August 26, 2025 • 23 mins
Pod Crashing episode 384 with Alex Bones the self-proclaimed most listened to broadcaster on the planet with more than 25 million daily listeners. Host of the #1 Syndicated Radio Show in the World, Alex Bones is the unapologetic voice behind The Alex Bones Show - a fast-paced, no-holds-barred podcast that blends viral Tik Tok moments, real- world drama, and unfiltered commentary on the absurdity of modern life. With a sharp tongue and a sixth sense for internet weirdness, Alex rips into pop culture, weird headlines, and real-life stories that will make you laugh, cringe, and yell at your phone. With Co-host and intern Jimmy, you'll never know who they are going to upset No subject is off limits, and no guest leaves unroasted. Each episode is a rollercoaster ride through hilarious clips, bizarre confessions, viral freakouts, and Alex's unfiltered reactions. Whether he's asking "Who's the real A-hole?" or breaking down the strange stuff people wear to the gym, Alex Bones brings heat, humor, and hot takes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome back to the conversation. Let's do some pod crashing.
Episode number three eighty four is with Alex Bones, the
self proclaimed most listened to broadcaster on the planet with
more than twenty five million daily listeners. Hay, hey, my god,
you have no idea what I just did. I did
a pre record where I said that Phil Donahue and
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and Clive Davis were both scheduled to talk with me
and they failed to show up. And I said, with
you having twenty five million listeners every day, I said,
this guy's not going to show up, and then, god,
damn it if you're not here.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I'm not going anywhere. I sit right here in
the studio the whole time. I'm sitting here waiting for
this guy named Aral. So this guy named Arrow's going
to interview me, and I'm not going to stand him
up because that's just rude.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Whoa wait a second. You're all about being rude, but
not to people that want to talk to me. Yeah,
you're rude to everybody. Don't lie to him. You're rude
to this every person in the world. I wonder if
Jimmy was going to show up tonight, because you know what,
is he He's like the intern that just wouldn't go away.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm an intern. I don't get paid anything, but
I work all the time. And thank you for saying that, Harol. Yeah,
shut up, Jimmy, go give me some coffee. That's what
Jimmy does, is he gives me coffee and he finds
me videos.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So no, no, no, no, you got to talk to me
about these videos because I'm trying to understand how it
is that you put this show together and you get
all this stuff. I mean, I'm a research whore. You
obviously are too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I like videos of broads, broads that talk about, you know,
dating and stuff, and then I like some new stuff.
But I like to talk about dating just because I
can't date, because I've been married for seventy five years,
so I can't date. So I listen to whatever the
broads say about dating because I think it sounds fun.
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But I don't play in it at all. Jimmy finds
me the videos.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's his job. Shut up, dude, because the reason you
even included that you were going to go meet that
girl on your last podcast, you said your name was
on that list, and all of a sudden you suddenly
thought you were going to be a part of it. Well,
I say things like.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That, but I don't do it because I'm chained to this,
to the wife. I can't go anywhere. I just I
lived my life through the stupid show and through stupid videos. Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So now, what what is Jimmy's real connection here to me?
I think he's the star because he's the one that
sets up your stage, he sets up the control room.
He's the one that stood up you know that that
late night person that would that would put the morning
show together with all the commercials, all the songs and
everything like that. People don't see that when with with radio. Well,
how I.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Got Jimmy was we were doing a segment about birds.
Oh god, birds are government drones. Oh okay, So I
made jam Me go outside because he showed up he
was an intern. I mean him go outside and get
a bird and bring a bird in. And I took
the head off and and then showed Jimmy it was
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a government drone.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
At Like, if you did your damn research about me,
you would have known that I talk about birds all
the time, and birds are very spiritual to me, and
it's like they are not spiritual drones.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No, they're drones. They they what are you talking about?
They remember a long time ago there were birds everywhere.
Now there's only like a couple of birds. And then
you see him on the wires. You know, when they
go into wires, they're recharging arrow doing recharging. They're drones.
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They watch us all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
No, carpenter bees are what the drones are when they
sit there and they hang out and they and to me,
those are Russian drones and they're spying on us at
all times.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh my god, I never thought about that. Jimmy, go
get me a bee. Now he's gotta go get me
a bee. Go get a bee. See now you now,
I gotta now, I gotta tear Bee's hat off to
find out if that.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I feel so sorry for him because I've had those
interns that sacrifice their life and all of a sudden,
you know, it's like, oh god, am I being mean
to him? Do you ever get that guilt trip?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No? Why, it's radio. Everybody's me and everybody in radio.
