THE ED MYLETT SHOW - Ultimate Come Back - with Bob Menery

Episode Date: September 1, 2020

**Explicit Language is used in this episode** Imagine waking up to 10k new followers and your phone buzzing non-stop! Do you need to make a comeback? This conversation will leave you breathless and give you hope that you absolutely can! Overnight success is the Cinderella story so many of you are hoping for and my next guest knows exactly what it’s like to go from 0 to 10,000 followers overnight and then go on to become an international sensation! Bob Menery, or as many of you know him as the "man with the golden voice” is an Instagram STAR and comedian that went viral after his natural gift, his sportscasting voice, was revealed to the masses. What you’re going to hear in this interview is unlike anything you’ve heard from this man before! His story is so powerful that even if you are on the brink of giving up, this will give you HOPE. Bob is sharing an in-depth look at his journey from being a golf caddy, broke, homeless, strung out on drugs, and suffering from hallucinations to becoming one of the biggest influencers on IG… so much so that he crashed the PGA Tour website! This interview is giving you the step-by-step guide to how Bob was able to make his GREATEST COMEBACK and it’s filled with PRACTICAL tips on how YOU CAN DO THE SAME. Overnight success is a fallacy. Even during some of the most difficult times in his life, Bob relied on one thing; his natural gifts… his voice! That alone was the one thing that was a catalyst into what many would call “overnight success.” We are ALL born with a God-given gift. It’s that passion that just won’t go away. It’s that one thing you do REALLY well. It’s the one thing everyone always come to you for! Bob and I are diving deep into what it REALLY takes to tap into your natural gifts to create your ultimate comeback AND how to MAINTAIN that success. He’s also sharing some of his NEXT-LEVEL social media strategies on how to build a massively engaged audience while staying true to your beliefs. ** SPOILER ALERT!!!** Bob even reveals his next big venture that will revolutionize the way you watched sports television!!! This interview is life-changing! **PARENTS this interview uses strong language!

This is the Edmila Show. Welcome back to Max out everybody. It's Edmila. And I've been trying to have this guy on my show for a long time. We met a couple years ago at the Super Bowl. And the reason I wanted them on is because I think he has one of the greatest stories you will ever hear in your life. And I mean that and some of you out there, you know, we're finding you during COVID maybe when you're listening to this, maybe it'll be years later and some of you're hearing it, but some of you feel like you're in need of kind of a comeback or a life comeback and this man's story is remarkable. I mean, like one of the great ones you will ever hear. And I wanted to share it with you today. And then I want to pick his brain about how he's become so successful. So my guest today is my friend Bob Mennery. Bob, welcome to the program, man. It is a honor and a pleasure to be here. Ed, do I have to use this voice, though, as a question?

You can use the Bob Mennery voice. I talk about broadcast your voice, or do I, the Bob metery voice, a little mix of both. And you're the man, I respect everything you do. I watch all your stuff. And you believe or not, I don't want to give you too much credit here. But you might have been a little silent mentor to me as well through your, through your videos and what not. So, thank you. Appreciate it. That's wonderful. And it's funny when you talk

about the voice, it's one of the most interesting things because I bet I'm guessing 30 to 50% of my audience already knows you and is excited you're here. And then the other 30 to 50 by the time we're over will be following you. But when I met you the first time and we just when we've talked to, you know, over the years, I am struck by the difference in the Bob Mennery from, you know, you and Peter and the one that I meet, you want on one is a little bit more, I don't know, humble kind of quiet, almost introverted dude. Is that somewhat accurate? Yeah, I mean, like what I do is like, you know, what I, I realized at a young age kind

of that I had this voice that was just, I could turn on at any given time. And didn't know what the hell to do with it. You know, I think at the end of the day, I was wanting to do voiceover stuff and whatnot. And yeah, I mean, I definitely don't walk around and go to CVS and be like, can I get those two butter fingers there? Give me a water bottle in that. I don't do that. But it's definitely, let's just say this, Ed, if I lose the voice, I'm in big trouble. I might need a job. Yeah, you've got a voice for radio, for sure. So let's go back to the beginning of that run, because this is what I wanted.

There's so many people, man, right now, that are down on their luck. They've lost their job, their businesses down, they put on weight during COVID. There's all these things, there's this social unrest, there's all this stuff going on in the world. And you found yourself really down on your luck years ago. And I kind of just want you to take people through the story,

but I want to make sure I start it right. You would move out to California. You were cattying at Wilshire, I don't know if we're allowed to say where it was, but you were a cattie. And it sort of, it went, which is by the way, a good, but it wasn't your dream job. It wasn't what you aspired to do with your entire life.

And you ended up basically homeless, right? So take them through where you were at the bottom and how you got there. You know, my goal was always to be, I wanted to be an actor and a comedian. That was my goal. So I kind of went to New York Film School at like 23 years old, ended up going to Los Angeles, California to be an actor comedian.

And I was one of the, I think, only people would probably go out to be an actor comedian and not do one stand-up comedy show and not do one audition, actually. I kind of fell into the partying stage a little bit and kind of got a little distracted. But I'll tell you what though, on the Cating Front, Cating was one of the most amazing jobs that I've ever had in my life. And I truly believe or not, I miss it.

It, I was always like, my father always stressed the most important thing is, you know, getting up early and being the first one to last one leave regardless of what you're doing. So even in the Cadi yard, I would do that. I would be there at 5 a.m. and when the guys didn't not carry two golf bags, which on 18 holes would be seven miles, I think, and when we're done, everybody wants to go home. I was like, let's go another round. Let's go another round. But during that time, I developed a somewhat of a drug problem. I was doing cocaine like every day, pretty much.

