August 21, 2026 • 41 mins
Bobby goes In The Weeds with the behind-the-scenes story of a slightly awkward Mumford & Sons interview setup and why Brandon walked away embarrassed. He also gets into the ongoing debate with his agent about cutting his hair, what investing in yourself actually looks like, and why he thinks people need to stop saying they “don’t have time.” Plus, Bobby explains his approach to fighting with strangers online, clears up a recent social media moment where people thought he was being rude to his team, and runs through some of the things he just can’t get behind including running, big group dinners, group chats, trying on clothes and the beach. He also talks about Stanley getting older, the long process behind writing a kid's book, and why he may write another one with Mike D.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
We're gonna start this episode with a fun behind the
scenes story that was a little bit awkward. So on
the Bobby Cast, we had Mumford and Sons in, which
is pretty cool. And I usually don't do interviews with
two people, much less three, Like so many times the
band wants to come in and it's it's too many.
(00:28):
And I did Little Big Town with two of them,
not four, but I know them so well. But also,
Mumford and Sons are massive, and I wasn't gonna say
no to that. But they got here that were super nice,
which they're British and they're massive, and they're not Nashville,
so you never quite know with all three of those elements,
like how nice or cool somebody's going to be. They're
(00:50):
very nice, right, super cool, And they get there and
you know, we're gonna see them on the couch and
we have this really old, like U shaped couch. It's
a really old but cool vintage couch. And so all
three of them were sitting in different places and listen,
obviously you want to put the lead singer in the middle.
(01:11):
I would think that Brandon thought that, and Brandon's the
one who gets everybody in their place. Before we start.
He's setting the cameras, he's making sure that everybody's settled.
And they sat down and Mumford was on the edge
and Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons, and it's like, no,
(01:33):
can we can put you in the middle, and they
were like no. And that's how it ended. And I
don't think it was as awkward as maybe Brandon felt
it was. I saw it, but also I didn't care.
But I think they do purposefully such a good job
(01:55):
of making sure that everybody in that band feels because
I'm sure you're the lead singer of a band, you're
getting all the love. And that guy's in his sunglasses,
this guy's hair fixed and quaff just rise. He got
a shirt buttoned up. Good looking dude, and they were
cool enough to go now he's gonna sit on the side.
We're gonna put this guy in the middle. I caught
(02:18):
it as it happened, but I didn't think anything about it.
And then afterwards Brandon was like, oh, you said that
awkward moment where I tried to put a lead singer
in the middle and they said no. So when you
watch that interview, if you go to Netflix or watching
clips like on social media. Even on this YouTube page,
you'll see that he's sitting on the edge, but Brandon
tried to get him the middle. And that's also why
(02:40):
I don't like talking to three people. Like I've never
been a part of an orgy ever, but I feel like,
from what I've seen on television, you have to make
everybody feel welcome. And that's kind of what it feels
like when I have multiple people that I'm interviewing, because
there's always somebody who's way more interesting and somebody that
(03:01):
has better stories, and a lot of times it's the
lead singer. Because of the front of the band, they
tell stories the most. And when you have multiple people,
you got to make everybody feel good in the orgy,
you know, or so that I've seen on TV. So
that's that story I love behind the scenes here on
in the Weeds, That's what this whole show has been,
is just me telling you stuff from behind the scenes,
(03:22):
stuff from my career. Thank you for joining us on
this episode. I will say that I was talking to
my agent yesterday and he said, hey, man, I was
looking at your social media. I said cool, He said,
you got to cut your hair and I said no,
I'm cut in my hair. Said why do you come
my hair? He said looks terrible and I said, well,
(03:44):
I kind of don't care. He said, well, how do
you expect me to get you a job on TV
if your hair looks terrible? Because I got to send
them to your social media to see you. And I said,
when's the last time you got me a job on TV?
That's why I said, so he would like me to
cut my hair because he says it will help me
get a job on TV. I say, when my hair
(04:05):
was short, I was not getting jobs on TV. So
here we are stalemate. It is getting long, it gets
in my ears. Now it itches a lot, and I'm
not growing it out for any reason other than now.
It's just kind of funny. And my daughter thinks it's
funny because she also has long hair that she's growing
and she likes to grab and a pull it, and
(04:26):
so it's fun Also, who cares? I got like three
and a half more years left of being able to
do things like this with my appearance before I go
full suit and tie all the time. I mean, I've
been in a cardigan every day for over two years.
And it's the same reason I wear my glasses like
I think for me, being a generic white dude, as
(04:48):
generic as you could possibly be, you have to do
little things to stick out. And now my eyes are terrible.
My right eye only has eight percent vision. My left
eye also now is kind of going going a little bad,
and my left eye is are one that needs the
glasses because my right eye is so bad that the
glasses don't work or affect anything. And I remember when
I would tell my wife this when we first met,
(05:10):
I said, my right eye doesn't work, and she would say, okay,
this is one of your stories, one of your stories.
You turned the volume up so you can get some attention.
And then I remember we went to her dad. Her
dad's an eye doctor in Oklahoma, and I was having
him check out my eyes and he's like, WHOA, how
about that? I said, oh yeah, what's that? He said,
(05:30):
your right eyes awful, like terrible, And I have my
wife in the room while he was checking it, and
I just pointed, it was almost like the Sophie Cunningham.
So when I wear these glasses, obviously I wear distinct
glasses because I need to because I'm extremely generic and too.
(05:54):
When I started wearing them, Originally it was to protect
my good eye. Now my good eye actually needs the help.
So these are real. This is not a perm pointing
to my hair. It's not a perm. And I've been
wearing cardigans every day for over two years. The cardigan
thing has been pretty good because it's like a uniform,
and I probably have twenty five of them, and I
have some that I like a lot more than others,
(06:15):
so I wear them more than others. But it's so
easy to get dressed and go to work or go
anywhere when you already know what you're supposed to wear.
And what started as a bit because who wears cardigans
all the time ended up being something I'm pretty happy
about because there's no picking out clothes. The one thing
that's crazy to have a bunch of like fun clothes
that I never wear. They just sit in my closet.
(06:36):
I've been done anything so much to goodwill and to
friends because I don't wear half of or three quarters
of the cool stuff that I have. So that's what's
up there. I'm not going to cut my hair for now,
and we'll see what happens. In the last episode, I
mentioned investing in yourself, and I just kind of said
(06:58):
that flippantly in passing, and someone had asked me in
a comment, like, what do you mean investing in yourself?
And I did say it doesn't have to be money,
because I don't think it does. Actually, I think most
ways that you can invest in yourself, those ways do
not include money. And if I'm defining what that means,
(07:21):
it means being good to yourself or being strict for yourself,
because when you need yourself the most, you're your best.
And I wrote some things down here for me. If
I go to bed earlier, I feel like that's investing
in myself, because even though maybe I don't want to
(07:42):
go to bed so early, if I want to watch
a show, if I want to read, or forever it
was played in caa football, if it was any of that,
and I would stay up playing the video game, But
then that would be just exhausted in the morning. Like
that's not investing in myself, because what's more important that
night while having a little fun playing a video game,
(08:03):
or the next morning when I have to go and
perform at my job where I have a bunch of
people listening to me. I have a show that's depending
on me. I got a family who is expecting me
not to suck over and over again so we can
continue to have a paycheck. So for me, going to
bed earlier is a big way to invest in myself
because there's a lot of things that sometimes I'd rather
(08:24):
be doing at night because my days have been so
full some other ones and it's so hard to find
time to do things. I get it, but I do
believe it's not that we don't have time, it's that
we don't prioritize the things to do with our time.
You can be so busy. I do feel like I'm
pretty busy. I do that to myself, but I'm pretty busy.
(08:47):
And I used to think I was so busy, and
then I had a kid. Because my calendar stays packed
every thirty minutes. And then I put travel times in
my calendar as well. One it's a way for me
to hold myself accountable, to get the place as I'm
supposed to get to, and to also stay organized. So
I would fill out this calendar, but I'd finished the
(09:08):
day at five five point thirty, go home, maybe play
loyalcaa football, maybe have something to eat, maybe work out
or whatever it was. And I now I as soon
as I get home, like when I leave here today,
I go ride home, and it's right to the five
month old because my wife's been with her all day
and in the evening time it starts to be bad time,
(09:31):
and then we have our routine, and it's her routine,
so she knows that bedtime is coming. And so I
can easily say I don't have time for anything. But
actually what I'm saying is I'm not prioritizing time for
other things. And so when I say something like you
can invest in yourself by one of the things is reading,
(09:52):
you can easily go, I don't have time for that,
because I can do that, and there are some days
where I don't, and I go, I didn't have time.
