Bobby does a solo BobbyCast on this episode and gets vulnerable about his relationship with his dogs. He tells the backstory about his bulldog Stanley and how he wasn't sure he even wanted to keep him in the beginning. He also discusses all the trials and tribulations he has gone through with Stanely and Eller. Plus, Bobby gets deep and talks about some things that have been triggering him lately, including the board of voters from the CMAs after his radio show wasn't nominated this year. But then finds out from his team that there is a legitimate reason for it. He also talks about his recent trip to Chicago to make his rounds on different Barstool Sports shows and gives himself a review of the appearances. And finally, Bobby takes a deep dive into his world inside of radio and podcasting, and discusses why he does multiple podcasts, why he says 'no' to certain things, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
I think maybe you guys have heard me talk about
this before, but the process of my dogs has gotten
extremely tedious, but I do it every day. So little backstory,
because we have a little room here, we have little
space to stretch out. I got Stanley about six years ago.
Stanley's a bulldog. I never wanted a bulldog. I never
(00:29):
set out to get a bulldog because I had heard
that they were, I mean honestly, very expensive, not only
to buy, but to take care of. And my other dog, Bradley,
had died and had Bradley for thirteen years. My second book,
I dedicated him, and I think he would have loved
to have read that dedication, except he's a dog can't
he can't read. So he had died and that's pretty
(00:51):
rough on me. And so I didn't know if I
was never going to get another dog, honestly, and I
was talking about it a little bit and John Party
reached out and he said, Hey, my mom has bulldogs.
Do you want one of these bulldogs. This bulldog's got
like a messed up eye, and if you just pay
to get it here, you can have it. And so
(01:12):
I was like, great, it's a sign. It's a sign
from the bulldog God, and so I said, yeah, cool,
because I definitely wasn't going to pay bulldog price. I
just would I went down and adopted a dog. I mean,
that's how I got Bradley, the dog before that. He
was actually a dog that was bred. He was in
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a kennel and they had rated the kennel and so
they had all these dogs and we saw it on
the news. So I just went and got one of
those dogs and that's where I got him. And he
was a staff retire bull, basically a miniature pibble, and
he was awesome. So I didn't know if I want
another dog. Got Stanley and immediately he's a big jerk,
(01:53):
always running through stuff, always biting. He's a puppy, so
it was cute. As he got older, it wasn't so cute,
but tons of energy and I heard bulldog just fat
and did nothing. Not exactly the case. He's great now
love him, but man, the first like six months, I
was like, I don't think I like this dog, but
(02:14):
I was in it and my then girlfriend, then fiance,
then wife, all same person. She was like, no, we're
gonna love this dog. We're gonna love the meanness out
of it, and we did, and he's an excellent dog.
Very expensive. I think at this point we've lost track
of all the minor and major surgeries. It's got to
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be somewhere around fifteen, mostly major torn muscles, getting his
eye fixed, getting his wiener fixed. He's torn both acls.
And did you know, and I've mentioned this before, that
dogs have basically two arms and two legs, not four legs,
because they don't have acls in their front legs arms.
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They only have a in their back legs and that's
why those are legs, because they work like legs. So
had him, we'll just say fifteen surgeries, thousands and thousands
and thousands of dollars. Recently, he got a staph infection,
and thank god we are close friends with doctor Josie,
(03:22):
because that's not just take a pill. It was months
and months of trying to get the right medications. So
that's what we did, and his stomach was all jacked
up and he was pooping water forever he was feeling bad,
he really wouldn't want to get out of bed. And
now that there's a big difference in bulldog from getting
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out of bed and not getting out of bed, I
guess it's just how happy you are when you're in
the bed, because he was someone who would stay in
bed all the time, but he'd be kind of happy
when you get out. In this instance, he would stay
in the bed, not be happy and be sad. So
we knew something was up. So we were all this medicine,
(04:06):
and so months later after going through a process, and
she was calling like her old professors at Ohio State
who run the lab unit. I'm making up words now,
but that's what she was doing. She's like, what do
we do with this dog? She was getting blood levels.
We thought he actually might die, which made me really
sad because I do love him, which, by the way,
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don't get a bulldog, not unless you have like an
extra hundred thousand dollars for his whole life, because they're
going to be sick the whole time because they are
bred basically so perfectly. Where ll are The dog that
we adopted that we found is like iron, nothing affects her.
So Stanley sick again, and we're going through the process,
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and he's starting to lose a lot of his hair
because he'd get these big wet spots on him from
having staff infection, and his hair would fall out, and
he had these I didn't put him on Instagram for
a while because they had all these gaping holes. And
he was like, why don't you put me on Instagram?
And I'm like, you don't even know what Instagram is
your dog? And he's like, ah, he's like, you don't
follow me, and I'm like, you don't have an account,
(05:08):
you don't have fingers. So through all the process trial
and error, he'd get pretty much better, get another wet
spot on him, have to start over. He'd get pretty
much better, a smaller wet spot, but still a wet spot.
And I don't even know how to describe the wet spot,
but it was on his body and it was some
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sort of pussy liquid. All the hair would fall out
and then it would just be bald and he would
look like he was dying. Finally got him on track,
hair started growing back. But the process with feeding him
every morning is we wake up I do. I feed
him every morning and every night I wake up and
first I go and we have a bag of fiber.
(05:53):
That's the same fiber that you and I would eat
if we're reading fiber. Now I've done fiber pills or
I've done the cookies. But we have this bag of
fiber and his a little scoop. Put a little scoop
in that. We have his little tiny bowls. We put
scoop in the bowl and I fill I don't know
a few ounces of water and mix it up with
my finger and I have to let it sit for
like five to seven minutes until it hardens. It feels
(06:15):
more like rubber than it does. I could pure solid,
but you get it. So he also has this powder
that he takes, and so I gotta put the powder
in the fiber. So from when I start to when
I just finished the first part, it's probably seven minutes.
It's a probotic. So we had a bulldog right now
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having fiber on a probotic before he even gets his food.
So we go in and in the morning, he's got
two pills that he takes. Take the first bill, put
it inside of a pill pocket, Take a second bill,
put it inside the same pill pocket, and squeeze it
up and give it to him. Ella, our other dog,
watches him get a treat basically, so she's like, I
need a treat, so I have to give her a
(06:56):
pill pocket. Hers has no pill in it. So then
I put both of their foods in a bowl I
give ell Or hers. I feed them in different rooms
because she's a little resource guarter. So I put his
food in, then I dump the probotic that is in
the fiber into and then I put another scoop on
top of that. Mix it all up, put it out.
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It's like a nine minute or deal. Just feed them
every morning. We'd do the same thing at five pm,
except now I have to do three pills, and so
it was many, many more pills than that. We have
actually limited our pill intake. It's far less than it
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was even three months ago. I think he's getting better,
but he's been he runs now. It's crazy to see
him back healthy again. But he's six years old. And
bulldogs there are live spans only like nine, which sucks
to think about. But I would not recommend anybody from
the jump to get a bulldog unless you just wanted
a freaking bulldog. Don't get a bulldog. I love him,
I wouldn't trade him for anything, but a bulldog is
(07:59):
bad news. Now. Ell Aer, on the other hand, whole
different animal literally and figuratively. Or he's small and fat.
She is tall and lean and runs like crazy and
needs to get her energy out. And so the thing
that we've been dealing with with them recently is she's
a perimeter checker, so she's always running around checking the
perimeter for a way out. She'd know how good she
has it. She wants a way out of a great life.
(08:22):
She must not remember the mean I don't know six
months on the street before we got her, but she
was a mean dog too when we got her. Now
for different reasons. She was mean because she had to
protect anything she had, which is why she's still a
bit of a resource card, and so she would bite
all the time too, bite bite, bite, bite, bite, like crazy.
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She's the sweetest now, no real risk of that at all,
but she always wants to break out. She's always looking
for animals too, So we have a few acres of
woods in the backyard, and at times she will go
and kill an animal and bring it to the house
and sometimes bring it in the house through the doggy door,
and I try to get out of the house from
my wife sees it because it's pretty disgusting. Rabbit, squirrels,
grab bag. I mean, she's brought an animals before I
(09:05):
even know what it was. Because she had destroyed them.
And you may have seen it on Instagram. But she
found a hole, and I went and searched through the
backyard to find it, all the back woods because again
we got a few acres of woods and it's thick.
It's like thick and thick. There are parts of it's
hard to get through. So I ord her two machetes
off of Amazon, and I went and cut a trail
in the woods just to get back in the woods
to try to find her. It wasn't to get everywhere
in the woods. Some of it I can't get to
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trees of fallen again super thick for a reason, right security, privacy.
But she found a hole. Turns out it wasn't a
hole she found. It was the neighbors have a tree.
The tree fell onto a fence, destroyed the fence, and
it wasn't a hole. It was a full portal to
a whole different world. And so we have air tags
on her. And the first time, my wife's like, Eller's gone,
and I'm like what, So we go find her. Luckily
(09:47):
we found her. She was across the street and it's
a very very busy street, and it was ten thirty
at night and she's a black dog, so it's hard
to see at night. Luck that she came out in
the car. All good. It's happened four times. The first
three though I couldn't find the hole. I thought it
was a small hole. I went and I pluged up
all these little holes. I'm like, there's no way she
can get out, and not knowing that it was a
full fence that was crashed down over beside the neighbors yard.
(10:09):
So anyway, the neighbors put up a temporary fence until
they get the other one fixed, which they've almost got
to fix. A big shout out to my neighbors because
they jumped on a quick and somehow she still got through.
I don't know what she got to do again, tries
me insane. She either went under the temporary fence, over
the temper eight fence, or there's another tree on another
part of the fence that is collapsed that I can't find.
(10:29):
But we got lucky. It's four times, four times, and
we found her every time. I told my wife were
going to get her last night. We've been very fortunate
in finding her. It's not always going to be like this,
I know it. I always have the worst in my
mind the worst that we're just gonna drive out and
it ain't gonna be good. We're gonna find her and
it ain't gonna be good. So but I'm looking at
(10:51):
them both look at me as I record this podcast,
and very happy that both of them are alive because
we've been through it with them, both of them, Stanley
a lot more than all or Elers just knew at
escaping Hoo do you neat dog? For sure? So that's
been a part of what's been happening today. I made
the mistake of taking a nap way too late in
(11:14):
the afternoon. I'm not a nap guy. I would love
to be a nap guy. I'm not anti nap. I'm
very pro nap. I'm very pro nap for me. But
much like the food that I eat, if I don't
nap by a certain time, I cannot take a nap
because it will affect the rest of my day negatively.
Now food, meaning if it's past like one point fifteen,
I'm not gonna eat lunch because it's gonna affect my dinner.
(11:35):
I'll just go without because if I have lunch at
two o'clock and dinner is at six, if dinner's at
five thirty because I do eat a little earlier because
I do wake up earlier. Then it messes up dinner.
Then I can't eat dinner till seven thirty or eight,
or I don't enjoy dinner at all because it's eight
three hours ago. And then when I have dinner at
seven thirty or eight, I don't go to sleep until
(11:57):
nine thirty or ten because my body's still dieget to
the food. And even if it's not affecting me, it
affects I'm mind to the point where I think it is.
So that's basically my brain. So I donate after like
one fifteen or one twenty max for lunch because I
would like to have dinner. I will just go without.
(12:19):
Same thing for a nap. And the reason I don't
take naps is because usually I'm not home in time
to take a nap, or if I am home, i'm
back over in this studio, which I'm doing this for
my home studio. I'm back over in this studio and
I'm doing a podcast, or like right now, we're producing
this nineties podcast which has taking us probably three months
(12:41):
of this time or only through nineteen ninety three, and
for me to record it an hour episode takes like
an hour and thirty minutes because I got to record
the whole thing. We go back, We do pickups, so
there's always something to do. So if I cannot lay
down and get a nap and be awake by twelve
fifty nine PM, I cannot take a nap because it
will affect We just went through it with my eating.
