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The Bobby Bones Show
MON PT 2: Bobby's Q+A On Rejection, Feeling Less Famous, And The Segment He’s Over
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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
Bones, everybody, we're going to do a Q and A. And so I did one of these on my Instagram and I said, hey, just ask your questions. The problem is I get a lot of great questions, but then it just takes forever to type and I'm not going to do a bunch of videos. So I thought we would answer them here. So I've grabbed a few of these. All right, number one, how do you deal with the scrutiny that comes with your jobs? I think that I've been able to
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grow
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Bobby Bones
in my job with the scrutiny that comes with my job. Meaning whenever I was starting out in Hot Springs, Arkansas, there was just a slight bit of scrutiny, maybe a couple calls on the request line and so you start to callous up just a little. And then I go to Little Rock and it's a little more but not much. Then I go to Austin and and then I'm doing mornings and then that starts to get pretty rough. Austin was weird and rough though, because there was another morning show that was just awful, awful, awful people and they started to rattle the cage. And so I've been fortunate enough to grow with it and now it's all the time. But I think had I just been dunked into this and I feel bad for some people who go on like a television show and they've never done anything in media, they haven't been known at all. Go on a television show or podcast and all of a sudden they're famous and they're getting crushed. Like they didn't have the luxury of growing with that. I oddly remember an episode of Home Improvement where Wilson was talking about kids and having kids and Wilson was the guy behind the fence. He never saw his face until like the final episode. And even when they would come out, because sometimes they would show where the whole cast would come out and they'd be like, eh, Tim Allen. And he'd wave to the crowd, and they would say, Wilson. And Wilson would come out, but he would still hold that fence in front of his face. So for those that don't know, we didn't have the Internet back in the 90s not to see Wilson's face rest in peace, by the way. But he came out in the final episode and showed his face. And it's kind of weird, I'll be honest with you. But he said in an episode once, and he was talking about having children and how hard it's going to be when they get older. And he said, you know, you get to grow as a parent as the kid grows as a kid. So you're learning little things while the kid is learning little things, and you're learning hard little things while the kid is learning hard little things. Then you're learning mid hard things while the kid's learning mid. You have the ability to grow with that child being a parent. And I just kind of feel like that's a bit of what my job is. I have the luxury to have started at a very small place and have grown through the years to a level now, which is wild. So 96% of the time, it's just another day every once in a while. I am human. I think I was talking to someone on a podcast about this recently. If I'm having a weird day, a bad day, or I didn't get enough sleep type of day, I don't look at anything. Because I know regardless of what's said, if it's bad, my conditions are already not good, and it's going to make me even more not good. But for the most part, I feel like I'm pretty good with it because I've grown with it. I also have an understanding of people that are the scrutinizers on the Internet in that there's a reason that they do that on the Internet, probably because they don't really have much else, much else of a voice, right? I think the easiest voice to be heard is the voice that's loud and angry. And I think that's what the Internet is. I have a rule, too. I don't go to comments unless it's Tuesday. Tuesday, I dive in. I dive into Twitter comments. Occasionally. I'll look at Instagram comments a little more than on just Tuesday if there's a reason for me to do it, or if I'm gonna reply to some stuff to help engagement. But Twitter doesn't matter. Twitter's a cesspool. I still love it for, like, news, but Twitter's a Cesspool. But I don't go to Facebook at all. At Facebook, don't look at any message boards, don't look at Reddit. I haven't been to those places in literal years because there's no benefit for me to go to those places. Also, the anger that's online, not just to me, but I look at someone like Logan Paul, who he's killing it. He's one of the best WWE wrestlers. He's one of the biggest creators, period. Millions of dollars. Like, he's so popular. Except if. Unless you look, if you look online, everybody hates him. But that's the thing. Logan Paul is so popular. But because people only use their voice for the most part, for ugly things, you would just think, Logan Paul is so hated. So I'm able to see that pendulum. I actually need it. It's not good for my mental health and I don't expose myself to it. But if people stop talking about me in a negative way, if I commit a crime or something, I deserve negative. But if people stop talking about me in a negative way, opinions on things that I'm doing, why I'm not good at something, people don't care on the other side either. And for as much as people, you can say love or enjoy the show or enjoy me or what they do like it, it swings both ways. So as much as I'm loved is as much as I'm hated. And that has been the constant since the very beginning of all of this. And if it went away, if I saw there was nothing being said bad about me ever, I also have to understand there's nothing good being said about me because I'm not making a difference at all. Like, I'm not resonating at all. So if you do want to do things and be loved, you have to understand that people are going to hate you for the same reason that people are loving you. And also, I've been lucky enough to be calloused by it. I think that's my answer to that. And then only go on Tuesday. That's my answer to that too. What would you say to someone moving to Nashville or getting into any creative field for the first time? This is a good one. I get this a lot, mostly from new artists that are already here, some that are thinking of moving here or moving here. So the first thing that you'll do when you go anywhere new, and it doesn't have to be anything creative, it could be even. I was a new kid in school a lot. Being a new kid in school sucks because you never start right when school starts in the morning, they always open the door at like, 11:10 in the middle of third period, and they go, this is your new student. And everybody looks up and they look at the new student. And then you go and sit at an empty desk, and everybody's kind of looking at you as they're still trying to pay attention to the teacher. It sucks being a new student, but the first thing that you do as a new student is you find your crew. And usually the crew that you meet on your first day of school, second day of school, that's not really your crew. That's just people that are nice or people that don't have friends that.
