In The Weeds - Bobby Talks Going Into The Comments, The Day Dolly Died, & Becoming an Influencer!

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3:01So that's something that was the first happen to me. Last week we were in Los Angeles, and we were staying at an Airbnb. And we got an Airbnb close to the studio I was working out of when I was filling in for Rich Eisen. And me not thinking much about it, I just booked it nearby. So we ended up staying at Englewood. Now, the only thing I know about Englewood is from Dr. Dre's songs. Long Beach Englewood. And as we were driving to the Airbnb, there were a lot of houses and bars on the windows. A lot. And we were getting closer and closer, two blocks away. Still houses with bars on the windows. I was like, oh man, maybe this wasn't the greatest neighborhood to get an Airbnb in. And it wasn't. But once we got in the house, it was fine. So the weird thing happened as we were in the house, we had stayed that first night. Someone comes up and knocks on the door. Kind of dress professionally. And so go over and answer the door.

4:02And they hand this piece of paper to me. And it's got like a sticky on top of it. The house was being fined, $2,500 for having Airbnb people stay in it. So I was in the house as the house was getting fined because they weren't supposed to have people staying in it as an Airbnb. So completely awkward. We just stuck it to the table and didn't say much about it. And I'm sure whoever owns the Airbnb will get the bill and get the fine. We were staying really close to the football stadium where the Rams play, which is called SoFi. So again, all I knew Inglewood from was the Dr. Dre songs. And also there were a lot of houses with bars on the windows, even half a block over. So didn't feel the safest. I've stayed in less safe for sure. But we had a friend that was with us. And I don't know that he had ever been to Los Angeles before. So he was looking out for celebrities and apparently gang members. Because someone was walking by and they were dressed in purple.

5:03And he said, I think that's a crib. And I said, why do you think that? Because they're wearing purple. Now the person look kind of like Wolfarel. The human look like Wolfarel. Not to the guy that looks like Wolfarel can't be a crib. But the person that we're talking about looked a bit like Wolfarel. It was like Wolfarel was wearing purple, but also had a number nine jersey on, which many was walking to the Rams game, which their colors purple. It was not a crib at all. It was somebody in a Rams shirt walking to SoFi. So I had to ruin his experience by saying, no, that's not a real life crib. That's somebody that's just a Matthew Stafford or Cooper Cup fan. It was a fun trip though. And I know no crying on the yacht, but we were flying over that afternoon after the show and we were taking the company plane. And so I get the sort of amount of uses of the company plane per year per my contract. So we were flying to Los Angeles. And I always book backup flights in case something happens with that plane,

6:06especially because I had to work that next morning after my radio show on Rich Eisen's show who does the big sports show I was filling in for. So we had all of our Delta flights until about 11 a.m. Our flight was going to leave at 3 p.m. on the private plane over. And we had all our equipment. Like I'm talking, we go and not only do I do Rich's show, we set up a full studio in the living room of whatever Airbnb we're staying, and then people come over and do bobby casts. And so we had cameras, we had lights, and all the equipment, all these big, big boxes. And it's much easier if you're not flying commercial because you can just take on the plane. It's not a big deal. So we're going and noon hits, and I'm finishing up the morning show. And Morgan said, hey, we just canceled all of our commercial flights because we waited the last minute, we canceled them. We'll just wait for the private plane to get here. It's about an hour later, they go, oh, we got to cancel the private flight.

7:07But we just canceled all our plane tickets. So we don't have a way to get to LA. So we're booking last minute, so expensive. We leave half of our crew back. We don't take any equipment. We just kind of, you know, free ball it to LA. Me just thinking, we'll go, I won't do any bobby casts. And I'll just do Rich's eyes in because that was the obligation that I wanted to have. And then we'll come back home. So we're rushing. Because we got to be at the airport an hour early. We're trying to get flights for everybody. Brandon was going to fly in at 9 p.m., Morgan and I were going to get on the first flight. Mike was now staying home. We only had getting on a Delta flight at three o'clock. I wasn't even packed. So I rush home, I pack real quick. I get out, I go to the airport. We get there, barely. And we're flying over and Morgan goes, hey, I'm going to look and see if I can find a studio to rent. To see if we can still shoot the bobby cast episodes that we were going to shoot.

8:10And I was like, okay, cool, never done that before. Where we go and just use their equipment. And she found one like 75 bucks an hour. And she's like, let's just try it. So we had Lance Bass, Dane Cook, and Doth Lungeran scheduled for that trip. So not a bad evening. Dane Cook ended up canceling because we wouldn't hold his interview for like three months. Lance Bass called us as we're flying over, I guess message Morgan and said, hey, I got to cancel. Something private. And Doth Lungeran who played the Russian and Rocky IV and was in he man. And it wasn't a bunch of other stuff too. He was still alive, but needed to move his time. But we had the studio rented. We know it was going to work. But we're like, let's, let's keep going. So I go and I do rich eyes in and we end up getting to this podcast rental studio. Except it's a yogurt shop. We walk in the front door and it's completely a yogurt shop. There's nothing except yogurt in there.

