September 8, 2026 • 42 mins
On this episode of "In The Weeds", Bobby gets WEEDY talking about reading negative comments and getting pissed, What it was like the day Dolly Parton died, finding out he's an "Influencer", scheduling Bobbycasts, his trip to LA, & a whole lot more!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So that's something that was the first happened to me
last week. We were in Los Angeles and we were
staying at an Airbnb and we got an Airbnb close
to the studio. I was working out of when I
was filling in for Rich Eisen and me not thinking
much about it. I just booked it nearby. So we
ended up staying in Inglewood. Now, the only thing I
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know about Inglewood is from Dr. Dre songs. Long Beach, Inglewood.
And as we were driving to the Airbnb, there were
a lot of houses with bars on the windows. A lot.
And we were getting closer and closer, two blocks away,
still houses with bars on the windows. I was like,
oh man, maybe this wasn't the greatest neighborhood to get
an Airbnb in. And it wasn't. But once we got
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in the house, it was fine. So, The weird thing
happened as we were in the house, we had stayed
that first night. Someone comes up and knocks on the door.
Kind of dressed professionally. And so go over, answer the
door and they hand this piece of paper to me
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and it's got like a sticky on top of it.
The house was being fined 2,500 bucks for having Airbnb
people stay in it. So I was in the house
as the house was getting fined because they weren't supposed
to have people staying in it as an Airbnb. So
completely awkward. We just stuck it to the table and
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didn't say much about it. And I'm sure whoever owns
the Airbnb will get the bill and get the fine.
We were staying really close to the football stadium where
the Rams play, which is called SoFi. So again, all
I knew Inglewood from was the Dr. Dre songs. And
also there were a lot of houses with bars on
the windows, even half a block over. So didn't feel
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the safest. I've stayed in less safe for sure. But
we had a friend that was with us and I
don't know that he had ever been to Los Angeles before.
So he was looking out for celebrities and apparently gang
members because someone was walking by and they were dressed
in purple. And he said, I think that's a crip.
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And I said, why do you think that? He goes,
they're wearing purple. Now the person looked kind of like
Will Ferrell. The human looked like Will Ferrell. Not that
a guy that looks like Will Ferrell can't be a crip.
But the person that we're talking about looked a bit
like Will Ferrell, was wearing purple, but also had a
number nine jersey on, which meant he was walking to
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the Rams game, which their color's purple. It was not
a Crip at all. It was somebody in a Rams
shirt walking to SoFi. So I had to ruin his
experience by saying, no, that's not a real life Crip.
That's somebody that's just a Matthew Stafford or Cooper Cup fan.
It was a fun trip though. And I know no
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crying on the yacht, but we were flying over that
afternoon after the show and we were taking the company plane.
And so I get a certain amount of uses of
the company plane per year per my contract. So we
were flying to Los Angeles and I always book backup
flights in case something happens with that plane, especially because
I had to work that next morning after my radio
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show on Rich Eisen's show, who does the big sports
show I was filling in for. So we had all
of our Delta flights until about 11 a.m. Our flight
was going to leave at 3 p.m. on the private
plane over. And we had all our equipment. Like I'm talking,
we go and not only do I do Rich's show,
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we set up a full studio in the living room
of whatever Airbnb we're staying. And then people come over
and do Bobby casts. And so we had cameras, we
had lights and all the equipment, all these, you know, big,
big boxes. And it's much easier if you're not flying
commercial because you can just take them on the plane.
It's not a big deal. So we're going and noon
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hits and I'm finishing up the morning show. And Morgan said, hey,
we just canceled all of our commercial flights because we
waited the last minute. We canceled them. We'll just wait
for the private plane to get here. It's about an
hour later. They go, oh, we got to cancel the
private flight. But we just canceled all our plane tickets.
So we don't have a way to get to LA.
So we're booking last minute. So expensive. We leave half
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of our crew back. We don't take any equipment. We
just kind of, you know, free ball it to LA.
Me just thinking we'll go. I won't do any Bobby
casts and I'll just do Rich Eisen because that was
the obligation that I wanted to have. And then we'll
come back home. So we're rushing because we got to
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be at the airport an hour early. Uh, we're trying
to get flights for everybody, but Brandon was going to
fly in at 9 PM. Morgan and I were going
to get on the first flight. Mike was now staying home.
We all ended up getting on a Delta flight at
three o'clock. I wasn't even packed. So I rushed home.
I pack real quick. I get out, I go to
the airport. We get there barely and we're flying over
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and Morgan goes, Hey, I'm going to look and see
if I can find a studio to rent to see
if we can still shoot the Bobby cast episodes that
we were going to shoot. And I was like, okay, cool.
Never done that before where we go and just use
their equipment. And she found one was like 75 bucks
an hour. And she was like, let's just try it.
So we had Lance Bass, Dane Cook, and Dolph Lundgren
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scheduled for that trip. So not a bad evening. Dane
Cook ended up canceling because we wouldn't hold his interview
for like three months. Lance Bass called us as we
were flying over, I guess, message Morgan and said, Hey,
I got to cancel. something private. And Dolph Lundgren, who
played the Russian in Rocky IV and was in He-Man
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and was in a bunch of other stuff too. He
was still on, but needed to move his time. But
we had the studio rented. We know it was going
to work, but we're like, let's keep going. So I
go and I do Rich Eisen and we end up
getting to this podcast rental studio, except it's a yogurt shop.
We walk in the front door and it's completely a
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yogurt shop. There's nothing except yogurt in there. They're like, hey,
we rented a studio. And they're like, oh yeah, go
that way. We had to walk through some shady back
of the yogurt shop door, go through some stairs, go up,
turn the corner. It's a full on podcast studio with
like multi cameras. And now they did not provide people
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to run it. Luckily, Brandon and Morgan were there. So
they ran sound and video and Dolph Lundgren ended up
showing up. It was a great episode that will come
up real soon. My whole point with all this is
it was a bit frustrating that our original flight was
canceled out there. Not because it was private, but because
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we'd already canceled our commercial flights and we had to
leave all our equipment behind. Like we had everything planned.
The good thing that came from that is we now
know that even if we have to work in a
small podcast studio with cameras in the back of a
yogurt shop, that's still pretty good. Like I don't think
we'll ever again take all our equipment and set up
in an Airbnb and just live in the living room.
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So we benefited from that mishap. And again, I'm not whining.
Like I say, there's no crying on the yacht, although
it was very frustrating trying to get there in time.
But that's my LA story. My friend saw a crypt.
Turned out it was just a guy looking at Will
Ferrell that was wearing a Cooper Cup jersey. And as
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crazy as the travel was out there and trying to
find it all last minute, and man, a round trip
flight to Los Angeles with an hour and a half
notice for five people, that is expensive. All that. But
we got something positive out of it. We will never
haul over all of our equipment again. And even if, oh,
the air went out in the podcast studio as well.
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There was no AC. We're in the back of a
yogurt shop in a podcast studio. There's no AC and
all of this equipment's hot as well. Yeah, that part
was pretty miserable. And we had a guest there and
Dolph was sweating a little bit. But still, even then,
We gain something, but we don't need to haul all
of our equipment across the country. That's all. You never
know where the silver lining is from an experience. And
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that was a great experience. I always loved doing that show.
So Leanne Morgan was on the Bobbycast a few weeks ago.
I hope you get to watch the episode, go over
to Netflix or podcast audio. And she was like a wholesome,
positive tornado. Now, speaking of AC being out, the AC
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was out in the studio that I'm in now, which
is our studio. And so we had to go to
my house to shoot that one. We have a studio
there as well. So she came over to my house. Man,
she was so delightful. Again, big, loud, but in the
best way. So kind, generous with her time. She stayed
after and talked with everybody, played with the baby. But
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there was a clip that we put up that generated
a weird reaction. It was the clip where I said, hey,
would you list your five favorite standup comedians? And she
did list all five of them. And the clip started
to do pretty well. And I was interested in that.
That's why I ask people like their top five songs.
