December 3, 2025 • 25 mins
Host Jeremy Odem is BACK with a brand new episode of the award winning, chart topping, world wide sensation, Laugh with Me Podcast. This week, Jeremy feels the positive energy from a compliment, but is humbled quickly! Also, Jeremy gives his best iHeart Jingle Ball Host audition for 2026.
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-JO receives an amazing compliment
-JO is humbled immediately after getting compliment
-Jingle Ball SZN is here and Jeremy wants to HOST in 2026
-Jingle Ball audition
-"Laugh with Me Christmas" performed by The Pepper Spray Singers
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh with Me,
a podcast with Jeremy Oh buye y'all. J O, welcome
to episode one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Johnny, that's that's pretty good. That's say. I say that's
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Stack that up there with one of the good things
that happened today. I just sometimes when you get a
couple of wins, you want to share them with the people, okay,
because it's just it's no fun to score a win
and then nobody knows about it, especially when it's wins
(01:14):
like this, Okay, not episode one eleven. I mean, that's
exciting for Johnny. Johnny, good job, buddy. You were here
for what a hundred of those close to one hundred, right,
We're not celebrating your one hundred yet either way, Johnny,
we're at one eleven. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Not today today.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I uh, you know, rolled up to the old hospital
as one does, having uh, having some blood taken, having
having it checked out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
See how the irons sitting.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And you might be saying, man, Jo sounds like he's
got that pep in his step. He must be full
of iron. He must be rocking and rolling right now.
That new Medsie's on work. It no not necessarily see
what happened is is I I was like, I went
to have it checked because I am, in fact probably
(02:11):
pretty well and.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All the needed things to keep going.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But as I'm at the desk, you know, talking to
the I don't even know what the reception whoever it
is doing the check in, you know, anymore. To verify
who you are, they need your name, they need your birthday,
sometimes they need your home address. But in this particular situation,
(02:40):
she asked for my birthday. So I give her my
birthday and she loudly goes, no way, And I thought, hey,
we have the same birthday or something. And I'm like, well, hey,
your birthday is in June and she's like, no, there
is no way that you were that old.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And she's like, you do not look like you were
that old. And I'm like, hey, I'm gonna take this
win because I don't get that very often anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I do.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I do believe my age is in fact catching up
to me, and I don't get that. I used to
get that a lot, okay, especially in my thirties. My thirties,
I got it a lot where people thought I was
in my twenties, sometimes even younger, you know, getting id
left and right just boom boom boom. But you know anymore,
(03:39):
you know, I don't really get you so much of
that at all. Got it today, though, Take that as
a win. Always take that as a win. That's what
they said. Like with the having red hair, they always
said when I was younger, They're like, you're gonna you're
(03:59):
gonna get that lot when you're older. You people are
gonna say, oh, you look so young. It's just it's
in the jeans and something about the redheaded jeans. I
don't know. I don't know if that's the case or not.
But whatever else I've got going on, I know is
helping speed everything up to catch up so we are
in fact getting there.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I don't Maybe it's the beard. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know, this is gonna be a warm winter for
your boy. I started growing out my facial hair, got
I got a beard going. I've never been more warm outside.
And it's cold. Okay, it's like ten degrees or less
in the mornings. I think this afternoon. It was maybe
(04:44):
in the twenties. But I'll tell you what my face warm.
So first winter ever, I got the beard going, and
I'm wondering, should I have been doing this all? I
don't know take that as a win.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It could be.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It could very well be the beard covering up my
old man face. I think that's what it was, because
I don't have the gray or the white or whatever.
Maybe today, because I don't know always, maybe today I
had that life in my eyes and she was just like, man,
that guy's young. And then you know, I spit out
(05:25):
my age. It verified in the computer, and she's like,
no way, we're gonna give credit to the beard on
this one. But as life does, whenever you've got some
some monster wins like this, it tends to humble you.
(05:46):
And that's what happened not long after that, because I'm
waiting for tires. See I had an appointment today one
point thirty to get all new tires on my car.
My car desperately need tires, one Blue talked about a
couple weeks ago, one Blue. So I'm getting all these
new tires one thirty appointment today, But apparently not all
(06:09):
the tires were delivered. I you know, they said four tires.
