January 8, 2025 • 19 mins
The hiatus is back off... again... I think maybe for the third time. Why don't I do this more often and now my son works at the radio station and he's making me look bad.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
New year, knew me. Now it's a new year. It's
the same me, but it is a new episode. I'm
talking to myself. He's a podcast, just a bit up
the contrast from what I'm used to. I usually have
to talk fast because there's far people sharing the mic.
But this is just me, so I might say whatever
i'd like. It might be serious, sometimes it might be funny.
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Sometimes to scratch your head and say, Brian is such
a dummy budd. It just me. I ain't got no help.
This is Brian Crime and I'm talking to myselnd. What's up?
It is Brian Grimes. It is my podcast, and I
am talking to myself. Happy twenty twenty five, y'all. First
week of twenty twenty five. Wow, technically second week Today
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is the eighth of January, so technically second week of
twenty twenty five. First a new episode of Talking to
Myself of the new year, and actually almost first one
in a year. I haven't done it in a long time.
A lot of people asking me for which I don't
fully understand. Here's the weird thing about this podcast. It
really is just me talking to myself. I've oftentimes thought
about bringing somebody else on, but like I do it
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so sporadically, it is very hard to get anyone to
like to lock down to it. It's very hard to
like reach out and try to like book a guest
that doesn't know me already, because they'll look at it
and they'll be like, dude, you haven't done an episode
in like six months, like seriously. So it's it's tough
to get anyone to talk to me. So I have
to talk to myself, which is fine by me. I mean,
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it's the best way to get an intelligent conversation, if
you ask me, is to talk to myself. Not that
other people aren't intelligent, Not that I couldn't sit down
with an intelligent person and I have a conversation, Clearly
I could. But you know what I'm saying, I think
I'm the smartest person in the room. I actually told
my boss that. I said, it's it's stressful being the
smartest person in the room, and he laughed, and I said, no,
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I'm serious, And look, I know there are people in
the world smarter than me, but I find myself a
lot of times in my mind being the smartest person
in the room, the most creative person in the room,
the funniest person in the room, and that is very stressful.
It is taxing, and now that I'm done patting myself
on the back, I think I pulled a muscle trying
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to reach around and pat myself on the back so hard. Anyway,
So multiple reasons why this podcast doesn't get updated on
a regular basis. First of which, of course, you know,
because I work a lot. In fact, I should be
doing another radio show right now instead of this, but
I got tired of doing the radio shows and I said,
wait a second, let me reset and talk to myself
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for a little bit. So obviously it's because I'm a
little bit busy. Part of why I'm doing it today
is because my main chick, Johnny's House. Johnny was out
sick this morning, so I had to host the show
and I always feel kind of good coming off of
that because it's not something I get to do very often,
and it's kind of weird. I don't want to wreck
Johnny's car that you know he owns, but I've been
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riding with him for the last twenty years plus, so
it's like I'm qualified to drive it, but I just
do it a little bit differently, probably a little bit worse.
I don't have that good morning, good morning energy that
he has. That's something I gotta work on if I'm
gonna host the show. But I also can't bite his
signature opening to the show. If you are listening to
this podcast, but you don't listen to Johnny's House, you
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should check that out on the free iHeartRadio app. That's
my main chick that I do every day in Orlando,
Florida on XL when I was six seven. So anyway,
I got a lot of stuff going on obviously between
XL and then Magic one, O, seven and seven. In
the afternoons, I do our national Throwbacks platform for the iHeartRadio.
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I say it's the company and the brand is the
Throwbacks brand. So I'm on in a bunch of different cities.
I mean literally all over the place, from New Orleans
to Stockton, California, to Hawaii, West Palm Beach, New Mexico,
all kinds of spots. So I'm just a busy dude,
which is a good thing, not complaining about that at all,
(04:02):
but it does eat into the time where I can
sit here and talk to myself. The other reason, and
I was talking to my boss JJ Rice the Rice
Man about this the other day and we were just
randomly talking, and again I always pat myself on the back.
I said, I feel like, honestly, sometimes my creativity, my wit,
(04:23):
my sense of humor, I feel like I'm wasting it.
