Speaker 1: Boones everybody, we're gonna do a Q and A. And
Speaker 1: so I did one of these on my Instagram and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, just ask your questions. The problem is
Speaker 1: I get a lot of great questions, but then it
Speaker 1: just takes forever to type and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do a bunch of videos, so I thought we would
Speaker 1: answer them here. So I've grabbed a few of these,
Speaker 1: all right. Number one, how do you deal with the
Speaker 1: scrutiny that comes with your jobs. I think that I've
Speaker 1: been able to grow in my job with the scrutiny
Speaker 1: that comes with my job. Meaning whenever I was starting
Speaker 1: out in Hot Springs, Arkansas, there was just a slight
Speaker 1: better scrutiny, like cople maybe a couple calls on the
Speaker 1: little quest line and so you start to call us
Speaker 1: up just a little. And then I go a little
Speaker 1: Rock and it's a little more, but not much. Then
Speaker 1: I go to Austin and then I'm doing mornings, and
Speaker 1: then that starts to get pretty rough. Austin was weird
Speaker 1: and rough though, because there was another morning show that
Speaker 1: were just awful, awful, awful people and like they started
Speaker 1: to like rattle the cage. And so I've been fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to grow with it and now it's all the time.
Speaker 1: But I think had I just been dunked into this,
Speaker 1: And I feel bad for some people who go on
Speaker 1: like a television show and they've never done anything in media.
Speaker 1: They haven't been known at all. They go on television
Speaker 1: show or podcast and all of a sudden, they're famous,
Speaker 1: and they're getting crushed like they didn't have the luxury
Speaker 1: of growing with that. I oddly remember an episode of
Speaker 1: Home Improvement where Wilson was talking about kids and having kids,
Speaker 1: and Wilson was the guy behind the fence. You never
Speaker 1: saw his face until like the final episode, and even
Speaker 1: when they would come out, because sometimes they would show
Speaker 1: where the whole cast would come out and they'd be
Speaker 1: like and tim aland waved to the crowd and they
Speaker 1: would say Wilson, and Wilson would come out but would
Speaker 1: still hold that fence in front of his face. So
Speaker 1: for those that don't know, we didn't have the internet
Speaker 1: back in the nineties, not to see Wilson's face Rest
Speaker 1: in peace, by the way, but he came out in
Speaker 1: the final episode and showed his face, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of weird, I'll be honest with you. But he said
Speaker 1: it in an episode once and he was talking about
Speaker 1: having children and how hard it's going to be when
Speaker 1: they get older, and he said, you know, you get
Speaker 1: to grow as a parent as the kid grows as
Speaker 1: a kid. So you're learning little things while the kid
Speaker 1: is learning little things, and you're learning hard little things,
Speaker 1: while the kid is learning hard little things, and you're
Speaker 1: learning mid hard things while the kids learning mid you
Speaker 1: have the ability to grow with that child being a parent,
Speaker 1: And I just kind of feel like that's a bit
Speaker 1: of what my job is. I have the luxury to
Speaker 1: have started at a very small place and have grown
Speaker 1: through the years to a level now which is wild.
Speaker 1: So ninety six percent of the time, it's just another day.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, I am human. I think
Speaker 1: I was talking to someone on a podcast about this recently.
Speaker 1: If I'm having a weird day, a bad day, or
Speaker 1: I didn't get enough sleep type of day, I don't
Speaker 1: look at anything because I know, regardless of what said,
Speaker 1: if it's bad, my conditions are already not good and
Speaker 1: it's going to make me even more not good. But
Speaker 1: for the most part, I feel like I'm pretty good
Speaker 1: with it because I've grown with it. I also have
Speaker 1: an understanding of people that are the scrutinizers on the
Speaker 1: Internet in that there's a reason that they do that
Speaker 1: on the Internet, probably because they don't really have much else,
Speaker 1: much else of a voice, right. I think the easiest
Speaker 1: voice to be heard is the voice that's loud and angry,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what the Internet is. I have
Speaker 1: a role too. I don't go to comments unless it's Tuesday. Tuesday,
Speaker 1: I dive in. I'll dive into Twitter comments occasionally. I'll
Speaker 1: look at Instagram comments a little more than on just
Speaker 1: Tuesday if there's a reason for me to do it,
Speaker 1: or if I'm going to reply to some stuff to
Speaker 1: help engagement. But Twitter doesn't matter. Twitter's accessible. I still
Speaker 1: love it for like new but Twitter's assess pool. But
Speaker 1: I don't go to Facebook at all, and never look
Speaker 1: at Facebook, don't look at any message boards, don't look
Speaker 1: at Reddit. I haven't been to those places in literal
Speaker 1: years because there's no benefit for me to go to
Speaker 1: those places. Also, the anger that's online not just to me.