Two of them have been delivered. Then there was some
talk of maybe we had three, so maybe they had
a rando around. I don't know, but either way, we're
waiting on two tires to be delivered for sure. And
did you know tires They don't come rolling in on
(06:32):
a truck, right, They get like delivered fed X or something,
at least at this place they did. Is they're waiting
on a FedEx delivery. I thought that was random. You
think they would just get like a truck that rolls
up and just drops off all their tires for him
for the week or something, a couple times a week,
(06:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So so anyways, I'm waiting because they ate. They were like, hey,
it's FedEx truck. I'm waiting on the fext here any minute,
any minute. Spoiler, I still don't have my tires. But
as I'm waiting, I'm like, oh cool, I'll go walk
around like Target or something, you know. So I'm walking
around Target, and here's where life humbles you. I'm in
(07:17):
the back of the store, having the time in my
life just looking at stuff, just look at it stuff.
And uh, I had this instant urge that I was
going to shit myself and this is not something that
always happens. I think that's the one of the biggest
make misconceptions with somebody who has like Chrome's disease or colitis,
(07:40):
is that you're just constantly shitting yourself. This is that's
not true at all. Now, with that being said, does
it do you have that urge? Do you feel like
instant immediate, like it's going down. Sometimes yes, And I
know some people have a far worse than me, so
I'm very thankful for that. I'm gonna continue to fight
(08:01):
the good fight and hope that I could get into
remission and not have to deal with it to a deeper,
deeper into the crones world. But the thing is, sometimes yes,
the urge hits, and it's not like, oh, I'm gonna
hold it until I know. It's like I was dodging
(08:22):
people in aisles because I was it was like one
of those things where every step you take like a fart,
like it just they just start flying out. And I
was at a point where I knew if I didn't
get to the bathroom now, it was gonna be worse
than these little farts. So it was like I didn't
(08:45):
want to be embarrassed by ripping farts, by all these people.
But then at the same time, it would be worse,
It could get far worse. So what did I do, Johnny.
I went straight up to the bathroom. But here's what
I didn't anticipate. There was a guy in the back
of the store with these two kids in his cart,
(09:08):
and he's just he's on his phone. He's ran and
raven to his girl that he's having to keep the kids,
you know, entertained while she's doing whatever she's doing. And
so I just thought it was funny. I'm like, oh,
this guy, this poor guy, he's dealing with his kids.
(09:30):
And then I get up to the front, I'm gonna
shit myself, and who is rolling into the bathroom with
all his kids? That guy. So now I'm coming in
behind him with urgency. He goes into the last available stall.
(09:56):
So part of me is like, well, that sucks, because
I don't know if I'm going to be able to.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Like wait this one out.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But then the other part of me is like, I
may have dodged a bullet because if I had gotten
in there right before him, and I'm in there and
then and then I have to listen to him, you know,
ranting and raving in the echoes of the restroom, ay
Target that he can't use the I don't even know
who had to go?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Was it him, was the kids? I don't care.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I didn't stick around to find out. But what I
do know is I had I had to keep moving,
so I did a lap around the front end there
of the store.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Of the registers.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Us in the business, US in the industry, grocery industry,
we call that front end there with the regis, we
call it the front end. I don't know what the
new normies call it, but those of us in the business,
we call it the front end.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I did.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I did a quick lap around the registers there on
the front end, and then I still didn't see anybody
coming out of the bathroom. So then I do another
lat but this time I went. I went over by
the baseball cards because there's supposed to be this new
you know, not new series, but this series that I
really enjoy. It's supposed to be coming out here this
(11:13):
week for twenty twenty five, and I was like, Ah,
could we Target maybe have.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Have the new packs?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But no, they did not. So I roll back over
and I see the guy with his kids putting their
coats on, So they are out of the restaurant now,
so I roll in there oddly enough, whole place empty.
