Speaker 1: All right away. This episode ten and the Bobby cast
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, saved our biggest guest that's far
Speaker 1: for episode ten. We didn't know if we'd make it
Speaker 1: this far, so we celebrated and co hosted the Bobby
Speaker 1: Gone Show. Amy, it's here today. Hello. Okay, it's weird.
Speaker 1: What I don't know? So Ammy's here and I figured
Speaker 1: we will just kind of talk about you. And Amy
Speaker 1: has her own podcast to which we'll talk about a bit. Um.
Speaker 1: That's why she was begging to come on the show
Speaker 1: so she could promote it and no begging and Uh, Mike,
Speaker 1: you can kick it off here. Uh, it's Amy. Now.
Speaker 1: We do a show together every day for five hours
Speaker 1: a day of sitting basically this close, so today's dynamic
Speaker 1: will be slightly different. Um, but I'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: we'll start with you, Mike, Mike d Our, producer, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Question one, When you first met Amy, what wasn't it
Speaker 1: about her that kind of stood out to that, like
Speaker 1: you had to have her on the show. I think
Speaker 1: that she was unapologetic, but not in the way that
Speaker 1: most times people say that where they come across as
Speaker 1: crass or rude. She was just unapologetic. At she was
Speaker 1: clumsy and nice and Christian and just authentic, but you know,
Speaker 1: just she just was who she was and that was it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that was kind of the same
Speaker 1: thing that today is still like the reason that I
Speaker 1: enjoyed being around her, So that still hadn't changed. We
Speaker 1: were on flying this past weekend. We were I heard
Speaker 1: festival and I guess Amy was having a moment or
Speaker 1: something and she was like, I just needed you to
Speaker 1: fill my cup up and I was like, are you
Speaker 1: talking about and so but well, things have changed a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that changed a lot and a lot. This is fittingly
Speaker 1: the tenth episode of your podcast. We've been together. I
Speaker 1: mean we've been friends longer, but how long we've been
Speaker 1: doing the show together over ten years, but I'm in
Speaker 1: my tenth going on eleventh year. But it's a long time.
Speaker 1: So I mean a lot has changed for both of us.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that in a way like you've changed,
Speaker 1: but it's just you've gotten older, our lives have shifted.
Speaker 1: You've got so much more going on. And we used
Speaker 1: to be I think together a lot more or even
Speaker 1: travel a lot more, and we were so inseparable that
Speaker 1: people thought we had an affair forever. I mean it
Speaker 1: still comes up all the time. Oh no, I mean
Speaker 1: it doesn't. So I mean if it does, it's so nothing.
Speaker 1: We don't I don't even see it, just like like
Speaker 1: what crazy, I don't even see it. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: all the time our first years of being together, it
Speaker 1: was all the thing. And I wrote in my book,
Speaker 1: but nothing has ever happened with us like ever and forever.
Speaker 1: Even people in our building will be like, oh, for
Speaker 1: sure they're doing it. But we were just really really
Speaker 1: really close all the time. And um, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of that was we were young, we didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of other things going on. Um, I met
Speaker 1: Amy well the first time, col Verse. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like I've told the story a lot. But I was
Speaker 1: at a restaurant and she came up and so, um,
Speaker 1: to just answer your question when we can go back around,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, it's just unapologetic, just she is who
Speaker 1: she is. And again, yeah, it was good to actually
Speaker 1: spend quality time whereas you and I get to talk,
Speaker 1: Amy and I get to talk about ourselves every day
Speaker 1: we do. But we're sitting in a room together in
Speaker 1: my office where we have a side studio and we're
Speaker 1: kind of commercials and we're going quick and it's little
Speaker 1: comments and we we text all the time, but again
Speaker 1: we used to spend, which for you was like, that's
Speaker 1: like the thing that Amy gets on me for is
Speaker 1: that and not in a bad way, and that where
Speaker 1: she has grown in her personal life with a husband
Speaker 1: and about to have two kids, and lots of what
Speaker 1: I've grown in my professional life. I'm not backing on
Speaker 1: that a little bit. You're super busy. So it goes
Speaker 1: from you know, I was doing the radio show, to
Speaker 1: uh turn the radio show and then turn it into
Speaker 1: a national radio show, and turning that national radio show
Speaker 1: and shifting and moving the whole show over from there.
Speaker 1: Starting the Raging Idiots is just a two person parody band.
Speaker 1: It's turned into record deal books. Um, so it's just
Speaker 1: a lot of things which has required a lot of
Speaker 1: people to help me because I can't do it all
Speaker 1: by myself from outside of the building. So like I
Speaker 1: have like I call my babysitter. I have a manager
Speaker 1: now and and I'll admit some of that, some of
Speaker 1: that I struggled with a little bit, I think any
Speaker 1: not because I'm not proud of you or anything. But
Speaker 1: I think you know, we started out, We're in one market.
Speaker 1: We managed ourselves like there was nobody. Everything was just
Speaker 1: like us, which I think sometimes when all of this
Speaker 1: stuff started to change the last few years, whereas I
Speaker 1: used to be able to come to you for stuff,
Speaker 1: you almost didn't even know your own schedule, and rightfully,
Speaker 1: so it's nut. So so I had a problem like
Speaker 1: embracing the fact that I had to reach out to
Speaker 1: other people because I'm like, oh no, no, I've been
Speaker 1: friends and I know. So I was like you and
Speaker 1: now now it's just easier, and now I'm like, I
Speaker 1: love it. I love that other people like know everything
Speaker 1: because then I can get an answer and it's legit
Speaker 1: and it's right and it's quick because he doesn't know
Speaker 1: it certainly. So, um, now I've embraced it. I don't
Speaker 1: know my schedule day to day most of the time.
Speaker 1: I just know that it's there's rarely fifteen minutes. We'll
Speaker 1: call it growing pains. Um that's been the weirdest thing
Speaker 1: for I think us as a team, growing pains. And
Speaker 1: Amy has been my absolutely closest friend for the past
Speaker 1: ten years, like overall, my closest friend and um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: the growing pains have been. But listen, you have gotten married.
Speaker 1: I'm not don't take this. It's not personal saying on
Speaker 1: the other side of it. Um, it's not like because
Speaker 1: we should just go hang out and have dinner and
Speaker 1: eat lunch, and but now you have weekends, you're off
Speaker 1: in Haiti, or you're dealing with kids stuff or and
Speaker 1: that's been. That's been a lot, that's been heavy. That's been.
Speaker 1: I think once they get here, I feel like some
Speaker 1: of you will resume back to normal. I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of it's going to change. My normal will
Speaker 1: be different. But I feel like right now I'm in
Speaker 1: such a place where like half of my heart is
Speaker 1: here and half of it's in Haiti, So I don't
Speaker 1: really feel complete. We started together on the same page
Speaker 1: and we have grown together very much so, but we've
Speaker 1: also kind of spread in different ways. So and she
Speaker 1: just gets mad that she has to go to Morean
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, Bobby Free, I'm not mad anymore.
Speaker 1: I like it. Now I'll be like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: At the beginning, I was like, no, I don't go
Speaker 1: through people, I go through you. And then now I
Speaker 1: wouldn't know the and then they would best. He would
Speaker 1: be so busy he wouldn't know. And then now I'm like,
Speaker 1: bring on the people. It has been a change. But
Speaker 1: if I didn't have these people like looking over my career,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to manage it, like tour managers
Speaker 1: and booking and totally I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1: That's one. Yes, um, that that is what drew me
Speaker 1: to her. Do you want to know? Dremmy to Bobby, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I didn't even know he was
Speaker 1: gonna offer me really a job on the radio. I
Speaker 1: didn't offer a job for a long time. And not
Speaker 1: to repeat things that we've said over and over again,
Speaker 1: but I did not offer Amy the job first, like
Speaker 1: I only want to hire my friends or people that
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with. And I met Amy at Culver's and
Speaker 1: we got to know each other for like six or
Speaker 1: seven months, and we were friends and I was just
Speaker 1: making sure that and I had started dating my husband
Speaker 1: right at the same time. But then Bobby and I
Speaker 1: would like hang out and I would be like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, I'm gonna go to dinner. And
Speaker 1: the one time we went to the movies and then
Speaker 1: went saw cars. Yeah, that was that came out. And
Speaker 1: then oh gosh, one time I was on the phone
Speaker 1: with my head. Well he wasn't my husband yet. We
Speaker 1: were just dating, like newly dating, don't we weren't even Yeah,
Speaker 1: we weren't engaged because we got engaged shortly after newly dating.
Speaker 1: And I called my husband Bobby at the time, boyfriend
Speaker 1: or whatever. And it was like because Bobby and I
Speaker 1: were spending so much time together and then out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: I just he were on the phone and I just said, oh, Bob, okay, Bobby,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I mean, that's not your name, but
Speaker 1: that's how much time we were spending together. And then
Speaker 1: one night we went to dinner and You're like, I'm
Speaker 1: here to offer you a job. Yeah, And so that
Speaker 1: was what happened, and there we are, all right, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? And it went down for some reason. Um, alright,
Speaker 1: Mike give another question going, yeah, well, Amy, you never
Speaker 1: did radio before, so like, did Bobby train you? And
Speaker 1: when you started? How was that process? No? Okay, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: well I take that back. Yes, everything I know today
Speaker 1: is that is worth anything in radio I have learned
Speaker 1: from Bobby. So yes, but I wouldn't say there was
Speaker 1: like this radio boot camp. I feel like what Bobby
Speaker 1: was doing when he selected friends to join him was
Speaker 1: he wanted us to be us. He didn't want training
Speaker 1: or you toll. Yeah, it's rough because we're not like
Speaker 1: I was, speech impediment. Um, it's not even just status
Speaker 1: that even on my side, I don't know anything other
Speaker 1: than what I've done. I haven't. No one taught me
Speaker 1: how to do a morning show. They just took a
Speaker 1: year old kids said Okay, here's the show, and so
Speaker 1: I started doing it. No one taught me how to
Speaker 1: do it, and then I had brought people on. No
Speaker 1: one taught anyone had to do anything. So that's why
Speaker 1: the show sounds so oddly rough and fantastic at the
Speaker 1: same time. In different times, it could be a terrible show,
Speaker 1: could be a great show. Um, what what I don't understand?
