The Bobby Bones Show - Tues Part 2: Bobby's Living Out His Boyhood Dreams + Phrases To Eliminate

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

Find out how Bobby will be living out his "boyhood dreams" this week! Plus, we share a list of passive aggressive phrases you should eliminate from your vocabulary and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. only a part of what I was yesterday. I have bruises and cuts all over my shins. I'm way less of a man. Thank God my wife didn't see me fall. She had had the total ick and she had never wanted to be with me again. How'd you fall?

It was dark. And I have this like mini trampoline that I like warm up on. A rebounder. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Yeah. My ankles, because I have tendin eyes on my feet and ankles. And it was in the walkway completely dark. I'm walking.

It's black. The whole thing's black. Right at the mid part of the shin. Boom, hit it. It was dark and it was black. I didn't look down. It's the house. Hit it.

And I fall on it like on my shoulder and then wipe out and hit the ground. And I go, oh! I made like a weird. It wasn't even like a manly grunt. It wasn't even like a, uh, it's like a hybrid. Like I'm hurting. I'm embarrassed, but don't save me because I'm embarrassed. And I laid on the ground and the dogs came overshed to lick at my face.

And I got up. I hobble back to me. bed. I didn't say anything until this morning. And I was like, I hurt myself last night. She was like, Hal, I was looking at my shins. She was still asleep. And she goes, oh, that's not good. And I was like, yeah. And I left the house. I came in this morning. And I'm all beat up. But did you tell her? I tripped over the mini trampoline.

Or you just said you hurt yourself? No, because she'll nods on my phone. Probably. Oh, no. I was looking at my phone if you're at one. Oh, boy. But it's dark. I didn't see it. I walk on my phone. I look at my phone all the time. I'm walking to the house. Wipe out hard. And when you hit something, when you wipe out and you, you're you don't know what's there. And again, I fell twice.

Boom, shoulder on trampoline. Boom, back on the ground. And it's hard to bruise a shin. That's a bone. But anyway, I'm in today. Do when you hit your shin, that hurts so bad? Oh, it's the worst. I thought through it.

Oh, you fought through it. I'm still fighting right now. This is the middle of the movie. Like, do I fight through the pain and finish this show? Yeah. I'm inspired. Yeah. Let's go.

Everybody. Wow. It hurt real bad. And I haven't fallen that hard in a non-athletic. place in a long time. So I didn't tell you this when I had that dumpster like a while back and I was cleaning out things it's kind of high up and I had to like throw things over

to see if it would land. I later learned there's a door and you can open it and then just put stuff in it. But at first I was throwing it and I was throwing this big piece of wood and I thought it made it over and it didn't and it came back and hit me in the face. Oh.

But I came in to work. So it didn't go all the way, hung and then came back. It boomeranged on you. Yeah, it bounced back and came back so fast. It just whacked me in the face. But I came in and I never told you all and I worked. Dang.

You fought through it. That's the prequel to mine. Wow. After my movie ends, it's like, oh, but like a month ago. Yeah. Listen to this. I want to go to Don in Massachusetts. Hey, Dawn.

So it's dark in your house. What happens to you? So I got up at like 4.30 in the morning to go the bathroom and I tripped over my dog. and I fell into my wika hamper, and I broke two ribs. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. She broke two what?

Ribs. Oh. Because that's just hitting in an awkward, like hitting the ground wrong or hitting the hamper wrong. Oh. That sucks. Ribs suck because you can't do anything about it.

I've broken a couple ribs. No, I've only cracked a couple ribs, not fully broken. And it heard the debris. Oh, gosh. And you can't do anything about it. Yeah, you just let it heal. Yeah.

And Don, how are you now? How long ago is this? It was like a year and a half ago And I'm better now So I'm miserable right Miserable right Miserable for like months I couldn't like laugh

I couldn't like everything hurt moving hurt Like sitting at my desk hurt Everything hurt And it's not the dog's fault But you want to blame something So you're like Sparky come on Why are you in the spot You're always in when it's dark

Yeah that stinks I'm sorry to hear that Dom but I'm glad you're better Thanks for calling Yeah thank you I see later Joanna is on right now Hey Joanna. Hey.

Tell me your story. Well, I was walking to the bedroom on New Year's Eve, and I tripped on a shoe, twisted my ankle. I fell, I broke it, and when I went to the orthopedic surgeon the next day, I had broke my foot, ankle, and legs. Because you stepped awkwardly on a shoe that you didn't see there. Yes. Just a shoe. But now I have a plate, six screws, and two bolts in my ankle. Oh, my.

I'm looking at and die after hearing this. Yeah. I don't know. I just feel like some of this, maybe stuff was already a little bit off, you know, and then something just finally did it in because that tripping over a shoe. What are you saying about her? Nothing about her. I think it's more of, I don't know, pain.