So that's why I could carry the golf bag so fast at it. I was running around there on the golf course Seeing every ball and whatnot, but um, and yeah, and just You know just didn't really I just got comfortable because you were at this place I knew what I wanted to do I wanted to perform I wanted to show my talent because I knew I just had this edge I couldn't really know what it was I knew I had that voice that was catchy But I also offered something else that I just didn't know what it was. I knew I had that voice that was catchy, but I also offered something else that I just didn't know what it was yet. And so, yeah, I mean, I was,

I mean, I don't even know where to go with this, but I was just gotten comfort zone. You know, I got a comfort zone of caddy and I'm making a little bit of cash, but go ahead. But you, but by the way, a lot of people feel that way too. They feel like they got some kind of talent. They don't know how to express it. They don't know what it is.

They got kind of this vision of, I think, what they want their life to look like. And usually your dream, and it's true for you now too. I always say this to you. Usually if your dream does happen, it doesn't show up looking exactly the way you thought it would look. You know, but gives you the feeling you hoped you'd get from it. But it usually doesn't show up in the form or fashion that you think, but you're doing,

you know, I know this story, but I want them to know this. Yeah, you're doing Coke, yeah, you're Cadi in, yeah, you kind of lost your way, but there was some, there was significant moments too, right? I mean, was there a point where you were at your lowest during that time, back in the day? Was there like a moment you're like, this is just out of control?

Yeah, yeah, it gradually got to the point where it just became like, all right, you're spending more money on things. You shouldn't be. You're missing work time based on bad habits. And then before you know it, which you obviously probably know already is, you know, I found myself, my buddy goes, Hey, I got to move to Texas. You don't have a place to live anymore. I'm like, fuck.

And now this member gave me Sean Moran, gave me a car that I would drive to and for the work. And didn't have any money. I'd mine a $700 bank account. After four years of cating, I hit rock, absolute rock bottom. So I remember the first night getting in that car driving, where the fuck do I go? And I had already used up a lot of my resources, you know? I'm pretty street smart, I can figure stuff out, but I used up a lot of my resources, and I had nowhere to go.

So it started right there, the first night, where the fuck do I go? I'm in my car. I drive around, I look for a nice neighborhood, park there, put a pillow in the back, blank, get over me, go to bed. That's night one of three months. It's probably actually two and a half months of sleeping in a car.

And that is no, you know, maybe it's not going to occasional night where I stayed at the buddies or something, but it got to a point though that I didn't even want to stay at a buddies. I wanted to continue, I don't know what it was in my head, I wanted to continue staying in that car. I don't know what it was, it became a comfort zone for me. But yeah, I spent the day in a car for two and a half months, trying to do it for one day. It's tough, two and a half months. I had a membership at the YMCA.

I had a membership at the YMCA and I would park in a nice neighborhood and I would wake up because you can't sleep in, Ed, when you're sleeping in a car, you can't sleep in. People are running around, there's garbage trucks going by, you can't sleep in. Which actually somewhat worked my benefit because I was at the club earlier, but go to the YMCA to shower, go to work, and cadding is very up in the air business. If it rains, there's no work. If you're a lot of politics behind it, there's a lot of family members in the cattie art who bring other catties out because they're family. So I was left there and I would go there

sometimes to show up in the morning and it's a cash business and I would leave it for in the afternoon and no work. And then I kind of felt it just happened. Like it was like a two week period where I was up five till three in the afternoon and no work. And yeah, so it was, it was nuts.

I want you guys to picture something. By the way, dude, I did not know it was that long that you were home, that you were basically living in your car. But I want you guys to picture something because a lot of you have done this. You've chased your dream and failed. This guy moves out here. He's got all these aspirations. And I were both from Boston area. So I know what it's like when you leave home to just having your

family back there. And there's just, we're a little bit different people that live back there. We're really family oriented more than most, right? And it's a big move. Yeah. When you leave Boston and you come to LA, that's a major move. And he comes out here and it just gets out of control. And that's why and that's why real quick. I think my stress is it's so important to, you know, when I'm in LA, it still happens to me. If I feel myself coming out of that funk, it's okay to go back to your family and reset. It's okay to take a reset and a breather,

it's not, you know, don't be ashamed of it. If you have to come home with a tail between your legs and be like, all right, I'm fucking up. Let's reset and let's go back and that's kind of, and I still have that happen to me. It's every three months. Yeah, I think I think you just did it and I want to I will I want to get to that point in a minute too. There's stuff like as a friend I want to ask you on camera

about that. Yeah, but I want you to picture something everybody because some of you don't know the end of the story because he's in the middle of building this this vision of his too, but this man goes from living he's cadying. He's living in his car to just a few years later, he's so influential on social media that he can crash the PGA Tours website. I want you to imagine this guys, like you go from, even for you to hear this is probably pretty cool to step back for a minute. It's your time to do to live in his car, cadying, homeless, to just a few years later, he chased his dream and failed, to he's so influential in the space he's in that he can take down the PGA Tours website

from time to time. Well, yesterday, put a post that's got 8,500 comments on Instagram already. So while you're in the car, let's go to there for a minute because I think a lot of people are like, I'm not homeless, I'm not in my car, but I'm trending there or I feel it. Was there something that sent you back to Boston?

Like, really like, all right, I'm heading, was there like a moment or did you just like go, I'm totally out of money, I gotta go. Yeah, yeah, there's a moment, a big moment. I had taken a line of crystal meth by mistake, or not by mistake, I don't even know at that point, I was so fucked up and did that and I ended up for something I couldn't sleep I guess because if you do that you can't sleep. So I was up for two days straight not sleeping to waking out in my car. I had a flat tire okay.

I couldn't even drive anymore at the point where I had a flat tire. I was on the side of the road. I was right in Sherman Oaks. I was in that car. I was hallucinating. In the middle of the night I was was right in Sherman Oaks. I was in that car. I was hallucinating. In the middle of the night, I was thinking there was a prostitution ring. And I don't know to this day, to this day,

if this is a real thing or not. I swear to God. And I haven't told really many people this. I was parked there, I was sleeping, I was seeing things that weren't there. I thought there was cars coming behind me, parking their cars, there was girls getting out of their car car banging these guys. They drive away. I don't know to this day yet if I was in the wrong place at the wrong time or polluestinating.

