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Bobby Bones (0:00)
This is an iHeart podcast.
Eddie (0:11)
Welcome to episode 545 of the Bobbycast, in which we will do a couple of things. I have a bee in my bonnet. We'll talk about that. It has to do with super bowl halftime show. Then I'll do some Q and A's. The questions I was asked the most in a Q and A on social media, I'll answer a lot of those.
Bobby Bones (0:28)
All of those are baby questions, too.
Eddie (0:29)
And then we will talk about bands that don't have their full original lineup. If they're still touring, would you even want to see them? And we give examples. And I'll be joined by Eddie and.
Bobby Bones (0:39)
Brandon Ray for that.
Eddie (0:41)
So we appreciate you being here. Let's get started with this week's Bobbycast.
Bobby Bones (0:45)
I do want to start with something I'm going to call There's a Bee in My Bonnet before we get to the questions that I was asked this week. And the be in my bonnet is mostly about Bad Bunny. There's a lot of alliteration there. And so there's been a lot of controversy, a lot of manufactured controversy with Bad Bunny being the super bowl halftime show. And, you know, I've talked about it where I'm like, hey, you don't have to be upset about it just because other people online are upset about it. And it doesn't cost you anything. The Bad Bunny's performing. You're not even paying for a streaming service. And disagreeing with it, like, it's absolutely free for people to be upset is crazy. But. But the big story that came out, and this is why there's a bee in my bonnet, the big story that came out this week is that the Cracker Barrel controversy, which was also very manufactured, was so manufactured by foreign adversaries that 50% of the social media that happened about Cracker Barrel was by bots. And so the be in my bonnet this week is that we are letting bots manipulate us so much. Now, I do think there were a few people early on that said, I can't believe Cracker Barrel removed the old man from the art. And whomever these adversaries are, could be Russia, could be North Korea, could be China. We can go through the list of people that are really good, technology wise, they find a crack of division and invest in it so heavily that it becomes a culture war. And that's what happened with Cracker Barrel. It's what's happening with Bad Bunny. Nobody really cares. The super bowl halftime show does not affect anybody's life in the least. As A matter of fact, when it is somebody that everybody goes, okay, that's pretty cool. Everybody still hates on it. So there isn't a lot of positive that comes out of the super bowl halftime show according to the Internet. And so I do want to move this over to Bad Bunny, because I think that's what's happening now is that you have a lot of people that are upset about Bad Bunny only because they're taking a cue from the Internet to be upset about Bad Bunny. And that Internet is mostly bots that are bought by foreign adversaries. So, yes. Where a few people, like, I don't know, Bad Bunny, that sucks. Yep. And that would have happened with anybody. But because it's somebody who basically only sings in Spanish, we can use that as a culture war. And when you're Russia, what do you do? Let's invest a million bucks in bots and get America fighting with each other. There's not one person that's actually been talking about hating on Bad Bunny that knows enough about Bad Bunny to hate on Bad Bunny. I don't know anything about Bad Bunny. I'm too old. 45 years old. I wasn't a Bad Bunny. I don't know Spanish. I know some. I was the only white guy in my group in Texas. My friend group, only white guy. All Hispanics are Mexicans. Depending on what you asked them. They were. They were all Hispanics, but they're like, nope, I'm Mexican. Also, when people say we don't want or we want an American to do the halftime show, Bad Bunny's American. Did you know Puerto Rico is a US Territory? Do you know people that weren't American that did the halftime show? Rihanna, Barbados, Shakira, Columbia, Coldplay, UK. The who? I was at that one. UK. The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, U2, Bad Bunny, US Citizen. You guys weren't crying about that, were you? No. So two things I suggest before I let the bee out of my bonnet. Number one, don't let the Internet affect you. You're seeing something on social media. You're seeing these memes that are made, and you're going, I agree. Because the people that I follow are telling me to agree because I'm supposed to align with them on everything culturally. But they're being affected by bots. Because the people that are making money off social media, what they do is they lick their finger and they put it up and the wind blows it. And whichever way that wind blows, they go, oh, I should attach myself to this, because I'm going to get more Engagement. And if I get more engagement, I make more money. So they're creating culture war based over the money that they're making, which, by the way, is based on the money that's being spent on bots. With Cracker Barrel, with Bad Bunny. You don't care. You don't care. You literally don't care. How long is this a halftime show? Nine minutes. It's nine minutes of your life. Would I have liked to have seen the Counting Crows do halftime? Absolutely. Maybe I'll go buy some bots, get everybody pissed off. The County Crows aren't doing halftime round here. That's the halftime show I want to see and I'll be there. All right. I'll let the bee out of my bonnet. I got a bunch of questions and I'm going to answer them one by one. I'm going to do a little bit of baby talk here. Hello, everybody. It's Bobby. Baby. Not that kind of baby talk. I'm going to talk about having a baby. My wife and I, we're having a baby. Question number one that I got. Will the baby be a Sooner or a Razorbacks fan? The problem for me now is that college sports are dictated mostly by college football. And because of that, right now, Arkansas is not good. And so I think my wife is thinking that the baby will be a Sooners fan because they win more. What sucks for me is to think that it would be anything other than an Arkansas fan because I am 100%. I'm in all Arkansas all the time. But I also know a little bit of me is