Speaker 1: But I look at someone like Logan Paul who he's
Speaker 1: killing it. He's one of the best ww wrestlers. He's
Speaker 1: one of the biggest creators period, millions of dollars. Like,
Speaker 1: he's so popular except if unless you look, if you
Speaker 1: look online, everybody hates him. But that's the thing. Logan
Speaker 1: Paul is so popular, But because people only use their
Speaker 1: voice for the most part for ugly things, you would
Speaker 1: just think Logan Paul is so hated. So I'm able
Speaker 1: to see that pendulum. I actually need it. It's not
Speaker 1: good for my mental health, and I don't expose myself
Speaker 1: to it. But if people stop talking about me in
Speaker 1: a negative way, if I come at a crime or something,
Speaker 1: I deserve negative But if people stop talking about me
Speaker 1: in a negative way, opinions on things that I'm doing,
Speaker 1: why I'm not good at something, people don't care. On
Speaker 1: the other side either. And for as much as people
Speaker 1: you can say love or enjoy the show or enjoy
Speaker 1: me or what they do like, it swings both ways.
Speaker 1: So as much as I'm loved is as much as
Speaker 1: I'm hated. And that has been the constant since the
Speaker 1: very beginning of all of this. And if it went away,
Speaker 1: if I saw there was nothing being said bad about me, Ever,
Speaker 1: I also have to understand there's nothing good being said
Speaker 1: about me because I'm not making a difference at all,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not resonating at all. So if you do
Speaker 1: want to do things and be loved, you have to
Speaker 1: understand that people are going to hate you for the
Speaker 1: same reason that people are loving you. And also I've
Speaker 1: been lucky enough to be calloused by it. I think
Speaker 1: that's my answer to that, and then only go on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: That's my answer to that too. What would you say
Speaker 1: to someone moving to Nashville or getting into any creative
Speaker 1: field for the first time. This is a good one.
Speaker 1: I get this a lot, mostly from new artists that
Speaker 1: are already here, some that are thinking of moving here
Speaker 1: or moving here. So the first thing that you'll do
Speaker 1: when you go anywhere new and it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be anything creative. It could be even I was a
Speaker 1: new kid in school a lot. Being a new kid
Speaker 1: in school sucks because you never start right When school
Speaker 1: starts in the morning. They always open the door at
Speaker 1: like eleven ten in the middle of the third period,
Speaker 1: and they go, this is your new student, And everybody
Speaker 1: looks up and they look at the new student. And
Speaker 1: then you go and sit an empty desk and everybody's
Speaker 1: kind of looking at you as they're still trying to
Speaker 1: pay attention to the teacher. It sucks being a new student,
Speaker 1: but the first thing that you do as a new
Speaker 1: student is you find your crew. And usually the crew
Speaker 1: that you meet on your first day of school, second
Speaker 1: day of school, that's not really your crew. That's just
Speaker 1: people that are nice, or people that don't have friends
Speaker 1: that oh well, or people that doesn't end up being
Speaker 1: your crew. But the sooner you find and go through them,
Speaker 1: you find your real people. Like I would say the
Speaker 1: first thing you do when you get here or get
Speaker 1: anywhere or new job is like find your people. And
Speaker 1: then in the creative world, I would encourage people to
Speaker 1: understand and accept that there is something that is a
Speaker 1: healthy jealousy, not an unhealthy jealousy. There is a lot
Speaker 1: of unhealthy jealousy that manifests itself in ways that are
Speaker 1: really ugly, especially in this town, especially within artists here.