I just want to know what they like. But then
more and more people in the comment section started getting
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angrier that she wasn't picking any women. Now I can
understand if I say, hey, Leanne, who are five up
and coming comics that you really want to highlight? And
if she listed five white men in their 40s, I
think maybe we add a little diversity there. But if
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I say, what's your favorite? I think you just give
me your favorite. I don't think there has to be.
diversity in your favorite. If you were to give me
five female black comedians, I wouldn't say, gotta add a
white one. If it's for your favorite. People were so upset, like, oh, Leanne,
no women in there? I asked her her favorite. And
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I would rather her not have to be politically correct
when picking her favorite things. Now, I would expect her, again,
if I said something like, hey, who are five up
and comings you'd like to highlight right here? Again, if
she picked all long-haired white guys in overalls, all five
of them, I'd be like, man, a little diversity, right?
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We could pick somebody a little different if you're just picking,
but I'm asking your favorite. It's like people will ask me, hey,
what are your five favorite songs right now? Who are
your five favorite artists? Who are your favorite If you
ask me my favorite, it's literally going to be my favorite.
I don't feel like I have to give anybody an
opportunity when it comes to my favorites. I do feel
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I need to give people opportunities in other instances though.
If I'm highlighting new artists, I'm not going to pick
five bluegrass bands. I may pick one. I may throw
in a duo. I may have a couple of female artists,
may have a dude. I'm definitely going to try to
make sure that good people from all different areas get
a look. But if you're asking me favorites, I'm literally
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going to give you my favorites. And I felt like
that was a little harsh and that people need to
grow up. Dolly died, obviously. And when that happened, we
were already up here and we were scheduled to record
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a Luke Bryan interview, actually. because Luke put out an album.
And so I get a text from Amy saying, Hey,
did you see Dolly Parton died? And I didn't because
I'd come from something else. I don't know where I
came from. Maybe the radio show and it happened and
she texts me. And at first we thought that someone
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had hacked Dolly's Facebook account because it was only on
her Facebook and it wasn't in the news anywhere. And
then it was only on her Instagram. But since they
were both blue checked, we thought, wow, this is it.
That stings. So we kind of got into action right
away because really there's nobody bigger in country music in
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my lifetime. I don't think than Dolly because they Johnny Cash,
but you know, there's only a few. And so we
did have Luke Bryan coming up that afternoon and I
text Luke and I was like, I'm so sorry. I
got to cancel on you. And he said, I totally
get it. And what I wanted to make sure that
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we did, and I think if you heard the show
that next morning after Dolly died, it was full Dolly.
It was from the moment we came on to the
show ending. It was full us talking about Dolly, how
Dolly personally has impacted us, the professional experiences I had
with her, all that she's given back. And so It
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was all Dolly, but some of it was us immediately
coming in. So Amy drove up here immediately. Eddie got
up here. Brandon was up here running cameras. Mike was
up here. And what I wanted to capture was the
impact of us finding out. So the first quarter of
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the show was us talking right as we found out
about it because I felt like that would feel more real.
And the second two thirds of the show was us
talking about it the next morning live. One of the
weird things that happened was I started to get hit
by a lot of news producers, CNN, Fox News, ABC,
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like a lot of the networks. And they all wanted
me to come on and talk about Dolly doing news
hit after news hit. And I think ABC hit me first.
And I said, yes, I'll do it. I did it
at 7 p.m. But I started to get more and
more And it just felt like I was doing a
press tour. It felt a bit opportunistic. So I did
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one and then I shut it down. I never canceled
on anyone, but I felt like if I was doing
four or five interviews on all these different platforms, I
don't know, it just felt kind of grody. And I
didn't want to be seen as someone who was using
Dolly's death as an opportunity to go on all these
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networks just to have my face on TV. So The
ABC one was pretty good. Luke was great about it.
We're going to schedule him to come back in the
next couple of weeks or so. But what a weird
day and week and few weeks since then, especially as
you learn more and more about it and how she
didn't want to talk about her situation because she didn't
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want people to worry about her, which was crazy. We
interrupt this interview to bring you a message from our sponsor.
This is the Bobby cast. I'm recording this now from vacation.
I guess I'm in the same place, but I'm recording
it as I'm on vacation. So spent the first day
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or so at home. And then me, Caitlin, baby Billy,
Caitlin's parents, we all went to East Tennessee. And so
we're up in the mountains there. And I normally don't
tell people that we're going on vacation, especially show listeners.
Because there's really no difference to them as long as
we have created new content. And so we took the
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last month and we just grinded out five full new
shows and five hour long part two episodes for every
single day. We did a special on the palette. We
did a lot of stuff, but I don't announce it.
And people will get irritated at me online. Like, why
don't you tell us when you're on vacation? Well, there's
no difference to you. And if we say that, it
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could actually hurt us. You could go, well, they're not
going to be live, so we won't listen. When actually
the shows could be better. They could be better than
when we're there actually live. And so I don't share
because there's no benefit for me to share because most people,
they're experiencing it the exact same way than if we
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were there doing the show live every single day. And
why it took us about a month to do them
all is because we still were doing all the normal
shows day to day and all the Bobbycasts. Um, and
then couple that with all the shows and all the podcasts.
And we did launch a brand new series on 90s country.
So it's actually a 10 part series, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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and Friday at vacation, we put up an hour long
episode from 90, 91, 92, 93, 94. And I think
every week from here out, we'll do another one. But
if you haven't heard those yet, you can go to
the Bobbycast feed and check them out there. But I
purposefully don't say when we're going on vacation for that reason.
the listener doesn't miss anything when we're on vacation, for
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the most part. But it can't hurt us. If we
say we're gone, even though the content could be just
as good or better, people are going to go, ah,
they're on vacation, so we won't listen. So why would
I do that? Why would I hurt us? That's why
we don't. More and more people are watching this show,
which is pretty crazy. I have a Charlie Worsham Bobbycast
that comes out relatively soon. And He said to me
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that he started to watch this because he thinks, and
you can hear him on the episode say it, but
mostly it was, he thinks it's interesting how I do
a one-man show, just looking at the camera, talking to
you guys like this, and make it entertaining and compelling.
You know, I was also in an article, which is
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kind of weird how I've become like an influencer for
content creation, mostly to radio and podcast people. not to
people trying to do TikToks, but him saying that made
me feel like I have to prepare these shows better.
Cause again, I just kind of come in here. I
have notes, just like one line of things I want
to talk about, but I just kind of free ball it.
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But I did in that article and I did in
a clip talk about how I think this is where
a lot of podcasting, I think there'll be a major
shift to people that can just talk solo and Because
the same guests go on 15 different podcasts. And it just,
you start to have burnout of interviews, unless it's great.
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But there's this company called Barrett Media. And they had
posted an article. I didn't ask them to write it.
It was super nice of them to write it. And
the article basically was, hey, you have somebody who has
had success and he's showing you inside how he has
the success. And it was just me. And it was
clips that I've put on Instagram talking about how to
do content. And so I think I was on the
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flight back from Los Angeles when the article went up
and it popped up in my algorithm. And so I
was like, oh, cool. I went to the Facebook page. Now,
it wasn't a Tuesday. I should have never gotten the comments.
And Tuesday is usually the only day that I go
into the comments. And there's this article, super nice. Made
me feel good because they were highlighting something that I
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didn't really plan for anyone to highlight. I was just
doing it because I thought people could could use the information.
I like it when people do that. Sometimes in my
TikTok algorithm, it's just people talking about how to do
better content. Like I always appreciate that. And I shouldn't
write the comments, but it was other radio people. Like
here's one, Christopher Lewis, Bobby Bones, seriously, LOL. Is that
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a middle school nickname? Now, again, these are all people
that are in radio and no, it was not a
middle school nickname. My middle school nickname was T-Bone because
the rumor was I got a boner over a kid
when I was wrestling him in off season football. But
that oddly had nothing to do with Bobby Bones, which
was given to me when I was 17, almost 18
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years old in my first ever radio station. Go back
a few episodes of In the Weeds. You can hear
all about that. But it wasn't middle school. That was T-Bone.
But also what kind of, why would you even put
that in the comments? Here's one from Steve McGrew. His playbook,
he was picked from obscurity and told he was going
to be the star. I heart forced him on everybody.
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That's his playbook. The interesting thing about this is this
guy's a massive idiot. So picked from obscurity, I would
say I'm more forced myself on the company than I
was picked by the company. So as I've talked about before,
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I had built my own syndication using my own money
in Austin, Texas. My contract was coming up. They had
a decision to make. I had a decision to make.