That's that's that's. You reach your hand down and grab
your balls and tug them. Give your balls a tug
if you want to be in this industry. If you
don't want to be in this industry, then don't tug
on your balls. Well, what about women? What are you
talking about here? There's no women in radio. No, who's
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the life. They don't exist. They've they've phased those out
years ago. They say, go get me, I want it
for head out for jow you that she's a government drone.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So you're saying women are government drones. Now they might be,
you don't know. I mean, when's the last time you
saw a really good woman?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You haven't?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh, how can you step in that pile of crap?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's what I do ero. I mean, I'll find videos
and I'll show you that. Okay, women might not be drones,
but birds are and bees are. Now you've convinced me.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, but I have bird feathers. I mean, you can't
tell me they're drones because these are authentic feathers.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now, those are feathers from the fifties.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Now those are.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now, those are feathers from twenty twenty five, because you
can't you know they're fake.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So, speaking of drones, did you see what the Chinese
are doing with the drones fighting? They've got an Olympics
going on right now that have drones that running, they're boxing,
they're kickboxing, they're doing all that stuff. How do you
feel about this drone stuff? I saw a.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Video of three drones racing today and one fell down
and one spun around in a circle, and the other
one took off. So it's gonna be a good fifteen
to twenty five, thirty forty years before they kill us.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
All Allix Alex. They that's exactly how radio people act.
They fall down, they twist out, they do stuff like that, right, So,
but that you should have seen the robot. It just
spun in the circle and it was too stupid. So
the robots aren't smart enough yet. So once they get
smart enough, then then I'll worry. I think they're creating
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radio station program directors. That's what they're doing. Well, everything's
a I know have you okay.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Erro I know I did a little research on you,
and you were in radio a long time, right.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Still am in radio. I'm a podcaster. I have never
made that disconnection, and I will fight your ass until
you to prove you wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You've get in radio four hundred years when listen to
a radio station.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I listened to radio all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
What radio station named one WBT ninety five point one,
ninety six point one. And I'll even pop it over
there to the number one station in Charlotte, which is
one oh four point seven. No, you don't, you lie?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Bullshit, bullshit. I will even go to ninety five point seven.
But I can't stand oldies like that because they've lived
that life already.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Oh yeah, see you listen to oldies stations and go
I played that when it was a current. You're right,
that's exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The Beach Boys. I said, Oh my god, you are
so right about that. And that's the thing I hate
about being in radio for forty six years because when
they sit there and say, well, you know, Fat Bottom
Girls is forty plus years old. Listen, I played that
song when it was a forty five, and I spent
ninety nine damn cents on that monkey.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, and I said, I uttered the words new Queen
coming up next?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
First of all with that voice, How the hell did
you even survive in radio? The program director did. Did
they have to go and get some psychiatric help? Yeah,
so that's what happens. I got fired. You know the
last station I was on the big station in New York.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I was fired. I last like a year and a
half and then I say something stupid on the air,
then they fire me. But now I just go on
all these little radio stations and they don't even listen.
They just took me on and they go, ah, something
to fill airspace. So that's how we're the number one
syndicated radio show is small stations just put us on
on like a Saturday and they don't even listen.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, see, that's what I think. That Wolfman Jack success
was me saying.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Oh baby, I'm gonna play on any radio station I
can get my hands on. Oh baby, this is this
is K ninety five point one with four listeners. Thank
you for being here. As long as you're on the station,
I don't care if anybody listens. I don't care if
you listen scroll.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I just I'm on the station so I can say
I'm the number one syndicated radio show in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Please do not move. There's more with Alex Bones coming
up next. Hey, thanks for coming back to my conversation
with Alex's Bones. So how do you keep up to
date with content? Because I am consistently doing research, so
much so that my wife thinks I am just one
boring ass bitch.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
TikTok God, please pretty much. I'm on TikTok all the time,
and I go to TikTok news, and if it's not
on TikTok news, I could care less. So and if
it's about Trump or anything like that, Trump is the greatest.
So I listen to that, and then I go to
something else, and then I end up on the relationships.
And I want to know what the broads are doing.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well, that's good that you're talking about relationships because everybody
that I work with, because I have a secondary job,
which is at a grocery store where I talk with
real people that have real lives. It's almost like the
Bob and Sherry show, real people, real life. And the
thing is is that when you're face to face with
these people and they're talking about relationships, man, they're screwed
up and I got nothing to help them.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Don't you have some times people just go shut up.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I just I came in here and buy milk.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yep, I don't want to talk to you. Yep. Oh
my god. They will sit there and tell me, don't
give me your happy shit.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I'm not interested, don't don't even try to be happy
with me right now?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right if I go to Harristeeter, you don't come up
to talk to me because I could care less leave me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Out, go away. So how do you deal with liars, stealers,
beggars and people like that? Because I deal with that
every single day. And you've got to give that. You
know that that plastic candy coat of bathroom mirror smile.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You go outside when they leave and you throw things
at them. Ah, just go outside and pick up rocks
and things that throw it at them, and then maybe
they won't bug you anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't think you can handle a real job like that.
And the reason why because we have people that are
stealing four to six hundred dollars to groceries every day.
I don't think you could handle going out there and
watching them walk away. And you can't do crap.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't have that many pockets. Where do they put it?