I had the whole place to myself.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That was nice.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But as soon as I closed the stall door, then
somebody comes into the to the stall, but the to
the urinal. But the urinal's right. I took the first
stall hand up. I shouldn't have done that. I should
have taken the one in the back or something, but
I don't want to be a jerk and take the
handicap one, which happened to be in the back, which
I find interesting because why would the handicap stall be
(11:58):
the last stall, where as in the parking lot it's
always gotta be one of them front stalls.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And how close are we to.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You know, having to have some kind of like uh
idea or something to be able to use those handicap stalls,
much like the parking I'm not saying that we should.
I'm just speaking out loud, just thinking now, something's never
even occurred to me until just right this moment. I
usually don't even think too much about handicapped stalls, but
(12:30):
for whatever reason, I'm on one now. So anyway, so
then when you're when you're in a position where like this,
you have to try to time it because there's no
there's no music in there, there's nothing. It's just silence.
It's just the echoes of a target restaurant. The guy
in the urinal directly next to me. I'm in the stall.
(12:52):
I have to wait till the flush before I can
start any action because then otherwise it's.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's whole thing.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I mean, it's not like this guy's like, Oh, I
wonder what that guy's doing there. He knows what I'm
doing in there, So I mean, I guess I'm not
surprising anybody. But either way, So yeah, life comes at
you fast. One minute, you're uh, man, you look fantastic
for your age.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Look at this guy. There's no way.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You're in your early forties, there's no chance. Look at
this guy with the beard and everything. And then next
minute you're about to shit yourself and you're trying to
hold it in so that you don't get heard. Johnny,
hu'd your day go well? As everybody knows. We are
(13:39):
now found on the iHeart radio.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
App, the free app.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
By the way, one of my favorite things about iHeart
is this, uh the jingle ball that they do every
December They take a collection of some of the biggest
pop stars and rock stars in the world and they
bring them to you all in one monster show just
for the holidays. I think it's the coolest thing. I
(14:07):
also now that kind of have an inn and in
slightly with iHeart, I'm pitching myself as the host of
one of these jingle balls for twenty twenty six. Now, Johnny,
it's not gona be easy. It's not gonna be easy
(14:28):
at all. We got a lot of work to do
in twenty six in order to accomplish this goal. But
I'm working on it. For those of you that don't
know jingle ball is, and you're just you're a crazy person.
You don't jingle ball. This is basically it's in the
biggest markets in the United States and the biggest radio
market media markets the United States. They host these big shows, right,
(14:50):
So we're talking at Miami, Florida. We're talking at Atlanta, Georgia, Washington,
d C, Philadelphia, LA, Boston, New York, Chicago, I mean,
the biggest cities in the United States. And then you know,
the local iHeartRadio station hosts.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The big jingle ball huge artists.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
We're talking jelly Roll shine Down AJR, Alex Warren, Ed
Sheering is doing the one in Boston here coming up. MGK,
my guy, I got them double excess on my wrist.
Huge shows, okay, huge shows. I'd like to All I
(15:32):
want to do is host. I'm not asking to perform,
although with that being said, I have prepared some chokes.
I think it would be awesome to have a host
that comes out, you know, kind of feeling it out,
similar to like an award show, and let's just keep
(15:53):
it moving, but to keep it light hearted, keep the
have some little boom boom boom while one liners in between.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So Johnny fits cool with you.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I would like to try out some of the material
that I have here that I think is a sample
of what I could do, what I would say when
I host jingle Ball in twenty twenty six. Because I'm
serious about this, I'm not saying, you know, bring the
(16:23):
jingle Ball to Omaha where I'm at. I'll go to you, Okay,
I'll go to you and we'll do We'll do the
big jingle Ball and I'll just maybe host one. Okay.
So here's all right, Johnny, so I'm getting it. Let's
imagine a big arena. Okay, we're at the uh let's
(16:44):
let's pretend we're going to Atlanta right now. Okay, they
brought me out. I'm hosting this big show. We got
Little John and friends. Nellie's gonna be here. Okay, we're
at the Capitol one State Farm Arena or something. Okay,
let's see, let's see what I can do. This is
(17:04):
gonna be the crowd, okay, Johnny, please, yeah, thank you.