9:11And like, hey, we rented a studio and they're like, oh, yeah, go that way. We had to walk through some shady back, back of the yogurt shop door, go through some stairs, go up, turn the corner. What? It's a fun podcast studio with like multi cameras. And now they did not provide people to run it. Luckily Brandon and Morgan were there. So they ran sound and video and Doth Lungeran ended up showing up. It was a great episode that will come up real soon. My whole point with all this is it was a bit frustrating that our original flight was canceled out there. Not because it was private, but because we had already canceled our commercial flights. And we had to leave all our equipment behind like we had everything planned. The good thing that came from that is we now know that even if we have to work in a small podcast studio with cameras in the back of a yogurt shop, that's still pretty good. Like, I don't think we'll ever again take all our equipment and set up in an Airbnb and just live in living room.

10:13So we benefited from that mishap. And again, I'm not whining like I say, there's no crying on the yacht, although it was very frustrating trying to get there in time. But that's my L.A. story. My friend saw a crib turned out it was just a guy look at Wolfarel that was wearing a Cooper Cup jersey. And as crazy as the travel was out there and trying to find it all last minute and man, a round trip flight to Los Angeles with an hour and a half notice for five people. That is expensive. All that. But we got something positive out of it. We will never haul over all of our equipment again. And even if all the air went out in the podcast studio as well, there was no there was no AC. We're in the back of a yogurt shop in a podcast studio. There's no AC and all of this equipment's hot as well. Yeah, that part was pretty miserable. And we had a guest there and and Dolph was sweating a little bit. But still, even then we gained something. But we don't need to haul all of our equipment across the country.

11:13That's all. You never know where the silver lining is from an experience. And that was a great experience. I always loved doing that show. So Leanne Morgan was on the bobbycast a few weeks ago. I hope you get to watch the episode go over to Netflix or podcast audio. And she was like a wholesome positive tornado. Now speaking of AC being out, the AC was out in the studio that I'm in now, which is our studio. And so we had to go to my house to shoot that one. We have a studio there as well. So she came over to my house. Man, she was so delightful. Again, big, loud, but in the best way. So kind, generous with her time. She stayed after and like talked with everybody, played with the baby. But there was a clip that we put up that generated a weird reaction. It was the clip where I said, hey, would you list your five favorite stand-up comedians? Five of them. And the clip started to do pretty well.

12:15And I was interested in that. That's why I asked people like their top five songs. I just want to know what they like. But then more and more people in the comments section started getting angry that she wasn't picking any women. Now, I can understand if I say, hey, Leanne, who are five up and coming comics that you really want to highlight? And if she listed five white men in their 40s, I think maybe we add a little diversity there. But if I say, what's your favorite? I think you just give me your favorite. I don't think there has to be diversity in your favorite. If you were to give me five female black comedians, I wouldn't say, got to add a white one. If it's for your favorite. People were so upset like, oh, Leanne, no women in there. I asked her her favorite. I would rather her not have to be politically correct when picking her favorite things.

13:16Now, I would expect her, again, if I said something like, hey, who are five up and coming? She'd like to highlight right here. Again, if she picked all long-haired white guys and overalls, all five of them, I'd be like, man, a little diversity. Right? We could pick somebody a little different if you're just picking. But I'm asking your favorite. It's like people ask me, hey, what are your five favorite songs right now? Who are your five favorite artists? Who are your favorite? If you ask me my favorite, it's literally going to be my favorite. I don't feel like I have to give anybody an opportunity when it comes to my favorites. I do feel I need to give people opportunities in other instances though. If I'm highlighting new artists, I'm not going to pick five bluegrass bands. I may pick one. I may throw one at Duo. I may have a couple female artists. May have a dude. I'm definitely going to try to make sure that good people from all different areas get a look. But if you're asking me favorites, I'm literally going to give you my favorites. And I felt like that was a little harsh and that people needed to grow up.

14:22Dolly died obviously. And when that happened, we were already up here. And we were scheduled to record a Luke Bryan interview actually, because Luke put out an album. And so I get a text from Amy saying, hey, do you see Dolly Parton died? And I didn't because I'd come from something else. I don't know where I came from. Maybe the radio show. And it happened and she texted me. And at first we thought that someone had hacked Dolly's Facebook account because it was only on her Facebook. And it wasn't in the news anywhere. And then it was only on her Instagram. But since they were both blue checked, we thought, wow, this is it. That stinks. So we kind of got into action right away because really there's nobody bigger in country music in my lifetime.

15:23I don't think then Dolly because they Johnny Cash, but you know, there's only a few. And so we did have Luke Bryan coming up that afternoon and I text Luke and I was like, I'm so sorry. I got a cancel on you. And he said, I totally get it. And what I wanted to make sure that we did, and I think if you heard the show that next morning after Dolly died, it was full Dolly. It was from the moment we came on to the show ending. It was full us talking about Dolly how Dolly personally has impacted us. The professional experiences I had with her, all that she's given back. And so it was all Dolly, but some of it was us immediately coming in. So Amy drove up here immediately. Eddie got up here. Brandon was up here running cameras. Mike was up here. And what I wanted to capture was the impact of us finding out.

