The Bobby Bones Show - In The Weeds: The Mumford & Sons Fiasco, Social Media Beef & Things Bobby Secretly Hates

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

Bobby goes In The Weeds with the behind-the-scenes story of a slightly awkward Mumford & Sons interview setup and why Brandon walked away embarrassed. He also gets into the ongoing debate with his agent about cutting his hair, what investing in yourself actually looks like, and why he thinks people need to stop saying they “don’t have time.” Plus, Bobby explains his approach to fighting with strangers online, clears up a recent social media moment where people thought he was being rude to his team, and runs through some of the things he just can’t get behind  including running, big group dinners, group chats, trying on clothes and the beach. He also talks about Stanley getting older, the long process behind writing a kid's book, and why he may write another one with Mike D. Follow on Instagram: @TheBobbyCast Follow on TikTok: @TheBobbyCastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to the latest episode of Hey Jonas on the Iheart radio app. Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. We're going to start this episode with a fun behind the scene story that was a little bit awkward.

So on the Bobbycast we had Mumford and Sons in which is pretty cool. And I usually don't do interviews with two people, much less three. Like so many times the band wants to come in.

and it's too many. And I did Little Big Town with two of them, not four, but I know them so well. But also Mumford and Sons are massive. And it wasn't going to say no to that. But they got here that were super nice, which they're British and they're massive and they're not Nashville. So you never quite know with all three of those elements,

like how nice or cool somebody's going to be. They're very nice, right? Super cool. And they get there and, you know, we're going to seat them on the couch. and we have this really old, like, U-shaped couch. It's a really old but cool vintage couch. And so all three of them were sitting in different places.

And listen, obviously you want to put the lead singer in the middle. I would think that. Brandon thought that. And Brandon's the one who gets everybody in their place before we start. He's setting the cameras. He's making sure that everybody's settled. And they sat down. And Mumford was on the edge,

Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons. And Brad's like, no, we can put you in the middle. And they were like, no. And that's how it ended. And I don't think it was as awkward as maybe Brandon felt it was. I saw it, but also I didn't care. But I think they do purposefully such a good job of making sure

that everybody in that band feels seen. Because I'm sure you're the lead singer of a band. You're getting all the love. And that guy's in his sunglasses, he got his hair fixed and quaffed just right. He's got a shirt buttoned up. Good looking, dude. And they were cool enough to go,

no, he's going to sit on the side. We're going to put this guy in the middle. I caught it as it happened, but I didn't think of anything about it. And then afterward, Brandon was like, oh, you see that awkward moment where I tried to put the lead singer in the middle and they said no?

So when you watch that interview, if you go to Netflix or watching clips like on social media, even on this YouTube page, you'll see that he's sitting on the edge. But Brandon tried to get in the middle. And that's also why I don't like talking to three people. Like, I've never been a part of an orgy, ever. But I feel like, from what I've seen on television, you have to make everybody feel welcome. And that's kind of what it feels like when I have multiple people. that I'm interviewing, because there's always somebody who's way more interesting and somebody

that has better stories. And a lot of times it's a lead singer because they're the front of the band. They tell stories the most. And when you have multiple people, you got to make everybody feel good in the orgy, you know, or so that I've seen on TV. So that was that story. A little behind the scenes here on in the weeds. That's what this whole show has been is just me telling you stuff from behind the scenes, stuff from my career. Thank you for joining us on this episode. I will say that I was talking to my agent yesterday. And he said, hey, man, I was looking at your social media. I said, cool. He said, you got to cut your hair. And I said, no, I'm like cutting my hair. I said, why are you going to become my hair? He said, it looks terrible.