Welcome to jiggle Ball, the only holiday event where the
outfits get smaller as the temperature drops. Thank you, Johny. Well, gee,
(17:26):
we'll need you there too. We'll do what We'll need
you there too, to help me out with some of
this stuff. I saw performer backstage wearing something that legally
qualified as dental flaws. If you're listening at home, Yes,
the crowd looks incredible tonight. Everyone's dressed festive like they're
ready for Christmas. We're trying really hard to make their
(17:46):
ex jealous on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So that's what I'm saying, Johnny, I got these jokes.
I think it would just be funny.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I come out, I just you know, give a few
of these uh one liners, and you know, and that
could be you know, that'd be me coming out right
before Nelly. Okay, and now he's gonna like he's gonna
open and then uh, you know, Little John, Little John
and Friends is coming up. Okay, you know, coming up
(18:15):
just a little bit. But first, you know, Santa's got
his nice list and his naughty list. I'm on the
We're gonna circle back on that list. You know, Santa
shows up tonight, don't freak out. He's just here for
the influencers. I asked Santa for a six pack this year.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
He delivered.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's not the kind you drink responsibly. See That's what
I'm saying. Then let's get the crowd going. Yeah, man,
this crowd is electric and slightly drunk, which honestly is
the ideal Christmas ratio. I smell peppermint coco in a
third cent. I'll politely label somebody pregamed in the parking lot, you.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Know, and then we'll bring out a Little John. I'll
be fun.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, when you ever you're in Atlanta, you know you
got to have Jermaine Dupre and his friends as well.
So before I bring out Jermaine, you know, let's uh,
you know, let's make some noise not too much, though.
Security is already looking at us like someone heroes child support. Now,
I didn't mean that about you, Jermaine. That was not
(19:28):
a shot at Jermaine. I just want to know that
I don't want to get in trouble at the jingle Ball.
Give it up one more time, people. My watch just
buzzed the check. If I'm doing cardio or experiencing fear,
I would be quite scared. I think, you know, Mariah
Carey hasn't fully thought yet, but she sends her regards
(19:50):
or at least a high note that cracked a satellite.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Mariah is not on this year's jingle Ball. If she
is on next year's, I'm probably gonna have to throw
that joke away. These performers look incredible, the kind of
incredible that makes me rethink everything I eat after nine pm,
which lately has been a lot of chocolate. I've been
eating like leftover Halloween candy. I'm about through it, so
(20:21):
that's uh. I have truly been gaining weight from probably
my snacking. That or the pregnant zone I'm on that.
That steroid always does it to me. That one I
just made up on the spot here I did not
pre write that joke. I don't even think I'm gonna
that was just life.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
That one.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
That one's for you. That one was just life hosting
jingle balls wild. One minute, I'm hyping up the crowd,
the next I'm dodging a stage manager who moves like
he's powered by pure espresso and resentment. If you were
a crash backstage, don't worry, that's just me knocking over
a prop worth more than my car, especially if I
(21:05):
don't get those tires soon. What's that car worth with
no wheels? Baby?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Thanks Johnny.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That was just real life as well. Then you you know,
then you always you always got to send them all happy, right,
you know, drive safe, be kind, tipwell, and if you
can't do all three, at least lie confidently about to
happy holidays. I remember, it's the night gets blurry. That's
not the lights, that's the choices. I'm telling you what iHeart.
