In this episode of In The Weeds, Bobby gets into the drama surrounding the Billion Club and why one quick Google search can save you from getting your facts wrong. He also reveals why a famous artist immediately lost him after being rude to Amy, shares the story of finally getting his Dancing with the Stars Mirrorball back, and explains how the story unexpectedly started making headlines everywhere.Plus, Bobby talks about artists he interviews even when he doesn’t personally listen to their music, getting fed “exposing Bobby Bones” videos online, why attention can actually be good for business, and the importance of starting every piece of content with a strong hook.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
There's somebody that I know, or at least i've met her,
and we follow each other on socials. Her name is
Kate and Chork's barstool, and she's getting crushed online right
now and kind of a meme. And at the beginning
of it, it's her. It's Kate going, man, what do
women in their thirties even do if they don't have kids?
And then it's a bunch of women after that that
are in their thirties that don't have kids, doing all
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these really cool things like traveling, eating fine food. And
so they're mostly making this video to show Kate that
she was really wrong to say that. And when they
do that and they STIPs that, it kind of makes
Kate look like a jerk, except it just wasn't that
at all, And I feel so bad for Kate when
I see this. So they were doing basically a sketch,
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and the sketch was Kate saying that, and then it
was another girl every time she would say that, do
something completely awesome who was in her thirties, But they
only cut out the part of Kate saying, man, women
in the thirties even do without kids, And they definitely
did not leave on the back part of the joke
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where it was her friend making fun of Kate. And
so she's just getting torched online right now, and I
feel bad for her, but she's in media. It sucks,
but I think she gets it, but so out of context.
There is a clip that I almost never talk about
because I don't want the lore of it to go away,
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and I do love the engagement. And it's a clip
of probably twenty fourteen or so, when Taylor Swift was
in our studio and she had come on the show
a few times back in the day before she had
moved to New York. And the clip that they show
is some cookies and I'm gonna tell you about I
haven't watched the clip in years, but people always get
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mad at me for the clip, and so I end
up on Taylor Swift fan pages or Instagram like what
a jerk? What a jerk. I've even seen when they've
done different clip sets of like celebrities being mean to
Taylor Swift and they cut this part of that interview,
which obviously was joking, but not only that, And I
don't care to defend or describe, but if people only
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knew what was happening, like around that in that interview.
After the interview, it just shows you that just because
it exists does not mean it's real. And many, many,
many times things are taken out of context, so one,
don't defend me on the tailor clip. I like for
it to exist because it gives me a lot of
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engagement on stuff. Because sometimes I'll post a picture of
like me and a dog, and someone that's seen that
clip will go, I hope your dog dies because you're
rude to Taylor Swift now, and as mean as that is,
the more comments I get, the more engagement the algorithm
lifts it up. So if you see the you know,
the kind of meme clip of Kate or just a
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woman going what do women in the thirties even do
if they don't have kids? Just know that clip was
taken with absolutely no context. And you know what we
do on this show, we don't believe anything we see
on the internet. Now. A couple episodes ago, I told
you guys about the Billions Club, and I've really been
doing the math here and I don't think that I've
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hit a billion streams because I thought it might be
close that. I mean fifty million streams for twenty years.
I've been podcasting for twenty three years, and in the
early days there just wasn't an audience. And if we
only did it based on today, I think I just
think we're probably a year or two away from literally
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being in the Billions Club. But what I said in
the last episode or two was, I'm just going to
post this and it's just a reminder, don't believe every
single thing that you see on the Internet, because anybody
can write anything. So either just scroll past it and
it's water off a ducts back, or if you believe it,
if you're affected by it, if it hurts your feelings,
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if it makes you happier, said, just do one Google search,
especially when it comes to politics, especially when it comes
to statistics that people are reciting. My only goal with
kind of this exercise was to remind you, guys, just
because it's on the Internet, or just because it says
research says, if they're not showing you, if you're not
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doing just one search for it. I don't believe it.
Hey don't believe anything I do or say. I want
you to research stuff that I do or say, because
I'd be such a hypocrite if I was like don't
believe anything except me. But seriously, you guys can't believe me,
but you shouldn't, but you can. I promise another thing
when it comes to believing stuff on the internet is
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I'm going to go back a few episodes to when
Stella Lefty was on the Bobby Cast, and I've talked
about that here a couple of times where that is
not nepotism because you're rich does not mean nepotism. And
I would see people on TikTok Go man i'sol the
video of Bobby Bone stand still left you wasn't nepotism,
But how can you say that when your dad's so rich?
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And I would say a songwriter or two say that,
I'm going do you guys even know words? Aren't you songwriters?
Shouldn't you know words like look up a word? Know
the difference in the two? So a little data that
I'd like to share with you, feel free to fact
check in all my socials. One of the things that
folks say about Stella Lefty and she has that song
on a train bag in Boston, Jimson zaminam do Massive.
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That's been a Billboard Top five song for weeks now.
She has a new album coming out, by the way,
and one of the things that people claim is that
since her family had money, her dad bought all these bots,
and that's the only way that she's getting any sort
of engagement as bots. Her dad and for any of
my social media, I've never met her dad. If you
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go when you look at the segments that she's in
on my social media, you will see hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of streams in plays of those segments, like
my through line of for it to be mid probably
one hundred thousand. Like if he hits one hundred thousand,
I'm like, that is a pretty good one. The stuff
that she's in a mind million, six hundred thousand, four
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hundred thousand, three hundred and fifty thousand. So for everyone
that's going, it's all paid for. I didn't get paid.
I would love to get paid. I saw somebody else
it's one of these guys and anybody can just get
on TikTok. But I think he's a songwriter too, saying
Yobia Bones is the system. The system freaking hates me
because I don't put on all the artists that are
just on a label for the sake of them being
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on a label. The system hates my guts. So whatever
the Nashville system is that is ignoring you. They dislike me.
They can't really ignore me right now, but they this
like me. So I have not been paid. I will
say this though, if anybody's watching that wants to pay
me to promote those videos with Stell Lefty, I will
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gladly take your money. I will accept it fully. But
most of the time people just don't know what they're
talking about. I didn't see there was a job posting
online for Morgan's job on my radio show. Now, I'm
not sure why there was a job posting online. As
a matter of fact, I didn't see the actual posting.
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I just had people reaching out to me about the
job because they saw it posted. And again, I know nothing.
I'm not hr. I don't think we need anybody, and
so people keep hitting me up for that job. And
I'm not going to say this on the actual show feed,
but we don't need anybody. I definitely don't want another
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person in the room because, as I've said before, I
think we have too many voices in the room anyway,
and I'm doing some of the social media. Yeah, everybody's
pitching in a little bit. We have a company that's
helping us do some thumbnails and it's going great and
we're growing like we haven't in a long time. And
so if you see a posting or anybody talking about
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it posting, thank you so much for like caring enough
to reach out. But since I can't reply to every
one of my dms or see them all, they're as
far as I know, there is no job that we
are filling unless we are and I don't know about it,
and that would suck. Then that would really suck at
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some point, would we I don't know. I know we
don't need another personality. We do need someone to do
social but we have some people that we've hired now
and maybe that posting was actually that someone saw that
we ended up hiring that team. It's like a company
to do it. But I know nothing about it, literally nothing,
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And I'm not interviewing anybody, And as far as I know,
and I'm concerned, we don't need anybody because what we
have going right now is working really well. So I
appreciate by reaching out this is the one way that
I can share that without responding to everyone. I get
a lot of questions and I think I've addressed this
a couple of times on if I have artists on
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the show whose music I don't care for and that
answer is yes, or who I don't care for personally
and that answer is no, So I don't have to
get it to be interested in it or to think
that our audience will like it. Like there are artists
that I have on that actually kind of liked people.
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I don't know them super well, but their music's not
my thing. And if somebody's music is not my thing,
I'm definitely not going to keep them from being on
the show, especially if I think my audience likes them,
or they can have memusic that I'm like, Ah, I
don't know if I get it or not, but they
tell great stories and they sell a bunch of shows,
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so people must care about them. So the answer to
that is I will have an artist and if I
don't get their music or like their music, and that's
happened a bunch of times, I would say for me personally, though,
there's just a style of music that I that I like,
and I don't think that that is populist. I think
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that I like slow acoustic. I mean, you can say
Zach Bryan John Mayer type stuff, and that stuff doesn't
get played on the radio a lot. But that's okay.
