Speaker 1: I guess episode twenty one of the Bobby Cast. Here's
Speaker 1: Monday night. Whenever we record this. I appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: being here. Our next Bobby Cast should unless something weird happens,
Speaker 1: have Lauren Elena in and on. And she's actually a
Speaker 1: friend and she's very entertaining. Man, she's a handful too,
Speaker 1: so just because I mean, there's some artists like Control,
Speaker 1: not really Lauren, so that'd be fun. That would be
Speaker 1: the next Bobby Cast. So I appreciate you guys being here.
Speaker 1: Leonard Cohen died, and not the black people know Leonard
Speaker 1: Cohen is in my generation. If you're a music nerd
Speaker 1: or you're older, you knew who Leonard Cohen was. And
Speaker 1: so Hallelujah was and then but you don't really careful music.
Speaker 1: So he wrote it. But for me, the Jeff Buckley
Speaker 1: version it was a cover is so good and so
Speaker 1: I spent the weekend. It's funny when the artist dies,
Speaker 1: you go back in you like rerespect him because everybody
Speaker 1: it's like passing cars. Artists and songs like passing cars.
Speaker 1: You forget how how great some things are. There's something
Speaker 1: else there, there's something else there. But someone dies, you
Speaker 1: have to go back, and you're like, oh man, here
Speaker 1: they are again. Let me go pay attention. And so
Speaker 1: Leonard Cohen died. Just how great this song is. But
Speaker 1: this is Jeff Buckley doing it. I'm just having a guitar.
Speaker 1: Do you know this song? I don't mind you know
Speaker 1: this song? Oh do? Jeff Buckley was awesome too. Hey
Speaker 1: he's about to be He's awesome. But he died in
Speaker 1: the Mississippi River. They never found his body her. There
Speaker 1: was a secret call that David played and it pleased
Speaker 1: the Lord. But you don't really great versions like a
Speaker 1: really great song. And it's tough to cover a great
Speaker 1: song because most of the time, if you cover a
Speaker 1: great song and you put it out, it comes off
Speaker 1: it's kind of goofy. But yeah, that's one of those
Speaker 1: rare ones. Even there are a few, like Uncle Cracker
Speaker 1: did drift Away pretty well. That was risky, I mean
Speaker 1: because drift aways a big one. Uh, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of those like that. So I spent the weekend
Speaker 1: doing that. Just are the weekend was nuts. Let me
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Speaker 1: there's that. So the weekend was wild because we go
Speaker 1: by the Pentatonics as hell are you you know this
Speaker 1: version new Age that's col Yeah, I can like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good strong you need proof, So they just go
Speaker 1: because they are all voices the Jeff Bugley version though
Speaker 1: for musicians, I mean it's just him and a freaking guitar,
Speaker 1: that's it, and he sings the whole thing. I'm playing
Speaker 1: a guitar. John Mayer has new music coming out Friday.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got a bone remember that. I can
Speaker 1: out wait a new John Mayor song is not an album,
Speaker 1: but a new John Mayer song comes out. Uh. The
Speaker 1: weekend was weird for a bunch of reasons. I'll start
Speaker 1: with this, is that we go and we play two
Speaker 1: Raging Idiots shows in Florida, and we're about to wrap
Speaker 1: up the Raging Idiots, and we were really going to
Speaker 1: wrap up the Raging Idiots like for a long time,
Speaker 1: and then we got to offer to go play stagecoach
Speaker 1: and we were like, well, we can't say no to this,
Speaker 1: and so I guess we're gonna do like one or
Speaker 1: two shows next year because Stagecoach just h Coach is
Speaker 1: a huge festival California, and they invited us to play
Speaker 1: and Chennai at Twain headlines that night and Marion Morris
Speaker 1: and Dan and Shay and so I was like, we
Speaker 1: can't say no. So we were doing that. Um that
Speaker 1: was announced today, but yeah, that's crazy. So we go
Speaker 1: out and we land in Fort Lauderdealty Airport. We finished
Speaker 1: the show Friday morning. We land in Fort Lauderdale, and
Speaker 1: some of this time I talked about on the show,
Speaker 1: but there's just been some odd developments. And we park
Speaker 1: our van not a hundred feet and then not in
Speaker 1: the yards, not a hundred feet from the window that
Speaker 1: we were eating, And it was probably twelve thirty or
Speaker 1: one pm. And we have a van, and I know
Speaker 1: for a fact my backpack was underneath my seat, and
Speaker 1: the van's loaded with stuff. It's a really dark tinted
Speaker 1: window and you're not gonna get into the back windows,
Speaker 1: like your only option only to bust that front window.
Speaker 1: And the stuff is heavy. You know, you know it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to steal this stuff. If it's night
Speaker 1: and there's time and access, you can really get any
Speaker 1: probably get some equipment, daytime, one pm, crowded parking lot.
Speaker 1: I'm just a surprised that the van got busted into.
Speaker 1: But what happened was my theory, and I know what's right.
Speaker 1: But my theory is justin this two left his bag
Speaker 1: and the van. His bag is so big you can't
Speaker 1: put it under a seat, so it's just right in
Speaker 1: the middle. And someone walking around who knew what they
Speaker 1: were doing, because they tried to rip the lockout at first.
Speaker 1: First you grab the door and see it's unlocked, right,
Speaker 1: and if it's unlocked, it open the door and get
Speaker 1: whatever you want. We obviously had it locked for Then
Speaker 1: they tried to do a screw driver into the lock.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get it out. This is a rental van too,
Speaker 1: which sucks too because this is my insurance. And so
Speaker 1: then they bust the big they not the big the
Speaker 1: side window. There are two big windows. They bust a
Speaker 1: little front part of the window and they reached it
Speaker 1: unlocked the door, and so they gotta work quick. They've
Speaker 1: just in the suits bag. As they're grabbing his bag,
Speaker 1: they see mine underneath the seat. Then they grabbed my bag,
Speaker 1: and then as they grab my bag they can see
Speaker 1: my drummer stuff and they grabbed his bag and those
Speaker 1: they had probably sixty seconds to do it all, thank you.
Speaker 1: So we come out and we had a lunch, not
Speaker 1: a long lunch, and we walk out and they're like
Speaker 1: windows busted. I'm like, oh boy, I've been here before.
Speaker 1: We just got we got rocked and my bag's gone.
Speaker 1: I know. Immediately I was like, my bag's gone, and
Speaker 1: Justin's freaking out and everybody's trying to figure out if
Speaker 1: their stuff has been stolen. The first thing that people
Speaker 1: just they went to look at their instruments because that
Speaker 1: was arguably the most expensive stuff. And the people have
Speaker 1: their stuff in the way back of the van have
Speaker 1: to worry because the person's not gonna go climbing over
Speaker 1: three or four seats. No instruments were stolen, thank god. Um,
Speaker 1: but at all my drummer, Justin and myself all of
Speaker 1: our laptops and then we all had stuff in our backs,
Speaker 1: like Justin as a printer in his life and more
Speaker 1: for me, it was like technical stuff, expensive stuff. A
Speaker 1: laptop really, I mean a strong laptop. Two uh, you know, headphones,
Speaker 1: iPad um inner, ear monitors, you know, stupid expensive to
Speaker 1: whatever it all gets stolen. And I just had a
Speaker 1: conversation with my business manager, who I was so against
Speaker 1: getting a business manager for so long because I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna because I have to pay a bunch
Speaker 1: of people. I pay a lot of people in my life.
