Dumb Blonde - Ask, Tell, Confess: This Is Why I Hate Red Carpets

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

This week on Ask, Tell, Confess,the gals unpack the good, the great, and the kinda weird moments from the recent ACM Awards, where the women were hot and the internet lost its damn mind over Bunnie and Jelly’s red carpet kiss. Bunnie sets the record straight and explains why red carpets aren't always her favorite, and then answers a listener question about IVF and her upcoming book. Watch Full Episodes & More:www.dumbblondeunrated.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Listen, I just kind of, it's like roll, I just like roll that beautiful bean footage. I just let it go. Bean footage. Bean footage. You've never seen that fucking commercial? No. What?

Is our fucking TV working? I'm sure, yeah, you can pull that up on YouTube. Roll that beautiful bean footage. You've never seen that commercial? No. What? Is our TV working? I'm sure you can pull that up on YouTube. Roll that beautiful bean footage. What the hell? Pull it up, pull it up. Roll that beautiful bean footage. Yeah, it was being, what is it? Baked beans, something baked beans.

Bush's baked beans, right? Bush's baked beans and the golden retriever rolled that beautiful bean footage. You remember the weirdest shit. I remember shit. You always have a jingle or a song. That's so fucking weird. And people try to argue with me about being autistic.

Bro, her entire personality is like a mosaic of just straight old cartoons. And jingles. Yeah, old cartoons and sounds. Yeah, jingles. I, you know, I've always. I'll be like, is that a real song? You'll be like, yep, that's going up.

Oh, there's some of them. I was like, there's no way that's a real song. And you're like, check it out. Yeah. I think it's my little party tricks. I keep it in my back pocket for whenever I need to lighten the light in the mood, you know? One trigger word and she's.

She's ready to go. Well, while you're looking for that. Look, look, look. Yeah. Oh, you got it. Click on the line with the fucking golden retriever. He's like by a fireplace. Yep. Makes Bush's baked beans taste so darn good for all that beautiful bean. Hold on. Hold on.

So that's not the one. Specially cured bacon or fine brown sugar. And they're delicious. They're good beans. But the real reason our baked beans taste so good is the Bush secret family recipe, which I've shared with only one other soul and he's not talking.

Roll that beautiful bean. What the fuck? Bro, that is. What is that raccoon? I told you the fucking golden regime.. You remember that's the most like minute, specific autism. Yeah. Okay. And people, people listen, can we get a real doctor?

Oh, they're already working on it to diagnose us because some people, so people are getting mad a little bit sometimes on YouTube. Everybody else on TikTok understands because they're like same, but people on YouTube are like little bit sometimes on YouTube. Everybody else on TikTok understands because they're like same, but people on YouTube are like, you are not autistic. Stop saying you're autistic until you're diagnosed. Okay, cool. Get me a fucking doctor that will diagnose me please.

Have you guys done the chat GBT? No. I don't have chat GBT. I did. I found out like that. I mean, it's kind of scary too. Like what it ends up telling you informational wise because when you do the rads test You know, you just get an answer at the end

Yeah No chat explains the traits about yourself and why masking the symptoms for so long because women typically don't get diagnosed until they're in their 20s and their 30s with autism while boys get diagnosed around the age of eight We mask so well for so long that it's like, oh, will you do this because you've masked for so long your autism? These are the traits that you have because of it. What's the prompt that you would ask? Oh, I just I started talking about like autism in it. And I was like, is there a way for you to like walk me through being able to diagnose and it, you know, come back and say, I can't diagnose, but we can go across these like questionnaire of

trying to figure out if you have it or not and like whether you should seek a further diagnosis. And so I did that and I did my dyslexia testing again, full blown dyslexic. Well, I want to get a real doctor here so that people can tell us that we're not autistic anymore because I know for a fact something is up with me. Yours is definitely like stuff like that. Like remembering the little things. Yours is movie quotes. That and also food. Yeah.

My food is. Mine is also materials. So like if something doesn't feel comfortable on my body, I won't wear it. If something digs into my sides, won't wear it. Like it has to be a certain, you know like how sheen has that fake cotton? Oh, I can't.