Six hundred dollars worth of groceries? That's milk and a
pack a gum, now, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
No? No, no, no no no. It is like twenty
four packs or twenty four big old bottles of detergent
because they're going to the flea market to sell it.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, my pockets aren't that big, so I wouldn't know
how to steal that. But maybe you could teach me
one day how I can get that out of a
store without anybody noticed.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Well, you know what you just told me. Your crotch
isn't that big either.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I got a lot of room to put things down there,
so they but that guy's got a big package. Now
that's just detergent. So what is your vision? What are
you trying to do? Every time you put a performance together.
I try to get the voices out of my head.
The voice are in my head all the time.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, he always has.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Weird voices in there, so yeah, you can he can
send out this way.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It just makes me feel better to get it out.
And if I don't get it out every day, then
I'm I'm afraid I'm gonna turn into a serial killer. Well,
so the way to get it out, I'm a d fragger.
I write all the time, Alex. If you do your homework,
you'll find out that I am consistently writing stuff out
to get those voices. And you choose to go to
the radio and do your thing and do my thing.
(12:20):
So the thing is, I do know you write a lot,
and you do your journal every day. What happens when
you die? I mean, what's gonna happen to these to
these journals? Are we are we just gonna burn them?
Are we all gonna read them? What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh? You are you? You obviously broke into my house
and read my damn journals because I have covered that
subject so many times. And here's the decision I'm going
to do. I'm gonna haul a digger in here and
I'm gonna plant them back into the forest that I
have been writing with for thirty two years.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
No, I'm gonna have an open casket garage sale. People
come in, they can take a journal for twenty five cents,
and they can go buy out and then they can
walk away.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But see, but I've always believed that I'm talking to
the future reader, you know, you know, I've always been, Oh,
I'm I'm gonna touch tomorrow because my parents left me nothing.
Do you believe in that that everything you're saying today
is going to touch the future? Listener? I sure hope.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
So.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I think there's so much crap out there that it
just gets lost. But I hope one day, you know,
my kid will listen to go that. That was my dad,
Alex and Jimmy. But I don't think nobody's ever gonna
hear it ever again. They listen to it once. Twenty
five million people listen to it once, and then they
don't listen to it ever again.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So you're saying, they listen to one episode and get
the hell out of Dodge.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yes, if they make it through the whole episode, congrat
your frickinglations.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
How do you deal with that? Because I mean, that's
like my rule of podcasting is if I can get
you to seven minutes, my God in Heaven, that is glory.
But I'll bet you I can't get them up to
number two minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
No, I listen to your shit. I listened to it
and it just goes on and on and on, and
your craptus rolls into another episode and I just get
locked into arrow stratus here for hours, and I lose
track of days and I go, shit, it's Thursday. How
did it become Thursday? I'm still listening to Arrow.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
How many times have you vomited?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Though?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
How many times? How many times have you vomited? Over
something I've said.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Now, it's really interesting and I got you sucked me
in with it because you have, like I don't know,
I have one stupid podcast, Okay, that's what I do,
and you have fourteen, yeah, seventeen seven day do What
the hell? How do you do that?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Alex? You've been in the business forever. One thought per break,
Devin Jane, Yes, one thought per break. I can't I
talk to rock stars and talk to sports heroes on
the same podcast seventeen?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Come on, that would make me insane. You're always on
a podcast. If you're not on a podcast, you're writing
about a podcast. Yeah, I don't know. But then I
get sucked in and I listen for hours and hours
and hours, and before you know it is Sunday. Think.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
All I do is I thank God every day because
the bathroom is less than seven feet from here. That's
all that's all I care about. Can I get in?
Do I have enough time to go in there and
take a pee?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Have you dragged the microphone into the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I have portable equipment. I'm gonna tell you that right
I'm bringing the mic in the bathroom. Oh my god,
that's like this Thursday I'm with Iron Maiden at one
fifty six. I have to be reporting to Harris Teeter
at two o'clock. I already told them that I'm gonna
be late, and they go why, and I said, I'm
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gonna be talking to Iron Maids, who.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wow for four minutes. Four minutes, no freaking interviews. Okay,
I gotta ask you one thing. So you interview a
lot of famous people, Okay, how many times have they
said after the interview, don't air that. Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I've had a lot of people, a lot of rock
stars cuss at me. I'm gonna give you the best
one first. I'm not sure I can go into the
one that hurt me the most, but I can go
into the one that I think touched me the most. No,
there's two of them. First of all, I told Gene Simmons,
I don't want to talk about kiss. I want to
talk about what you're doing with our your soldiers. Well, fuck,
why didn't it take you so long? Why did why you?
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Let's talk about that. And then David Coverdale gets on there.