Speaker 1: What do you to me? You never answered, Oh, we
Speaker 1: moved on. But I was just thinking. I didn't. I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I just I thought you were funny. I mean, and
Speaker 1: when you offered me a job in radio, of course
Speaker 1: I thought that was fun and I was like years old.
Speaker 1: I had a nice and deep answer Hers was like,
Speaker 1: you offered me a job? What else might so how
Speaker 1: would you say? Yes? Friendship has changed over the years
Speaker 1: with you know, everything kind of getting on a you know,
Speaker 1: the show is getting on a bigger scale, and you
Speaker 1: guys don't like, are you a closer now or is
Speaker 1: it I put one more pressure on Amy than anybody
Speaker 1: else on the show, like significantly? Oh yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: Like without Amy first there, I mean, there's no show.
Speaker 1: Well that's that's not true. And I've told her, I've
Speaker 1: told I heard that privately twenty times that without Amy
Speaker 1: the show just isn't a sick excess. And so I
Speaker 1: know that I know where my bread is buttered when
Speaker 1: we do a radio show, and she makes me a
Speaker 1: better radio personality, and it makes me a better person,
Speaker 1: and those two things go together because I try to
Speaker 1: be a better person. And if i'm I mean I
Speaker 1: am who I am on the radio to Bobby is
Speaker 1: some like rare genius that knows what's gonna work and
Speaker 1: what's gonna sound good. Now. Does everything began out? No,
Speaker 1: But he can he can take what we submit to
Speaker 1: talk about and compile and he can know like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be interesting to talk about like I
Speaker 1: can think so many things are awesome to talk about,
Speaker 1: but he just kind of he just he just knows.
Speaker 1: He makes it work. So for you to say that
Speaker 1: it wouldn't exist being what it is without me, wouldn't you?
Speaker 1: You are the the puppet master, I guess if you will,
Speaker 1: and you do it well, and you've led well in
Speaker 1: that area of of the thing. That too is no
Speaker 1: one on the show knows what we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: and were talking about, like, nobody knows what we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Ray has a bay idea because
Speaker 1: I'll send him audio to put in, but nobody on
Speaker 1: the entire show knows what I'm gonna talk about. It's
Speaker 1: super organic because I don't want anyone having any idea
Speaker 1: or having to try to come up with some joke,
Speaker 1: because that's not the point of the show. It's not
Speaker 1: to be the zany let's come up with jokes morning show.
Speaker 1: It's just to live lives. So I just want to
Speaker 1: try to find the best people possible. Um, it's been
Speaker 1: that way since day one. It kept it that way,
Speaker 1: and so many people think, like do you have prep
Speaker 1: meetings before or after you talk about the next day show?
Speaker 1: And we just we just don't. And it's sometimes people
Speaker 1: in radio when they hear that we don't do that,
Speaker 1: they get weird looks. But again, since I don't know radio,
Speaker 1: even though I've been a radio ten years, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why are you giving me weird looks? This is what
Speaker 1: we this is radio, And they're like, no, that's not
Speaker 1: it's not how most people do it exact and some
Speaker 1: people do it their way really well. But I would
Speaker 1: have found a bunch of people that weren't good at radio.
Speaker 1: I was. I wasn't good radio. Which you found your friends?
Speaker 1: Which was the original question. Sometimes we do tour, but
Speaker 1: that was the original question about our friendship. But I
Speaker 1: think I think that as it's similar to the show,
Speaker 1: there's been some like like we've just grown, Like you're busier,
Speaker 1: you're you're I think you've maxed out at I was
Speaker 1: about to go deep here, but we are still as
Speaker 1: close as we were. Um you could you only there's
Speaker 1: a certain amount of rope, right that's you're able to give,
Speaker 1: and I've I was given that a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and I think I still have it well. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm saying it's the longest or anything you
Speaker 1: have the longest for a couple of reasons. One, we've
Speaker 1: been together forever too, I trust you. I mean we've
Speaker 1: been to a lot together, like a lot, and you've
Speaker 1: always been there for me, Like there are things always
Speaker 1: be there for me. You' all have no idea. I
Speaker 1: could even get an emotional saying it, because there are
Speaker 1: things that Bobby has done for me and my family
Speaker 1: that like, you'll have no idea. You have no idea.
Speaker 1: So that friendship stuff like there's because of you know,
Speaker 1: Bobby's upbringing and things. We all have baggage, but because
Speaker 1: of some of yours, Like he only has a that
Speaker 1: so long, like that rope is so long, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I got that a long time ago and
Speaker 1: I feel like I still have it. So just do
Speaker 1: I still feel like our friendship is the same, Yes,
Speaker 1: But the aspects that are different are just that, um,
Speaker 1: your professional life, your career is just you know, going
Speaker 1: off in ninety different directions, which I love because I'm
Speaker 1: your friend. I want that for you because I know
Speaker 1: that's that's your heart's desire. And I but sometimes because
Speaker 1: life is like that, you know, you don't get as
Speaker 1: much time with people, and my life is different too,
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter, Like Bobby would be there for
Speaker 1: me in a second, and I think the same speaks
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, for you, I think that we've been
Speaker 1: together a long time, we've we are friends, has been
Speaker 1: tested a bunch, and we both had really you know,
Speaker 1: both of our moms died and we were both there
Speaker 1: for each other a hardcore. I think for us that
Speaker 1: was a really we were already there. But I think
Speaker 1: for us that just kind of sewed up the fact
Speaker 1: that forever, even if we don't talk for three years
Speaker 1: or seven years, that it would be like one phone call.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where you are, what you need. It's
Speaker 1: like when my mom, my mom died and I was
Speaker 1: on the air, and um, and I don't even don't
Speaker 1: Maybe he's gonna get me emotional my mom. I was
Speaker 1: on the air and I got a phone call and
Speaker 1: my mom died while I was on the air, and um,
Speaker 1: it was my sister's and my mamma died and I
Speaker 1: was in her forties and obviously, um, she had struggled
Speaker 1: drugs and alcohol forever, and so I couldn't leave. We
Speaker 1: had just started syndicating the show, and there was there
Speaker 1: was nothing I could do, and I was able to,
Speaker 1: and I still am able to separate things. It's unhealthy
Speaker 1: how I can separate things. And it it helps me
Speaker 1: in ways, but at times it's very unhealthy. And I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I told Amy, I said, listen, I just got a
Speaker 1: call for my sister. My mom just died. And and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, okay, we're going to commercial. Show is done.
Speaker 1: It's like you or something. And then Bobby's like, nope,
Speaker 1: We're doing the next break and we go back on
Speaker 1: air and we talked as if like nothing. I mean,
Speaker 1: I couldn't talk, Lunchbox can talk. Bobby carries on like
Speaker 1: Bobby is in a zone. I mean, obviously it was
Speaker 1: probably one of the I get that you're saying you
Speaker 1: can compartmentalize like no other, but that had to be
Speaker 1: one of the hardest things you've ever done. It just
Speaker 1: was what happen to be done. So I did. This
Speaker 1: is what happened. There was an hour and twenty minutes
Speaker 1: the show left. I went on to the hour and
Speaker 1: twenty minutes of the show. Is Amy said in the
Speaker 1: corner and cried the whole time. And because I couldn't,
Speaker 1: she did, and the whole you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: I went home to care of the arrangement to funeral.
Speaker 1: Amy was there, I mean they everyone was there next day,
Speaker 1: I mean boom, I mean I was back on the air.
Speaker 1: But from you, he was like back at work. I
Speaker 1: mean even at the funeral. We were like, Bobby, just
Speaker 1: take your time, like do what you need to do here,
Speaker 1: and you just were like, I think the best thing
Speaker 1: for me is just to get back to work. And
Speaker 1: it was and that's different than you. And you know,
Speaker 1: Amy's mom struggled and she died of cancer and after
Speaker 1: a long about and of just a roller coaster of
Speaker 1: two years of sadness and happiness and uh, every feeling
Speaker 1: you could possibly have. And your mom was so great
Speaker 1: to me and for me, it was it wasn't about
Speaker 1: the show with Amy. I told Ammy go away, like
Speaker 1: just go away. And there was so many times I
Speaker 1: did the show but people wouldn't even know, Like I
Speaker 1: would do the show from Austin or my mom was
Speaker 1: at Indie Anderson and Houston and my heart has studios there,
Speaker 1: and so Bobby would let me go do the show
Speaker 1: and I would spend the night at the hospital and
Speaker 1: I'd wake up at you know, three or four in
Speaker 1: the morning there and I'd go to the Houston station.
Speaker 1: I'm drive around Houston and the all night, not knowing
Speaker 1: where I was going, and the people in Houston let
Speaker 1: me in like yeah, he would be I don't. And
Speaker 1: there would be some days that I absolutely would not.
Speaker 1: Then there would be days where I just felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to keep working to kind of have some
Speaker 1: normalcy and you know, break up the monotony at the
Speaker 1: hospital and stuff. And I was just so grateful for that,
Speaker 1: because no there were people at the hospital that I
Speaker 1: would meet and I would come back from doing the
Speaker 1: radio show like thinking, you know if I would be thinking,
Speaker 1: you know something, feeling sorry for myself or something, and
Speaker 1: then I would encounter someone in the waiting room who
Speaker 1: had a loved one that had cancer and they like
Speaker 1: had to quit their job to be there every day.
Speaker 1: They had to quit and like with with you and
Speaker 1: you know, are like just you you, that was never
Speaker 1: even an option. You were like family first, and that's
Speaker 1: the rolling out to still take care of you first.
