9-27: BobbyCast Ep. 10 (Amy)

has her own podcast to which we'll talk about a bit. Um. That's why she was begging to come on the show so she could promote it and no begging E And uh, Mike, you can kick it off here. Uh, it's Amy. Now. We do a show together every day for five hours. Today sitting basically this close, so today's dynamic will be slightly different. Um, but I'll go ahead and we'll start

with you, Mike, Mike d Our, producer, go ahead. Question one, When you first met Amy, what wasn't it about her that kind of stood out TV like you had to have her on the show. I think this She was unapologetic, but not in the way that most times people say that where they come across as crass or rude. She was just unapologetic. At she was clumsy and nice and Christian and just authentic, but you know, just just she

just was who she was and that was it. So yeah, I think that was kind of the same thing that today is still like the reason that I enjoyed being around her, So that still hadn't changed. We were on flying this past weekend. We were Heart Festival and I guess Amy was having a moment or something and she was like, I just needed you to fill my cup up and I was like, are you talking about and so, but well, things have changed a lot. Yeah, they changed a lot and a lot. This is fittingly the tenth

episode of your podcast. We've been together. I mean, we've been friends longer, but I've how long we've been doing the show together. Over ten years, but I'm in my tenth going on eleventh year. But it's a long time. So I mean a lot of changed for both of us. And I don't mean that in a way like you've changed, but it's just we've gotten older, our lives have shifted.

You've got so much more going on. And we used to be I think together a lot more or even we were traveled a lot more, and we were so inseparable that people thought we had an affair forever. I mean it still comes up all the time. Oh no, I mean it doesn't. So I mean if it does, it's so nothing. We don't I don't even see its, like, like what that's crazy, Well, I don't even see it. But it wasn't it all the time our first years

of being together, it was all the thing. And I wrote in my book, but nothing has ever happened with us like ever and forever. Even people in our building will be like, oh, for sure, they're doing it. But we were just really really really close all the time. And um, I think a lot of that was we were young. We didn't have a lot of other things

going on. Um I met Amy well the first time cover. Yeah, And I feel like I've told this story a lot, but I was at a restaurant and she came up and so, um, to just answer your question when we can go back around, but um, yeah, it's just unapologetic, just she is who she is. And again, yeah, it was good to actually spend quality time whereas you and I get to talk, Amy, I get to talk about

ourselves every day, we do. But we're sitting in a room together in my office where we have a side studio and we're kind of commercials and we're going quick and it's a little comments and we we text all the time, but again, we used to spend for you was like, that's like the thing that Amy gets on me for is that and not in a bad way, and that where she has grown in her personal life with a husband and about to have two kids, and lots of what I've grown in my professional life. I'm

not backing on that a little bit. But you're super busy. So it goes from you know, I was doing the radio show to uh, turning the radio show and then turn it into a national radio show and turning that national radio show and shifting and moving the whole show over from there. Starting the Raging Idiots is just a

two person parody band. It's turned into record deal books. Um, so it's just a lot of things which has required a lot of people to help me because I can't do it all by myself from outside of the building. So like I have like I call my babysitter. I have a manager now and and I'll admit some of that, some of that I struggled with a little bit, I think any not because I'm not proud of you or anything, but I think you know, we started out, We're in

one market. We managed ourselfs like there was nobody. Everything was just like us, which I think sometimes when all of this stuff started to change the last few years, whereas I used to be able to come to you for stuff, you almost didn't even know your own schedule, and rightfully so it's not so. So I had a problem like embracing the fact that I had to reach out to other people because I'm like, oh no, no,

I've been friends and I know. So I was like, you know, and now and now it's just easier, And now I'm like, I love it. I love that other people like know everything because then I can get an answer and it's legit and it's right, and it's quick because he doesn't know it's certainly so. Um, now I've embraced it. I don't know my schedule day to day most of the time. I just know that it's there's

rarely fifteen minutes. We'll call it growing pains. Um. That's been the weirdest thing for I think us as a team growing pains and Amy has been my absolute closest friend for the past ten years, like overall my closest friends and um, but yeah, the growing pains have been. But listen, you have gotten married. I'm not don't take this Frison. It's not personal saying on the other side

of it. Um, it's not like because we have to just go hang out and have dinner and eat lunch, and but now you have weekends you're off in Haiti or you're dealing with kids stuff or and that's been. That's been a lot, that's been heavy, that's been. I think once they get here, I feel like some of you will resume back to normal. I feel like a lot it's going to change your game. My normal will

be different. But I feel like right now I'm in such a place where like half of my heart is here and half of it's in Haiti, So I don't really feel complete. We started together on the same page and we have grown together very much so, but we've also kind of spread in different ways. So and she just gets mad that she has to go to more than and be like, hey, Bobby Free, I'm not mad anymore. I like it now, and I'll be like, I don't know. At the beginning, I was like, no, I don't go

through people. I go through you, and then now I wouldn't know the and then would he would be so busy he wouldn't know. And then now I'm like, bring on the people. It has been a change. But if I didn't have these people like looking over my career, I wouldn't be able to manage it, like tour managers and booking and totally I get it. I get it. That's one. Yes, um that that is what drew me to her. Do you want to know Jimmy to Bobby, Yeah, I have no idea. I didn't even know he was

gonna offer me really a job on the radio. I didn't offer a job for a long time. And not to repeat things that we've said over and over again, but I did not offer Amy the job first, like I only want to hire my friends or people that I'm comfortable with. And I met Amy at Culver's and we got to know each other for like six or seven months, and we were friends, and I was just making sure that and I had started dating my husband

right at the same time. But then Bobby and I would like hang out and I would be like, I don't know, I mean, I'm gonna go to dinner and then one time we went to the movies and then went saw cars. Yeah, that was that came out. And then oh gosh, one time I was on the phone with my head. Well he wasn't my husband yet. We were just dating, like newly dating, don't We weren't even Yeah, we weren't engaged because we got engaged shortly after newly dating.

And I called my husband Bobby oh at the time, boyfriend or whatever, and it was like because Bobby and I were spending so much time together and then out of nowhere, I just he were on the phone and I just said, oh, Bob, okay Bobby, and I mean, I mean, that's not your name, but that's how much time we were spending together. And then one night we went to dinner and You're like, I'm here to offer you a job. Yeah, And so that was what happened, and there we are, all right, what are you doing?