I didn't prioritize the time. But if you can read
ten pages a day, and I know that does not
seem like a lot, but in reality, if you just
read ten pages a day and that takes you ten minutes,
(10:13):
twelve minutes, thirteen minutes, you will be done with books
before you know it. And what reading does for me,
because I'm not somebody who book shames people, because there
will be four months where I won't touch a book sometimes,
but then There'll be three or four months where I'm
reading seven eight books one. It's so hard to get
a book that you just love. I'm not going to
spend a lot of time doing book nerd stuff, but
(10:35):
it's hard because if you don't love the book, you
start to get a little frustrated because it's such an
investment of time with a book because you read it
for a week or two weeks. But when I read,
that's the closest thing that I can get to meditation
that works because for me to actually comprehend what's on
those pages, I have to focus, and if I'm focused
(10:57):
on that, I'm not letting all the things from around me,
all the distractions distract me. It could be work, it
could be somebody I'm irritated at, somebody's irritated with me
something that didn't go well. So reading, to me is
an investment in myself. And have friends that have never
been readers that I've just said, hey, if you'll read
(11:18):
this one book and you do ten pages at a time.
What's been really cool is I've seen it really pay
off for them where they're now readers still doing ten
pages at a time. So I'm not even say challenge
because it may not be the way you want to
best in yourself. But if you can, you find a
book and you read ten pages a day, if you
love the book, you'll end up reading twelve or thirteen, honestly,
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But if you can force yourself to read ten, that
book will be over so quick and you'll have to
You'll feel more relaxed because again, you're focused. That's what
meditation is, right, eliminating all the outside noise. And that's
why you say your mantra or whatever you want to say,
your slogan, your phrase over and over again, because you're
just trying to focus on it, eliminate all the sound
(12:01):
around you. That's what reading does for me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Hang tight, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and
we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Now what sucks about that is I used to wear
one of those headlamps because again I don't see very well,
and I do light paper books. But I was reading
a paper book recently and at night I put the
headlamp on. But that's so distracting to my wife if
she's asleep in the bed, and so because it's one
of those, you're under a car lamps. So I got
(12:43):
to go back to the iPad because at least there's
a light behind that, and I would want to wake
up in the middle of the night. If I did
wake up and read and I can't wake up at
three in the morning, I'd be like, I need to
read to get myself to go back to sleep, and
then put on that freaking headlamp. But one of the
things I would say, if you can, if you want
to read, and you just make it ten pages a day,
(13:05):
that's it. I mean, it's the same way that I
would train for trathlines. I hate running. It's the worst.
I can't believe people enjoy it. So when I would
train for these races, because these are Olympic trathlines where
you would swim a mile, buy twenty five miles, run
(13:27):
six roughly that, and so when I was training, I
would run ten or so on some of the long runs.
But I hate running and the only way for me
to finish the ten mile run was to run tree
to tree to post to house to tree. I had
to break it up into such small sections because if
(13:50):
I just looked at ten miles for the ten miles,
it was that's too intimidating. I'm never going to do it.
But if I take off running and I'm just running
to that, and now I'm running to that, and I'm
playing a game myself. But that's the only way that
I could accomplish a goal like that. And that's the
same thing with a book. That's the same thing with
We could talk about all the things that need to
(14:12):
You need to have a big goal to even pursue it,
but you can't look at it and try to do
the whole thing at once. It's the old saying, you
know how to eat an elephant, how to eat an
elephant one one bite at a time, because otherwise you'll
never be able to eat the elephant because it's so big.
Another thing is is exercising. I hate exercising. I hate
(14:33):
it so much. I hate working out so much. Everything
about physical fitness for the sake of it zero out
of ten, no stars. It's when the uber driver that
I would uber eats from forgets my drink. That's the
rating that I give exercise bad so. But to do
(14:56):
it for a couple of reasons. One because is I
feel better after two I'm healthier, and now I do
want to live and actually see my daughter grow up
to be an adult, and so that does factor, and
now that always didn't. But the other thing was too
like aesthetically, yeah, I want to look pretty good, so
(15:20):
I'm never gonna look great. But there's something about exercise
that even if you just go and start it, it's
so much easier. Like the hardest part to me about
working out is just starting it. Now. It does get
harder as you're going, if you're pushing yourself, but still
the hardest part is just about showing up with exercise,
Like you're investing today's effort into tomorrow's health, and that's
(15:43):
investing in yourself, and that's investing in maybe you not
getting sick later, like because your body works in weird
ways and your immune systems you're eating right, immune system's
rocking you physically fit. It's hard, it's hard to find time,
but what do we say, It may be hard to
(16:03):
find time, you can always prioritize time. A few more
of these is this is a me one stop arguing
with strangers online? What is it that accomplishing? Do I still
do it? Sometimes? Yeah? Do I ninety five percent of
the time only go into the comments or my DMS
(16:24):
on Tuesday? Yeah, it used to be one hundred percent.
Had about three months where I was only in on Tuesdays.
I still am only in on Tuesdays, but occasionally, especially
if I accept a collaboration from someone, I want to
make sure that the people that follow me aren't being
gross in the comments to whomever it is that shot
(16:46):
and produced a video. So I'll look occasionally, but it's
energy wasted. I have to look at it like that.
For me. I have to go is this efficient for me?
But man, if I'm hungry or like I had a
bad day or I'm feeling super insecure about something and
somebody says just the wrong thing online, I'll fight you
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and it's dirty. I'm dirty. I'll go digging around. I'll
click three links deep, I'll find out about what you
did in ninth grade. Like it. I don't like me
for that, but that's one of those that I have
to do for me. Be bored sometimes, and if you
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have kids, you have full time job, it's hard to
be bored sometimes. And by board it doesn't have to
be three hours. But I'm talking no podcasts, no music,
no TV, no scrolling. It's like try to create empty
space for your brain to actually be bored. I actually
do my best work when I'm bored. I actually create
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where it feels the best For me too, is in
the shower, because I can do nothing when I'm taking
a shower. I can't be on my phone, I can't
be on my laptop, no music playing, I can't play
with it. Well, I'm gonna guess I could play, but
I can't play with electronic things. And so because of that,
it allows my brain to go places that I don't
(18:12):
allow it to go because we're just constantly chasing lights
and alerts and so being bored sometimes another one will
be investing in yourself is stop keeping relationships alive just
because they've been alive for a long time. Now, that
(18:34):
doesn't mean you don't have to have loyalty and like
your friends, your old school friends are your friends, for sure.
But if there are people that feel toxic and you
feel like you owe them because you've been friends for
so long, you owe yourself more not to be in
that relationship. And I'm not talking about romantic relationships. I'm
just saying sometimes we have friends like that. And finally,
(18:55):
I'm gonna say write things down. When I talk about
in yourself, it's how can you be slightly uncomfortable today
so you can be way comfortable tomorrow and be proud
of yourself. And I think writing things down is such
a great tool. I was talking with a friend of
mine recently. He hit me up and he said, man,
(19:16):
it seems like you got it all figured out, Like,
can you help me figure it out? First of all,
I don't have to figure it out. Second of all,
I said, I'm happy to give you feedback. Said what's
your goal? He said, I don't know my goal. I said,
how do you know what you want? He said, I
don't know. I need you to help me do that.
I said, I can't tell you what you want, but
here's what I can tell you to do. Write down
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what would be awesome to have or be in five years,
and then write down what you're going to do tomorrow
to get started towards that goal. Because that's macro and
micro at the same time. And the thing about writing
things down it does hold you accountable. Even if you
throw it away. The fact that you wrote it down
(19:58):
does feel like some thing with a little substance actually happened.
I have about four different journals, and there's really no
rhyme or reason to why I write in any of them.