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Oh.
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Bobby Bones
Or people that doesn't end up being your crew. But the sooner you find and go through them, you find your real people. Like, I would say the first thing you do when you get here or get anywhere a new job is like, find your people. And then in the creative world, I would encourage people to understand and accept that there is something that is a healthy jealousy, not an unhealthy jealousy. There is a lot of unhealthy jealousy that manifests itself in ways that are really ugly, especially in this town, especially within artists here. But I think a healthy jealousy. And I would give you a comparison. I have a very healthy jealousy. To one of my really good friends, I would even say best, like media friends. Who is Charlemagne Tha God in New York? Like, I message him all the time going, I cannot believe you're getting to do this. I'm so jealous. And I'm literally jealous, but not in a way that's negative. If anything, I am jealous, but I'm more inspired by watching him do it. So I would. I would say find your crew and understand that the crew is going to have different levels of successes at all different times. Like, you're going to pop while they're not. They're going to pop while you're not. Like, maintain that. And then also understand that it's okay to be jealous if it's a healthy jealousy and that you're open about it. Because I have it, especially with Charlemagne. And he probably would say that he has it similarly with me at times, too. So that would be what I would say. And then also just do it. The hardest part of anything is just doing it, even going to work out. Like, I hate working out. The hardest part about going to work out, it's not running or lifting. It's just freaking putting my shoes on and going and starting.
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So go.
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Bobby Bones
Just go. Go start Just go and figure it out. Because no one's going to have all the answers until they get there and then they're still not going to have all the answers. But at least now you're in the middle of it and you're creating something. Number three, would you say you are more successful or less successful than five years ago? It's mixed. Here's a situation that I think I deal with a lot. I never get, especially in the TV space. I can do that first. I don't ever get the big shows that I get mentioned for, but. But I don't want and I pass on any of the small shows. So it's like this purgatory. Like I remember whenever no Whammy was coming out, this is four or five years ago, and they were like, man, you'd be perfect to host no Whammy. That may not be what it's called. It was called let's Make a Deal and there's a version of it now. No Whammy and Press yous Luck. Press yous Luck. Thank you. And man, I thought I had that job. And then they gave it to Elizabeth Banks and I was like, oh, dang, she's actually famous, so she kind of deserves that job. There have been a couple of those big shows that I don't get. And then if it's a little show, I don't really take it. I don't really do any like one offs anymore for tv, meaning I don't really fly to California because I would go and do like a red carpet here. I don't really do those anymore. So I would say in that space, probably I'm not doing as much so probably less. But I think that's because I've dedicated so much to building a lot of this, a lot of what we have now. The Bobbycast is now on Netflix, which is great. We've built studios. I've got a bunch of shows on my podcast network, the radio show. Like financially I've never been better. So I think that's probably part of the reason. I also think that I'm less. If the word's famous, I'm less famous than I used to be. But I think everybody's kind of less famous than they used to be because fame is not. It doesn't exist at the level that it used to. Like you could have a TikTok channel on broccoli and be the leader and be the number one broccoli influencer and someone would see you walking down the street and be like, holy crap, that's Frankie the broccoli guy. And you are famous to them. So less famous. Although I don't ever feel like I got fully famous. I flirted with fame for about three years. I had a good run of about three years. Where most places I went, people kind of. That doesn't happen as much in Nashville. It really happens medium to very little. Other places more so. But I think I'm probably. I don't really have a good answer there. It's just different now. But I'm still getting to make stuff that's pretty cool, and I'm owning a lot more stuff of my own, which is pretty cool. So I think there's a lot of freedom in that. Here's another question. Would you go on Dancing with the Stars if they did a winners episode? Is that what they're called? Because I know they've done those episodes where they