Jon Brennan from the second season of The Real World, stops by the studio to share what it was like being one of the first reality TV Show stars, the struggles he had with his music career after, what he's been up to for the last 20 years and more! Then, Lunchbox and Eddie continue unboxing what's inside the pallet and find one big item! Mailbag: Listener's wife always wants him to take care of her when she's dealing with a hangover. He doesn't feel like he should have to give her special treatment when it comes to hangovers. We share our thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Transmitting lisca, Welcome to Wednesday show Man.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How's it doing all right?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Many?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Feeling good? Feeling prime?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Why?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
What's what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well? You got some bad news or what I gotta
I gotta share some stuff with you. It looks like
today we gotta not do our five A segment because
we got to get guests coming in. Lunchbox, you're in luck.
John Brennan's coming in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
WHOA, let's go get hey, just go to commercial.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So John Brennan is from real World, Los Angeles. Yes,
he's also a country singer, but he was in the
news because the story was about him driving uber still
trying to make it as a country singer. And I
was like, I love the dedication, and Lunchbox is like, no,
I love him. We're bringing him in. He's coming in
like fifteen minutes. Okay, we're gonna do the mail bag.
(00:57):
Let's do this now. Let's go and mail and we
read it.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
On the air to get something we call Bobby's mail Bag.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Year here, Hello Bobby Bones.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Every time my wife has a hangover, she wants me
to treat her like she's really sick and cater to
her However, I don't feel bad for her when she
has a hangover because she did it to herself. Why
should I treat her like she's actually sick? If she
has a cold or a fever, I'd be there to
wait on her hand and foot. But the last time
I was sick, she just got me some cold meds.
(01:31):
So should I take extra good care of her when
she has a hangover? Or should I just let her
learn her lesson? Signed the husband nurse. I'll say I've
never had a hangover, but I feel like if I
had a hangover, I would not let people know I
had to hangover.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I would just act like I had flu sentums.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
There's no chancey, we know you went out the night before,
so all this other flu didn't just kick in?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Got it? Got it?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Got it? Okay, So I'm gonna check out of this
one cause obviously I.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But I would just act like a covid or flu
or something or diarrhea for long time and then not
come out.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But that's me Amy. What would you do here?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I think is this more about how they actually treat
each other when they're sick, Like is he have resentment?
Because she just got him cold medicine. But I guess
when it comes to the hangovers, it is her doing.
Like I think he could try to help her in
whatever way, but he doesn't have to go above and
beyond as if she were to have if she had
a virus or something.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know, if five is taking care of somebody on
their deathbed and one is okay, just throw some cold
medicine at you, where.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Do you put it for hangover?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Like like for to take care of somebody to hang
over your.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yeah, two point five, you still care, you still help,
but you don't have to.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Go all out eddie. Guys, a hangover is still sickness.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Man.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
It's a headache, dude, that's throbbing. Sometimes you're still nauseous.
You got to throw up. Sometimes it's brutal, you can't
continue with your day. So just because you went out
and had a good time, you're still sick and a
little bit of tender loving care would be nice from
your spouse.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So what would you advise him? I say, take care
of her, dude, hand and foot.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Absolutely, she's sick, Okay, it is what alcohol poisoning or
whatever hangover, but she's still poisoning.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It still sick.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I mean, I guess did she deserve to tie on?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well what if? Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Also, what if you get food poisoning and you ate,
if you ate sushi, you know there's that's an accident.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Look my wife a couple months ago, we went to
a party and she was on the bathroom floor all
night long.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Did I take care of her? Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I was tired. I needed to go to bed. So
she laid on the bathroom floor. She was puking, and
I just went in. I was like, hey, okay, I'm
just gonna lay here.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
For a minute.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
All right, good you decided to lay there, I'm gonna
go to bed. In the morning, I woke up and
she stayed in bed till like eleven she came out
of the bedrooms like no, I gotta go back in.
Didn't see her till two o'clock and the kids were like, hey,
where's mama, And I'm like, she's not feeling well. Did
I take care of her? No, she can handle that
on her own. Just locker in the bedroom. You go
do your thing, and when she's ready to come out,
(03:56):
she can come out.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Lock her in the bedroom, yes, you just leave.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Her in the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You don't have lavers different than locker, be honest, you don't.
You don't have to take care of her, got it.
But you just leave her alone and don't bother her
and maybe cover for her, even yeah, cover for her.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You got to.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You've had to hang over to and so not you,
but just generally, and you want somebody to cover for you,
but you don't have to wait hand and foot right.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And then you know, so, then she comes out around
two o'clock and the you know, she's like, I'm alive.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I think we've officially not helped him because everybody says
something to him.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well as the impartial person who doesn't even know what
a hangover feels like. I'm gonna have to side with
the person who's had the most experience with them and
with people that have had them, and that's probably lunch Box.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Probably. Yeah, So I'm going to go locker locker in
her room.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You can cover for her, but you don't have to
wait hand and foot and it shouldn't take you off
the good thing about having food poisoning or alcohol poisoning,
I'll use food poisoning here is you know it's going
to be over and you're not gonna get sicker, and
you know when it's done, there's a shelf life of
food poisoning.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, but if she likes has a favorite food, you
can order that, go pick it up.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You can be kind, but you don't want weagit hand.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You don't, I like, go out of your way to
do extra special things like get flowers.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh, I'm sorry, you're feeling bad. Flowers.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
O need's gatorade.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Get her some gatorade if it's not bothered some of
your schedule, right, Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
We got your game male on you now it's found
the clothes Bobby failed that.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, Lunchbox never gets excited about guests. I mean maybe
five times in the history of the show. He is
so excited that John Brennan is coming in, who was
on Real World Los Angeles. He's one of the OG's
season two Season two man, that's not why he's coming
in to me. I just saw that he's a country singer.
But he's like supporting himself. He's driving over, he's had
a regular job as he still tries to do it.
(05:38):
But he's like a reality show kind of hurt me
more than he did anything. So we're gonna talk to
him about that. One of Lunchbox's heroes comes in next.
John Brennan here Bobby Bones Show. So Bobby Bones Show interviews.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
In case you didn't know, his.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Name's John Brennan, Lunchbox. Would you like to set up
John Brennan. Oh, he's walking in.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Oh man, Real World Los Angeles. I mean he used
to be called California. Second season Real World ever, I mean,
this is huge. He was the cowboy on the show.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
He I mean, why is he in here today?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Because there was a story about him in People magazine.
Because when you're in the real world, people want to
know what's going on with you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Even though it's been thirty years.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, and he lives here.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
He lives here.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
He was he still is trying to have a current
country music Yeah, and he's I.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Mean, we reached out to him. We're like, dude, you
got to get up here.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He didn't know the story at though he drives the
uber No, I.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Know that he is trying to like stay afloat as
he tries to build this career.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Man, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Here to talk about real World.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, no, we're doing We're going to do both. And
we played some of his songs last ye yeah, yeah,
but mostly you want Real World.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, okay, this is so cool.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So exciting, so exciting. He doesn't care about a single guest.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
No, not a single I mean his laptop's closed, right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
John Brennan is here. All right, let's go on the
Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Now, John Brennan.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
We have a lot of celebrities, famous people, interesting people
to come by. Lunchbox does not care about any of them. Hey,
come on in, John, I've set over here right there.
That microphone right, there's good for you. Good to meet you,
my friend. Hey John, get to see you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Hi, Amy, I think so.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah. Yeah, Lunchbox cares because he is such a massive
fan of Real World.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, this is crazy, biggest fan ever.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, Lunchbox, do you recognize John?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, John, your microphones right? Anybody?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
John's bigger than I thought, like taller, yeah, like, I
mean it's been a you know, Real World was a
long time ago, ye see John, Yeah, and he was
he was young. He was like eighteen on the show.
So how old were you ten or eleven?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Twelve? Maybe? So, I mean I didn't realize how big.
I mean, he's a big dude.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, He's always always been tall, hot John.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I've grown as an adult. Yeah yeah, yeah, own a
lot in the last you know, many years. But when
I was on the show, I was about three three
inches shorter.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And he's got a cowboy hat on. That's probably a
big part.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Of it too.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
No, no, no, dude, what did you never watched the show?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I've never seen I mean no.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Oh, I used to love it. I mean I wasn't
as upset you.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That was his thing.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Man, God, he looks the city. He looks much the same.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yes, thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, okay, let's talk what's your first question because that's
tough too.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Was real world everything? I think it was like it
was it the most amazing experience.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It was amazing. It was amazing. Now you gotta remember
we were we were first I'm the reality star.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Hey, that's the first season ever. You were on the
first season.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Ever, first, No, first show ever. I was on season two,
season two.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But was still what I'm saying, he was back when
it was like real real, Like there wasn't like people
in public didn't know who they were when they were
going out with cameras. Towards the end, people would go
looking for the cameras and try to start stuff. This
was like groundbreaking started reality TV.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, and so why'd you do it?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
So?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I was a student at Belmont University and they did this,
this first version in New York City, the true story
of seven strangers picked to live in a house to
find out what happens when people stop being polite and
start being real the real world.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
That's a tackling.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's the opening. That's so awesome. And so they said,
you know what, We're gonna do this again in Los
Angeles nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Did you watch season one?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I didn't, got it. I didn't. I was doing you know,
Garth Brooks, Allen Jackson, Brooks and Dunn. We're tearing up
the charts. So MTV said, go to Nashville, find us
a country music singer. Found me at Belmont. You want
to be on MTV. Not really, Well, let me tell
you about the show we did. You're gonna live in
this house. We're gonna tape. It's gonna be on MTV,
you know, trying to impress me. And I literally said
to the guy, said that doesn't sound very interesting. This
is not gonna work. And so here we are thirty
(09:22):
years later. Reality is the biggest genre that there is
in entertainment. And so they said, you want to be
you know, in Los Angeles, in California on MTV, And
I said, not really, I want to stay here in
national work on country music.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Were you playing music?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah? I was doing country music. It's why I went
to Belmont, and you know, thought, I'm right here on
music row and dang, I'm going to be getting my
foot in the door. Little did I know I was
going to be in Los Angeles living with you know,
weird people.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Why did you end up saying? Yes? What was the fact?
What made you go?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
The producer finally just said, do you realize that you're
going to have this huge fame and what that's going
to do when you can go back and the public
and allready know you and then they're gonna, you know,
be interested in your music? And I thought, wow, that
makes a lot of sense. So that made it really
interesting all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And so you moved to LA. What was that like
for you?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah? I mean La was kind of crazy. They cast
me because they wanted the Kentucky boy I'm from Kentucky
that you know, was sheltered and never been anywhere, but
my daddy worked for the FBI, so I was born
in Wisconsin, lived in Phoenix and Baltimore. But they wanted
the story of this guy.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
They already had a narrative they did.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
They got there, but they found out real fast that
you know that I was pretty likable compared to the
other people I was living with, right, lunchbox. Yeah, and
that's that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And they like, you have people from all different backgrounds,
so you know, they fight and it was just like,
oh man, it was it's so intense. How much did
you make a lot of money back then? Back then
we made two hundred dollars a week. I lived there
for twenty two weeks. They paid us less than five
thousand dollars for twenty two episodes, which aired for ten years.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
He is convinced if you just do a season of
that show, you end up famous and set no no, right.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
That was my thought when I growing up. I used
to watch I am going to be on that show
in my life. I'm gonna become super famous, right, Well,
you you would be super famous. That that happened. Kim
Kardashian used to watch the Real World and she said
that's what I want to do. So you're welcome America
the Real World, and thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
John.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, I'm the Kardashians of the nineties.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So that show you come off of it. Did you
have success in country music immediately?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Was there?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Was there a base of folks that followed you to
music immediately after?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah? I ended up opening for Alabama, the New York
State Fair, Pennsylvania State Fair, open for George Jones, open
for Shenandoah, open for Clay Walker, open for Kenny Chesney,
and it was Hey, come see this be huge star.
And by the way, the guy from the Real World
on MTV's opening for him and so and then I
played a lot of shows by myself all the nineties.
(11:47):
I was on a tour bus on the road, going,
you know, all over the United States, and people were like, wow, dude,
when's your record going to hit? And I'm like, I
hope soon. You know, I had I had my owner,
Judge's manager was managing me. I got signed to a
major record label and then they signed this guy named
Tracy Adkins and dropped me. Apparently, in the nineties, if
your name was Tracy, you got a record new and
(12:08):
so anyway, I can't really listen to honky tunk, but
don't kadunk anymore because I tear up a little bit.
But yeah, I mean so just the ebbs and flows
of the music business and I yeah, seriously, I was
in Nashville doing great things.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So you're playing all these shows, do you start to
fill the real world stuff kind of fade off after
a while.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It took a long time, you know, because there's forty
seasons of the Real World now there was only two,
and so while they were they were premiering the third
and the fourth one, they were unveiling those one week
at a time, but they were showing a marathon of ours.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Could you do it like appearances?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Back then to go do some couple of bucks to
do it?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh yeah, somewhere. Yeah, we went to a lot of
colleges and you know, a couple of guys from the
real world are here, and so it would be a
campus event.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
What would they would they present you as on the show?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
How?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
So?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I don't know what, because these reality shows.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Have a narrative they want then their mind already. Yeah,
how did they make you look and did you feel like?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
He was completely authentic to who you were.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
He was the sheltered kid, didn't drink, didn't hook up, right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Is that true? Was that true?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah? That is true. Bo Well, I mean I don't
know how sheltered I was, but that was definitely the
narrative was this is the story. I mean, I was
the main character of our season. It was how is
John going to respond to Los Angelesyeah?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I guess did you watch it and go?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
They kind of tricked me with how they edited it
and how they what the scenarios they put me in.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
My roommates felt that way about themselves. I didn't. I
mean I was I was the aspiring country singer from Kentucky.
