MON PT 2: Why Can’t Amy Look Bobby In the Eyes? + Raymundo And Scuba Steve Return From Their Pop-A-Shot Competition Trip + Bobby On The Truth About Show Member Raises

Bobby talked about two crazy bungee jumping stories including a 4-year-old and one with a woman who jumped without proper equipment. Bobby shares that Amy refused to look him in the eye this morning. Raymundo and Scuba Steve have returned from the Pop-A-Shot competition in Chicago. We hear all about their road trip and how they did in the competition.  Bobby answers listener questions about the biggest challenges of doing a daily radio show versus podcasting, why he skipped the ACM Awards this year, and why you rarely hear him on other people's podcasts. He also gets candid about managing a team, helping others grow in their careers, giving raises, and learning that not everyone is motivated by the same goals.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's a Bobby Bone show.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I saw a TikTok where a four year old was
put on one of those bungee cables. You know how
they will people jump off the side of a cliff.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
You ever seen those?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, a four year old did it.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
The old no, no, and it was able to make
the decision for.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I don't know the family. I just saw the video.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I don't think the four year old decides that.

Speaker 5 (00:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh, the four year old says if he wants to
do it.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Or wants to do that.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
But okay, but you didn't see the video. The four
year old wanted to do it. Now, the question is
do you let a four year old? But the four
year old.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Has even an immature agency about him. But yeah, do
you have the video?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh all right, even like this guy found it quick. Anyway,
this wasn't the whole story. I just wanted you to
see this because I was kind of blown away by it.
So four year old strapped up, jumps off, and I
was like, dang, four years old, Oh my gosh, here
we go. He's only four. Obviously he wants to do it.
Because you're looking at him, this is already messed up.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
He's about it, and he.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Okay, I don't feel as bad about it. Watching him,
he looks legit. I know he he looks like a
mature four year old. I know something about him, like
he's ready to go.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, it looks like my son.

Speaker 6 (01:17):
That's tough.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I don't know that I would let a four year
old do that, but I don't guess there are any rules
against it.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
But yeah, because what age you have to be as
long as you have parental cons.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
He's just like you have no fear.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah, no fear.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh my gosh, isn't.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
That While Like if a parent was like, the kid
was crying, I don't want to do this, and the
parents were like, you're gonna do it? Yeah, then that's different.
This kid is like ready to go.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
So I saw that and it kind of blew my mind.
And if there are no rules against it and everybody
was in, I guess it's fine. I just don't know
that I would have my four year old do it.
But also I don't know our kid is four years old.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
They're not yet, not.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yet, but pretty wild. But that wasn't the story. The
story was a twenty one year old woman.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
No, not this one.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
You saw it.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I saw it, dude, I saw.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
A lot of Oh my gosh, she jumped off a
bridge without proper bungee court equipment and she died.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, no, she didn't have anything, I know, like nothing.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Not a single rope.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Maria Eduardo Rodriguez di Fritez, that's very white of me,
a physical education and sports management student, posted a message
on her Instagram right before the jump.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Who was the crazy person who let me jump off
a bridge? She wrote.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
The incident occurred at Skeleton Bridge, where the woman was
seen standing near the edge of a cliff before being
thrown off by two men after she fell. A witness
filming is her pointing to the rope left behind on
the ground. Guy's the rope. The safety equipment was not
properly secured, leading to the fatal fall.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh, this was terrible, wild And then her fiance is
a friance.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Three men have been arrested. I don't have anything else.

Speaker 7 (02:57):
But like either her husband or fiance I don't remember,
was watching the whole thing, and they had to call
the Pyramids for him because he just passed out of course, Like, yeah,
I saw the video at first, and I'm like, I
don't understand what I'm watching, like these two people are
carrying someone and throwing them off the cliff.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
They think that she had the rope on her. They
had to have, right, because the rope is on the ground,
I know.

Speaker 7 (03:18):
But the reaction because usually like if you have something
tied to something, you want to look like, all right,
where's the slack?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I agree with you in every way. Everything that you're
saying it makes sense.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
And none of them are looking for the slack, like nobody.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Is from the New York Post.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Did you guys see the video from pitching forward to
with viral to find the parking lot?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I think anybody.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
I did not get with no shirt on?

Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's come, say Morgan, and the kids behind her are like, Dad,
don't know.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
It was so bad.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's it's if you can find that one.

Speaker 9 (03:47):
I felt embarrassed for the kids, like the kids were
asking the dad to stop.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
You get that a lot at sported events.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
This is some parking lot Mountain Pine, Arkansas, like where
I come from, redneck stuff. This dude, all of a sudden,
I thought it was a bit. I thought they were
doing doing it like some sort of sketch. Because it
comes up he's got a shirt off.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh I did see this. That was a pigeon forge.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Oh, I thought it was like at a academy.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I thought it was at SNL. Here he goes, he's like,
come on, you want to fight? Come on?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
He's like, gotcha, and the kids behind are going dad stopping.
The mom's yelling too, like f off, f off, and
the like she's like like she's ten, Dad, stop it, Dad,
stop it.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I know that's so sad.

Speaker 8 (04:28):
That was sad.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
I did look at this guy.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Dude, if you're gonna come up on flex on somebody,
you gotta have a little more now, you don't have
a lot. Like he's in decent shape, but that's not
flex shape. He took his shirt off too, Like he
immediately took a shirt off to go into.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
The No more like what they didn't fight.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
No, they didn't never fought. Oh he came in.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
They're in a parking lot, so I'm gonna imagine it
was some sort of parking spot incident.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
So apparently this guy you see here was with his
family circling the block, circling around and find a parking spot,
and then this guy who flexed on him. I thought
that they were following him and then he got.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Really upseted away.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's weird.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
So then that's what the whole encounter was. He's like,
you were following me like I wouldn't follow, and you
don't trying to find a spot.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
That makes sense that the guy that would act like
that would also think something ridiculous as to your following
me while everyone's looking for a spot.

Speaker 8 (05:17):
Look at him, Well, why why do you walk up
like that? What goes through your mind and be like,
I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Look at his face.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I thought he looks like he's joking.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
He looks like Fire Marshall Bill Jim Carrey character from
UH in Living Color, but with hair.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
They were calling him the Kangaroo Man because he looked
like one of those fighting kangaroos.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
And then oh, and then the mom's John the mom.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
And here's the thing, like the kids are watching all this,
and you know who the kids look up to like them,
so they're gonna do something like this in the future.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Stop. Dad's the daughter is old enough to know her
dad's an idiot.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
And this video is so viral and I hate that
those kids' faces clearly like you can see exactly who
they are. Oh, I mean adults. Your adults act how
you want. I just hate that the kids' faces are
on there.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
So, yeah, that's my video. I had the two videos
and the one I didn't see a video of. I
just read the new story about the bungee kind of
weird one. How that was crazy, dude.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
So I've speaking of videos going viral. Sharon Stone was
sharing a time when she was married and she had
tumors in both of her breasts, I believe, And what
shocked me was that she was married at the time
and her doctor was advising that she get a double mastectomy,
so removing both breasts, and her husband was saying no,

(06:44):
and he was furious that she was thinking about doing that,
even though the doctor is saying if more women could
would consider this to save their lives, and he was
just furious that she was considering removing both of them.
And she said that's the moment she knew her marriage
was over. And it was like his.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Based on I don't want your boobs to be gone
or I don't believe in the science, it had.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
To be he didn't want her body to change.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's what I would think too, but I don't know
because I don't I don't. I didn't hear the rest
of the context of the conversation.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, no, I mean I think her saying that's the
moment I knew my marriage was over, is that my
husband wasn't going to support me if I was going
to have to alter my body to save my life,
like he didn't want her to have them removed. I
mean that for even a woman to go through that,
there's an identity thing that's very a painful journey, and
to not have a supportive partner. So then that's when

(07:42):
her marriage ended. And I was like, dang, I can't
even imagine. I don't even I can't even name a
man in my life that wouldn't be supportive for any
woman that I know, Like every what can y'all?

