The Bobby Bones Show - MON PT 2: Bobby's Q+A On Rejection, Feeling Less Famous, And The Segment He’s Over

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

In this Q&A episode, Bobby answers listener questions from Instagram about the realities of his career and life in the spotlight. He opens up about how he deals with criticism, the TV jobs he didn’t land, and why he actually feels less famous now than he once did. Bobby also shares the TV show he’d never do again, the segment he hates to admit that he’s a little tired of doing, and the first moment in his life when he finally felt rich.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media.

Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, the Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfilled conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. This week on the Sports Slice podcast, it's all about the NFL draft. And we've got a special guest.

The director of the NFL's East West Shrine Bowl, Eric Galco, joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects. From hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make to the players flying under the the radar. This is the insight you won't hear anywhere else. If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode. Listen to the Sports Slice podcast on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

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be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd was accused of fathering twins. But the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax. You doctored this particular test twice, Ms. Ellen's, correct?

I doctored the test once. It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg Gillespie and Michael Ranchini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped. Laura, Scottsdale Police.

As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Ago Vodam. My next guest is. It's Will Ferrell. Woo. Woo.

My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah. It would not be.

Right. It wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to thanks, Dad. on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, we're going to do a Q&A. And so I did one of these on my Instagram and I said, hey, just ask your questions. The problem is, I get a lot of great questions, but then it just takes forever to type.

And I'm not going to do a bunch of videos. So I thought we would answer them here. So I've grabbed a few of these. All right. Number one, how do you deal with the scrutiny that comes with your jobs? I think that I've been able to grow. in my job with the scrutiny that comes with my job, meaning whenever I was starting out in Hot Springs, Arkansas,

there was just a slight bit of scrutiny, like maybe a couple calls and a little quest line. And so you start to call us up just a little. And then I go to Little Rock, and it's a little more, but not much. Then I go to Austin, and then I'm doing mornings, and then that starts to get pretty rough. Austin was weird and rough, though, because there was another morning show that were just awful.

awful awful people and like they started to like rattle the cage and so i've been fortunate enough to grow with it and now it's all the time but i think had i just been dunked into this and i feel bad for some people who go on like a television show and they've never done anything in media they haven't been known at all they go on a television show or podcast and all the sudden they're famous and they're getting crushed like they didn't have the luxury of growing with that I oddly remember an episode of Home Improvement where Wilson was talking about kids and having kids and Wilson was the guy behind the fence

you never saw his face until like the final episode and even when they would come out because sometimes they would show where the whole cast would come out and they'd be like and Tim Allen and he waved to the crowd and they would say Wilson and Wilson would come out but he would still hold that fence in front of his face so for those that don't know we didn't have the internet back in the 90s not to see

Wilson's face. Rest in peace, by the way. But he came out in the final episode and showed his face. And it's kind of weird. I'll be honest with you. But he said it in an episode once. And he was talking about having children and how hard it's going to be when they get older. And he said, you know, you get to grow as a parent as the kid grows as a kid.

So you're learning little things while the kid is learning little things. And you're learning hard little things while the kid is learning hard little things. then you're learning mid hard things while the kids learning mid. You have the ability to grow with that child being a parent. And I just kind of feel like that's a bit of what my job is. I have the luxury to have started at a very small place and have grown through the years to a level now, which is wild. So 96% of the time, it's just another day.

Every once in a while, I am human. I think I was talking to someone on a podcast about this recently. If I'm having a weird day, a bad day or I didn't get enough sleep type of day, I don't look at anything. Because I know regardless of what's said if it's bad, my conditions are already not good and it's going to make me even more not good. But for the most part, I feel like I'm pretty good with it because I've grown with it. I also have an understanding of people that are the scrutinizers on the internet. in that there's a reason that they do that on the internet, probably because they don't really have much else,

much else of a voice, right? I think the easiest voice to be heard is the voice that's loud and angry. And I think that's what the internet is. I have a rule to, I don't go to comments unless it's Tuesday. Tuesday, I'll dive in. I'll dive into Twitter comments.

