Howie Mandel joins Bobby from his larger-than-life office and gives an exclusive tour filled with rare celebrity memorabilia, high-tech gadgets, a hologram, Britney Spears’ first gold record and even one of Johnny Carson’s final cue cards. Howie also talks about winning $10,000 in a celebrity UNO game, the moment he accidentally upset Bill Burr and whether Burr is still holding a grudge. Plus, he opens up about judging America’s Got Talent, why authenticity matters more than ever, getting discovered after taking a dare at a comedy club and the unexpected path that turned stand-up into a decades-long career.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is this podcast going to be on Netflix? Yes? So
do we have to go?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Or you did? Now you met it? Now that was
the one and you just did it. So now we're good.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey everybody, it's Bobby here on this episode. How We
Freaking Mandel? I love this dude from Stand up Comedy.
I mean, he hosted Deal or No Deal. He is
the longest serving judge on America's Got Talent, I think
in the history of that show. He's done everything. And
so we'll talk about AGT, we'll talk about stand up,
(00:42):
we'll talk about his podcast. He's also going to take us.
I don't want to spoil it what he does here
in the middle, but anytime I've talked to Howie Mandel,
it has been well, I really don't know what's going
to happen, and that's exactly what happens in this interview.
He also talks though about how he started in comedy
and it all kind of started from a dare. So
it's a guy that has always been super nice to me,
(01:04):
always wildly funny, has a really good podcast. He works
with his daughter, by the way, and I do tell
him I watch it in clips, but I watch a
lot of stuff in clips. So we're gonna go. Now
he's in La. I'm in Nashville. We're gonna go talk
to Howie Mandel.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Here we go, Howie, welcome, thanks for having me. Good.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Is we in like the hat dungeon?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Or where are we at this place? Oh? I'm in
the cloakroom. I didn't realize I'm in a restaurant cloakroom.
And how I make extra money in between episodes of
America's Got Talent. It's a hat check and I'm a
hot check girl. And for an extra two bucks, I'll
(01:48):
take your hat while you're eating.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Lu.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I don't know what it is. This is just a
room they put me in.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Okay, so you're not at your house. Are you shooting
right now?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No, I'm doing I'm doing a podcast with Bobby Bones.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, I'll connect you with them one second, stand by.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I will I have Bobby. I know we are doing.
We are shooting. I'm not shooting right now, if that's
what you're asking. If I'm in that studio, I'm in
my studio. I mean I have an office and a studio.
This is my studio and this is the the room
of hats.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I watch your podcast a lot. It's really I really
enjoy it for a couple of reasons. I love when
people come into the music plays. That's awesome me too.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So those I have a band, Sonny in a Blackpack,
who I kept me going throughout COVID. I used to
listen to them on TikTok and I DM them and
I said, hey, if you ever want to play, like
on the podcast or come here. They weren't in l A,
and we moved them from San Francisco to LA and
now they're in my office full time. And they're also
(02:50):
we're all gamers, so they stream live, you know, Call
of Duty. I have a Global Gaming League league. I'm
partners with.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Tea paying and do you play yourself?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Not anything good, but I do play. I just won
ten thousand dollars in Uno from Neo. It's part of that.
You can see it on YouTube. It's part of the
Global Gaming League.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Were you streaming that as a video game or streaming
that as you guys were just playing and it was on.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
No, it's it's the Global Gaming League. It's a YouTube
channel and it's like we play. Celebrity owned teams play
against each other in various games, everything from Call of Duty,
Call of Duty, to Fortnite, to Mario Kart, Tetris, every game,
(03:44):
like just really popular games. And you know, I challenged
Neo to Uno and for ten grand and he played.
So we played for big money and big and there's
a lot of merch and it's a real league. We're
building this league.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's the game of Uno. I didn't know you could
play Uno as a video game.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, I don't know it's a video game. It was
we videotaped us playing Una.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh so you streamed you guys with actual human cards.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And humans and okay, I actually played. I cut my head.
It was full contact Duno. I was bleeding. I was
bleeding and everything. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, I love the band. When people walk in and
they don't know that there's a band that's going to play,
I think that's a pretty fantastic idea. I also like
the setup. But you and your daughter and then the
guests are I don't know how your studio set up,
but kind of in the corner. Do you ever have
a guest come in and you really have no expectations
and it turns out out they kind of blow your
mind with how introspective or how funny they are.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Or otherwise, like we had Dana White who just walked out.
Was that was blown away? Yes, people always blow me
away and things that happen, you know. I have Billy
Corgan in one day, and then he told me the
story before he was on that he thought that Bill
(05:09):
Burr might be his brother. And then so I surprised
Bill Burr when he was on with Billy Corgan, and
I got surprised at how angry he got for me
bringing Billy Corgan on. And have yet to talk to
Bill Burr again. So it's not only how introspective, but
how angry I can make people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So I watched both of those, and I never know
if it's a work or not. I'm a wrestling fan,
so to go to the Bill Burr Billy Corgan, I'm
a fan of both of them. You're telling me that
was completely legit, and not only that, like he's still
that angry about it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I can't tell you if he's still that angry about it,
but he was angry about it then, I don't know
how he feels about it today. And I saw it
like you saw it. I don't plan. Here's my thing.
I don't plan and I don't rehearse, and I don't.
I don't. I wouldn't like to stage anything, so I
(06:06):
don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do you think they could be brothers?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's a Billy Corgan question. He thinks it's a possibility.
Look at them now, just visually. I'm not a scientist
and I didn't take a DNA, you know, swab of
either one of them, So I don't know. But is
it possible? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I know both of their work. I'm a fan of
both of their work. I watch the video again. I'm
so jaded by everything being and I don't think it
was set up on your end, but I thought maybe
it was a bit performative by them once they kind
of knew. But to find out that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Billy Corgan is also a bigger wrestling fan than you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He owns the NWA, that is correct. Are you a
wrestling fan?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean yes, I like it. I don't go out
of my way to see it. I don't. I don't
hate it. I like it. I've performed for the WWE,
for Vince McMahon. I did. He did a special thing
for the troops that I went out on, and uh
so I'm a fan of it. I'm a bigger fan
(07:15):
of boxing and h more than WWE.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Do you ever see the boxing where they play chess.
They box them around and they sit down and play chess. No, oh,
you got to look it up. If the next time
you're on TikTok, look up the guys they go full
fight and then after a round they play three minutes
of chess against each other in the same ring.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's got to be brutal.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's like full contact, you know, reminds me of full contact.
You know, I heard about a minute ago.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I'm in Nashville. I'm in the hat check at the
at a Nashville restaurant here where Yeah, there's no hats yet.
It's still It's like one pm, so nobody's it's between
the lunch and dinner time. So I'm still waiting.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Is this you're a studio?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, we built some studio once we signed with Netflix.
We bought a couple of buildings and rebuilt some studios.
So I just got tired of people coming to my house.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Is this podcast going to be on Netflix? Yes? So
do we have to go?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Or now you did? Now you met it? Now that
was the one and you just did it. So now
we're good.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, you know what too?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I do that Best Guess Live. Netflix. You know they
have the live show. You know what. You don't know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Live. You can download the app from the app store
and it's free, and then Netflix gives away fifteen thousand
dollars every weekday. And I hosted a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I've never seen that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And you were and Netflix is paying you money.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
A tremendous amount.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh well you should see it.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So if I'm going now on my phone, yeah, because obviously.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
An app store, the app store, and got no, I
have the app.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I have the app. I don't have to go to
the app store. Okay, I go to my name, I mean,
I go go to my profile. Now what's it called?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
O Best Guest Live? Okay, best Guess?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh best Guess, not Best Guest. Oh, it's a it's a.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Best Guest Live. It's a game.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, how do I get on this game?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
How do I get on?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Every day at five o'clock Pacific, eight o'clock Eastern and
you guys Central there yeah where yeah, whatever that works
out too, I host or somebody else or one hundred march.
It's like remember HQ.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, it's exactly what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, it's a fifteen minute riddle and you win big money.
We one person's one up to two hundred thousand dollars,
or there's been like a three million dollars. We've given
away over three million dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I do it every day from your home studio.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
From my office.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes, do they pay you a tremendous amount of money
like their studio?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
In my office? This is my I I have an office.
Have you been to my office?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, I've never been invited come to my office.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm into tech and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What would I do at your office?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Though?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Do Who knows?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I don't know how You want to see my office?
Quick to it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, look at this.
I don't know if if I lose, I'm gonna call
you back, but I'm cutting out the power. Here we go,
So look at this. This is my office. I'll show
you in my office.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Here a lot of hats for those who not anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I'm going to walk you backwards. We're going down the hall,
one of my halls in my office, I'll show you
some cool stuff this up here? Can you see that
Q card? I can that Q card is Johnny Carson's
last Q card ever.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Not for you, but in his last.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
In his whole show. I did it twenty two times.
Oh I'm loud, I'm loud.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Okay, No, you're just not enough.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Actually no, because look there's a there. That's Holly Madison
shooting in there. She's shooting her podcast. You know, the
girl's next door. Yeah, I'm being loud. See that's Holly
Madison in there.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So it's like you have a warehouse. Is that a
warehouse or a building or what.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It becomes a warehouse. This is where Billy Bush shoots from.
This is Billy Bush's.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So they did they rent the studio from you? Or
do you own their podcast?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
My son? There's rent and partnerships. Look that's me on Dealer,
no deal. That's remember Megan Marco. That was her first jobs.
