The Bobby Bones Show - (Wed Early Bird) Jon Brennan Is In Studio & Recalls Being One Of The First Reality TV Show Stars, Why He's Getting Back Intro Country Music & More! + Lunchbox & Eddie Open Up Big Item in Pallet! + Mailbag: Hangover Special Treatment

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How's everybody doing? Good. Everybody feeling good, yeah, feeling prime. Why? What's up? Well, you got some bad news or what? I got to share some stuff with you.

It looks like today we got to not do our 5A segment because we got to get guests coming in. Lunchbox, you're in luck. John Brennan's coming in in in a few minutes. Whoa, let's go. Hey, just go to commercial. No. 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 15 minutes. Okay? We're going to do the mailbag.

Let's do this now. Let's go. You send an email and we read it all the air. It's something we call Bobby's mail bag. Yeah. Hello, Bobby Bones. 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.

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 a hangover I would just act like I had flu symptoms

Oh there's no chance But we know It's not the same Okay see I don't know We know you went out the night before So all of a sudden flu didn't just kick in Got it got it got it Okay so I'm gonna check out of this one

Because obviously I don't know what I'm talking about But I would just act like I had COVID or flu or something Or diarrhea for a long time And they did not come out But that's me Amy what would you do here 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 hangover, 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 a, if she had a virus or something, you know. If five is taking care of somebody on their deathbed and one is, okay, just throw some cold medicine out of you.

Where do you put it? For hangover? Like for a, to take care of somebody with a hangover, you're up. Yeah, 2.5. You still care. You still help. but you don't have to go all out. Eddie.

Guys, a hangover is still sickness, man. 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. So what would you advise him? I say take care of her, dude. Hand and foot. Absolutely. She's sick. Okay, it is, what, alcohol poisoning or whatever,

hangover, but she's still poisoning. She's still sick. I mean, I guess did she deserve to tie one on? Okay, well, what if, okay. Yeah, true. And also, what if you get food poisoning? And you're like, well, if you eat sushi, you know, there's... No, no, no, no, no.

Okay, that's an accident. She's gone out there, lunchbox? Look, my wife, a couple months ago, we went to a party and she was on the bathroom floor all night long. Did I take care of her? Absolutely not. I was tired. I needed to go to bed. So, she laid on the bathroom floor.

She was puking, and I just went in and I was like, hey, you okay? Yeah, I'm just going to lay here for a minute. All right, good. You decided to lay there, I'm going to go to bed. In the morning, I woke up, and she stayed in bed until like 11. She came out of the bedroom. It's like, no, got to go back in. Didn't see her until 2 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 lock her in the bedroom. You go do your thing. And when she's ready to come out, she can come out.

Locker in the bedroom? Yes. You just leave her in the bedroom. A lever's different than locker, if I'm being honest. Yeah, yeah. You don't have to take. You don't have to take care of her, but you just leave her alone and don't bother her. Maybe cover for her even.

Yeah, cover for her. Because you had a hangover too, not you, but just generally. You want somebody to cover for you, but you don't have to wait hand and foot. Right. And then, you know, so then she comes out around 2 o'clock and, you know, she's like, I'm alive. I think we've officially not helped him because everybody said something to do it. Well, as the impartial person who doesn't even know what a hangover feels like, I'm going to 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 lunchbox. Probably. Yeah. So I'm going to go. Locker in a room. You can cover fur, but you don't have to weigh hand and foot and it shouldn't take you all. 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 going to get sicker and you know when it's done. There's a shelf life of food poisoning.

Yeah, but if she likes to have a favorite food, you can order that and go pick it up. You can be kind, but you don't want to weigh hand in. Yeah, you don't have to go out of your way to do extra special things. Like get flowers. Oh, I'm sorry. You're feeling bad. Flowers. But she needs Gatorade, get her some Gatorade. If it's not bothersome to your schedule. Right.

We got your email and we let it on the air. Now it's found to close. Bobby's nail that. 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 OGs, 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 Uber. He's got a regular job as he still tries to do it. But he's like a reality show kind of hurt me more than it did anything. So we're going to talk to him about that.

One of Lunchbox's heroes comes in next. John Brennan here, Bobby Bone's show. It's a Bobby Bones show interview. In case you didn't know. His name's John Brennan. Lunchbox, would you like to set up John Brennan? He's walking in. Oh, man. Real World. Los Angeles.

I mean, it used to be called California. Second season of Real World ever. I mean, this is huge. He was the cowboy on the upper. the show. I mean... And why is he in here today? Because there was a story about him in People magazine

because when you're on the real world, people want to know what's going on with you, even though it's been 30 years. Yeah, and he lives here. He lives here. And he was still was trying to have a career in country music. Yeah. And he's... I mean, we reached out to him. We're like, dude, you've got to get up here. He doesn't know the story at all. He drives

Uber. No, I know that. And he's trying to like stay afloat as he tries to build this career. Yeah, man. Yeah. We're here to talk about real world. No, we're doing. We're going to do both. And we played some of his song last week. But mostly you want real world?