And I said, well, kind of don't care. And he said, well, how do you expect me to get you a job on TV if your hair looks terrible? Because I got to send him to your social media to see you. And I said, when's the last time you got me a job on TV? That's why I said. So he would like me to cut my hair Because he says it will help me get a job on TV I Say when my hair was short I was not getting jobs on TV

So here we are Stailmate It is getting long It gets in my ears now Itches a lot And I'm not growing it out for any reason Other than now it's just kind of funny And my daughter thinks it's funny

Because she also has long hair That she's growing And she likes to grab it and pull it and so it's fun. Also, who cares? I got like three and a half more years left of being able to do things like this with my appearance before I go full suit and tie all the time. I mean, I've been in a cardigan every day for over two years. And it's the same reason I wore my glasses. Like, I think for me, being a generic white dude, as generic as you could possibly be. You have to do little things to stick out. And now my eyes are terrible. My right eye only has 8% vision. My left eye also now is kind of going, going a little bad. My left eye is the one that needs the glasses because my right eye is so bad that the glasses don't work or affect anything. And I remember when I would tell my wife this when we first met, I said, my right eye doesn't work. And she would say, okay, this is one of your stories. One of your stories, you turn the volume up

so you can get some attention. And then I remember we went to her dad. Her dad's an eye doctor in Oklahoma. And I was having him check out my eyes. And he's like, whoa, how about that? I said, oh yeah, what's that? He said, your right eyes, awful, like terrible. I had my wife in the room while he was checking it, and I just pointed.

It was almost like the Sophie Cunningham. So when I wear these glasses, obviously I wear distinct glasses because I need to, because I'm extremely generic. And to, when I started, wearing them originally, it was to protect my good eye. Now my good eye actually needs the help. So these are real. This is not a perm. Pointing to my hair. It's not a perm. And I've been wearing cardigans every day for over two years. The cardigan thing has been pretty good because it's like a

uniform. And I probably have 25 of them and have some that I like a lot more than others. So I wear them more than others. But it's so easy to get dressed and go to work or go anywhere when you already know what you're supposed to wear. And what started as a bit, because who wears cardigans all the time? Ended up being something I'm pretty happy about because there's no picking out clothes. The one thing that's crazy is I have a bunch of fun clothes that I never wear. They just sit in my closet. I've been donating so much to Goodwill and to friends because I don't wear half of or

three quarters of the cool stuff that I have. So that's what's up there. I'm not going to cut my hair for now. and we'll see what happens. In the last episode, I mentioned investing in yourself, and I just kind of said that flippantly in passing. And someone had asked me in a comment, like, what do you mean investing in yourself?

And I did say it doesn't have to be money because I don't think it does. Actually, I think most ways that you can invest in yourself, those ways do not include money. And if I'm defining what that, means it means being good to yourself or being strict for yourself because when you need yourself the most, you're your best. And I wrote some things down here. For me, if I go to bed earlier, I feel like that's investing in myself because even though maybe I don't want to go to bed so

early, if I want to watch a show, if I want to read or forever it was play NCAA football, if it was any of that and I would stay up playing the video game, but then I would be just exhausted in the morning. Like, that's not investing in myself. Because what's more important? That night, while I'm having a little fun playing a video game, or the next morning, when I have to go and perform at my job, where I have a bunch of people listening to me, I have a show that's depending on me, I got a family who is expecting me not to suck over and over again so we can continue to have a paycheck. So for me, going to bed earlier is a big way to invest in myself because there's a lot of things that sometimes I'd rather be doing at night because my days have been so full. Some other ones.

And it's so hard to find time to do things. I get it. But I do believe, it's not that we don't have time. It's that we don't prioritize the things to do with our time. You can be so busy. I do feel like I'm pretty busy. I do that to myself, but I'm pretty busy. And I usually, to think I was so busy and then I had a kid. Because my calendar stays packed every 30 minutes and then I put travel times in my calendar as well. One, it's a way for me to hold myself accountable to get to places I'm supposed to get to

and to also stay organized. So I would fill out this calendar. But I'd finish the day at 5, 5.30, go home, maybe play a little NCAA football, maybe have something to eat, maybe work out, or whatever it was. And I now, like as soon as I get home, like when I leave here today,

I go right home and it's right to the five-month-old because my wife's been with her all day. And in the evening time, it starts to be bath time and then we have our routine. And it's her routine, so she knows that bedtime is coming. And so I can easily say,

I don't have time for anything. But actually what I'm saying is I'm not prioritizing time for other things. And so when I say something like you can invest in yourself by one of the things is reading, you can easily go, I don't have time for that because I can do that. And there are some days where I don't. And I go, well, I didn't have time.