Can you see Megan in that picture? Look this is
me giving giving. Can you see the picture I'm pointing at.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's a little far back.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Okay, I'll go closer.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yep, it's you.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Giving Britney Spears her first gold record. Here, look at this,
Look at this. I'm taking you all around. I'm into
tech and stuff like this. This is I'm part of
a hologram company, so you could.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Be seeing those.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, so there's a we work with all the networks
and telehealth and all that. Oh, I can't on the
other side of that door. Jack Osborne is now shooting
right now is his uh podcast? This is you know,
I'm a German phobe. So this is where I go camping.
(12:20):
It's just in here.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Just why why is that camper in that room?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Because germophobe doesn't want to camp out in the wilderness.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh so you take it out of there to actually
go camping.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No, I camp in here in.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
The You camp in the building in a camper. Yeah,
huh where double barrier? I don't actually no, no camping
for me.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
What is this the I don't know what are you
guys doing. I'm talking to Bobby Bones Bones Someboddy. I
don't know. It's just Bobby Bones. Yeah, you know, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Doing good to see you and seeing you a while.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, this is on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I do ballet parking is what I do here. This
is an amazing system. This is a Volumetricswell you can
do the Mandalorian here.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Quite that have you?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Have?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You made a bunch of money in tech outside of
your performance?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know what you do for I'm made a fortune.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, that's the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm getting a little motion sick.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Oh you am I moving too much?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
No, I'm just just just a little.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'm moving what Oh you know what? Can you put
me up? Put my AI up? And well we'll ask about.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Are you gonna do your hologram or.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You want to do you want to talk to uh? Yeah,
do my hologram?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Do do?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Uh? Uh me? Yeah? Is that me? Oh? That's it?
That's it? Okay. So like if I don't want to
be someplace, right, say, I don't want to be someplace,
they don't want to be here for I wanna I
I but I want to be someplace. I could be someplace.
I don't know how good you could see this?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That's wild?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Tell me about Bobby Bones. Bobby Bones, huh sounds like
a guy who could use a good chiropractor. See what
I did there? Seriously, though, Bobby Bones is a fellow
entertainer in the radio world, carving out his path just
like I did with my wild comedy gigs back in
the day. So what do you think sets them apart
in the entertainment scene? Tell me about Bobby Bones in Spanish.
(14:38):
Oh no, oh, no, claricacy, Bobby Bones Premier. I could
be anywhere, do anything without going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
This is a can people buy those?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Where do they mostly? Where are they bought? Where do
they put?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Right now? They're in every Christie's. Christie's has done over
five billion dollars worth of business to do all their
art auctions on them. We're in everything from the Male
Clinic to SpaceX. You know the Male Clinic does telehealth.
It goes anywhere I do appearances on it. I can
(15:25):
see the whole audience and talk to the audience in
real time. There's so many uses for it. People use
it on the road. In music, what they'll do is
they'll I'm just going to get the plug to plug
this in. Hang on, I want to say them back in
the hat room. I'm People use it like, say you
want to do a concert and you want Slash to
(15:45):
play with you the guitar. He could be in his
living room at home, and you can be in Nashville
and he could be on it playing with no latency
and he's your guest performer.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
How much do one of those costs?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Not expensive? That you can get them as low anywhere
from seven grand to twenty five grand.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Is the real money happening On the other side.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
We're a software company, So on the other it's called
proto Go get it look at it on Instagram, proto Hologram.
But and then on your side to project, all you
need is an iPhone like four K, just four K
in the picture. That's it. And it's just plug and play.
You just plug it into electricity and Wi Fi. That's
all you need. It's so low. I found this again,
(16:26):
like you were talking about Sonny on my podcast during COVID,
I got tired of zooming and facetiming like this. I
saw it on Instagram. I DMed him David Nusbaum who
created it originally, like his first foray into this business
was putting Tupac at Coachella, and I DMed him, went
(16:47):
to see the place and then invested in the company
and made the head office at my place. And now
it's a global it's a global tech company. I like tech.
That other screen I showed you is I'm not going
to show you. I don't have time to show you
a whole demonstration on that, but they could shoot the
Mandalorian in here full four D surrounds. I could put
(17:10):
you on any planet. You don't need a whole big studio,
but we have a whole big studio.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I appreciate you showing me around. That's pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's like I just like playing. I like this is
my this is my little playhouse. I don't like people.
That's why I like AGT. I like to see people
show me stuff that I've never seen before in a
way I've never seen it before. There's nothing more exciting
in life for me.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Who on that show in all the years did something
they didn't have to win, but they did something that
was and I don't want to say bizarre, but was
so different that you were blown away by it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I have to say that this year my my and
I'm not because I'm on here promoting this year. But
my second Golden Buzzer is this thing called hundred Fingers.
Did you see it? No, it's pretty interesting. So he's
a major from South Korea and it's basically it's ten
of them all together. It's a dance and magic, all
(18:10):
choreographed and it was one of the most beautiful things.
And I promise you, even if they don't win, and
there's a good chance they could win, agt that there's
going to be one hundred finger room in Vegas or
McCaw or someplace, because it's probably one of the most spectacular, moving, wow,
job dropping shows I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Do you ever see a performer that is so good
but you know there's really not a market for what
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I don't know that they're so good that there's not
a market. There's noch thing as no market anymore, because
the market is you know, I'm old, I'm a lot
older than you, but we come from kind of the
same era where the market was either film, television, or
brand and now the market is you could be in
your room, in your underpants or in a little hat
(19:01):
room and make millions and millions of dollars, whether you're
live streaming from your room or doing the same thing
over and over again, you can make a fortune. That's
why everybody should if you have any inkling or you
believe that you have something to offer, even if it's
not under the guise of talent, but it is different
and original to show up there because we get on
(19:22):
America's Got Talent. Halfway through the year, we have over
almost close to two billion clicks worldwide on social media
on every platform. But it comes from the stage of
America's Got Talent. So there is nothing that there isn't
a platform for. You know, people are making money on
(19:43):
live streams having other people watch them sleep, So what
is that a talent? No, but they're making money and
there seems to be an audience for people who want
to watch other people sleep.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But to win the show, it has to be something
semi mainstream, right.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Mainstream? Yeah, yeah, I guess so, yes. I'm always a
lot of times magic and ventriloquists of one. I like
when it's variety. I think there's a lot of place
I don't negate it, I can't do it, and I
love it. But there's a lot of places where you
can see singing and dancing and music, but there isn't
(20:20):
a lot of places and platforms on traditional media like
television where you're going to see great magic or variety
or strength or danger. And we have all that on
America's Got Talent.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So I don't think I'm speaking at a place because
I haven't worked there in a few years. But I
worked four years on American Idol, and I would work
with a lot of contestants on camera and they would
show up to sing for Luke and Lionel and Katie,
but we would all know their stories and the judges
would act like, well, oh, I've never heard this before,
but they kind of knew the story already. So do
(20:57):
you guys have to do how much do you really know?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We don't, but we do because if there is a
story they have, you know, we each of us interview
the person before they perform, so if they share the
story with us, then we know the story. Now, sometimes
we'll get dinged publicly because you do know a story
(21:22):
and you go, it wasn't that good, but you're just
you know, the story is great. But the truth of
the matter is the most engaging thing for everybody anytime
is authenticity. So the authenticity of having it's hard to
sometimes separate the story from what they're doing. So, you know,
(21:43):
I'll just use singing as an example. If somebody has
an amazing story or you kind of just already love them,
you love them and you know the story, even if
it's not the most perfect audition or the most perfect
rendition of whatever it is they're doing. There's value added,
so they're worthy of you know, maybe moving on. I
don't think that's I think everything you know, movies, documentaries,
(22:08):
reality TV, we all want to know the story or
we want to have something to relate to. I think
what we have over a lot of the other shows
is real authenticity, even in our you know, I got
used to it, but we get killed a lot for
I wouldn't say being negative, but being constructive. You know,
(22:28):
we don't love everything like a lot of other shows
love or won't say anything, you know when it's obvious.
I personally live on social media, so I learned. You know,
it was really hard when at the beginning, when I started,
I've been doing it for seventeen years now. It was
really hard at the beginning because we used to travel
(22:49):
the show. Like American Idol, we used to travel. We're
from the same company, you know, the Fremantle that does
both of them. We used to travel the show and go,
you know, today we're coming to you from Nashville, you know,
and we're going to see all the Nashville talent. Well
you knew that the four thousand people sitting behind you
in the theater in Nashville were rooting for their team,
(23:09):
and when I would say, oh, that was off key here,
that just didn't move me. If I said something like that,
I would get booed. And that was really really hard
at the beginning of somebody who was, you know, made
their bread and butter, trying to get strangers to like you.
You know, that's what I do, is a stand up comic.
So but then I also learned that there may be
four thousand people behind me booing, but when we started
(23:32):
there was like fifteen to twenty million people watching on TV.
And then you'd get you really like that guy. He
was so out of key, and then I realized that, well,
you know, I don't have to be mean about it,
but I got to be honest. And I feel like
we are, of all the shows, probably the most honest
judging panel and the most diverse judging panel in as
(23:53):
far as our opinions. We have very diverse opinion. There
are things that Simon absolutely loves that I just don't get,
just don't get. And I think that Rep. Partee, that respectable,
you know, kind of clash plays well and says something
(24:16):
to why we do so well and continue to do well.