Like, sometimes you step off a curb and you were just walking like normal, and you buckle and fall and hurt yourself, and you're like, why in the world did that happen? I can subscribe to that in part. I also subscribe to the theory of I will drop my phone 30 times from high places, nothing. But if you drop it exactly at the right angle from exactly, it's like the perp. Right. But did those, the 30 previous drops?

No, because I don't really drop it 30 times. Okay. I'm just saying previous drops maybe like loosen something up a little bit. I think it can be the angle that you hit. I think, hey, I think both can be true. I do. You know, learning therapy. Two things can be true at the same time.

Yeah. Well, I mean, it's like four things. I'm so black or white. It's like I've got to commit. I'm going only A, not that A has to be right, but I've committed only A until it proves to me A isn't right. And then I will go to B. And so, especially therapy that my wife and I go to, we had a breakthrough yesterday. It was crazy. I almost started crying couples therapy. I've never done that.

And then I told my wife after I was like, I almost started crying. And she was like, what? wow good for you she goes well don't we don't feel i didn't see it said you're okay because i don't you know i don't have a masculinity problem i have a um vulnerability problem how long have you all been going together how long have we going together yeah to therapy to couples therapy uh we started immediate i mean okay well yeah well you that's it's a if that's a safe space you should let it out there no i'm good okay yeah i know i i don't i have i i but i i i i'm Let me get to my point because I almost cracked.

And it's a vulnerability thing. And therapy has shown me that I can be disappointed. And so can she. We can be disappointed, for example, that we did not get to go on our vacation because she got sick. Nobody's fault. But we can also, we really enjoy the week that we spent at home. You can have too emotion at the same time. And that might be elementary for some people.

But for me, I'm like, hmm, not familiar. I usually am only either a disappointed or. B, you know what? We didn't get to go, but this is pretty good. But I am allowing myself to have multiple emotions. We yesterday were talking about, this is couple's therapy. And we've gone since even, I guess right when we got married. And it was just like, I think it was like, what do I look for in like my partner, my wife?

And I was like, I don't know. I just like her being there. And it was like, I've never had anybody consistently there. So that to me is like the highest level of what I look for, just somebody existing and constant. Because that's never happened to me in my life before. On a personal level. Oh, any level. I mean, really any level.

As far as like somebody that I just knew was going to be there regardless of what happened. And so, yeah, family, you know, never had anybody like that that I even dated. And then I'm like, man, I didn't even think about this. And I went and I felt myself choked up. And I was like, yeah, that's it. Take a drink of water, moving on. That's a way to hold it in. Thank you.

Good job, man. Did she have to answer what she looks for in you? But I guess that's her personal thing. I know. I guess, yeah. Stug. Yeah. I was curious what you say.

Is that really true? Oh, God. I carry a purse, dude. What do you know? Great point. You know, you only so studly if you carry a purse every day. Yeah, but you can just hit the ground in an odd way. And then all of a sudden. and you can have a little break through therapy and all the sudden.

That's it. Let me do Roberta in North Carolina real quick. Roberta, you're on the air. Morning studio. Morning. We have an old-fashioned country quilt rack, and it has always been in our bedroom, but we switched to a king-sized bed because we have grandchildren. Anyways, so I moved a quilt rack to the end of the bed where it never was.

I got up at the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and my husband is 6-4, and he had stretched out that night and kicked over the throat-up. And all he heard was, oh, and then he goes, what's wrong? I said, I don't know. So I went in, went to the bathroom, got up the next morning, and my shins were bruised where I had fallen on the wooden foot rack. Yeah, that's on him, though. Yes, it's all his fault. It always is.

If you wouldn't have been 6'4, that would never happen. Or it kind of is the grandchildren's fault? The grandchildren? Yeah, they got a kingside bed so the kids can be in there and they had to move the quilt thing. Oh, great. There's a lot of people to blame here. That's why I'm everybody but ourselves. That's what I'm doing.

All right. Thank you, Roberta. I hope you have a great day. My daughter's fault. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yes. All right.

Bye-bye. All right. Thank you. Let's go with the news. Bobby's big. Stories. As of November last year, the average lifespan for men in the United States was just over 73 years. Six years less than women.

Women are about 79. So men, 73, women, women, seven. And they say every, and this is about drinking and life expectancy if you drink. And your lifestyle obviously plays a huge role in determining whether you'll hit that 73. Also genetics, huge role. Like we play with the hand we're dealt, but we just try to make a better hand out of the hand we're dealt. Yeah, because sometimes people live to 101 and the news is like, tell us what you've done. And they're beer and bacon.

Smoking cigarettes and smoking pork rinds. Yeah. I agree. according to their research, having just two alcoholic drinks per week could erase between five to six days off your life. Five to six days? Every time you have two drinks a week. Oh, yeah, yeah. Soon, yeah.

I'm dying tomorrow. Yeah, it's coming, guys. A log sticking. So, and that, I mean, is that a good tradeoff? Like, a couple party days to lose six days of your life at the end, or maybe your quality of life isn't so great. Oh, man, I don't know. You got me this rethinking this drinking thing.