Speaker 1: I have a manager, I have agents. It's weird that
Speaker 1: I'm in this place now, But when you have a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on, you I can't possibly negotiate
Speaker 1: a book deal. I can't possibly negotiate a recording contract
Speaker 1: with a record label. I can't negotiate a radio contract.
Speaker 1: So you have agents do that, and you have to
Speaker 1: cut them a percentage, and then you have on top
Speaker 1: of that your manager, and you cut a percent into that.
Speaker 1: So by the time you get to check, you get
Speaker 1: about fifty of what your check is. Then taxes come
Speaker 1: out of that. So it's a being in the creative world.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. And I don't say this in a bad way,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people don't understand the lack of
Speaker 1: an athlete, for example, gets eight million dollars I got
Speaker 1: signing bonus. He's probably getting like two and a half
Speaker 1: million dollars of that realistically, So you have to because
Speaker 1: he has agents and man. But blah blah blah blah blah. Listen,
Speaker 1: I wish I was an Athlete's got eight million dollars
Speaker 1: and I don't feel sorry for him one bit. But
Speaker 1: it's so uh what happens is, you know, you have
Speaker 1: all these these these layers of people. I call my
Speaker 1: business manager, which is someone else that I have to
Speaker 1: that I pay, and she takes care of all the
Speaker 1: business stuff, meaning she pays people for me. She does
Speaker 1: the taxes like an accountant. Plus because since I don't
Speaker 1: just have one job at a bunch of jobs, she
Speaker 1: manages all this all these other things for me. And
Speaker 1: so I said, hey, what's the deal with my insurance?
Speaker 1: She goes, well, first of all, you have a five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars deductible, which means I get five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: before I start to get anything back. And my backpack
Speaker 1: up like twelve or thirteen thousand dollars worth of stuff,
Speaker 1: and so that I mean five grand deductibles. Oh, I
Speaker 1: have to pay it to get the rest of the stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's just I shouldn't left the bag and hindsight,
Speaker 1: and I can't even blame it on just in the suit.
Speaker 1: It's just my fault that I left my bag under
Speaker 1: the seat. What his bag? That would have happened if
Speaker 1: my bag was Yeah, they probably still got his bag
Speaker 1: and still got gradies bag our drummer. But I can't
Speaker 1: blame Justin for having his bag out for having my
Speaker 1: stuff stolen, because if I were to have my backpack
Speaker 1: inside like I usually carry my backpack everywhere, it would
Speaker 1: have been stolen. Some people were like, if Joseph one
Speaker 1: have his bag. You can't put other people's problems, your
Speaker 1: problems on other people when you could have fixed that.
Speaker 1: So I just got a phone called five thousand are
Speaker 1: deductible for and I talked about Drummer his deductible like
Speaker 1: super high two. And so it's like, oh, I feel
Speaker 1: terrible for everybody. So that was the start of for us,
Speaker 1: the start of the weekend. And so we drive to
Speaker 1: Fort Pierce after we sent the parking lot for three
Speaker 1: hours waiting for a police officer to get there. All
Speaker 1: we all have to do police reports, knowing you're never
Speaker 1: gonna get any of it back, but you have to
Speaker 1: file a police report to have any of course sort
Speaker 1: of insurance claim. And so we're all doing our police
Speaker 1: reports and everybody else they were having a grand old time,
Speaker 1: and like they weren't happy we had our stuff stole in,
Speaker 1: but they were just happy. It was like they were
Speaker 1: extra happy their stuff wasn't stolen, like it made them
Speaker 1: happier their stuff wasn't stolen. And so for the other guys,
Speaker 1: you stop was stolen. It was like this weird like
Speaker 1: we're miserable and you guys were having a better time
Speaker 1: than you should be. So we again. For me, not
Speaker 1: so much because I've been through the house robbed, I've robbed,
Speaker 1: I've been re jumped, I've been dead threats, so whatever,
Speaker 1: it still sucks. But the other guys were a little
Speaker 1: upset by everybody else being in a really chipper mood.
Speaker 1: Like at that point you gotta fake it and just
Speaker 1: just kind of chill. Everybody's like, oh, look at the like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so will you do that? And we're gonna be late
Speaker 1: for the show. Four piers, I said, three hour drive
Speaker 1: or so, so we haul to four piers get there
Speaker 1: just in time. We really don't even get there in
Speaker 1: time for the meat and greet we do before the show,
Speaker 1: but we do it anyway, and we're lucky that the
Speaker 1: listeners all knew that what had happened, and they were
Speaker 1: so cool, and so usually we try to spend time
Speaker 1: and talk to everybody, and we didn't get to do
Speaker 1: it as much as time as more like, hey, thank
Speaker 1: you for coming. We took a picture, and you know,
Speaker 1: I signed books all the time. People still buy the book,
Speaker 1: which is crazy, and if you're new, it's called bare Bones.
Speaker 1: I wrote a book like eight months ago or so,
Speaker 1: and people still buy it and they ordered off Amazon
Speaker 1: or their bookstore and they bring in a sign it.
Speaker 1: But we had to kind of rushed through that, which
Speaker 1: I kind of felt guilty about, but then I was like, man,
Speaker 1: we just got robbed. I don't know. It was a
Speaker 1: whole We had to go on stage into a show,
Speaker 1: and I tell you, man, it's hard to go on
Speaker 1: stage when you're to be an idiot when you bring
Speaker 1: like a catar show is fun. That's the We're not
Speaker 1: gonna win any awards for being the best musical at
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's a really fun show. And so
Speaker 1: it's hard to be fun after a day like that.
Speaker 1: And so that happened, and for another one of the
Speaker 1: little kinks was inside my bag. Something I wouldn't talk
Speaker 1: about on the radio. Is that I had the medication
Speaker 1: I take for anxiety, and so I've been peeling back
Speaker 1: from the new Eventually the next few months, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get off of it all the way. But in my book,
Speaker 1: I wrote about when I was on sleeping pills because
Speaker 1: I don't sleep well because of the anxiety. And I
Speaker 1: was on sleeping pills for a long time and I
Speaker 1: just stopped taking them. One day. I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm out. And I went through severe withdraws
Speaker 1: like tremors and vomiting and I couldn't see straight. It
Speaker 1: was almost a week of just body awfulness, and I've
Speaker 1: never experienced anything like that. And I didn't even know
Speaker 1: what was happening really at the time until I was done,
Speaker 1: and it was I was really an awful experience. And
Speaker 1: I was like, man, if I ever have to get
Speaker 1: off something again, you just start tapering down, taking a
Speaker 1: little less, a little less less. So that's what I'm
Speaker 1: doing now with my anxiety medicine. So I call my
Speaker 1: doctor and I'm like, hey, listen, they stole my medicine
Speaker 1: that is not taking for a couple of days, Like
Speaker 1: I'm fine not taking it for a couple of days
Speaker 1: and I'll just get back home and take it there.
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, if you just stopped taking it completely,
Speaker 1: you will have withdraw. And he said, and as your physician,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you to do that because people can
Speaker 1: get severely sick or even worse if you go through
Speaker 1: a draw. So what happened was way to call in
Speaker 1: a prescription and I only needed for like one day.
Speaker 1: I needed a one day prescription. It wasn't like, uh,
Speaker 1: ended a new prescription and nobody would fill it because
Speaker 1: it was like coming from a different state and it
Speaker 1: was and so it's just such a pain in the butt. Finally,
Speaker 1: um drug store. But what we had to do was
Speaker 1: submit the police report with the prescription and say we
Speaker 1: don't need a full prescription. And so that was a pain.