So I wore my hat all the time, and you
know that's who I really was. Yeah, I mean, especially
in Los Angeles. You know how many country singers wearing
a cowboy hat or walking around LA with an MTV
camera following them.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Did you sing on the show?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Oh? Yeah? Oh yeah. I met met Ronnie Dunn back
in the nineties. He's like, you sing my song on MTV.
I said, yes, I did, Yes, I did. And you
know I haven't gotten any kudos from that, but.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, so you are touring hardcore. Are you wondering at
some point like what's is this ever gonna work? Or
because it doesn't work for a lot of most people,
it doesn't work for well.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
To be honest with you, reality was such a new
genre nobody could get it. I actually had a big
time player in Nashville. Here go, man, I mean, you're
a great singer, but how are we going to go
from an MTV star to a country star? And I said, no, no, no,
you don't understand. I'm a country singer. That's why I
got put on the show. And they couldn't make that leap.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
They only were seeing you as a reality person, not
for what you really.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Were, and they didn't even know what a reality person was.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Not only that, I guess MTV because like the music,
it's totally different than.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But now, if you're on a reality show when you
come to Nashville, hey, let's capitalize on that and let's
start selling records.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Do you think it was held against you for a
long time?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I think it was I don't know held against me.
It was confused. They didn't know what to do with me.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What would you tell them to do with you?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Make a record? Put it on the radio put me
on tour. I mean that's half the battle nowadays is
oh there's a new singer. Well, whether they look like, well,
what are they like? I'm the kid next door. I
mean people people all the time stopped me on the
street and they're like, man, I feel like I know you.
When I heard your voice, I knew who you were,
and it's like I grew up with you.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Do you feel like that you became resentful of the
industry because they couldn't make that transition from reality guy
to country star.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Did you feel like you were good enough?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh? Yeah, I mean I say great, but I just
feel like it took a long time for people to
realize that, oh, this is John from the real world.
But remember he was a country singer. He's always been
a country.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And there was no social media to learn more about him.
I guess too at that time.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
That's crazy is you never knew what happened to these
people afterwards, because there wasn't Wikipedia, there wasn't oh look
at my Instagram. Yeah, And so I would sit there
and like, man, whatever happened to Beth?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
And then oh, the challenge is coming les versus real world.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So the backstory on that is, which you know about
a year ago all stars, I got, well, I got
all this, I got all these, you know, messages from
friends saying Lunchbox is talking about the real World reunion
on the Bobby Bone Show. Yeah. So I started tweeting
you and I'm like, Lunchbox, follow me back.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Wait, you didn't. He's on the real World. You didn't
follow him back? Well, yeah, I must like you didn't
know it was him.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
No, I don't check my Twitter a lot. Yeah, well
I'm on Instagram's Bobby. You don't follow me back either.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, I didn't who you were, if I'm being honest,
because I watch it all the time.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It's part.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's the hugest I saw, like a little bit of
New Orleans or something, the Bunny of the River or something.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah that was Yeah, that was David. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So I know you all about it. Wow, Lunchbox, you
are you are a real world trivia. But I love
the real World. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
The reason I know who you are is because I
was reading the story and I don't remember if it
was a news story or if it was you talking
about it, and you were like, I think being on
the real world hurt me a little bit and if
I had to do a lot of things in order
to keep my country music career going, and I was like,
that's pretty admirable, Like the guy's a dreamy at times. Yeah,
stuff sucks and you got to figure out ways to
make it happen while it's not happening.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
What was that story, Well, I mean if if the
real if I was on the real World today, I.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Mean no, I mean what was that story I read?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh, you're probably reading People magazine and well, last week
People Magazine did what is John doing now? And I
think that was, you know, a story that you guys
came across.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Probably what it was then, Yeah, I think it was
because like for Lunchbox, for example, Bobby, we know he
thinks that if you're on the Real World or Reality
the TV, that your life is just set after that,
and you were explaining that's not necessarily the case.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, Well, nowadays they get paid a lot of money.
All that money that Mike the Situation and Snooky made,
that's my money I should be having that.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Let's do let's try I say about it.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Now, have they ever reached out to you or you
reached out to them saying, hey, I'd love to come
back on Challenge All Stars because they bring like you know,
Beth went back. I mean, they bring these people back
from the old seasons, and it's a lot shorter season
because they have real jobs and families. So it's like
three weeks, three and a half weeks of filming instead
of eight weeks of filming. Have you any interest? I
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started the challenge I was on. Get that I was on.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
So what happened is they flew two of my roommates
to Nashville and we got in a Winnebago at the airport.
They drove to my house in Owensboro, Kentucky, and we
drove to Los Angeles in a Winnebago. And those were
the first two episodes of our Real World season in
nineteen ninety three, and they went, Wow, those episodes were incredible.
We're gonna do a whole spin off season called road
Rules Awesome. And so that was in the Winnebago. And
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then some years later they had the Real World Versus
Road Rules and they would compete together and that is
the Real World Versus Road Rules Challenge. I was on
the first Challenge in Verno two and yeah, that was
number ten. I was on one, five and ten. You're
cracking me up, Lunchbuck. And so this is what I
always say. I always say, you know, I started, I
started the Real World because you know, the first season sucked,
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and I started road Rules and I started the Challenge
and so I'm this huge MTV star. But all I
ever really wanted to do is single.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
On the Grande Lobbry, and you finally got to do that.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I did get to do.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Let's talk about a second. Okay, let let me let's
reset this for a second. We're gonna come back. John
Brennan's here, who you may know John as Lunchbox Do.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
From Real World. California later renamed Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Wow, it wasn't even the real.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Because then they had San Francisco, they had LA so
they had to rename it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And then I read a story in People Magazine and
I was like, I like this guy because he's still
going at it even though he's got to do other
things to keep making sure he can still go at it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So we'll come back.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
On the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Now, John Brennan, how do you feel about the Real
World now?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Well, you know, the popularity of reality TV has grown
so much that people get cast on a reality show
they don't act in with a lot of integrity. Now
it's like, oh, I'm gonna ham it up because I'm
famously so yeah, I watched reality TV. I'm like, man,
you're you're a poser. You're not really being true.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Do you have any resentment toward the real world itself?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No, I mean the real world gave me a platform.
I wouldn't be here on the Bbby Bone Show today
without you know, the real world, I'd just be another
singer in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Do you get tired of talking about it?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
There was a time where I kind of did because
I didn't want to be the guy from the real world.
I wanted you to know me from how you're John Brennan,
the singer. But now I'm just like, you know what,
that's who I am. That's who the public got introduced.
You know me too, and so I'm just like, yeah,
I'm that guy. I was a pretty likable guy on there,
so I can't embrace it. You like him, Yeah, That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
And it was cool to like, you think that the
narrative that they had is this small town kid, you
know what I mean, he's been exposed to every day.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
You're like, wow, that is he was. He was eighteen,
so everybody else can go out.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
To the bars and it's like him, He's like, I
can't run. He drink, but he didn't drink anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
What did your parents think at eighteen?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
That's what I was gonna say. Yeah, so I'm like, hey,
mom and dad, you know that really expensive school in
Nashville that you got a loan that I could, you know,
go there? And yeah, I'm going to drop out after
one semester and I'm going to move to Los Angeles
and be on the MTV, that network that we you know,
have blocked on our cable. And you know what, they said,
go make a great opportunity and that's cool. Did they
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watch it? Oh my mom has the VHS tapes all
of them.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
They like how you were portrayed.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah they did.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And so you finished the show, you come back, you're touring.
How about a record deal? Did you sign a record deal?
All sign a record deal with with Capitol Records? So
a big label, a big label, and what what did
you think was going to happen when you signed with Capitol.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Records, So at this time, the Judge manager who managed
them for all of their career, was managing me. I
had a booking agent that worked Garth for his whole career,
a guy named Joe Harris, and he's gone on to
be in heaven, but a wonderful, wonderful man. I was
riding around on a big long silver Eagle tour bus
opening for Alabama and I was signed to a major
record label. I thought I was going to be the
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next big thing.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Did you have any hits?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I recorded some songs, but like that that made it
at radio?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh, we never released a radio You never released a
single radio.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Not back then. Why they just never got around to it.
They signed another act and they went with them, and
you know, hey, we're gonna we're gonna free you up
to go, and every label in town's gonna try to
scoop you up. Well they didn't, and so I just,
you know, kept on plugging, kept on plugging. And then
eventually I went back to Kentucky and I started leading
music in my church.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And you were in the ministry for a long time.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, twenty years, and you did you do music.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The whole time? Like was that your thing?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was like I had a dual role, you know,
I was doing music on Sundays and I was a
youth pastor throughout the week.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Did you do some morning nice life?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Is? Oh fly?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I was like to always spelled, or like oh apotch
for er.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Or yeah, I actually sing that song in a church
in Nashville last week, so he does know that.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's a little something. I know.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You know, so you're in ministry, But are you ever
thinking I want to get back in and really dedicate
myself to country music again.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah? I wanted to. I wanted to. I wanted to badly,
and I kept having the itch. And every time I
drive from Alabama to Kentucky to see family, I drive
right through Nashville and I go, man, I got to
get back here, like like this is where my desire,
my goals are.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
What brought you back?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Just uh, just honestly. A few years ago, MTV rang
me and said, we're going to put everybody back together
for a homecoming. Would you be interested in moving back
in the same exact house in California with your roommates?
And I said, are you crazy? Yeah, I'll do that, sure, Okay,
Well will you help us convince your roommates to do it,
because some of them don't want to do it. And so,
(23:25):
long story short, we moved back in the same house
for three weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Did you see that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I watched a little bit of it, didn't catch all
of it, your mister Diehard, Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Lunch became a dad or something.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's the problem. I don't have as much free time.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yes, you do. You take four hour naps.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But anyway, was it as hard as when you're older?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I have more.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'll come back to you, but we just you know,
I want to get a question.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Here, so you're you're doing that, and then do you
move back to Nashville after that?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So I moved back to Nashville. I kept coming in
and out, and you know, it was kind of not
full entrenched. And so yeah, after the reunion, I thought
was going to be my next big shot in the arm,
like with the public, and it didn't turn out to
be quite as watched because Diehard fans he were watching
the show. And so you know, I just said, you
(24:16):
know what, on you man, go record some songs and
just get back to Nashville and just say I'm all in.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
One more shot.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Well, I mean, I'm all in. I'm just this is
what this is what I want to do. This is
where I feel comfortable, this is where my goals are,
and here I am.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You made your opry debut last this year.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
It was last yearly right, a year ago.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
So how did that work out? How'd you get the call?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
So John Connley opry member legend Rose Color Glasses. Yeah,
Rose Color Glasses had a number one hit called I'm
Only in It for the Love back in nineteen eighty four.
I love the song. Been listening to country music my
whole life. And so he's from ver Sales, Kentucky. I
had opened for him in my hometown and somebody played
him my version of that song and he goes, well,
I really love that, and they said, well, glad that
(25:00):
you like it. He's dying to sing this on the
opry with you. And he goes, well, this was a Tuesday.
He goes, well, you tell him to come on Friday.
And so Friday night he called me out and said,
y'all make welcome John Brennan. They gave me a nice
little golf clap because they'd been asked to. And I
walked out there and John Connley goes, John, whyn't you
tell them who you are? And I said, okay, Well,
before there was Survivor and the Kardashians, there was me
(25:21):
on MTV's The Real World and you could just hear
it across the grand Old Opera house. They're like, oh
my gosh, it's John. That's the guy from the Real World.
And so they gave me a good clap. Then you
feel good? Oh yeah, I mean I told John Conley
in his dressing room. I said, I said, do you
think they'll let me stand in the circle when I sing?
And he said, well, I'll tell you what. I stand
in the circle all the time. I'll just step out
(25:42):
and I'll put your microphone stand there in circle and
you just sing there. And I was like, are you
kidding me? First of all, he was, well, he was
so gracious and nice to do that. He didn't have
to do that, and the nicest guy in the world
if you've ever met John Conley. But it was incredible.
I mean, there's a full house, I'm standing there singing
a great song with a great artist and just standing
there in the circle of the ground. I mean, it's
(26:02):
every singer's dream, right, We played a clip and some
of your song true Story. The other day we were
talking about you, thank you, and so Ray, would you
play a little bit of.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
This story living.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I'm lost and now I'm being found?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
And so tell me about the song. What's the message
of the song? So, I mean, I think I know it,
but I'd like to here you.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Well, first of all, I co wrote this song, and
uh it's it's a true story about my parents. Uh.
And then you know, I'm known for my little tag
uh from the real world. They tell us, you know,
oh boy, I don't know what to tag this. This
is the true story of seven strangers to live in
a house. But when they asked me to do that
(26:48):
and on the real world, they said, John, sing that
in your most dwight yoakum voice. So I got about
three lines into it and they took one little clip
and they this is the true story. And then me
going true story. I mean, for like years people would say, hey,
come up, say true story, say true story. So I
wrote this song called true Story, but has nothing to
do with the real world show it's a true story
(27:08):
about my life and my parents. But I thought, you
know what that'd be, you know, a little snarky to
put True Story as my song, and I'm proud. I'm
proud of that song, and it's doing really well on
positive country radio. It's actually starting to enter the mainstream
radio chart and I love it. I'm really proud of
how it's turned out.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
That's super cool.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
We host a national countdown show that's played in like
a few hundred cities and we're actually going to feature
that song.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And it's.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I what I'm talking about, Wachbox, can you be my
hype mate?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Exactly scared me. Actually, we have a spotlight Artist of
the Week. We always spotlight a song nationally, and we're
going to put your song, True Story in there.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'm so honored and play it nationally.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Man. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, it's really awesome And and love that you're still
going right, like, because there's in life generally, there's a
lot of reason to quit doing a lot of things. Yeah,
And if you love it and you find a way
to keep doing it, either it works out or you're
doing something you love anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, and that's also a win.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I love it. I mean, there's so many cool things
that happened because of this. Like I was I'm a
drive uber, so I'm driving past Zany's last night, uh,
yesterday afternoon with with with some passengers, and I see
a friend of mine's name on on the Marquee. So
THEO Vaughn is you know, oh yeahs rules. Yeah, he
started on road rules. It started on road Wait, you
(28:29):
know road rules, but you don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The ru I know THEO saw at a restaurant, so
I filed on from TikTok.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So I texted him. I'm like, hey, dude, if you're
in Nashville, I want to come to your show. And
my passengers go, did you just text THEO Vaughn. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
he was on the road rules and and he's a
friend of mine from way back, and they were freaking out.