But I do write my goals down, and if I
have something that I'm really committed to in short to midterm,
I put it on my wallpaper on my phone. So
(20:21):
my advice here when investing in yourself, it is something
you're trying to do. Write things down, goals ideas, even
what worked, what didn't. And that's what I told my friend,
what do you want to do in five years? Okay,
what do you want? How are you going to start tomorrow
in order to get that way? And then you can
do it weekly. But writing it down, actually, and I
(20:43):
don't believe in the WU stuff, writing it down helps
me so much. Oh another one, and I'll end on
this one. I didn't plan to do so much on this,
but this is such an investment in yourself. Learn people's names.
You're going to think, wow, of course, learn people's but
if you're meeting people. I meet a lot of people.
(21:05):
Sometimes I meet somebody I'm like, golly man, I wish
I remember their name. I'm such an idiot. A tool
for me to have people be warmer to me is
the second time I meet them, if I know their
name immediately because I remembered it the first time we met.
They feel seen, They feel like our interaction mattered. I
feel that way whenever someone does it to me. If
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it's somebody that I'm at briefly and they're like, hey, Bobby,
like wow, that person did whatever they had to do
in their brain to go plant this flag. This is
this person's name. If you want to make somebody feel seen,
remember their name. Those little things like that will help
you in the future so much. The trick that I
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do is I say the person's name back twice. It
doesn't really have to be the thing that you do.
But let's say I were to meet Brandon for the
first time. He's like, hey, I'm Brandon. Hey Brandon, and Bobby,
nice to meet you. And then what I do is
I bring up Brandon another time, just to say the
name semi early on. That typically works. I would do
met greets with people before, like my stand up shows.
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You're gonna think I'm crazy, but I could tell you
every single person's name. If there were thirty to thirty
five of them at the end of the night, I
could tell you every single one of their names. Now
at this point I can't because that's short term memory.
But if you were to line them all up, I
could tell you every one of them because I would
work on that. Say their name, say their name again.
And when people say my name, it just feels like
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they like you and care about you, and it feels warm.
So my final tip from investing in yourself is learn
people's names because it will matter to them and in
the end that will come back and it will matter
to you.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Hank Ty, the Bobby Cast will be right back and
we're back on the Bobby.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I do want to talk about something that happened on
my social media this last week where I got a
little bit of flack and people were a little bit
upset with me because they said I was a little
bit rude. Fine, there was a show one of our
podcasts did not load, except it loaded for a second.
It was messed up, so I had him take it
down and then it didn't go back up for a
(23:21):
long time. So I get on my social media and
I say, hey, if you're looking for this part one
of our day's podcast, it's not there because we're idiots
and we didn't do it right, and we'll get it
up as soon as possible. And then someone had posted
something that was like, hey, you shouldn't be so rude
to the people that work for you. Okay, that's fair.
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But since this is in the weeds, I'm going to
explain to you my strategy in calling someone out in
my Instagram stories. I ain't call anybody out. You have
no idea who it was that I was irritated. You
knew who it was that I was irritated at me,
Scuba Steve, and two producers, all of us because we
(24:07):
all missed it. Now the only person I was actually
talking with was Scuba Steve about it, And yeah, was
I irritated? Yes, I was that to flip out because
we have a massive podcast and if we're down for
even four hours, that affects our numbers tremendously. And do
you know who hears about it when our numbers aren't
as good the next week? Me. I don't need it
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to happen, and everything that happens ends up being on me.
I'm the ball. So everything that happens on an organization
is my fault. And that's okay. I signed up for that, right.
I didn't call anybody by name, is one number two.
I wanted people to know that I knew the podcast
was down. And then three, if I'm mad about something
and it seems like I'm calling someone out and I'm
(24:49):
still explaining to you what I'm doing, people pay attention
to that. So all of that, as irritated as I was,
all that I was doing on that's all wrestling. That's
all me just playing it up so people will pay attention. Now,
was it true? Yeah, we screwed up, but I wasn't
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calling anyone else specifically because you didn't know who I
was talking about. An example would be if you see
somebody that does country music calling out country radio or
the establishment. It's so easy to generically attack large groups
because you're really not attacking anybody. There's nobody, so nobody's hurt.
Now they start attacking individual people, that's different. But it's
(25:36):
so easy to attack big pharma country radio. There's no
face of that. And so because a lot of the
things that I do is wrestling, and by wrestling I
mean a work. It's something that is not real, but
it's for a reason, it's going to get attention, Like,
(25:57):
let let's play the game. That's a work for me.
If I were really pissed out to call somebody out,
but I want to do that. But that's what that
was about. So when I'm complaining and I'm mad at
some mystery person because our podcast isn't up, and I'm
saying I'm flipping out, I'm very irritated, but I'm not
calling anyone else specifically, because you don't know who it is.
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And two, by me calling it out, you also know
that I know that it's not up because everybody's telling
me it's not up. It's not up, it's not up.
And three you're going, wow, he's mad about this. What
is this? What are we talking about here? Oh? The podcast?
Oh I should check all that works. So that's very
in the weeds of that, and the podcast was loaded.
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I was talking about running earlier. I think there's a
list of things that I don't believe people actually like doing,
and one of them is running on a treadmill. I
have a treadmill in my house. I hate that thing,
and it's needed and I do get on it at times,
but I don't know anybody that likes running on a treadmill.
If you just like running, I think that's weird. I
(27:04):
wish I liked running, but running out of treadmill makes
my list is the number one thing I don't believe
people actually like doing. The next up is group dinners
of eight or more. What a s show? That is?
Just ordering? The first round of food takes forever, nobody's
(27:27):
on time, a few people are late. Can you get drinks? Okay,
let's get some drinks over here, and then I'm I'm going, hey,
can I go out and order? My wife's like, stop,
stop ordering, it's not time to order your first and
then by the time it's time for the bill to come,
there's I think we should have because they do have
if you have a group of like six or more,
the gratuities added. I think if there's like a friendship
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dinner of eight or more, you just don't have it.
You split it up in two fours, then you switch
it up later and you go see the other four.
I don't think people like going to group dinners vad
or more. I don't think that I hate being in
a group chat with people of people of five or more.
I hate alerts on my phone. If I'm in a
group chat and it's constantly opinging, I'm out of the
(28:11):
group chat. Or you could be like Eddie Eddie never answers,
but Eddie leaves the red dots on his phone all
the time, which is crazy. The last thing that I
hate is trying on clothes. I will not try on clothes.
I will take home three pair of pants that don't
fit and just keep them and try to fit in
them once before I try on close at the store.
I hate trying on clothes in the beach. Yeah, the beach.
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I get it. I'm the minority here. But what is
there to even do on the beach after about I
don't know ninety minutes except be really disgustingly hot. I
guess get drunk. I give that to you, but I
don't drink. Now. If there's a water sport involved, I'm
all in, but that's the lake. It's hard to do
water sports in the ocean. Too many freaking waves. I mean,
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I guess you could serf, but I ain't taking the class.
So the beach for me makes a list of things
that I don't understand. Why people like him leave sandy.
He leaves unburnt, you leave hot the lake, though I
can get the beach, not so much. I did an
interview for Muscle and Fitness magazine, Hold your Laughs, and
(29:26):
they said, hey, we want to talk to you because
you seem like somebody's pretty fit. And I hate exercising,
but I do it because I prioritize it three or
four times a week in different ways. And so I
do this interview with this guy who was super nice,
and he said, so, what is your routine? And I'm
talking to him about what I'm doing specifically, and because
it's muscle and fitness, I'm being very specific about what
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I'm doing. I have to walk them over and show
them my gym, which we have a gym on our property,
and I tell him that I'm a trainer and I
work out with my trainer three times a week sometimes,
and we finish the article on the interview. It was
fantastic and I'm still waiting for it to come out
by the time this video hit. So this podcast hits,
it maybe out, but it took a while for it
(30:08):
to come out, and I'm thinking, man, this isn't like
some Pulitzer chasing article. It was just me going, I
do eleven curls, you know, something like that. But I
mentioned Kevin Klug who's my trainer, and I think the
guy fact checked me to see if I actually worked
out as much because he called Kevin Klug. He found
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Kevin Klug's number and was fact checking that. I actually
exercised as a dang to sing to fact check and
so I'm sure Klug was nice to me. If he wasn't,
that would be weird. If the article is spoke to
(30:49):
Bobby moomas he claimed this on the other side, is
Klug Kevin Klug going but this is the truth. But
I've never been fact checked by Fitness magazine before, so
be looking for that. I'll probably post it on my
social I have a bulldog named Stanley. If you guys
didn't know, Stanley is basically nine years old now. As
a bulldog, the life span for a bulldog's around nine
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years old, which is crazy. Guy. I love this dog.