(13:05):
If I take a nap at two and I sleep
until two forty five or three, then I'm all messed
up and I'm not gonna go to bed till eleven
o'clock because my sleep cycle was all off. Anyway, I
screwed up to day. I took a nap way late,
not purposefully. I did get in shorts and a cut off,
and I thought, I'm not feeling great. I'm gonna lay
in bed for a few minutes and just watch TikTok
(13:27):
gather my thoughts, which never really works because if I
lay down, there's no gathering of thoughts. There's no laying
down to kind of regather energy. It's laying down to
probably fall asleep. But I wasn't not feeling good. I
wasn't I don't have a bug, but something's up, and
so I lay down and I woke up like an
(13:49):
hour half later, and I woke up pretty close to
four o'clock, which definitely screwed up my day. And so
my wife text me and she's like, Hey, do you
want to go to so and so and get some food?
And I didn't see it for like thirty minutes. So
I responded back. I was like, I fell asleep, but
she was yeah, figured mostly because I'm on the phone
all the time and if I don't return a text
message in like fifteen minutes, I'm probably asleep. Or maybe
(14:11):
I'm in the gym. And we have a gym here
at the house and I have this program that I
work out on it. It's an app that I spent
like ninety nine dollars for the whole year and it
kind of sucks, but I mirror it to the screen
in the gym, so if text come, I don't see it.
And it was around that time which text me, so
I woke up and I was like, oh God, what
(14:33):
time is it. It's one of those two where you
don't really know, since it was like four thirty, and
I do wake up and it's there's a four as
the front number. Sometimes I was like, oh, no, is
it four in the morning or is it four pm?
So I went down to this place called flower Child.
I do believe, pretty healthy place, pretty good. What sucks
as a canny dairy? And she had full CASEO. That's
(14:55):
what I like about my wife. It also drives me
the craziest. She gives no craps about me, net respect,
Like I don't need dairy, but you know what if
she wants a full k so she's gonna have it.
It's like, ah, it sucks for you that you can't
have dairy, but I'm not gonna let that affect me.
And I respect that because I probably do the same
thing in many other ways. So we go down have dinner.
(15:19):
But I was feeling a little bit off right, and
so one of the things that I did is I
woke up and I saw the nominees for the CMA
Awards this year, And not so much to music Awards.
It's basically the same every year. Every once in a while
there's something a little different, but it's just basically the same.
So you really you already kind of know who's gonna
be nominated for the stuff. But then I saw the
(15:42):
daily national radio show nominees, and I got irritated. Now
I was a little triggered because I just woke up
from a nap, but I got a little irritated and
we weren't on the list. And some of the shows
I know, I like them, like Highway Mornings with Cody Allen.
(16:03):
I like Cody a lot from serious good dude. Happy
for Cody to be on there, riding with rowdy rowdy yates.
Not familiar, Sure it's great. The Robin Holly Stone, Rob
Stone and Holly Hutton. I like them, Will Height and
Wall Darren, Will Height and Tim Wall. I don't know them. Sure,
(16:25):
it's a great show. Big d and Bubba And so
there are these shows and five are nominated, and I'm like,
we're gonna get nominated. A little crazy if you ask me,
but okay, I still take it. I hit save image,
crop it real quick, send it off to my managers
(16:48):
of two they work together, Tom and Morgan number one,
who used to be the executive prowser on the radio show.
She's also the president of the Nashville Podcast Network. And
I send it off and I'm like, we didn't even
get nominated. What is happening? And like, I'm a little irritable,
and again it's because I woke up late from a nap,
(17:08):
and also because yeah, my feelings were a little hurt,
and I was angry because it's just a board of people.
It's not like the actual CMAS now, that is a
massive body of voters in the country music space. It
could be a record label, it could be pr it
could be radio. It's thousands of thousands of people. So
when people get mad at the CMAS, they're not actually
getting mad at a board. They're getting mad at a
(17:30):
faceless group of ten thousand voters, not fan based, but
very industry based. This in the Broadcast Awards, that's not
the case. It is a board of like eight people
and they pick, and so on my mind, I'm like,
I'm gonna find out who these eight people are. I'm
give a peace of my mind. I never actually do that.
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And so I sent it off and I'm like, we
weren't nominating, a little bit angry, a little bit sad,
And my manager get back and goes, actually won last year,
so you're not eligible this year. And I was like really,
And so he sent me the twenty twenty four personality
of the year winners we won. Yeah, so there's a
(18:13):
lot of energy that I didn't really want to put
out there. That I put out there. It didn't go
to anybody except my own team. And partially I blame
myself for not napping earlier and waking up a bit discombobulated. Yeah,
I blame it aut there.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
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and we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I've been a bit ear double anyway lately. If it's
just me and you talking, I don't know who you are,
but I appreciate you listening. Every time Dancing with the
Stars starts back, it gets brought up a lot, and
I like it because I'm very proud that I won
that show, and by me saying I want I understand
if you voted for me, we won this thing together.
(19:06):
Because I was not a good dancer. There's no part
of me that claims that I was a good dancer.
For the record, now, did I grow the most Absolutely?
Did I have the biggest fan following? Yes, they've told
me that since they can tell you nothing while you
do the show. But yes, and so I will still
see people talk about my season online. Well, By the way,
(19:27):
I went up to barstool last week. I was doing
some promo for my football podcast with Matt Castle, and
that was a lot of fun because I really liked
the shows that I went on. I went and I
hung out with Big Cat a little bit on the YAC,
I did macro dosing with PFT, I did mostly sports
with Brandon and Titus also shout out Big Ta on Macrodosing,
(19:51):
and arion Arian wasn't there. He lives in Houston and
does the show from Houston. But Big t anyway, these
are all people like in my personal entertainment space that
I jo listening to and so it was kind of cool.
And I went up and I am just interviewed, did
an hour basically on two of the shows, in like
thirty minutes on another one of them, and it was
(20:12):
go up, be compelling hopefully and then promote lots, to say,
my NFL show with Matt Cassell. And that's an audience
that hopefully I can get more people to come to.
Right that Barstol's mostly a male audience where mine for
the most part it's sixty forty female. Right, And for
the sports shows, I'm trying to find the females that
like sports or the males that listens, if I can
(20:35):
going to come over and spend a little time on
our sports shows, twenty five whistles or lots to say,
So we go over, we do lots to say, do
all the promo for that show, which, by the way,
I hated. I hate watching clips of me because sometimes
I'm just too much of a try hard because I
feel like I need to do a great job. So
(20:55):
I don't go armed with stories, but I definitely go
armed with energy. And sometimes because I am a bit
of a try hard, it comes off wonderfully. Sometimes it
comes off terribly, and it's one of the two. It
hardly ever comes off as hey, it's a pretty good appearance.
It's either great or awful. And I really wanted to
(21:18):
do a good job on these shows, and I walked
into two of the three already in progress, and so
I don't really feel like I did that great a job, honestly.
I know. When I went over to the Yak, which
is like a two hour YouTube show and Bigcat's hosting
it and there's a lot of people there, I walked
(21:40):
in midway through a conversation because I was coming off
another podcast, and Bigcat was like, Hey, do you have
an internal dialogue? And I was like, I have two
and a little bit. I was being funny, but what
I meant also was like it doesn't stop just from
hearing me talk about naps and food, right, Like it's
everything is anxiety in a form inside of me. Not
(22:01):
as severe as some people, but it's just constant. It's
like it's constantly on. And that's what I meant. It
just didn't come off that funny. It came off as
kind of try hard. I didn't like that. I didn't
like how I came off. And by the way, I
thought it was crazy that the guy they were talking about,
he did not have an internal monologue. If it's one
one talking dialogue is two people talking. But I mean,
(22:22):
I guess I was talking to me, but he was like, no,
I don't have that, and I'm like that that's crazy.
But I like that and like I came off it
was kind of I think I had an overall a
C plus appearance, but yeah, I didn't really like I
came off there. And then even on Mostly Sports, the
show I went in, I did that for a whole hour.
They wanted to talk a bit about country music and
(22:45):
Mark Titus big country music fan. I almost wrote a
bookbou country music, he said during during COVID. And I've
been a fan of Mark since, you know, back when
he was on The Ringer Days and now at Barstool.
He was a walk on at Ohio State. I don't
know him from that. I just know that from him.
But when I went to host for Rich Eisen to
fill in, I had Mark Titus come on as a
guest as a college basketball expert. Like I'm a big
(23:06):
fan of what he does, and so I went in
and he was like, let's talk about country music. And
what I also know is that probably a lot of
their audience and they're the host, so I follow them
probably don't want to hear me talking about country music
or them they didn't come there for country music. So
then I know they're all gonna be irritated to me
because I'm in there and we're talking about country music.
(23:27):
So I have this guilt already, and I have this
is all happening while we're doing the bit. I'm like, man,
people are gonna hate me because they don't want to
hear about this. This is my fault and I'm not
doing a good job, and then I just try to
match or raise the energy because if I raised the energy,
possibly it can get funnier. And I had some funny
(23:48):
one lines, but I didn't feel like that performance was
great because I see clips of it and I'm like,
look like I'm trying too hard. Went on Macrodo saying
another of us a better appearance, so loved it, had
(24:10):
a great time. I was super grateful that they had
me and they allowed me to come on all these
shows and promote lots to say, but man, I just
hate me. Sometimes it's a weird job and career whenever
everything's about you, but you get really tired of you.
And that is a constant struggle with me. We have
this research that comes back sometimes and it talks about
(24:33):
what I do good, what I do bad, what I
do terrible, what are do awesome? And I don't ever
make wholesale changes because I never allow the research to
completely modify what I'm doing. But I do listen to
the research and if it comes back like two times
in a row, that's something I hate to say testing
because I'm not going to change who I am, but
I will change how I deliver it. Sometimes if the
(24:54):
testing is I coming back for something, Yeah, I'll modify
it for sure, because I want you guys to get
the product that you desire. I'm not going to change
the contents of the product, but I can definitely change
how I deliver the product sometimes. So I hate me
a lot of times because I'm just tired of me.
And then if it's one of those rare seasons where
(25:15):
I just get into the comments and everybody's like, you
make everything about you, and I'm like, bro, I have to.
The literal name of the show is the Bobby Bone Show,
and I think I do a great job at not
being a spotlight hog. I don't need to be the
spotlight all the time. I think if Amy or Eddie
(25:36):
or Lunchbox or whomever, if they're hot, they get the ball.
I got no problem with that because we all win.
But the one thing that I can rely on and
it's up to me to do the relying is me.
And so that show is essentially about what I find interesting,
what's happening in my life of country music, but not
(26:01):
really that much. Like we play some songs sometimes I
don't even hear the songs. Interviews and then people will
get on my junk and be like, man, you get
in interviews, and I think I mentioned this at an
early one. You just sometimes you talk about yourself. I'm like, yeah,
I'm just trying to make it a conversation. Man. If
I had to sit there and ask straight questions one
after the other, it's gonna be every other interview. And
the only way that I can say interested for an
(26:21):
hour is to like have a real live conversation. But
then it's like you make it about I know, trust me.
I get enough me. Sometimes I hate me. I don't
want to see my face again. I hate watching me
in these clips. I get more tired of me than
anybody out there possibly could be tired of me. Because
(26:41):
you cannot listen. You can turn it. I can't. I
go to the mirror. I'm still right there. And I've
mentioned before how I really try not to lie, and
I think if I do it now, it's not on purpose.
I think I may have said some stuff and I
can't there's no example here. I may have said some
stuff and it turns out that maybe it wasn't true,
(27:04):
or my perception of it was wrong. I'm just covering
me here. I don't have an example of that. But
the reason I don't is because with all the shows
that I do now, I can't remember the lies. So
if I can't remember that I said something or that
I did something or felt something, I just go, okay,
how do you feel? Say it and needed to be
the same as it was whenever I said it on
what other body of work that I set it on.