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I just wonder which way he's being an idiot about,
because I also I would not want to be with
somebody too if they were like I don't believe the
dog like just because you have it in one I
googled this, I saw a YouTube video. It doesn't mean
you're going to have it here, Like that's also idiotic.
But again, I don't have enough context to know which
reason I don't like the guy did she do it.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
She she she ended up not they were benign so
they weren't cancer, so she ended up not getting the
double mastectomy, but her marriage, her marriage ended.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, maybe it wasn't about that, though.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
I think I think she knew that it was. I mean,
I think she got that vibe of like, oh, during
this very vulnerable time in my life, the person I
should be able to count on the most isn't being supportive. Instead,
he's furious that I might remove my boobs.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
I also would be upset, but I just wonder what
his reasoning was. But all the reasons are bad. But
it may not just be about that.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I would I would like to be one hundred percent
sure that happened.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Especially because she didn't have to remove her But you
should just support her anyway, That's my point. Like I
still would be like, I'm out. You don't you don't
support me, even if you don't support the science or
that it's benign, and they say it's fine, even I'd
still be like, I'm out. It is ain't for me
because we ain't supporting. But I just don't know that
it was about the physical part of it. I can't
pin that on him. If I don't know.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, I'm gonna yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
I'm going to walk. So I'm not married to man anyway.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
But if I did that to me, if y'all like,
or if a guy, if y'all had to remove something,
like if it was advised, like you had to remove
part of your body, we would be supportive.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
If we had to remove the thing, I would say
your balls, your balls, Yes, it would be the balls.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I guess. Yeah, that's so I'm asking you go.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Fun absolutely for you to not have to feel like
maybe it was just you, like, hey, it's a there's
a thirty percent chance thirty percent, but you would feel
better and be able to live life without this fear
that something was going to happen. I would be like, absolutely,
I support you.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Nobody's arguing that the reason they split wasn't good. I
just don't want to pin him as going.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
A like boobs.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
She also could Yeah, he also could have been like
they're benign. It's fine. I don't but he's not supporting.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
He's not supportive. I don't like that, so I'm not
in his team.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
I would just do triple opinions.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
But they may have got ten opinions. But also it's
like she just didn't like, she didn't get support. She committed,
it was her body. She didn't get support. So she's
out and I get that. Okay, Eddie, all right.

Speaker 7 (10:33):
So a couple of years ago up in the Northeast,
they've been having problems with these owls. They're called barred
owls or whatever.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
They're so cute, in my opinion, that's the best little acutest.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
Well, you're gonna love this story. So they are having
problems with them because there are so many of them.
But there is an extinct There is a species going
extinct and it's another kind of out it's called the
dangered Northern spotted owl. Apparently, these spotted owls are getting
overwhelmed by these other kinds of owls that these other

(11:08):
kinds are eating all the food so that the ones
that are going extinct aren't able to.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Listen, let us talk.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I'm trying to keep up.

Speaker 7 (11:19):
The spotted owls aren't able to eat food because there
are too many barred owls eating their food. Okay, okay,
So now scientists are like, we need to get rid
of these barred owls.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
They are killing Listen, now he's telling you to shut up.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
They are killing.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Bird ally, No, I'm mad.

Speaker 7 (11:37):
They are killing four hundred and fifty thousand barred owls
so that this other species does not go extinct.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Can they relocate them?

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Relocate? This is murder, it's not murder. It's killing whoa, whoa,
not murder.

Speaker 6 (11:58):
They're killing four hundred, but they're trying to save the
other animals.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Would you rather an invasive species?

Speaker 7 (12:05):
You do have to Yeah, why not let nature take
care of itself? If these homies can't like eat their
food because they're not strong enough to eat food.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Do you know at times that there are certain populations
where there are way too many deer right, way too
many deer cars?

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, and that's murder.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Cars are hitting them or ticks, lime disease murder. So
because of the overpopulation, let nature so then humans catch
more lime disease. For like, there's reasons that you have
to do certain What is.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
It called the circle of life? No, No, that's not it.

Speaker 7 (12:33):
It's a a survival of the fittest. In this case,
it's survival of the fittest these spotted owls if they're
not able to eat because there are too many bar owls,
that's there.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I mean, that's just.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Nature had chill about when they were going to release
all those mosquitoes to kill the mosquitos and had all
the germs.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Well they're not mosquitoes, aren't cute?

Speaker 3 (12:53):
There we go cute. I don't think you care either.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
They're weird though, that they're gonna kill that many owls, Yeah,
a lot, I.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Think you They do it in the night. How do
they know they're coming?

Speaker 3 (13:08):
The plan?

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Do they shoot?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
And then how did they start the story wrong?

Speaker 6 (13:13):
I mean he should have started with there's this animal
going extinct and they're gonna go I mean you started
talking this one bird jump to a different bird than
back to another bird.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Just two birds, dude, I know, but it got confusion.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
None of us are the best storytellers, all right.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
I thought did a pretty good job.

Speaker 8 (13:26):
I did.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I did too.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
We got lost except we had to stop the gas directions.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Man, you want to know why because the bird?

Speaker 3 (13:33):
No, no, that wasn't. I did lose interest, but it was.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
It was how you told it in a minute, he said, ol.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Or bird lunchbox.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
So there was this guy from Indiana. He's in town
in Nashville for Bonnaroo with some friends. They got a
rental on the east side of Nashville. They go out
to Broadway Wednesday night. They go back to the Airbnb
and he's like, hey, guys, quiet down, I'm trying to
go to sleep. One of the friends realizes, oh, they
left their cell phone in the ball, so they leave
to go look for the cell phone. They come back,
the dude is gone, his car is gone, but his phone, wallet,

(14:07):
medication all there. They can't find him. Police get involved,
searching everywhere. His license plate gets pinged in two different cities,
like outside of Nashville. Two days, everybody's searching, and they
found him in his car at out like a mall
in Goodlettsville, alive doing what he was disoriented, does it,

(14:28):
can't really really remember what happened, doesn't know where he's
been for two days?

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Do you believe him?

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Like?

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Is there anything else sus that happened?

Speaker 6 (14:36):
That's all the police are saying, saying he had a
hard time remembering where he was or how he got there,
or who he is.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
That is Banana who.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Is one of them too? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (14:47):
Yeah, that's what I would assume is that they were
doing something, some kind of substance and it just didn't
mix well with whatever, and he just took off that.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
They found him alive at a skate center.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, that's where I'd go. But he was just sitting
in his core, all right, Morgan.

Speaker 9 (15:07):
So, US officials have found a location in the northeast
where there are unexplained glowing orbs that have been reappearing
in the same exact spot for multiple years now, and
it was happening so many times they sent out the FBI,
and the FBI investigated it and confirmed it was happening.

Speaker 8 (15:24):
So there's these glowing red orbs. A person spotted them.