Yeah. Okay. This is so cool. He's so excited. He doesn't care about a single guest. No, not a single one. I mean, his laptop's closed. Right.

John Brennan is here. All right, let's go. On the Bobby Bones show now. John Brennan. 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. Have a seat over here.

Right there. The microphone right there's good for you. Good to meet you, my friend. Hey, John. Good to see you. Hi, Amy. I think this will be... Yeah.

Lunchbox cares because he is such a massive fan of real world. Yeah. This is crazy. Biggest fan ever. Yeah. Lunchbox, do you recognize John? Yeah. John, your microphone's right there, buddy.

Let me tell you, John's bigger than I thought. Like taller? Yeah. Like, I mean, it's been a while... You know, Real World was a long time ago. You can have to see, John, yeah. And he was young. He was like 18 on the show.

So... How old were you? 10 or 11, 12, maybe? Mm-hmm. So, I mean, I didn't realize how big. I mean, he's a big dude. Yeah. He's always, you always been tall, huh, John?

I've grown a lot. As an adult. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've grown a lot in the last, you know, many years. But when I was on the show, I was about three, three inches shorter. And he's got a cowboy hat on. That's probably a big part of it, too. No, no.

Dude. What? Did you never watch the show? I've never seen, I mean, no. Oh, I used to love it. I mean, I wasn't as obsessed as once. That was his thing, man. Got it.

He looks the same. No, he looks the same. Much the same, yes. Thank you for saying that. Yeah. Okay, lunchbox, what's your first question? Because I have stuff too. Was real world everything I think it was?

Like, was it the most amazing experience? It was amazing. It was amazing. Now, you got to remember, we were first. I'm the eighth reality star. Wait, that's the first season ever. You were on the first season ever? No, first show ever.

I was on season two. Season two. Wow, that's still early. But 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 when they were going out with cameras. Towards the end, people, people would go looking for the cameras and try to start stuff.

This was like groundbreaking, started reality TV. Yeah. And so why'd you do it? So I was a student at Belmont University and they did 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. That's the tagline. That's the opening.

So awesome. And so they said, you know what, we're going to do this again in Los Angeles, 1992. Did you watch season? one? No, I didn't. Got it. I didn't. I was doing, you know, Garth Brooks, Allen Jackson, Brooks, and Dunn were 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 going to live in this house. We're going to tape. It's going to 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 going to work. And so, you know, here we are 30 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 Nashville and work on country music. Were you playing music? Yeah, I was doing country music. Got it. That'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. Why did you end up saying yes? What was the fact? What made you go? 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 can already know you and then they're going to 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. And so you moved to L.A.? What was that like for you? Yeah, I mean, L.A. 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. They already had a narrative before you even 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 what's crazy. And they, like, you have people from all different backgrounds so, you know, they fight and it was just like, oh man, it's so intense.

How much did you make a lot of money? Back then, back then we made $200 a week. I lived there for 22 weeks. They paid us less than $5,000 for 22 episodes. Wow. Which aired for 10 years. Oh, wow. He is convinced if you just do a season

of that show, you end up famous and set. No, no, that was my thought. When I growing up, I used to watch it and think I'm going to be on that show and my life, I'm going to become super famous. Right. Well, you would be super famous. 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. Thank you very much, John. I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm the Kardashians of the 90s. So that show, you come off of it. Did you have success in country music immediately? Was there a base of folks that followed you to music immediately after? 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 big, huge star. And by the way, the guy from the real world on MTV is opening for it. And so, and then I played a lot of shows by myself. All of the 90s, 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 a Winona Judd'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 90s, if your name was Tracy, you got a record deal. And so anyway, I can't really listen to Honky Tonk, but don't getonk 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. So you're playing all these shows. do you start to feel the real world stuff kind of fade off after a while? It took a long time, you know, because there's 40 seasons of the real world now. Man, it's so awesome. There was only two. And so while 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. Could you do, like, appearances like that? Yeah. To go do some, get a couple bucks to do it somewhere. Yeah, we went to a lot of colleges and, you know, a couple guys from the real world are here. And so it would be a campus event. What would they present you as on the show?

How so? I don't know. Because these reality shows have a narrative they want in their mind already. Yeah. How did they make you look? And did you feel like it was completely authentic to who you were? He was the sheltered kid, didn't drink, didn't hook up. Right.

But is that true? Was that true? Yeah. That is true. But, well, I mean, I don't know how sheltered I was, but that was definitely the narrative. This is the story. I mean, I was the main character of our season. It was how is John going to respond to Los Angeles?