Speaker 1: But I think a healthy jealousy and I would give
Speaker 1: you a comparison. I have a very healthy jealousy to
Speaker 1: one of my really good friends, I would even say
Speaker 1: best like media friends. Who is Charlemagne the god in
Speaker 1: New York, Like I message him all the time going
Speaker 1: I cannot believe you're getting to do this. I'm so jealous,
Speaker 1: and I'm literally jealous, but not in a way that's negative.
Speaker 1: If anything, I am jealous, but I'm more inspired by
Speaker 1: watching him do it. So I would say, find your
Speaker 1: crew and understand that the crew is gonna have different
Speaker 1: levels of successes at all different times, Like you're gonna
Speaker 1: pop while they're not. They're gonna pop while you're not, Like,
Speaker 1: maintain that, and then also understand that it's so to
Speaker 1: be jealous if it's a healthy jealousy, and that you're
Speaker 1: open about it, because I have it, especially with Charlott Magne,
Speaker 1: and he probably would say that he has it similarly
Speaker 1: with me at times too, So that would be what
Speaker 1: I would say. And then also just do it. The
Speaker 1: hardest part of anything just doing it, even going to
Speaker 1: work out, Like I hate working out. The hardest part
Speaker 1: of my going to work out. It's not running or lifting,
Speaker 1: it's just freaking putting my shoes on and going and starting.
Speaker 1: So go, just go, go, start, just go and figure
Speaker 1: it out, because no one's going to have all the
Speaker 1: answers until they get there, and then they're still not
Speaker 1: going to have all the answers, but at least now
Speaker 1: you're in the middle of it and you're creating something
Speaker 1: number three, would you say you are more successful or
Speaker 1: less successful than five years ago? It's mixed. Here's a
Speaker 1: situation that I think I deal with a lot I
Speaker 1: never get, especially in the TV space. I can do that. First.
Speaker 1: I don't ever get the big shows that I get
Speaker 1: mentioned for, but I don't want and pass on any
Speaker 1: of the small shows. So it's like this purgatory. Like
Speaker 1: I remember whenever Noamy was coming out, this is four
Speaker 1: or five years ago, and they were like, man, you'd
Speaker 1: be perfect to host Noamy. That may not be what
Speaker 1: it's called. It was called let's make a Deal, and
Speaker 1: there's a version of it now Noamy and pressure Luck,
Speaker 1: thank you, and man. I thought I had that job,
Speaker 1: and then they gave it to Elizabeth Banks and I
Speaker 1: was like, ah, dang, she's actually famous, so she kind
Speaker 1: of deserves that job. There have been a couple of
Speaker 1: those big shows that I don't get, and then if
Speaker 1: it's a little show, I don't really take it. I
Speaker 1: don't really do any like one offs anymore for TV,
Speaker 1: meaning I don't really fly to California because I would
Speaker 1: go and do like a red carpet here. I don't
Speaker 1: really do those anymore, so I would say in that space,
Speaker 1: probably I'm not doing as much, so probably less. But
Speaker 1: I think that's because I've dedicated so much to building
Speaker 1: a lot of this, A lot of what we have now.
Speaker 1: Bobbycast is now on Netflix, which is great. We've built studios,
Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of shows on my podcast network,
Speaker 1: the radio show like Financially, I have never been better,
Speaker 1: So I think that's probably part of the reason. I
Speaker 1: also think that I'm less if the word's famous, I'm
Speaker 1: less famous than I used to be. But I think
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of less famous than they used to be
Speaker 1: because famous not it doesn't exist at the level that
Speaker 1: it used to. Like you could have a TikTok channel
Speaker 1: on broccoli and be the leader and be the number
Speaker 1: one broccoli influencer, and someone would see you walking down
Speaker 1: the street and be like, holy crap, that's Frankie the
Speaker 1: broccoli guy, and you are famous to them. So less
Speaker 1: famous although I don't ever feel like I got fully famous.