That's not my job to bring in people whose music
that I love. I would say seventy five percent of
the people that come in, I'm not going to be
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listening to their music once they leave the studio, And
that's okay, because it's not my job to listen to
everybody's music. But I can understand why they're liked. On
the other side, like they are a couple artists that
I just I'm not going to have on the show,
and one of them that I'm not having it on
the shows because they are mean to Aim. There's literally
one artist that was rude to Amy at a place
that wasn't a workplace, meaning this artist wasn't able to
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differentiate Amy from the show to this person. He just
thought it was a random person and they were. They
were very rude to Amy. And it's the only time
Amy has ever said anything to me about it. And
she definitely did not say keep this person off the show,
but she said, hey, do you know so and so,
And I say a little bit just from around town
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or professional events. She said, they're really, really rude to
me and to other people where we were, and that's
all I needed to hear. Heck, I like that even
less than if they were somebody was rude to me.
So yeah, somebody that was really awful to Amy is
not allowed on the show, and they don't know, They
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probably don't even care. Honestly, Again, it's not like everybody's
way outside of our doors, just beating on them trying
to get in. There are a lot of places you
can go, a lot of studios you can get into.
You know, are they all the same weight right now? No?
But in the year, who even knows what's going to
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be happening with us? Who even knows what I'll be
doing in a year. At this point, I'm tired. But
I don't have to like the music to have people on.
I do have to not dislike you to have you on.
And there aren't a lot of those, just a couple,
but one specifically that was really mean to Amy. Another
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weird thing that's been happening is I record this right now.
All these stories are popping up about me getting the
mirror ball back, and it's interesting because I do have
a Google search on myself and I don't it's not
an ego thing, but it's like anytime my name pops up,
I get an email, which does sound like an ego thing.
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But mostly I just want to make sure that whatever
is being written about me, that I'm being portrayed accurately,
and that they're right about what they're writing, and they
are ninety five percent of the time. And so I
posted the picture of me and the mirror ball. Didn't
know if anybody would care. Mostly we just posting it
for you guys, And if you guys watch this, you
know you know I was gonna post it. And it's
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pop and pop and pop and pop U pop, and
I think thirteen different legitimate sites have picked it up.
What's weird is I've been through this enough that there
are cycles of like kind of when I'm popping in
cycles when I'm not. And I've been through seven or
eight at this point, meaning there are times where the
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show does great and it feels like nothing I do
gets picked up by anything. Now I can probably make
a headline if I want to. I choose not to
because I don't want to be that guy. But do
I feel like I could easily just do or say something,
feed it out there and make the news. Absolutely, I've
done it before. I rarely do it, though, because I
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don't want to be the guy that's always begging for
attention in places where the attention really doesn't matter. Then
there are times where I can do almost nothing and
things will just start hitting. And right now I'm kind
of in the middle of one of those. What I've
(14:24):
learned to do is not to, you know, feel less
than whenever there are lesser things being written about me.
I do exist in an attention economy, and so sometimes
people will say, why would you doing that to get attention? Yeah, no,
that's that's that's literally the truth. Like, that's how I
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make my money, that is that that's how a mortgage
is paid, that's how salaries are paid on my show.
Like if I'm not doing things to get attention, and
it can be as small as getting someone to come
back to the radio show on a Wednesday, or check
out a podcast with a guest that we work hard
to get, or a headline that I have somehow manufactured,
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and it can be any of those levels. Of course,
of course I need attention privately, I don't privately I
require none of this. There are people that will see
me out in places privately and think as that got rude. No,
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I'm just very introverted when it's not time to be
extremely autroverted extroverted, both altrovert and extrovert. So right now,
it's one of those cycles where things are oddly popping
pretty good, to the point where I've had a bunch
of interviews because one kind of starts the snowball and
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it's all downhill. I can tell you the one that
I just did was with Muscle and Fitness magazine. I
think that's what it was. I feel like a jerk
if I'm wrong about that, and I'll correct it. I'm sure,
but I did that that goes out the mirror ball.
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Stuff happens. Then I got a call from the Hollywood
Reporter just because they see other things happening. They did that.
I got a call today from Forbes to do an
interview with them, and then another. So, like anything, I
can literally do nothing and there can be more attention
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on me, just because it is an odd cycle where
sometimes nothing is happening and they're looking for something, and
then sometimes it just hits weird enough to make people care.
But there are people who think that somehow they're insulting
me by going All he does is want attention. Yes,
that's what I have to have, is attention. I exist
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in an attention economy professionally, where if I don't have attention,
I no longer get to have a job. And sometimes
that attention has to be in different places.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Hank Ty, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and
we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Another thing that tells me that things are kind of
popping a little bit is on TikTok, I get fed
Bobby Bones material. It makes sense, that's me, but I
get fed these videos about me sometimes. And when there
are more and more exposing Bobby Bones videos or the
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Truth about Bobby Bones videos, that's when I know things
are going pretty well. The weird thing about the exposing
Bobby Bones videos is it's always the same stuff. I guess.
The expose that has lasted for twenty years is all
the stuff that I have shared a million times over,
so much so that it's not that I don't like
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talking about them, it's that, like I've talked about him
so much, it's like playing that hit over and over
and over again. For an artist has had a number
one song for twenty five years. So it's my story.
But if I only have an hour to do a
podcast and I'm guessing on that, you know, do I
really want to talk for twenty five minutes about my upbringing?
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Not really, unless it's that kind of podcast. I definitely
don't mind talking about it. But exposing Bobby Bones is
always the same thing. Well, it could be two versions
of the same thing. Single mom pregnant at fifteen years old,
dad left him, exposing Bobby Bones. I'm like, dude, that's
a Wednesday segment on our radio show. It's mom was
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a drug addict. Okay, I'm not ashamed of that. So
when you see those, I mean, I don't care if
you engage with them or not. But I saw one
the other day and I was feeling a little messy.
So I went to the comments, and I just want
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to say I appreciate everybody, because every one of the
comments was, what even is this? Bobby's a good guy, Like,
I don't know what people think they can expose of
me anyway, because I am such a freaking loser.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That's the warmth that I have inside of me about
anybody finding anything else else out about me? Is that
there's nothing. I have no fear of anything coming out
because I've been such a loser for so long where
I've only done this. I've worked. I've dedicated myself to podcast,
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radio show, television shows. Heck, I didn't even me and
my wife told I was almost forty. So the good
thing about those exposing Bobby Bones videos is that they're happening.
That means people think I'm popping enough to be exposed,
So I can appreciate that. And for people that write
in the comments, hey, he's a good guy. What the
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heck is this? Like, I appreciate you guys. That's really
kind of you, because occasionally there's somebody who writes all
he does is want attention. You're right, I have to
have it. You watching this right now, it's attention I needed.
I need to exist. Say something else about this channel
if you're watching it on the YouTube channel. So the
real story about this channel is at about February first
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of twenty twenty six, this channel had nineteen thousand subscribers.
We never were very aggressive with our Bobby Cast video.
We shot it, we edited it, we'd put it up.
We'd often get in trouble because we were playing songs
in the middle of interviews and so they'd flag them,
and we just wanted a place for them to be visually,
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for no other reason than just to have it always
to refer back to. But we decided in about February
of this year that we were gonna dedicate ourselves to
that channel, and it was I think it was YouTube
dot com slash Bobbycast. Now we can't put Bobby Casts
up on YouTube anymore because they're on Netflix, and we
sign an exclusive deal with Netflix. So because of that,
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we still have the channel, but we can't put the
Bobbycast up. So what are we gonna do? And I
randomly did this show in the Weeds where I talked
about a lot of the behind the scenes stuff of
the show, and that video hit. Not like one of
these Bailey's Everman videos where Bailey is never sang publicly
and he sings one video and he wakes up in
the morning and it's millions of views and he quits
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his job and goes and becomes a singer and nice
selling out arenas. It was nothing like that. It was
like twelve thousand views. But on YouTube to watch a
video because I can also see how much you guys
watched through it, and I think it was about a
thirty seven minute minute video and the average watch time
was like twenty three minutes of a thirty seven minute
video on YouTube, which is so much of people like
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a high percentage is twenty percent. If you can get
some one to watch twenty percent of your video, that
is considered extremely high on YouTube. And people were watching
sixteen seventy percent of that first episode, and I thought,
I can't believe people want to hear about this. I
can't believe this show and the Weeds is cared about
at all because I'm talking about such inside stuff and like,
let's run with this for a while. We did this show.