I said, David, how are you doing today? What the
fuck is an arrow? Just fucking tell me what an
arrow is? I live for stuff like that. But during
the COVID crisis, I can't identify the band. They released
a brand new album and it actually it was an
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EP that was recorded at Apple Apple Records, and I said,
this has been my escape during this time of change
in the globe. And he goes, I didn't record this
fucking thing for you to have a better life. This
is all about the band and we were taking chances here.
If you do not even think about bringing COVID into
this conversation, he blasted me.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Dude, wow, and it was a famous band. Yep, fuck them.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I still have the interview, dude, the uncut version, which
I can send to you, but I don't want to
identify it because I love the band.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
See. I bring that up because I had John Oates.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And did an interview, and then after the interview the
publicis called and said, don't air that. Why I can't say, See, we're.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
In the same boat. We're in the same boat.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I have it, and I'm gonna when he dies, I
think I'm gonna hear it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
See that's the same thing with all my conversations with
Rick Flair. People keep saying you recorded with Rick Flair,
so many times. Why will you not release it? Because
I don't want to. Rick and I had many private
moments together.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Right, so you're like me, as soon as he dies,
you're gonna air that, and as soon and then you'll
know when John Oates dies when you see it pop
up on my podcast, you'd be like, bu.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Shit, he's dead. Well, Alex, they just got back together.
Did you not see that?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I know that's why.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's even more better.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But I can't do it. Come back at me. Oh god,
I got such great dirt. I'm the other guy.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I'm not even gonna say his name.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I got sexual dirt on him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
So where do you grow the balls to do what
it is that you do? Because you seem to be
talking about you know, straight from you know, the subconscious.
You allow what is now to happen right now? Yeah,
because I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I don't give a crap. Cancel me, cancel me if
you want, I don't care. What are you gonna do?
You take me off here? You're not gonna do that,
so I can say whatever the hell I want because
you know what, it's my show, my show now? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But okay, okay, let let let's talk about that, because
I totally agree with you on that, and I think
that there's a certain age group where we all sit
there and we all think that we're Robert D. Rayford,
and it's one of those things where it's like, Okay,
I'm going to say what I'm going to say. If
you don't like it, I don't really freaking care. So
and the thing is is that now I have to
think about the listener. Does the listener care what I'm sharing?
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If they don't understand what we're doing, well they're gonna
check out? And what are the chances they're coming back? Yeah,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
No more shut up listeners every day, Oh my god,
they're everywhere. So if we lose one, two more will
pop up. It's like a gopher you get rid of
on to three more pop ups. So if I piss
you off, I'm done worrying about that. I worried about
that when I'm on the air, you know, not losing
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a listener now I could care less.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Okay, let's talk about Howard Stern when you say I
don't care, because that seems to be his attitude, and
you guys actually did a special on that. I think
it's a promotional stunt. What's your thing?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I think it started off as not a promotional stunt,
but then it turned into it. So I think he's
gonna have an announcement in a few days of what's
going to happen. But you know what, the last time
I talked about Howard Stern, I ended up in page
six of the New York Post. So I'm not talking
about Howard. Howard gave me shit for saying what I
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said back then. So I'm not going on record about
anything about Stern anymore because he gave me enough crap
last time.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I did it well well, I mean, I mean heavily
inspired because he gives us all balls in broadcasting. But
the thing is, though, is that you got to pass
the tour forward. But who do we give it to?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, you don't, I mean give it to us, give
it to you and me. We'll take it.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
God, give a day what we want. What is your
most ballsy thing. I'm gonna be honest with you. I
think one of the most ballsy things that I do
every single day I pray on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
No I don't do.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Shut the hell up. You need to, buddy, Could you
not hear the words that you're saying. Yeah, he prays
all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I see him doing it, but he's not gonna tell
you he does it because he easy.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It makes him sad. Good job, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
If you ever thought about firing him, now you can't fire.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
In turns, he just keep coming back. I try to
fire him, and then he just keeps coming back the
next day, and what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh God, that's exactly. But we all have played that game, man,
because when we first got into the industry, my God
in Heaven, we gave everything to it, only to learn that, well,
hell we if we don't, if we don't go out
there and get a real job, we're gonna suffer.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, that's that's him. He wants his own show. He
wants his Jimmy show. So one day he's gonna have
the Jimmy Show. But not now, because I don't think
Jimmy has enough time to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Well what is he doing that? He's that he's so
busy and I.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I'm working for him and I'm finding videos.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And bees and birds and all that. So I don't
have no time right now, but one day I will.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Wow, wow, wow. Obviously he's spending ten minutes in nature,
So so what the hell's guy, Because you know, what
we do as performers is that we dedicate our souls
to it. And look, look, we're doing a conversation at
seven twenty. I've been in the studio since seven o'clock
this morning. Why would I do that to talk with you?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Your brain because I listen to the three Hours of
Arrow and I'm in a whole different world. I'm like,
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
My name anymore. I don't even know my name. I
sit there and die. I don't even say it anymore.
I'm so sick of it, dude, I am so proud
that you took the time to even talk with me.
