On this episode of the BobbyCast, Bobby does another solo podcast because he believes he is being blackballed by Dancing With the Stars. He thinks the show has blackballed him because he has never been invited back to any season finales or show reunions, and his friend who works for the show also thinks somebody is keeping him out on purpose. Bobby then goes over a list of some of the most memorable celebrities to be blackballed, including Madonna, Justin Bieber, Ron Artest, and more! And Bobby does round 2 of fan Q&A: what drives him to succeed, talking reality . And he exchanged some DMs with Lionel Richie, and Lionel invited him to a show!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
So I wanted to do this bobbycast about being black
bald and celebrities that have been either kicked out of
places or black bald from things, because I do think
that's what's happened to me. Now, I don't have official paperwork,
I don't have a signed letter. There's been no big
public announcement about this, but in my opinion, and that
opinion is based on some facts, some vibes, some people
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that started suddenly pretending like I didn't exist, I do
believe that I've been black bald from Dancing with the Stars.
This trophy right here, I'm the former champ. After I
won the Mirror Ball. I guess they decided there's a
do not invite back list and I'm on it. So
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I don't think it really even bothered me because I
didn't notice it. Therefore I never acknowledged it until somebody
that works within the organization was like, hey, yeah, you
don't get invited back, and I don't really know why.
So I don't get invited back to the finales. I
don't get invited to even stand in the crowd awkwardly
and clap in sequence like some of the people do,
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and some of my friends that have been on the
show do get invited back. They haven't even won the show.
I have been back two times, and that was because
I had a friend on the show, and that's because
I called them and said, hey, I'm coming back, and
so look, I get it just on this show specifically,
and I do have the mirror ball. If you're watching
this on YouTube, right here beside me, just so you know,
I'm not lying. I was the greatest dance champion ever.
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But I was not a great dancer. I was a
great vote getter, and maybe that messed up their whole system.
In fact, it did because they changed the rules the
season right after I left to make sure that good
people wouldn't get kicked off the show. But I do
feel a that I loved my time on the show.
It was awesome. I do feel like I was the
least difficult person to work with on the show. I
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think generally I'm a very easy person to work with.
I mean, on that show, I was gone half the time.
I was either training in Nashville and the show shoots
in LA and I would get back in time to
do the show, or I was on the road on
the weekends because the show shot on Monday, and I
would tour and do stand up Friday night and Saturday
night and get back to Los Angeles. I mean my
partner Sharna listen. I don't know why, but she wasn't
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even on the show for years after we won. I
think this is the first year she finally gets to
go back. So if you've ever been politely ghosted by
Ballroom Dance, I know your pain, because I do feel
like I've been black bald from Dancing with the Stars.
But this episode isn't all about that, but it's kind
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of what inspired me to do this episode. So today
we're diving into some of the other famous people who've
been banned or booted or black baled or just kicked out,
or however you want to describe it. Because if I'm
going down, I'm going down with the lead company, and
let's start. I think I have eleven of these. It's
a weird number. Have oddly numbered list all the time.
At number eleven, Shinead O'Connor. The date was October third,
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nineteen ninety two. Shnead O'Connor performed Bob Marley's War on
Saturday Night Live. Now that's not a song that I
know super well. I know, don't worry bad a thing.
I know that one. I know three Little Birds? Is
that the same song I was just singing.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So she's performing and it's an a cappella performance, and
at the end of her performance, she holds up a
picture of Pope John Paul the Second and she rips
it in half on live television. I was not watching
when she did this, but I've seen the clip a
bunch of times. In nineteen ninety two, I was twelve.
I don't think I knew anything one about Bob Marley
or really Shnead O'Connor, and I think I was just
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now getting into SNL. And also, if you didn't watch
it live, you kind of didn't see it. Back then,
it wasn't like now where everything lives online. But she
rips that picture in half and says, fight the real enemy,
and what she was doing was protesting child abuse in
the Catholic Church. This is years before the scandals that
we know now were widely publicized, so NBC was crushed
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with complaints. Lauren Michaels banned her from returning to Saturday
Night Live, and that pretty much derailed her US career.
Now she was seen as being ahead of her time
because years later, you know what happens, all that kind
of comes out about all those priests that were touching kids. Yeah,
that's exactly what happened, exactly what she was talking about.
She rips the picture and says, no, let's not let
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this happen. But she was kicked off and she ultimately
lost her career because of it. I think you would
know her from one song, Nothing Compares to You. There's
actually a Prince song that she sang and made a
massive hit, but that was it. She was kicked off
SNL and basically didn't have a chance to be a
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pop star in America. Next up, and we can do
SNL again. As Martin Lawrence nineteen ninety four, he was
hosting SNL, he goes off script in his monologu and
it's very graphic, and it was an extended rant about
women's hygiene, specifically vaginal oder you know, and in the nineties,
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I mean even today on SNL, you'd be like, what's
even happening there? In the nineties even weirder because nobody
did that. NBC obviously freaked out. They cut the monologue
from their reruns and they put them on an unofficial blacklist,
and he didn't return to the show for over twenty years.
The incident became legendary because again, here's SNL again telling
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somebody else you can't come on. But it also felt
like Martin Lawrence was testing how far he could go,
and he found the line. I've done that a few
times where you're like, I'm wonder and then you find
the line real quick. Another time that I was kicked
out of somewhere was it's probably early two thousands. I
went to Texas State University to speak to a class
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about radio and television broadcasting. And I went specifically into
the radio class and there's probably about thirty kids there,
and there were all ask some questions, and I remember
saying to them, Hey, look, if you're in college just
to study radio, you're wasting your time. Like either get
started working for real, Like if this is what you
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want to do, get started working for real, because you
don't need college. But if you're in college, that's great.
I didn't, you know, I didn't know anybody, None of
my family went to college. I wanted to be the
first person to graduate college. And if you're in college
for that reason, that's awesome, but find a different thing
to get your degree in. So I go on, I
give this speech, and I felt like, that's pretty real
with them, and I was like, if you're studying radio,
don't study radio. Get that in the real world. But
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if you want to stay in college, learn something else.
That can be something you can fall back on. About
a week later, I got a letter in the mail,
the actual physical mail sent to the radio station, saying
I was never invited back to speak at Texas State University.
Pretty much Martin Lawrence in the Vaginal Odor. That's very
very similar things there. Elvis Presley was censored on the
at SULVN show Elvis performed in nineteen fifty six. You've
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probably seeing the clips. CBS refused to show him from
the waist down because his hips was basically sex on
black and white television vulgar. I mean, that's what they said,
like the TV guide remember when that was the thing.
But Ed Sullivan had said he was not gonna book
Elvis at all, but he did want the ratings. And
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so Elvis comes on dances, they don't show below his hips.