(27:25):
So I hate me sometimes, I'd say about half the
time I hate me, about twenty five percent of the
time I'm okay with me, about fifteen percent of the
time I'm just tired and I don't care, and about
ten percent I'm like, hey, you're kind of cool. I've
been really working on that like yourself more thing, but
that's difficult because everything that I do, especially in the
(27:47):
public space, has been you have to amplify it or
it's not entertaining. I think having my wife has been
great because with her it has been Hey, that stuff
is important, yep, because it gives us security. But they
could take that from you, and the thing they can't
(28:08):
take from you is who you are. So let's work
on loving who we are off of a microphone or
off the camera as much as we do the one
on the camera, but she knows I hate myself when
it comes to being on mic and on camera. But yeah,
when dancing when the Stars comes up, and I did
a bunch of interview questions, it happened to be a
barstool because they had announced that day or the day
(28:30):
before the new cast. And it's been five or six years,
it's maybe six, six seven, I don't know. Since I
was on the show and I won, great experience, loved
it a plus, dit very difficult. Never thought I was
gonna win, never thought I was gonna lose because I
was just trying to survive week tweak. I was just
trying to not be the slowest person so the tiger
wouldn't eat me. And I still see people talking about
(28:53):
it as the point. And I really liked my Loo,
who finished second. He was a kid kid then I
think he's like sixteen or seventeen then great kid, extremely delightful,
and I saw him talking about how he got screwed,
and I don't think Milo got screwed. I think Milo
was the third best dancer on the show that season.
I think if you were just screwing over people because
(29:14):
they were great dancers, which is not what that shows about.
People want to say that's what it's about, but it's
not what it's about. Otherwise it would be like, let's
just find the best dancers in Hollywood and put them
on a dance competition and if you're a good dancer
already go. That's why the Bachelor of people win a
lot of times, It's because they have massive fan bases.
And you know what massive fan bases do. They bring ratings. Now,
I'm not saying that I have a massive fan base,
(29:35):
but we're dedicated. I appreciate that, and we won the show.
And I later found out that it was the greatest
gap ever from one to two, and they changed the
rules so they could keep good people on because good
people kept getting kicked off. But I saw Milo in
an interview that came across my for you saying he
got screwed and they shouldn't have kicked him off. I
(29:58):
think he got screwed. Third, we're just going off great dancers.
Tanashe on the Seaton my season was the number one
greatest dancer by far. Now, she didn't have a wonderful personality,
so she got kicked off. And personality is just as
much of it, and then two was the Fuller House,
the guy from Fuller House, and he was and I
(30:18):
think he had danced at some level. One Pablo de
Pace I think maybe he had danced and he was excellent,
like he was a professional dancer. Now he got screwed.
So I think if you're going by who got screwed
the most by being a good dancer, it's Tanashe then
one Pablo, then Milo, So I don't really think Milo
(30:40):
got screwed. I think him getting second. I think who
got screwed getting second or even first was one Pablo.
That's who got screwed the most because he was at
tanashe just didn't have the personality best dancer, no personality.
I remember one Pablo was upset when he got kicked off.
He was like, how can I get kicked off? I'm good,
But if you don't have it, if you're not number
one and something, you're not gonna win that show number
(31:00):
one as being the best dancer or have the biggest
voting pool. And if you have number one of something,
you need to have at least top six or seven
in the other And also at the end, I got
I got all tens. Now they gave it to me.
It's kind of like a Okay, you pulled this whole
thing off, but whenever the New Seas comes about it,
(31:21):
it's all up in my comments. I just get crushed
by all the Dancing with the Stars blogs. Do you
think that I set out to piss everybody off? No,
I don't mind it because I didn't do it on purpose.
If people tend to be pissed off by my actions
(31:42):
of working really hard, I wasn't even a villain on
the show. They couldn't even pay me the villain on
the show because I'm so clueless as to what I
was doing. Every week, I was like, I have no
idea what I'm doing. I was falling down, I was
getting low scores, I was apologizing, I was breaking rules,
and like I wouldn't know at the very end of
the dance, I wouldn't know it. So I flow lost once,
Like no part of me has been angry, bitter, even
(32:08):
heel in wrestling, there's a face, good guy, heal bad guy.
I was never even a heel. I've healed a little
bit in the comments, just because all those goofballs won't
leave me alone. They're like worst ever, You're the worst ever.
You know who got screwed won? Pablo Milo. Okay, they
think it's screwed. I didn't change the roles that I
was season in twenty seven. Up until season twenty seven,
(32:29):
that was exactly the same role that everybody else had
gone through. Also, I didn't want to do the show.
I didn't have interest in doing Dancing with the Stars.
It was not something I sought out to do. I
got a call from ABC going, hey, before Idle starts,
will you go do Dancing with the Stars? And I'm like, ah, okay,
what do you mean host it? No, go be a contestant,
(32:52):
and then after you get kicked off, come over to Idle. Still,
the coolest thing ever was winning. But everybody being bitter
five six years later crazy to me. The people that
are better are the ones that wouldn't have won anyway.
If what they're bitter about is what they think would
have allowed them to win, they wouldn't have won because
(33:14):
in order, the best dancers were tanache Wan, Pablo Milo.
Those three all could have fought for best Dancer. But
unless you're also getting a significant part of the vote,
you're not gonna win. But anyway, I did a whole episode.
It's just weird to constantly have people angry at you
(33:35):
for something you didn't do wrong or with any agenda.
I was clueless, but yeah, that's what's up. So I
talked about that on barstool on a few of the shows.
They brought it up because it was they just announced
the cast. You won. What was that like? And I'm like, terrible, terrible,
(33:57):
isn't It was the hardest thing ever because I was
living in LA for the most part, Miked and I
had an apartment. They put you an apartment, they pay
for an apartment, and they put you out there. And
I didn't stay with everybody else because I had to work.
I was like the one person who had to have
a job while doing the show, and so I had
to work every morning. But where the show starts at
five Central, six Eastern, it started at three am in
(34:19):
Los Angeles, So that's what I would do. Wake up
at two, go to the radio station, start at three am,
work until like eight, which is ten here, go and
train until four or five because you'd have lunch and
you'd get like four hours with your partner. And then
I would go and train in a different place by myself,
and then to work so hard and kill yourself and
(34:42):
then people still be mad at you. I didn't do
any I didn't cheat, there's no cheating. I didn't know
where I was in the running every week. I just
knew i'd never even got in the bottom three. That
is a bizarre feeling to have a group of people
that hate you for a thing that you actually did.
(35:03):
Because there are certain opinions that I have and I
get it that people don't agree with, and I'm like, yeah,
people aren't gonna like this, But I didn't even have
an opinion. I just tried hard. That's what's bizarre. And
also for a show nobody cares about, people care about
it a lot. It was also kind of weird to
go and do all those shows and we talking about
(35:23):
a bunch of dudes about dance, but they knew as
much as I did about dance, like nothing. It was
just like, what's that thing? Like, so, yeah, that's what's up.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
The Bobby cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I just kind of came over here, if I'm being honest,
to do like fifteen minutes. I was like, I get
some stuff on my mind, and I don't feel like
on the radio show, I can get really the stuff
on my mind off like this, because on the Bobby
Bone Show there are kind of two different shows, one
(36:07):
on broadcast and one that's podcast. So we do the
broadcast show and that is very much formatic because it
has to be because we only have certain amount of
TI because we've got to get back. We got their commercials,
there are songs, there are affiliates that are jumping out
of stuff at this point like that. It to me
is I've got nineteen seconds. I got to get out
in thirteen seconds this segment at five and a half minutes.
(36:28):
I can go twelve seconds over, but if I do,
I'm got to have twelve seconds second away to the side.
I got to make sure to get to Aimy at
this point. I gotta do it. That is that show.
It used to not be that way, but it definitely
is now based on how and I gotta be careful
about what I say here because there are rules against
it based on how we are judged. How about that,
(36:49):
based on how we are professionally judged. There are certain
rules and certain times you gotta do things. And we
also have to get all of the hour in, meaning
if we play two songs an hour, if we have
this many commercials, if we like I gotta get it
all in the hour, or like, if we don't get
a commercial end, the company doesn't make the money for
that commercial, and that comes back to me. So that
show definitely encapsulated in restrictions, but still fun. Now, what
(37:21):
we used to do is just put on like fifteen
or twenty minutes at the beginning of that. That was a
little more free about stuff we wanted to talk about.
That's cool and that's fun, but it really didn't scratch
the itch. And so we just started doing a podcast,
a second podcast in complete podcast form. And if you're
listening to this, you probably know that because this is
a podcast, I would assume that nobody listens to this
(37:43):
that doesn't listen to the Bobby Bone Show. I would
assume it's a very small audience. If any that only
know me from this, I think this is for sure
a tributary off the Bobby Bone Show. Ocean, a river, whatever,
a small stream of water coming off a bigger audit
of water. And so we started every day doing the
(38:05):
you know, forty five to an hour, fifteen minute extra podcast,
don't get paid any extra for it. I One, I
enjoy doing it. Two, I want you guys to feel
like you're getting a substantial amount of content from us
each day. And three sometimes it only happens like once
(38:28):
every month and a half or so, something really great
will happen in that and I'll go like, oh, let's
save that and put it in the show and kind
of chop it up a little bit because it's got
to be time time restraints. So we have worked hard
on doing that. Another thing that we do that I'm
proud of is that when we go on vacation, for
the most part, we just we leave new shows. I
hate reruns. You got to know. I hate reruns more
(38:52):
than anything because I am a consumer and I hate
hearing reruns. Or I hate when my favorite podcasts go
off and I have nothing because I definitely have my schedule.
I don't know if you guys have a schedule on
when you listen to things. When you plan to listen
to things, you probably do. You're probably like me and
you're like, oh, it's Thursday morning my Bone show, or
for me, it's like Thursday afternoon, I'm gonna listen to
(39:13):
my podcast with PFT. I have it all every day.
I know, crazy to think I would have something to
scheduled every single day, but I do that, and I
want you guys to have that with us. I think
for me it's been a bit difficult, and I don't
want to say mister company guy, but I'm kind of that,
like I'm happy with the company I work with. I
(39:34):
think IET Radio is an awesome company for me for
many reasons. And the media space is getting more difficult.
It's getting extremely saturated. It is harder for anybody to
make money. And at this point right now, and again
this is a very fluid thing. At this point right now,
our radio show financially is one of the top in
(39:54):
the country now regardless of where ratings are, because we
don't have a single rating. We're in like all these cities,
and so it's like Greensboro is doing great, Fresno it's
on fire. It's terrible. I'm just picking two places random.
So I can't control that because the next month Fresno
is doing great. Now Vegas is on fire. I can't
control that. There are a lot of things out of
my control, Like at times there are local stations that
(40:17):
we'll just go dead air and that hurts us in
that market for sure, with people listening. But there's the
thing I can do about it, because I don't even
know about it. So that's what I'm happy when you
guys DM me and you're like, we're off there here,
because I can screenshot that and send it to like
a local producer. But our company I am fortunate to
work for, and I think right now they're fortunate for
me to have me because I do a lot other
(40:40):
than the show for the sake of being a good
company guy. I never really wanted to do twenty five whistles,
especially at the beginning. I like doing it now because
we've kind of we have a like a rhythm to
it and so and it's not all sports now. I
quite know what I wanted to do at the beginning.
(41:01):
So a little backstory. I used to do a show
on Fox Sports Radio with Andy Rotick, a national show
on the weekends, and so we would do that show
then he and he was playing tennis at the time.
He'd be all over the world. I would do the
show from Austin, he would do the show from wherever, London, Tallahassee, wherever.
And so he then was like, ah, I'm done. I
got too much crap to do, like played tennis worldwide
(41:24):
and I was like, I get it. So I did
the show by myself for a while and it was me,
and then I had a bunch of like people that
helped us, like what's the work good word probably not
a good word, psychicks, But I had like everybody like
Likench Fox was a psychic on the show. So all
these people that were doing the show with me, it
was me and that was fun. And then I was like,
I'm out. I think I'm good. I was touring then
because I was having to go to all these stations
(41:45):
on the weekend and do the Fox Sports Show from
these different towns that I was touring in. So i'd
do that in the daytime, then I would go and
then do a sound check and then tour at night.