So last night I went and saw THEO Vaughn. But
you know there's this network of For instance, when when
I'm at Garth Brooks for the second time, he remember,
(28:54):
he goes we've met before, and like that's.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
A good impression. That's a good impression John.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
You know, I'm like, hey, Garth and he's like, well,
we've met before. I'm like, yeah, we've met. And so
you know, one day I'm sitting there and I'd look
at my Instagram messages and Shooter Jennings with a blue
check mark text me and similar to what Lunchbox just said,
are you going to be on these reunions? Are you
going to be on that cool All Stars?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And I'm like, Shooters Whale son, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and
so hey good producer, but oh a Grammy Award winning producer.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So I immediately message him back. I said, is this
Shooter Jennings because I need you to know something. I
only send country music because my dad loved your dad.
And he says, I'm a big fan of you on
the Real World and if you ever come to Los
Angeles looked me up. I'm like, man, I never come
to Los Angeles anymore. A few months later, John, will
you come to a reunion for the Real World in
(29:44):
Los Angeles? And so I said, yes, and I'll talk
my roommates into it and let's go. And so I
texted Shooter and I said, man, I don't want to
fly with my guitar. I mean it's you know, I'm
really careful with it. Airlines aren't. So you got a
guitar I can use. He's like, yeah, you can use.
My dad had guitar so I'm playing wailing to Guitar
on MTV. That's rock star right there.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
That's great lunchbox.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
What would you like to ask?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'll give you a few more minutes.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah, I got a couple more questions.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We give you two more questions.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Oh man, that's not enough.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Three you got three?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It maybe a run on question.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
So at the end of every season you see them like, oh,
the cabs here, Oh who's this cab for?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And they take them to the airport, you know, to
fly away.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Do you guys really go to the airport, because I've
always been like, man, that's so sad you go to
the airport after having this so much fun? Or is
it the the cab drives away and then you guys
get together and do press well.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Thirty years ago, the very last scene of my twenty
two episode season was me walking through the airport in
Los Angeles towards a song. A scientist says to Nashville,
John's going to Nashville and then credits rolling as the
end of our season. Nowadays, so that was true, See
that was true. Nowadays it's not. It's like, okay, we
want you to sit on this couch. We want you
(30:53):
to turn this way and now say this to lunchbox
and I'm like, that's not reality. That's not what we
did back in the day. So things changed.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Number two on the challenges when you would do those,
like now they've turned into more like competitions, and it
used to be just party, party, party. Yeah, is there
were those more fun than the real world.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Not as much fun, more fun, more fun. The challenges
are more fun because you're actually doing stuff and in
the real world you're just sitting there waiting for the
next argument.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Final question, lunchbucks, man, I have so many after you
get off the real world. Back in the day, there
wasn't cell phones, there wasn't social media. Did you stay
in touch with your roommates or did it go like
years I didn't talk to them and then once social
media came around, you got back in contact.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Exactly what happened? I mean we talked once a year
on the phone. There was no texting, very little. It
took Facebook. When Facebook came out, we all kind of reconnected.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Who are you closest?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Though?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That's three? You can have one.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Let me let me roll this into it. I want
to say, maybe Beth because I want to talk at
this podcast podcast.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's great segue.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you got going there.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I knew that.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
What's it called exactly, It's called Getting Real with John
and Beth? And yeah, well, what do you guys do
on this? We talk about reality TV. We talk about
exactly what we just We talk about what it was
like then versus what it's like now. We have reality
stars on there. We talk about music and we took
his best a music lover and I'm a musician and
we're actually gonna have shoot her on pretty soon. And
(32:26):
we talk about current events. So we just, you know,
we just talk about life. Getting Real with John and Beth.
You should check it out, lunch bark, I'm gonna check
it out. Do you know how to download podcast? Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yeah, you go to iHeartRadio app and just search podcasts.
It's there. It's there. Six episodes are on iHeart podcast
right now. So do you and Beth actually get together
to do it or do you do it via zoom
via zoom. She's in Los Angeles still, man, She's just
crushing it, Beth.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I mean when she came back on the season of
the Challenge, the all stars. Everybody's like, what I thought
you were done doing this and he's like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Back and she said the B word.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Well look everybody out there.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It is so cool, man, Like, this is so cool.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
You can follow John at John Brennan Underscore Calm like
dot com like dot com. Yeah, John Brennan, b R, E,
N N A and Underscore Calm. We're gonna play True
Story on the National Countdown this weekend, which is gonna
be super cool for you.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Our biggest interview, yeah that Lunchbox.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
You're exactly right. This is the biggest interview. It is.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Well, he was gonna say of the year and then
he changed it to yet like mid breath biggest interview there.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I mean, we've had a couple of teen moms on here,
but this is this.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, John, we really appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I'm flattered on or you have a great show. How
did you know we were talking about you? My phone
lit up? My phone lit up, and they say, hey,
well a year ago, Lunchbox is talking about the Homecoming
and I'm so so I start tweeting. And then last
week it was a Bobby Bones played your song and
was talking about you and the people magazine article, and
I'm like, okay. So the next day I was calling
in but it was busy. And then on your website
(34:03):
it says text in, So I'm texting in and and
I thought, oh man, I'm not going to be able
to get through. And then your producer messaged me and
I was like, yes.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
That's awesome. Askoop Steve Man.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
IM wonder who hit him up? Was it David? Was
it Beth?
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
I mean, I'm just trying to people from the real world. No, no,
it was yeah, everybody, everybody in Kentucky and Alabama.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
John. Really great to meet here.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, awesome, final words, lunchbox man.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
It is just awesome.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
It is.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
One of my dreams was to be on the real world.
Real world doesn't happen anymore. But I mean, it's just
it's cool to live through you.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Let's be friends, like, let's hang out. And my next
big dream is for is for you to be saying
and now here's John Brennan on the grand Ole opry M.
That would be a good I would love to go back.
That would be a good one.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I mean, I can say it, but he won't be there.
I mean, I can say it right now, but it
won't matter. But yes, I hear what you're saying. John Brennan,
there he is.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Go follow him. We'll put the link up to his
stuff on our website too.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Thank you so much. It's time for the good news.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Raquel Baker is a school bus driver in Dallas, Texas,
and she's driving the bus, you know, going down the road,
and she looks in the mirror and she's like, is
that Preston coming this way?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Little Preston's in the back.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
He's doing magic tricks, trying to hide a quarter, puts
a corn in his mouth, right runs up Preston. What's wrong.
Raquel thinks, oh my gosh, Preston's gonna throw up. So
she pulls the bus over, opens the door. He Preston
goes out. He's like, no, I'll not throw it up.
I'm choking.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
So she realizes that it is hiding the corner in
his mouth. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
The first thing about magic is don't put anything in
the holes. Yea, yeah, first roll of magic. Don't put
any of that stuff in holes. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
So the bus driver is like, oh my gosh, he's choking,
So she starts doing the hi I'm like, oh, spits
the quarter out, saves the boy.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, nice.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
That choking when you can't breathe and you're choking, it
is the most helpless feeling.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Oh ask Mike d Man. We were sitting in the
car and saved his life. He was choking in like
three seconds. I went into action and I hit him
as hard as I could on its back three times.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
And the food pilot what what was the food? Mine's
always a chip, Like I'm gonna die from a chip.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
It was a wrap.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It was the same day that I said, hey, guys,
order whatever you want on this app for lunch and
I'll pay for it. And Eddie ordered. He did a
full lunch box and ordered like four entrees.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Was like three. It's like three, I think.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Is that the day I ordered avocado toast and no avocado,
accidentally hit the no avocado button and literally had.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
A piece of toast.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Different day, Yeah, a different day, same place. I said Amy,
I'm gonna get lunch if you guess one anything, and
she goes, yeah, I'm gonna get some avocado toast. And
it shows up and I get the toast. I'm like
what is this. I'm like, did somebody order just toast.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
It's like literally the most expensive piece of toast. Yeah,
because they still charged you.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
They still charge me for the avocado and removing it.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Avocado toast. Please hold the avocado right. The kid's safe,
he's good and she's a hero. Always keep your avocado
on the avocado toast or just ordered toast. That was crazy.
I was like, she goes, no, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Then she looked at her phone or we looked at
it and it said minus avocado.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah, all right, thank you. That's what it's all about.
That was tell me something good.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Tell me if you saw this in your neighborhood, if
you think it's funny, or if it's inappropriate, because in
this one neighborhood, it's Halloween. Had a bunch of skeletons. Fine,
but they had a poll they were doing on a
street sign at first, and the skeleton was pole dancing
with other skeletons sitting in chairs watching it.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
It's funny, but I don't. I don't want it my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You don't want it your neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
It's not appropriate.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
I don't want to have to drive by it with
my kids and explain anything.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Some guy in Utah created this Halloween decoration showing a
skeleton pole dancing on a street sign and pole dancing
like its legs were the one holding it.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Its head was down Yeah yeah, yeah, like acrobat.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Neighbors complained, so the guy then took it and moved
it to his private property, made it even bigger. So
now it's a whole. It's like Christmas and they have
the manger. But it's like that, it's big. It's Hallo Halloween.
So people are upset, Oh take it down. It's me
thoughts in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Would you like it? Amy?
Speaker 5 (38:04):
No, but I won't. I'm not gonna complain about it.
I'll just go another way.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Why couldn't you just tell kids that didn't understand it
that it was just climbing on a monkey bar.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Sure, yeah, I mean there's ways around it. Like I said,
I'm not gonna complain, but I'm gonna be like, Okay,
stop being ridiculous, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
I don't think my kids would even know what it's
what they're doing, so I'd say, yeah, let's keep it.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
That's funny, lunchbox.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
I think it's hilarious for adults and kids. Just think, oh, look,
that person's upside down. That's silly, like if you know,
then you know, and if you don't, you don't, and
it's funny. I think it's funny.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
I could see my kids going home to being like googling, like, you.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Know, person on a pole with people watching.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
But also and you know they're putting them in those
chairs like when you go to a game you unfold
skeletons or no. But it's also what if they're like
a workout class. Yep, no one ever thought about that.
They do have pole dancing workouts. Absolutely they do. Okay,
they could be away a workout class watching their friend
who just rehabilitated from motorcycle accident.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Oh a fireman going down a bone.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Oh that's good and not like that.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
But I got flipped upside dow.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, not like that. Speaking of bones, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Four people have been accused of illegally trafficking over a
million dollars worth of dinosaur bones, like real ones.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Where did you get those?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I thought those were Four people have been accused of
illegally trafficking over a million dollars worth of dinosaur bones,
unraveling the mysteries of prehistoric life hidden within the rugged
landscapes of Utah.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
These are two Utah stories.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Here, a federal grand jury in Salt Lake City and
died of the group for their legend Vollman of purchasing
and selling more than one million dollars worth of resources,
which included one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of dinosaur
bones illegally taken from federal and state lands in southeastern Utah.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It sounds like they dug about themselves well finer skippers. Wow,
I don't know that's the case. Let me read on.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
From twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three, they engaged in
the purchase, transportation, and an export of dinosaur bones from
federal lands.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Some of this stuff looks crazy. So if you find
dinosaur bones, you can't keep that stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Maybe it depends on where you find it or well,
first of all, if they did steal some of this,
if not all of it, there's a lot of but
on that. I don't know not but I would think
if you found on your land, you probably get.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
To keep it. That's mine, that's mine. But I don't
think they were. They found it on their line.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
But if you find it in a national park, it's that.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
They're accused of conspiring to conceal and retain stolen US property.
Knowingly they stockpile these resources for sale at gym and
mineral shows and national vendors, and they show they were
showing some Uh, they are now in trouble obviously, But
that's a lot of dinosaur bones.
Speaker 7 (40:33):
I would think that all those dinosaur bones too, would
be more than a million dollars or one hundred and
fifty thousand pounds.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Some more than one million dollars, like dinosaur bones. That's
so rare that should be.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
But I don't know that it's all all all dinosaur bones.
I think there are some dinosaur bones. And they also
say they were paleontological resources, and that so just rocks too,
or rocks that have fossil type things.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
I don't know paleontology because we're ass on friends.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
I just don't understand how like, how do you go
to your buddy like, hey man, I got a great idea.
I think we should steal some dinosaur bones some paleontology tools,
like what And then he's like, yeah, you know what
my neighbor would be into that too. Can we bring
him in on board? Like, how do you get four
people involved in this operation?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I'm sure someone works in an area where they know
the value of it.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
They could work in minerals. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Oh, and then all it takes is to go, hey,
I know how he can make some money. Okay, I'm
in Yeah, I'm down with my neighbors for sure. And
then that's from NBC LA. I thought that was crazy. Okay,
let's go with it. We have this huge palette and
on this palette there's a big box with Amazon written
on the side of it, and these are all items
that people have returned to Amazon. We went and bought
(41:45):
this mysterious palette for over five hundred bucks. We all put
in like eighty dollars. We've been opening stuff right now.
We have guessed all the stuff we've opened. If we
sell it, all the values is worth about three hundred
and twenty one dollars.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
That's if.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
But that's if it sells if somebody does all the work.
So we have the guys have big boxes. Now, Dude,
that looks awesome.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
What is that?