Speaker 9 (15:27):
He captured them in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
twenty twenty four, and now twenty twenty five.

Speaker 8 (15:32):
They've all been in the same spot.

Speaker 9 (15:33):
He's watched them appear and multiple multiply, multiply, and then
he even set up trail cameras and when those orbs appear.

Speaker 8 (15:43):
He's found gamma radiations.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
They're very red.

Speaker 8 (15:46):
They're very red.

Speaker 9 (15:48):
I mean, I don't know what's going on, but something's
going on out there.

Speaker 8 (15:54):
I mean, the way I know gamma radiation is the Hulk.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
It's a sorority radiation gamma gamma fine, Uh, I don't know.
I think it could be some sort of experiment too.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Nobody laves me when I say stuff. I don't know
that this is that, but I don't know it's not.
I don't know, man, what are you mean to say?

Speaker 9 (16:16):
I mean, I think that it's really cool that it's happening,
and you have people witnessing it.

Speaker 8 (16:20):
Now the FBI is confirming it. I don't know how
you fight against that.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well, they're confirming that there is something there. They really
didn't confirm what.

Speaker 9 (16:27):
It was true, but they're at least confirming that this
guy isn't crazy and that this is really happening.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Orbs, these red orbs, they are really being seen consistently.
It could be some sort of testing by the government.
It could be non human origin. Who knows, if I
were betting. Probably testing of some sort by the government,
But I don't know. I don't know what facilities around there,
and those facilities you're not supposed to know, and they
don't tell you.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
They don't go up.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
These red orbs are the product of this facility where
we're testing abcd FG. Those facilities are not supposed to
be known, so it could be UFOs upas hot air balloons.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
I don't know, but they're they're there, and that guy's
not crazy, and they do look wild. It's crazy.

Speaker 9 (17:05):
And he says his electronics and a GBS mess up
when they appear too, So like there's things happening.

Speaker 8 (17:11):
I can't argue that it's not happening.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
I can't argue it anymore, can you? Boys and girls?

Speaker 1 (17:15):
So sad about these owls?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Though?

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Huh? I got my uh your late shirt on today?

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, I was wondering what that said.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, I bought like four or five of these shirts.
I had one man created quite the stir on Instagram.
I had uh the hoodie dude. The hoodie that I wore.
It said stop being racist, and I thought it was
a fun hoodie and I like it, stop being racist.
And so I bought all these shirts that have character
traits I don't like. I don't like people that are racist.
I don't like people that are late.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I have all these and I can't see you.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
You are late?

Speaker 4 (17:49):
You are late?

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, And so I just posted the picture and people
are like, we liked it when you were neutral, and
I was like, what are you talking about neutral? They're like,
you've changed. We liked it when you were neutral. If
neutral means a little more racist, and don't be racist.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm not neutral.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I was wearing it in the airport and I told Eddie, Hey,
this is like a social experiment. I'm watching people react
crazily in the airport to this shirt. Some people steering.
I went to a counter and just got some water.
And this guy was from somewhere in South America. I'm
not exaggerating. He almostarts crying because its like people don't
even talk to me. They don't even look me in
the eyes.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh, it is wild.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
He said, they won't even look me in the eyes.
Thank you for wearing that shirt. And here I am.
I just thought I don't like racists. I'm just gonna
wear a shirt that's kind of on the nose. And
like people were affected by it. But then on the
internet people are, oh, we don't like that. Like I
didn't point a finger at anybody, but you know who
pointed fingers of people? People pointing fingers at themselves. In

(18:49):
the comments, if a single person was like, but we
don't like that shirt, we don't like what it stands for.
I think you might like racism. It was crazy, And
then people were going you're not going to take it down,
No way. I was getting so much engagement. My dollar
amount on that post was just climbing. But that was
a bizarre one that people were arguing against something that

(19:11):
said stop being racist.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, that was weird. I was about to there's nothing
to argue about.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
No, there's really nothing like don't be racist.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Someone was like, your virtue signaling. I was like, no,
that would be if I were one that said I'm
not racist.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Who knows? I could be wearing it and only I
want to be racist and nobody else can be.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
But you're not saying that. You're saying don't be.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Racistn't I'm saying stop being racist, stop being right.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
If someone did say it would be better if it
said don't be because you're they were analyzing the word
stop instead of don't, And I'm like, why are we
overthinking this? I was drafting so many responses to so
many people, and finally I deleted like paragraphs, sorts of
stuff because I was like, why am.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
I this person?

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Bella's mom sixteen said please keep staying neutral. I feel
like this makes me think you lean one way.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yes, I leaned towards not being racist. That's the way
I lean. It's not the way you lean. If you're
writing that, that is not the way you lean.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
If you're writing that is wild. This one from Diandra
Diandra Arnall or maybe it's Dane Darnall the problem for
a lot of people. No one disagrees with your virtue
signaling hoodie. But what does it mean if I were
to wear a shirt that said go root for the Cubs?

Speaker 1 (20:28):
You know what that means? Go root for the Cubs?

Speaker 3 (20:31):
He also, but nobody has to. It's not really changing
anybody's world or mind or stop being a white Sox fan.
It's not changing anybody's mind. Let's see. Even if this
fits your political ideology, it fits my life ideology.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, no fingers were pointed to anyone except for the
people in my comments or are pointing fingers at themselves.
Your show sucks?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Now?

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Did that have to do with a shirt or the
well it's comment under it? It could be either way at
this point, it could be either way.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I was kind of blown away by because it really
wasn't anything other than I like the shirt, and I
have all these shirts of traits I don't like. But
if I posted a picture of me in a shirt
that said stop punching grandma's in the head, and you
have people being like, I don't like that.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
I think you should. That's stupid. You shouldn't be able
to say that. They probably punch their grandma on the head.
If I did this, they'll say, hey, you are late.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
And people are like, I don't like it when you
go on late people. Do you know what those people are?
They're usually late. That'd be late people. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
So anyway, man, society kind of sucks.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Doesn't make me feel good.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
That makes me feel good at all. You know what
I stand by it. I stand by stop being racist
good and I'm not going to be more neutral. That
was the weirdest comment of all.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
I thought you I liked it when you are more neutral.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Well like the fact that, like now it's pretty clear
that that shows.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
You exactly which side you're on.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
That's crazy. Okay, that is crazy.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
I should just make more shirt stop being a pedophile,
and then see who comments, and then we know who
the pedophiles are in the comments are like, you should
not know what side you're on?

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Huh. I like, I like it when you're more neutral
about pedophiles. Yikesh, there you go.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think something only us ladies will kind of understand.
I had to wash my hair this morning, so I
look like a beetle, or as my wife said, no
Eddie said, Austin powers.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Okay, yeah, I could see both of those.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
If you go and you watch now on YouTube or
any of the places we're streaming, you can see it.
I kind of like it looks like a mushroom on
my head.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, okay, I like it.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Amy walked in this morning and she wouldn't say anything
about it. I know it looks ridiculous. It's hilarious to me,
and I said, what's up. She goes, I don't know
what to say about your hair.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
I could. I couldn't look you in the eyes.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
It sound like a beetle. I might, I don't. She
loves you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah, I mean, if that's the look you're going, for.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Sure, looks pretty good. But you can watch.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
You go to our YouTube page at Bobby Bone Show
and you can see it right now.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's hair I expected to hit a little. Okay.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
I think it really is more of that awesome powers
he's giving that vibe.