Speaker 1: But as I started to like pulled back from this
Speaker 1: because I would take because right now I'll take like
Speaker 1: three a day. Right now I'm wanting to only take
Speaker 1: in two a day. But I'm getting like these weird
Speaker 1: headaches in the back of my head, like I could
Speaker 1: feel like minor withdraw stuff and my eyes get blurry
Speaker 1: at times, and so I guess that's just what's gonna
Speaker 1: have to happen for the next two months or so.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go from two probably a one and a
Speaker 1: half to one and do it that way because I
Speaker 1: cannot go through that struggle again. I mean, it rocked
Speaker 1: me for a week, and I didn't know that you
Speaker 1: could really suffer terrible consequences if you just went cold turkey.
Speaker 1: But uh so I'm doing that now with this, with
Speaker 1: this medicine. Now, it's not something we'll talk about in
Speaker 1: the air. Um, which is why I didn't watch Walking
Speaker 1: Dead last night as a matter of fact, because I
Speaker 1: don't want to get all amped up and did not
Speaker 1: have any medicine, and then because I wasn't taken I
Speaker 1: would take them my full medicine and I can feel
Speaker 1: it like I can actually, but I just got to
Speaker 1: find a different coping technique. I gotta go to a
Speaker 1: like a psychologist, a psychiatrist or sit side therapist of
Speaker 1: some story. I gotta get back into that and started
Speaker 1: like fixing myself mentally. I gotta take care of myself better.
Speaker 1: And it is with being on the road too. So
Speaker 1: that happened. Then we go and we're doing all of
Speaker 1: this and stuff's been stolen medicine trying to go and
Speaker 1: I feel like an addict because I'm going into these
Speaker 1: places and we can't give you this medicine. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: but you know, people come in all the time looking
Speaker 1: for medicine, like making up lies and excuses or stealing no.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like my doctor's on the phone. I
Speaker 1: gotta play sport, you know, and I feel guilty, and
Speaker 1: I'm like telling my doctor, don't worry about it, like
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'll just have a I just feel terrible
Speaker 1: for a day and a half and come back home.
Speaker 1: It's like, at your position, I can't allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: So I like a really good doctor. Probably still good
Speaker 1: because I would have just I shouldn't say anything about it.
Speaker 1: I should have just got it it out, but I
Speaker 1: guess I had to let her know eventually. Um so
Speaker 1: went through that. Then I got, you know, my medicine,
Speaker 1: and I was feeling fine. And we go and we
Speaker 1: play at Florida State, which was really cool because we're
Speaker 1: playing the football stadium. And we got there and it
Speaker 1: was Tyler Farr, who by the way, is a really
Speaker 1: nice guy, like Tyler a lot Hey. Yeah, actually came
Speaker 1: out played football with us for a bit Old Dominion
Speaker 1: and myself Nettie the raging idiots, and so we're there
Speaker 1: and we we're waiting Ahold a minute for like an
Speaker 1: hour and a half. And I didn't know there were
Speaker 1: no previously hard to work with on the road. I
Speaker 1: had no idea. I only ever met him in the studio,
Speaker 1: and they seemed like nice enough guys to me. I've
Speaker 1: we've always said it, and from a couple of people
Speaker 1: that were there and not definitely not tiled. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say anybody's name that said this to me. I would
Speaker 1: never implicate anyone, but we heard they're like, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: difficult on the road. I was like, wow, that's weird
Speaker 1: because they're never They've never been difficult to me, but
Speaker 1: it's always in my setting. It's always in the studio,
Speaker 1: so no one's difficult. And really only one of them
Speaker 1: ever even came and said hi, which was weird. But
Speaker 1: then I started to think, what could I have done
Speaker 1: the irritated them, because what happened. Most of the time
Speaker 1: I'll say something joking and passing and it means nothing
Speaker 1: to me, but I can definitely see how it would
Speaker 1: bother someone. So I was like, what have I said
Speaker 1: about old dominion that would make them upset at me?
Speaker 1: Because one, I've only had this one road experience with
Speaker 1: them and granted didn't go well, but it can be
Speaker 1: any list of possibility. I'm sure people would deal with
Speaker 1: us and occasionally things don't go well. And I was like,
Speaker 1: there was that time the Eddie and I were making
Speaker 1: fun of and it's a good song to song for
Speaker 1: another time where it has like all the the lyrics
Speaker 1: and titles of other songs, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what if we did that with you know, stand up
Speaker 1: joke comedy jokes? And I just took a stand up
Speaker 1: comed joke from every comedian and made a whole set
Speaker 1: about we were just making a joke about that. And
Speaker 1: so I thought that I actually think the song is
Speaker 1: really good, but that probably got back to I started
Speaker 1: thinking about it. I was like, yeah, that probably got
Speaker 1: back to them, and they probably are irritated at me
Speaker 1: for that if it did, or if not, they just
Speaker 1: don't like me, you know, one of them, which this
Speaker 1: is a really good song, but you know, the joke
Speaker 1: was this is all stuff from other songs, So it
Speaker 1: was you create lots of you know whatever. You can
Speaker 1: write a book with chapters like here's this moby Duck chapter. Whatever,
Speaker 1: we're marine planes, Flower, You'll be on this time some
Speaker 1: all of them. I was singing yesterday, Fame, we can't
Speaker 1: stop it, ser food turning that can make you ve.
Speaker 1: Let's be brand sweet Cares Saturday before feeling on the ceiling.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That was it. That was my
Speaker 1: experience with them. Um. I would like to have you
Speaker 1: know one of those guys in they're all really good
Speaker 1: songwriters who made a band, and now that that's why
Speaker 1: all our songs are so good. I really like all
Speaker 1: Dominion too. But they listen, I would imagine that they're
Speaker 1: irritated at me for the jokes about the song. And
Speaker 1: my response is I'll probably take something else to hear,
Speaker 1: take you too. I didn't even think about it. If
Speaker 1: I started thinking about irritating people by making jokes, I
Speaker 1: can on their bill to make a joke. Damn. A
Speaker 1: song called Nowhere Fast, which is my probably my favorite
Speaker 1: song off this album. This Meat and Candy album is
Speaker 1: really good. I talked bad about him, then I talk
Speaker 1: about good there. I'm just trying to keep it real.
Speaker 1: This is called nowhere fast and good last go my
Speaker 1: Froudsy and she for the run. Run free. This good.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're listening in your old dominion,
Speaker 1: go on in the tank. I mean, there's really nothing bad.
Speaker 1: It's just my experience. I could be completely wrong about this,
Speaker 1: but they were good though they played. I watched the
Speaker 1: play for a bit. They were good. Here's the chorus
Speaker 1: of this song. Here breath and the last kill the
Speaker 1: hid last soon get called radiable. We were messing around.
Speaker 1: We can hardly break breaking new crowd in my bad
Speaker 1: season at our food all again going to I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say all that. I did talk to the keys player
Speaker 1: that he's blonde hair, and he was really nice. He
Speaker 1: came up and said everybody else was kind of stared
Speaker 1: at me from afar, and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: this is awkward. Whatever. I got no problem with anybody. Really,
Speaker 1: they're like too artists and I just don't care. And
Speaker 1: if I do care, then I can't make jokes about things,
Speaker 1: so I can't care. Anyway, I don't care. Uh. That
Speaker 1: happened this weekend and we flew back and I started
Speaker 1: replenishing all my crap that was stolen. And people always
Speaker 1: say nothing worse than a thief. You ever heard that saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the dumbest thaying ever, Rapists, murderers, pedophiles, there are
Speaker 1: many things worse than a thief, like hackers, you know
Speaker 1: they're it's those sayings, you know nothing, nothing worse than
Speaker 1: a thief, or you couldn't ride it any better than that.