I was exhausted and I was like, man, I'm just
going to tour, and so I stopped doing the show.
And this is when DraftKings first started and they called
and they were like, hey, we want you to come
and come back to sports, Like we liked what you
(42:06):
did on Fox Sports Radio. When want you to come
back to do five days a week and I'm like,
I don't think so. Guys, like this show is just
starting to take off here in Nashville, and I was like,
I'm good on sports, like love it, but I'm gonna
focus on just touring on the weekends. And because I
was doing a lot of raging idiots, Eddie and I
were and on the weekday is a Bybone show. And
(42:30):
so they're like, okay, we will give you a lot
of money. And I was like, that's okay. I already
make a lot of money. I'm not money driven. And
they're like, it's a lot of money. And the company
came to me and said, hey, you'd make us a
lot of money. The company they want a relationship with
somebody who can do sports but doesn't talk just to
sports people. And like, I can't do five days a week,
(42:52):
and they said, would you do four days a week?
I can't do four days a week. I can't do
a good product of four days a week. Would you
do three? So it initially started one day a week.
It's a two now, but I said, okay, I can
do one day a week and we can video the
show and we'll do the show. We call it twenty
five Whistles. Because I was only doing one season of
twenty five episodes and we blew a whistle th int
of every episode and we're doing twenty five whistles and
(43:13):
we're out. That was the entire concept of the show,
twenty five whistles, and we're done with the show. And
so we did season one and they invested heavily into
the company and into me and into us, and the
company was like, this is awesome, thank you, And I'm like,
all right, gon to wrap it up. Thank you everybody.
And they're like, no, no, no, no, we'll give you more money,
(43:34):
and I'm like, it's not even about the money. I
just want to make sure what I can do is
like the product is good, and they like, do another season,
and we thought about changing the name of the show.
We didn't. And also, if I'm being completely honest, it
was awesome to me to be able to get guys
like Eddie and Kevin and Mike d extra money. Like
(43:55):
that's the motivator at that point, because the money they
were giving me wasn't changing my life. But I was like,
I'm having fun doing it, and the company's happy because
it's making them money where they're max out in a
lot of other ways with me and my guy's getting paid. Awesome, boom,
let's go keep going. So I'm doing that. So I'm
doing the Bobbycast, which I really at the time enjoyed
(44:16):
doing because it was like bringing an unknown songwriter that
was a straight passion play for us, not the Christian
play which I did. Go to that Spring Lake church camp,
go up to the passion play. Watch that boom been there,
got the T shirt, But it was a passion play
and that I was just doing it because I was
so interested in either the creativity, the behind the scenes
(44:42):
that went into these artists, like that of the artist
was kind of talking about the things that they didn't
talk about outwardly as much because people didn't care about
him as much I did. I had an interest in it.
That was fun for me because like our first guests everywhere,
like Ryan Hurd and Caitlin Smith and then it was songwriters.
(45:03):
It's super exciting with really no intention of that thing
ever growing to what it is now. It's a really
strong podcast now by itself, I mean, it's this one.
What am I talking about? It's but yes, you get it.
I'm talking about it like it's not what you're listening to.
So that one was big, and that was a couple
hours a week because it was an hour plus to
(45:25):
do it and to prep for it. And then it
was a radio show. And then I was doing Whistles
twice a week. And then Yellowstone called and they were like,
we just this podcast, and I'm like, I don't want want
to do Yellowstone podcast. I love Yellowstone the show, but
I don't know if I want to do a podcast,
and the company's like it would really help us. I
didn't make much money from the Yellowstone podcast, but it
(45:48):
was getting like two thousand streams before we took it over.
By the time we were done with it was getting
like eighty thousand an episode, and they were still like
really mean to us. So that's why I dropped out
of that one. But I had that and then the
NFL called in. The NFL's like, hey, will you do
a podcast for us. Now it's a bit like soccer
(46:11):
because I didn't work for the NFL, but the NFL
could pay iHeartRadio and get me on loan, which is
basically kind of what happened. And they pay me and
they let me go hire whatever co host I could hire,
and that was Matt Castle, who played quarterback for the Patriots,
and so the company's making money off that. I am too,
(46:32):
not a ton But it's boy Bone Show Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. There,
it's a Friday. It's on Monday, twenty five Whistles after
Bibybone Show on Tuesday. It's lots to say with Matt Castle.
On Wednesday, it's Bobbycast on Thursday. It's the twenty five
Whistles on Friday. So it stretches, it stretches me. And
(46:53):
I used to feel guilty about thinking that and saying
that because my stepdad worked at the mill warehouser shut down.
Mount Pine isn't a million anymore. But it all ends
up with the energy that you're putting out, and man,
it's a lot of energy. I'm not complaining, but there
are times where I just have no And it's also
why I hate myself, because it's a whole lot of
me and my opinions. And if it's not me talking
(47:14):
about me, it's me talking about how I feel about things.
And imagine having to talk at this level amplified for
hours and hours every single day. You would hate yourself too.
You'd hate your voice you'd say so much dumb stuff
that you don't want to watch yourself. You'd start seeing
clips of yourself on things and being like, I hate me.
It would make you question everything that you do, why
you do it, how come you don't get better. That's
(47:36):
the constant spin that I'm in. And I've planned to
just two fifteen minutes on this, I've now done fifty minutes.
So if you're in the fifty minute Club, as always,
thank you. I don't know how many people are going
to get to this because it's just me talking. But
if you don't mind sending me a DM and say, hey,
fifty minute club, just heard the episode except to what
(47:56):
I wean second week in September. Just heard that bobcast.
That would make me feel good. You don't have to,
but that would be super cool if you had to,
mister Boby Bill and send me a DM fifty minute
Club second week of September. That way, I know you
were listening to this and anything that irritated to you
or it was good from this. But that's why I
think I'm a company guy. That's why I do all
(48:17):
these shows, because I want to be an asset to
the company. Because these companies are having to make very
difficult decisions all the time about value and not human value,
but just looking at lines like is this person worth it?
We're paying them a lot of money, and yeah, they're
making that money now, but we want to get another
contract with them because looking at the trajectory of meat
(48:39):
bad blah blah. I don't want to be that person,
like I'm super sensitive about security.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby cast.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
I do turn a lot of stuff down. I say
a lot, I mean a decent amount of stuff down.
I got a company, it's not a company. My book
publishers offered me another book deal, definitely a half million
dollars short another book, and I'm not going to do
it because I don't feel like I can do it
and it be good and you guys like it and
then me promoted and not feel a bit of guilt
(49:20):
about promoting something that isn't good. So I'm not doing
it and it will probably never be offered to me
again at that level, I think. And that's much more
significant money than the other books, especially when I was
offered upfront, like because they give you a guarantee, like
an advance. I've never been offered that much before. But
(49:41):
I've just kept saying no, and I'm not I'm not
saying no to have them keep pursuing me. I'm just
saying no. So well, I'm just saying no because I
don't think I have it in me. I don't think
I have a good book in me right now. I
don't know what I would write about that I've written
about already because forever, or at least first book and
a lot of the show, the brand and was, hey,
I didn't come from anything, and now I'm trying to
(50:03):
make it. And I grew up very poor, and that resonated.
You go to research the research that we get, it's like,
do more of that, do more of that? And I'm like,
oh my god, I can't do any more of that.
Like I hate me talking about it all the time,
and I really don't talk about it as much anymore.
It does come up some because it's just who I'll
always be. That's what I relate to, Like people from
small towns that grow up with a lot of resources,
(50:24):
Like that's what my heart goes to. Still. That's because
I understand it, but I definitely don't do it as
much as I used to, even though, like I would
literally have bosses go like, hey, you need to talk
about you being poor more because it's all the new
listeners that ran. But it's like I'm entertaining the crap
out of the listeners that have veen here the whole
time that I have to hear me go wa wa way,
and then I want to reset that by letting everybody know, hey,
I'm not poor anymore, like I made it kind of
(50:47):
rich now, and I only do that to kind of
reset the fact that I'm like, I don't want to
be the post. And then I start to get annoyed
that I do that, and I think the one theme
is that I just am aload annoyed with myself. But yeah,
I know. We'd set a meetings in the company would
go like you need to really focus on how poor
you are growing up, and I'd be like, hey, listen,
(51:07):
nobody gets it more than I do. Nobody has to
use that as their brand, even honestly, I say extremely honest,
honestly and vulnerably as I have because it is all true.
I said it. Man, I can only do it so
much and they'd be like, yeah, but this, if you
look here at this number in this quadrant, this is
(51:29):
what does I'm like, I can I understand why you're
saying this, and I understand that it does appeal to
people who haven't listened a whole lot and don't know
my whole story. But there are some people that I'm
lucky enough know my whole story, and they roll their
eyes because I'm rolling my eyes sometimes not because any
of it's a lie, but because like, we get it, dude.
(51:52):
So if you ever hear that and you're like, dude,
here we go again, just know then internally I'm doing
the same thing. For the most part, there are times
where it really does. I feel like it is effective
and either telling a story, a version of a story,
a perspective from a story, but I don't do it
as much just to get it out there where it
used to be, Hey, you need to reset yourself every
(52:13):
two days and do a segment about how you grew
up specifically so you can mention that so the new
people know that. I don't do that anymore. And at
times I've tried to reset up by doing the opposite,
and even though I don't like that, either. So here
we are over fifty minutes in, just planning to come
(52:35):
down here for fifteen minutes and talk about the dogs
and what we're going through with the dogs, and how
lucky I am that the fat one is healthy and
the skinny one is safe. And I'm not a big
gratitude journal guy, but if I'm always surrounding myself with
(53:03):
reasons things suck, I'm gonna feel generally like everything sucks
because I never thought much of the corny I'm just
gonna write everything I'm thankful for. It ain't corny. I
get it now because some people, myself included, we're naturally
(53:25):
down on ourselves, and if we don't meet it with
the positive things in our life, that wave will destroy us.
Because I feel it in the past few months destroying me.
And so in the morning, I'm that guy. Not every day.
(53:46):
I try to make it every day. Sometimes I don't
have time. But I got this stupid little leather bound
book with a code on it because I don't want
anybody get into my diary. And I types code in
and I open it up and I write three or
four things that I'm thankful for, AKA that I have
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gratitude for and it don't feel like it affects me,
but I know it does because I'm constantly swimming in
negativity within myself. For the most part. It's not even
a comments thing that happens some but it's mostly within myself.
There is nothing anyone can say to me that is
a tenth as mean as the things that I say
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to myself. And so what I've tried to do is
meet that I've tried to meet that with I'm gonna
say it gratitude. And what that is for me is
just going You have so much exposure to negativity, a
lot of it provided by yourself, that we have to
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give exposure to positivity as well, or it's going to
be a miserable life. So that is what I encourage you,
my friend, who maybe I've never met, but who understands
me on a level that is extremely intimate, because you
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just listen to me talk for fifty five minutes. I
have no notes in front of me. That was all
from my head. I encourage you to find something every
day that you're thankful for, not to be hokey or corny.
But if you're being mean to yourself, it's not fair.
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It's not fair. To yourself. I'm not saying you have
to be ten pages a day, write poems, eat flowers.
I'm just saying meet the negativity and at least be even.
That's where I try to get even. If I can
get even, that's a massive win for me. So I
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think that's how we'll end this. Go get yourself even,
and if you're already out of it, out of the whole, great,
that's awesome. I don't think that little talk was for you.
God didn't plan that talk, didn't even plan to go there.
I think that talk was for me, the last part
of this, and for people that aren't even. And we
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beat ourselves up so much because of what we're not
doing right. We're overly accountable, meaning we're accountable to things
shouldn't even have to be accountable for. We are so
sensitive to our own imperfections and flaws that we don't
see the good things about us. That's what I'm talking
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to right there, talking to me. So if you guys
have a good rest of the day. We just did
over fifty minutes and I'll be talking to you soon
the next time. I plan to walk down here and
do fifteen minutes and ended up doing an hour orto
a microphone. It's gotten completely dark while I was doing this.