Twenty five million listeners I think I may have, you know,
maybe one hundred a day. So the fact that you
did would Phil Donahue and and Clive Davis couldn't do.
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I'm just shocked, and I will call this one of
the greatest moments of my life.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, twenty five million daily listeners enough a radio show
in the world.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The Alex Bone show Man, come back to the show
anytime in the future. You know, the door is always
going to be open for.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You to close it.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Sometimes shut up. I decide who closes the door, all right, buddy,
Hey, welcome back to the conversation. Let's do some pod crashing.
Episode number three eighty four is with Alex Bones, the
self proclaimed most listened to broadcaster on the planet with
more than twenty five million daily listeners. Hay, hey, my god,
you have no idea what I just did. I did
a pre record where I said that Phil Donahue and
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and Clive Davis were both scheduled to talk with me
and they failed to show up. And I said, with
you having twenty five million listeners every day, I said,
this guy's not going to show up, and then, god,
damn it if you're not here.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I'm not going anywhere. I sit right here in
the studio the whole time. I'm sitting here waiting for
this guy named Aral. So this guy named Arrow's going
to interview me, and I'm not going to stand him
up because that's just rude.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Whoa wait a second. You're all about being rude, but
not to people that want to talk to me. Yeah,
you're rude to everybody. Don't lie to him. You're rude
to this every person in the world. I wonder if
Jimmy was going to show up tonight, because you know what,
is he He's like the intern that just wouldn't go away.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm an intern. I don't get paid anything, but
I work all the time. And thank you for saying that, Harol. Yeah,
shut up, Jimmy, go give me some coffee. That's what
Jimmy does, is he gives me coffee and he finds
me videos.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So no, no, no, no, you got to talk to me
about these videos because I'm trying to understand how it
is that you put this show together and you get
all this stuff. I mean, I'm a research whore. You
obviously are too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I like videos of broads, broads that talk about, you know,
dating and stuff, and then I like some new stuff.
But I like to talk about dating just because I
can't date, because I've been married for seventy five years,
so I can't date. So I listen to whatever the
broads say about dating because I think it sounds fun.
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But I don't play in it at all. Jimmy finds
me the videos.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's his job. Shut up, dude, because the reason you
even included that you were going to go meet that
girl on your last podcast, you said your name was
on that list, and all of a sudden you suddenly
thought you were going to be a part of it. Well,
I say things like.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That, but I don't do it because I'm chained to this,
to the wife. I can't go anywhere. I just I
lived my life through the stupid show and through stupid videos. Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So now, what what is Jimmy's real connection here to me?
I think he's the star because he's the one that
sets up your stage, he sets up the control room.
He's the one that stood up you know that that
late night person that would that would put the morning
show together with all the commercials, all the songs and
everything like that. People don't see that when with with radio. Well,
how I.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Got Jimmy was we were doing a segment about birds.
Oh god, birds are government drones. Oh okay, So I
made jam Me go outside because he showed up he
was an intern. I mean him go outside and get
a bird and bring a bird in. And I took
the head off and and then showed Jimmy it was
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a government drone.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
At Like, if you did your damn research about me,
you would have known that I talk about birds all
the time, and birds are very spiritual to me, and
it's like they are not spiritual drones.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No, they're drones. They they what are you talking about?
They remember a long time ago there were birds everywhere.
Now there's only like a couple of birds. And then
you see him on the wires. You know, when they
go into wires, they're recharging arrow doing recharging. They're drones.
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They watch us all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
No, carpenter bees are what the drones are when they
sit there and they hang out and they and to me,
those are Russian drones and they're spying on us at
all times.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Oh my god, I never thought about that. Jimmy, go
get me a bee. Now he's gotta go get me
a bee. Go get a bee. See now you now,
I gotta now, I gotta tear Bee's hat off to
find out if that.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I feel so sorry for him because I've had those
interns that sacrifice their life and all of a sudden,
you know, it's like, oh god, am I being mean
to him? Do you ever get that guilt trip?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No? Why, it's radio. Everybody's me and everybody in radio.
That's that's that's. You reach your hand down and grab
your balls and tug them. Give your balls a tug
if you want to be in this industry. If you
don't want to be in this industry, then don't tug
on your balls. Well, what about women? What are you
talking about here? There's no women in radio. No, who's
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the life. They don't exist. They've they've phased those out
years ago. They say, go get me, I want it
for head out for jow you that she's a government drone.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So you're saying women are government drones. Now they might be,
you don't know. I mean, when's the last time you
saw a really good woman?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You haven't?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh, how can you step in that pile of crap?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's what I do ero. I mean, I'll find videos
and I'll show you that. Okay, women might not be drones,
but birds are and bees are. Now you've convinced me.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, but I have bird feathers. I mean, you can't
tell me they're drones because these are authentic feathers.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now, those are feathers from the fifties.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Now those are.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now, those are feathers from twenty twenty five, because you
can't you know they're fake.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So, speaking of drones, did you see what the Chinese
are doing with the drones fighting? They've got an Olympics
going on right now that have drones that running, they're boxing,
they're kickboxing, they're doing all that stuff. How do you
feel about this drone stuff? I saw a.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Video of three drones racing today and one fell down
and one spun around in a circle, and the other
one took off. So it's gonna be a good fifteen
to twenty five, thirty forty years before they kill us.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
All Allix Alex. They that's exactly how radio people act.