And it went down for some reason. Um, alright, Mike, you have another question going, well, Amy, you never did radio before, so like, did Bobby trained you? And when you started? How was that process? No? Okay, okay, okay, okay, well I take that back. Yes, everything I know today is that is worth anything in radio. I have learned from Bobby, so yes, but I wouldn't say there was like this radio boot camp. I feel like what Bobby was doing when he selected friends to join him was

he wanted us to be us. He didn't want training or you to yeat rough because we're not like I was, speech impediment. Um, it's not even just status that even on my side, I don't know anything other than what I've done. I haven't. No one taught me how to do a morning show. They just took a year old kids said okay, here's the show, and so I started doing it. No one taught me how to do it, and then I had brought people on. No one taught

anyone had to do anything. So that's why the show sounds so oddly rough and fantastic at the same time. In different times, it would be a terrible joking me a great show. Um, what what I don't understand? What do you to me? You never answered, Oh, we moved on, But I was just thinking. I didn't. I wasn't. I just I thought you were funny, I mean, and when you offered me a job in radio, of course I thought that was fun and I was like years old. I had a nice and deep answer. Hers was like,

you offered me a job? What else might so how would you say? Yes? Friendship has changed over the years with you know, everything kind of getting on a you know, a show is getting on a bigger scale, and you guys don't like, are you a closer now or is it I put one more pressure on Amy than anybody else on the show, like significantly? Oh yeah, of course, Like without Amy first there, I mean, there's no show.

Well that's that's not true. And I've told her, I've told her that privately twenty times that without Amy, the show just isn't a sick says And so I know that I know where my bread's buttered when we do a radio show, and she makes me a better radio personality and he makes me a better person, and those two things go together because I try to be a better person. And if i'm I mean I am who I am on the radio to Bobby is some like rare genius that knows what's gonna work and what's gonna

sound good. Now does everything began out? No? But he can he can take what we submit to talk about and compile and he can know like, Okay, this is gonna be interesting to talk about, Like I can think so many things are awesome to talk about, but he just kind of he just he just knows. He makes it work. So for you to say that it wouldn't exist being what it is without me, it wouldn't you. You are the the puppet master, I guess if you will, and you do it well, and you've led well in

that area of the thing. That too, is no one on the show knows what we're gonna talk about. We talk about like, nobody knows what we're going to talk about it. Ray has a by the idea because I'll send them audio to put in, but nobody on the entire show knows what I'm gonna talk about. It. It's super organic because I don't want anyone having any idea or having to try to come up with some joke, because that's not the point of the show. It's not to be the zany let's come up with jokes morning show.

It's just to live lives. I just want to try to find the best people possible. Um. It's been that way since day one, and it kept it that way, and so many people think, like, do you have prep meetings before or after you talk about the next day's show, and we just we just don't. And it's sometimes people in radio when they hear that we don't do that, they get weird looks. But again, since I don't know radio, even though I've been in radio ten years, I'm like,

why are you giving me weird looks? This is what we this is radio, And they're like, no, that's not it's not how most people do it exact and some people do it their way really well. But I want to found a bunch of people that weren't good at radio. I was. I wasn't good radio. Which you found your friends? Which was the original question. Sometimes we do tour, but that was the original question about our friendship. But I think I think that as it's similar to the show.

There's been some like like we've just grown, Like you're busier, you're you're I think you've maxed out at I was about to go deep here, but we are still as close as we were. Um you could you only there's a certain amount of rope, right that's you're able to give. And I've I was given that a long time ago, and I think I still have it. Well, I mean I mean, I'm not saying it's the longest or anything. You have the longest for a couple of reasons. One,

we've been together forever to I trust you. I mean we've been to a lot together, like a lot, and you've always been there for me, Like there are things always been there for me. You'all have no idea. I could even like get an emotional saying it, because there are things that Bobby has done for me and my family that like, you'll have no idea. You have no idea. So that friendship stuff like there's because of you know,

Bobby's upbringing and things. We all have baggage, but because if some of yours, like he only has a that so long, like that rope is so long, and I feel like I got that a long time ago and I feel like I still have it. So just do I still feel like our friendship is the same, Yes, But the aspects that are different are just that, um, your professional life, your career is just you know, going off in ninety different directions, which I love because I'm

your friend. I want that for you because I know that's that's your heart's desire and I but sometimes because life is like that you know, you don't get as much time with people, and my life is different too, so it doesn't matter like Bobby would be there for me in a second. And I think this the same speaks for me. Yea for you, I think that we've been together a long time, We've we are friends, have been tested a bunch, and we both had really you know, both of our moms died and we were both there

for each other a hardcore. I think for us that was a really we were already there. But I think for us that just kind of sewed up the fact that forever, even if we don't talk for three years or seven years, that it would be like one phone call. It doesn't matter where you are, what you need. It's like when my mom, my mom died and I was on the air, and um, and I don't even don't

may he's gonna get me emotional my mom. I was on the air and I got a phone call and my mom died while I was on the air, and um, it was my sister's and my mama died and IM was in her forties and obviously, um, she had struggled drugs and alcohol forever, and so I couldn't leave we had just started syndicating the show, and there was there was nothing I could do, and I was able to and I still am able to separate things. It's unhealthy how I can separate things, and it it helps me

in ways, but at times it's very unhealthy. And I said, hey, I told Amy, I said, listen, I just got a call for my sister. My mom just died. And and I'm thinking, okay, we're going to commercial. Show is done. It's like you something, and then Bobby's like, nope, We're doing the next break. And we go back on air and we talked as if like nothing. I mean, I couldn't talk, Lunchbox can talk. Bobby carries on like Bobby

is in a zone. I mean, obviously it was probably one of the I get that you're saying you can compartmentalize like no other, but that had to be one of the hardest things you've ever done. It just was what happened to be done. So I did. This is what happened. There was an hour and twenty minutes the show left. I went on to the hour and twenty minutes of the show, is Amy said in the corner and cried the whole time. And because I couldn't, she did and the whole you know, and you know, I

went home to care of the arrangement to funeral. Amy was there, I mean they everyone was there next day, but I mean boom, I mean I was back on the air. But from you, he was like back at work. I mean even at the funeral. We were like, Bobby, you just take your time, like do what you need to do here, and you just were like, I think the best thing for me is just to get back to work. And it was and and that's different than you.

And you know, Amy's mom struggled and she died of cancer and after a long about and of just a roller coaster of two years of sadness and happiness and uh every feeling you could possibly have. And your mom was so great to me, and for me, it was it wasn't about the show with Amy. I told Ammy

go away, like just go away. There was so many times I did the show but people wouldn't even know, Like I would do the show from Austin or my mom was at Indie Anderson and Houston and my heart has studios there, and so Bobby would let me go do the show and I would spend the night at the hospital and I'd wake up at you know, three or four in the morning there and I'd go to

the Houston station. I'm driving around Houston and the all night, not knowing where I was going, and the people in Houston let me in like yeah, he would be like, don't And there would be some days that I absolutely would not. Then there would be days where I just felt like, Okay, I need to keep working to kind of have some normalcy and you know, break up the

monotony at the hospital and stuff. And I was just so grateful for that, because no, there were people at the hospital that I would meet and I would come back from doing the radio show like thinking, you know if I would be thinking, you know something, feeling sorry for myself or something, and then I would encounter someone in the waiting room who had a loved one that had cancer and they like had to quit their job

to be there every day. They had to quit. And like with with you, and you know, are like just you, that was never even an option. You were like family first, and that's the rolling out to still take care of you first. Because of that, you being able to be

you weed it. We're not us and so there's a time to I think of back to when I think I just casually like said to Bobby, I don't even know and I know you know this story it's so stupid, but um, I said something like my mom was bored in the waiting room one day and I was like,

surely once an iPad and I like showed up. It worked the next day and Bobby had got my mom and I paid, and it felt like we couldn't have just I mean, my mom could have gotten and it's not it's not the I thought that it was an iPad.