I really do. We were talking about, you know, outside opportunities,
and I was saying, if I lived in a place
where things were made, which is why it drives me
crazy that they kind of shut down all the production
stuff in Orlando years ago, I feel like I could
be doing all of these other things. I could be
branching out. I feel like I could honestly be a
(04:45):
solid comedy writer, and if we lived in a city
where things were being produced, then I could probably get
out and you know, fulfill that goal that I've always
had and also still do my radio stuff. But I
sa always anyway, I was telling them that I feel
like a lot of my stuff is like wasted here,
and she's like, well, we should get together and we
should talk about ways that we can use it. I'm like,
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I look, I'm all for that. But here's the thing,
and here's what's kind of weird about doing this podcast.
At the end of the day, I am Brian from
Johnny's House on XL one oh sixty seven. So I
can't veer too far outside of that top forty box,
you know what I'm saying. I still have to fit
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what I am who I am on the radio there
with who I am in real life, and it's and
it's very, very similar, but clearly on the top forty
radio stations, there's just things you don't talk about. There's
things that you don't get into and discuss, and there's
just you know, things you stay away from. Well, I'm
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all about discussing those, and I oftentimes do with no
microphone in my face. But I can't necessarily do that
and do it super freely on the podcast and then
turn around and be like, wait a second, aren't you
Brian from Johnny's House. Didn't you just say this or
that or you were too candid about this or that.
So it's not that I can't be myself on Johnny's House,
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but I also have to be a top forty polished
version of myself. And it just that's the way it works.
Unless you get to the point where you're big enough,
whether it be financially, whether it be you know, because
it would cost too much financially, if you were plucked
(06:32):
out of something, then you can get a little more
leeway to be yourself. I ain't quite there yet. I
think I'm still just an employee number to a lot
of people, and so then you don't want to be
the employee number that starts shooting up flares and causing problems.
So and that all could be in my head, but
I feel like that's part of why I don't necessarily
go all in on this, because I got things to say,
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but I also got to keep in mind that I
still have a working relationship with a lot of people,
and I still have a you know, listener host relationship
with a lot of people that you got to make
sure that you protect in and be you know, like
be aware of before you, you know, start doing anything
that's gonna you know, have you in a meeting that
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you don't want to be in. So I don't even
know if any of that made sense. Honestly, see, this
is what happens when I sit here and talk to myself.
I'm just talking and maybe it makes sense and maybe
it doesn't. I don't know. Pretty cool though, development since
my last episode of talking to myself, my son now
works for the radio station, which is crazy to me.
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He's nineteen still lives at home, which I know that
sounds like he probably hates hearing it. He probably cringes
when he hears me say that. But the truth of
the matter is, in today's economics, it's very tough at
that age to not live at home, or you know,
if you're going to college in a dorm. But I mean,
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if you live in a dorm, you're still living at
home technically speaking, parents are still paying for it most likely,
unless you're working your bought off to go through school
and all that stuff and taking out loans and whatnot.
I get that part, but for the most part, living
alone at nineteen these days is really hard unless you,
you know, grab a bunch of roommates and he lived
together and he ain't about that life. That's what he
told me, and I wouldn't be either at his age. Man,
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my mom was in no hush a rush to get
me out of the house. I'm not in a rush
to get him out of the house either. I know
he better stop eating my wife's apples like he bought them.
But other than that, because it's a good kid, works
two jobs. He still has his job at Public's and
now he works at the radio station. So you've seen
him at some events. He's been doing this stuff I did.
He's starting where I started out and promotions. A lot
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of people are like, well, man, why don't you just
throw him on the radio. Well, that's not how radio works.
You gotta still earn your stripes. And unfortunately for him,
I'm well or fortunately for him actually in my opinion,
but also unfortunately for him. I'm a dude that worked
my way up from you know, literally production intern to
where I am today, you know, riding shotgun with Johnny
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Magic from Florida Radio Hall of Fame and Johnny's house.
So I'm gonna expect him also to you know, shovel
some coal. Man. You got to keep the train moving,
got to shovel some coal. So he's doing a great job.
Everyone seems to love him. Everyone to come in contact
with like him. He did the right thing. He never
walked around and said, hey, I'm Jadeen, Brian's my dad.
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He actually a lot of people didn't know right away.
We do look similar, we do talk a lot the
same and say a lot of the same things. So
some people put it together pretty quick, but some people
didn't know and he didn't introduce himself as you know,
Jade and Brian's kid, So that was a good thing.
And he's busting his butt trying to work his way up,
but he's also bouncing around the shows, like he sits
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in with Chad and Leslie over on Magic when I
was seven seven, trying to learn how the morning show works.