My wife even walked down to the window because I'm
(57:04):
down in the studio and she was like okay. I
was like, yeah, just doing done, little chat. Thank you. Everybody,
send me a DM if you don't mind, and we'll
talk again soon. Bye.
Speaker 3 (57:17):
Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production
I think maybe you guys have heard me talk about
this before, but the process of my dogs has gotten
extremely tedious, but I do it every day. So little backstory,
because we have a little room here, we have little
space to stretch out. I got Stanley about six years ago.
Stanley's a bulldog. I never wanted a bulldog. I never
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set out to get a bulldog because I had heard
that they were, I mean honestly, very expensive, not only
to buy, but to take care of. And my other dog, Bradley,
had died and had Bradley for thirteen years. My second book,
I dedicated him, and I think he would have loved
to have read that dedication, except he's a dog can't
he can't read. So he had died and that's pretty
(00:51):
rough on me. And so I didn't know if I
was never going to get another dog, honestly, and I
was talking about it a little bit and John Party
reached out and he said, Hey, my mom has bulldogs.
Do you want one of these bulldogs. This bulldog's got
like a messed up eye, and if you just pay
to get it here, you can have it. And so
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I was like, great, it's a sign. It's a sign
from the bulldog God, and so I said, yeah, cool,
because I definitely wasn't going to pay bulldog price. I
just would I went down and adopted a dog. I mean,
that's how I got Bradley, the dog before that. He
was actually a dog that was bred. He was in
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a kennel and they had rated the kennel and so
they had all these dogs and we saw it on
the news. So I just went and got one of
those dogs and that's where I got him. And he
was a staff retire bull, basically a miniature pibble, and
he was awesome. So I didn't know if I want
another dog. Got Stanley and immediately he's a big jerk,
(01:53):
always running through stuff, always biting. He's a puppy, so
it was cute. As he got older, it wasn't so cute,
but tons of energy and I heard bulldog just fat
and did nothing. Not exactly the case. He's great now
love him, but man, the first like six months, I
was like, I don't think I like this dog, but
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I was in it and my then girlfriend, then fiance,
then wife, all same person. She was like, no, we're
gonna love this dog. We're gonna love the meanness out
of it, and we did, and he's an excellent dog.
Very expensive. I think at this point we've lost track
of all the minor and major surgeries. It's got to
(02:35):
be somewhere around fifteen, mostly major torn muscles, getting his
eye fixed, getting his wiener fixed. He's torn both acls.
And did you know, and I've mentioned this before, that
dogs have basically two arms and two legs, not four legs,
because they don't have acls in their front legs arms.
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They only have a in their back legs and that's
why those are legs, because they work like legs. So
had him, we'll just say fifteen surgeries, thousands and thousands
and thousands of dollars. Recently, he got a staph infection,
and thank god we are close friends with doctor Josie,
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because that's not just take a pill. It was months
and months of trying to get the right medications. So
that's what we did, and his stomach was all jacked
up and he was pooping water forever he was feeling bad,
he really wouldn't want to get out of bed. And
now that there's a big difference in bulldog from getting
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out of bed and not getting out of bed, I
guess it's just how happy you are when you're in
the bed, because he was someone who would stay in
bed all the time, but he'd be kind of happy
when you get out. In this instance, he would stay
in the bed, not be happy and be sad. So
we knew something was up. So we were all this medicine,
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and so months later after going through a process, and
she was calling like her old professors at Ohio State
who run the lab unit. I'm making up words now,
but that's what she was doing. She's like, what do
we do with this dog? She was getting blood levels.
We thought he actually might die, which made me really
sad because I do love him, which, by the way,
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don't get a bulldog, not unless you have like an
extra hundred thousand dollars for his whole life, because they're
going to be sick the whole time because they are
bred basically so perfectly. Where ll are The dog that
we adopted that we found is like iron, nothing affects her.
So Stanley sick again, and we're going through the process,
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and he's starting to lose a lot of his hair
because he'd get these big wet spots on him from
having staff infection, and his hair would fall out, and
he had these I didn't put him on Instagram for
a while because they had all these gaping holes. And
he was like, why don't you put me on Instagram?
And I'm like, you don't even know what Instagram is
your dog? And he's like, ah, he's like, you don't
follow me, and I'm like, you don't have an account,
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you don't have fingers. So through all the process trial
and error, he'd get pretty much better, get another wet
spot on him, have to start over. He'd get pretty
much better, a smaller wet spot, but still a wet spot.
And I don't even know how to describe the wet spot,
but it was on his body and it was some
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sort of pussy liquid. All the hair would fall out
and then it would just be bald and he would
look like he was dying. Finally got him on track,
hair started growing back. But the process with feeding him
every morning is we wake up I do. I feed
him every morning and every night I wake up and
first I go and we have a bag of fiber.
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That's the same fiber that you and I would eat
if we're reading fiber. Now I've done fiber pills or
I've done the cookies. But we have this bag of
fiber and his a little scoop. Put a little scoop
in that. We have his little tiny bowls. We put
scoop in the bowl and I fill I don't know
a few ounces of water and mix it up with
my finger and I have to let it sit for
like five to seven minutes until it hardens. It feels
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more like rubber than it does. I could pure solid,
but you get it. So he also has this powder
that he takes, and so I gotta put the powder
in the fiber. So from when I start to when
I just finished the first part, it's probably seven minutes.
It's a probotic. So we had a bulldog right now
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having fiber on a probotic before he even gets his food.
So we go in and in the morning, he's got
two pills that he takes. Take the first bill, put
it inside of a pill pocket, Take a second bill,
put it inside the same pill pocket, and squeeze it
up and give it to him. Ella, our other dog,
watches him get a treat basically, so she's like, I
need a treat, so I have to give her a
(06:56):
pill pocket. Hers has no pill in it. So then
I put both of their foods in a bowl I
give ell Or hers. I feed them in different rooms
because she's a little resource guarter. So I put his
food in, then I dump the probotic that is in
the fiber into and then I put another scoop on
top of that. Mix it all up, put it out.
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It's like a nine minute or deal. Just feed them
every morning. We'd do the same thing at five pm,
except now I have to do three pills, and so
it was many, many more pills than that. We have
actually limited our pill intake. It's far less than it
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was even three months ago. I think he's getting better,
but he's been he runs now. It's crazy to see
him back healthy again. But he's six years old. And
bulldogs there are live spans only like nine, which sucks
to think about. But I would not recommend anybody from
the jump to get a bulldog unless you just wanted
a freaking bulldog. Don't get a bulldog. I love him,
I wouldn't trade him for anything, but a bulldog is
(07:59):
bad news. Now. Ell Aer, on the other hand, whole
different animal literally and figuratively. Or he's small and fat.
She is tall and lean and runs like crazy and
needs to get her energy out. And so the thing
that we've been dealing with with them recently is she's
a perimeter checker, so she's always running around checking the
perimeter for a way out. She'd know how good she
has it. She wants a way out of a great life.
(08:22):
She must not remember the mean I don't know six
months on the street before we got her, but she
was a mean dog too when we got her. Now
for different reasons. She was mean because she had to
protect anything she had, which is why she's still a
bit of a resource card, and so she would bite
all the time too, bite bite, bite, bite, bite, like crazy.
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She's the sweetest now, no real risk of that at all,
but she always wants to break out. She's always looking
for animals too, So we have a few acres of
woods in the backyard, and at times she will go
and kill an animal and bring it to the house
and sometimes bring it in the house through the doggy door,
and I try to get out of the house from
my wife sees it because it's pretty disgusting. Rabbit, squirrels,
grab bag. I mean, she's brought an animals before I
(09:05):
even know what it was. Because she had destroyed them.
And you may have seen it on Instagram. But she
found a hole, and I went and searched through the
backyard to find it, all the back woods because again
we got a few acres of woods and it's thick.
It's like thick and thick. There are parts of it's
hard to get through. So I ord her two machetes
off of Amazon, and I went and cut a trail
in the woods just to get back in the woods
to try to find her. It wasn't to get everywhere
in the woods. Some of it I can't get to
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trees of fallen again super thick for a reason, right security, privacy.
But she found a hole. Turns out it wasn't a
hole she found. It was the neighbors have a tree.
The tree fell onto a fence, destroyed the fence, and
it wasn't a hole. It was a full portal to
a whole different world. And so we have air tags
on her. And the first time, my wife's like, Eller's gone,
and I'm like what, So we go find her. Luckily
(09:47):
we found her. She was across the street and it's
a very very busy street, and it was ten thirty
at night and she's a black dog, so it's hard
to see at night. Luck that she came out in
the car. All good. It's happened four times. The first
three though I couldn't find the hole. I thought it
was a small hole. I went and I pluged up
all these little holes. I'm like, there's no way she
can get out, and not knowing that it was a
full fence that was crashed down over beside the neighbors yard.
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So anyway, the neighbors put up a temporary fence until
they get the other one fixed, which they've almost got
to fix. A big shout out to my neighbors because
they jumped on a quick and somehow she still got through.
I don't know what she got to do again, tries
me insane. She either went under the temporary fence, over
the temper eight fence, or there's another tree on another
part of the fence that is collapsed that I can't find.
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But we got lucky. It's four times, four times, and
we found her every time. I told my wife were
going to get her last night. We've been very fortunate
in finding her. It's not always going to be like this,
I know it. I always have the worst in my
mind the worst that we're just gonna drive out and
it ain't gonna be good. We're gonna find her and
it ain't gonna be good. So but I'm looking at
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them both look at me as I record this podcast,
and very happy that both of them are alive because
we've been through it with them, both of them, Stanley
a lot more than all or Elers just knew at
escaping Hoo do you neat dog? For sure? So that's
been a part of what's been happening today. I made
the mistake of taking a nap way too late in
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the afternoon. I'm not a nap guy. I would love
to be a nap guy. I'm not anti nap. I'm
very pro nap. I'm very pro nap for me. But
much like the food that I eat, if I don't
nap by a certain time, I cannot take a nap
because it will affect the rest of my day negatively.
Now food, meaning if it's past like one point fifteen,
I'm not gonna eat lunch because it's gonna affect my dinner.
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I'll just go without because if I have lunch at
two o'clock and dinner is at six, if dinner's at
five thirty because I do eat a little earlier because
I do wake up earlier. Then it messes up dinner.
Then I can't eat dinner till seven thirty or eight,
or I don't enjoy dinner at all because it's eight
three hours ago. And then when I have dinner at
seven thirty or eight, I don't go to sleep until
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nine thirty or ten because my body's still dieget to
the food. And even if it's not affecting me, it
affects I'm mind to the point where I think it is.
So that's basically my brain. So I donate after like
one fifteen or one twenty max for lunch because I
would like to have dinner. I will just go without.
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Same thing for a nap. And the reason I don't
take naps is because usually I'm not home in time
to take a nap, or if I am home, i'm
back over in this studio, which I'm doing this for
my home studio. I'm back over in this studio and
I'm doing a podcast, or like right now, we're producing
this nineties podcast which has taking us probably three months
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of this time or only through nineteen ninety three, and
for me to record it an hour episode takes like
an hour and thirty minutes because I got to record
the whole thing. We go back, We do pickups, so
there's always something to do. So if I cannot lay
down and get a nap and be awake by twelve
fifty nine PM, I cannot take a nap because it
will affect We just went through it with my eating.
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If I take a nap at two and I sleep
until two forty five or three, then I'm all messed
up and I'm not gonna go to bed till eleven
o'clock because my sleep cycle was all off. Anyway, I
screwed up to day. I took a nap way late,
not purposefully. I did get in shorts and a cut off,
and I thought, I'm not feeling great. I'm gonna lay
in bed for a few minutes and just watch TikTok
(13:27):
gather my thoughts, which never really works because if I
lay down, there's no gathering of thoughts. There's no laying
down to kind of regather energy. It's laying down to
probably fall asleep. But I wasn't not feeling good. I
wasn't I don't have a bug, but something's up, and
so I lay down and I woke up like an
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hour half later, and I woke up pretty close to
four o'clock, which definitely screwed up my day. And so
my wife text me and she's like, Hey, do you
want to go to so and so and get some food?