Speaker 6 (42:06):
And Eddie lasting goes, I don't know, Oh, you don't.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Know what it looks awesome. Yeah, it's really.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
That's nothing has been expensive.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
We have it's all.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Okay, lunchbox, what do you have for us? First?
Speaker 4 (42:18):
First, we have a a black looks like maybe a
tent or something. It looks like a tarp. Maybe it's
a c.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
E M O F E.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Fourteen to sixteen feet c E M.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Oh yeah, this is real. Oh it's like a canopy, baby,
Oh it is.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
It's a fourteen by sixteen foot waterproof bass boat cover.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Woo hey, we got some fishermen out there that need it.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
All right, new sixty bucks. It's new. We'll say twenty five.
Ok okay, sell it for twenty five.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Okay, next, Oh open it. Yeah, we it's sealed. Do
we have any cat lovers out there?
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Amy is?
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Oh you got a.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
New Age pet house, new Age pet outdoor cat shelter, yes,
natural rest one set, brand new, never been opened.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
Baby, I have an indoor cat.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
So well, maybe he wants to go outside get some
fresh air.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
New Age. The size is nineteen by twenty five. It's
a bunch of centimeters. Okay, it looks here like The
price is three hundred, no, eight eighty bucks, all right,
so we'll go.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
We get fifty percent then forty All.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
Right, hey that's good, really good.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Rarely well, I say we can get fifty percent for
anything in this This.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Is a big one way. You want to put it
up here so you can see it. This is crazy
because it's got like five.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Boxes in one, five boxes one, two, three, four, five,
six boxes in one.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Let's pull it out. What do we got?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Sounds like more crap with Oh.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Toilet seed seat?
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Everybody needs toilet toilet seats.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, toilet seeds. What kind though?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Rings and covers? In the USA, those go for seven
dollars each. Bemis right there by, bemus b E M
I S seventy toilet seed.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
Whether they're nine to fifty five, count how many are
in there?
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Six They go for seven dollars each. Okay, six times
seven is forty two.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
We can probably sell in our company because we need
to get there.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
I'd say you get fifteen dollars to that box.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
There's someone that owns like an apartment complex or a
dormitory that needs those, maybe a big dogs.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
This is like under the Christmas tree, the big gift
to the big gifts. Oh man, oh boy, this is
probably four foot long. Oh yeah, a foot and a
half wide. Whoa what's the brand?
Speaker 3 (44:46):
Hands grow? H A N S G R O H
E don't know what it is. It is awesome looking though.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Got a box.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
It's got a box and it's got some like poles
or something.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
We got polls. Is it a sink?
Speaker 1 (45:01):
It might be a sink, man, because there's one of
these options is pretty expensive, one's pretty cheap.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
It's probably an expensive one, if I know us?
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Is that definitely a sink?
Speaker 3 (45:14):
It's a sink.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Okay, it's it's a shower.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
It's a shower nozzle shower?
Speaker 3 (45:21):
We got a shower?
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Is it a sink or a shower.
Speaker 6 (45:27):
Like a shower head?
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Let's say again a rain dance? What?
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Yeah, rain dance three hundred? We are in the.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Money, hands grow, We can't find the rain dance three?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Is there some of the two?
Speaker 3 (45:42):
No, it's just three hundred, man, Okay, do you.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Want to come look at We hand that to Mike.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Thank you. We are right.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Okay, what do you have?
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Rain dance? Baby? Let's make it rain money?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Which one?
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Mike? This is it?
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Whole set, brand new, brand new. It goes for if
you were to get it on eBay. Are you sure
that's it, Mike, let's circle back.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Oh oh circle.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Guys, who's glad they invest in?
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Now?
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Wait, you gotta put this away, man, we got something else.
You won't keep going.
Speaker 6 (46:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (46:19):
One more, oh boy, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Item number eight nine four seven playing Bingo's a. It
is cubical stack and HAG two cube organizer, color white dimensions,
made in Malaysia.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Yeah, but we don't know what that means.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
Yeah. I don't either. I'm just telling you what it is.
It doesn't have a brand name.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
So that's what we're running out of stuff in the box.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
Any no, no, no, no, no, no, okay, it's a.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
Cubical stack and hang it stuck. It's a it's a
cube organizer.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
So the description c cubicles stackenhang two cube organizer.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
That's what I said.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
I said, And I said it was made in Malaysia.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
Hanging in a bathroom or something maybe next.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
To our rain dance. See, we got the whole bathroom
set and we got toilet seats. Take those two things
over to Mike. I'm gonna play this song. We're gonna
let them look those up online.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
I mean, we could start to throw together like packages.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Like everything you need to build a house built our
own house.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
We got any home toilet paper the other day, didn't.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
We we did. Okay, let me play this song. We'll
come back and get two answers on those.
Speaker 5 (47:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
I've been working with the crew.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
The hangar thing that we have, it's a closet made cubicle,
two cube storage unit, shelf organizer, made in Malaysia, great things.
If you were to buy it a new it'd be
twenty bucks. We could probably get twenty Yeah, we could
probably get five bucks for it. It's all beat up too,
I mean it's not but the packages, so you're not
gonna get new price for it. The other thing that
we couldn't figure out because there was so much in
(47:50):
the box was some kind of shower set.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah, it's a rain dancer shower.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Like hands Grow. We looked this up.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
I mean hands Grow sounds like it is European.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
So if I if I said sixty bucks, would you
feel like that was under or over selling it?
Speaker 3 (48:09):
Under?
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Okay? Because under because it's listed new as six hundred.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
What what?
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Oh my god, oh my.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
God, no no, no, but you can't sell it new
three hundred.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
We'll put down for three hundred.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Oh guys, we did it.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
We hit the big but whoa have you done anything yet?
That is a good find?
Speaker 4 (48:33):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Goodness sake?
Speaker 3 (48:35):
So how does this get returned? I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Well, they get their money back and then just goes
into the return millionaires.
Speaker 6 (48:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
We here, So that is the price to buy it
new is six hundred and thirty dollars and.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Fifty three cents.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
The bottom is about to fall out.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
We can probably sell it for three hundred. Oh my goodness,
so total right now? Amy runs over to it to
look at it.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Amy wants to buy it, and we'll sell it Amy
right now for how much Mike?
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Total price on what we have? So so, right now,
if we sold everything, seven hundred and thirty seven dollars, nice, right,
Amy go to It's definitely not six hundred. Remember we
have to mail stuff out too. There's a lot of
there's lot paper shipping. We don't handle that.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
We'll see right now we're at seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
How much do we spend on the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Five fifty?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (49:25):
Hey this, hey, this is called a plot twist. You
guys thought it was all junk. No, we're in it
and now it had been all junk. But guess what,
It just takes one.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
It just takes one.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
They can't challenge USA. You just have to have one
ball in the hopper. Here are your big songs.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
The number one country song Jason Aldan, Here you go
try that, this small sup number one pop song, Doja
Cat Paint the Town, red Fu, number one rock song,
Blink one, Eddie two one more time?
Speaker 3 (49:56):
Do you have to you here?
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Miss me?
Speaker 3 (50:02):
I just picture the.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Dude being sixty still singing the same way. I know.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
I miss my mom she went to work. Hell long
do U sit in the basement?
Speaker 1 (50:12):
I'm sixty three years old. I do like that song,
though I do like Blake one too. It's just that's
just that sound you feel like should tap out at
some point, but I'm glad it doesn't.
Speaker 7 (50:22):
But if it worked for so long, why change it
even if you're way older.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
I'm Hittie puberty dude' seventy three.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
Amy's Pile of Stories.
Speaker 5 (50:32):
So Bumble and Butterball are working together to help people
find friends giving plans.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
Bumble Ball, Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (50:41):
Well, so Bumble started off as a dating app, but
then it moved into the friendship space too, and you
can meet friends on Bumble. And then now because of Thanksgiving,
they're launching a new Friendsgiving planning feature on November first
that will help connect users for holiday plans, like if
you don't have anything to do, maybe you can find
a place to go e theory.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
Bumble is probably still ninety nine percent of eighting app right,
it's one of the safer ones Morgan, right, because the
woman has to go to.
Speaker 9 (51:09):
The guy or Yeah, it's one of the safer ones
that in Hinge.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
And so with Bumble and the friendship thing, people that
get on apps looking for friends, do you feel like
they're losers?
Speaker 2 (51:19):
No? I mean I did it.
Speaker 9 (51:20):
I made a friend on there when I first moved
to Nashville. Hostfully, Yeah, Like I got on the bum
on the friendship side of Bumble, and we didn't like
stay friends.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
So we went out a few times.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
And like we hung out.
Speaker 6 (51:31):
And it was it just didn't like.
Speaker 9 (51:33):
Work out as being friends long term, but it was
great to like have somebody when I first moved here.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, I felt like I would have done that and
I'm a loser and would have been a loser, So
I felt like I was for the losers.
Speaker 7 (51:43):
I couldn't use that in college. Like in college when
I first got there, I'm like, I don't know anyone
that would be yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
In college, like you're an adult, if you're thirty.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
I just feel like that had been something I would
have been on and then been made fun of, just
mercifully about lunchbox, Like I'm trying to find friends on
bumble and it would ever just been destroyed.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
But if it's normal people, then go for it.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
So they're not normal people. If you're online looking for friends,
they're not normal people.
Speaker 6 (52:07):
That's not true.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
I think you at one time could say that about
people dating on ASP, but that's so normal now. The
friendship thing, I think is where dating used to be.
Where people are probably doing it, but it's weird.
Speaker 6 (52:18):
I mean, think about it.
Speaker 5 (52:18):
What if you move to a new city and it's
a holiday and you know you're going to a safe
space where.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
You sound like something bad's about to happen.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
Yeah, you sound like a murder mystery.
Speaker 5 (52:27):
Yeah no, I'm moved to a new city, a safe
space online.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Arnal Mustard has the candlestick.
Speaker 6 (52:35):
It's a friendsgiving feet.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
I'm not going to go to somebody's Thanksgiving though that
I don't know. And I just met on an app
as a friend.
Speaker 6 (52:41):
How cool.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Though I like it in theory, I like it a lot.
Leard alert, but I knew that would happen. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (52:47):
Well then I'll try anything for good sleep. This is
why we talk about it so much. And there's a
new study suggesting that a key to good night's sleep
can be found in kiwi. Eating kiwi before bed had
a very positive impact on sweep sleep quality for a
group of athletes. They fell as like thirty five percent
faster and slept eight percent longer.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Keiwed.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
I really have no opinion on key we other than
I don't mind little clips of it in my fruit salad.
But also I don't eat a lot of fruit salad,
but I don't take the kiwi out if I eat
fruit salad, but I don't pursue fruit salad.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Yeah, sometimes it's just there. It's like sour green one right.
Speaker 4 (53:25):
Is amazing, And if you're gonna eat it right, you
eat the brown stuff on the outside.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
The skin. We have fishonado over here. Listen to him.
Speaker 6 (53:32):
Yes, the skin's kind of hairy to me. That bothers me.
Speaker 5 (53:35):
But I've heard it's nutritious and it's an underrated fruit.
Speaker 6 (53:39):
If you ask me now, I'm gonna go get someme. Okay,
lunchbox against me.
Speaker 5 (53:44):
So Dolly Pardon recorded Wrecking Ball with Miley Cyrus. It's
Miley's song, but their version came out and it's really good.
And she says that ever since the first time she
heard it, she knew she wanted to do it with Miley.
Speaker 8 (53:54):
I remember the first time I heard Wrecking Ball.
Speaker 6 (53:57):
It hit me the same way the first.
Speaker 8 (54:00):
Time I heard All Will Always Love You about Whitney Houston.
I was driving heard that one and almost raked, And
when I heard Ricking Ball, I almost raged again. I
thought when it started into that course.
Speaker 6 (54:15):
I thought, they hit me like a wrecking ball.
Speaker 8 (54:18):
I thought, well, how great can a song be.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
It's on her new rock record, so cool. Sty'll sing
She's so good yeah, and You're like, can't she?
Speaker 5 (54:27):
Then she goes, she can, Okay, Amy, that's my pile.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
That was Amy's pile of stories.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
It's time for the good news, Bobby. Back in twenty thirteen,
this family lost their home in Queen's and there's a
big fire, and so they spent the next four or
five years moving between friends and relatives' homes.
Speaker 2 (54:50):
There were six sisters, and so the dad was.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Homeschooling them and they would live temporarily with people as
they were trying to get back on their feet.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
So that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Sisters all got their GEDs, they received bachelor's degrees then
from State University of New York, and now they're all
between nineteen and twenty five. They're either in the master's
program or they are nurses already. That's cool, and it
just talks about how the dad focused on them through
homeschool and still having to work while they tried to
(55:22):
get back on their feet so they could buy a house,
and that they're all now kind of set like they
did the hard work when times are tough, and now
they're all going to have really good careers. So things
weren't going good for them obviously, but they had perseverance.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
They got through it, and they're gonna be better for it.
I love that story and fake shout out to the
dad too.
Speaker 5 (55:40):
The Lawrence Bash that's encouraging to me as a parent,
like just to persevere through homework with my kids.
Speaker 1 (55:48):
Homework yes, yeah, there's some people's house burns down and
there's homemework.
Speaker 4 (55:52):
No.
Speaker 5 (55:52):
I mean he still making the time to do all
of that and commit, because sometimes that's a lot.
Speaker 6 (55:59):
That's it's not lost on me at all. Like he's
a hero six kids.
Speaker 7 (56:02):
Yeah, I started thinking, like I'm canceling practices because I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 6 (56:07):
And he's committed his house, the house far down.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
I know.
Speaker 2 (56:10):
I know.
Speaker 7 (56:10):
I'm just saying like he did it at the worst
of times and here I am at the not so
worst of times.