Over there, He's set in with us on Johnny's house,
which I think is maybe kind of weird for him,
and at the same time it might be weird for
the rest of the crew in the morning because he's
my kid. They'd known him since he was born and
now he's a guy who's just trying to learn radio
and get into radio. And so lately he's been working
on doing some air checks so he can try to
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jump on a shift on XL one oh sixty seven
in the overnight, so which is where I started back
in the day. So he's working his way up. He's
doing a good job. I found my old air check tapes.
I actually played him for him. I found my first
ever cassette of an air check. It was a Sunday
evening and somebody had called in sick. She couldn't come
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to work, and back then there was no recording ahead,
so I had been trying to get on the air anyway.
I'd been sitting in on shows and doing like little
bit like bits on shows. And I actually made my
fake air checks like my son's doing now, and gave
him to the boss and everything, and she called in sick,
and they called me in to be on a Sunday night,
And I have the cassette. I actually ordered a cassette
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player off of Amazon so I could listen to it
and you can convert it into MP three. So maybe
eventually I'll I'll upload it in here and we'll critique
my first ever air check. But anyway, I played it
for my son, and I wasn't by any means great
when I did my first air air check. The cool
thing about it it was live. There was no recording,
so radio full blast mic on. If you mess up,
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you just keep going because there was no doing it over,
which was was actually pretty fun. And so I'm teaching
my son now how to do that, and I'm hoping
that eventually he gets to where it'll be just like
doing it live, you know, straight up do the show
is what it is. In fact, it'd be cool we
came in here and did an hour of live overnight radio.
Nobody really does that anymore because you can now you
(11:36):
can perfect it, perfection back what's that all about? But anyway,
I played him my first aircheck. I wasn't that great.
And then I played in one that was like maybe
eighteen months later, when I was doing fill in stuff
on you know, Saturday nights and you know, regular actual shifts,
when I had just joined Doc and Johnny at the
time as a part time call screener, but I was
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on the air, and so the difference is literally night
and day. Like I obviously I didn't become like you know,
radio Michael Jordan in those eighteen months, but the difference
from the first time ever cracking the mic talking on
the radio to eighteen months later is night and day.
So I keep telling them, you want to get you know,
all the way to the eighteen month point, you know,
(12:17):
eighteen minutes into trying, and that's that's a hard thing
to swallow that it's not gonna happen like that. So
he's working on it, though I think he's doing a
pretty good job. It's actually got his own podcasts. I've
talked about it before. I don't know if I've done
a podcast episode since he started his podcast called Dude Problems.
It's him and his boy Devin, and they're both you know,
(12:38):
Devn's twenty one now, Jaden's about to turn twenty and
basically they talk about dude problems. You know what it's
like to be nineteen twenty twenty one years old, which
I have forgotten. So I listened to their podcast and
it makes me laugh, makes me cringe a little bit
because it is my kid, but it does make me laugh.
I'm still teaching him that maybe you don't got to
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say F all the time, you know what I mean,
A well timed F bomb is great, but you can't
F everything because well that's just too much efan. So
I'm trying to teach him that F economy, be economical
with your f's. That's what I'm trying to teach him.
But it's pretty good. You can check it out on
the iHeartRadio app. It's called Dude Problems. He's got like
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thirty something episodes up. I was a guest on a
few of them, actually, but he's got like thirty something
episodes up I told him when he started his podcast,
I said, you got to get to ten episodes, because
the most podcasts they fall off, like the host quit
because they I think people think that instantly. You know,
millions of people will listen to my podcasts and money
will just start rolling in, and then when it doesn't,
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they kind of bounce. And so I told him, you
got to get ten episodes in. If you don't get
ten episodes in, then we're not going to do this.
And he's stuck to it, and he's had like thirty
three episodes and listen to me, somebody who barely makes
episodes of Talking to Myself and who bailed on Relationship
Wrecked with my Wife way before ten episodes, preaching to
him about how you got to be consistent. So, well,
(14:03):
here you go. You got your Talking to Myself episode.
Now I just got to get the Relationship Wrecked episode going.
With my wife. It's that one's as tough when that
one's weird because it's it's hard. I don't feel like
she loves loves doing it, and since it's something that
I always do, it's it's weird. I got to get
past that. And and you know she wouldn't do it
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or she didn't want to do it obviously, And I
think sometimes it's like the Okay, let's set up and
let's do it. Like we got to be more like,
all right, come on, let's do it outline, here's what
we're gonna talk about. Let's get it going, because a
lot of people ask me about it. The last I
think episode that we did, actually we did it as
a group episode of drinking in the pool at our
friend's vacation home, so that was the last one that
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we did. But yeah, we I think we need we
need to get back to the Relationship Wrecked podcast because
we got a lot of new stuff going on in
our life. We're gonna do our twentieth wedding anniversary this year,
which is wild. We had these big plans to go
to Europe for our twenty year wedding anniversary, and plans
are great when you're thinking about them and you're talking
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about them, but then you have to actually implement them.