Speaker 8 (23:16):
For sure.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
You know, I don't have to do that. You can
just say it to you, don't go with it, okay anything.
I had to wash my hair this morning. You know
what that's like.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Did you wash your hair and then like put a
hat on.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
I washed my hair and then one of those non
static things that you dry your hair with.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
So I put it on and wrapped it.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
You know how we women do. Yeah, you wrap your
hair when it gets when it gets really long, I
have to or it gets super staticky and weird. You wouldn't. Hey,
you got no hair, no understanding of that.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
So that was me.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
This morning, Scuba and Ray went to Chicago to attempt
to be one of the world champions at Papa Shot.
I gave them my Hyundai. I saw my Hondai was
in the parking garage this morning, so I'm assuming there's
no damage to it.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
No, there's no damage to that spaceship and it was
fully electric. How how did they go driving all the
way to Chicago fully electric?

Speaker 10 (24:02):
It's definitely an adjustment because you're used to gas. You
just go to the pump and fill up. But I
will say it was kind of cool because we're trying
to practice and get ready for this tournament. So we
pulled off every like two or three hours and we charged.
We be in a parking lot. It's like a it's
a community out there, people charging their cars.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, we would hang out with some of the people.
Some of them seem like they're heading to Chicago too,
so I mean they didn't necessarily talk to us, but
it'll just be like, fellow electric vehicles, what's up, y'all
hut in Chicago. No response. But it's just like a
for sure community. It's like twelve cars all parked together,
hanging out.

Speaker 10 (24:31):
Yeah, one lady's doing laundry, she's vacuuming out her car.
You basically get to get the head on some of
your chores.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Why'd you stop so many times? Well because I'm just
nervous because the first time virgin virgin and we're in
the middle of like nowhere Indiana saw.

Speaker 10 (24:45):
I don't want to be the guy that gets stuck
in the side of the road with no charge.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Fair enough, When I first got an electric car, I
felt the same way, you can go three hundred miles though.

Speaker 10 (24:54):
Yeah, you easily can, but I'm just being over cautious.
And also I would we want to make it to
the tournament and not get stuck.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
So isn't that car awesome? Though? Dude, it is, and
it has a massage or in it massages your back
in your blood does I'm telling you yeah, it is
not a commercial. It's the greatest car. So okay, you
go up, you go to Chicago.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
You get there, and how many guys are there competing
in this Papa Shot tournament.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
Well, we thought we're gonna roll up in there. It'd
be like Ray, myself and three other dudes. That place
was packed. There were so many people in there. But
I guess we had found out it was the final
part of the competition. So everyone from across the country
was showing up for this, even if they already qualified
to play in the tournament where.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
We're talking poland Boston. If anybody missed out, they flew
to Chicago for this. Wow. So were you guys a
little intimidated?

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well, well, I will say this. You walk in and
it looks like a Chuck E. Cheese's adult version. But
you keep going around corner. We keep thinking in our
heads there's gonna be ten people. This is gonna be
I mean just me and my upstairs shooting hoops and
we get around the final corner and there are two
hundred six foot guys, all balding, all forty years with
their kid and their wife with them. So Papa shot

(26:04):
is that little game. That's the little basketball. So you
get as many you can take it with your hand
and throw it as many times as you can and
make them. Yeah right, I explain that, right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (26:11):
And we practiced in Indiana before we got there, so
we got a little because I was like, I don't
want to go there cold because I haven't shot since December.
And Ray's been shooting on his home machine, which is
much different from the ones at the arcades. So we
will let's get our feet wet, let's go. We went
to a bar in the middle of nowhere, Indiana.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
I will say that was awesome because the lady, she
had no customers whatsoever, and she goes, I used to
play basketball, and she was just down in a pizza
there at the bar, and she watched me and she
said I watched you guys play and that was awesome.
And she followed us in the parking lot. She's like,
can I come with you guys? And I was like, oh, hey, guys,
that's called a lot lizard. She was really friendly.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah, I'm like, are you sure?

Speaker 3 (26:45):
She gus, I don't think. I don't know if that's
what you think it was. For ten dollars, you can go.
You just don't know where you're going to find these machines.
And that bar randomly got approved form one of these
really expensive machines, and she had it and she's like,
I've never seen anybody put up that kind of point.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's like, y'all, yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
So you get there? How long until you actually get
to shoot?

Speaker 10 (27:03):
So there's a qualifying period between five and eight and
they give you this QR code. You scan in and
you're like in a virtual line, and so you can
get as many as you can between five minute o'clock
to get you on the board. So we did maybe
about six or seven rounds of shooting. I think I
would say two an hour.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
The q was always seventy to eighty deep every time
you go back in. Wow, Christ, what did you think
you had to score to move on before you got there? Well,
I knew one forty was the range. I saw it online.

Speaker 10 (27:29):
So he was saying he saw some competitions where it
was as low as one oh five.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, last year a guy with one oh five was
top twelve.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
So at Chicago, And so I don't know how to
add because I'm not sure how Papa shot tournaments work.
Did they just take your highest score of all your rounds. Yeah,
it's the best that you can do.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
And once we got there, so we were there, it
was like five thirty and it was already filled out,
so you already had your top twelve up there.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
So the minimum score the second we walk in the
door is one twenty okay, and it's higher than last year.
And how many move on? Two total? Well, two total
people twelves forms the tournament and then two yes move on.
The way you gotta make the tournament, you gotta make
top twelve, and then then you're part of that tournament.
Did either one of you make the top twelve? Well,

(28:15):
the frustrating part was I.

Speaker 10 (28:19):
You had like people from across the country that already
placed that were there that normally scored like one sixty,
one eighty, So they're inflating the bottom. So then as
they start playing, goes from one twenty till one thirty
till one thirty five till one forty till one forty six,
and I think the highest RAY got the entire time
we're there was one forty one, and I was like
at eighty one, so.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
You only scored eighty one.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Eighty one was my highest.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yea, I haven't played in six months. Oh no, six months,
you get three hundred. One forty one didn't get you
in the top twelve. Well, the bottom was one twenty,
and then it was progressively moving up, so at the
point that it was at one forty six and I
was whatever in Q and I had five five minutes left,
and so the best I'd done I'd done one eighteen.

(29:03):
I did one nineteen, I did one eighteen again, I
did one twenty five. I did one thirty six. This
was my final time, and I had like probably five
white claws, eight white clause. He was getting hammered, and
really this is my absolute last time. So the best
I'd done is one thirty six, and went up to
the machine, gave it everything I had and did one
forty one. In the minimum was one forty six, so

(29:26):
missed by two three pointers. It was very old. Body
made the turn. Your guys drove all the way to Chicago.
Nobody even made the top twelve.

Speaker 10 (29:32):
No, but we had, dude, we had an incredible We
were like the celebrities there at this thing. The people
that Rampapa shot kne who we were, Ben Kelly and Debbie.
They gave us wrist bands for free drinks all night long,
cut out. It was awesome. I look at this now
as an opportunity, like, Okay, we got our feet wet.
Two things here. One, we need to get one of
these machines here in the building. They only cost a
couple thousand dollars, so that's my first pick.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Only only.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yes, I know we need new cameras. I mean, there
are all these things for the show.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
That we need.