I had 25 affiliates that I was running by myself
with my own money with Comrex boxes that I'd figured
out how to use myself because nobody was going to
syndicate a show from Austin, Texas. You only get syndicated
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from New York or Los Angeles, for the most part,
a little bit Chicago. Nobody wanted to syndicate me. So
was I obscure? Absolutely. Was I picked by iHeart? Absolutely not.
They only cared once I started making a decent amount
of money for the company. and being a viable revenue
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generator for the company because I had hustled all of
these markets. No one would have noticed me had I
not had success, one, on the local level, and two,
had they gone, this guy has four markets? Who knew?
So there was no pick from obscurity. Everything that I've
ever gotten from the company has been me having to
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leverage it. The first time that iHeartRadio put me on
all the stations in Nashville was because I wanted to
come to Nashville. My contract was up and I said, Hey,
I need something to happen. Let's figure out some options.
So they could either lose me, which I thought they
would do. Like they just wouldn't care enough. Or because
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I was in a negotiation, they could grant me what
I felt like I was worth. And that's what happened.
But at no time. And even then I came to
Nashville and got less markets than I gave up in Austin.
which was crazy. I took a half step back. And
the wild part about coming here was that I kind
of had to burn the boats. Meaning once I was here,
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the entire network that I had built of the 25
pop affiliates was gone. As soon as I left, they
gave them to other people. So I couldn't go, you
know what? I want to go back. I had to
take a massive risk. My entire career is calculated large risks.
Sometimes some very calculated small risks. Some of them paid
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off wonderfully. Like the time I bought billboards. Excellent. People
still talk about it. That is my maybe second greatest
holy crap achievement. I think the first one is winning
a dance competition. So nobody said you're going to be
a star. I had to take a crowbar and crowbar
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the freaking door down for them to even know who
I was. And then Well, I would argue now that
I don't know if I'm a star, but I have
had success. And iHeart didn't force me on anybody until
it became financially viable for them to do that. And
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then there would be shows. I mean, it would suck
when we first moved to town. Because again, we launched
in not as many markets as I gave up, but
it was enough. And either they flip stations or for
whatever reason we were on in the morning. When you
go on new to like 15 or 18 places at once,
it is not fun because everybody hates you, especially when
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you sound different than anything else that had been on
at all. Because I wasn't coming in on a cowboy
hat and a belt buckle. And, you know, God bless
you if you wear them, but I don't. And I
never faked it. I still don't fake it. I have
never faked who I am for one second for any format.
But you're an idiot. And that's all. Here's another one.
Rod Willis. Bobby Bones is a hack. I don't disagree.
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That's all. I don't disagree. To you, I might be.
To others, I may not be. I think art is
in the eye of the beholder. Some people really enjoy
what I do and what I talk about and how
I talk about it. Some people hate it. And that's okay.
I'm totally fine with you calling me a hack. Here's
one from Rick. Anyone remember when he said he was
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the Kansas City Chiefs of Radio to me on Twitter? No, dude,
nobody remembers you or me saying anything. I do remember
this guy. He worked at some small station. He was
telling me how I did my job. Suckily, is that
a word? And I said, hey, man, you, because I
didn't know who this guy was. He came at me. Also,
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if you come at me and you hit me with
a feather, I'm going to take a bowling ball and
crack it over your head, right? The fight's never going
to be fair. If you come and you want to
get in a slap fight, I'm going to pull out
a machete. And what I remember saying was, it's like
a high school coach telling the Dallas Cowboys how to
run their offense. Except it wasn't the Cowboys, it was
the Chiefs because that's when the Chiefs were good. Pre-Mahomes injury.
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But yeah, I remember that. You're an idiot too. There's
a thing about internet commenters and especially those four in
my mind. Let's take a quick pause for a message
from our sponsor. Welcome back to the Bobbycast. Something called Dunning-Kruger.
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And I think this can be our learning lesson from today.
So Dunning-Kruger is something that I look at and I say, man,
they just don't know how dumb they are. So the
official definition of Dunning-Kruger is a cognitive bias where people
with low competence or limited knowledge in a specific skill
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tend to greatly overestimate their ability. So also a part
of Dunning-Kruger is dumb people never know how dumb they
are because they're too dumb to know how dumb they are.
So there is no understanding that they may be saying
something stupid. And this could be anyone. There are a
lot of people I've seen online with a heavy case
of Dunning-Kruger. Heck, in some aspects of my life, I
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probably have it. But the whole concept of it is
idiots never know they're actually idiotic because they're so idiotic,
they don't have the understanding or awareness to realize how
idiotic they are. So that's Dunning-Kruger. There was something I
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posted on the Radio Hall of Fame. I'm going to
go in October in Chicago and I'm going to host
the Hall of Fame ceremony this year, which is fun
for me. The reason I said yes to it this
year is because Bob Pittman, my CEO, is being inducted.
The irony is I was inducted in 2017 and Bob
Pittman is the guy who bet the farm on me.
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So he should have got in before I did. But
they've asked me to do it before. I haven't been
able to do it because sometimes it's at the same
time as iHeartRadio Music Festival or I was touring. But
because Bob was being inducted, I said, absolutely, yes, I
will go and host it. Also, my favorite football player
of all time, Boomer Esiason, who played quarterback for the
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Cincinnati Bengals, is being inducted as well because he's had
a storied career in sports radio. So I thought that
was cool, a little cool add-on there. But I posted
these images of a story that was written about me
And it said, Bybones inductee from 2017 is going to
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host the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Illinois. And
so it had a little blurb about me and my
career as well. And it was a nice blurb. So
I posted it up there. And then people in the
comments started congratulating me, like in a massive way where
I felt kind of guilty because I think they thought
I was announcing I was in the Radio Hall of
Fame or I was just being invited to be in
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the Hall of Fame. For example, Brittany Kellogg, who was
on this show, she does the trash, takes out the
trash every Tuesday on TikTok, and she's a country artist.
She said, this is incredible! Exclamation, exclamation. Congrats! Sherry9607 said, Bob,
you so deserve this. You work so hard and you
deserve every accolade. Jerome Patnode said, hey, congratulations on the
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induction to the Hall of Fame. You definitely deserve it.
So I'm in this weird place because Thank you. That's
so nice of you to say all those super kind
things to me and about me. But also I'm not
going in and also I'm already in, but I didn't
want to like correct them and be like, no, no, no.
I was in seven years ago, years ago, but it
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was so nice. And then I just wonder, was that
post misleading in any way? So if you saw that,
I'm not being inducted. I was so wonderfully inducted into
the Radio Hall of Fame seven years or so ago
And I'm going to host it this year because my
CEO is going in, which I think is pretty awesome.
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My algorithm. feeds me, me, which is odd and not
just content that I do, but content where people are
talking about me, which is not always good because, you know,
there's an article that I was referencing earlier where this
media company was talking about the content that I do
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and how other people in podcasting and radio should check
it out. And I thought it was super nice of them,
but they started the article with love them or hate them.
And I did a whole post like, Hey, we can
leave that out. We have to put the hate them
in there, like love them or hate them. And then
it starts to talk. So maybe you saw the post
and I was like, well, we don't, we don't need
the hate. Let's block out the hate word. You don't
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have to say love them. Just say the information. And
that thing gets so much engagement. I'd mentioned earlier in
this with people commenting like crazy. And I read some
of the mean comments. There were also some very kind
comments on there, which is great, but those nobody's is
entertained by. But my algorithm feeds me meat. It also
(30:40):
feeds me people talking about me and people trying to
start feuds with me. And there's about two a week.
There's about two new people a week that want to
start a feud with me that I've never even met
because I think they know if I respond and I
have a fight and I publicly talk about it, they
will be platformed. Do you know how hard it is
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for me who is so competitive, who is also so
wildly insecure, and that is a bad mix. Do you
know how hard it is for me not to fight
with them, not to annihilate them? That's me saying that
because obviously I think that even if it's not true.
Do you know how hard it is for me to
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watch my algorithm feed me me people talking about me,
saying things that aren't true, and for me not to respond,
it's crazy hard. But I don't because I know that's
what they want. So I don't. I would say there's
about two new ones a week. Just with the idea
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of if I respond, they'll get clicks. But it's very hard.
There was a new one last week. Two dudes. And
I was like, I don't even... No, you guys. So
I turned it off. That wasn't even in the comments.