Speaker 1: That to me bothers me, because I can write it
Speaker 1: better than that. I don't. I've never seen a situation
Speaker 1: in my entire life that I couldn't write better than
Speaker 1: what happened. Ever, you just had aliens, or there just
Speaker 1: isn't a situation that I couldn't write better than actually happened,
Speaker 1: or worse than it actually happened. It's like giving more
Speaker 1: than I get it means you gave it you're all,
Speaker 1: but that's one dent means it's all like one means
Speaker 1: everything you know give it. He gave it two a
Speaker 1: thousand percent. You can't do that. You only have you,
Speaker 1: You only have all of you. That's what I present
Speaker 1: the pet peeves. People say you can't write it better
Speaker 1: than that. I was like, oh my god, I could.
Speaker 1: People say, ain't nothing worse than the thief? That's what
Speaker 1: they kept saying all weekend. I was like, yeah, I mean, yeah, there,
Speaker 1: they are a lot worse than a thief. I'd read
Speaker 1: as me still my backpack and like murder someone. So uh,
Speaker 1: it was cool to play Florida State though, because one
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders played there, and so I texted on picture
Speaker 1: of me on the scoreboard playing and he was like
Speaker 1: Danny Doggy playing in the stadium and I was like yeah,
Speaker 1: And I didn't tell them we were only playing like
Speaker 1: half because the stage was like only playing like the
Speaker 1: half of it. It wasn't like Kenney Chestney where the
Speaker 1: entire stadium was watching. It was only happy it and uh,
Speaker 1: I I just let him think it was the whole stadium.
Speaker 1: I just showed this the picture of me on the
Speaker 1: jumbo where I was like, yeah, dude, we're playing the stadium.
Speaker 1: So that was good. Uh. Came home, went to bed.
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Speaker 1: So get back and Lindsey and I go to UM
Speaker 1: the Apple Store and have to buy a new computer
Speaker 1: and then we go get tea. I talk about it
Speaker 1: this in the Morning show. And it was weird that
Speaker 1: we had a day off together because usually I'm on
Speaker 1: the road and working and she's on the road and
Speaker 1: working apart working, and we get in different times on
Speaker 1: a Sunday and we just started to get an hour
Speaker 1: to hang out or something. But because she has done
Speaker 1: a couple of shows with us UM, we've actually been
Speaker 1: able to spend time together. And I got the first
Speaker 1: hotel room. I never stay with anyone on the road.
Speaker 1: On the road, you try to save money because hotels
Speaker 1: cost money. I gotta pay for everybody's hotel and so
Speaker 1: you know, I am people share rooms. You get two
Speaker 1: beds in your share room. Like I don't even make
Speaker 1: the girls, say the guys, but like Nikkida will stay
Speaker 1: with our basis Ryan, they're both females. They stay in
Speaker 1: the room together. Eddie and a mod share room that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. I'll keep my own room. Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: my never hotel rooms. I'm bomba. I'm paying for my
Speaker 1: own room, right. But it was like, I don't think
Speaker 1: I can do that if I have a girlfriend on
Speaker 1: the road. I don't think she and there was an
Speaker 1: odd number of girls, so I wasn't gonna buy it.
Speaker 1: Just financially was a good decision. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I never had a room by myself on the road.
Speaker 1: Is it's gonna be weird? And it was No, it
Speaker 1: was actually great because then she was like, this is
Speaker 1: how cool Lindsay is. We got back from the show
Speaker 1: in Tallahassee after we played Florida State and we've had
Speaker 1: no food. They didn't have any food there, so then
Speaker 1: usually there's there's always catering. If it's a multi level
Speaker 1: show like that, when we go like a Raging India show,
Speaker 1: we have what's called a writer and on the rider
Speaker 1: there is a little bit of food. Back there's like
Speaker 1: ham and vegetables and stuff, but there is a catering budget,
Speaker 1: so you can go and get food from a restaurant.
Speaker 1: And there's a runner always because we do big theater
Speaker 1: shows for two thousand people or so. Um. But this
Speaker 1: it wasn't our show. It was kind of like a
Speaker 1: joint show. And there was no food, and why I
Speaker 1: went was starving, and so I get back in the
Speaker 1: Arkansas game is on, and she went and got food
Speaker 1: to go and got at uber and picked it up
Speaker 1: herself or bought it all back to us. And I
Speaker 1: was like, dang, that's cool, because I don't want to
Speaker 1: leave the Arkansas game. And I was like I gave
Speaker 1: every one of those halfway, Like I'll go with you
Speaker 1: if you want hardcore, because listen, if like the Canadian
Speaker 1: Curling Championships we're on, I probably go get food for her.
Speaker 1: But it was the Arkansas I lost you. We were
Speaker 1: getting killed, and she was like watch the game and
Speaker 1: it's important to you. And she went to Ted's. I've
Speaker 1: never been to Ted's, Ted's Steakhouse, Ted's Meat House, Ted's,
Speaker 1: It's a chain. They had one here in Nashville. So
Speaker 1: she went and picked it up and that's what wait
Speaker 1: for dinner. It was really good, by the way, Ted's,
Speaker 1: Ted's Meat House or whatever you called. Uh. So that's
Speaker 1: anyway that that was cool that she went out and
Speaker 1: did that. Cool chick. She said, my buddy Scott, she's
Speaker 1: playing I think next weekend. She's not on the road
Speaker 1: with us, she's on with playing with Kid Moore next week.
Speaker 1: So buddy Scotty a message because she's playing in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: And I took all the credit for it and had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it because my buddy Scotty, who
Speaker 1: lived next door to me growing up and out in
Speaker 1: Pine now lives in Kansas City. He took a job
Speaker 1: with the government over there. And she's like, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: going to play in Kansas City. I'll invite Scotty out.
Speaker 1: I forgot Scotty movie to Kansas City. Oh I got
Speaker 1: And so she remembered that, and so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that'd be awesome. So she texted him and was like, hey,
Speaker 1: should come out to the show. And I was like,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna come. He knows Lindsay. But I was like,
Speaker 1: Scotty is like me, he doesn't want to bother anyone.
Speaker 1: So he's going he agrees, he's gonna go out to
Speaker 1: the show with Lindsay in Kansas City and go and
Speaker 1: be at the show and watch and stuff. And he
Speaker 1: texted me goes, hey, dude, thanks for hooking it up.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you've been remembered. I lived in Kansas City
Speaker 1: and I was like, dude, come on, of course I
Speaker 1: remem Really, what are you talking about. We grew up together.
Speaker 1: I forgot completely and I didn't know exactly where Lindsay
Speaker 1: was playing. I didn't even know if she was going
Speaker 1: to get so many levels. I didn't know. And I
Speaker 1: got all the credit for it. And you know what,
Speaker 1: she'll let me have the credit because she didn't care
Speaker 1: about that. She just like, she's just she's just a
Speaker 1: good person. So yeah, that happened. That that was that
Speaker 1: was a thing. Um, I'm trying to think if there's
Speaker 1: anything else, anything else I haven't touched on that that
Speaker 1: I should touch on. Well, it looks like the dynamic
Speaker 1: now between you doing a show with Londy now that
Speaker 1: you guys are officially together. Uh, same, except for everyone
Speaker 1: now knows we're together, and so I always do one
Speaker 1: thing on the show where I like come over and
Speaker 1: like kiss it on the cheek or something, just so
Speaker 1: because everybody's thinking it. Everybody's like, Okay, we know you're together,
Speaker 1: so are you gonna act different? And we don't. And
Speaker 1: it depends on who's playing with us, because Adalie Stovall,
Speaker 1: who plays fiddle, has done a lot more shows with
Speaker 1: us this year, and so Natalie when she's in the bench,
Speaker 1: Natalie players are right beside me. But if Natalie is
Speaker 1: not there, Lindsay does. And so Lindsay was right beside
Speaker 1: me because Natalie wasn't there, and so it was Lindsay.