Occasionally, I'll look at Instagram comments a little more than on just Tuesday if there's a reason for me to do it or if I'm going to reply to some stuff to help engagement, but Twitter doesn't matter. Twitter's assessable. I still love it for like news, but Twitter's assess pool. But I don't go to Facebook at all. Never look at Facebook.

Don't look at any message boards. Don't look at Reddit. I haven't been to those places in literal years because there's no benefit for me to go to those places. Also, the anger that's online, not just to me, but I look at someone like Logan Paul, who he's killing it. He's one of the best WW wrestlers. He's one of the biggest creators, period. Millions of dollars. Like, he's so popular, except if, unless you look.

If you look online, everybody hates him. But that's the thing. Logan Paul is so popular. But because people only use their voice, for the most part, for ugly things, you would just think Logan Paul is so hated. So I'm able to see that pendulum. I actually need it. It's not good for my mental health and I don't.

expose myself to it. But if people stop talking about me in a negative way, if I commit a crime or something, I deserve negative. But if people stop talking about me in a negative way, opinions on things that I'm doing, why I'm not good at something, people don't care on the other side either. And for as much as people, you can say love or enjoy the show or enjoy me or what they do, like it swings both ways. So as much as I'm loved is as much is I'm hated. And that has been the constant since the very beginning of all of this. And if it went away, if I saw there was nothing being said bad about me ever, I also have to understand there's nothing good being said about me because I'm not making a difference at all. Like I'm not resonating

at all. So if you do want to do things and be loved, you have to understand that people are going to hate you for the same reason that people are loving you. And also I've been lucky enough to be calloused by it. I think that's my answer to that. And then only go on Tuesday. That's my answer to that too. What would you say to someone moving to Nashville or getting into any creative field for the first time? This is a good one. I get this a lot. Mostly from new artists are already here. Some that are thinking of moving here or moving here.

So the first thing that you'll do when you go anywhere new and it doesn't have to be anything creative. It could be even, I was a new kid in school a lot. Being a new kid in school sucks. Because you never start right when school starts in the morning. they always open the door at like 1110 in the middle of third period and they go, this is your new student and everybody looks up and they look at the new student and then you go and sit an empty desk and everybody's kind of looking at you as they're still trying to pay attention to the teacher.

It sucks being a new student. But the first thing that you do as a new student is you find your crew. And usually the crew that you meet on your first day of school, second day of school, that's not really your crew. That's just people that are nice or people that don't have friends that, oh, or people, that doesn't end up being your crew, but the sooner you find and go through them, you find your real people.

Like I would say, the first thing you do when you get here or get anywhere or new job is like find your people. And then in the creative world, I would encourage people to understand and accept that there is something that is a healthy jealousy, not an unhealthy jealousy. There is a lot of unhealthy jealousy that manifests itself in ways that are really ugly,

especially in this town, especially within artists here. but I think a healthy jealousy, and I would give you a comparison, I have a very healthy jealousy to one of my really good friends. I would even say best like media friends, who is Charlemagne the God in New York. Like I message him all the time going, I cannot believe you're getting to do this.

I'm so jealous. And I'm literally jealous, but not in a way that's negative. If anything, I am jealous, but I'm more inspired by watching him do it. So I would say, find your crew and understand that the crew is going to have different levels of success. excesses at all different times. Like, you're going to pop while they're not. They're going to pop while you're not.

Like, maintain that. And then also understand that it's okay to be jealous if it's a healthy jealousy and that you're open about it. Because I have it, especially with Charlemagne. And he probably would say that he has it similarly with me at times too. So that would be what I would say. And then also just do it. The hardest part of anything is just doing it, even going to work out.