I didn't prioritize the time. But if you can read 10 pages a day, and I know that does not seem like a lot, but in reality, if you just read 10 pages a day and that takes you 10 minutes, 12 minutes, 13 minutes, you will be done with books before you know it and what reading does for me because I'm not somebody who book shames people because there will be four months where I won't touch a book sometimes

but then there'll be three or four months where I'm reading seven, eight books. One, it's so hard to get a book that you just love. I'm not going to spend a lot of time doing book nerd stuff. But it's hard because if you don't love the book, you start to get a little frustrated because it's such an investment of time

with a book because you read it for a week or two weeks but when I read, that's the closest thing that I can get to meditation that works. Because for me to actually comprehend what's on those pages, I have to focus. And if I'm focused on that, I'm not letting all the things from around me, all the distractions distract me.

It could be work, it could be somebody I'm irritated at, somebody's irritated with me, something that didn't go well. So reading to me is an investment in myself. and have friends that have never been readers that I've just said, hey, if you'll read this one book and you do 10 pages at a time, what's been really cool is I've seen it really pay off for them where they're now readers, still doing 10 pages at a time. So my, I'm not even going to say challenge because this may not be the way you want to best in yourself. But if you find a book and you read 10 pages a day, if you love the book, you'll end up reading 12 or 13, honestly.

But if you can force yourself to read 10, that book will be over. so quick and you'll have you'll feel more relaxed because again you're focused that's what meditation is right eliminating all the outside noise and that's why you say your mantra or whatever you want to say your slogan your phrase over and over again because you're just trying to focus on it to eliminate all the sound around you that's what reading does for me hang tight the bobby cast will be right back behind every night spent making the kids lunches there's a lot of suspense will they finally eat the Will the pastos survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all?

And will you finish episode 8 before you're done slicing the cucumbers? Get Bell Pure Fiber Internet with Craved Netflix and Disney Plus from $94 a month. Price guaranteed for two years on internet with a two-year term and auto pay credit. Visit bell.orgia for details and to check availability. Bell, connection is everything. When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. I survived, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the Survivor Files.

I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. There's stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to the Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important, to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having.

I'm going to have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. From bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture. moments, nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters, then that is a Trojan horse. Whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations, or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Listen to pro society on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinero, and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us,

Not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back on the Bobbycast. Now what sucks about that is I used to wear one of those headlamps

because again I don't see very well and I do like paper books but I was reading a paper book recently and at night I put the headlamp on but that's so distracting to my wife if she's asleep in the bed and so because it's one of those

you're under a car lamps so I got to go back to the iPad because at least there's light behind that and I would want to wake up in the middle of the night if I did wake up and read and I can't wake up at 3 in the morning and be like, I need to read to get myself to go back to sleep and then put on that freaking headlamp.

But one of the things I would say, if you want to read and you just make it 10 pages a day, that's it. I mean, it's the same way that I would train for triathlons. I hate running. It's the worst. I can't believe people enjoy it. So when I would train for these races,

because these are Olympic triathlons where you would swim a mile, bike 25 miles, run six, roughly that. And so when I was training, I would run 10 or so on some of the long runs. But I hate running. And the only way for me to finish the 10-mile run was to run tree to tree, to post, to house, to tree. I had to break it up into such small sections because if I just looked at 10 miles

for the 10 miles it was, that's too intimidating. I'm never going to do it. But if I take off running and I'm just running to that and now I'm running to that, and I'm playing a game with myself, but that's the only way

that I could accomplish a goal like that and that's the same thing with a book. That's the same thing with, we could talk about all the things that need to have a big goal to even pursue it, but you can't look at it and try to do the whole.

whole thing at once. It's the old saying, you know, how to eat an elephant, how to eat an elephant one bite at a time, because otherwise you'll never be able to eat the elephant because it's so big. Another thing is, is exercising. I hate exercising. I hate it so much. I hate working out so much. Everything about physical fitness for the sake of it, zero out of 10, no stars. it's when the Uber driver that I order Uber eats from forgets my drink that's the rating that I give exercise. Bad.

