#147 - How Bobby Cancelled Dancing with the Stars

I thought we'd stay here. UM and I don't pretty much pays for the giving a stipend up front for all hotel, all everything, and this place is pretty nice. And I ordered some breakfast and there was a banana and the bananas eight dollars. I didn't know that until they came. It says sliced fresh banana eight dollars and it wasn't even full banana, was only a half banana. So that's a sixteen dollar banana. So I'm actually looking at the food right now. I'm gonna order because I

want to talk about the Dancing with the Stars controversy. Um, there's no phone, phone, it's gonna order some food. UM. Yeah, we'll come back to that second. UM for me. I wanted to come on. And first of all, let me say that thanks to LifeLock, who is our sponsor here on episode forty seven. And if this sounds a little different than the rest, I felt like we need to grab a microphone and just talk about this while it was still fresh. Uh. First, let me think life Flock

for all that holiday online shopping that you're doing. Here are some basic cyber safety guylines. One, don't shop from sites that don't have S s L encryption that you may be like me, you know what that means. What that means is make sure if you go to a U r L that it's HTTPS, not just h T t P. Make sure has that S on the end, and make sure there's that icon padlock because that means it's secure. It means it's more secure than than if not.

And so you're looking for deals, you're online, you're shopping. It's all this stuff for the holidays. Uh, you need life Flock. I have life Flock. Good thing. Life Flock. Identity Theft Protection has the power of Norton Security to help protect you against threats to your identity and your devices. Because I love it. No one can prevent all I did anything after cybercrime or monitor transactions at all businesses.

But no matter the season, LifeLock with Norton Security is the right choice to help like out for your threats you might miss on your own. They're there for you. They've been there for me. Go to life flock dot com or called one life flock promo code bones for an extra off your first year. Promo code bones an extra fifteen percent off your first year at life flock dot com. Again, I'm a big LifeLock guide. They've saved me a few times. Um, So this is what happened

over the course of the last couple of days. Is that? And I guess this was not news to me because I already knew. And I think we're gonna title this thing, um, how Bobby canceled Dancing with the Stars or something like that, which is an overly dramatic thing because that actually had nothing to do with it. But so the big news came out yesterday. I think they say Dancing with the

Stars is skipping it's spring season. And then a lot of the news out let's decided to continue the story by going because of controversy, see'll win by Bobby Bones and talking about how some people were upset and that's why this show is skipping a season, which I'm mere to tell you it isn't. And I don't know what I'm supposed to know when I supposed to know it. But I'm in a weird place because I work on the show that's on ABC in the spring now, which

is American Idol. And so even last year, Dancing with the Stars did not do a full spring show because of American Idol. They did a um, they did uh an abbreviated athletes season, and I think even talking with people on the show, and you have to also know that I love that show. I didn't love the show before I did it because I didn't spend enough time with that I don't know, you know, I had seen

it in clips and watch parts of it. But now after being a part of Dancing with the Stars, like, I'm such a big fan of the people there that run the show and that put me on the show. So again I'm biased because I'm such a fan of that whole organization. So no that as I'm talking about it, but you know, I am part of the ABC family because I did idle last year. I did Miss America. They put me on Dancing with the Stars, and they knew I was going to idle full time this year.

So I'm very much part of ABC. So I've been privy to hearing conversations about scheduling for months and months and months. And I remember last year when I don't came on for the first time. I believe it took Dancing with the Stars off in the springtime, so they only had a short time before they got to the fall season. So they did the sports the athletes this year.