It was just like I said that, and you listened and you heard, and then you just show you just randomly had it sent to her something or I showed a bit we're going to say, or somehow an iPad appeared, and like we had it was like, you know, she would entertain herself for hours at the hospital with the with that iPad. Like I won't ever that's like a memory I'll never forget because it's like something I just said so casually, and then the next day you had it.

And then she got to play with an iPad basically for like two years, you know, while she sat up there and she played her studio goo or whatever you play on iPad and then we do those funny the photo booth, we take those funny pictures. Yeah, before Snapchat there was photo boot filters. But anyway, that was a that was a moment where I mean, that's that's the

Bobby that I don't know. I mean some of that stuff may or may not have come up on air, and I don't even remember certain things that we always talk about, but like your hands down, you were always like, do what you gotta do, do what you gotta do. And I think that's what will always, even if we're not in the same spot, because who knows what happened a year or three years, will always like, like I said on the air, I think today or yesterday I was making fun of you just because you were like,

oh I got my cup full of Bobby. I was like, I mean, yeah, we didn't. You've been my closest friend for ten years, so there. So yes, there's the answer to that question. Boy, it's like freaking um oprah in here, go ahead. What else you got? What's the best memory I'll have with each other? Mm hmm the best memory? Man? Um, there's some we do it just it's the best handsund you say, I just want to Yeah, I guess I might have to go the first thing I think of,

because it just just best. I mean, when you're together with someone for ten years, Like the best I would say it was probably Amy winning the award for the Gracie for Females that make a Difference in Broadcasting and I got to present her the award and watching her just own it her because for a long time she's

always been any Bobby's sidekick. And over the last two years, I've really tried to you know, all you'll always be Amy from the show, but I've always but but but with Amy, I've always been like, hey, it's you gotta do you too? You know, I know what if this is me, yeah it is, but but it's so strong. I'm not the kind of guy that wants to hold

Amy down. And and so Amy getting up there and just and owning the room and her mom being able to make it out there while her mom was sick, and getting the award and um speaking eloquently with passionate emotion, and I was just so proud of her, more of her than actually for her, because it was like I'd watched someone grow into this this role and she just deserved it so much. So for me, that was I mean,

that's my one of my favorite things. There are lots of little dumb things, but I mean that's what comes to mind, is like the first one. Now, well, then I'll play by that rule and do the first thing that popped into my head was UM, And mind's more recent, although I could probably name so many more, but going back to your high school with you, UM, when you've spoke at your high school graduation, Um, that was special.

That was a proud moment. And I think the fact that there's still people at that school that we're there when he was there and listening to them tell stories about him, UM, that's something I won't ever forget because I there's big things for you. I know that, And I always picture like you know what's in store for Bobby, Like who knows? But I mean, I just I know there's gonna be big things. And that's that's one of those memories that I had, Like walking down the hall

with one of his former teachers. That's like telling me stories of Bobby in high school and then watching him give the high school commencement speech. Um. I was just super proud of him because you realize going to your town, great people, wonderful place, but you realize when you get there that I mean, it was not easy probably for Bobby to do what he did to be where he

is today. And um, I think if you achieve what I think you will achieve in life, that's something I'm going to always look back on and be like, I don't remember walking the halls of his high school and hearing those teachers tell me those things about you and how awesome you were, and how there was a microphone, it was in Bobby's hand, and if there was a girl, she was not nearby. Yeah, nowhere near ye got to see it. I couldn't. Well the first time I went.

That was the second time I gone. The first time I went was for his mother's funeral, and that's what that was when I first realized, like, okay, and then I feel like even with the funeral, I knew there was no way we were not going to be there, and I knew deep down you were glad we were there, but there was so there was hesitation and going because you're so sometimes private about some stuff that it was

like we didn't want that's the thing you think. Okay, you think sometimes when people are trying to be there for you and be a friend, that you're being a burden always right, And that's just so not the case. So that was my first time there to answer your question, Mike, and I that's when I realized, like, okay, well, like he wasn't you know, sometimes people tell stories and you're like they're probably you know, you're just like stretching the

truth a little bit. Nope, nope, I mean that was no, no, no, stopful, I mean nothing nothing, There's nothing but nice people. I mean, like I love where I came. Yes, absolutely, there's nothing there right like Dyve had. I mean yeah, there's closed down down and it was not good then and it's really you know they struggle now. So um so yeah,

I think that's a good What else you got? How much do you say, like you guys rubbed off on each other as far as you like, not exaggerate and Amy has made me a better person, like just straight up. She has made me care more than I think I am in a different I do like how caring about like just like life stuff in general. You know, I see how she wears her heart in her sleeping cares openly and it doesn't make me as afraid to do that because I care in different ways and much more

private ways. I would rather do X and no one know about it. Um. And it's not because I don't like to be vulnerable. I think having a vulnerability to caring, that that's Amy's thing. Like she's the most caring person I've ever met, and she's super vulnerable and um, it's it's a it's a quality that I don't have. And I've been able to watch her do it and and see her really passionate about things. Um. But that that's

what's rubbed off from her to me. Bobby is um motivating and inspiring, like I wouldn't say like I I never will. Clearly I didn't have aspirations for radio. It's not like I. Oh and by the way, we thought he was leaving every year. Every year was like yeah, and it was like, hey, you when you leave it into this year when your contracts up, well you know, we'll find But she just kept staying around until finally she was like, I guess I'm just gonna say, I

guess it's gonna be my career now. At one point I turned to corner. I was like, Okay, this is my career. And to have someone like Bobby to to be at the head of that, um, it just makes you you just you feel like, okay, am I am? I Am I doing enough? But then I have to step back and realize, like I don't have the same goals as Bobby. That doesn't matter. I just should still want to strive to be good at what I do

or successful at what I do. It doesn't mean that I have to keep doing have to do more and more and more and more like very things. I guess you could say, but you're you're very very Uh, you might be the most driven person that I know. I should look at you instead of Mike when I say that, you might be the most driven person that I know. Um, And sometimes that that maybe you know, like you say,

a downfall because you're so focused on it. But at the same time, for someone that looks up to you like I do in that level, I'm like, oh man, I could be taking things to another level. I mean, he's even You're even motivating. And I know this is gonna sound cheesy too, but I see how dedicated he can be to things like he puts his mind to something and it's happening, and like me, I'm more like I put my mind to something and then it might not happen tomorrow, you know, Like I like, I like,

