I guess episode twenty one of the Bobby Cast. Here's Monday night. Whenever we record this. I appreciate you guys being here. Our next Bobby Cast should unless something weird happens, have Lauren Elena in and on. And she's actually a friend and she's very entertaining. Man, she's a handful too, so just because I mean, there's some artists like Control, not really Lauren, so that'd be fun. That would be the next Bobby Cast. So I appreciate you guys being here.
Leonard Cohen died, and not the black people know Leonard Cohen is in my generation. If you're a music nerd or you're older, you knew who Leonard Cohen was. And so Hallelujah was and then but you don't really careful music. So he wrote it. But for me, the Jeff Buckley version it was a cover is so good and so I spent the weekend. It's funny when the artist dies, you go back in you like rerespect him because everybody it's like passing cars. Artists and songs like passing cars.
You forget how how great some things are. There's something else there, there's something else there. But someone dies, you have to go back, and you're like, oh man, here they are again. Let me go pay attention. And so Leonard Cohen died. Just how great this song is. But this is Jeff Buckley doing it. I'm just having a guitar. Do you know this song? I don't mind you know this song? Oh do? Jeff Buckley was awesome too. Hey he's about to be He's awesome. But he died in
the Mississippi River. They never found his body her. There was a secret call that David played and it pleased the Lord. But you don't really great versions like a really great song. And it's tough to cover a great song because most of the time, if you cover a great song and you put it out, it comes off it's kind of goofy. But yeah, that's one of those rare ones. Even there are a few, like Uncle Cracker did drift Away pretty well. That was risky, I mean
because drift aways a big one. Uh, there are a lot of those like that. So I spent the weekend doing that. Just are the weekend was nuts. Let me talk about this for a second. I'm sorry Blue Apron for a second while you're here. Thank you very much for being here. Not all ingredients are created equal. Fresh high quality ingredients make a real difference. So it's important
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a guitar. John Mayer has new music coming out Friday. I mean, I got a bone remember that. I can out wait a new John Mayor song is not an album, but a new John Mayer song comes out. Uh. The
weekend was weird for a bunch of reasons. I'll start with this, is that we go and we play two Raging Idiots shows in Florida, and we're about to wrap up the Raging Idiots, and we were really going to wrap up the Raging Idiots like for a long time, and then we got to offer to go play stagecoach and we were like, well, we can't say no to this, and so I guess we're gonna do like one or two shows next year because Stagecoach just h Coach is a huge festival California, and they invited us to play
and Chennai at Twain headlines that night and Marion Morris and Dan and Shay and so I was like, we can't say no. So we were doing that. Um that was announced today, but yeah, that's crazy. So we go out and we land in Fort Lauderdealty Airport. We finished the show Friday morning. We land in Fort Lauderdale, and some of this time I talked about on the show,
but there's just been some odd developments. And we park our van not a hundred feet and then not in the yards, not a hundred feet from the window that we were eating, And it was probably twelve thirty or one pm. And we have a van, and I know for a fact my backpack was underneath my seat, and the van's loaded with stuff. It's a really dark tinted window and you're not gonna get into the back windows, like your only option only to bust that front window.
And the stuff is heavy. You know, you know it's gonna be hard to steal this stuff. If it's night and there's time and access, you can really get any probably get some equipment, daytime, one pm, crowded parking lot. I'm just a surprised that the van got busted into. But what happened was my theory, and I know what's right. But my theory is justin this two left his bag and the van. His bag is so big you can't put it under a seat, so it's just right in
the middle. And someone walking around who knew what they were doing, because they tried to rip the lockout at first. First you grab the door and see it's unlocked, right, and if it's unlocked, it open the door and get whatever you want. We obviously had it locked for Then they tried to do a screw driver into the lock. I couldn't get it out. This is a rental van too, which sucks too because this is my insurance. And so then they bust the big they not the big the
side window. There are two big windows. They bust a little front part of the window and they reached it unlocked the door, and so they gotta work quick. They've just in the suits bag. As they're grabbing his bag, they see mine underneath the seat. Then they grabbed my bag, and then as they grab my bag they can see my drummer stuff and they grabbed his bag and those they had probably sixty seconds to do it all, thank you.
So we come out and we had a lunch, not a long lunch, and we walk out and they're like windows busted. I'm like, oh boy, I've been here before. We just got we got rocked and my bag's gone. I know. Immediately I was like, my bag's gone, and Justin's freaking out and everybody's trying to figure out if their stuff has been stolen. The first thing that people just they went to look at their instruments because that
was arguably the most expensive stuff. And the people have their stuff in the way back of the van have to worry because the person's not gonna go climbing over three or four seats. No instruments were stolen, thank god. Um, but at all my drummer, Justin and myself all of our laptops and then we all had stuff in our backs, like Justin as a printer in his life and more for me, it was like technical stuff, expensive stuff. A
laptop really, I mean a strong laptop. Two uh, you know, headphones, iPad um inner, ear monitors, you know, stupid expensive to whatever it all gets stolen. And I just had a conversation with my business manager, who I was so against getting a business manager for so long because I was like, man, I'm just gonna because I have to pay a bunch of people. I pay a lot of people in my life.
