Speaker 1: All right away with this episode ten and the Bobby
Speaker 1: cast Welcome to the show. Saved our biggest guest. That's
Speaker 1: far for episode ten. We didn't know if we'd make
Speaker 1: it this far, so we celebrated and co hosted at
Speaker 1: the Bobby Bones Show. Amy's here today. Hello. Okay, it's weird.
Speaker 1: What I don't know? So Amy'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 E 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: Today sitting basically this close, so today's dynamic will be
Speaker 1: slightly different. Um, but I'll go ahead and we'll start
Speaker 1: with you, Mike, Mike d Our, producer, go ahead. Question one,
Speaker 1: When you first met Amy, what wasn't it about her
Speaker 1: that kind of stood out TV like you had to
Speaker 1: have her on the show. I think this She was unapologetic,
Speaker 1: but not in the way that most times people say
Speaker 1: that where they come across as crass or rude. She
Speaker 1: was just unapologetic. At she was clumsy and nice and
Speaker 1: Christian and just authentic, but you know, just just she
Speaker 1: just was who she was and that was it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that was kind of the same thing that
Speaker 1: today is still like the reason that I enjoyed being
Speaker 1: around her, So that still hadn't changed. We were on
Speaker 1: flying this past weekend. We were Heart Festival and I
Speaker 1: guess Amy was having a moment or something and she
Speaker 1: was like, I just needed you to fill my cup
Speaker 1: up and I was like, are you talking about and so,
Speaker 1: but well, things have changed a lot. Yeah, they changed
Speaker 1: a lot and a lot. This is fittingly the tenth
Speaker 1: episode of your podcast. We've been together. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: been friends longer, but I've how long we've been doing
Speaker 1: the show together. Over ten years, but I'm in my
Speaker 1: tenth going on eleventh year. But it's a long time.
Speaker 1: So I mean a lot of 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 we'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: we were traveled a lot more, and we were so
Speaker 1: inseparable that people thought we had an affair forever. I
Speaker 1: mean it still comes up all the time. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't. So I mean if it does,
Speaker 1: it's so nothing. We don't I don't even see its, like,
Speaker 1: like what that's crazy, Well, I don't even see it.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't it all the time our first years
Speaker 1: of being together, it was all the thing. And I
Speaker 1: wrote in my book, but nothing has ever happened with
Speaker 1: us like ever and forever. Even people in our building
Speaker 1: will be like, oh, for sure, they're doing it. But
Speaker 1: we were just really really really close all the time.
Speaker 1: And um, I think a lot of that was we
Speaker 1: were young. We didn't have a lot of other things
Speaker 1: going on. Um I met Amy well the first time cover. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I feel like I've told this story a lot,
Speaker 1: but I was at a restaurant and she came up
Speaker 1: and so, um, to just answer your question when we
Speaker 1: can go back around, but um, yeah, it's just unapologetic,
Speaker 1: just she is who she is. And again, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was good to actually spend quality time whereas you and
Speaker 1: I get to talk, Amy, I get to talk about
Speaker 1: ourselves every day, we do. But we're sitting in a
Speaker 1: room together in my office where we have a side
Speaker 1: studio and we're kind of commercials and we're going quick
Speaker 1: and it's a little comments and we we text all
Speaker 1: the time, but again, we used to spend for you
Speaker 1: was like, that's like the thing that Amy gets on
Speaker 1: me for is that and not in a bad way,
Speaker 1: and that where she has grown in her personal life
Speaker 1: with a husband and about to have two kids, and
Speaker 1: lots of what I've grown in my professional life. I'm
Speaker 1: not backing on that a little bit. But you're super busy.
Speaker 1: So it goes from you know, I was doing the
Speaker 1: radio show to uh, turning the radio show and then
Speaker 1: turn it into a national radio show and turning that
Speaker 1: national radio show and shifting and moving the whole show
Speaker 1: over from there. Starting the Raging Idiots is just a
Speaker 1: two person parody band. It's turned into record deal books. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's just a lot of things which has required
Speaker 1: a lot of people to help me because I can't
Speaker 1: do it all by myself from outside of the building.
Speaker 1: So like I have like I call my babysitter. I
Speaker 1: have a manager now and and I'll admit some of that,
Speaker 1: some of that I struggled with a little bit, I
Speaker 1: think any not because I'm not proud of you or anything,
Speaker 1: but I think you know, we started out, We're in
Speaker 1: one market. We managed ourselfs like there was nobody. Everything
Speaker 1: was just like us, which I think sometimes when all
Speaker 1: of this stuff started to change the last few years,
Speaker 1: whereas I used to be able to come to you
Speaker 1: for stuff, you almost didn't even know your own schedule,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so it's not so. So I had a
Speaker 1: problem like embracing the fact that I had to reach
Speaker 1: out to other people because I'm like, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I've been friends and I know. So I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, and now and now it's just easier, And
Speaker 1: now I'm like, I love it. I love that other
Speaker 1: people like know everything because then I can get an
Speaker 1: answer and it's legit and it's right, and it's quick
Speaker 1: because he doesn't know it's certainly so. Um, now I've
Speaker 1: embraced it. I don't know my schedule day to day
Speaker 1: most of the time. I just know that it's there's
Speaker 1: rarely fifteen minutes. We'll call it growing pains. Um. That's
Speaker 1: been the weirdest thing for I think us as a
Speaker 1: team growing pains and Amy has been my absolute closest
Speaker 1: friend for the past ten years, like overall my closest
Speaker 1: friends and um, but yeah, the growing pains have been.
Speaker 1: But listen, you have gotten married. I'm not don't take
Speaker 1: this Frison. It's not personal saying on the other side
Speaker 1: of it. Um, it's not like because we have to
Speaker 1: just go hang out and have dinner and eat lunch,
Speaker 1: and but now you have weekends you're off in Haiti
Speaker 1: or you're dealing with kids stuff or and that's been.
Speaker 1: That's been a lot, that's been heavy, that's been. I
Speaker 1: think once they get here, I feel like some of
Speaker 1: you will resume back to normal. I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot it's going to change your game. 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 more
Speaker 1: than and be like, hey, Bobby Free, I'm not mad anymore.
Speaker 1: I like it now, and 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 would he would be so
Speaker 1: busy he wouldn't know. And then now I'm like, bring
Speaker 1: on the people. It has been a change. But if
Speaker 1: 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 Jimmy 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: then 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 oh at the time,
Speaker 1: boyfriend or whatever, and it was like because Bobby and
Speaker 1: I were spending so much time together and then out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, I just he were on the phone and
Speaker 1: I just said, oh, Bob, okay Bobby, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not your name, but that's how much
Speaker 1: time we were spending together. And then one night we
Speaker 1: went to dinner and You're like, I'm here to offer
Speaker 1: you a job. Yeah, And so that was what happened,
Speaker 1: and there we are, all right, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And it went down for some reason. Um, alright, Mike,
Speaker 1: you have another question going, well, Amy, you never did
Speaker 1: radio before, so like, did Bobby trained you? And when
Speaker 1: 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 to yeat rough because we're not like I was,
Speaker 1: speech impediment. Um, it's not even just status that even
Speaker 1: on my side, I don't know anything other than what
Speaker 1: I've done. I haven't. No one taught me how to
Speaker 1: do a morning show. They just took a year old
Speaker 1: kids said okay, here's the show, and so I started
Speaker 1: doing it. No one taught me how to do it,
Speaker 1: and then I had brought people on. No one taught
Speaker 1: anyone had to do anything. So that's why the show
Speaker 1: sounds so oddly rough and fantastic at the same time.