And we didn't start putting money aside or any of that,
and it apparently is very expensive to fly to Europe.
So now we are going to push the Europe trip
to our twenty first wedding anniversary. And we're gonna low
key this year. We're gonna low key my birthday this year,
low key our you know, anniversary vacation this year, and
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we're going to put it towards our twenty first wedding anniversary,
and that one is going to be in Europe. So
now we're actually going to plan the plans before we
just like, yeah, let's do it. And I think we
figured we would just pay for it when it got there,
and then we realized, wait a second, we could do
that if we don't want to eat, or have electricity
or have working internet, because we can't afford to go
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to Europe and do all of that stuff too, unless
any y'all got any good suggestions on how to get
to Europe cheap. And I don't mean, like, you know,
a couple of dollars cheap. My wife doesn't really fly well,
so I would prefer like the at least bigger seats. Now.
I looked into the little pod things, the little mint
things where you lay down and stuff, but apparently you've
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got to have like a gold mine in your backyard
to do the lay down flights, because I don't know
who affords that. Eleven thousand dollars for a flight. I mean, seriously,
I get it, you get to lay down, but eleven
thousand dollars that's just straight up ridiculous. So now the
plan is to actually follow through with our plan and
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we'll head to Europe in twenty twenty one. In the meantime,
we'll try to get together a an episode of the
Relationship Wrecked podcast. Lots of cool things going on in
Johnny's house this year on XL one to six seven, though,
we got the Cupid Undie run coming up. If you
haven't signed up for that, make sure you do that.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. Last year, apparently
I threatened to beat up a DJ. It's not what
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it sounds like if you haven't heard the story. There
is a bunch of different parts to this story that
all led to a DJ calling me stupid a couple
of times, which is my hot button, and me telling
him if he calls me stupid again, I'm gonna beat
his ass. Now, I would never beat anyone's ass. I
don't think I've ever actually beat anyone's ass. I've actually
had my ass kicked before, but I don't think I've
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ever actually beat anyone's ass, so I wouldn't start today.
But it all started with him getting fired, which I'm
not gonna say it was Ray's fault. Ray from Johnny's
House if you haven't listened, but she definitely pushed that
rock to the edge of the cliff and it fell off,
and then I walked in to a mad DJ who
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called me stupid, and then I threatened to beat his ass. Anyway,
not gonna happen this year, because this year I am
going to take measures to make sure that we avoid
any sort of recklessness at the Cupid Undey Run, but
we're still gonna have a good time, So make sure
you sign up on our Instagram and that's at XL
one of six and you can check out the link.
The Johnny's House Cruise is back in September. You definitely
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want to book that and have a good time with
us on the hot seas. Got some plans going on
for that, so make sure you book. That's an XL
one to six seven dot com. You can check out
that link. And we've got some other big stuff coming
up this year as well. I'm still trying to get
the the the Yoho business in line, our rum business
it's still going on and you can still get it
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at a Teak neighborhood grill. You can still get it
at the Swizzle Bar over at Cabana Bay. There's a
few other spots that you could pick it up. But
the liquor business is hard man and we're not willing
to throw money into a pit, so we were very
fiscally responsible with it. It's just, you know, it's a
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tough one. Once I get some news on that, I'll
get you going, and if that gets going in the
right direction, we're gonna do some cool events with that too,
but those are kind of on standby while we try
to figure out exactly which direction that is going. Of course,
Johnny's house back for an other year, to make sure
you check that out. So lots of stuff to check out.
Yoho erum dot com, you can check that out. That's
(19:09):
rum brand. Make sure you're following me at Debrian Grimes
on Instagram, on x on all platforms you can find
me there. My son's podcast Dude Problems, which you can
check out always free on the iHeartRadio app or wherever
get you get your podcasts. And I will try try
and make no promises to get relationship wrecked back going
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in twenty twenty five,
New year, knew me. Now it's a new year. It's
the same me, but it is a new episode. I'm
talking to myself. He's a podcast, just a bit up
the contrast from what I'm used to. I usually have
to talk fast because there's far people sharing the mic.