It makes my fucking skin crawl. I just told- The polyester? Is that what it is? I don't know what it is, but it's the worst fucking quality. When you buy something from an ad and it comes and it's like that's fake. Oh, I can't wear it.

It's like wearing an egg carton. Like it's just fucking weird. Olivia can't touch cotton. Like cotton balls. Oh. She cannot can't touch cotton. Like cotton balls. Oh. She cannot touch a cotton ball. Crazy. That's strange.

I know and like me and her have sock, like our socks have to be a very specific sock. And I was just telling her I made this the other day. I found my socks at Walmart that like are, they make my heart so happy. I bought every single one on their way. Yeah, you have to. I emptied the whole rack into my cart.

And Olivia goes, are you buying them off? Send me the link. Yeah, I am. I literally have two bags of clothes in my car right now as we speak that I'm gonna go drop off with Tasha, all brand new with tags, just because the material feels weird. Wow. Yeah, can't do it.

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and old Dominion show. I mean, I'm just kidding. The ACM Awards. Oh, I'm just kidding. Just kidding. That's what we were going to talk about. I know. I am. The ACMs are always interesting. Yeah. Always a good. It'll probably be my last year going.

Yeah, I get it. It's especially this last year was weird. It was really weird. Even the employees were like, what is happening? Yeah, like it was- Anyone we talked to. Yeah, it was really strange. And the show, I just feel like, I don't know,

like they did great with like having the guests and stuff like that. Like putting Blake and Miranda on the same fucking stage together practically is wild. Yeah. But I think they both handled it great. And I think that, you know, you can see so much growth

in Miranda too. She looks so fucking good, dude. Miranda looks so hot, guys. Oh my God. Like she looked, I'm like, I asked her, I'm like, what are you fucking doing? She's like, I'm doing the Gua Sha. And I was like, are you serious?

She's like, girl, that's all I've been doing. And I'm like, I was like, you look so good. People in the audience were talking about how good you look, dude. Like you look phenomenal. Yeah. But yeah, so we Like you look phenomenal. Yeah. But yeah, so we went to the ACM awards. Daddy didn't win any, which is fine.

You know, we don't expect him to win every single time. But I do expect people like Brothers Osborne. Brothers Osborne, yes. What are some other, Dan and Shay, you know? I feel like Old Dominion has won fricking nine years. I couldn't name one song. I know one. I know one, but I don't know the name of it because they dropped it literally, I think,

like eight, nine years ago. Oh, I mean, it is, I'm not, I guess, relevant in the things that those people are doing because I couldn't name one project or anything. I mean, Chris Stapleton is a given. He's fucking amazing. He's a great musician he his wife's fucking hot as hell she actually is more beautiful in real life than she is photographed yeah no she's gorgeous she she glides when she walks by literally she has Stevie

Nicks vibes yes that's such a good way to put it cuz last year when she was wearing that cape and she came by, I was just like, as she walked around, she literally looked like a goddess. Medieval Roman times. I accidentally stepped on her cape last year. I did not mean to. Well, cause we were sitting next to each other and you guys know I'm already a nervous wreck

as it is at these fucking award shows. I'm uncomfortable. I hate fucking being there. And she was sitting down talking to somebody near me and I accidentally stepped on her cape and she was like, I was like, sorry. But she was really nice to you this year too. Yeah, yeah.

This year we smiled at each other and walked by, but yeah. I mean, Chris Ableton is a fucking, you know, musical wizard, but you know, I just feel like let's keep it fresh, you know, crisp. Let's get some new fucking meetup in there. Lainey, of course, she deserves- Lainey sweeped this year. Congratulations to Lainey Wilson.

She deserves it. You guys. I'm so proud of Ella. How fucking hot is Ella Langley? It's like, is it real? Are you real, Ella? Because like, how are you that gorgeous? No, it's disgusting.