Speaker 1: I've flirted with fame for about three years. I had
Speaker 1: a good run of about three years where most places
Speaker 1: I went people kind of that doesn't happen as much
Speaker 1: in Nashville. It really happens medium to very little other
Speaker 1: places more so. But I think I'm probably I don't
Speaker 1: really have a good answer there. It's just different now.
Speaker 1: But I'm still getting to make stuff that's pretty cool,
Speaker 1: and I'm owning a lot more stuff of my own,
Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. So I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of freedom in that. There's another question, would you go
Speaker 1: on Dancing with the Stars if they did a winners episode?
Speaker 1: Is that what they're called, because I know they've done
Speaker 1: those episodes where they bring back past champions. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: an all Stars. Maybe it was called like Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars all Stars and they brought back people, and
Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't even just winners, but people who were
Speaker 1: really good. No, No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't because there's
Speaker 1: really nothing for me to gain. I will always be
Speaker 1: the guy that won and people can't believe he won.
Speaker 1: And I've said this before. What's weird about that whole
Speaker 1: situation is and it feels like yesterday and twenty years
Speaker 1: ago at the same time. What's weird about that is
Speaker 1: I wasn't even the bad dancer on on my season,
Speaker 1: like I wasn't good, but I wasn't like the bad
Speaker 1: dance because every season there's like a bad dancer that
Speaker 1: lasts a long time and they're like kick them off.
Speaker 1: Can't believe it. I wasn't that on my season, which
Speaker 1: is what was crazy. I'm the bad winner, but I
Speaker 1: really wasn't the bad dancer, And in no way am
Speaker 1: I saying I'm a good dancer. But it was just
Speaker 1: weird to go from. I really wasn't getting a whole
Speaker 1: lot of hate during my season because I wasn't the
Speaker 1: worst one that kept existing. It just happened really after
Speaker 1: I won the show because I was the bad winner.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I would do a winner's episode
Speaker 1: because I think I'd be the first to go. They'd
Speaker 1: sacrifice me somehow. I'd be out of there. I'd be
Speaker 1: like a side character in a horror movie. I'd go
Speaker 1: down and check the basement way early. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm out of there and I'm a winner. I left
Speaker 1: the show. I'm a winner. I don't have anything to
Speaker 1: prove and dance. I would go back for you know,
Speaker 1: if they were like, hey, would you guess judge or
Speaker 1: I was almost host of the show, and I have
Speaker 1: an interview with Tom Berger coming up on the Bobbycast
Speaker 1: soon where we talk about that. But no, I would
Speaker 1: not go back and do a whole season. Even if
Speaker 1: they said, well, you come back and do a dance
Speaker 1: with somebody like you know they do like the triple
Speaker 1: three way or I don't know what they call that.
Speaker 1: That kind of sounds pervy. I don't even know that
Speaker 1: I'd have to really consider even doing that because I
Speaker 1: think that I would hurt the person dancing unless they
Speaker 1: were of limited dance ability. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: would go back either because I know my role there.
Speaker 1: How do you keep the show or podcast from being boring? Well,
Speaker 1: the answer there is I don't always. I think there
Speaker 1: are times where the show and I don't think it's
Speaker 1: purposefully and I don't think I always know when it's happening.
Speaker 1: But it usually it catches when the show can get
Speaker 1: stale because we're doing not the same things but the
Speaker 1: same formula because it's work working well and we're told, hey,
Speaker 1: you're killing it in these cities, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not as fulfilled by it. But I'll give
Speaker 1: you an example. Don't hold this hands me. I could
Speaker 1: never do tell me something good again and be happy.
Speaker 1: I could kick tell me something good that segment in
Speaker 1: the balls and just ride off into the sunset. That
Speaker 1: segment tests so high. I don't hate the segment. I
Speaker 1: just get tired of doing it, Like I feel like
Speaker 1: there's something else maybe I want to talk about there.
Speaker 1: But people enjoy that segment, So I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: doing that segment as long as people enjoy it. Kind
Speaker 1: of my job. That thing could die and I'll be okay.