So after that happened now in my head that happens for four hours in the middle of night probably between the hours of one and five a.m. So I in my head I'm like this is just stopped. All right it's my time to get out of here because they know where I am now. They know I'm here. They'm like, this is just stopped. All right, it's my time to get out of here because they know where I am now. They know I'm here. They, you know, this Jeep is just sitting here, you know? And they attended the windows but I was hiding under a blanket like this

for four hours shaking because I didn't know who the fuck was there doing this. So what I did was I started my car with a flat fucking tire. I drove down the road and I took a left. And as I take a left to this day, I don't know, this is real or not. I looked to my road and I took a left. And as I take a left to this day, I don't know, this is real or not. I looked to my left, I see five cars, speed right around the corner and follow me. So I step on the gas, I drive, I go to the gaslight, I pull into a CVS parking lot. I would die to get the surveillance tape if I could. I pull into a CVS parking lot, I am freaking the fuck out.

I run out of the car, I run into CVS and I was like screaming at the top of my long skies or chasing me, people are fucking chasing me, whatever. I run through the back of the store and I open up a door, all the alarms go off in CVS. And now the CVS employees are fucking going crazy with the fuck is going on here. They probably just think I'm a crack addict, you know, which I pretty much was at that point. They're like, what's going on? Like, please call the cops. I saw something I shouldn't see. Like, you got to, you got to fucking get me out of here. I can't fucking do this. Like, all right, we'll chill, chill, chill, we're calling the cop.

They call the cops. Cop show up. I go outside and I'm looking around and I see a car in the corner right and it has its windows down and I see three guys in the car staring at me. Now the cops are talking. I mean, I'm looking over my shoulder. I see an ambulance pulls in. So the firefighter comes out and he's like, what, what the fuck is going on? I'm like, listen, I know you guys think I'm crazy. People are fucking following me right now. Like, I'm telling you, look in that car. Go fucking over there right now. Go look in that car. Somebody's following me. Firefighters are like, all right, relax kid. I'm gonna go check. Walks over. And I sit there.

I'm like, all right, here we go. They're gonna figure this out. This is, he comes back. He's like, dude, there's nobody in the car. I just looked. And I'm like, all right. They're like, what do we, they're like, what do you want to do?

Do you want to go to the hospital? And like, get me out of here. I jump in the back of the ambulance, they bring me to the hospital. I pull into the hospital, I go in, they put me in the bed, I'm sitting there. And now I want to stay there forever, like I don't want to leave the hospital,

I don't want them to discharge me. They're asking me those questions, I can tell they're, you know, and so finally they discharge me. I walk out of the hospital, I take a left, I leave, and I see another guy, and he's staring at me. And then I look to the left, I see another guy, he's staring at me, I look across the street, I take a left, I leave, and I see another guy, and he's staring at me. And then I look to the left, I see another guy, he's staring at me. I look across the street, another guy.

I sprint. I almost got hit by cars. I run across the street. The cars are flying by on Sherman Oaks. I forget what rode it is. I'm like Frogger. I'm dodging these cars, whatever. Finally, I call my buddy Ernie G. Poppass.

I said, Ernie, you got to pick me up right now. These people fall on me, whatever. Ernie comes there, picks me up. I jump in the back seat of his car in the fetal position and hide like this. Okay. And Ernie, you saw the story is the pretty funny too. I go drive. He's like, where? Like just fucking drive. He's like, all right, dude, I'm bringing you home calling your parents. I'm calling your brother You're going home like you're not right

Drives me. I'm like I'm like just drop me off the police station because I'm like you have to get my bag and stuff out of the car So police station is a safe place. He drops me off the police station. I go inside and That I run right in the police station like guys I got to stay for a minute somebody's following me whatever like I chill out chill out chill out five minutes later Ernie pulls in I jump in the back of the car. We're off to the airport. I have an airplane ticket that my parents bought me. I show up at the airport.

I am fucked up. I haven't slept in three days. I'm in shower in three days. I smell like shit. I go to the airport. I sit down. I go through security and I finally am there. My flight, too Boston.

And I'm sitting there. And all of a sudden, I pass out. And something to this day, I don't know what the fuck it was. my flight to Boston and I'm sitting there and all of a sudden I pass out. And something to this day, I don't know what the fuck it was woke me up. And it said, uh, Robert Mentery, Rob Mentery last call, uh, gates are closing. And I was sitting right next to the gate. I was there an hour and a half early for the flight. Rob Mentery, Rob Mentery gates are closing. I get on that plane.

I sit in the plane. I remember people were looking at me like I smell like shit. People would smell I even shower whatever. Get in the plane and back to Boston. I go Oh my gosh. See, I have not heard that whole story. I never told anybody yet. I just I never told a story to anybody. That deep. Thank you, bro. For sharing that, I uh, the way you tell it to, I can picture it. I can see everyone with those steps.

It's hard for you. I do consider myself a storyteller. Yeah. Well, that is part of your, but bro, like in all seriousness, like because I know where you are now, that's just it's shocking. Like it's shocking to, by the way, you still let some self-destructive qualities, which we'll talk about in a little bit too, but I so

We can we skip that partner Well, I just think what you've already done has helped like millions of people just so you know because I've told people That's one of the most amazing stories, but I didn't know all of the backstory like this and this is just like so guys if that's where Bob was backstory like this. And this is just like, so guys, if that's where Bob was, right? And you can think about where you are. Is there at least a shot for you to turn things around? There's got to be at least a shot, right? 28 years old, 28 years old, write me off. I should have been dead, write me off. No chance. Unbelievable, man. So now there's moments in life, right? We're like our lives changed. By the way, I've been doing this a long time. I've done, you know, hundreds of shows. I don't think I've probably been this speechless before where I'm like processing what you just said,

even though I knew a little of it. It's actually really, really amazing for me because of just where you are now. But so you get back to Boston. Fire's me. It fucking fires me up. Yeah. It should broke. It gives everyone on this planet hope. But so you get back and I know there's this part of the story at least where you're on the couch and something happens. But so you get back, and I know there's this part of the story at least where you're on the couch and something happens, but like, can you just, do you go back there and just kind of get cleaned up? Like you just got home and you different crowds

so you stop using stuff or what happened when you got back? Oh, it was great. It was great. Show up at the door, not gonna door. Mom and dad, I'm home, 28 years old. They just downsize to a two bedroom small apartment. They were thrilled to have the 28 year old son come home

and walk in the door. And four days go by and me just kind of like detoxing, I guess, in a sense. And this is how fast, I don't know if you want to rush. So this is a fast, it kind of happened. My buddy goes, my buddy, my brother-in-law picks me up finally. He said, I'm gonna pick you up at 11 o'clock, we gotta get you a job.