You know, we're up twenty percent in the coveted demo
in season twenty one, where most people are, you know,
just trying to hang on. And I think it speaks
to how we first and foremost the talent that we're
(24:38):
able to get, and secondly to how we react to that,
because I think we're reacting like the people at home,
if you're sitting on your That's what I always say.
I don't even think it's a job. I'm not saying
anything different than I would say if I was sitting
at home on the couch in my underpants with my wife,
you know, And that's how I do it. I will
(24:59):
not be mean to anybody, and it hurts if I
feel like or have been told that I hurt somebody's feelings.
But I also feel like, you know, I'm just being honest,
and I'm being honest and not hurtful, and maybe sometimes
my honesty, my honesty and my critique could maybe hopefully
(25:21):
give you some insight and make it. You know, the
guy that I just talked about being being my favorite
Golden Buzzer one hundred fingers, he was on season seventeen
and didn't win and Simon said, you know, we see
a lot of magic. You got to do You got
to do something bigger, you really do And I think
(25:42):
he was devastated and he went home, and here he
is five years later. He's the best act I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Did anybody do that with you when you were young?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
No, you know I didn't. I wasn't lucky enough to
be around when there were shows like that. But I
I you know I come from. I talk about everything
I've ever been punished for, expelled, for gotten, in trouble
for I didn't have many friends. Is what I get
paid for today. So you know, I was just me
(26:15):
and I was different, you know, like even stand up comedy.
If you asked me, if I had to give up
everything in my career, the one thing that I would
keep is stand up comedy. And stand up comedy is
my favorite thing in the world. But I did it
originally on a dare and I was terrified. And I
don't think about what I'm going to say. I don't
plan or like, this isn't the planned interview. You didn't
(26:37):
go through story. That's what I don't like about talk shows.
You know that you go the day before or somebody
calls and they tell you, these are the stories we
want to cover. These are going to be the answers,
and it's not a real conversation. But I, you know,
I don't think or plan. So we went to a
comedy club in seventy seven and I've never seen stand
(26:59):
up comedy live. I'd seen it on TV, and I
wasn't aspiring to be a comic. And the host said,
you know, anybody who feels like they got the chops
to do this should get up and try. And somebody
in sitting near me said you should go, and I went, okay,
not thinking this is what I want to do, or
I could even be good at it. And if there
if I thought, if I think that there's something funny
(27:20):
or entertaining to be had, it's kind of the only
thing I could think of is somebody would go, ladies
and gentlemen, Howie Mandel. And there's no reason for anybody
to say ladies and gentlemen, Howivandel. I have absolutely nothing
to offer. And so when they went ladies and gentlemen,
Howie Mandel, and people applaud, because that's what we're trained
to do, is just applot for even somebody you don't know,
(27:42):
just for showing up. And I stood there after the
applause died down, and the terror just shot through every
vein in my body. And if you look at old
videos of me, it's just me terrorized, going okay, all right, okay, okay.
And then if they giggled it, wait what? And I
put my hands in my pocket. And I've been open
about my OCD, and I would carry rubber gloves because
(28:06):
if I'm out in public, I have to go to
a public restroom. I don't want to touch anything. I
had gloves and I put I pulled out the glove
and I had nothing to do. I pulled it over
my head and I started breathing and the fingers were
going up and the audiences, the audience was laughing, and
then I blewed off my head and they applauded. And
I had enough wherewithal to go with that kind of
applaud leave on a high. I went good night, and
the UH, the UH owner Mark Presleen, said you got
(28:28):
to come back tomorrow, and I go, why what am
I going to do? He goes, do what you did?
I go, what did I do? And then it was
a great club, you know, to go two three times
a week and just to fool around and have this
kind of authentic kind of a was the first time
people wanted me even in the room or invited me
to a party. So I was so happy to be there.
(28:50):
And then I met people. That's where I met Jay Leno.
You know Jay Leno. Uh, he was a comic, and
he would come to the comedy They would hire the commute,
real comedians from out of state and people from Detroit,
and I when they came, I went and watched them.
I didn't know that I wanted to be one of them.
And then when I went out to La you know,
(29:12):
let him picked me up and took me to the
ice house. And then a guy named Mike Binder. Do
you know who? Mike Binder is a writer, third comedian.
He took me to the comedy store. I went to
the comedy store. Mitzi saw me, she liked me. She
put me on. There was a producer there who had
a comedy game show called Make Me Laugh. He put
me on on my vacation.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I have a couple other questions for you and then
I'll let you go. But I was watching some clips,
which is how I get agg because I watched most
of it through clips, just like your podcast. I watch
it all everything on clips.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, I don't watch I don't sit in front of
TV for anything.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So yeah, I don't want that's not offensive, but I
do watch it all in clips. And I was watching
a clip and I think it was from the Canada
version where he was singing Bad Day, and it turned
out to be Daniel Powder, the actual singer of And
I thought that was the coolest thing ever. But you
didn't know that was him?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
No, They, I think produced it to not tell me
because they wanted the producers wanted a genuine reaction. So
he goes, I'm just a songwriter. And I didn't remember
his name because that song hadn't been prevalent, and I
think that was his. I don't mean this in a
negative way, but that may have been his biggest or
only hit. Yeah, yeah, so one hit wonder, but not
(30:37):
a bad thing. I'm a no hit wonder. So so
he said his name Daniel you know, and where you're from?
And he's from He's from some place out west there
like Saskatchewan and we'd have no way and he goes
he used to be and you said the story. We
asked a couple of questions. You know, I wrote some songs.
I almost made it. We have a lot of people
on a GT and CGT that you know. I had
(30:59):
a wreck deal and then I fell out of the
record deal and it wasn't going in the direction I wanted.
And you know, it's not an amateur show. It's a
talent show. So when you started singing, I mean, the
audience just and us just went, holy can you swear
on this?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
You can?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah? Holy shit? You know, and I didn't. I didn't,
but that was a nice surprise. But it was produced
to be a surprise.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I think I wasn't really going to bring it up.
But you've been so open about the Bill Burr Billy
cor again, the Danea White, whenever that happened with Kelly Rippa.
I didn't think it was that big of a deal.
By watching it, did.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You feel like that was that? So that is a joke.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I thought it was a joke too.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah. So so here's the thing I went and did that.
I actually do that on stage because I'll go just
like if you're on stage, I do stand up. I
do stand up four times a week. I still tour.
And and if you're watching this and you're a big
fan of AGT or deal or No Dealer or anything
else that don't bring the kids to my stand up
(32:08):
is not my you know, like you see, I'm a
responsible broadcaster. But on stage I was always going, you know,
I just had my seventieth birthday, and they roar and
and then I go, you're just applauding I don't. They go,
oh you, why are you plotting? They go, you look good,
and I go, yeah, for seventy that's like saying, you know,
(32:29):
you look good for an ugly girl or here. And
it came out a month later, and we left it
in and then all of a sudden, the press picked
up how he got mad at Kelly's disc and we
didn't even know what it was. We didn't know what
it was, and that thing blew up. So I thought
it would be funny to record. I recorded an apology,
(32:55):
this long drawn out apology on the beach where I go,
you know what you are? You know, I apologize. I
didn't know how it came up, and you were absolutely right.
I am I realized that I am gorgeous for my
age I'm studying. And then that apology went like how
he did an awkward apology and how he did like
(33:15):
that was totally joke on joke on joke, and I
guess the joke was on us because but that's why
you can't believe what you read or see.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was completely
a joke and I just thought people didn't get it.
But man, it turned into such a story.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
But I love that. You know, even during uh COVID,
there was a whole thing. I don't know. You probably
didn't read dispressed, but it was online. It was big
that I was kidnapped, so much so that people sent
welfare every day. I had cops in my house doing
welfare checks, but serious welfare checks. So you can't believe anything.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Okay, final question.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
If you're talking to me, this could be Ai.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, this could be you in a box in the
hat box. Yeah, final quest show for you here. I've
got to come into town, I think in August to
I'm filling it for Rich Eisen, who does a sports
show at ESPN. Somebody come do his show for a
couple of days. If you got to come, well, I'll
play you Uno for ten grand and assigned Bobby's World
(34:17):
like posters so we can put in our like a
big ones so we can put it in our studio.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
You should do that, but you should also see come
to see the tech proto go Go get, but come
see my place. It's just a toy box. And on
any given day in the I would have showed you that.
But and maybe even later on today. The band is
always here. People drop in because there's like thirty different
podcasts here. So they drop in, they see the band,
they sit down and jam anybody from Michael Bouglet to
(34:43):
Richie Sambora to Billy Corgan. Every day there's somebody jamming
and then and we record it and we put it
up and it's like our little tiny desk, you know.
So there's music, there's tech, there's movies in the other room.
Yesterday Machine Gun Kelly was just doing a video here.
I just saw him the year. I think he was
(35:05):
doing a video. I don't know what he was doing.
But but or the live Netflix game is here or whatever.
Just coming, you've got to come. We'll connect offline. Let's
connect and come hang out. You'll see it. You'll like this. Well.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I appreciate the time and a GT. There's Tuesday's a
pm Eastern on NBC and then on Peacock the next day.
I'm a big fan, always have been a big fan.
From uh, I guess I miss saying Elsewhere. I was
a little too young for that. But from Bobby's World
on how old are you? Forties?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Oh yeah, same as my kids.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yeah, but do they remember saying elsewhere?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, they remember the house that it bought?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
But me and Denzel started out together, right, he was
on that. That was his first big job. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, you two confused a lot. That's probably why you
do this, that show together. It's the Yeah, it's that too, Howie.