Speaker 1: Because of that, you being able to be weed it.
Speaker 1: We're not us and so there's a time to I
Speaker 1: think of back to when I think I just casually,
Speaker 1: like said the Bobby I don't even know. I know,
Speaker 1: you know the story. It's so stupid, but um, I
Speaker 1: said something like my mom was bored in the waiting
Speaker 1: room one day and I was like, SU really wants
Speaker 1: an iPad. And I like showed up at worked the
Speaker 1: next day and Bobby had got my mom and iPad.
Speaker 1: And it's not like we couldn't have just I mean,
Speaker 1: my mom could have gotten and it's not it's not
Speaker 1: the I thought that it was an iPad. It was
Speaker 1: just like I said that, and you listened and you heard,
Speaker 1: and then you just show you just randomly had it
Speaker 1: sent to her something or I showed it, but we're
Speaker 1: going to stay or somehow an iPad appeared and like
Speaker 1: we had it was like, you know, she would entertain
Speaker 1: herself for hours at the hospital with the with that iPad,
Speaker 1: like I won't ever that's like a memory I'll never
Speaker 1: forget because it's like something I just said so casually,
Speaker 1: and then the next day you had it. And then
Speaker 1: she got to play with an iPad basically for like
Speaker 1: two years, you know, while she sat up there and
Speaker 1: she played her studio goo or whatever you play on iPad.
Speaker 1: And then we do those funny the photo booth, we
Speaker 1: take those funny pictures. Yeah, before Snapchat there was photo
Speaker 1: boot filters. But anyway, that was a that was a
Speaker 1: moment where I mean, that's that's the Bobby that I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean some of that stuff may or
Speaker 1: may not have come up on air, and I don't
Speaker 1: even remember certain things that we always talk about. But
Speaker 1: like your hands down, you were always like, do what
Speaker 1: you gotta do, do what you gotta do. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what will always even if we're not in
Speaker 1: the same spot, because who knows what happening a year
Speaker 1: or three years, will always like, like I said on
Speaker 1: the air, I think today or yesterday I was making
Speaker 1: fun of you just because you were like, oh I
Speaker 1: got my cup full of Bobby. I was like, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't. You've been my closest friend for ten years,
Speaker 1: so there. So yes, there's the answer to that question. Boy.
Speaker 1: It's like freaking um oprah in here go ahead. What
Speaker 1: else you got? What's the best memory I'll have of
Speaker 1: each other? Mm hmm the best memory? Man? Um, there's
Speaker 1: some we do it just it's the best hand sounds,
Speaker 1: the thing you say. I just wanted. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: I mnna have to go the first thing I think of,
Speaker 1: because it's just just best. I mean, when you're together
Speaker 1: with someone for ten years, Like the best I would
Speaker 1: say it was probably Amy winning the Award for the
Speaker 1: Grace for Females that make a Difference in Broadcasting and
Speaker 1: I got to present her the award and watching her
Speaker 1: just own it her because for a long time she's
Speaker 1: always been Amy Bobby's sidekick. And over the last two years,
Speaker 1: I've really tried to you'll, you'll always be Amy from
Speaker 1: the show, but I've always but but with Amy, I've
Speaker 1: always been like, hey, it's you gotta do you too?
Speaker 1: You know I know what if this is me? Yeah
Speaker 1: it is, but but may it's so strong. I'm not
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that wants to hold Amy down.
Speaker 1: And and so Amy getting up there and just and
Speaker 1: owning the room and her mom being able to make
Speaker 1: it out there while her mom was sick and getting
Speaker 1: the award and um speaking eloquently with passionate emotion, and
Speaker 1: I was just so proud of her, more of her
Speaker 1: than actually for her, because it was like I'd watched
Speaker 1: someone grow into this this role and she just deserved
Speaker 1: it so much so for me, that was I mean,
Speaker 1: that's my one of my favorite things. There are lots
Speaker 1: of little dumb things, but I mean that's what comes
Speaker 1: to mind, is like the first one. Now, well, then
Speaker 1: I'll play by that rule and do the first thing
Speaker 1: that popped into my head was Um, and mind's more recent,
Speaker 1: although I could probably name so many more, but going
Speaker 1: back to your high school with you when you spoke
Speaker 1: at your high school graduation, Um, that was special. That
Speaker 1: was a proud moment. And I think the fact that
Speaker 1: there's still people at that school that were there when
Speaker 1: he was there and listening to them tell stories about him, UM,
Speaker 1: that's something I won't ever forget because I there's big
Speaker 1: things for you. I know that, And I always picture
Speaker 1: like you know what's in store for Bobby, like who knows?
Speaker 1: But I mean, I just I know there's gonna be
Speaker 1: big things. And that's that's one of those memories that
Speaker 1: I had, Like walking down the hall with one of
Speaker 1: his former teachers. That's like telling me stories of Bobby
Speaker 1: in high school and then watching him give the high
Speaker 1: school commencement speech. Um, I was just super proud of
Speaker 1: him because you realize going to your town, great people,
Speaker 1: wonderful place, but you realize when you get there that
Speaker 1: I mean, it was not easy probably for Bobby to
Speaker 1: do what he did to be where he is today.
Speaker 1: And um, I think if you achieve what I think
Speaker 1: you will achieve in life, that's something I'm going to
Speaker 1: always look back on and be like, I don't remember
Speaker 1: walking the halls of his high school and hearing those
Speaker 1: teachers tell me those things about you and how awesome
Speaker 1: you were, and how there was a microphone it was
Speaker 1: in Bobby's hand, yea. And if there was a girl,
Speaker 1: she was not nearby, yeah, nowhere ye got to see it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't well the first time I went. That was
Speaker 1: the second time I gone. The first time I went
Speaker 1: was for his mother's funeral. And that's what that was
Speaker 1: when I first realized, like, okay, and then I feel
Speaker 1: like even with the funeral, I knew there was no
Speaker 1: way we were not going to be there, and I
Speaker 1: knew deep down you were glad we were there, but
Speaker 1: there was so there was hesitation and going because you're
Speaker 1: so sometimes private about some stuff that it was like
Speaker 1: we didn't that's the thing you think, Okay, you think
Speaker 1: sometimes when people are trying to be there for you
Speaker 1: and be a friend, that you're being a burden always right,
Speaker 1: and that's just so not the case. So that was
Speaker 1: my first time there to answer your question, Mike, and
Speaker 1: I that's when I realized, like, okay, whoa like he
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, sometimes people tell stories and you're like
Speaker 1: they're probably act you know, you're just like stretching the
Speaker 1: truth a little bit. Nope, Nope, I mean it was no, no,
Speaker 1: no stoppul I mean nothing, nothing, There's nothing but nice people.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I love where I come. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: there's nothing there right like Dave had. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's closed down down and it was not good then
Speaker 1: and it's really you know they struggle now. So um
Speaker 1: so yeah, I think that's a good What else you got?
Speaker 1: How much do you say? Like you guys have rubbed
Speaker 1: off on each other as far as you like, not exaggerate.
Speaker 1: And Amy has made me a better person, Like just
Speaker 1: straight up, she has made me care more than I
Speaker 1: think I am in a different I do how caring
Speaker 1: about like like life stuff in general. You know, I
Speaker 1: see how she wears her heart and her sleeping cares
Speaker 1: openly and it doesn't make me as afraid to do
Speaker 1: that because I care in different ways, in much more
Speaker 1: private ways. I would rather do X and no one
Speaker 1: know about it. Um. And it's not because I don't
Speaker 1: like to be vulnerable. I think having a vulnerability to caring,
Speaker 1: that that's Amy's thing. Like she's the most caring person
Speaker 1: I've ever met, and she's super vulnerable and um, it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a quality that I don't have. And
Speaker 1: I've been able to watch her do it and and
Speaker 1: see her really passionate about things. Um. But that that's
Speaker 1: what's rubbed off from her to me. Bobby is um
Speaker 1: motivating and inspiring, like I wouldn't say like I I
Speaker 1: never will. Clearly I didn't have aspirations for radio. It's
Speaker 1: not like I. And by the way, we thought he
Speaker 1: was leaving every year every year and was like yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was like, hey, you when you leave it
Speaker 1: into this year when your contracts up, well you know,
Speaker 1: we'll find But she just kept staying around until finally
Speaker 1: she was like, I guess I'm just gonna say, I
Speaker 1: guess it's gonna be my career now. At one point
Speaker 1: I turned to corner. I was like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: my career and to have someone like Bobby to to
Speaker 1: be at the head of that, um, it just makes
Speaker 1: you you just you feel like, okay, am I am?
Speaker 1: I Am I doing enough? But then I have to
Speaker 1: step back and realize, like I don't have the same
Speaker 1: goals as Bobby. That doesn't matter. I just should still
Speaker 1: want to strive to be good at what I do
Speaker 1: or successful at what I do. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I have to keep doing, have to do more and
Speaker 1: more and more and more. Like very is things I
Speaker 1: guess you could say, but you're you're very very Uh,
Speaker 1: you might be the most driven person that I know.
Speaker 1: I should look at you instead of Mike when I
Speaker 1: say that, you might be the most driven person that
Speaker 1: I know. Um, And sometimes that that maybe you know,
Speaker 1: like you say, a downfall because you're so focused on it.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, for someone that looks up
Speaker 1: to you like I do, in that level, I'm like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I could be taking things to another level. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's even you're even motivating. And I know this is
Speaker 1: gonna sound cheesy too, but I see how dedicated he
Speaker 1: can be to things, Like he puts his mind to
Speaker 1: something and it's happening and like me, I'm more like
Speaker 1: I put my mind to something and then it might
Speaker 1: not happen tomorrow, you know, Like I like, I like,
Speaker 1: I start things and I quit things, and I start
Speaker 1: things that I quit things. And Bobby's like, I'm six
Speaker 1: and thirty two days strong, like this is what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: A control complex. I'm freaking out. No, I'm not even
Speaker 1: talking about your weird o c D stuff. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about It's like you haven't many times in my head
Speaker 1: where I'm like, Okay, well Bobby can do this for
Speaker 1: even if it's something you know, trivial or awesome. Still
Speaker 1: he's he's like that, and he's uh again, always shown
Speaker 1: me how to you listen? He listens, well, I need
Speaker 1: to listen better. I do think of that, and that
Speaker 1: that the iPad thing was one example. I could give more,
Speaker 1: but he listens and he somehow, Mike, you've experienced that.