Speaker 1: In different times, it would be a terrible joking me
Speaker 1: a great show. Um, what what I don't understand? What
Speaker 1: do you to me? You never answered, Oh, we moved on,
Speaker 1: But I was just thinking. I didn't. I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: just I thought you were funny, I mean, and when
Speaker 1: you offered me a job in radio, of course I
Speaker 1: 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: a 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 her that privately twenty times that without Amy, the
Speaker 1: show just isn't a sick says And so I know
Speaker 1: that I know where my bread's buttered when we do
Speaker 1: a radio show, and she makes me a better radio
Speaker 1: personality and he makes me a better person, and those
Speaker 1: two things go together because I try to be a
Speaker 1: better person. And if i'm I mean I am who
Speaker 1: I am on the radio to Bobby is some like
Speaker 1: rare genius that knows what's gonna work and what's gonna
Speaker 1: sound good. Now does everything began out? No? But he
Speaker 1: can he can take what we submit to talk about
Speaker 1: and compile and he can know like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to talk about, Like I can think
Speaker 1: so many things are awesome to talk about, but he
Speaker 1: just kind of he just he just knows. He makes
Speaker 1: it work. So for you to say that it wouldn't
Speaker 1: exist being what it is without me, it 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 the thing. That too, is no one
Speaker 1: on the show knows what we're gonna talk about. We
Speaker 1: talk about like, nobody knows what we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about it. Ray has a by the idea because I'll
Speaker 1: send them audio to put in, but nobody on the
Speaker 1: entire show knows what I'm gonna talk about. It. 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. I just want to try
Speaker 1: to find the best people possible. Um. It's been that
Speaker 1: way since day one, and 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's 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 in 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 want
Speaker 1: to 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 not saying it's the longest or anything.
Speaker 1: You have the longest for a couple of reasons. One,
Speaker 1: we've been together forever to I trust you. I mean
Speaker 1: we've been to a lot together, like a lot, and
Speaker 1: you've always been there for me, Like there are things
Speaker 1: always been there for me. You'all have no idea. I
Speaker 1: could even like get an emotional saying it, because there
Speaker 1: are things that Bobby has done for me and my
Speaker 1: family 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: if 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 this the same
Speaker 1: speaks for me. Yea for you, I think that we've
Speaker 1: been together a long time, We've we are friends, have
Speaker 1: been 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: may 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 mama died and IM
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 something, and then Bobby's like, nope, We're
Speaker 1: doing the next break. And we go back on air
Speaker 1: and we talked as if like nothing. I mean, I
Speaker 1: couldn't talk, Lunchbox can talk. Bobby carries on like Bobby
Speaker 1: is in a zone. I mean, obviously it was probably
Speaker 1: one of the I get that you're saying you can
Speaker 1: compartmentalize like no other, but that had to be one
Speaker 1: of the hardest things you've ever done. It just was
Speaker 1: what happened to be done. So I did. This is
Speaker 1: what happened. There was an hour and twenty minutes the
Speaker 1: show left. I went on to the hour and twenty
Speaker 1: minutes of the show, is Amy said in the corner
Speaker 1: and cried the whole time. And because I couldn't, she
Speaker 1: did and the whole you know, and you know, I
Speaker 1: went home to care of the arrangement to funeral. Amy
Speaker 1: was there, I mean they everyone was there next day,
Speaker 1: but I mean boom, I mean I was back on
Speaker 1: the air. But from you, he was like back at work.
Speaker 1: I mean even at the funeral. We were like, Bobby,
Speaker 1: you just take your time, like do what you need
Speaker 1: to do here, and you just were like, I think
Speaker 1: the best thing for me is just to get back
Speaker 1: to work. And it was and and that's different than you.
Speaker 1: And you know, Amy's mom struggled and she died of
Speaker 1: cancer and after a long about and of just a
Speaker 1: roller coaster of two years of sadness and happiness and
Speaker 1: uh every feeling you could possibly have. And your mom
Speaker 1: was so great to me, and for me, it was
Speaker 1: it wasn't about the show with Amy. I told Ammy
Speaker 1: go away, like just go away. There was so many
Speaker 1: times I did the show but people wouldn't even know,
Speaker 1: Like I would do the show from Austin or my
Speaker 1: mom was at Indie Anderson and Houston and my heart
Speaker 1: has studios there, and so Bobby would let me go
Speaker 1: do the show and I would spend the night at
Speaker 1: the hospital and I'd wake up at you know, three
Speaker 1: or four in the morning there and I'd go to
Speaker 1: the Houston station. I'm driving around Houston and the all night,
Speaker 1: not knowing where I was going, and the people in
Speaker 1: Houston let me in like yeah, he would be like,
Speaker 1: don't And there would be some days that I absolutely
Speaker 1: would not. Then there would be days where I just
Speaker 1: felt like, Okay, I need to keep working to kind
Speaker 1: of have some normalcy and you know, break up the
Speaker 1: monotony at the hospital and stuff. And I was just
Speaker 1: so grateful for that, because no, there were people at
Speaker 1: the hospital that I would meet and I would come
Speaker 1: back from doing the radio show like thinking, you know
Speaker 1: if I would be thinking, you know something, feeling sorry
Speaker 1: for myself or something, and then I would encounter someone
Speaker 1: in the waiting room who had a loved one that
Speaker 1: had cancer and they like had to quit their job
Speaker 1: to be there every day. They had to quit. And
Speaker 1: like with with you, and you know, are like just you,
Speaker 1: that was never even an option. You were like family first,
Speaker 1: and that's the rolling out to still take care of
Speaker 1: you first. Because of that, you being able to be
Speaker 1: you weed it. We're not us and so there's a
Speaker 1: time to I think of back to when I think
Speaker 1: I just casually like said to Bobby, I don't even
Speaker 1: know and I know you know this story it's so stupid,
Speaker 1: but um, I said something like my mom was bored
Speaker 1: in the waiting room one day and I was like,
Speaker 1: surely once an iPad and I like showed up. It
Speaker 1: worked the next day and Bobby had got my mom
Speaker 1: and I paid, and it felt like we couldn't have
Speaker 1: just I mean, my mom could have gotten and it's
Speaker 1: not it's not the I thought that it was an iPad.