But this is just me, so I might say whatever
i'd like. It might be serious, sometimes it might be funny.
(00:25):
Sometimes to scratch your head and say, Brian is such
a dummy budd. It just me. I ain't got no help.
This is Brian Crime and I'm talking to myselnd. What's up?
It is Brian Grimes. It is my podcast, and I
am talking to myself. Happy twenty twenty five, y'all. First
week of twenty twenty five. Wow, technically second week Today
(00:47):
is the eighth of January, so technically second week of
twenty twenty five. First a new episode of Talking to
Myself of the new year, and actually almost first one
in a year. I haven't done it in a long time.
A lot of people asking me for which I don't
fully understand. Here's the weird thing about this podcast. It
really is just me talking to myself. I've oftentimes thought
about bringing somebody else on, but like I do it
(01:09):
so sporadically, it is very hard to get anyone to
like to lock down to it. It's very hard to
like reach out and try to like book a guest
that doesn't know me already, because they'll look at it
and they'll be like, dude, you haven't done an episode
in like six months, like seriously. So it's it's tough
to get anyone to talk to me. So I have
to talk to myself, which is fine by me. I mean,
(01:31):
it's the best way to get an intelligent conversation, if
you ask me, is to talk to myself. Not that
other people aren't intelligent, Not that I couldn't sit down
with an intelligent person and I have a conversation, Clearly
I could. But you know what I'm saying, I think
I'm the smartest person in the room. I actually told
my boss that. I said, it's it's stressful being the
smartest person in the room, and he laughed, and I said, no,
(01:53):
I'm serious, And look, I know there are people in
the world smarter than me, but I find myself a
lot of times in my mind being the smartest person
in the room, the most creative person in the room,
the funniest person in the room, and that is very stressful.
It is taxing, and now that I'm done patting myself
on the back, I think I pulled a muscle trying
(02:14):
to reach around and pat myself on the back so hard. Anyway,
So multiple reasons why this podcast doesn't get updated on
a regular basis. First of which, of course, you know,
because I work a lot. In fact, I should be
doing another radio show right now instead of this, but
I got tired of doing the radio shows and I said,
wait a second, let me reset and talk to myself
(02:38):
for a little bit. So obviously it's because I'm a
little bit busy. Part of why I'm doing it today
is because my main chick, Johnny's House. Johnny was out
sick this morning, so I had to host the show
and I always feel kind of good coming off of
that because it's not something I get to do very often,
and it's kind of weird. I don't want to wreck
Johnny's car that you know he owns, but I've been
(02:59):
riding with him for the last twenty years plus, so
it's like I'm qualified to drive it, but I just
do it a little bit differently, probably a little bit worse.
I don't have that good morning, good morning energy that
he has. That's something I gotta work on if I'm
gonna host the show. But I also can't bite his
signature opening to the show. If you are listening to
this podcast, but you don't listen to Johnny's House, you
(03:20):
should check that out on the free iHeartRadio app. That's
my main chick that I do every day in Orlando,
Florida on XL when I was six seven. So anyway,
I got a lot of stuff going on obviously between
XL and then Magic one, O, seven and seven. In
the afternoons, I do our national Throwbacks platform for the iHeartRadio.
(03:41):
I say it's the company and the brand is the
Throwbacks brand. So I'm on in a bunch of different cities.
I mean literally all over the place, from New Orleans
to Stockton, California, to Hawaii, West Palm Beach, New Mexico,
all kinds of spots. So I'm just a busy dude,
which is a good thing, not complaining about that at all,
(04:02):
but it does eat into the time where I can
sit here and talk to myself. The other reason, and
I was talking to my boss JJ Rice the Rice
Man about this the other day and we were just
randomly talking, and again I always pat myself on the back.
I said, I feel like, honestly, sometimes my creativity, my wit,
(04:23):
my sense of humor, I feel like I'm wasting it.
I really do. We were talking about, you know, outside opportunities,
and I was saying, if I lived in a place
where things were made, which is why it drives me
crazy that they kind of shut down all the production
stuff in Orlando years ago, I feel like I could
be doing all of these other things. I could be
branching out. I feel like I could honestly be a
(04:45):
solid comedy writer, and if we lived in a city
where things were being produced, then I could probably get
out and you know, fulfill that goal that I've always
had and also still do my radio stuff. But I
sa always anyway, I was telling them that I feel
like a lot of my stuff is like wasted here,
and she's like, well, we should get together and we
should talk about ways that we can use it. I'm like,
(05:06):
I look, I'm all for that. But here's the thing,
and here's what's kind of weird about doing this podcast.
