WEBVTT - #655 - In The Weeds: Bobby’s Coyote Problem, American Idol Luck & the Prank That Got Him in Trouble 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:09.640 I just got an email asking if I wanted to 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:16.120 euthanize the coyotes in my backyard or try to relocate them. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.159 And if you don't know what I'm talking about, we 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.520 have two dogs at the house and Stanley is a bulldog. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.120 He's eight now, which is crazy because those bulldogs, man, 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.400 they are broken. So we're hoping for a long, long 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.159 life from him. Had a pretty successful eight years. And 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.519 then we have a dog that's half husky half hound, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.519 and she loves to hunt animals that's on our property 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.279 and our property we have a normal backyard, but then 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.760 we have some makers of just woods and she tends 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.120 to just run out in the woods all the time 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.599 and occasionally she comes back with a rabbit or squirrel, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.400 definitely the hound part of her. And so we were 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.560 out in the backyard a week or so ago and 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.600 I heard her go a little un characteristic of her 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.040 back in the woods. Thought maybe a snake a bitter. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.600 It turns out it was a coyote that bitter, and 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.720 so she got in a fight, got attacked by a coyote, 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:13.600 and our properties fenced in, but we didn't know exactly 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.200 what bitter for a while. And then she couldn't use 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.559 her left back leg and she's dragging it through the house. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.319 So luckily I have a friend that's a vet doctor, Josie, 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.119 and I call her and we get Ella in. She's 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.480 gonna be fine now. Now she's walking around pretty normal. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:29.480 But we can't let the dogs go out in the 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.080 backyard now because it's connected to the woods. And so 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.600 the email I just got was we're going to hire 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:44.360 some trappers to come out and would I be okay 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:49.000 with them euthanizing the coyotes or relocated, And again it's 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:54.960 a mom and at least three babies. I would rather 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.720 them relocate. Here's the problem of the six people that 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.560 we have that will come and get the coyotes off 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:03.920 the property, because we have to have them off the 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.640 property because our dogs live there. Only one of the 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:13.560 six will come out and actually I don't know, cuddle them, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.160 kiss them, take them and release them to the wild. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.600 The other five just kill them, and they're dirty animals, 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:27.200 but they're still animals. And so to get the person 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.280 that will just relocate them, it is going to take 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.079 almost two weeks longer than somebody who will just come 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:44.000 out trap them and kill them. So I'm torn. I'm 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.960 not torn. You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:52.840 say relocate them. And that's annoying because that's our yard. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.920 Those coyotes, they don't know the difference. They're just trying 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:03.160 to survive. And I'm not here as a coyote apologist. Heck, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.760 one just attack my dog, and they are dirty and 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.400 they probably have rabies. Luckily, Yeller Hudder shots all up 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.359 to date, and we went and got her a booster 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:17.000 immediately from doctor Josie. But I'm just gonna have to 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.800 go pay more money for the youth and ized group. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.320 And then on top of that, wait two extra weeks, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:26.560 and we got to make sure we get the parent 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.360 and at least all three of the babies. Like, if 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.119 we're gonna do this, let's do it right. Heck, let's 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.360 get him out for adoption. Who wants to adopt these coyotes. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.360 Let's just do it. Let's just go all in. If 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.520 you're watching this right now, you're watching this episode of 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.320 In the Weeds, you want to adopt four coyotes? Boy 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.440 do I got a family fruit? They are awesome pets. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.520 Clean anyway, I was dealing with that right before we 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.000 came on here, Welcome to the show called in the Weeds, 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.440 where I just talk about things that are happening that 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.800 I thought no one would care about, mostly in my 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.880 career in my life. So here we go with probably 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.400 episode eight or so. I'll say this and this is 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.600 very in the weeds. I didn't think people would much 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.120 care for this, and it kind of popped off on 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.360 YouTube and I've had people inside the industry that I 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.600 work in go, man, I really like that show. To 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.680 me weird because I don't talk about anything that I 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:15.880 would talk about on the radio show because it's very 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.920 much what they would call inside. But we've now done 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.800 enough of these episodes in podcast form audio only. It's 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.800 the same thing as video, but and they perform better 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:32.920 than some of the bigger interviews that I do, which 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:38.039 I feel like maybe people have a decent amount of 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.360 interest in some of the stuff that I'm talking about 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.320 that I thought