So, but to do it for a couple reasons. One, because I feel better after. Two, I'm healthier. And now I do want to live and actually see my daughter grow up to be an adult. And so that does factor in now that always didn't. But the other thing was too, aesthetically, yeah, I want to look pretty good. So I'm never going to look great, but there's something about exercise that even if you just go and start it, it's so much easier. Like the

hardest part to me about working out is just starting it. Now it does get harder as you're going if you're pushing yourself, but still the hardest part is just about showing up with exercise. Like you're investing today's effort into tomorrow's health. And that's investing in yourself. and that's investing in maybe you not getting sick later. Like, because your body works in weird ways and your immune systems, you're eating right.

Your immune system's rocking. You're physically fit. It's hard. It's hard to find time. But what do we say? It may be hard to find time. You can always prioritize time. A few more of these is,

this is a me one. Stop arguing with strangers online. What is that accomplishing? Do I still do it sometimes? Yeah. Do I 95% of the time only go into the comments or my DMs on Tuesday? Yeah. It used to be 100%.

I had about three months where I was only in on Tuesdays. I still am only in on Tuesdays. But occasionally, especially if I accept a collaboration from someone, I want to make sure that the people that follow me aren't being gross in the comments to whomever it is. that shot and produced a video. So I'll look occasionally, but it's energy wasted. I have to look at it like that.

For me, I have to go, is this efficient for me? But man, if I'm hungry or like I had a bad day or I'm feeling super insecure about something, somebody says, just the wrong thing online, I'll fight you. And it's dirty. I'm dirty. I'll go digging around.

I'll click, three links deep. I'll find out about what you did in ninth grade. Like, I don't like me for that. But that's one of those that I have to do for me. Be bored sometimes. And if you have kids, you have a full-time job, it's hard to be bored sometimes.

I mean, by bored, it doesn't have to be three hours, but I'm talking, no podcast, no music, no TV, no scrolling. It's like try to create empty space for your brain to actually be bored. I actually do my best work when I'm bored. I actually create where I, where it feels the best for me too is in the shower because I can do nothing. When I'm taking a shower,

I can't be on my phone. I can't be on my laptop. There's no music playing. I can't play with it. Well, I mean, I guess I could play. But I can't play with electronic things. And so because of that, it allows my brain to go places

that I don't allow it to go because we're just constantly chasing lights and alerts. So being bored sometimes. Another one will be investing in yourself is stop keeping relationships alive just because they've been alive for a long time. Now, that doesn't mean you don't have to have loyalty. Like your friends, your old school friends are your friends for sure. But if there are people that feel toxic and you feel like you owe them

because you've been friends for so long, you owe yourself more not to be in that relationship. And I'm not talking about romantic relationships. I'm just saying sometimes we have friends like that. And finally, I'm going to say write things down. When I talk about investing in yourself, it's how can you be slightly uncomfortable today so you can be way comfortable tomorrow and be proud of yourself. And I think writing things down is such a great tool. I was talking with a friend of mine recently.

He hit me up and he said, man, it seems like you got it all figured out. Like, can you help me figure it out? First of all, I don't have it figured out. Second of all, I said, I'm happy to give you feedback. I said, what's your goal? He said, I don't know my goal. I said, how do you know what you want? He said, I don't know.

I need you to help me do that. So I can't tell you what you want, but here's what I can tell you to do. Write down what would be awesome to have or be in five years. and then write down what you're going to do tomorrow to get started towards that goal because that's macro and micro at the same time. And the thing about writing things down, it does hold you accountable. Even if you throw it away, the fact that you wrote it down does feel like something with a little substance actually happened.

I have about four different journals and there's really no rhyme or reason to why I write in any of them. but I do write my goals down. And if I have something that I'm really committed to in short to midterm, I put it on my wallpaper on my phone. So my advice here, when investing in yourself, is something you're trying to do, write things down. Goals, ideas, even what worked, what didn't? And that's what I told my friend.