Well, good for you. You've kind of peaked. And so when you do it, you still go hard, but you don't do it as much. Right. But, man, that means I'm knocking six days off of... Gosh. Now, again, this isn't for everybody because genetics play a big role. For some people, it could be nine days, ten days.

Oh, don't say that. Well, genetics, again, a lot of people are like, just live the healthiest life and you'll live forever. Not true. Some people are born genetically extremely skinny and they can't put on weight. Or they're born extremely overweight and it's 10 times more difficult. to lose weight. And I think sometimes that's lost on the society we live in. We just look at people and judge them without going, man, a lot of stuff that we're dealt,

we can't really get rid of that. We can try to manipulate it a bit. But it's hard that if everybody in your, I have a bunch of cancer in my family. If everybody, my family has cancer, odds are at some point I'm going to have to fight something odds are in that area. Yeah, I have to change that narrative of my brain all the time. Like I tell myself that story too because it is true with both my parents and my grandparents. And I'm like, ugh, I freak out about cancer.

But then I'm like, no, I'm not going to freak out about it because I'm not going to get it. I'm not going to get cancer. I like that. Yeah, I don't. I like that you think that. I am, my body is going to. And maybe you were teetering on the borderline anyway, but you're leading such a healthy lifestyle that whatever the factors that got to your family will not get to you. Potentially, yeah.

No, you can't be potential now, but then you can be like, I'm not getting cancer. I know, I know. I, I, it's like a seesaw. It's like addiction. Addiction with me, right? Yeah. I know. My mom died of it.

My uncle died of it. Other family members died of it. Like, I know it's in me. I feel that I get addicted to things big time. Like your phone? I don't think I'm addicted to my phone. I love it. I love, there's a difference in loving something to be addicted to it.

I'm addicted right now. That's what they say. to sports cards, looking them up, buying them, trading them. Like, I'm addicted, I can feel the addiction there. But I'm not addicted to my phone. I use my phone to look up sports cards. Exactly. No, it's a, it's a, I've given up my phone for multiple days.

I'm fine. But if I have the access to it, it's like work on vacation, because I didn't have access to you guys, I didn't have access to, I was just at home. I didn't care. I was good. I didn't really feel the need to just like work, work, work. If you gave me one little pass. pathway to get some stuff done. I would have, but I didn't have it. So I was fine. It's like my phone.

You take it away? I'll miss it, but I'm okay. But your memorabilia right now, you take that away? Will you be okay? Right now, no, I'm deep. I'm deep. Hawk to a girl back in the news. She got paid $30,000 for an appearance at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. She was also honored for hitting one million Instagram followers. What did she do at her appearance? Like just... You don't want to know. No. I was like, what in the world is... No, no, not that. Not that. Not that. What do? For those that, not just meet people? probably get up there and go, Hawk, Tua, spit on that thing.

For those that don't know, we talked about it on the podcast yesterday. If you subscribe to the podcast, you'll hear the radio show, but we do a bunch more other than just the radio show. We can talk about things on the podcast that we can't really get into here because of, like, federal rules, and I've already been finned a million bucks, so I don't want to walk down that road again. But she said, Hawk Tua, like Hawker, Hock Tua, spit on that thing, talking about an act, a sexual act.

And it was just a joke, but she went wildly viral. And now she's got a million followers. She's famous. She got an agent. Got paid $30,000 for an appearance. Life is good. It'd be tough to be her aunt and uncle and grandma and grandpa. Yeah.

I know. I've watched the videos. Like, I'm rooting for her because she doesn't not deserve it. She did something. Capitalize on it. She has a brief period to capitalize on as much as possible. I'm hoping she finds something that she's good at and can do for a long time while she has this little bit of shine for a limited time.

My sister was at Zach Bryan when she came out on stage there, but she didn't know who she was. And for a minute, she thought, I think someone from the crowd has gotten on stage and like security needs to come because she was up there singing and said some of the words she didn't really know, like she didn't think she belonged there. But then later she found out like, oh, she was invited and was supposed to be there. And then we Googled it later when she got home and I found out that's when I learned all about her.

but for a minute, my sister thought, security needs to get this girl. Yeah. She was like, that was her unveiling too. Like she'd been in hiding. Yeah. Or she just hadn't been out. And we'd heard all these rumors.

I watched another video from her this morning because she's in my algorithm now where she's like, I was not a teacher. She was doing true or falsees. And I don't know what the it is about her yet, but I hope she finds it and is able to really capitalize off of it. Because it was kind of thrust onto her. She was just on Broadway here in Nashville. That's where everybody goes.

It's the tourist. She's from Tennessee, and she was just like, Hawk to us, spit on that thing. That clip, I always felt bad for the guy who was doing the interviews. He's got no shine. I know. He was the one that got it. Well, he didn't say it.