I start things and I quit things. I start things that I quit things, And Bobby's like, I'm sixty two days strong, like this is what I'm doing, have a control complex and I'm freaking out. I'm not even talking about your weird o c D stuff. I'm talking about It's like you haven't a many times in my head where I'm like, Okay, well Bobby can do this for even if it's something you know, trivial or awesome. Still he's he's like that, and he's uh again, always shown

me how to you listen? He listens, well, I need to listen better. I do think of that and that that the iPad thing was one example. I could give more, but he listens and he somehow, Mike, you've experienced that. I know you have, because I know of instances where Bobby's knows you're something in your life that's going on and he just randomly, you know, it is like this little Bobby angel, like this little like sprinkles for you know, I know it's hard for you to your Bobby, but

I mean that's something that I think of. I'm like, I need to listen better, like Bobby. I need to listen to what is go going on with people and then do something about it. And nobody ever has to know. But he's he's You're good at that. He's good at that. So you grew up You're born aware Austin St. David's Hospital, and you grew up in Austin your whole life, same house until I was eighteen, until I left for college, and then when when I left for college, my mom

sold it. She didn't want to sell it when we were because my dad left when I was eight, and so I think she probably, you know, realistically, should have you know, sold it then and moved somewhere else, But um, she didn't want to uproot us from our friends in our neighborhood and our schools, and so we stayed till I was eighteen. And then so you were there until eighteen year. Dad left when you were eight. Did he stay close or did he move far? Originally he moved

to Midlands. Yeah, I mean, so I would go like

if I went to see him, I would fly. Um, you know, my mom would put me on an airplane and I go see my dad for the week again, and I fled back and he was with my Oh gosh, my family's stuff is So what's crazy is my dad left when I was eight, but then he didn't get married till I was eighteen to the to the woman that he was with, um, because my parents didn't get divorced till I was eighteen either, So he left for he left when I was eight years later, and it was like, yeah, it was a it was a it

was a monetary thing, but in my household, it was also like my mom was willing to take him back if he wanted to come back, and we waited for a really long time. That never happened until like a year before my mom died, my dad tried to start dating her again. Do you think that was because of guilt? No? I think well he got he had recently gotten divorced from my stepmom, who was with basically since I was eight, even though she wasn't my stepmom the entire time. And

then my dad's never been alone. He's been married four times. I love my dad to death. This is I'm not knocking my dad, this is just my my home life. Like he just liked women and always younger women. Uh, and got you know my mom. It was the third wife, and then you know, the fourth and then they separated. And then I think my dad was suddenly like old and he was like whoa, what what's happening in life?

And then he had this like revelation he at this moment and he was like the things that were always important to him suddenly weren't. And then family more so was I know, my dad always loved us, but other he chased other things for sure. Um. And then uh, he started like kind of courting, like kind of like I wanted to hang out with my mom again. And my Mom's like, oh my gosh, like I waited for

you for like twenty five years or something. You're gonna come to me when I'm like I got cancer, She's like, I'm busy, Like I don't have time. I don't time for this right now, like I'm got a little bit going on. And so but at that time, even though they didn't start you know, dating, um, my dad stepped in and he became a caregiver alongside me and my sister because because my mom was single. My sister and

I did all the hospital visits, We did everything. And then when there was times because my sister was four kids and I was living in North Carolina and then Austin and then Nashville, and if I couldn't get back, my dad would step up. And that's something I think for my sister and I to to see your parents come back sort of full circle in a way to where your dad's back in and he's like, I got this,

I'm here for you. All that was really special. And then the last week of my mom, my mom's life, she was she spent a few days in hospice at the Center and my dad, UM, my sister and I and my dad were the only people in the room and there was tons of people in and out of there all day long, but suddenly we were the only ones in there, and my sister and I wrote around the couch and we saw my dad go over to my mom and start, you know, like brushing her hair.

And this was the day before she went unconscious, and we didn't had no idea she was gonna lose consciousness the next day. Um, it was because of procedure we tried to do so we had no idea that was coming. And my dad leaned over and asked my mom to for forgiveness, and he had never done that, and all ever since he left her for someone else, like, never had said like, I'm sorry for doing that to you. And my mom didn't have to have that. She had forgiven him a long time ago. She didn't have to

have that. But that was another special thing, just part of my upbringing, Like to be able to witness that, to know is a kid like all you want is for your dad to come back. That's all I ever wanted. All ever wanted was Dad, just come back, get back together with mom, like she forgives you. It's fine. And then you grow up and you realize, you know that's

never gonna happen. And then to be able to witness on your mom's deathbed her get what she always wanted, which was just like I'm so sorry I did that to you and and for my sister and I had to witnessed that was pretty amazing. You mentioned North Carolina. I think one of the luckiest things for me was Amy moved. She quit. We had a going away party, and I was It was a terrible time for me because I just lost who I said then and still say now is the best female on the radio, like

periods that I don't even know how that's possible. So and so we had a going away party at Chewi's in Austin. It was like I was It was like I was sad, and Amy was moving with her husband. He was deployed. My contract was coming up, and they wanted to keep me. I just started building this indication company with my own money. I had a little bit of leverage, and I said I will stay if you

will build a studio for Amy in North Carolina. And they were at the concept of it wasn't real, not real at all, because it was never something that was on the table. And I remember going to Amy saying, hey, I kind of got a bent over here. Like we were number one in Austin for ten years, like when we were just in Austin, and and that's where we grew as a show. We were tripling people in ratings. So I had leverage, and so I said, I've got to keep Amy because if I lose Amy, I don't

know what I'm gonna do. And I, you know, I said earlier, like I would be lost with that Amy on the show, and so they built our studio in our house. For years years five years, she lived in North Carolina from her house and she did the show. Randy's never dropped a bit. She lived there and just worked out of like a bedroom, right y'all. The first the first two years, I did it in my attic where it wasn't even finished out. My husband's sort of like did a little bit of work on it to

rig it to make it work. But every morning, I kid you not, I know, I went to the ceiling and pulled down the little thing that you pulled down out of the ceiling to climb up at a little tiny ladder, and I would climb up, and then we only have commercial breaks or songs for that matter, to

to use the restroom. And I would be up in the dick and sometimes we'll be working and I'll be like, oh my gosh, and so I would tell I'll be like if I'm not back, like call nine one one because I fell through the attic and I'm not going to make it back. So those were those were crazy times. It used to be different for us too, because we came so we started the show, and the luxury of building a show from scratch and building a show with

your own money, which I was doing. Was that we kinda do if we're ready to do if we wanted. So we're playing no songs, maybe one song an hour. It was a it was a full on talk show. Oh my gosh. Yeah, right, we played like no, there was no in The ratings were never high. The problem now is we're adding markets all the time and people are new, and there are some cities they're like, guys, if you guys would play no music, you're there ready

to be so much higher. And there's some cities were like, you need a couple more songs because the people here don't know you yet, and people don't like new people. So it's a weird balance. But we were a talk show for eight years. We played no music. It's quite the US and so too when we came to Nashville, which I had just moved back to Austin by the way. Yeah, and the story about Amy was she had moved back

to Austin. We were pumped she moved back. I was the only one that knew about the Nashville thing, and for me, it wasn't a big deal because we we're playing in the music anyway. So it wasn't like it was a pop music to country music thing. And the country music thing was easy, you know, that was the easiest part of it all. It was actually just moving homes and and friends and new people. But and there never been a position like there is now. They're never