He comes on again, They're like, dude, you got to
chill out a little bit, he doesn't chill out. They're like,
we're never gonna invite him back. But the ratings, like
I said, had been going up and up, so they
had them back and they showed full body. And the
thing about censoring somebody is once people find out somebody's
being censored, they really want to see what's being kept
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from them. So once they showed Elvis and full body, like,
part of his appeal was we're not supposed to see this,
and he kept doing it. And that's kind of what
we know Elvis for. If you were doing an impression,
it involves a lot of hip gyration well and lip
like this. This is not a good sample of me
doing the lip, but that kind of that looks like
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I have having a seizure. The visual amazing Madonna was banned
from the Vatican. In nineteen eighty nine, Madonna released Like
a Prayer, which showed her kissing a saint, dancing in
front of Bernie Crosses, and basically challenging a lot of
Catholic imagery. The Vatican condemned it immediately, which again, once
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they did that, it just made it bigger. I think
that's something you're also going to see is that once
people publicly say, yep, that's true, we no longer allow you,
or we no longer want you to do ABC or D,
then whatever they're not wanted to do actually becomes bigger
and more meaningful. Her nineteen ninety Blonde Ambition tour, she
had that and Pope John Paul the Second called for
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a boycott of her concerts in Italy, accusing her of
satanic behavior. And you know what Madonna did, She just
did more because she knew all the press it was
bringing to her shows, and so that kind of made
her under the massive pop star that she was. Yep,
you gotta have talent. Yep, the timing's got to be right.
But also if the right people push against you and
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you push back, you're even bigger because of it. And
so you saw that happen to Madonna, and she's one
of the biggest pop stars in the history of you know,
American pop music. We can talk about Pete Rose, who
forever was banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now
this is a bit different because he now is not
banned from the Hall of Fame. He's not in yet,
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but once he died, he's now allowed to be in
so he's baseball's all time hits leader two hundred and
fifty six hits. He was banned for life in nineteen
eighty nine because there was an investigation into him betting
on games while being a manager of a team. That
team was Cincinnati Reds, and he said he never bet
against his team because that'd be cheating, right, because if
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you bet against your team, you can actually make decisions
to make your team lose. Therefore, you would make more
money because you're a manager and you're betting, and you
obviously have insider information, even if you're betting on your
team to win or you're betting on other teams. Once
he admitted to the gambling, they were like, you're out,
You're done. So he has admitted he's signed a bunch
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of balls. I'm sorry I bet on baseball. He lobbied
for reinstatement, very divisive figure while he was alive and forever.
The Hall of Fame refused to consider him, but just
even a few weeks ago they have now said, now
that he's died, he can be up for the Baseball
Hall of Fame, which is kind of crazy, like, if
you're gonna let him be, I don't know, can you
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like death bet him like a special rule where if
someone's dying and it's closed, you like throw him in
real quick. But yeah, he'll never get to see that.
That's crazy. Tanya Harding was banned for life from US
figure skating. Now we'll go back to the nineties for
this one. In nineteen ninety four, Tanya Harding's ex husband,
Jeff Gilllooley, and her bodyguard they attacked Nancy Carrigan. Nancy
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Carigan was her skating rival. They were both from the
United States. They were both gonna go to the Olympics,
and they later did go to the Olympics. Nancy Kerrigan
did I believe Kerrigan ended up bronzing. But they popped
Nancy Kerrigan in the leg. They clubbed her in the
knee with like a stick, so she was unable to
compete and like the US Championship, one of the US ones.
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So Tanya Harding denied knowing in advance that it was happening,
but evidence showed that she knew after, but she was
never found guilty of being a part of actually planning
or clubbing Nancy Kerrigan in the knee, which, by the way,
if you've never seen. I think it's Eitan yet with
Margot Robbie. You should watch that. It's awesome, like Margot
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Robbie kind of kills it. I think Tanya Harding did
Dancing with the Stars too. Justice for Tanya Harding now
I don't know about justice, but she pled guilty to
hindering prosecution. She was banned for life by the US
Figure Skating Association. No Olympics. I do think though, that
Nancy Carrigan bronzed Brandon. We looked that up. For me,
say if Nancy Kerrigan medled in that Tanya Harding was
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all over the tabloids and then I Tanya was nominated
for an Oscar way later on run our Test. If
we're staying in the athletic world, he was suspended eighty
six games. Now he wasn't kicked out of anything for
life or black ball, but this is a massive suspension.
If we go back to two thousand and four, The
Malice of the Palace, there's a documentary on Netflix. You
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should watch that if you don't remember the game, and
we probably weren't watching the game live as it happened,
because you're talking about just a regular NBA regular season game.
And so this happens as pacers and pistons and there
are people, they're fighting the fans. It is unbelievable. Like
when this is over or pause this, go look at
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the clips of malice in the palace. So a fan
threw a drink at run our Tests as it was
going down and he charges into this. I'm talking about
swinging hard. Players are fighting, players are fighting fans, Fans
are throwing stuff. Ron oar Test was suspended for the
rest of the season eighty six games, the longest suspension
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for an on court incident. It changed league policies. Security increased,
still has increased. Alcohol sales were reduced, like there's a
cutoff point. And that was to a time when NBA
image control became a priority. Dude, it's crazy to look
back at. And now they've also done documentaries with the
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players talking about that night and they're all they all
get along now pretty much. Br Anyway, you seven weeks
Nancy Carrigan won silver seven weeks. Hey, better than bronze
by one. And there's your factor the night the silver
is better than bronze by one.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
The Rolling Stones were banned from complete cities in the
late sixties and early seventies. The Rolling Stones were blacklisted
from entire cities due to how rawity their fans would get,
also drug busts and arrests. We can go to Boston
nineteen seventy two, the mayor was starting to cancel their
show because of fan riots in New York City. There
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were drug arrests, and they had been suspected of excitement
of rowdy crowds. Really, the Rolling Stones were just a
symbol of anti establishment and rebellion through music, and that
was a time when there was a lot of anti
establishment sentiment. And I think that also helped fuel their
mystique because these politicians, which are just like white dudes
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with insecurity issues, saying we don't like the Rolling Stones.
It made people love the Rolling Stones even more. Justin
Bieber was banned from China in twenty seventeen. China's Mystery
of Culture cited Bieber with quote bad behavior, with quote
bad behavior, and a need to purify the entertainment environment,
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and that included public outburg shirtless annex at the Great
Wall because he's up on the Wall, but he was
shirtless a lot. I guess you just don't do that
on the Great Wall. He also was caught drag racing
in Miami, but that's not even China. But China has
not lifted the band as of right now. Of Justin
Bieber from their country. Oasis was banned from a specific
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airline and from MTV for a long time. They're back
together now, which is pretty cool. But those guys hated
each other. But the Gallagher brothers were a disaster. They
were kicked off a Cathay Pacific flight in nineteen ninety eight.
Liam was smoking, drunk and harassing passengers, so the airline
banned them. I've not heard of that airline, but it
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is pretty baller to be banned by an entire airline. Also,
it's funny that they were harassing the passengers. It wasn't
the passengers harassing them for like an autograph. He was
so messed up, apparently allegedly that he was harassing the
people on the plane. We can also go to nineteen
ninety six MPTB unplugged. Noel agreed to play without Liam
because Liam pulled out last minute, because Liam was like,
my throat hurts and then you may have seen the
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video where Liam is then in the balcony like heckling
the crowd and his brother on stage, so his throat
wasn't heard in that bad But they were banned from
MTV for that. They were banned from multiple UK festivals.