16:23So the first quarter of the show was us talking right as we found out about it because I felt like that would feel more real. And the second two thirds of the show was us talking about it the next morning live. One of the weird things that happened was I started to get hit by a lot of news producers. CNN, Fox News, ABC, like a lot of the networks. And they all wanted me to come on and talk about Dolly doing news hit after news hit. And I think ABC hit me first and I said, yes, I'll do it. I did it at 7 p.m. But I started to get more and more. And it just felt like I was doing a press tour. It felt a bit opportunistic. So I did one. And then I shut it down. I never canceled on anyone. But I felt like if I was doing four or five interviews on all these different platforms, I don't know. I just felt kind of kind of grody. And I didn't want to be seen as someone who was using Dolly's death as an opportunity to go on all these networks just to have a face on TV.

17:32So the ABC one was pretty good. Luke was great about it. We're going to schedule him to come back in the next couple of weeks or so. But what a weird day and week and few weeks since then, especially as you learn more and more about it. And how she didn't want to talk about her situation because she didn't want people to worry about her, which was crazy. We interrupt this interview to bring you a message from our sponsor. College football will hijack your weekend, ruin your sleep and break your heart. And that's why we make the Sullivan-verbal College football show. I'm Ty Hildenbrand. He's Dan Rubenstein. How's it going? Every week we preview the games that matter, sort through the biggest storylines and tell you what to watch before kickoff. There's a lot to keep track of. Who's for real? Which upset is hiding in plain sight and which storyline is about to take over your group chat? And when the games are over, join us in the aftermath, too. We're going to react to what happened, talk about the biggest results.

18:34Of course, we'll cover the playoff picture. And all the little details you might have missed while flipping between like 12 games at once. Whether you know every coach and coordinator or just want to understand why everybody is yelling, we're here to help make sense of the madness. Listen to the Solid Verbal College football show on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Join me in former NFL quarterback Matt Castle every Wednesday. On our podcast, lots to say with me, Bobby Bones and Matt Castle. We also bring in friends, they're mostly match friends, who are current or former NFL players. Some of the biggest names in music and entertainment. And then we have some really great conversations that can pretty much go anywhere. The great, Pac-Man Jones. After the game of the whole national task force for police officers was at the stadium. Like, hey, buddy, yeah, you out of... come on. And one of my favorite segments we do is called situational awareness. Where Bobby and I give each other real life situations and figure out what we'd actually do.

19:38You're in training camp and the rookie quarterback has one good throwing session in front of the media. Suddenly, everybody online says he should start over a week one. How do you handle this? You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him to mess up. Listen to lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. 30 years ago, an island off Manhattan almost brought down New York City. Who will you trust? Your friends and neighbors? Who will you trust the people five miles overseas? This is a story about neighbors turning on each other. And what happens when a forgotten place decides it's had enough. We reached for a feeling that exists in this city. But we're not stopping, are we? I'm Ben, that of Half-Rate. And for my new series on revisionist history, I took a deep dive in the Staten Island's attempt to secede from New York City in the 1990s.

20:40And what it all has to do with the politics of resentment that dominate America today. Listen to revisionist history, the Staten Island problem on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, it's that time again. Backpacks, first day of school outfits, and the low key anxiety of... It might have been doing this right. Good mom's bad choices is diving into the back to school season. The way only we know how. Unfiltered, funny, and full of the moments other shows won't touch. From surviving morning drop-offs to the guild of missing the first bake sale. I already told me the next season she wants to join a club team that's by your house. So I was like, so you want me to pick you up from school. I'll take you by my house. But then I have to take you there. And then I have to drive back. And then some days I'm here and I have to go pick you up at school and then bring you back. I was just like, hell no.

21:40This is a space where moms trade their highlight reel for the real reel. Whether you're new mom, a veteran mom, or just trying to make it to pick up on time. This season of good mom's bad choices is for you. Listen to good mom's bad choices from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That call was really pivotal for me. Hey, it's Emily Tish Sussman and this season on She Pivots, the podcast where women share bold career moves and personal turning points that changed everything. I sit down with culture shifting women who share their pivots like Para Olympian Alley Truett. I was like, I'm a month out from a shark attack. There's no way in 11 months I'm making the Verlantics. Advocate Elizabeth Smart. I still feel that drive that I can still make a difference. So I'm gonna keep going. Celebrity chef Carla Hall was that scary to walk away from such a stable career after just two years? No, I was more afraid of being unhappy than I was broke and in a dead and job that I didn't enjoy.

22:40And feminist legend, Gloria Steinem. All of us were trying to express women's real lives. We need a meeting place of our own and if I can contribute to that, I'd like to maintain that and leave this house for that purpose. Listen to She Pivots on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the Bobby cast. I'm recording this now from vacation. I guess I'm in the same place, but I'm recording it as I'm on vacation. So it's meant the first day or so at home and then me, Caitlin, baby Billy, Caitlin's parents. We all went to East Tennessee. And so we're up in the mountains there. And I normally don't tell people that we're going on vacation, especially show listeners, because there's really no difference to them as long as we have created new content. And so we took the last month and we just grinded out five full new shows and five hour long part two episodes for every single day.