What about his video, though? Did he get paid for that, probably? Maybe if it's, but everybody stole it. Oh, man. That's his content. I'm rooting for. And the only advice that I would give her is you're only going to be desirable for people to want to hire you for it.

two or three months, but what you can do is create new desire people to hire you by finding what you're good at and spending a lot of time investing in that. When you could just be flying around doing appearances, making some money, do that. But find what you're good at and investing in that right now. Because this is going to go away. And it was the best person ever saw it was Elizabeth Hasselbeck. And this is forever ago. She went on Survivor, like season two or whatever.

And she was like the darling. And she immediately turned that into a spot on the view. And the view wasn't as big then Or maybe it just hadn't been around as long But I remember going That's the smartest thing I've ever seen Because she could have easily just been Elizabeth from the survivor

done some survivor stuff, some appearances But she immediately went to work Doing what she was good at Turns to her whole career Because people could always be like That's the girl from Survivor No, we don't think of her as that We think of her as Elizabeth Hasselbag

The commentator So I hope she does that That'd be really cool So what's her real name? Talk to a girl? No. Haley Wells. Haley Wells.

Welch, Welch. Welch. I believe it's Welch. Okay. Cool. Morgan, do you know her? Oh, yeah. She's all...

No, do you know her? Oh, no, no. I mean, I know her from the internet. You guys don't hang out? It's weird, though, to watch... It's weird, though, to watch, like, the American Idol. I mentioned this on the podcast style pieces they're doing on her. Meaning not other sources.

Like, their social media teams, like, putting out, this is her, her hometown. It's, like, I kind of root for her to win the voice now. But she's not on it. But she's not even on the voice. like I'm emotional. Turn your chair around. Yeah. So Haley Walsh, I'm rooting for you.

I don't know you. Taking an unfortunate thing that you said that people loved and I hope you turn it into gold. And make a little money and have fun while you're at it, but definitely go to work. All right, cool. Man, I have so much more, but I want to play this song. Let me do one more news story. A shirtless man was caught on camera as he ran from police on the tarmac of Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday. I would love to see a police chase that they're chasing a naked man.

He wasn't fully naked, but how funny would that be if a naked guy, ah, it comes running by and police are chasing him? Because you know he doesn't have a gun. Yeah, he's naked. He's naked. That would be the ultimate. So the bizarre ordeal happened around 6 a.m. He's just running, and he's on the tarmac running by airplanes.

Oh my gosh. In shorts. It's like he's going for a jog. And cops are chasing him. They finally tackle him like when someone runs on a football field. And the security nails him. They finally got him like that. CBS News with that story.

That's the news. Bobby's big. Stories. A guy in town won a million bucks, the mega millions. And lunchbox has been and bought lottery tickets at this gas station. Not recently, but has bought tickets. And so he was like, oh, I always won. So you went yesterday and talked to the people there?

Yeah, it was all the buzz, man. Everybody was talking about it. I mean, I got out of my car and customers in the parking lot were talking about it. Are you being serious? Dead serious. Here we go. Hello, how are you? You had heard.

Did you sell a million dollar ticket? We think so. We think it's you or her? Yeah, that's always not big, yeah. Why do you think that? Because we worked enough. Oh, it was sold a night. Yeah.

Oh, that is so cool. How does it feel amazing that you know you made someone a millionaire? Yeah. But you wish it was you. Yeah, absolutely for making years. And. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, hey, here you bless me. I bless you because I come here all the time. I'm always asking people we're lucky. Like, oh, give me some luck. nothing's happened so far. So next time I'm coming back to you. You're going to give me the lucky million, right?

Life a high. All right. You too. What did you say? You're going to give me that lucky million. Oh, it's not like that blanking million. That's what it sounded like. Yeah, wow.

Oh, no. Her or her coworker. Why'd you not buy one from her right then? Didn't think about that. You're like, we got the hot hand. She got the hot hand, man. What were you buying? I just bought milk so I could talk to them.

You got to buy a ticket from the person that sold the ticket. it. That's a hot hand. I can't be honest, I don't even think about it. Really? I'm such an idiot. Like, I was so caught up in the hysteria going on around that gas station. I didn't hear much hysteria on like an air conditioner that was really loud. Refrigerator. There was people out front talking. I mean, everybody was just buzzing. Everybody was smiling

ear to ear and they were just hoping. That someone was coming back to give them a tip. That's why they were hoping. If you win at a certain gas station, you don't have to go back to the gas station, right? No. Like you can never go back. Never go back. I was reading a story. And it's a dumbest story. but I was so interested in it on hot dog etiquette.

I like hot dogs a lot. I don't eat a lot of them, but I like hot dogs a lot. But then I read this whole story about hot dog etiquette. And I'm not the most etiquette hot dog eater, apparently. Don't use a cloth napkin

to wipe your mouth when eating a hot dog. Only paper. Now, I don't use cloth napkins. Hardly ever, period. But I never thought about not using a cloth napkin. Like if there's one, I don't go, etiquette says. I shouldn't use the cloth.