bring back past champions. Maybe it's an all stars. Maybe it was called, like, Dancing with the Stars All Stars, and they brought back people. And maybe it wasn't even just winners, but people who were really good. No, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Because there's really nothing for me to gain. I will always be the guy who. That won. And people can't believe he won. And I've said this before. What's weird about that whole situation is. And it feels like yesterday and 20 years ago at the same time. What's weird about that is I wasn't even the bad dancer on my. On my season. Like, I wasn't good, but I wasn't, like, the bad dancer. Because every season there's, like, a bad dancer that lasts a long time. And they're like, kick him off. Can't believe it. I wasn't that on my season, which is what was crazy. I was. I'm the bad winner, but I really wasn't the bad dancer. And in no way am I saying I'm a good dancer, but it was just weird to go from. It really wasn't getting a whole lot of hate during my season because I wasn't the worst one that kept existing. It just happened, really, after I won the show because I was the bad winner. But I don't think I would do a winner's episode because I think I'd be the first to go. They'd sacrifice me somehow. I'd be out of there. I'd be like a side character in a horror movie. I'd go down, check the basement way early. Next thing you know, I'm out of there. And I'm a winner. I left the show. I'm a winner. I don't have anything to prove in dance. I would go back for, you know, if they were like, hey, would you guess judge? Or I was almost host of the show and I have an interview with Tom Bergeron coming up on the Bobbycast soon where we talk about that. But no, I would not go back and do a whole season. Even if they said, will you come back and do a dance with somebody like they do like the triple three way or I don't know what they call that. That kind of sounds pervy. I don't even know. I'd have to really consider even doing that because I think that I would hurt the person dancing unless they were of limited dance ability. I don't know that I would go back either because I know my role there. How do you keep the show or podcast from being boring? Well, the answer there is I don't always. I think there are times where the show and I don't think it's purposefully and I don't think I always know when it's happening. But usually it catches when the show can get stale because we're doing not the same things but the same formula because it's working well and we're told, hey, you're killing it in these cities. And it's like, well, maybe I'm not as fulfilled by it, but I'll give you an example. Don't hold this against me. I could never do Tell me something good again and be happy. I could kick tell me something good that segment in the balls and just ride off into the sunset. That segment tests so high. I don't hate the segment. I just get tired of doing it. Like, I feel like there's something else maybe I want to talk about there. But people enjoy that segment. So I'm going to keep doing that segment as long as people enjoy it. Kind of my job. That thing could die and I'd be okay. We've been doing that for 20 plus years. Like I actually own the trademark to it to tell me something good I just made before I said this here, I made sure last week I own the trademark to anything that's tell me something good audio as a segment. Any that because we've been doing it for so long and I paid for the trademark but. And there are times for sure where things can get stale, especially doing it this long where some change has to happen. So how do I keep it from being boring? I don't always. I try to, but I don't always. And I do understand that if you just do something for a long time, it can get stale. There are podcasts or shows that I've listened to and I'd be like, nah, I'm just kind of bored by it now. And sometimes I go back and it's way better and changed. And hopefully that happens with us, that if people leave, they give us a break, they come back and there's something fresh about it. I think there's also something to the fact that I've had the same crew, this is a positive for 20 years, that we could fall into that pretty easily. But also like there's some real consistency, familiarity, there's some comfortability with all of us doing it together for so long. Listen, if it were a miserable place to work, people wouldn't be lasting 20 years. I promise you. I'm not always the easiest guy to work for. I have no patience. But if it wasn't generally a wonderful place to work and we weren't winning on a wonderful level, there wouldn't be these wonderfully long careers of all of us working together for 20 plus years. So yeah, I don't have a good answer. Except sometimes it does get stale and I apologize for that.
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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
I do a lot of that.