Speaker 1: It was just like I said that, and you listened
Speaker 1: and you heard, and then you just show you just
Speaker 1: randomly had it sent to her something or I showed
Speaker 1: a bit we're going to say, or somehow an iPad appeared,
Speaker 1: and like we had it was like, you know, she
Speaker 1: would entertain herself for hours at the hospital with the
Speaker 1: with that iPad. Like I won't ever that's like a
Speaker 1: memory I'll never forget because it's like something I just
Speaker 1: said so casually, and then the next day you had it.
Speaker 1: And then she got to play with an iPad basically
Speaker 1: for like two years, you know, while she sat up
Speaker 1: there and she played her studio goo or whatever you
Speaker 1: play on iPad and then we do those funny the
Speaker 1: photo booth, we take those funny pictures. Yeah, before Snapchat
Speaker 1: there was photo boot filters. But anyway, that was a
Speaker 1: that was a moment where I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 1: Bobby that I don't know. I mean some of that
Speaker 1: stuff may or may not have come up on air,
Speaker 1: and I don't even remember certain things that we always
Speaker 1: talk about, but like your hands down, you were always like,
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do, do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what will always, even if we're
Speaker 1: not in the same spot, because who knows what happened
Speaker 1: a year or three years, will always like, like I
Speaker 1: said on the air, I think today or yesterday I
Speaker 1: was making fun of you just because you were like,
Speaker 1: oh I got my cup full of Bobby. I was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we didn't. You've been my closest friend
Speaker 1: for ten years, so there. So yes, there's the answer
Speaker 1: to that question. Boy, it's like freaking um oprah in here,
Speaker 1: go ahead. What else you got? What's the best memory
Speaker 1: I'll have with each other? Mm hmm the best memory? Man? Um,
Speaker 1: there's some we do it just it's the best handsund
Speaker 1: you say, I just want to Yeah, I guess I
Speaker 1: might have to go the first thing I think of,
Speaker 1: because it 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: Gracie 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 any Bobby's sidekick. And over the last two years,
Speaker 1: I've really tried to you know, all you'll always be
Speaker 1: Amy from the show, but I've always but but but
Speaker 1: with Amy, I've always been like, hey, it's you gotta
Speaker 1: do you too? You know, I know what if this
Speaker 1: is me, yeah it is, but but it's so strong.
Speaker 1: I'm not the kind of guy that wants to hold
Speaker 1: Amy down. And and so Amy getting up there and
Speaker 1: just and owning the room and her mom being able
Speaker 1: to make it out there while her mom was sick,
Speaker 1: and getting the award and um speaking eloquently with passionate emotion,
Speaker 1: and I was just so proud of her, more of
Speaker 1: her than actually for her, because it was like I'd
Speaker 1: watched someone grow into this this role and she just
Speaker 1: deserved 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, UM, when you've
Speaker 1: spoke at your high school graduation, Um, that was special.
Speaker 1: That was a proud moment. And I think the fact
Speaker 1: that there's still people at that school that we're there
Speaker 1: when he was there and listening to them tell stories
Speaker 1: about him, UM, that's something I won't ever forget because
Speaker 1: I there's big things for you. I know that, And
Speaker 1: I always picture like you know what's in store for Bobby,
Speaker 1: Like who knows? But I mean, I just I know
Speaker 1: there's gonna be big things. And that's that's one of
Speaker 1: those memories that I had, Like walking down the hall
Speaker 1: with one of his former teachers. That's like telling me
Speaker 1: stories of Bobby in high school and then watching him
Speaker 1: give the high school commencement speech. Um. I was just
Speaker 1: super proud of him because you realize going to your town,
Speaker 1: great people, wonderful place, but you realize when you get
Speaker 1: there that I mean, it was not easy probably for
Speaker 1: Bobby to do what he did to be where he
Speaker 1: is today. And um, I think if you achieve what
Speaker 1: I think you will achieve in life, that's something I'm
Speaker 1: going to always look back on and be like, I
Speaker 1: don't remember walking the halls of his high school and
Speaker 1: hearing those teachers tell me those things about you and
Speaker 1: how awesome you were, and how there was a microphone,
Speaker 1: it was in Bobby's hand, and if there was a girl,
Speaker 1: she was not nearby. Yeah, nowhere near ye got to
Speaker 1: see it. I couldn't. Well the first time I went.
Speaker 1: That was the second time I gone. The first time
Speaker 1: I went was for his mother's funeral, and that's what
Speaker 1: that was when I first realized, like, okay, and then
Speaker 1: I feel like even with the funeral, I knew there
Speaker 1: was no way we were not going to be there,
Speaker 1: and I knew deep down you were glad we were there,
Speaker 1: but there was so there was hesitation and going because
Speaker 1: you're so sometimes private about some stuff that it was
Speaker 1: like we didn't want that's the thing you think. Okay,
Speaker 1: you think sometimes when people are trying to be there
Speaker 1: for you and be a friend, that you're being a
Speaker 1: burden always right, And that's just so not the case.
Speaker 1: So that was my first time there to answer your question, Mike,
Speaker 1: and I that's when I realized, like, okay, well, like
Speaker 1: he wasn't you know, sometimes people tell stories and you're
Speaker 1: like they're probably you know, you're just like stretching the
Speaker 1: truth a little bit. Nope, nope, I mean that was no, no, no, stopful,
Speaker 1: I mean nothing nothing, There's nothing but nice people. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I love where I came. Yes, absolutely, there's nothing
Speaker 1: there right like Dyve had. I mean yeah, there's closed
Speaker 1: down down and it was not good then and it's
Speaker 1: really you know they struggle now. So um so yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good What else you got? How
Speaker 1: much do you say, like you guys rubbed off on
Speaker 1: each other as far as you like, not exaggerate and
Speaker 1: Amy has made me a better person, like just straight up.
Speaker 1: She has made me care more than I think I
Speaker 1: am in a different I do like how caring about
Speaker 1: like just like life stuff in general. You know, I
Speaker 1: see how she wears her heart in 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 and 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. Oh and by the way, we thought
Speaker 1: he was leaving every year. Every year 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 things. I guess
Speaker 1: you could say, but you're you're very very Uh, you
Speaker 1: might be the most driven person that I know. I
Speaker 1: should look at you instead of Mike when I say that,
Speaker 1: you might be the most driven person that I know. Um,
Speaker 1: And sometimes that that maybe you know, like you say,
Speaker 1: a downfall because you're so focused on it. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, for someone that looks up to you
Speaker 1: 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. I start things
Speaker 1: that I quit things, And Bobby's like, I'm sixty two
Speaker 1: days strong, like this is what I'm doing, have a
Speaker 1: control complex and I'm freaking out. I'm not even talking
Speaker 1: about your weird o c D stuff. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: It's like you haven't a 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. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I need to listen better, like Bobby. I need to
Speaker 1: listen to what is go going on with people and
Speaker 1: then 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 so you were there until
Speaker 1: eighteen year. Dad left when you were eight. Did he
Speaker 1: stay close or did he move far? Originally he moved
Speaker 1: to Midlands. Yeah, I mean, so I would go like
Speaker 1: 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 week again,
Speaker 1: and I fled 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. It 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. You're gonna
Speaker 1: come to me when I'm like I got cancer, She's like,
Speaker 1: I'm busy, Like I don't have time. I don't time
Speaker 1: for this right now, like I'm got a little bit
Speaker 1: going on. And so but at that time, even though
Speaker 1: they didn't start you know, dating, um, my dad stepped
Speaker 1: in and he became a caregiver alongside me and my
Speaker 1: sister because because my mom was single. My sister and
Speaker 1: I did all the hospital visits, We did everything. And
Speaker 1: then when there was times because my sister was four
Speaker 1: kids and I was living in North Carolina and then
Speaker 1: 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 ever wanted was Dad, just come back, get back
Speaker 1: together with mom, like she forgives you. It's fine. And
Speaker 1: then you grow up and you realize, you know that's
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. And then to be able to witness
Speaker 1: 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: to witnessed 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. So
Speaker 1: and so we had a going away party at Chewi's
Speaker 1: in Austin. It was like I was It was like
Speaker 1: 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 in 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 years five years, she lived in
Speaker 1: 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 down
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 dick and sometimes we'll 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 call nine one one
Speaker 1: because I fell through the attic and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to make it back. So those were those were crazy times.