They fall down, they twist out, they do stuff like that, right, So,
but that you should have seen the robot. It just
spun in the circle and it was too stupid. So
the robots aren't smart enough yet. So once they get
smart enough, then then I'll worry. I think they're creating
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radio station program directors. That's what they're doing. Well, everything's
a I know have you okay.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Erro I know I did a little research on you,
and you were in radio a long time, right.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Still am in radio. I'm a podcaster. I have never
made that disconnection, and I will fight your ass until
you to prove you wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You've get in radio four hundred years when listen to
a radio station.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I listened to radio all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
What radio station named one WBT ninety five point one,
ninety six point one. And I'll even pop it over
there to the number one station in Charlotte, which is
one oh four point seven. No, you don't, you lie?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Bullshit, bullshit. I will even go to ninety five point seven.
But I can't stand oldies like that because they've lived
that life already.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Oh yeah, see you listen to oldies stations and go
I played that when it was a current. You're right,
that's exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The Beach Boys. I said, Oh my god, you are
so right about that. And that's the thing I hate
about being in radio for forty six years because when
they sit there and say, well, you know, Fat Bottom
Girls is forty plus years old. Listen, I played that
song when it was a forty five, and I spent
ninety nine damn cents on that monkey.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, and I said, I uttered the words new Queen
coming up next?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
First of all with that voice, How the hell did
you even survive in radio? The program director did. Did
they have to go and get some psychiatric help? Yeah,
so that's what happens. I got fired. You know the
last station I was on the big station in New York.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I was fired. I last like a year and a
half and then I say something stupid on the air,
then they fire me. But now I just go on
all these little radio stations and they don't even listen.
They just took me on and they go, ah, something
to fill airspace. So that's how we're the number one
syndicated radio show is small stations just put us on
on like a Saturday and they don't even listen.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, see, that's what I think. That Wolfman Jack success
was me saying.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Oh baby, I'm gonna play on any radio station I
can get my hands on. Oh baby, this is this
is K ninety five point one with four listeners. Thank
you for being here. As long as you're on the station,
I don't care if anybody listens. I don't care if
you listen scroll.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I just I'm on the station so I can say
I'm the number one syndicated radio show in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Please do not move. There's more with Alex Bones coming
up next. Hey, thanks for coming back to my conversation
with Alex's Bones. So how do you keep up to
date with content? Because I am consistently doing research, so
much so that my wife thinks I am just one
boring ass bitch.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
TikTok God, please pretty much. I'm on TikTok all the time,
and I go to TikTok news, and if it's not
on TikTok news, I could care less. So and if
it's about Trump or anything like that, Trump is the greatest.
So I listen to that, and then I go to
something else, and then I end up on the relationships.
And I want to know what the broads are doing.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well, that's good that you're talking about relationships because everybody
that I work with, because I have a secondary job,
which is at a grocery store where I talk with
real people that have real lives. It's almost like the
Bob and Sherry show, real people, real life. And the
thing is is that when you're face to face with
these people and they're talking about relationships, man, they're screwed
up and I got nothing to help them.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Don't you have some times people just go shut up.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I just I came in here and buy milk.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yep, I don't want to talk to you. Yep. Oh
my god. They will sit there and tell me, don't
give me your happy shit.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I'm not interested, don't don't even try to be happy
with me right now?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right if I go to Harristeeter, you don't come up
to talk to me because I could care less leave me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Out, go away. So how do you deal with liars, stealers,
beggars and people like that? Because I deal with that
every single day. And you've got to give that. You
know that that plastic candy coat of bathroom mirror smile.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You go outside when they leave and you throw things
at them. Ah, just go outside and pick up rocks
and things that throw it at them, and then maybe
they won't bug you anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't think you can handle a real job like that.
And the reason why because we have people that are
stealing four to six hundred dollars to groceries every day.
I don't think you could handle going out there and
watching them walk away. And you can't do crap.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't have that many pockets. Where do they put it?
Six hundred dollars worth of groceries? That's milk and a
pack a gum, now, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
No? No, no, no no no. It is like twenty
four packs or twenty four big old bottles of detergent
because they're going to the flea market to sell it.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, my pockets aren't that big, so I wouldn't know
how to steal that. But maybe you could teach me
one day how I can get that out of a
store without anybody noticed.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Well, you know what you just told me. Your crotch
isn't that big either.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I got a lot of room to put things down there,
so they but that guy's got a big package. Now
that's just detergent. So what is your vision? What are
you trying to do? Every time you put a performance together.