I'm just like, God really has favorites. Clearly. And she's just so beautiful, but it's not just her looks, it's her voice. Like I love her voice and the way she carries herself because she's kind of like a tomboy. Yes she is. But she's just like a really-

She's a dors. Oh, is she? Yeah, she's like a really hot fucking tomboy. Yeah, I feel like she's just not one of those like fairy ditzy little like charactersacters she is so confidently like grounded. Yeah stallion. Yeah stallion. What a good word Yeah, that's a great word to describe her I love her But yeah

So the ACM Awards came and went and I feel like they didn't get as much pop as they normally do but I think it's because They're not Doing anything different. It's the same thing every year. And I think people are tired of seeing it. I will say the Miranda, Reba and Laney performance all had me in full body chills. I got really emotional watching that. Like I did cry during the Alan Jackson one, too. Oh, my God. And we were sitting next to Alan Jackson and his wife.

So Alan Jackson is on stage, right? And he's talking about how somebody came up to him and told him that they named their dog after him. And I was like, I turned to his wife and I was like, it's me. I said, I named, it wasn't me, but I just took that moment to say that. I said, I named my dog after him.

And she's like, I can't wait to tell him. She was so sweet. So sweet. So sweet. Like, oh my gosh. And apparently Alan Jackson's like super, super shy. I didn't know that. He's so adorable. He's very, very shy.

And like, isn't he? He's so sweet. His son performed too. And that was the highlight of my night. Yeah. Who was his son? Zach Top. Oh. Is that his son? No. Oh, okay. It's a conspiracy.

Oh, gotcha. That it's his son. I was like, what the fuck? You ever heard about that? No. Like he had a, he had a conspiracy. Oh, gotcha. I was like, what the fuck? You haven't heard about that? No. Like he had a show. I'm not on Zach Top TikTok, like you guys are. Zach, come on the podcast. Zach, I saw you backstage.

Didn't want to interrupt you, but. I was forcing her to interrupt. Zach, next time you see my crew, will you please talk to them so they can wring their panties out? Cause it's a lot. I had to put like caution wet signage. She even plays

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Let's talk about it. Let's go ahead and talk about it. What are they saying now? They're like, she's not really with him. That was a fake kiss. This is fake love. Ew, can you believe the way she kissed him? Let's have a conversation.

When you are on a red carpet, you literally have 300 cameras pointing at you at one moment. If I lingered on his lips longer than 10 seconds, you guys would be like, oh, she's still a whore. You know, it would- It would- Stop making out.

Stop, get a room. This is disgusting. This is a family award show. You don't have lip gloss on. I have lip gloss on. I have an entire face. My husband has to continue taking pictures after that kiss. So does he want a fricking lip liner

and gloss all over his face? No. What other couple do you see on the carpet kissing? Kissing, nobody. There are no other couples that kiss on the carpet. And every time we walk up, which Jason insert a clip here, you will hear the photographers ask Jay and I to kiss.

One more kiss, Daly, one more kiss. Honey, open that truck. Open. They don't do that with any other couple. And I don't mind. I love our photographers that are our friends like Taylor Hill, John Shearer. There's a couple other ones that we love to death.

And they always get the great picture. And so if they want us to kiss, we'll kiss. And I don't mind kissing my husband, but I'm not gonna fucking lock lips with them. Same thing on stage. People had a problem with how I was kissing them on stage. First it was, I was kissing him too much. Then it was, oh, she doesn't like him.

She doesn't even wanna kiss him. And it's like, bro, we're in front, as the brand has grown, we're in front of children. We're in front of like families, people. My husband's singing hard fought, hallelujah. You want me to fucking lick his balls right there on stage? Like, what do you want me to do? It's just crazy to me.

It's like, leave me the fuck alone. And then my favorite thing in the comments was people are like, oh, he's lost the weight, but she's picked up the weight he's lost. First of all, two days before that insert pictures here and here two days before that, you guys were just talking. I literally had news articles being written about how great my body looked from losing the IVF weight,

which I've been working really hard on for the past seven weeks. And I'm taking fucking large amounts of hormones to produce eggs, but I'm still working out. You guys are writing news articles about how great my body looked. And then two days later calling me fat because of angles that men, I'm sorry,

I love all the photographers on the red carpet, but they're men that are shooting a woman's body and any woman that has curves is going to look boxy or it's just not gonna look right on the carpet because of the angles, the lighting, all of that. Name a single person who looks flawless at every single angle. Kelsey Ballerini.