At the end of the day, I am Brian from
Johnny's House on XL one oh sixty seven. So I
can't veer too far outside of that top forty box,
you know what I'm saying. I still have to fit
(05:28):
what I am who I am on the radio there
with who I am in real life, and it's and
it's very, very similar, but clearly on the top forty
radio stations, there's just things you don't talk about. There's
things that you don't get into and discuss, and there's
just you know, things you stay away from. Well, I'm
(05:49):
all about discussing those, and I oftentimes do with no
microphone in my face. But I can't necessarily do that
and do it super freely on the podcast and then
turn around and be like, wait a second, aren't you
Brian from Johnny's House. Didn't you just say this or
that or you were too candid about this or that.
So it's not that I can't be myself on Johnny's House,
(06:11):
but I also have to be a top forty polished
version of myself. And it just that's the way it works.
Unless you get to the point where you're big enough,
whether it be financially, whether it be you know, because
it would cost too much financially, if you were plucked
(06:32):
out of something, then you can get a little more
leeway to be yourself. I ain't quite there yet. I
think I'm still just an employee number to a lot
of people, and so then you don't want to be
the employee number that starts shooting up flares and causing problems.
So and that all could be in my head, but
I feel like that's part of why I don't necessarily
go all in on this, because I got things to say,
(06:55):
but I also got to keep in mind that I
still have a working relationship with a lot of people,
and I still have a you know, listener host relationship
with a lot of people that you got to make
sure that you protect in and be you know, like
be aware of before you, you know, start doing anything
that's gonna you know, have you in a meeting that
(07:16):
you don't want to be in. So I don't even
know if any of that made sense. Honestly, see, this
is what happens when I sit here and talk to myself.
I'm just talking and maybe it makes sense and maybe
it doesn't. I don't know. Pretty cool though, development since
my last episode of talking to myself, my son now
works for the radio station, which is crazy to me.
(07:37):
He's nineteen still lives at home, which I know that
sounds like he probably hates hearing it. He probably cringes
when he hears me say that. But the truth of
the matter is, in today's economics, it's very tough at
that age to not live at home, or you know,
if you're going to college in a dorm. But I mean,
(07:57):
if you live in a dorm, you're still living at
home technically speaking, parents are still paying for it most likely,
unless you're working your bought off to go through school
and all that stuff and taking out loans and whatnot.
I get that part, but for the most part, living
alone at nineteen these days is really hard unless you,
you know, grab a bunch of roommates and he lived
together and he ain't about that life. That's what he
told me, and I wouldn't be either at his age. Man,
(08:17):
my mom was in no hush a rush to get
me out of the house. I'm not in a rush
to get him out of the house either. I know
he better stop eating my wife's apples like he bought them.
But other than that, because it's a good kid, works
two jobs. He still has his job at Public's and
now he works at the radio station. So you've seen
him at some events. He's been doing this stuff I did.
He's starting where I started out and promotions. A lot
(08:38):
of people are like, well, man, why don't you just
throw him on the radio. Well, that's not how radio works.
You gotta still earn your stripes. And unfortunately for him,
I'm well or fortunately for him actually in my opinion,
but also unfortunately for him. I'm a dude that worked
my way up from you know, literally production intern to
where I am today, you know, riding shotgun with Johnny
(09:02):
Magic from Florida Radio Hall of Fame and Johnny's house.
So I'm gonna expect him also to you know, shovel
some coal. Man. You got to keep the train moving,
got to shovel some coal. So he's doing a great job.
Everyone seems to love him. Everyone to come in contact
with like him. He did the right thing. He never
walked around and said, hey, I'm Jadeen, Brian's my dad.
(09:22):
He actually a lot of people didn't know right away.
We do look similar, we do talk a lot the
same and say a lot of the same things. So
some people put it together pretty quick, but some people
didn't know and he didn't introduce himself as you know,
Jade and Brian's kid, So that was a good thing.
And he's busting his butt trying to work his way up,
but he's also bouncing around the shows, like he sits
(09:43):
in with Chad and Leslie over on Magic when I
was seven seven, trying to learn how the morning show works.