I'm like, all right, here we go. I get in the car. We drive to Leary's liquor store. Perfect. And he goes, I want you to go in there and I want you to go apply for a job at Leary's liquor store. And I'm like, fuck, I don't want to work at Larry's art fine. I'll go in there. I walked into Larry's liquor store. I said, uh, so embarrassed like so nervous because I was so, you know, just horrible feeling.

I said, uh, you guys hiring like, oh, here's an application. Like what's your name? Like Bob Mennery. And obviously, like, I, I've turned on my voice. I thought that might help and fucking ridiculous You know Grab the application I got back in the car to Joe's and my brother in line and he goes how did he go? I go on I get the application. I'll fill it out whatever he brings me home I get a call from my buddy Mike Constantino YouTube rapper rapper He said Bob what's going on?, Bob, what's going on?

I said, Mike, what's going on? I said, you want to be, can you do me a favor? Can you be an extra in my music video? I'm like, fuck yeah. I'm an actor. I can do this. I got this. What do you need me to do?

He's like, well, you're just going to stand way in the back. And you're just going to rage. You're perfect for this part. So I show up. We shoot the fucking music video. It's actually pretty good. And then 2 a.m. comes along. And this is the moment that changed my life.

I walk into a room. And what I always did real quick, which is important to the story at is, with my voice, I would always go out if I went out to a bar or anywhere at my friends. I wouldn't sit with them for more than five minutes. I would run up to a random group of table. I just ran up to a random group of table and go Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers here on a USPN tonight. It is NFL Sunday and I would just see their reactions and I would do this all night.

And some people would love it and some people would be like what the fuck is wrong with this kid So when they did ask me would I When they did ask me what I did for a living I did pretend I said I was like the Jacksonville Jaguar's play by play guy But I always that's just to make that I always use touch dick and you know, I never went anywhere Never went anywhere but that night it did I walk into a room and I sit down and the man to my left didn't know him before, but I will never forget his name. David Justin, he's with his girlfriend. What does Bob do?

He pulls out the voice. He guess what his Dave do? He pulls out the camera. Mm-hmm. Averc Forts. And that's it. I go to bed. All of a sudden the next morning, it's like, bling, bling, bling, bling, bling, like and and and and and

and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and

and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and And so he posted the video on his social media or did he tag you or what happened? David did me I owe David for life what David did is David was like, you know, this kid is fucking talent And I'm gonna do everything I can to try and be haven't be seen by whoever whatever so he called up bro Bible and Brandon was one of the first guys has out the bro Bible for literally starting my life and David They blasted out there and they put it out there and they with the headline of why is this guy a sportscaster? And what happened was I think

story I did a deal with story for like $500 or something and sold my life away for them to like blasts on all different media outlets. Yep. And at the time like I'm like negotiating with these people like why am I negotiating? Nothing. I mean, doing I have nothing, yeah, I'll just do it for 500. And they blasted it out there in USA Day, picked it up all these different outlets. And it was like, why is this guy's sports announcer? And I got picked up.

Brother, guys, come on. Like anything is possible. I'm trying to like over cook it, you know, the meal here. But like that is, that is, that is, this is why. This is the thing though. It was lucky, but I truthfully say this even at my lowest points. I knew my talent and Going back to always going out and performing it even if it wasn't under the perfect circumstances of being on stage Whatever I would go out four hours a night and just use that voice and just see what people reacted to it

Yeah, you under S. I was under you you you do this all the time. You undervalue stuff. You're great at here's the deal. You you said earlier, well, I never did any shows and never did any stand up. I actually did thousands. They were just all not paid. So over and over and over again, when you're going to these tables, see, luck is where like preparation meets opportunity. And what happened there was all this preparation you'd done over and over

and over again not consciously You just had a gift and a talent and something you worked at and finally the opportunity presented itself and what most people do Is they have all this preparation and because the opportunity doesn't reveal itself. They eventually quit on it and at the lowest point in this Dude's life. I mean, he's just he's just Practically running through CDS setting off alarms thinking he's being followed after he's done crystal meth and Guys ends up going viral and has his moment and by the way all of you no matter what the business is the moment There's a viral aspect to success. There's most people who have success. I don't care if it's a rod or you know guys You and I know like Gary Vee or you know Scooter Braun whoever it is people that you know you and I

or Scooter Braun, whoever it is, people that, you know, you and I, Scooter Braun, we prank him all the time, by the way. Scooter, I prank FaceTime, Scooter Braun all the time, so I don't know. I see that on your social, by the way. He's a, he and I have become neighbors somewhere, but I'm not gonna say where, but my point is that most people that have had success,

there's some moment where their preparation and opportunity converged, and there's like a 90 day window where they go, that was a big leap for me in my life. And that was Bob's. So I wanna ask you you about your social because guys one thing about Bob if you go over there by the way you're hearing Bob talk his content is not for every single year in the world there's it's colorful for those of you that know what I mean when I say that but it's hilarious. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. You know but I can't go to a golf course bro. I or anywhere

five. You know, but I can't go to a golf course, bro, I or anywhere sports related where if someone finds out I know you, I mean, it doesn't matter who I know, I'm telling you that when I come up with a Bob Mennery, I know Bob Mennery, the people go nuts over this guy just so you all know his content for all ages people go ballistic. Yeah, I, you know, I think I do a good job at and to go back a little bit backpedal in the story Hair is you know after just you know going and that little viral moment was like all right. What do you do from there? You know, I didn't know what the fuck to do like once you have a viral moment What do you do you don't want to the dye and it was like you know? So I just did like I did another video that was it

I just put another video out the same kind of concept and I remember like literally hitting I think like 10,000 followers and I was like I'm on to something. I'm like I got it. I just felt000 followers. And I was like, I'm on to something. I'm like, I got it. I just felt it. My whole body shifted. And I said, I fucking got this. I don't know what it is. My parents almost sent me to a mental institution because meanwhile, I'm in the next bedroom that is so close being like, Vinotary's dick falls off. You know, like that was shit screaming.