They would walk off of shows all the time. But
again because it was so shared when there wasn't social
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media and shared equals celebrated. It made them so known.
And once they were so known, usually you liked their music.
They made great music, and so they were adored. They
were hated a little, but mostly they were adored. And
I thought it was pretty cool that Oasis announced it
getting back together. Imagine all the millions of dollars they
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gave up by just being brothers who didn't want to
talk to each other. I have one other one and
it's Hank william Senior who was banned from the Grand
Ole Opry. Yeah, I'm talking about the Hank Williams. Like,
if you were to do a mount rushmore country artists
in the history of country music, Hank Williams would be
one of the people you'd put up. There were for
most people, you know, you're cheat and hard. That guy
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He pretty much built the Opry stage with his sound,
and then he got banned in nineteen fifty two. Hank
was the biggest starr in country music, but behind the
scenes he was what a lot of artists at that
time were, and that was struggling alcoholism, chronic back pain
and now and we know this now because we have
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more knowledge of the situation mental health issues. So he
would play the Opry, but then he started missing Opry performances,
and then when he would show up, a lot of
the time he would show up drunk or just wouldn't
show up at all. The Opry, known back then for
being very strict and for being squeaky clean, had a
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three strikes in year out energy, so they fired him
and straight up banned him and told him don't come
back until you get sober. And he never made it back.
He died a year later at the age of twenty nine,
in the backseat of a Cadillac. He never stepped foot
on the Opry stage again. Now decades later, there were
petitions and campaigns to reinstate him after his death, but
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the Opry never officially lifted the band because to be
a member of the Opry, you've got to be alive,
so you can't really put someone dead in the opry
based on the current opry rules. So he died banned
from the Grand Ole Opry. So that whole situation became
a symbol of how strict the rules were back then
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and how those same rules cost country music. Really one
of the country music's brightest lights, which was Hank Senior,
you know, one of the people that made country music
super famous. So what I'm saying by all that is,
I'm basically like all those people. I'm just like Hank Senior,
Ron Artest, Snead O'Connor, Oasis, and Justin Bieber. That's right.
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And I know I've not been banned officially from Dancing
with the Stars, But when you go from winning a
national TV show to you know, not even getting a
like when you post a funny comment on the Dancing
with the Stars Instagram page, you know what's up. And
you know what, I'm fine with it. I never would
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have thought about it until someone called to tell me.
I didn't even realize I was banned until someone called
to say, hey, you're banned. I don't need the glitter
under my eyes. I don't need the two two that
I wore. I just need this trophy right here, and
you know what I have it. It's the people's trophy
right there. But if they ever want to do a
redemption season for people who were quietly banned, I'm ready
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to chat chah, I'm ready to get back in it. No,
I I was pretty terrible, But that's the homework I
put into me getting what I think is banned from
Dancing with the Stars. See, that's what I'm motivated by
when people tell me that you can't do that anymore.
I appreciate all the feedback from the last episode that
I did by myself here, and I have five other
questions that you guys have sent me since then. You
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can always DM me questions. I think this is a
fun way to kind of, you know, put a button
on these episodes. Number one, Dear Bobby, what do people
assume about your success that isn't true? And I want
to just assign this to whatever success that I've had,
but I will assign this to the athletic success success
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in the business world. And I think, you know, I'll
talk to Eddie or some of my other friends about
this and they'll go, well, that quarterback won a super Bowl.
He's probably good, Like he's probably checking out now. And
I think my statement back to them is whatever is
ingrained in you, because in order to be wildly successful
at something, first of all, there is a ton of
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sacrifice in other parts of your life. Secondly, whatever screw
is loose, it has got to be the right screw.
But that screw doesn't screw itself back in after you've
quote made it. There really isn't a finish line for
somebody who's already mentally unstable. And that's what wildly successful
people are for the most part, Like there's something missing
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in the lives of those people that they feel they
have to make up for through whatever they're trying to
have success in. And for me it's been whatever, radio podcast,
spoken word books, whatever that case is. And I think
the most misunderstood thing is that you just get to
a point and then once you reach that point, you're like,
I'm all good now, I think I'm on a coast
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if anything gets the opposite, because you get to the
point and you start to be scared that it was
a fluke, or people think it's a fluke, or it's
not gonna last, or you're becoming irrelevant. So I think
that probably the most misunderstood thing about success, especially in
the entertainment world or in the athletic world sports, that
you get to a point you crush it and you're like, well,
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I got there, I'm good now, Because if anything, I
think it's very much the opposite of that. Next up, Hey, Bobby,
do you think you're more driven by fear or ambition?
I think my ambition is created by fear and insecurity.
Much like that first question, I think most of what
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I do is fear based. I think any success I've
had has been fear based success. I think my fear
comes from growing up very poor, moving around a whole lot,
living in a trailer park, not being able to have
three meals a day every day, sometimes not seeing an
adult for a few days, you know, when you're ten, eleven,
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twelve years old and kind of having to figure it
out yourself. And so I think a lot of my
I'm going to be successful started with I'm going to
get the he out of here, and how do you
get out of here? It is to be extremely disciplined.
I think disciplined consistency are the two hardest things. I
never really try to be dynamic. If it happens, that's awesome,
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But you can't remain dynamic forever or all the time.
What you can do pretty much all the time is
be consistent and have discipline. Like that's the real success.
I don't need somebody that's like amazing some and then
pretty crappy other times. I kind of mid others, even
for people that I work with, Like, if they're not consistent,
they're not going to be a part of the team.
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And I'm out looking for A plus efforts followed by
a C and then maybe an F and back to
an A. I don't care about that. If it's bes
all the time, that's awesome, as long as you're giving
me solid bees and solid effort all the time. But
I would say I'm driven far more by fear and insecurity,
or at least was still am But it used to
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be really like running on red you get in the car.
I don't, but you know how you see in movies
where people hit the gas and it goes over to
the red. I think that's what the first thirty seven
years of my life were just on red the entire time.
And when you're on red, because I've seen it in
television on the movies Boom sometimes it blows up, and
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I've had a couple of those.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Next up, what's the weirdest or funniest fan interaction you've
ever had? Well, when it comes to people saying what's up,
I love it because that means you appreciate or it
consume something that I do. But I think the weirdest
is probably in the bathroom. There have been multiple times
where a dude has come up while I'm at the journal,
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and it's kind of weird in the bathroom anyway, because
that's such a odd, personal, vulnerable place, but especially when
you're junk is out, and I also realize no one's
coming up to me because they see my junk and
they want to see my junk. But mostly it's like, oh, dude, Bobby,
what's up? And I literally got it in my hand,
So that's weird. Once I was at a urinal and
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there's a urinal right next to a stall and the
stall obviously there's a wall and there's a commode because
that's why there's a stall. But the dude stands on
the commode, looks over and goes Bobby Bones, I knew
that was you, and as he looks over, I mean,
you're looking right down on my dangling. So that's probably
the weirdest. I think if I were to list one, two,
and three, all three would be in a public bathroom somewhere.