I have a manager, I have agents. It's weird that I'm in this place now, But when you have a lot of stuff going on, you I can't possibly negotiate a book deal. I can't possibly negotiate a recording contract with a record label. I can't negotiate a radio contract. So you have agents do that, and you have to cut them a percentage, and then you have on top of that your manager, and you cut a percent into that. So by the time you get to check, you get
about fifty of what your check is. Then taxes come out of that. So it's a being in the creative world. It's awesome. And I don't say this in a bad way, but a lot of people don't understand the lack of an athlete, for example, gets eight million dollars I got signing bonus. He's probably getting like two and a half million dollars of that realistically, So you have to because he has agents and man. But blah blah blah blah blah. Listen, I wish I was an Athlete's got eight million dollars
and I don't feel sorry for him one bit. But it's so uh what happens is, you know, you have all these these these layers of people. I call my business manager, which is someone else that I have to that I pay, and she takes care of all the business stuff, meaning she pays people for me. She does the taxes like an accountant. Plus because since I don't just have one job at a bunch of jobs, she manages all this all these other things for me. And so I said, hey, what's the deal with my insurance?
She goes, well, first of all, you have a five thousand dollars deductible, which means I get five thousand dollars before I start to get anything back. And my backpack up like twelve or thirteen thousand dollars worth of stuff, and so that I mean five grand deductibles. Oh, I have to pay it to get the rest of the stuff. But it's just I shouldn't left the bag and hindsight, and I can't even blame it on just in the suit. It's just my fault that I left my bag under
the seat. What his bag? That would have happened if my bag was Yeah, they probably still got his bag and still got gradies bag our drummer. But I can't blame Justin for having his bag out for having my stuff stolen, because if I were to have my backpack inside like I usually carry my backpack everywhere, it would have been stolen. Some people were like, if Joseph one have his bag. You can't put other people's problems, your problems on other people when you could have fixed that.
So I just got a phone called five thousand are deductible for and I talked about Drummer his deductible like super high two. And so it's like, oh, I feel terrible for everybody. So that was the start of for us, the start of the weekend. And so we drive to Fort Pierce after we sent the parking lot for three
hours waiting for a police officer to get there. All we all have to do police reports, knowing you're never gonna get any of it back, but you have to file a police report to have any of course sort of insurance claim. And so we're all doing our police reports and everybody else they were having a grand old time, and like they weren't happy we had our stuff stole in, but they were just happy. It was like they were extra happy their stuff wasn't stolen, like it made them
happier their stuff wasn't stolen. And so for the other guys, you stop was stolen. It was like this weird like we're miserable and you guys were having a better time than you should be. So we again. For me, not so much because I've been through the house robbed, I've robbed, I've been re jumped, I've been dead threats, so whatever, it still sucks. But the other guys were a little upset by everybody else being in a really chipper mood. Like at that point you gotta fake it and just
just kind of chill. Everybody's like, oh, look at the like, yeah, so will you do that? And we're gonna be late for the show. Four piers, I said, three hour drive or so, so we haul to four piers get there
just in time. We really don't even get there in time for the meat and greet we do before the show, but we do it anyway, and we're lucky that the listeners all knew that what had happened, and they were so cool, and so usually we try to spend time and talk to everybody, and we didn't get to do it as much as time as more like, hey, thank you for coming. We took a picture, and you know,
I signed books all the time. People still buy the book, which is crazy, and if you're new, it's called bare Bones. I wrote a book like eight months ago or so, and people still buy it and they ordered off Amazon or their bookstore and they bring in a sign it. But we had to kind of rushed through that, which I kind of felt guilty about, but then I was like, man,
we just got robbed. I don't know. It was a whole We had to go on stage into a show, and I tell you, man, it's hard to go on stage when you're to be an idiot when you bring like a catar show is fun. That's the We're not gonna win any awards for being the best musical at but it's it's it's a really fun show. And so it's hard to be fun after a day like that. And so that happened, and for another one of the little kinks was inside my bag. Something I wouldn't talk
about on the radio. Is that I had the medication I take for anxiety, and so I've been peeling back from the new Eventually the next few months, I'm gonna get off of it all the way. But in my book, I wrote about when I was on sleeping pills because I don't sleep well because of the anxiety. And I was on sleeping pills for a long time and I just stopped taking them. One day. I was like, you know what, I'm out. And I went through severe withdraws
like tremors and vomiting and I couldn't see straight. It was almost a week of just body awfulness, and I've never experienced anything like that. And I didn't even know what was happening really at the time until I was done, and it was I was really an awful experience. And I was like, man, if I ever have to get off something again, you just start tapering down, taking a little less, a little less less. So that's what I'm
doing now with my anxiety medicine. So I call my doctor and I'm like, hey, listen, they stole my medicine that is not taking for a couple of days, Like I'm fine not taking it for a couple of days and I'll just get back home and take it there. And he's like, no, if you just stopped taking it completely, you will have withdraw. And he said, and as your physician, I can't tell you to do that because people can get severely sick or even worse if you go through
a draw. So what happened was way to call in a prescription and I only needed for like one day. I needed a one day prescription. It wasn't like, uh, ended a new prescription and nobody would fill it because it was like coming from a different state and it was and so it's just such a pain in the butt. Finally, um drug store. But what we had to do was submit the police report with the prescription and say we don't need a full prescription. And so that was a pain.