Speaker 6 (56:15):
Like my point, Yeah, I hope that came across right.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
It did.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
I'm just giving you a hard time for sure. Thank you.
That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (56:23):
That was telling me something good.
Transmitting lisca, Welcome to Wednesday show Man.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How's it doing all right?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Many?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Feeling good? Feeling prime?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Why?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
What's what's up?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well? You got some bad news or what I gotta
I gotta share some stuff with you. It looks like
today we gotta not do our five A segment because
we got to get guests coming in. Lunchbox, you're in luck.
John Brennan's coming in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
WHOA, let's go get hey, just go to commercial.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So John Brennan is from real World, Los Angeles. Yes,
he's also a country singer, but he was in the
news because the story was about him driving uber still
trying to make it as a country singer. And I
was like, I love the dedication, and Lunchbox is like, no,
I love him. We're bringing him in. He's coming in
like fifteen minutes. Okay, we're gonna do the mail bag.
(00:57):
Let's do this now. Let's go and mail and we
read it.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
On the air to get something we call Bobby's mail Bag.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Year here, Hello Bobby Bones.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Every time my wife has a hangover, she wants me
to treat her like she's really sick and cater to
her However, I don't feel bad for her when she
has a hangover because she did it to herself. Why
should I treat her like she's actually sick? If she
has a cold or a fever, I'd be there to
wait on her hand and foot. But the last time
I was sick, she just got me some cold meds.
(01:31):
So should I take extra good care of her when
she has a hangover? Or should I just let her
learn her lesson? Signed the husband nurse. I'll say I've
never had a hangover, but I feel like if I
had a hangover, I would not let people know I
had to hangover.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I would just act like I had flu sentums.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
There's no chancey, we know you went out the night before,
so all this other flu didn't just kick in?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Got it? Got it?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Got it? Okay, So I'm gonna check out of this
one cause obviously I.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But I would just act like a covid or flu
or something or diarrhea for long time and then not
come out.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But that's me Amy. What would you do here?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I think is this more about how they actually treat
each other when they're sick, Like is he have resentment?
Because she just got him cold medicine. But I guess
when it comes to the hangovers, it is her doing.
Like I think he could try to help her in
whatever way, but he doesn't have to go above and
beyond as if she were to have if she had
a virus or something.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know, if five is taking care of somebody on
their deathbed and one is okay, just throw some cold
medicine at you, where.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Do you put it for hangover?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Like like for to take care of somebody to hang
over your.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yeah, two point five, you still care, you still help,
but you don't have to.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Go all out eddie. Guys, a hangover is still sickness.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Man.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
It's a headache, dude, that's throbbing. Sometimes you're still nauseous.
You got to throw up. Sometimes it's brutal, you can't
continue with your day. So just because you went out
and had a good time, you're still sick and a
little bit of tender loving care would be nice from
your spouse.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So what would you advise him? I say, take care
of her, dude, hand and foot.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Absolutely, she's sick, Okay, it is what alcohol poisoning or
whatever hangover, but she's still poisoning.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It still sick.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I mean, I guess did she deserve to tie on?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well what if? Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Also, what if you get food poisoning and you ate,
if you ate sushi, you know there's that's an accident.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Look my wife a couple months ago, we went to
a party and she was on the bathroom floor all
night long.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Did I take care of her? Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I was tired. I needed to go to bed. So
she laid on the bathroom floor. She was puking, and
I just went in. I was like, hey, okay, I'm
just gonna lay here.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
For a minute.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
All right, good you decided to lay there, I'm gonna
go to bed. In the morning, I woke up and
she stayed in bed till like eleven she came out
of the bedrooms like no, I gotta go back in.
Didn't see her till two o'clock and the kids were like, hey,
where's mama, And I'm like, she's not feeling well. Did
I take care of her? No, she can handle that
on her own. Just locker in the bedroom. You go
do your thing, and when she's ready to come out,
(03:56):
she can come out.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Lock her in the bedroom, yes, you just leave.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Her in the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You don't have lavers different than locker, be honest, you don't.
You don't have to take care of her, got it.
But you just leave her alone and don't bother her
and maybe cover for her, even yeah, cover for her.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You got to.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You've had to hang over to and so not you,
but just generally, and you want somebody to cover for you,
but you don't have to wait hand and foot right.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
And then you know, so, then she comes out around
two o'clock and the you know, she's like, I'm alive.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I think we've officially not helped him because everybody says
something to him.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well as the impartial person who doesn't even know what
a hangover feels like. I'm gonna have to side with
the person who's had the most experience with them and
with people that have had them, and that's probably lunch Box.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Probably. Yeah, So I'm going to go locker locker in
her room.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You can cover for her, but you don't have to
wait hand and foot and it shouldn't take you off
the good thing about having food poisoning or alcohol poisoning,
I'll use food poisoning here is you know it's going
to be over and you're not gonna get sicker, and
you know when it's done, there's a shelf life of
food poisoning.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, but if she likes has a favorite food, you
can order that, go pick it up.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You can be kind, but you don't want weagit hand.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You don't, I like, go out of your way to
do extra special things like get flowers.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh, I'm sorry, you're feeling bad. Flowers.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
O need's gatorade.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Get her some gatorade if it's not bothered some of
your schedule, right, Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
We got your game male on you now it's found
the clothes Bobby failed that.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, Lunchbox never gets excited about guests. I mean maybe
five times in the history of the show. He is
so excited that John Brennan is coming in, who was
on Real World Los Angeles. He's one of the OG's
season two Season two man, that's not why he's coming
in to me. I just saw that he's a country singer.
But he's like supporting himself. He's driving over, he's had
a regular job as he still tries to do it.
(05:38):
But he's like a reality show kind of hurt me
more than he did anything. So we're gonna talk to
him about that. One of Lunchbox's heroes comes in next.
John Brennan here Bobby Bones Show. So Bobby Bones Show interviews.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
In case you didn't know, his.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Name's John Brennan, Lunchbox. Would you like to set up
John Brennan. Oh, he's walking in.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Oh man, Real World Los Angeles. I mean he used
to be called California. Second season Real World ever, I mean,
this is huge. He was the cowboy on the show.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
He I mean, why is he in here today?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Because there was a story about him in People magazine.
Because when you're in the real world, people want to
know what's going on with you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Even though it's been thirty years.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, and he lives here.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
He lives here.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
He was he still is trying to have a current
country music Yeah, and he's I.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Mean, we reached out to him. We're like, dude, you
got to get up here.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He didn't know the story at though he drives the
uber No, I.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Know that he is trying to like stay afloat as
he tries to build this career.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Man, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Here to talk about real World.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, no, we're doing We're going to do both. And
we played some of his songs last ye yeah, yeah,
but mostly you want Real World.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, okay, this is so cool.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So exciting, so exciting. He doesn't care about a single guest.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
No, not a single I mean his laptop's closed, right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
John Brennan is here. All right, let's go on the
Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Now, John Brennan.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
We have a lot of celebrities, famous people, interesting people
to come by. Lunchbox does not care about any of them. Hey,
come on in, John, I've set over here right there.
That microphone right, there's good for you. Good to meet you,
my friend. Hey John, get to see you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Hi, Amy, I think so.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah. Yeah, Lunchbox cares because he is such a massive
fan of Real World.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, this is crazy, biggest fan ever.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, Lunchbox, do you recognize John?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, John, your microphones right? Anybody?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
John's bigger than I thought, like taller, yeah, like, I
mean it's been a you know, Real World was a
long time ago, ye see John, Yeah, and he was
he was young. He was like eighteen on the show.
So how old were you ten or eleven?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Twelve? Maybe? So, I mean I didn't realize how big.
I mean, he's a big dude.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, He's always always been tall, hot John.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I've grown as an adult. Yeah yeah, yeah, own a
lot in the last you know, many years. But when
I was on the show, I was about three three
inches shorter.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And he's got a cowboy hat on. That's probably a
big part.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Of it too.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
No, no, no, dude, what did you never watched the show?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I've never seen I mean no.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Oh, I used to love it. I mean I wasn't
as upset you.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That was his thing.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Man, God, he looks the city. He looks much the same.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yes, thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, okay, let's talk what's your first question because that's
tough too.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Was real world everything? I think it was like it
was it the most amazing experience.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
It was amazing. It was amazing. Now you gotta remember
we were we were first I'm the reality star.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Hey, that's the first season ever. You were on the
first season.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Ever, first, No, first show ever. I was on season two,
season two.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But was still what I'm saying, he was back when
it was like real real, Like there wasn't like people
in public didn't know who they were when they were
going out with cameras. Towards the end, people would go
looking for the cameras and try to start stuff. This
was like groundbreaking started reality TV.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, and so why'd you do it?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
So?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I was a student at Belmont University and they did this,
this first version in New York City, the true story
of seven strangers picked to live in a house to
find out what happens when people stop being polite and
start being real the real world.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
That's a tackling.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's the opening. That's so awesome. And so they said,
you know what, We're gonna do this again in Los
Angeles nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Did you watch season one?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I didn't, got it. I didn't. I was doing you know,
Garth Brooks, Allen Jackson, Brooks and Dunn. We're tearing up
the charts. So MTV said, go to Nashville, find us
a country music singer. Found me at Belmont. You want
to be on MTV. Not really, Well, let me tell
you about the show we did. You're gonna live in
this house. We're gonna tape. It's gonna be on MTV,
you know, trying to impress me. And I literally said
to the guy, said that doesn't sound very interesting. This
is not gonna work. And so here we are thirty
(09:22):
years later. Reality is the biggest genre that there is
in entertainment. And so they said, you want to be
you know, in Los Angeles, in California on MTV, And
I said, not really, I want to stay here in
national work on country music.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Were you playing music?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah? I was doing country music. It's why I went
to Belmont, and you know, thought, I'm right here on
music row and dang, I'm going to be getting my
foot in the door. Little did I know I was
going to be in Los Angeles living with you know,
weird people.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Why did you end up saying? Yes? What was the fact?
What made you go?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
The producer finally just said, do you realize that you're
going to have this huge fame and what that's going
to do when you can go back and the public
and allready know you and then they're gonna, you know,
be interested in your music? And I thought, wow, that
makes a lot of sense. So that made it really
interesting all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And so you moved to LA. What was that like
for you?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah? I mean La was kind of crazy. They cast
me because they wanted the Kentucky boy I'm from Kentucky
that you know, was sheltered and never been anywhere, but
my daddy worked for the FBI, so I was born
in Wisconsin, lived in Phoenix and Baltimore. But they wanted
the story of this guy.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
They already had a narrative they did.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
They got there, but they found out real fast that
you know that I was pretty likable compared to the
other people I was living with, right, lunchbox. Yeah, and
that's that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And they like, you have people from all different backgrounds,
so you know, they fight and it was just like,
oh man, it was it's so intense. How much did
you make a lot of money back then? Back then
we made two hundred dollars a week. I lived there
for twenty two weeks. They paid us less than five
thousand dollars for twenty two episodes, which aired for ten years.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
He is convinced if you just do a season of
that show, you end up famous and set no no, right.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
That was my thought when I growing up. I used
to watch I am going to be on that show
in my life. I'm gonna become super famous, right, Well,
you you would be super famous. That that happened. Kim
Kardashian used to watch the Real World and she said
that's what I want to do. So you're welcome America
the Real World, and thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
John.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, I'm the Kardashians of the nineties.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So that show you come off of it. Did you
have success in country music immediately?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Was there?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Was there a base of folks that followed you to
music immediately after?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah? I ended up opening for Alabama, the New York
State Fair, Pennsylvania State Fair, open for George Jones, open
for Shenandoah, open for Clay Walker, open for Kenny Chesney,
and it was Hey, come see this be huge star.
And by the way, the guy from the Real World
on MTV's opening for him and so and then I
played a lot of shows by myself all the nineties.
(11:47):
I was on a tour bus on the road, going,
you know, all over the United States, and people were like, wow, dude,
when's your record going to hit? And I'm like, I
hope soon. You know, I had I had my owner,
Judge's manager was managing me. I got signed to a
major record label and then they signed this guy named
Tracy Adkins and dropped me. Apparently, in the nineties, if
your name was Tracy, you got a record new and
(12:08):
so anyway, I can't really listen to honky tunk, but
don't kadunk anymore because I tear up a little bit.
But yeah, I mean so just the ebbs and flows
of the music business and I yeah, seriously, I was
in Nashville doing great things.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So you're playing all these shows, do you start to
fill the real world stuff kind of fade off after
a while.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It took a long time, you know, because there's forty
seasons of the Real World now there was only two,
and so while they were they were premiering the third
and the fourth one, they were unveiling those one week
at a time, but they were showing a marathon of ours.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Could you do it like appearances?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Back then to go do some couple of bucks to
do it?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh yeah, somewhere. Yeah, we went to a lot of
colleges and you know, a couple of guys from the
real world are here, and so it would be a
campus event.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
What would they would they present you as on the show?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
How?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
So?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I don't know what, because these reality shows.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Have a narrative they want then their mind already. Yeah,
how did they make you look and did you feel like?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
He was completely authentic to who you were.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
He was the sheltered kid, didn't drink, didn't hook up, right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Is that true? Was that true?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah? That is true. Bo Well, I mean I don't
know how sheltered I was, but that was definitely the
narrative was this is the story. I mean, I was
the main character of our season. It was how is
John going to respond to Los Angelesyeah?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I guess did you watch it and go?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
They kind of tricked me with how they edited it
and how they what the scenarios they put me in.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
My roommates felt that way about themselves. I didn't. I
mean I was I was the aspiring country singer from Kentucky.
So I wore my hat all the time, and you
know that's who I really was. Yeah, I mean, especially
in Los Angeles. You know how many country singers wearing
a cowboy hat or walking around LA with an MTV
camera following them.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Did you sing on the show?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Oh? Yeah? Oh yeah. I met met Ronnie Dunn back
in the nineties. He's like, you sing my song on MTV.