Speaker 1: I know you have, because I know of instances where
Speaker 1: Bobby's knows you're something in your life that's going on
Speaker 1: and he just randomly, you know, it is like this
Speaker 1: little Bobby angel, like this little like sprinkles for you know,
Speaker 1: I know it's hard for you to your Bobby. But
Speaker 1: I mean that's something that I think of him, like
Speaker 1: I need to listen better, Like Bobby, I need to
Speaker 1: listen to what is going on with people and then
Speaker 1: do something about it. And nobody ever has to know.
Speaker 1: But he's he's You're good at that. He's good at that.
Speaker 1: So you grew up You're born aware Austin St. David's Hospital,
Speaker 1: and you grew up in Austin your whole life, same
Speaker 1: house until I was eighteen, until I left for college.
Speaker 1: And then when when I left for college, my mom
Speaker 1: sold it. She didn't want to sell it when we
Speaker 1: were because my dad left when I was eight, and
Speaker 1: so I think she probably, you know, realistically, should have
Speaker 1: you know, sold it then and moved somewhere else. But um,
Speaker 1: she didn't want to uproot us from our friends in
Speaker 1: our neighborhood and our schools, and so we stayed till
Speaker 1: I was eighteen, and then I sold it. So you
Speaker 1: were there until eighteen year. Dad left when you were eight.
Speaker 1: Did he stay close or did he move far? Originally
Speaker 1: he moved to Midlands. Yeah, I mean, so I would
Speaker 1: go like if I went to see him, I would fly, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, my mom would put me on an airplane
Speaker 1: and I go see my dad for the again, and
Speaker 1: I fly back and he was with my Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: my family's stuff is So what's crazy is my dad
Speaker 1: left when I was eight, but then he didn't get
Speaker 1: married till I was eighteen, to the to the woman
Speaker 1: that he was with, um, because my parents didn't get
Speaker 1: divorced till I was eighteen either, So he left for
Speaker 1: he left when I was eight years later, and it
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it was a it was a it
Speaker 1: was a monetary thing, but in my household, it was
Speaker 1: also like my mom was willing to take him back
Speaker 1: if he wanted to come back, and we waited for
Speaker 1: a really long time. That never happened until like a
Speaker 1: year before my mom died, my dad tried to start
Speaker 1: dating her again. Do you think that was because of guilt? No?
Speaker 1: I think well he got he had recently gotten divorced
Speaker 1: from my stepmom, who was with basically since I was eight,
Speaker 1: even though she wasn't my stepmom the entire time. And
Speaker 1: then my dad's never been alone. He's been married four times.
Speaker 1: I love my dad to death. This is I'm not
Speaker 1: knocking my dad, this is just my my home life.
Speaker 1: Like he just liked women and always younger women. Uh,
Speaker 1: and got you know, my mom was the third wife,
Speaker 1: and then you know, the fourth and then they separated.
Speaker 1: And then I think my dad was suddenly like old
Speaker 1: and he was like whoa, what what's happening in life?
Speaker 1: And then he had this like revelation he at this
Speaker 1: moment and he was like the things that were always
Speaker 1: important to him suddenly weren't. And then family more so
Speaker 1: was I know, my dad always loved us, but other
Speaker 1: he chased other things for sure. Um. And then uh,
Speaker 1: he started like kind of courting, like kind of like
Speaker 1: I wanted to hang out with my mom again. And
Speaker 1: my Mom's like, oh my gosh, like I waited for
Speaker 1: you for like twenty five years or something, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna come to me when I'm like I got cancer.
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm busy, Like I don't have time. I
Speaker 1: don't time for this right now, Like I'm got a
Speaker 1: little bit going on. And so but at that time,
Speaker 1: even though they didn't start you know, dating, um, my
Speaker 1: dad stepped in and he became a caregiver alongside me
Speaker 1: and my sister because because my mom was single, my
Speaker 1: sister and I did all the hospital visits, We did everything.
Speaker 1: And then when there was times because my sister was
Speaker 1: four kids and I was living in North Carolina and
Speaker 1: then Austin and then Nashville, and if I couldn't get back,
Speaker 1: my dad would step up. And that's something I think
Speaker 1: for my sister and I to to see your parents
Speaker 1: come back sort of full circle in a way to
Speaker 1: where your dad's back in and he's like, I got this,
Speaker 1: I'm here for you. All that was really special. And
Speaker 1: then the last week of my mom, my mom's life,
Speaker 1: she was she spent a few days in hospice at
Speaker 1: the Center and my dad, UM, my sister and I
Speaker 1: and my dad were the only people in the room
Speaker 1: and there was tons of people in and out of
Speaker 1: there all day long, but suddenly we were the only
Speaker 1: ones in there, and my sister and I wrote around
Speaker 1: the couch and we saw my dad go over to
Speaker 1: my mom and start, you know, like brushing her hair.
Speaker 1: And this was the day before she went unconscious, and
Speaker 1: we didn't had no idea she was gonna lose consciousness
Speaker 1: the next day. Um it was because of procedure we
Speaker 1: tried to do, so we had no idea that was coming.
Speaker 1: And my dad leaned over and asked my mom to
Speaker 1: for forgiveness, and he had never done that, and all
Speaker 1: ever since he left her for someone else, like, never
Speaker 1: had said like, I'm sorry for doing that to you.
Speaker 1: And my mom didn't have to have that. She had
Speaker 1: forgiven him a long time ago. She didn't have to
Speaker 1: have that. But that was another special thing, just part
Speaker 1: of my upbringing, Like to be able to witness that,
Speaker 1: to know is a kid like all you want is
Speaker 1: for your dad to come back. That's all I ever wanted.
Speaker 1: All I ever wanted was Dad, just come back, get
Speaker 1: back together with mom, like she forgives you. It's fine.
Speaker 1: And then you grow up and you realize you know
Speaker 1: that's never gonna happen. And then to be able to
Speaker 1: witness on your mom's deathbed her get what she always wanted,
Speaker 1: which was just like I'm so sorry I did that
Speaker 1: to you and and for my sister, and I had
Speaker 1: a witness that was pretty amazing. You mentioned North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I think one of the luckiest things for me was
Speaker 1: Amy moved. She quit. We had a going away party,
Speaker 1: and I was It was a terrible time for me
Speaker 1: because I just lost who I said then and still
Speaker 1: say now, is the best female on the radio, like
Speaker 1: periods that I don't even know how that's possible about.
Speaker 1: So and so we had a going away party at
Speaker 1: Chewie's in Austin. It was like I was It was
Speaker 1: like I was sad, and Amy was moving with her husband.
Speaker 1: He was deployed. My contract was coming up, and they
Speaker 1: wanted to keep me. I just started building this indication
Speaker 1: company with my own money. I had a little bit
Speaker 1: of leverage, and I said I will stay if you
Speaker 1: will build a studio for Amy in North Carolina. And
Speaker 1: they were at the concept of it wasn't real, not
Speaker 1: real at all, because it was never something that was
Speaker 1: on the table. And I remember going to Amy saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I kind of got a bent over here. Like we
Speaker 1: were number one and Austin for ten years, like when
Speaker 1: we were just in Austin, and and that's where we
Speaker 1: grew as a show. We were tripling people in ratings.
Speaker 1: So I had leverage, and so I said, I've got
Speaker 1: to keep Amy because if I lose Amy, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do. And I, you know, I
Speaker 1: said earlier, like I would be lost with that Amy
Speaker 1: on the show. And so they built our studio in
Speaker 1: our house for years, five years. Five years. She lived
Speaker 1: in North Carolina from her house and she did the show.
Speaker 1: Randy's never dropped a bit. She lived there and just
Speaker 1: worked out of like a bedroom, right y'all. The first
Speaker 1: the first two years, I did it in my attic
Speaker 1: where it wasn't even finished out. My husband's sort of
Speaker 1: like did a little bit of work on it to
Speaker 1: rig it to make it work. But every morning, I
Speaker 1: kid you not, I know, I went to the ceiling
Speaker 1: and pulled down the little thing that you pulled out
Speaker 1: out of the ceiling to climb up at a little
Speaker 1: tiny ladder. And I would climb up, and then we
Speaker 1: only have commercial breaks or songs for that matter, to
Speaker 1: to use the restroom. And I would be up in
Speaker 1: the attic and sometimes we'd be working and I'll be like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, And so I would tell I'll be
Speaker 1: like if I'm not back, like calling nine one one,
Speaker 1: She's like, because I fell through the attic and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to make it back. So those were those
Speaker 1: were crazy times. It used to be different for us too,
Speaker 1: because we came so we started the show, and the
Speaker 1: luxury of building a show from scratch and building a
Speaker 1: show with your own money, which I was doing. Was
Speaker 1: that we kind of do if we're rasy to do
Speaker 1: if we wanted. So we're playing no songs, maybe one
Speaker 1: song an hour. It was a it was a full
Speaker 1: on talk show. Oh my gosh. Yeah, right, we played
Speaker 1: like there was no in The ratings were never high.
Speaker 1: The problem now is we're adding markets all the time,
Speaker 1: and people are new, and there are some cities there like, guys,
Speaker 1: if you guys would play no music, you're ready to
Speaker 1: be so much higher. And there are some cities were like,
Speaker 1: you need a couple more songs because the people here
Speaker 1: don't know you yet, and people don't like new people.
