that's if you listen to the
Bobby Bones Show. But also you have a lot of
different sides of you, like because you can be very
opinionated and you stand firm in your opinions and you
don't back down and for Abby on our show, but
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you you feel strongly about the fact that we need
to not coddle her. Yes, my thing is we coddle everybody.
We tell everybody they're good at stuff. They're oh, you're
so amazing, when a reality, they're not amazing at anything.
They're not amazing at something. So just tell them, hey,
you're okay, but you're not that good like we we
Oh my goodness, you're just so great. You're you're gonna
be the next You're not gonna be the next star.
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Just be real about it. Like I already look at
my kids and I'm like, they're not going to the NBA.
It's just not happening. Like they shoot the basket and
they miss, and I'm like, you're not good enough. You're
not the next Lebron Well, yeah, probably not. But you
can be honest with people. I mean, I'll cheer them
on and go to their games, but I'm not ever
going to tell them, hey, you got a chance in
the NBA because he doesn't have a chance the NBA.
My kids don't have a chance in the NBA. My
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oldest one is three years old. He's not athletic enough.
I watched him and I'm just like, no, you're not.
I mean, I guarantee three eight years old, Lebron was
just doing circles and dunks and Michael Jordan's and you
know all these people like Tom Brady, they were probably
amazing athletes at three years old. My kids they're all right, okay,
But yes, I think we caught O people too much.
We And here's another thing. I don't think I'm rude.
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I just think maybe my tone is not good. I'm
not good at saying it softly. Like you can say
something like oh, you know what I mean, like it
was a nice effort, and you can say it soft.
I'm just like, oh, that wasn't good, And so it
just comes off differently. So it's the same opinion. It's
just I'm not good at the semantic stuff. It is
that what it's called semantics. So yeah, well, we had
a call her the other day. I feel like she
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put it nicely at some people's opinion about you, and
of course they're just getting to know part of us
when they listen to anything. But what she say, like
you were like the George Costanza of the show, Like
some people really irritated by his character and they don't
get it. But then also if you took him away,
the show would not be the same at all whatsoever.
So like she personally hates me. She right, So it's
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gotta be good to know that, Like you're loved. Oh no,
you know, it's great. And here's the thing. And the
people that say they love you and they hate you,
they don't really hate you. They really do love you.
They just in that moment hate you. And I'm like whatever,
Like I don't let him. It doesn't bother me. Like
if people don't like me for a minute, okay, cool.
Like That's why I find it funny that people on
social media they say mean things and people block people.
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I've never blocked anybody in my life on social media.
You know, you don't follow anyone on Instagram, correct, But
they can write comments on me and they can write
all the naked stuff they want, and guess what, I'll
never block him ever in my life. I don't care
say whatever you want you won't get blocked. Not my
thing because in the next tweet I put up in
the next Instagram post, they're gonna say, oh that's pretty cool.
So hey, no blocking here. I got no time to
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block lunch boxes Radio Lunchbox at Radio Lunchbox on Instagram
and Twitter. If you want to follow him the door
and he's not going to follow you back, and I
will block you. Yeah, don't even follow the Bobby Boneshow
on Instagram you follow zero zero zero zero. You know
why I got time. I got time. There ain't no
time for that. Okay, Well, what about speaking of Instagram,
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you don't follow any accounts? And I was about to
ask you what Instagram account you were thankful for, but
I guess that's a tricky one. I I don't really
go look at Instagram accounts, so just say, well, my wife,
you know who she likes, Kristen Bell is that? Oh yeah,
I follow her. I think I either follow Dax or her.
I probably follow her. I don't know. I don't know
if she's good on Instagram. But I just know that
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because we watched her new show and she goes I
saw it on her Instagram. Girl in the House across
the street from the girl in the window or the
woman I watched a little bit of Would you like it? I? Well,
I don't know. I might keep watching. I do this
brain therapy it's called neurofeedback, and you have to while
I'm hooked up to the well that the electrodes are
like on my brain. I'm watching a screen and it's
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like the screen is like attached to your head. Well,
they only do that my brain activity while I'm watching,
so it's not like acupunc no, no, I don't even
feel it at all, but I'm watching. So I have
headphones on two and the volume is going in and out.