What do you want to do it five years? Okay. How are you going to start tomorrow in order to get that way? And then you can do it weekly. but writing it down actually, and I don't believe in the woo-woo stuff. Writing it down helps me so much. Oh, another one, and I'll end on this one.

I didn't plan to do so much on this, but this is such an investment in yourself. Learn people's names. You're going to think, well, of course, learn people's names. But if you're meeting people, I meet a lot of people. Sometimes I meet somebody, I'm like,

golly, man, I wish I remembered their name. I'm such an idiot. A tool for me to have people be warmer to me is the second time I meet them. If I know their name immediately, because I remembered it the first time we met, they feel seen. They feel like our interaction mattered. I feel that way whenever someone does it to me. If it's somebody that I'm at briefly, and they're like, hey, Bobby, like, wow, that person

did whatever they had to do in their brain to go plant this flag. This is this person's name. If you want to make somebody feel seen, remember their name. those little things like that will help you in the future so much. The trick that I do is I say the person's name back twice. It doesn't really have to be the thing that you do. But let's say we're to meet Brandon for the first time. He's like, hey, I'm Brandon.

Hey, Brandon and Bobby, nice to meet you. And then what I do is I bring up Brandon another time just to say the name semi early on. That typically works. I would do meet and greets with people before like my stand-up shows. You're going to think I'm crazy. but I could tell you every single person's name if there were 30 to 35 of them.

At the end of the night, I could tell you every single one of their names. Now, at this point, I can't because that's short-term memory. But if you were to line them all up, I could tell you every one of them because I would work on that. Say their name.

Say their name again. And when people say my name, it just feels like they like you and care about you and it feels warm. So my final tip for investing in yourself is learn people's name. because it will matter to them,

and in the end, that will come back, and it will matter to you. Hang tight. The Bobbycast will be right back. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pastos survive the first bite?

Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all? And will you finish episode 8 before you're done slicing the cucumbers? Get Bell Pure Fiber Internet with Craved Netflix and Disney Plus from $94 a month, price guaranteed for two years on internet with a two-year term and auto pay credit.

Visit bell.ca for details and to check availability. Bell, connection is everything. When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. I survived, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the survivor files. I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up. Don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable.

I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. There's stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsesives, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse.

I'm Eli Rallo, and every week we're connecting the dots. between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having. I'm going to have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. From best-selling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters, and that is a Trojan horse. Whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations,

or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right, place. Listen to pro society on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. On the new podcast Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people, and they were like, you smiled at us.

Not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your friends, first trip. I hope you listen to Solita on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back on the Bobbycast. I do want to talk about something that happened on my social media this last week where I got a little bit of flack and people were a little bit upset with me because they said I was a little bit rude. Fine. There was a show

one of our podcasts did not load. Except it loaded for a second. It was messed up. So I had him take it down and then it didn't go back up for a long time. So I get on my social media and I say, hey, if you're looking for this part one of our day's podcast, it's not there because we're idiots and we didn't do it right and we'll get it up as soon as possible. And then someone had posted something that was like, hey, you shouldn't be so rude to the people that work for you. Okay, that's fair. But since this is in the weeds, I'm going to explain. to you my strategy in calling someone out in my Instagram stories. I can call anybody out. You have no idea who it was that I was irritated at. You know who it was that I was irritated at?

Me, Scoobba Steve and two producers, all of us, because we all missed it. Now, the only person I was actually talking with was Scooba Steve about it. And yeah, was I irritated? Yes. I was that to love out because we have a massive podcast and if we're down for even four hours that affects our numbers tremendously and do you know who hears about it when our numbers aren't as good the next week me I don't need that to happen and everything that happens ends up being on me I'm the boss so everything that happens on an organization is my fault and that's okay I signed up for that right I didn't call anybody by name is one number two I wanted people to know that I knew the podcast was down and then three if I

I'm mad about something and it seems like I'm calling someone out and I'm still explaining to you what I'm doing, people pay attention to that. So all of that, as irritated as I was, all that I was doing online, that's all wrestling. That's all me just playing it up so people will pay attention. Now, was it true? Yeah, we screwed up. But I wasn't calling anyone out specifically because you didn't know who I was talking about. An example would be if you see somebody that does country music calling out country radio or the establishment. It's so easy to generically attack large groups because you're really not attacking anybody.