He's been such a great dog for me. We've had
to go through many surgeries. I think he's had twelve
or thirteen surgeries at this point, many when he was
young because he just kind of came broken. But he's
getting old and stubborn now. Usually I'm the one he
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listens to out of everybody. I'm a alpha. I think
he's almost old and alpha list at this point because
there are times he just looks at me and is like,
f off, buddy. But I get a lot of people
requesting proof of life pictures, like this is some sort
of hostage situation with my bulldog, but like you need
to prove Stanley's still alive. I'm happy to say he's
(31:53):
nine and he's still rocking. I hope this doesn't jinx anything.
And also I'm not al kado. I don't need to
prove that the dog is alive, but he is. He's
killing And I don't recommend getting a bulldog. They're really
fun and cute, but they can't breathe I've said this before.
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I don't recommend getting a bulldog. And I had a
friend who had a bulldog and he said to me
when I asked him, hey, you like your bulldog Goes Yeah,
I love him, so whata you think im thinking about
getting one? He said, I recommend not getting a bulldog,
And like, I understand now why they should have never
made him. I did a kid's book with Stanley Stanley
the Dog and the First Day of School, and it
did well and I was super proud of it. And
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it was the weirdest process because it was like fourteen
pages and not even the pages like my other books,
like I wrote like a couple of lines on each page,
and then had to get an illustrator, and I had
to go through illustrators and finally pick an illustrator that
matched like the style, the vibe that I wanted in
this book, and so we had to match my words
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with the Elstra's drawings. And the whole process for the
kids book was over two years, which is wild because
the whole process for my normal books, the two that
I wrote, was about fourteen months. So you're talking about
way less pages, way less words. It's a children's book,
and it took two years or so. And of all
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the projects that I have done, like big national projects,
I think that's the one that has made me by
far the least money for two reasons. One, well, I
didn't keep any of the money from it. We donated
at all, but even if so, it still would have
netted the least because they're so expensive to make. And two,
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you have to pay an illustrator like a significant chunk
of it because they're drawing all the pictures. And so
my goal, I think, and what I'm considering doing is
I think that Mike d and I might actually do
one together and just self publish it. And I don't
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really know what that means, but we have a story
called big Head Bobby and I wrote a song about
him on my kids record, and if we do another one,
I think that's what we'll do, is we'll self publish
a kid's book just ourself, because I don't want to
wait two years, and I'll just pay for it all
and then we'll go from there. That being said, I
had a friend call me and she said, Hey, I'm
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thinking about doing a kid's book, like you have any advice,
and I say, yes, don't get a bulldog, that's my advice.
She said, well, I wasn't talking about a bulldog. I said, oh,
also self publish it and spend your own money on
it because it is going to take forever. So that's
the update there is that Mike D and I are
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going to do it. Which, by the way, sometimes people
try to get ahold of us, get ahold of me
specifically to book them on any of the shows, the
Bobby Bone Show or the Bobbycast on Netflix, whatever the
case is. I just want to say this, Mike D
holds the keys. If you can get Mike D to
say yes, you're in. You never really want to get
to the person. You always want to get to the
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person's person because whomever the person is probably doing eleven
different things, or like if you can get to the
person's person. Because there are so many times where I'll
have a list of eleven people asking to be on.
Two of them, I'll immediately go, yep, that would be fantastic.
A couple of them, I'm gonna go, this doesn't make sense.
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And then there's seven of them where I just go,
Mike is up to you, man, if you think they'd
be great, letter rip and then Mike will decide. So
generally in life it's really not about getting to the person,
even if it's for like getting a job or something.
If you can get to the person's person, man, that
is so much more effective. So for everybody's hitting me
(35:54):
up about hey, hit up Mike d he holds all
the keys. I am hiring. I'm never not hiring. And
I've said this many times. If there's ever someone that
comes and has some sort of skill set that I
feel like I would benefit from having in my organization,
I'll hire you. I get a lot of people going
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to I don't know how to do it, but I
can learn. I'm a quick learner. I will not hire
you because I don't need that job like I need
specific skills, like right now, I would hire somebody that
can edit video and audio, that has a good technical
understanding of equipment, can write and what I would mean
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by that if I were giving an example, we have
episode six sixty six of the Bobbycast coming up, which
is a weird one, and I think we're going to
do artists or music that have been rumored to be
a satanic or dark and a lot of it's not true,
but like Robert Johnson, you know, made a deal with
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the devil. It's fiction, right, but that would be what
we're going to do in this episode six sixty six,
like led Zeppelin supposedly sold their sould to the devil.
And again a lot of this stuff is just urban legend,
but that episode, that's what we're going to do. So
I would say, hey, thro a girl, name at me, anybody, Kimberley,
(37:22):
We're going to do this episode on satanic things and
music true or not true. I need you to write
me an outline of like eight things you think it'd
be great for us to talk about and if you're
great at clips and then finding really good things to clip,
like if you could do all that, and you're like, hey,
I'd love to do this. I'd hire you right now.
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And I'm not firing anybody. And my team have a
great team. And people often ask, too, what does it
mean when you say your team or the Bobby Bone
Show team. So there's a difference, and there's also a
slide overlap. So the Bobby Bone Show team is not
paid by me. I run the show. The boss there,
but even I have a boss, but that's all my
show people. I don't pay them. I don't pay their insurance.
(38:04):
The boss of the show, my name's on it. But
still even then, somebody could boss me if they wanted to,
and at times they do. My personal crew are people
that I have a business and we have studios that
we built, people that I pay out of my pocket
because I feel like their value is so much that
whatever I'm paying them, I'm getting that value back from
(38:25):
them or even more so. And I hire them fully
and completely, and so I have that team like Brandon
runs the whole operation of all of our studios, all
my creative he heck A Fay a light problem. But
also Dylan does the same thing, and Dylan knows cameras,
and so I probably have four people one way or
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the other are like on my team, and then I
have like twelve on the Bobby Bone Show team because
we have so many things to do. As far as
the radio show. I do night shows, there's a countdown,
there's podcast, there's so that's the difference in that is
I have a smaller team. My small team travels with
me as well. So we're going to go to la
(39:07):
in a couple of weeks and I'm going to fill
in for Rich Eisen do a couple of shows there
which you'll be able to watch on Disney Plus and
you'll be able to hear it on like ESPN radio.
I'm gonna do that, but I'm also going to go
and we're going to set up in an Airbnb and
do some Netflix interviews there. So I'll take my crew
with me, so we'll go over there. But that's not
the iHeart crew, the Bybone Show crew. That's that's this crew.
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So yeah, that's it. Two other things before we jump
here that people have asked about someone and this gets
brought up about every three months or so because we
work from my house a little bit, and they'll say, hey,
why why don't Scoopa, Stephen Ray and Lunchbox or it
used to be Morgan, like come to your house as
well whenever you do shows from your house. And the
(39:52):
simple true answer to that is there just isn't room.
One not really parking at my house. Two there's four
spot total that we can use. There's me and whomever
the guest is, Like we used to do the bobbycast
there and it'd be the one guest. Amy is the
most important person to me on the air, So Amy
is that person. There's a camera person, a person that
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runs and runs cameras. Mostly it's Eddie. It's been branded
before and when Brandon is doing it, Eddie's not there
because we don't have room. And then there is the
producer person who stands mind and pushes all the buttons,
all of evers in terms of Mike's and that's always Mike.
So man, if I had that room for like eight
parking spaces for eight, I would have everybody over the house.
We probably worked form the house more actually, So that's
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why it is a very small space where we only
have room for two seats, and even if we crammed
into third seat, we wouldn't have the ample room to
put cameras up to hit it from all angles. So
there's that. I think that's it. Thank you all. This
has been in the weeds the most terribly uninteresting show
that continues to do pretty well streaming. I hope you
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enjoyed this episode and maybe learn something that you didn't
know before, or please share with your friends. I want
you to stay weedy. I want you to stay keep
one eye open. Don't believe everything you see on the internet.
People are full of crap out there. And to all
my weed eaters, appreciate you. Put some stay weedy in
the comments I said, maybe said the best thing you
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liked about this episode of the dumbest Thing, Just to
add something, to put a question down there, that'd be cool.