But as I started to like pulled back from this because I would take because right now I'll take like three a day. Right now I'm wanting to only take in two a day. But I'm getting like these weird headaches in the back of my head, like I could feel like minor withdraw stuff and my eyes get blurry at times, and so I guess that's just what's gonna have to happen for the next two months or so. I'm gonna go from two probably a one and a half to one and do it that way because I
cannot go through that struggle again. I mean, it rocked me for a week, and I didn't know that you could really suffer terrible consequences if you just went cold turkey. But uh so I'm doing that now with this, with this medicine. Now, it's not something we'll talk about in
the air. Um, which is why I didn't watch Walking Dead last night as a matter of fact, because I don't want to get all amped up and did not have any medicine, and then because I wasn't taken I would take them my full medicine and I can feel it like I can actually, but I just got to find a different coping technique. I gotta go to a like a psychologist, a psychiatrist or sit side therapist of some story. I gotta get back into that and started
like fixing myself mentally. I gotta take care of myself better. And it is with being on the road too. So that happened. Then we go and we're doing all of this and stuff's been stolen medicine trying to go and I feel like an addict because I'm going into these places and we can't give you this medicine. And I'm like, okay, but you know, people come in all the time looking for medicine, like making up lies and excuses or stealing no.
And I'm just like my doctor's on the phone. I gotta play sport, you know, and I feel guilty, and I'm like telling my doctor, don't worry about it, like I'm good. I'll just have a I just feel terrible for a day and a half and come back home. It's like, at your position, I can't allow that to happen. So I like a really good doctor. Probably still good because I would have just I shouldn't say anything about it. I should have just got it it out, but I guess I had to let her know eventually. Um so
went through that. Then I got, you know, my medicine, and I was feeling fine. And we go and we play at Florida State, which was really cool because we're playing the football stadium. And we got there and it was Tyler Farr, who by the way, is a really nice guy, like Tyler a lot Hey. Yeah, actually came out played football with us for a bit Old Dominion and myself Nettie the raging idiots, and so we're there and we we're waiting Ahold a minute for like an
hour and a half. And I didn't know there were no previously hard to work with on the road. I had no idea. I only ever met him in the studio, and they seemed like nice enough guys to me. I've we've always said it, and from a couple of people that were there and not definitely not tiled. I wouldn't say anybody's name that said this to me. I would never implicate anyone, but we heard they're like, yeah, they're
difficult on the road. I was like, wow, that's weird because they're never They've never been difficult to me, but it's always in my setting. It's always in the studio, so no one's difficult. And really only one of them ever even came and said hi, which was weird. But then I started to think, what could I have done the irritated them, because what happened. Most of the time I'll say something joking and passing and it means nothing to me, but I can definitely see how it would
bother someone. So I was like, what have I said about old dominion that would make them upset at me? Because one, I've only had this one road experience with them and granted didn't go well, but it can be any list of possibility. I'm sure people would deal with
us and occasionally things don't go well. And I was like, there was that time the Eddie and I were making fun of and it's a good song to song for another time where it has like all the the lyrics and titles of other songs, and I was like, yeah, what if we did that with you know, stand up joke comedy jokes? And I just took a stand up comed joke from every comedian and made a whole set
about we were just making a joke about that. And so I thought that I actually think the song is really good, but that probably got back to I started thinking about it. I was like, yeah, that probably got back to them, and they probably are irritated at me for that if it did, or if not, they just don't like me, you know, one of them, which this is a really good song, but you know, the joke was this is all stuff from other songs, So it was you create lots of you know whatever. You can
write a book with chapters like here's this moby Duck chapter. Whatever, we're marine planes, Flower, You'll be on this time some all of them. I was singing yesterday, Fame, we can't stop it, ser food turning that can make you ve. Let's be brand sweet Cares Saturday before feeling on the ceiling. So there you go. That was it. That was my experience with them. Um. I would like to have you know one of those guys in they're all really good songwriters who made a band, and now that that's why
all our songs are so good. I really like all Dominion too. But they listen, I would imagine that they're irritated at me for the jokes about the song. And my response is I'll probably take something else to hear, take you too. I didn't even think about it. If I started thinking about irritating people by making jokes, I can on their bill to make a joke. Damn. A song called Nowhere Fast, which is my probably my favorite song off this album. This Meat and Candy album is
really good. I talked bad about him, then I talk about good there. I'm just trying to keep it real. This is called nowhere fast and good last go my Froudsy and she for the run. Run free. This good. By the way, if you're listening in your old dominion, go on in the tank. I mean, there's really nothing bad. It's just my experience. I could be completely wrong about this, but they were good though they played. I watched the play for a bit. They were good. Here's the chorus
of this song. Here breath and the last kill the hid last soon get called radiable. We were messing around. We can hardly break breaking new crowd in my bad season at our food all again going to I shouldn't say all that. I did talk to the keys player that he's blonde hair, and he was really nice. He came up and said everybody else was kind of stared at me from afar, and I was like, all right, this is awkward. Whatever. I got no problem with anybody. Really,
they're like too artists and I just don't care. And if I do care, then I can't make jokes about things, so I can't care. Anyway, I don't care. Uh. That happened this weekend and we flew back and I started replenishing all my crap that was stolen. And people always
say nothing worse than a thief. You ever heard that saying, Okay, that's the dumbest thaying ever, Rapists, murderers, pedophiles, there are many things worse than a thief, like hackers, you know they're it's those sayings, you know nothing, nothing worse than a thief, or you couldn't ride it any better than that. That to me bothers me, because I can write it better than that. I don't. I've never seen a situation in my entire life that I couldn't write better than
what happened. Ever, you just had aliens, or there just isn't a situation that I couldn't write better than actually happened, or worse than it actually happened. It's like giving more than I get it means you gave it you're all, but that's one dent means it's all like one means everything you know give it. He gave it two a thousand percent. You can't do that. You only have you, You only have all of you. That's what I present the pet peeves. People say you can't write it better
than that. I was like, oh my god, I could. People say, ain't nothing worse than the thief? That's what they kept saying all weekend. I was like, yeah, I mean, yeah, there, they are a lot worse than a thief. I'd read
as me still my backpack and like murder someone. So uh, it was cool to play Florida State though, because one Dion Sanders played there, and so I texted on picture of me on the scoreboard playing and he was like Danny Doggy playing in the stadium and I was like yeah, And I didn't tell them we were only playing like half because the stage was like only playing like the half of it. It wasn't like Kenney Chestney where the
entire stadium was watching. It was only happy it and uh, I I just let him think it was the whole stadium. I just showed this the picture of me on the jumbo where I was like, yeah, dude, we're playing the stadium. So that was good. Uh. Came home, went to bed. I'm gonna sleep number bed. You always sent me talking about my sleep number bed and how it's changed my life and listen, like I said, I don't sleep well anyway, but without my sleep number bed, it would just be terrible.