was too inside the industry or my 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.159 life that no one really care about. So we're gonna 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:51.599 do more of these because I'm surprised that they do 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.279 better than some of the episodes where we have stars 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.719 on and I interviewed them. So here we are in 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.600 the Weeds, don't know what episode it is. Let's just 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.400 call it episode eight for right now. I do want 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:03.840 to talk about a time I met a lady in 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.840 the lobby at a television station. And I want to 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.440 build this off of something that Amy was saying on 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.520 the radio show. She was talking about just say hi 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.240 to people. You never know where that could take you 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.080 in life. And she was telling the story of her 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.839 meeting me in at Culver's in Austin, Texas. And the 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.680 brief version of that story is I was getting my 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.000 tires rotated. I don't know, it's probably two thousand and 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.640 five if I'm guessing, and I'm in Culvers and I 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.560 don't know Amy, but she comes up to me and says, hey, 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.919 I know your show. And then her and her friend 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.839 whose parents owned that Culvers, they gave me like some 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.000 ice cream coupons. Now, I was new in Austin. The 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.320 show was not a success yet, so it wasn't like 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.440 I had tons of fans. But she knew the show 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:56.640 and so met her there, met her again, and she 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.200 ended up being a co host on the show. Came 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:01.760 on as a producer at first, and then she became 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.360 a co host, and it was all because she said 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:04.919 hi to me at Culver's and I thought she was 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.960 super interesting, super funny, and she said, you never know 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.480 what will happen in life if you just say hi 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:14.719 to someone, which leads me to this same type of thing, 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:22.080 probably six or so years ago. I'm in Los Angeles. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.160 It's not my favorite place. I don't have a good 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.279 relationship with it because if I'm out there, I'm only working, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.320 and if I'm only working, I'm doing the radio show 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.479 early in the morning, and then I'm doing whatever else 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.440 job that I'm out there to do, and I'm sitting 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.240 in traffic all the time, and I'm in a hotel. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.680 I'm car sick. Like. My relationship with LA is not 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.520 great because of that, because I never just have time 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.479 to hang out and experience the beach. Although not a 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.440 big beach fan either. So I'm in LA and I 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:51.320 am at Disney Studios different than Disney Land. I'm at 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:56.479 Disney Studios, and Disney owns obviously Disney Channel, it owns ABC, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:02.839 it owns Hulu, you know all those properties. And I 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.440 had gone up and I had auditioned for a show 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.800 that ABC was doing, a daytime talk show on day 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.440 one when they had all the scrubs in. I was 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.400 a scrub to them. They didn't really know me, but 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.120 they knew had a big radio show, and they brought 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.160 me in and I made it through day one and 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.520 got to day two smash Cut. I ended up making 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.000 that daytime talk show as a host. It was me 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.880 and Dion Sanders, and the pilot was funded. We shot 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.440 a pilot. We were there working together for like six weeks. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:38.280 It was an ABC owned and operated the pilot. We 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.040 did it. It was good, but it did not get 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.480 picked up. For whatever reason, it did not get picked up. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.160 But I'd made some connections there, or at least people 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.360 that remembered me, and so I got invited to come 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.600 up and talk with somebody who was a vice president 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.880 at ABC for a bunch of nonscripted shows. And so 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.640 I just flew over and went up and it was 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.560 just a general meeting and I'm in the lobby and 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.880 there's a British woman that I'm not sitting right next 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.120 to her because I'd be awkward because it was a 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.920 pretty open lobby, but she was kind of Caddy corner 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.960 and we were just sitting there. And the thing about 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.000 La that I've learned is nothing is on time there 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.120 because everybody's late to everything, and mostly it's because the 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.000 traffic is terrible. And so we're both sitting in there 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.600 and say, hey, how's it going, and she says it's 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.560 play good. And we start talking back and forth a 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.480 little bit. And I've often compared it to prison, where 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.640 you don't really say why you're there. I mean, we 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.000 didn't what are you in for? Like what you're meeting about. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.040 We're just two people talking in the lobby. And so 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.200 we talked for about fifteen minutes or so, and they 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.360 called her over the top and she went to her 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.120 meeting and I waited about fifteen more minutes. Finally I 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.680 was the last one in the room they called me. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:50.640 But I had a really great conversation with her, and 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:58.360 we talked about where we're from, if she had kids. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.840 I didn't just personal life stuff. I didn't get anything 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.440 too professional. And so I'm going into this guy who's 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.960 a massive executive at Disney ABC and I walk in 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:14.720 the room and she's in there and I was like, hey, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:19.000 I just met you, and she was like yeah. Turns 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.720 out she was the executive producer of American Idol and 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.800 so what it happened was the guy I was meeting with, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.680 whose name was Rob Mills. He is still there, he 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.920 still runs it. Before that meeting with me, he was 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.160 meeting with her about something else and they had mentioned 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:36.920 that I was next. He was like, oh, I just 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.400 met him, and he was like, oh, let's invite him 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.600 in before you leave, and so I go, and because 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.240 we had already had a conversation, we kind of knew 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:43.760 each other. So it's all three of us in a 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.800 room and I'm just going for like a general meeting 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.120 to meet the guy, and she's there, and all of 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.120 a sudden it turns into, hey, why don't you come 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.480 on one episode of American Idol and you can help 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.680 the contestants with what songs to pick, how to be 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.520 interviewed stage presence. I was like, great, one episode, that 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.240 was all I was supposed to do. Well that turned 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.199 into four years on that show, and I'm convinced had 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.920 I not said hi to her in that lobby and 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.839 had that conversation with her in that lobby, none of 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.360 that would have happened. We were just there, two human 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:22.320 beings connecting over well waiting and by the time I 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.520 ran into her again, she was able to make a 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:31.559 decision to give me an opportunity. That's wild. So when 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.400 Amy was telling that story about how just say hi 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.600 to somebody, was like, man, this felt so familiar. It's 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.320 because of that that happened with me. Just say hi 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.200 to somebody, You never know. It's not even about being opportunistic. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.040 You maybe actually the one that can do something for 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.199 somebody else once you find out what their needs once 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.920 desires are. That's not sexual, although it can be. I 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:00.199 will not judge you. Something that I've been doing on 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:05.720 the show over the past probably ten weeks now, and 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.960 something I'm considering not doing anymore, is something called Giving Tuesday. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.600 I'm still rolling with it because I like doing it 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.480 and I like to kind of set the stage here 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.120 with Giving Tuesday. It all started because anytime I would 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.200 go into my dms on Instagram, it and I it 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.600 was toxic, but I felt toxic. It was toxic, and 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.600 it was people just saying bad things to me or 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.760 about me, or about things that I was doing. So 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.560 I just wouldn't go to my dms at all. But 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.520 then I felt like I was really missing opportunities to 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.280 talk with people. See real life feedback about what people 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.760 liked or didn't like. But because it was so negative 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.600 all the time, I thought, I'm just going to stay 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.280 out of there. But I needed a way to not 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:56.920 associate that with such awfulness. And so I was in 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.360 therapy and I was just talking about generally how most 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.040 of the feedback that comes to me negative ninety five 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.160 percent of it, And what I have to do is 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:11.160 separate in my head the reality of it's not ninety 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.480 five percent of people hate me that are out there. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.160 It's that ninety five percent of anything anybody's writing on 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.880 the Internet about something is just negative and it can 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.920 wear on you. It wears on me at times, which 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.440 is why I started not going into the comments or 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.000 the dms unless it was Tuesdays, and that's where Giving 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.520 Tuesday comes from. So the way for me to feel 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.000 better about it was I wanted to have a good 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.720 relationship with my dms, and so I said, hey, I 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.120 want to help people out. So if you just DM 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.560 me and you need some help, I got you. And 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.360 so it happened week one and I helped out a 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.000 few people, and I didn't give specifics about them, their 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.200 name or anything. Although there were a couple of schools 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:58.880 that I helped. I thought it was fun. Like one 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.120 of them was a barbecue team. We helped send them 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.400 to nationals. There was an archery team from a school 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.760 from near my hometown, Magnico of Arkansas. And then I 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:13.199 could help people out with light bills and help the 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.199 girl get some leg braces. Also, I'm not even sure 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.280 that the money's really going there, right, I don't follow up, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.640 but I don't feel like I need that, And I 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:27.240 just wanted to create a positive place for me to 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.360 give back. But it's very selfish because I wanted to 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.600 create a positive place for me to go and exist 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.280 and not feel terrible. So I don't do it because 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.600 I'm going look at me. I do it because I 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.360 selfishly don't want to feel bad when I go onto 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.559 my DMS, and I have the resources to help people. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.959 So I'm doing this given Tuesday, and it kind of 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.560 turned into a bit where I would read them not 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:57.040 super specific, and then Lunchbox on my radio show would 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.960 determine if they were worthy of the money that I 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.080 was giving them, and almost none of them were, according 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:07.680 to him. And then I had to make some rules 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.719 about this because people were now getting mad at me 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.520 for not choosing them. First of all, I don't see 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.440 all of them. There's no way for me to see 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.480 all of them. What I will do is I will 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.760 go into my DMS and flick my thumb and hit 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.600 it and open it, and if I read it and 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.600 film moved by it, I help them. Now, there were 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.440 certain things too, to make it easy. I would never 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.280 chase them. So if they didn't put their VENMO or 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.440 their cash app, because the only two things that I have, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.240 I could not just scroll on. But if they did, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.960 I would just go over and boom, one hundred bucks, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.920 four hundred bucks. I think the most I ever did 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:48.240 was maybe six hundred dollars on one. But another rule 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.400 that I had was I'm not going to follow up. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.160 And if I happened to get scammed, that's okay, because 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:55.760 I know for sure I was scammed by one person, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.680 that's okay. But I'm not going to do any more 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.000 than what the highest already did, because if I do 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.480 thousands of dollars and I get scammed, I'll be pissed 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.720 or I'll be hurt. But if I do ten and 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.880 I get scammed by one person for three hundred dollars, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:10.440 I don't mind that if I get to help the 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.000 other nine. So it's kind of the mental gymnastics I 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.240 play to do that. But now it's getting to the 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.320 point now where if I go into my DMS and 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.600 I flick my thumb and I stop on one and 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.920 I go into it, there's three messages talking about how 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.800 I haven't picked them and I'm such a loser and 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:26.920 they can't believe I haven't picked them. I'm going, all right, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.840 we're back at square one. Back at square one on 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:35.440 Giving Tuesday. So I enjoy giving. For me generally, anytime 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.920 I feel lost, there's really nothing I can go and 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.560 buy or an experience that I can have that helps 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.480 me not feel lost. What I can do when I 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.560 feel lost that helps me kind of regain my bearings 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.680 is to serve others because it is a great reminder 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.960 to me of, hey, what I think is the problem 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.880 some people would love to have. So that's really where 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.440 Giving Tuesday was rooted in. I will continue to do it. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.040 I've had a couple people reach out to do stories 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:10.920 on it, and that feels like I'm you and I 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:12.960 think I have that relationship with it as well, like 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.480 it's weird to even talk about on the show because 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.120 I'm going, all right, it's another Giving Tuesday. Let's read 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.080 through some of these. Now. Where I do find that 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.360 the content is good and it is compelling is that 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.560 whenever I'm talking about it and Amy and Lunchbox are 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.920 debating if the money went to a good place or 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.840 if I'm being scammed or if that's a dumb reason 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.120 like that makes the bit funny, But that really isn't 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.680 That really wasn't the idea. The idea was always going 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.520 to talk about it so people would understand they could 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.080 hit me up in my DMS and do it. But now, honestly, 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.440 that's kind of getting toxic too. So that's where I am. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.280 I keep track of everything, and I've said no to 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.720 the stories about it because that really feels like I'm 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:59.400 using it for something other than what it is. So yeah, 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.480 of this, I'm still rolling. I will only accept them 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.399 in my Instagram though, because I don't want every media 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.760 platform that I have for me to go into the 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.359 messages and that's all it is. So it's mister Bobby 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.360 Bones on Instagram. If you guys want to hop in, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.320 I'm not gonna do any more than like six hundred bucks. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.120 I'm probably down, I say down, I'm not down because 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:29.119 I have it. I should say I've probably given or 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:34.080 used to help probably around twenty thousand dollars right now. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:38.560 You know what, That's awesome and that's why I do it. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.200 I don't know that I'm gonna do it much longer, 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.360 but I have a I'm trying to have a good 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.280 relationship with social media because I have to be on 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.119 it all the time. But that's where we are with 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:52.280 Giving Tuesday as of right now. Only go to Instagram 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.200 if you're gonna do that, hank Ty, the Bobby Cast 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:56.440 will be right back. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.600 And we're back on the Bobby Cast. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.480 I did go and watch The Odyssey, which was really great. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.600 I didn't want it to be great. I wanted to 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.560 come over here and go, man, that was so overhyped, 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.679 because I loved talking about how things were overhyped. Is 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.960 really great. And there's a story of the Trojan Horse, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:29.320 which I never read The Odyssey in high school. And 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.000 you may have heard me talking on the show about 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:35.760 how I can't believe that schools made kids read books. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.480 They never made me read a book. Our school wasn't 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.840 the greatest place for higher learning. We were never told 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.439 we had to read a single book. And while I 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.040 was watching the movie, my wife was like, yeah, this 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.159 is gonna happen, or has this happened yet, because she 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.040 went to the bathroom and I go, did you look 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:52.560 this up online or read spoiler? She goes, no, I 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.600 read the freaking Odissey And so I said, they made 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:01.040 you read that? Shecause, yeah, translated version, that's where all 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.120 that came from. So never had to read a single 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.639 book in high school. I did read it was a 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.160 pretty good reader, but I didn't become someone who read 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.200 for enjoyment until probably my twenties, and I like to 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.920 read now. But I'm watching the Odyssey and there's the 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.000 story of the Trojan Horse and they get inside This 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.520 is not a spoiler, don't hit me with spoiler, but 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.600 they get inside the horse because it's a gift, and 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.159 they take the horse inside the walls, which they've been 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:25.800 waiting for. The open the walls, they can have the war. 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.359 But how they get in is that Trojan horse. And 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.040 then once the horse is inside, they all come out 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.800 of the horse and they attack and they win the war. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:38.800 And that's what's called the Trojan Horse. People that I 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.680 have a friend want be careful about this. I have 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.000 a friend that was a private investigator for a while, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.000 and he would trojan horse emails like to get into 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.720 someone's system. And so a trojan horse can be used 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:54.440 in context in many different ways. So I was thinking 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.560 about the trojan horse, and honestly, I was thinking, how 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.720 can I trojan horse? And folks like, how can I 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.639 get in? I have an epic trojan horse story of 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:09.080 my own already. I was twenty two years old in 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:14.080 Little Rock, Arkansas, and another radio station have put stickers 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.920 on my van. My radio station van like to put 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:22.600 their stickers on my van, and I tend to get 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:28.440 triggered and confrontational and competitive just like that. It is 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.879 not one of my best qualities. But I was very 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:36.280 upset about this, and so I thought, how can I 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.160 up them at what they just did to us, which 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.920 what they did to us was embarrass us by putting 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.480 their radio station on our van. And so there was 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.960 a guy that was kind of my sidekick at the time, 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:54.440 who was my nighttime show part time sidekick named Gilligan. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:56.920 I named Gilligan because he just kind of looked like 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.680 the guy from the TV show. But this Gilligain had 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.240 a face like Bob Denver who played Gilligan, but big 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.480 muscles and tattoos, so he was like motorcycle biker Gilligan. 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:13.280 He was my age, so he was young. And I 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.320 remember after they stick to the van, Galligan was up 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.560 at the studio on the rock and I said, we're 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.760 going in. And I knew that they had just turned 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.959 a radio station in their building, because that company had 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:29.080 I believe five radio stations. They had just turned one 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:31.840 of them country. So we went back into the prize 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:35.920 closet where they kept all kinds of stuff, as a 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.280 closet is more like a room, and I remember they 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.200 had a cowboy hat and like one of those Garth 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:44.919 Brooks type shirts, and it was a little tight on Gilligan, 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:46.520 but we got it on him. We put the cowboy 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:48.200 hat on him, and I said, you go over to 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:50.560 that radio station. You knock on the door, and this 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:55.920 is eight forty five pm at night, and you say 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:57.920 you work for the new country station. They're gonna believe you. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.280