Speaker 1: We've been doing that for twenty plus years. Like I
Speaker 1: actually own the trademark to it to tell me something good.
Speaker 1: I just made before I said this here. I made
Speaker 1: sure last week. I own the trademark to anything that
Speaker 1: tell me something good audio as a segment in any
Speaker 1: of that, because we've been doing it for so long,
Speaker 1: and I've paid for the trademark. But and there are times,
Speaker 1: for sure where things can get stale, especially doing it
Speaker 1: this long, or some change has to happen. So how
Speaker 1: do I keep it from being boring? I don't always.
Speaker 1: I try to, but I don't always. And I do
Speaker 1: understand that if you just do something for a long time,
Speaker 1: it can get stale. There are podcasts of shows that
Speaker 1: I've listened to and I'd be like, I'm just kind
Speaker 1: of bored by it now, And sometimes I go back
Speaker 1: and it's way better and changed, and hopefully that happens
Speaker 1: with us that if people leave, they give us a
Speaker 1: break to come back and there's something fresh about it.
Speaker 1: I think there's also something to the fact that I've
Speaker 1: had the same crew and this is a positive for
Speaker 1: twenty years, that we could fall into that pretty easily.
Speaker 1: But also like there's some real consistency, familiarity, there's some
Speaker 1: comfortability with all of us doing it together for so long. Listen,
Speaker 1: if it were a miserable place to work, people wouldn't
Speaker 1: be last in twenty years. I promise you. I'm not
Speaker 1: always the easiest guy to work for. I have no patience.
Speaker 1: But if it wasn't generally a wonderful place to work
Speaker 1: and we weren't winning on a wonderful level, there wouldn't
Speaker 1: be these wonderfully long careers of all of us working
Speaker 1: together for twenty plus years. So yeah, I don't have
Speaker 1: a good answer, except sometimes it does get stale, and
Speaker 1: I apologize for that. Do you ever hang out with
Speaker 1: artists after an interview almost never. I was trying to
Speaker 1: think of times if it's a friend and it's hey,
Speaker 1: come and do the podcast, and then we'll go get
Speaker 1: some dinner or something, and that's pre planned out because
Speaker 1: there's a friendship involved. Yes, but it's so rare. Brett
Speaker 1: Eldridge and I was one of my best friends. Maybe
Speaker 1: the last time he came over, we went to just
Speaker 1: eat after it, because we hang out a couple times
Speaker 1: a week. So but it'd have to be something like that.
Speaker 1: I have made friends from doing the podcast, meaning my
Speaker 1: introduction to people were in this environment because this is
Speaker 1: a very intimate environment. I meaning we're not naked filling
Speaker 1: each other's holes, but we are sitting a few feet
Speaker 1: from each other, relying on each other. Because I'm asking
Speaker 1: a question, I'm trusting that they're going to give me
Speaker 1: a good answer. They're trusting that when they're done talking,
Speaker 1: I'm going to follow up or go somewhere at least
Speaker 1: for good ones. Like there's a lot of trust and
Speaker 1: intimacy involved in a one on one interview that's thirty
Speaker 1: forty fifty sixty seventy minutes, and so there have been
Speaker 1: friends that have come from it. I would say one
Speaker 1: of them is Been Rector, Been Rector Artist. Whoa whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. That's one of his songs.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've heard it. He's a dear friend of mine
Speaker 1: now and he is from Oklahoma, went to school at
Speaker 1: University of Arkansas, and I knew his music, but I
Speaker 1: never met him, and I had friends that knew him
Speaker 1: and they were I was like, Ben Rector, it's a
Speaker 1: great guy. And I was like, I don't care. And
Speaker 1: so we did an interview and it reminded me that
Speaker 1: I hadn't met him once in a Southwest flight in
Speaker 1: line for the bathroom and I was like, Ben Rector
Speaker 1: and he was like guy, and I was like, that's right,
Speaker 1: I'm a guy. And so we had that memory and
Speaker 1: we sat and we talked and we did this interview
Speaker 1: and you can again it's a very intimate thing. And
Speaker 1: then after that we just I think started dming. Now
Speaker 1: our families know each other. Now my wife and his
Speaker 1: wife will just make plans to go spend time together
Speaker 1: like it's like that. So I have had instances where
Speaker 1: that has happened, where I've sat with people become friends
Speaker 1: with them through this, or at least that's launched the
Speaker 1: possibility of a friendship. But no, no, really, we don't
Speaker 1: hang out after interviews becase I'm tired. It's I'd compare
Speaker 1: it to being on a seven or eight hour road
Speaker 1: trip where you're like, why am I tired? I've done
Speaker 1: nothing but sit here for seven or eight hours, But
Speaker 1: your brains had to work the whole time, even if
Speaker 1: you know it isn't working. Your brains had to work
Speaker 1: the whole time. Because I'm going, Okay, what are they answering?