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I appreciate the love, and I know that it's never
on purpose. Two more questions, Hey, Bobby, do you think
reality TV helps or hurts someone's career? It's funny because
they did not know we were doing this episode on
how I've been blackballed allegedly. I think it used to
be double edged, and I think it used to be
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held against people, especially in the world that we live
in a country music and in Nashville, because they would
come off the Voice or American Idol and people would
look at them as just a reality contestant who's now
trying to make it. But now nothing matters. And I
say that in a great way, like nothing matters, but
everything matters, but nothing matters so much that it alone
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is going to make or break someone's career. So when
people say, hey, should I go on a show for me,
it's yeah, because you're just exposing yourself to more people.
And I think now and the four years that I
was on American Idol, they don't force you into contracts anymore.
If you get to a certain point, you don't have
to sign this major deal with them. Were back in
the day day when those shows were killing. If you
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made it to a certain point, you were then signed.
You were obligated to be with whatever that entity was.
I know there were certain people during the American Idol days,
back way before I was on, when it was like
a monster, that would leave right as they got in
the top twelve because they did not want to be
bound to whatever that agreement was. That doesn't happen anymore,
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And the main reason it doesn't happen anymore is because
people just won't go on the show. If you're thinking
about it, like I don't know do I want to
do this, and then you see, well, if I make it,
I then have to sign with this management or this label.
That's going to cut down eighty percent of the people
that would even think about doing the show. So what
I would say is, dude, go get on it. Get
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on everything, because the more things you get on, the
more people can see you. And it's all about building
your base. The people that are going to come to
your shows are going to buy your merch that's it.
And those shows will do that now. And you know,
if you look back to I think just about everyone
has tried at some point to get on one of
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those shows. If you're an artist now and you've been
in the game for ten years or less, you probably
either tried to get on and didn't, got on and
get kicked off early, or got on and did okay.
Morgan Wallin was on the Voice. He's like singing pop
songs with like longer ish hair. I think Maren Morris
talked about how she got rejected for Idol. I think
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Hillary Scott from Ladya same thing, like tried out for
American Idol and didn't get it, and it's always you
was like, well, look how terrible idol was there is
But mostly those shows are TV shows. They're looking for
kinds of artists and they need to fill certain buckets.
And then also it's mostly just like low level producers
doing those entry rounds where they just watched much people singing,
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like the people that kind of sound good they put
through they may not even understand what they're looking at.
So it's very low level people in those early rounds
that are watching all the singers, and then they have
like five thousand singers a day, so people are bound
to slip through the cracks. All right, that's it. We
did it again. We did it again. Who's that we
did it again. I want to tell you a quick story.
(29:00):
So I was on Instagram the other night. Is about
two thirty in the morning. I have trouble sleeping. So
when I wake up, now I know my body enough.
That's like, if I wake up at two two thirty
in the morning, just get up, go into the kitchen,
eat some cereal, restart, then get back in the bed.
I tried for a long time just to keep my
eyes and shut and just like, come on, we can
(29:20):
go back and sleep. That never works. And having had
dealt with these issues now for probably two years, what
works for me best is almost going like all right,
here we go. I'm up, let's start over, and let's
rewind down. But the problem is I'm not always in
my right mind whenever it's two thirty in the morning,
because I've awoken right in the middle of sleep. I'm
(29:46):
still kind of tired, but I'm not so sleepy that
I fall asleep but my brain's not on full capacity,
and so I end up writing things or buying things,
like I bought some stuff that we open up here
on the sports YouTube page, like autograph balls, and it
all came back his garbage. But I spent like close
to one thousand dollars on all this stuff, and none
of it was good. But I was on Instagram and
(30:08):
I saw Lionel Richie post that he's doing all these shows,
and I'm like, dude, I'm in I got to come
to one of these shows. I wrote that in a
message on Instagram story to Lionel Richie and he responded
the next day, because he does his own social media
at least reads it, and he goes, just tell me
which show, and I go back and I look at
it and the entire show list is all European shows.
(30:29):
So he's in Europe for like the next two months.
And now I've committed to go watch Lionel Richie in Europe.
And I love Lionel and I know Lionel, and Lionel
has been awesome to me in my career, especially on
American Idol. He was great, so kind. But his manager
reached out to it was like, hey, Lionel says, you
want to come to one of his shows in Europe,
like tell Us, which show Lionel would love to see you,
(30:50):
Let's go. And I'm like, oh no, I just committed
to go into Europe to watch Lionel Richie. I wish
I could go in America to watch Lionel Richie. Then
he sent me a message last night he goes, how
about Copenhagen, And I'm like, I don't dip. That's not
what he meant. He wanted me to come to Copenhagen.
I knew what he meant. I was just kind of kidding.
So now I've got to decide if I'm going to
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go to Europe to watch Lionel Richie do a concert,
which I would love to do. I tried to go
watch him once in Hawaii because American Idol would send
us out every year to Hawaii. We would work from
the Disney Resort and it was one of the stages
before the Top twelve. So I went from like forty
to twelve so every year, and that is a long
(31:32):
trip from Nashville. It is a long trip. For two
of those trips, I think I flew Delta later on
Luke Brian and I would fly private and we would
go out together, and that was pretty baller. Not gonna
lie to you, But for the first couple of years,
I'd fly Delta and I remember Lionel saying, Hey, I'm
gonna do a show before we start shooting. I don't
(31:53):
in Hawaii. You should come out. So I left a
day early. I'm going out. I get on the flight
because Ida was paying for it. It was first class, and
I'm sitting in the first class seat and I start
to feel terrible and I tell the flight attendant, Hey,
I'm not feeling very good. Do you have any like advil?
My head was killing me, and so she gives me stuff.
I'm drinking a bunch of water, but I just feel
it like come over me. And so I go into
(32:14):
the bathroom and I vomit hard into the toilet in
the bathroom and I'm like, boy, this is this is
not good. Go back to my seat. My head's still
killing me, and I say, hey, just keep the waters coming.
I need a blanket. I'm like freezing. At the same time,
back to the bathroom, I'm vomiting again. At this point,
(32:36):
I realize I'm gonna be in the bathroom for a
long time because I'm just not feeling good and vomiting
every two or three minutes. But I'm also in like
a airplane bathroom, so as I'm vomiting, and as I'm
sitting there, because when you vomit too, you're also like
you're out of breath, You're feeling disgusting. I'm also scrubbing
the bathroom with wet paper towels because if I'm gonna
(32:57):
be trapped in there, I don't be laying in everybody's
And so I was probably in that bathroom for like
fifty minutes. And I remember as I was sitting on
the floor, opening that bathroom door, and imagine you're a
flight attendant and you see some guys head down at
the bottom of the bathroom door, and I put my
head on. I'm like, hey, I'm gonna be here for
a while. I'm pretty sick. But when I left, cleanest
(33:18):
bathroom in the history of Delta, that's what I heard. Now,
that's what I made up. But I did not get
to go to the Linel show because as soon as
I landed, I went to bed, and I was sick
for that day and then got to go shoot. So
maybe I should go to Europe, but man, that is
a long flight. I do love Lionel. All right, that
is it. Thank you guys, appreciate you. Please subscribe to
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guys next time. I will say next week, but next time.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
By everybody, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production
So I wanted to do this bobbycast about being black
bald and celebrities that have been either kicked out of
places or black bald from things, because I do think
that's what's happened to me. Now, I don't have official paperwork,
I don't have a signed letter. There's been no big
public announcement about this, but in my opinion, and that
opinion is based on some facts, some vibes, some people
(00:32):
that started suddenly pretending like I didn't exist, I do
believe that I've been black bald from Dancing with the Stars.