Last night, my sleep number setting it was my I Q was like in the nineties because I did sleep pretty hard. I found that off the medicine, I sleep harder. I just it's just harder for me to get to sleep. That makes sense. It's harder for me to get to sleep, but when I do, I sleep a lot harder because I don't have that chemical in me that doesn't allow me to go into the R E M kind of sleep. Um my sleep number setting is the thirty and now
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this in the Morning show. And it was weird that we had a day off together because usually I'm on the road and working and she's on the road and working apart working, and we get in different times on a Sunday and we just started to get an hour to hang out or something. But because she has done a couple of shows with us UM, we've actually been able to spend time together. And I got the first hotel room. I never stay with anyone on the road. On the road, you try to save money because hotels
cost money. I gotta pay for everybody's hotel and so you know, I am people share rooms. You get two beds in your share room. Like I don't even make the girls, say the guys, but like Nikkida will stay with our basis Ryan, they're both females. They stay in the room together. Eddie and a mod share room that kind of thing. I'll keep my own room. Listen, I'm my never hotel rooms. I'm bomba. I'm paying for my own room, right. But it was like, I don't think I can do that if I have a girlfriend on
the road. I don't think she and there was an odd number of girls, so I wasn't gonna buy it. Just financially was a good decision. And I was like, I never had a room by myself on the road. Is it's gonna be weird? And it was No, it was actually great because then she was like, this is how cool Lindsay is. We got back from the show in Tallahassee after we played Florida State and we've had no food. They didn't have any food there, so then
usually there's there's always catering. If it's a multi level show like that, when we go like a Raging India show, we have what's called a writer and on the rider there is a little bit of food. Back there's like ham and vegetables and stuff, but there is a catering budget, so you can go and get food from a restaurant. And there's a runner always because we do big theater shows for two thousand people or so. Um. But this it wasn't our show. It was kind of like a
joint show. And there was no food, and why I went was starving, and so I get back in the Arkansas game is on, and she went and got food to go and got at uber and picked it up herself or bought it all back to us. And I was like, dang, that's cool, because I don't want to leave the Arkansas game. And I was like I gave every one of those halfway, Like I'll go with you if you want hardcore, because listen, if like the Canadian Curling Championships we're on, I probably go get food for her.
But it was the Arkansas I lost you. We were getting killed, and she was like watch the game and it's important to you. And she went to Ted's. I've never been to Ted's, Ted's Steakhouse, Ted's Meat House, Ted's, It's a chain. They had one here in Nashville. So she went and picked it up and that's what wait for dinner. It was really good, by the way, Ted's, Ted's Meat House or whatever you called. Uh. So that's anyway that that was cool that she went out and
did that. Cool chick. She said, my buddy Scott, she's playing I think next weekend. She's not on the road with us, she's on with playing with Kid Moore next week. So buddy Scotty a message because she's playing in Kansas City. And I took all the credit for it and had nothing to do with it because my buddy Scotty, who lived next door to me growing up and out in Pine now lives in Kansas City. He took a job with the government over there. And she's like, Hey, I'm
going to play in Kansas City. I'll invite Scotty out. I forgot Scotty movie to Kansas City. Oh I got And so she remembered that, and so I was like, oh, that'd be awesome. So she texted him and was like, hey, should come out to the show. And I was like, he's not gonna come. He knows Lindsay. But I was like, Scotty is like me, he doesn't want to bother anyone. So he's going he agrees, he's gonna go out to the show with Lindsay in Kansas City and go and
be at the show and watch and stuff. And he texted me goes, hey, dude, thanks for hooking it up. I'm surprised you've been remembered. I lived in Kansas City and I was like, dude, come on, of course I remem Really, what are you talking about. We grew up together. I forgot completely and I didn't know exactly where Lindsay was playing. I didn't even know if she was going to get so many levels. I didn't know. And I
got all the credit for it. And you know what, she'll let me have the credit because she didn't care about that. She just like, she's just she's just a good person. So yeah, that happened. That that was that was a thing. Um, I'm trying to think if there's anything else, anything else I haven't touched on that that I should touch on. Well, it looks like the dynamic now between you doing a show with Londy now that
you guys are officially together. Uh, same, except for everyone now knows we're together, and so I always do one thing on the show where I like come over and like kiss it on the cheek or something, just so because everybody's thinking it. Everybody's like, Okay, we know you're together,
so are you gonna act different? And we don't. And it depends on who's playing with us, because Adalie Stovall, who plays fiddle, has done a lot more shows with us this year, and so Natalie when she's in the bench, Natalie players are right beside me. But if Natalie is not there, Lindsay does. And so Lindsay was right beside me because Natalie wasn't there, and so it was Lindsay. And then Christian Bush um who by the way, has a Grammys and c m as and he's playing with
raging idiots. That that's a good dude, like Christian Bush was in sugar Land and Christian Bush now has you know, his own stuff, but I mean that he is such a good dude. Like I just like being around that guy, Christian Bush, and I actually wrote every day is a good Day together and wrote on a Raging Idiots record,
She's at ten, I'm a two. So I got to know him a little bit because we didn't know each other at all, and we both are represented by C A A as far as our musical agents, and they were like, hey, Christian Bush is around here, and I was like, oh, that's cool, and I've never met him before. The like you love him because he's such a positive person, and um he Christian doesn't live in Nashvilles in Atlanta, and he's like you guys would get along because you're
both kind of private when you're not super public. And so we just talked to the Layer like, hey, I'm writing a song for this dope record. He was like, I love to man. I was like, wait, what you have Grammy Awards and you're write for real people and uh went over to his place in Nashville and we were like we all right about. It's like, I don't know what's like your mantra. I was like, I don't know. Every day is a good day. I try to live by goes. Let's do it. And so that's where it started.