Speaker 1: It used to be different for us too, because we
Speaker 1: came so we started the show, and the luxury of
Speaker 1: building a show from scratch and building a show with
Speaker 1: your own money, which I was doing. Was that we
Speaker 1: kinda do if we're ready to do if we wanted.
Speaker 1: So we're playing no songs, maybe one song an hour.
Speaker 1: It was a it was a full on talk show.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, right, we played like no, there
Speaker 1: was no in The ratings were never high. The problem
Speaker 1: now is we're adding markets all the time and people
Speaker 1: are new, and there are some cities they're like, guys,
Speaker 1: if you guys would play no music, you're there ready
Speaker 1: to be so much higher. And there's 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 US 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 we're
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. I's not a paper
Speaker 1: that said you can't tell anybody. And so Amy's buying
Speaker 1: a house. Yeah. I was so excited to be back
Speaker 1: to Austin. I mean, I begged my house. He got
Speaker 1: out of the Air Force after twelve years and he's
Speaker 1: from Austin. I was like, can we please, we got
Speaker 1: to move back to Austin. And he's like, oh, both
Speaker 1: of our families they're like, that's crazy, we can't go
Speaker 1: back to Austin. I'm like, well, we have to. That's
Speaker 1: 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 the buying. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but what but it was just like something
Speaker 1: fell through. So I had to go to Rod Phillips,
Speaker 1: who's now oddly the head of Country, but he was
Speaker 1: a guy like took the first real big chance on
Speaker 1: me and say we have to tell Amy because nobody
Speaker 1: else knew. For almost two months. Amy was the only
Speaker 1: one who knew that I we were leaving, and so
Speaker 1: I just couldn't have her buy another house. So they
Speaker 1: just stayed in an apartment and nobody ever addressed it.
Speaker 1: We just kind of kept it under locked. It's a
Speaker 1: really weird time. Um. But then we moved and I
Speaker 1: was like, hi, Austin. By Austin it was was there
Speaker 1: for it's a matter of yeah, I moved there in September.
Speaker 1: I was so worried though, because she had to go
Speaker 1: to her husband and say, I just convinced you to
Speaker 1: go to Austin now, when you please move to now?
Speaker 1: I called him and I said we need to meet
Speaker 1: at Maudie's for Margharita right now. And he's like why,
Speaker 1: I'm like, just meet me there and we met there
Speaker 1: and I was like to Margharita's and I was like,
Speaker 1: what do you think about Nashville? Neither of us had
Speaker 1: ever even been to Nashville. And he was like, okay,
Speaker 1: sounds cool. I was like, sweet and lucky, he has
Speaker 1: a job live wherever. Like again, I don't know all
Speaker 1: that divine mentioned or things happening for a reason, like
Speaker 1: I mean, you know are different in that way, but
Speaker 1: it was just like all everything just kind of fell together.
Speaker 1: So you grow up in Austin, you go to college
Speaker 1: where Texas m Okay, so you spend how long? They're
Speaker 1: three four and a half years? Did you? I thought
Speaker 1: you went to a junior college too for a while.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right, So we'll what is that was
Speaker 1: in college station? Our? It was in Brian Brian College Station.
Speaker 1: I went to Blen, which is like the feeder junior
Speaker 1: college in the A and M. Like most everybody, if
Speaker 1: they're trying to get into a M, they'll go to Blind.
Speaker 1: So high school yeah, kind of like was pretty social
Speaker 1: in high school. Wasn't that great of a student? You know?
Speaker 1: I was always hardy to class always. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just that I took the sat like three times. I
Speaker 1: just focus, What did you make on the sum? I
Speaker 1: think the highest I got was like like eleven hundred.
Speaker 1: I went from like nine d uh, first time nine
Speaker 1: fifty or something, and then the second time I actually
Speaker 1: went down. But then the third time was charm I
Speaker 1: went up and then but with that my g p
Speaker 1: A still wasn't enough to get into an M. But
Speaker 1: that's the only place I applied. I had high hope.
Speaker 1: So then I went to Blend for a year. But
Speaker 1: I was so embarrassed that I didn't get into texting
Speaker 1: because all my friends were going to like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy colleges all over the place because
Speaker 1: I went to Austin High and they were all over
Speaker 1: They're like, I'm gonna go to Harvard or whatever. I'm like, cool,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a blind, which I loved. It was
Speaker 1: good for me, is exactly what I needed. And I
Speaker 1: left there with a three nine and got into A
Speaker 1: and M immediately one year one year at Blenn, didn't graduate,
Speaker 1: didn't know 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. Um,
Speaker 1: stuff wasn't online. You had to mail it in like
Speaker 1: you would do it from your notebook and mail in. Well,
Speaker 1: I was just really bad at mailing it in. Go figure.
Speaker 1: So um. And then I walked across the stage. And
Speaker 1: then I got a job because most people were like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're done with school, and so I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't need to complete this three hour sociology class
Speaker 1: from Texas Tech. And then I really But then I
Speaker 1: also didn't want to ever own up to the fact
Speaker 1: that I mean, I had my aggie ring I walked
Speaker 1: across the stage, but I never wanted to another embarrassment
Speaker 1: where I was like, oh my gosh, like I'm deceiving people.