There's nobody. So nobody's hurt. Now, if they start attacking individual people, that's different. But it's so easy to attack Big Pharma, country radio. There's no face of that. And so because a lot of the things that I do is wrestling, about wrestling, I mean a work. It's something that is not real, but it's for a reason. It's going to get attention. Let's play the game. That's a work for me. Now, if I were really pissed, I would

call somebody out. But I wouldn't do that. But that's what that was about. So when I'm complaining and I'm mad at some mystery person because our podcast isn't up and I'm saying, I'm flipping out, I'm very irritated, but I'm not calling anyone out specifically because You don't know who it is. And two, by me calling it out, you also know that I know that it's not up because everybody's telling me, it's not up, it's not up.

And three, you're going, wow, he's mad about this. What is this? What are we talking about here? Oh, the podcast? Oh, I should check all that works. So that's very in the weeds of that. And the podcast was loaded.

I was talking about running earlier. I think there's a list of things that I don't believe people actually like doing. And one of them is running on a treadmill. I have a treadmill in my house. I hate that thing. And it's needed and I do get on it at times, but I don't know anybody that likes running on a treadmill.

If you just like running, I think that's weird. I wish I liked running. But running out a treadmill makes my list is the number one thing I don't believe people actually like doing. The next up is group dinners of eight or more. What a S show that is. just ordering the first round of food takes forever. Nobody's on time.

Few people are late. Can you get drinks? Okay, let's get some drinks over here. And then I'm going, hey, can I go out and order? And my wife's like, stop, stop ordering. It's not time to order your first. And then by the time, it's time for the bill to come. I think we should have, because they do have if you have a group of like six or more,

the gratuity is added. I think if there's like a friendship dinner of eight or more, you just don't have it. You split it up in two fours. Then you switch it up later and you go see the other four. I don't think people like going to group dinners of eight or more. I don't think that I hate being in a group chat with people of people of five or more. I hate alerts on my phone.

If I'm in a group chat and it's constantly pinging, I'm out of the group chat. Or you could be like Eddie. Eddie never answers, but Eddie leaves red dots on his, phone all the time, which is crazy. The last thing that I hate is trying on clothes. I will not try on clothes. I will take home three pair of pants that don't fit and just keep them and try to fit in them once before I try on clothes at the store. I hate trying on clothes. And the beach. Yeah, the beach. I get it. I'm in the minority here. But what is there to even do on the beach after about, I don't know, 90 minutes, except be really disgustingly hot?

I guess get drunk. I give that to you, but I don't drink. Now, if there's a water sport involved, I'm all in. But that's the lake. It's hard to do water sports in the ocean. Too many freaking waves. I mean, I guess you could surf, but I ain't taking the class. So the beach for me makes my list of things that I don't understand why people like them.

You leave sandy. You leave sunburnt. You leave hot. The lake, though, I can get. The beach, not so much. much. I did an interview for Muscle and Fitness magazine. Hold your laughs. And they said, hey, we want to talk to you because you seem like somebody who's pretty fit. And I hate exercising, but I do it because I prioritize it three or four times a week in different ways. And so I do this interview with this guy who's

super nice. And he said, so what is your routine? And I'm talking to him about what I'm doing specifically. And because it's muscle and fitness, I'm being very specific about what I'm doing. I even walk them over and show them my gym, which we have a gym on our property. And I tell them that I have a trainer. And I work out with my trainer three times a week sometimes. And we finish the article on the interview. And it was fantastic. And I'm still waiting for it to come out.

By the time this video hits or this podcast hits, it may be out. But it took a while for it to come out. And I'm thinking, man, this isn't like some Pulitzer chasing article. It was just me going, I do 11 curls. You know, something like that. but I mentioned Kevin Kluge, who's my trainer. And I think the guy fact-checked me to see if I actually worked out as much because he called Kevin Kluge.