Thank you for the time. Congratulated. She is on another
season of a GT and hopefully we can get that game.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Let's do it. I'll do it. I'm a colleging all.
I want you to start wearing sketchers.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I don't be nice.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I promise you I don't own a pair of sketchers.
Do you have a do you have a Sketcher's brand?
Do you have a deal?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Are you asking that. Look at all this stuff I'm wearing.
This is a Sketcher's USA team shirt.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
It's it's World Cup time. I just thought you grabbed
a USA shirt.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
No, Sketchers, that's on me.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Hand out. That's my fault, and that's on me. All right,
All right now, thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I want to play you a clip from a podcast
called The Upload with Brooke Taylor and Russell Dickerson and
his wife Kaylee are on this together. In this conversation,
they open up about their personal faith journeys from growing
up in church, Russell being a preacher's kid, experiencing a
deeper relationship with God as adults, and they talk about
(37:15):
marriage and purpose and faith. And if you like this,
I encourage you to go over and check out the upload,
subscribe to the Upload. It is a wonderful podcast. So
here it is here they are just a clip from
the Upload.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Russell Dickerson and Kaylie Dickerson are in the house.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Welcome to the Upload, guys. I'm excited to have a
conversation with both of you about Jesus and just the
cool things that he's doing in our lives and just
marriage as a follower of Christ, of parents as a
follower of Christ, and just encouraging stories that I feel
like a lot of fans and people don't get to
(37:52):
hear because of you know, we're talking about music, or
we're talking about a new album and just fun things.
And while we love talking about that and we'll probably
touch on it a little bit, I think it's also
really cool to just talk about, you know, the thing
that fuels us every single day, which is the Lord.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
So I'm excited that you guys said yes, So thank
you for being here.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Honored.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Have you guys always been believers? When did your guys
relationship with God's start?
Speaker 7 (38:15):
I grew up in a family that loved the Lord.
My parents were such great examples of what it was
to be a believer and not just like a church attendee.
We were kind of the opposite of like most people.
We didn't go to church on Christmas in Easter because.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
We were a preaster.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Yeah, like we went every other Sunday. But they just
really walked out their faith so well. Like my dad
every single morning, like he was up at four or
five reading his Bible on his exorcycle and like my
mom always had her Bible out and like if we
were out doing something came back in she was sitting
there reading the Word.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
They just lived it.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
And so I never really had a massive crisis of faith.
At eighteen, when I went to college, I had. I
did have a brief moment, okay, where I felt very alone.
I felt pretty alone in my life. I have faith
most of my life. Just the school I grew up in,
there weren't a lot of other like minded Christians.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Like there were other Christians, but I was the.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
One who wanted to go to youth group and.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
So I was like, I'm gonna go to Belmont and
I'm gonna find other believers and it's going to be awesome.
And then I got there and somehow I didn't find them,
and so I had this moment where I was like, oh,
maybe my family's just weird, Like maybe maybe it's just.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Like an US thing.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
And I really took a little journey and then the
Lord was like he looked me.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Right back, it's your yeah back, and then I was
like okay.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
And then I started doing missions photography and I was
a youth pastor for a second.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
So you did you grew up on the church too,
yeh yeh PK.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
My dad was a music minister at Woodmont Baptist for
twenty something years a lot, but we moved here in
fifth grade and from another church in Union City, Tennessee.
So yeah, I mean every Sunday, every Sunday night, every Wednesday,
every revival, everything, every youth group trip was you know,
(40:02):
I was there and it really like I got a
baptized when I was eight. Okay, I professed my faith
at eight, you know what.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
I mean, you knew exactly what you were doing?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
No, not at all.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
But it was really around high school because like, uh,
I had an incredible youth minister. He really, I guess
saw something in me. And you know, I mean I
was always around, so like were we were close, and
uh he really started pouring into me around high school
and we would you know, we'd go to a coffee
shop and just like talk about the Lord, talk about
(40:35):
the walk, talk about this struggle, that struggle whatever. And
I know, I was like the I led worship for
my youth group all every year that I was in it,
which well, I mean that's like six years. But that
was like the beginning of like really getting hungry for it,
you know, hungry for the word, hungry for the Lord.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
And did you ever feel pressure as a pastor's kid.
I feel like there's always this weird, you know, weight
of just I have to be a certain human being.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I've got to do this.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Did you ever feel like I don't want to do this?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (41:09):
I mean there were times it was more so like
the response of my parents, like people are watching you, man,
like come on, I'm like so, but like I didn't
want I at the same time didn't want my parents
to look bad, like look like bad parents. But yes,
there was definite pressure. It was a pretty big church too,
and very traditional, very traditional Southern Baptists.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
I feel like it's so cool when you grow up
in church and then when you take the moments and
you finally realize and start walking your own relationship with
God and it's not just what my mom and dad
have said. When did you feel like that happened for you?
There's like layers to ours.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
I feel like it became mine for sure, like my
freshman year of college, because you're just like on your
own and no one's making you go to church, and
it's a choice you're making. And I had had that
moment was like is this real? Is this not? And
then I saw too much to know it is And
there was no convincing me otherwise at that point.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
So that was a big piece.
Speaker 7 (42:04):
But then I would say it was when we first
experienced the spirit of God move was when we were
like whoa, whoa, whoa. This is different. This is not
in my own strength, this is not checking something off
a list. This is a relationship like I didn't know
it was possible. And I went through like a mini
(42:27):
revival of sorts. I guess at CC wine and Souse actually,
and that's where I like experienced this. And Russ and
I had dated for a year and we were broken up.
In the month we were broken up is when this
happened for me and it rocked my world. So when
we started to kind of talk again, I was a
different person in a good way, and he was like whoa, whoa, whoa,
(42:48):
what's going on with you? And he was like, wait,
I think I want that too, And so that's when
he started to experience it and everything just changed for
us so quickly.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
I feel like the long answer was like really, like
in my senior year of high school, was really when
I started like, oh yeah, like this is this is
a part of me, you know, and it will forever be.
Then after college we broke up. We went very opposite directions.
My I had just started, uh you know, songwriting. She
(43:17):
went chasing after the Lord. I went chasing after the world.
But like I just started my career and I was like, yo,
this is about to pop off. I'm sorry, I'm not
going to be tied down. And I think we talked
about this the other night, but like I literally made
out with one girl on the road and I was like,
this is not it, brother.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
It was.
Speaker 6 (43:38):
Yeah, it was a quick It was a quick realization.
And the Lord's always taught me things on a very
small level so that I don't screw my life up.
Yeah how kind Oh yeah. And so yeah, this this
DMS Discipleship Ministry school that came over from Australia and
they were like, yo, the spirit's not dead, like y'all
need a spirit revival and just basically taught on that
(44:03):
for a week. Literally, like when you get a prophetic
word over your life and you like it's so spot
on and you're just like weeping because it's so spot on,
Like that is, that's life changing.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Let's talk about that for a second, because I feel
like there's so many people that are listening to this
that are probably just fans of you guys, right, and
they're just like, what does that mean? Having a prophetic
word spoken over you? Because it is such a powerful
thing where you know, somebody is telling you what's happening
in your life or what is going to happen in
your life, and you just, like you said, you're weeping,
You're feeling it, You're like chills from head to toe.
(44:40):
You're like, this is what's going on here. This could
not be anybody else but the Lord. Yeah, those moments
and having you know, a prophetic word spoken over you,
what was it?
Speaker 5 (44:48):
What were they saying to you? My sharing that?
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Oh, I mean my first one is a pretty simple example.
It was like I told my best friend and roommate
in college when we were sophomores or juniors. I was like,
I don't know what it is. I just like know
people's motives. And she was like, well, be careful with that,
like you could be judging people. And I was like, well,
I don't want to do that. Yeah, Like I don't
want to judge people. But I was like, I just
(45:11):
like when someone does or says something, I know why
they're doing it. And she was like, just be careful.
I was like, okay. So I go to CC's house
and they're like everyone just walk around and like stop
in front of someone and tell them what you see.
And this older man, who now I know is an
incredibly perfect man, but I didn't know him at all,
and he just looked at me dead in the face
(45:33):
and he goes, you know people's motives, and I was like, wait,
what and he was like, you know good from evil
without a shadow of a doubt. And he goes, but
you've stopped using it because you're afraid you're judging people.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
And I was like what.
Speaker 7 (45:48):
And I just like start crying because I didn't know
if this was real, to be honest.
Speaker 5 (45:52):
And that was the moment where I was like, there's
no way you know that.
Speaker 7 (45:56):
And he was like, I need the Lord is saying
to you, stop apologizing for it.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
He's given you this for what he's called you to
ye And.
Speaker 7 (46:04):
I've realized down the road, once we eventually got married
and all these different people were coming into our life,
that gift was like just weeding through good pure motives,
evil motives, pure motives.
Speaker 5 (46:17):
That's discerned me.
Speaker 7 (46:17):
Yeah, yeah, And I didn't realize why I was going
to need it. And then you marry someone that people
could have bad motives around, and you're like, oh, okay,
this is this is what it's for. So that was
like just like such a concise, dead on version that
blew my mind and still does honestly. But there's been
so many prophetic We call Russell the prophecy stealer because
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I was well when we when I was a mission photographer,
he would come and lead worship on the trips, so
we'd get to go to all these places and people
would just be preaching sermons in like England, Scotland, Israel,
and they'd be like, mmm, you, And it was always him,
(47:01):
and they would give him all these They're like, you
are going to be like on stage in front of
millions of people. You your marriage is going to heal marriages?