All right, stay weedy, guys, and we'll see you next
week here. Thank you, goodbye. Thanks for listening to the
Bobby Cast.
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Share this episode with a friend, because they don't pay
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We're gonna start this episode with a fun behind the
scenes story that was a little bit awkward. So on
the Bobby Cast, we had Mumford and Sons in, which
is pretty cool. And I usually don't do interviews with
two people, much less three, Like so many times the
band wants to come in and it's it's too many.
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And I did Little Big Town with two of them,
not four, but I know them so well. But also,
Mumford and Sons are massive, and I wasn't gonna say
no to that. But they got here that were super nice,
which they're British and they're massive, and they're not Nashville,
so you never quite know with all three of those elements,
like how nice or cool somebody's going to be. They're
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very nice, right, super cool, And they get there and
you know, we're gonna see them on the couch and
we have this really old, like U shaped couch. It's
a really old but cool vintage couch. And so all
three of them were sitting in different places and listen,
obviously you want to put the lead singer in the middle.
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I would think that Brandon thought that, and Brandon's the
one who gets everybody in their place. Before we start.
He's setting the cameras, he's making sure that everybody's settled.
And they sat down and Mumford was on the edge
and Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons, and it's like, no,
(01:33):
can we can put you in the middle, and they
were like no. And that's how it ended. And I
don't think it was as awkward as maybe Brandon felt
it was. I saw it, but also I didn't care.
But I think they do purposefully such a good job
(01:55):
of making sure that everybody in that band feels because
I'm sure you're the lead singer of a band, you're
getting all the love. And that guy's in his sunglasses,
this guy's hair fixed and quaff just rise. He got
a shirt buttoned up. Good looking dude, and they were
cool enough to go now he's gonna sit on the side.
We're gonna put this guy in the middle. I caught
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it as it happened, but I didn't think anything about it.
And then afterwards Brandon was like, oh, you said that
awkward moment where I tried to put a lead singer
in the middle and they said no. So when you
watch that interview, if you go to Netflix or watching
clips like on social media. Even on this YouTube page,
you'll see that he's sitting on the edge, but Brandon
tried to get him the middle. And that's also why
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I don't like talking to three people. Like I've never
been a part of an orgy ever, but I feel like,
from what I've seen on television, you have to make
everybody feel welcome. And that's kind of what it feels
like when I have multiple people that I'm interviewing, because
there's always somebody who's way more interesting and somebody that
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has better stories, and a lot of times it's the
lead singer. Because of the front of the band, they
tell stories the most. And when you have multiple people,
you got to make everybody feel good in the orgy,
you know, or so that I've seen on TV. So
that's that story I love behind the scenes here on
in the Weeds, That's what this whole show has been,
is just me telling you stuff from behind the scenes,
(03:22):
stuff from my career. Thank you for joining us on
this episode. I will say that I was talking to
my agent yesterday and he said, hey, man, I was
looking at your social media. I said cool, He said,
you got to cut your hair and I said no,
I'm cut in my hair. Said why do you come
my hair? He said looks terrible and I said, well,
(03:44):
I kind of don't care. He said, well, how do
you expect me to get you a job on TV
if your hair looks terrible? Because I got to send
them to your social media to see you. And I said,
when's the last time you got me a job on TV?
That's why I said, so he would like me to
cut my hair because he says it will help me
get a job on TV. I say, when my hair
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was short, I was not getting jobs on TV. So
here we are stalemate. It is getting long, it gets
in my ears. Now it itches a lot, and I'm
not growing it out for any reason other than now.
It's just kind of funny. And my daughter thinks it's
funny because she also has long hair that she's growing
and she likes to grab and a pull it, and
(04:26):
so it's fun Also, who cares? I got like three
and a half more years left of being able to
do things like this with my appearance before I go
full suit and tie all the time. I mean, I've
been in a cardigan every day for over two years.
And it's the same reason I wear my glasses like
I think for me, being a generic white dude, as
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generic as you could possibly be, you have to do
little things to stick out. And now my eyes are terrible.
My right eye only has eight percent vision. My left
eye also now is kind of going going a little bad,
and my left eye is are one that needs the
glasses because my right eye is so bad that the
glasses don't work or affect anything. And I remember when
I would tell my wife this when we first met,
(05:10):
I said, my right eye doesn't work, and she would say, okay,
this is one of your stories, one of your stories.
You turned the volume up so you can get some attention.
And then I remember we went to her dad. Her
dad's an eye doctor in Oklahoma, and I was having
him check out my eyes and he's like, WHOA, how
about that? I said, oh yeah, what's that? He said,
(05:30):
your right eyes awful, like terrible, And I have my
wife in the room while he was checking it, and
I just pointed, it was almost like the Sophie Cunningham.
So when I wear these glasses, obviously I wear distinct
glasses because I need to because I'm extremely generic and too.
(05:54):
When I started wearing them, Originally it was to protect
my good eye. Now my good eye actually needs the help.
So these are real. This is not a perm pointing
to my hair. It's not a perm. And I've been
wearing cardigans every day for over two years. The cardigan
thing has been pretty good because it's like a uniform,
and I probably have twenty five of them, and I
have some that I like a lot more than others,
(06:15):
so I wear them more than others. But it's so
easy to get dressed and go to work or go
anywhere when you already know what you're supposed to wear.
And what started as a bit because who wears cardigans
all the time ended up being something I'm pretty happy
about because there's no picking out clothes. The one thing
that's crazy to have a bunch of like fun clothes
that I never wear. They just sit in my closet.
(06:36):
I've been done anything so much to goodwill and to
friends because I don't wear half of or three quarters
of the cool stuff that I have. So that's what's
up there. I'm not going to cut my hair for now,
and we'll see what happens. In the last episode, I
mentioned investing in yourself, and I just kind of said
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that flippantly in passing, and someone had asked me in
a comment, like, what do you mean investing in yourself?
And I did say it doesn't have to be money,
because I don't think it does. Actually, I think most
ways that you can invest in yourself, those ways do
not include money. And if I'm defining what that means,
(07:21):
it means being good to yourself or being strict for yourself,
because when you need yourself the most, you're your best.
And I wrote some things down here for me. If
I go to bed earlier, I feel like that's investing
in myself, because even though maybe I don't want to
(07:42):
go to bed so early, if I want to watch
a show, if I want to read, or forever it
was played in caa football, if it was any of that,
and I would stay up playing the video game, But
then that would be just exhausted in the morning. Like
that's not investing in myself, because what's more important that
night while having a little fun playing a video game,
(08:03):
or the next morning when I have to go and
perform at my job where I have a bunch of
people listening to me. I have a show that's depending
on me. I got a family who is expecting me
not to suck over and over again so we can
continue to have a paycheck. So for me, going to
bed earlier is a big way to invest in myself
because there's a lot of things that sometimes I'd rather
(08:24):
be doing at night because my days have been so
full some other ones and it's so hard to find
time to do things. I get it, but I do
believe it's not that we don't have time, it's that
we don't prioritize the things to do with our time.
You can be so busy. I do feel like I'm
pretty busy. I do that to myself, but I'm pretty busy.
(08:47):
And I used to think I was so busy, and
then I had a kid. Because my calendar stays packed
every thirty minutes. And then I put travel times in
my calendar as well. One it's a way for me
to hold myself accountable, to get the place as I'm
supposed to get to, and to also stay organized. So
I would fill out this calendar, but I'd finished the
(09:08):
day at five five point thirty, go home, maybe play
loyalcaa football, maybe have something to eat, maybe work out
or whatever it was. And I now I as soon
as I get home, like when I leave here today,
I go ride home, and it's right to the five
month old because my wife's been with her all day
and in the evening time it starts to be bad time,
(09:31):
and then we have our routine, and it's her routine,
so she knows that bedtime is coming. And so I
can easily say I don't have time for anything. But
actually what I'm saying is I'm not prioritizing time for
other things. And so when I say something like you
can invest in yourself by one of the things is reading,
(09:52):
you can easily go, I don't have time for that,
because I can do that, and there are some days
where I don't, and I go, I didn't have time.