This trophy right here, I'm the former champ. After I
won the Mirror Ball. I guess they decided there's a
do not invite back list and I'm on it. So
(00:55):
I don't think it really even bothered me because I
didn't notice it. Therefore I never acknowledged it until somebody
that works within the organization was like, hey, yeah, you
don't get invited back, and I don't really know why.
So I don't get invited back to the finales. I
don't get invited to even stand in the crowd awkwardly
and clap in sequence like some of the people do,
(01:17):
and some of my friends that have been on the
show do get invited back. They haven't even won the show.
I have been back two times, and that was because
I had a friend on the show, and that's because
I called them and said, hey, I'm coming back, and
so look, I get it just on this show specifically,
and I do have the mirror ball. If you're watching
this on YouTube, right here beside me, just so you know,
I'm not lying. I was the greatest dance champion ever.
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But I was not a great dancer. I was a
great vote getter, and maybe that messed up their whole system.
In fact, it did because they changed the rules the
season right after I left to make sure that good
people wouldn't get kicked off the show. But I do
feel a that I loved my time on the show.
It was awesome. I do feel like I was the
least difficult person to work with on the show. I
(02:01):
think generally I'm a very easy person to work with.
I mean, on that show, I was gone half the time.
I was either training in Nashville and the show shoots
in LA and I would get back in time to
do the show, or I was on the road on
the weekends because the show shot on Monday, and I
would tour and do stand up Friday night and Saturday
night and get back to Los Angeles. I mean my
partner Sharna listen. I don't know why, but she wasn't
(02:24):
even on the show for years after we won. I
think this is the first year she finally gets to
go back. So if you've ever been politely ghosted by
Ballroom Dance, I know your pain, because I do feel
like I've been black bald from Dancing with the Stars.
But this episode isn't all about that, but it's kind
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of what inspired me to do this episode. So today
we're diving into some of the other famous people who've
been banned or booted or black baled or just kicked out,
or however you want to describe it. Because if I'm
going down, I'm going down with the lead company, and
let's start. I think I have eleven of these. It's
a weird number. Have oddly numbered list all the time.
At number eleven, Shinead O'Connor. The date was October third,
(03:07):
nineteen ninety two. Shnead O'Connor performed Bob Marley's War on
Saturday Night Live. Now that's not a song that I
know super well. I know, don't worry bad a thing.
I know that one. I know three Little Birds? Is
that the same song I was just singing.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So she's performing and it's an a cappella performance, and
at the end of her performance, she holds up a
picture of Pope John Paul the Second and she rips
it in half on live television. I was not watching
when she did this, but I've seen the clip a
bunch of times. In nineteen ninety two, I was twelve.
I don't think I knew anything one about Bob Marley
or really Shnead O'Connor, and I think I was just
(03:45):
now getting into SNL. And also, if you didn't watch
it live, you kind of didn't see it. Back then,
it wasn't like now where everything lives online. But she
rips that picture in half and says, fight the real enemy,
and what she was doing was protesting child abuse in
the Catholic Church. This is years before the scandals that
we know now were widely publicized, so NBC was crushed
(04:07):
with complaints. Lauren Michaels banned her from returning to Saturday
Night Live, and that pretty much derailed her US career.
Now she was seen as being ahead of her time
because years later, you know what happens, all that kind
of comes out about all those priests that were touching kids. Yeah,
that's exactly what happened, exactly what she was talking about.
She rips the picture and says, no, let's not let
(04:29):
this happen. But she was kicked off and she ultimately
lost her career because of it. I think you would
know her from one song, Nothing Compares to You. There's
actually a Prince song that she sang and made a
massive hit, but that was it. She was kicked off
SNL and basically didn't have a chance to be a
(04:50):
pop star in America. Next up, and we can do
SNL again. As Martin Lawrence nineteen ninety four, he was
hosting SNL, he goes off script in his monologu and
it's very graphic, and it was an extended rant about
women's hygiene, specifically vaginal oder you know, and in the nineties,
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I mean even today on SNL, you'd be like, what's
even happening there? In the nineties even weirder because nobody
did that. NBC obviously freaked out. They cut the monologue
from their reruns and they put them on an unofficial blacklist,
and he didn't return to the show for over twenty years.
The incident became legendary because again, here's SNL again telling
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somebody else you can't come on. But it also felt
like Martin Lawrence was testing how far he could go,
and he found the line. I've done that a few
times where you're like, I'm wonder and then you find
the line real quick. Another time that I was kicked
out of somewhere was it's probably early two thousands. I
went to Texas State University to speak to a class
(05:55):
about radio and television broadcasting. And I went specifically into
the radio class and there's probably about thirty kids there,
and there were all ask some questions, and I remember
saying to them, Hey, look, if you're in college just
to study radio, you're wasting your time. Like either get
started working for real, Like if this is what you
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want to do, get started working for real, because you
don't need college. But if you're in college, that's great.
I didn't, you know, I didn't know anybody, None of
my family went to college. I wanted to be the
first person to graduate college. And if you're in college
for that reason, that's awesome, but find a different thing
to get your degree in. So I go on, I
give this speech, and I felt like, that's pretty real
with them, and I was like, if you're studying radio,
don't study radio. Get that in the real world. But
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if you want to stay in college, learn something else.
That can be something you can fall back on. About
a week later, I got a letter in the mail,
the actual physical mail sent to the radio station, saying
I was never invited back to speak at Texas State University.
Pretty much Martin Lawrence in the Vaginal Odor. That's very
very similar things there. Elvis Presley was censored on the
at SULVN show Elvis performed in nineteen fifty six. You've
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probably seeing the clips. CBS refused to show him from
the waist down because his hips was basically sex on
black and white television vulgar. I mean, that's what they said,
like the TV guide remember when that was the thing.
But Ed Sullivan had said he was not gonna book
Elvis at all, but he did want the ratings. And
(07:20):
so Elvis comes on dances, they don't show below his hips.