going to have to give and it is going to pain me to see that baby wearing anything sooner related. Not because it's sooner, because it's not Arkansas. So I don't have an answer to that right now. I really am praying there's some kind of agreement we can reach where it's 100% Arkansas. But I'm outnumbered because I'm the only one. And then all of her family, they're all hardcore Sooner fans. So, yeah, that's something I actually spend too much time thinking about. Next question. What are you looking forward to the most about the baby coming? I don't know. I do not know what to look forward to because I've never had a kid before. And also like my relationship with thinking about children comes from me being a kid. And like, it wasn't the greatest. So I don't know. I don't know the positives of having a kid. And also it. Nobody really tells you all the good stuff. That's coming. Everybody's like, oh, boy, you're not gonna sleep. There's gonna poop all over the place. Lionel Richie did tell me the poop doesn't stink for the first year because all they're drinking is breast milk. So what am I looking forward to? I don't know. I think I'm looking forward to maybe myself, maybe feeling things that I've yet to feel. But it's hard to look forward to something that you don't really know what you're looking forward to. So that is a question I get asked the most, like, what are you looking forward to? I don't know. Because everybody really only piles on all the hard things that are coming. Like, they're warning you, you need this, you got to pay for this. You're not going to sleep. I don't know what I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to figuring out what's going to be awesome about having a family. How about that? That's my answer for now. Number three, what is the sex of the baby? There are only five people that know the sex of our baby. Me, my wife, my wife's parents, Stanley the dog. We accidentally slipped in front of him. I didn't want to do the not know because I would be going crazy leading up to it. So I do know. But we have not shared it with anybody because we don't want it said or accidentally spread. We may tell a few people as we get closer to it, but right now we are not sharing the sex of the baby. So Razorback. That's the sex of it. It's Arkansas Razorback. My wife. I don't know if pregnancy, like, makes you think and act a little different. She's been acting a little different, and at times she says stuff that's kind of dumb, and she says, that's because you're in me now. Like, my DNA is in her, which makes her dumber. And I don't think that's very nice, if I'm being honest. Next question. When is Caitlyn due to. Also something that we are purposefully not sharing because of the judgment that comes with it. For example, we posted pictures of her and the whole pregnancy picture was kind of a weird thing to do for both of us because I had some funny ideas and she was like, well, we have to do it because I don't want to, like, hide and I want people taking pictures of me and posting and being like, I think she's pregnant, so let's just get ahead of it. But we definitely waited. We took the pictures and then we waited. We definitely didn't live post, meaning take them that day and post them. So there is a bit of a time difference from the pictures we took and then when we posted them. But what I have learned about people that are pregnant or trying to have kids, like, there's a lot of judgment that surrounds all of it. Like talking about trying to get pregnant, talking about conceiving, talking about the different methods that you go through. Like, people were online talking about, I know you had ivf, we didn't. And I hope if you are going through that, that process, that's very difficult and very expensive, and I hope you're able to, like, crush it and I hope it works for you. We didn't do that. But there's already judgment about what we supposedly did that we didn't do. That was weird. And so even with I can see someone in the public eye being pregnant and going, look, this is how pregnant I am. People are like, well, you don't. You look way bigger than a month and a half pregnant. Wow, you're way skinnier than eight months pregnant. You must not be feeding yourself right or doing something that is not good for the baby. Like, there's so much judgment from the Internet when it comes to that. My wife had the decision of, we're just not going to say. My original plan, if I'm being honest, was to say nothing about her even being pregnant and just present the baby as is. And maybe a year later, I thought that was the greatest bit ever. She gets pregnant, she has her pregnancy, we have the baby. We don't post any of it, even as we have the baby for six months. And then one day I come online and I'm like, here's the baby. And people will be like, what is this a bit? Like, that's the greatest bit to me, is when people have to wonder if it's a bit. So that's why we're not really sharing when she's due, because there's just odd judgment that comes from it. And my wife likes to have some stuff that's just hers, which is just ours. I think I would share because it's not me, it's not my body. So there is no answer to that. And some of this I'm answering so I can answer it, because people are asking it a lot. And my answer is, right now, we're not sharing when the baby's due. Next one up. And I get asked this question so many times, but I actually have a real Like a better answer to this one. How can I come and work for you and your team? We oddly have an opening, and so I need somebody who's great digitally that has editing skills. This is almost like I'm doing a job, I guess. Not an interview, but I'm just going to let you know it's open. If you can edit video and you can make great thumbnails, like you have a little editing experience, like pictures and video and low audio, like, I would hire you, like, if you're good and you're nice to be around. So we have a rare opening. Because we're doing so much work, we need somebody else. So that's how right now, something we need. If you got to pick your nursery decoration theme, what would it be? Well, it'd be a lot of razorback helmets. Be a lot of pigs on the wall. The idea of a nursery those a little odd to me because the