That's basically all they're not doing is that abbreviated athletes season and so, but the big headline is Dancing with the Stars canceled the old show, no one will ever dance again in America, And there's your face, yeah, and there's my face. And so it's just people bashing me on every website, which is fine. Listen, I got bashed

loot anyway for being on this show. But first things first, them from every indication I've had from both shows I'm working on, and for the last months, this was already happening before I finished twelve or first. Much happier that I finished first. I'm actually in my Dancing with the Stars robe right now. It was just returned to me from my dressing room. Was very nice with them to do UM. So it had nothing to do with the controversial ending. It had everything to do with Idle coming

on in the spring. UM. I don't know if they felt like they were able to do that the show justice in a short period of time with the athletes, because I feel like they thought they had a great cast and just from talking to the dancers, like I know all of them and even the producers that they felt like they had something really special with that Athletes show, but they did not have enough time to actually do it justice, and then it was rushed, and I just

don't think they wanted to rush it again. And it's exactly the same as last year except for that one rushed season. But not if you like at the Internet. I feel like the Internet. I canceled Dancing with the

Stars because I won. The shocking thing to me about all of this with Dancing with the Stars and me is a lot of times if I do something controversial ish, which at this point I'm not even controversial, there was a time in my career where I was just piss and bee go off because I'll be like let's just see what happens. I don't feel the need to do that now because I actually have things that I'm working

for instead of things I'm working against. But I did nothing on this show actually create this anti Bobby because there's a large anti Bobby crowd from Dancing with the Stars. I I mean, I did nothing except go to practice every day, dance as hard as I could, and just be me on that show. Like I didn't not take it seriously. I think I actually embody what that show is meant to be someone who doesn't know how to

dance and gets better as the season goes. And I was walking on American Idol today because we're taping Hollywood Week, and people were coming up to me like feeling sorry for me, like apologizing because they had seen the Internet, and they were like, hey, man, are you okay, Like, don't because some of those guys switched shows too. They just went over to American Idol from Dancing with the Stars and they were like, man, I hope you don't see that and think that that everybody hates you. And

I was like, I didn't think that. I do now maybe I kind of do think that a little bit um, but even the dancers. And I can tell you just from from me with Sharna, she knew there wasn't gonna be like everyone's known for such a long time that it had nothing to do with me winning that show, and so I kind of just wanted to come on and say that because people won't leave alone, like news people are reaching out to me. Um, I get the stray comment now like congratulations costing people their job? Like

what are you talking about? And secondly, um, what about all the jobs that opened into other shows? I didn't think about that. That's just logically, But no, Aman Dancing Stars will not be on the Spring because American Idol will be on Sundays in the Mondays in the Spring in that spot, and so I know that because I'm on that show too. So I think that's that part that I just kind of wanted to address, is that

actually had nothing to do with it. I wish that I had the kind of power that they would cancel the show, because the whole world was so shocked that

I wanted a reality show. Yeah, for anyone to even think this obviolutely an article at Good Housekeeping and they have written so many bad articles about me, just trying to stir stuff up, and it's been so difficult for me to not jump back at them because they've just written stuff that isn't true, like they've been clickbait central and Good Housekeeping of all plays people wouldn't buy Apron there, you know, look at apple Pie by Apron. But man, they are die hard, and I'm glad they're die hard

dancing with the stars because now I am. But man, they have been on my balls all year except for like one article. One time they were like bi bones talk smack to Alexis Wren and other people because saying they're not working. No, that's not what I said. All I said was I didn't get to go to Disney World because I had to work a job, and my job literally would not let me go to disney World. And I would have loved to went to Disney World, but we had up be in a radio studio five six, seven,

eight hours and we were traveling across the country. So I don't know why Good Housekeeping has a beef with This may be the wimpiest beef of all time. Bobby von is Good Housekeeping. They went hard today. They probably the meanest article, but it's consistent with kind of how they've been treating me. But I'm a big boy. I won the show. I didn't win it that everyone keeps saying controversial. I won the show by the rules. I played the game exactly as it was supposed to be played.