(21:37):
If you're listening, I know you are. We've got to
give me on this jingle ball Next year, I'm available,
but I'd prefer to book it early, just so that
I can kind of manage, you know, manage my manage
my week a little easier so well there you go. Uh,
just a little little Christmas spirit we've got in the
(21:59):
air right now.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I can feel it.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
As I was hurriedly rushing through the target so I
didn't ship myself.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I could feel the energy that Christmas is.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Snow falls soft on the rooftop, glow.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
The fire hungs.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
While the laughter flows.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Jeremy's voice, it's the holiday.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Show we mekay.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
You see, it's the same ride come through the pines
and jokes, So.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Laugh with me, laugh, whiztling who the punchlines land like
falling snow, witty and warm.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
They steal the show. Mm hmmm. A pod casts skip
rapped with the boat.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Every giggle lights the tree, every chuckle.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Hard whiggly okt Jude. See it's the.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Slave ride of car.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Through the pines and jokes.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Laugh with me, Laugh with megnoxips.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
And a belly full of cheer stories and jokes that
we hold so near. Jeremy's laugh is the sound we all.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Hm hmmnoxips and a belly full of cheer stories and
(24:57):
jokes that we hold so here.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Jimmy's alife is the sound.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
We all here.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I made Christmas.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Everybody
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh with Me,
a podcast with Jeremy Oh buye y'all. J O, welcome
to episode one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Johnny, that's that's pretty good. That's say. I say that's
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Stack that up there with one of the good things
that happened today. I just sometimes when you get a
couple of wins, you want to share them with the people, okay,
because it's just it's no fun to score a win
and then nobody knows about it, especially when it's wins
(01:14):
like this, Okay, not episode one eleven. I mean, that's
exciting for Johnny. Johnny, good job, buddy. You were here
for what a hundred of those close to one hundred, right,
We're not celebrating your one hundred yet either way, Johnny,
we're at one eleven. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Not today today.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I uh, you know, rolled up to the old hospital
as one does, having uh, having some blood taken, having
having it checked out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
See how the irons sitting.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And you might be saying, man, Jo sounds like he's
got that pep in his step. He must be full
of iron. He must be rocking and rolling right now.
That new Medsie's on work. It no not necessarily see
what happened is is I I was like, I went
to have it checked because I am, in fact probably
(02:11):
pretty well and.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
All the needed things to keep going.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But as I'm at the desk, you know, talking to
the I don't even know what the reception whoever it
is doing the check in, you know, anymore. To verify
who you are, they need your name, they need your birthday,
sometimes they need your home address. But in this particular situation,
(02:40):
she asked for my birthday. So I give her my
birthday and she loudly goes, no way, And I thought, hey,
we have the same birthday or something. And I'm like, well, hey,
your birthday is in June and she's like, no, there
is no way that you were that old.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And she's like, you do not look like you were
that old. And I'm like, hey, I'm gonna take this
win because I don't get that very often anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I do.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I do believe my age is in fact catching up
to me, and I don't get that. I used to
get that a lot, okay, especially in my thirties. My thirties,
I got it a lot where people thought I was
in my twenties, sometimes even younger, you know, getting id
left and right just boom boom boom. But you know anymore,
(03:39):
you know, I don't really get you so much of
that at all. Got it today, though, Take that as
a win. Always take that as a win. That's what
they said. Like with the having red hair, they always
said when I was younger, They're like, you're gonna you're
(03:59):
gonna get that lot when you're older. You people are
gonna say, oh, you look so young. It's just it's
in the jeans and something about the redheaded jeans. I
don't know. I don't know if that's the case or not.
But whatever else I've got going on, I know is
helping speed everything up to catch up so we are
in fact getting there.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I don't Maybe it's the beard. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know, this is gonna be a warm winter for
your boy. I started growing out my facial hair, got
I got a beard going. I've never been more warm outside.
And it's cold. Okay, it's like ten degrees or less
in the mornings. I think this afternoon. It was maybe
(04:44):
in the twenties. But I'll tell you what my face warm.
So first winter ever, I got the beard going, and
I'm wondering, should I have been doing this all? I
don't know take that as a win.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It could be.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It could very well be the beard covering up my
old man face. I think that's what it was, because
I don't have the gray or the white or whatever.
Maybe today, because I don't know always, maybe today I
had that life in my eyes and she was just like, man,
that guy's young. And then you know, I spit out
(05:25):
my age. It verified in the computer, and she's like,
no way, we're gonna give credit to the beard on
this one. But as life does, whenever you've got some
some monster wins like this, it tends to humble you.
(05:46):
And that's what happened not long after that, because I'm
waiting for tires. See I had an appointment today one
point thirty to get all new tires on my car.
My car desperately need tires, one Blue talked about a
couple weeks ago, one Blue. So I'm getting all these
new tires one thirty appointment today, But apparently not all
(06:09):
the tires were delivered. I you know, they said four tires.
