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And I had a show in Orlando like a couple of years ago and it was the first time I had seen him since the trip. And man, I think it was like 11 years had passed since I've actually seen him face to face. And he was like, "Yo, I'm Bob. A lot went on. He cried, I cried more than him. It was just a lot, man, but yeah, we still talk today. He's literally texting me right now. That's kind of a cute story and kind of fun. I mean, it's a bummer, of course, it's awful that his wife passed away, but you were there like right in time—.

Because who knows what he was going to do? Did he tell you how he was going to plan to kill himself after his last drinks? He was just like, "This was my last drink. I was here having my last. He drinks beers. He's like a beer guy. He's Bob from Orlando. He's not like a hard—. Like he was like, same thing I was doing, "If I'm going to go out and go out drunk.

I guess I kind of identified with it and unconsciously, I kind of subconsciously I kind of identify with it. And I think I saw what was happening and was like, I think this guy needs some lifting.

Like you were in a very unique mental or emotional place to spot that like right away. Like literally, it was me and my security and there were two chairs empty next to him. It was like person, empty chair, Bob, empty chair, person. So it was like set for us to surround him with this love. Bob is Bob. Zelle is a great way to send money to friends and family, no matter where they bank in the US.

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Like, they're just really good at it. Love it. Go home. Take like seven pills to go to sleep. And when you're trying to have a certain level of money and you got to portray this level of success. Like for who? I used to smoke cigarettes. I used to chain smoke cigarettes, like really chain smoke. I used to chain smoke cigarettes to the point of, I used to light up cigarettes with other cigarettes.

And when I started wanting to stop smoking cigarettes, I would pick up a cigarette and thinking to myself, why do you want to smoke this? And if I couldn't come up with a good excuse, I just put it back. And it's the same thing. It's the same approach I take now. Why do you need people to know what you're doing? I don't. Are you satisfied with where you are? Do you have enough money to keep your family going?

Do you—? Yeah, I'm good. Oh, okay, cool. You don't need to do more than what you're doing then. You don't need people to think you're on top of anything. Do you need that? Like, why would you need people to know?

I guess I'll make more money. Are you not making enough money? Do you need more money? I think I want that jet ski? Like, I did, I want a jet ski or like a boat or something. And it's like, do you live around? I mean jet ski in the woods? Can't rent these? It's possible.

Why do you need a jet ski so goddamn bad? So yeah, I mean, but I have these internal conversations—. And it's so much more fun when you're doing it for yourself, as opposed to making sure everybody knows you're doing it at all.

It really helps to just be content with where you are and how you're doing. Because the thing that people get misconstrued when people say, "Don't forget where you came from.

I don't want to be there. Like I can't forget it. Hell yeah. Am I not allowed back in there? Because that's great. You don't want to be there. So you don't want to be there and you don't, you know, you don't want your mom to be there, but I'm supposed to make sure I stay there all the time.

That's fair. I didn't want to be there. You don't want to be there now. I'm okay with not being able to come back. I'm not going to forget it. I respect it and everything that happens within it, I get it. I understand it, but it's not my goal to go back.

It was my goal to leave. It's everybody's goal to leave. What's the analogy? People call it like the crab bucket, right? Where like the crabs are crawling out and then the other ones are reaching up and they're obviously just trying to get out but they'd, by way of that—.

This metaphor went—. So when we cook crabs, you got to dump them out of the actual bucket. But sometimes one of them doesn't go in the bucket. What's up, bitch? It's just like you can't put it in the pot now because one made it out. Okay, now we went off the rails. It's the , it's days, you'll figure it out.

I read in the news lately. And this is, I don't want to dwell on this too much, but I'm curious this thing with Usher where he like woke you up on—. Is this real? Usher woke me up to tell me that I ruined music. His kids were running all over the plane, jumping all over my chest, and I had a window seat and his kids apparently wanted to see out the window.