It's 20. They're like, we need to check Bobby into a mental institution. But I just I saw it it and then it was weird. It was like that switch. All that addictive personality that was challenged in those areas, just hyper focused into what I was meant to do. And it was, it was, it was, it's pretty cool. But, you know, I think you just sit on some point. I want to go, I want to stay on there.

I want to stay on there. Stay there. Yeah, go, go. Because you just said something that I think is true. And because you do have an addictive personality. So do I. So to most people that I know they're successful.

But for once, you pointed it at something productive, right? So would you agree that you have that kind of obsessive addictive over the top personality? And that's one of the reasons why like your socials take it off. Because what I want to do now is I want to start to talk about the elements of what's made your social work, things you think you could impart onto other people. Cause a lot of people have grown on social media, almost no one's grown as virally as Bob and sustained it. So, you know, of course there are people, you know,

Kim Kardashian has more followers than Bob and I do. But Kim has a television show. She's got other things that drive that social. Bob's driven it through social. So there's keys there. That's right there. Yeah. I've never used a laptop in my life.

So I've never used a laptop. What do you think has been the key? And by the way, you've got 2.7 real followers that follow this dude. What are some, if you were talking to someone right now who says I'm trying to kind of get my stuff going. One thing I see that you do, like you document real things in your life even if they're embarrassing awkward strange we like I feel like I know you even though I do know you but if I didn't I feel like I would

know you if I followed you which build some sort of brand or loyalty do you do that on purpose or is it just do you think that's true. I don't know I think that's an instant I think that's an instinct I think it's just an instant that I have that makes me good at that But I think what I was very good at in the beginning and growing this was You know just well first and foremost if you're trying to build anything and you're kind of be the ground up every fucking person matters So you were responding to every single person that sends you a message you are checking in how their day is you are and I still do it Like I literally still do it. I remember you know, I had that product right? So I just said okay, this is what I'm good at, right? This is what I'm good at. This sports voice doing voiceovers with these things in sports. Okay. So the Atlanta Falcons fan

page, 11,000 followers when I had 10,000, let's hit them up. Let's see if we can do a mat Ryan play by play and have them post it and let's gain 200 followers from them called up And it's actually fucking hilarious dude. I call this I talked to this kid on Instagram and I'm like, hey, man I have this clip that I think is great. Do you mind posting? He's like give me a call So I'm expecting to talk to this like old guy Picks the phone is like, hello. I'm like huh? Fuck is this I'm like hello. This is is Bob Mennery. How you doing? He's like, hey, man, how you doing?

It's like this kid, he's like nine years old. And I'm like, hey, so what do you think? You think you can do this, like, put this mat Ryan video up, I get this little check I do whenever he's like, yeah, you know, sorry. I'm just not that impressed. I just, I don't think it's gonna go on my page. I'm like, all right, you know,

but I would hit up the Green Bay Packers fan page. I would hit up the, you know, the other fan page I just keep hitting up all different Areas that I knew have shared the same genre. Now I have a very unique thing that I do that not a lot of people do so it's I Found my the sweet spot That you know, I don't know. I really know how to explain it But you know, I bet at the end of the day I was I was the the most important important quality my father ever gave me and I think which makes me

I guess if you want to say likeable of course people don't like it But a likeable person there is you know always play the underdog, you know like that that was the best advice my dad Every game. He's always play the underdog people cheer for the underdog. You do do that well And now it's also your dad. That's a great advice. Your dad's also a performer too Which I've assumed some of that rubbed off on you. You know, I might some of your, my favorite videos on your show and your dad singing. I love I tell much I actually watch. If I hear, if I hear summer wind one more time and it's about the window, yeah. His dad does some of the best like Sinatra stuff of all time, but so I want to stay on

your social stuff just for a second. So you're documenting what you do when you're posting. And a lot of it is stuff that, I don't know that a lot of people would do. So how did you get the Buffalo Wild Wings deal? Is Bob is the voice of Buffalo Wild Wings, at least as the time we're recording here. How did that come up? Because your content doesn't necessarily flow

over to that genre to me. Or is that just they heard your voice and wanted you did you apply how did that work? I think What happened was I think Mitch who was my former manager I worked it was great who works for Sherman and bunch of other guys Great dude and he through the martin agency. I think connected through Pdubs and You know they just sent me some voice overs to do, and I read them. I think I pitched him pretty hard, too.

I think I just called somebody and said, how bad I want it, and just kind of where I think I'm going, and where I think the world's going, and why this bar stool area is kind of working, and that they were afraid of the whole thing that ripped up a goo brand, and what it's associated with, what not. And, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I just know a lot of God read for that, you know, like rich eyes. And it was a lot of people that, I guess, I beat out for that, which is, uh, which is pretty cool. But they've been fucking amazing partners.