23:46We did a special on the palette. We did a lot of stuff, but I don't announce it and people will get irritated at me online. Like, why don't you tell us when you're on vacation? Well, there's no difference to you. And if we say that, it could actually hurt us. You could go, well, they're not going to be lives. We won't listen. When actually the shows could be better. They could be better than when we're there actually live. And so I don't share because there's no benefit for me to share. Because most people, they're experiencing it the exact same way than if we were there doing the show live every single day. And why it took us about a month to do the malls because we still were doing all the normal shows day to day and all the bobby casts. And then couple that with all the shows and all the podcasts. And we did a launch a brand new series on 90s country. So it's actually a 10 part series, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of vacation. We put up an hour long episode from 90, 91, 92, 93, 94.

24:47And I think every week from here out, we'll do another one. But if you haven't heard those yet, you can go to the bobby cast feed and check them out there. But I purposefully don't say when we're going on vacation for that reason. The listener doesn't miss anything. We're on vacation for the most part. But it can't hurt us. If we say we're gone, even though the content could be just as good or better, people are going to go, ah, that's the wrong vacations. We won't listen. So why would I do that? Why would I, why would I hurt us? That's why we don't. More and more people are watching this show, which is pretty crazy. I have a Charlie Worsham bobby cast that comes out relatively soon. And he said to me that he started to watch this because he thinks, and you can hear him on the episode, say it. He thinks it's interesting how I do a one man show, just looking at the camera, talking to you guys like this, and make it entertaining and compelling. I was also in an article, which is kind of weird.

25:51I've become like an influencer for content creation, mostly to radio and podcast people, not to people trying to do TikToks. But him saying that made me feel like I have to prepare these shows better. Because again, I just kind of come in here. I have notes, just like one line of things I want to talk about, but I just kind of free-ball it. But I did in that article, and I did an eclipse talk about how I think this is where a lot of podcasting. I think there'll be a major shift to people that can just talk solo, because the same guests go on 15 different podcasts. And you start to have burnout of interviews, unless it's great. But there's this company called Barrett Media, and they had posted an article. I didn't ask them to write it. It was super nice to them to write it. And the article basically was, hey, you have somebody who has had success, and he's showing you inside how he has the success. And it was just me, and it was clips that I've put on Instagram talking about how to do content.

26:56And so I think I was on the flight back from Los Angeles, when the article went up, and it popped up a malgur rhythm. And so I was like, oh cool, I went to the Facebook page. Now, it wasn't a Tuesday. I should have never gotten the comments. And Tuesday is usually the only day that I go into the comments. And there's this article, super nice. It made me feel good, because they were highlighting something that I didn't really plan for anyone to highlight. I was just doing it because it's like people could use the information. I like it when people do that. Sometimes in my TikTok algorithm, it's just people talking about how to do better content. Like I always appreciate that. And I shouldn't write the comments. But it was other radio people, like here's one, Christopher Lewis, Bobby Bones, seriously, LOL, is that a middle school nickname? Now again, these are all people that are in radio. And no, it was not a middle school nickname. The middle school nickname was T-bone, because the rumor was I got a bone or over a kid when I was wrestling him in an offseason football.

27:58But that oddly had nothing to do with Bobby Bones, which was given to me when I was 17, almost 18 years old in my first ever radio station. Go back a few episodes of In the Weeds. You can hear all about that. But it wasn't middle school. That was T-bone. But also, why would you even put that in the comments? Here's one. From Steve McGrue. His playbook, he was picked from Obscurity and told he was going to be the star. I heart-forced him on everybody. That's his playbook. The interesting thing about this is this guy's a massive idiot. So, picked from Obscurity, I would say I'm more forced myself on the company than I was picked by the company. So, as I've talked about before, I had built my own syndication using my own money in Austin, Texas. My contract was coming up. They had a decision to make. I had a decision to make.

28:58I had 25 affiliates that I was running by myself with my own money with Comrex boxes that I'd figured out how to use myself, because nobody was going to syndicate A-Show from Austin, Texas. You only get syndicated from New York or Los Angeles for the most part, a little bit Chicago. Nobody wanted to syndicate me. So, was I obscure? Absolutely. Was I picked by I Heart? Absolutely not. They only cared once I started making a decent amount of money for the company. And being a viable revenue generator for the company, because I had hustled all of these markets. No one would have noticed me had I not had success one on the local level, and two had they gone, this guy has four markets? Who knew? So, there was no pick from Obscurity. Everything that I've ever gotten from the company has been me having to leverage it. The first time that I Heart put me on all the stations in Nashville was because I wanted to come to Nashville.

30:01My contract was up, and I said, hey, I need something to happen. Let's figure out some options. So, they could either lose me, which I thought they would do, like they just wouldn't care enough, or because I was in a negotiation, they could grant me what I felt like I was worth, and that's what happened. But at no time, and even then I came to Nashville and got less markets than I gave up in Austin, which was crazy. I took a half step back. The wild part about coming here was that I kind of had to burn the boats, meaning once I was here, the entire network that I had built, or the 25 pop affiliates was gone. As soon as I left, they gave them to other people. So, I couldn't go, you know what, I want to go back. I had to take a massive risk. My entire career is calculated large risks. Sometimes, I'm very calculated small risks. Some of them paid off wonderfully.