Two of them have been delivered. Then there was some
talk of maybe we had three, so maybe they had
a rando around. I don't know, but either way, we're
waiting on two tires to be delivered for sure. And
did you know tires They don't come rolling in on
(06:32):
a truck, right, They get like delivered fed X or something,
at least at this place they did. Is they're waiting
on a FedEx delivery. I thought that was random. You
think they would just get like a truck that rolls
up and just drops off all their tires for him
for the week or something, a couple times a week,
(06:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So so anyways, I'm waiting because they ate. They were like, hey,
it's FedEx truck. I'm waiting on the fext here any minute,
any minute. Spoiler, I still don't have my tires. But
as I'm waiting, I'm like, oh cool, I'll go walk
around like Target or something, you know. So I'm walking
around Target, and here's where life humbles you. I'm in
(07:17):
the back of the store, having the time in my
life just looking at stuff, just look at it stuff.
And uh, I had this instant urge that I was
going to shit myself and this is not something that
always happens. I think that's the one of the biggest
make misconceptions with somebody who has like Chrome's disease or colitis,
(07:40):
is that you're just constantly shitting yourself. This is that's
not true at all. Now, with that being said, does
it do you have that urge? Do you feel like
instant immediate, like it's going down. Sometimes yes, And I
know some people have a far worse than me, so
I'm very thankful for that. I'm gonna continue to fight
(08:01):
the good fight and hope that I could get into
remission and not have to deal with it to a deeper,
deeper into the crones world. But the thing is, sometimes yes,
the urge hits, and it's not like, oh, I'm gonna
hold it until I know. It's like I was dodging
(08:22):
people in aisles because I was it was like one
of those things where every step you take like a fart,
like it just they just start flying out. And I
was at a point where I knew if I didn't
get to the bathroom now, it was gonna be worse
than these little farts. So it was like I didn't
(08:45):
want to be embarrassed by ripping farts, by all these people.
But then at the same time, it would be worse,
It could get far worse. So what did I do, Johnny.
I went straight up to the bathroom. But here's what
I didn't anticipate. There was a guy in the back
of the store with these two kids in his cart,
(09:08):
and he's just he's on his phone. He's ran and
raven to his girl that he's having to keep the kids,
you know, entertained while she's doing whatever she's doing. And
so I just thought it was funny. I'm like, oh,
this guy, this poor guy, he's dealing with his kids.
(09:30):
And then I get up to the front, I'm gonna
shit myself, and who is rolling into the bathroom with
all his kids? That guy. So now I'm coming in
behind him with urgency. He goes into the last available stall.
(09:56):
So part of me is like, well, that sucks, because
I don't know if I'm going to be able to.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Like wait this one out.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But then the other part of me is like, I
may have dodged a bullet because if I had gotten
in there right before him, and I'm in there and
then and then I have to listen to him, you know,
ranting and raving in the echoes of the restroom, ay
Target that he can't use the I don't even know
who had to go?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Was it him, was the kids? I don't care.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I didn't stick around to find out. But what I
do know is I had I had to keep moving,
so I did a lap around the front end there
of the store.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Of the registers.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Us in the business, US in the industry, grocery industry,
we call that front end there with the regis, we
call it the front end. I don't know what the
new normies call it, but those of us in the business,
we call it the front end.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I did.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I did a quick lap around the registers there on
the front end, and then I still didn't see anybody
coming out of the bathroom. So then I do another
lat but this time I went. I went over by
the baseball cards because there's supposed to be this new
you know, not new series, but this series that I
really enjoy. It's supposed to be coming out here this
(11:13):
week for twenty twenty five, and I was like, Ah,
could we Target maybe have.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Have the new packs?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But no, they did not. So I roll back over
and I see the guy with his kids putting their
coats on, So they are out of the restaurant now,
so I roll in there oddly enough, whole place empty.
I had the whole place to myself.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
That was nice.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But as soon as I closed the stall door, then
somebody comes into the to the stall, but the to
the urinal. But the urinal's right. I took the first
stall hand up. I shouldn't have done that. I should
have taken the one in the back or something, but
I don't want to be a jerk and take the
handicap one, which happened to be in the back, which
I find interesting because why would the handicap stall be
(11:58):
the last stall, where as in the parking lot it's
always gotta be one of them front stalls.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And how close are we to.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You know, having to have some kind of like uh
idea or something to be able to use those handicap stalls,
much like the parking I'm not saying that we should.