Bdubs is great. They've been the one brand major brand. It was cool going like, you know, that was a one big brand that took a chance on me. That said, hey, let's, let's take a chance on Bob. And you know, it's, yeah. Yeah. What's, what's the, as you're thinking, I'm thinking through your career. By the way, we're on Zoom guys, so we're a little delayed when we're talking here. But I'm thinking through your, you know, your rise here, you know, Buffalo Wild Wings, millions of people. He's on spade show from time to time. So he's got, he's crossed over in some mainstream stuff

that he's doing too. But what's the biggest mistake you've made last year, too? If you had to say, hey, this is the stuff. If you're a rising entrepreneur or entertainer or whatever, and you finally get your moment, here's a mistake I made. What would it be? Mistake of made is bad, and just to hear too paranoid at times, I think, that have kind of prohibited me from doing a couple

of likes for deals. Other mistakes I've made is, you know, I believe that we could have a lot more infrastructure and behind what we're doing. I think that I'm somebody who likes to just have my hands on everything that I'm doing, but it comes to a point where you're not going to be able to scale up if you're just doing it all yourself. So, you know, in a sense, letting go a little bit, giving some of it away and bringing in somebody, you can kind of put this together and say, because I'm in the fucking, my mind is just zing, zing, zing,

and I'm great at it, but where I lack and where I make my mistakes is the organization, the infrastructure and that. So that's what I'm trying to get better at, day by day, is kind of slow down. And, but the hard thing is too, you know, when you come to a point, it's like there's a lot of people in your ear. There's a lot of people chirping you and it comes to a point where you get a little bit like nervous.

Who do I trust? I'm not trusting. And that's my biggest thing is sometimes I'm a hair too paranoid, but it's also benefited me too because I've turned down some things that, you know, I could have taken that I was a little paranoid and end up paying off times, whatever. You know, I think in entertainment or businesses in entrepreneur, there's two types of people. There's the artist type and the scientist type. And you need to know which one you are. And if you're the artist type, meaning you're creative

and you have ideas and you've got these sort of exterior challenge, you need to have some scientists around you. And if you're a scientific entrepreneur, don't you think if you're a scientific entrepreneur, you need creative people around you. And the mistake people make is they often hire, I just did a program on diversity on this. They hire someone like them because we like people like us. So artists hire more artists instead of really good scientific people around them. So that's just one thing for you, you agree?

Nail on the head. Nail on the head. Yeah, it's exact same situation. We're kind of going through right now is that. And just figuring people in different realms that are experts in this, this, this, this, and just find the right people to surround yourself with. But again, it does come back to, you know,

it's sometimes hard to do that, you know, it's hard to figure who the right partners are because, you know, this is a fucking cut for a world. It's, you don't know who to trust, you know, so you, it's a little bit of a lot of risk behind it, you know. Yeah, I remember even when you were looking at your podcast deal and you and I were talking about that, I felt like you were concerned about getting close. Yeah, you're concerned about that. But I know I know there's been some issues there. Bob has an unbelievable podcast. You guys that you all need to be listening to. But there's one thing I want to talk about social just for a second. Then we'll shift, go to a couple of things towards the end because the story on its own is just so unreal. Do you worry it's going to go away?

Absolutely not. You do not. No, meaning you don't spend any time anxiety or fear. No, I am more than confident that I am able to what I'm afraid will go away is the stick that I do will would get old, right? Like that's a shame stick that I do will get old, right? That's that's that's fine. But so how do we pivot that? And you know, I will say right now that I think that I am potentially building and have this idea that I'm not even afraid to talk about, but that I think is going to revolutionize the way that we watch sports. And I think that we are going to layer what is one of the biggest booming businesses in planet earth right now is the

sports gambling market. And, and, you know, I don't want to get too much into it because I'm just really, I'll talk to you off forever on it. And give us one little insight. What do you mean? Give us one layer without giving it all the way. I don't even care if I give it away. No, if I'll do it better. You know, I've said that people in the room are probably so sick of hearing it, but you know, I think that you have one way of watching football right now, right? You have Troy, Aikman and Joe Bach. All right, so that's like a take what I'm good at. Let's just have an alternative way to watch football. Now you have Bob at the forefront of it.

A man who can, because here's a deal. If I announced a whole entire football game, right? And I did it the way that you see on my social clips. It would get so old. It would die. People care too much about football. But I do have the ability, and this is where my talent does come in the hand, to be able to call

a whole game like you is seeing on TV. I know I can do it. But what I want to do is have a little teeny bit of the comedic element, no rules and what not. And I want to rotate in because everybody's always like Joe Buck, Troy Ackman, who would be a better color commentator for Joe Buck. This guy is guy. Well, fuck it. Let's bring in four guys.

Bob Manoray, Steph Curry, quarter one. Bob Manoray, just be here. Now, how can we do that though? How can we use the NFL product? How can we get the license to do that? Well, Scooter Braun came to me a year ago and said, hey, Twitch just acquired a deal with the NFL for Thursday and a football.

He said, perfect. So I spent $30,000 building this fucking product with a green screen and all this different shit where I was in the bottom of the corner of the screen and all this hoopla and whatnot. And it just didn't go anywhere. And it just died in six months, whatever lost $30,000. Then one day I was kind of on one of my vendorsers, which you see, I was up for like 36 hours and it was like four in the morning and it just hit me.

I thought more about it and I thought about the gambling world and I said, how cool would it be to have a guy live in my ear, giving me live update odds and it's a countdown clock on the screen. Second and 17, now we can commentate the game, but it's all kind of revolved heavily around gambling. That's awesome. See, I wanted people to hear how your mind thinks and how deals come together and how you pivot and that's why I wanted to have that part of the show in there today. I want to talk about one of these benders. How many story posts do you do a day on average? Oh, anywhere from zero to 6000. No, but I mean, there's just no rhyme or

read. There's no rhyme or A re there's no rhyme. Reza, but this is where nothing. Yeah. I'll tell you the gods. I sure that's being completely honest. I mean, it's is is is playing simple. I could get better at setting, you know, knowing the peak times and all that and doing it.

I don't know. That's just my style. I just don't give a fuck. I just will post something. If I see it, I'll look at a clip. Like Aaron will send me a bunch of clips. I'll just scroll through and I'm like, I can work with that. And I'll go in the other room and I'll just rip it.

You know, I have no schedule. And then with the stories, what I try and do though, is I want to, it's like I visualize myself as like the Truman show. I want to show people what I'm going through every single day without the, like you said before, the real shit and the bad shit, whatever it is. I want to show exactly what's going on in my life.