31:01Like the time about billboards? Excellent. People still talk about it. That is my maybe second greatest holy crap achievement. I think the first one is winning a dance competition. So, nobody said you're going to be a star. I had to take a crowbar and crowbar the frickin door down for them to even know who I was. And then, well, I would argue now, that I don't know if I'm a star, but I have had success. And I didn't force me on anybody until it became financially viable for them to do that. And then there would be shows, I mean, it would suck. When we first moved down, because again, we launched and not as many markets as I gave up, but it was enough. And either they flipped stations or for whatever reason we were on in the morning. When you go on new to like 15 or 18 places at once, it is not fun because everybody hates you, especially when you sound different than anything else that had been on at all.

32:06Because I wasn't coming in on a cowboy hat in a bell buckle and you know, God bless you if you wear them, but I don't. And I never faked it. I still don't fake it. I have never faked who I am for one second for any format. But you're an idiot. And that's all. Here's another one, Rod Willis, Bobby Bones is a hack. I don't disagree. That's all. I don't disagree to you. I might be to others. I may not be. I think, you know, art is in the eye of the beholder. Some people really enjoy what I do and what I talk about now. I talk about it. Some people hate it. And that's okay. I'm totally fine with you calling me a hack. Here's one from Rick. Anyone remember when he said he was the Kansas City Chiefs of Radio to me on Twitter? No, dude. Nobody remembers you or me saying anything. I do remember this guy who worked at some small station who's telling me how I did my job. Uh, suckily. Is that a word? And I said, hey, man, you, because I didn't know this guy was.

33:09He came at me. Also, if you come at me and you hit me with a feather, I'm going to take a bowling ball and crack it over your head, right? The fight's never going to be fair. If you come and you hit, you want to get in a slap fight, I'm going to pull out a machete. And what I remember saying was, it's like a high school coach telling the Dallas Cowboys had to run their offense. Except it wasn't the Cowboys. It was the Chiefs because that's when the Chiefs were good. Pre-Mahomes injury. But yeah, I remember that. You're an idiot, too. There's a thing about internet commenters. And especially those four in my mind. Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. 30 years ago, an island off Manhattan almost brought down New York City. Who will you trust? Your friends and neighbors? Who will you trust the people five miles overseas? This is a story about neighbors turning on each other. And what happens when a forgotten place decides it's had enough. We reached for a feeling that exists in this city.

34:13But we're not stopping, are we? I'm Ben, that of Half-Rate. And for my new series on revisionist history, I took a deep dive in the Staten Island's attempt to secede from New York City in the 1990s. And what it all has to do with the politics of resentment that dominate America today. Listen to revisionist history, the Staten Island problem on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Join me and former NFL quarterback Matt Castle every Wednesday on our podcast, lots to say with me, Bobby Bones and Matt Castle. We also bring in friends and mostly match friends who are current or former NFL players. Some of the biggest names in music and entertainment, and then we have some really great conversations that can pretty much go anywhere. The great, Pac-Man Jones. After the game to hold national task force for police officers was at the Staten.

35:13Hey, buddy, yeah, you out of... come on. And one of my favorite segments we do is called situational awareness. Where Bobby and I give each other real life situations and figure out what we'd actually do. You're in training camp and the rookie quarterback has one good throwing session in front of the media. Suddenly, everybody online says he should start over you week one. How do you handle this? You just go back out to practice the next day and wait for him to mess up. Listen to lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. College football will hijack your weekend, ruin your sleep and break your heart. And that's why we make the Sullivan-verbal college football show. I'm Ty Hildenbrand. He's Dan Rubenstein. How's it going? Every week, we preview the games that matter, sort through the biggest storylines, and tell you what to watch before kickoff. There's a lot to keep track of. Who's for real? Which upset is hiding in plain sight? And which storyline is about to take over your group chat?

36:14And when the games are over, join us in the aftermath, too. We're going to react to what happened, talk about the biggest results. Of course, we'll cover the playoff picture. And all the little details you might have missed while flipping between like 12 games at once. Whether you know every coach and coordinator or just want to understand why everybody is yelling, we're here to help make sense of the madness. Listen to the Solid Verbal College football show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, it's that time again. Backpacks, first day of school outfits, and the low key anxiety of it might be doing this right. Good mom's bad choices is diving into the back to school season. The way only we know how. Unfiltered, funny, and full of the moments other shows won't touch from surviving morning drop-offs to the guild of missing the first bake sale. I already told me the next season she wants to join a club team that's by your house. So I was like, so you want me to pick you up from school.