He comes on again, They're like, dude, you got to
chill out a little bit, he doesn't chill out. They're like,
we're never gonna invite him back. But the ratings, like
I said, had been going up and up, so they
had them back and they showed full body. And the
thing about censoring somebody is once people find out somebody's
being censored, they really want to see what's being kept
(07:43):
from them. So once they showed Elvis and full body, like,
part of his appeal was we're not supposed to see this,
and he kept doing it. And that's kind of what
we know Elvis for. If you were doing an impression,
it involves a lot of hip gyration well and lip
like this. This is not a good sample of me
doing the lip, but that kind of that looks like
(08:04):
I have having a seizure. The visual amazing Madonna was banned
from the Vatican. In nineteen eighty nine, Madonna released Like
a Prayer, which showed her kissing a saint, dancing in
front of Bernie Crosses, and basically challenging a lot of
Catholic imagery. The Vatican condemned it immediately, which again, once
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they did that, it just made it bigger. I think
that's something you're also going to see is that once
people publicly say, yep, that's true, we no longer allow you,
or we no longer want you to do ABC or D,
then whatever they're not wanted to do actually becomes bigger
and more meaningful. Her nineteen ninety Blonde Ambition tour, she
had that and Pope John Paul the Second called for
(08:47):
a boycott of her concerts in Italy, accusing her of
satanic behavior. And you know what Madonna did, She just
did more because she knew all the press it was
bringing to her shows, and so that kind of made
her under the massive pop star that she was. Yep,
you gotta have talent. Yep, the timing's got to be right.
But also if the right people push against you and
(09:08):
you push back, you're even bigger because of it. And
so you saw that happen to Madonna, and she's one
of the biggest pop stars in the history of you know,
American pop music. We can talk about Pete Rose, who
forever was banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now
this is a bit different because he now is not
banned from the Hall of Fame. He's not in yet,
(09:29):
but once he died, he's now allowed to be in
so he's baseball's all time hits leader two hundred and
fifty six hits. He was banned for life in nineteen
eighty nine because there was an investigation into him betting
on games while being a manager of a team. That
team was Cincinnati Reds, and he said he never bet
against his team because that'd be cheating, right, because if
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you bet against your team, you can actually make decisions
to make your team lose. Therefore, you would make more
money because you're a manager and you're betting, and you
obviously have insider information, even if you're betting on your
team to win or you're betting on other teams. Once
he admitted to the gambling, they were like, you're out,
You're done. So he has admitted he's signed a bunch
(10:16):
of balls. I'm sorry I bet on baseball. He lobbied
for reinstatement, very divisive figure while he was alive and forever.
The Hall of Fame refused to consider him, but just
even a few weeks ago they have now said, now
that he's died, he can be up for the Baseball
Hall of Fame, which is kind of crazy, like, if
you're gonna let him be, I don't know, can you
(10:36):
like death bet him like a special rule where if
someone's dying and it's closed, you like throw him in
real quick. But yeah, he'll never get to see that.
That's crazy. Tanya Harding was banned for life from US
figure skating. Now we'll go back to the nineties for
this one. In nineteen ninety four, Tanya Harding's ex husband,
Jeff Gilllooley, and her bodyguard they attacked Nancy Carrigan. Nancy
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Carigan was her skating rival. They were both from the
United States. They were both gonna go to the Olympics,
and they later did go to the Olympics. Nancy Kerrigan
did I believe Kerrigan ended up bronzing. But they popped
Nancy Kerrigan in the leg. They clubbed her in the
knee with like a stick, so she was unable to
compete and like the US Championship, one of the US ones.
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So Tanya Harding denied knowing in advance that it was happening,
but evidence showed that she knew after, but she was
never found guilty of being a part of actually planning
or clubbing Nancy Kerrigan in the knee, which, by the way,
if you've never seen. I think it's Eitan yet with
Margot Robbie. You should watch that. It's awesome, like Margot
(11:45):
Robbie kind of kills it. I think Tanya Harding did
Dancing with the Stars too. Justice for Tanya Harding now
I don't know about justice, but she pled guilty to
hindering prosecution. She was banned for life by the US
Figure Skating Association. No Olympics. I do think though, that
Nancy Carrigan bronzed Brandon. We looked that up. For me,
say if Nancy Kerrigan medled in that Tanya Harding was
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all over the tabloids and then I Tanya was nominated
for an Oscar way later on run our Test. If
we're staying in the athletic world, he was suspended eighty
six games. Now he wasn't kicked out of anything for
life or black ball, but this is a massive suspension.
If we go back to two thousand and four, The
Malice of the Palace, there's a documentary on Netflix. You
(12:30):
should watch that if you don't remember the game, and
we probably weren't watching the game live as it happened,
because you're talking about just a regular NBA regular season game.
And so this happens as pacers and pistons and there
are people, they're fighting the fans. It is unbelievable. Like
when this is over or pause this, go look at
(12:50):
the clips of malice in the palace. So a fan
threw a drink at run our Tests as it was
going down and he charges into this. I'm talking about
swinging hard. Players are fighting, players are fighting fans, Fans
are throwing stuff. Ron oar Test was suspended for the
rest of the season eighty six games, the longest suspension
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for an on court incident. It changed league policies. Security increased,
still has increased. Alcohol sales were reduced, like there's a
cutoff point. And that was to a time when NBA
image control became a priority. Dude, it's crazy to look
back at. And now they've also done documentaries with the
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players talking about that night and they're all they all
get along now pretty much. Br Anyway, you seven weeks
Nancy Carrigan won silver seven weeks. Hey, better than bronze
by one. And there's your factor the night the silver
is better than bronze by one.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby cast.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
The Rolling Stones were banned from complete cities in the
late sixties and early seventies. The Rolling Stones were blacklisted
from entire cities due to how rawity their fans would get,
also drug busts and arrests. We can go to Boston
nineteen seventy two, the mayor was starting to cancel their
show because of fan riots in New York City. There
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were drug arrests, and they had been suspected of excitement
of rowdy crowds. Really, the Rolling Stones were just a
symbol of anti establishment and rebellion through music, and that
was a time when there was a lot of anti
establishment sentiment. And I think that also helped fuel their
mystique because these politicians, which are just like white dudes
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with insecurity issues, saying we don't like the Rolling Stones.
It made people love the Rolling Stones even more. Justin
Bieber was banned from China in twenty seventeen. China's Mystery
of Culture cited Bieber with quote bad behavior, with quote
bad behavior, and a need to purify the entertainment environment,
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and that included public outburg shirtless annex at the Great
Wall because he's up on the Wall, but he was
shirtless a lot. I guess you just don't do that
on the Great Wall. He also was caught drag racing
in Miami, but that's not even China. But China has
not lifted the band as of right now. Of Justin
Bieber from their country. Oasis was banned from a specific
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airline and from MTV for a long time. They're back
together now, which is pretty cool. But those guys hated
each other. But the Gallagher brothers were a disaster. They
were kicked off a Cathay Pacific flight in nineteen ninety eight.
Liam was smoking, drunk and harassing passengers, so the airline
banned them. I've not heard of that airline, but it
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is pretty baller to be banned by an entire airline. Also,
it's funny that they were harassing the passengers. It wasn't
the passengers harassing them for like an autograph. He was
so messed up, apparently allegedly that he was harassing the
people on the plane. We can also go to nineteen
ninety six MPTB unplugged. Noel agreed to play without Liam
because Liam pulled out last minute, because Liam was like,
my throat hurts and then you may have seen the
(16:20):
video where Liam is then in the balcony like heckling
the crowd and his brother on stage, so his throat
wasn't heard in that bad But they were banned from
MTV for that. They were banned from multiple UK festivals.
They would walk off of shows all the time. But
again because it was so shared when there wasn't social
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media and shared equals celebrated. It made them so known.
And once they were so known, usually you liked their music.