Speaker 1: I really was, and that ate me up. It bothered
Speaker 1: me so much because I mean, I was basically lying,
Speaker 1: But I mean, I just didn't want to get in
Speaker 1: the whole well in three hours short and I tried
Speaker 1: to do it. So then finally I couldn't take it
Speaker 1: any longer. So I during the show. So I enrolled
Speaker 1: in school. I took I took my three hour sociology class,
Speaker 1: and I submitted it to Texas A and M and
Speaker 1: they mailed me my diploma. So my diploma, my Aggie
Speaker 1: ring 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: It was? I worked for a wholesale company, so we, uh,
Speaker 1: there's an import export company. And I had, you know,
Speaker 1: a set list of customers, most of them fabricators, and
Speaker 1: I I would just take care of them, like whatever
Speaker 1: they needed. I never worked with the end user like
Speaker 1: you've got granted in your kitchen, like I didn't work
Speaker 1: with you. I worked with probably whoever installed it, and UM,
Speaker 1: just made sure they were taken care of. And um,
Speaker 1: she had to leave that job. She took a pay cut,
Speaker 1: a big pay cut to come work for me. There's
Speaker 1: big but it was I just asked for the thing
Speaker 1: 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, no,
Speaker 1: I mean none, none, But I mean I was on
Speaker 1: cloud nine. I thought it was. I thought so much
Speaker 1: like it didn't matter like I I you know, my
Speaker 1: bills were minimal and I when we were young, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was it was great. I had a
Speaker 1: bunch of people put questions up on Instagram too. Um
Speaker 1: so one says, what would you be doing now if
Speaker 1: you didn't have your current job? We'll keep these answers
Speaker 1: pretty quick. Always thought I was going to your mom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you still are going to still waiting. I always thought
Speaker 1: once I even you know that for years, Like I
Speaker 1: was like Bobby, once I get pregnant, I'm leaving the show,
Speaker 1: you know that, right? What would you be doing? Um?
Speaker 1: I probably doing create of like creating a campaigns or
Speaker 1: i'd be stand up comic. You know. I maybe not
Speaker 1: on the radio, but I would be creating. I'm a creator.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I have no idea what I would be doing.
Speaker 1: Let's see when Amy's babysitter starts having an affair with
Speaker 1: her husband. Oh my gosh, what I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: just reading. That's not a question. What does this say? Okay? Cool? No, Nope,
Speaker 1: they're asking if you and I will get together. Then
Speaker 1: I didn't even get to that part because you stop me.
Speaker 1: Someone asked Amy if she's still a practicing guitar. No,
Speaker 1: that's miserable. Um, let's see, it was a nightmare. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest. Here's one If Amy didn't approve of someone
Speaker 1: you were dating, would you trust start instincting in the relationship?
Speaker 1: Would you We've never had that issue, though, I don't
Speaker 1: think Yeah, I don't think so, because you typically have. Well,
Speaker 1: any girl I've known you that you've dated is she's
Speaker 1: always been pretty amazing dating as in real life. I've
Speaker 1: been on dates with girls and I may not ever
Speaker 1: even know them, but I mean real life relationships. You've
Speaker 1: always like, man, that bar is high. Um, it's never
Speaker 1: been a thing. Right. And here's the thing too, When
Speaker 1: I date someone, Amy ends up being friends with them
Speaker 1: longer than I date them. Did you speaking of do
Speaker 1: you know what today is do you do you do
Speaker 1: you know what? Today is a birthday of someone? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was already texting with her. Yeah, I actual has
Speaker 1: a birthday today. Um, I don't know, do you all? Even?
Speaker 1: You probably don't even that's fine, and that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't, Yeah, because you know when my last two
Speaker 1: girlfriends go. So, I dated a girl in Nashville who
Speaker 1: was in a band Rachel, But before her, I did
Speaker 1: a girl named Caia for four years. Fantastic relationship. It'd
Speaker 1: be one of those out like back at and Go
Speaker 1: was an idiot. I have like three of those. I'll
Speaker 1: look back at and be like, I was a huge
Speaker 1: idiot for he's an idiot and so but you know it.
Speaker 1: That's fine. But yeah, but it's still you. Both of
Speaker 1: you would be there for each other if you needed
Speaker 1: to be. But I get the there's you know it's note. 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. It'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 want to know? 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 Instagram? Am 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 are 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: the kids and the dad and our audience went from
Speaker 1: being nineteen year old to now our age and up
Speaker 1: to forty year olds, and so there's only so much
Speaker 1: room to talk. And there's me and there's Amy, and
Speaker 1: then it's just kind of whoever else has something, and
Speaker 1: Eddie has kids and is very relatable and they do
Speaker 1: all these research and Eddie's the one that the parents
Speaker 1: relate to. So because of that, because that he's so
Speaker 1: relatable and people really really really like Eddie and that
Speaker 1: he's just a great dude to people. I'm not not
Speaker 1: saying they did, but people hate lunch Box. That's comments.
Speaker 1: There's no hate on Eddie in any sort of people
Speaker 1: research the crap out of us. Lunchbox does have very
Speaker 1: strong negatives against him, but very positive positible but um,
Speaker 1: super funny and a hot mess at the same time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's because Eddie has taken a large role
Speaker 1: on the show because he's a dad with kids, and
Speaker 1: listeners relate to him and does a great job to
Speaker 1: Eddie's fantastic on the air. So it's not about lunch
Speaker 1: talking less. It's kind of Eddie talking more. You've got
Speaker 1: not a little bit. Everybody's just gotta kind of piece
Speaker 1: and you know what, every day everybody fights for not
Speaker 1: fights on the air, but everybody is like submitting things
Speaker 1: to me to talk about. So it's a competition every
Speaker 1: day to get on the air. I don't just go
Speaker 1: I gotta give Lunchbox two segments. Lunchbox may have eight
Speaker 1: segments a show. If he says, if he has eight
Speaker 1: great things to talk about, I will go to all
Speaker 1: aid of them. If he doesn't, I'll go to zero.
Speaker 1: Just uh. Sometimes Amie 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, and I was like, what do you mean.
Speaker 1: I don't realize this. All I do. I go to
Speaker 1: the hot hand and I think my strength is I
Speaker 1: don't have to be the star of the show, like
Speaker 1: I bring in stars and let them be the star.
Speaker 1: So I did think, and I'm happy to sit and
Speaker 1: laugh and let Amy or Lunchbox Eddie just be the
Speaker 1: star and it's their segment in there. And Amy was mad.
Speaker 1: I was weird. It was weird. I was confused. I
Speaker 1: was feeling I guess I was probably feeling down, and
Speaker 1: I was I wanted to know, like what am I
Speaker 1: doing wrong? Like what what did I say the vibe
Speaker 1: is off, something's not right, Like you just said, I
Speaker 1: have to go to where we have a show to do,
Speaker 1: and I have to go to where it's strong and
Speaker 1: right now, Eddie strong and Eddie was and I was
Speaker 1: like and I just had to take a deep breath
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, well then I've got to
Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's you know, and as a girl,
Speaker 1: you can build up all these different things in your head,
Speaker 1: like before I went to Bobby and got that straight
Speaker 1: answer of like, we have a show to do, this
Speaker 1: is work, and Eddie's strong, So that's where I'm going
Speaker 1: to look. In my head, I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you know, I've created all these fake scenarios as to
Speaker 1: why Bobby's not looking at me, you know. And it
Speaker 1: was it was just talking, and I would talk. And
Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes in our work relationship, that's just
Speaker 1: how like sometimes I'll be like, hey, what's going on
Speaker 1: with this and be like, well, if you wanted to know,
Speaker 1: just ask, and I'm like, okay, that's a problem. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I mean and I about once every four or
Speaker 1: five months have a conversation of, uh, what's bugging you? Right?