There was nothing in my favorite, my my favorite um part about it all as people that are demanding that they change the rules. That's like someone now again not to get political. And I made the reference before go you know what, I didn't like an election went which changed how that people vote. Just because it didn't end the way you wanted to end doesn't mean to change

the rules. That's what they've been highlighting in some of those articles like oh, and now they're looking at changing the vote because because I want no, they're looking at highlighting it because the person who's writing the article's favorite didn't win so obviously at a bunch of votes more than anybody else. And if you're listening to this, you probably vote it. And I appreciate that, because man, we're

basically the same. But today has been a nutty day, a nutty day of people just beating me up for literally trying as hard as they could at something and that's all I have to go. I'm going to Dance with the Stars tour. Uh tomorrow I' fly to South Carolina. I've been so sick and like I got really really sick or um even you could tell at work, but I just haven't been able to shake it. And I've been able to work and do American ido what I

just cough like crazy and it's gross. But I've been so sick that I haven't able to practice the dancing. So not only did I get the show canceled, I'm gonna go out and bomb dances on the live show too. And I was you were with me and I was watching tape in the car and I was like, oh my god, I don't know I'm gonna do this. I haven't done it. Yeah. Uh. So I got to South Carolina and I do like three or four days, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the people because I

loved it. I love that whole experience, and I'd be such a good ambassador for that show and to get people who because here's the thing to like people that are will say celebrity ish, because listen, I'm not a celebrity, but I have some notoriety It's hard to get people to do that show at times because they go, why would I do Dancing with the Stars? The only really

great dancers that ever win. But I think with me coming on and winning, it does show that you usually go on to get better and show the people how much you love it and how much fun you're having and you actually have a shot at it. I'd have been a great ambassador and I still will be for that show. But those people, those die hard Dancing with the Stars people maybe are the meanest people I've ever seen.

And I watch a lot of troll groups and in times there's they're trolling me in good housekeeping too, what's the um? Let me talk about sleepbuds for a second. I'll say this, I do love these sleep buds from Bows. By the way, Mike, when a pair of bowstadphones I get, aren't those the most legit headphones ever? Sound amazing? And I didn't pay Mike to say that, And they're the best headphones maybe I think I've ever had, which is

why I got them. Everybody, uh, the sleep buds. I wear them at night if a good night's sleep is important to you, because it is me and man, haven't got a much the last few nights with the Hollywood Week and I'll talk about that coming up. But there's nothing worse than those random night noises that keep you awake, especially I'm at a hotel now to like somebody nearby, or if you're in an apartment, somebody upstairs, the dog

barking in the neighbors. So Bows fills you. And I'm glad because they're the leader and noise canceling headphones, which is what Mike's wearing right now, and they're so good. But now they have this basically this unique science innovation that covers those noises at night with soothing sounds. You choose a preloaded sound and then you put in the Bows tiny snug fitting sleep buds. And they're not ordinary

earbuds by the way. They it's like preventive noise reduction and they're soft and they go right in, you know, and they cut all the distractions. The point as you get better sleep with fewer disruptions. Right Bows dot com or try them at a Bows store near you. Also have a a little Best Buy and Amazon. I wanted to say that about Dancing with the Stars. I haven't even addressed it on social media. I haven't copied, retweeted. I was just like I was talking about it on the podcast.

I had nothing to do with the cancelation. I wish that I had that kind of power that I did. I wish the show was actually coming back quicker, because I just I would like to watch it now being outsider, like, I wish that they would put it on a different night. Um, but they're not. But it has nothing to do with me. Anyone that says otherwise and followed them don't even really good housekeeping. I want to see what out the articles they have, how to boil your chicken in seven different ways,

go to page to buy bones sucks. He's the devil. Um. But yeah, we're in a hotel uh in downtown Los Angeles. And Los Angeles is crazy for Mike and I both because we come from very small towns, and even for me, I come out here a lot, but I never do Los Angeles. I come out here and get in a

hotel and then go to work. So people like, go, l A. I think you know more l A than I do it around him because you go and like when I'm doing TV shoots and stuff, you actually gonna explore a little bit I tried to, just because it's like, I've never thought I'd be in Los Angeles at any point in my life, and now that I'm here, I'm like, all right, I have a little bit of time, I'll go check it out, and I don't come if I

have extra time. Like i'm here, I started, I do the time, and I get out of here, and so I don't get to see any of the crazy stuff. What today? What were you like? A copee player was at Starbucks right by the hotel, and I'm sitting there and like, out of nowhere, I just see a car coming down a one way the wrong way, the wrong way, and it comes up and pulls up right in front of the Starbucks. Guy gets out of the car and just takes off running and abandons his car. So two

things happen. One, the car is coming the wrong way, which you like, holy crabbing. The two he stops and jumps out of his car, jumps out of his car, bolts, and then takes off running, leaves his car right there in the middle of the road. Did you pull on and try to get on your story? I tried to, but then everybody else got and they were blocking And then I don't want to leave my computer back at the table, so I got up to see what was happening. And I think he might have like hit some buddy too.