Is that because ketchup or mustard? Like, what is that? It just doesn't use a cloth napkin. I don't know. I guess it's not keeping it real if you're using cloth. Eat hot dogs on buns with your hands. If there isn't a bun, you can use a fork, but don't eat a hot dog in a bun with a fork. Got it.

I wouldn't do that either. You know what? If I see somebody eating a hot dog with a fork and a bun, they should probably go jail. What about a pizza? They're probably up to other stuff too. You jail. Jail. Yeah. Weirdo jail.

Hamburger? Not for years. With a bun? You jail. Not for years, but enough to investigate you. Because you're up to no good in other parts of your life. Use paper plates to serve hot dogs. Never use dinner plates or glass plates.

Don't take more than five bites to finish a hot dog. Wait a minute. Hold on. Let me think of this. One. Two. I'm a seven biter. Seven? At least. What? Do you have an extra long hot dog?

Oh, boy. Yeah, I think you should be like a four bites. Really? Yeah, they're not. Hot dogs aren't that big, dude? Yeah, they're not. Are you taking little kin bites? If it's me, I'm grabbing a huge winner.

Right. seven bites yeah if you get a foot long now it's different it does say foot long weiner seven bites are acceptable I'm more of a seven bite guy I like to chew it all the way down get it all the way down and after eating a hot dog there's a good chance here a tad bit messy so you should go to the bathroom and clean yourself up after every hot dog I yeah who wrote this and I thought this was the dumbest story but I was so intrigued at the kind of person that would think and write or come up with hot dog etiquette and the jokes they probably made like we just made while doing this story. Robert Earl Keene is on my

Bobbycast today. And so Robert Earl Keen, Texas music, legend, Texas country legend. And so, play a little bit Ray of the road goes on forever. I feel like Lunchbox would sing that song all the time. Yep. That song reminds me of you and us living in Texas.

And thinking about him, he's been around for a long time. Super nice guy. I loved him. Great stories. But what intrigued me the most, he basically has a photographic memory because he used to write poetry

all the time. His mom would make him recite poetry when he's a kid. But here, listen to this. Numbers do just flash up in my head. And like if someone, you know, somebody, I know all the president's birthdays. I know, I know tons and tons of people's birthdays.

I know them in an order. So I jumped on it. It was like, all right, let's go. William McKinley. It's the 29th of January. I just, you know, I knew I knew numbers. And I'm not like academic about, presidents but I do like the presidents and I thought well you know I could just memorize all these guys

from George Washington all the all the way through Biden and and I you know I bet I could do it and it didn't take me very long at all so I just I just memorized them I just don't taft nailed it that's crazy Roosevelt now I just nailed it that is so random how he could remember all of that the bobby cast it's a podcast I do from my house artists writers creatives come over we spend an hour talking to each other Robert Earl Keene is the episode that is up now. I hope you check it out. Go search for the Bobbycast wherever you listen to podcasts. This is kind of a fun couple weeks for me.

It's always weird coming back from vacation. We had a little time off because you have so much to do. And then we're going after we finish the show Thursday, we're going to fly to Arizona. And we're going to somehow Thursday evening, if you live in Tucson, we're going to be there. The sports guys, me, Eddie, we're going to go do too much access. at the University of Arizona football with their head coach, a couple of their players,

and then we're going to do a podcast there in Tucson somewhere. I don't know where. We're going to find a place to do a podcast. Like a podcast where people can come and watch? Yeah, why not? We'll just say where we are.

We went to the Cardinals to work with them. We just went out outside the stadium, did a podcast, a bunch of, we said, we're here, listeners just came by. It's awesome. Just like in a parking lot? Yeah, that's basically what we did.

Yeah, pretty much. So we're going to do it in Tucson Thursday. We have no plan on as to where, but if you're in Tucson, you listen to the show, we're going to be there. So we do that Thursday. We'll do the show from Arizona Friday.

Then I go playing the Major League Baseball softball game, the All-Star game at Ranger Stadium, which is really cool on Saturday. Then we're back here to the show Monday. Then we fly to Portland. And then we go to the University of Oregon and work out with the Oregon football team. The Ducks.

So in Portland we're going to do something as well, probably Tuesday night. So on sudden, Tucson, no, in Portland. No, we're coming. We don't know where. It's not planned. So it's not like an official thing where they need to get anything. Not that I know about.

Not that I know about. We just want to meet everybody we can and we're going to go do the podcast. That's cool. And then we go to Steve Young's house on Wednesday morning. Nobody can show up there though. No. For what? Like breakfast?

Interviews. Oh. Breakfast would be nice. I know. We tell him. I messaged him. We did a segment where it was like, these are the five people I've met that I geeked out. And I put Steve Young, Super Bowl champion quarterback, Hall of Famer.

