How To Have Hard Conversations With Friends ft. Bobby Bones
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How did Bobby Bones build long-term friendships while running a radio show?
How do you have those harder conversations with friends, especially when you're working with them to make sure you're not damaging? Like you need to make a decision that sometimes you need to be, I need to say the boss thing, but you also don't want to damage that relationship.
The boundaries have to be discussed many times over just to be even reinstated.
I remember, I think, I don't think I went a day in high school where I didn't listen to Bobby Bones, Amy, and Lunchbox, by the way.
What town? In Beaumont?
Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Our pop days. 94.1, top 40. That was the first time I was ever introduced, but I don't think I ever had a morning that it wasn't Bobby, Amy, and Lunchbox. What is it like to be able to, even now, have... like really close I would imagine very close friends of people you've done a lot of life with and Eddie and best friend and you have You did the music and everything that you're still to this day Are you able to have really awesome conversations? With and just do it for a living.
I think one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is hire all my friends Just generally speaking. Yeah I've been with the whole show now for over 20 years, which is crazy and but also I do the math, it means I'm getting older too. Like my mortality comes out whenever I start thinking about how long we've been together. But it's awesome because my goal was to always just like work alongside people I liked. Cause I saw like my stepdad, he worked in a mill. He did not really like the job that he had. He really did not like the people He didn't have a close bond with them. So I always wanted to have something that I enjoyed with people I enjoyed. But it was kind of a weird way that it all happened because it was never my strategically grandiose plan to have...
all my friends come into the show, we had no money. And so you just call the people that you know to come in and jump in with you. And so when I started that show and I was by myself and I had no co-host, it was, who can I hire for cheap? And who do you hire for cheap? Well, your friends, they'll come do it for free. And so it was such an odd way to build that show. And at the time I resented it a bit because the company wouldn't give me money to hire professional co-hosts because they didn't know if they believed in the product. So I just grabbed all the people that I liked and that made me better. And now we've been together for a long time, made a long time. It's crazy to think about when you think about like thinking of the numbers, it's been over 20 years with pretty much all of them, even Eddie and I, he's my best friend.
And we've done the radio show together for 13, 14 years, but we did television for another three or four before that. So we've been together, you know, 17, 18 years.
Yeah. And now not only do you have that close relationship, but I mean, they're also really professionals like at a craft. Now, I think that that's that can be really easily overlooked of, I think, just any radio or television for that matter of there's a certain craft to making sure that you keep kind of the ball in the air. Or do you find that it's just pure friendship that you're able to keep things rolling?
Oh, I think they've gotten really good at what they do. I also think it's a couple of hats. Like I have to wear the hat of being the boss sometimes. And then I have to wear the hat of being the friend sometimes. But I think over the years, there's been a great understanding of when I have to switch those hats. Right. Because number one, I got to make sure the ship is taken care of. Right. And there's some difficult decisions that have to be made at times. So they are great at... doing their job, but they're also great at knowing when they have to do their job at a higher level because it needs to be done that way. So I think that's been the hardest part about working with your friends is you gotta be their boss too.
And that ain't comfortable sometimes. But at this point, we've done it for so long. It's a well-oiled machine.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did Bobby Bones build long-term friendships while running a radio show?
0:00–8:26
2
How did Bobby's small-town upbringing shape his approach to conversation?
8:26–22:18
3
What habits make Bobby genuinely curious and better at asking questions?
22:18–44:35
4
How can silence and storytelling be used to recover a stalled conversation?
44:35–44:50
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