He found Kevin Kluge's number and was fact-checking that I actually exercise. That's a dangest thing to fact-check. And so I'm sure Kluge was nice to me. If he wasn't, that would be weird. If the article is, spoke to Bobby Bowen's. claim this. And the other side is Kluge, Kevin Kluge, going, but this is the truth. But I've never been fact checked by a fitness magazine before. So be looking for that. I'll probably post it on my social. I have a bulldog named Stanley. If you guys didn't know, Stanley is basically nine

years old now as a bulldog. The lifespan for a bulldog is around nine years old, which is crazy. I love this dog. He's been such a great dog for me. We've had to go through many surgeries. I think he's had 12 or 13 surgeries at this point, many when he was young because he just kind of came broken. But he's getting old and stubborn now. Usually, I'm the one he listens to out of everybody. I'm his alpha. I think he's almost old and alpha-less at this point, because there are times he just looks at me and he's like, eh, f-off, buddy. But I get a lot of people requesting proof-of-life pictures. Like, this is some sort of hostage situation. situation with my bulldog. But like you need to prove Stanley's still alive. I'm happy to say he's

nine and he's still rocking. I hope this isn't jinx anything. And also, I'm not al-Qaeda. I don't need to prove that the dog is alive. But he is. He's killing. And I don't recommend getting a bulldog. They're really fun and cute, but they can't breathe. I've said this before. I don't recommend getting a bulldog. And I had a friend who had a bulldog. And he said to me, when I asked him, hey, you like your bulldog? He goes, yeah, I love him. So what do you think?

I'm thinking about getting one. He said, I recommend not getting a bulldog. And like, I understand now. Why? They should have never made him. I did a kid's book with Stanley, Stanley the dog, and the first day at school. And it did well. And I was super proud of it.

And it was the weirdest process because it was like 14 pages. and not even the pages like my other books. I wrote like a couple lines on each page. And then had to get an illustrator and had to go through illustrators and finally pick an illustrator that matched like the style, the vibe that I wanted in this book.

And so we had to match my words with the illustrator's drawings. And the whole process for the kid's book was over two years, which is wild. Because the whole process for my normal books, the two that I wrote, was about 14 months.

months. So you're talking about way less pages, way less words. It's a children's book, and it took two years or so. And of all the projects that I have done, like big national projects, I think that's the one that has made me by far the least money for two reasons. One, I didn't keep any of the money from it. We donated it at all. But even if so, it still would have netted the least because they're so expensive to make. And two, you have to pay an illustrator, like a significant chunk of it, because they're drawing all the pictures. And so my goal, I think, and what I'm considering doing is I think that Mike D and I might actually do one together and just self-publish it. And I don't only know what that means. But we have a story called Big Head Bobby, and I wrote a song about

on my kids record. And if we do another one, I think that's what we'll do is we'll self-publish a kid's book just ourselves because I don't want to wait two years and I'll just pay for it all and then we'll go from there. That being said, I had a friend call me

and she said, hey, I'm thinking about doing a kid's book. Like you have any advice? And I say, yes, don't get a bulldog. That's my advice. She said, well, I wasn't talking about a bulldog. I said, oh, also self-publish it. and spend your own money on it because it is going to take forever. So that's the update there, is that Mike D and I are going to do it.

Which, by the way, sometimes people try to get a hold of us, get a hold of me specifically to book them on any of the shows, the Bobby Bone Show or the Bobbycast on Netflix, whatever the case is. I just want to say this, Mike D holds the keys. If you can get Mike D to say yes, you're in. You never really want to get to the person. you always want to get to the person's person because whomever the person is

is probably doing 11 different things or like if you can get to the person's person because there are so many times where I'll have a list of 11 people asking to be on two of them I'll immediately go yep that would be fantastic a couple of them I'll go

this doesn't make sense and then there's seven of them where I just go Mike is up to you man if you think they'd be great let it rip and then Mike will decide. So generally in life, it's really not about getting to the person,

even if it's for, like getting a job or something. If you can get to the person's person, man, that is so much more effective. So for everybody that's hitting me up about, hey, hit up Mike D. He holds all the keys. I am hiring, though. I'm never not hiring.