37:16I'll take you by my house, but then I have to take you there, and then I have to drive back. And then some days I'm here, and I have to go pick you up at school and then bring you back. I was just like, hell no. This is a space where moms trade their highlight reel for the real reel. Whether you're new mom, a veteran mom, or just trying to make it to pick up on time. This season of Good Mom's Bad Choices is for you. Listen to Good Mom's Bad Choices from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Britt Coleman, and I'm Trevor Sikama. If you ever watched a game and wondered what really made the difference beyond the final score, that's exactly why we created NFL Pro Strowth, got a man wide open! Touchdown! Stay Harks! Every week we use exclusive next-gen stats insights and NFL content to break down the biggest stories, matchups, and moments from around the league. We go beyond the box score to uncover the numbers, the tendencies, and details that help explain what actually happened on the field.

38:17Fires it out and the flat to Barclay, who beats one man, spins past another, leaps over a throw! And don't worry, this isn't just a show for stats experts. We use advanced analytics to help tell the story behind the game, turning the numbers into insights that every fan can understand and enjoy. So whether you're a casual fan learning more about football or a hardcore fan who can't get enough analysis, our goal is to help you see the game in a whole new way. If you've ever wanted to know why a playwork, how a matchup was won, or what most fans missed on Sunday, NFL Pro delivers insights you simply can't get anywhere else. Listen to NFL Pro on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to The Bobby Cast. Something called Dunning Kruger, and I think this can be our learning lesson from today. So, Dunning Kruger is something that I look at and I say,

39:18man, they just don't know how dumb they are. So, the official definition of Dunning Kruger is a cognitive bias where people with low competence or limited knowledge and a specific skill tend to greatly overestimate their ability. So also a part of Dunning Kruger is, dumb people never know how dumb they are because they're too dumb to know how dumb they are. So there is no understanding that they may be saying something stupid and this could be anyone. There are a lot of people I've seen online with a heavy case of Dunning Kruger. Heck, in some aspects of my life, I probably have it. But the whole concept of it is idiots never know they're actually idiotic because they're so idiotic. They don't have the understanding or awareness to realize how idiotic they are. So that's Dunning Kruger. There was something I posted on the radio hall of fame. I'm going to go in October in Chicago and I'm going to host the hall of fame ceremony this year, which is fun for me.

40:23The reason I said yes to it this year is because Bob Pittman, my CEO, is being inducted. The irony is I was inducted in 2017 and Bob Pittman is the guy who bet the farm on me. So he should have got in before I did. But they've asked me to do it before I haven't been able to do it because sometimes it's the same time as I already a music festival or I was touring. But because Bob was being inducted, I said absolutely yes, I will go and host it. Also my favorite while player of all time, Boomerah Saisen who played quarterback for the Cincinnati Bangles is being inducted as well because he's had a storied career in sports radio. So I thought that was cool, a little cool ad on there. But I posted these images of a story that was written about me and it said buy bones inductee from 2017 is going to host the radio hall of fame in Chicago, Illinois. And so it had a little blurb about me and my career as well.

41:25And it was a nice blurb so I posted it up there. And then people in the comments started congratulating me like in a massive way where I felt kind of guilty because I think they thought I was announcing I was in the radio hall of fame. Or I was just being invited to be in the hall of fame. For example, Brittany Kellogg who was on this show, she does the trash takes out the trash every Tuesday on TikTok and she's a country artist. So this is incredible exclamation exclamation congrats. Sherry 9607 said, Bob, you so deserve this. You work so hard and you deserve every accolade. Jerome Pat notes that, hey, congratulations on the induction of the hall of fame. You definitely deserve it. So I'm in a weird place because thank you. That's so nice of you to say all those super kind things to me and about me. But also I'm not going in and also I'm already in and but I didn't want to like correct them be like no, no, no, I was I was in seven years ago. A year ago. But it was so nice. And then I just wonder was that post misleading in anyway.

42:28So if you saw that. I'm not being inducted. I was so wonderfully inducted into the radio hall of fame. Seven years or so ago. And I'm going to host it this year because my CEO is going in, which I think is pretty awesome. My algorithm feeds me me, which is odd and not just content that I do. But content where people are talking about me, which is not always good. Because you know, there's an article that I was referencing earlier where this media company was talking about the content that I do and how other people in podcasting a radio should check it out. And I thought it was super nice of them. But they started the article with love them or hate them. And I did a whole post like, hey, we don't we can leave that out. And if you have to put the hate them in there, like love them or hate them. And then it starts to talk. So maybe you saw the post. And I was like, we don't we don't need the hate. Let's block out the hate word. You don't have to say love them. Just say the information.

43:31And that thing gets so much engagement. As I mentioned earlier in this, with people commenting like crazy and I read some of the mean comments. There are also some very kind comments on there, which is great, but those. Nobody's is entertained by. But my algorithm feeds me me. It also feeds me people talking about me and people trying to start feuds with me. And there's about two week. There's about two new people a week that want to start a feud with me that I've never even met. Because I think they know if I respond and I have a fight and I publicly talk about it, they will be platformed. Do you know how hard it is for me who is so competitive, who is also so wild and insecure? And that is a bad mix. Do you know how hard it is for me not to fight with them? Not to annihilate them? That's me saying that because obviously I think that even if it's not true. Do you know how hard it is for me to watch my algorithm feed me me?