Speaker 1: Because I think, you know, I think of it as
Speaker 1: a couple like time. A lot of times you can,
Speaker 1: you know, have an argument. You know that my husband,
Speaker 1: I can have an argument and I know he's going
Speaker 1: to love me unconditionally. Like I feel like I can
Speaker 1: act a certain way around him that none of you
Speaker 1: will ever see ever And I feel secure in that
Speaker 1: because he loves me and he's not gonna abandon me,
Speaker 1: and I don't think and um, but but you know
Speaker 1: with other relationships where it's like your dating, but you
Speaker 1: don't have that you you you freak you you you
Speaker 1: don't have Sometimes you freak out a little bit more
Speaker 1: and you have to again create false scenarios and then
Speaker 1: you just have to hash it out every once in a
Speaker 1: a while because you're not having those regular like little
Speaker 1: you knows what is your perception of Amy? And I like,
Speaker 1: because you've interned with the show, you've produced the show
Speaker 1: from Afar as an affiliate. Now we moved you here
Speaker 1: and you live and you see um, so you've been
Speaker 1: on all sides of it. Yeah. I mean for me,
Speaker 1: it's just been crazy to see you guys kind of
Speaker 1: like grow together and just be like best friends throughout
Speaker 1: at all and I don't know, it's kind of inspiring,
Speaker 1: you know way and I don't know, I think that's awesome.
Speaker 1: How really, how you just founder randomly and how kind
Speaker 1: of how you found everybody it was just people you
Speaker 1: found and how it's you know, worked out so well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're pretty random. I don't have to wrap Amy up.
Speaker 1: This is a difference than the podcast. I'm just taking
Speaker 1: my hand and rap to the rap signal because sometimes
Speaker 1: on the air, yeah, like what's happening? He's not cutting
Speaker 1: me off it up? Oh my gosh, when you hear
Speaker 1: the music with talking, when I tell you when the song,
Speaker 1: when the song starts playing, stop talking, because I mean
Speaker 1: they're about to start singing. My favorite thing to listen
Speaker 1: for with Amy talking over like like yeah, you hit
Speaker 1: a clip and you still hear it. Let's struggle with
Speaker 1: that 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 here.
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 there our bosses don't
Speaker 1: when the children don't start talking, and I'm like, we're
Speaker 1: on the You're not just chilling and talking on the air,
Speaker 1: just like when all are talking regular. No, it's cool.
Speaker 1: Do you have any questions for me? You don't have
Speaker 1: to know. I just wonder if there's anything you wanted
Speaker 1: to dig out, like dr Film Moment here Amy has
Speaker 1: a podcast by the way. Yeah, well you just asked
Speaker 1: me if any questions for you? And then when well
Speaker 1: you were stall, I was gonna van and promote your podcast.
Speaker 1: What you thought of something? Okay, go for it. Well
Speaker 1: so you can, I'll let you talk with podcasts, but
Speaker 1: go ahead, okay. Well, I mean only because I'm getting
Speaker 1: hit with it left and right about about the girl,
Speaker 1: and this is the last time 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 special friend? Just first because I'm getting
Speaker 1: I get hit with it from all angles and I
Speaker 1: 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 knife to go
Speaker 1: in and be all right, this is going to be.
Speaker 1: But there have been instances where at times or there
Speaker 1: have been people that bring in negative energy into the room,
Speaker 1: they don't stay in the room, or they don't stay
Speaker 1: on the show. And there you've set such a precedence
Speaker 1: for that too that there's been times where I have
Speaker 1: to like check myself and I know it, and you'll
Speaker 1: almost you would like sniff Bobby like sniffs me like
Speaker 1: a dog. You know, like no, it's not like that,
Speaker 1: but he'll he'll know. I mean, sometimes I try to
Speaker 1: hide it, but I'm very hard, very bad. In three
Speaker 1: I know if she's in a bad happy mood, if
Speaker 1: at the time of a month, if it's if she
Speaker 1: had a fight, if and then he'll ask like, is
Speaker 1: everything okay? And then we hate that question, and then
Speaker 1: I try to fake it, and then I can't fake it,
Speaker 1: and then I fake it some more and then just
Speaker 1: then I explode. But sometimes I have to almost like mentally,
Speaker 1: I'll be driving into work and if I know that
Speaker 1: I feeling negative or my heart's in a bad place,
Speaker 1: or I'm just like grumpy because it's really and I'm
Speaker 1: not a warning person or whatever. Like I I get
Speaker 1: my game base off and I'm driving to work, and
Speaker 1: I I will recite the fruits of the spirit of
Speaker 1: my head, like over and over my own work. I
Speaker 1: turned off the radio and I grabbed this steinge when
Speaker 1: I look ahead, and I'm like love, joy, peace, patients,
Speaker 1: kind of gonness, gentle in his face from the self control.
Speaker 1: And I say that over and over and over so
Speaker 1: that I show up. And when I see Bobby, I'm
Speaker 1: not like, you know, bringing in negativity because it's no joke,
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't have time for that. We don't 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 and wants to be that the Debbi 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 person and that's that I couldn't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really hard sometimes from you know, from even the
Speaker 1: Carlos stuff. That's really difficult for me, so hard because
Speaker 1: he was a close friend that it just didn't work
Speaker 1: out professionally, great guy and it was one of the
Speaker 1: first podcasts that we did. Um. You know, there have
Speaker 1: been times with everyone where we've I've had to be
Speaker 1: with the boss and you 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 what okay, you work harder at making
Speaker 1: that 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 putting audio. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be there. But Ray 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 does a But that's a specialty.
Speaker 1: Everybody has their specialty with Amy. She's such a full
Speaker 1: part of the show that if I don't have it
Speaker 1: coming from her, I don't have it, Like it's just
Speaker 1: not there. And when Amy left, ratings took a hit,
Speaker 1: and partially it's because she was gone, and partially it
Speaker 1: was because it's freaking out because she was gone, and
Speaker 1: so um oh, like when I left because my mom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you were gone for a couple of months. Um
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't even know what that
Speaker 1: but yeah, there's no negativity. And there are times we
Speaker 1: have to take people to the side and be the
Speaker 1: boss and not just that and say hey, you're not
Speaker 1: the other the I don't won't get specifics. The other
Speaker 1: night I had to have words with the entire show
Speaker 1: because it's like, if you're going to go and do
Speaker 1: this fun thing, Michael, if you're gonna go and do
Speaker 1: this thing and work. You can't not do your show work.
Speaker 1: And there's when I gotta like they're gonna be the friend.
Speaker 1: You can answer that if you you 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. It's exactly how I feel,
Speaker 1: and I don't have to worry about you. I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be sensitive about it, but I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna get over at the quickest and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: hold a grudge. You're gonna be the most sensitive, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna get over at the quickest. Yeah. Sure, I'm sensitive.