I didn't prioritize the time. But if you can read
ten pages a day, and I know that does not
seem like a lot, but in reality, if you just
read ten pages a day and that takes you ten minutes,
(10:13):
twelve minutes, thirteen minutes, you will be done with books
before you know it. And what reading does for me,
because I'm not somebody who book shames people, because there
will be four months where I won't touch a book sometimes,
but then There'll be three or four months where I'm
reading seven eight books one. It's so hard to get
a book that you just love. I'm not going to
spend a lot of time doing book nerd stuff, but
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it's hard because if you don't love the book, you
start to get a little frustrated because it's such an
investment of time with a book because you read it
for a week or two weeks. But when I read,
that's the closest thing that I can get to meditation
that works because for me to actually comprehend what's on
those pages, I have to focus, and if I'm focused
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on that, I'm not letting all the things from around me,
all the distractions distract me. It could be work, it
could be somebody I'm irritated at, somebody's irritated with me
something that didn't go well. So reading, to me is
an investment in myself. And have friends that have never
been readers that I've just said, hey, if you'll read
(11:18):
this one book and you do ten pages at a time.
What's been really cool is I've seen it really pay
off for them where they're now readers still doing ten
pages at a time. So I'm not even say challenge
because it may not be the way you want to
best in yourself. But if you can, you find a
book and you read ten pages a day, if you
love the book, you'll end up reading twelve or thirteen, honestly,
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But if you can force yourself to read ten, that
book will be over so quick and you'll have to
You'll feel more relaxed because again, you're focused. That's what
meditation is, right, eliminating all the outside noise. And that's
why you say your mantra or whatever you want to say,
your slogan, your phrase over and over again, because you're
just trying to focus on it, eliminate all the sound
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around you. That's what reading does for me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Hang tight, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and
we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Now what sucks about that is I used to wear
one of those headlamps because again I don't see very well,
and I do light paper books. But I was reading
a paper book recently and at night I put the
headlamp on. But that's so distracting to my wife if
she's asleep in the bed, and so because it's one
of those, you're under a car lamps. So I got
(12:43):
to go back to the iPad because at least there's
a light behind that, and I would want to wake
up in the middle of the night. If I did
wake up and read and I can't wake up at
three in the morning, I'd be like, I need to
read to get myself to go back to sleep, and
then put on that freaking headlamp. But one of the
things I would say, if you can, if you want
to read, and you just make it ten pages a day,
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that's it. I mean, it's the same way that I
would train for trathlines. I hate running. It's the worst.
I can't believe people enjoy it. So when I would
train for these races, because these are Olympic trathlines where
you would swim a mile, buy twenty five miles, run
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six roughly that, and so when I was training, I
would run ten or so on some of the long runs.
But I hate running and the only way for me
to finish the ten mile run was to run tree
to tree to post to house to tree. I had
to break it up into such small sections because if
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I just looked at ten miles for the ten miles,
it was that's too intimidating. I'm never going to do it.
But if I take off running and I'm just running
to that, and now I'm running to that, and I'm
playing a game myself. But that's the only way that
I could accomplish a goal like that. And that's the
same thing with a book. That's the same thing with
We could talk about all the things that need to
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You need to have a big goal to even pursue it,
but you can't look at it and try to do
the whole thing at once. It's the old saying, you
know how to eat an elephant, how to eat an
elephant one one bite at a time, because otherwise you'll
never be able to eat the elephant because it's so big.
Another thing is is exercising. I hate exercising. I hate
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it so much. I hate working out so much. Everything
about physical fitness for the sake of it zero out
of ten, no stars. It's when the uber driver that
I would uber eats from forgets my drink. That's the
rating that I give exercise bad so. But to do
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it for a couple of reasons. One because is I
feel better after two I'm healthier, and now I do
want to live and actually see my daughter grow up
to be an adult, and so that does factor, and
now that always didn't. But the other thing was too
like aesthetically, yeah, I want to look pretty good, so
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I'm never gonna look great. But there's something about exercise
that even if you just go and start it, it's
so much easier. Like the hardest part to me about
working out is just starting it. Now. It does get
harder as you're going, if you're pushing yourself, but still
the hardest part is just about showing up with exercise,
Like you're investing today's effort into tomorrow's health, and that's
(15:43):
investing in yourself, and that's investing in maybe you not
getting sick later, like because your body works in weird
ways and your immune systems you're eating right, immune system's
rocking you physically fit. It's hard, it's hard to find time,
but what do we say, It may be hard to
(16:03):
find time, you can always prioritize time. A few more
of these is this is a me one stop arguing
with strangers online? What is it that accomplishing? Do I still
do it? Sometimes? Yeah? Do I ninety five percent of
the time only go into the comments or my DMS
(16:24):
on Tuesday? Yeah, it used to be one hundred percent.
Had about three months where I was only in on Tuesdays.
I still am only in on Tuesdays, but occasionally, especially
if I accept a collaboration from someone, I want to
make sure that the people that follow me aren't being
gross in the comments to whomever it is that shot
(16:46):
and produced a video. So I'll look occasionally, but it's
energy wasted. I have to look at it like that.
For me. I have to go is this efficient for me?
But man, if I'm hungry or like I had a
bad day or I'm feeling super insecure about something and
somebody says just the wrong thing online, I'll fight you
(17:07):
and it's dirty. I'm dirty. I'll go digging around. I'll
click three links deep, I'll find out about what you
did in ninth grade. Like it. I don't like me
for that, but that's one of those that I have
to do for me. Be bored sometimes, and if you
(17:30):
have kids, you have full time job, it's hard to
be bored sometimes. And by board it doesn't have to
be three hours. But I'm talking no podcasts, no music,
no TV, no scrolling. It's like try to create empty
space for your brain to actually be bored. I actually
do my best work when I'm bored. I actually create
(17:51):
where it feels the best For me too, is in
the shower, because I can do nothing when I'm taking
a shower. I can't be on my phone, I can't
be on my laptop, no music playing, I can't play
with it. Well, I'm gonna guess I could play, but
I can't play with electronic things. And so because of that,
it allows my brain to go places that I don't
(18:12):
allow it to go because we're just constantly chasing lights
and alerts and so being bored sometimes another one will
be investing in yourself is stop keeping relationships alive just
because they've been alive for a long time. Now, that
(18:34):
doesn't mean you don't have to have loyalty and like
your friends, your old school friends are your friends, for sure.
But if there are people that feel toxic and you
feel like you owe them because you've been friends for
so long, you owe yourself more not to be in
that relationship. And I'm not talking about romantic relationships. I'm
just saying sometimes we have friends like that. And finally,
(18:55):
I'm gonna say write things down. When I talk about
in yourself, it's how can you be slightly uncomfortable today
so you can be way comfortable tomorrow and be proud
of yourself. And I think writing things down is such
a great tool. I was talking with a friend of
mine recently. He hit me up and he said, man,
(19:16):
it seems like you got it all figured out, Like,
can you help me figure it out? First of all,
I don't have to figure it out. Second of all,
I said, I'm happy to give you feedback. Said what's
your goal? He said, I don't know my goal. I said,
how do you know what you want? He said, I
don't know. I need you to help me do that.
I said, I can't tell you what you want, but
here's what I can tell you to do. Write down
(19:37):
what would be awesome to have or be in five years,
and then write down what you're going to do tomorrow
to get started towards that goal. Because that's macro and
micro at the same time. And the thing about writing
things down it does hold you accountable. Even if you
throw it away. The fact that you wrote it down
(19:58):
does feel like some thing with a little substance actually happened.
I have about four different journals, and there's really no
rhyme or reason to why I write in any of them.
But I do write my goals down, and if I
have something that I'm really committed to in short to midterm,
I put it on my wallpaper on my phone. So
(20:21):
my advice here when investing in yourself, it is something
you're trying to do. Write things down, goals ideas, even
what worked, what didn't. And that's what I told my friend,
what do you want to do in five years? Okay,
what do you want? How are you going to start tomorrow
in order to get that way? And then you can
do it weekly. But writing it down, actually, and I
(20:43):
don't believe in the WU stuff, writing it down helps
me so much. Oh another one, and I'll end on
this one. I didn't plan to do so much on this,
but this is such an investment in yourself. Learn people's names.
You're going to think, wow, of course, learn people's but
if you're meeting people. I meet a lot of people.
(21:05):
Sometimes I meet somebody I'm like, golly man, I wish
I remember their name. I'm such an idiot. A tool
for me to have people be warmer to me is
the second time I meet them, if I know their
name immediately because I remembered it the first time we met.