Speaker 1: I want to listen to what they're saying. I want
Speaker 1: to follow up with what they're saying. I have a
Speaker 1: point that I want to get to. I have a
Speaker 1: full narrative that I think I think would be great. Nope,
Speaker 1: not doing that, got a pivot. All this is happening,
Speaker 1: and so after it's over, I'm tired. That being said,
Speaker 1: I guess Luke Combs, we did a Bobbycast recently and
Speaker 1: we probably stayed around fifteen minutes just talking, like off cameras,
Speaker 1: just catching up. I like loop, but that's rare, and
Speaker 1: that's probably the most Yeah, but almost never all right,
Speaker 1: two more, four more? What's the worst piece of advice
Speaker 1: you've ever gotten, to be patient, because a lot of
Speaker 1: times patients just turn simply into waiting. It's not strategically
Speaker 1: waiting for something, it's just I'll just wait. I have
Speaker 1: found it has been way more beneficial to me to
Speaker 1: be aggressive, even if it's unsuccessful. Then do be patient,
Speaker 1: because if you do something and it goes wrong, at
Speaker 1: least you know it was wrong. If you do nothing
Speaker 1: and nothing happens, you don't know if it's right or wrong.
Speaker 1: And if you do something wrong, you can always make
Speaker 1: a judgment and change your pattern. If you're just waiting,
Speaker 1: you really can't do anything. You're not doing anything, And
Speaker 1: a lot of times patience turns into paralysis, especially for me.
Speaker 1: So when people say just be patient about this or that,
Speaker 1: I find that to be extremely negative advice. But also,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, I'm not patient. I'm not a
Speaker 1: patient person at all. I even talk fast, like everything
Speaker 1: about me is fast. I can't sleep at night because
Speaker 1: my brain's going five hundred miles an hour. That's why
Speaker 1: I take xanax sometimes anyway, mostly to sleep. Though. Let's see,
Speaker 1: what's something you bought when you first made money that
Speaker 1: you immediately regretted. Okay, I'll tell something I bought. It
Speaker 1: wasn't on a first man money. That I still regret
Speaker 1: buying those stupid Apple Vision Google What are those called, Mike,
Speaker 1: Apple Vision pro don't buy. I spent four thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in those things. I use them three times. There's a
Speaker 1: had as a cord and a battery. It's cool when
Speaker 1: you have it on, but like your neck hurts, it's heavy,
Speaker 1: and you got to walk around with a battery pack.
Speaker 1: If they made that a lot better, I think that
Speaker 1: would be cool. What did I buy early on that
Speaker 1: I regret? Oh, I was in a boat club. Terrible.
Speaker 1: I was smart enough not to buy a boat, but
Speaker 1: I got in a boat club, and as a terrible decision.