been a national country morning show. And so I couldn't tell Amy, I can tell anybody. I's not a paper that said you can't tell anybody. And so Amy's buying a house. Yeah. I was so excited to be back to Austin. I mean, I begged my house. He got out of the Air Force after twelve years and he's from Austin. I was like, can we please, we got to move back to Austin. And he's like, oh, both of our families they're like, that's crazy, we can't go back to Austin. I'm like, well, we have to. That's

where that's where my job is. And you're a pilot, you can live anywhere. So that's that's so that's what we decided to do. And like we're putting a contract on the house and Bobby calls me and it's like, can you move to now? Well, luckily the house got rejected. Something something fell through. Yeah, like listen, I don't know. I don't know that I believe in the buying. I don't know, but what but it was just like something

fell through. So I had to go to Rod Phillips, who's now oddly the head of Country, but he was a guy like took the first real big chance on me and say we have to tell Amy because nobody else knew. For almost two months. Amy was the only one who knew that I we were leaving, and so I just couldn't have her buy another house. So they just stayed in an apartment and nobody ever addressed it. We just kind of kept it under locked. It's a really weird time. Um. But then we moved and I

was like, hi, Austin. By Austin it was was there for it's a matter of yeah, I moved there in September. I was so worried though, because she had to go to her husband and say, I just convinced you to go to Austin now, when you please move to now? I called him and I said we need to meet at Maudie's for Margharita right now. And he's like why, I'm like, just meet me there and we met there and I was like to Margharita's and I was like, what do you think about Nashville? Neither of us had

ever even been to Nashville. And he was like, okay, sounds cool. I was like, sweet and lucky, he has a job live wherever. Like again, I don't know all that divine mentioned or things happening for a reason, like I mean, you know are different in that way, but it was just like all everything just kind of fell together. So you grow up in Austin, you go to college where Texas m Okay, so you spend how long? They're

three four and a half years? Did you? I thought you went to a junior college too for a while. Oh yeah, you're right, So we'll what is that was in college station? Our? It was in Brian Brian College Station. I went to Blen, which is like the feeder junior college in the A and M. Like most everybody, if they're trying to get into a M, they'll go to Blind. So high school yeah, kind of like was pretty social in high school. Wasn't that great of a student? You know?

I was always hardy to class always. I mean, it's just that I took the sat like three times. I just focus, What did you make on the sum? I think the highest I got was like like eleven hundred. I went from like nine d uh, first time nine fifty or something, and then the second time I actually went down. But then the third time was charm I went up and then but with that my g p A still wasn't enough to get into an M. But that's the only place I applied. I had high hope.

So then I went to Blend for a year. But I was so embarrassed that I didn't get into texting because all my friends were going to like, I don't know, all kinds of crazy colleges all over the place because I went to Austin High and they were all over They're like, I'm gonna go to Harvard or whatever. I'm like, cool, I'm gonna be a blind, which I loved. It was

good for me, is exactly what I needed. And I left there with a three nine and got into A and M immediately one year one year at Blenn, didn't graduate, didn't know was three hours short. I walked across the stage and um, I was doing a three hour like correspondence course from Texas Tech. So back in the day. Um, stuff wasn't online. You had to mail it in like you would do it from your notebook and mail in. Well, I was just really bad at mailing it in. Go figure.

So um. And then I walked across the stage. And then I got a job because most people were like, oh, yeah, you're done with school, and so I was like, well, I don't need to complete this three hour sociology class from Texas Tech. And then I really But then I also didn't want to ever own up to the fact that I mean, I had my aggie ring I walked across the stage, but I never wanted to another embarrassment where I was like, oh my gosh, like I'm deceiving people.

I really was, and that ate me up. It bothered me so much because I mean, I was basically lying, But I mean, I just didn't want to get in the whole well in three hours short and I tried to do it. So then finally I couldn't take it any longer. So I during the show. So I enrolled in school. I took I took my three hour sociology class, and I submitted it to Texas A and M and

they mailed me my diploma. So my diploma, my Aggie ring says two thousand and three, which is my graduation year, but my Texas A and M diploma says two thousand and eight. It almost took me nine years to finish college. You finished school and your first real job is what granted sales? And what do you do as a granted It was? I worked for a wholesale company, so we, uh,

there's an import export company. And I had, you know, a set list of customers, most of them fabricators, and I I would just take care of them, like whatever they needed. I never worked with the end user like you've got granted in your kitchen, like I didn't work with you. I worked with probably whoever installed it, and UM, just made sure they were taken care of. And um, she had to leave that job. She took a pay cut,

a big pay cut to come work for me. There's big but it was I just asked for the thing was I had just when Bobby offered me the job, I was like, are you joking? And he's like no, And I was like, I asked for a raise like last week, and you have no idea how hard that was for me because I didn't like asking for a raise, but I knew I needed to do it because I deserved it, and they were they were like, you're right, you do. I was like, well that was easy. So I got a raise, and then Bobby offered me a

job with less. We weren't making any money. No, none, no, I mean none, none, But I mean I was on cloud nine. I thought it was. I thought so much like it didn't matter like I I you know, my bills were minimal and I when we were young, and I thought it was it was great. I had a bunch of people put questions up on Instagram too. Um so one says, what would you be doing now if you didn't have your current job? We'll keep these answers pretty quick. Always thought I was going to your mom, Yeah,

you still are going to still waiting. I always thought once I even you know that for years, Like I was like Bobby, once I get pregnant, I'm leaving the show, you know that, right? What would you be doing? Um? I probably doing create of like creating a campaigns or i'd be stand up comic. You know. I maybe not on the radio, but I would be creating. I'm a creator. Oh yeah, I have no idea what I would be doing. Let's see when Amy's babysitter starts having an affair with

her husband. Oh my gosh, what I don't know. I'm just reading. That's not a question. What does this say? Okay? Cool? No, Nope, they're asking if you and I will get together. Then I didn't even get to that part because you stop me. Someone asked Amy if she's still a practicing guitar. No, that's miserable. Um, let's see, it was a nightmare. Let's be honest. Here's one If Amy didn't approve of someone you were dating, would you trust start instincting in the relationship?