They made great music, and so they were adored. They
were hated a little, but mostly they were adored. And
I thought it was pretty cool that Oasis announced it
getting back together. Imagine all the millions of dollars they
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gave up by just being brothers who didn't want to
talk to each other. I have one other one and
it's Hank william Senior who was banned from the Grand
Ole Opry. Yeah, I'm talking about the Hank Williams. Like,
if you were to do a mount rushmore country artists
in the history of country music, Hank Williams would be
one of the people you'd put up. There were for
most people, you know, you're cheat and hard. That guy
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He pretty much built the Opry stage with his sound,
and then he got banned in nineteen fifty two. Hank
was the biggest starr in country music, but behind the
scenes he was what a lot of artists at that
time were, and that was struggling alcoholism, chronic back pain
and now and we know this now because we have
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more knowledge of the situation mental health issues. So he
would play the Opry, but then he started missing Opry performances,
and then when he would show up, a lot of
the time he would show up drunk or just wouldn't
show up at all. The Opry, known back then for
being very strict and for being squeaky clean, had a
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three strikes in year out energy, so they fired him
and straight up banned him and told him don't come
back until you get sober. And he never made it back.
He died a year later at the age of twenty nine,
in the backseat of a Cadillac. He never stepped foot
on the Opry stage again. Now decades later, there were
petitions and campaigns to reinstate him after his death, but
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the Opry never officially lifted the band because to be
a member of the Opry, you've got to be alive,
so you can't really put someone dead in the opry
based on the current opry rules. So he died banned
from the Grand Ole Opry. So that whole situation became
a symbol of how strict the rules were back then
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and how those same rules cost country music. Really one
of the country music's brightest lights, which was Hank Senior,
you know, one of the people that made country music
super famous. So what I'm saying by all that is,
I'm basically like all those people. I'm just like Hank Senior,
Ron Artest, Snead O'Connor, Oasis, and Justin Bieber. That's right.
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And I know I've not been banned officially from Dancing
with the Stars, But when you go from winning a
national TV show to you know, not even getting a
like when you post a funny comment on the Dancing
with the Stars Instagram page, you know what's up. And
you know what, I'm fine with it. I never would
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have thought about it until someone called to tell me.
I didn't even realize I was banned until someone called
to say, hey, you're banned. I don't need the glitter
under my eyes. I don't need the two two that
I wore. I just need this trophy right here, and
you know what I have it. It's the people's trophy
right there. But if they ever want to do a
redemption season for people who were quietly banned, I'm ready
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to chat chah, I'm ready to get back in it. No,
I I was pretty terrible, But that's the homework I
put into me getting what I think is banned from
Dancing with the Stars. See, that's what I'm motivated by
when people tell me that you can't do that anymore.
I appreciate all the feedback from the last episode that
I did by myself here, and I have five other
questions that you guys have sent me since then. You
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can always DM me questions. I think this is a
fun way to kind of, you know, put a button
on these episodes. Number one, Dear Bobby, what do people
assume about your success that isn't true? And I want
to just assign this to whatever success that I've had,
but I will assign this to the athletic success success
(20:45):
in the business world. And I think, you know, I'll
talk to Eddie or some of my other friends about
this and they'll go, well, that quarterback won a super Bowl.
He's probably good, Like he's probably checking out now. And
I think my statement back to them is whatever is
ingrained in you, because in order to be wildly successful
at something, first of all, there is a ton of
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sacrifice in other parts of your life. Secondly, whatever screw
is loose, it has got to be the right screw.
But that screw doesn't screw itself back in after you've
quote made it. There really isn't a finish line for
somebody who's already mentally unstable. And that's what wildly successful
people are for the most part, Like there's something missing
(21:26):
in the lives of those people that they feel they
have to make up for through whatever they're trying to
have success in. And for me it's been whatever, radio podcast,
spoken word books, whatever that case is. And I think
the most misunderstood thing is that you just get to
a point and then once you reach that point, you're like,
I'm all good now, I think I'm on a coast
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if anything gets the opposite, because you get to the
point and you start to be scared that it was
a fluke, or people think it's a fluke, or it's
not gonna last, or you're becoming irrelevant. So I think
that probably the most misunderstood thing about success, especially in
the entertainment world or in the athletic world sports, that
you get to a point you crush it and you're like, well,
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I got there, I'm good now, Because if anything, I
think it's very much the opposite of that. Next up, Hey, Bobby,
do you think you're more driven by fear or ambition?
I think my ambition is created by fear and insecurity.
Much like that first question, I think most of what
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I do is fear based. I think any success I've
had has been fear based success. I think my fear
comes from growing up very poor, moving around a whole lot,
living in a trailer park, not being able to have
three meals a day every day, sometimes not seeing an
adult for a few days, you know, when you're ten, eleven,
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twelve years old and kind of having to figure it
out yourself. And so I think a lot of my
I'm going to be successful started with I'm going to
get the he out of here, and how do you
get out of here? It is to be extremely disciplined.
I think disciplined consistency are the two hardest things. I
never really try to be dynamic. If it happens, that's awesome,
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But you can't remain dynamic forever or all the time.
What you can do pretty much all the time is
be consistent and have discipline. Like that's the real success.
I don't need somebody that's like amazing some and then
pretty crappy other times. I kind of mid others, even
for people that I work with, Like, if they're not consistent,
they're not going to be a part of the team.
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And I'm out looking for A plus efforts followed by
a C and then maybe an F and back to
an A. I don't care about that. If it's bes
all the time, that's awesome, as long as you're giving
me solid bees and solid effort all the time. But
I would say I'm driven far more by fear and insecurity,
or at least was still am But it used to
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be really like running on red you get in the car.
I don't, but you know how you see in movies
where people hit the gas and it goes over to
the red. I think that's what the first thirty seven
years of my life were just on red the entire time.
And when you're on red, because I've seen it in
television on the movies Boom sometimes it blows up, and
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I've had a couple of those.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Next up, what's the weirdest or funniest fan interaction you've
ever had? Well, when it comes to people saying what's up,
I love it because that means you appreciate or it
consume something that I do. But I think the weirdest
is probably in the bathroom. There have been multiple times
where a dude has come up while I'm at the journal,
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and it's kind of weird in the bathroom anyway, because
that's such a odd, personal, vulnerable place, but especially when
you're junk is out, and I also realize no one's
coming up to me because they see my junk and
they want to see my junk. But mostly it's like, oh, dude, Bobby,
what's up? And I literally got it in my hand,
So that's weird. Once I was at a urinal and
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there's a urinal right next to a stall and the
stall obviously there's a wall and there's a commode because
that's why there's a stall. But the dude stands on
the commode, looks over and goes Bobby Bones, I knew
that was you, and as he looks over, I mean,
you're looking right down on my dangling. So that's probably
the weirdest. I think if I were to list one, two,
and three, all three would be in a public bathroom somewhere.