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We put up the head games that me and Eddie
and Amy and sometimes an artist would do and hit
one hundred thousand and Brandon and I were dialed in
Brandon's posting three and four shorts. Every day we're watching
those videos that come inside the YouTube tatorial. We're learning
about thumbnails and putting up ab It's two different images
at once and you can choose whichever. So like we're
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studying it hard. It's it actually has given me like
something else to really try for. So the page hits
one hundred thousand. This is about a month or so ago,
and I'm excited because I never got my one hundred
thousand plaque from the Bobby Bone Show and I think
we're getting close to four hundred thousand of the Bobby
Bone Show and I want that plaque. And I don't know.
It's just a silver but to me, it represents a
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lot of hard work that we've done over the past
four or five months. It meant a lot to me.
And so got the plaque in the mail and it's
not really a plaque. It's a piece of wood, but
it doesn't matter. It's all about what it is more
so than actually what it's made of, like what it
stands for. And so I posted a picture of it
and some people are like, oh, welcome to the club finally, man,
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And it's hard for me not to go no, not finally,
Like I'm already in the club, but I just didn't
get the plaque for the first one. By that being said,
in the time that I had to like register to
get the plaque and then it got to my house,
We're already at two hundred thousand subscribers. We've doubled up
in like three weeks. So I'm so appreciative to everyone
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who goes to at Bobby Bone's channel and hit subscribe there,
because yeah, this show shouldn't be popular or watched. At
least I don't think it should be because I don't
really think people care about this content, but obviously you
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guys do, and I sincerely, sincerely, sincerely thank you for that.
You know, one of the things when it comes to content,
even this video, if you go back to the very beginning,
you have to start the content with exactly the hottest,
most sensational first few seconds you can possibly nail. This
goes for segments on my radio show. This goes for
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the very beginning of this YouTube video when it started.
I don't come on and go, hey, everybody, welcome to
In the Weeds. I'm your host, Bobby Bones and on
this episode because I know, again, if we go to
attention economy and we're living in it and we take
from it, you're gonna give me about four or five seconds,
especially if you've never seen the video. So what I
started with whenever we started this video was here's the
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truth about that Taylor Swift video kind of and here's
my friend who's being screwed over by the Internet. So
my hope for you, and I think a lot of
you know this anyway, is if you're doing a radio show,
every freaking segment that you start, we don't give a
crap who you are. If we don't know you, we
don't care who you are. Entertain us or tell us
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how you're gonna entertain us. In the first three seconds.
If you're starting a YouTube channel, in the first five seconds,
say something and talk about something, and let me know
what you're about to talk about, it's going to be
so interesting because if you go through the whole process
of hey, welcome, let's do some introductions here and go
around the room, I'm out. I don't care. It's why
they don't do TV theme songs anymore. Like think about
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back when we were kids and television shows hit as
soon as that thing would come on, and they were great,
great songs. But as soon as that thing would come on,
you take the good, you take the bad, you take
them all, and there you have the facts. A lot.
I can sing the whole song's sixty three seconds of
a song that bump's pretty good about two d and Blair.
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But if that happened today we would change the channel
because we're not gonna sit through the theme song. Even now,
theme songs that exist inside of these streaming shows. They'll
play you ten minutes of the show first, throw the
song on, and give you the option to skip the song,
which is crazy because back in the day, show me
that smile, Louggain, show me that smile. So to everybody
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out there making content or thinking about making content, if
you don't hit them in the balls in the first
three seconds with something they're gonna care about, they're out
of there. So welcome to In the Weeds shows. Almo's
over this episode, but welcome to In the Weeds. I'm
your host, Bobby Bones, and we talk about stuff that
probably wouldn't talk about anywhere else that nobody else should
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care about. So I need you to start your content
with fire. People at times will get onto me for
pre recording some segments on the radio show, for example,
tell me something goods. I don't get on Facebook a lot,
but when I do, I often am checking on my niece,
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my sister, that type thing. And I do follow the
B Team Facebook page and that'll pop up. And I
saw people upset because we were in different clothes when
we were doing tell Me Something Goods, and it was
the show is just not the same. They're pre recording
tell Me Something Goods, And you're absolutely right. And for
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you to even know that, I appreciate because that means
you're paying attention to what clothes we're wearing and if
it doesn't match other days clothes, and like even if
you're mad, like I can appreciate you caring so much
that that bothers you. But what I like to say again,
and this is only in the weeds here, a couple
things happen with that segment tell Me Something Good. One
affiliates won it the day before so they can feature
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it on their stations the next day. So a lot
of times when we're doing the individual segments, we do
record them the day before because different cities, different affiliates
want to feature that segment, which is one of our
highest rated testing segments, on their station all day. And
if we send it to them the day of, some
of them wouldn't get it till late at night or
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the afternoon, and it's a whole mess. If we can
have it ready for them the morning when the show
starts and they can play it from the sign up
to sundown. If that's the thing, that's what they want,
So that's what we do. So when you say that
it's a lack of understanding, but I understand why there's
a lack of understanding because I never really felt the
need to share that other times, and I haven't felt
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the need to share this either. But if we're just
gonna be fully transparent here, last week, there were a
couple of days where we recorded multiple tell Me Something
goods at once because Eddie's mom had surgery. He wasn't
going to be able to be in lunch Blox, had
some kids stuff. He wasn't going to be able to
be in for part of the show. I don't want
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to do a show where they're not there. It'll feel weird.
So you know what we do. We record them so
they can exist in that show. So they have a
presence in every or most shows. So that's the reason
sometimes that you will see different clothes at different times.
There are other times, and I mentioned when Eddie and
(29:19):
I were called, say, hey, we needed to go down
to Palm Beach, go hang out with some clients, play
golf with them. They wanted me to go speak at
an event and all that was great, but they needed
me there in the morning during the show. I am
not going to allow a rerun if I can help it.
I want you guys to have new content. And so
that's exactly what we did. We stayed and on the
(29:43):
afternoon before that show, we recorded a whole different show.
And if that feels like it's lying, I think I'm
okay with it because we don't scream we're live. We
just scream it's new, and it is new. And by
the way, if you're watching this right now, well, and
I hope this doesn't scare you when I say it,
I'm not live to you right now, right now, I'm
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not live to you. I recorded this so is and
you can tell when we're live. We're live every morning.
I don't do artist interviews live anymore. Never. They never
want to be there in the morning, and even if
they act like they do, they're a little tired and
I don't think it puts them in the best light.
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So we never do artist interviews live. Tell me something
goods most of the time. Most of the time they're
not a day of on the long form, they are
because we do that podcast every single day. We do personal.
So that's us up. And I understand white people complain,
and I can appreciate them complaining because that means you're
paying attention. And again I'm in an attention economy, so
(30:47):
thank you for paying attention. But I do believe you
deserve to know the truth, and that's the truth. So
with that being said, I want to thank you all
for watching this and for grow this channel. All my
little weed eaters out there, you're just eating the weeds
up if you got this far in the video, as
off and say down to the comments section, right, stay weedy.
(31:13):
It literally means nothing, but we say that like eventually
it can mean something. It can mean something like stay vigilant.
I like that. Stay weedy mean stay vigilant and don't
believe everything you read on the internet, and don't believe
everything that people say if there's no way to actually
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fact check them, or just don't believe them until they
fact checked. So stay weedy. Go to the comments type
in stay weedy. I love it. I try to like
as many as I can. You know, it's funny as
I called you guys weed eaters, and I've never actually
thought of that before. I appreciate all you weed eaters.
I'd be a funny merch hat having sold merchandiars, but
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that'd be a funny merch at. That's what's up. Thank you.
We will see you guys next time. We do this
here on this channel, at Bobby Bone's channel, unless you're
listening on podcasts, then go over to YouTube inscribed to
at Bobby Bone channel and at Bobby Bone Show and
we'll see you next time. Everybody, stay weedy. I care
about you deeply. Thank you for doing the same.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Bye, guys, hang ty the Bobby Cast. We'll be right
back and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Thank you everybody for listening to that. But while I
have you, I want to share this clip from the
upload with Brooke Taylor and Meghan Patrick is on with Brooke.