I'm just speaking out loud, just thinking now, something's never
even occurred to me until just right this moment. I
usually don't even think too much about handicapped stalls, but
(12:30):
for whatever reason, I'm on one now. So anyway, so
then when you're when you're in a position where like this,
you have to try to time it because there's no
there's no music in there, there's nothing. It's just silence.
It's just the echoes of a target restaurant. The guy
in the urinal directly next to me. I'm in the stall.
(12:52):
I have to wait till the flush before I can
start any action because then otherwise it's.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's whole thing.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I mean, it's not like this guy's like, Oh, I
wonder what that guy's doing there. He knows what I'm
doing in there, So I mean, I guess I'm not
surprising anybody. But either way, So yeah, life comes at
you fast. One minute, you're uh, man, you look fantastic
for your age.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Look at this guy. There's no way.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You're in your early forties, there's no chance. Look at
this guy with the beard and everything. And then next
minute you're about to shit yourself and you're trying to
hold it in so that you don't get heard. Johnny,
hu'd your day go well? As everybody knows. We are
(13:39):
now found on the iHeart radio.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
App, the free app.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
By the way, one of my favorite things about iHeart
is this, uh the jingle ball that they do every
December They take a collection of some of the biggest
pop stars and rock stars in the world and they
bring them to you all in one monster show just
for the holidays. I think it's the coolest thing. I
(14:07):
also now that kind of have an inn and in
slightly with iHeart, I'm pitching myself as the host of
one of these jingle balls for twenty twenty six. Now, Johnny,
it's not gona be easy. It's not gonna be easy
(14:28):
at all. We got a lot of work to do
in twenty six in order to accomplish this goal. But
I'm working on it. For those of you that don't
know jingle ball is, and you're just you're a crazy person.
You don't jingle ball. This is basically it's in the
biggest markets in the United States and the biggest radio
market media markets the United States. They host these big shows, right,
(14:50):
So we're talking at Miami, Florida. We're talking at Atlanta, Georgia, Washington,
d C, Philadelphia, LA, Boston, New York, Chicago, I mean,
the biggest cities in the United States. And then you know,
the local iHeartRadio station hosts.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The big jingle ball huge artists.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
We're talking jelly Roll shine Down AJR, Alex Warren, Ed
Sheering is doing the one in Boston here coming up. MGK,
my guy, I got them double excess on my wrist.
Huge shows, okay, huge shows. I'd like to All I
(15:32):
want to do is host. I'm not asking to perform,
although with that being said, I have prepared some chokes.
I think it would be awesome to have a host
that comes out, you know, kind of feeling it out,
similar to like an award show, and let's just keep
(15:53):
it moving, but to keep it light hearted, keep the
have some little boom boom boom while one liners in between.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So Johnny fits cool with you.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I would like to try out some of the material
that I have here that I think is a sample
of what I could do, what I would say when
I host jingle Ball in twenty twenty six. Because I'm
serious about this, I'm not saying, you know, bring the
(16:23):
jingle Ball to Omaha where I'm at. I'll go to you, Okay,
I'll go to you and we'll do We'll do the
big jingle Ball and I'll just maybe host one. Okay.
So here's all right, Johnny, so I'm getting it. Let's
imagine a big arena. Okay, we're at the uh let's
(16:44):
let's pretend we're going to Atlanta right now. Okay, they
brought me out. I'm hosting this big show. We got
Little John and friends. Nellie's gonna be here. Okay, we're
at the Capitol one State Farm Arena or something. Okay,
let's see, let's see what I can do. This is
(17:04):
gonna be the crowd, okay, Johnny, please, yeah, thank you.
Welcome to jiggle Ball, the only holiday event where the
outfits get smaller as the temperature drops. Thank you, Johny. Well, gee,
(17:26):
we'll need you there too. We'll do what We'll need
you there too, to help me out with some of
this stuff. I saw performer backstage wearing something that legally
qualified as dental flaws. If you're listening at home, Yes,
the crowd looks incredible tonight. Everyone's dressed festive like they're
ready for Christmas. We're trying really hard to make their
(17:46):
ex jealous on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So that's what I'm saying, Johnny, I got these jokes.