Would you We've never had that issue, though, I don't think Yeah, I don't think so, because you typically have. Well, any girl I've known you that you've dated is she's always been pretty amazing dating as in real life. I've been on dates with girls and I may not ever even know them, but I mean real life relationships. You've always like, man, that bar is high. Um, it's never been a thing. Right. And here's the thing too, When I date someone, Amy ends up being friends with them

longer than I date them. Did you speaking of do you know what today is do you do you do you know what? Today is a birthday of someone? Yes? Yeah, I was already texting with her. Yeah, I actual has a birthday today. Um, I don't know, do you all? Even? You probably don't even that's fine, and that's that's fine. I don't, Yeah, because you know when my last two girlfriends go. So, I dated a girl in Nashville who was in a band Rachel, But before her, I did

a girl named Caia for four years. Fantastic relationship. It'd be one of those out like back at and Go was an idiot. I have like three of those. I'll look back at and be like, I was a huge idiot for he's an idiot and so but you know it. That's fine. But yeah, but it's still you. Both of you would be there for each other if you needed to be. But I get the there's you know it's note. No, we haven't actually spoken in a long time. I just think it's easier for who. I don't know, but I

feel like it's easier. It'd be better if I didn't. But I do know. Yes, I didn't know that it was her birthday. Um, let's see. People are posting comments on Instagram. Might you have anything over there? Bobby here? Are you dating? We want to know? She doesn't know. Amy, No, I'm not dating anybody, but right now I have a special friend. But I feel like I find it interesting that today you put the label you put the special friendly. It's just it's complicated, that's all I'll say. It's a

complicated situation. Would you not agree? And listeners are like, hey, what are you doing a little bit? I'm having fun, you know, with the picture and stuff, because it's fun, but also it's like, I'm also hanging out with somebody and I'm posting a picture of me just having fun on Instagram? Am so? And we should all just be glad Bobby's having fun. I mean, how many times do we hear Bobby's saying having fun? Um? Yeah, so yeah, yeah, um? Amy, How did you meet your husband? We grew up together

at church. Our parents are friends, and my sister is married to his best friend, and so they I was always the annoying little sister. So I'm younger than him, but then I grew up here says Lunchbox talks less. Why so um, Eddie talks a lot more. Eddie had the kids and the dad and our audience went from being nineteen year old to now our age and up to forty year olds, and so there's only so much

room to talk. And there's me and there's Amy, and then it's just kind of whoever else has something, and Eddie has kids and is very relatable and they do all these research and Eddie's the one that the parents relate to. So because of that, because that he's so relatable and people really really really like Eddie and that he's just a great dude to people. I'm not not saying they did, but people hate lunch Box. That's comments. There's no hate on Eddie in any sort of people

research the crap out of us. Lunchbox does have very strong negatives against him, but very positive positible but um, super funny and a hot mess at the same time. But yeah, it's because Eddie has taken a large role on the show because he's a dad with kids, and listeners relate to him and does a great job to Eddie's fantastic on the air. So it's not about lunch talking less. It's kind of Eddie talking more. You've got

not a little bit. Everybody's just gotta kind of piece and you know what, every day everybody fights for not fights on the air, but everybody is like submitting things to me to talk about. So it's a competition every day to get on the air. I don't just go I gotta give Lunchbox two segments. Lunchbox may have eight segments a show. If he says, if he has eight great things to talk about, I will go to all aid of them. If he doesn't, I'll go to zero.

Just uh. Sometimes Amie came to me and was like, Hey, what's the deal. You're not looking at me as much? And I was, and I was like, what do you mean. I don't realize this. All I do. I go to the hot hand and I think my strength is I don't have to be the star of the show, like I bring in stars and let them be the star. So I did think, and I'm happy to sit and laugh and let Amy or Lunchbox Eddie just be the star and it's their segment in there. And Amy was mad.

I was weird. It was weird. I was confused. I was feeling I guess I was probably feeling down, and I was I wanted to know, like what am I

doing wrong? Like what what did I say the vibe is off, something's not right, Like you just said, I have to go to where we have a show to do, and I have to go to where it's strong and right now, Eddie strong and Eddie was and I was like and I just had to take a deep breath and I was like, okay, well then I've got to you know, I guess it's you know, and as a girl, you can build up all these different things in your head, like before I went to Bobby and got that straight

answer of like, we have a show to do, this is work, and Eddie's strong, So that's where I'm going to look. In my head, I'm like, oh my gosh, you know, I've created all these fake scenarios as to why Bobby's not looking at me, you know. And it was it was just talking, and I would talk. And I feel like sometimes in our work relationship, that's just how like sometimes I'll be like, hey, what's going on with this and be like, well, if you wanted to know,

just ask, and I'm like, okay, that's a problem. Yeah. And I mean and I about once every four or five months have a conversation of, uh, what's bugging you? Right? Because I think, you know, I think of it as a couple like time. A lot of times you can, you know, have an argument. You know that my husband, I can have an argument and I know he's going

to love me unconditionally. Like I feel like I can act a certain way around him that none of you will ever see ever And I feel secure in that because he loves me and he's not gonna abandon me, and I don't think and um, but but you know with other relationships where it's like your dating, but you don't have that you you you freak you you you don't have Sometimes you freak out a little bit more and you have to again create false scenarios and then you just have to hash it out every once in a

a while because you're not having those regular like little you knows what is your perception of Amy? And I like, because you've interned with the show, you've produced the show from Afar as an affiliate. Now we moved you here and you live and you see um, so you've been

on all sides of it. Yeah. I mean for me, it's just been crazy to see you guys kind of like grow together and just be like best friends throughout at all and I don't know, it's kind of inspiring, you know way and I don't know, I think that's awesome. How really, how you just founder randomly and how kind of how you found everybody it was just people you found and how it's you know, worked out so well, yeah, you're you're pretty random. I don't have to wrap Amy up.

This is a difference than the podcast. I'm just taking my hand and rap to the rap signal because sometimes on the air, yeah, like what's happening? He's not cutting me off it up? Oh my gosh, when you hear the music with talking, when I tell you when the song, when the song starts playing, stop talking, because I mean they're about to start singing. My favorite thing to listen for with Amy talking over like like yeah, you hit a clip and you still hear it. Let's struggle with

that a little bit. What happens off the mic mike, Like, we know what happens off the mic, but again you're newer. What happens off the mic when we're not in the here. I mean it's pretty much the same. Like it's just like, really, when the MIC's go off, everybody still talks the same. You also talk about the same stuff. And then I think that's what kind of when people come sitting on

the show. Sometimes you don't know when the show is going on or when it's like there our bosses don't when the children don't start talking, and I'm like, we're on the You're not just chilling and talking on the air, just like when all are talking regular. No, it's cool. Do you have any questions for me? You don't have to know. I just wonder if there's anything you wanted to dig out, like dr Film Moment here Amy has a podcast by the way. Yeah, well you just asked

me if any questions for you? And then when well you were stall, I was gonna van and promote your podcast. What you thought of something? Okay, go for it. Well so you can, I'll let you talk with podcasts, but go ahead, okay. Well, I mean only because I'm getting hit with it left and right about about the girl, and this is the last time I'm bringing it up. But I know that it's not like you know, it is complicated. What are you talking about? Actually your special friend,

your podcast special special friend? Just first because I'm getting I get hit with it from all angles and I feel like it's my job to kind of you know, um, it's for real. I know that it's complicated, but but do you think that one day we'll we'll get figured out and then it'll be less complicated with this or in general in life with this. I don't know, you really don't know. I hope, okay, you hope. I like that. I like to have great people around me, and I