And he texted me. I don't know how he got one number. But he got my number. He was like, what up? I'm listening. And I'm like, that's crazy. And we've organized it. He's like, just come to the house.

I was like, give me your assistant and I'll set it up. And he was like, bro, it's just me. And I was like, that's so cool. That's awesome. It's awesome. It's like living out boyhood dreams as a man. Yeah, because you're going to go. Older man.

You're going to go from baseball to football. You know? Yeah. And like Steve Young, I'm going to have to play it cool and be like, what's that, Steve? But really inside, I'm like, oh my God. But don't you think of the baseball, thing you're going to see like different college athletes

or kids so that's cool Dan Lanning is their head coach that'll be cool but I wasn't a kid and admired Dan Lanning and now I'm like that's cool he's a great coach but Steve Young when I was a child I was like that dude's awesome left-handed quarterback I was left-handed number eight 49ers

it's cool I'm trying to think as an adult now like what I would get pumped about that somebody that was a kid when you were a kid you thought was cool George Strait yeah I guess just like it's like a whole thing like y'all have a lot of different places that you go and things you geek out about mostly sports honestly i get i get it and i'm like what could i go do that would like be so amazing

like y'all are living out all your childhood fantasies most of them you know is that is that what we're we have three NFL teams that invited us up we're going in a couple weeks too right we're going to make the team that's cool you're not going to make the team you never know i've been training i've been training uh all right so if you're in tucson or portland we're going to be there in next couple weeks all right thank you where are you are you A Robert Earl Keene fan? Still am. It's nostalgic for me for sure because in high school we would see him a lot. And that's how I knew who it was.

And I was talking to him about that is that I had to kind of be introduced to who he was when I moved to Austin. I didn't know who he was before Austin because I just wasn't Texas music scene at all. Yeah. Texas country or Red Dirt or. But he is like the guy. There's like the Mount Rushmore and I'm not the person to be making a Mount Rushmore of Texas music. and you can do this better than I can. But from my limited knowledge, it would be,

especially for my time there, Robert Eralkin, and I'm not putting up any of the national folks, like Willie. Yeah, because Willie could be both, but he's so, he's worldwide. And Robert Earl Keene is too, and we talk about it in the interview that we do, but like really massive in Texas, I'm going to go Robert Earl Keene, Pat Green, Corey Morrow, and probably like Cody Cross, like. I'll go older. I have to go Jerry Jeff Walker

because a lot of those guys looked up to him. I mean, even Pat Green, and probably I'm biased. I went to high school with Jerry Jeff's son Django. No, I think you're right though. Yeah, but I mean, that's who, like, that's where we would see Pat Green. Like, he'd be over at Django's house,

like, hanging out with Jerry Jeff. Like, they just looked up to him. But he's not from Texas. He's from New York and traveled down and then just became a part of Texas country. Yeah. And I think. Waylon, Willie and the Boy and the Boyle.

Even like Cody's from Oklahoma, I think. Oh, okay. But it's just that. So Robert Earl King came to the house and he has a photographic memory. It's crazy. You should listen to the whole interview on the Bobbycast. But we talked about poetry. Like, that's how he started writing songs.

And he still writes a bunch of poetry. And so this is a clip from the latest episode of the Bobbycast with Robert Earl Kean. If you like this clip, go listen to the full episode. It's up today. Is most of your songwriting taking your poetry and turning it into song? No. or not, you're just writing songs straight ahead. No, I'm right.

No, the thing about poetry and the reason that I turn to is because I just, I have to have that outlet. I have to have that creative outlet. So I wrote the poems, but I found out there's this great freedom in writing a poem instead of like trying to attach the music to it. And so it gives me, it liberates me even more so because I can just talk about anything. I mean, like, a good example was I wrote this poem about I was out by this lake and people kept telling me about this giant alligator gar that wasn't supposed to be in this lake, but somebody had slipped it in there at the nighttime, and that like it was eating up all the little fish,

and you had to be really careful like it was the boogeyman. And so I just turned this thing into this big thing about this lake and this alligator gar at the bottom lake, and then basically you get down there and it's the devil. So just like, you know, you can't cram that all into a song, really. I mean, you could. I guess Charlie Daniels could maybe, but. That's true.

Do your poems have to rhyme? No. Do most of them rhyme? Most of them do, probably, yeah. Yeah, I'd like those. I'm simple. Yeah. I like my poems to rhyme.

Well, I think it makes it easier, went back to memorization. I think it makes it easier for another person outside or memorize them or it really get the whole point. Because when you do free form, you know, a lot of times

it turns into a laundry list and you don't want to really do that. You ever go to rhymezone.com when you can't find that rhyme? Oh, yeah, I've done that, yeah, sure. I go to rhymezone.com and be like cat. And then it's got like 500 dat, Matt, Matt, Sad.