I'm a big Meghan Patrick fan. I think you'll like this.
If you like this podcast, go and search for the
upload and hit subscribe. But Brooke and Meghan talk about
childhood wounds that inspired some of them music and how
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that became part of our god given purpose to help others. Again,
if you like this, go and check out the upload
with Brooke Taylor. You can listen to all these episodes.
She has such a great job. We'd love it if
you subscribe. So here you go. It's Brooke Taylor and
the upload with Megan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
The people that hurt us the most, that affect us,
the most, that abuse us are our own family, are
the people closest to us, and the people who are
supposed to protect us, the people who are supposed to
show us what unconditional love is. I think the big change,
in the big shift came when I wrote Blood from
a Stone.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
That was ill advised, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
It's uncomfortable for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It's dark and it's painful, and it's uncomfortable for you know,
especially in country music, where I feel like in canon
like mothers are revered. There's a million songs about love
and mama in country music, and that's great. That just
wasn't my experience, and I felt and I know that
that's not the experience of a lot.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Of people out there.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
And the reality is is that sometimes the people that
hurt us the most, that affect us the most, that
abuse us are our own family, are the people closest
to us, and the people who are supposed to protect us,
the people who.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Are supposed to show us what unconditional love is.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
That was God for me. And I didn't grow up
with that.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I didn't have I mean, I know that now that
he was always there, but I wasn't acknowledging him. I
didn't even know that he existed. That wasn't even something
that was presented to me as a child.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
And I had to also. When I wrote that song,
it was very just.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
It just came out.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I just I walked into that room that day and
it was like there was no other song I could write,
and it was.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
I tried one of my co writers, Emilie.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
She had this idea.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
It was something about a truck, and we were trying
to write it and I finally was like.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Guys, listen, this is what's going on.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And I just poured my heart out to them and
I was like, you know, I wrote some lyrics, and
I mean, I was shaking as I was even it
was the first time I ever even said a lot
of these things out loud.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Let alone try and like write a song about it.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
And I just read out all of these lyrics and
she looked at me and she goes, are you kidding me?
And you were gonna let us write a song? About
a truck and she's like, we're writing that.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And Karen and Emily they treated that session with so
much care and compassion and gave me all of the
space and support to say what I needed to say.
And then after I wrote it, it was very cathartic,
but it was scary too, because it was like, whew, Okay,
it's out there now, Like it's those feelings that I
have bottled up for thirty something thirty five years are
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now immortalized in a song.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
And I did not hold back.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
It was extremely honest, and then I had to really
figure out in my head, Okay, well.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Why did I write this song?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
And if I put it out, I have to recognize
like there might be, you know, some people might not
like it. It might create some problems for me, and I
have to be prepared to talk about.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
This and understand.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
You know, my own motivations behind releasing this, and where
I landed was I'm not doing this out of spite.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
I'm not doing this to hurt my mother.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I'm doing this because it's the truth. I'm doing it
because I think there are other people who will benefit
from hearing it, who will heal from hearing it, who
will feel validated by hearing someone else say out loud
the thing they've always felt too ashamed to say out loud.
And I mean, shame will kill everything good that God
has for you. That is a low frequency feeling, and
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that is something that we, like biblically are We've already
been forgiven for all of the things that we carry
shame for. Once I wrote that, it was like, well,
if I can say that, if I can do that,
then I can do anything else I can.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
I can say anything.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
And it just changed my whole perspective on how I
wanted to write songs.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
And it's it's still hard. It's still hard to sell that.
It's hard to commodify for sure.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
The kind of songs that I that I want to
and I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going
to like it or not.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
This is my job. It's how I pay the bills,
you know. I do have to.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Make money, you know, and I'm still figuring out how
I'm going to do that in an industry that does
not really value what I'm trying to say or what
I'm trying to do.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
That's where I'm like, Okay, I just have to give
that to God, I have to keep.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Doing and writing what he's calling me to do and
calling me to.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Write, and have faith that he will make away as
he always does, you know, and he will help me
find the right people and find the right opportunities and
find the right avenues. It's just it's a longer road.
It's a longer road. It's a harder road.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
And my whole career has been that so well.
Speaker 6 (37:42):
And I just feel like too, it's such a redemptive
thing because there's so much that people, I feel like,
misconstrue about being a Christian. Right They're like, oh, your
life is perfect. You've never get through anything hard, you know.
And it's not that they mean ill will or anything.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
It's just because you ever read the Bible. Have you
read about any of the people in the Bible? Please?
Have you heard jobs?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Have you heard a joke?
Speaker 6 (38:03):
But it's like, you know, there's so much damage and
so much hurt and so much pain that happens, truly
when you're in a valley, when you're in the pit
and you are on your knees and you're like, I've
got nothing else and God is just like You've got
me yep, And how comforting that is, and knowing that
you don't have to strive for his love, like we
talked about earlier, You don't have to do anything to
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make him love you. He just needs your yes. Like
that's all he's asking for is your yes. And through
all of the hard things that you went through growing up,
and through all of you know, the nose in the
industry and all of the things happening, it's just like
your story is such a redemptive one because it's just
like God is going to use all of these things,
and He already has to not just heal you, but
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you're healing others. And I think it's such a cool
thing that you're doing. And it's just like you're like,
it's not about me, And like you said, you have
that box of all of these people that have said, hey,
guess what, this has helped me. Yeah, And even if
it's just for them, how cool that God would give
you a gift and say, sister, we're gonna put snowboarding
on hold, You're going to do music, and we're going
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to give you an avenue to help the least of these.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
It is a beautiful path and a beautiful gift, and
it's challenging sometimes to remind myself of it's so easy
to forget the impact that I do have. Sometimes, it's
so easy to downplay the weight of that and the
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importance of that, because.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
You know, we live in a world where and I work.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
In an industry where we are constantly confronted with the
highlight reel, the best of the best, like the elite
of you know, the artists who are blowing up and
all of a sudden, they're selling out arenas and selling
out stadiums and breaking records and winning this award and
winning that award, and they they've got more money than
they even know what to do with.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
And it's like and.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
You're being compared to that, you're being held against that.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
In your own mind right.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
For sure, but also within the people that work around you,
like they are like, well, so and so did this,
and especially as a woman, because they love to make
us feel like there can only be one at a time.
And if you can't, you know, if you aren't the
girl that everybody's talking about, well you're out of luck,
you know. And it's it's ridiculous because I actually would
(40:30):
argue that of all of the new artists right now,
coming up in country music, the class of female talent,
it surpasses anything, and yet we're being made to feel
like there's only room for one of us. And that's
a whole other conversation. But it's challenging to sometimes stay
focused on what my path is when I'm you know,
(40:50):
always comparing, and you know that that's saying like comparison
is the is the thief of joy. And I was
actually listening to this podcast this morning, The Deep End
with Taylor Welch, and they were talking about like the
curse of jealousy and envy and how that is one
of the most powerful things the enemy uses to destroy
those of us who are who have a path, who
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are meant to be out here to help others, to
heal others. And it's true because it takes my mind
off of what my real calling is and what my
real path is, and it gets me worrying about what
everybody else is doing. Well, that's not my path, Megan,
that's not what's for you. If it was for you,
you'd have it. And you know it's I just try
(41:35):
and be mindful, like you said, of getting out of
my own head and thinking about myself and thinking about
how I'm perceived by the fans and the other people
who are who are watching me, and remember that I
am presenting an alternate, I guess like success story in
a way that I'm not twenty two. I'm going to
(41:56):
be thirty nine in like two weeks, and just now
after over fifteen I mean, really, if you count from
my first ever band, over twenty years have I been
doing this and chasing this and just now have my
first breakthrough at radio here with Golden Child, and just
now feeling like all these things are happening, and just
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now being blessed with having a baby, and that is
and everybody. I hope that other women and other people
who are striving and feeling like they're behind and not
where they should be as per what the media is
telling them. I hope that when they see me, they
realize like they're on their own path and whenever they
get to where they're going, that's the exact timing that
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was meant for them, and that everything that happens is
God preparing for them to be in the right place
at the right time.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
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Speaker 2 (42:47):
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to advertise us
There's somebody that I know, or at least i've met her,
and we follow each other on socials. Her name is
Kate and Chork's barstool, and she's getting crushed online right
now and kind of a meme. And at the beginning
of it, it's her. It's Kate going, man, what do
women in their thirties even do if they don't have kids?