cut out any one that's negative. Mm hm. You know we've been to get along enough. If there's negativity in the room, it goes away right like for you're listening to this podcast now, and you know, I mean, I wish we could just give this tomorrow knife to go in and be all right, this is going to be. But there have been instances where at times or there have been people that bring in negative energy into the room, they don't stay in the room, or they don't stay

on the show. And there you've set such a precedence for that too that there's been times where I have to like check myself and I know it, and you'll almost you would like sniff Bobby like sniffs me like a dog. You know, like no, it's not like that, but he'll he'll know. I mean, sometimes I try to hide it, but I'm very hard, very bad. In three I know if she's in a bad happy mood, if at the time of a month, if it's if she had a fight, if and then he'll ask like, is

everything okay? And then we hate that question, and then I try to fake it, and then I can't fake it, and then I fake it some more and then just then I explode. But sometimes I have to almost like mentally, I'll be driving into work and if I know that I feeling negative or my heart's in a bad place, or I'm just like grumpy because it's really and I'm not a warning person or whatever. Like I I get my game base off and I'm driving to work, and I I will recite the fruits of the spirit of

my head, like over and over my own work. I turned off the radio and I grabbed this steinge when I look ahead, and I'm like love, joy, peace, patients, kind of gonness, gentle in his face from the self control. And I say that over and over and over so that I show up. And when I see Bobby, I'm not like, you know, bringing in negativity because it's no joke, Like he doesn't have time for that. We don't time for that. There's no time for someone to bring the

rest of the room down one. It's just not good for business and wants to be that the Debbi downer. And it's also not fun. And if we're not having fun, our listeners are not having fun. And that's the first rule of anything we do on the show. And there's times you have to be the business like, you have to be that person and that's that I couldn't do it. Yeah, it's really hard sometimes from you know, from even the

Carlos stuff. That's really difficult for me, so hard because he was a close friend that it just didn't work out professionally, great guy and it was one of the first podcasts that we did. Um. You know, there have been times with everyone where we've I've had to be with the boss and you legit regardless of what people think, you have a legit. Sometimes had to take me aside and they're like, get it together. Yeah, but you it's different.

You work harder than everybody else on that show. I don't think, so what okay, you work harder at making that show a full show than anybody else on that show. Everybody has specialties that they're great at and everybody puts in a lot of time, Like you're not gonna beat Ray in sitting in a studio putting audio. He's gonna be there. But Ray would do that, or he'd go sell cable, or he would pump gas. Ray just finds his thing and just does does a But that's a specialty.

Everybody has their specialty with Amy. She's such a full part of the show that if I don't have it coming from her, I don't have it, Like it's just not there. And when Amy left, ratings took a hit, and partially it's because she was gone, and partially it was because it's freaking out because she was gone, and so um oh, like when I left because my mom, Yeah, because you were gone for a couple of months. Um so yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't even know what that

but yeah, there's no negativity. And there are times we have to take people to the side and be the boss and not just that and say hey, you're not the other the I don't won't get specifics. The other night I had to have words with the entire show because it's like, if you're going to go and do this fun thing, Michael, if you're gonna go and do this thing and work. You can't not do your show work. And there's when I gotta like they're gonna be the friend.

You can answer that if you you answer it, and yeah, it's a weird dynamic to be but with you, I've found it to be the easiest to be direct and not worried about any sort of odd interpretation because I can go directly to you. It's exactly how I feel, and I don't have to worry about you. I know you're gonna be sensitive about it, but I know you're gonna get over at the quickest and you're not gonna hold a grudge. You're gonna be the most sensitive, but

you're gonna get over at the quickest. Yeah. Sure, I'm sensitive. I'm delicate, but it's like I have to put on my amy gloves, gloves and too. She also knows how to handle me because I'm I really am a nutcase. So I'm mess. So we'll be doing in the countdown. I'll give you example. Today we're doing the countdown. We have times to do stuff. Everything is times everything, So I have six minutes to this, at eight minutes to this, I have twenty seven minutes to this. I got a

meeting in an hour. I got so it's this and I'm like, okay, we're we're going through the countdown. It's Amy's time. She doesn't going. I just I just keep going, and she's looking for a spot. I don't have time. I don't have time for you. You're not ready. I'm going to keep going. I'll follow along, and and then in my head I'm like, so stupid, follow along? Why

can't you follow along? And I'm like yelling at myself in my head and Bobby's like just continuing on and he comes to me again, but I'm too yelling at myself so that I'm not in the right spot again. Life. That is life. I Um, I hope that. Yeah, people listening to this and this will be up forever and um I forever, forever, forever. You know, you're in the process of adopting two children right now. It's been a three year process. Um yeah, three and a half years.

And at any time maybe we'll be gone for a couple of weeks, and um, I can't wait for you to be gone, like from you way more. Listen with you. It's this is your life and you've been one of these kids so bad. But I don't think that I've ever wanted something for someone so bad ever. And I still don't want as much as you want them for you because they're your kids. But I don't think that I have wanted something for someone so much ever. There's just no one more deserving to be a mom. And

and if I have to, well, I know you. Yeah. Bobby's always like, what do we need to do? Who do we need what? I'm like, Bobby, we're doing everything. I will take care of like I know people let me. She's like, no, they'll take care of it. Got an agency, We're doing everything that protocol. And I've even gotten in trouble by them a couple of times. Um for going rogue. Uh, just because I have relationships in Haiti and I've kind of learned my lesson. So I'm trying to be good.

And you know, I don't want to jeopardize anything because these are lives, you know. I want to a couple of things I want to address before we go because we fit the hour mark. But dang, um two things one for us. Pimp Enjoy is such a big movement. It's it's such a large scale giving endeavor that we say. And when I say we, I don't mean we in this room or we in that studio. We as a

group of listeners UM are able to do. And you know, it started we were looking you guys were looking for um a Twitter handle for your mom and end up being Judy be Pimp and Joy and so Judy chooses Joy was taken, so we kept pimp and Joy and so that was amy. It was like, you know, pimp and Joy and so you you, you came, You came

with the hashtag you came. It was really special actually because you know, uh, my mom's cancer just returned for like the third time or something, and we were doing to do our first anniversary Joy Week and You're like, hey, I want to dedicate Joy Week to your mom because she's kind of inspired the joy theme, and we're going to use the hashtag pimp and Joy because of her

Twitter handle. And I was like, oh my gosh. And then from that like everything rolled out and it's been it's almost it's been something you know for me, I feel like I've always you know, relied on there's a verse romans just a paraphrase. It's like God's gonna work for the good of those who love them and those that are called according to His purpose. Like, there's gonna be hard things in life, but I know that there's

going to be good that come from it. And that was almost like the prayer my mom had in the chapel the day that the cancer came back again. She said, Lord, just use this for good. Just use this for good. Whatever you do, just use this for good. And so every time a Pimp and Enjoy item is sold, or every time someone is pimp and Enjoy stuff, or someone is spreading joy or choosing joy for themselves, like, m I know it's so much bigger than that now, but

still not lost on us. It's it's still not lost, but I get that it's kind of taken legs of its own, and it's it's the shows, but like for me and my family, like every time we see that, I just need y'all to know. I mean, it's it's it's My brain instantly goes to my mom being like, Lord, just use this for good. And so every time that Pimp and Joy is used, so I'm like, it's been

used for good. Your cancer sucked, cancer sucks, but this is something that was used for good and it's continuing, like it will continue even with the word pimp in which is controversial, and I get it. I do think this was one of the examples of us having different strengths and then working together because you came and told the story to me first about your mom and the prayer and we will and it was like, I want to do Joy week for your mom hashtag Pimp and Joy.