And then I'm like, what can I fit it? Because if I'm writing like a comedy song, and I'm like, well, I need something that rhymes a bucket, and I can't use the one I want to do. I have one of those, so. I do. I have a song that's called that, as a matter of fact. How many people do you think found you, learned you from the road goes on forever?

What do you think the percentage? That's how I found you. The live version, which I did know was like also the main version. I was like, man, this dude. And I think, I saw you at ACL. Like, I have a history of, of, of like watching you play and listen to your music, but I was like, dang,

there's live records are this good, but then that was the version. When you recorded that, or did you know that, did you have a feeling that that song was going to be the one that popped so hard? It's a really good question, Bob, because I really don't know,

I can't assess my own songs. I really very well. I mean, when I wrote that song, I thought, you know, up-tempo, cool, got, you know, some drama, and stuff like that. But I didn't know it would do that. I didn't know like that Christmas song

would give me 14 years on the road of Christmas shows. I have the box set. Uh-huh. So I have the whole thing. Beautifully packaged. Yes. A lot of different things.

There's a DVD. There's a songbook I was taught. There's a lot there. Why that? It started, it just became that. It was like we started with just the music and recording it. And we did record the DVD.

the same time we recorded the audio. So that all matches. And after that, you know, it was like, well, we've got to have a songbook because this is all new content and people should see that. So we did the songbook. You're going and you're doing more shows.

But you're not retired. I guess I never thought you were retired. Well, I am retired. I'm retired really from touring. So I don't have a bus. The band that I put together is the same band that I have, but it's just because I was, it's quite incidential.

I'm lucky that they still have some space in the calendar. But, you know, the thing is was the grind of touring, you know, just getting off a tour and then preparing for the next tour and never stopped. It never did stop. I mean, it just like kept going and kept going. And I just got to a point where I thought it was wearing everybody out. So I didn't think in terms about like this taking a year off, you know, or that kind of thing. I always wondered why those people take a year off.

they're like 25 years old and they said I'm going to take a year off and said that's because you don't have any gigs man don't tell me that you don't have to take a year off but I don't know why that didn't really cost my mind I just thought at that time and I did feel a certain amount of burnout going on with me I just felt like I was glazing through a lot of stuff I wasn't really

phoning it in but I was I was definitely a little bit muddled and I really felt like I was losing it and I did not want which is the irony years like I'm still beat up but I did not want to be one of those people that are all beat up and you know they're pushing them up on the stage or getting a ladder for them or whatever they're doing I wanted to go in the best I could go out but well came in you know and that was really part that was a big part of the decision are you looking forward to the shows yeah like with genuine

excitement yes that's cool that you get to revisit that feeling that got you started made you successful and gave you longevity because it does it doesn't go away but if you eat wonderful steak every day it eventually just becomes steak sure it doesn't matter what it is if you do it all the time it just becomes normal right sure um but to be able to get that again has got to be exciting no it's it's it's really it's you know i'm so glad that i did kind of get off my high horse about i'm not going to do anything because uh the couple of shows that i've played since we did this um it just been you know they've been this huge boost. And I also realized that there was a certain amount of just adrenaline going on there

that like as soon as like it got two days or two days before the show or day, the day after is always kind of a little bit of a letdown. But up to the show, I just got this huge boost and I feel better than I ever felt like two years. You know, like, oh man, I feel so good. And it was all just because it's like, I know what I'm doing. And this is a place where I know what I'm doing, and I'm ready to go with it. You ever say the wrong place on stage?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. When did you start writing it? When I would tour, I would have to write it. Like I do comedy, stand-up comedy. Eventually I got smart and rode it down. Because, you know, two, three nights in a row, you're traveling, you kind of forget.

You're just going on back doors of places. You can easily forget. I know. When did that bell go off for you? Like, I should probably keep this around where I can see where I am. Somewhere in Ann Arbor. I was in Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor and I got up and it was kind of a showcase deal,

you know, and I got up there and I said something like, you know, Hello Gary, Indiana. And I was, I said, oh, you can't do that again. But I don't write it down like you do, Bobby. What I do is like, if I realize that it's going to blank out my brain, I just go, well, it's great to be here. Just general. Vegas could be.

Vegas I could possibly be. Yeah, I obviously, and I'm not the one that invented this, but I would put it on the set list. But then I would make it like part of the set list. So whenever somebody got the set list, they would think I was making it special. Yeah. You know, if I'm in Boston, wow, this is his boss.

No, no, I just needed to remember that I was in Boston. Right. Because again, and you would know this more than I do, it's not a, it's fun and it's amazing and it's fulfilling, but it's not that glamorous. Because, again, you're just going in back doors and you're killing a few hours in between soundcheck and the show. Yeah.

At, in a bus or, and not a lot of glamour. Not a lot of people, you know, people, it's a grind. No, I tell people, you know that bus there, you think it's like luxurious and cool, and it does look nice inside, but basically it's a trailer house on wheels, and we're just rolling down the highway in a trailer house, so don't get all knocked out about the whole idea, you know. This story comes up to us from Lake County, Florida. A 72-year-old man was out in his yard when he saw a drone over his,

head zzz. And he thought the drone was spying on him. So it goes in, gets his gun, Biam! shoots the drone down. A good shot, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was actually a Walmart drone trying to deliver a package. Oh, no.

