Bobby Just Found Out His Only "Normal" Friend Is Moving — And He's Taking It Harder Than He Expected
Turns out adult friendships are fragile things, and Bobby got a painful reminder of that on the show recently.
The Friend Who Isn't "Industry"
Bobby has plenty of people around him day to day, but there's one friendship that stands apart from all of them: a guy he plays pickleball with once a week, someone he originally met through softball, and who has absolutely nothing to do with radio, media, or "the industry." No shared coworkers, no shared shows, no shop talk. Just two guys hitting a ball around.
According to Bobby, this is his only real, non-work friendship — and it took him a year and a half before he'd even let himself call the guy a "friend" in the first place. That's a big deal for someone whose entire social circle tends to orbit the workplace.
The News Nobody Wants to Hear
Right after a regular pickleball session, the friend dropped the news: he's moving away in September, and it's far. Bobby compared the feeling to being a kid who finds out a friend is switching schools — that moment where you realize the easy, regular hangouts are about to disappear.
Bobby's response in the moment was casual — something like "oh, all right, well, cool" — but internally, he admitted, it hit a lot harder than that.
Why Bobby Felt Weird About Being Sad
Bobby confessed he felt almost embarrassed telling his wife how bummed he was, because — in his words — he's an adult, and adults aren't supposed to get this sad over a friend moving. Somewhere along the way, a lot of people absorb the idea that losing a friendship shouldn't sting once you're grown, even though it clearly still does.
Amy pushed back on that idea, pointing out that the sadness is actually a good sign — it means Bobby built a real relationship with someone completely outside of work, which is its own kind of personal growth. The conversation also got a little pointed when Amy asked, only half-joking, whether it's possible this friendship mattered more to Bobby than he's letting on, since the friend has his own separate work life and circle of people. Bobby wasn't so sure that was true, but he didn't fully shut the idea down either.
The Bigger Problem: His Whole Friend Group Is Thinning Out
To make matters worse, this isn't an isolated loss for Bobby's pickleball circle. Between people moving away, switching sports, or just being busy with travel, Bobby's pickleball rotation — and his casual friend group along with it — is shrinking fast. As he put it, he's now stuck "auditioning new friends," which is a pretty funny way to describe a genuinely tough adult problem.
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