Speaker 1: So it's a weird balance. But we were a talk
Speaker 1: show for eight years. We played no music. It's quite
Speaker 1: the justument and so too when we came to Nashville,
Speaker 1: which I had just moved back to Austin by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the story about Amy was she had moved back
Speaker 1: to Austin. We were pumped she moved back. I was
Speaker 1: the only one that knew about the Nashville thing, and
Speaker 1: for me it wasn't a big deal because we were
Speaker 1: playing in the music anyway, So it wasn't like it
Speaker 1: was a pop music to country music thing, and the
Speaker 1: country music thing was easy, you know, that was the
Speaker 1: easiest part of it all. It was actually just moving
Speaker 1: homes and and friends and new people. But and there
Speaker 1: never been a position like there is now. They're never
Speaker 1: been a national country morning show. And so I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell Amy, I can tell anybody. That's not a peace
Speaker 1: paper that said you can't tell anybody. And so Amy's
Speaker 1: buying a house. Yeah. I was so excited to be
Speaker 1: back in Austin. I mean, I begged my house. He
Speaker 1: got out of the Air Force after twelve years and
Speaker 1: he's from Austin. I was like, can we please, we
Speaker 1: got to move back to Austin. And he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: both of our families they're like, that's crazy, we can't
Speaker 1: go back to Austin. I'm like, well, we have to.
Speaker 1: That's where that's where my job is. And you're a pilot,
Speaker 1: you can live anywhere. So that's that's so that's what
Speaker 1: we decided to do. And like we're putting a contract
Speaker 1: on the house and Bobby calls me and it's like,
Speaker 1: can you move to now? Well, luckily the house got rejected.
Speaker 1: Something something fell through. Yeah, like listen, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I believe in divining. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but what but it was just like something fell through.
Speaker 1: So I had to go to Rod Phillips, who's now
Speaker 1: oddly the head of Country, but he was like, took
Speaker 1: the first real big chance on me and say, we
Speaker 1: have to tell Amy because nobody else knew. For almost
Speaker 1: two months. Amy was the only one who knew that
Speaker 1: I we were leaving, and so I just couldn't have
Speaker 1: her buy another house. So they just staid in an
Speaker 1: apartment and nobody ever addressed it. We just kind of
Speaker 1: kept it under locked. It's a really weird time. Um.
Speaker 1: But then we moved and I was like, hi, Austin.
Speaker 1: By Austin, it was Amy was there for a matter
Speaker 1: of Yeah, I moved there in September. I was so
Speaker 1: worried though, because she had to go to her husband
Speaker 1: and say, I just convinced you to go to Austin.
Speaker 1: Now when you please moved to that? I called him
Speaker 1: and I said we need to meet at Maudie's for
Speaker 1: margharita right now. And he's like why, I'm like, just
Speaker 1: meet me there. And we met there and I was
Speaker 1: like to Margharita's and I was like, what do you
Speaker 1: think about Nashville? Neither of us had ever even been
Speaker 1: to Nashville. And he was like, okay, sounds cool. I
Speaker 1: was like sweet and lucky. He has a job live wherever.
Speaker 1: Like again, I don't know that men and things happening
Speaker 1: for a reason, like I mean, I you know, are
Speaker 1: different in that way. But it was just like all
Speaker 1: everything just kind of felt together. So you grow up
Speaker 1: in Austin, you go to college where Texas him Okay,
Speaker 1: so you spend how long? They're three four and a
Speaker 1: half years? Did you? I thought you went to a
Speaker 1: junior college too for a while. Oh yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: So we'll what is that was in college station? Our?
Speaker 1: It was in Brian Brian College Station. I went to Blenn,
Speaker 1: which is like the feeder junior college in the A
Speaker 1: and M. Like most everybody, if they're trying to get
Speaker 1: into a M, they'll go to Blind In high school, yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of like was pretty social in high school. Wasn't
Speaker 1: that great of a student? You know? It was always
Speaker 1: trdy to class always. I mean, it's just that I
Speaker 1: took the SAT like three times. I can focus. What
Speaker 1: did you make on the sum. Think the highest I
Speaker 1: got was like like eleven hundred. I went from like
Speaker 1: nine hundred. Uh, first time nine fifty or something, and
Speaker 1: then the second time I actually went down. But then
Speaker 1: the third time was charm I went up and then
Speaker 1: but with that, my g p A still wasn't enough
Speaker 1: to get into an M. But that's the only place
Speaker 1: I applied. I had high hope so that I went
Speaker 1: to Blenn for a year. But I was so embarrassed
Speaker 1: that I didn't get into texting because all my friends
Speaker 1: were going to like, I don't know, all kinds of
Speaker 1: crazy colleges all over the place because I went to
Speaker 1: Austin High and they were all over They're like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to Harvard or whatever. I'm like, cool, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a blind, which I loved. It was good
Speaker 1: for me, is exactly what I needed. And I left
Speaker 1: there with A three nine and got into A and
Speaker 1: M immediately one year one year A blend, didn't graduate,
Speaker 1: didn't I was three hours short. I walked across the
Speaker 1: stage and UM I was doing a three hour like
Speaker 1: correspondence course from Texas Tech. So back in the day,
Speaker 1: UM stuff wasn't online. You had to mail it in
Speaker 1: like you would do it from your notebook and mail
Speaker 1: it in. Well, I was just really bad at mailing
Speaker 1: it in. Go figure, so um. And then I walked
Speaker 1: across the stage. And then I got a job because
Speaker 1: most people were like, oh, yeah, you're done with school,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, well, I don't need to
Speaker 1: complete this three hour sociology class from Texas Tech. And
Speaker 1: then I really But then I also didn't want to
Speaker 1: ever own up to the fact that I mean, I
Speaker 1: had my aggie ring I walked across the stage, but
Speaker 1: I never wanted to another embarrassment where I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, like I'm deceiving people. I really was,
Speaker 1: and that ate me up. It bothered me so much
Speaker 1: because I mean I was basically lying, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to get in the whole well
Speaker 1: and three hours short, and I tried to do it.
Speaker 1: So then finally I couldn't take it any longer. So
Speaker 1: I graduated during the show. So I enrolled in school.
Speaker 1: I took I took my three hour sociology class and
Speaker 1: I submitted it to Texas A and M and they
Speaker 1: mailed me my diploma. So my diploma, my Aggie Ring
Speaker 1: says two thousand and three, which is my graduation year,
Speaker 1: but my Texas A and M diploma says two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. It almost took me nine years to finish college.
Speaker 1: You finished school and your first real job is what
Speaker 1: granted sales? And what do you do as a granted
Speaker 1: I worked for a wholesale company, so we, uh, there's
Speaker 1: an import export company. And I had, you know, a
Speaker 1: set list of customers, most of them fabricators, and I
Speaker 1: I would just take care of them, like whatever they needed.
Speaker 1: I never worked with the end user like you've got
Speaker 1: granted in your kitchen like you. I didn't work with you.
Speaker 1: I worked with probably whoever installed it, and UM, just
Speaker 1: made sure they were taken care of. And um, she
Speaker 1: had to leave that job. She took a pay cut,
Speaker 1: a big pay cut to come work for me. There
Speaker 1: was big, but it was I just asked for the
Speaker 1: thing was I had just when Bobby offered me the job,
Speaker 1: I was like, are you joking? And he's like no,
Speaker 1: And I was like, I asked for a raise like
Speaker 1: last week, and you have no idea how hard that
Speaker 1: was for me because I didn't like asking for a raise.
Speaker 1: But I knew I needed to do it because I
Speaker 1: deserved it, and they were they were like, you're right,
Speaker 1: you do. I was like, well that was easy. So
Speaker 1: I got a raise, and then Bobby offered me a
Speaker 1: job with less. We weren't making any money, no, none, none, none,
Speaker 1: But I mean I was on cloud nine. I thought
Speaker 1: it was. I thought so much like it didn't matter
Speaker 1: like I I you know, my bills were minimal and
Speaker 1: I when we were young, and I thought it was
Speaker 1: that was great. I had a bunch of people put
Speaker 1: questions up on Instagram to um. So one says, what
Speaker 1: would you be doing now if you didn't have your
Speaker 1: current job? And we'll keep these answers pretty quick. Always
Speaker 1: thought I was going to your mom, Yeah, you still
Speaker 1: are going to still waiting. I always thought once I
Speaker 1: even you know that for years, like I was like Bobby,
Speaker 1: once I get pregnant, I'm leaving the show. You know that, right?
Speaker 1: What would you be doing? Um? I probably doing create,
Speaker 1: like creating a campaigns or stand up comic. You know.
Speaker 1: I maybe not on the radio, but I would be creating.
Speaker 1: I'm a creator. Oh yeah, I have no idea what
Speaker 1: I would be doing. Let's see when Amy's babysitter starts
Speaker 1: having an affair with her husband. Oh my gosh, what
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just reading. That's not a question.
Speaker 1: What does this say? Okay? Cool? No, Nope, they're asking
Speaker 1: if you and I will get together. Then I didn't
Speaker 1: even get to that part because you stop me. Someone
Speaker 1: asked Amy if she's still a practicing guitar. No, that's miserable. Um,
Speaker 1: let's see, it was a nightmare. Let's be honest. Here's
Speaker 1: one If Amy didn't approve of someone you were dating,
Speaker 1: would you trust start instincting in the relationship? Would you
Speaker 1: We've never had that issue, though, I don't think Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. You typically have. Well, any girl
Speaker 1: i've known you that you've dated as she's always been
Speaker 1: pretty amazing dating as in real life. I've been on
Speaker 1: dates with girls and I mean I ever't even know them,
Speaker 1: but I mean real life relationships. You've always like, man,
Speaker 1: that bar is high. Um, it's never been a thing. Right.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing too, When I date someone, Amy
Speaker 1: ends up being friends with them longer than I date them.
Speaker 1: Did you? Speaking of do you know what today is?
Speaker 1: Do you do? You do you know what today is?