Speaker 10 (29:58):
Cameras are great, so we need a camera not great.
Go ahead, we need the Papa shot machine in here
because they don't. Then we can work at it for
the next six to eight months. Imagine if we work
on the proper machine. Ray was working on a bunk
one at home and got one forty one.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah. Well, the sad thing is with this whole thing,
it's kind of society. It's a microcosm. It's like the
rich always win. Every one of these dudes had a
ten thousand dollars machine in their basement. I've been playing
on a two hundred dollars one and they were blown away.
They're like, wait, what, you don't have one of these
at home? And I'm like, no, they're like ten thousand dollars.
But but yeah, I mean not making excuses about making excuses.

(30:31):
It was it was a little unfair that these guys
all own these machines and play on them all the time.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
To them raise the guy that's taking a milk carton
and turned into a baseball glove.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, and it's playing trying to make it. No, that's
what they said. I final shot, I had like the
cheering section. I was really the poor guy from Nashville.
They wanted me to go you weren't the poor guy
from Nashville. And they also had a little I would
say they talked a little bit and wanted to know
should we extend it to sixteen people because actually on
the machines and I took the picture, but I was
on the leader number six. I was on the machine

(31:01):
and I still didn't make the tournament, and I was like,
can we not extend it to sixteen? I mean in
North Madness, they have sixteen seeds. And it was changed
the rules of the game once you get there. But also,
why was I on the machine if I didn't even
make the tournament because the machine probably had a top
sixteen in it, but the tournament rules looked completely different
than what the house machine was. Yeah, so I tried
to push for it. I was like, can we maybe
just do an exemption? But it never led to that.

Speaker 10 (31:22):
Yeah, and those guys that play in that league, I
mean not trying to talk down on them, but they
are okay.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
But visually, when someone says I mean no disrespect, you're
about to get disrespected.

Speaker 10 (31:32):
But they could not handle the pressure. So when they
got into the top twelve, they were choking like they
were getting one twelve one point twenty one point thirty.
And Ray never choked once. If he could have got
into that, he would have destroyed them. Made a top two,
no problem.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, why didn't you get drunk? He drank the higher
he got I had to drink, Okay, But what if
what if that's not true?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
What if that's more correlation not causation, Meaning what if
you actually got better because you were there throwing more balls,
but you were drinking at the same time, And so
if you wouldn't have drunk, but you would have played
more games, you would have got a higher score. One
doesn't absolutely indicate the other.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
You guys can look it up somewhere. It's like call
Bomber's effect or something. There is a thing to drinking
a certain amount, and you actually perform better as long
as you don't pass that threshold.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Probably your self doubt minimizes and you're more confident when
you're drinking, so then you score.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
This is not but hey, this is not constantly. I mean,
this is him.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
He went up every single time. That's because he got loose.
He got to know the machine. He imagine if he
did all of that and didn't drink no, I.

Speaker 10 (32:31):
Mean, I hear you give nervous and terrible, I.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Mean bomber effect. Don't you know.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Well, they gave us wristbands and stuff. They got us
fully looped up. We had a blast.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
The Bomber peak is not scientifically real. It's a popular
tongue in cheap myth. Then people say, so they can drink.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
More, says a robot. But so here's the thing, it's
a joke. At The Bomber peak is a joke. Go ahead,
So so what with that machine? We need to get
that and two next year because this is like a thing. Now,
where are in it that we have been initiated into
the Papa shot community. Next year we need to go
earlier to the competition like La or Portland, because less

(33:07):
people show up, we have better odds of getting into
the tournament. And then if you're in that top two,
you're going to a land in August and you're on ES,
you're on ESPN. Yes, So I don't think you're wrong
about that.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Meaning I gave the same sort of situation to my
niece who's taking the act. I said, Hey, you're gonna
take it the first time.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Ain't gonna go?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Well, yeah, but you take it the first time so
you know how to be better prepared the second time. Like,
you know what the questions are gonna be, but you
don't know all the factors surrounding it. You don't know
the environment.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
You know, so you go and you.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Take it the first time, get your score that kind
of stinks, and then start building from there.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
That's called the Bobby effect.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
We like that effect. That's what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah, can I tell you how big a loser some
of these guys were? You're there too, prove to Chicago
from it? How long? Eight hours? Nine hours? Yeah, yeah,
go ahead. These guys from last year that were in
the qualifier in Vegas, who was a different city last year,
they flew in to Cago to shake people's hands and
to take picture. And the entire time we were doing

(34:04):
it on the TV screens was the ESPN broadcast of
them doing Papa Shot. So they were signing stuff and
they were there not even to play, but just to
be honored for being a qualifier. Like they had their
friends and family and wife there and we would do
the same thing. That would be awesome. That's how big
of losers these guys. These one group of three flew
from Portland because it was their last chance to make it.
We had guys from Boston, stay in your city if

(34:25):
you missed from your city, drove. We never have a city, Okay,
we need one, so we'll have a city.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
My favorite part of this is, hey, we've been really
welcome to the Papa Shot community.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
These guys.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, hey, guys, so stupid. The one guy, his wife
she goes, hey, we'll see guys next. We're like what,
and she goes, you guys are part of this now,
like you're not leaving it.

Speaker 10 (34:44):
And we get invited to a guy's house in Dayton,
No High. He's like, hey, you want to come by
my house tomorrow. I got three machines and I was like,
I don't know where this is going to lead to.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
He had in a.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Tournament on Saturday night. He's like, hey, do you guys
want to come stay at my house and play in
the tournament. We're like, what the Scooba only got eighty?
I don't know why Scoob was involved.

Speaker 10 (35:00):
No, because I normally could do much better. That's just
like Bobby said, Bobby effect. I was just getting my
feet wet figuring it out next time for sure. One fifties,
maybe Scoop andated white Claws.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, I mean we were seeing grown men cry because
they weren't able to make the videoed the one hitting
the ground?

Speaker 4 (35:15):
No, No they didn't.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yes, they did, no serious something. They could have worked
a long time for this.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
True.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Like, I'm not gonna hate I played in the pickleball tournament.
It tore my ankle. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 8 (35:25):
Did you cry?

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Well, if you ask my wife, I whined about it
for like three months.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Well yeah, because that's annoying, but you didn't cry because
you didn't make it to the top of.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
The He didn't talk to kid, and then we went
to the uber line and he wasn't talking to anybody.
Shu them all. He was like, shut up, probably that's weird. Okay,
that's yeah, and get your guys going next year. I
may have to do Giving Tuesday and sponsor them Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
You need to.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Okay, Okay, we'll be back. Hold on sports check. Do
you know who the US beat in soccer?

Speaker 4 (36:01):
No?

Speaker 3 (36:02):
But World Cup? Yeah, it's beat I know.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Take guess, uh, the America, the America, scot I know,
Haiti played Scotland.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Okay, who did America play?

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Argentina Paraguay and so America won. Do you know who
won the Stanley Cup last night? No, take guess America
they did?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Yeah, yeah, American team, But.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
They what they played? Who you want to know who
they played?

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Do you know what the Stanley Cup is? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (36:36):
Hockey?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Good?

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Who won it?

Speaker 8 (36:39):
We did?

Speaker 1 (36:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
No, No, it's it's like Major League Baseball NFL. Okay,
the Stanley Cups and all the teams from the world.
It's like a league like the Nashville Predators would be
a team, but they didn't win.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
It, gotcha? So it's a hockey team from America. Okay,
not the Predators, no Vents, but I don't think it's them.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
None taking the I don't know another hockey team take
a shot.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Oh Tampa, Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
The Tampa Puckers. The Puckers. Oh nope, the Puckers.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
I don't know. Puckers did not win?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
You know? Good name is it? The Hurricanes? Did they win? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Okay, where are they from?