Speaker 1: And then Christian Bush um who by the way, has
Speaker 1: a Grammys and c m as and he's playing with
Speaker 1: raging idiots. That that's a good dude, like Christian Bush
Speaker 1: was in sugar Land and Christian Bush now has you know,
Speaker 1: his own stuff, but I mean that he is such
Speaker 1: a good dude. Like I just like being around that guy,
Speaker 1: Christian Bush, and I actually wrote every day is a
Speaker 1: good Day together and wrote on a Raging Idiots record,
Speaker 1: She's at ten, I'm a two. So I got to
Speaker 1: know him a little bit because we didn't know each
Speaker 1: other at all, and we both are represented by C
Speaker 1: A A as far as our musical agents, and they
Speaker 1: were like, hey, Christian Bush is around here, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's cool, and I've never met him before.
Speaker 1: The like you love him because he's such a positive person,
Speaker 1: and um he Christian doesn't live in Nashvilles in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and he's like you guys would get along because you're
Speaker 1: both kind of private when you're not super public. And
Speaker 1: so we just talked to the Layer like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: writing a song for this dope record. He was like,
Speaker 1: I love to man. I was like, wait, what you
Speaker 1: have Grammy Awards and you're write for real people and
Speaker 1: uh went over to his place in Nashville and we
Speaker 1: were like we all right about. It's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's like your mantra. I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Every day is a good day. I try to live
Speaker 1: by goes. Let's do it. And so that's where it started.
Speaker 1: And then we came back again and wrote She's a
Speaker 1: ten em A two or maybe the opposite order, whatever
Speaker 1: the case was, great, dude. All I'm thinking on stages
Speaker 1: is that there's like a Grammy Award winner playing guitar
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm the lead singer. I'm the worst
Speaker 1: singer of the whole group, by the way, and I'm
Speaker 1: the lead singer, and I got a Grammy winner, a
Speaker 1: freaking guitar salvant. I mean, Eddie and I are both
Speaker 1: we're the worst two in the band. Now, if I
Speaker 1: could sing, I'd be an excellent front man because I'm
Speaker 1: very entertaining and I've learned how to do our show.
Speaker 1: I said before, I learned how to do a great show.
Speaker 1: Why I just include everything and keep everything moving around.
Speaker 1: And it's a really The show now that we do
Speaker 1: is reging it. It's a really good and I'm proud
Speaker 1: people to come see it. It didn't used to be
Speaker 1: like that. Used to be like, oh, we don't come
Speaker 1: because we're suck. I've dropped that because the show is good.
Speaker 1: Listen again, it's not Chris Stapleton. You're not gonna come
Speaker 1: away and be like, Wow, that's the best vocals ever heard.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna go man, I smiled, and laughed and
Speaker 1: saying a lot. So yeah, I mean, right at the
Speaker 1: time where I like started to get proud of the show,
Speaker 1: we're like calling it quits. It's exhausted, but we are.
Speaker 1: I am doing this comedy tour next year, which we
Speaker 1: haven't announce yet. I'm not being officially announcing it now
Speaker 1: except I am and I have talked about it before.
Speaker 1: But I'm doing a stand up comedy tour like January
Speaker 1: through May of next year. It doesn't get announ until
Speaker 1: the twenty November, so I don't know when you hear this,
Speaker 1: but um, right now, we're going through the two images. Wait,
Speaker 1: that's like what's gonna be the main image? Because you
Speaker 1: have to have posters and digital images, and you know
Speaker 1: we're going to all these cities and you have to
Speaker 1: start building everything out, and so everybody wants like this.
Speaker 1: There's like this what they call the sexy image listen,
Speaker 1: nothing about me exactly, or there's the dope image. And
Speaker 1: I always go for the dope image, Like my mind
Speaker 1: goes go dope because then no one can make fun
Speaker 1: of you if you go sexy or like, what's he
Speaker 1: trying to do? He trying to look at and so
Speaker 1: I'm in this not an argument, because there aren't arguments,
Speaker 1: but we're in the strategic conversation. My manager, Mary Force
Speaker 1: and I are like which picture to use, Like you
Speaker 1: should use one or your really good looking and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I don't like that because then people
Speaker 1: are gonna think I'm going for this like good looking
Speaker 1: thing and I'm not even that good looking. Anyway, I say,
Speaker 1: we go with the dope picture with just in my head.
Speaker 1: So I don't know which one we're gonna use yet.
Speaker 1: I gotta like at him again tonight because I sent
Speaker 1: it to Lindsay and I was like, what do you think?
Speaker 1: Because my whole humorous self deprecation and if I'm like,
Speaker 1: even if you're not good looking and you're trying to
Speaker 1: look cool, you come off it's kind of a d bag.
Speaker 1: There's a fine line to walk in this, and so
Speaker 1: that's what I'm trying to figure out. And by the
Speaker 1: time you hear this, we may have a picture picked
Speaker 1: out to mab see there's either me with a head
Speaker 1: looking up just my head that's the dopey one, or
Speaker 1: like me with the black brick wall background when I'm
Speaker 1: like smiling to the side, that's supposedly the hot one. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'll think out the one and them are hot. But
Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see what Lindsay says, because she kind
Speaker 1: of gets the whole. Everybody gets it. Everybody has opinions.
Speaker 1: They're like butt holes. Everybody's got one. But that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: People are asking me, I'm not talking more about the election,
Speaker 1: and there's no word. There's no way for me to
Speaker 1: win because I don't have a person. And this is
Speaker 1: what I learned. Making fun of both of them makes
Speaker 1: everybody mad. You don't even get half of a victory.
Speaker 1: You don't even just piss off half the people. You
Speaker 1: get everybody hating you. It's not that people respect that
Speaker 1: you're fair and make fun of both of them. It's
Speaker 1: that when you make fun of one of them, the
Speaker 1: half of the people hate you. When you make fun
Speaker 1: of Yeah, they don't know the rest of it. So
Speaker 1: I just stopped talking about it because there was no way.
Speaker 1: If I would have had someone that I was like
Speaker 1: completely for it felt wonderful about and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is my person. Although to tell you, I haven't
Speaker 1: had that, like three I just don't believe in politicians.
Speaker 1: It's not even a little bit. This time. I trouble
Speaker 1: with both of them, but even the last election, I
Speaker 1: just have trouble with politicians in general. So it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to endorse anyone. And Secondly, people don't care
Speaker 1: about celebrity endorsements, Like people really don't care. I don't
Speaker 1: know one person that goes Miley Cyrus is voted for him.