And I didn't see it for like thirty minutes. So
I responded back. I was like, I fell asleep, but
she was yeah, figured mostly because I'm on the phone
all the time and if I don't return a text
message in like fifteen minutes, I'm probably asleep. Or maybe
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I'm in the gym. And we have a gym here
at the house and I have this program that I
work out on it. It's an app that I spent
like ninety nine dollars for the whole year and it
kind of sucks, but I mirror it to the screen
in the gym, so if text come, I don't see it.
And it was around that time which text me, so
I woke up and I was like, oh God, what
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time is it. It's one of those two where you
don't really know, since it was like four thirty, and
I do wake up and it's there's a four as
the front number. Sometimes I was like, oh, no, is
it four in the morning or is it four pm?
So I went down to this place called flower Child.
I do believe, pretty healthy place, pretty good. What sucks
as a canny dairy? And she had full CASEO. That's
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what I like about my wife. It also drives me
the craziest. She gives no craps about me, net respect,
Like I don't need dairy, but you know what if
she wants a full k so she's gonna have it.
It's like, ah, it sucks for you that you can't
have dairy, but I'm not gonna let that affect me.
And I respect that because I probably do the same
thing in many other ways. So we go down have dinner.
(15:19):
But I was feeling a little bit off right, and
so one of the things that I did is I
woke up and I saw the nominees for the CMA
Awards this year, And not so much to music Awards.
It's basically the same every year. Every once in a while
there's something a little different, but it's just basically the same.
So you really you already kind of know who's gonna
be nominated for the stuff. But then I saw the
(15:42):
daily national radio show nominees, and I got irritated. Now
I was a little triggered because I just woke up
from a nap, but I got a little irritated and
we weren't on the list. And some of the shows
I know, I like them, like Highway Mornings with Cody Allen.
(16:03):
I like Cody a lot from serious good dude. Happy
for Cody to be on there, riding with rowdy rowdy yates.
Not familiar, Sure it's great. The Robin Holly Stone, Rob
Stone and Holly Hutton. I like them, Will Height and
Wall Darren, Will Height and Tim Wall. I don't know them. Sure,
(16:25):
it's a great show. Big d and Bubba And so
there are these shows and five are nominated, and I'm like,
we're gonna get nominated. A little crazy if you ask me,
but okay, I still take it. I hit save image,
crop it real quick, send it off to my managers
(16:48):
of two they work together, Tom and Morgan number one,
who used to be the executive prowser on the radio show.
She's also the president of the Nashville Podcast Network. And
I send it off and I'm like, we didn't even
get nominated. What is happening? And like, I'm a little irritable,
and again it's because I woke up late from a nap,
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and also because yeah, my feelings were a little hurt,
and I was angry because it's just a board of people.
It's not like the actual CMAS now, that is a
massive body of voters in the country music space. It
could be a record label, it could be pr it
could be radio. It's thousands of thousands of people. So
when people get mad at the CMAS, they're not actually
getting mad at a board. They're getting mad at a
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faceless group of ten thousand voters, not fan based, but
very industry based. This in the Broadcast Awards, that's not
the case. It is a board of like eight people
and they pick, and so on my mind, I'm like,
I'm gonna find out who these eight people are. I'm
give a peace of my mind. I never actually do that.
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And so I sent it off and I'm like, we
weren't nominating, a little bit angry, a little bit sad,
And my manager get back and goes, actually won last year,
so you're not eligible this year. And I was like really,
And so he sent me the twenty twenty four personality
of the year winners we won. Yeah, so there's a
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lot of energy that I didn't really want to put
out there. That I put out there. It didn't go
to anybody except my own team. And partially I blame
myself for not napping earlier and waking up a bit discombobulated. Yeah,
I blame it aut there.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
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Speaker 1 (18:45):
I've been a bit ear double anyway lately. If it's
just me and you talking, I don't know who you are,
but I appreciate you listening. Every time Dancing with the
Stars starts back, it gets brought up a lot, and
I like it because I'm very proud that I won
that show, and by me saying I want I understand
if you voted for me, we won this thing together.
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Because I was not a good dancer. There's no part
of me that claims that I was a good dancer.
For the record, now, did I grow the most Absolutely?
Did I have the biggest fan following? Yes, they've told
me that since they can tell you nothing while you
do the show. But yes, and so I will still
see people talk about my season online. Well, By the way,
(19:27):
I went up to barstool last week. I was doing
some promo for my football podcast with Matt Castle, and
that was a lot of fun because I really liked
the shows that I went on. I went and I
hung out with Big Cat a little bit on the YAC,
I did macro dosing with PFT, I did mostly sports
with Brandon and Titus also shout out Big Ta on Macrodosing,
(19:51):
and arion Arian wasn't there. He lives in Houston and
does the show from Houston. But Big t anyway, these
are all people like in my personal entertainment space that
I jo listening to and so it was kind of cool.
And I went up and I am just interviewed, did
an hour basically on two of the shows, in like
thirty minutes on another one of them, and it was
(20:12):
go up, be compelling hopefully and then promote lots, to say,
my NFL show with Matt Cassell. And that's an audience
that hopefully I can get more people to come to.
Right that Barstol's mostly a male audience where mine for
the most part it's sixty forty female. Right, And for
the sports shows, I'm trying to find the females that
like sports or the males that listens, if I can
(20:35):
going to come over and spend a little time on
our sports shows, twenty five whistles or lots to say,
So we go over, we do lots to say, do
all the promo for that show, which, by the way,
I hated. I hate watching clips of me because sometimes
I'm just too much of a try hard because I
feel like I need to do a great job. So
(20:55):
I don't go armed with stories, but I definitely go
armed with energy. And sometimes because I am a bit
of a try hard, it comes off wonderfully. Sometimes it
comes off terribly, and it's one of the two. It
hardly ever comes off as hey, it's a pretty good appearance.
It's either great or awful. And I really wanted to
(21:18):
do a good job on these shows, and I walked
into two of the three already in progress, and so
I don't really feel like I did that great a job, honestly.
I know. When I went over to the Yak, which
is like a two hour YouTube show and Bigcat's hosting
it and there's a lot of people there, I walked
(21:40):
in midway through a conversation because I was coming off
another podcast, and Bigcat was like, Hey, do you have
an internal dialogue? And I was like, I have two
and a little bit. I was being funny, but what
I meant also was like it doesn't stop just from
hearing me talk about naps and food, right, Like it's
everything is anxiety in a form inside of me. Not
(22:01):
as severe as some people, but it's just constant. It's
like it's constantly on. And that's what I meant. It
just didn't come off that funny. It came off as
kind of try hard. I didn't like that. I didn't
like how I came off. And by the way, I
thought it was crazy that the guy they were talking about,
he did not have an internal monologue. If it's one
one talking dialogue is two people talking. But I mean,
(22:22):
I guess I was talking to me, but he was like, no,
I don't have that, and I'm like that that's crazy.
But I like that and like I came off it
was kind of I think I had an overall a
C plus appearance, but yeah, I didn't really like I
came off there. And then even on Mostly Sports, the
show I went in, I did that for a whole hour.
They wanted to talk a bit about country music and
(22:45):
Mark Titus big country music fan. I almost wrote a
bookbou country music, he said during during COVID. And I've
been a fan of Mark since, you know, back when
he was on The Ringer Days and now at Barstool.
He was a walk on at Ohio State. I don't
know him from that. I just know that from him.
But when I went to host for Rich Eisen to
fill in, I had Mark Titus come on as a
guest as a college basketball expert. Like I'm a big
(23:06):
fan of what he does, and so I went in
and he was like, let's talk about country music. And
what I also know is that probably a lot of
their audience and they're the host, so I follow them
probably don't want to hear me talking about country music
or them they didn't come there for country music. So
then I know they're all gonna be irritated to me
because I'm in there and we're talking about country music.
(23:27):
So I have this guilt already, and I have this
is all happening while we're doing the bit. I'm like, man,
people are gonna hate me because they don't want to
hear about this. This is my fault and I'm not
doing a good job, and then I just try to
match or raise the energy because if I raised the energy,
possibly it can get funnier. And I had some funny
(23:48):
one lines, but I didn't feel like that performance was
great because I see clips of it and I'm like,
look like I'm trying too hard. Went on Macrodo saying
another of us a better appearance, so loved it, had
(24:10):
a great time. I was super grateful that they had
me and they allowed me to come on all these
shows and promote lots to say, but man, I just
hate me. Sometimes it's a weird job and career whenever
everything's about you, but you get really tired of you.
And that is a constant struggle with me. We have
this research that comes back sometimes and it talks about
(24:33):
what I do good, what I do bad, what I
do terrible, what are do awesome? And I don't ever
make wholesale changes because I never allow the research to
completely modify what I'm doing. But I do listen to
the research and if it comes back like two times
in a row, that's something I hate to say testing
because I'm not going to change who I am, but
I will change how I deliver it. Sometimes if the
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testing is I coming back for something, Yeah, I'll modify
it for sure, because I want you guys to get
the product that you desire. I'm not going to change
the contents of the product, but I can definitely change
how I deliver the product sometimes. So I hate me
a lot of times because I'm just tired of me.
And then if it's one of those rare seasons where
(25:15):
I just get into the comments and everybody's like, you
make everything about you, and I'm like, bro, I have to.
The literal name of the show is the Bobby Bone Show,
and I think I do a great job at not
being a spotlight hog. I don't need to be the
spotlight all the time. I think if Amy or Eddie
(25:36):
or Lunchbox or whomever, if they're hot, they get the ball.
I got no problem with that because we all win.
But the one thing that I can rely on and
it's up to me to do the relying is me.
And so that show is essentially about what I find interesting,
what's happening in my life of country music, but not
(26:01):
really that much. Like we play some songs sometimes I
don't even hear the songs. Interviews and then people will
get on my junk and be like, man, you get
in interviews, and I think I mentioned this at an
early one. You just sometimes you talk about yourself. I'm like, yeah,
I'm just trying to make it a conversation. Man. If
I had to sit there and ask straight questions one
after the other, it's gonna be every other interview. And
the only way that I can say interested for an
(26:21):
hour is to like have a real live conversation. But
then it's like you make it about I know, trust me.
I get enough me. Sometimes I hate me. I don't
want to see my face again. I hate watching me
in these clips. I get more tired of me than
anybody out there possibly could be tired of me. Because
(26:41):
you cannot listen. You can turn it. I can't. I
go to the mirror. I'm still right there. And I've
mentioned before how I really try not to lie, and
I think if I do it now, it's not on purpose.
I think I may have said some stuff and I
can't there's no example here. I may have said some
stuff and it turns out that maybe it wasn't true,
(27:04):
or my perception of it was wrong. I'm just covering
me here. I don't have an example of that. But
the reason I don't is because with all the shows
that I do now, I can't remember the lies. So
if I can't remember that I said something or that
I did something or felt something, I just go, okay,
how do you feel? Say it and needed to be
the same as it was whenever I said it on
what other body of work that I set it on.