Speaker 1: A birthday of someone. Yes, yeah, I was already texting
Speaker 1: with her. Yeah, my fel's birthday today. Um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: do you all? Even? You probably don't even that's fine,
Speaker 1: and that's that's fine. I don't, yeah, because you know
Speaker 1: when my last two girlfriends go. So I dated a
Speaker 1: girl in Nashville who's in a band, Rachel, But before her,
Speaker 1: I did Nakara for four years. Fantastic relationship. It'd be
Speaker 1: one of those out like back at and as an idiot,
Speaker 1: I have like three of those. I'll look back at
Speaker 1: and be like, I was a huge idiot for he's
Speaker 1: an idiot and so but you know it. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but's still you. Both of you would be
Speaker 1: there for each other if you needed to be. But
Speaker 1: I get the there's you know, it's not like texting. No,
Speaker 1: we haven't actually spoken in a long time. I just
Speaker 1: think it's easier for who. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it's easier. I'd be better if I didn't.
Speaker 1: But I do know. Yes, I didn't know that it
Speaker 1: was her birthday. Um. Let's see people are posting comments
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Might you have anything over there? Bobby? Here?
Speaker 1: Are you dating we wanted to. She doesn't know. Amy. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not dating anybody, but right now I have a
Speaker 1: special friend. But I feel like I find it interesting
Speaker 1: that today you put the label, you put the special friendly.
Speaker 1: It's just it's complicated, that's all I'll say. It's a
Speaker 1: complicated situation. Would you not agree? And listeners are like, hey,
Speaker 1: what are you doing a little bit? I'm having fun,
Speaker 1: you know with the picture and stuff, because it's fun,
Speaker 1: but also it's like, I'm also hanging out with somebody
Speaker 1: and I'm posting a picture of me just having fun
Speaker 1: on instat ram so and we should all just be
Speaker 1: glad Bobby's having fun. I mean, how many times do
Speaker 1: we hear Bobby's saying having fun? Um? Yeah, so yeah yeah, um? Amy,
Speaker 1: how did you meet your husband? We grew up together
Speaker 1: at church. Our parents were friends, and my sister is
Speaker 1: married to his best friend, and so they I was
Speaker 1: always the annoying little sister. So I'm younger than him.
Speaker 1: But then I grew up here says lunchbox talks less.
Speaker 1: Why so um, Eddie talks a lot more. Eddie had
Speaker 1: kids and the dad and our audience went from being
Speaker 1: nineteen year old to now our age and up to
Speaker 1: forty year olds, and so there's only so much room
Speaker 1: to talk. And there's me and there's Amy, and then
Speaker 1: it's just kind of whoever else has something, and Eddie
Speaker 1: has kids and is very relatable and they do all
Speaker 1: these research and Eddie's the one that the parents relate to.
Speaker 1: So um because of that, because Eddie is so relatable
Speaker 1: and people really really really like Eddie and that he's
Speaker 1: just a great dude to people really, not not saying
Speaker 1: they didn't, but people hate lunch Box's comments. There's no
Speaker 1: hate on Eddie in any sort of people research the
Speaker 1: crap out of us. Lunchbox does have a very strong
Speaker 1: neggatives against him, but very positive positive but um, super
Speaker 1: funny and a hot mess at the same time. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's because Eddie has taken a large role on the
Speaker 1: show because he's a dad with kids, and listeners relate
Speaker 1: to him and there's a great job to Eddie's fantastic
Speaker 1: on the air. So it's not about lunch talking less.
Speaker 1: It's kind of Eddie talking more. You've got not a
Speaker 1: little bit. Everybody's just gotta kind of piece and you
Speaker 1: know what, every day, everybody fights for not fights on
Speaker 1: the air. But everybody is like submitting things to me
Speaker 1: to talk about. So it's a competition every day to
Speaker 1: get on the air. I don't just go I gotta
Speaker 1: give Lunchbox two segments. Lunchbox may have eight segments a show.
Speaker 1: If he says, if he has eight great things to
Speaker 1: talk about, I will go to all aid of them.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't, I I'll go to zero. I mean,
Speaker 1: just uh. Sometimes and he came to me and was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's the deal. You're not looking at me as much?
Speaker 1: And I was this, and I was like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean. I don't realize this. All I do. I
Speaker 1: go to the hot hand and I think, what my
Speaker 1: strength is. I don't have to be the star of
Speaker 1: the show, like I bring in stars and let them
Speaker 1: be the star. So I did think, and I'm happy
Speaker 1: to sit and laugh and let Amy or Lunchbox Eddie
Speaker 1: just be the star and it's their segment. And there
Speaker 1: and Amy was mad. It was I was for it
Speaker 1: was weird. I was confused. I was feeling I guess
Speaker 1: I was probably feeling down, and I was I wanted
Speaker 1: to know, like what am I doing wrong? Like what
Speaker 1: what did I say? The vibe is off, something's not right,
Speaker 1: Like you just said, I have to go to where
Speaker 1: we have a show to do, and I have to
Speaker 1: go to where it's strong and right now, Eddie's strong
Speaker 1: and Eddie was and I was like and I just
Speaker 1: had to take a deep breath and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: well then I've got to you know, I guess it's
Speaker 1: you know, and as a girl, you can build up
Speaker 1: all these different things in your head, like before I
Speaker 1: went to Bobby and got that straight answer of like,
Speaker 1: we have a show to do, this is work, and
Speaker 1: Eddie's strong, So that's where I'm going to look. In
Speaker 1: my head, I'm like, oh my gosh, you know, I've
Speaker 1: created all these fake scenarios as to why Bobby's not
Speaker 1: looking at me, you know. And it was it was
Speaker 1: just talking and I would talk, and I feel like
Speaker 1: sometimes in our work relationship that's just how like sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll be like, hey, what's going on with this and
Speaker 1: be like, well, if you wanted to know, just ask
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, that's a yeah. And Amy and
Speaker 1: I about once every four or five months have a
Speaker 1: conversation of, uh, what's bugging your right? Because I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think of it as a couple like time.
Speaker 1: A lot of times you can, you know, have an argument.
Speaker 1: You know that my husband, I can have an argument
Speaker 1: and I know he's going to love me unconditionally. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like I can act a certain way around
Speaker 1: him that none of you will ever see ever And
Speaker 1: I feel secure in that because he loves me and
Speaker 1: he's not gonna abandon me. And I don't think and um,
Speaker 1: but but you know with other relationships where it's like
Speaker 1: your dating, but you don't have that you you freak
Speaker 1: you you you don't have Sometimes you freak out a
Speaker 1: little bit more and you have to again create false
Speaker 1: scenarios and then you just have to hash it out
Speaker 1: every once in a while because you're not having those
Speaker 1: regular like little you knows what is your perception of amy?
Speaker 1: And I like, because you've interned with the show, you've
Speaker 1: produced the show from Afar as an affiliate. Now we
Speaker 1: moved you here and you live and you see, um,
Speaker 1: so you've been on all sides of it. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean for me, it's just been crazy to see you
Speaker 1: guys kind of like grow together and just be like
Speaker 1: best friends throughout at all. And I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of inspiring, you know way and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think that's awesome. How really how you just founder
Speaker 1: randomly and how kind of how you found everybody it
Speaker 1: was just people you found and how it's you know,
Speaker 1: worked out so well. Yeah, you're you're pretty random. I
Speaker 1: don't have to wrap Amy up. This is a different
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I'm just taking my hand and rap
Speaker 1: do the rap signal because sometimes on the air, yeah,
Speaker 1: like what's happening he's not cutting me off? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: when you hear the music with talking, when I tell
Speaker 1: you when the song, when the song starts playing, stop talking,
Speaker 1: because that meant singing my favorite thing to listen for
Speaker 1: with Amy talking over like like yeah, you hit a
Speaker 1: clip and you still hear it. Let's struggle with that
Speaker 1: a little bit. What happens off the mic mike, Like,
Speaker 1: we know what happens off the mic, but again you're newer.
Speaker 1: What happens off the mic when we're not in the air.
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty much the same. Like it's just like, really,
Speaker 1: when the MIC's go off, everybody still talks the same.
Speaker 1: You also talk about the same stuff. And then I
Speaker 1: think that's what kind of when people come sitting on
Speaker 1: the show. Sometimes you don't know when the show is
Speaker 1: going on or when it's like our bosses don't know
Speaker 1: when the children don't start talking, and I'm like, we're
Speaker 1: on the air. You're not just chilling and talking on
Speaker 1: the air, just like when you all are talking regular. No,
Speaker 1: it's cool. Do you have any questions for me? You
Speaker 1: don't have to know. I just wonder if there's anything
Speaker 1: you wanted to dig out, like dr Film moment here.
Speaker 1: Amy has a podcast by the way. Yeah, well you
Speaker 1: just asked me if any questions for you, and then
Speaker 1: well you were stall. I was gonna van and promote
Speaker 1: your podcast while you thought of something. Okay, go for it.
Speaker 1: Well so you can, I'll let you talk with podcast.
Speaker 1: But go ahead. Okay. Well, I mean only because I'm
Speaker 1: getting hit with it left and right about about the
Speaker 1: girl and this is the last one I'm bringing it up.
Speaker 1: But I know that it's not like you know, it
Speaker 1: is complicated. What are you talking about? Actually your special friend,
Speaker 1: your podcast, special friend, special friend. Just first, because I'm
Speaker 1: getting I get hit with it from all angles, and
Speaker 1: I feel like it's my job to kind of you know, Um,
Speaker 1: it's for real. I know that it's complicated, But but
Speaker 1: do you think that one day we'll we'll get figured
Speaker 1: out and then it'll be less complicated with this or
Speaker 1: in general in life with this, I don't know, you
Speaker 1: really don't know. I hope, okay, you hope. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like to have great people around me, and I
Speaker 1: cut out any one that's negative. Mm hm. You know
Speaker 1: we've been to get along enough. If there's negativity in
Speaker 1: the room, it goes away, right like for you're listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast now, and you know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: wish we could just give this tomorrow knight to go
Speaker 1: in and be awesome, right this be. But there have
Speaker 1: been instances where at times or there have been people
Speaker 1: that bring in negative energy into the room, they don't
Speaker 1: stay in the room, or they don't stay on the show.