I try to get the voices out of my head.
The voice are in my head all the time.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, he always has.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Weird voices in there, so yeah, you can he can
send out this way.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It just makes me feel better to get it out.
And if I don't get it out every day, then
I'm I'm afraid I'm gonna turn into a serial killer. Well,
so the way to get it out, I'm a d fragger.
I write all the time, Alex. If you do your homework,
you'll find out that I am consistently writing stuff out
to get those voices. And you choose to go to
the radio and do your thing and do my thing.
(12:20):
So the thing is, I do know you write a lot,
and you do your journal every day. What happens when
you die? I mean, what's gonna happen to these to
these journals? Are we are we just gonna burn them?
Are we all gonna read them? What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh? You are you? You obviously broke into my house
and read my damn journals because I have covered that
subject so many times. And here's the decision I'm going
to do. I'm gonna haul a digger in here and
I'm gonna plant them back into the forest that I
have been writing with for thirty two years.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
No, I'm gonna have an open casket garage sale. People
come in, they can take a journal for twenty five cents,
and they can go buy out and then they can
walk away.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But see, but I've always believed that I'm talking to
the future reader, you know, you know, I've always been, Oh,
I'm I'm gonna touch tomorrow because my parents left me nothing.
Do you believe in that that everything you're saying today
is going to touch the future? Listener? I sure hope.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
So.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I think there's so much crap out there that it
just gets lost. But I hope one day, you know,
my kid will listen to go that. That was my dad,
Alex and Jimmy. But I don't think nobody's ever gonna
hear it ever again. They listen to it once. Twenty
five million people listen to it once, and then they
don't listen to it ever again.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So you're saying, they listen to one episode and get
the hell out of Dodge.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yes, if they make it through the whole episode, congrat
your frickinglations.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
How do you deal with that? Because I mean, that's
like my rule of podcasting is if I can get
you to seven minutes, my God in Heaven, that is glory.
But I'll bet you I can't get them up to
number two minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
No, I listen to your shit. I listened to it
and it just goes on and on and on, and
your craptus rolls into another episode and I just get
locked into arrow stratus here for hours, and I lose
track of days and I go, shit, it's Thursday. How
did it become Thursday? I'm still listening to Arrow.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
How many times have you vomited?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Though?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
How many times? How many times have you vomited? Over
something I've said.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Now, it's really interesting and I got you sucked me
in with it because you have, like I don't know,
I have one stupid podcast, Okay, that's what I do,
and you have fourteen, yeah, seventeen seven day do What
the hell? How do you do that?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Alex? You've been in the business forever. One thought per break,
Devin Jane, Yes, one thought per break. I can't I
talk to rock stars and talk to sports heroes on
the same podcast seventeen?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Come on, that would make me insane. You're always on
a podcast. If you're not on a podcast, you're writing
about a podcast. Yeah, I don't know. But then I
get sucked in and I listen for hours and hours
and hours, and before you know it is Sunday. Think.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
All I do is I thank God every day because
the bathroom is less than seven feet from here. That's
all that's all I care about. Can I get in?
Do I have enough time to go in there and
take a pee?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Have you dragged the microphone into the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I have portable equipment. I'm gonna tell you that right
I'm bringing the mic in the bathroom. Oh my god,
that's like this Thursday I'm with Iron Maiden at one
fifty six. I have to be reporting to Harris Teeter
at two o'clock. I already told them that I'm gonna
be late, and they go why, and I said, I'm
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gonna be talking to Iron Maids, who.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wow for four minutes. Four minutes, no freaking interviews. Okay,
I gotta ask you one thing. So you interview a
lot of famous people, Okay, how many times have they
said after the interview, don't air that. Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I've had a lot of people, a lot of rock
stars cuss at me. I'm gonna give you the best
one first. I'm not sure I can go into the
one that hurt me the most, but I can go
into the one that I think touched me the most. No,
there's two of them. First of all, I told Gene Simmons,
I don't want to talk about kiss. I want to
talk about what you're doing with our your soldiers. Well, fuck,
why didn't it take you so long? Why did why you?
(16:42):
Let's talk about that. And then David Coverdale gets on there.
I said, David, how are you doing today? What the
fuck is an arrow? Just fucking tell me what an
arrow is? I live for stuff like that. But during
the COVID crisis, I can't identify the band. They released
a brand new album and it actually it was an
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EP that was recorded at Apple Apple Records, and I said,
this has been my escape during this time of change
in the globe. And he goes, I didn't record this
fucking thing for you to have a better life. This
is all about the band and we were taking chances here.