(27:25):
So I hate me sometimes, I'd say about half the
time I hate me, about twenty five percent of the
time I'm okay with me, about fifteen percent of the
time I'm just tired and I don't care, and about
ten percent I'm like, hey, you're kind of cool. I've
been really working on that like yourself more thing, but
that's difficult because everything that I do, especially in the
(27:47):
public space, has been you have to amplify it or
it's not entertaining. I think having my wife has been
great because with her it has been Hey, that stuff
is important, yep, because it gives us security. But they
could take that from you, and the thing they can't
(28:08):
take from you is who you are. So let's work
on loving who we are off of a microphone or
off the camera as much as we do the one
on the camera, but she knows I hate myself when
it comes to being on mic and on camera. But yeah,
when dancing when the Stars comes up, and I did
a bunch of interview questions, it happened to be a
barstool because they had announced that day or the day
(28:30):
before the new cast. And it's been five or six years,
it's maybe six, six seven, I don't know. Since I
was on the show and I won, great experience, loved
it a plus, dit very difficult. Never thought I was
gonna win, never thought I was gonna lose because I
was just trying to survive week tweak. I was just
trying to not be the slowest person so the tiger
wouldn't eat me. And I still see people talking about
(28:53):
it as the point. And I really liked my Loo,
who finished second. He was a kid kid then I
think he's like sixteen or seventeen then great kid, extremely delightful,
and I saw him talking about how he got screwed,
and I don't think Milo got screwed. I think Milo
was the third best dancer on the show that season.
I think if you were just screwing over people because
(29:14):
they were great dancers, which is not what that shows about.
People want to say that's what it's about, but it's
not what it's about. Otherwise it would be like, let's
just find the best dancers in Hollywood and put them
on a dance competition and if you're a good dancer
already go. That's why the Bachelor of people win a
lot of times, It's because they have massive fan bases.
And you know what massive fan bases do. They bring ratings. Now,
I'm not saying that I have a massive fan base,
(29:35):
but we're dedicated. I appreciate that, and we won the show.
And I later found out that it was the greatest
gap ever from one to two, and they changed the
rules so they could keep good people on because good
people kept getting kicked off. But I saw Milo in
an interview that came across my for you saying he
got screwed and they shouldn't have kicked him off. I
(29:58):
think he got screwed. Third, we're just going off great dancers.
Tanashe on the Seaton my season was the number one
greatest dancer by far. Now, she didn't have a wonderful personality,
so she got kicked off. And personality is just as
much of it, and then two was the Fuller House,
the guy from Fuller House, and he was and I
(30:18):
think he had danced at some level. One Pablo de
Pace I think maybe he had danced and he was excellent,
like he was a professional dancer. Now he got screwed.
So I think if you're going by who got screwed
the most by being a good dancer, it's Tanashe then
one Pablo, then Milo, So I don't really think Milo
(30:40):
got screwed. I think him getting second. I think who
got screwed getting second or even first was one Pablo.
That's who got screwed the most because he was at
tanashe just didn't have the personality best dancer, no personality.
I remember one Pablo was upset when he got kicked off.
He was like, how can I get kicked off? I'm good,
But if you don't have it, if you're not number
one and something, you're not gonna win that show number
(31:00):
one as being the best dancer or have the biggest
voting pool. And if you have number one of something,
you need to have at least top six or seven
in the other And also at the end, I got
I got all tens. Now they gave it to me.
It's kind of like a Okay, you pulled this whole
thing off, but whenever the New Seas comes about it,
(31:21):
it's all up in my comments. I just get crushed
by all the Dancing with the Stars blogs. Do you
think that I set out to piss everybody off? No,
I don't mind it because I didn't do it on purpose.
If people tend to be pissed off by my actions
(31:42):
of working really hard, I wasn't even a villain on
the show. They couldn't even pay me the villain on
the show because I'm so clueless as to what I
was doing. Every week, I was like, I have no
idea what I'm doing. I was falling down, I was
getting low scores, I was apologizing, I was breaking rules,
and like I wouldn't know at the very end of
the dance, I wouldn't know it. So I flow lost once,
Like no part of me has been angry, bitter, even
(32:08):
heel in wrestling, there's a face, good guy, heal bad guy.
I was never even a heel. I've healed a little
bit in the comments, just because all those goofballs won't
leave me alone. They're like worst ever, You're the worst ever.
You know who got screwed won? Pablo Milo. Okay, they
think it's screwed. I didn't change the roles that I
was season in twenty seven. Up until season twenty seven,
(32:29):
that was exactly the same role that everybody else had
gone through. Also, I didn't want to do the show.
I didn't have interest in doing Dancing with the Stars.
It was not something I sought out to do. I
got a call from ABC going, hey, before Idle starts,
will you go do Dancing with the Stars? And I'm like, ah, okay,
what do you mean host it? No, go be a contestant,
(32:52):
and then after you get kicked off, come over to Idle. Still,
the coolest thing ever was winning. But everybody being bitter
five six years later crazy to me. The people that
are better are the ones that wouldn't have won anyway.
If what they're bitter about is what they think would
have allowed them to win, they wouldn't have won because
(33:14):
in order, the best dancers were tanache Wan, Pablo Milo.
Those three all could have fought for best Dancer. But
unless you're also getting a significant part of the vote,
you're not gonna win. But anyway, I did a whole episode.
It's just weird to constantly have people angry at you
(33:35):
for something you didn't do wrong or with any agenda.
I was clueless, but yeah, that's what's up. So I
talked about that on barstool on a few of the shows.
They brought it up because it was they just announced
the cast. You won. What was that like? And I'm like, terrible, terrible,
(33:57):
isn't It was the hardest thing ever because I was
living in LA for the most part, Miked and I
had an apartment. They put you an apartment, they pay
for an apartment, and they put you out there. And
I didn't stay with everybody else because I had to work.
I was like the one person who had to have
a job while doing the show, and so I had
to work every morning. But where the show starts at
five Central, six Eastern, it started at three am in
(34:19):
Los Angeles, So that's what I would do. Wake up
at two, go to the radio station, start at three am,
work until like eight, which is ten here, go and
train until four or five because you'd have lunch and
you'd get like four hours with your partner. And then
I would go and train in a different place by myself,
and then to work so hard and kill yourself and
(34:42):
then people still be mad at you. I didn't do
any I didn't cheat, there's no cheating. I didn't know
where I was in the running every week. I just
knew i'd never even got in the bottom three. That
is a bizarre feeling to have a group of people
that hate you for a thing that you actually did.
(35:03):
Because there are certain opinions that I have and I
get it that people don't agree with, and I'm like, yeah,
people aren't gonna like this, But I didn't even have
an opinion. I just tried hard. That's what's bizarre. And
also for a show nobody cares about, people care about
it a lot. It was also kind of weird to
go and do all those shows and we talking about
(35:23):
a bunch of dudes about dance, but they knew as
much as I did about dance, like nothing. It was
just like, what's that thing? Like, so, yeah, that's what's up.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
The Bobby cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I just kind of came over here, if I'm being honest,
to do like fifteen minutes. I was like, I get
some stuff on my mind, and I don't feel like
on the radio show, I can get really the stuff
on my mind off like this, because on the Bobby
Bone Show there are kind of two different shows, one
(36:07):
on broadcast and one that's podcast. So we do the
broadcast show and that is very much formatic because it
has to be because we only have certain amount of
TI because we've got to get back. We got their commercials,
there are songs, there are affiliates that are jumping out
of stuff at this point like that. It to me
is I've got nineteen seconds. I got to get out
in thirteen seconds this segment at five and a half minutes.
(36:28):
I can go twelve seconds over, but if I do,
I'm got to have twelve seconds second away to the side.
I got to make sure to get to Aimy at
this point. I gotta do it. That is that show.
It used to not be that way, but it definitely
is now based on how and I gotta be careful
about what I say here because there are rules against
it based on how we are judged. How about that,
(36:49):
based on how we are professionally judged. There are certain
rules and certain times you gotta do things. And we
also have to get all of the hour in, meaning
if we play two songs an hour, if we have
this many commercials, if we like I gotta get it
all in the hour, or like, if we don't get
a commercial end, the company doesn't make the money for
that commercial, and that comes back to me. So that
show definitely encapsulated in restrictions, but still fun. Now, what
(37:21):
we used to do is just put on like fifteen
or twenty minutes at the beginning of that. That was a
little more free about stuff we wanted to talk about.
That's cool and that's fun, but it really didn't scratch
the itch. And so we just started doing a podcast,
a second podcast in complete podcast form. And if you're
listening to this, you probably know that because this is
a podcast, I would assume that nobody listens to this
(37:43):
that doesn't listen to the Bobby Bone Show. I would
assume it's a very small audience. If any that only
know me from this, I think this is for sure
a tributary off the Bobby Bone Show. Ocean, a river, whatever,
a small stream of water coming off a bigger audit
of water. And so we started every day doing the
(38:05):
you know, forty five to an hour, fifteen minute extra podcast,
don't get paid any extra for it. I One, I
enjoy doing it. Two, I want you guys to feel
like you're getting a substantial amount of content from us
each day. And three sometimes it only happens like once
(38:28):
every month and a half or so, something really great
will happen in that and I'll go like, oh, let's
save that and put it in the show and kind
of chop it up a little bit because it's got
to be time time restraints. So we have worked hard
on doing that. Another thing that we do that I'm
proud of is that when we go on vacation, for
the most part, we just we leave new shows. I
hate reruns. You got to know. I hate reruns more
(38:52):
than anything because I am a consumer and I hate
hearing reruns. Or I hate when my favorite podcasts go
off and I have nothing because I definitely have my schedule.
I don't know if you guys have a schedule on
when you listen to things. When you plan to listen
to things, you probably do. You're probably like me and
you're like, oh, it's Thursday morning my Bone show, or
for me, it's like Thursday afternoon, I'm gonna listen to
(39:13):
my podcast with PFT. I have it all every day.
I know, crazy to think I would have something to
scheduled every single day, but I do that, and I
want you guys to have that with us. I think
for me it's been a bit difficult, and I don't
want to say mister company guy, but I'm kind of that,
like I'm happy with the company I work with. I
(39:34):
think IET Radio is an awesome company for me for
many reasons. And the media space is getting more difficult.
It's getting extremely saturated. It is harder for anybody to
make money. And at this point right now, and again
this is a very fluid thing. At this point right now,
our radio show financially is one of the top in
(39:54):
the country now regardless of where ratings are, because we
don't have a single rating. We're in like all these cities,
and so it's like Greensboro is doing great, Fresno it's
on fire. It's terrible. I'm just picking two places random.
So I can't control that because the next month Fresno
is doing great. Now Vegas is on fire. I can't
control that. There are a lot of things out of
my control, Like at times there are local stations that
(40:17):
we'll just go dead air and that hurts us in
that market for sure, with people listening. But there's the
thing I can do about it, because I don't even
know about it. So that's what I'm happy when you
guys DM me and you're like, we're off there here,
because I can screenshot that and send it to like
a local producer. But our company I am fortunate to
work for, and I think right now they're fortunate for
me to have me because I do a lot other
(40:40):
than the show for the sake of being a good
company guy. I never really wanted to do twenty five whistles,
especially at the beginning. I like doing it now because
we've kind of we have a like a rhythm to
it and so and it's not all sports now. I
quite know what I wanted to do at the beginning.
(41:01):
So a little backstory. I used to do a show
on Fox Sports Radio with Andy Rotick, a national show
on the weekends, and so we would do that show
then he and he was playing tennis at the time.
He'd be all over the world. I would do the
show from Austin, he would do the show from wherever, London, Tallahassee, wherever.
And so he then was like, ah, I'm done. I
got too much crap to do, like played tennis worldwide
(41:24):
and I was like, I get it. So I did
the show by myself for a while and it was me,
and then I had a bunch of like people that
helped us, like what's the work good word probably not
a good word, psychicks, But I had like everybody like
Likench Fox was a psychic on the show. So all
these people that were doing the show with me, it
was me and that was fun. And then I was like,
I'm out. I think I'm good. I was touring then
because I was having to go to all these stations
(41:45):
on the weekend and do the Fox Sports Show from
these different towns that I was touring in. So i'd
do that in the daytime, then I would go and
then do a sound check and then tour at night.
I was exhausted and I was like, man, I'm just
going to tour, and so I stopped doing the show.