Like, I hate working out. The hardest part of it, to work out, it's not running or lifting. It's just freaking putting my shoes on and going and starting. So go, just go. Go, start. Just go. Figure it out. Because no one's going to have all the answers until they get there. And then they're still not going to have all the answers. But at least now you're in the middle of it and you're creating something. Number three, would you say you are more successful or less successful than five years ago? It's mixed. Here's a situation that I think I deal with a lot. I never get

Especially in the TV space I can do that first I don't ever get the big shows I get mentioned for But I don't want And I pass on any of the small shows So it's like this purgatory Like I remember whenever

Noammy was coming out This is four or five years ago And they were like Man you'd be perfect to host Noamie That may not be what it's called It was called Let's Make a deal And there's a version of it now Noammy

And Press your luck Thank you and man I thought I had that job and then they gave it to Elizabeth Banks and I was like oh dang she's actually famous so she kind of deserves that job there have been a couple of those big shows that I don't get

and then if it's a little show I don't really take it I don't really do any like one-offs anymore for TV meaning I don't really fly to California because I would go and do like a red carpet here I don't really do those anymore so I would say in that space probably I'm not doing it. doing as much, so probably less.

But I think that's because I've dedicated so much to building a lot of this, a lot of what we have now. The Bobbycast is now on Netflix, which is great. We've built studios. I've got a bunch of shows on my podcast network, the radio show. Like financially, I've never been better.

So I think that's probably part of the reason. I also think that I'm less, if the word's famous, I'm less famous than I used to be, but I think everybody's kind of less famous than they used to be because fame is not, it doesn't exist at the level that it used to.

Like you could have a TikTok channel on broccoli and be the leader and be the number one broccoli influencer. And someone would see you walk in on the street and be like, holy crap, that's Frankie the broccoli guy. And you are famous to them. So less famous, although I don't ever feel like I got fully famous. I've flirted with fame for about three years. I had a good run of about three years where most places I went,

people kind of, that doesn't happen as much. In Nashville it really happens medium to very little. Other places more so. But I think I'm probably, I don't really have a good answer there. It's just different now. But I'm still getting to make stuff. That's pretty cool. And I'm owning a lot more stuff of my own, which is pretty cool.

So I think there's a lot of freedom in that. There's another question. Would you go on dancing with the stars if they did a winner's episode? Is that what they're called? Because I know they've done those episodes where they bring back past champions. Maybe it's an all-stars. Maybe it was called like Dancing with Us or it was All-Stars. And they brought back people and maybe it wasn't even just winners,

but people who were really good. No, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't because there's really nothing for me to gain. I will always be the guy that won and people can't believe he won. And I've said this before. what's weird about that whole situation is, and it feels like yesterday and 20 years ago at the same time, what's weird about that is I wasn't even the bad dancer on my season.

Like I wasn't good, but I wasn't like the bad dancer because every season there's like a bad dancer that lasts a long time and they're like, kick them off, can't believe it. I wasn't that on my season, which is what was crazy. I was, I'm the bad winner, but I really wasn't the bad dancer. And in no way am I saying I'm a good dancer. but it was just weird to go from I really wasn't getting a whole lot of hate

during my season because I wasn't the worst one that kept existing it just happened really after I won the show because I was the bad winner but I don't think I would do a winner's episode because I think I'd be the first to go they'd sacrifice me somehow I'd be out of there I'd be like a side character in a horror movie

I'd go down and check the basement way early next thing you know, I'm out of there. And I'm a winner. I left the show. I'm a winner. I don't have anything to prove and dance. I would go back for, you know, if they were like, hey, would you guess judge? I was almost host of the show.

And I have an interview with Tom Bergeron coming up on the Bobbycast soon where we talk about that. But no, I would not go back and do a whole season. Even if they said, will you come back and do a dance with somebody like, you know, they do like the triple three way or I don't know what they call that that kind of sounds pervy uh i don't even know that i'd have to really consider even doing that because i think that i would hurt the person dancing unless they were of limited dance ability i don't know that i would go back either because i know my role there um how do you keep the show or podcast from being boring well the answer there is i don't always i think there are times

where the show, and I don't think it's purposefully, and I don't think I always know when it's happening, but usually it catches when the show can get stale because we're doing not the same things, but the same formula because it's working well, and we're told, hey, you're killing it in these cities, and it's like, well, maybe I'm not as fulfilled by it, but I'll give you an example.

Don't hold this against me. I could never do tell me something good again and be happy. I could kick Tell Me Something Good, that segment in the balls and just right off into the sunset. That segment tests so high. I don't hate the segment. I just get tired of doing it. Like I feel like there's something else. Maybe I want to talk about there.