baby doesn't know. So why can't we just put And I didn't know there was a difference in a crib and a bassinet. Why can't we just put the bassinet and then the crib in the room as is? Like, just take the vet out. Like, why do we need to make a nursery out of it? Out of anything? Baby doesn't know what the heck's going on. Also, baby doesn't know what sugar is. So it's all broccoli. Never gonna touch sugar. All broccoli. And if you don't know what sugar is, you don't want sugar. That's my theory. Ask me again in a year. We'll see if I feel the same way. But right now, all that I have done and all that we have done, because we do have a room that we are turning into. We're calling it the nursery. I don't know if my wife has any plans on having any decorating. Like baby decorating in there is. I've cleaned out a closet completely. We've removed a lot of the bedroom stuff, like a bed, and now I guess we're going to start filling it with baby stuff. We have bought two car seats and we bought a stroller, and they're still in the box right now. But I feel like, why make little clouds in the sky and why make little pink and little blue things if the baby doesn't even know what that is? Feels like a waste to me. But I'm not making a lot of the decisions here, and I'm okay with that. But if I got to pick the nursery Theme. It'd be all red and it'd be all Arkansas Razorbacks. What's the most common trait with successful people that you've seen? All right, we'll move off the baby stuff now. I think the most common trait with successful people I've seen is delusion. Kind of a weird answer, but the most successful people that I have ever seen that I've been able to be around are people that are delusional about their abilities. Because you have to be delusional to think that you can do something that most other people can't or won't do like you have. There has to be something inside of you that's a little crazy to think that you can do it better than what other people have done it. And maybe not even the greatest of all time. But I think you have to be delusional about either how good you are or how good you can be. I think another thing is consistency. You have to believe you can do it, but you also have to be so consistent in showing up at the right time every time. And I think that's the difference in inspiration, motivation, and discipline. And that I'm inspired to do crap all the time. The inspiration is the easy part. I can just lay in the bed and watch a TikTok, read a book and be so inspired. Inspiration takes almost no energy. Then I can be motivated to do something or I start it. Like a lot of people get motivated to get healthy and work out, and they do a day or two. Like, motivation is a little harder than inspiration because motivation takes a little bit of effort. But inspiration is easy. Motivation is pretty easy. But discipline is hard because that's you showing up all the time. That's you really not concerning yourself with the rewards of the goal, but just being there enough to make the goal happen. So the one thing that I see, that is a very common trait with highly successful people. People that are a bit delusional about how good they are and how good they can be. People that are very consistent and people that know the difference in inspiration, motivation, and discipline. A lot of people have won. Everybody gets inspired. Most people get motivated. Few people stay disciplined. Fewer people are wildly successful. And there's a reason, because it gets harder as you kind of climb up that ladder of those words. But I believe you can do it. I believe anybody can do it. Because the hardest part about being great is not the innate ability you have or being born with it. It's just showing up over and over again. It's just showing up and knowing that it Might not work out. And when it doesn't work out, you can kind of repack the bag and go, I'm going to pack this bag a little different because I've learned something and I'm going to start over that repacking the bag is the most important part about being successful. And then you have to start over and be consistent again. And that's the hardest part, consistency and discipline. It's the easiest part because you know that it's cliche, but cliches are for a reason. And if you want to be successful, and by the way, I don't just mean career, any sort of success, you're going to have to have a bit of sacrifice if you want to be a great parent, the absolute greatest parent. Do you know what? You're going to have to sacrifice your career or at least some of it. If you want to be the greatest at your career, you're going to have to sacrifice your personal life. And I think a lot of my life has been that up to this point. There is a happy medium where you can do a lot of sacrifice of your career to be a parent, you can be a really good parent. But to have anything, even to have perfect balance is sacrifice. To have anything great, to have anything really good, you're going to have to sacrifice something because you can't have it all. There's only so many hours in the day. And I think the most common trait is people that are disciplined and believe they can do it to a level that nobody else believes they can do it. And again, that is back to being delusional. I am very delusional. I've always been very delusional. I believe I can do anything. I believe the world is absolutely bendable. And now I've seen it enough times that I know it. But I believed it way before too. Like where I come from, nobody did anything in the arts. It was, you worked at the mill, you worked at somewhere near and you got a good job being like in the management part of it. That was it. Some people went to college and if they did, most of them went to Garland County Community College. And that was awesome. They got a two year degree and then they worked at like a, you know, a glass plant or the Walmart. And that was awesome. And you had a great life. And for some reason I was so delusional to think that I, with a limited Mountain pine education, could go to Hollywood and be a star, go to New York City, be a star. It definitely didn't happen in the way I thought it was, but I still was able to go to Hollywood and do stuff and go to New York and do stuff and, you know.