I said, yes, I did, Yes, I did. And you
know I haven't gotten any kudos from that, but.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, so you are touring hardcore. Are you wondering at
some point like what's is this ever gonna work? Or
because it doesn't work for a lot of most people,
it doesn't work for well.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
To be honest with you, reality was such a new
genre nobody could get it. I actually had a big
time player in Nashville. Here go, man, I mean, you're
a great singer, but how are we going to go
from an MTV star to a country star? And I said, no, no, no,
you don't understand. I'm a country singer. That's why I
got put on the show. And they couldn't make that leap.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
They only were seeing you as a reality person, not
for what you really.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Were, and they didn't even know what a reality person was.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Not only that, I guess MTV because like the music,
it's totally different than.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But now, if you're on a reality show when you
come to Nashville, hey, let's capitalize on that and let's
start selling records.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Do you think it was held against you for a
long time?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I think it was I don't know held against me.
It was confused. They didn't know what to do with me.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What would you tell them to do with you?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Make a record? Put it on the radio put me
on tour. I mean that's half the battle nowadays is
oh there's a new singer. Well, whether they look like, well,
what are they like? I'm the kid next door. I
mean people people all the time stopped me on the
street and they're like, man, I feel like I know you.
When I heard your voice, I knew who you were,
and it's like I grew up with you.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Do you feel like that you became resentful of the
industry because they couldn't make that transition from reality guy
to country star.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Did you feel like you were good enough?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh? Yeah, I mean I say great, but I just
feel like it took a long time for people to
realize that, oh, this is John from the real world.
But remember he was a country singer. He's always been
a country.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
And there was no social media to learn more about him.
I guess too at that time.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
That's crazy is you never knew what happened to these
people afterwards, because there wasn't Wikipedia, there wasn't oh look
at my Instagram. Yeah, And so I would sit there
and like, man, whatever happened to Beth?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
And then oh, the challenge is coming les versus real world.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So the backstory on that is, which you know about
a year ago all stars, I got, well, I got
all this, I got all these, you know, messages from
friends saying Lunchbox is talking about the real World reunion
on the Bobby Bone Show. Yeah. So I started tweeting
you and I'm like, Lunchbox, follow me back.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Wait, you didn't. He's on the real World. You didn't
follow him back? Well, yeah, I must like you didn't
know it was him.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
No, I don't check my Twitter a lot. Yeah, well
I'm on Instagram's Bobby. You don't follow me back either.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, I didn't who you were, if I'm being honest,
because I watch it all the time.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It's part.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's the hugest I saw, like a little bit of
New Orleans or something, the Bunny of the River or something.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah that was Yeah, that was David. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So I know you all about it. Wow, Lunchbox, you
are you are a real world trivia. But I love
the real World. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
The reason I know who you are is because I
was reading the story and I don't remember if it
was a news story or if it was you talking
about it, and you were like, I think being on
the real world hurt me a little bit and if
I had to do a lot of things in order
to keep my country music career going, and I was like,
that's pretty admirable, Like the guy's a dreamy at times. Yeah,
stuff sucks and you got to figure out ways to
make it happen while it's not happening.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
What was that story, Well, I mean if if the
real if I was on the real World today, I.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Mean no, I mean what was that story I read?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh, you're probably reading People magazine and well, last week
People Magazine did what is John doing now? And I
think that was, you know, a story that you guys
came across.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Probably what it was then, Yeah, I think it was
because like for Lunchbox, for example, Bobby, we know he
thinks that if you're on the Real World or Reality
the TV, that your life is just set after that,
and you were explaining that's not necessarily the case.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, Well, nowadays they get paid a lot of money.
All that money that Mike the Situation and Snooky made,
that's my money I should be having that.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Let's do let's try I say about it.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Now, have they ever reached out to you or you
reached out to them saying, hey, I'd love to come
back on Challenge All Stars because they bring like you know,
Beth went back. I mean, they bring these people back
from the old seasons, and it's a lot shorter season
because they have real jobs and families. So it's like
three weeks, three and a half weeks of filming instead
of eight weeks of filming. Have you any interest? I
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started the challenge I was on. Get that I was on.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
So what happened is they flew two of my roommates
to Nashville and we got in a Winnebago at the airport.
They drove to my house in Owensboro, Kentucky, and we
drove to Los Angeles in a Winnebago. And those were
the first two episodes of our Real World season in
nineteen ninety three, and they went, Wow, those episodes were incredible.
We're gonna do a whole spin off season called road
Rules Awesome. And so that was in the Winnebago. And
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then some years later they had the Real World Versus
Road Rules and they would compete together and that is
the Real World Versus Road Rules Challenge. I was on
the first Challenge in Verno two and yeah, that was
number ten. I was on one, five and ten. You're
cracking me up, Lunchbuck. And so this is what I
always say. I always say, you know, I started, I
started the Real World because you know, the first season sucked,
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and I started road Rules and I started the Challenge
and so I'm this huge MTV star. But all I
ever really wanted to do is single.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
On the Grande Lobbry, and you finally got to do that.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I did get to do.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Let's talk about a second. Okay, let let me let's
reset this for a second. We're gonna come back. John
Brennan's here, who you may know John as Lunchbox Do.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
From Real World. California later renamed Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Wow, it wasn't even the real.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Because then they had San Francisco, they had LA so
they had to rename it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And then I read a story in People Magazine and
I was like, I like this guy because he's still
going at it even though he's got to do other
things to keep making sure he can still go at it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So we'll come back.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
On the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Now, John Brennan, how do you feel about the Real
World now?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Well, you know, the popularity of reality TV has grown
so much that people get cast on a reality show
they don't act in with a lot of integrity. Now
it's like, oh, I'm gonna ham it up because I'm
famously so yeah, I watched reality TV. I'm like, man,
you're you're a poser. You're not really being true.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Do you have any resentment toward the real world itself?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No, I mean the real world gave me a platform.
I wouldn't be here on the Bbby Bone Show today
without you know, the real world, I'd just be another
singer in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Do you get tired of talking about it?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
There was a time where I kind of did because
I didn't want to be the guy from the real world.
I wanted you to know me from how you're John Brennan,
the singer. But now I'm just like, you know what,
that's who I am. That's who the public got introduced.
You know me too, and so I'm just like, yeah,
I'm that guy. I was a pretty likable guy on there,
so I can't embrace it. You like him, Yeah, That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
And it was cool to like, you think that the
narrative that they had is this small town kid, you
know what I mean, he's been exposed to every day.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
You're like, wow, that is he was. He was eighteen,
so everybody else can go out.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
To the bars and it's like him, He's like, I
can't run. He drink, but he didn't drink anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
What did your parents think at eighteen?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
That's what I was gonna say. Yeah, so I'm like, hey,
mom and dad, you know that really expensive school in
Nashville that you got a loan that I could, you know,
go there? And yeah, I'm going to drop out after
one semester and I'm going to move to Los Angeles
and be on the MTV, that network that we you know,
have blocked on our cable. And you know what, they said,
go make a great opportunity and that's cool. Did they
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watch it? Oh my mom has the VHS tapes all
of them.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
They like how you were portrayed.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah they did.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And so you finished the show, you come back, you're touring.
How about a record deal? Did you sign a record deal?
All sign a record deal with with Capitol Records? So
a big label, a big label, and what what did
you think was going to happen when you signed with Capitol.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Records, So at this time, the Judge manager who managed
them for all of their career, was managing me. I
had a booking agent that worked Garth for his whole career,
a guy named Joe Harris, and he's gone on to
be in heaven, but a wonderful, wonderful man. I was
riding around on a big long silver Eagle tour bus
opening for Alabama and I was signed to a major
record label. I thought I was going to be the
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next big thing.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Did you have any hits?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I recorded some songs, but like that that made it
at radio?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh, we never released a radio You never released a
single radio.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Not back then. Why they just never got around to it.
They signed another act and they went with them, and
you know, hey, we're gonna we're gonna free you up
to go, and every label in town's gonna try to
scoop you up. Well they didn't, and so I just,
you know, kept on plugging, kept on plugging. And then
eventually I went back to Kentucky and I started leading
music in my church.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And you were in the ministry for a long time.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, twenty years, and you did you do music.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The whole time? Like was that your thing?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was like I had a dual role, you know,
I was doing music on Sundays and I was a
youth pastor throughout the week.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Did you do some morning nice life?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Is? Oh fly?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I was like to always spelled, or like oh apotch
for er.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Or yeah, I actually sing that song in a church
in Nashville last week, so he does know that.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's a little something. I know.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You know, so you're in ministry, But are you ever
thinking I want to get back in and really dedicate
myself to country music again.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah? I wanted to. I wanted to. I wanted to badly,
and I kept having the itch. And every time I
drive from Alabama to Kentucky to see family, I drive
right through Nashville and I go, man, I got to
get back here, like like this is where my desire,
my goals are.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
What brought you back?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Just uh, just honestly. A few years ago, MTV rang
me and said, we're going to put everybody back together
for a homecoming. Would you be interested in moving back
in the same exact house in California with your roommates?
And I said, are you crazy? Yeah, I'll do that, sure, Okay,
Well will you help us convince your roommates to do it,
because some of them don't want to do it. And so,
(23:25):
long story short, we moved back in the same house
for three weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Did you see that.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I watched a little bit of it, didn't catch all
of it, your mister Diehard, Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Lunch became a dad or something.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's the problem. I don't have as much free time.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yes, you do. You take four hour naps.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But anyway, was it as hard as when you're older?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I have more.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I'll come back to you, but we just you know,
I want to get a question.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Here, so you're you're doing that, and then do you
move back to Nashville after that?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So I moved back to Nashville. I kept coming in
and out, and you know, it was kind of not
full entrenched. And so yeah, after the reunion, I thought
was going to be my next big shot in the arm,
like with the public, and it didn't turn out to
be quite as watched because Diehard fans he were watching
the show. And so you know, I just said, you
(24:16):
know what, on you man, go record some songs and
just get back to Nashville and just say I'm all in.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
One more shot.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Well, I mean, I'm all in. I'm just this is
what this is what I want to do. This is
where I feel comfortable, this is where my goals are,
and here I am.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You made your opry debut last this year.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
It was last yearly right, a year ago.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
So how did that work out? How'd you get the call?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
So John Connley opry member legend Rose Color Glasses. Yeah,
Rose Color Glasses had a number one hit called I'm
Only in It for the Love back in nineteen eighty four.
I love the song. Been listening to country music my
whole life. And so he's from ver Sales, Kentucky. I
had opened for him in my hometown and somebody played
him my version of that song and he goes, well,
I really love that, and they said, well, glad that
(25:00):
you like it. He's dying to sing this on the
opry with you. And he goes, well, this was a Tuesday.
He goes, well, you tell him to come on Friday.
And so Friday night he called me out and said,
y'all make welcome John Brennan. They gave me a nice
little golf clap because they'd been asked to. And I
walked out there and John Connley goes, John, whyn't you
tell them who you are? And I said, okay, Well,
before there was Survivor and the Kardashians, there was me
(25:21):
on MTV's The Real World and you could just hear
it across the grand Old Opera house. They're like, oh
my gosh, it's John. That's the guy from the Real World.
And so they gave me a good clap. Then you
feel good? Oh yeah, I mean I told John Conley
in his dressing room. I said, I said, do you
think they'll let me stand in the circle when I sing?
And he said, well, I'll tell you what. I stand
in the circle all the time. I'll just step out
(25:42):
and I'll put your microphone stand there in circle and
you just sing there. And I was like, are you
kidding me? First of all, he was, well, he was
so gracious and nice to do that. He didn't have
to do that, and the nicest guy in the world
if you've ever met John Conley. But it was incredible.
I mean, there's a full house, I'm standing there singing
a great song with a great artist and just standing
there in the circle of the ground. I mean, it's
(26:02):
every singer's dream, right, We played a clip and some
of your song true Story. The other day we were
talking about you, thank you, and so Ray, would you
play a little bit of.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
This story living.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I'm lost and now I'm being found?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
And so tell me about the song. What's the message
of the song? So, I mean, I think I know it,
but I'd like to here you.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Well, first of all, I co wrote this song, and
uh it's it's a true story about my parents. Uh.
And then you know, I'm known for my little tag
uh from the real world. They tell us, you know,
oh boy, I don't know what to tag this. This
is the true story of seven strangers to live in
a house. But when they asked me to do that
(26:48):
and on the real world, they said, John, sing that
in your most dwight yoakum voice. So I got about
three lines into it and they took one little clip
and they this is the true story. And then me
going true story. I mean, for like years people would say, hey,
come up, say true story, say true story. So I
wrote this song called true Story, but has nothing to
do with the real world show it's a true story
(27:08):
about my life and my parents. But I thought, you
know what that'd be, you know, a little snarky to
put True Story as my song, and I'm proud. I'm
proud of that song, and it's doing really well on
positive country radio. It's actually starting to enter the mainstream
radio chart and I love it. I'm really proud of
how it's turned out.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
That's super cool.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
We host a national countdown show that's played in like
a few hundred cities and we're actually going to feature
that song.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And it's.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I what I'm talking about, Wachbox, can you be my
hype mate?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Exactly scared me. Actually, we have a spotlight Artist of
the Week. We always spotlight a song nationally, and we're
going to put your song, True Story in there.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'm so honored and play it nationally.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Man. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, it's really awesome And and love that you're still
going right, like, because there's in life generally, there's a
lot of reason to quit doing a lot of things. Yeah,
And if you love it and you find a way
to keep doing it, either it works out or you're
doing something you love anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, and that's also a win.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I love it. I mean, there's so many cool things
that happened because of this. Like I was I'm a
drive uber, so I'm driving past Zany's last night, uh,
yesterday afternoon with with with some passengers, and I see
a friend of mine's name on on the Marquee. So
THEO Vaughn is you know, oh yeahs rules. Yeah, he
started on road rules. It started on road Wait, you
(28:29):
know road rules, but you don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The ru I know THEO saw at a restaurant, so
I filed on from TikTok.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So I texted him. I'm like, hey, dude, if you're
in Nashville, I want to come to your show. And
my passengers go, did you just text THEO Vaughn. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
he was on the road rules and and he's a
friend of mine from way back, and they were freaking out.