Over there, He's set in with us on Johnny's house,
which I think is maybe kind of weird for him,
and at the same time it might be weird for
the rest of the crew in the morning because he's
my kid. They'd known him since he was born and
now he's a guy who's just trying to learn radio
and get into radio. And so lately he's been working
on doing some air checks so he can try to
(10:05):
jump on a shift on XL one oh sixty seven
in the overnight, so which is where I started back
in the day. So he's working his way up. He's
doing a good job. I found my old air check tapes.
I actually played him for him. I found my first
ever cassette of an air check. It was a Sunday
evening and somebody had called in sick. She couldn't come
(10:27):
to work, and back then there was no recording ahead,
so I had been trying to get on the air anyway.
I'd been sitting in on shows and doing like little
bit like bits on shows. And I actually made my
fake air checks like my son's doing now, and gave
him to the boss and everything, and she called in sick,
and they called me in to be on a Sunday night,
And I have the cassette. I actually ordered a cassette
(10:48):
player off of Amazon so I could listen to it
and you can convert it into MP three. So maybe
eventually I'll I'll upload it in here and we'll critique
my first ever air check. But anyway, I played it
for my son, and I wasn't by any means great
when I did my first air air check. The cool
thing about it it was live. There was no recording,
so radio full blast mic on. If you mess up,
(11:13):
you just keep going because there was no doing it over,
which was was actually pretty fun. And so I'm teaching
my son now how to do that, and I'm hoping
that eventually he gets to where it'll be just like
doing it live, you know, straight up do the show
is what it is. In fact, it'd be cool we
came in here and did an hour of live overnight radio.
Nobody really does that anymore because you can now you
(11:36):
can perfect it, perfection back what's that all about? But anyway,
I played him my first aircheck. I wasn't that great.
And then I played in one that was like maybe
eighteen months later, when I was doing fill in stuff
on you know, Saturday nights and you know, regular actual shifts,
when I had just joined Doc and Johnny at the
time as a part time call screener, but I was
(11:57):
on the air, and so the difference is literally night
and day. Like I obviously I didn't become like you know,
radio Michael Jordan in those eighteen months, but the difference
from the first time ever cracking the mic talking on
the radio to eighteen months later is night and day.
So I keep telling them, you want to get you know,
all the way to the eighteen month point, you know,
(12:17):
eighteen minutes into trying, and that's that's a hard thing
to swallow that it's not gonna happen like that. So
he's working on it, though I think he's doing a
pretty good job. It's actually got his own podcasts. I've
talked about it before. I don't know if I've done
a podcast episode since he started his podcast called Dude Problems.
It's him and his boy Devin, and they're both you know,
(12:38):
Devn's twenty one now, Jaden's about to turn twenty and
basically they talk about dude problems. You know what it's
like to be nineteen twenty twenty one years old, which
I have forgotten. So I listened to their podcast and
it makes me laugh, makes me cringe a little bit
because it is my kid, but it does make me laugh.
I'm still teaching him that maybe you don't got to
(12:58):
say F all the time, you know what I mean,
A well timed F bomb is great, but you can't
F everything because well that's just too much efan. So
I'm trying to teach him that F economy, be economical
with your f's. That's what I'm trying to teach him.
But it's pretty good. You can check it out on
the iHeartRadio app. It's called Dude Problems. He's got like
(13:21):
thirty something episodes up. I was a guest on a
few of them, actually, but he's got like thirty something
episodes up I told him when he started his podcast,
I said, you got to get to ten episodes, because
the most podcasts they fall off, like the host quit
because they I think people think that instantly. You know,
millions of people will listen to my podcasts and money
will just start rolling in, and then when it doesn't,
(13:42):
they kind of bounce. And so I told him, you
got to get ten episodes in. If you don't get
ten episodes in, then we're not going to do this.
And he's stuck to it, and he's had like thirty
three episodes and listen to me, somebody who barely makes
episodes of Talking to Myself and who bailed on Relationship
Wrecked with my Wife way before ten episodes, preaching to
him about how you got to be consistent. So, well,
(14:03):
here you go. You got your Talking to Myself episode.
Now I just got to get the Relationship Wrecked episode going.
With my wife. It's that one's as tough when that
one's weird because it's it's hard. I don't feel like
she loves loves doing it, and since it's something that
I always do, it's it's weird. I got to get
past that. And and you know she wouldn't do it
(14:25):
or she didn't want to do it obviously, And I
think sometimes it's like the Okay, let's set up and
let's do it. Like we got to be more like,
all right, come on, let's do it outline, here's what
we're gonna talk about. Let's get it going, because a
lot of people ask me about it. The last I
think episode that we did, actually we did it as
a group episode of drinking in the pool at our
friend's vacation home, so that was the last one that
(14:47):
we did. But yeah, we I think we need we
need to get back to the Relationship Wrecked podcast because
we got a lot of new stuff going on in
our life. We're gonna do our twentieth wedding anniversary this year,
which is wild. We had these big plans to go
to Europe for our twenty year wedding anniversary, and plans
are great when you're thinking about them and you're talking
(15:08):
about them, but then you have to actually implement them.