Probably prescription medicine. Oh. Dang. That's pretty funny, though. Yeah. Shot the drone. It's like a cartoon. It's like Elmer Fudd type thing. Yeah, but he's facing charges of shooting or throwing a deadly missile into dwellings, vessels, or vehicles.

Did that a missile? Hey, if I had a nickel for every friend that got busted for that? All right, that's a good one. Thank you. I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead Story the day. I'm going to give you some data. It's going to make you go, oh, these are the things I should focus on in my life.

For example, 23,000 849 days of your life of your life will be boring. Wow. Oh, that sucks. That's not good. The average person will live about 26,500 days. If we assume that about 10% of those will be special days, about 23,000 are to be normal or boring. Oh, man.

My days are never really boring, though, ever. I have kids. They may be not the way I like him. Are they ever, like, worse than average, though? Yeah, like, I'll have bad days, but not boring days because there's always something going on in my house. I think the point is only 10% of your days will be special days, period. That makes sense.

The rest of them are just another day. But if every day was special, then, you wouldn't recognize. Good one, Amy. Boom, thanks. Soccer tag. Socrates. 7.8 billion people exist on the planet.

So whenever you're like, I am special. Or there's nobody out there. I am famous. There's a lot of people up there. There's 7.8 billion alive right now. That is so crazy. It just shows, when we really don't matter. We do.

In our very, not the grand scheme. Sure, we don't. But in our own circles, we do. But overall, nothing you can do is going to make you matter that much of the world. So do you and do the people close to you and treat them right? And that's really all you can do. So there's no one that matters to the whole world? No.

No. I mean. Because even when they die, someone else is going to matter more. Yeah, it's tough. It's weird for me to think that like really famous life-changing people died. Yeah. Because everybody has to die, which is why. Like Abe Lincoln died.

He's like the dude. Now he's just like a character, a cartoon character with a beard. The probability of you being born period is one and 400 trillion. That's pretty good. The probability of a human being born specifically is ridiculously low. That means that you are special. We're a miracle. You're not.

We're a miracle. Yeah, dude. We are. I would say it's not a miracle that you were born. It's a miracle that you are exactly what you are. exactly what you are. People are born every day. It's not a miracle if it's happening every day. All right. But we're just saying it's one in control.

That's not what he said. Sorry, I tried not to say that word ever. But it's that you specifically having all that your little tendencies, your body the way it is, the odds of it being exactly like you is one of 400 trillion. Dude, back to the whole big number, though, of all the people on this earth and we don't look like anyone else. That is crazy. Different fingerprints.

That is crazy. Even twins have different fingerprints. Yeah. Finger's, yeah. True. You watch the thing on the Challenger, exploded, all those people that die, but they have, like,

people that are live now look just like them with very similar names, and they're like, there's no way. Have you seen this? No, where is this? On TikTok? Yeah, yeah. It's got to be on TikTok.

Oh, my gosh. It is. No, but I'm telling you, if I brought it to you, and I might tomorrow the next day. Okay. These people that went up in the Challenger, they either have,

what do you call it what's someone looks like them? Doppelganger. A doppelganger with a name extremely close, like all of them and they look just like them but older. It's crazy. It's not TikTok. It's got to be true. I want to see this. I'll bring it to you tomorrow or next segment if I can find it. I don't know.

But yeah. So in the end my point with all these huge numbers are just take care of you and the people around you and don't put the pressure on yourself to like change the world because you can't. You can change your corner. But you can change, I mean the corner's pretty big.

Your little corner. And don't put the pressure on your and don't put the pressure on yourself. to be like others or to be better than others because you're never going to be better than everybody. There's no chance. You're going to be the one of the 7.8 billion on the tip top. None of us are. We're getting close. And then you're going to die. Nothing matters. Everybody dies. Anyway, there you go. Wow. But there is some lasting impact. But wouldn't you rather die being famous than being died than not being known? It doesn't matter. Famous for the sake of

fame doesn't make sense. Like who cares? It doesn't matter. Abe Lincoln doesn't know he's famous. You want to hear some of this? Taylor Swift knows she's famous. No, when she dies, She's not going to know. Yeah, when she's dead, you won't know. What? Jesus knows. The Challenger crew, this is the story. Are they still alive as evidenced by the fact that people resembling the original crew members

and the approximate ages they would be now and bearing similar identical names are still living and working in the United States. Weird. And they have pictures of them. Oh, they're American. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. And I will bring you some of the audio.

And it's wild because they look like them old now. So, Mike, what does Snope say? Not true. Okay, well, there's that. All right. But what does TikTok say? It's true. Yes.

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