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Bobby Bones
7 Do you ever hang out with artists after an interview? Almost never. I was trying to think of times if it's a friend and it's hey, come and do the podcast and then we'll go get some dinner or something. And that's pre planned out because there's a friendship involved, yes, but it's so rare. Brett Eldredge and I is one of my best friends. Maybe the last time he came over we went to just eat after because we hang out a couple times a week, but it'd have to be something like that. I have made friends from doing the podcast, meaning my introduction to people were in this environment because this is a very intimate environment, meaning we're not naked, filling each other's holes, but we are sitting a few feet from each other, relying on each other. Because I'm asking a question, I'm trusting that they're going to give me a good answer. They're trusting that when they're done talking I'm going to follow up or go somewhere, at least for good ones. Like there's a lot of trust and intimacy involved in a one on one interview. That's 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 minutes. And so there have been friends that have come from it. I would say one of them is Ben Rector. Ben Rector, Artist Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. That's one of his songs. Maybe you've heard it. He's a dear friend of mine now and he is from Oklahoma, went to school at the University of Arkansas and I knew his music, but I never met him and I had friends that knew him and they Were always like, ben Rector's great guy. And I was like, I don't care. And so we did an interview, and it reminded me that I had met him once on a Southwest flight in line for the bathroom. And I was like, ben Rector. And he was like, guy. And I was like, that's right. I'm a guy. And so we had that memory and we sat and we talked and we did this interview. And you can again. It's a very intimate thing. And then after that, we just, I think, started dming. Now our families know each other. Now my. My wife and his wife will just make plans to go spend time together. Like, it's like that. So I have had instances where that has happened, where I've sat with people, become friends with them through this, or at least that's launched the possibility of a friendship. But no, no, really, we don't hang out after interviews because I'm tired. It's. I'd compare it to being on a seven or eight hour road trip where you're like, why am I tired? I've done nothing but sit here for seven or eight hours. But your brain's had to work the whole time. Even if you know it isn't working, your brain's had to work the whole time going, okay, what are they answering? I want to listen to what they're saying. I want to follow up with what they're saying. I have a point that I want to get to. I have a full narrative that I think would be great. Nope, not doing that. Got to pivot. All this is happening, and so after it's over, I'm tired. That being said, I guess Luke Combs. We did a Bobby cast recently, and we probably stayed around 15 minutes just talking, like off cameras, just catching up. I like Luke, but that's rare. And that's probably the most. Yeah, but almost never. All right, two more. Three more, four more. What's the worst piece of advice you've ever gotten? To be patient. Because a lot of times patience just turns simply into waiting. It's not strategically waiting for something. It's just, I'll just wait. I have found it has been way more beneficial to me to be aggressive, even if it's unsuccessful, than to be patient. Because if you do something and it goes wrong, at least you know it was wrong. If you do nothing and nothing happens, you don't know if it's right or wrong. And if you do something wrong, you can always make a judgment and change your pattern. If you're just waiting, you really can't do anything. You're not doing anything. And a lot of times, patience turns into paralysis, especially for me. So when people say, just be patient about this or that, I find that to be extremely negative advice. But also, like I said earlier, I'm not patient. I'm not a patient person at all. I even talk fast. Like, everything about me is fast. I can't sleep at night because my brain's going 500 miles an hour. That's why I take Xanax sometimes anyway. Mostly to sleep, though. Let's see. What's something you bought when you first made money that you immediately regretted? Okay, I'll tell you something I bought. It wasn't when I first made money that I still regret buying those stupid Apple Vision goggle. What are those called, Mike? Apple Vision Pro.
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Vision Pro.
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Bobby Bones
I spent $4,000 on those things. I used them three times. It has a cord and a battery. It's cool when you have it on, but, like, your neck hurts, it's heavy, and you got to walk around with a battery pack. If they made that a lot better, I think that would be cool. What did I buy early on that I regret? Oh, I was in a boat club. Terrible. I was smart enough not to buy a boat, but I got in a boat club. And as a terrible decision because, one, I didn't use it enough anyway, I thought I would. I got a boat club. I think part of it was because I didn't have any friends. You don't want to go out on a boat by yourself, and you need probably three people to actually pull, like a wakeboard. And so when a friend bails on you, too, the morning of, oh, I can't go. You can't do anything on the boat. And I hate the water, too. There's a lot of reasons it didn't work out for me, but then you would get there. And if you didn't book it enough time, you didn't get the good boat. And if you didn't get the good boat, sometimes you got stuck with a pontoon. That's a real waste of money. Do not recommend 0 out of 10. So that was early. And Apple Vision Pro. Those are the two things. And then let's do one more. Do you feel like with success it makes you less relatable? No, I've never been relatable. Now I've had life experiences that people can relate to. I've always been insane. So I don't feel like what I say day to day is relatable. I feel like I'm Extremely anxious about everything. I see the world through insane lens. I sometimes believe in the best and the worst in people in the exact same time. I don't. I don't trust