And then we came back again and wrote She's a ten em A two or maybe the opposite order, whatever the case was, great, dude. All I'm thinking on stages is that there's like a Grammy Award winner playing guitar for me, and I'm the lead singer. I'm the worst singer of the whole group, by the way, and I'm the lead singer, and I got a Grammy winner, a freaking guitar salvant. I mean, Eddie and I are both
we're the worst two in the band. Now, if I could sing, I'd be an excellent front man because I'm very entertaining and I've learned how to do our show. I said before, I learned how to do a great show. Why I just include everything and keep everything moving around. And it's a really The show now that we do is reging it. It's a really good and I'm proud people to come see it. It didn't used to be like that. Used to be like, oh, we don't come
because we're suck. I've dropped that because the show is good. Listen again, it's not Chris Stapleton. You're not gonna come away and be like, Wow, that's the best vocals ever heard. But you're gonna go man, I smiled, and laughed and saying a lot. So yeah, I mean, right at the time where I like started to get proud of the show, we're like calling it quits. It's exhausted, but we are. I am doing this comedy tour next year, which we
haven't announce yet. I'm not being officially announcing it now except I am and I have talked about it before. But I'm doing a stand up comedy tour like January through May of next year. It doesn't get announ until the twenty November, so I don't know when you hear this, but um, right now, we're going through the two images. Wait,
that's like what's gonna be the main image? Because you have to have posters and digital images, and you know we're going to all these cities and you have to start building everything out, and so everybody wants like this. There's like this what they call the sexy image listen, nothing about me exactly, or there's the dope image. And I always go for the dope image, Like my mind goes go dope because then no one can make fun of you if you go sexy or like, what's he
trying to do? He trying to look at and so I'm in this not an argument, because there aren't arguments, but we're in the strategic conversation. My manager, Mary Force and I are like which picture to use, Like you should use one or your really good looking and I was like, yeah, I don't like that because then people are gonna think I'm going for this like good looking thing and I'm not even that good looking. Anyway, I say, we go with the dope picture with just in my head.
So I don't know which one we're gonna use yet. I gotta like at him again tonight because I sent it to Lindsay and I was like, what do you think? Because my whole humorous self deprecation and if I'm like, even if you're not good looking and you're trying to look cool, you come off it's kind of a d bag. There's a fine line to walk in this, and so
that's what I'm trying to figure out. And by the time you hear this, we may have a picture picked out to mab see there's either me with a head looking up just my head that's the dopey one, or like me with the black brick wall background when I'm like smiling to the side, that's supposedly the hot one. Listen, I'll think out the one and them are hot. But we'll see. We'll see what Lindsay says, because she kind of gets the whole. Everybody gets it. Everybody has opinions.
They're like butt holes. Everybody's got one. But that's what's happening. People are asking me, I'm not talking more about the election, and there's no word. There's no way for me to win because I don't have a person. And this is what I learned. Making fun of both of them makes everybody mad. You don't even get half of a victory. You don't even just piss off half the people. You get everybody hating you. It's not that people respect that
you're fair and make fun of both of them. It's that when you make fun of one of them, the half of the people hate you. When you make fun of Yeah, they don't know the rest of it. So I just stopped talking about it because there was no way. If I would have had someone that I was like completely for it felt wonderful about and I was like, this is my person. Although to tell you, I haven't had that, like three I just don't believe in politicians.