Speaker 1: And there you've set such a precedence for that too
Speaker 1: that there's been times where I have to like check
Speaker 1: myself and I know it, and you'll almost you would
Speaker 1: like sniff Bobby like sniffs me like a dog. You know,
Speaker 1: like no, no, it's not like that, but he'll he'll know.
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes I try to hide it, but I'm
Speaker 1: very hard, very bad. In three seconds, I know if
Speaker 1: she's in a bad happy mood, if at a time
Speaker 1: of a month, if it's if she had a fight,
Speaker 1: and then he'll ask like is everything okay? And then
Speaker 1: we hate that question, and then I try to fake it,
Speaker 1: and then I can't fake it, and then I fake
Speaker 1: it some more and then just then I explode. But
Speaker 1: sometimes I have to almost like mentally, I'll be driving
Speaker 1: into work and if I know that I feeling negative
Speaker 1: or my heart's in a bad place, or I'm just
Speaker 1: like grumpy because it's really and I'm not a warning
Speaker 1: version or whatever. Like I I get my game based
Speaker 1: off when I'm driving to work, and I I will
Speaker 1: recite the fruits of the Spirit in my head, like
Speaker 1: over and over in my own work. I turn off
Speaker 1: the radio and I grabbed this doing one when I
Speaker 1: look ahead, and I'm like love, joy, peace, patients, kind
Speaker 1: of goingness, gentle in space on the self control and
Speaker 1: I say that over and over and over so that
Speaker 1: I show up. And when I see Bobby, I'm not like,
Speaker 1: you know, bringing in negativity because it's no joke, Like
Speaker 1: he doesn't have time for that. We don't have time
Speaker 1: for that. There's no time for someone to bring the
Speaker 1: rest of the room down one. It's just not good
Speaker 1: for business. He wants to be that the debby downer.
Speaker 1: And it's also not fun. And if we're not having fun,
Speaker 1: our listeners are not having fun. And that's the first
Speaker 1: rule of anything we do on the show. And there's
Speaker 1: times you have to be the business like, you have
Speaker 1: to be that and that's it. I couldn't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really hard sometimes from you know, from even the
Speaker 1: Carlos stuff that was really difficult for me, so hard
Speaker 1: because he was a close friend that it just didn't
Speaker 1: work out professionally, great guy and it was one of
Speaker 1: the first podcasts that we did. Um. You know, there
Speaker 1: have been times with everyone where we've had to be
Speaker 1: with the boss and you're legit, regardless of what people think,
Speaker 1: you have a legit. Sometimes had to take me aside
Speaker 1: and they're like, get it together. Yeah, but you it's different.
Speaker 1: You work harder than everybody else on that show. I
Speaker 1: don't think, so okay, you work harder at making that
Speaker 1: show a full show than anybody else on that show.
Speaker 1: Everybody has specialties that they're great at and everybody puts
Speaker 1: in a lot of time, Like you're not gonna beat
Speaker 1: Ray in sitting in a studio cutting audio. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be there. But Red would do that, or he'd go
Speaker 1: sell cable, or he would pump gas. Ray just finds
Speaker 1: his thing and just does. But that's a specialty. Everybody
Speaker 1: has their specialty With Amy, She's such a full part
Speaker 1: of the show that if I don't have it coming
Speaker 1: from her, I don't have it, Like it's just not there.
Speaker 1: And when Amy left, ratings took a hit, and partially
Speaker 1: it's because she was gone, and partially it was because
Speaker 1: it's freaking out because she was gone. And so um oh,
Speaker 1: like when I left because my mom, Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: were gone for a couple of months. Um so yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that but yeah, there's no negativity.
Speaker 1: And there are times we have to take people to
Speaker 1: the side and be the boss and not just that
Speaker 1: and say hey, you're not the other the I don't
Speaker 1: won't get specifics. The other night, I had to have
Speaker 1: words with the entire show because it's like, if you're
Speaker 1: going to go and do this fun thing, Michael, you
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go and do this thing and work,
Speaker 1: you can't not do your show work and there's when
Speaker 1: I gotta like they're gonna be the friend you can
Speaker 1: answer that if you know you can answer it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a weird dynamic to be but with you, I've
Speaker 1: found it to be the easiest to be direct and
Speaker 1: not worried about any sort of odd interpretation because I
Speaker 1: can go directly to you and say exactly how I
Speaker 1: feel and I don't have to worry about you. I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna be sensitive about it, but I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna get over at the quickest and you're not
Speaker 1: gonna hold a grudge. You're gonna be the most sensitive,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna get over at the quickest. Yeah. Sure
Speaker 1: I'm sensitive, I'm delicate, but it's like like I have
Speaker 1: to put on my amy gloves, gloves and too. She
Speaker 1: also knows how to handle me because I'm I really
Speaker 1: am a nutcase. So I'm mess. So we'll be doing
Speaker 1: the countdown. I'll give you example. Today we're doing the countdown.
Speaker 1: We have times to do stuff. Everything is times everything.
Speaker 1: So I have six minutes to this, at eight minutes
Speaker 1: to this, I have twenty seven minutes to this. I
Speaker 1: got a meeting in an hour. I got so it's this,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, we're going to the countdown. It's
Speaker 1: Amy's time. She doesn't go like I just I just
Speaker 1: keep going, and she's looking at for a spot. I
Speaker 1: don't have time. I don't have time for you. You're
Speaker 1: not ready. I'm going to keep going. I'll follow along,
Speaker 1: and and then in my head I'm like, so stupid,
Speaker 1: follow along? Why can't you follow along? And I'm like
Speaker 1: yelling at myself in my head and Bobby's like just
Speaker 1: continuing on and he comes to me again, and I'm
Speaker 1: to be the yelling at myself so that I'm not
Speaker 1: in the right spot again. Life. That is life. I Um,
Speaker 1: I hope that. Yeah, people listening to this and this
Speaker 1: will be up forever, and um, I know forever, forever, forever.
Speaker 1: You know, you're in the process of adopting two children
Speaker 1: right now. It's been a three year process. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: three and a half years. And at any time maybe
Speaker 1: we'll be gone for a couple of weeks, and um,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for you to be gone, like from
Speaker 1: you way more. Listen with you. It's this is your
Speaker 1: life and you've been one of these kids so bad.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that I've ever wanted something for
Speaker 1: someone so bad ever, And I still don't want as
Speaker 1: much as you want them for you because they're your kids.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that I have wanted something for
Speaker 1: someone so much ever. There's just no one more deserving
Speaker 1: to be a mom. And and if I have to, well,
Speaker 1: I know you. Yeah. Bobby's always like what do we
Speaker 1: need to do? Who do we need? And I'm like, Bobby,
Speaker 1: We're doing everything. I will take care of right, Like
Speaker 1: let me. She's like, no, will take care of it.
Speaker 1: Got an agency, We're doing everything that protocol. And I've
Speaker 1: even gotten in trouble by them a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Um for going rogue. Uh, just because I have relationships
Speaker 1: in Haiti and I've kind of learned my lesson. So
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be good. And you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to jeopardize anything because these are lives, you know.
Speaker 1: I want to a couple of things I want to
Speaker 1: address before we go, because we fitt the hour mark.
Speaker 1: But dang um two things one for us. Pimp enjoy
Speaker 1: is such a big movement. It's it's such a large
Speaker 1: scale giving endeavor that we say. And when I say we,
Speaker 1: I don't mean we in this room or we in
Speaker 1: that studio, we as a group of listeners, UM are
Speaker 1: able to do. And you know, it started we were
Speaker 1: looking you guys were looking for, um a Twitter handle
Speaker 1: for your mom and end up being Judy be Pimp
Speaker 1: and Joy and so Judy chooses Joy was taken, so
Speaker 1: we kept pimp and Joy and so that was Amy.
Speaker 1: It was like, you know, pimp and Joy and so
Speaker 1: you you, you came, You came with the hashtag you came.
Speaker 1: It was really special actually because you know, uh, my
Speaker 1: mom's cancer just returned for like the third time or something,
Speaker 1: and we were doing to do our first anniversary Joy
Speaker 1: Week and You're like, hey, I want to dedicate Joy
Speaker 1: Week to your mom because she's kind of inspired the
Speaker 1: joy theme, and we're going to use the hashtag pimp
Speaker 1: and Joy because of her Twitter handle. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. And then from that like everything rolled
Speaker 1: out and it's been it's almost it's been something you
Speaker 1: know for me. I feel like I've always you know,
Speaker 1: relied on. There's a verse romans and just a paraphrase,
Speaker 1: it's like God's gonna work for the good of those
Speaker 1: who love them and those that are called according to
Speaker 1: his purpose, Like there's gonna be hard things in life,
Speaker 1: but I know that there's gonna be good that come
Speaker 1: from it. And that was almost like the prayer my
Speaker 1: mom had in the chapel the day that the cancer
Speaker 1: came back again. She said, Lord, just use this for good.
Speaker 1: Just use this for good. Whatever you do, just use
Speaker 1: this for good. And so every time a Pimp and
Speaker 1: Enjoy item is sold, or every time someone is pimp
Speaker 1: and Joy stuff, or someone is spreading joy or choosing
Speaker 1: joy for themselves, like in I know it's so much
Speaker 1: bigger than that now, but still not lost on us.
Speaker 1: It's it's still not lost, but I get that it's
Speaker 1: kind of taken legs of its own and it's it's
Speaker 1: the shows, but like for me and my family, like
Speaker 1: every time we see that, I just need y'all to know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's my brain instantly goes to
Speaker 1: my mom being like, Lord, just use this for good.
Speaker 1: And so every time that Pimp and Joy is used,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, it's being used for good. Your cancer sucked.