He's probably drunk. Huh. Yeah, I mean you had to be even driven the wrong way down it one way. Oh I have, Yeah, I mean I have. And it wasn't like a super busy spot. I think I was in outside of Dallas and I remember driving down this road and these people were waving at me really hard, and I was like, wow, this is a real friendly town.

They were like doing two hand waves. They were like dude, hello, wait, and I was like, well, hello, back too, And I realized I was going because it was a two lane one way and I was just in the wrong I just drove right by them, going down the wrong way one way, and what they're waving was hey, turned around, pay attention. I was like nineteen, I wasn't drunk, but I was just an idiot. Um. So that happened. I give you a little bit about um what happened. By

the way, had that end? They the cops came, They moved the car, and then I don't think they found the guy. They loaded someone up in the back of like the ambulance that I think he he hit and that was it. Yeah, he hit somebody. I didn't see that part of it. Wow, And you didn't get any that on instan story The first thing asked Mike Way told me, did you get that in your story? Um, We've been out here all weeks taping American Idol. I would have been taping earlier, but it was back um

from Dancing with the Stars. They ABC was nice enough to go, hey, just focus on dancing, and I didn't do the auditions, which is I was supposed to. I was supposed to do every episode. Um. So this is the first time that I've been doing the show this season. It was Hollywood Week and I'd only ever seen Hollywood Week on TV before, where they put everybody in the room and then they stay up all night and they

go sing. That's you know, that's what the show kind of looks like it is, but man, it is it's so much like we we got here and they do rosa tin. I think they were like almost two hundred people. They pull them out and rose a tin and you sing and they go like four or five or six and you moved to the forward and we move back and they go back row. You're going through our front row,

you're going through. And then at the end of all of that, it's like a mad dash at the end of the night because they've been singing for like eighteen hours and they go, Okay, find your group. You can be in groups of three or four or five. And it reminds me of with me, no way everyone to pick me as on a team. And there were some kids who didn't want to get who weren't getting picked.

There were some kids who had. It was wild to watch everybody's like pick groups and they have to run and pick songs, and all the minors like UM sixteen and below maybe seventeen, maybe seventeenes of minor on the show. Um. They can only sing so many hours, so they have to get in first. And they actually got decent sleep because they can only work so many hours, so they're

all practicing their groups. UM. I think we shot for like thirteen hours yesterday up until almost two in the morning, and so ever, it was exhausted, and then we went back and watched them as sing in the groups. By the way, the last four days feel like one day, one continuous day. But then they all went, they practiced their group dances, and they were all so tired. I watched half of them forget their words. They would get

up and they play the music. You only got one shot, and they'd be like, all right, here we go, and it's like shuga pa hunt and it's like uh, one after the other. They would just forget their words, and I was like, oh, they were nervous, they were tired. It was like musical boot camp. And I think for me, what they brought me in to do is actually go in and talk to people and find the drama and

find the awesomeness and find the people's stories. And like, basically I was infiltrating what they really hadn't been able to do with just producers. And I think it'd be pretty cool, um, because I was with him the whole time. Like, if they were awake, I was awake. Is it? It wasn't tough my stet that worked at the sawmill, right, but it's tough. It's tough for me. Then doing the radio show too was tough, but it would be interesting

to see how it turns out. And Luke and Lionel and Katie then show up and they just judge them, and they line them up and some go home and some don't onto the next It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy to see from this beginning you have some kids that you start to like it, some contestants and they get cut and then you It's like, to me, it was like um volunteering at the animal shelter. You couldn't get to know every dog's name and get to know them because you start to like them and you want