Like that's just my algorithm feeding me, me, because they
know me's me. I do try to share a little
(32:10):
justice sometimes. There was an Instagram account and they did
a whole article with pictures, five country artists you've completely
forgotten about. And they listed five artists. And I just wrote, well,
this seems a little harsh. And they listed Lee Bryce,
Randy Houser, Eli Youngband, David Nail, and Easton Corbin. And again,
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the whole carousel was five country artists you've probably forgotten about.
Lee Bryce did the fish song. Remember that one, right?
Moses Yard. That was in the Turning Point concert on
the Super Bowl halftime show. That thing went pretty viral.
Can't forget about that. But after I wrote, hey, that's
(32:54):
kind of harsh. Somebody in the comments said, oh yeah, well,
how are you supporting him? And I was like, well,
David Nail was on the show two weeks ago in studio.
If it matters. I mean, I haven't forgotten about him.
I literally just had David Nail in studio because he
has new music coming out. Other podcasters have reached out
to me asking if we give our guests final cut
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or what they call playback, meaning when we're done with
the interview, do we give them the full tape and say, hey,
here's what it is. You can cut out anything you want. No,
we never do that. However, we're also not trying to
do a gotcha with anybody. So if someone has a
problem with anything, anything, they can say, hey, I didn't
like how that came out. Can you cut that for me?
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We have no problem with cutting anything ever if it
makes a guest feel uncomfortable. Because I have also said
things where I go, oh man, I wish I wouldn't
have said that. I didn't mean it like that. So
I wish I wouldn't have said it like that. Now,
no one's ever cut that out for me. And sometimes
I say it on my own show. So it's my
own fault. But I've also said things where I didn't
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like how it came out and it wasn't what I meant.
So I will always cut. Sometimes people say, hey, legally,
I'm afraid I'm going to get in trouble. No problem.
We'll cut it or we'll beep it, whatever you want.
But we definitely do not give people final cut or
playback because what will happen is as soon as we
do that, they'll send us three pages of notes. of
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extremely specific notes and time codes of what they want
cut here. And they'd like it if this could be
moved there and it's just not worth it. So to anybody,
and this is extremely in the weeds to anybody that's
watching this, that does their own show with guests, never
give them the full product. Absolutely. If you want to
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give them the ability to go, Hey, I don't like that.
Would you mind pulling that out? No problem. That's what
we do. Cause again, we're not trying to got you anybody.
But never for a second would I give anyone a
full show because if I do that, you better believe
they're going to send the full thing back with full
notes on everything. So, no, we don't. I was asked
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how I schedule the Bobbycast because as of right now,
we have three episodes that go up a week. We
have a Tuesday, Thursday, and a weekend episode on Saturday. Now,
this is a very general Bobbycast show scheduling description. Usually
the most known guest goes up on Tuesday. That doesn't
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always mean it's the best guest or the guest that
I'm most interested in. Sometimes I'm way more interested in
the Thursday guest, but the Tuesday guest at the time
was hitting a little harder. So they go up on
Tuesday at the beginning of the week. Tuesday, the biggest,
most known guest. Thursday is someone that I really like
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or have like a fascination with of their art. Or
someone that's also really big, if Tuesday was also really big.
So we got to put them on Thursday. But Thursday
is more of a, I'm super interested in the episode.
Sometimes on Thursday, you'll get episodes where we just talk
about music, where we'll come in and do like greatest
pop songs, or we'll do best one-hit wonders, or what's
(36:08):
the one we have coming up? Movie songs? Best cover songs.
Like sometimes on Thursday, and I'll be honest with you,
I enjoy doing those sometimes more than the interviews. But
Tuesday is always most known because it pops up on
Netflix in an opportune time. Thursday is a lot of
times my favorite, but it's mostly something I'm interested in.
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And then the weekend episode is sometimes just Eddie and
I talking about a bunch of stuff. Sometimes it's with
a guest. That one's a little more wildcard because I'll
bring in people that I just think are cool from
social media. When we had in Lauren Paley, she was
someone who sings... punk songs, like a Disney princess. And
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she has millions of followers. And I was so interested
in why she started doing it. Like what kind of
following she has. And she put out a record because
it got so big on social media. I just want
to know like her background. And so that to me,
super interesting. We had Brittany Kellogg on, she drags the
trash down. And I didn't even know she was a
musical artist whenever I decided to have her in. And
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she's actually really good. She has a song called Sober
you guys should check out. So that Saturday show was us.
We changed the couch. We flipped the studio. It's more
of a sitting around shooting the old about topics. But
that's usually how that goes. Not always. But it's usually
how the booking goes there. There was someone who left
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a comment on an Instagram or a YouTube video. It's
from Man, when I see a name like this, I
almost think it's a burner account, but burner accounts wouldn't
be mean or they wouldn't be nice, I should say.
But it's from LMKJHYV7897. Didn't this scream burner account? Maybe
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they just wanted a YouTube and it just picked a
name for them. I don't know. But they wrote, Bobby,
do you ever go back and look at old clips
of the Bobby Bones show? They keep popping up for
me on YouTube. One that recently came up was when
you surprised Amy by going to see her kids in
Haiti before they were adopted. It was so sweet. That's
not what someone says who creates a burner account. Sometimes
they pop up, but I don't watch them because all
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I end up doing is critiquing my own work or
hating myself in a time machine five years ago or
seven years ago. But that's super nice, but they do
pop up sometimes. A couple more things before we decide
to run out. I watch four horror movies. I don't
normally watch horror movies, but I watched four over the
past few weeks. Actually, I hate scary movies, but I
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watched four over the last few weeks. I'm going to
rate them. Number one is a movie called The Menu.
It's about this really fancy restaurant. You got to get
on a boat and go to it, and people wait
for years to get in. More of a psychological thriller
than horror, but it's definitely listed as horror. I loved
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this movie. Again, I don't like monsters. I don't like
jump scares. But I do love movies that screw with
your mind. So my favorite horror movie of the past
month or so was The Menu. Second, I didn't enjoy
watching the movie, but I appreciated how good it was,
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was that movie. Obsession? That movie's effed up, man. I
didn't like it, but I can appreciate that it was
awesome to people who love those kind of movies. You
wrote that, that's next level stuff. But I'm going to
put that at number two. I watched a movie called
The Substance with Demi Moore Did you guys watch that
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one ever? That movie's crazy. So this is all about
beauty standards and Demi Moore I think turns 50 and
she's a TV fitness instructor and she's trying to find
ways to stay young. She finds a way. And I
was really interested about the first half of the movie.
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Then it just got weird. Weird. It wasn't like a
psychological thriller. It was just like, what am I watching?
It did win awards though. So at three, I'd put
The Substance. And then at four, I watched Backrooms. Did
you watch that one, Dylan? That was pretty interesting, especially
because it basically was like a 4chan, I believe. I
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believe it started on 4chan. Like a message board there.
I don't know, it was weird too. Not really my thing.
But I didn't hate any of them. Even Obsession, which
I thought was too much. Did you watch that one, Dylan?
You like that one? But I appreciated it. So if
you like horror movies, The Menu, Obsession at two, The
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Substance at three, and Back Rooms at four. But I
could see you kind of liking all four if you
liked horror movies. But that Demi Moore movie was freaking crazy, man.
All right, that's going to be it for this episode
of In the Weeds from Vacation. Thank you for being here. Oh,
we got... For those that are watching... You'll be able
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to see this. These are our new Stay Weedy hats,
which Brandon had made. We're not really selling them. Brandon
nicely made two of them. So I'm wearing one of
them right now. It's black. It's got white letters. It
says Stay Weedy, which is what we say on the show.
This other one, if you post down in the comments,
Stay Weedy, I'll sign and send to you. And subscribe.
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And subscribe. Oh yeah, we have to go to your
page and make sure you're subscribed. So if you subscribe
to this channel on YouTube, And you're right, stay weedy.
I'll sign this other stay weedy hat and I'll send
it to you. So appreciate all the weed eaters out there.
I don't like weed whackers. People sort of call themselves
weed whackers. I don't like weed whackers. It feels like
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whacking is just not something. I don't want you guys whacking,
you know? They wouldn't make that happen. Yeah. So stay weedy.
Keep your eyes open. Be looking in the weeds. Don't whack.
All my weed eaters out there. Well, you can. I'm
just not going to call you that. We'll see you
guys next time. All right. Bye, everybody. Love this episode
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you listen to podcasts.