Some my brains having to work with that. And then
the screen is fading in and out small too big
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as well and blurry and what is that? It's exercising
My brain is trying to fix some of the I
have a really bad a d h D and have
since I was a child, most likely from she thinks
the scar on my forehead when I hit my head
as a kid. She thinks that that's when it maybe
it all started. So they think hooking up these wires
to your head can make you concentrate. Well, the wires
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show my therapist the brain activity, so and also tells
the machine my brain activity, so it knows what to
show me and put in my ears. So there's nothing
going into my head from the wires. The wires are
just information for my therapist, and the machine is making
the screen. Do you see how if you're watching a
screen and the picture gets really small but then gets
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really big, your brain is having to work to focus
and look at it. Or I may not even watch
a show. We watch Netflix, that's an option, and we
watched The Girl and Across the Street from the Woman
and whatever, So I guess I'll keep watching that in
my therapy appointments. But they're only once a week, so
it's okay, what's only like twenty three minutes twenty six
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minutes an episode and there's only like eight I think
it was a real quick watch, so in someone that
may know, I feel like neurofeedback is one of the
craziest things to try to explain to anybody that's never
had it done. So if there's like a therapist listening
to the administers that, they're probably like, why is she
explaining it in such a horrible way? But give me
a few more months. Still working through that a d
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D and maybe I'll be able to explain it better.
My therapist just recommended for me, especially last year, or
some stuff that I went through, just some emotional trauma
I went. And then that's when she took a skin
in my brain and she actually saw like physical trauma
to my head as a child, and she her theory
is that that is when my a d D possibly
kicked in. And she she was like, Oh, I wish
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we could talk to some of your teachers or maybe
even your parents, but my parents neither one of them
are alive, so I can't ask them, like did you
notice a difference in my behavior at school or school
work or concentration like before that head accident and after
because I had to get stitches. I mean, I remember
it happening, going to hospital, and well, I think I
just must have had it when I was born, because
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I was never changed. Hit your head and battle around,
or it might be something else. That's interesting you say that,
because I'm reading a book right now about this family
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with schizophrenia. They I think it's called the Gavin's I
I don't know the name of the book, but they
had like eleven or twelve kids, okay, and like six
of them got schizophrenia, and they like they were like
all American like athletes, blah blah blah, and all of
a sudden one would lose their mind, and then the
next boy lost his mind, and then the next one
and they were and this is like in the sixties,
and it's just crazy. And so that's they're one of
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the families that they were studying them. So it led
to a breakthrough in the treatment of schizophrenia. It's wild.
It is so crazy. You don't remember the name of
Now you got Gavin's or Galvin's, I don't remember. I
think they're the Gavins from Colorado. They had like twelve kids.
You got Donald, you got Peter, you got Mark, you
got Margaret, you got Mimi and don Or the dad mom,
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the all American fan it's Galvin g A L V
I N. And the book is Hidden Valley, yes, because
that's where they move in the book. That's that's their houses,
Hidden Valley Road, and that's where it all goes down.
And like the oldest brother, Donald, like one day he
would they would come home and he would have moved
every single piece of furniture out into the yard and
the entire house. He would just pack everything out of
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the house and they were like they didn't know what
was wrong. This is back before you know, schizophrenia was
a thing, and they finally, oh, it's crazy. It's a
crazy book. Hey, another book recommendation, will take it. What
about your final piece of gratitude? Is there a drink
that you're thankful for or even a food? I ball, Yeah,
I can tell you a drink. I'm thankful chocolate milk.
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Let me tell you I love me some chocolate milk.
Let me tell you I drink. There's two things. I
love hot chocolate, so I love the winter. Gave hot
chocolate maker one year for Christmas. Okay, yeah, it made
six gallons at a time, and so I never make
six gallons hot chocolate at one time, so I know
there was no need for that hot chocolate maker. It
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was a great, great gift because yes, I still yell
at you because who makes six gallons of hot chocolate
at the time. I mean, the thing was huge. It
really didn't make like a gallon at a time, not six,
but really probably a gallon. And I don't need a
gallon of hot chocolate. So I love hot chocolate. So
I love the winter, but when it not winter, I
hit that just chocolate milk. Love chocolate milk. Like like
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when I get done with my soccer games and I
score a goal, I stopped at the comedy store and
I give me a chocolate milk on the way home.