But the flight attendant woke me up and told me that Usher wanted to talk to me. And he was like, "You ruined music. I mean, small talk before it wasn't so cut and dry at one point. Yeah, the sentence he said out of his mouth was, "You ruined music. He didn't say "ruined". I'm trying to keep it clean.

Like to wake someone up and then say that, I mean to say that at all. I think he just chose his words—. He was saying that I shifted the industry to a standard that didn't fit what he was really good at.

Well, it seems like, you know, it's a threat because he can sing and he's like, "Well, crap now everybody—". He was like, "I was special because I could sing better than everybody. Like before you even play it on a piano or you can play a note on a piano and he'll tell you what note that is.

This man has never needed Auto-Tune in the studio. I've worked with him multiple times. And he was basically saying, "I was special because I had that ability. And now everybody has that ability. You made me normal. But the thing is, she popularized it, but nobody copied her.

Nobody else was like, "It's the new Cher sound. I need to do that on my record too. You couldn't have — I think the only time that it was okay to sound like anybody else was like the disco era.

Like all disco sounded the same. And I feel like that's what happened to me and I'm not dwelling on it, but that was a major part of my life that, you know, I feel like the whole disco sucks movement was kind of like the anti Auto-Tune movement. Having people copy — even when Roger Troutman did the Talkbox. Nobody else was doing it. But even if they tried to do it, like Eric Clapton, he did it with a guitar. He put a spin on it. He did something different, but it was not widespread that nobody changed an industry with it.

Even Kanye did it before me. Kanye did Auto-Tune before me, but nobody copied him and nobody wanted to sound like him and nobody was making hits with it. It didn't change the industry. When I did it, it changed the industry. It bursts a whole new genre of music. So I understand being the face of it. Like when mumble rap happened. Little Yachty wasn't by far the least mumbly rapper at the time, but he was the face of it and he got the brunt of mumble rap.

He got the brunt of the hate of it. So I understand that the person that's the most sought after for doing a thing and as seen as the originator would get the most hate for that. I understand that. But to say that you made me not special anymore was—. Now, I'm having a harder — I might have a hard time. It's a good thing. And like I said, I still respect Usher. But once that got normal to people and it stopped making that money, I had to figure out how to do something different.

But if you're not keeping up with what, how the industry is changing, that's not going to work anymore. No question, no question for sure. Nobody had seen that I was actually an okay guy. I did meet-and-greets a lot in my early stages and I would always hear two things. One, I thought you'd be taller. I thought you'd be telling them that too. I'm sorry. This works out really nice. Everyone's like, "Oh wow, your husband and you are — he's so much taller than you," but I'm like, "Yeah, don't stand next to me when she's around.

You seem super nice in like the boat video — everybody, like, you're like a good natured guy. I would talk differently because I thought if you didn't sound stupid, you weren't cool. Like you know what I'm saying? The way I do interviews differently, and the things that I decide to say, the things that I actually know, actually show my intelligence. I don't know if this was even a part of your culture, but in our culture, in the hip-hop culture, like you getting made fun of for going to college.

The crab bucket, man. You don't need college. You went to college. No, no, no. So I've never actually understood it, I just participated in it. You know, seeing that people can actually see my personality and I can get on Twitch and actually show people that I'm a good person. And I'm more approachable than other artists. I mean, I've been in the airport with multiple artists and people come to me and they're like, "Can I get a picture? But you seem like the only one that actually would take a picture with me.

That's like, I'm just happy now. I'm just so happy that it's like, "Yeah, come on. You know who Bill Nye, the science guy is? He's a very nice guy, but he gets like, "Come on, man. I've seen every phone in existence. I know how to work all of them. It's literally one button, two maybe. Two to get on the camera app and then one, bam. Because there are a lot of weird asss phones, like in Asia, like Xiaomi Red Note 3, or like, how do you use this? What's a Xiaomi Red Note 3?