You like, just they kept giving him words that were
always applicable to obviously his calling, and so all of
our friends on the trip were always like, dang it.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
Rosseal, why are you looking like I want a prevettic
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Word thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production
Is this podcast going to be on Netflix? Yes? So
do we have to go?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Or you did? Now you met it? Now that was
the one and you just did it. So now we're good.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey everybody, it's Bobby here on this episode. How We
Freaking Mandel? I love this dude from Stand up Comedy.
I mean, he hosted Deal or No Deal. He is
the longest serving judge on America's Got Talent, I think
in the history of that show. He's done everything. And
so we'll talk about AGT, we'll talk about stand up,
(00:42):
we'll talk about his podcast. He's also going to take us.
I don't want to spoil it what he does here
in the middle, but anytime I've talked to Howie Mandel,
it has been well, I really don't know what's going
to happen, and that's exactly what happens in this interview.
He also talks though about how he started in comedy
and it all kind of started from a dare. So
it's a guy that has always been super nice to me,
(01:04):
always wildly funny, has a really good podcast. He works
with his daughter, by the way, and I do tell
him I watch it in clips, but I watch a
lot of stuff in clips. So we're gonna go. Now
he's in La. I'm in Nashville. We're gonna go talk
to Howie Mandel.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Here we go, Howie, welcome, thanks for having me. Good.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Is we in like the hat dungeon?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Or where are we at this place? Oh? I'm in
the cloakroom. I didn't realize I'm in a restaurant cloakroom.
And how I make extra money in between episodes of
America's Got Talent. It's a hat check and I'm a
hot check girl. And for an extra two bucks, I'll
(01:48):
take your hat while you're eating.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Lu.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I don't know what it is. This is just a
room they put me in.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Okay, so you're not at your house. Are you shooting
right now?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No, I'm doing I'm doing a podcast with Bobby Bones.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, I'll connect you with them one second, stand by.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I will I have Bobby. I know we are doing.
We are shooting. I'm not shooting right now, if that's
what you're asking. If I'm in that studio, I'm in
my studio. I mean I have an office and a studio.
This is my studio and this is the the room
of hats.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I watch your podcast a lot. It's really I really
enjoy it for a couple of reasons. I love when
people come into the music plays. That's awesome me too.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So those I have a band, Sonny in a Blackpack,
who I kept me going throughout COVID. I used to
listen to them on TikTok and I DM them and
I said, hey, if you ever want to play, like
on the podcast or come here. They weren't in l A,
and we moved them from San Francisco to LA and
now they're in my office full time. And they're also
(02:50):
we're all gamers, so they stream live, you know, Call
of Duty. I have a Global Gaming League league. I'm
partners with.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Tea paying and do you play yourself?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Not anything good, but I do play. I just won
ten thousand dollars in Uno from Neo. It's part of that.
You can see it on YouTube. It's part of the
Global Gaming League.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Were you streaming that as a video game or streaming
that as you guys were just playing and it was on.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
No, it's it's the Global Gaming League. It's a YouTube
channel and it's like we play. Celebrity owned teams play
against each other in various games, everything from Call of Duty,
Call of Duty, to Fortnite, to Mario Kart, Tetris, every game,
(03:44):
like just really popular games. And you know, I challenged
Neo to Uno and for ten grand and he played.
So we played for big money and big and there's
a lot of merch and it's a real league. We're
building this league.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's the game of Uno. I didn't know you could
play Uno as a video game.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, I don't know it's a video game. It was
we videotaped us playing Una.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Oh so you streamed you guys with actual human cards.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And humans and okay, I actually played. I cut my head.
It was full contact Duno. I was bleeding. I was
bleeding and everything. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, I love the band. When people walk in and
they don't know that there's a band that's going to play,
I think that's a pretty fantastic idea. I also like
the setup. But you and your daughter and then the
guests are I don't know how your studio set up,
but kind of in the corner. Do you ever have
a guest come in and you really have no expectations
and it turns out out they kind of blow your
mind with how introspective or how funny they are.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Or otherwise, like we had Dana White who just walked out.
Was that was blown away? Yes, people always blow me
away and things that happen, you know. I have Billy
Corgan in one day, and then he told me the
story before he was on that he thought that Bill
(05:09):
Burr might be his brother. And then so I surprised
Bill Burr when he was on with Billy Corgan, and
I got surprised at how angry he got for me
bringing Billy Corgan on. And have yet to talk to
Bill Burr again. So it's not only how introspective, but
how angry I can make people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So I watched both of those, and I never know
if it's a work or not. I'm a wrestling fan,
so to go to the Bill Burr Billy Corgan, I'm
a fan of both of them. You're telling me that
was completely legit, and not only that, like he's still
that angry about it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I can't tell you if he's still that angry about it,
but he was angry about it then, I don't know
how he feels about it today. And I saw it
like you saw it. I don't plan. Here's my thing.
I don't plan and I don't rehearse, and I don't.
I don't. I wouldn't like to stage anything, so I
(06:06):
don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do you think they could be brothers?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's a Billy Corgan question. He thinks it's a possibility.
Look at them now, just visually. I'm not a scientist
and I didn't take a DNA, you know, swab of
either one of them, So I don't know. But is
it possible? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I know both of their work. I'm a fan of
both of their work. I watch the video again. I'm
so jaded by everything being and I don't think it
was set up on your end, but I thought maybe
it was a bit performative by them once they kind
of knew. But to find out that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Billy Corgan is also a bigger wrestling fan than you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He owns the NWA, that is correct. Are you a
wrestling fan?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean yes, I like it. I don't go out
of my way to see it. I don't. I don't
hate it. I like it. I've performed for the WWE,
for Vince McMahon. I did. He did a special thing
for the troops that I went out on, and uh
so I'm a fan of it. I'm a bigger fan
(07:15):
of boxing and h more than WWE.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Do you ever see the boxing where they play chess.
They box them around and they sit down and play chess. No, oh,
you got to look it up. If the next time
you're on TikTok, look up the guys they go full
fight and then after a round they play three minutes
of chess against each other in the same ring.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's got to be brutal.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's like full contact, you know, reminds me of full contact.
You know, I heard about a minute ago.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I'm in Nashville. I'm in the hat check at the
at a Nashville restaurant here where Yeah, there's no hats yet.
It's still It's like one pm, so nobody's it's between
the lunch and dinner time. So I'm still waiting.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Is this you're a studio?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, we built some studio once we signed with Netflix.
We bought a couple of buildings and rebuilt some studios.
So I just got tired of people coming to my house.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Is this podcast going to be on Netflix? Yes? So
do we have to go?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Or now you did? Now you met it? Now that
was the one and you just did it. So now
we're good.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, you know what too?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I do that Best Guess Live. Netflix. You know they
have the live show. You know what. You don't know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Live. You can download the app from the app store
and it's free, and then Netflix gives away fifteen thousand
dollars every weekday. And I hosted a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I've never seen that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And you were and Netflix is paying you money.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
A tremendous amount.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh well you should see it.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So if I'm going now on my phone, yeah, because obviously.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
An app store, the app store, and got no, I
have the app.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I have the app. I don't have to go to
the app store. Okay, I go to my name, I mean,
I go go to my profile. Now what's it called?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
O Best Guest Live? Okay, best Guess?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh best Guess, not Best Guest. Oh, it's a it's a.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Best Guest Live. It's a game.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, how do I get on this game?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
How do I get on?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Every day at five o'clock Pacific, eight o'clock Eastern and
you guys Central there yeah where yeah, whatever that works
out too, I host or somebody else or one hundred march.
It's like remember HQ.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, it's exactly what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, it's a fifteen minute riddle and you win big money.
We one person's one up to two hundred thousand dollars,
or there's been like a three million dollars. We've given
away over three million dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I do it every day from your home studio.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
From my office.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes, do they pay you a tremendous amount of money
like their studio?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
In my office? This is my I I have an office.
Have you been to my office?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, I've never been invited come to my office.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm into tech and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What would I do at your office?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Though?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Do Who knows?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I don't know how You want to see my office?
Quick to it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, look at this.
I don't know if if I lose, I'm gonna call
you back, but I'm cutting out the power. Here we go,
So look at this. This is my office. I'll show
you in my office.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Here a lot of hats for those who not anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I'm going to walk you backwards. We're going down the hall,
one of my halls in my office, I'll show you
some cool stuff this up here? Can you see that
Q card? I can that Q card is Johnny Carson's
last Q card ever.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Not for you, but in his last.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
In his whole show. I did it twenty two times.
Oh I'm loud, I'm loud.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Okay, No, you're just not enough.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Actually no, because look there's a there. That's Holly Madison
shooting in there. She's shooting her podcast. You know, the
girl's next door. Yeah, I'm being loud. See that's Holly
Madison in there.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So it's like you have a warehouse. Is that a
warehouse or a building or what.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It becomes a warehouse. This is where Billy Bush shoots from.
This is Billy Bush's.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So they did they rent the studio from you? Or
do you own their podcast?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
My son? There's rent and partnerships. Look that's me on Dealer,
no deal. That's remember Megan Marco. That was her first jobs.
Can you see Megan in that picture? Look this is
me giving giving. Can you see the picture I'm pointing at.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's a little far back.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Okay, I'll go closer.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yep, it's you.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Giving Britney Spears her first gold record. Here, look at this,
Look at this. I'm taking you all around. I'm into
tech and stuff like this. This is I'm part of
a hologram company, so you could.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Be seeing those.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, so there's a we work with all the networks
and telehealth and all that. Oh, I can't on the
other side of that door. Jack Osborne is now shooting
right now is his uh podcast? This is you know,
I'm a German phobe. So this is where I go camping.