Speaker 3 (37:23):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
I don't know, the Hurricane? Maybe like South Carolina?

Speaker 3 (37:30):
That's it? Okay, yeah, let's it. Okay. What about basketball
NBA Finals?

Speaker 4 (37:35):
The Knicks?

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, the next one.

Speaker 8 (37:37):
Yeah, I saw a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
We got Spurs fans here. I was rooting for the
Knicks because I roote. I like fan bases that just
lose forever.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
And then finally win.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Because the next over fifty years in our lifetime, the
Knicks have never won a championship. So that's pretty cool
to see because I come from teams that never win championships.
Being a Cubs fan, finally hit one, you know, razorback fan,
I've also come to terms I'm never going to see
a razorback national championship in football in my life, I don't.
I have to start accepting that I'm getting older. Like

(38:05):
the things that have made me think about mortality are
having a baby and then the fact that I hit.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
My forties and we're not even close. Right, it's I'm
never going to see it. It drives me. It's the
thing I love the most behind my wife.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
And is it best to just accept it now?

Speaker 3 (38:20):
I think I'm accepting it. Okay, Yeah, We're just never
going to win any Wall national championship.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
I don't love that that spirit. I don't like that attitude. However,
if it's good for you, you know, like just preparing
yourself so you're not just you know, expectations lead to
future resentment.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
If they win a championship the year after I die,
I'm going to haunt whoever's only.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Wow, that'd be crazy.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
If it's the year after. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, it makes me sad, sorry, man, because I put
that's just my favorite thing and we're never going to
do it.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
But anyway, good for you.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
Yep. I don't get the nigs. Yeah, I mean that
was dominated in my feed. The other stuff not so much.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Do you know who plays for the next Can you
named one player?

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Nope? I mean I cannot.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Okay, you want to make a name up?

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Sean?

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Got it? Rogers? Okay? Now YouTube segment that I did
that kind of blew up.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
This is a segment that I do called Into the
Weeds by myself at the studio at home. Here you go, everybody,
Welcome to another episode of in the Weeds. Stuff that
I did not think anybody would care about. But then
you guys kept listening to this podcast and streaming this
video on YouTube, so I'll do another one. So it's
just inside stuff. That's why we call it in the Weeds.

(39:41):
And most of these just end up being questions that
you guys asked me. Number one, what's harder doing the
daily radio show or a podcast? I think they're different animals.
The radio show is the most important thing that I do.
And it's not even that it just has to be
the live radio show, right. I feel like anything that
I'm recording Bobby show, however it goes out, is the

(40:02):
radio show. If it's live, if it's podcast, if it's
even social clips, like to.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Me, all of that is the radio show.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
That thing is hard because it is constant and there's
so many Like we're doing two hours of content a
day with really no basis to lean on or to
come off of. Like if I were doing a three
hour sports show, it'd be pretty easy, maybe not to
be great, but to be good because I'm really just

(40:31):
reacting to sports. And I do a couple of sports
podcasts during the week. So with that, they're constantly providing
you new material. The new material for the radio show
really is my life or the show's lives, or sometimes
the news or current events or podcal there's really nothing specific,

(40:52):
and we're just kind of guessing what we feel like
translates in what doesn't so to me. To do basically
two hours every single day, that gets to be an animal,
and that gets to be pretty tough to do. Not hard,
like hurts my back like my stepdad at the mill hard,
but just kind of wears on you as far as
the podcast goes, if I were just doing a podcast

(41:14):
once a week for an hour that is lightlifting, that
would be so easy. I think for me, the reason
that the podcasts are difficult is because.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
They are so wide ranging.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
One, you know, I do twenty five Whistles, which is
a sports show twice a week, I do an NFL show.
I did the Bobby Cast, which is mostly music with
a little bit of culture, and that is an hour
long interview for the most part, and that sucks the
life out of you because I really have to be
focused on somebody else, not just me. If I could

(41:48):
just sit and talk for an hour by myself, that
would take away less energy then for me to talk
to somebody else for an hour, because I'm trying to
be compelling, ask compelling questions and if they're not compelling,
lead them to a place that is compelling. As far
as an hour at a time, The Bobbycast is by
far the hardest thing that I do, but doing the
radio show because it's in the morning, because there's so

(42:09):
much content and involved with it, that would be the
most difficult. But they are both awesome and great and fun.
And then around July and then around December fifteenth, I'm
burnt out and then I think, Man, this sucks.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
I suck.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Why would you may listen to anything I'm saying. I
go to the same cycle every single year.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Have about back?

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Okay? If I if it's that far away right there? Yeah, okay, cool?
All right?

Speaker 2 (42:42):
The next question, why weren't you at the ACMs this year? Well,
I kind of got kicked off. So the last couple
to few years I had had a role on the
ACM television show on Amazon where I was basically second
string to Riba.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Or one year Dolling and Gar.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
It's been different every year, and so why Amazon had
me was to be able to pretty much.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Be Swiss Army knife.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
If I need to go on the crowd, great, If
I needed to work backstage and do throws, great if
something went wrong, and that happened a lot last year
that I did it where technically there were some bad
things and they were just like, hey, we need you
to go fill a minute twenty go with really no direction.
And I think that's a skill now that I've developed
from doing so many things live. So every year it

(43:32):
was hey, be number two again and build up, you're
gonna be the host.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
You can be the host, you can be the host.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Well this year I wasn't the host, and so I
really didn't have interest in doing anything else with the
show other than being the host.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
And look, I didn't get the hosting job. That's fine,
Like I get it. I don't get most stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
But the fact that I was led to believe, hey,
do this these years and.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
We'll put you on didn't happen.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
So mostly let's say that if I can't be the host,
and so they said would you present?

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Would you?

Speaker 2 (44:05):
And it just for me this year did didn't feel
like something I wanted to do. I kind of felt
like I'd been led in a direction that wasn't completely truthful.
To their credit, who knows it, may have different bosses
this year and they just had to go a different direction.
Like I don't know, Like I'm not mad about it
at all. That is how that's the nature of this business.
So that was it. They didn't want me to host,

(44:29):
they didn't want me to co host, and I really
didn't want to take another job, so I didn't do it.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
But that was it.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
But that's the real answer.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Why don't you do a lot of other people's podcasts?

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Well, I do.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
So many podcasts of my own that there's no way
anyone can listen to everything that I'm doing. One of
the great things about having a good podcast guest is
people want to listen to what they have to say.
Anybody that's listening to The Bobby Bone Show with the
Bobby Cast, they already know what I have to say.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
I don't feel like.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I'm a great guest if my job is to bring
in new people, because my podcast feed is inundated with
me talking about stuff, fifteen hours a week of me
just talking about stuff. So occasionally I will do a
podcast if someone has the understanding that y'all, I'll promote

(45:23):
it and maybe your listeners will like it. But man,
my people are exhausted. I can't even listen to all
the stuff that I do. My wife listens to nothing
that I do. So that's really why I don't go
on a lot a lot of other podcasts. Also, if
I'm going to say something and it's going to, you know,
be super compelling, I kind of want to say it
on my own properties. I think if I was promoting something,

(45:45):
I would go on other podcasts. I'm just not promoting anything.
Promoting you know, listening to our show my YouTube channel,
you know, I don't for me. I'll just keep building
here and then hopefully it catches an algorithm and promotes itself.
But it's not that I don't like to do people's podcasts.
And then also eventually it's when I do new shows.