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I appreciate the love, and I know that it's never
on purpose. Two more questions, Hey, Bobby, do you think
reality TV helps or hurts someone's career? It's funny because
they did not know we were doing this episode on
how I've been blackballed allegedly. I think it used to
be double edged, and I think it used to be
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held against people, especially in the world that we live
in a country music and in Nashville, because they would
come off the Voice or American Idol and people would
look at them as just a reality contestant who's now
trying to make it. But now nothing matters. And I
say that in a great way, like nothing matters, but
everything matters, but nothing matters so much that it alone
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is going to make or break someone's career. So when
people say, hey, should I go on a show for me,
it's yeah, because you're just exposing yourself to more people.
And I think now and the four years that I
was on American Idol, they don't force you into contracts anymore.
If you get to a certain point, you don't have
to sign this major deal with them. Were back in
the day day when those shows were killing. If you
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made it to a certain point, you were then signed.
You were obligated to be with whatever that entity was.
I know there were certain people during the American Idol days,
back way before I was on, when it was like
a monster, that would leave right as they got in
the top twelve because they did not want to be
bound to whatever that agreement was. That doesn't happen anymore,
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And the main reason it doesn't happen anymore is because
people just won't go on the show. If you're thinking
about it, like I don't know do I want to
do this, and then you see, well, if I make it,
I then have to sign with this management or this label.
That's going to cut down eighty percent of the people
that would even think about doing the show. So what
I would say is, dude, go get on it. Get
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on everything, because the more things you get on, the
more people can see you. And it's all about building
your base. The people that are going to come to
your shows are going to buy your merch that's it.
And those shows will do that now. And you know,
if you look back to I think just about everyone
has tried at some point to get on one of
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those shows. If you're an artist now and you've been
in the game for ten years or less, you probably
either tried to get on and didn't, got on and
get kicked off early, or got on and did okay.
Morgan Wallin was on the Voice. He's like singing pop
songs with like longer ish hair. I think Maren Morris
talked about how she got rejected for Idol. I think
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Hillary Scott from Ladya same thing, like tried out for
American Idol and didn't get it, and it's always you
was like, well, look how terrible idol was there is
But mostly those shows are TV shows. They're looking for
kinds of artists and they need to fill certain buckets.
And then also it's mostly just like low level producers
doing those entry rounds where they just watched much people singing,
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like the people that kind of sound good they put
through they may not even understand what they're looking at.
So it's very low level people in those early rounds
that are watching all the singers, and then they have
like five thousand singers a day, so people are bound
to slip through the cracks. All right, that's it. We
did it again. We did it again. Who's that we
did it again. I want to tell you a quick story.
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So I was on Instagram the other night. Is about
two thirty in the morning. I have trouble sleeping. So
when I wake up, now I know my body enough.
That's like, if I wake up at two two thirty
in the morning, just get up, go into the kitchen,
eat some cereal, restart, then get back in the bed.
I tried for a long time just to keep my
eyes and shut and just like, come on, we can
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go back and sleep. That never works. And having had
dealt with these issues now for probably two years, what
works for me best is almost going like all right,
here we go. I'm up, let's start over, and let's
rewind down. But the problem is I'm not always in
my right mind whenever it's two thirty in the morning,
because I've awoken right in the middle of sleep. I'm
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still kind of tired, but I'm not so sleepy that
I fall asleep but my brain's not on full capacity,
and so I end up writing things or buying things,
like I bought some stuff that we open up here
on the sports YouTube page, like autograph balls, and it
all came back his garbage. But I spent like close
to one thousand dollars on all this stuff, and none
of it was good. But I was on Instagram and
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I saw Lionel Richie post that he's doing all these shows,
and I'm like, dude, I'm in I got to come
to one of these shows. I wrote that in a
message on Instagram story to Lionel Richie and he responded
the next day, because he does his own social media
at least reads it, and he goes, just tell me
which show, and I go back and I look at
it and the entire show list is all European shows.
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So he's in Europe for like the next two months.
And now I've committed to go watch Lionel Richie in Europe.
And I love Lionel and I know Lionel, and Lionel
has been awesome to me in my career, especially on
American Idol. He was great, so kind. But his manager
reached out to it was like, hey, Lionel says, you
want to come to one of his shows in Europe,
like tell Us, which show Lionel would love to see you,
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Let's go. And I'm like, oh no, I just committed
to go into Europe to watch Lionel Richie. I wish
I could go in America to watch Lionel Richie. Then
he sent me a message last night he goes, how
about Copenhagen, And I'm like, I don't dip. That's not
what he meant. He wanted me to come to Copenhagen.
I knew what he meant. I was just kind of kidding.
So now I've got to decide if I'm going to
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go to Europe to watch Lionel Richie do a concert,
which I would love to do. I tried to go
watch him once in Hawaii because American Idol would send
us out every year to Hawaii. We would work from
the Disney Resort and it was one of the stages
before the Top twelve. So I went from like forty
to twelve so every year, and that is a long
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trip from Nashville. It is a long trip. For two
of those trips, I think I flew Delta later on
Luke Brian and I would fly private and we would
go out together, and that was pretty baller. Not gonna
lie to you, But for the first couple of years,
I'd fly Delta and I remember Lionel saying, Hey, I'm
gonna do a show before we start shooting. I don't
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in Hawaii. You should come out. So I left a
day early. I'm going out. I get on the flight
because Ida was paying for it. It was first class, and
I'm sitting in the first class seat and I start
to feel terrible and I tell the flight attendant, Hey,
I'm not feeling very good. Do you have any like advil?
My head was killing me, and so she gives me stuff.
I'm drinking a bunch of water, but I just feel
it like come over me. And so I go into
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the bathroom and I vomit hard into the toilet in
the bathroom and I'm like, boy, this is this is
not good. Go back to my seat. My head's still
killing me, and I say, hey, just keep the waters coming.
I need a blanket. I'm like freezing. At the same time,
back to the bathroom, I'm vomiting again. At this point,
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I realize I'm gonna be in the bathroom for a
long time because I'm just not feeling good and vomiting
every two or three minutes. But I'm also in like
a airplane bathroom, so as I'm vomiting, and as I'm
sitting there, because when you vomit too, you're also like
you're out of breath, You're feeling disgusting. I'm also scrubbing
the bathroom with wet paper towels because if I'm gonna
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be trapped in there, I don't be laying in everybody's
And so I was probably in that bathroom for like
fifty minutes. And I remember as I was sitting on
the floor, opening that bathroom door, and imagine you're a
flight attendant and you see some guys head down at
the bottom of the bathroom door, and I put my
head on. I'm like, hey, I'm gonna be here for
a while. I'm pretty sick. But when I left, cleanest
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bathroom in the history of Delta, that's what I heard. Now,
that's what I made up. But I did not get
to go to the Linel show because as soon as
I landed, I went to bed, and I was sick
for that day and then got to go shoot. So
maybe I should go to Europe, but man, that is
a long flight. I do love Lionel. All right, that
is it. Thank you guys, appreciate you. Please subscribe to
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the YouTube channel. It's Bobby Bone's channel. If you want
to watch these videos because we put them up. You
can see my mirror ball with me right here. Also,
if you want to subscribe to the sports stuff, it's
Bobby Bone Sports that's over on YouTube as well. Thank
you guys for being here and we will see you
guys next time. I will say next week, but next time.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
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