Speaker 1: I'm delicate, but it's like I have to put on
Speaker 1: my amy gloves, gloves and too. She also knows how
Speaker 1: to handle me because I'm I really am a nutcase.
Speaker 1: So I'm mess. So we'll be doing in the countdown.
Speaker 1: I'll give you example. Today we're doing the countdown. We
Speaker 1: have times to do stuff. Everything is times everything, So
Speaker 1: I have six minutes to this, at eight minutes to this,
Speaker 1: I have twenty seven minutes to this. I got a
Speaker 1: meeting in an hour. I got so it's this and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, we're we're going through the countdown. It's
Speaker 1: Amy's time. She doesn't going. I just I just keep going,
Speaker 1: and she's looking for a spot. I don't have time.
Speaker 1: I don't have time for you. You're not ready. I'm
Speaker 1: going to keep going. I'll follow along, and and then
Speaker 1: in my head I'm like, so stupid, follow along? Why
Speaker 1: can't you follow along? And I'm like yelling at myself
Speaker 1: in my head and Bobby's like just continuing on and
Speaker 1: he comes to me again, but I'm too yelling at
Speaker 1: myself so that I'm not in the right spot again. Life.
Speaker 1: That is life. I Um, I hope that. Yeah, people
Speaker 1: listening to this and this will be up forever and
Speaker 1: um I forever, forever, forever. You know, you're in the
Speaker 1: process of adopting two children right now. It's been a
Speaker 1: three year process. Um yeah, three and a half years.
Speaker 1: And at any time maybe we'll be gone for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and um, I can't wait for you
Speaker 1: to be gone, like from you way more. Listen with you.
Speaker 1: It's this is your life and you've been one of
Speaker 1: these kids so bad. But I don't think that I've
Speaker 1: ever wanted something for someone so bad ever. And I
Speaker 1: still don't want as much as you want them for
Speaker 1: you because they're your kids. But I don't think that
Speaker 1: I have wanted something for someone so much ever. There's
Speaker 1: just no one more deserving to be a mom. And
Speaker 1: and if I have to, well, I know you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Bobby's always like, what do we need to do? Who
Speaker 1: do we need what? I'm like, Bobby, we're doing everything.
Speaker 1: I will take care of like I know people let me.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, they'll take care of it. Got an agency,
Speaker 1: We're doing everything that protocol. And I've even gotten in
Speaker 1: trouble by them a couple of times. Um for going rogue. Uh,
Speaker 1: just because I have relationships in Haiti and I've kind
Speaker 1: of learned my lesson. So I'm trying to be good.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't want to jeopardize anything because
Speaker 1: these are lives, you know. I want to a couple
Speaker 1: of things I want to address before we go because
Speaker 1: we fit the hour mark. But dang, um two things
Speaker 1: one for us. Pimp Enjoy is such a big movement.
Speaker 1: It's it's such a large scale giving endeavor that we say.
Speaker 1: And when I say we, I don't mean we in
Speaker 1: this room or we in that studio. We as a
Speaker 1: group of listeners UM are able to do. And you know,
Speaker 1: it started we were looking you guys were looking for
Speaker 1: um a Twitter handle for your mom and end up
Speaker 1: being Judy be Pimp and Joy and so Judy chooses
Speaker 1: Joy was taken, so we kept pimp and Joy and
Speaker 1: so that was amy. It was like, you know, pimp
Speaker 1: and Joy and so you you, you came, You came
Speaker 1: with the hashtag you came. It was really special actually
Speaker 1: because you know, uh, my mom's cancer just returned for
Speaker 1: like the third time or something, and we were doing
Speaker 1: to do our first anniversary Joy Week and You're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to dedicate Joy Week to your mom because
Speaker 1: she's kind of inspired the joy theme, and we're going
Speaker 1: to use the hashtag pimp and Joy because of her
Speaker 1: Twitter handle. And I was like, oh my gosh. And
Speaker 1: then from that like everything rolled out and it's been
Speaker 1: it's almost it's been something you know for me, I
Speaker 1: feel like I've always you know, relied on there's a
Speaker 1: verse romans just a paraphrase. It's like God's gonna work
Speaker 1: for the good of those who love them and those
Speaker 1: that are called according to His purpose. Like, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard things in life, but I know that there's
Speaker 1: going to be good that come from it. And that
Speaker 1: was almost like the prayer my mom had in the
Speaker 1: chapel the day that the cancer came back again. She said, Lord,
Speaker 1: just use this for good. Just use this for good.
Speaker 1: Whatever you do, just use this for good. And so
Speaker 1: every time a Pimp and Enjoy item is sold, or
Speaker 1: every time someone is pimp and Enjoy stuff, or someone
Speaker 1: is spreading joy or choosing joy for themselves, like, m
Speaker 1: I know it's so much bigger than that now, but
Speaker 1: still not lost on us. It's it's still not lost,
Speaker 1: but I get that it's kind of taken legs of
Speaker 1: its own, and it's it's the shows, but like for
Speaker 1: me and my family, like every time we see that,
Speaker 1: I just need y'all to know. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's My brain instantly goes to my mom being like, Lord,
Speaker 1: just use this for good. And so every time that
Speaker 1: Pimp and Joy is used, so I'm like, it's been
Speaker 1: used for good. Your cancer sucked, cancer sucks, but this
Speaker 1: is something that was used for good and it's continuing,
Speaker 1: like it will continue even with the word pimp in
Speaker 1: which is controversial, and I get it. I do think
Speaker 1: this was one of the examples of us having different
Speaker 1: strengths and then working together because you came and told
Speaker 1: the story to me first about your mom and the
Speaker 1: prayer and we will and it was like, I want
Speaker 1: to do Joy week for your mom hashtag Pimp and Joy.