(12:20):
It's just in here.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Just why why is that camper in that room?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Because germophobe doesn't want to camp out in the wilderness.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh so you take it out of there to actually
go camping.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No, I camp in here in.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
The You camp in the building in a camper. Yeah,
huh where double barrier? I don't actually no, no camping
for me.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
What is this the I don't know what are you
guys doing. I'm talking to Bobby Bones Bones Someboddy. I
don't know. It's just Bobby Bones. Yeah, you know, Bobby Bones.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Doing good to see you and seeing you a while.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, this is on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I do ballet parking is what I do here. This
is an amazing system. This is a Volumetricswell you can
do the Mandalorian here.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Quite that have you?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Have?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You made a bunch of money in tech outside of
your performance?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know what you do for I'm made a fortune.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, that's the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm getting a little motion sick.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Oh you am I moving too much?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
No, I'm just just just a little.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'm moving what Oh you know what? Can you put
me up? Put my AI up? And well we'll ask about.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Are you gonna do your hologram or.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You want to do you want to talk to uh? Yeah,
do my hologram?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Do do?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Uh? Uh me? Yeah? Is that me? Oh? That's it?
That's it? Okay. So like if I don't want to
be someplace, right, say, I don't want to be someplace,
they don't want to be here for I wanna I
I but I want to be someplace. I could be someplace.
I don't know how good you could see this?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That's wild?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Tell me about Bobby Bones. Bobby Bones, huh sounds like
a guy who could use a good chiropractor. See what
I did there? Seriously, though, Bobby Bones is a fellow
entertainer in the radio world, carving out his path just
like I did with my wild comedy gigs back in
the day. So what do you think sets them apart
in the entertainment scene? Tell me about Bobby Bones in Spanish.
(14:38):
Oh no, oh, no, claricacy, Bobby Bones Premier. I could
be anywhere, do anything without going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
This is a can people buy those?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Where do they mostly? Where are they bought? Where do
they put?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Right now? They're in every Christie's. Christie's has done over
five billion dollars worth of business to do all their
art auctions on them. We're in everything from the Male
Clinic to SpaceX. You know the Male Clinic does telehealth.
It goes anywhere I do appearances on it. I can
(15:25):
see the whole audience and talk to the audience in
real time. There's so many uses for it. People use
it on the road. In music, what they'll do is
they'll I'm just going to get the plug to plug
this in. Hang on, I want to say them back in
the hat room. I'm People use it like, say you
want to do a concert and you want Slash to
(15:45):
play with you the guitar. He could be in his
living room at home, and you can be in Nashville
and he could be on it playing with no latency
and he's your guest performer.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
How much do one of those costs?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Not expensive? That you can get them as low anywhere
from seven grand to twenty five grand.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Is the real money happening On the other side.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
We're a software company, So on the other it's called
proto Go get it look at it on Instagram, proto Hologram.
But and then on your side to project, all you
need is an iPhone like four K, just four K
in the picture. That's it. And it's just plug and play.
You just plug it into electricity and Wi Fi. That's
all you need. It's so low. I found this again,
(16:26):
like you were talking about Sonny on my podcast during COVID,
I got tired of zooming and facetiming like this. I
saw it on Instagram. I DMed him David Nusbaum who
created it originally, like his first foray into this business
was putting Tupac at Coachella, and I DMed him, went
(16:47):
to see the place and then invested in the company
and made the head office at my place. And now
it's a global it's a global tech company. I like tech.
That other screen I showed you is I'm not going
to show you. I don't have time to show you
a whole demonstration on that, but they could shoot the
Mandalorian in here full four D surrounds. I could put
(17:10):
you on any planet. You don't need a whole big studio,
but we have a whole big studio.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I appreciate you showing me around. That's pretty neat.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's like I just like playing. I like this is
my this is my little playhouse. I don't like people.
That's why I like AGT. I like to see people
show me stuff that I've never seen before in a
way I've never seen it before. There's nothing more exciting
in life for me.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Who on that show in all the years did something
they didn't have to win, but they did something that
was and I don't want to say bizarre, but was
so different that you were blown away by it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I have to say that this year my my and
I'm not because I'm on here promoting this year. But
my second Golden Buzzer is this thing called hundred Fingers.
Did you see it? No, it's pretty interesting. So he's
a major from South Korea and it's basically it's ten
of them all together. It's a dance and magic, all
(18:10):
choreographed and it was one of the most beautiful things.
And I promise you, even if they don't win, and
there's a good chance they could win, agt that there's
going to be one hundred finger room in Vegas or
McCaw or someplace, because it's probably one of the most spectacular, moving, wow,
job dropping shows I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Do you ever see a performer that is so good
but you know there's really not a market for what
they're doing.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I don't know that they're so good that there's not
a market. There's noch thing as no market anymore, because
the market is you know, I'm old, I'm a lot
older than you, but we come from kind of the
same era where the market was either film, television, or
brand and now the market is you could be in
your room, in your underpants or in a little hat
(19:01):
room and make millions and millions of dollars, whether you're
live streaming from your room or doing the same thing
over and over again, you can make a fortune. That's
why everybody should if you have any inkling or you
believe that you have something to offer, even if it's
not under the guise of talent, but it is different
and original to show up there because we get on
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America's Got Talent. Halfway through the year, we have over
almost close to two billion clicks worldwide on social media
on every platform. But it comes from the stage of
America's Got Talent. So there is nothing that there isn't
a platform for. You know, people are making money on
(19:43):
live streams having other people watch them sleep, So what
is that a talent? No, but they're making money and
there seems to be an audience for people who want
to watch other people sleep.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But to win the show, it has to be something
semi mainstream, right.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Mainstream? Yeah, yeah, I guess so, yes. I'm always a
lot of times magic and ventriloquists of one. I like
when it's variety. I think there's a lot of place
I don't negate it, I can't do it, and I
love it. But there's a lot of places where you
can see singing and dancing and music, but there isn't
(20:20):
a lot of places and platforms on traditional media like
television where you're going to see great magic or variety
or strength or danger. And we have all that on
America's Got Talent.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So I don't think I'm speaking at a place because
I haven't worked there in a few years. But I
worked four years on American Idol, and I would work
with a lot of contestants on camera and they would
show up to sing for Luke and Lionel and Katie,
but we would all know their stories and the judges
would act like, well, oh, I've never heard this before,
but they kind of knew the story already. So do
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you guys have to do how much do you really know?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We don't, but we do because if there is a
story they have, you know, we each of us interview
the person before they perform, so if they share the
story with us, then we know the story. Now, sometimes
we'll get dinged publicly because you do know a story
(21:22):
and you go, it wasn't that good, but you're just
you know, the story is great. But the truth of
the matter is the most engaging thing for everybody anytime
is authenticity. So the authenticity of having it's hard to
sometimes separate the story from what they're doing. So, you know,
(21:43):
I'll just use singing as an example. If somebody has
an amazing story or you kind of just already love them,
you love them and you know the story, even if
it's not the most perfect audition or the most perfect
rendition of whatever it is they're doing. There's value added,
so they're worthy of you know, maybe moving on. I
don't think that's I think everything you know, movies, documentaries,
(22:08):
reality TV, we all want to know the story or
we want to have something to relate to. I think
what we have over a lot of the other shows
is real authenticity, even in our you know, I got
used to it, but we get killed a lot for
I wouldn't say being negative, but being constructive. You know,
(22:28):
we don't love everything like a lot of other shows
love or won't say anything, you know when it's obvious.
I personally live on social media, so I learned. You know,
it was really hard when at the beginning, when I started,
I've been doing it for seventeen years now. It was
really hard at the beginning because we used to travel
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the show. Like American Idol, we used to travel. We're
from the same company, you know, the Fremantle that does
both of them. We used to travel the show and go,
you know, today we're coming to you from Nashville, you know,
and we're going to see all the Nashville talent. Well
you knew that the four thousand people sitting behind you
in the theater in Nashville were rooting for their team,
(23:09):
and when I would say, oh, that was off key here,
that just didn't move me. If I said something like that,
I would get booed. And that was really really hard
at the beginning of somebody who was, you know, made
their bread and butter, trying to get strangers to like you.
You know, that's what I do, is a stand up comic.
So but then I also learned that there may be
four thousand people behind me booing, but when we started
(23:32):
there was like fifteen to twenty million people watching on TV.
And then you'd get you really like that guy. He
was so out of key, and then I realized that, well,
you know, I don't have to be mean about it,
but I got to be honest. And I feel like
we are, of all the shows, probably the most honest
judging panel and the most diverse judging panel in as
(23:53):
far as our opinions. We have very diverse opinion. There
are things that Simon absolutely loves that I just don't get,
just don't get. And I think that Rep. Partee, that respectable,
you know, kind of clash plays well and says something
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to why we do so well and continue to do well.
You know, we're up twenty percent in the coveted demo
in season twenty one, where most people are, you know,
just trying to hang on. And I think it speaks
to how we first and foremost the talent that we're
(24:38):
able to get, and secondly to how we react to that,
because I think we're reacting like the people at home,
if you're sitting on your That's what I always say.
I don't even think it's a job. I'm not saying
anything different than I would say if I was sitting
at home on the couch in my underpants with my wife,
you know, And that's how I do it. I will
(24:59):
not be mean to anybody, and it hurts if I
feel like or have been told that I hurt somebody's feelings.