I think it would just be funny.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I come out, I just you know, give a few
of these uh one liners, and you know, and that
could be you know, that'd be me coming out right
before Nelly. Okay, and now he's gonna like he's gonna
open and then uh, you know, Little John, Little John
and Friends is coming up. Okay, you know, coming up
(18:15):
just a little bit. But first, you know, Santa's got
his nice list and his naughty list. I'm on the
We're gonna circle back on that list. You know, Santa
shows up tonight, don't freak out. He's just here for
the influencers. I asked Santa for a six pack this year.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
He delivered.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's not the kind you drink responsibly. See That's what
I'm saying. Then let's get the crowd going. Yeah, man,
this crowd is electric and slightly drunk, which honestly is
the ideal Christmas ratio. I smell peppermint coco in a
third cent. I'll politely label somebody pregamed in the parking lot, you.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Know, and then we'll bring out a Little John. I'll
be fun.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, when you ever you're in Atlanta, you know you
got to have Jermaine Dupre and his friends as well.
So before I bring out Jermaine, you know, let's uh,
you know, let's make some noise not too much, though.
Security is already looking at us like someone heroes child support. Now,
I didn't mean that about you, Jermaine. That was not
(19:28):
a shot at Jermaine. I just want to know that
I don't want to get in trouble at the jingle Ball.
Give it up one more time, people. My watch just
buzzed the check. If I'm doing cardio or experiencing fear,
I would be quite scared. I think, you know, Mariah
Carey hasn't fully thought yet, but she sends her regards
(19:50):
or at least a high note that cracked a satellite.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Mariah is not on this year's jingle Ball. If she
is on next year's, I'm probably gonna have to throw
that joke away. These performers look incredible, the kind of
incredible that makes me rethink everything I eat after nine pm,
which lately has been a lot of chocolate. I've been
eating like leftover Halloween candy. I'm about through it, so
(20:21):
that's uh. I have truly been gaining weight from probably
my snacking. That or the pregnant zone I'm on that.
That steroid always does it to me. That one I
just made up on the spot here I did not
pre write that joke. I don't even think I'm gonna
that was just life.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
That one.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
That one's for you. That one was just life hosting
jingle balls wild. One minute, I'm hyping up the crowd,
the next I'm dodging a stage manager who moves like
he's powered by pure espresso and resentment. If you were
a crash backstage, don't worry, that's just me knocking over
a prop worth more than my car, especially if I
(21:05):
don't get those tires soon. What's that car worth with
no wheels? Baby?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Thanks Johnny.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That was just real life as well. Then you you know,
then you always you always got to send them all happy, right,
you know, drive safe, be kind, tipwell, and if you
can't do all three, at least lie confidently about to
happy holidays. I remember, it's the night gets blurry. That's
not the lights, that's the choices. I'm telling you what iHeart.
(21:37):
If you're listening, I know you are. We've got to
give me on this jingle ball Next year, I'm available,
but I'd prefer to book it early, just so that
I can kind of manage, you know, manage my manage
my week a little easier so well there you go. Uh,
just a little little Christmas spirit we've got in the
(21:59):
air right now.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I can feel it.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
As I was hurriedly rushing through the target so I
didn't ship myself.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I could feel the energy that Christmas is.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Snow falls soft on the rooftop, glow.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
The fire hungs.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
While the laughter flows.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Jeremy's voice, it's the holiday.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Show we mekay.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
You see, it's the same ride come through the pines
and jokes, So.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Laugh with me, laugh, whiztling who the punchlines land like
falling snow, witty and warm.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
They steal the show. Mm hmmm. A pod casts skip
rapped with the boat.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Every giggle lights the tree, every chuckle.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Hard whiggly okt Jude. See it's the.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Slave ride of car.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Through the pines and jokes.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Laugh with me, Laugh with megnoxips.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
And a belly full of cheer stories and jokes that
we hold so near. Jeremy's laugh is the sound we all.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Hm hmmnoxips and a belly full of cheer stories and
(24:57):
jokes that we hold so here.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Jimmy's alife is the sound.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
We all here.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I made Christmas.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
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