And then it's a bunch of women after that that
are in their thirties that don't have kids, doing all
(00:29):
these really cool things like traveling, eating fine food. And
so they're mostly making this video to show Kate that
she was really wrong to say that. And when they
do that and they STIPs that, it kind of makes
Kate look like a jerk, except it just wasn't that
at all, And I feel so bad for Kate when
I see this. So they were doing basically a sketch,
(00:54):
and the sketch was Kate saying that, and then it
was another girl every time she would say that, do
something completely awesome who was in her thirties, But they
only cut out the part of Kate saying, man, women
in the thirties even do without kids, And they definitely
did not leave on the back part of the joke
(01:15):
where it was her friend making fun of Kate. And
so she's just getting torched online right now, and I
feel bad for her, but she's in media. It sucks,
but I think she gets it, but so out of context.
There is a clip that I almost never talk about
because I don't want the lore of it to go away,
(01:35):
and I do love the engagement. And it's a clip
of probably twenty fourteen or so, when Taylor Swift was
in our studio and she had come on the show
a few times back in the day before she had
moved to New York. And the clip that they show
is some cookies and I'm gonna tell you about I
haven't watched the clip in years, but people always get
(01:59):
mad at me for the clip, and so I end
up on Taylor Swift fan pages or Instagram like what
a jerk? What a jerk. I've even seen when they've
done different clip sets of like celebrities being mean to
Taylor Swift and they cut this part of that interview,
which obviously was joking, but not only that, And I
don't care to defend or describe, but if people only
(02:23):
knew what was happening, like around that in that interview.
After the interview, it just shows you that just because
it exists does not mean it's real. And many, many,
many times things are taken out of context, so one,
don't defend me on the tailor clip. I like for
it to exist because it gives me a lot of
(02:44):
engagement on stuff. Because sometimes I'll post a picture of
like me and a dog, and someone that's seen that
clip will go, I hope your dog dies because you're
rude to Taylor Swift now, and as mean as that is,
the more comments I get, the more engagement the algorithm
lifts it up. So if you see the you know,
the kind of meme clip of Kate or just a
(03:06):
woman going what do women in the thirties even do
if they don't have kids? Just know that clip was
taken with absolutely no context. And you know what we
do on this show, we don't believe anything we see
on the internet. Now. A couple episodes ago, I told
you guys about the Billions Club, and I've really been
doing the math here and I don't think that I've
(03:28):
hit a billion streams because I thought it might be
close that. I mean fifty million streams for twenty years.
I've been podcasting for twenty three years, and in the
early days there just wasn't an audience. And if we
only did it based on today, I think I just
think we're probably a year or two away from literally
(03:49):
being in the Billions Club. But what I said in
the last episode or two was, I'm just going to
post this and it's just a reminder, don't believe every
single thing that you see on the Internet, because anybody
can write anything. So either just scroll past it and
it's water off a ducts back, or if you believe it,
if you're affected by it, if it hurts your feelings,
(04:10):
if it makes you happier, said, just do one Google search,
especially when it comes to politics, especially when it comes
to statistics that people are reciting. My only goal with
kind of this exercise was to remind you, guys, just
because it's on the Internet, or just because it says
research says, if they're not showing you, if you're not
(04:33):
doing just one search for it. I don't believe it.
Hey don't believe anything I do or say. I want
you to research stuff that I do or say, because
I'd be such a hypocrite if I was like don't
believe anything except me. But seriously, you guys can't believe me,
but you shouldn't, but you can. I promise another thing
when it comes to believing stuff on the internet is
(04:54):
I'm going to go back a few episodes to when
Stella Lefty was on the Bobby Cast, and I've talked
about that here a couple of times where that is
not nepotism because you're rich does not mean nepotism. And
I would see people on TikTok Go man i'sol the
video of Bobby Bone stand still left you wasn't nepotism,
But how can you say that when your dad's so rich?
(05:16):
And I would say a songwriter or two say that,
I'm going do you guys even know words? Aren't you songwriters?
Shouldn't you know words like look up a word? Know
the difference in the two? So a little data that
I'd like to share with you, feel free to fact
check in all my socials. One of the things that
folks say about Stella Lefty and she has that song
on a train bag in Boston, Jimson zaminam do Massive.
(05:41):
That's been a Billboard Top five song for weeks now.
She has a new album coming out, by the way,
and one of the things that people claim is that
since her family had money, her dad bought all these bots,
and that's the only way that she's getting any sort
of engagement as bots. Her dad and for any of
my social media, I've never met her dad. If you
(06:03):
go when you look at the segments that she's in
on my social media, you will see hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of streams in plays of those segments, like
my through line of for it to be mid probably
one hundred thousand. Like if he hits one hundred thousand,
I'm like, that is a pretty good one. The stuff
that she's in a mind million, six hundred thousand, four
(06:26):
hundred thousand, three hundred and fifty thousand. So for everyone
that's going, it's all paid for. I didn't get paid.
I would love to get paid. I saw somebody else
it's one of these guys and anybody can just get
on TikTok. But I think he's a songwriter too, saying
Yobia Bones is the system. The system freaking hates me
because I don't put on all the artists that are
just on a label for the sake of them being
(06:47):
on a label. The system hates my guts. So whatever
the Nashville system is that is ignoring you. They dislike me.
They can't really ignore me right now, but they this
like me. So I have not been paid. I will
say this though, if anybody's watching that wants to pay
me to promote those videos with Stell Lefty, I will
(07:09):
gladly take your money. I will accept it fully. But
most of the time people just don't know what they're
talking about. I didn't see there was a job posting
online for Morgan's job on my radio show. Now, I'm
not sure why there was a job posting online. As
a matter of fact, I didn't see the actual posting.
(07:30):
I just had people reaching out to me about the
job because they saw it posted. And again, I know nothing.
I'm not hr. I don't think we need anybody, and
so people keep hitting me up for that job. And
I'm not going to say this on the actual show feed,
but we don't need anybody. I definitely don't want another
(07:52):
person in the room because, as I've said before, I
think we have too many voices in the room anyway,
and I'm doing some of the social media. Yeah, everybody's
pitching in a little bit. We have a company that's
helping us do some thumbnails and it's going great and
we're growing like we haven't in a long time. And
so if you see a posting or anybody talking about
(08:13):
it posting, thank you so much for like caring enough
to reach out. But since I can't reply to every
one of my dms or see them all, they're as
far as I know, there is no job that we
are filling unless we are and I don't know about it,
and that would suck. Then that would really suck at
(08:39):
some point, would we I don't know. I know we
don't need another personality. We do need someone to do
social but we have some people that we've hired now
and maybe that posting was actually that someone saw that
we ended up hiring that team. It's like a company
to do it. But I know nothing about it, literally nothing,
(09:00):
And I'm not interviewing anybody, And as far as I know,
and I'm concerned, we don't need anybody because what we
have going right now is working really well. So I
appreciate by reaching out this is the one way that
I can share that without responding to everyone. I get
a lot of questions and I think I've addressed this
a couple of times on if I have artists on
(09:23):
the show whose music I don't care for and that
answer is yes, or who I don't care for personally
and that answer is no, So I don't have to
get it to be interested in it or to think
that our audience will like it. Like there are artists
that I have on that actually kind of liked people.
(09:44):
I don't know them super well, but their music's not
my thing. And if somebody's music is not my thing,
I'm definitely not going to keep them from being on
the show, especially if I think my audience likes them,
or they can have memusic that I'm like, Ah, I
don't know if I get it or not, but they
tell great stories and they sell a bunch of shows,
(10:06):
so people must care about them. So the answer to
that is I will have an artist and if I
don't get their music or like their music, and that's
happened a bunch of times, I would say for me personally, though,
there's just a style of music that I that I like,
and I don't think that that is populist. I think
(10:26):
that I like slow acoustic. I mean, you can say
Zach Bryan John Mayer type stuff, and that stuff doesn't
get played on the radio a lot. But that's okay.