But I also feel like, you know, I'm just being honest,
and I'm being honest and not hurtful, and maybe sometimes
my honesty, my honesty and my critique could maybe hopefully
(25:21):
give you some insight and make it. You know, the
guy that I just talked about being being my favorite
Golden Buzzer one hundred fingers, he was on season seventeen
and didn't win and Simon said, you know, we see
a lot of magic. You got to do You got
to do something bigger, you really do And I think
(25:42):
he was devastated and he went home, and here he
is five years later. He's the best act I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Did anybody do that with you when you were young?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
No, you know I didn't. I wasn't lucky enough to
be around when there were shows like that. But I
I you know I come from. I talk about everything
I've ever been punished for, expelled, for gotten, in trouble
for I didn't have many friends. Is what I get
paid for today. So you know, I was just me
(26:15):
and I was different, you know, like even stand up comedy.
If you asked me, if I had to give up
everything in my career, the one thing that I would
keep is stand up comedy. And stand up comedy is
my favorite thing in the world. But I did it
originally on a dare and I was terrified. And I
don't think about what I'm going to say. I don't
plan or like, this isn't the planned interview. You didn't
(26:37):
go through story. That's what I don't like about talk shows.
You know that you go the day before or somebody
calls and they tell you, these are the stories we
want to cover. These are going to be the answers,
and it's not a real conversation. But I, you know,
I don't think or plan. So we went to a
comedy club in seventy seven and I've never seen stand
(26:59):
up comedy live. I'd seen it on TV, and I
wasn't aspiring to be a comic. And the host said,
you know, anybody who feels like they got the chops
to do this should get up and try. And somebody
in sitting near me said you should go, and I went, okay,
not thinking this is what I want to do, or
I could even be good at it. And if there
if I thought, if I think that there's something funny
(27:20):
or entertaining to be had, it's kind of the only
thing I could think of is somebody would go, ladies
and gentlemen, Howie Mandel. And there's no reason for anybody
to say ladies and gentlemen, Howivandel. I have absolutely nothing
to offer. And so when they went ladies and gentlemen,
Howie Mandel, and people applaud, because that's what we're trained
to do, is just applot for even somebody you don't know,
(27:42):
just for showing up. And I stood there after the
applause died down, and the terror just shot through every
vein in my body. And if you look at old
videos of me, it's just me terrorized, going okay, all right, okay, okay.
And then if they giggled it, wait what? And I
put my hands in my pocket. And I've been open
about my OCD, and I would carry rubber gloves because
(28:06):
if I'm out in public, I have to go to
a public restroom. I don't want to touch anything. I
had gloves and I put I pulled out the glove
and I had nothing to do. I pulled it over
my head and I started breathing and the fingers were
going up and the audiences, the audience was laughing, and
then I blewed off my head and they applauded. And
I had enough wherewithal to go with that kind of
applaud leave on a high. I went good night, and
the UH, the UH owner Mark Presleen, said you got
(28:28):
to come back tomorrow, and I go, why what am
I going to do? He goes, do what you did?
I go, what did I do? And then it was
a great club, you know, to go two three times
a week and just to fool around and have this
kind of authentic kind of a was the first time
people wanted me even in the room or invited me
to a party. So I was so happy to be there.
(28:50):
And then I met people. That's where I met Jay Leno.
You know Jay Leno. Uh, he was a comic, and
he would come to the comedy They would hire the commute,
real comedians from out of state and people from Detroit,
and I when they came, I went and watched them.
I didn't know that I wanted to be one of them.
And then when I went out to La you know,
(29:12):
let him picked me up and took me to the
ice house. And then a guy named Mike Binder. Do
you know who? Mike Binder is a writer, third comedian.
He took me to the comedy store. I went to
the comedy store. Mitzi saw me, she liked me. She
put me on. There was a producer there who had
a comedy game show called Make Me Laugh. He put
me on on my vacation.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
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and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I have a couple other questions for you and then
I'll let you go. But I was watching some clips,
which is how I get agg because I watched most
of it through clips, just like your podcast. I watch
it all everything on clips.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, I don't watch I don't sit in front of
TV for anything.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So yeah, I don't want that's not offensive, but I
do watch it all in clips. And I was watching
a clip and I think it was from the Canada
version where he was singing Bad Day, and it turned
out to be Daniel Powder, the actual singer of And
I thought that was the coolest thing ever. But you
didn't know that was him?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
No, They, I think produced it to not tell me
because they wanted the producers wanted a genuine reaction. So
he goes, I'm just a songwriter. And I didn't remember
his name because that song hadn't been prevalent, and I
think that was his. I don't mean this in a
negative way, but that may have been his biggest or
only hit. Yeah, yeah, so one hit wonder, but not
(30:37):
a bad thing. I'm a no hit wonder. So so
he said his name Daniel you know, and where you're from?
And he's from He's from some place out west there
like Saskatchewan and we'd have no way and he goes
he used to be and you said the story. We
asked a couple of questions. You know, I wrote some songs.
I almost made it. We have a lot of people
on a GT and CGT that you know. I had
(30:59):
a wreck deal and then I fell out of the
record deal and it wasn't going in the direction I wanted.
And you know, it's not an amateur show. It's a
talent show. So when you started singing, I mean, the
audience just and us just went, holy can you swear
on this?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
You can?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah? Holy shit? You know, and I didn't. I didn't,
but that was a nice surprise. But it was produced
to be a surprise.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I think I wasn't really going to bring it up.
But you've been so open about the Bill Burr Billy
cor again, the Danea White, whenever that happened with Kelly Rippa.
I didn't think it was that big of a deal.
By watching it, did.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You feel like that was that? So that is a joke.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I thought it was a joke too.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah. So so here's the thing I went and did that.
I actually do that on stage because I'll go just
like if you're on stage, I do stand up. I
do stand up four times a week. I still tour.
And and if you're watching this and you're a big
fan of AGT or deal or No Dealer or anything
else that don't bring the kids to my stand up
(32:08):
is not my you know, like you see, I'm a
responsible broadcaster. But on stage I was always going, you know,
I just had my seventieth birthday, and they roar and
and then I go, you're just applauding I don't. They go,
oh you, why are you plotting? They go, you look good,
and I go, yeah, for seventy that's like saying, you know,
(32:29):
you look good for an ugly girl or here. And
it came out a month later, and we left it
in and then all of a sudden, the press picked
up how he got mad at Kelly's disc and we
didn't even know what it was. We didn't know what
it was, and that thing blew up. So I thought
it would be funny to record. I recorded an apology,
(32:55):
this long drawn out apology on the beach where I go,
you know what you are? You know, I apologize. I
didn't know how it came up, and you were absolutely right.
I am I realized that I am gorgeous for my
age I'm studying. And then that apology went like how
he did an awkward apology and how he did like
(33:15):
that was totally joke on joke on joke, and I
guess the joke was on us because but that's why
you can't believe what you read or see.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was completely
a joke and I just thought people didn't get it.
But man, it turned into such a story.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
But I love that. You know, even during uh COVID,
there was a whole thing. I don't know. You probably
didn't read dispressed, but it was online. It was big
that I was kidnapped, so much so that people sent
welfare every day. I had cops in my house doing
welfare checks, but serious welfare checks. So you can't believe anything.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Okay, final question.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
If you're talking to me, this could be Ai.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, this could be you in a box in the
hat box. Yeah, final quest show for you here. I've
got to come into town, I think in August to
I'm filling it for Rich Eisen, who does a sports
show at ESPN. Somebody come do his show for a
couple of days. If you got to come, well, I'll
play you Uno for ten grand and assigned Bobby's World
(34:17):
like posters so we can put in our like a
big ones so we can put it in our studio.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
You should do that, but you should also see come
to see the tech proto go Go get, but come
see my place. It's just a toy box. And on
any given day in the I would have showed you that.
But and maybe even later on today. The band is
always here. People drop in because there's like thirty different
podcasts here. So they drop in, they see the band,
they sit down and jam anybody from Michael Bouglet to
(34:43):
Richie Sambora to Billy Corgan. Every day there's somebody jamming
and then and we record it and we put it
up and it's like our little tiny desk, you know.
So there's music, there's tech, there's movies in the other room.
Yesterday Machine Gun Kelly was just doing a video here.
I just saw him the year. I think he was
(35:05):
doing a video. I don't know what he was doing.
But but or the live Netflix game is here or whatever.
Just coming, you've got to come. We'll connect offline. Let's
connect and come hang out. You'll see it. You'll like this. Well.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I appreciate the time and a GT. There's Tuesday's a
pm Eastern on NBC and then on Peacock the next day.
I'm a big fan, always have been a big fan.
From uh, I guess I miss saying Elsewhere. I was
a little too young for that. But from Bobby's World
on how old are you? Forties?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Oh yeah, same as my kids.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yeah, but do they remember saying elsewhere?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, they remember the house that it bought?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
But me and Denzel started out together, right, he was
on that. That was his first big job. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, you two confused a lot. That's probably why you
do this, that show together. It's the Yeah, it's that too, Howie.
Thank you for the time. Congratulated. She is on another
season of a GT and hopefully we can get that game.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Let's do it. I'll do it. I'm a colleging all.
I want you to start wearing sketchers.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I don't be nice.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I promise you I don't own a pair of sketchers.
Do you have a do you have a Sketcher's brand?