So that's something that was the first happened to me
last week. We were in Los Angeles and we were
staying at an Airbnb and we got an Airbnb close
to the studio. I was working out of when I
was filling in for Rich Eisen and me not thinking
much about it. I just booked it nearby. So we
ended up staying in Inglewood. Now, the only thing I
(00:32):
know about Inglewood is from Dr. Dre songs. Long Beach, Inglewood.
And as we were driving to the Airbnb, there were
a lot of houses with bars on the windows. A lot.
And we were getting closer and closer, two blocks away,
still houses with bars on the windows. I was like,
oh man, maybe this wasn't the greatest neighborhood to get
an Airbnb in. And it wasn't. But once we got
(00:55):
in the house, it was fine. So, The weird thing
happened as we were in the house, we had stayed
that first night. Someone comes up and knocks on the door.
Kind of dressed professionally. And so go over, answer the
door and they hand this piece of paper to me
(01:15):
and it's got like a sticky on top of it.
The house was being fined 2,500 bucks for having Airbnb
people stay in it. So I was in the house
as the house was getting fined because they weren't supposed
to have people staying in it as an Airbnb. So
completely awkward. We just stuck it to the table and
(01:35):
didn't say much about it. And I'm sure whoever owns
the Airbnb will get the bill and get the fine.
We were staying really close to the football stadium where
the Rams play, which is called SoFi. So again, all
I knew Inglewood from was the Dr. Dre songs. And
also there were a lot of houses with bars on
the windows, even half a block over. So didn't feel
(01:56):
the safest. I've stayed in less safe for sure. But
we had a friend that was with us and I
don't know that he had ever been to Los Angeles before.
So he was looking out for celebrities and apparently gang
members because someone was walking by and they were dressed
in purple. And he said, I think that's a crip.
(02:16):
And I said, why do you think that? He goes,
they're wearing purple. Now the person looked kind of like
Will Ferrell. The human looked like Will Ferrell. Not that
a guy that looks like Will Ferrell can't be a crip.
But the person that we're talking about looked a bit
like Will Ferrell, was wearing purple, but also had a
number nine jersey on, which meant he was walking to
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the Rams game, which their color's purple. It was not
a Crip at all. It was somebody in a Rams
shirt walking to SoFi. So I had to ruin his
experience by saying, no, that's not a real life Crip.
That's somebody that's just a Matthew Stafford or Cooper Cup fan.
It was a fun trip though. And I know no
(02:57):
crying on the yacht, but we were flying over that
afternoon after the show and we were taking the company plane.
And so I get a certain amount of uses of
the company plane per year per my contract. So we
were flying to Los Angeles and I always book backup
flights in case something happens with that plane, especially because
I had to work that next morning after my radio
(03:20):
show on Rich Eisen's show, who does the big sports
show I was filling in for. So we had all
of our Delta flights until about 11 a.m. Our flight
was going to leave at 3 p.m. on the private
plane over. And we had all our equipment. Like I'm talking,
we go and not only do I do Rich's show,
(03:42):
we set up a full studio in the living room
of whatever Airbnb we're staying. And then people come over
and do Bobby casts. And so we had cameras, we
had lights and all the equipment, all these, you know, big,
big boxes. And it's much easier if you're not flying
commercial because you can just take them on the plane.
It's not a big deal. So we're going and noon
(04:02):
hits and I'm finishing up the morning show. And Morgan said, hey,
we just canceled all of our commercial flights because we
waited the last minute. We canceled them. We'll just wait
for the private plane to get here. It's about an
hour later. They go, oh, we got to cancel the
private flight. But we just canceled all our plane tickets.
So we don't have a way to get to LA.
So we're booking last minute. So expensive. We leave half
(04:27):
of our crew back. We don't take any equipment. We
just kind of, you know, free ball it to LA.
Me just thinking we'll go. I won't do any Bobby
casts and I'll just do Rich Eisen because that was
the obligation that I wanted to have. And then we'll
come back home. So we're rushing because we got to
(04:48):
be at the airport an hour early. Uh, we're trying
to get flights for everybody, but Brandon was going to
fly in at 9 PM. Morgan and I were going
to get on the first flight. Mike was now staying home.
We all ended up getting on a Delta flight at
three o'clock. I wasn't even packed. So I rushed home.
I pack real quick. I get out, I go to
the airport. We get there barely and we're flying over
(05:12):
and Morgan goes, Hey, I'm going to look and see
if I can find a studio to rent to see
if we can still shoot the Bobby cast episodes that
we were going to shoot. And I was like, okay, cool.
Never done that before where we go and just use
their equipment. And she found one was like 75 bucks
an hour. And she was like, let's just try it.
So we had Lance Bass, Dane Cook, and Dolph Lundgren
(05:35):
scheduled for that trip. So not a bad evening. Dane
Cook ended up canceling because we wouldn't hold his interview
for like three months. Lance Bass called us as we
were flying over, I guess, message Morgan and said, Hey,
I got to cancel. something private. And Dolph Lundgren, who
played the Russian in Rocky IV and was in He-Man
(05:58):
and was in a bunch of other stuff too. He
was still on, but needed to move his time. But
we had the studio rented. We know it was going
to work, but we're like, let's keep going. So I
go and I do Rich Eisen and we end up
getting to this podcast rental studio, except it's a yogurt shop.
We walk in the front door and it's completely a
(06:19):
yogurt shop. There's nothing except yogurt in there. They're like, hey,
we rented a studio. And they're like, oh yeah, go
that way. We had to walk through some shady back
of the yogurt shop door, go through some stairs, go up,
turn the corner. It's a full on podcast studio with
like multi cameras. And now they did not provide people
(06:40):
to run it. Luckily, Brandon and Morgan were there. So
they ran sound and video and Dolph Lundgren ended up
showing up. It was a great episode that will come
up real soon. My whole point with all this is
it was a bit frustrating that our original flight was
canceled out there. Not because it was private, but because
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we'd already canceled our commercial flights and we had to
leave all our equipment behind. Like we had everything planned.
The good thing that came from that is we now
know that even if we have to work in a
small podcast studio with cameras in the back of a
yogurt shop, that's still pretty good. Like I don't think
we'll ever again take all our equipment and set up
in an Airbnb and just live in the living room.
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So we benefited from that mishap. And again, I'm not whining.
Like I say, there's no crying on the yacht, although
it was very frustrating trying to get there in time.
But that's my LA story. My friend saw a crypt.
Turned out it was just a guy looking at Will
Ferrell that was wearing a Cooper Cup jersey. And as
(07:44):
crazy as the travel was out there and trying to
find it all last minute, and man, a round trip
flight to Los Angeles with an hour and a half
notice for five people, that is expensive. All that. But
we got something positive out of it. We will never
haul over all of our equipment again. And even if, oh,
the air went out in the podcast studio as well.
(08:05):
There was no AC. We're in the back of a
yogurt shop in a podcast studio. There's no AC and
all of this equipment's hot as well. Yeah, that part
was pretty miserable. And we had a guest there and
Dolph was sweating a little bit. But still, even then,
We gain something, but we don't need to haul all
of our equipment across the country. That's all. You never
know where the silver lining is from an experience. And
(08:29):
that was a great experience. I always loved doing that show.
So Leanne Morgan was on the Bobbycast a few weeks ago.
I hope you get to watch the episode, go over
to Netflix or podcast audio. And she was like a wholesome,
positive tornado. Now, speaking of AC being out, the AC
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was out in the studio that I'm in now, which
is our studio. And so we had to go to
my house to shoot that one. We have a studio
there as well. So she came over to my house. Man,
she was so delightful. Again, big, loud, but in the
best way. So kind, generous with her time. She stayed
after and talked with everybody, played with the baby. But
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there was a clip that we put up that generated
a weird reaction. It was the clip where I said, hey,
would you list your five favorite standup comedians? And she
did list all five of them. And the clip started
to do pretty well. And I was interested in that.
That's why I ask people like their top five songs.