That's really good analogy. The Truman show, the Truman shit, whatever it is. I want to show exactly what's going on in my life. That's really good. I know. The Truman show, the Truman show, I liked that. And guys, he's, again, he's not, he's not organized. But if you go back and you look at his social, and you start following him, he posts almost every single day, multiple times a day. And then on his story, he posts quite often. And the reason that I know that is because he's bubble comes

to the front of my screen every freaking time. He does it because I click on him so often. And so he doesn't give himself enough credit. But I want to go to these benders last. Why do you click on me? I'm just curious about why you... I think the Truman shows a pretty good analogy. Okay, I'll tell you why.

I'll give you a few reasons because you've given these keys. One, you are an underdog and I root for you. So I do root for Bob. Maybe it's because we're both Boston boys and, you know, I don't know. But I found Bob through my son. So I think I root for you. Two, your stuff is the Truman show. It's like my own life is pretty predictable and regimented.

And I'm this discipline dude, as you know. And when I watch you, it's a totally different experience. And I kind of, I know when he's on a bender, I know when he's gambling with Timmy bounce back, you know, like I know his content. It's entertaining and interesting to me. Any documents that, well, even like when you golf, you know, you shoot it, you're an artist, bro.

Like when he's on the golf course, I shoot stuff. I'm like, hey, I just made a birdie by years. He's like, this p par if he misses it. It's six. It's like it's a show and he's definitely putting a lot of thought I am putting a lot of thought behind the stories more than the main posts too, but I do actually put a lot more effort into that like and That's one thing I do give myself credit for is I do put a lot of effort into trying to make a storyline from start to finish And then never knowing what's gonna happen the next day. What do put a lot of effort into trying to make a storyline from start to finish and then never knowing what's gonna happen the next day. What do you think is a person who follows my shit?

What do you think from what you could see? What could I do better? What do you think I could do better? Wow, that's a great question. Cause you're one of my top five follows on social. What could you do better? I think you could do better. I don't know. I honestly, I can't think of something right away. I think maybe once in a while tackling an issue, like you just did.

You just look something more really relevant in the time. Like you just did the deal yesterday on, you know, the Milwaukee shooting and the NBA shut down. Like your engagement went through the roof. Yeah. It's a test of sort of your reach. Maybe it wants in a while something that's like, hey man, I don't usually talk about these things, but maybe a little bit more of that.

And I just did the bullying thing. Stop bullying. No, I know. And I just, I loved that. And I'm very against, which I think is, that's one of my biggest pet peeves. I get so fucking mad at that is the bullying thing. I don't know what it is. It just drives me through a that is the bullying thing. I don't know what it is.

It just drives me through a fucking roof. If you, I don't know what it is. I was never really bullied in school or anything, but I just think it's the lowest of all fucking lows. And that's why I just, if I can do anything to, because I don't know if you want to call me an influencer, I don't know if I'm the best influence on the planet here, but there's one thing I'd want to get across

to the younger people that follow me is that it's just not cool to do that. And if you see somebody get fucking bullied in school and Step up and fucking do something about it, you know, I agree with you one of the reasons that I waited yeah one of the reasons it bothers you and one of the reasons you've done well is you're a good person bro Like I'm not being hokie or anything like I think most people to follow you since there's a goodness there, you know, and that your humor isn't mean It's uh, it's funny, you know, and that your humor isn't mean. It's, uh, it's funny, you know, it's funny. It's not at the expense all the time of other people. Okay, I want to ask you this last least. You'll stay with me. I, you're talking about these benders. And I'm going to tell you what I, so this is like live, everyone listening in on me and you.

When I watch you, uh, the guys I know that I've coached over the years, people have patterns. Human beings have patterns. And one of those patterns can often be that when they get to a certain point, they destruct a little bit. When they get to a certain point, they destruct a little bit. When I watch you, because I do care about you, I sometimes think, man, he's gone,

he goes pretty deep on this part of your thing still. And because he's got this history where it kind of derailed him once, I just concerned myself about that. And I was a weird thing to cover on a podcast, but I just want to, I want everyone listening to this. I love it, I love it. I bet you that the people in that room that are around you

are like, hey, I'm glad someone's saying this crap to him. So do you feel like that's also something you need to keep an eye on because that's been a pattern in your life? Yeah, I mean here's a deal is two things. I first, my brand that you know where we sell all our t-shirts and all our things is revolved around partying. We show the work hard play hard type thing. I'm also an amazing method actor for my days of acting. So I'm actually never drunk. I'm actually been sober my whole life. I'm just kidding. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, But when I do this stuff with Timmy and we're having fun and parting my numbers are through the fucking roof

So in my head, it's that constant battle is like all right This is my brand at the end of the day our brand is to I wish I could say though This is the one thing I wish I could say is that I did fake it more I did fake goal partying stuff more, but I don't You know I go all in And but yeah, that's that's, you know, Ripem Mugu's parting is apt. You know, zap is our podcast.

That means hammered drunk. So that's that's that's the thing. You know, I don't know, I don't know the fuck to do. I just, you know, it becomes boring if I think that I don't know. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying for everyone listening to this, because we all have that dude in our life, who's that dude we want to be around, who's the guy that keeps it, you know, the life, who's that dude we wanna be around, who's the guy that keeps it, you know,

the life, right? So it's just moderation and be careful. When I watch you, I'm like, only thing you could do could derail this dude, is that he starts going too hard on the excuse of this is his brand. That's my concern for you is that you keep things between the lines, and by the way,

lines is probably not the right phraseology based on what you told us in the beginning. But what I worry about is people's patterns. And as I watch people climb in life, I watch this happen all the time. They start to turn the air conditioner on in their life and cool it back down again every time they get on a run. So I just want to make sure for you

that I understand that you're brand. Is this a secret intervention here at a community? You're in higher-team. You're in higher-team. Texted me before the call. No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm saying. I'm saying that I'm in there and said of this intervention. and this is a secret intervention here at your entire internet. You're in higher texted me before the call. No, no, no, you know what I'm saying? I'm saying that Aaron Aaron set up this intervention. This is no, no, no, this is for my whole audience. And I'm saying this as an example with you is that, look,

here's one of the things that I think is a clue to success. Is not here's all the things I do well. And then I think everyone should ask themselves the question, what could take me out? What could take me out? Is it that I'm not talented enough? Is it the market could change? Is it that I'm lazy? Everyone should ask themselves the question, what could take me out? What could take me out? Is it that I'm not talented enough? Is it the market could change?