Speaker 1: Because one I didn't use it enough anyway I thought
Speaker 1: I would. I got a boat club. I think part
Speaker 1: of it was because I didn't have any friends. You
Speaker 1: don't want to go out on a boat by yourself,
Speaker 1: and you need probably three people to actually pull like
Speaker 1: a weight board. And so when a friend bails on
Speaker 1: you too the morning of oh I can't go. You
Speaker 1: can't do anything on the boat. And I hate the
Speaker 1: water too. There's a lot of reasons this didn't work
Speaker 1: out for me, But then you would get there, and
Speaker 1: if you didn't book it enough time, you didn't get
Speaker 1: the good boat. And then if you didn't get the
Speaker 1: good boats, sometimes you got stuck with a pontoon. That's
Speaker 1: a real waste of money. But do not recommend zero
Speaker 1: out of ten that. So that was early an Apple
Speaker 1: vision pro. Those are the two things, and then let's
Speaker 1: do one more. Do you feel like with success it
Speaker 1: makes you less relatable? No, I've never been relatable. Now,
Speaker 1: I've had life experiences that people can relate to. I've
Speaker 1: always been insane, so I don't feel like what I
Speaker 1: say day to day is relatable. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: extremely anxious about everything. I see the world through insane lens.
Speaker 1: I sometimes believe in the best and the worst and
Speaker 1: people in the exact same time. I don't trust the government.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of stuff here. I don't think
Speaker 1: that I'm that relatable. I think I am extremely compelling
Speaker 1: at times. I think I have to turn the volume
Speaker 1: up sometimes on my feelings and emotions. That's just a
Speaker 1: performance part of this job. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: my life story is relatable, but I do not think
Speaker 1: I have ever been relatable anywhere that I've been. I've
Speaker 1: always been insane, and I think that's been that's been
Speaker 1: what has interested people. And I think the relatability has
Speaker 1: been where I come from, what I come from, where
Speaker 1: I come from, and what that has left inside of me.
Speaker 1: But I in no way think I'm relatable. I've never
Speaker 1: thought I was relatable. I remember being in Austin, and
Speaker 1: Austin is a place where, especially when I first started there,
Speaker 1: and I love Austin. It's my favorite city. If I'm
Speaker 1: ranking them, man, I can't go home cities first though,
Speaker 1: because I'm probably can put Faveville at one, but since
Speaker 1: I'm from Arkansas, I don't feel like that's fair. So
Speaker 1: if I remove everywhere from Arkansas because Fayville will be
Speaker 1: number one, Austin's got to be number one. It's my
Speaker 1: number one city, even more than Nashville. Shout out Nashville,
Speaker 1: but Austin. Like I grew up, all my adult growing
Speaker 1: was in Austin, and it didn't get cold, So shout
Speaker 1: out to places that don't get cold. I love Austin.
Speaker 1: And when I got and I started doing mornings because
Speaker 1: I didn't do mornings, I did nights there and they
Speaker 1: fired the morning show and they were like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: don't know what we're going to do. I got a
Speaker 1: job offer to go to Seattle to do a bigger
Speaker 1: night show, and so I was like, I'm out. Station sucks.
Speaker 1: Night show really didn't matter, and it's and it they
Speaker 1: matter now, but they don't really impact ratings to the
Speaker 1: level that a morning show and then a little bit
Speaker 1: an afternoon show does. And so I was like, I'm out, Austin,
Speaker 1: You've been cool. I was every about a year and
Speaker 1: they were like, what can we do to get you
Speaker 1: to stay? And I said, give me mornings. I was
Speaker 1: twenty two and they were like, ha haha. In my
Speaker 1: version of it now they spin in my face. They didn't,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, they spit in my face and then
Speaker 1: pooped in my hair and told me to get out
Speaker 1: of the room. And so I left and in my version,
Speaker 1: I cried in the corner. But no, I just went home.
Speaker 1: And I didn't expect them to give me the morning job.
Speaker 1: I was twenty two years old. Because it was a
Speaker 1: multi million I knew they're going to flip the format anyway,
Speaker 1: and so I was gonna take the job. In Seattle,
Speaker 1: and so I told the people and say, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna take the job. I didn't commit
Speaker 1: to it yet, but give me a week or so.