I just want to know what they like. But then
more and more people in the comment section started getting
(09:33):
angrier that she wasn't picking any women. Now I can
understand if I say, hey, Leanne, who are five up
and coming comics that you really want to highlight? And
if she listed five white men in their 40s, I
think maybe we add a little diversity there. But if
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I say, what's your favorite? I think you just give
me your favorite. I don't think there has to be.
diversity in your favorite. If you were to give me
five female black comedians, I wouldn't say, gotta add a
white one. If it's for your favorite. People were so upset, like, oh, Leanne,
no women in there? I asked her her favorite. And
(10:19):
I would rather her not have to be politically correct
when picking her favorite things. Now, I would expect her, again,
if I said something like, hey, who are five up
and comings you'd like to highlight right here? Again, if
she picked all long-haired white guys in overalls, all five
of them, I'd be like, man, a little diversity, right?
(10:40):
We could pick somebody a little different if you're just picking,
but I'm asking your favorite. It's like people will ask me, hey,
what are your five favorite songs right now? Who are
your five favorite artists? Who are your favorite If you
ask me my favorite, it's literally going to be my favorite.
I don't feel like I have to give anybody an
opportunity when it comes to my favorites. I do feel
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I need to give people opportunities in other instances though.
If I'm highlighting new artists, I'm not going to pick
five bluegrass bands. I may pick one. I may throw
in a duo. I may have a couple of female artists,
may have a dude. I'm definitely going to try to
make sure that good people from all different areas get
a look. But if you're asking me favorites, I'm literally
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going to give you my favorites. And I felt like
that was a little harsh and that people need to
grow up. Dolly died, obviously. And when that happened, we
were already up here and we were scheduled to record
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a Luke Bryan interview, actually. because Luke put out an album.
And so I get a text from Amy saying, Hey,
did you see Dolly Parton died? And I didn't because
I'd come from something else. I don't know where I
came from. Maybe the radio show and it happened and
she texts me. And at first we thought that someone
(12:09):
had hacked Dolly's Facebook account because it was only on
her Facebook and it wasn't in the news anywhere. And
then it was only on her Instagram. But since they
were both blue checked, we thought, wow, this is it.
That stings. So we kind of got into action right
away because really there's nobody bigger in country music in
(12:30):
my lifetime. I don't think than Dolly because they Johnny Cash,
but you know, there's only a few. And so we
did have Luke Bryan coming up that afternoon and I
text Luke and I was like, I'm so sorry. I
got to cancel on you. And he said, I totally
get it. And what I wanted to make sure that
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we did, and I think if you heard the show
that next morning after Dolly died, it was full Dolly.
It was from the moment we came on to the
show ending. It was full us talking about Dolly, how
Dolly personally has impacted us, the professional experiences I had
with her, all that she's given back. And so It
(13:13):
was all Dolly, but some of it was us immediately
coming in. So Amy drove up here immediately. Eddie got
up here. Brandon was up here running cameras. Mike was
up here. And what I wanted to capture was the
impact of us finding out. So the first quarter of
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the show was us talking right as we found out
about it because I felt like that would feel more real.
And the second two thirds of the show was us
talking about it the next morning live. One of the
weird things that happened was I started to get hit
by a lot of news producers, CNN, Fox News, ABC,
(13:57):
like a lot of the networks. And they all wanted
me to come on and talk about Dolly doing news
hit after news hit. And I think ABC hit me first.
And I said, yes, I'll do it. I did it
at 7 p.m. But I started to get more and
more And it just felt like I was doing a
press tour. It felt a bit opportunistic. So I did
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one and then I shut it down. I never canceled
on anyone, but I felt like if I was doing
four or five interviews on all these different platforms, I
don't know, it just felt kind of grody. And I
didn't want to be seen as someone who was using
Dolly's death as an opportunity to go on all these
(14:39):
networks just to have my face on TV. So The
ABC one was pretty good. Luke was great about it.
We're going to schedule him to come back in the
next couple of weeks or so. But what a weird
day and week and few weeks since then, especially as
you learn more and more about it and how she
didn't want to talk about her situation because she didn't
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want people to worry about her, which was crazy. We
interrupt this interview to bring you a message from our sponsor.
This is the Bobby cast. I'm recording this now from vacation.
I guess I'm in the same place, but I'm recording
it as I'm on vacation. So spent the first day
(15:24):
or so at home. And then me, Caitlin, baby Billy,
Caitlin's parents, we all went to East Tennessee. And so
we're up in the mountains there. And I normally don't
tell people that we're going on vacation, especially show listeners.
Because there's really no difference to them as long as
we have created new content. And so we took the
(15:45):
last month and we just grinded out five full new
shows and five hour long part two episodes for every
single day. We did a special on the palette. We
did a lot of stuff, but I don't announce it.
And people will get irritated at me online. Like, why
don't you tell us when you're on vacation? Well, there's
no difference to you. And if we say that, it
(16:08):
could actually hurt us. You could go, well, they're not
going to be live, so we won't listen. When actually
the shows could be better. They could be better than
when we're there actually live. And so I don't share
because there's no benefit for me to share because most people,
they're experiencing it the exact same way than if we
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were there doing the show live every single day. And
why it took us about a month to do them
all is because we still were doing all the normal
shows day to day and all the Bobbycasts. Um, and
then couple that with all the shows and all the podcasts.
And we did launch a brand new series on 90s country.
So it's actually a 10 part series, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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and Friday at vacation, we put up an hour long
episode from 90, 91, 92, 93, 94. And I think
every week from here out, we'll do another one. But
if you haven't heard those yet, you can go to
the Bobbycast feed and check them out there. But I
purposefully don't say when we're going on vacation for that reason.
the listener doesn't miss anything when we're on vacation, for
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the most part. But it can't hurt us. If we
say we're gone, even though the content could be just
as good or better, people are going to go, ah,
they're on vacation, so we won't listen. So why would
I do that? Why would I hurt us? That's why
we don't. More and more people are watching this show,
which is pretty crazy. I have a Charlie Worsham Bobbycast
that comes out relatively soon. And He said to me
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that he started to watch this because he thinks, and
you can hear him on the episode say it, but
mostly it was, he thinks it's interesting how I do
a one-man show, just looking at the camera, talking to
you guys like this, and make it entertaining and compelling.
You know, I was also in an article, which is
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kind of weird how I've become like an influencer for
content creation, mostly to radio and podcast people. not to
people trying to do TikToks, but him saying that made
me feel like I have to prepare these shows better.
Cause again, I just kind of come in here. I
have notes, just like one line of things I want
to talk about, but I just kind of free ball it.
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But I did in that article and I did in
a clip talk about how I think this is where
a lot of podcasting, I think there'll be a major
shift to people that can just talk solo and Because
the same guests go on 15 different podcasts. And it just,
you start to have burnout of interviews, unless it's great.
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But there's this company called Barrett Media. And they had
posted an article. I didn't ask them to write it.
It was super nice of them to write it. And
the article basically was, hey, you have somebody who has
had success and he's showing you inside how he has
the success. And it was just me. And it was
clips that I've put on Instagram talking about how to
do content. And so I think I was on the
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flight back from Los Angeles when the article went up
and it popped up in my algorithm. And so I
was like, oh, cool. I went to the Facebook page. Now,
it wasn't a Tuesday. I should have never gotten the comments.
And Tuesday is usually the only day that I go
into the comments. And there's this article, super nice. Made
me feel good because they were highlighting something that I
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didn't really plan for anyone to highlight. I was just
doing it because I thought people could could use the information.
I like it when people do that. Sometimes in my
TikTok algorithm, it's just people talking about how to do
better content. Like I always appreciate that. And I shouldn't
write the comments, but it was other radio people. Like
here's one, Christopher Lewis, Bobby Bones, seriously, LOL. Is that
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a middle school nickname? Now, again, these are all people
that are in radio and no, it was not a
middle school nickname. My middle school nickname was T-Bone because
the rumor was I got a boner over a kid
when I was wrestling him in off season football. But
that oddly had nothing to do with Bobby Bones, which
was given to me when I was 17, almost 18
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years old in my first ever radio station. Go back
a few episodes of In the Weeds. You can hear
all about that. But it wasn't middle school. That was T-Bone.
But also what kind of, why would you even put
that in the comments? Here's one from Steve McGrew. His playbook,
he was picked from obscurity and told he was going
to be the star. I heart forced him on everybody.
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That's his playbook. The interesting thing about this is this
guy's a massive idiot. So picked from obscurity, I would
say I'm more forced myself on the company than I
was picked by the company. So as I've talked about before,
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I had built my own syndication using my own money
in Austin, Texas. My contract was coming up. They had
a decision to make. I had a decision to make.