But people enjoy that segment. So I'm going to keep doing that segment as long as people enjoy it. Kind of my job. That thing could die. And I'd be okay. Okay, we've been doing that for 20 plus years. Like, I actually own the trademark to it to tell me something good. I just made, before I said this here, I made sure last week, I own the trademark to anything that's tell me something good, audio as a segment, any of that, because we've been doing it for so long and I paid for the trademark.

But, and there are times for sure where things can get stale, especially doing it this long or some change has to happen. So how do I keep it from being boring? I don't always. I try to, but I don't always. And I do understand that if you just do something for a long time, it can get stale. There are podcasts or shows that I've listened to. And I'm just kind of bored by it now. And sometimes I go back and it's way better and changed.

And hopefully that happens with us that if people leave, they give us a break, they come back, and there's something fresh about it. I think there's also something to the fact that I've had the same crew. This is a positive for 20 years. That we could fall into that pretty easily. but also like there's some real consistency, familiarity,

there's some comfortability with all of us doing it together for so long. Listen, if it were a miserable place to work, people wouldn't be last in 20 years.

I promise you. I'm not always the easiest guy to work for. I have no patience. But if it wasn't generally a wonderful place to work and we weren't winning on a wonderful level,

there wouldn't be these wonderfully long careers of all of us working together for 20 plus years. So yeah, I don't have a good answer, except sometimes it does get stale. And I apologize for that. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show.

This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast, it's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be.

Listen to The Clifford show on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either.

We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care, so they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no.

I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Ago Wodam. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network.

It's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day. And I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means. But I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you.

Which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, You know, the cat, just hang in there.

Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This week on the Sports Slice podcast, it's all about the NFL draft. And we've got a special guest. The director of the NFL's East West Shrine Bowl, Eric Galco, joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects.

from hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make to the players flying under the radar. This is the insight you won't hear anywhere else. If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode. Listen to the Sports Slice Podcasts on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slica Life 12 and TikTok podcast network on TikTok. In 2023, former bachelor star Clayton Eckerd found himself at the center of a podcast, paternity scandal. The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story. This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth.

You doctored this particular test twice in so much. I doctored the test once. It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case. I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for. Sunlight's the greatest disinfected. They would uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg Lesbian, Michael Marantini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young.

This is Love Trap. Laura, Scottsdale Police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at Maricopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges. This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts. Do you ever hang out with artists after an interview?

Almost never. I was trying to think at times. If it's a friend and it's, hey, come and do the podcast and then we'll go get some dinner or something, and that's pre-planned out because there's a friendship involved, yes, but it's so rare. Brett Eldridge and I is one of my best friends. Maybe the last time he came over, we went to just eat after it because we hang out a couple times a week.

But it'd have to be something like that. I have made friends from doing the podcast, meaning my introduction to people were in this environment because this is a very intimate environment. Meaning we're not naked filling each other's holes, but we are sitting a few feet from each other, relying on each other, because I'm asking a question,

I'm trusting that they're going to give me a good answer. They're trusting that. that when they're done talking, I'm going to follow up or go somewhere, at least for good ones. Like, there's a lot of trust and intimacy involved in a one-on-one interview that's 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 minutes. And so there have been friends that have come from it. I would say one of them is Ben Rector. Ben Rector, artist, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's one of the songs.

Maybe you've heard it. he's a dear friend of mine now and he is from Oklahoma I went to school at the University of Arkansas and I knew his music but I never met him and I had friends that knew him and they were all like

Ben Rector's a great guy and I was like I don't care and so we did an interview and it reminded me that I had met him once on a Southwest flight in line for the bathroom and I was like Ben Rector

and he was like guy And I was like, that's right, I'm a guy. And so we had that memory and we sat and we talked and we did this interview. And again, it's a very intimate thing. And then after that, we just, I think, started DMing. Now our families know each other. Now my wife and his wife will just make plans to go spend time together. Like, it's like that.