(46:05):
I know what all the questions are going to be
ahead of time, not because they tell me, but because
I know the research they've done. It's gonna be like, Dang,
your mom died, Dang drug addicts, dang grew up poor,
and all that stuff is true. And I've told this
story a bunch, but again, you just kind of get
exhausted of it after doing it a few times. So

(46:27):
that's why. That's why I really don't do other people's podcasts.
But that being said, I did do a couple recently,
and I'll promote them and you'll go, wat should I
listen to that? Whenever I hear you talk fifteen hours
a week already? Next one, how do you decide who
gets to be the star of a show or segment?
Mostly this one is just who's got the hot hand,

(46:50):
meaning and if you've listened to the show long enough,
I definitely do not need to be the star.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
I do not have lead singer syndrome in any way.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
When it comes to the radio show, if somebody is on,
we will put the spotlight on them, and the spotlight
will stay on them, and it will remain fixed on
them until that spotlight starts to dim and so if
it's Amy crushing it, it'll be an Amy show. Like
if she has something that she wants to talk about
and what she's talking about is so good, or if

(47:17):
like she's just on fire one day, spotlight boom, We're
going to Amyville. If it's Eddie whomever it is, for me,
it's hot hand, it's you got a running back that's
picking up five to six seven yards of kerry. Keep
giving them the ball because anybody's success is all of
our success on the show. So that's how it always

(47:37):
starts with me, because I'm putting the show together, deciding
what we're going to talk about. But I definitely do
not need to be and at times I probably go
to them too much, Like if we're doing it around
the room segment, I almost never go to myself first
because I want to see what they have to say.
So I don't really have an ego when it comes
to that at all. It's just like who's on, and

(48:00):
if somebody's not on, let's move off of them and
get to somebody else. But that's how we decide, That's
how I decide. What's harder to manage show members or producers.
The producers are not hard to manage at all. With Raymundo,
who produces the Bobby Bone Show with the audio, I mean,
he is show up to work with a launch pale

(48:21):
kind of guy. I tried to promote Raymundo years ago.
I tried to give Raymundo a bigger job that makes
more money, and.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
He was like, I'm good. I don't really want a
bigger job like I like where I am fair enough.
So he's had raises since.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
But Ray knows what he's doing, he's great at doing it,
and when he does it, he goes home.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Scuba Steve is extremely organized and when it comes to
the show, anything happening outside of when the show starts
when the show ends, that's mostly a Scuba Steve issue
or just something that.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
He takes care of. He deals with sales.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
I really don't have to manage the producers hardly at all.
Abby produces a lot of segments, so we definitely have
a rhythm. The show members are definitely different because they're
humans and they're doing human things and they're reacting in
a human like way even on the air, so sometimes
that can be a.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Little harder to manage.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
But we've been doing this now for so long, especially
like our core. Even Eddie, who would be a junior
member of the show, has now been with me for
thirteen years. That's not very junior in Lunchbox and Amy
for twenty, which is crazy.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
We were kids when we started off.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
So the show members a little more than the producers,
because sometimes the show members can get irritated at each
other as well.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Meaning if I'm.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Just sitting and I just focused on I'll just use
Eddie as an example, and he can be like, dang,
she's not I'm just using their names. But so yeah,
show members definitely, because there's more of a human element
to that. How do you motivate people who don't care
as much as you do? I don't because nobody cares

(50:11):
as much as I do, Nor does anyone care as
much as you do about the thing that's yours. There
are people that carry a lot in our group and
our organization, no doubt about it, if not they were
to be a part of the organization anymore. And that
goes from segment producers all the way to the highest
executive producers. Show members. Everybody's got to care because if
you don't care, you're not carrying your own weight within

(50:33):
the team. So I want to say that everybody's got
to care, but nobody cares as much as I do
because it's mine. Like I built this thing from scratch,
it was just me. Nobody should care as much as
I do because it's mine and I built this thing
from scratch. So I don't have an expectation that anybody
should care as much as me. I do have expectations

(50:55):
on people based on to work at it, how smart
they are, what we can create together, if they want
to move on. I've had people that have wanted to
move on, meaning they wanted to build to something and
then jump off of that and go somewhere else, and
that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
So just let me know and we will make it happen.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
I have people that work for me now that have
moved on but still work for me. A couple Scuba
Steve is one who's the executive producer, and he came
to me years ago at my house and he said,
I want to be a talent. I don't want to
just be a producer.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
I said, great, let's make that happen, and if you
have to leave, you have to leave.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
And now he does not only the Rock Afternoon show.
I don't know when this comes out, so I better
not say too much. But he's growing as a talent
as well, and at some point, if he has to go,
he has to go. So my goal is to make
sure that people are fulfilled and if they want to

(51:46):
build off this and go do their own thing, great.
It used to be that people would want to hop
off and do their own show show. Now it's just
give me a platform for a podcast. I used to
think that Mike de would eventually, you know, not want
to write for the show anymore, and I want to
write gets not want to be like my main person
and go to his own show, because he definitely has
the ability to do that, and he loves doing the

(52:07):
podcast because doing a successful podcast, it's the same thing.
Eyes and ears are currency, regardless of how you get them.
So nobody cares as much as I do, but they're
not supposed to and I don't expect them to. You
also can't push everyone the same. There are people in
my group that I know I can push hard, and

(52:30):
I know I can push harder and they won't get
their feelings hurt. And I know have a tremendous work ethic,
And there are people in the group that don't, and
they do get their feelings hurt and their work ethic
isn't as good and you have to handle them differently.
So it's got to be a certain level of good
to stay because if you're not pulling your weight, you

(52:50):
will go. But not everybody's the same, and I think
managing people the same that aren't the same is pretty
much managerial suicide, Like you will kill the whole organization
if you think there is like one way to work
with people. The only thing that we have that is

(53:12):
a universal is you got to be on time. Other
than that, everybody's treated a little different because everybody is different.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
When do you give raises?

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Well, so I think people think I own the Bobby
Bone Show, So don't. I don't own the Bobby Bone Show.
I started the Bobby Bone Show. I guess I own
part of the Bobby Bone Show.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
But the company that owns the show is iHeartRadio. So
when it comes to everybody's salaries, I don't pay everybody's
salaries like the company does because they own most of
the show. So when it comes to raises, most everybody
on that show has a contract. When the contract comes up,
they can negotiate against or with the company for hopefully

(53:53):
a raise. Their contract comes up, they say I think
i'm worth a little more. The company can say yes,
you are. No, you're not than the person, and can say, well,
if you dont give it to me, I'm gonna leave,
and the company can say okay. But I can do
that too, right. I could go, if you don't.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Give me this much, i'm gonna leave today, and the
company can say, sure, leave because we don't feel like
you're worth it. So that part of the show, I
would say generally, I it's not my job to pay everyone. Now,
where I would say it's a bit different is there's
probably four people on the Bobby Bone Show staff that

(54:27):
went for raises in the company did not give it
to them, to which I said, take money out of
my salary and give it to them, because it's important
to me to make sure that everybody's happy, because if
they're happy and fulfilled, they will work harder.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
And it will help us all win. Right in the end.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
It's I guess a bit selfish because I want everybody
to be super fulfilled and feel like they're being respected
for the work that they're doing. So if I have
to cut some of my money to pay them great.
I think I got four staff members that I do
that for now my personal team. When I hire people,
I tell them I cannot wait to give you a

(55:02):
raise because that means you have earned this raise. That
means if I'm giving you a raise, you are doing
your job at such a high level it's obvious it's
time that I should pay you more. So I love
giving people raises out of my the people who work
for me, because that means they're killing it, and that

(55:22):
means they're worth the money that they're making. So I
don't pay the Bobybone show. I probably have a staff
of five people that I pay myself, some full full
time in some part time.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
But I really like.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Giving raises because that means they're worth it. I never
give anybody a raise if they don't deserve it, but
I am looking for a reason to give people a raise, like,
please give me a reason. I will also get messages
from people going are you hiring?