It's not even a little bit. This time. I trouble with both of them, but even the last election, I just have trouble with politicians in general. So it's hard for me to endorse anyone. And Secondly, people don't care about celebrity endorsements, Like people really don't care. I don't know one person that goes Miley Cyrus is voted for him. Well count me in. People don't care about celebrity endorsements, and you alienate yourself. So as a business move, it's
a bad move. Now you have to wonder and you have to weigh isn't important enough to me? Because I get some people that are like, it's important enough to me as a citizen to ago and support this person publicly and maybe bring these views to the public forefront that maybe people aren't seeing. There's that risk, and I understand that and I respect that. It's like artists that don't do cover songs because there's something that we cover songs on the show, and I'm like, I understand it,
but I'm also not gonna have you on. So I respect it and understand that that's your thing. But I gotta look at my audience and they don't want an unknown song they've never heard and from an artist that's new, So it's not gonna help me with ratings. And so unless you just blow away good like Stapleton, he could
come in and play whatever you want to care. But when they're artists that are just pretty good and they don't want to play a cover and it's just unfamiliar and the artist is unfamiliar, I'm always like, you know what, we're gonna pass. And sometimes it's a source of contention because there's been a few artists that's happened with where they're like, you know what, we just don't do covers, and I'm like, I respect that. As an artist, that's what you do. I'm glad and I hope you hold
true to that. But I as my own radio show artiste, I can't put that on because it's not the best painting I can paint for the listeners of the show. And so um the same thing. You know, I see where it means a lot for people to endorse a candidate. If you're just looking at it business, it's not a good business move. But as a person, we feel like that's more important than your business. I completely get it and understanding respected it me. I don't have anybody anyway.
But I learned, don't be against both of them. Just shut up instead of being against both of them, because I was just getting hammered. I was just getting by both sides. And it doesn't bother me to get hammered,
because I've been getting hammered my entire life. Whenever you do anything polarizing or anything with an opinion, the vocal minority of against your opinion always comes out and slams you, and you just get used to it because nobody ever goes to a website and goes, hey, I came all the way over here and clicked here you are ill, and come over and just send you a message to tell you I really enjoyed this segment today. No, people just enjoy a segment and they don't go anywhere. But
people get irritated that caused them to create. It's an action, and they're like, I'm so mad, I must voice it somewhere, So I must go to their page and tell them how bad they suck. And so you do something that's positive and good people like it and they just accept it and they thank you in their own mind and they move on with their day and it helps them pleasantly. But if they don't like it, they want you to know they didn't like it. So it's just a world
you have to understand. And I always get irritated when celebrities go, I'm just not gonna let internet trolls bring me down. Don't be a celebrity. If you're worried about don't put yourself on social media. If you're worried about internet bullies. Now, kids getting bullied by kids at school and internet, that's a whole different thing that they're not celebrities. Once you become a public figure, people are gonna come after you. Now, if they're threatening your life or your
likelihood or your kids, it's a different story. But if they're just saying you're ugly, you're stupid, you're fat, you're not funny, then don't be a celebrity and get on Twitter because that's going to happen. There's a story about Miranda Lambert, like, Branda Lebert's not letting Internet bullies take her down. She's taking a stand. You're a celebrity. This
is what happens when your celebrity. People will say they you give them access because it helps you, It humanizes you, and in return, people are real dicks and you just have to take it. And you can block people and block all the time, like I have no shame I blocked people that aren't even dick. Sometimes sometimes I just get irritated to people like I don't care that Hillary Clinton says this for the eleventh time. I know you're
not being a dick, but I don't care. I don't care that Donald Trump has done there, Like I just don't care. And I'm getting tired of seeing your tweets on my timeline, So mute then block in that order. But most of the time I have the right to block you. You You have the right to message to me, everything's good, don't threaten me, don't threaten anyone safety. But part of being a public figure is what comes with it. Your public and people can say things about you publicly,
and that's part of the deal. And so I stopped talking about the election period on the show. The only thing we talked about was raised Bet because there just was nothing that I could say positive that made any sense. And I just wanted to make fun of both of them all the time, because there's always as someone who looks for the humor and stuff there's always humor and stuff, and when you do that, people get mad at you. So it just wasn't worth it. So I'm done. The
election is over. I think you know, as a country, it is now what it is. And I do agree that if you voted for Donald Trump probably very happy right now. If you didn't vote for Donald Trump, it's tough and you're like, what do we do because you probably disagree with a lot of the things that he said and stood for, and but he is going to be the president. He's not done anything as president yet.
That's really obnoxious or insult It's almost like he gets a fresh white board, a fresh president white board, and let's see what he does. That's how I look at it in my mind, like I can't complain about Donald Trump the president yet because he hasn't been the presce it um. But that's just me. I feel like I should give him a chance. I respect the office of the presidency, and for me not to give someone a chance, you guys, I didn't vote for Donald Trump, so I'm
not saying this is a trumper. For me not to give someone a chance, I feel would be being hypocritical of what I've always said I respect the office and until unless until it doesn't deserve that person doesn't reserve deserve the respect. So yeah, I hope he. I hope he gets in and crushes it. I hope anybody gets in and crushes it. This is our country we're talking about. As much as you hate him, wouldn't it be awesome if he went in and did wonderful for everyone? Can we?