Speaker 1: Well count me in. People don't care about celebrity endorsements,
Speaker 1: and you alienate yourself. So as a business move, it's
Speaker 1: a bad move. Now you have to wonder and you
Speaker 1: have to weigh isn't important enough to me? Because I
Speaker 1: get some people that are like, it's important enough to
Speaker 1: me as a citizen to ago and support this person
Speaker 1: publicly and maybe bring these views to the public forefront
Speaker 1: that maybe people aren't seeing. There's that risk, and I
Speaker 1: understand that and I respect that. It's like artists that
Speaker 1: don't do cover songs because there's something that we cover
Speaker 1: songs on the show, and I'm like, I understand it,
Speaker 1: but I'm also not gonna have you on. So I
Speaker 1: respect it and understand that that's your thing. But I
Speaker 1: gotta look at my audience and they don't want an
Speaker 1: unknown song they've never heard and from an artist that's new,
Speaker 1: So it's not gonna help me with ratings. And so
Speaker 1: unless you just blow away good like Stapleton, he could
Speaker 1: come in and play whatever you want to care. But
Speaker 1: when they're artists that are just pretty good and they
Speaker 1: don't want to play a cover and it's just unfamiliar
Speaker 1: and the artist is unfamiliar, I'm always like, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna pass. And sometimes it's a source of contention
Speaker 1: because there's been a few artists that's happened with where
Speaker 1: they're like, you know what, we just don't do covers,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I respect that. As an artist, that's
Speaker 1: what you do. I'm glad and I hope you hold
Speaker 1: true to that. But I as my own radio show artiste,
Speaker 1: I can't put that on because it's not the best
Speaker 1: painting I can paint for the listeners of the show.
Speaker 1: And so um the same thing. You know, I see
Speaker 1: where it means a lot for people to endorse a candidate.
Speaker 1: If you're just looking at it business, it's not a
Speaker 1: good business move. But as a person, we feel like
Speaker 1: that's more important than your business. I completely get it
Speaker 1: and understanding respected it me. I don't have anybody anyway.
Speaker 1: But I learned, don't be against both of them. Just
Speaker 1: shut up instead of being against both of them, because
Speaker 1: I was just getting hammered. I was just getting by
Speaker 1: both sides. And it doesn't bother me to get hammered,
Speaker 1: because I've been getting hammered my entire life. Whenever you
Speaker 1: do anything polarizing or anything with an opinion, the vocal
Speaker 1: minority of against your opinion always comes out and slams you,
Speaker 1: and you just get used to it because nobody ever
Speaker 1: goes to a website and goes, hey, I came all
Speaker 1: the way over here and clicked here you are ill,
Speaker 1: and come over and just send you a message to
Speaker 1: tell you I really enjoyed this segment today. No, people
Speaker 1: just enjoy a segment and they don't go anywhere. But
Speaker 1: people get irritated that caused them to create. It's an action,
Speaker 1: and they're like, I'm so mad, I must voice it somewhere,
Speaker 1: So I must go to their page and tell them
Speaker 1: how bad they suck. And so you do something that's
Speaker 1: positive and good people like it and they just accept
Speaker 1: it and they thank you in their own mind and
Speaker 1: they move on with their day and it helps them pleasantly.
Speaker 1: But if they don't like it, they want you to
Speaker 1: know they didn't like it. So it's just a world
Speaker 1: you have to understand. And I always get irritated when
Speaker 1: celebrities go, I'm just not gonna let internet trolls bring
Speaker 1: me down. Don't be a celebrity. If you're worried about
Speaker 1: don't put yourself on social media. If you're worried about
Speaker 1: internet bullies. Now, kids getting bullied by kids at school
Speaker 1: and internet, that's a whole different thing that they're not celebrities.
Speaker 1: Once you become a public figure, people are gonna come
Speaker 1: after you. Now, if they're threatening your life or your
Speaker 1: likelihood or your kids, it's a different story. But if
Speaker 1: they're just saying you're ugly, you're stupid, you're fat, you're
Speaker 1: not funny, then don't be a celebrity and get on
Speaker 1: Twitter because that's going to happen. There's a story about
Speaker 1: Miranda Lambert, like, Branda Lebert's not letting Internet bullies take
Speaker 1: her down. She's taking a stand. You're a celebrity. This
Speaker 1: is what happens when your celebrity. People will say they
Speaker 1: you give them access because it helps you, It humanizes you,
Speaker 1: and in return, people are real dicks and you just
Speaker 1: have to take it. And you can block people and
Speaker 1: block all the time, like I have no shame I
Speaker 1: blocked people that aren't even dick. Sometimes sometimes I just
Speaker 1: get irritated to people like I don't care that Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton says this for the eleventh time. I know you're
Speaker 1: not being a dick, but I don't care. I don't
Speaker 1: care that Donald Trump has done there, Like I just
Speaker 1: don't care. And I'm getting tired of seeing your tweets
Speaker 1: on my timeline, So mute then block in that order.
Speaker 1: But most of the time I have the right to
Speaker 1: block you. You You have the right to message to me,
Speaker 1: everything's good, don't threaten me, don't threaten anyone safety. But
Speaker 1: part of being a public figure is what comes with it.
Speaker 1: Your public and people can say things about you publicly,
Speaker 1: and that's part of the deal. And so I stopped
Speaker 1: talking about the election period on the show. The only
Speaker 1: thing we talked about was raised Bet because there just
Speaker 1: was nothing that I could say positive that made any sense.
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to make fun of both of
Speaker 1: them all the time, because there's always as someone who
Speaker 1: looks for the humor and stuff there's always humor and stuff,
Speaker 1: and when you do that, people get mad at you.
Speaker 1: So it just wasn't worth it. So I'm done. The
Speaker 1: election is over. I think you know, as a country,
Speaker 1: it is now what it is. And I do agree
Speaker 1: that if you voted for Donald Trump probably very happy
Speaker 1: right now. If you didn't vote for Donald Trump, it's
Speaker 1: tough and you're like, what do we do because you
Speaker 1: probably disagree with a lot of the things that he
Speaker 1: said and stood for, and but he is going to
Speaker 1: be the president. He's not done anything as president yet.
Speaker 1: That's really obnoxious or insult It's almost like he gets
Speaker 1: a fresh white board, a fresh president white board, and
Speaker 1: let's see what he does. That's how I look at
Speaker 1: it in my mind, like I can't complain about Donald
Speaker 1: Trump the president yet because he hasn't been the presce
Speaker 1: it um. But that's just me. I feel like I
Speaker 1: should give him a chance. I respect the office of
Speaker 1: the presidency, and for me not to give someone a chance,
Speaker 1: you guys, I didn't vote for Donald Trump, so I'm
Speaker 1: not saying this is a trumper. For me not to
Speaker 1: give someone a chance, I feel would be being hypocritical
Speaker 1: of what I've always said I respect the office and
Speaker 1: until unless until it doesn't deserve that person doesn't reserve
Speaker 1: deserve the respect. So yeah, I hope he. I hope
Speaker 1: he gets in and crushes it. I hope anybody gets
Speaker 1: in and crushes it. This is our country we're talking about.
Speaker 1: As much as you hate him, wouldn't it be awesome
Speaker 1: if he went in and did wonderful for everyone? Can we?
Speaker 1: This is my whole beef of politicians. One, they're mostly
Speaker 1: rich when they get in office. That's how they can
Speaker 1: run for office because they don't have to have a
Speaker 1: real job. That's why most normal people aren't politicians because
Speaker 1: normal people don't have the money to go run for office.