That's not my job to bring in people whose music
that I love. I would say seventy five percent of
the people that come in, I'm not going to be
(10:47):
listening to their music once they leave the studio, And
that's okay, because it's not my job to listen to
everybody's music. But I can understand why they're liked. On
the other side, like they are a couple artists that
I just I'm not going to have on the show,
and one of them that I'm not having it on
the shows because they are mean to Aim. There's literally
one artist that was rude to Amy at a place
that wasn't a workplace, meaning this artist wasn't able to
(11:11):
differentiate Amy from the show to this person. He just
thought it was a random person and they were. They
were very rude to Amy. And it's the only time
Amy has ever said anything to me about it. And
she definitely did not say keep this person off the show,
but she said, hey, do you know so and so,
And I say a little bit just from around town
(11:32):
or professional events. She said, they're really, really rude to
me and to other people where we were, and that's
all I needed to hear. Heck, I like that even
less than if they were somebody was rude to me.
So yeah, somebody that was really awful to Amy is
not allowed on the show, and they don't know, They
(11:55):
probably don't even care. Honestly, Again, it's not like everybody's
way outside of our doors, just beating on them trying
to get in. There are a lot of places you
can go, a lot of studios you can get into.
You know, are they all the same weight right now? No?
But in the year, who even knows what's going to
(12:17):
be happening with us? Who even knows what I'll be
doing in a year. At this point, I'm tired. But
I don't have to like the music to have people on.
I do have to not dislike you to have you on.
And there aren't a lot of those, just a couple,
but one specifically that was really mean to Amy. Another
(12:40):
weird thing that's been happening is I record this right now.
All these stories are popping up about me getting the
mirror ball back, and it's interesting because I do have
a Google search on myself and I don't it's not
an ego thing, but it's like anytime my name pops up,
I get an email, which does sound like an ego thing.
(13:00):
But mostly I just want to make sure that whatever
is being written about me, that I'm being portrayed accurately,
and that they're right about what they're writing, and they
are ninety five percent of the time. And so I
posted the picture of me and the mirror ball. Didn't
know if anybody would care. Mostly we just posting it
for you guys, And if you guys watch this, you
know you know I was gonna post it. And it's
(13:21):
pop and pop and pop and pop U pop, and
I think thirteen different legitimate sites have picked it up.
What's weird is I've been through this enough that there
are cycles of like kind of when I'm popping in
cycles when I'm not. And I've been through seven or
eight at this point, meaning there are times where the
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show does great and it feels like nothing I do
gets picked up by anything. Now I can probably make
a headline if I want to. I choose not to
because I don't want to be that guy. But do
I feel like I could easily just do or say something,
feed it out there and make the news. Absolutely, I've
done it before. I rarely do it, though, because I
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don't want to be the guy that's always begging for
attention in places where the attention really doesn't matter. Then
there are times where I can do almost nothing and
things will just start hitting. And right now I'm kind
of in the middle of one of those. What I've
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learned to do is not to, you know, feel less
than whenever there are lesser things being written about me.
I do exist in an attention economy, and so sometimes
people will say, why would you doing that to get attention? Yeah, no,
that's that's that's literally the truth. Like, that's how I
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make my money, that is that that's how a mortgage
is paid, that's how salaries are paid on my show.
Like if I'm not doing things to get attention, and
it can be as small as getting someone to come
back to the radio show on a Wednesday, or check
out a podcast with a guest that we work hard
to get, or a headline that I have somehow manufactured,
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and it can be any of those levels. Of course,
of course I need attention privately, I don't privately I
require none of this. There are people that will see
me out in places privately and think as that got rude. No,
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I'm just very introverted when it's not time to be
extremely autroverted extroverted, both altrovert and extrovert. So right now,
it's one of those cycles where things are oddly popping
pretty good, to the point where I've had a bunch
of interviews because one kind of starts the snowball and
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it's all downhill. I can tell you the one that
I just did was with Muscle and Fitness magazine. I
think that's what it was. I feel like a jerk
if I'm wrong about that, and I'll correct it. I'm sure,
but I did that that goes out the mirror ball.
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Stuff happens. Then I got a call from the Hollywood
Reporter just because they see other things happening. They did that.
I got a call today from Forbes to do an
interview with them, and then another. So, like anything, I
can literally do nothing and there can be more attention
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on me, just because it is an odd cycle where
sometimes nothing is happening and they're looking for something, and
then sometimes it just hits weird enough to make people care.
But there are people who think that somehow they're insulting
me by going All he does is want attention. Yes,
that's what I have to have, is attention. I exist
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in an attention economy professionally, where if I don't have attention,
I no longer get to have a job. And sometimes
that attention has to be in different places.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Hank Ty, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and
we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Another thing that tells me that things are kind of
popping a little bit is on TikTok, I get fed
Bobby Bones material. It makes sense, that's me, but I
get fed these videos about me sometimes. And when there
are more and more exposing Bobby Bones videos or the
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Truth about Bobby Bones videos, that's when I know things
are going pretty well. The weird thing about the exposing
Bobby Bones videos is it's always the same stuff. I guess.
The expose that has lasted for twenty years is all
the stuff that I have shared a million times over,
so much so that it's not that I don't like
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talking about them, it's that, like I've talked about him
so much, it's like playing that hit over and over
and over again. For an artist has had a number
one song for twenty five years. So it's my story.
But if I only have an hour to do a
podcast and I'm guessing on that, you know, do I
really want to talk for twenty five minutes about my upbringing?
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Not really, unless it's that kind of podcast. I definitely
don't mind talking about it. But exposing Bobby Bones is
always the same thing. Well, it could be two versions
of the same thing. Single mom pregnant at fifteen years old,
dad left him, exposing Bobby Bones. I'm like, dude, that's
a Wednesday segment on our radio show. It's mom was
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a drug addict. Okay, I'm not ashamed of that. So
when you see those, I mean, I don't care if
you engage with them or not. But I saw one
the other day and I was feeling a little messy.
So I went to the comments, and I just want
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to say I appreciate everybody, because every one of the
comments was, what even is this? Bobby's a good guy, Like,
I don't know what people think they can expose of
me anyway, because I am such a freaking loser.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That's the warmth that I have inside of me about
anybody finding anything else else out about me? Is that
there's nothing. I have no fear of anything coming out
because I've been such a loser for so long where
I've only done this. I've worked. I've dedicated myself to podcast,
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radio show, television shows. Heck, I didn't even me and
my wife told I was almost forty. So the good
thing about those exposing Bobby Bones videos is that they're happening.
That means people think I'm popping enough to be exposed,
So I can appreciate that. And for people that write
in the comments, hey, he's a good guy. What the
(20:08):
heck is this? Like, I appreciate you guys. That's really
kind of you, because occasionally there's somebody who writes all
he does is want attention. You're right, I have to
have it. You watching this right now, it's attention I needed.
I need to exist. Say something else about this channel
if you're watching it on the YouTube channel. So the
real story about this channel is at about February first
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of twenty twenty six, this channel had nineteen thousand subscribers.
We never were very aggressive with our Bobby Cast video.
We shot it, we edited it, we'd put it up.
We'd often get in trouble because we were playing songs
in the middle of interviews and so they'd flag them,
and we just wanted a place for them to be visually,
(20:52):
for no other reason than just to have it always
to refer back to. But we decided in about February
of this year that we were gonna dedicate ourselves to
that channel, and it was I think it was YouTube
dot com slash Bobbycast. Now we can't put Bobby Casts
up on YouTube anymore because they're on Netflix, and we
sign an exclusive deal with Netflix. So because of that,
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we still have the channel, but we can't put the
Bobbycast up. So what are we gonna do? And I
randomly did this show in the Weeds where I talked
about a lot of the behind the scenes stuff of
the show, and that video hit. Not like one of
these Bailey's Everman videos where Bailey is never sang publicly
and he sings one video and he wakes up in
the morning and it's millions of views and he quits
(21:36):
his job and goes and becomes a singer and nice
selling out arenas. It was nothing like that. It was
like twelve thousand views. But on YouTube to watch a
video because I can also see how much you guys
watched through it, and I think it was about a
thirty seven minute minute video and the average watch time
was like twenty three minutes of a thirty seven minute
video on YouTube, which is so much of people like
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a high percentage is twenty percent. If you can get
some one to watch twenty percent of your video, that
is considered extremely high on YouTube. And people were watching
sixteen seventy percent of that first episode, and I thought,
I can't believe people want to hear about this. I
can't believe this show and the Weeds is cared about
at all because I'm talking about such inside stuff and like,
let's run with this for a while. We did this show.