They feel seen, They feel like our interaction mattered. I
feel that way whenever someone does it to me. If
(21:25):
it's somebody that I'm at briefly and they're like, hey, Bobby,
like wow, that person did whatever they had to do
in their brain to go plant this flag. This is
this person's name. If you want to make somebody feel seen,
remember their name. Those little things like that will help
you in the future so much. The trick that I
(21:46):
do is I say the person's name back twice. It
doesn't really have to be the thing that you do.
But let's say I were to meet Brandon for the
first time. He's like, hey, I'm Brandon. Hey Brandon, and Bobby,
nice to meet you. And then what I do is
I bring up Brandon another time, just to say the
name semi early on. That typically works. I would do
met greets with people before, like my stand up shows.
(22:08):
You're gonna think I'm crazy, but I could tell you
every single person's name. If there were thirty to thirty
five of them at the end of the night, I
could tell you every single one of their names. Now
at this point I can't because that's short term memory.
But if you were to line them all up, I
could tell you every one of them because I would
work on that. Say their name, say their name again.
And when people say my name, it just feels like
(22:30):
they like you and care about you, and it feels warm.
So my final tip from investing in yourself is learn
people's names because it will matter to them and in
the end that will come back and it will matter
to you.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Hank Ty, the Bobby Cast will be right back and
we're back on the Bobby.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I do want to talk about something that happened on
my social media this last week where I got a
little bit of flack and people were a little bit
upset with me because they said I was a little
bit rude. Fine, there was a show one of our
podcasts did not load, except it loaded for a second.
It was messed up, so I had him take it
down and then it didn't go back up for a
(23:21):
long time. So I get on my social media and
I say, hey, if you're looking for this part one
of our day's podcast, it's not there because we're idiots
and we didn't do it right, and we'll get it
up as soon as possible. And then someone had posted
something that was like, hey, you shouldn't be so rude
to the people that work for you. Okay, that's fair.
(23:46):
But since this is in the weeds, I'm going to
explain to you my strategy in calling someone out in
my Instagram stories. I ain't call anybody out. You have
no idea who it was that I was irritated. You
knew who it was that I was irritated at me,
Scuba Steve, and two producers, all of us because we
(24:07):
all missed it. Now the only person I was actually
talking with was Scuba Steve about it, And yeah, was
I irritated? Yes, I was that to flip out because
we have a massive podcast and if we're down for
even four hours, that affects our numbers tremendously. And do
you know who hears about it when our numbers aren't
as good the next week? Me. I don't need it
(24:28):
to happen, and everything that happens ends up being on me.
I'm the ball. So everything that happens on an organization
is my fault. And that's okay. I signed up for that, right.
I didn't call anybody by name, is one number two.
I wanted people to know that I knew the podcast
was down. And then three, if I'm mad about something
and it seems like I'm calling someone out and I'm
(24:49):
still explaining to you what I'm doing, people pay attention
to that. So all of that, as irritated as I was,
all that I was doing on that's all wrestling. That's
all me just playing it up so people will pay attention. Now,
was it true? Yeah, we screwed up, but I wasn't
(25:13):
calling anyone else specifically because you didn't know who I
was talking about. An example would be if you see
somebody that does country music calling out country radio or
the establishment. It's so easy to generically attack large groups
because you're really not attacking anybody. There's nobody, so nobody's hurt.
Now they start attacking individual people, that's different. But it's
(25:36):
so easy to attack big pharma country radio. There's no
face of that. And so because a lot of the
things that I do is wrestling, and by wrestling I
mean a work. It's something that is not real, but
it's for a reason, it's going to get attention, Like,
(25:57):
let let's play the game. That's a work for me.
If I were really pissed out to call somebody out,
but I want to do that. But that's what that
was about. So when I'm complaining and I'm mad at
some mystery person because our podcast isn't up, and I'm
saying I'm flipping out, I'm very irritated, but I'm not
calling anyone else specifically, because you don't know who it is.
(26:19):
And two, by me calling it out, you also know
that I know that it's not up because everybody's telling
me it's not up. It's not up, it's not up.
And three you're going, wow, he's mad about this. What
is this? What are we talking about here? Oh? The podcast?
Oh I should check all that works. So that's very
in the weeds of that, and the podcast was loaded.
(26:42):
I was talking about running earlier. I think there's a
list of things that I don't believe people actually like doing,
and one of them is running on a treadmill. I
have a treadmill in my house. I hate that thing,
and it's needed and I do get on it at times,
but I don't know anybody that likes running on a treadmill.
If you just like running, I think that's weird. I
(27:04):
wish I liked running, but running out of treadmill makes
my list is the number one thing I don't believe
people actually like doing. The next up is group dinners
of eight or more. What a s show? That is?
Just ordering? The first round of food takes forever, nobody's
(27:27):
on time, a few people are late. Can you get drinks? Okay,
let's get some drinks over here, and then I'm I'm going, hey,
can I go out and order? My wife's like, stop,
stop ordering, it's not time to order your first and
then by the time it's time for the bill to come,
there's I think we should have because they do have
if you have a group of like six or more,
the gratuities added. I think if there's like a friendship
(27:50):
dinner of eight or more, you just don't have it.
You split it up in two fours, then you switch
it up later and you go see the other four.
I don't think people like going to group dinners vad
or more. I don't think that I hate being in
a group chat with people of people of five or more.
I hate alerts on my phone. If I'm in a
group chat and it's constantly opinging, I'm out of the
(28:11):
group chat. Or you could be like Eddie Eddie never answers,
but Eddie leaves the red dots on his phone all
the time, which is crazy. The last thing that I
hate is trying on clothes. I will not try on clothes.
I will take home three pair of pants that don't
fit and just keep them and try to fit in
them once before I try on close at the store.
I hate trying on clothes in the beach. Yeah, the beach.
(28:37):
I get it. I'm the minority here. But what is
there to even do on the beach after about I
don't know ninety minutes except be really disgustingly hot. I
guess get drunk. I give that to you, but I
don't drink. Now. If there's a water sport involved, I'm
all in, but that's the lake. It's hard to do
water sports in the ocean. Too many freaking waves. I mean,
(29:01):
I guess you could serf, but I ain't taking the class.
So the beach for me makes a list of things
that I don't understand. Why people like him leave sandy.
He leaves unburnt, you leave hot the lake, though I
can get the beach, not so much. I did an
interview for Muscle and Fitness magazine, Hold your Laughs, and
(29:26):
they said, hey, we want to talk to you because
you seem like somebody's pretty fit. And I hate exercising,
but I do it because I prioritize it three or
four times a week in different ways. And so I
do this interview with this guy who was super nice,
and he said, so, what is your routine? And I'm
talking to him about what I'm doing specifically, and because
it's muscle and fitness, I'm being very specific about what
(29:47):
I'm doing. I have to walk them over and show
them my gym, which we have a gym on our property,
and I tell him that I'm a trainer and I
work out with my trainer three times a week sometimes,
and we finish the article on the interview. It was
fantastic and I'm still waiting for it to come out
by the time this video hit. So this podcast hits,
it maybe out, but it took a while for it
(30:08):
to come out, and I'm thinking, man, this isn't like
some Pulitzer chasing article. It was just me going, I
do eleven curls, you know, something like that. But I
mentioned Kevin Klug who's my trainer, and I think the
guy fact checked me to see if I actually worked
out as much because he called Kevin Klug. He found
(30:29):
Kevin Klug's number and was fact checking that. I actually
exercised as a dang to sing to fact check and
so I'm sure Klug was nice to me. If he wasn't,
that would be weird. If the article is spoke to
(30:49):
Bobby moomas he claimed this on the other side, is
Klug Kevin Klug going but this is the truth. But
I've never been fact checked by Fitness magazine before, so
be looking for that. I'll probably post it on my
social I have a bulldog named Stanley. If you guys
didn't know, Stanley is basically nine years old now. As
a bulldog, the life span for a bulldog's around nine
(31:10):
years old, which is crazy. Guy. I love this dog.