So last night I went and saw THEO Vaughn. But
you know there's this network of For instance, when when
I'm at Garth Brooks for the second time, he remember,
(28:54):
he goes we've met before, and like that's.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
A good impression. That's a good impression John.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
You know, I'm like, hey, Garth and he's like, well,
we've met before. I'm like, yeah, we've met. And so
you know, one day I'm sitting there and I'd look
at my Instagram messages and Shooter Jennings with a blue
check mark text me and similar to what Lunchbox just said,
are you going to be on these reunions? Are you
going to be on that cool All Stars?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And I'm like, Shooters Whale son, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and
so hey good producer, but oh a Grammy Award winning producer.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So I immediately message him back. I said, is this
Shooter Jennings because I need you to know something. I
only send country music because my dad loved your dad.
And he says, I'm a big fan of you on
the Real World and if you ever come to Los
Angeles looked me up. I'm like, man, I never come
to Los Angeles anymore. A few months later, John, will
you come to a reunion for the Real World in
(29:44):
Los Angeles? And so I said, yes, and I'll talk
my roommates into it and let's go. And so I
texted Shooter and I said, man, I don't want to
fly with my guitar. I mean it's you know, I'm
really careful with it. Airlines aren't. So you got a
guitar I can use. He's like, yeah, you can use.
My dad had guitar so I'm playing wailing to Guitar
on MTV. That's rock star right there.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
That's great lunchbox.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
What would you like to ask?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'll give you a few more minutes.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah, I got a couple more questions.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We give you two more questions.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Oh man, that's not enough.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Three you got three?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It maybe a run on question.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
So at the end of every season you see them like, oh,
the cabs here, Oh who's this cab for?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And they take them to the airport, you know, to
fly away.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Do you guys really go to the airport, because I've
always been like, man, that's so sad you go to
the airport after having this so much fun? Or is
it the the cab drives away and then you guys
get together and do press well.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Thirty years ago, the very last scene of my twenty
two episode season was me walking through the airport in
Los Angeles towards a song. A scientist says to Nashville,
John's going to Nashville and then credits rolling as the
end of our season. Nowadays, so that was true, See
that was true. Nowadays it's not. It's like, okay, we
want you to sit on this couch. We want you
(30:53):
to turn this way and now say this to lunchbox
and I'm like, that's not reality. That's not what we
did back in the day. So things changed.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Number two on the challenges when you would do those,
like now they've turned into more like competitions, and it
used to be just party, party, party. Yeah, is there
were those more fun than the real world.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Not as much fun, more fun, more fun. The challenges
are more fun because you're actually doing stuff and in
the real world you're just sitting there waiting for the
next argument.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Final question, lunchbucks, man, I have so many after you
get off the real world. Back in the day, there
wasn't cell phones, there wasn't social media. Did you stay
in touch with your roommates or did it go like
years I didn't talk to them and then once social
media came around, you got back in contact.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Exactly what happened? I mean we talked once a year
on the phone. There was no texting, very little. It
took Facebook. When Facebook came out, we all kind of reconnected.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Who are you closest?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Though?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That's three? You can have one.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Let me let me roll this into it. I want
to say, maybe Beth because I want to talk at
this podcast podcast.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's great segue.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you got going there.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I knew that.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
What's it called exactly, It's called Getting Real with John
and Beth? And yeah, well, what do you guys do
on this? We talk about reality TV. We talk about
exactly what we just We talk about what it was
like then versus what it's like now. We have reality
stars on there. We talk about music and we took
his best a music lover and I'm a musician and
we're actually gonna have shoot her on pretty soon. And
(32:26):
we talk about current events. So we just, you know,
we just talk about life. Getting Real with John and Beth.
You should check it out, lunch bark, I'm gonna check
it out. Do you know how to download podcast? Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yeah, you go to iHeartRadio app and just search podcasts.
It's there. It's there. Six episodes are on iHeart podcast
right now. So do you and Beth actually get together
to do it or do you do it via zoom
via zoom. She's in Los Angeles still, man, She's just
crushing it, Beth.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I mean when she came back on the season of
the Challenge, the all stars. Everybody's like, what I thought
you were done doing this and he's like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Back and she said the B word.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Well look everybody out there.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It is so cool, man, Like, this is so cool.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
You can follow John at John Brennan Underscore Calm like
dot com like dot com. Yeah, John Brennan, b R, E,
N N A and Underscore Calm. We're gonna play True
Story on the National Countdown this weekend, which is gonna
be super cool for you.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Our biggest interview, yeah that Lunchbox.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
You're exactly right. This is the biggest interview. It is.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Well, he was gonna say of the year and then
he changed it to yet like mid breath biggest interview there.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I mean, we've had a couple of teen moms on here,
but this is this.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, John, we really appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I'm flattered on or you have a great show. How
did you know we were talking about you? My phone
lit up? My phone lit up, and they say, hey,
well a year ago, Lunchbox is talking about the Homecoming
and I'm so so I start tweeting. And then last
week it was a Bobby Bones played your song and
was talking about you and the people magazine article, and
I'm like, okay. So the next day I was calling
in but it was busy. And then on your website
(34:03):
it says text in, So I'm texting in and and
I thought, oh man, I'm not going to be able
to get through. And then your producer messaged me and
I was like, yes.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
That's awesome. Askoop Steve Man.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
IM wonder who hit him up? Was it David? Was
it Beth?
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
I mean, I'm just trying to people from the real world. No, no,
it was yeah, everybody, everybody in Kentucky and Alabama.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
John. Really great to meet here.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, awesome, final words, lunchbox man.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
It is just awesome.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
It is.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
One of my dreams was to be on the real world.
Real world doesn't happen anymore. But I mean, it's just
it's cool to live through you.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Let's be friends, like, let's hang out. And my next
big dream is for is for you to be saying
and now here's John Brennan on the grand Ole opry M.
That would be a good I would love to go back.
That would be a good one.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I mean, I can say it, but he won't be there.
I mean, I can say it right now, but it
won't matter. But yes, I hear what you're saying. John Brennan,
there he is.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Go follow him. We'll put the link up to his
stuff on our website too.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Thank you so much. It's time for the good news.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Raquel Baker is a school bus driver in Dallas, Texas,
and she's driving the bus, you know, going down the road,
and she looks in the mirror and she's like, is
that Preston coming this way?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Little Preston's in the back.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
He's doing magic tricks, trying to hide a quarter, puts
a corn in his mouth, right runs up Preston. What's wrong.
Raquel thinks, oh my gosh, Preston's gonna throw up. So
she pulls the bus over, opens the door. He Preston
goes out. He's like, no, I'll not throw it up.
I'm choking.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
So she realizes that it is hiding the corner in
his mouth. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
The first thing about magic is don't put anything in
the holes. Yea, yeah, first roll of magic. Don't put
any of that stuff in holes. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
So the bus driver is like, oh my gosh, he's choking,
So she starts doing the hi I'm like, oh, spits
the quarter out, saves the boy.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, nice.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
That choking when you can't breathe and you're choking, it
is the most helpless feeling.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Oh ask Mike d Man. We were sitting in the
car and saved his life. He was choking in like
three seconds. I went into action and I hit him
as hard as I could on its back three times.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
And the food pilot what what was the food? Mine's
always a chip, Like I'm gonna die from a chip.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
It was a wrap.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It was the same day that I said, hey, guys,
order whatever you want on this app for lunch and
I'll pay for it. And Eddie ordered. He did a
full lunch box and ordered like four entrees.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Was like three. It's like three, I think.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Is that the day I ordered avocado toast and no avocado,
accidentally hit the no avocado button and literally had.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
A piece of toast.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Different day, Yeah, a different day, same place. I said Amy,
I'm gonna get lunch if you guess one anything, and
she goes, yeah, I'm gonna get some avocado toast. And
it shows up and I get the toast. I'm like
what is this. I'm like, did somebody order just toast.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
It's like literally the most expensive piece of toast. Yeah,
because they still charged you.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
They still charge me for the avocado and removing it.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Avocado toast. Please hold the avocado right. The kid's safe,
he's good and she's a hero. Always keep your avocado
on the avocado toast or just ordered toast. That was crazy.
I was like, she goes, no, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Then she looked at her phone or we looked at
it and it said minus avocado.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah, all right, thank you. That's what it's all about.
That was tell me something good.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Tell me if you saw this in your neighborhood, if
you think it's funny, or if it's inappropriate, because in
this one neighborhood, it's Halloween. Had a bunch of skeletons. Fine,
but they had a poll they were doing on a
street sign at first, and the skeleton was pole dancing
with other skeletons sitting in chairs watching it.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
It's funny, but I don't. I don't want it my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
You don't want it your neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
It's not appropriate.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
I don't want to have to drive by it with
my kids and explain anything.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Some guy in Utah created this Halloween decoration showing a
skeleton pole dancing on a street sign and pole dancing
like its legs were the one holding it.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Its head was down Yeah yeah, yeah, like acrobat.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Neighbors complained, so the guy then took it and moved
it to his private property, made it even bigger. So
now it's a whole. It's like Christmas and they have
the manger. But it's like that, it's big. It's Hallo Halloween.
So people are upset, Oh take it down. It's me
thoughts in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Would you like it? Amy?
Speaker 5 (38:04):
No, but I won't. I'm not gonna complain about it.
I'll just go another way.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Why couldn't you just tell kids that didn't understand it
that it was just climbing on a monkey bar.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Sure, yeah, I mean there's ways around it. Like I said,
I'm not gonna complain, but I'm gonna be like, Okay,
stop being ridiculous, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
I don't think my kids would even know what it's
what they're doing, so I'd say, yeah, let's keep it.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
That's funny, lunchbox.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
I think it's hilarious for adults and kids. Just think, oh, look,
that person's upside down. That's silly, like if you know,
then you know, and if you don't, you don't, and
it's funny. I think it's funny.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
I could see my kids going home to being like googling, like, you.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Know, person on a pole with people watching.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
But also and you know they're putting them in those
chairs like when you go to a game you unfold
skeletons or no. But it's also what if they're like
a workout class. Yep, no one ever thought about that.
They do have pole dancing workouts. Absolutely they do. Okay,
they could be away a workout class watching their friend
who just rehabilitated from motorcycle accident.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Oh a fireman going down a bone.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Oh that's good and not like that.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
But I got flipped upside dow.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, not like that. Speaking of bones, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Four people have been accused of illegally trafficking over a
million dollars worth of dinosaur bones, like real ones.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Where did you get those?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I thought those were Four people have been accused of
illegally trafficking over a million dollars worth of dinosaur bones,
unraveling the mysteries of prehistoric life hidden within the rugged
landscapes of Utah.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
These are two Utah stories.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Here, a federal grand jury in Salt Lake City and
died of the group for their legend Vollman of purchasing
and selling more than one million dollars worth of resources,
which included one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of dinosaur
bones illegally taken from federal and state lands in southeastern Utah.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It sounds like they dug about themselves well finer skippers. Wow,
I don't know that's the case. Let me read on.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
From twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three, they engaged in
the purchase, transportation, and an export of dinosaur bones from
federal lands.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Some of this stuff looks crazy. So if you find
dinosaur bones, you can't keep that stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Maybe it depends on where you find it or well,
first of all, if they did steal some of this,
if not all of it, there's a lot of but
on that. I don't know not but I would think
if you found on your land, you probably get.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
To keep it. That's mine, that's mine. But I don't
think they were. They found it on their line.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
But if you find it in a national park, it's that.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
They're accused of conspiring to conceal and retain stolen US property.
Knowingly they stockpile these resources for sale at gym and
mineral shows and national vendors, and they show they were
showing some Uh, they are now in trouble obviously, But
that's a lot of dinosaur bones.
Speaker 7 (40:33):
I would think that all those dinosaur bones too, would
be more than a million dollars or one hundred and
fifty thousand pounds.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Some more than one million dollars, like dinosaur bones. That's
so rare that should be.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
But I don't know that it's all all all dinosaur bones.
I think there are some dinosaur bones. And they also
say they were paleontological resources, and that so just rocks too,
or rocks that have fossil type things.
Speaker 6 (40:59):
I don't know paleontology because we're ass on friends.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
I just don't understand how like, how do you go
to your buddy like, hey man, I got a great idea.
I think we should steal some dinosaur bones some paleontology tools,
like what And then he's like, yeah, you know what
my neighbor would be into that too. Can we bring
him in on board? Like, how do you get four
people involved in this operation?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I'm sure someone works in an area where they know
the value of it.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
They could work in minerals. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Oh, and then all it takes is to go, hey,
I know how he can make some money. Okay, I'm
in Yeah, I'm down with my neighbors for sure. And
then that's from NBC LA. I thought that was crazy. Okay,
let's go with it. We have this huge palette and
on this palette there's a big box with Amazon written
on the side of it, and these are all items
that people have returned to Amazon. We went and bought
(41:45):
this mysterious palette for over five hundred bucks. We all put
in like eighty dollars. We've been opening stuff right now.
We have guessed all the stuff we've opened. If we
sell it, all the values is worth about three hundred
and twenty one dollars.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
That's if.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
But that's if it sells if somebody does all the work.
So we have the guys have big boxes. Now, Dude,
that looks awesome.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
What is that?
Speaker 6 (42:06):
And Eddie lasting goes, I don't know, Oh, you don't.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Know what it looks awesome. Yeah, it's really.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
That's nothing has been expensive.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
We have it's all.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Okay, lunchbox, what do you have for us? First?