Speaker 1: And then we have a great friend named Mary Barnes
Speaker 1: and it's it's been us three that have been running
Speaker 1: Pimp and Joy and we don't keep any of the
Speaker 1: money and we find causes and we're able to help
Speaker 1: and we meaning not us in the room, not us
Speaker 1: in the studio, but the people that listen to this
Speaker 1: to buy the hats that we don't keep any of
Speaker 1: the money for ourselves and we never will. And for me,
Speaker 1: it was that little moment for you and your mom
Speaker 1: and it was how in the world can we take
Speaker 1: this and make this a monster for greatness? And we
Speaker 1: are still building and we're we're not because it has
Speaker 1: but just because it already is, our listeners have allowed it,
Speaker 1: they've created it, and everyone's embraced it. If it's a
Speaker 1: dog that needs a surgery, or a family that needs
Speaker 1: food or a flood, or Christmas gifts for a kid,
Speaker 1: if it's St. Jude, you guys have been able to
Speaker 1: do that. And it's just like the perfect storm of
Speaker 1: things that have happened, um, that have allowed it. And
Speaker 1: and I'm appreciative. Oh I'm so yeah, I'm beyond And
Speaker 1: it's crazy how big it has gotten. Um, yeah, of
Speaker 1: just T shirts and hats, because it's so 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 listen 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. You're not just my psydekick. You are
Speaker 1: strong enough to go that. You're so good. And so
Speaker 1: Amy has a podcast now that she hosts, so talk
Speaker 1: about that. Let's for love what Matters, which is a
Speaker 1: positive place we do tell me something good on the show,
Speaker 1: Like every it's well, I didn't steal it. Maybe they did,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know. I'm just kidding about Love What
Speaker 1: Matters formed and they have a pretty big Facebook following
Speaker 1: and people. They have a website where people can submit
Speaker 1: the stories that feel good stories to inspire, to motivate,
Speaker 1: and and they saw the impact they were having and
Speaker 1: they decided they wanted to have a podcast. So they
Speaker 1: started asking around. They have relationships and radio. The guys
Speaker 1: live in in New York, and I guess they talked
Speaker 1: to some of our people and then it trinkled down
Speaker 1: to you. And they kept asking for a name of
Speaker 1: who they should reach out to, and they kept hearing
Speaker 1: some girl named Amy that works for boy Bobby, and
Speaker 1: I was like what, I don't know, And then Bobby
Speaker 1: was like, you have to do this, you have to
Speaker 1: do this. I'm like, okay, I guess I guess I
Speaker 1: could do it. And so we're actually tomorrow. A new
Speaker 1: podcast goes up every week. You can Love what Matters
Speaker 1: dot Com is the website, um, but then on iTunes
Speaker 1: you can just search the Love What Matters podcasts. It's
Speaker 1: free and and a new one loads every Wednesday, so
Speaker 1: tonight at midnight and then Wednesday morning, there'll be a
Speaker 1: new one up and um it'll be our third one.
Speaker 1: What I love seeing about it because we're running out
Speaker 1: of time here, is that this is an Amy thing.
Speaker 1: It's not a Bobby thing. It's just and I don't
Speaker 1: want it, and you've been Yeah, I almost so scared.
Speaker 1: Bobby didn't want because he wasn't really saying much about it,
Speaker 1: and he's the one that you know, supported me doing it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, do you want me to do it
Speaker 1: or not? Because you're not you're not saying anything about it.
Speaker 1: And you're like, that's the point. This is something I
Speaker 1: want you to do. That's you know, if you and
Speaker 1: even I know exactly said because this is something you
Speaker 1: tell yourself. You're like, you need to go after it
Speaker 1: with everything. If it fails, it fails because of you,
Speaker 1: or if it's a success, it's a success because of you.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what you told me? It's true, It's true.
Speaker 1: I don't want people going, well, Bobby was promoting right,
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's why you're like now bringing
Speaker 1: it up on the podcast. I don't think that's not
Speaker 1: it at all, but people on the podcast and I
Speaker 1: actually think it's really great. Um and but yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's definitely a you thing. And what's it's cool is
Speaker 1: the company uses you more by yourself like it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I love it, like I can't get a knife enough
Speaker 1: of it. Well, I don't want to because I don't jealousy,
Speaker 1: zerope or cent like. I don't like a lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff that I do anything boys like I need
Speaker 1: a rap held me out here. Um So anyway, Mike,
Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap anything that we didn't hit that you think. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know what we talked about, but it was
Speaker 1: it anything that we'd like to know? Who does the
Speaker 1: show recap? Here? Do you remember when I used to
Speaker 1: type the show recap every day? You guys listening, we
Speaker 1: don't do anymore. But let's not bring that back during
Speaker 1: the ship And then sometimes we do it after the
Speaker 1: show and be like, what do we talk about in
Speaker 1: the eight a m And none of us would know?
Speaker 1: Just make it up. We really started. I had one
Speaker 1: microphone and there was another microphone, lunchbuck to have a microphone.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to think of now and people you know,
Speaker 1: depending who you talk to another radio dj IS and
Speaker 1: other other companies you know, we're the big bad guy
Speaker 1: because we're the biggest show in the format and one
Speaker 1: of the biggest in the country, and that's great, and
Speaker 1: we were I'm happy to be there, and I'm happy
Speaker 1: to be uh the ambassador for the format, and I'm
Speaker 1: happy to be whatever whatever I get called, from good
Speaker 1: to bad, to the savior to the worst person in
Speaker 1: the format, I get called it all, all of it,
Speaker 1: and happy for it. What I'm happy is about is
Speaker 1: that we started. We weren't supposed to make it. It It
Speaker 1: was just some friends in a room that was about
Speaker 1: a third of the size of this tiny bedroom they're
Speaker 1: in right now. But with your your work ethic in
Speaker 1: the way, you kind of again are the you. You
Speaker 1: allow us to be us, but yet you control us
Speaker 1: at the same not not control, but you contain us,
Speaker 1: like you keep us there. But it's you you are
Speaker 1: really good at It is a craft, I know it
Speaker 1: just it is organic and we are just being us.
Speaker 1: But at the same time you're kind of piecing everything
Speaker 1: together and you do it well. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know you've you've allowed the show to be used
Speaker 1: for good and you continue to do that and you
Speaker 1: get more of that as time goes on, and that's
Speaker 1: exciting to see as we grow, the more you want
Speaker 1: to do for others and then also what you do
Speaker 1: for what you do for artists. I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: a big music I didn't get into radio because I'm
Speaker 1: a big music person and you are. And I like
Speaker 1: that about you and that you share with us. I
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes I'm just a listener even though I'm
Speaker 1: on the show with you. Like finding new music and
Speaker 1: finding new artists because you bring it to the table
Speaker 1: and I feel like that's that's It's a little this
Speaker 1: part of the secret to the success is that you're
Speaker 1: you're You're outside of the box, and I'm thankful to
Speaker 1: be your boy outside of the box, but I'm thankful
Speaker 1: to be be a part of it. And like I
Speaker 1: I don't know where my life would be had I
Speaker 1: not met you in Colver's that day. Where would yours be?
Speaker 1: Love what Matters dot com? Yes, yes once. Also, you
Speaker 1: can download podcast I'd love free to subscribe to it,
Speaker 1: listen to it. Thanks to Amy for me an episode
Speaker 1: ten um I saw some I gotta say thanks to
Speaker 1: people to listen to this too, because it's now the
Speaker 1: number one most listen to let me read. I can
Speaker 1: read you the data if I got it today. Do
Speaker 1: you care? Yeah? I care. Um, I'm proud of it
Speaker 1: because it's this is different and it's not perfect, but
Speaker 1: in any way, but I'm proud that we're able to
Speaker 1: 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 got Radio Amy. Now
Speaker 1: that all these people are listening, hit me up. I'm
Speaker 1: on Instagram and on Twitter, come on snatchat but snapchat
Speaker 1: on 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 de stro At, Mr
Speaker 1: Bobby Balance, thank you guys so much, and thanks again
Speaker 1: to Amy. And that's the rap