This is my whole beef of politicians. One, they're mostly rich when they get in office. That's how they can run for office because they don't have to have a real job. That's why most normal people aren't politicians because normal people don't have the money to go run for office. And it's a real rich person thing to do to
go try to be a congressman. But as if you have a nine to five job, or you're a mill worker like my stepdad, or an accountant or a waiter or whatever your job is, you don't have time to go and campaign to be this politician. So normal people, for the most part aren't politicians, and that's why we end up with people that aren't that normal running all of our government. They don't understand what normal people are going through. And my all point is that is I
think now I can be president. Honest to God, after watching what happened, I think I can be president of the United States. I never used to think that because I was like, I, you probably need to have some sort of military background, and I definitely don't have the balls for that. Never did. I'm a weenie boy, and people in military got big old go neds even and I say that man and woman. I just mean, that's a brave thing to do, and I don't have the
heart for that. Or you need to be an attorney and know the law and be a lawyer, or or no, it's about it, And I was like, I'll never be any of those, So I don't now a Donald Trump winning it. It's just like, Okay, let me see I get really famous and then be a good person and i'mber president, okay, Like it's it's almost inspired me to be, like I really because I've always said I'll run for office one day. I've always thought that forever, since being like eight years old. But I wanted to do this
for earlier. I'm doing what I love right now, but eventually never be a time where I'm just not getting ratings anymore. Or I just don't enjoy waking up at during the dur in the morning anymore. I don't know. And I'm telling my thirties right now, at fifteen years, I could decide to do it and still be relatively young to do that. But it has shown me that if I want to be a freaking president, at least I got a shot. I can take a run at it. And as crazy as that sounds, I believe it is
all my heart that nuts to you. No, Like, that's kind of what I take away from it too. I was like, whoa, I mean, he didn't do anything good politic, a rich guy that had a message and it resonated with people. If this career works out for me for another ten years, I will be fine financially at the at the level I'm at now, I'll have money to go take a couple of years and go run prothers and if I make it great. If I don't, yeah, I guess I listen. I go back to doing radio
or TV or creating ad campaigns or something. But this, the one thing about Donald Trump winning has shown me that if you just have a message that resonates, good dad, what however you feel it was people take that and you can inspire people like there have been great leaders that have inspired just people through words and through speeches and through actions. And I mean, if anything, it's showed me that the presidency, the thing that we hold highest, really can just be one by the right person at
the right time, with the right message. And so maybe this podcast gets looked at in twenty years as I'm president of the United States. Somebody goes day or I get fired tomorrow, and then I just moved back to Arkansas and we'll move back to Austin and I don't work at ad agency or something, and it never comes out. You know, who knows. But anyway, that's the deal with that. Anything else you want to know, Mike, I'm just with the future president right now. I know it sounds ridiculous.
I believe it in all my heart that if I work toward it, I can do it. But I believe that I believe that to have something really big happen for you, you have to see it and envision it and know that it can happen, for it to happen, and not give up on it happening even when it doesn't happen. Seventy two times in a row. I've told the story before. I get rejected thirty times plus for radio jobs like fire, not fire, but no, you're not good enough. No, And I'm talking about small markets. Tiny
radio station will tell me you're not good enough. And so I finally got my first tiny radio station. And then I would apply to medium STAPs like you're not good enough, you're not good enough, You're not good So I would just work and get better, and I would use that. To me, I see adversity as a tool to get better, and I think that's the key to what I have been able to do. Using adversity as
a tool and surrounding myself with great people. Those two things, to me, have been the keys to the success of me and other people that I see trying to do big things. You have a vision, You're not gonna get anything you don't see. Listen, You're never gonna be the president of a company if you can't see yourself being the freaking president of the company. Like you want to be the president of the company and you're working in the mail room, start thinking in your head, I want
to be the president of the company. What are the eleven steps I have to take? To do the president of the company. What's the first step? And then you take the bigger goals and then you start to figure out the steps in betwe them. Because when I was working radio and Hot Springs, Arkansas, I was like, this great is my hometown, but like, I want to be a national show, a national morning show. I was doing nights at eighteen years old. I was like, I wanna
be a national morning show. What are the steps. Step one, get to a bigger market doing nights. Step two, get to a bigger market doing nights. Step three, either go bigger or take a morning show of the same size or smaller. So I leveraged it into a morning show of the same size. I was like, Okay, now I want to syndicate. Took a big risk to the money
that I was making. Was making fifty grand a year, and I took half of that, if not more, and invested that back into myself and going to get it, buy the equipment, gotta do this, paid Atlanta salary myself out of my own money, and I just believe that I could do it. And you know what, I wouldn't have bet on me in a million years. But I was an idiot who just saw this great vision and chased it. You're never gonna catch that great vision unless you chase it, and you're gonna fail a lot of times.
I failed one like I felt for every success that I have, I have twenty failures. But that's not what people know you for. That's not what people see you doing. People only see the successes. I had an uncle who was UM. He since died. He was a an alcoholic UM and he died of alcoholism. He's my mom's brother. Alcoholism and runs in my family really bad. He was also a I had a gambling addiction UM in which I did too for a while, and I have stopped
gambling completely because I was getting out of control. Also wrote about that in my book, where I couldn't stop gambling. And it wasn't gambling in general. It was just poker. But I get obsessive about things, and I was reading books and I was playing online, and everything I was doing was that radio show on poker, and that's all I was doing. But he would tell me, and this is a lesson that I still remember from my uncle. He said, listen, with gambling, people don't remember your losses.