Do you have a deal?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Are you asking that. Look at all this stuff I'm wearing.
This is a Sketcher's USA team shirt.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
It's it's World Cup time. I just thought you grabbed
a USA shirt.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
No, Sketchers, that's on me.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Hand out. That's my fault, and that's on me. All right,
All right now, thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I want to play you a clip from a podcast
called The Upload with Brooke Taylor and Russell Dickerson and
his wife Kaylee are on this together. In this conversation,
they open up about their personal faith journeys from growing
up in church, Russell being a preacher's kid, experiencing a
deeper relationship with God as adults, and they talk about
(37:15):
marriage and purpose and faith. And if you like this,
I encourage you to go over and check out the upload,
subscribe to the Upload. It is a wonderful podcast. So
here it is here they are just a clip from
the Upload.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Russell Dickerson and Kaylie Dickerson are in the house.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Welcome to the Upload, guys. I'm excited to have a
conversation with both of you about Jesus and just the
cool things that he's doing in our lives and just
marriage as a follower of Christ, of parents as a
follower of Christ, and just encouraging stories that I feel
like a lot of fans and people don't get to
(37:52):
hear because of you know, we're talking about music, or
we're talking about a new album and just fun things.
And while we love talking about that and we'll probably
touch on it a little bit, I think it's also
really cool to just talk about, you know, the thing
that fuels us every single day, which is the Lord.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
So I'm excited that you guys said yes, So thank
you for being here.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Honored.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Have you guys always been believers? When did your guys
relationship with God's start?
Speaker 7 (38:15):
I grew up in a family that loved the Lord.
My parents were such great examples of what it was
to be a believer and not just like a church attendee.
We were kind of the opposite of like most people.
We didn't go to church on Christmas in Easter because.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
We were a preaster.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Yeah, like we went every other Sunday. But they just
really walked out their faith so well. Like my dad
every single morning, like he was up at four or
five reading his Bible on his exorcycle and like my
mom always had her Bible out and like if we
were out doing something came back in she was sitting
there reading the Word.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
They just lived it.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
And so I never really had a massive crisis of faith.
At eighteen, when I went to college, I had. I
did have a brief moment, okay, where I felt very alone.
I felt pretty alone in my life. I have faith
most of my life. Just the school I grew up in,
there weren't a lot of other like minded Christians.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Like there were other Christians, but I was the.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
One who wanted to go to youth group and.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
So I was like, I'm gonna go to Belmont and
I'm gonna find other believers and it's going to be awesome.
And then I got there and somehow I didn't find them,
and so I had this moment where I was like, oh,
maybe my family's just weird, Like maybe maybe it's just.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Like an US thing.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
And I really took a little journey and then the
Lord was like he looked me.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Right back, it's your yeah back, and then I was
like okay.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
And then I started doing missions photography and I was
a youth pastor for a second.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
So you did you grew up on the church too,
yeh yeh PK.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
My dad was a music minister at Woodmont Baptist for
twenty something years a lot, but we moved here in
fifth grade and from another church in Union City, Tennessee.
So yeah, I mean every Sunday, every Sunday night, every Wednesday,
every revival, everything, every youth group trip was you know,
(40:02):
I was there and it really like I got a
baptized when I was eight. Okay, I professed my faith
at eight, you know what.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
I mean, you knew exactly what you were doing?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
No, not at all.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
But it was really around high school because like, uh,
I had an incredible youth minister. He really, I guess
saw something in me. And you know, I mean I
was always around, so like were we were close, and
uh he really started pouring into me around high school
and we would you know, we'd go to a coffee
shop and just like talk about the Lord, talk about
(40:35):
the walk, talk about this struggle, that struggle whatever. And
I know, I was like the I led worship for
my youth group all every year that I was in it,
which well, I mean that's like six years. But that
was like the beginning of like really getting hungry for it,
you know, hungry for the word, hungry for the Lord.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
And did you ever feel pressure as a pastor's kid.
I feel like there's always this weird, you know, weight
of just I have to be a certain human being.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I've got to do this.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
Did you ever feel like I don't want to do this?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (41:09):
I mean there were times it was more so like
the response of my parents, like people are watching you, man,
like come on, I'm like so, but like I didn't
want I at the same time didn't want my parents
to look bad, like look like bad parents. But yes,
there was definite pressure. It was a pretty big church too,
and very traditional, very traditional Southern Baptists.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
I feel like it's so cool when you grow up
in church and then when you take the moments and
you finally realize and start walking your own relationship with
God and it's not just what my mom and dad
have said. When did you feel like that happened for you?
There's like layers to ours.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
I feel like it became mine for sure, like my
freshman year of college, because you're just like on your
own and no one's making you go to church, and
it's a choice you're making. And I had had that
moment was like is this real? Is this not? And
then I saw too much to know it is And
there was no convincing me otherwise at that point.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
So that was a big piece.
Speaker 7 (42:04):
But then I would say it was when we first
experienced the spirit of God move was when we were
like whoa, whoa, whoa. This is different. This is not
in my own strength, this is not checking something off
a list. This is a relationship like I didn't know
it was possible. And I went through like a mini
(42:27):
revival of sorts. I guess at CC wine and Souse actually,
and that's where I like experienced this. And Russ and
I had dated for a year and we were broken up.
In the month we were broken up is when this
happened for me and it rocked my world. So when
we started to kind of talk again, I was a
different person in a good way, and he was like whoa, whoa, whoa,
(42:48):
what's going on with you? And he was like, wait,
I think I want that too, And so that's when
he started to experience it and everything just changed for
us so quickly.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
I feel like the long answer was like really, like
in my senior year of high school, was really when
I started like, oh yeah, like this is this is
a part of me, you know, and it will forever be.
Then after college we broke up. We went very opposite directions.
My I had just started, uh you know, songwriting. She
(43:17):
went chasing after the Lord. I went chasing after the world.
But like I just started my career and I was like, yo,
this is about to pop off. I'm sorry, I'm not
going to be tied down. And I think we talked
about this the other night, but like I literally made
out with one girl on the road and I was like,
this is not it, brother.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
It was.
Speaker 6 (43:38):
Yeah, it was a quick It was a quick realization.
And the Lord's always taught me things on a very
small level so that I don't screw my life up.
Yeah how kind Oh yeah. And so yeah, this this
DMS Discipleship Ministry school that came over from Australia and
they were like, yo, the spirit's not dead, like y'all
need a spirit revival and just basically taught on that
(44:03):
for a week. Literally, like when you get a prophetic
word over your life and you like it's so spot
on and you're just like weeping because it's so spot on,
Like that is, that's life changing.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Let's talk about that for a second, because I feel
like there's so many people that are listening to this
that are probably just fans of you guys, right, and
they're just like, what does that mean? Having a prophetic
word spoken over you? Because it is such a powerful
thing where you know, somebody is telling you what's happening
in your life or what is going to happen in
your life, and you just, like you said, you're weeping,
You're feeling it, You're like chills from head to toe.
(44:40):
You're like, this is what's going on here. This could
not be anybody else but the Lord. Yeah, those moments
and having you know, a prophetic word spoken over you,
what was it?
Speaker 5 (44:48):
What were they saying to you? My sharing that?
Speaker 7 (44:50):
Oh, I mean my first one is a pretty simple example.
It was like I told my best friend and roommate
in college when we were sophomores or juniors. I was like,
I don't know what it is. I just like know
people's motives. And she was like, well, be careful with that,
like you could be judging people. And I was like, well,
I don't want to do that. Yeah, Like I don't
want to judge people. But I was like, I just
(45:11):
like when someone does or says something, I know why
they're doing it. And she was like, just be careful.
I was like, okay. So I go to CC's house
and they're like everyone just walk around and like stop
in front of someone and tell them what you see.
And this older man, who now I know is an
incredibly perfect man, but I didn't know him at all,
and he just looked at me dead in the face
(45:33):
and he goes, you know people's motives, and I was like, wait,
what and he was like, you know good from evil
without a shadow of a doubt. And he goes, but
you've stopped using it because you're afraid you're judging people.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
And I was like what.
Speaker 7 (45:48):
And I just like start crying because I didn't know
if this was real, to be honest.
Speaker 5 (45:52):
And that was the moment where I was like, there's
no way you know that.
Speaker 7 (45:56):
And he was like, I need the Lord is saying
to you, stop apologizing for it.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
He's given you this for what he's called you to
ye And.
Speaker 7 (46:04):
I've realized down the road, once we eventually got married
and all these different people were coming into our life,
that gift was like just weeding through good pure motives,
evil motives, pure motives.
Speaker 5 (46:17):
That's discerned me.
Speaker 7 (46:17):
Yeah, yeah, And I didn't realize why I was going
to need it. And then you marry someone that people
could have bad motives around, and you're like, oh, okay,
this is this is what it's for. So that was
like just like such a concise, dead on version that
blew my mind and still does honestly. But there's been
so many prophetic We call Russell the prophecy stealer because
(46:41):
I was well when we when I was a mission photographer,
he would come and lead worship on the trips, so
we'd get to go to all these places and people
would just be preaching sermons in like England, Scotland, Israel,
and they'd be like, mmm, you, And it was always him,
(47:01):
and they would give him all these They're like, you
are going to be like on stage in front of
millions of people. You your marriage is going to heal marriages?
You like, just they kept giving him words that were
always applicable to obviously his calling, and so all of
our friends on the trip were always like, dang it.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
Rosseal, why are you looking like I want a prevettic
Speaker 3 (47:20):
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