So I have had instances where that has happened, where I've sat with people, become friends with them through this, or at least that's launched, the possibility of a friendship. But no, no, really don't hang out after interviews because I'm tired. I'd compare it to being on a seven or eight hour road trip where you're like, why am I tired? I've done nothing but sit here for seven or eight hours. But your brains had to work the whole time.

Even if you know it isn't working, your brains had to work the whole time because I'm going, okay, what are they answering? I want to listen to what they're saying. I want to follow up with what they're saying. I have a point that I want to get to. I have a full narrative that I think would be great. Nope, not doing that. Got to pivot.

All this is happening. and so after it's over I'm tired that being said I guess Luke Combs we did a bobbycast recently and we probably stayed around 15 minutes just talking like off cameras just catching up I like Luke but that's rare

and that's probably the most yeah but almost never all right two more three more four more what's the worst piece of advice you've ever gotten to be patient. Because a lot of times patients just turn simply into waiting.

It's not strategically waiting for something. It's just, I'll just wait. I have found it has been way more beneficial to me to be aggressive, even if it's unsuccessful, than to be patient. Because if you do something and it goes wrong, at least you know it was wrong.

If you do nothing and nothing happens, you don't know if it's right or wrong. And if you do something wrong, you can always make a judgment and change your pattern. If you're just waiting, you really can't do anything. You're not doing anything. And a lot of times, patience turns into paralysis, especially for me. So when people say, just be patient about this or that, I find that to be extremely negative advice, but also, like I said earlier, I'm not a patient person at all. I even talk fast. Like, everything about me is fast. I can't sleep at night because my brain's going 500 miles

an hour. That's why I take Xanax sometimes. Anyway, mostly to sleep. though. Let's see. What's something you bought when you first made money that you immediately regretted? Okay. I tell you something I bought, I wasn't when I first made money that I still regret buying the stupid Apple Vision Goggle.

What are those called, Mike? Apple Vision Pro? Don't buy, I spent $4,000 in those things. I used them three times. It has a cord and a battery. It's cool when you have it on, but like your neck hurts.

It's heavy and you've got to walk around with a battery pack. If they made that a lot better, I think that would be cool. What did I buy early on that I regret? Oh, I was in a boat club. Terrible. I was smart enough not to buy a boat, but I got in a boat club. And as a terrible decision, because one, I didn't use it enough anyway. I thought I would.

I got a boat club. I think part of it was because I didn't have any friends. You don't want to go out on a boat by yourself. And you need probably three people to actually pull like a weightboard. And so, and when a friend bails on you, too, the morning of, oh, I can't go. You can't do anything on the boat. And I hate the water, too. There's a lot of reasons this didn't work out for me.

But then you would get there and if you didn't book it enough time, you didn't get the good boat. And if you didn't get the good boat, sometimes you got stuck with a pontoon. That's a real waste of money. Do not recommend zero out of ten. So that was early in Applevision Pro. Those were the two things. and then let's do one more. Do you feel like with success it makes you less relatable?

No, I've never been relatable. Now I've had life experiences that people can relate to. I've always been insane. So I don't feel like what I say day to day is relatable. I feel like I'm extremely anxious about everything. I see the world through insane lens. I sometimes believe in the best and the worst and people in the exact same time.

I don't trust the government. There's just a lot of stuff here. I don't think that I'm that relatable. I think I am extremely compelling at times. I think I have to turn the volume up sometimes on my feelings and emotions because that's just a performance part of this job. I think a lot of my life story is relatable,

but I do not think I have ever been relatable anywhere that I've been. I've always been insane. And I think that's been what has interested people and I think the relatability has been where I come from, what I come from, and where I come from. And what that has left inside of me. But I in no way think I'm relatable.

I've never thought I was relatable. I remember being in Austin. And Austin is a place where, especially when I first started there, and I love Austin, it's my favorite city. If I'm ranking them, man, I can't go home cities first, though. Because I'm probably going to put Fayville at one,

but since I'm from Arkansas, So I don't feel like that's fair. So if I remove everywhere from Arkansas, because Fayetteville will be number one, Austin's got to be number one. It's my number one city. Even more than Nashville. Shout out Nashville, but Austin, like, I grew up,

all my adult growing was in Austin, and it didn't get cold. So shout out to places that don't get cold. I love Austin. And when I got, and I started doing mornings, because I didn't do mornings, I did nights there. And they fired the morning show, and they were like, okay, we don't know what we're going to do.