And then we have a great friend named Mary Barnes and it's it's been us three that have been running Pimp and Joy and we don't keep any of the money and we find causes and we're able to help and we meaning not us in the room, not us in the studio, but the people that listen to this to buy the hats that we don't keep any of the money for ourselves and we never will. And for me, it was that little moment for you and your mom and it was how in the world can we take

this and make this a monster for greatness? And we are still building and we're we're not because it has but just because it already is, our listeners have allowed it, they've created it, and everyone's embraced it. If it's a dog that needs a surgery, or a family that needs food or a flood, or Christmas gifts for a kid, if it's St. Jude, you guys have been able to do that. And it's just like the perfect storm of things that have happened, um, that have allowed it. And

and I'm appreciative. Oh I'm so yeah, I'm beyond And it's crazy how big it has gotten. Um, yeah, of just T shirts and hats, because it's so it's so much bigger than that. Yeah, and it's it's yeah, it's me. It's a dumb it's a dumb name. It's a dumb word, but it's means it means so much more than that word means. So I mean, for if you listen to this, thank you, And then, um, I'm gonna talk about your

podcast for a second, because um I listen. I've been telling Ammy forever like you got to start doing your own thing too. You're not just my psydekick. You are strong enough to go that. You're so good. And so Amy has a podcast now that she hosts, so talk about that. Let's for love what Matters, which is a positive place we do tell me something good on the show, Like every it's well, I didn't steal it. Maybe they did,

but I didn't know. I'm just kidding about Love What Matters formed and they have a pretty big Facebook following and people. They have a website where people can submit the stories that feel good stories to inspire, to motivate, and and they saw the impact they were having and they decided they wanted to have a podcast. So they started asking around. They have relationships and radio. The guys live in in New York, and I guess they talked to some of our people and then it trinkled down

to you. And they kept asking for a name of who they should reach out to, and they kept hearing some girl named Amy that works for boy Bobby, and I was like what, I don't know, And then Bobby was like, you have to do this, you have to do this. I'm like, okay, I guess I guess I could do it. And so we're actually tomorrow. A new podcast goes up every week. You can Love what Matters dot Com is the website, um, but then on iTunes

you can just search the Love What Matters podcasts. It's free and and a new one loads every Wednesday, so tonight at midnight and then Wednesday morning, there'll be a new one up and um it'll be our third one. What I love seeing about it because we're running out of time here, is that this is an Amy thing. It's not a Bobby thing. It's just and I don't want it, and you've been Yeah, I almost so scared.

Bobby didn't want because he wasn't really saying much about it, and he's the one that you know, supported me doing it. I'm like, wait, do you want me to do it or not? Because you're not you're not saying anything about it. And you're like, that's the point. This is something I want you to do. That's you know, if you and even I know exactly said because this is something you tell yourself. You're like, you need to go after it

with everything. If it fails, it fails because of you, or if it's a success, it's a success because of you. Isn't that what you told me? It's true, It's true. I don't want people going, well, Bobby was promoting right, And I don't think that's why you're like now bringing it up on the podcast. I don't think that's not it at all, but people on the podcast and I actually think it's really great. Um and but yeah, it's

it's definitely a you thing. And what's it's cool is the company uses you more by yourself like it's wonderful. I love it, like I can't get a knife enough of it. Well, I don't want to because I don't jealousy, zerope or cent like. I don't like a lot of the stuff that I do anything boys like I need a rap held me out here. Um So anyway, Mike, we're gonna wrap anything that we didn't hit that you think. Um, I don't know what we talked about, but it was

it anything that we'd like to know? Who does the show recap? Here? Do you remember when I used to type the show recap every day? You guys listening, we don't do anymore. But let's not bring that back during the ship And then sometimes we do it after the show and be like, what do we talk about in the eight a m And none of us would know? Just make it up. We really started. I had one microphone and there was another microphone, lunchbuck to have a microphone.

It's crazy to think of now and people you know, depending who you talk to another radio dj IS and other other companies you know, we're the big bad guy because we're the biggest show in the format and one of the biggest in the country, and that's great, and we were I'm happy to be there, and I'm happy to be uh the ambassador for the format, and I'm happy to be whatever whatever I get called, from good to bad, to the savior to the worst person in the format, I get called it all, all of it,

and happy for it. What I'm happy is about is that we started. We weren't supposed to make it. It It was just some friends in a room that was about a third of the size of this tiny bedroom they're in right now. But with your your work ethic in the way, you kind of again are the you. You allow us to be us, but yet you control us at the same not not control, but you contain us,

like you keep us there. But it's you you are really good at It is a craft, I know it just it is organic and we are just being us. But at the same time you're kind of piecing everything together and you do it well. But at the same time, you know you've you've allowed the show to be used for good and you continue to do that and you get more of that as time goes on, and that's exciting to see as we grow, the more you want to do for others and then also what you do

for what you do for artists. I don't I'm not a big music I didn't get into radio because I'm a big music person and you are. And I like that about you and that you share with us. I feel like sometimes I'm just a listener even though I'm

on the show with you. Like finding new music and finding new artists because you bring it to the table and I feel like that's that's It's a little this part of the secret to the success is that you're you're You're outside of the box, and I'm thankful to be your boy outside of the box, but I'm thankful to be be a part of it. And like I I don't know where my life would be had I not met you in Colver's that day. Where would yours be?

Love what Matters dot com? Yes, yes once. Also, you can download podcast I'd love free to subscribe to it, listen to it. Thanks to Amy for me an episode ten um I saw some I gotta say thanks to people to listen to this too, because it's now the number one most listen to let me read. I can read you the data if I got it today. Do

you care? Yeah? I care. Um, I'm proud of it because it's this is different and it's not perfect, but in any way, but I'm proud that we're able to bring on artists that aren't big names and the writers, and we can bring back in that back kind of the back ways in Nashville you may not know about. I can bring Amy on my friend. Number one total listening hours, number one daily cume of people listening, number one weekly listener. So I appreciate everybody for making this

thing work. It's really been um in ten episodes, growing far more than I thought it was. Mike and I in the studio at Radio Amy got Radio Amy. Now that all these people are listening, hit me up. I'm on Instagram and on Twitter, come on snatchat but snapchat on Radio Amy Amy, because Radio Amy was taken Radio Amy. And I said at Mike d stro d e E s t r o at Mike de stro At, Mr Bobby Balance, thank you guys so much, and thanks again to Amy. And that's the rap