Literally, Kelsey Ballerini. She could fucking wear a potato sack and she looks like a freaking- Besides Kelsey ballerini. She could fucking wear a potato sack and she looks like a freaking- Besides Kelsey ballerini. I know, I know. But literally red carpets are very tough. Megan Maroney. You have no control over lighting either

because like they're adding weird shadows that aren't even there. I could take the same photo standing two feet away from another photographer and you look completely different. Yeah, no, it's crazy. If you laugh, a double chin comes in. If you freaking have the slimer trauma. You literally get why the Kardashians walk down like this. Yeah. Yeah. They don't even move. They don't move. It's crazy. I fucking hate red carpets.

They give me the worst anxiety. I loathe them, but I go because it's moments in time that I want to capture with my husband. So, you know, you should pull a Gaga one day and just like come fully covered. I'm just going to put a box over my head next time. Literally. Just a marshmallow. Yeah. I'll just show up with like a fucking, just a weird fucking helmet on. Yeah, I get it. Nobody can say anything. Wear like a corset.

Suck in me in like Kim Kardashian does with the corsets and shit. A mold of crunch. Ah, a crunch head. It's even got his horns and shit. I'm just nudging people on the red carpet. Yeah. So, I mean, you guys need to be kind

because you never know what people are going through. Yeah, because you don't comment on people's bodies. You literally can't. Fucking ass off for this. Like, you have dropped every bit of weight, right? So I've dropped. So the thing is, is I've dropped, I haven't dropped below what I I'm still at 161. But when I and when I first started the IVF, I was 159. But the thing is, is my body's recomping. So it's moving

stuff around, and I'm gaining more muscle, because I'm not trying to lose weight, I'm trying to put on muscle to lose weight. But now I'm going into my fricking second agar retrieval. So I'm gonna have to be taking a bunch of hormones. And when I tell you this IVF process has been a journey, it is definitely not a destination right now. We are going through the motions. And I never thought that the journey was gonna be easy,

but I didn't think it was gonna be this hard either. Cause normally anything I want, I get immediately. And I've never really had to like, that sounds horrible saying I've never really had to work for anything cause I've worked my ass off, but I make it look effortless. And whereas this is very emotional, I don't do a lot of things that are emotional.

And this- This is also unpredictable. IVF journey is emotional, it's unpredictable. And I promised myself when I started this, if I had to do a second retrieval, I would do it, but this is it. This is all I'm gonna do. And yes, we got eggs before on the first retrieval,

but we're gonna do another one just to broaden our chances. Even though I really don't want to, I kind of just want to use the eggs that we have right now. But you know, it is what it is. It's a journey and we're, we're on it. That leads into one of the questions that one of your Patreons asked. They wanted to know if your book is going to be covering the journey of IVF and if you're going to make this an audiobook and if so, who's going to be reading the audiobook? Yeah, I think we've answered this before, not the IVF journey part, but yes, we're going to have an audio book and I'm going to be doing the audiobook. And the book comes out to 26. That is a first year date, February of 2026, and we will be doing a book tour.

And yes, it's gonna be covering the IVF journey all the way up to whatever surprises we may have for you by then. And then the, you know, we have another book, it can go across more in depth, but no, it's not gonna be centered around IVF or anything like that, but it's gonna touch on it. Yeah, I filmed the first egg retrieval, like every day.

The second egg retrieval, I think I'm gonna be a little bit looser with and just kind of like, you know, I'll talk about it in a book or something like that. And maybe, like I said, I'll make a YouTube video after the baby's been here for like a year of the journey and stuff like that, but just know we're on it. It's hard and, you know, we're not giving up yet.

Yeah. Well, if you guys don't want to talk about anything else, I'm ready to get home to my fucking cow. Yeah. Toodle fucking oob bitches.