I had 25 affiliates that I was running by myself
with my own money with Comrex boxes that I'd figured
out how to use myself because nobody was going to
syndicate a show from Austin, Texas. You only get syndicated
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from New York or Los Angeles, for the most part,
a little bit Chicago. Nobody wanted to syndicate me. So
was I obscure? Absolutely. Was I picked by iHeart? Absolutely not.
They only cared once I started making a decent amount
of money for the company. and being a viable revenue
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generator for the company because I had hustled all of
these markets. No one would have noticed me had I
not had success, one, on the local level, and two,
had they gone, this guy has four markets? Who knew?
So there was no pick from obscurity. Everything that I've
ever gotten from the company has been me having to
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leverage it. The first time that iHeartRadio put me on
all the stations in Nashville was because I wanted to
come to Nashville. My contract was up and I said, Hey,
I need something to happen. Let's figure out some options.
So they could either lose me, which I thought they
would do. Like they just wouldn't care enough. Or because
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I was in a negotiation, they could grant me what
I felt like I was worth. And that's what happened.
But at no time. And even then I came to
Nashville and got less markets than I gave up in Austin.
which was crazy. I took a half step back. And
the wild part about coming here was that I kind
of had to burn the boats. Meaning once I was here,
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the entire network that I had built of the 25
pop affiliates was gone. As soon as I left, they
gave them to other people. So I couldn't go, you
know what? I want to go back. I had to
take a massive risk. My entire career is calculated large risks.
Sometimes some very calculated small risks. Some of them paid
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off wonderfully. Like the time I bought billboards. Excellent. People
still talk about it. That is my maybe second greatest
holy crap achievement. I think the first one is winning
a dance competition. So nobody said you're going to be
a star. I had to take a crowbar and crowbar
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the freaking door down for them to even know who
I was. And then Well, I would argue now that
I don't know if I'm a star, but I have
had success. And iHeart didn't force me on anybody until
it became financially viable for them to do that. And
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then there would be shows. I mean, it would suck
when we first moved to town. Because again, we launched
in not as many markets as I gave up, but
it was enough. And either they flip stations or for
whatever reason we were on in the morning. When you
go on new to like 15 or 18 places at once,
it is not fun because everybody hates you, especially when
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you sound different than anything else that had been on
at all. Because I wasn't coming in on a cowboy
hat and a belt buckle. And, you know, God bless
you if you wear them, but I don't. And I
never faked it. I still don't fake it. I have
never faked who I am for one second for any format.
But you're an idiot. And that's all. Here's another one.
Rod Willis. Bobby Bones is a hack. I don't disagree.
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That's all. I don't disagree. To you, I might be.
To others, I may not be. I think art is
in the eye of the beholder. Some people really enjoy
what I do and what I talk about and how
I talk about it. Some people hate it. And that's okay.
I'm totally fine with you calling me a hack. Here's
one from Rick. Anyone remember when he said he was
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the Kansas City Chiefs of Radio to me on Twitter? No, dude,
nobody remembers you or me saying anything. I do remember
this guy. He worked at some small station. He was
telling me how I did my job. Suckily, is that
a word? And I said, hey, man, you, because I
didn't know who this guy was. He came at me. Also,
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if you come at me and you hit me with
a feather, I'm going to take a bowling ball and
crack it over your head, right? The fight's never going
to be fair. If you come and you want to
get in a slap fight, I'm going to pull out
a machete. And what I remember saying was, it's like
a high school coach telling the Dallas Cowboys how to
run their offense. Except it wasn't the Cowboys, it was
the Chiefs because that's when the Chiefs were good. Pre-Mahomes injury.
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But yeah, I remember that. You're an idiot too. There's
a thing about internet commenters and especially those four in
my mind. Let's take a quick pause for a message
from our sponsor. Welcome back to the Bobbycast. Something called Dunning-Kruger.
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And I think this can be our learning lesson from today.
So Dunning-Kruger is something that I look at and I say, man,
they just don't know how dumb they are. So the
official definition of Dunning-Kruger is a cognitive bias where people
with low competence or limited knowledge in a specific skill
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tend to greatly overestimate their ability. So also a part
of Dunning-Kruger is dumb people never know how dumb they
are because they're too dumb to know how dumb they are.
So there is no understanding that they may be saying
something stupid. And this could be anyone. There are a
lot of people I've seen online with a heavy case
of Dunning-Kruger. Heck, in some aspects of my life, I
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probably have it. But the whole concept of it is
idiots never know they're actually idiotic because they're so idiotic,
they don't have the understanding or awareness to realize how
idiotic they are. So that's Dunning-Kruger. There was something I
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posted on the Radio Hall of Fame. I'm going to
go in October in Chicago and I'm going to host
the Hall of Fame ceremony this year, which is fun
for me. The reason I said yes to it this
year is because Bob Pittman, my CEO, is being inducted.
The irony is I was inducted in 2017 and Bob
Pittman is the guy who bet the farm on me.
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So he should have got in before I did. But
they've asked me to do it before. I haven't been
able to do it because sometimes it's at the same
time as iHeartRadio Music Festival or I was touring. But
because Bob was being inducted, I said, absolutely, yes, I
will go and host it. Also, my favorite football player
of all time, Boomer Esiason, who played quarterback for the
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Cincinnati Bengals, is being inducted as well because he's had
a storied career in sports radio. So I thought that
was cool, a little cool add-on there. But I posted
these images of a story that was written about me
And it said, Bybones inductee from 2017 is going to
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host the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Illinois. And
so it had a little blurb about me and my
career as well. And it was a nice blurb. So
I posted it up there. And then people in the
comments started congratulating me, like in a massive way where
I felt kind of guilty because I think they thought
I was announcing I was in the Radio Hall of
Fame or I was just being invited to be in
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the Hall of Fame. For example, Brittany Kellogg, who was
on this show, she does the trash, takes out the
trash every Tuesday on TikTok, and she's a country artist.
She said, this is incredible! Exclamation, exclamation. Congrats! Sherry9607 said, Bob,
you so deserve this. You work so hard and you
deserve every accolade. Jerome Patnode said, hey, congratulations on the
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induction to the Hall of Fame. You definitely deserve it.
So I'm in this weird place because Thank you. That's
so nice of you to say all those super kind
things to me and about me. But also I'm not
going in and also I'm already in, but I didn't
want to like correct them and be like, no, no, no.
I was in seven years ago, years ago, but it
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was so nice. And then I just wonder, was that
post misleading in any way? So if you saw that,
I'm not being inducted. I was so wonderfully inducted into
the Radio Hall of Fame seven years or so ago
And I'm going to host it this year because my
CEO is going in, which I think is pretty awesome.
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My algorithm. feeds me, me, which is odd and not
just content that I do, but content where people are
talking about me, which is not always good because, you know,
there's an article that I was referencing earlier where this
media company was talking about the content that I do
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and how other people in podcasting and radio should check
it out. And I thought it was super nice of them,
but they started the article with love them or hate them.
And I did a whole post like, Hey, we can
leave that out. We have to put the hate them
in there, like love them or hate them. And then
it starts to talk. So maybe you saw the post
and I was like, well, we don't, we don't need
the hate. Let's block out the hate word. You don't
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have to say love them. Just say the information. And
that thing gets so much engagement. I'd mentioned earlier in
this with people commenting like crazy. And I read some
of the mean comments. There were also some very kind
comments on there, which is great, but those nobody's is
entertained by. But my algorithm feeds me meat. It also
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feeds me people talking about me and people trying to
start feuds with me. And there's about two a week.
There's about two new people a week that want to
start a feud with me that I've never even met
because I think they know if I respond and I
have a fight and I publicly talk about it, they
will be platformed. Do you know how hard it is
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for me who is so competitive, who is also so
wildly insecure, and that is a bad mix. Do you
know how hard it is for me not to fight
with them, not to annihilate them? That's me saying that
because obviously I think that even if it's not true.
Do you know how hard it is for me to
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watch my algorithm feed me me people talking about me,
saying things that aren't true, and for me not to respond,
it's crazy hard. But I don't because I know that's
what they want. So I don't. I would say there's
about two new ones a week. Just with the idea
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of if I respond, they'll get clicks. But it's very hard.
There was a new one last week. Two dudes. And
I was like, I don't even... No, you guys. So
I turned it off. That wasn't even in the comments.