Speaker 1: And it's a real rich person thing to do to
Speaker 1: go try to be a congressman. But as if you
Speaker 1: have a nine to five job, or you're a mill
Speaker 1: worker like my stepdad, or an accountant or a waiter
Speaker 1: or whatever your job is, you don't have time to
Speaker 1: go and campaign to be this politician. So normal people,
Speaker 1: for the most part aren't politicians, and that's why we
Speaker 1: end up with people that aren't that normal running all
Speaker 1: of our government. They don't understand what normal people are
Speaker 1: going through. And my all point is that is I
Speaker 1: think now I can be president. Honest to God, after
Speaker 1: watching what happened, I think I can be president of
Speaker 1: the United States. I never used to think that because
Speaker 1: I was like, I, you probably need to have some
Speaker 1: sort of military background, and I definitely don't have the
Speaker 1: balls for that. Never did. I'm a weenie boy, and
Speaker 1: people in military got big old go neds even and
Speaker 1: I say that man and woman. I just mean, that's
Speaker 1: a brave thing to do, and I don't have the
Speaker 1: heart for that. Or you need to be an attorney
Speaker 1: and know the law and be a lawyer, or or no,
Speaker 1: it's about it, And I was like, I'll never be
Speaker 1: any of those, So I don't now a Donald Trump
Speaker 1: winning it. It's just like, Okay, let me see I
Speaker 1: get really famous and then be a good person and
Speaker 1: i'mber president, okay, Like it's it's almost inspired me to be,
Speaker 1: like I really because I've always said I'll run for
Speaker 1: office one day. I've always thought that forever, since being
Speaker 1: like eight years old. But I wanted to do this
Speaker 1: for earlier. I'm doing what I love right now, but
Speaker 1: eventually never be a time where I'm just not getting
Speaker 1: ratings anymore. Or I just don't enjoy waking up at
Speaker 1: during the dur in the morning anymore. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling my thirties right now, at fifteen years,
Speaker 1: I could decide to do it and still be relatively
Speaker 1: young to do that. But it has shown me that
Speaker 1: if I want to be a freaking president, at least
Speaker 1: I got a shot. I can take a run at it.
Speaker 1: And as crazy as that sounds, I believe it is
Speaker 1: all my heart that nuts to you. No, Like, that's
Speaker 1: kind of what I take away from it too. I
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, I mean, he didn't do anything good politic,
Speaker 1: a rich guy that had a message and it resonated
Speaker 1: with people. If this career works out for me for
Speaker 1: another ten years, I will be fine financially at the
Speaker 1: at the level I'm at now, I'll have money to
Speaker 1: go take a couple of years and go run prothers
Speaker 1: and if I make it great. If I don't, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I listen. I go back to doing radio
Speaker 1: or TV or creating ad campaigns or something. But this,
Speaker 1: the one thing about Donald Trump winning has shown me
Speaker 1: that if you just have a message that resonates, good dad,
Speaker 1: what however you feel it was people take that and
Speaker 1: you can inspire people like there have been great leaders
Speaker 1: that have inspired just people through words and through speeches
Speaker 1: and through actions. And I mean, if anything, it's showed
Speaker 1: me that the presidency, the thing that we hold highest,
Speaker 1: really can just be one by the right person at
Speaker 1: the right time, with the right message. And so maybe
Speaker 1: this podcast gets looked at in twenty years as I'm
Speaker 1: president of the United States. Somebody goes day or I
Speaker 1: get fired tomorrow, and then I just moved back to
Speaker 1: Arkansas and we'll move back to Austin and I don't
Speaker 1: work at ad agency or something, and it never comes out.
Speaker 1: You know, who knows. But anyway, that's the deal with that.
Speaker 1: Anything else you want to know, Mike, I'm just with
Speaker 1: the future president right now. I know it sounds ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I believe it in all my heart that if I
Speaker 1: work toward it, I can do it. But I believe
Speaker 1: that I believe that to have something really big happen
Speaker 1: for you, you have to see it and envision it
Speaker 1: and know that it can happen, for it to happen,
Speaker 1: and not give up on it happening even when it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Seventy two times in a row. I've told
Speaker 1: the story before. I get rejected thirty times plus for
Speaker 1: radio jobs like fire, not fire, but no, you're not
Speaker 1: good enough. No, And I'm talking about small markets. Tiny
Speaker 1: radio station will tell me you're not good enough. And
Speaker 1: so I finally got my first tiny radio station. And
Speaker 1: then I would apply to medium STAPs like you're not
Speaker 1: good enough, you're not good enough, You're not good So
Speaker 1: I would just work and get better, and I would
Speaker 1: use that. To me, I see adversity as a tool
Speaker 1: to get better, and I think that's the key to
Speaker 1: what I have been able to do. Using adversity as
Speaker 1: a tool and surrounding myself with great people. Those two things,
Speaker 1: to me, have been the keys to the success of
Speaker 1: me and other people that I see trying to do
Speaker 1: big things. You have a vision, You're not gonna get
Speaker 1: anything you don't see. Listen, You're never gonna be the
Speaker 1: president of a company if you can't see yourself being
Speaker 1: the freaking president of the company. Like you want to
Speaker 1: be the president of the company and you're working in
Speaker 1: the mail room, start thinking in your head, I want
Speaker 1: to be the president of the company. What are the
Speaker 1: eleven steps I have to take? To do the president
Speaker 1: of the company. What's the first step? And then you
Speaker 1: take the bigger goals and then you start to figure
Speaker 1: out the steps in betwe them. Because when I was
Speaker 1: working radio and Hot Springs, Arkansas, I was like, this
Speaker 1: great is my hometown, but like, I want to be
Speaker 1: a national show, a national morning show. I was doing
Speaker 1: nights at eighteen years old. I was like, I wanna
Speaker 1: be a national morning show. What are the steps. Step one,
Speaker 1: get to a bigger market doing nights. Step two, get
Speaker 1: to a bigger market doing nights. Step three, either go
Speaker 1: bigger or take a morning show of the same size
Speaker 1: or smaller. So I leveraged it into a morning show
Speaker 1: of the same size. I was like, Okay, now I
Speaker 1: want to syndicate. Took a big risk to the money
Speaker 1: that I was making. Was making fifty grand a year,
Speaker 1: and I took half of that, if not more, and
Speaker 1: invested that back into myself and going to get it,
Speaker 1: buy the equipment, gotta do this, paid Atlanta salary myself
Speaker 1: out of my own money, and I just believe that
Speaker 1: I could do it. And you know what, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have bet on me in a million years. But I
Speaker 1: was an idiot who just saw this great vision and
Speaker 1: chased it. You're never gonna catch that great vision unless
Speaker 1: you chase it, and you're gonna fail a lot of times.
Speaker 1: I failed one like I felt for every success that
Speaker 1: I have, I have twenty failures. But that's not what
Speaker 1: people know you for. That's not what people see you doing.
Speaker 1: People only see the successes. I had an uncle who
Speaker 1: was UM. He since died. He was a an alcoholic
Speaker 1: UM and he died of alcoholism. He's my mom's brother.
Speaker 1: Alcoholism and runs in my family really bad. He was
Speaker 1: also a I had a gambling addiction UM in which
Speaker 1: I did too for a while, and I have stopped
Speaker 1: gambling completely because I was getting out of control. Also
Speaker 1: wrote about that in my book, where I couldn't stop gambling.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't gambling in general. It was just poker.
Speaker 1: But I get obsessive about things, and I was reading
Speaker 1: books and I was playing online, and everything I was
Speaker 1: doing was that radio show on poker, and that's all
Speaker 1: I was doing. But he would tell me, and this
Speaker 1: is a lesson that I still remember from my uncle.
Speaker 1: He said, listen, with gambling, people don't remember your losses.