44:32People talking about me saying things that aren't true and for me not to respond? It's crazy hard, but I don't because I know that's what they want. So I don't. I would say there's about two new ones a week. Just with the idea of if I respond, they'll get clicks. But it's very hard. There was a new one last week. Two dudes and I was like, I don't even know you guys. So I turned it off. That wasn't even in the comments. Like that's just my algorithm feeding me me because they know me's me. I do try to share a little justice sometimes. There was an Instagram account and they did a whole article with pictures. Five country artists you've completely forgotten about. And they listed five artists and I just wrote, well, this seems a little harsh.

45:32And they listed Lee Bryce, Randy Halzer, Eli Youngman, David Nail, and Eastern Corbin. And again, the whole carousel was five country artists you've probably forgotten about. Lee Bryce did the fish song. Remember that one, right? Moses Yard. That was in the turning point concert on the Super Bowl halftime show. That thing went pretty viral. Can't forget about that. But after I wrote, hey, that's kind of harsh. Somebody in the comments said, oh yeah, well, how are you supporting them? And I was like, well, David Nail was on the show two weeks ago in studio. If it matters, I mean, I haven't forgotten about it. I literally just had David Nail in studio because he has new music coming out. Other podcasters have reached out to me asking if we give our guests final cut or what they call playback, meaning when we're done with the interview, do we give them the full tape and say, hey, here's what it is. You can cut out anything you want.

46:33No, we never do that. However, we're also not trying to do a gotcha with anybody. So if someone has a problem with anything, anything they can say, hey, I didn't like how that that came out. Can you cut that for me? We have no problem with cutting anything ever if it makes a guest feel uncomfortable because I have also said things. Or I go, oh man, what you want to say that? I didn't mean it like that. So what you want to say to it like that. Now, no one's ever cut that out for me. And sometimes I say it on my own show, so it's my own fault. But I've also said things where I didn't like how it came out and it wasn't what I meant. So I will always cut sometimes people say, hey, legally, I'm afraid I'm going to get in trouble. No problem. We'll cut it or we'll beep it, whatever you want. But we definitely do not give people final cut or playback because what will happen is, as soon as we do that, they'll send us three pages of notes of extremely specific notes and time codes of what they want cut here.

47:34And they'd like this to be moved there and it just not worth it. So to anybody, this is extremely in the weeds to anybody that's watching this that does their own show with guests never give them the full product. Absolutely. If you want to give them the ability to go, hey, I don't like that. Would you mind pulling that out? No problem. That's what we do. Because again, we're not trying to got you anybody. But never for a second when I give anyone a full show. Because if I do that, you better believe they're going to send the full thing back with full notes on everything. So no, we don't. I was asked how I schedule the Bobby cast because as right now, we have three episodes ago up a week. We have Tuesday, Thursday and a weekend episode on Saturday. Now, this is a very general. Bobby cast show scheduling description. Usually the most known guest goes up on Tuesday. That doesn't always mean it's the best guest or the guest that I'm most interested in.

48:36Sometimes I'm way more interested in the Thursday guest. But the Tuesday guest at the time was sitting a little harder so they go up on Tuesday at the beginning of the week. Tuesday, the biggest most known guest. Thursday is someone that I really like or have a fascination with of their art. Or someone that's also really big if Tuesday was also really big. So we got to put them on Thursday. But Thursday is more of a I'm super interested in the episode. Sometimes on Thursday, you'll get episodes where we just talk about music. Or we'll come in and do like great pop songs and we'll do best one hit wonders. Or what's the way of coming up movie songs? Best cover songs like sometimes on Thursday. And I'll be honest with you, I enjoy doing those sometimes more than the interviews. So but Tuesday is always most known because it pops up on Netflix in an opportune time. Thursday is a lot of times my favorite. But it's mostly something I'm interested in.

49:36And then the weekend episode is sometimes just Eddie and I talking about a bunch of stuff. Sometimes it's with the guest. That one's a little more wild card because I'll bring in people that I just think are cool from social media. When we had in Lauren Paley, she was someone who sings punk songs like a Disney princess. And she has millions of followers. And I was so interested in why she started doing it. Like what kind of following she has and she put out a record because it got so big on social media. Has wanted to like her background. And so that to me super interesting. We had Britney Kellogg on. She drags the trash down. And I didn't even know she was a musical artist whenever I decided to have her in. And she is actually really good. She's a song called sober. You got to check out. So that Saturday show is us. We changed the couch. We flipped the studio. It's more of a, you know, sitting around shooting the old, you know, I mean, about topics. But that's usually how that goes.

50:38Not always. It's usually how the booking goes there. There was someone who left a comment on it on Instagram or a YouTube video. It's from, man, what I see a name like this almost. I think it's a burner account, but burner accounts wouldn't be mean or they wouldn't be nice. I should say. But it's from LMKJHYV7897. Then this screen burner account. It maybe they just wanted a YouTube and it just picked a name for them. I don't know. But they wrote Bobby. Do you ever go back and look at old clips of the Bobby Bones show? They keep popping up for me on YouTube. One that recently came up was when you surprised Amy by going to see her kids in Haiti before they were adopted. It was so sweet. That's not what someone says who creates a burner account. Sometimes they pop up, but I don't watch them because all I end up doing is critiquing my own work or hating myself in a time machine five years ago or seven years ago. That's super nice, but they do pop up sometimes.