to take them all home. And I'd be like, I'd start to get to know some of the contestants and I really like them to get cut and I'd be sad. I was like, there's like a hundred people. I can't be friends with everyone, but I really got invested in some of them because they're all just people from places with stories, and I hope it comes through. You know. I haven't seen any edits or anything, but that's what I've been doing. And then tomorrow. I mean, we've been

here since what Saturday's today, Thursday. That's a that's a lot. We've been here a long time. It feels like it feels like forever. How long we've been talking. We've been talking for about twenty minutes. Okay, I think this is probably enough for this. I wanted to come on and just talk about the Dancing with the Stars and give up been an idol. I had nothing to do with Dancing with the Stars delaying a season. If anything, Idle did because Idle pushed them last year, pushed him again

this year. I think that they do that show so well that I don't know that that small gap they had to do that small season that they felt that they could do the show justice in that small gap. A little bit of that is me going. I've just heard people say that, um, but I'll be back same time next year. The only thing different is that one small like half season of athletes, So get off me. You did not break the show. Did not break the show. If it, I'm glad break the show because I really

liked the show on the people. However, if I were just like a total like raging ego maniac, I would have loved to have broken the show because I have been like, how cool is that? Like I went on and one I would never have want that. I would never want that for the dancer. Some of them are my friends now, I would never want that for anyone. So for everyone who is hitting me up online. You can keep on like whatever. I don't care. I'm a

big boy. I can take it. But all these articles where they're like Bobby Bones broke the show controversial, it wasn't. There was nothing controversial about it this by the way, when they're like, one of the lowest scored people, they failed to mention that if that's the case, I must have been one of the highest scored with the people, like let's do the math here, when they're like, it's controversy because he was one of the lowest scored people ever.

By the way, I was the judges scores. But that's not all the scores, half the scores of the people. Why don't they go and one of the if not one of the highest, the highest scoring person ever on the show? Of course not. Of course they have one writer a Good Housekeeping, who's uh writing about a turkey baster and also dancing with the stars. I'm sure they're good people of a Good Housekeeping, But they have been busted me all year long. It's so weirdest combination, getting

crushed for Dancing with the Stars by Good Housekeeping. Usually it's the country music people that are like the hardcores that are after me because I'm not super traditional and I'm used to that, and I can take that. I can take the punches. But it was like a weird place. It was like Strawberry Shortcake was trying to pick a fight on the playground, like your Strawberry Shortcake, You're nice? Do you ever think about you? Was like warm and Um anything I didn't say or that you saw, do

you want to mention? It's pretty much your life thought? Yeah, alright, UM, gonna go. If you if you hear this on Instagram, you can always post and follow the Bobby Cast. You can also tell me if you heard this and if you like it. We just grabbed it in a hotel. We had this setup. Now I may do more on the road like this. You can tell us if you

like this. Um, I'm gonna go. I'm order some food and uh fly to South Carolina tomorrow and then Dougusta, Georgia, then to Birmingham, Alabama, and then I get a break, meaning I'm just gonna sleep and get better. I think for the first time, you're ready to have a break. Yeah, yeah, well because by my calendar too. I remember before I started dancing with the Stars before I started Miss America because that was the thing, because that was a big time commitment. For a bit, it was okay, all I

have to do is get to Christmas. It's gonna be a brutal five months, but if I can get there to all be worth it. I haven't had some people telling me that they didn't think I should do Dancing with the Stars, that I should focus on idle like pick one. But I really wanted to dance. I don't know why I really wanted to dance. It was like I had a calling. Um, but yeah, I'm ready for a break. So thanks to life Flock, thanks to Bows, I really would encourage you to This isn't uh not.

They're not paying me to say this again. Um, but check out the bow sleep But because they fit right near other we first time we put them in our ears, we were like, well there's like soft um and then even just the bows headphones that we have are pretty awesome. Thank you very much from the casino in Las Vegas. Where are we Millennium Millennium in Los Angeles? Uh, We're out. Thanks for episode one seven of the Bobby Cast by everybody. M h m hm