Speaker 1: They were like, cool, we'd love to have you. And
Speaker 1: so I went back to working on Monday or maybe
Speaker 1: even Tuesday, and they were like, hey, we want you
Speaker 1: to do mornings here and I was like what, and
Speaker 1: they said, we'll pay fifty thousand dollars a year. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm rich. I can't wait to buy
Speaker 1: an Apple prop Up Plus. And this is fifteen years
Speaker 1: before it came out, and I was like, I'm so rich.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to buy an Apple Vision Plus and
Speaker 1: I'm going to waste my money on and getting a
Speaker 1: boat club on the same day. That's how rich it
Speaker 1: felt whenever I got paid fifty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: So it was unbelievable to me to make that kind
Speaker 1: of money. So I start and I buy myself and
Speaker 1: I don't have anybody with me. It's just me in
Speaker 1: a room. But all the advice that I would get
Speaker 1: from people was, hey, man, this is Austin. We like
Speaker 1: only eat local. If we're going to like have a salad,
Speaker 1: we pull over in the side of the road, eat
Speaker 1: it from the field, like we get out and we
Speaker 1: chew the ground. That's how local. We only talk about
Speaker 1: local Austin music. Austin is weird and you better be
Speaker 1: and every woman you know better have armpit hair. It
Speaker 1: was that. It was that ever, and that's what I
Speaker 1: was told, and I was like, this is not true.
Speaker 1: They were like, if you want to be relatable to Austin,
Speaker 1: this is what you do. And I just didn't think
Speaker 1: that was accurate. So I did the opposite of that
Speaker 1: because it's how I lived, and I was like brom
Speaker 1: and Chili's like three times a week. I really made
Speaker 1: a point to be as non relatable as possible, but
Speaker 1: it's what ended up separating me from everybody else. And
Speaker 1: we had a span. We were like not just number one,
Speaker 1: but like tripled up other shows for like three years.
Speaker 1: Is wild. I never once pulled over an eighth the
Speaker 1: grass from the side of the road as I was
Speaker 1: told to, and the girls I knew shaved their armpits,
Speaker 1: So I was not being what I thought was relatable
Speaker 1: then purposefully, But I've never just been so relatable that
Speaker 1: you hear me say stuff and go I relate to
Speaker 1: what that guy says. Now you may relate to where
Speaker 1: I come from or why I say certain things. And
Speaker 1: I hope that's the case, and I think that's the case,
Speaker 1: and at times I know that's the case. But I
Speaker 1: don't think that my success or lack of success, has
Speaker 1: ever made me more or less relatable. I've also gotten
Speaker 1: more comfortable with showing now that I have been successful,
Speaker 1: and that's been a little burden for a long time.
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't show anything because I don't
Speaker 1: want people to know that I have had any success
Speaker 1: or I'm making any real money. And my wife, this
Speaker 1: is like in the last five years. She was like,
Speaker 1: you don't think they know you're rich now, Like are
Speaker 1: you stupid? And I was like yeah, but she's like,
Speaker 1: you're not flawning it. If you're living it, you're not
Speaker 1: flawning it. And there's a difference, like people can tell
Speaker 1: the different people are smart when they see what you do,
Speaker 1: who you are, and actually they're probably judging you because
Speaker 1: they know you're not saying certain things on purpose. I
Speaker 1: thought that thought that's pretty good. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that I'm any more or less relatable than I ever
Speaker 1: have been. I do think I'm odd, and maybe that
Speaker 1: is what relatability is. Like Socrates said he was the
Speaker 1: smartest man in the world because he knew he knew nothing.
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with what I just said,
Speaker 1: but I like to end on that. Thank you for
Speaker 1: all the questions. I hope you enjoyed this as much
Speaker 1: as I did. I got to all of them but one,
Speaker 1: and the other one was which artist you hate the most?
Speaker 1: I'll answer that one next time, so i'd be listening
Speaker 1: next time when I answered that one. And also how
Speaker 1: big joiner? Those are the two that I'm going to
Speaker 1: answer on the next Bobbycast. It's not a Bobbycast by
Speaker 1: a Bone Show Part two. Whatever this is, I have
Speaker 1: no idea what I'm on. I'm just answering questions and
Speaker 1: we'll see you guys next time. By everybody,