Is it that I'm lazy? Is it that I don't have a good team around me? Is it my pricing? Is it my personal behavior, right? Is it those things? And when I look at you, I'm like talent through the roof, unbelievable networker, good man, pretty damn hard working when he's on it,

innovative, got the connections, has this unique thing for me. I already know what it is with you. Is this dude continue to have this brand at the same time, keep his stuff together as he ages, as he gets to 35 and 40 and all this other stuff and so for you, that's why I ask you that, that's why I pointed out and it's why I wanted it. Well, I think I think to answer that question is, yeah, and that's a good point because you're right. You know, it's like anything else. So what do we have to do to how do we fix that that? How do we avoid that? What you just said? And I think the way we avoid that is

is by layering talent underneath me that, you know, we start going out and branching off and putting talent underneath us that can go out and do the parting stuff where Bob kind of steps behind the scenes as he gets older because yes, well, nobody's going to want to watch me at 45 years old again, fucked up, right? Right. It's the same kind of model that, you know, as as much as what, you know, David Portino and I had that little thing, you know, I, David's done such a great job with bar stool and doing that is he's found a way to he started that thing with

fucking T shirts and his fucking Boston apartment and turn it into, you know, he's got the big case, a 20 podcast, he's got whatever, it's like he's just, he took a step back and that's eventually where we wanna go. So that's my best answer, that's my best answer to the question. By the way, that's a great answer in a great example, too. Really, really good.

Last question. For everyone listening to this that is in that spot, man. Like they're back where, by the way, this is sign of Bob Menry, most people have never seen before, which I love, but for everybody who's in that spot, I never did this. I know, and I love that you did it, man, it's going to, it's, it's, it's wonderful. I mean, maybe anything to the man.

Yeah, and I knew it would, I knew it would be this great. So I've wanted to do it for so long, but for people that are at that spot, they're down. Maybe they're not homeless in their car or they're, you know, they're paranoid, running through CVS and barely make the flight back and having showered in three days, which is an extreme example. But in their way, they're like, man, I'm down.

I chased something, it didn't work out. I had a marriage, didn't work out, a business didn't work out, a job didn't work out. And I wanna turn this thing around. This dude turned it around. What would you say to him? Any message to them? Advice.

So there are a low point, there are a low point in their life right now. What I would say is, okay, I would start by getting up at five in the morning every morning, starting tomorrow. I think just getting up at five in the morning depends obviously situation. It varies though. I mean, do you have three kids?

Are you single or you married, whatever? For somebody in my kind of, you know, single dude, you single or you married whatever? For somebody in my kind of you know single dude, you know You're up in five in the morning every fucking morning and you're going out and you're not afraid to talk to every single person That you meet no matter where they are Whether they're standing and just being a sponge and gathering information Understanding and picking one end goal would be for you like what your ultimate goal is I think at the end of the day and then finding a way to use the people that you talk to every single day, that you're picking their brains and being a sponge, and finding a way through six degrees of separation to kind of

figure who the right people are to get you there, and then really go to those people and really look them in the eye and tell them how bad you fucking want it. And that's it. You just look somebody in the eye and you say, like, I did the other day, okay? I said, I just fucking want this, I want this more than anybody, you know? And you can't fake that shit. And it comes because the hardest part is starting anything. It's the hardest thing in the world. Once you start, once you get a little momentum

and whatnot, then sky's a limit. I'm so proud of you, Bob. This was so good today. I knew this was gonna come out. So I just wanna be, I just wanna be as rich as you. That's it. Well, that's it. Stick with me.

We'll get there. We'll get there, brother. I love you, dude. And I know the whole world's like, you've been there with me in the beginning. And I wanna say real quick, I gotta cut you out. I wanna say that I do appreciating you done for me because you've been with me in the beginning

and you have given me some pretty sound advice and always been there. And I'll tell you guys that I did credit to Gary. Everybody's like, oh, Gary V. And my lads, all these guys, they all full of shit or whatever, it's like, no, believe it or not, they fucking check in me, me more than they should, you know, and it's, and where I, when I was, when I offered no value and you guys are never looking for value, which is great about which is you guys are just looking to pass a good message on and inspire people. But I would, I admire and actually I learned that from people like you. And that's what I try and do as well.

I try and pass off as much good energy and as much of what I've learned to other people. And so you really did that today. So yeah, you really did that today. Who to know that when you're sitting in that car, they're just blowing each other this whole entire time. And no, no, it's not. You're right.

But like I mean it. And I feel really strongly I do. I do this as you know, like my whole deal is I just want to really help people. And when I'm in, you're right, but like I mean it. And I feel really strongly, I do, I do this as you know, like my whole deal is I just want to really help people. And when I'm in the midst of doing that with somebody, I'm grateful for it. And I know when we're doing it on this show, and I know when maybe we only did it a little bit,

and we did it a lot today. So thank you. Hey guys, this is great. It was awesome, man. Follow Bob on Instagram. You'll get everything from there that you need. And follow his podcast as well. And then for me, remember this every day on Instagram,

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it increases the chance. And I win. You've commented before. And if you replied other people's comments, it increased. And I win. You do, you've commented before. I think we picked you as a winner, but you're not there enough consistently enough. But if you do, I'm gonna turn on, and I think,

hey, guess what, I'm gonna turn off, I'm gonna turn on your post notifications. Boom, see how you just did that, everybody. So turn your notifications on, and you can win a trip with me flying the jet, come to one of these houses, Bob's talking about. coach you my book max out gear all kinds of amazing things happening on Instagram on my max out two minute drill Bob thank you everybody else god bless you and continue to max out

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