I got a job offer. to go to Seattle to do a bigger night show. And so I was like, I'm out. Station sucks. Night show really didn't matter. And they matter now, but they don't really impact ratings to the level that a morning show and then a little bit of an afternoon show does. And so I was like, I'm out.

Austin, you've been cool. I was there about a year. And they were like, what can we do to get you to stay? And I said, give me mornings. I was 22. And they were like, ha, ha, ha. And my version of it now, they spit in my face. They didn't.

but they spit in my face and they pooped in my hair and told me to get out of the room. And so I left and in my version I cried in the corner. But no, I just went home and I didn't expect them to give me the morning job. I was 22 years old because it was a multimillion dollar station. I knew they were going to flip the format anyway. And so I was going to take the job in Seattle. And so I told the people in Seattle, hey, I think I'm going to take this job. I didn't commit to it yet, but give me a week.

or so. They were like, cool, we'd love to have you. And so I went back to work in on Monday or maybe even Tuesday. And they were like, hey, we want you to do mornings here. And I was like, what? And they said, we'll pay $50,000 a year. And I was like, I'm rich. I can't wait to buy an Apple Pro Plus. And this is 15 years before it came out. And I was like, I'm so rich now. I'm going to buy an Apple Vision plus and I'm going to waste my money on it and get in a boat club on the same day. That's how rich it felt whenever I got paid $50,000 a year. So it was unbelievable too much. me to make that kind of money. So I start and I'm by myself and I don't have anybody with me.

It's just me in a room. But all the advice that I would get from people was, hey man, this is Austin. We like only eat local. If we're going to like have a salad, we pull over on the side of the road, eat it from the field. Like we get out and we chew the ground. That's how local, we only talk about local Austin music. Austin is weird and you better be. And every woman you know better have armpit hair.

It was that. It was that every. And that's what I was told. And I was like, this is not true. They're like, if you want to be relatable to Austin, this is what you do. And I just didn't think that was accurate. So I did the opposite of that because it's how I lived. And I was like, but I'm in Chili's like three times a week.

I really made a point to be as non-relatable as possible. But it's what ended up separating me from everybody else. And we had a span. We were like, not just number one, but like tripled up other shows for like three years. It is wild. I never once pulled over and ate the grass from the side of the road as I was told to. And the girls I knew, shave their armpits. So I was not being what I thought was relatable then purposefully, but I've never just been so relatable that you hear me say stuff and go,

I relate to what that guy says. Now, you may relate to where I come from or why I say certain things. And I hope that's the case. And I think that's the case. And at times I know that's the case. But I don't think that my success or lack of success has ever made me more or less relatable. I've also gotten more comfortable with showing now that I have been successful. And that's been a little burdened.

for a long time, I was like, I can't show anything because I don't want people to know that that I have had any success or I'm making any real money. And my wife, this is like in the last five years, she was like, you don't think they know you're rich now? Like, are you stupid? And I was like, yeah, but she's like, you're not flaunting it. If you're living it, you're not flaunting it. And there's a difference.

Like, people can tell a different. People are smart when they see what you do, who you are. And actually, they're probably judging you because they know you're not. saying certain things on purpose. I thought that's pretty good. So I don't think that I'm any more or less relatable than I ever have been. I do think I'm odd. And maybe that is what relatability is. Like Socrates said, he was the smartest man in the world because he knew he knew nothing. That has nothing to do with what I just said. But I like to end on that. Thank you for all the questions. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. I got to all of them but one. And

the other one was which artist you hate the most. I'll answer that one next time. So be listening next time when I answer that one and also how big is your wiener. Those are the two that I'm going to answer on the next bobby cat. That's not a bobbycass. Buy Bone Show part two.

Whatever this is. I have no idea what I'm on. I'm just answering questions and we'll see you guys next time. Bye, everybody. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying.

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