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We put up the head games that me and Eddie
and Amy and sometimes an artist would do and hit
one hundred thousand and Brandon and I were dialed in
Brandon's posting three and four shorts. Every day we're watching
those videos that come inside the YouTube tatorial. We're learning
about thumbnails and putting up ab It's two different images
at once and you can choose whichever. So like we're
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studying it hard. It's it actually has given me like
something else to really try for. So the page hits
one hundred thousand. This is about a month or so ago,
and I'm excited because I never got my one hundred
thousand plaque from the Bobby Bone Show and I think
we're getting close to four hundred thousand of the Bobby
Bone Show and I want that plaque. And I don't know.
It's just a silver but to me, it represents a
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lot of hard work that we've done over the past
four or five months. It meant a lot to me.
And so got the plaque in the mail and it's
not really a plaque. It's a piece of wood, but
it doesn't matter. It's all about what it is more
so than actually what it's made of, like what it
stands for. And so I posted a picture of it
and some people are like, oh, welcome to the club finally, man,
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And it's hard for me not to go no, not finally,
Like I'm already in the club, but I just didn't
get the plaque for the first one. By that being said,
in the time that I had to like register to
get the plaque and then it got to my house,
We're already at two hundred thousand subscribers. We've doubled up
in like three weeks. So I'm so appreciative to everyone
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who goes to at Bobby Bone's channel and hit subscribe there,
because yeah, this show shouldn't be popular or watched. At
least I don't think it should be because I don't
really think people care about this content, but obviously you
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guys do, and I sincerely, sincerely, sincerely thank you for that.
You know, one of the things when it comes to content,
even this video, if you go back to the very beginning,
you have to start the content with exactly the hottest,
most sensational first few seconds you can possibly nail. This
goes for segments on my radio show. This goes for
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the very beginning of this YouTube video when it started.
I don't come on and go, hey, everybody, welcome to
In the Weeds. I'm your host, Bobby Bones and on
this episode because I know, again, if we go to
attention economy and we're living in it and we take
from it, you're gonna give me about four or five seconds,
especially if you've never seen the video. So what I
started with whenever we started this video was here's the
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truth about that Taylor Swift video kind of and here's
my friend who's being screwed over by the Internet. So
my hope for you, and I think a lot of
you know this anyway, is if you're doing a radio show,
every freaking segment that you start, we don't give a
crap who you are. If we don't know you, we
don't care who you are. Entertain us or tell us
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how you're gonna entertain us. In the first three seconds.
If you're starting a YouTube channel, in the first five seconds,
say something and talk about something, and let me know
what you're about to talk about, it's going to be
so interesting because if you go through the whole process
of hey, welcome, let's do some introductions here and go
around the room, I'm out. I don't care. It's why
they don't do TV theme songs anymore. Like think about
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back when we were kids and television shows hit as
soon as that thing would come on, and they were great,
great songs. But as soon as that thing would come on,
you take the good, you take the bad, you take
them all, and there you have the facts. A lot.
I can sing the whole song's sixty three seconds of
a song that bump's pretty good about two d and Blair.
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But if that happened today we would change the channel
because we're not gonna sit through the theme song. Even now,
theme songs that exist inside of these streaming shows. They'll
play you ten minutes of the show first, throw the
song on, and give you the option to skip the song,
which is crazy because back in the day, show me
that smile, Louggain, show me that smile. So to everybody
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out there making content or thinking about making content, if
you don't hit them in the balls in the first
three seconds with something they're gonna care about, they're out
of there. So welcome to In the Weeds shows. Almo's
over this episode, but welcome to In the Weeds. I'm
your host, Bobby Bones, and we talk about stuff that
probably wouldn't talk about anywhere else that nobody else should
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care about. So I need you to start your content
with fire. People at times will get onto me for
pre recording some segments on the radio show, for example,
tell me something goods. I don't get on Facebook a lot,
but when I do, I often am checking on my niece,
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my sister, that type thing. And I do follow the
B Team Facebook page and that'll pop up. And I
saw people upset because we were in different clothes when
we were doing tell Me Something Goods, and it was
the show is just not the same. They're pre recording
tell Me Something Goods, And you're absolutely right. And for
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you to even know that, I appreciate because that means
you're paying attention to what clothes we're wearing and if
it doesn't match other days clothes, and like even if
you're mad, like I can appreciate you caring so much
that that bothers you. But what I like to say again,
and this is only in the weeds here, a couple
things happen with that segment tell Me Something Good. One
affiliates won it the day before so they can feature
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it on their stations the next day. So a lot
of times when we're doing the individual segments, we do
record them the day before because different cities, different affiliates
want to feature that segment, which is one of our
highest rated testing segments, on their station all day. And
if we send it to them the day of, some
of them wouldn't get it till late at night or
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the afternoon, and it's a whole mess. If we can
have it ready for them the morning when the show
starts and they can play it from the sign up
to sundown. If that's the thing, that's what they want,
So that's what we do. So when you say that
it's a lack of understanding, but I understand why there's
a lack of understanding because I never really felt the
need to share that other times, and I haven't felt
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the need to share this either. But if we're just
gonna be fully transparent here, last week, there were a
couple of days where we recorded multiple tell Me Something
goods at once because Eddie's mom had surgery. He wasn't
going to be able to be in lunch Blox, had
some kids stuff. He wasn't going to be able to
be in for part of the show. I don't want
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to do a show where they're not there. It'll feel weird.
So you know what we do. We record them so
they can exist in that show. So they have a
presence in every or most shows. So that's the reason
sometimes that you will see different clothes at different times.
There are other times, and I mentioned when Eddie and
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I were called, say, hey, we needed to go down
to Palm Beach, go hang out with some clients, play
golf with them. They wanted me to go speak at
an event and all that was great, but they needed
me there in the morning during the show. I am
not going to allow a rerun if I can help it.
I want you guys to have new content. And so
that's exactly what we did. We stayed and on the
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afternoon before that show, we recorded a whole different show.
And if that feels like it's lying, I think I'm
okay with it because we don't scream we're live. We
just scream it's new, and it is new. And by
the way, if you're watching this right now, well, and
I hope this doesn't scare you when I say it,
I'm not live to you right now, right now, I'm
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not live to you. I recorded this so is and
you can tell when we're live. We're live every morning.
I don't do artist interviews live anymore. Never. They never
want to be there in the morning, and even if
they act like they do, they're a little tired and
I don't think it puts them in the best light.
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So we never do artist interviews live. Tell me something
goods most of the time. Most of the time they're
not a day of on the long form, they are
because we do that podcast every single day. We do personal.
So that's us up. And I understand white people complain,
and I can appreciate them complaining because that means you're
paying attention. And again I'm in an attention economy, so
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thank you for paying attention. But I do believe you
deserve to know the truth, and that's the truth. So
with that being said, I want to thank you all
for watching this and for grow this channel. All my
little weed eaters out there, you're just eating the weeds
up if you got this far in the video, as
off and say down to the comments section, right, stay weedy.
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It literally means nothing, but we say that like eventually
it can mean something. It can mean something like stay vigilant.
I like that. Stay weedy mean stay vigilant and don't
believe everything you read on the internet, and don't believe
everything that people say if there's no way to actually
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fact check them, or just don't believe them until they
fact checked. So stay weedy. Go to the comments type
in stay weedy. I love it. I try to like
as many as I can. You know, it's funny as
I called you guys weed eaters, and I've never actually
thought of that before. I appreciate all you weed eaters.
I'd be a funny merch hat having sold merchandiars, but
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that'd be a funny merch at. That's what's up. Thank you.
We will see you guys next time. We do this
here on this channel, at Bobby Bone's channel, unless you're
listening on podcasts, then go over to YouTube inscribed to
at Bobby Bone channel and at Bobby Bone Show and
we'll see you next time. Everybody, stay weedy. I care
about you deeply. Thank you for doing the same.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Bye, guys, hang ty the Bobby Cast. We'll be right
back and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Thank you everybody for listening to that. But while I
have you, I want to share this clip from the
upload with Brooke Taylor and Meghan Patrick is on with Brooke.