He's been such a great dog for me. We've had
to go through many surgeries. I think he's had twelve
or thirteen surgeries at this point, many when he was
young because he just kind of came broken. But he's
getting old and stubborn now. Usually I'm the one he
(31:33):
listens to out of everybody. I'm a alpha. I think
he's almost old and alpha list at this point because
there are times he just looks at me and is like,
f off, buddy. But I get a lot of people
requesting proof of life pictures, like this is some sort
of hostage situation with my bulldog, but like you need
to prove Stanley's still alive. I'm happy to say he's
(31:53):
nine and he's still rocking. I hope this doesn't jinx anything.
And also I'm not al kado. I don't need to
prove that the dog is alive, but he is. He's
killing And I don't recommend getting a bulldog. They're really
fun and cute, but they can't breathe I've said this before.
(32:15):
I don't recommend getting a bulldog. And I had a
friend who had a bulldog and he said to me
when I asked him, hey, you like your bulldog Goes Yeah,
I love him, so whata you think im thinking about
getting one? He said, I recommend not getting a bulldog,
And like, I understand now why they should have never
made him. I did a kid's book with Stanley Stanley
the Dog and the First Day of School, and it
did well and I was super proud of it. And
(32:38):
it was the weirdest process because it was like fourteen
pages and not even the pages like my other books,
like I wrote like a couple of lines on each page,
and then had to get an illustrator, and I had
to go through illustrators and finally pick an illustrator that
matched like the style, the vibe that I wanted in
this book, and so we had to match my words
(33:00):
with the Elstra's drawings. And the whole process for the
kids book was over two years, which is wild because
the whole process for my normal books, the two that
I wrote, was about fourteen months. So you're talking about
way less pages, way less words. It's a children's book,
and it took two years or so. And of all
(33:20):
the projects that I have done, like big national projects,
I think that's the one that has made me by
far the least money for two reasons. One, well, I
didn't keep any of the money from it. We donated
at all, but even if so, it still would have
netted the least because they're so expensive to make. And two,
(33:45):
you have to pay an illustrator like a significant chunk
of it because they're drawing all the pictures. And so
my goal, I think, and what I'm considering doing is
I think that Mike d and I might actually do
one together and just self publish it. And I don't
(34:07):
really know what that means, but we have a story
called big Head Bobby and I wrote a song about
him on my kids record, and if we do another one,
I think that's what we'll do, is we'll self publish
a kid's book just ourself, because I don't want to
wait two years, and I'll just pay for it all
and then we'll go from there. That being said, I
had a friend call me and she said, Hey, I'm
(34:28):
thinking about doing a kid's book, like you have any advice,
and I say, yes, don't get a bulldog, that's my advice.
She said, well, I wasn't talking about a bulldog. I said, oh,
also self publish it and spend your own money on
it because it is going to take forever. So that's
the update there is that Mike D and I are
(34:49):
going to do it. Which, by the way, sometimes people
try to get ahold of us, get ahold of me
specifically to book them on any of the shows, the
Bobby Bone Show or the Bobbycast on Netflix, whatever the
case is. I just want to say this, Mike D
holds the keys. If you can get Mike D to
say yes, you're in. You never really want to get
to the person. You always want to get to the
(35:11):
person's person because whomever the person is probably doing eleven
different things, or like if you can get to the
person's person. Because there are so many times where I'll
have a list of eleven people asking to be on.
Two of them, I'll immediately go, yep, that would be fantastic.
A couple of them, I'm gonna go, this doesn't make sense.
(35:33):
And then there's seven of them where I just go,
Mike is up to you, man, if you think they'd
be great, letter rip and then Mike will decide. So
generally in life it's really not about getting to the person,
even if it's for like getting a job or something.
If you can get to the person's person, man, that
is so much more effective. So for everybody's hitting me
(35:54):
up about hey, hit up Mike d he holds all
the keys. I am hiring. I'm never not hiring. And
I've said this many times. If there's ever someone that
comes and has some sort of skill set that I
feel like I would benefit from having in my organization,
I'll hire you. I get a lot of people going
(36:15):
to I don't know how to do it, but I
can learn. I'm a quick learner. I will not hire
you because I don't need that job like I need
specific skills, like right now, I would hire somebody that
can edit video and audio, that has a good technical
understanding of equipment, can write and what I would mean
(36:37):
by that if I were giving an example, we have
episode six sixty six of the Bobbycast coming up, which
is a weird one, and I think we're going to
do artists or music that have been rumored to be
a satanic or dark and a lot of it's not true,
but like Robert Johnson, you know, made a deal with
(37:00):
the devil. It's fiction, right, but that would be what
we're going to do in this episode six sixty six,
like led Zeppelin supposedly sold their sould to the devil.
And again a lot of this stuff is just urban legend,
but that episode, that's what we're going to do. So
I would say, hey, thro a girl, name at me, anybody, Kimberley,
(37:22):
We're going to do this episode on satanic things and
music true or not true. I need you to write
me an outline of like eight things you think it'd
be great for us to talk about and if you're
great at clips and then finding really good things to clip,
like if you could do all that, and you're like, hey,
I'd love to do this. I'd hire you right now.
(37:42):
And I'm not firing anybody. And my team have a
great team. And people often ask, too, what does it
mean when you say your team or the Bobby Bone
Show team. So there's a difference, and there's also a
slide overlap. So the Bobby Bone Show team is not
paid by me. I run the show. The boss there,
but even I have a boss, but that's all my
show people. I don't pay them. I don't pay their insurance.
(38:04):
The boss of the show, my name's on it. But
still even then, somebody could boss me if they wanted to,
and at times they do. My personal crew are people
that I have a business and we have studios that
we built, people that I pay out of my pocket
because I feel like their value is so much that
whatever I'm paying them, I'm getting that value back from
(38:25):
them or even more so. And I hire them fully
and completely, and so I have that team like Brandon
runs the whole operation of all of our studios, all
my creative he heck A Fay a light problem. But
also Dylan does the same thing, and Dylan knows cameras,
and so I probably have four people one way or
(38:47):
the other are like on my team, and then I
have like twelve on the Bobby Bone Show team because
we have so many things to do. As far as
the radio show. I do night shows, there's a countdown,
there's podcast, there's so that's the difference in that is
I have a smaller team. My small team travels with
me as well. So we're going to go to la
(39:07):
in a couple of weeks and I'm going to fill
in for Rich Eisen do a couple of shows there
which you'll be able to watch on Disney Plus and
you'll be able to hear it on like ESPN radio.
I'm gonna do that, but I'm also going to go
and we're going to set up in an Airbnb and
do some Netflix interviews there. So I'll take my crew
with me, so we'll go over there. But that's not
the iHeart crew, the Bybone Show crew. That's that's this crew.
(39:29):
So yeah, that's it. Two other things before we jump
here that people have asked about someone and this gets
brought up about every three months or so because we
work from my house a little bit, and they'll say, hey,
why why don't Scoopa, Stephen Ray and Lunchbox or it
used to be Morgan, like come to your house as
well whenever you do shows from your house. And the
(39:52):
simple true answer to that is there just isn't room.
One not really parking at my house. Two there's four
spot total that we can use. There's me and whomever
the guest is, Like we used to do the bobbycast
there and it'd be the one guest. Amy is the
most important person to me on the air, So Amy
is that person. There's a camera person, a person that
(40:13):
runs and runs cameras. Mostly it's Eddie. It's been branded
before and when Brandon is doing it, Eddie's not there
because we don't have room. And then there is the
producer person who stands mind and pushes all the buttons,
all of evers in terms of Mike's and that's always Mike.
So man, if I had that room for like eight
parking spaces for eight, I would have everybody over the house.
We probably worked form the house more actually, So that's
(40:36):
why it is a very small space where we only
have room for two seats, and even if we crammed
into third seat, we wouldn't have the ample room to
put cameras up to hit it from all angles. So
there's that. I think that's it. Thank you all. This
has been in the weeds the most terribly uninteresting show
that continues to do pretty well streaming. I hope you
(40:57):
enjoyed this episode and maybe learn something that you didn't
know before, or please share with your friends. I want
you to stay weedy. I want you to stay keep
one eye open. Don't believe everything you see on the internet.
People are full of crap out there. And to all
my weed eaters, appreciate you. Put some stay weedy in
the comments I said, maybe said the best thing you
(41:18):
liked about this episode of the dumbest Thing, Just to
add something, to put a question down there, that'd be cool.
All right, stay weedy, guys, and we'll see you next
week here. Thank you, goodbye. Thanks for listening to the
Bobby Cast.
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