the government. There's just a lot of stuff here. I don't think that I'm that relatable. I think I am extremely compelling at times. I think I have to turn the volume up sometimes on my feelings and emotions because that's just a performance part of this job. I think a lot of my life story is relatable, but I do not think I have ever been relatable anywhere that I've been. I've always been insane. And I think that's been. That's been what has interested people. And I think the relatability has been where I come from, what I come from and where I come from and what that has left inside of me. But I in no way think I'm relatable. I've never thought I was relatable. I remember being in Austin, and Austin is a place where, especially when I first started there. And I love Austin. It's my favorite city. If I'm ranking them, man, I can't go home cities first, though, because I'm probably gonna put Fayetteville at one. But since I'm from Arkansas, I don't feel like that's fair. So if I remove everywhere from Arkansas, because Fayetteville will be number one. Austin's gotta be number one. It's my number one city. Even more than Nashville. Shout out Nashville. But Austin, like I grew up, all my adult growing was in Austin. And it didn't get cold. So shout out to places that don't get cold. I love Austin. And when I got and I started doing mornings, because I didn't do mornings, I did nights there. And they fired the morning show. And they were like, okay, we don't know what we're going to do. I got a job offer to go to Seattle to do a bigger night show. And so I was like, I'm out. Station sucks. Night show really didn't matter. And it's. And they matter now, but they don't really impact ratings to the level that a morning show and then a little bit an afternoon show does. And so I was like, I'm out, Austin. You've been cool. I was there for about a year and they were like, what can we do to get you to stay? And I said, give me mornings. I was 22. And they were like, ha ha ha. And my version of it now they spit in my face. They didn't, but like, they spit in my face and they pooped in my hair and told me to get out of the room. And so I left. And my version, I cried in the corner, but no, I just went home. And I didn't expect them to give me the morning job. I was 22 years old because it was a multimillion dollar station. I knew they're going to flip the format anyway. And so I was going to take the job in Seattle. And so I told the people in Seattle, hey, I think I'm going to take this job. I didn't commit to it yet, but give me a week or so. They were like, cool, we'd love to have you. And so I went back to work in on Monday or maybe even Tuesday. And they were like, hey, we want you to do mornings here. And I was like, what? And they said, we'll pay $50,000 a year. And I was like, I'm rich. I can't wait to buy an Apple Pro Plus. And this is 15 years before it came out. And I was like, I'm so rich now I'm going to buy an Apple Vision plus and I'm going to waste my money on it and get in a boat club on the same day. That's how rich it felt whenever I got paid $50,000 a year. So it was unbelievable to me to make that kind of money. So I start and I'm by myself and I don't have anybody with me. It's just me in a room. But all the advice that I would get from people was, hey man, this is Austin. We like only eat local. If we're gonna like have a salad, we pull over on the side of the road, eat it from the field. Like we get out and we chew the ground. That's how local. We only talk about local Austin music. Austin is weird. And you better be. And every woman you know better have armpit hair. It was that. It was that. And that's what I was told. And I was like, this is not true. They're like, if you want to be relatable to Austin, they this is what you do. I just didn't think that was accurate. So I did the opposite of that because it's how I lived. And I was like, bro, I'm in Chili's like three times a week. I really made a point to be as non relatable as possible, but it's what ended up separating me from everybody else. And we had a span. We were like, not just number one, but like Tripled up. Other shows for like three years is wild. I never once pulled over and ate the grass on the side of the road as I was told to. And the girls I knew shaved their armpits. So I was not being what I thought was relatable then purposefully. But I've never just been so relatable that you hear me say stuff and go, ah, relate to what that guy says. Now, you may relate to where I come from or why I say certain things, and I hope that's the case. And I think that's the case. And at times I know that's the case, but I don't think that my success or lack of success has ever made me more or less relatable. I've also gotten more comfortable with showing now that I have been successful. And that's been a little burden for a long time. I was like, I can't show anything because I don't want people to know that. That I have had any success or I'm making any real money. And my wife was. This is like in the last five years, she was like, you don't think they know you're rich now? Like, are you stupid? And I was like, yeah. But she's like, you're not flaunting it. If you're living it, you're not flaunting it. And there's a difference. Like, people can tell a different. People are smart when they see what you do, who you are. And actually they're probably judging you because they know you're not saying certain things on purpose. I thought that was pretty good. So I don't think that I'm any more or less relatable than I ever have been. I do think I'm odd, and maybe that is what relatability is. Like. Socrates said he was the smartest man in the world because he knew. He knew nothing. That has nothing to do with what I just said, but I like to end on that. Thank you for all the questions. Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. I got to all of them but one. And the other one was, which artist do you hate the most? I'll answer that one next time, so be listening next time when I answer that one. And also, how big your wiener. Those are the two that I'm going to answer on the next Bobby cast. No, it's not a Bobby cast. Buy a Bone Show, Part two. Whatever this is. I have no idea what I'm on. I'm just answering questions. And we'll see you guys next time. Bye, everybody.
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