But if I don't score, no chocolate milk. It's a
reward yourself. Before we wrap circle back to something that
the store losers have with you'll have your own coach merch.
Can't something else say on the show is coach. We
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call each other coach, and it's that's the greatest thing.
Is like when we're doing things and we'll be out coach.
Let's go over here and oh, your coach? What do
you No, No, I don't coach, Well you just call
him coach. Yeah, well we just call it color coach
because it's sports and you know that's what you are.
And he's like, oh, because I coach football, Like oh, yeah, well,
we don't coach anything. And so that's why it's even funnier.
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But if you have a coach in your life, like
if your kids have a coach, or you know you're
you're married to a coach or you're a coach, you
buy a coach shirt. It's really cool. It says just
coach right on the front. Hoodies. There's t shirts shop
store losers dot com. Shot. So I thought knew I
was typing in soil losers dot com because I knew
it was something like that. Yeah, so shop sore losers
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dot com. Yeah. Is it support kid Power? Who does
it support? Yeah? Portion of the proceeds go to kid Power,
which is a organization that I work with. It's, uh,
the inner city youth of Nashville. It's the lowest income
in the entire city. The poverty rate, like the average
female is I believe thirty eight years old and the
(32:28):
average male is six years old something like that because
of the incarceration rate. And so this is an after
school program that teaches these kids, gives them a safe place,
gives them tutoring, tries to teach them life skills. And
they are just a great organization and it's really cool.
You can just google kid Power Nashville. And it's kind
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of crazy because how I got involved with them is
I don't know if you remember this. So they have
reward trips if they are good for a certain amount
of time, like and they get they earned certain things,
they get to go on reward trips like some of
mini golfs, like my Chocolate Mill. And so there was
a group of them, like eight of them. They had
done enough over a few months and they got to
come sit in the studio and they challenged us to
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go run their five k race because that's how they
raised money. And so I went and ran the five
k race and I won dominated actually but yeah, but
I won, okay. And so then I I started, you know,
it's spending, you know, volunteering or whatever. And one of
those kids that was in there, you know, he was
like because introduced him and I was like, oh, what's
your name? And he thought it was funny because he
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was on the radio. He said, Steve Harvey. Well he
is now like a junior senior in high school and
he volunteers at kid Power now because he's in Youth Power.
He's in the older at kids and he goes back
to Youth Power and volunteers twice a week. And like
it's crazy, he's grown up all just like trying to
teach the kids. It's pretty cool to see. They've had
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one class that graduate high school and you know, two
kids stuck with the program through high school, okay, and
then there's another one this year that you know it's
about to graduate. So it's like just now coming to
where they're graduating and go to college. It's pretty cool.
It's pretty amazing. No, I love that makes me wonder
now just hearing you know where he is and like
changed his life and the trajectory um he's on and in.
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When I lived in Southern Pines, North Carolina, I did
a mentorship at a middle school, junior high, like sixth grader,
and his name is Trevion Miller. I don't know where
he is now, and I wish I would. I mean,
I hung out with him. I knew we wanted to
be a chef, and like his goal was to go
to do nothing because he ended up living with his
grandma and then they he then I don't know what
(34:38):
happened there, and we moved we left because this is
when my husband was in the Air Force, and then
we moved back to Austin, and then we moved to Nashville,
and then we just lost touch. And now I don't know,
and it's like you're making me wonder. I'm like where Miller.
I did a while ago. I hadn't thought of it until.
I mean I thought of it from time to time,
but you this is like I'm thinking of it literally
(35:01):
in this moment right now. There are professional people that
can find people. I am terrible at finding things on
the internet, like old classmates, things like that. My wife
is like a professional stalker, Like if she finds someone's name,
she can find everything out about them. But I'm not
good at that. So I couldn't help you. But I'm
sure there's someone listening to this right now. I mean, honestly,
I don't know if I would because he was sixth grade.