He said, I probably lost a lot more money than every one in my life. But when I make it, when I hit it big, you're always like, man, I hate it big. Today. People only remember when you bring them those big wins. And so people only remember the fact that I started my all morning show and with my own money and became a syndicated show because I went and did it myself. You know what many stations like had us and dropped us and didn't take us, and how much of the equipment didn't work forever like
more than not. And then we finally got it to work after so much failure, and then people are like, oh, look at this guy who's comes to Nashville and has all these God the first two years of my existence were miserable here, miserable. I didn't listen. I don't fit
in now. But somewhat I have leaned towards the culture, and some of the cultures leaned towards me a bit here as well, And so it's been a nice little let's meet in the middle, and both of us understand that we're both going towards the same goal, but we're not doing it the exact same path, meaning the old Nashville establishment and myself, but it's it's you get these
victories anytimes. How many TV shows have said, hey, come to l an audition and I did, just didn't get it, I mean, but you just keep plugging away, and then I'll get one and then the show doesn't make it, and I get a huge one and it gets picked up, and then for reasons of relocation, I can't make you keep on chucking. I got one right now in production of my production company, my Teeth First Company, and then one that I'm the host of, and they're both still
in play right now. And if they both fall out, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get out the next day and go all right back at it. How can I get at it again? And those are the winners in live. It's not the people that do it right. It's the people that don't give up. Those are the winners in life. Winners in life aren't people that are perfect. There are people that just keep on pushing all the time, and you're like, well, that must be easy. Look at this. Look at Tim mcgrawl, He's
a superstar man life. Tim mccrawl was grinding it out in the apartment with no heat for years, years, but we only see the successes. But no, that forever, very huge example of person, you see, unless they were just giving a whole bunch of money that it was a grind. That's what I want to be a politician, though, because I think I come from a normal person world, or
a lot of politicians don't. I come from a normal person world of growing up having to know what it's like to see struggle, and then I lived struggle and I've done the whole ground myself by the bootstraps thing. And I don't say that in a way of bragging, but I say it in a way if I want to motivate other people to know that you can do the same freaking thing. I don't have any great talent. I have no great talent. Nothing about me is absolutely great.
Nothing about me is talented enough to be in the position that I am except for persistence and drive. That's it. If that's a that's not a talent though, that's just an ethic. And so that comes though from being a normal person and knowing that nothing's given to you and not having a safety net. Thank you, America, good night. I'm gonna be president one day, that's all that's And you can be president too. I don't care what you are. I really feel like anybody can be president with this.
And I don't mean anybody. I mean anybody, because I used to think you had to be in the military, which would lead you to a position in politics, or be an attorney, which will leads you to position in politics. Now, thank you. Used to be a person with the message, and if you have the right message, you can. I mean, we saw it. We just saw it, regardless of you agree with it or not. We just that's what we saw. So um, thank you old dominions. Shout out. I hope
we're good. Tells it seems like a long time ago. How long is this thing thing? Man? Damn, we're trying to go like thirty minutes today. Get on a rant. That's it and made it this long. Appreciate it. Uh, it's gonna wrap it up to that thing. Hey, we should rap it ouver Uh. Thanks for our sponsors, by the way, thanks to sleep Number, what a bed, Thanks to Blue Apron, bloy aper dot Com, slash, Bobby Mules
me m E A L s Hi. Thank you very much to you guys who listen to the Bobby castitiate it so much if you made it to the end of it, you can always hashtag bobbycasts that you made it to the end of my life motivational rant. I love those tweets. I'm like, dang, so I actually listen to that the whole thing. So that was that, Uh, Lauren Lena should be on the next Bodycast. We've got some good stuff coming up. I wanna get some writers
in there too. You gonna go behind the scenes. Um. That's so I got hit up today about as to talk about my book. You can get my book too if you want to. This is not a book ploy because I am not getting paid it for um, like Amazon still has bare bones. And then I guess the reason that's on top of my I just signed a bunch of them. We had a bunch sent and they're like, hey, we just signed them, So I just signed like threading them downstairs. So if you'd like to get it, Um,
I mean it's a it's slightly better than mediocre. Could you ask me, That's what I would say. Sure, it's a great because my president I mean whatever, Ah, there you go. And but oh yeah, but they hit me up again about writing like in the last two days, like you ready for thru start writing another like book book, and I was like, oh, I can't write that again because that's a life story. I need another twenty years
to finish, because that's not a full story. Um. And I was so surprised that it was like a best seller. To me, that was incredible, awesome and crazy. And I'm just now starting to respect it because if I just didn't, I didn't resonate when it first happened. But as I look back at it, like I say, I only enjoyed seeing things and pictures, I don't enjoy actually doing them. Um. So now I'm starting to kind of be cool that the book was a success and I can see like
data that shows and the sales are there. It's like, wow, I'm crazy that you buy. But they're like I was like, listen, here's what I can do. I you do a book of like essays, like stories, but I can't do a book about my life anymore. Like you gotta essay about saying that my grandma used to say, I can do a book about that and how it relates to my life. I can do a book on whatever I just talked about. There you got a book on how um you can be whatever you want to be whatever. I don't think
we song about that called When I Grow Up. But anyway, I was like, I don't know, I don't know it. I just don't know if I'm reading that writing a book process. It's not like my step network from mill It's not that kind of work. And I have so much respect for him because he wanted to busted his but every day, like ten hours a day real work. I don't do real work. I know I don't do real work. Um, but it's a grind mentally, it puts you in a weird place. It's weird. It makes you
feel funny. That last book didn't anyway. Anyway, there's that. Thank you guys for listening. We'll see tomorrow on the show. Unless you listen to on Friday or Saturday, then we won't. That's it Bobby Bones dot Com. I want Snapchat, Instagram, all that crep um Twitter and Instagram and Mr Bobby Bones and Snapchat. Bobby Bones Show Mike d Our producer Mike D. Strow d E E. S. T r O for episode one of The Bobby Cast. Thank you guys listening. We'll see next time. By Roy