And this is when DraftKings first started and they called
and they were like, hey, we want you to come
and come back to sports, Like we liked what you
(42:06):
did on Fox Sports Radio. When want you to come
back to do five days a week and I'm like,
I don't think so. Guys, like this show is just
starting to take off here in Nashville, and I was like,
I'm good on sports, like love it, but I'm gonna
focus on just touring on the weekends. And because I
was doing a lot of raging idiots, Eddie and I
were and on the weekday is a Bybone show. And
(42:30):
so they're like, okay, we will give you a lot
of money. And I was like, that's okay. I already
make a lot of money. I'm not money driven. And
they're like, it's a lot of money. And the company
came to me and said, hey, you'd make us a
lot of money. The company they want a relationship with
somebody who can do sports but doesn't talk just to
sports people. And like, I can't do five days a week,
(42:52):
and they said, would you do four days a week?
I can't do four days a week. I can't do
a good product of four days a week. Would you
do three? So it initially started one day a week.
It's a two now, but I said, okay, I can
do one day a week and we can video the
show and we'll do the show. We call it twenty
five Whistles. Because I was only doing one season of
twenty five episodes and we blew a whistle th int
of every episode and we're doing twenty five whistles and
(43:13):
we're out. That was the entire concept of the show,
twenty five whistles, and we're done with the show. And
so we did season one and they invested heavily into
the company and into me and into us, and the
company was like, this is awesome, thank you, And I'm like,
all right, gon to wrap it up. Thank you everybody.
And they're like, no, no, no, no, we'll give you more money,
(43:34):
and I'm like, it's not even about the money. I
just want to make sure what I can do is
like the product is good, and they like, do another season,
and we thought about changing the name of the show.
We didn't. And also, if I'm being completely honest, it
was awesome to me to be able to get guys
like Eddie and Kevin and Mike d extra money. Like
(43:55):
that's the motivator at that point, because the money they
were giving me wasn't changing my life. But I was like,
I'm having fun doing it, and the company's happy because
it's making them money where they're max out in a
lot of other ways with me and my guy's getting paid. Awesome, boom,
let's go keep going. So I'm doing that. So I'm
doing the Bobbycast, which I really at the time enjoyed
(44:16):
doing because it was like bringing an unknown songwriter that
was a straight passion play for us, not the Christian
play which I did. Go to that Spring Lake church camp,
go up to the passion play. Watch that boom been there,
got the T shirt, But it was a passion play
and that I was just doing it because I was
so interested in either the creativity, the behind the scenes
(44:42):
that went into these artists, like that of the artist
was kind of talking about the things that they didn't
talk about outwardly as much because people didn't care about
him as much I did. I had an interest in it.
That was fun for me because like our first guests everywhere,
like Ryan Hurd and Caitlin Smith and then it was songwriters.
(45:03):
It's super exciting with really no intention of that thing
ever growing to what it is now. It's a really
strong podcast now by itself, I mean, it's this one.
What am I talking about? It's but yes, you get it.
I'm talking about it like it's not what you're listening to.
So that one was big, and that was a couple
hours a week because it was an hour plus to
(45:25):
do it and to prep for it. And then it
was a radio show. And then I was doing Whistles
twice a week. And then Yellowstone called and they were like,
we just this podcast, and I'm like, I don't want want
to do Yellowstone podcast. I love Yellowstone the show, but
I don't know if I want to do a podcast,
and the company's like it would really help us. I
didn't make much money from the Yellowstone podcast, but it
(45:48):
was getting like two thousand streams before we took it over.
By the time we were done with it was getting
like eighty thousand an episode, and they were still like
really mean to us. So that's why I dropped out
of that one. But I had that and then the
NFL called in. The NFL's like, hey, will you do
a podcast for us. Now it's a bit like soccer
(46:11):
because I didn't work for the NFL, but the NFL
could pay iHeartRadio and get me on loan, which is
basically kind of what happened. And they pay me and
they let me go hire whatever co host I could hire,
and that was Matt Castle, who played quarterback for the Patriots,
and so the company's making money off that. I am too,
(46:32):
not a ton But it's boy Bone Show Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. There,
it's a Friday. It's on Monday, twenty five Whistles after
Bibybone Show on Tuesday. It's lots to say with Matt Castle.
On Wednesday, it's Bobbycast on Thursday. It's the twenty five
Whistles on Friday. So it stretches, it stretches me. And
(46:53):
I used to feel guilty about thinking that and saying
that because my stepdad worked at the mill warehouser shut down.
Mount Pine isn't a million anymore. But it all ends
up with the energy that you're putting out, and man,
it's a lot of energy. I'm not complaining, but there
are times where I just have no And it's also
why I hate myself, because it's a whole lot of
me and my opinions. And if it's not me talking
(47:14):
about me, it's me talking about how I feel about things.
And imagine having to talk at this level amplified for
hours and hours every single day. You would hate yourself too.
You'd hate your voice you'd say so much dumb stuff
that you don't want to watch yourself. You'd start seeing
clips of yourself on things and being like, I hate me.
It would make you question everything that you do, why
you do it, how come you don't get better. That's
(47:36):
the constant spin that I'm in. And I've planned to
just two fifteen minutes on this, I've now done fifty minutes.
So if you're in the fifty minute Club, as always,
thank you. I don't know how many people are going
to get to this because it's just me talking. But
if you don't mind sending me a DM and say, hey,
fifty minute club, just heard the episode except to what
(47:56):
I wean second week in September. Just heard that bobcast.
That would make me feel good. You don't have to,
but that would be super cool if you had to,
mister Boby Bill and send me a DM fifty minute
Club second week of September. That way, I know you
were listening to this and anything that irritated to you
or it was good from this. But that's why I
think I'm a company guy. That's why I do all
(48:17):
these shows, because I want to be an asset to
the company. Because these companies are having to make very
difficult decisions all the time about value and not human value,
but just looking at lines like is this person worth it?
We're paying them a lot of money, and yeah, they're
making that money now, but we want to get another
contract with them because looking at the trajectory of meat
(48:39):
bad blah blah. I don't want to be that person,
like I'm super sensitive about security.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor,
and we're back on the Bobby cast.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
I do turn a lot of stuff down. I say
a lot, I mean a decent amount of stuff down.
I got a company, it's not a company. My book
publishers offered me another book deal, definitely a half million
dollars short another book, and I'm not going to do
it because I don't feel like I can do it
and it be good and you guys like it and
then me promoted and not feel a bit of guilt
(49:20):
about promoting something that isn't good. So I'm not doing
it and it will probably never be offered to me
again at that level, I think. And that's much more
significant money than the other books, especially when I was
offered upfront, like because they give you a guarantee, like
an advance. I've never been offered that much before. But
(49:41):
I've just kept saying no, and I'm not I'm not
saying no to have them keep pursuing me. I'm just
saying no. So well, I'm just saying no because I
don't think I have it in me. I don't think
I have a good book in me right now. I
don't know what I would write about that I've written
about already because forever, or at least first book and
a lot of the show, the brand and was, hey,
I didn't come from anything, and now I'm trying to
(50:03):
make it. And I grew up very poor, and that resonated.
You go to research the research that we get, it's like,
do more of that, do more of that? And I'm like,
oh my god, I can't do any more of that.
Like I hate me talking about it all the time,
and I really don't talk about it as much anymore.
It does come up some because it's just who I'll
always be. That's what I relate to, Like people from
small towns that grow up with a lot of resources,
(50:24):
Like that's what my heart goes to. Still. That's because
I understand it, but I definitely don't do it as
much as I used to, even though, like I would
literally have bosses go like, hey, you need to talk
about you being poor more because it's all the new
listeners that ran. But it's like I'm entertaining the crap
out of the listeners that have veen here the whole
time that I have to hear me go wa wa way,
and then I want to reset that by letting everybody know, hey,
I'm not poor anymore, like I made it kind of
(50:47):
rich now, and I only do that to kind of
reset the fact that I'm like, I don't want to
be the post. And then I start to get annoyed
that I do that, and I think the one theme
is that I just am aload annoyed with myself. But yeah,
I know. We'd set a meetings in the company would
go like you need to really focus on how poor
you are growing up, and I'd be like, hey, listen,
(51:07):
nobody gets it more than I do. Nobody has to
use that as their brand, even honestly, I say extremely honest,
honestly and vulnerably as I have because it is all true.
I said it. Man, I can only do it so
much and they'd be like, yeah, but this, if you
look here at this number in this quadrant, this is
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what does I'm like, I can I understand why you're
saying this, and I understand that it does appeal to
people who haven't listened a whole lot and don't know
my whole story. But there are some people that I'm
lucky enough know my whole story, and they roll their
eyes because I'm rolling my eyes sometimes not because any
of it's a lie, but because like, we get it, dude.
(51:52):
So if you ever hear that and you're like, dude,
here we go again, just know then internally I'm doing
the same thing. For the most part, there are times
where it really does. I feel like it is effective
and either telling a story, a version of a story,
a perspective from a story, but I don't do it
as much just to get it out there where it
used to be, Hey, you need to reset yourself every
(52:13):
two days and do a segment about how you grew
up specifically so you can mention that so the new
people know that. I don't do that anymore. And at
times I've tried to reset up by doing the opposite,
and even though I don't like that, either. So here
we are over fifty minutes in, just planning to come
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down here for fifteen minutes and talk about the dogs
and what we're going through with the dogs, and how
lucky I am that the fat one is healthy and
the skinny one is safe. And I'm not a big
gratitude journal guy, but if I'm always surrounding myself with
(53:03):
reasons things suck, I'm gonna feel generally like everything sucks
because I never thought much of the corny I'm just
gonna write everything I'm thankful for. It ain't corny. I
get it now because some people, myself included, we're naturally
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down on ourselves, and if we don't meet it with
the positive things in our life, that wave will destroy us.
Because I feel it in the past few months destroying me.
And so in the morning, I'm that guy. Not every day.
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I try to make it every day. Sometimes I don't
have time. But I got this stupid little leather bound
book with a code on it because I don't want
anybody get into my diary. And I types code in
and I open it up and I write three or
four things that I'm thankful for, AKA that I have
(54:09):
gratitude for and it don't feel like it affects me,
but I know it does because I'm constantly swimming in
negativity within myself. For the most part. It's not even
a comments thing that happens some but it's mostly within myself.
There is nothing anyone can say to me that is
a tenth as mean as the things that I say
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to myself. And so what I've tried to do is
meet that I've tried to meet that with I'm gonna
say it gratitude. And what that is for me is
just going You have so much exposure to negativity, a
lot of it provided by yourself, that we have to
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give exposure to positivity as well, or it's going to
be a miserable life. So that is what I encourage you,
my friend, who maybe I've never met, but who understands
me on a level that is extremely intimate, because you
(55:17):
just listen to me talk for fifty five minutes. I
have no notes in front of me. That was all
from my head. I encourage you to find something every
day that you're thankful for, not to be hokey or corny.
But if you're being mean to yourself, it's not fair.
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It's not fair. To yourself. I'm not saying you have
to be ten pages a day, write poems, eat flowers.
I'm just saying meet the negativity and at least be even.
That's where I try to get even. If I can
get even, that's a massive win for me. So I
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think that's how we'll end this. Go get yourself even,
and if you're already out of it, out of the whole, great,
that's awesome. I don't think that little talk was for you.
God didn't plan that talk, didn't even plan to go there.
I think that talk was for me, the last part
of this, and for people that aren't even. And we
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beat ourselves up so much because of what we're not
doing right. We're overly accountable, meaning we're accountable to things
shouldn't even have to be accountable for. We are so
sensitive to our own imperfections and flaws that we don't
see the good things about us. That's what I'm talking
(56:43):
to right there, talking to me. So if you guys
have a good rest of the day. We just did
over fifty minutes and I'll be talking to you soon
the next time. I plan to walk down here and
do fifteen minutes and ended up doing an hour orto
a microphone. It's gotten completely dark while I was doing this.
My wife even walked down to the window because I'm
(57:04):
down in the studio and she was like okay. I
was like, yeah, just doing done, little chat. Thank you. Everybody,
send me a DM if you don't mind, and we'll
talk again soon. Bye.
Speaker 3 (57:17):
Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production
Host
Bobby Bones
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