(35:23):
I know what he looked like when he was a
sixth year. That was twelve thirteen years ago that he'd
be out of high school. Oh yeah, I hope he's
a chef somewhere because that's what he wanted to do.
My neighbor and Southern Pine's Chef Warren. He had a
really nice restaurant downtown called Chef Warren's, and he would
let Trevion like com No. I mean he only knew
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him because I took him in there. You know, he'd
order a steak and get the I don't know, they
would talk like cooking stuff. I just thought it was
so cool that he, you know, had this passion for
cooking and he would watch the Food Network and for
him that was probably an escape, like from his life
was a little bit hectic, and he had the food
And I remember the first time I met him, we
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sat down and he told me. He's like, yeah, I
don't have a record, and I was like, oh, like
a record deal, Like I don't know, but no, he
was referring to most members and his family had a record,
Like I didn't know what you're talking about. Still, I know,
I'm telling you his his circumstances were not good, but
he was on a path of like I want to
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be a chef, I want to cook and he would watch,
like I said, the Food Network and he It just
makes me so mad at myself for not keeping in
touch with him. Yeah, I know, I know. You know what,
I'm gonna try to figure it out. That's what I'll do.
I mean, this episode having you on, it's like going
to now I Am going to try to find Trevion.
This is like where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
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And if you know that reference, then you are our age.
If you don't google it, did you ever watch it? Yeah?
Where in the world. Well, thank you for coming on.
I courage people to check out Sore Losers. We're on
the Bobby Bunch of Together, but our podcasts are also
in the same podcast family, so we are so I
(37:08):
really appreciate you having me. And I just got to
say that there was one person after you came on
the Sore Losers that did tweet and say, can Amy
be my therapist? Really? Yeah, because I don't know what
you said, but you and that's what I thought we
were going to come in here and do. I thought
it was gonna be some big therapy session where you
were going to try to like write down my life.
And I wasn't prepared for that. So no, I don't
want to throw you a curveball like that. I can't
(37:29):
be a therapist because I'm not I know, but you
know what I mean. But you have like you have
like feeling, like deep feelings thoughts, like when you were
talking about Tom Brady and like, well you want to
come back and get deep. I'm good. I thought I
was like, oh I want to. I just thought it'd
be fun to talk about sore Losers and and get
to like people, get to know you a little bit
better with the ground. I mean, I've never talked to
your your your crew before. Yeah, my crew. Yeah, I'll
(37:51):
tell him what up? What up? Crew? Thanks for having me.
You're probably born like I should get this idiot off
the radio. But whatever, you know, there's only ten minutes
of your time and way longer than that. Yeah, I
like to talk. Time flies when you're when you're having fun. Okay,
we'll check him out. He's at Radio Lunchbox, Twitter, and Instagram,
and then shop Sore Losers for Sore Losers merch. Again,
(38:15):
that's tied in through the shop forward, so you may
recognize that website if you've been there before. And then
Sore Losers podcast is what they can search up if
they want to learn. Yeah, I guess you've probably got
some really awesome episodes post the super Bowl and stuff like,
oh yeah, we got everything. I mean anything, just go back.
We make you laugh. That's it. That's it. I mean,
that's all we're there to do is make you laugh,
because life is too stressful not to laugh. So just
(38:38):
come listen to Sore Losers and then if you get
too stress do like Lunchbox and release a few tears. Okay,
we don't have to go there. We can just end
on that be like yeah you know what, Yeah, No,
be like Amy and released tears. I mean, I'm like,
I probably am too much. I guess there is no
right or wrong way to do it, but I just
was giving you a like a slogan to end on.
What do you say life's too short? Or say you
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live too short and have some tears like lunch Box,
you say lives too short, have a little fun like
you did, Oh life's too short, have a little fun
and laugh, and then I'll say or release a few
tears like lunch Box. Is that I don't know how
you say. I don't know how you injured podcast because
we went on our podcast. We do a buzzer like
(39:22):
the end of the game, Yeah, buzz out. What do
you do? Like do you just say bye? You're not
go bye? Some times you go by. We'll do that
together on the kind of this is like our buzzer.
I mean, oh, you said buzzer. No, I said, this
(39:45):
is like your buzz like our buzzy. Okay, bye,