I'm a big Meghan Patrick fan. I think you'll like this.
If you like this podcast, go and search for the
upload and hit subscribe. But Brooke and Meghan talk about
childhood wounds that inspired some of them music and how
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that became part of our god given purpose to help others. Again,
if you like this, go and check out the upload
with Brooke Taylor. You can listen to all these episodes.
She has such a great job. We'd love it if
you subscribe. So here you go. It's Brooke Taylor and
the upload with Megan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
The people that hurt us the most, that affect us,
the most, that abuse us are our own family, are
the people closest to us, and the people who are
supposed to protect us, the people who are supposed to
show us what unconditional love is. I think the big change,
in the big shift came when I wrote Blood from
a Stone.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
That was ill advised, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
It's uncomfortable for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It's dark and it's painful, and it's uncomfortable for you know,
especially in country music, where I feel like in canon
like mothers are revered. There's a million songs about love
and mama in country music, and that's great. That just
wasn't my experience, and I felt and I know that
that's not the experience of a lot.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Of people out there.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
And the reality is is that sometimes the people that
hurt us the most, that affect us the most, that
abuse us are our own family, are the people closest
to us, and the people who are supposed to protect us,
the people who.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Are supposed to show us what unconditional love is.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
That was God for me. And I didn't grow up
with that.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I didn't have I mean, I know that now that
he was always there, but I wasn't acknowledging him. I
didn't even know that he existed. That wasn't even something
that was presented to me as a child.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
And I had to also. When I wrote that song,
it was very just.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
It just came out.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I just I walked into that room that day and
it was like there was no other song I could write,
and it was.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
I tried one of my co writers, Emilie.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
She had this idea.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
It was something about a truck, and we were trying
to write it and I finally was like.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Guys, listen, this is what's going on.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And I just poured my heart out to them and
I was like, you know, I wrote some lyrics, and
I mean, I was shaking as I was even it
was the first time I ever even said a lot
of these things out loud.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Let alone try and like write a song about it.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
And I just read out all of these lyrics and
she looked at me and she goes, are you kidding me?
And you were gonna let us write a song? About
a truck and she's like, we're writing that.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And Karen and Emily they treated that session with so
much care and compassion and gave me all of the
space and support to say what I needed to say.
And then after I wrote it, it was very cathartic,
but it was scary too, because it was like, whew, Okay,
it's out there now, Like it's those feelings that I
have bottled up for thirty something thirty five years are
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now immortalized in a song.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
And I did not hold back.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
It was extremely honest, and then I had to really
figure out in my head, Okay, well.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Why did I write this song?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
And if I put it out, I have to recognize
like there might be, you know, some people might not
like it. It might create some problems for me, and I
have to be prepared to talk about.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
This and understand.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
You know, my own motivations behind releasing this, and where
I landed was I'm not doing this out of spite.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
I'm not doing this to hurt my mother.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I'm doing this because it's the truth. I'm doing it
because I think there are other people who will benefit
from hearing it, who will heal from hearing it, who
will feel validated by hearing someone else say out loud
the thing they've always felt too ashamed to say out loud.
And I mean, shame will kill everything good that God
has for you. That is a low frequency feeling, and
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that is something that we, like biblically are We've already
been forgiven for all of the things that we carry
shame for. Once I wrote that, it was like, well,
if I can say that, if I can do that,
then I can do anything else I can.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
I can say anything.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
And it just changed my whole perspective on how I
wanted to write songs.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
And it's it's still hard. It's still hard to sell that.
It's hard to commodify for sure.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
The kind of songs that I that I want to
and I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going
to like it or not.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
This is my job. It's how I pay the bills,
you know. I do have to.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Make money, you know, and I'm still figuring out how
I'm going to do that in an industry that does
not really value what I'm trying to say or what
I'm trying to do.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
That's where I'm like, Okay, I just have to give
that to God, I have to keep.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Doing and writing what he's calling me to do and
calling me to.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Write, and have faith that he will make away as
he always does, you know, and he will help me
find the right people and find the right opportunities and
find the right avenues. It's just it's a longer road.
It's a longer road. It's a harder road.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
And my whole career has been that so well.
Speaker 6 (37:42):
And I just feel like too, it's such a redemptive
thing because there's so much that people, I feel like,
misconstrue about being a Christian. Right They're like, oh, your
life is perfect. You've never get through anything hard, you know.
And it's not that they mean ill will or anything.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
It's just because you ever read the Bible. Have you
read about any of the people in the Bible? Please?
Have you heard jobs?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Have you heard a joke?
Speaker 6 (38:03):
But it's like, you know, there's so much damage and
so much hurt and so much pain that happens, truly
when you're in a valley, when you're in the pit
and you are on your knees and you're like, I've
got nothing else and God is just like You've got
me yep, And how comforting that is, and knowing that
you don't have to strive for his love, like we
talked about earlier, You don't have to do anything to
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make him love you. He just needs your yes. Like
that's all he's asking for is your yes. And through
all of the hard things that you went through growing up,
and through all of you know, the nose in the
industry and all of the things happening, it's just like
your story is such a redemptive one because it's just
like God is going to use all of these things,
and He already has to not just heal you, but
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you're healing others. And I think it's such a cool
thing that you're doing. And it's just like you're like,
it's not about me, And like you said, you have
that box of all of these people that have said, hey,
guess what, this has helped me. Yeah, And even if
it's just for them, how cool that God would give
you a gift and say, sister, we're gonna put snowboarding
on hold, You're going to do music, and we're going
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to give you an avenue to help the least of these.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
It is a beautiful path and a beautiful gift, and
it's challenging sometimes to remind myself of it's so easy
to forget the impact that I do have. Sometimes, it's
so easy to downplay the weight of that and the
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importance of that, because.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
You know, we live in a world where and I work.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
In an industry where we are constantly confronted with the
highlight reel, the best of the best, like the elite
of you know, the artists who are blowing up and
all of a sudden, they're selling out arenas and selling
out stadiums and breaking records and winning this award and
winning that award, and they they've got more money than
they even know what to do with.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
And it's like and.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
You're being compared to that, you're being held against that.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
In your own mind right.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
For sure, but also within the people that work around you,
like they are like, well, so and so did this,
and especially as a woman, because they love to make
us feel like there can only be one at a time.
And if you can't, you know, if you aren't the
girl that everybody's talking about, well you're out of luck,
you know. And it's it's ridiculous because I actually would
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argue that of all of the new artists right now,
coming up in country music, the class of female talent,
it surpasses anything, and yet we're being made to feel
like there's only room for one of us. And that's
a whole other conversation. But it's challenging to sometimes stay
focused on what my path is when I'm you know,
(40:50):
always comparing, and you know that that's saying like comparison
is the is the thief of joy. And I was
actually listening to this podcast this morning, The Deep End
with Taylor Welch, and they were talking about like the
curse of jealousy and envy and how that is one
of the most powerful things the enemy uses to destroy
those of us who are who have a path, who
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are meant to be out here to help others, to
heal others. And it's true because it takes my mind
off of what my real calling is and what my
real path is, and it gets me worrying about what
everybody else is doing. Well, that's not my path, Megan,
that's not what's for you. If it was for you,
you'd have it. And you know it's I just try
(41:35):
and be mindful, like you said, of getting out of
my own head and thinking about myself and thinking about
how I'm perceived by the fans and the other people
who are who are watching me, and remember that I
am presenting an alternate, I guess like success story in
a way that I'm not twenty two. I'm going to
(41:56):
be thirty nine in like two weeks, and just now
after over fifteen I mean, really, if you count from
my first ever band, over twenty years have I been
doing this and chasing this and just now have my
first breakthrough at radio here with Golden Child, and just
now feeling like all these things are happening, and just
(42:16):
now being blessed with having a baby, and that is
and everybody. I hope that other women and other people
who are striving and feeling like they're behind and not
where they should be as per what the media is
telling them. I hope that when they see me, they
realize like they're on their own path and whenever they
get to where they're going, that's the exact timing that
(42:37):
was meant for them, and that everything that happens is
God preparing for them to be in the right place
at the right time.
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