WEBVTT - #520 - Bobby Answers the Most Asked Questions on a Live Stream 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.200 Welcome to episode five twenty of the Bobby Cast, and 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.479 we are streaming this live on our YouTube channel, and 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.320 if you guys want to be a part of the 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.440 live stream, just go to Bobby Bones channel on YouTube 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.439 and you can watch. We'll start with Karen Reed trial 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.000 which just happened. And I watched the documentary on HBO 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.080 Max is great. I think it was like four or 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.760 five parts, and I had only heard about the trial, 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.519 and so I went and I watched the thing, and 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.120 I just watched the verdict from the second trial, and 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.239 I guess it's not a spoiler because it's news, but 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:45.600 the first trial she was not hung, as I have 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.160 not been, but it was a hung jury. So second trial, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.159 which just happened, it's weird at how they were announcing 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:59.000 her verdicts. So three one was like second degree murder, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.360 one was another one one was a duy basically, But 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.600 at some point they should just do it like on television, 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.440 because it was kind of confusing. They get everybody in 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.920 the courtroom and they're like, okay, for Hearth, who is 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:19.639 it in thal? Does the court acknowledge guilty not? I'm 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:24.240 completely confused about what's happening and somebody says not guilty. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.280 But I mean, at this point in our lives, shouldn't 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:33.240 they just go, we find you of charge A, not guilty. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.680 We find you on charge B not guilty. It turns 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.200 out she was not guilty of secondary murderer. She was 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.160 not guilty of I think leaving the scene. I'm gonna 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.600 mess some of this up. And the third one was guilty, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.720 and it was basically driving under the influence, and that 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.280 was based on an estimate from way after the fact 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.040 when they tested her and I followed the trial a 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:56.880 little bit. I'm not gonna do twenty minutes of material 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.360 here on the Karen retrial. But so she's not guilty 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.800 of second degree murder. That was the big one, So 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.200 now what are they gonna do? It seemed to me 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.000 like there was very much some sort of cover up 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:15.000 within the system. The system meaning the police force that town, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.920 right outside of Boston's police force. But they were so 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.320 hell bent on making her guilty. So what do they 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.160 do now? Do they just stop looking for John o'keef's killer. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.880 It's bizarre. And if they don't, because again they don't 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.919 have a second suspect. She's been on trial for two 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.840 or three years at this point. If it's really justice 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.640 for John, which is what they're saying, then they should 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.120 actually go and continue to try to find who killed 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.480 them because they're only I don't know seven or eight 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.959 people that were around that night. But I didn't think 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.399 that they would find her guilty, especially if you watched 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.160 any of the trial this time, you could almost say 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.040 last time. But those jurors are supposedly not affected by 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.920 the first trial at all. But I don't know how 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.280 you lived in that area and completely consumed by the trial. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.640 But watch the series. I'm sure they're gonna have a 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.800 new documentary up on the second one as well. But 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.040 she was not not guilty, So I just watched that. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.520 It was just really confusing at how they announced it, 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.080 because I think it should just be announced like on television. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.840 I'm taking your questions as we go as well. We 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.280 can start with this one. What is a moment in 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:25.000 your career you still can't believe actually happened. I have 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.920 a few of these. Number one is way back in 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.640 the day when I worked in Hot Springs, Arkansas. My 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.320 very first job was at a radio station called one 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.640 oh five point nine k e Z. That was a 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.760 pop radio station. And when I very first started, I 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.600 worked on the weekends, and I only got a job 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:49.160 on the air because they fired a guy that was 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.440 working on the air, but we also had to do 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.720 these things called sound and light shows, and he was 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.040 fired because I think they caught him stealing station equipment. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.480 So last minute they had to throw me on the air. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.120 My name was name of Bobby Bones. At the time, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.600 it was just Bobby. I didn't have a name. I'd 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.600 never been on the air. But they had hired me 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:12.720 to clean the front office where the secretary or any 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.280 of the office people sat. People come and get their prizes. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.719 That was the area that I was hired to clean 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.320 and switch out these weekly top forty count of down 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.039 and so I'm hired at KLAZY to do that. Before 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.440 my first day of cleaning, I'm put on weekends. I 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:35.320 have no experience whatsoever. I moved from weekends to weeknights 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.400 after just a couple of months because the guy who 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.200 I still know named Kramer, who is still in radio, 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.200 was doing nights and he left to go to another station. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.720 So it was a small town, so it wasn't like 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.920 they were doing a national search for the job, so 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.800 they just give me the job. Like I showed up, 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.680 I was on time. I wasn't particularly good, but I 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.359 was young, available in cheap, so they just give me 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.720 the job. And I'm going to get to my point 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.479 here of you know, one of these things that I 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.440 can't believe happened, because all this I can believe. If 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.640 you just show up on time all the time and 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:09.760 they trust that you're going to be there when you say, 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.320 there are a lot of opportunities that are going to 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.080 open up for you just because now, as somebody who 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.800 hires people, if the people that I hire just show 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:22.240 up consistently on time, emotionally, physically, like, that's ninety five 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.080 percent of it. And I was that guy. But when 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.039 I was working at Kla Z and I was going 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.800 to college because I wanted to graduate college. Nobody in 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:34.600 my family had graduated college. I thought, as soon as 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.560 I finish here, I'm going to try to go and 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.560 get a bigger job. And I had had some offers 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.760 when I was at Kayla Z. I mean I remember 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.360 flying out to the Tri Cities, which is in East Tennessee. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:50.720 It's like Bristol, Virginia, a couple other in that. Try 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.000 forgive me to the other two that aren't being mentioned 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.520 in the try, but so I go out. I didn't 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.640 take that job a couple other ones. I just wanted 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.560 to graduate college. And there was a station in Little 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.280 Rock called Q one hundred. They had just flipped two 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.520 top forty from whatever format they were, and I really 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.040 wanted that job because to me, Little Rock was a 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.480 massive city. That was where they had a couple big buildings, 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.880 that's where the news was shot. Like Ned Perme, my 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.039 favorite weather man, lived in Little Rock. I thought that 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.960 was the coolest thing ever, and so I always wanted 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.360 My dream was to work in Little Rock. They had 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.240 a minor league baseball team. And when you're coming from 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.080 Mountain Pine, which is where I'm from, population seven hundred, 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.680 or Hot Springs, which was town which is where my 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.880 radio station was, which was twenty thousand, like Little Rock's 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.120 massive because it was a half million people. So Q 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.360 one hundred flips on and I remember getting a call 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.040 on the request line and I said, Hey, do you 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.599 think you might want to come in do nights at 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.320 Q one hundred, And I thought it was a prank call, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.760 but the guy high identified hisself as a guy named 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.560 Ted Striker, and I was like, Yeah, this is really you. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.120 I think that would be super cool. He said, cool, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.360 call me tomorrow in the daytime because my shift was 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.360 at like eight pm. And so I called him the 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.600 next day and he's like, I would love to try 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.280 you out. Well, the problem was I was on in 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.080 hot Spring because that it was about hour drive, but 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.000 you could hear both stations, and I would say a 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.760 little more than faint, but not all the way, but 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.800 you could hear both stations. And he was like, I'd 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.320 love to get you on the air at night and 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.320 give you a tryout. And I'm thinking, I can't really 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.680 go and try out for your station because I'm on 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.440 a station right down the road. And if I go 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.000 and try out, if I quit my job to try out, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.440 I don't get the job. That sucks for me. And 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.440 I told him that, I said, I don't think I 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.520 can do it, Like, can you not just listen to 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.560 me here and make your mind out because it's basically 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.280 the same thing. We're just you know, playing Britney Spears 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.680 and inn Sinc. CDs. Hey, everybody number twenty two Britney Spears. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.000 We're just doing that all night. And he was like, now, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.720 I really need you on the station, So I said, okay, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.160 So what I do. I'd drive at two o'clock in 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.119 the morning and I get on Q one hundred under 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.640 the name and I thought, I was so funny Robbie 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.160 Johnson because it sounds like Bobby Bones and it was 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.000 Bobby Jones and his Robbie Jones. So I went Robbie 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.160 Johnson on Q one hundred from like two to five AM. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.240 That was my tryout on a Sunday night, knowing that 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.240 if I got caught, I was going to get fired, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.600 but thinking that there is no chance anybody is going 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.680 to hear me on this station in Little Rock two 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.760 to five AM from my station in Hot Springs, because 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:34.760 who's even awake. I remember opening the phone lines and 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.559 radio names are so dumb. My name is dumb. It's 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.199 Bobby Bones. It's not even my real name, so when 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.760 I say these names, it's funny. But my program director's 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.640 name was Jack and his radio name was Jack Frost. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.520 And I remember Jack Frost calling the request line at 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.400 three o'clock in the morning, going, Bobby, is that you 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.679 on the air now? Again? I'm Robbie Johnson at this time, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.160 and I know it's Jack of my program director, and 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.920 so I just hang up. It was almost like when 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.800 they say, if you're being questioned by the cops, I 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:12.200 don't say anything. You know, if you say nothing, you'll 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.719 at least remain in the same amount of trouble. If 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.600 you say anything, it could get worse. So I just 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.599 hung up, and then I blocked the phone lines. You 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.440 could push one button, he goes and it blocks all 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.400 the lines. And I went into work the next Monday 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.480 and just denied it. I was like what, I was like, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.720 are you crazy? And he was like, I could have 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.920 swore it was you. I was like, on a Sunday night, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:37.520 three am, anyway, it was me. Never really admitted that 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.760 till right now. I for one night was Robbie Johnson. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.280 I got the job, and I left Klazy and went 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:49.280 to Q one hundred, probably three weeks later, and it 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.080 was great. I was there for like six months or 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.439 so before I moved to Austin. But I cannot believe 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.880 that happened. When I think back, I'm not even thought 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.520 of that story and so long. I can't believe that 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.720 I took that risk. That's not a chance, that risk 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.600 of getting fired. And then I can't believe that Jack 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.080 Frost was freaking listening and he called in and got 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.480 through and then I answered, and then I just hung up. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.120 Oh that was totally weird. What I really think happened 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.520 was I think Jack Frost knew it was me, understood 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.360 what I was doing, and I think he just got 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.559 it and never brought it up again. So I appreciate 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.240 that Jack Frost is not alive anymore. But I appreciate that. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.720 And think of all the dumb radio names. Bobby Bones. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.320 I didn't pick my name, by the way, like I 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.720 picked it out of a choice of like three, but 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:40.000 Bobby Bones, Ted Striker, who I mentioned Jack Frost, I 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.200 don't think I was Kevin Cruz who hired me at 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:46.880 kay lazy Man. Podcasters have un lucky then I have 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.760 to come up with stupid names like we had to. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.520 That was one and my second one is probably winning 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.400 Dancing with the Stars, not even just going on Dancing 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.000 with the Stars, because that was more of a strategy 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.160 for ABC. And that story is a bit bizarre because 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.880 I had started on American Idol and I did a season, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.440 and I was going back for the second season, which 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.120 was going to be at my first full season because 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.840 I did like three quarters of a season that year 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.839 that I went on the first time, and things were 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.679 going pretty good at that time because I had an 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:29.160 offer to judge The Mass Singer, which I didn't know 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.560 what the show was. I think it was only on 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.559 in Japan or whatever country it started in. So they 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.040 called said, hey, do you want to be one of 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.440 the judges on The Mass Singer And it was that 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.880 versus there was a show on USA Network and the 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.880 show had Travis Trutt, Jacoen, Shania Twain as like the judges, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.560 and it was some kind of singing show here in Nashville, 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.240 and they offered me the host of that job, or 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.640 it was option see, which was stay on American Idol, 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.240 and I was going to sign a two year deal 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.880 with American Idol and go do Dancing with the Stars 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.480 as promotion for American Idol. That was kind of part 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.880 of my deal, meaning I had I didn't have to, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.240 but they encouraged me to accept that if I were 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.440 to take the Idol deal because they needed someone to 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.880 go on that show to promote American Idol. So I 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.720 never had the ambition to go on to American Idol 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.880 and excuse me, dancing with the Stars, Like I never 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:23.440 had the dream to go on Dancing with the Stars 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:28.080 and just dance. I never really watched the show, at 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:29.880 least not all the way through. I had seen clips 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.319 and stuff because it was a you know, definitely a 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.280 piece of pop culture in American television history, especially when 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:41.920 it started. But I took the ABC Disney offer, which 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:47.560 was American Idol Dancing with the Stars, and then I 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.720 want to Dancing with the Stars, and they told me 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.520 that this show will be four or five weeks and 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.280 we'll have you back over to American Idol on time. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.920 And I remember telling one of the producers, if you 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.200 think I'm only gonna last four weeks, I have a 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:04.839 feeling that's not going to be the case. So we 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.319 should start to figure out what happens if I'm still 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.559 on this show and American Idol is taping. And it's 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.760 not that they laughed. It wasn't like, you know, I'm 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:20.080 so I got a text, Dang, I'm so important right now. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.360 You would never believe what that text was. The text was, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.480 can you take the dog out? So you guys think 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.160 that I'm some kind of podcast superstar and I just 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.520 got a text going, can you take the dog out. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.160 I think he's got a poop. So what happens is 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.920 I go on that show and they're like usually people 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.679 that can't dance and have never danced. They last four 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.360 weeks and I wasn't in the bottom three. I wasn't 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:41.760 in the bottom three, and it came to that point 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.720 where I had to make a decision do I leave 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.600 the show to go to American Idol or keep dancing 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.280 on Dancing with the Stars. And it wasn't even that 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.760 I loved dancing, because I didn't know how to dance, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.160 but I respected all the work that my partner put 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.559 in Sharna. I didn't want her to be off the 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.600 show just because I decided I needed to go back 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.000 to Idle and they were paying me a lot of money. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.240 But I stayed on Dancing with the Stars and we 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.679 won the freaking thing. And when it comes to one 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.920 of the craziest things ever, it's standing there and there 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.240 were three I think maybe there were four of us 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.319 that were still remaining, and Tom Bergeron and Aaron Andrews. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.920 They go to that card and he's like, and the 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.600 winner of Dancing with the Stars Season twenty seven. I 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.960 remember it so vividly, and I remember in that time 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:33.880 because there's music playing, it sounds like a heartbeat. My 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.760 heart wasn't going bam bam, bam bam bam. Oh, I wonder, 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.880 I wonder. It was mostly like I was about to 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.000 die and I was like reliving my life. It was 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.240 flashing before my eyes. But it was just all my 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.880 Dancing with the Stars' history, like all those ten weeks 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.960 of just grinding it out, and I was kind of 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.200 seeing all that flashed by. And I remember when he 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.680 said boo, because that's what he said, Bobby and Sharna 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.000 that boo, And I was like, this is the craziest 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.000 thing ever. It wasn't like I won like the World 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.760 Series or the super Bowl, because those guys worked their 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.320 whole lives to do that, Like they honed those skills 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.560 since they were six years old and went up through 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.320 all the levels. Like I got thrown on a show 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.240 because I took another job, But it was cool because 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.520 I had the lowest odds because Vegas put out the 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.880 odds I worked. I don't think there's a question I 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.320 worked way harder than everybody else because I had a 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.520 normal job as well, and I was touring and I 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.360 was living in a city I didn't live in, and 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.120 I was just doing that show and training extra. So 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.720 I do think that I work harder than anybody else, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.440 but it's because I had to. I was coming from 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.520 such a detriment when it came to my dance experience. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.040 But I remember one of that show and just being 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.240 like this is wild and they lifted me up like 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.360 Rudy and I remember that and they lifted me up 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.000 and they were like yeah. So that was a crazy 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.880 time because like the show was out there, Amy was 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.600 out there, Eddie had come out stay with me for 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.280 some of that show, and Mike Dean and I lived together. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.400 But that was a bizarre time, And not that I 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.200 went on the show. It wasn't the craziest thing to happen, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.680 but the fact that I won that freaking show, like 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.800 I won a reality show, a reality competition, Like that's 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.520 weird because I don't feel like I really went on 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.840 a reality show. But they do record you all the time. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.280 There's a microphone on your body all the time when 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.880 you do that show, when you're training, they're always trying 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.000 to catch something, catch you doing something, saying something. They 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.200 want something romantic, something dramatic, and Sharna and I made 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.440 a deal. Wearily they weren't getting any of that from us, 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.080 And mostly it is because I was so focused on 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.680 just trying to get to even so she could then 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:44.840 teach me that there was no room for me to 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:49.280 really have any sort of human emotion. It was just grind, grind, grind, grind. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.680 But that was bizarre. And then they had the party afterward. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.840 And I've told this story before, but after the show 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.800 has finished, they have like a quick winning party for 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.920 like the champion and everybody. That season, I didn't get 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.200 to go to it because I had to get my 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.600 car immediately and drive to work and then spend the 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.480 next hour and a half doing that next morning's radio show. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.200 And as soon as that's over, I drove to the 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:09.879 airport we hold on a plane that flew across the 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.040 country to go do Good Morning America. And I remember 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.119 getting on the plane and everybody being irritated that I 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:15.679 made them late, and I was like, guys, I have 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.359 a job. But that was bizarre and cool. And I 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.320 still have the mirror ball. It's down here and I 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.000 don't think about it as much as I used to, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.000 meaning it's not like a part of my identity anymore. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.640 But when I think of like bi wildly absurd, bizarre things, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.720 that whole experience makes that list. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:45.879 Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor, Wow, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.960 and we're back on the Bobby Cast. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.639 Here's another question, what is the most impactful song of 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.840 your life? I think I probably have three of these. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.080 I think number one it's John Mayer Stopped This Train. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.119 That's my favorite song of all time. I think because 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:02.720 I feel like that was the first song that I 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.080 ever heard sang by anybody that I felt like, whoever 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.600 wrote that song wrote it in my voice, and I 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.280 think that's what a great songwriter is. It's not just 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.080 somebody who can rhyme words and have a reallyquol melody. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.840 At least it's not just that. And when he was 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:23.479 singing stop this Train, because the whole song's about you know, 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.280 time just goes by and if you don't like stop 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.840 the train occasionally and like appreciate it, like you're not 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.600 going to appreciate it ever. And there's a line in 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.639 the song that says, I don't I may butcher this 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.080 because I haven't thought about this in a long time. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.359 I'm so scared of getting older. I'm only good at 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.639 being young, And like, I resonated with that because forever 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.720 I was like the young guy in this medium radio especially, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.520 I was like the youngest by ten fifteen years doing 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.800 it at the level that I was doing it. And 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.400 so yeah, that line hit me pretty hard. I would 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.639 still say probably my favorite song ever. So that was 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:05.280 one where I started to appreciate songwriting. Another one of 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.640 the songs I think I have three is Thomas Rhett 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.000 Beer with Jesus. I love Thomas Rhett, but I thought 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.879 that song was so stupid, and it was when I 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:20.080 was considering coming to country music. Stupid is not the 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:24.080 word corny, because Eddie and I were playing golf in 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.480 Austin and that was trying to get Eddie to move 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.119 to Nashville with me. And this whole thing is not 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.040 a shot at that song, but just our feeling about 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.400 that song when we turned it on, because what happened 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.000 was Eddie and I are playing golf in Austin and 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:38.960 I am like, dude, you gotta come and move to 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.119 Nashville with me. Because he had turned down offers to 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.520 be on the morning show in Texas. He was like, 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:46.959 I don't want to wake up that early. He had 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.480 a job of the news, like he was doing pretty good. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.439 And I said, do come to Nashville, move your family. 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.920 I will pay you really well, and you'll run cameras 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.879 and you'll edit and you'll be on the air. And 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:59.159 I don't really know what your role is going to be, 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:00.959 but you're my best friends. Oh, come on, And my 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.400 whole thing, my whole career has been find my friends. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:05.520 Find my friends that show up on time every time 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.080 that I can depend on, and let's go and build 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.080 something cool. And he wouldn't say yes. He wouldn't say yes, 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:15.120 and I said, well, let's I said, let's just turn 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.040 on a song. And we turned on the Big ninety 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.680 eight in Nashville, which is, I guess our flagship station here. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:24.840 We're not really working from that studio, but it's in 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.960 our building and we're in Nashville, so we'll call it flagship. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.520 And I turned it on and the song that was on, 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:32.760 and it may have been Thomas Strutt's first single is 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.760 if I could have a beer with Jesus. I'd tell 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:38.960