And I've said this many times. If there's ever someone that comes and has some sort of skill set that I feel like I would benefit from having in my organization, I'll hire you. I get a lot of people going, I don't know how to do it, but I can learn. I'm a quick learner. I will not hire you because I don't need that job. Like I need specific skills.

Like right now, I would hire somebody that can edit, video, and audio that has a good technical understanding of equipment, can write. And what I would mean by that, if I were, giving an example. We have episode 666 of the bobbycast coming up, which is a weird one. And I think we're going to do artists or music that have been rumored to be satanic or dark. And a lot of it's not true. But like Robert Johnson, you know, made a deal with the devil. It's fiction, right? But that would be what we're going to do in this episode 666. Like Led Zeppelin supposedly sold their soul to the devil.

And again, a lot of this stuff is just urban legend. But that episode, that's what we're going to do. So I would say, hey, don't get a girl name at me. Anybody? Kimberly. We're going to do this episode on satanic things in music, true or not true. I need you to write me an outline of like eight things you'd think it'd be great for us to talk about. And if you're great at clips and then finding really good things to clip, like if you could do

all that and you're like, hey, I'd love to do this. I'd hire you right now. And I'm not firing anybody on my team. I have a great team. And people often ask too, what does it mean when you say your team or the Bobby Bone Show team? So there's a difference. There's also a slide overlap. So the Bobby Bone Show team is not paid by me. I run the show and the boss there, but even I have a boss. But that's all my show people. I don't pay them. I don't pay their insurance. The boss of the show, my name's on it. But still, even then, somebody could boss me if they wanted to, and at times they do. My personal crew are people that I have a business and we have studios that we built, people that I pay out of my pocket because I feel like their value is so much

that whatever I'm paying them, I'm getting that value back from them or even more so. And I hire them fully and completely. And so I have that team. Like Brandon runs the whole operation of all of our studios, all my creative. He's a heck of a light problem. But also Dylan does the same thing, and Dylan knows cameras. And so I probably have four people one way or the other are like on my team. And then I have like 12 on the Bobby Bone Show team because we have so many things to do as far as the radio show. I do night shows. There's a countdown.

There's a podcast. So that's the difference in that is I have a smaller team. My small team travels with me as well. So we're going to go to L.A. in a couple weeks, and I'm going to film in for Rich Eisen, do a couple shows there, which you'll be able to watch on Disney Plus, and you'll be able to hear it on ESPN radio.

So I'm going to do that, but I'm also going to go, and we're going to set up in an Airbnb and do some Netflix interviews there. So I'll take my crew with me. So we'll go over there, but that's not the I-Heart crew, the Vi-Boncho crew.

That's this crew. So, yeah, that's it. Two other things before we jump here that people have asked about. someone, and this gets brought up about every three months or so, because we work from my house a little bit, and they'll say, hey, why don't scuba Stephen Ray and lunchbox or it used to be Morgan, like come to your house as well whenever you do shows from your house? And the simple, true answer to that is, there just isn't room. One, not really parking at my house. Two, there's

four spots total that we can use. There's me and whomever the guest is. Like, we used to do the Bobbycast there, and it'd be the one guest. Amy is the most important person to me on the air, so Amy is that person. There's a camera person, a person that runs in and runs cameras. Mostly it's Eddie, it's been Brandon before. And when Brandon's doing it, Eddie's not there because we don't have room. And then there is the producer person who stands behind and pushes all the buttons, all the levers and turns the mics, and that's always Mike. So, man, if I had that room for like eight and parking spaces for eight, I would have everybody over the house. We'd probably work from the house more, actually. So that's why it is a very small space where we only have room for two seats. And even if we

crammed in a third seat, we wouldn't have the ample room to put cameras up to hit it from all angles. So there's that. I think that's it. Thank you all. This has been in the weeds. The most terribly uninteresting show that continues to do pretty well streaming. I hope you enjoyed this episode and maybe learn something that you didn't know before. Please share with your friends. I want you to stay weedy. I want you to stay keep one eye open. Don't believe everything you see on the internet. People are full of crap out there. And to

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