Speaker 1: He said, I probably lost a lot more money than
Speaker 1: every one in my life. But when I make it,
Speaker 1: when I hit it big, you're always like, man, I
Speaker 1: hate it big. Today. People only remember when you bring
Speaker 1: them those big wins. And so people only remember the
Speaker 1: fact that I started my all morning show and with
Speaker 1: my own money and became a syndicated show because I
Speaker 1: went and did it myself. You know what many stations
Speaker 1: like had us and dropped us and didn't take us,
Speaker 1: and how much of the equipment didn't work forever like
Speaker 1: more than not. And then we finally got it to
Speaker 1: work after so much failure, and then people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at this guy who's comes to Nashville and has
Speaker 1: all these God the first two years of my existence
Speaker 1: were miserable here, miserable. I didn't listen. I don't fit
Speaker 1: in now. But somewhat I have leaned towards the culture,
Speaker 1: and some of the cultures leaned towards me a bit
Speaker 1: here as well, And so it's been a nice little
Speaker 1: let's meet in the middle, and both of us understand
Speaker 1: that we're both going towards the same goal, but we're
Speaker 1: not doing it the exact same path, meaning the old
Speaker 1: Nashville establishment and myself, but it's it's you get these
Speaker 1: victories anytimes. How many TV shows have said, hey, come
Speaker 1: to l an audition and I did, just didn't get it,
Speaker 1: I mean, but you just keep plugging away, and then
Speaker 1: I'll get one and then the show doesn't make it,
Speaker 1: and I get a huge one and it gets picked up,
Speaker 1: and then for reasons of relocation, I can't make you
Speaker 1: keep on chucking. I got one right now in production
Speaker 1: of my production company, my Teeth First Company, and then
Speaker 1: one that I'm the host of, and they're both still
Speaker 1: in play right now. And if they both fall out,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get out
Speaker 1: the next day and go all right back at it.
Speaker 1: How can I get at it again? And those are
Speaker 1: the winners in live. It's not the people that do
Speaker 1: it right. It's the people that don't give up. Those
Speaker 1: are the winners in life. Winners in life aren't people
Speaker 1: that are perfect. There are people that just keep on
Speaker 1: pushing all the time, and you're like, well, that must
Speaker 1: be easy. Look at this. Look at Tim mcgrawl, He's
Speaker 1: a superstar man life. Tim mccrawl was grinding it out
Speaker 1: in the apartment with no heat for years, years, but
Speaker 1: we only see the successes. But no, that forever, very
Speaker 1: huge example of person, you see, unless they were just
Speaker 1: giving a whole bunch of money that it was a grind.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to be a politician, though, because
Speaker 1: I think I come from a normal person world, or
Speaker 1: a lot of politicians don't. I come from a normal
Speaker 1: person world of growing up having to know what it's
Speaker 1: like to see struggle, and then I lived struggle and
Speaker 1: I've done the whole ground myself by the bootstraps thing.
Speaker 1: And I don't say that in a way of bragging,
Speaker 1: but I say it in a way if I want
Speaker 1: to motivate other people to know that you can do
Speaker 1: the same freaking thing. I don't have any great talent.
Speaker 1: I have no great talent. Nothing about me is absolutely great.
Speaker 1: Nothing about me is talented enough to be in the
Speaker 1: position that I am except for persistence and drive. That's it.
Speaker 1: If that's a that's not a talent though, that's just
Speaker 1: an ethic. And so that comes though from being a
Speaker 1: normal person and knowing that nothing's given to you and
Speaker 1: not having a safety net. Thank you, America, good night.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be president one day, that's all that's And
Speaker 1: you can be president too. I don't care what you are.
Speaker 1: I really feel like anybody can be president with this.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean anybody. I mean anybody, because I
Speaker 1: used to think you had to be in the military,
Speaker 1: which would lead you to a position in politics, or
Speaker 1: be an attorney, which will leads you to position in politics. Now,
Speaker 1: thank you. Used to be a person with the message,
Speaker 1: and if you have the right message, you can. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw it. We just saw it, regardless of you
Speaker 1: agree with it or not. We just that's what we saw.
Speaker 1: So um, thank you old dominions. Shout out. I hope
Speaker 1: we're good. Tells it seems like a long time ago.
Speaker 1: How long is this thing thing? Man? Damn, we're trying
Speaker 1: to go like thirty minutes today. Get on a rant.
Speaker 1: That's it and made it this long. Appreciate it. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna wrap it up to that thing. Hey, we
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Speaker 1: me m E A L s Hi. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much to you guys who listen to the Bobby castitiate
Speaker 1: it so much if you made it to the end
Speaker 1: of it, you can always hashtag bobbycasts that you made
Speaker 1: it to the end of my life motivational rant. I
Speaker 1: love those tweets. I'm like, dang, so I actually listen
Speaker 1: to that the whole thing. So that was that, Uh,
Speaker 1: Lauren Lena should be on the next Bodycast. We've got
Speaker 1: some good stuff coming up. I wanna get some writers
Speaker 1: in there too. You gonna go behind the scenes. Um.
Speaker 1: That's so I got hit up today about as to
Speaker 1: talk about my book. You can get my book too
Speaker 1: if you want to. This is not a book ploy
Speaker 1: because I am not getting paid it for um, like
Speaker 1: Amazon still has bare bones. And then I guess the
Speaker 1: reason that's on top of my I just signed a
Speaker 1: bunch of them. We had a bunch sent and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: we just signed them, So I just signed like threading
Speaker 1: them downstairs. So if you'd like to get it, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's slightly better than mediocre. Could
Speaker 1: you ask me, That's what I would say. Sure, it's
Speaker 1: a great because my president I mean whatever, Ah, there
Speaker 1: you go. And but oh yeah, but they hit me
Speaker 1: up again about writing like in the last two days,
Speaker 1: like you ready for thru start writing another like book book,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I can't write that again
Speaker 1: because that's a life story. I need another twenty years
Speaker 1: to finish, because that's not a full story. Um. And
Speaker 1: I was so surprised that it was like a best seller.
Speaker 1: To me, that was incredible, awesome and crazy. And I'm
Speaker 1: just now starting to respect it because if I just didn't,
Speaker 1: I didn't resonate when it first happened. But as I
Speaker 1: look back at it, like I say, I only enjoyed
Speaker 1: seeing things and pictures, I don't enjoy actually doing them. Um.
Speaker 1: So now I'm starting to kind of be cool that
Speaker 1: the book was a success and I can see like
Speaker 1: data that shows and the sales are there. It's like, wow,
Speaker 1: I'm crazy that you buy. But they're like I was like, listen,
Speaker 1: here's what I can do. I you do a book
Speaker 1: of like essays, like stories, but I can't do a
Speaker 1: book about my life anymore. Like you gotta essay about
Speaker 1: saying that my grandma used to say, I can do
Speaker 1: a book about that and how it relates to my life.
Speaker 1: I can do a book on whatever I just talked about.
Speaker 1: There you got a book on how um you can
Speaker 1: be whatever you want to be whatever. I don't think
Speaker 1: we song about that called When I Grow Up. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, I don't know it.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if I'm reading that writing a
Speaker 1: book process. It's not like my step network from mill
Speaker 1: It's not that kind of work. And I have so
Speaker 1: much respect for him because he wanted to busted his
Speaker 1: but every day, like ten hours a day real work.
Speaker 1: I don't do real work. I know I don't do
Speaker 1: real work. Um, but it's a grind mentally, it puts
Speaker 1: you in a weird place. It's weird. It makes you
Speaker 1: feel funny. That last book didn't anyway. Anyway, there's that.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for listening. We'll see tomorrow on the show.
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