If you do not even think about bringing COVID into
this conversation, he blasted me.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Dude, wow, and it was a famous band. Yep, fuck them.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I still have the interview, dude, the uncut version, which
I can send to you, but I don't want to
identify it because I love the band.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
See. I bring that up because I had John Oates.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
And did an interview, and then after the interview the
publicis called and said, don't air that. Why I can't say, See, we're.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
In the same boat. We're in the same boat.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I have it, and I'm gonna when he dies, I
think I'm gonna hear it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
See that's the same thing with all my conversations with
Rick Flair. People keep saying you recorded with Rick Flair,
so many times. Why will you not release it? Because
I don't want to. Rick and I had many private
moments together.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Right, so you're like me, as soon as he dies,
you're gonna air that, and as soon and then you'll
know when John Oates dies when you see it pop
up on my podcast, you'd be like, bu.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Shit, he's dead. Well, Alex, they just got back together.
Did you not see that?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I know that's why.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's even more better.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
But I can't do it. Come back at me. Oh god,
I got such great dirt. I'm the other guy.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I'm not even gonna say his name.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I got sexual dirt on him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
So where do you grow the balls to do what
it is that you do? Because you seem to be
talking about you know, straight from you know, the subconscious.
You allow what is now to happen right now? Yeah,
because I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I don't give a crap. Cancel me, cancel me if
you want, I don't care. What are you gonna do?
You take me off here? You're not gonna do that,
so I can say whatever the hell I want because
you know what, it's my show, my show now? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But okay, okay, let let let's talk about that, because
I totally agree with you on that, and I think
that there's a certain age group where we all sit
there and we all think that we're Robert D. Rayford,
and it's one of those things where it's like, Okay,
I'm going to say what I'm going to say. If
you don't like it, I don't really freaking care. So
and the thing is is that now I have to
think about the listener. Does the listener care what I'm sharing?
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If they don't understand what we're doing, well they're gonna
check out? And what are the chances they're coming back? Yeah,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
No more shut up listeners every day, Oh my god,
they're everywhere. So if we lose one, two more will
pop up. It's like a gopher you get rid of
on to three more pop ups. So if I piss
you off, I'm done worrying about that. I worried about
that when I'm on the air, you know, not losing
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a listener now I could care less.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Okay, let's talk about Howard Stern when you say I
don't care, because that seems to be his attitude, and
you guys actually did a special on that. I think
it's a promotional stunt. What's your thing?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I think it started off as not a promotional stunt,
but then it turned into it. So I think he's
gonna have an announcement in a few days of what's
going to happen. But you know what, the last time
I talked about Howard Stern, I ended up in page
six of the New York Post. So I'm not talking
about Howard. Howard gave me shit for saying what I
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said back then. So I'm not going on record about
anything about Stern anymore because he gave me enough crap
last time.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I did it well well, I mean, I mean heavily
inspired because he gives us all balls in broadcasting. But
the thing is, though, is that you got to pass
the tour forward. But who do we give it to?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, you don't, I mean give it to us, give
it to you and me. We'll take it.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
God, give a day what we want. What is your
most ballsy thing. I'm gonna be honest with you. I
think one of the most ballsy things that I do
every single day I pray on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
No I don't do.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Shut the hell up. You need to, buddy, Could you
not hear the words that you're saying. Yeah, he prays
all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I see him doing it, but he's not gonna tell
you he does it because he easy.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It makes him sad. Good job, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
If you ever thought about firing him, now you can't fire.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
In turns, he just keep coming back. I try to
fire him, and then he just keeps coming back the
next day, and what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh God, that's exactly. But we all have played that game, man,
because when we first got into the industry, my God
in Heaven, we gave everything to it, only to learn that, well,
hell we if we don't, if we don't go out
there and get a real job, we're gonna suffer.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, that's that's him. He wants his own show. He
wants his Jimmy show. So one day he's gonna have
the Jimmy Show. But not now, because I don't think
Jimmy has enough time to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Well what is he doing that? He's that he's so
busy and I.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I'm working for him and I'm finding videos.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And bees and birds and all that. So I don't
have no time right now, but one day I will.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Wow, wow, wow. Obviously he's spending ten minutes in nature,
So so what the hell's guy, Because you know, what
we do as performers is that we dedicate our souls
to it. And look, look, we're doing a conversation at
seven twenty. I've been in the studio since seven o'clock
this morning. Why would I do that to talk with you?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Your brain because I listen to the three Hours of
Arrow and I'm in a whole different world. I'm like,
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
My name anymore. I don't even know my name. I
sit there and die. I don't even say it anymore.
I'm so sick of it, dude, I am so proud
that you took the time to even talk with me.
Twenty five million listeners I think I may have, you know,
maybe one hundred a day. So the fact that you
did would Phil Donahue and and Clive Davis couldn't do.
(23:19):
I'm just shocked, and I will call this one of
the greatest moments of my life.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, twenty five million daily listeners enough a radio show
in the world.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The Alex Bone show Man, come back to the show
anytime in the future. You know, the door is always
going to be open for.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You to close it.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Sometimes shut up. I decide who closes the door, all right, buddy,
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