I had to take a picture on a phone that was like a teardrop shape. The camera was at the top of that. I'm just going to keep this phone. I'll text you the photo. You know the number, right? That's funny. I couldn't be going to space right now. I think I'm fine where I am. That's a great way to look at it. I think that's' a good place to — on that note, let's wrap it up.

Thank you so much, man, for your time and your candor and your vulnerability, man. I think it's important to be honest about all this stuff that you were honest about.

I don't want Bob to linger. This is kind of free therapy. Yeah, you know, I really enjoyed it. When something bad happens to us, we act as if skill wasn't involved at all. We just sort of pawn it off to the luck element. But when good things happen, we sort of ignore the luck element and we say that it was because of our great skill.

But what I thought was really interesting was that the reaction was to suspend the testing and just to take the cars off the road, not just the Uber cars, but other self-driving vehicles. And what I didn't see were any comparisons to how self-driving vehicle did per thousand miles traveled versus the technology that we already have on the road, which is cars that are driven by humans. We know that 6, pedestrians died per year by regular driven cars.

And of course, what everybody's thinking in that moment is, "I have the worst life ever. Like why do these things always happen to me? I'm so unlucky. I'm so miserable. You know, that hit hard because most people would assume that being a hip-hop superstar like T-Pain is just nonstop awesomeness. But you know, the depression kicked in that we talked about, and he mentioned that the most successful people that he knows are often the most depressed.

He said every night during his performances, thousands of people are clamoring to be your friend. Everybody wants to talk to you. They're climbing for each other to touch your hand or something.

But then once the show ends, the people you really want to hang out with, they don't want anything to do with you because you know, you'll let success go to your head or you're a bad person, or you're drunk all the time. If you're familiar at all with like Dave Chappelle and some of these other guys that have just sort of bugged out from being famous. It later comes out often to the people around you who are always trying to milk you for something is bad for your mental health.

Go figure. And it sounds like that's what happened here especially when you hear earlier in the show about how his manager was ripping him off on all these house sales and all this other kind of horrible stuff that should not be done to you by people who have a duty to help you succeed in business. It's just a testament to streaming as a platform. Imagine you're playing video games, all you're doing and you get paid as much or more than a lot of your music royalties.

Now, of course, some of his hits and stuff, it's a different story, but really wild that you can even make money doing that. I guess that's what people think about podcasting too, which I agree. Weird way to make money. It's kind of a surprise. I don't want to question it too much. They had a major falling out and his dad, this is so awful.

He had to cancel his show after hearing that, because we think these people who are famous and rich, they just haven't made, but it's just a different set of problems. He's also dropped contact with his younger brother because he kept asking for money and then his younger brother passed away.

So there's a lot of regret in there too. This is a guy with actual deep stuff going on here. And I think it's important to highlight all of that because we want to give a balanced view of fame and wealth and some of the baggage it comes with that stuff that maybe you don't really want.

And maybe you're not really counting when you go for it and you're trying to make it in a creative pursuit or in any pursuit for that matter, business or otherwise. And of course, he's got therapy and things like that, but he also leans on his wife a lot, especially early on when he wanted to give up.

He said he told his wife on countless occasions that he didn't want to do this anymore. And he would text her and she would essentially talk him off the ledge, so to speak. And finally, I think it's pretty sort of cute and funny that there's a guy named Bob and Orlando taking tickets at Universal Studios or whatever. And he's like best friends with T-Pain and you know that basically nobody believes him, right? When he says anything. They just think he's this delusional old guy and that he is an imaginary friend or something like that.

And I can just see them all like, "Oh yeah, Bob just hasn't been the same since his wife passed. He pretends he's on the phone and that he's friends with some rapper named T-Pain. Everyone just feels so bad for him. You know, why on earth, Bob?

If you're going to pick an imaginary friend, why would you pick T-Pain? Why would you pick T-Pain? Poor old Bob. And it says that he'd not only think about himself, that all of those mental health challenges and the stress that he was under, maybe it just made him a better person. Please use our website links if you buy books from guests. That always helps support the show.

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