Like that's just my algorithm feeding me, me, because they
know me's me. I do try to share a little
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justice sometimes. There was an Instagram account and they did
a whole article with pictures, five country artists you've completely
forgotten about. And they listed five artists. And I just wrote, well,
this seems a little harsh. And they listed Lee Bryce,
Randy Houser, Eli Youngband, David Nail, and Easton Corbin. And again,
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the whole carousel was five country artists you've probably forgotten about.
Lee Bryce did the fish song. Remember that one, right?
Moses Yard. That was in the Turning Point concert on
the Super Bowl halftime show. That thing went pretty viral.
Can't forget about that. But after I wrote, hey, that's
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kind of harsh. Somebody in the comments said, oh yeah, well,
how are you supporting him? And I was like, well,
David Nail was on the show two weeks ago in studio.
If it matters. I mean, I haven't forgotten about him.
I literally just had David Nail in studio because he
has new music coming out. Other podcasters have reached out
to me asking if we give our guests final cut
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or what they call playback, meaning when we're done with
the interview, do we give them the full tape and say, hey,
here's what it is. You can cut out anything you want. No,
we never do that. However, we're also not trying to
do a gotcha with anybody. So if someone has a
problem with anything, anything, they can say, hey, I didn't
like how that came out. Can you cut that for me?
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We have no problem with cutting anything ever if it
makes a guest feel uncomfortable. Because I have also said
things where I go, oh man, I wish I wouldn't
have said that. I didn't mean it like that. So
I wish I wouldn't have said it like that. Now,
no one's ever cut that out for me. And sometimes
I say it on my own show. So it's my
own fault. But I've also said things where I didn't
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like how it came out and it wasn't what I meant.
So I will always cut. Sometimes people say, hey, legally,
I'm afraid I'm going to get in trouble. No problem.
We'll cut it or we'll beep it, whatever you want.
But we definitely do not give people final cut or
playback because what will happen is as soon as we
do that, they'll send us three pages of notes. of
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extremely specific notes and time codes of what they want
cut here. And they'd like it if this could be
moved there and it's just not worth it. So to anybody,
and this is extremely in the weeds to anybody that's
watching this, that does their own show with guests, never
give them the full product. Absolutely. If you want to
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give them the ability to go, Hey, I don't like that.
Would you mind pulling that out? No problem. That's what
we do. Cause again, we're not trying to got you anybody.
But never for a second would I give anyone a
full show because if I do that, you better believe
they're going to send the full thing back with full
notes on everything. So, no, we don't. I was asked
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how I schedule the Bobbycast because as of right now,
we have three episodes that go up a week. We
have a Tuesday, Thursday, and a weekend episode on Saturday. Now,
this is a very general Bobbycast show scheduling description. Usually
the most known guest goes up on Tuesday. That doesn't
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always mean it's the best guest or the guest that
I'm most interested in. Sometimes I'm way more interested in
the Thursday guest, but the Tuesday guest at the time
was hitting a little harder. So they go up on
Tuesday at the beginning of the week. Tuesday, the biggest,
most known guest. Thursday is someone that I really like
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or have like a fascination with of their art. Or
someone that's also really big, if Tuesday was also really big.
So we got to put them on Thursday. But Thursday
is more of a, I'm super interested in the episode.
Sometimes on Thursday, you'll get episodes where we just talk
about music, where we'll come in and do like greatest
pop songs, or we'll do best one-hit wonders, or what's
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the one we have coming up? Movie songs? Best cover songs.
Like sometimes on Thursday, and I'll be honest with you,
I enjoy doing those sometimes more than the interviews. But
Tuesday is always most known because it pops up on
Netflix in an opportune time. Thursday is a lot of
times my favorite, but it's mostly something I'm interested in.
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And then the weekend episode is sometimes just Eddie and
I talking about a bunch of stuff. Sometimes it's with
a guest. That one's a little more wildcard because I'll
bring in people that I just think are cool from
social media. When we had in Lauren Paley, she was
someone who sings... punk songs, like a Disney princess. And
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she has millions of followers. And I was so interested
in why she started doing it. Like what kind of
following she has. And she put out a record because
it got so big on social media. I just want
to know like her background. And so that to me,
super interesting. We had Brittany Kellogg on, she drags the
trash down. And I didn't even know she was a
musical artist whenever I decided to have her in. And
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she's actually really good. She has a song called Sober
you guys should check out. So that Saturday show was us.
We changed the couch. We flipped the studio. It's more
of a sitting around shooting the old about topics. But
that's usually how that goes. Not always. But it's usually
how the booking goes there. There was someone who left
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a comment on an Instagram or a YouTube video. It's
from Man, when I see a name like this, I
almost think it's a burner account, but burner accounts wouldn't
be mean or they wouldn't be nice, I should say.
But it's from LMKJHYV7897. Didn't this scream burner account? Maybe
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they just wanted a YouTube and it just picked a
name for them. I don't know. But they wrote, Bobby,
do you ever go back and look at old clips
of the Bobby Bones show? They keep popping up for
me on YouTube. One that recently came up was when
you surprised Amy by going to see her kids in
Haiti before they were adopted. It was so sweet. That's
not what someone says who creates a burner account. Sometimes
they pop up, but I don't watch them because all
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I end up doing is critiquing my own work or
hating myself in a time machine five years ago or
seven years ago. But that's super nice, but they do
pop up sometimes. A couple more things before we decide
to run out. I watch four horror movies. I don't
normally watch horror movies, but I watched four over the
past few weeks. Actually, I hate scary movies, but I
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watched four over the last few weeks. I'm going to
rate them. Number one is a movie called The Menu.
It's about this really fancy restaurant. You got to get
on a boat and go to it, and people wait
for years to get in. More of a psychological thriller
than horror, but it's definitely listed as horror. I loved
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this movie. Again, I don't like monsters. I don't like
jump scares. But I do love movies that screw with
your mind. So my favorite horror movie of the past
month or so was The Menu. Second, I didn't enjoy
watching the movie, but I appreciated how good it was,
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was that movie. Obsession? That movie's effed up, man. I
didn't like it, but I can appreciate that it was
awesome to people who love those kind of movies. You
wrote that, that's next level stuff. But I'm going to
put that at number two. I watched a movie called
The Substance with Demi Moore Did you guys watch that
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one ever? That movie's crazy. So this is all about
beauty standards and Demi Moore I think turns 50 and
she's a TV fitness instructor and she's trying to find
ways to stay young. She finds a way. And I
was really interested about the first half of the movie.
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Then it just got weird. Weird. It wasn't like a
psychological thriller. It was just like, what am I watching?
It did win awards though. So at three, I'd put
The Substance. And then at four, I watched Backrooms. Did
you watch that one, Dylan? That was pretty interesting, especially
because it basically was like a 4chan, I believe. I
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believe it started on 4chan. Like a message board there.
I don't know, it was weird too. Not really my thing.
But I didn't hate any of them. Even Obsession, which
I thought was too much. Did you watch that one, Dylan?
You like that one? But I appreciated it. So if
you like horror movies, The Menu, Obsession at two, The
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Substance at three, and Back Rooms at four. But I
could see you kind of liking all four if you
liked horror movies. But that Demi Moore movie was freaking crazy, man.
All right, that's going to be it for this episode
of In the Weeds from Vacation. Thank you for being here. Oh,
we got... For those that are watching... You'll be able
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to see this. These are our new Stay Weedy hats,
which Brandon had made. We're not really selling them. Brandon
nicely made two of them. So I'm wearing one of
them right now. It's black. It's got white letters. It
says Stay Weedy, which is what we say on the show.
This other one, if you post down in the comments,
Stay Weedy, I'll sign and send to you. And subscribe.
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And subscribe. Oh yeah, we have to go to your
page and make sure you're subscribed. So if you subscribe
to this channel on YouTube, And you're right, stay weedy.
I'll sign this other stay weedy hat and I'll send
it to you. So appreciate all the weed eaters out there.
I don't like weed whackers. People sort of call themselves
weed whackers. I don't like weed whackers. It feels like
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whacking is just not something. I don't want you guys whacking,
you know? They wouldn't make that happen. Yeah. So stay weedy.
Keep your eyes open. Be looking in the weeds. Don't whack.
All my weed eaters out there. Well, you can. I'm
just not going to call you that. We'll see you
guys next time. All right. Bye, everybody. Love this episode
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