Speaker 3 (55:47):
I'm always hiring. There's never a time I'm not hiring.
I may not know it.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
I may meet someone ago they have an exceptional skill
set that I feel would be perfect for our organization.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
And I will hire them today. That's great.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
I don't have a job listing. I'm not looking for
anyone right this second. But man, if you're really good
at something and you say this is what I can do,
this is my value and I think there's value to it,
I'll hire that position. So it's a lot to say
from the race question, but I think people should know
I don't own the Boybone Show. That's the company that

(56:23):
pays everybody's salaries there. How do you handle people who
need constant reassurance. There are people on the show that
like to have verbal praise more than others. I would
just compare it to love languages generally speaking.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Like me, I don't need it at all.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
I don't need anybody from anywhere to tell me I'm
doing a good job at any time when.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
It comes to work, Like I can look at data.
I know what I'm trying to do.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Sometimes I can do something and kill it and it
does not do well. I'm still good with that because
I did the best that I could. Times when I
do something and I think, well that's not very good,
and it pops hard, and I mean, I'll take it,
but my I never am getting my fulfillment from people
telling me good job, especially when it comes to podcasting
or radio or anything like this. But that's not my

(57:15):
love language. I don't need you to tell me. I
do have staff members that need to be told, and
that's okay. It's up to me to figure out how
they like to be rewarded. Some of them like for
me to say, hey, great job, and that means a
lot to them. Some of them it doesn't matter at all.
So again it goes back to managing personalities different because
personalities are different, and I think that was a really

(57:37):
hard thing for me early on in my career when
I was twenty six years old managing a staff. I
didn't know what was going on. I kN know how
to manage people. I knew what I wanted to do.
Everybody else get in because we're gonna go, We're gonna
go win. But I think, as I've been doing it
a while now, because people are so different, I treat
people different. What part of the job has gotten harder
as you've gotten more successful?

Speaker 3 (58:00):
Staff is way bigger. I have to think about them
when I do stupid stuff. Now.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
When I started off and it was me and two people,
I didn't really have to think about them that much.
We were new, we were young, it wasn't a whole staff.
If I am an idiot on a grand level and
it causes me to be in trouble, be in trouble
with the law, get fired. Who knows like that affects
all of them and their families too, because if I

(58:29):
go to jail for something bad.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
They could cancel the whole show.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
And then I got eleven people without a job, and
eleven people whose spouses and kids are very much dependent
on that job, with no real understanding of they're going
to get to keep a job and do something like
that's not an understanding amongst the show, like if some

(58:55):
if I go, the whole thing could go down, or
they could keep a couple of parts and not every
You don't know. So for me, I think, because the
staff is bigger, I have to be a little more
strategic about I will say the bold things that I
do or the bold opinions that I have, because I
don't want to If I got fired today, I'd be fine,

(59:17):
or I want to get fired today, but I'd be fine.
Not everybody else would be, and they'd be starting from
I don't want to say scratch, but from a place
that would be pretty difficult. Finding a job is hard,
so I would say that's probably the part of the
job that's gotten harder. It's made me a bit less
dynamic because I have to care about other people. Heck,

(59:38):
even having a family has made me slightly less dynamic.
There are times where I would love to pop off
and go hard at people their situations, and then I'll
weigh it and I'll.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Think is it worth it? Is it worth it to
my wife.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Who's going to feel the brunt of this too now
that I have a kid, And a lot of times
it is worth it, but sometimes it's like it's just
not worth it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
I'm not going to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
So the bigger the family grows and all capacities professional home,
the more I have to be responsible. And so that's
probably been the hardest part about this success. Do you
ever struggle to understand people who don't have big goals?

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
I did. For a long time. I thought everybody wanted
everything like I did. I've only realized in the last price.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Five to seven years, and mostly because of my wife,
where she says, hey, everybody's goals aren't the same. Just
to dominate professionally, some people's goals are.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
To have like a really.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Healthy, extremely fruitful family life where they're investing so much
in and I want that too, write But to me,
especially at the time, it was everybody probably wants to
climb to the highest point of their job as possible
and be as good as they possibly can.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Everybody wants to be great at something.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
But it's not always the same thing that I think,
so it's not always professional. So my answer to there
is I've kind of had to reframe. Even with Ray
Mundo what I was talking about earlier, when I said, hey,
do you want this promotion, this job within the organization
and he said he didn't, my mind was blown.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
How do you not want a bigger job?

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Yeah, there's more responsibility, but like you could actually But
that was one of my first experiences with someone who
had different priorities. It wasn't that he was wrong or
he was right, it's just priorities. And I think I
have learned that other people's priorities don't always match mine

(01:01:44):
as far as what we want in life. I also
think mine are changing too a bit, and that's something
that's happened obviously with having a child, having a wife,
having a dog, all reverse order. First it was having
a dog, then it was having a wife, then it
was having a child. So I think that is something
that I have learned about later in life because I

(01:02:05):
just thought everybody wanted everything like I do when it
comes to your career.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
But yeah, that's what's up. That's this episode of in
the Weeds.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
If there's anything else that you guys have been sending me,
Mostly those are the questions in one form or another.
There's a lot of the generic stuff to meaning what
time you wake up in the morning, usually three thirty
or four, sometimes before that. Sometimes Mike Deal will get
an email from me at midnight talking about notes for
the next day. Sometimes I'll fall back asleep. Sometimes it'll
go till four fifteen, four thirty, but usually and I

(01:02:40):
don't need an alarm because I'm so anxious about missing
work and tomorrow could be the first day that it happens.
But in my entire career, I've never been late to
a show ever. I've never been one minute late. And
I don't say that as a badge of honor.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
I say that as.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Somebody please help me and give me medicine, because it
keeps me from sleeping well at night being so nervous
about being late to the show. So those are things
that happen, and those are questions that I get. But
I think I've answered those a whole lot of times
and watched the last episode two I talk about, you know,

(01:03:15):
kind of who hangs out with who. There's so many
people in the organization and in the group now that
not everybody can hang out with everybody equally, and there
are definitely different friendship groups within the show. And then
also it's just different than it used to be because now
we have families and stuff too.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
So all right, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
That's this episode of in the Weeds. I don't know
why anybody listens to this or watches this. I don't
feel like it's terribly entertaining. But until you guys stop watching,
I'll keep doing them, all right. If you have any questions,
put them down in the comments. You're watching it on YouTube.
Popped questions down in the comments. I'll answer it in
the next next one that we do here. So all right,
thank you guys, and I'll see you guys soon. All right,
that's going to do it for today. Thank you for listening.

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