51:40A couple more things before we decide to run out. I watch four horror movies. I don't normally watch horror movies, but I watched four over the past few weeks. Actually, I hate scary movies, but I watched four over the last few weeks. I'm going to rate them. Number one is a movie called The Menu. It's about this really fancy restaurant. You got to get on a boat and go to it and people wait for years to get in. More of a psychological thriller than horror, but it's definitely listed as horror. I loved this movie. Again, I don't like monsters. I don't like jump scares, but I do love movies that screw with your mind. So my favorite horror movie of the past month or so was The Menu. Second. I didn't enjoy watching the movie, but I appreciated how good it was. Was that movie obsession? That movie's F'd up, man.

52:41I didn't like it, but I can appreciate that it was awesome to people who love those kind of movies. You wrote that. That's next level stuff. But I'm going to put that at number two. I watched a movie called The Substance with Demi Moore. Did you guys watch that one, ever? That movie's crazy. So this is all about beauty standards and Demi Moore, I think, turns 50 and she's a TV fitness instructor. She's trying to find ways to stay young. She finds a way. And I was really interested about the first half of the movie. Then it just got weird. It wasn't like a psychological thriller, it was just like, what am I watching? It didn't win awards, though. So it threw me out, put the substance. And then it four, I watched back rooms. Did you watch that one, Dylan?

53:41That was pretty interesting, especially because it basically was like a 4-chan, I believe. I believe it started a 4-chan. Like a message board there. I know it was weird too. Not really my thing. But I didn't hate any of them, even obsession, which I thought was too much. Do you watch that one, Dylan? You like that one? But I got appreciate it. So if you like horror movies, the menu, obsession at two, The Substance at three and back rooms at four. But I could see you kind of like in all four if you like to horror movies. But that Demi Moore movie was freaking crazy, man. All right, that's going to be it for this episode of In the Weeds from Vacation. Thank you for being here. All we got for those that are watching, you'll be able to see this. These are our new Stay Weedy hats, which Brandon had made. We're not really selling them. Brandon nicely made two of them. So I'm wearing one of them right now. It's black, it's got white letters. It says Stay Weedy, which is what we say on the show.

54:42This other one, if you post down in the comments, Stay Weedy. I'll sign and send to you and subscribe. Yeah, we have to go to your page and make sure you subscribe. So if you subscribe to this channel on YouTube and you're right, Stay Weedy, I'll sign this other Stay Weedy hat and I'll send it to you. So appreciate all the Weeders out there. I don't like weed whackers. People started calling themselves weed whackers. I don't like weed whackers. It feels like whacking is just not something. I don't want you guys whacking, you know? They wouldn't make that hat. Yeah. So stay Weedy. Keep your eyes open. Be looking in the weeds. Don't whack. I'm a weed eater's out there. Well, you can. I'm just not going to call you that. We'll see you guys next time. All right, everybody. Love this episode of the Bobby Cast. Subscribe on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. The new NFL season is here.

55:44And you should be listening to NFL Daily as we march along to Super Bowl 61. It is in the name NFL Daily. You'll have fresh content in your feed every day, all season long. That game winning drive. Maybe it's Herbert. Maybe it's Gino. Maybe it's my homes. We'll have the highlights. If Fernando Mendoza or any of the rookies are ballin' out, we'll break down the tape. Join me. Greg Rosenthal and an All Star cast of co-hosts as we preview and recap every game. Listen to NFL Daily on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, everybody. Amy Robock and TJ Holmes here from the Amy and TJ podcast. We're going to cover everything you need to know during this heated political season. Yes, we just saw Lindsey Graham, the death of a long time senator. Also, we've got a couple of missing members of Congress. Also, we got a lot of members of Congress behaving badly. We got accusations, allegations flying all day long on Capitol Hill. Listen to Amy and TJ on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

56:45New school year, same beautiful mess. Good mom's bad choices is back to talk back to school realness. The gil, the giggles, and the choices no other show is brave enough to admit. Mom life is calling. I have my last mother fucking volleyball tournament of Iris Club team volleyball. And I cannot wait for it to be over. Because I don't like participating and having to drive for our distances. Shout out to the moms and my mom made it happen. Listen to good moms' bad choices from the Black Effect Podcast network on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On Big Lives, we take a single cultural icon. People like Jane Fonda, George Michael, Little Richard. And we pull apart the story behind the image, discovering forgotten interviews that change exactly how we see these giants of our culture. We're here for the messy, the brilliant, the human version of our heroes. I'm Emmanuel Jochi. I'm Kai Wright.

57:45And this is Big Lives. Listen to Big Lives on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Brett Coleman and I'm Trevor Sikama. If you love football and want to understand what's really happening on the field, check out our show, NFL Pro. Every week we break down the biggest plays, trends, and matchups using exclusive next-gen stats, insights, and NFL content you will not find anywhere else. Whether you're new to football, a fantasy football fanag, or a diehard fan, NFL Pro will help you analyze the game like a pro. Listen to NFL Pro on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.