Speaker 4 (42:18):
First, we have a a black looks like maybe a
tent or something. It looks like a tarp. Maybe it's
a c.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
E M O F E.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Fourteen to sixteen feet c E M.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Oh yeah, this is real. Oh it's like a canopy, baby,
Oh it is.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
It's a fourteen by sixteen foot waterproof bass boat cover.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Woo hey, we got some fishermen out there that need it.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
All right, new sixty bucks. It's new. We'll say twenty five.
Ok okay, sell it for twenty five.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Okay, next, Oh open it. Yeah, we it's sealed. Do
we have any cat lovers out there?
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Amy is?
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Oh you got a.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
New Age pet house, new Age pet outdoor cat shelter, yes,
natural rest one set, brand new, never been opened.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
Baby, I have an indoor cat.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
So well, maybe he wants to go outside get some
fresh air.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
New Age. The size is nineteen by twenty five. It's
a bunch of centimeters. Okay, it looks here like The
price is three hundred, no, eight eighty bucks, all right,
so we'll go.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
We get fifty percent then forty All.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
Right, hey that's good, really good.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Rarely well, I say we can get fifty percent for
anything in this This.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Is a big one way. You want to put it
up here so you can see it. This is crazy
because it's got like five.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Boxes in one, five boxes one, two, three, four, five,
six boxes in one.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Let's pull it out. What do we got?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Sounds like more crap with Oh.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Toilet seed seat?
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Everybody needs toilet toilet seats.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, toilet seeds. What kind though?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Rings and covers? In the USA, those go for seven
dollars each. Bemis right there by, bemus b E M
I S seventy toilet seed.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
Whether they're nine to fifty five, count how many are
in there?
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Six They go for seven dollars each. Okay, six times
seven is forty two.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
We can probably sell in our company because we need
to get there.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
I'd say you get fifteen dollars to that box.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
There's someone that owns like an apartment complex or a
dormitory that needs those, maybe a big dogs.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
This is like under the Christmas tree, the big gift
to the big gifts. Oh man, oh boy, this is
probably four foot long. Oh yeah, a foot and a
half wide. Whoa what's the brand?
Speaker 3 (44:46):
Hands grow? H A N S G R O H
E don't know what it is. It is awesome looking though.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Got a box.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
It's got a box and it's got some like poles
or something.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
We got polls. Is it a sink?
Speaker 1 (45:01):
It might be a sink, man, because there's one of
these options is pretty expensive, one's pretty cheap.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
It's probably an expensive one, if I know us?
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Is that definitely a sink?
Speaker 3 (45:14):
It's a sink.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Okay, it's it's a shower.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
It's a shower nozzle shower?
Speaker 3 (45:21):
We got a shower?
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Is it a sink or a shower.
Speaker 6 (45:27):
Like a shower head?
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Let's say again a rain dance? What?
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Yeah, rain dance three hundred? We are in the.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Money, hands grow, We can't find the rain dance three?
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Is there some of the two?
Speaker 3 (45:42):
No, it's just three hundred, man, Okay, do you.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Want to come look at We hand that to Mike.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Thank you. We are right.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Okay, what do you have?
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Rain dance? Baby? Let's make it rain money?
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Which one?
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Mike? This is it?
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Whole set, brand new, brand new. It goes for if
you were to get it on eBay. Are you sure
that's it, Mike, let's circle back.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Oh oh circle.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Guys, who's glad they invest in?
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Now?
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Wait, you gotta put this away, man, we got something else.
You won't keep going.
Speaker 6 (46:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (46:19):
One more, oh boy, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Item number eight nine four seven playing Bingo's a. It
is cubical stack and HAG two cube organizer, color white dimensions,
made in Malaysia.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Yeah, but we don't know what that means.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
Yeah. I don't either. I'm just telling you what it is.
It doesn't have a brand name.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
So that's what we're running out of stuff in the box.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
Any no, no, no, no, no, no, okay, it's a.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
Cubical stack and hang it stuck. It's a it's a
cube organizer.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
So the description c cubicles stackenhang two cube organizer.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
That's what I said.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
I said, And I said it was made in Malaysia.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
Hanging in a bathroom or something maybe next.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
To our rain dance. See, we got the whole bathroom
set and we got toilet seats. Take those two things
over to Mike. I'm gonna play this song. We're gonna
let them look those up online.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
I mean, we could start to throw together like packages.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Like everything you need to build a house built our
own house.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
We got any home toilet paper the other day, didn't.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
We we did. Okay, let me play this song. We'll
come back and get two answers on those.
Speaker 5 (47:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
I've been working with the crew.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
The hangar thing that we have, it's a closet made cubicle,
two cube storage unit, shelf organizer, made in Malaysia, great things.
If you were to buy it a new it'd be
twenty bucks. We could probably get twenty Yeah, we could
probably get five bucks for it. It's all beat up too,
I mean it's not but the packages, so you're not
gonna get new price for it. The other thing that
we couldn't figure out because there was so much in
(47:50):
the box was some kind of shower set.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah, it's a rain dancer shower.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Like hands Grow. We looked this up.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
I mean hands Grow sounds like it is European.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
So if I if I said sixty bucks, would you
feel like that was under or over selling it?
Speaker 3 (48:09):
Under?
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Okay? Because under because it's listed new as six hundred.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
What what?
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Oh my god, oh my.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
God, no no, no, but you can't sell it new
three hundred.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
We'll put down for three hundred.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Oh guys, we did it.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
We hit the big but whoa have you done anything yet?
That is a good find?
Speaker 4 (48:33):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Goodness sake?
Speaker 3 (48:35):
So how does this get returned? I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Well, they get their money back and then just goes
into the return millionaires.
Speaker 6 (48:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
We here, So that is the price to buy it
new is six hundred and thirty dollars and.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Fifty three cents.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
The bottom is about to fall out.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
We can probably sell it for three hundred. Oh my goodness,
so total right now? Amy runs over to it to
look at it.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Amy wants to buy it, and we'll sell it Amy
right now for how much Mike?
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Total price on what we have? So so, right now,
if we sold everything, seven hundred and thirty seven dollars, nice, right,
Amy go to It's definitely not six hundred. Remember we
have to mail stuff out too. There's a lot of
there's lot paper shipping. We don't handle that.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
We'll see right now we're at seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
How much do we spend on the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Five fifty?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (49:25):
Hey this, hey, this is called a plot twist. You
guys thought it was all junk. No, we're in it
and now it had been all junk. But guess what,
It just takes one.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
It just takes one.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
They can't challenge USA. You just have to have one
ball in the hopper. Here are your big songs.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
The number one country song Jason Aldan, Here you go
try that, this small sup number one pop song, Doja
Cat Paint the Town, red Fu, number one rock song,
Blink one, Eddie two one more time?
Speaker 3 (49:56):
Do you have to you here?
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Miss me?
Speaker 3 (50:02):
I just picture the.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
Dude being sixty still singing the same way. I know.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
I miss my mom she went to work. Hell long
do U sit in the basement?
Speaker 1 (50:12):
I'm sixty three years old. I do like that song,
though I do like Blake one too. It's just that's
just that sound you feel like should tap out at
some point, but I'm glad it doesn't.
Speaker 7 (50:22):
But if it worked for so long, why change it
even if you're way older.
Speaker 1 (50:26):
I'm Hittie puberty dude' seventy three.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
Amy's Pile of Stories.
Speaker 5 (50:32):
So Bumble and Butterball are working together to help people
find friends giving plans.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
Bumble Ball, Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (50:41):
Well, so Bumble started off as a dating app, but
then it moved into the friendship space too, and you
can meet friends on Bumble. And then now because of Thanksgiving,
they're launching a new Friendsgiving planning feature on November first
that will help connect users for holiday plans, like if
you don't have anything to do, maybe you can find
a place to go e theory.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
Bumble is probably still ninety nine percent of eighting app right,
it's one of the safer ones Morgan, right, because the
woman has to go to.
Speaker 9 (51:09):
The guy or Yeah, it's one of the safer ones
that in Hinge.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
And so with Bumble and the friendship thing, people that
get on apps looking for friends, do you feel like
they're losers?
Speaker 2 (51:19):
No? I mean I did it.
Speaker 9 (51:20):
I made a friend on there when I first moved
to Nashville. Hostfully, Yeah, Like I got on the bum
on the friendship side of Bumble, and we didn't like
stay friends.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
So we went out a few times.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
And like we hung out.
Speaker 6 (51:31):
And it was it just didn't like.
Speaker 9 (51:33):
Work out as being friends long term, but it was
great to like have somebody when I first moved here.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, I felt like I would have done that and
I'm a loser and would have been a loser, So
I felt like I was for the losers.
Speaker 7 (51:43):
I couldn't use that in college. Like in college when
I first got there, I'm like, I don't know anyone
that would be yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
In college, like you're an adult, if you're thirty.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
I just feel like that had been something I would
have been on and then been made fun of, just
mercifully about lunchbox, Like I'm trying to find friends on
bumble and it would ever just been destroyed.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
But if it's normal people, then go for it.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
So they're not normal people. If you're online looking for friends,
they're not normal people.
Speaker 6 (52:07):
That's not true.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
I think you at one time could say that about
people dating on ASP, but that's so normal now. The
friendship thing, I think is where dating used to be.
Where people are probably doing it, but it's weird.
Speaker 6 (52:18):
I mean, think about it.
Speaker 5 (52:18):
What if you move to a new city and it's
a holiday and you know you're going to a safe
space where.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
You sound like something bad's about to happen.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
Yeah, you sound like a murder mystery.
Speaker 5 (52:27):
Yeah no, I'm moved to a new city, a safe
space online.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Arnal Mustard has the candlestick.
Speaker 6 (52:35):
It's a friendsgiving feet.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
I'm not going to go to somebody's Thanksgiving though that
I don't know. And I just met on an app
as a friend.
Speaker 6 (52:41):
How cool.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Though I like it in theory, I like it a lot.
Leard alert, but I knew that would happen. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (52:47):
Well then I'll try anything for good sleep. This is
why we talk about it so much. And there's a
new study suggesting that a key to good night's sleep
can be found in kiwi. Eating kiwi before bed had
a very positive impact on sweep sleep quality for a
group of athletes. They fell as like thirty five percent
faster and slept eight percent longer.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Keiwed.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
I really have no opinion on key we other than
I don't mind little clips of it in my fruit salad.
But also I don't eat a lot of fruit salad,
but I don't take the kiwi out if I eat
fruit salad, but I don't pursue fruit salad.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Yeah, sometimes it's just there. It's like sour green one right.
Speaker 4 (53:25):
Is amazing, And if you're gonna eat it right, you
eat the brown stuff on the outside.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
The skin. We have fishonado over here. Listen to him.
Speaker 6 (53:32):
Yes, the skin's kind of hairy to me. That bothers me.
Speaker 5 (53:35):
But I've heard it's nutritious and it's an underrated fruit.
Speaker 6 (53:39):
If you ask me now, I'm gonna go get someme. Okay,
lunchbox against me.
Speaker 5 (53:44):
So Dolly Pardon recorded Wrecking Ball with Miley Cyrus. It's
Miley's song, but their version came out and it's really good.
And she says that ever since the first time she
heard it, she knew she wanted to do it with Miley.
Speaker 8 (53:54):
I remember the first time I heard Wrecking Ball.
Speaker 6 (53:57):
It hit me the same way the first.
Speaker 8 (54:00):
Time I heard All Will Always Love You about Whitney Houston.
I was driving heard that one and almost raked, And
when I heard Ricking Ball, I almost raged again. I
thought when it started into that course.
Speaker 6 (54:15):
I thought, they hit me like a wrecking ball.
Speaker 8 (54:18):
I thought, well, how great can a song be.
Speaker 2 (54:21):
It's on her new rock record, so cool. Sty'll sing
She's so good yeah, and You're like, can't she?
Speaker 5 (54:27):
Then she goes, she can, Okay, Amy, that's my pile.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
That was Amy's pile of stories.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
It's time for the good news, Bobby. Back in twenty thirteen,
this family lost their home in Queen's and there's a
big fire, and so they spent the next four or
five years moving between friends and relatives' homes.
Speaker 2 (54:50):
There were six sisters, and so the dad was.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Homeschooling them and they would live temporarily with people as
they were trying to get back on their feet.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
So that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Sisters all got their GEDs, they received bachelor's degrees then
from State University of New York, and now they're all
between nineteen and twenty five. They're either in the master's
program or they are nurses already. That's cool, and it
just talks about how the dad focused on them through
homeschool and still having to work while they tried to
(55:22):
get back on their feet so they could buy a house,
and that they're all now kind of set like they
did the hard work when times are tough, and now
they're all going to have really good careers. So things
weren't going good for them obviously, but they had perseverance.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
They got through it, and they're gonna be better for it.
I love that story and fake shout out to the
dad too.
Speaker 5 (55:40):
The Lawrence Bash that's encouraging to me as a parent,
like just to persevere through homework with my kids.
Speaker 1 (55:48):
Homework yes, yeah, there's some people's house burns down and
there's homemework.
Speaker 4 (55:52):
No.
Speaker 5 (55:52):
I mean he still making the time to do all
of that and commit, because sometimes that's a lot.
Speaker 6 (55:59):
That's it's not lost on me at all. Like he's
a hero six kids.
Speaker 7 (56:02):
Yeah, I started thinking, like I'm canceling practices because I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 6 (56:07):
And he's committed his house, the house far down.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
I know.
Speaker 2 (56:10):
I know.
Speaker 7 (56:10):
I'm just saying like he did it at the worst
of times and here I am at the not so
worst of times.
Speaker 6 (56:15):
Like my point, Yeah, I hope that came across right.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
It did.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
I'm just giving you a hard time for sure. Thank you.
That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (56:23):
That was telling me something good.
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