Speaker 1: Cancer sucks, but this is something that was used for
Speaker 1: good and it's continuing, like it will continue even with
Speaker 1: the word Pimp in which was controversial, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I do think this was one of the examples of
Speaker 1: us having different strengths and then working together because you
Speaker 1: came and told the story to me first about your
Speaker 1: mom and the prayer and we will and it was like,
Speaker 1: I want to do Joy week for your mom hashtag
Speaker 1: Pimp and Joy. And then we have a great friend
Speaker 1: named Mary Barnes and it's it's been us three that
Speaker 1: have been running Pimp and Joy. And we don't keep
Speaker 1: any of the money, and we find causes and we're
Speaker 1: able to help. And we meaning not us in the room,
Speaker 1: not us in the studio, but the people that listen
Speaker 1: to this to buy the hats shirts. We don't keep
Speaker 1: any of the money for ourselves and we never will.
Speaker 1: And for me, it was that little moment for you
Speaker 1: and your mom, and it was how in the world
Speaker 1: can we take this and make this a monster for greatness?
Speaker 1: And we are still building and we're not because it
Speaker 1: has to be, but just because it already is. Our
Speaker 1: listeners have allowed it, they've created it, and everyone's embraced it.
Speaker 1: If it's a dog that needs a surgery, or a
Speaker 1: family that needs food, or a flood or Christmas gifts
Speaker 1: for a kid if it's St. Jude, you guys have
Speaker 1: been able to do that. And it's just like the
Speaker 1: perfect storm of things that have happened, um, that have
Speaker 1: allowed it. And and I'm appreciative. Oh I'm so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm beyond. It's crazy how big it has gotten. Um
Speaker 1: of just T shirts and hats, because it's it's so
Speaker 1: much bigger than that. Yeah, and it's it's yeah, it's me.
Speaker 1: It's a dumb it's a dumb name. It's a dumb word,
Speaker 1: but it's means it means so much more than that
Speaker 1: word means. So I mean, for if you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: thank you. And then, um, I'm gonna talk about your
Speaker 1: podcast for a second, because um I listen. I've been
Speaker 1: telling Ammy forever like you got to start doing your
Speaker 1: own thing too, Like you're not just my psychic, you
Speaker 1: are strong enough to go that. You're so good. And
Speaker 1: so Amy has a podcast now that she hosts, so
Speaker 1: talk about that. Let's for love what Matters, which is
Speaker 1: a positive place we do tell me something good on
Speaker 1: the show, like every it's I didn't steal it. Maybe
Speaker 1: they did, but I didn't know. I'm just kidding about
Speaker 1: Love What Matters formed and they have a pretty big
Speaker 1: Facebook following and people. They have a website where people
Speaker 1: can submit the stories that feel good stories to inspire,
Speaker 1: to motivate, and and they saw the impact they were
Speaker 1: having and they decided they wanted to have a podcast.
Speaker 1: So they started asking around. They have relationships and radio.
Speaker 1: The guys live in in New York and I guess
Speaker 1: they talked to some of our people and then trinkled
Speaker 1: down to you. And they kept asking for a name
Speaker 1: of who they should reach out to, and they kept
Speaker 1: hearing some girl named Amy that works for Bobby Boy Bobby,
Speaker 1: and I was like what, I don't know, And then
Speaker 1: Bobby was like, you have to do this, you have
Speaker 1: to do this. I'm like, well, okay, I guess I
Speaker 1: guess I could do it. And so we're actually tomorrow.
Speaker 1: A new podcast goes up every week. You can Love
Speaker 1: what Matters dot Com is the website, um, but then
Speaker 1: on iTunes you can just search the Love What Matters podcasts.
Speaker 1: It's free and and a new one loads every Wednesday.
Speaker 1: So tonight at midnight and then Wednesday morning if there'll
Speaker 1: be a new one up and um, it'll be our
Speaker 1: third one, what I love seeing about it because we're
Speaker 1: running out of time here, is that this is an
Speaker 1: Amy thing. It's not a Bobby thing. It's just not
Speaker 1: And I don't want it, and you've been Yeah, I
Speaker 1: almost so scared. Bobby didn't want because he wasn't really
Speaker 1: saying much about it, and he's the one that you know,
Speaker 1: supported me to doing it. I'm like, wait, do you
Speaker 1: want me to do it or not? Because you're not
Speaker 1: You're not saying anything about it, and you're like, that's
Speaker 1: the point. This is something I want you to do.
Speaker 1: That's you know, if you even I know exactly you said,
Speaker 1: because this is something you tell yourself. You're like, you
Speaker 1: need to go after it with everything. If it fails,
Speaker 1: it fails because of you, or if it's a success,
Speaker 1: it's a success because of you. Isn't that what you
Speaker 1: told me? It's true. I don't want people going, well,
Speaker 1: Bobby was promoting right, And I don't think that's why
Speaker 1: you're like now bringing it up on the podcast. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's not it at all. But people come
Speaker 1: on the podcast and I actually think it's really great. Um,
Speaker 1: and but yeah, it's it's definitely a you thing. And
Speaker 1: what's what's cool is the company uses you more by
Speaker 1: yourself like it's wonderful. I love it, Like I can't
Speaker 1: get a knife of it. Well, I don't want because
Speaker 1: I don't know down jealousy zero percent. Like I don't
Speaker 1: like a lot of the stuff that I do. Anything's
Speaker 1: like I need a right help me out here. Um
Speaker 1: So anyway, Mike, we're gonna wrap anything that we didn't
Speaker 1: hit that you think. Um, I don't know what we
Speaker 1: talked about, but it was it anything that we'd like
Speaker 1: to know. Who does the show recap here? Do you
Speaker 1: remember when I used to type the show recap every day?
Speaker 1: You guys listening, we don't do anymore. But let's bring
Speaker 1: that back during the ship. And then sometimes we do
Speaker 1: it after the show and be like, what do we
Speaker 1: talk about in the eight a m And none of
Speaker 1: us would know, just make it up and we really started.
Speaker 1: I had one microphone and there was another microphone, lunch
Speaker 1: buck to have a microphone. Oh my god, it's crazy
Speaker 1: to think of now and people you know, depending who
Speaker 1: you talk to another radio dj is and other other companies.
Speaker 1: You know, we're the big bad guy because we're the
Speaker 1: biggest show in the format and one of the biggest
Speaker 1: in the country, and that's great. We were I'm happy
Speaker 1: to be there and I'm happy to be uh the
Speaker 1: ambassador for the format, and I'm happy to be whatever
Speaker 1: whatever I get called, from good to bad, to the
Speaker 1: savior to the worst person in the format, I get
Speaker 1: called it all, all of it. I'm happy for it.
Speaker 1: What I'm happy is about is that we started. We
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to make it. It was just some friends
Speaker 1: in a room that was about a third of the
Speaker 1: size of this tiny bedroom that we're in right now.
Speaker 1: But with your your work ethic in the way, you
Speaker 1: kind of again are the you. You allow us to
Speaker 1: be us, but yet you control us at the not
Speaker 1: not control, but you contain us like you right, you
Speaker 1: keep us there. But it's you you are really good
Speaker 1: at It is a craft, I know it just it
Speaker 1: is organic and we are just being us. But at
Speaker 1: the same time you're kind of piecing everything together and
Speaker 1: you do it well. But at the same time, you
Speaker 1: know you've you've allowed the show to be used for
Speaker 1: good and you continue to do that and you get
Speaker 1: more of that as time goes on, and that's exciting
Speaker 1: to see. As we grow the more you want to
Speaker 1: do for others and then also what you do for
Speaker 1: what you do for artists. I don't I'm not a
Speaker 1: big music I didn't get into radio because I'm a
Speaker 1: big music person and you are. And I like that
Speaker 1: about you and that you share with us. I feel
Speaker 1: like sometimes I'm just a listener even though I'm on
Speaker 1: the show with you. Like finding new music and finding
Speaker 1: new artists because you bring it to the table, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that's that's it's a little this part
Speaker 1: of the secret to the success is that you're you're
Speaker 1: You're outside of the box. And I'm thankful to be
Speaker 1: your boy outside of the box, but I'm thankful to
Speaker 1: be be a part of it. And like I, I
Speaker 1: don't know where my life would be had I not
Speaker 1: met you in Culver's that day. Where would yours be?
Speaker 1: I don't love what Matters dot com? Yes, yes one. Also,
Speaker 1: you can down the podcast I'm Love free to subscribe
Speaker 1: to it, listen to it. Thanks to Amy for me
Speaker 1: an episode ten um I saw some I gotta say
Speaker 1: thanks to people to listen to this too, because it's
Speaker 1: now the number one most listen to. Let me read
Speaker 1: I can read you the data and I got it today.
Speaker 1: Do you care? Yeah? I care. Um, I'm proud of
Speaker 1: it because it's this is different and it's not perfect,
Speaker 1: but in any way, but I'm proud that we're able
Speaker 1: to bring on artists that aren't big names and the writers,
Speaker 1: and we can bring back in that back kind of
Speaker 1: the back ways in Nashville you may not know about.
Speaker 1: I can bring Amy on my friend. Number one total
Speaker 1: listening hours, number one daily cume of people listening, number
Speaker 1: one weekly listener. So I appreciate everybody for making this
Speaker 1: thing work. It's really been um in ten episodes, growing
Speaker 1: far more than I thought it was. Mike and I
Speaker 1: in the studio at Radio Amy, Radio Amy. Now that
Speaker 1: all these people are listening to hit me up, I'm
Speaker 1: on Instagram and on Twitter, come on snatchat but snapchat
Speaker 1: Radio Amy Amy, because Radio Amy was taken Radio Amy.
Speaker 1: And I said at Mike d stro D E E
Speaker 1: s t R O At Mike d stro At, Mr
Speaker 1: Bobby Balance, thank you guys so much, and thanks again
Speaker 1: to Amy. And that's the rop