And we didn't start putting money aside or any of that,
and it apparently is very expensive to fly to Europe.
So now we are going to push the Europe trip
to our twenty first wedding anniversary. And we're gonna low
key this year. We're gonna low key my birthday this year,
low key our you know, anniversary vacation this year, and
(15:29):
we're going to put it towards our twenty first wedding anniversary,
and that one is going to be in Europe. So
now we're actually going to plan the plans before we
just like, yeah, let's do it. And I think we
figured we would just pay for it when it got there,
and then we realized, wait a second, we could do
that if we don't want to eat, or have electricity
or have working internet, because we can't afford to go
(15:52):
to Europe and do all of that stuff too, unless
any y'all got any good suggestions on how to get
to Europe cheap. And I don't mean, like, you know,
a couple of dollars cheap. My wife doesn't really fly well,
so I would prefer like the at least bigger seats. Now.
I looked into the little pod things, the little mint
things where you lay down and stuff, but apparently you've
(16:13):
got to have like a gold mine in your backyard
to do the lay down flights, because I don't know
who affords that. Eleven thousand dollars for a flight. I mean, seriously,
I get it, you get to lay down, but eleven
thousand dollars that's just straight up ridiculous. So now the
plan is to actually follow through with our plan and
(16:33):
we'll head to Europe in twenty twenty one. In the meantime,
we'll try to get together a an episode of the
Relationship Wrecked podcast. Lots of cool things going on in
Johnny's house this year on XL one to six seven, though,
we got the Cupid Undie run coming up. If you
haven't signed up for that, make sure you do that.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. Last year, apparently
I threatened to beat up a DJ. It's not what
(16:59):
it sounds like if you haven't heard the story. There
is a bunch of different parts to this story that
all led to a DJ calling me stupid a couple
of times, which is my hot button, and me telling
him if he calls me stupid again, I'm gonna beat
his ass. Now, I would never beat anyone's ass. I
don't think I've ever actually beat anyone's ass. I've actually
had my ass kicked before, but I don't think I've
(17:20):
ever actually beat anyone's ass, so I wouldn't start today.
But it all started with him getting fired, which I'm
not gonna say it was Ray's fault. Ray from Johnny's
House if you haven't listened, but she definitely pushed that
rock to the edge of the cliff and it fell off,
and then I walked in to a mad DJ who
(17:42):
called me stupid, and then I threatened to beat his ass. Anyway,
not gonna happen this year, because this year I am
going to take measures to make sure that we avoid
any sort of recklessness at the Cupid Undey Run, but
we're still gonna have a good time, So make sure
you sign up on our Instagram and that's at XL
one of six and you can check out the link.
The Johnny's House Cruise is back in September. You definitely
(18:04):
want to book that and have a good time with
us on the hot seas. Got some plans going on
for that, so make sure you book. That's an XL
one to six seven dot com. You can check out
that link. And we've got some other big stuff coming
up this year as well. I'm still trying to get
the the the Yoho business in line, our rum business
it's still going on and you can still get it
(18:25):
at a Teak neighborhood grill. You can still get it
at the Swizzle Bar over at Cabana Bay. There's a
few other spots that you could pick it up. But
the liquor business is hard man and we're not willing
to throw money into a pit, so we were very
fiscally responsible with it. It's just, you know, it's a
(18:46):
tough one. Once I get some news on that, I'll
get you going, and if that gets going in the
right direction, we're gonna do some cool events with that too,
but those are kind of on standby while we try
to figure out exactly which direction that is going. Of course,
Johnny's house back for an other year, to make sure
you check that out. So lots of stuff to check out.
Yoho erum dot com, you can check that out. That's
(19:09):
rum brand. Make sure you're following me at Debrian Grimes
on Instagram, on x on all platforms you can find
me there. My son's podcast Dude Problems, which you can
check out always free on the iHeartRadio app or wherever
get you get your podcasts. And I will try try
and make no promises to get relationship wrecked back going
(19:31):
in twenty twenty five,
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