Yeah, I guess did you watch it and go, oh, they kind of tricked me with how they edit. and how they, what they, the scenarios they put me in. My roommates felt that way about themselves. I didn't. I mean, I was the, I was the aspiring country singer from Kentucky. So I wore my hat all the time. And, you know, I, too, I really was. Yeah, I mean, especially in Los Angeles, you know,

how many country singers wearing a cowboy hat are walking around L.A. with an MTV camera following them. Did you sing on the show? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I met Ronnie Dunn back in the 90s. He's like, you sing my song on MTV. I said, yes, I did.

Yes, I did. And I haven't gotten any kudos from that. Yeah. So you are touring hardcore. Are you wondering at some point, like, what's, is this ever going to work? Because it doesn't work for a lot. Most people it doesn't work for. Well, 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. It's why I got put on the show. And they couldn't make that leap. They only were seeing you as a reality person,

not for what you really were. And they didn't even know what a reality person was. Not only that, I guess MTV, because, like, the music is totally different than country. But now if you're on a reality show and you come to Nashville, hey, let's capitalize on that and let's start selling records. You think it was held against you for a long time? I think it was, I don't know held against me.

It was confused. They didn't know what to do with me. What would you tell them to do with you? 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, what do they look like? Well, what do they like? I'm the kid next door.

I mean, people all the time stop 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. Do you feel like that you became resentful of the industry because they couldn't make that transition from reality guy to country star? Did you feel like you were good enough? Oh, yeah. I mean, I sing 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 singer. And there was no social media to learn more about them, I guess, too, at that time. This was crazy. Nothing even close. You never knew what happened to these people afterwards because there wasn't Wikipedia. There wasn't, oh, look at my Instagram.

And so I would sit there and like, man, whatever happened to Beth? You know what I mean? And then, oh, the challenge is coming. Oh, Road Rules versus Real World. And Beth's on it. He did a couple of them. So the back story 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 Bones show. Oh, yeah. So I started tweeting you, and I'm like, Lunchbox, follow me back. Wait, you didn't, he's on the real world and you didn't follow him back? Well, yeah. I mean, I must have, look, I didn't know it was him. No, no, I don't check my Twitter a lot.

Yeah. Well, I'm on Instagram's my big. Bobby, you don't follow me back either, but. I don't, yeah. I didn't know who you were if I'm being honest. because I don't watch the show. I talk about it all the time. It's the biggest part of culture.

I saw like a little bit of New Orleans or something. Oh, that was a good one. Through the bunny in the river or something. Yeah, that was Seattle. That was Seattle. David, yeah. Yeah. So I know you all about it, man.

Wow, lunchbox. You are, you are at real world trivia. Dude, I love the real world. I loved it. Wow. The reason I know who you are is because I was reading the story. And I don't remember if it was a new story or if it was you talking about it. And you were like,

I think being on the real world. world hurt me a little bit. I've 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 has a dream. And at times, yeah, stuff sucks. And you've got to figure out ways to make it happen while it's not happening. What was that story? Well, I mean, if the real world, if I was on the real world today, I mean, it's, no, I mean, what was that story I read? Oh, you probably reading People Magazine. Last week, People Magazine did, what is John doing now? And I think that was a, you know, a story that you guys came across. That's 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 TV that your life is just set after that. And you were explaining that's not necessarily the case. Yeah. Well, nowadays, they get paid a lot of money. All that money that Mike the situation and Snooki made, that's my money. I should be having that. Let's do them. Let's write it all about it.

No. Have they ever reached out to you or have 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 started the challenge. I was on.

I get that. I was on. 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 and a Winnebago. And those were the first two episodes of our real world season. in 1993 and they went wow those episodes were incredible we're going to do a whole spin-off season called road rules awesome and so that was in the winnebago and then some years later

they had the real world versus road rules and they would compete together and that has the real world versus road rules challenge i was on the first challenge and verno two and that yeah that was number 10 i was on one five and ten you're cracking me up lunchbox 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 sucks 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 Grando Lopry. And you finally got to do that.

I did get to do that. Let's talk about it a second. Okay, let's reset this for a second. We're going to come back. John Brennan's here, who you may know John, as Launchbox does. From real world, California, later renamed Los Angeles. Wow.

It wasn't even the real, it wasn't Los Angeles. Well, because then they had San Francisco, they had L.A. So they had to rename it. Got it. 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. So we'll come back. What's up, everyone?

I'm Ego Wadam. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Ferrell. Woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day and I was like And dad I think I want to really give this a shot

I don't know what that means But I just know the groundlings I'm working my way up through And I know it's a place they come Look for up and coming talent He said if it was based solely on talent I wouldn't worry about you Which is really sweet

Yeah He goes but there's so much luck involved And he's like just give it a shot He goes but if you ever reach a point Where you're banging your head Against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore It's okay to quit If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.

It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. A win is a win. A win is a win.

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And for more, follow Timbo Slica Life 12 and TikTok podcast network on TikTok. On the Bobby Bone Show now, John Brennan. How do you feel about the real world now? Well, you know, the popularity of reality TV has grown so much that people get cast on a reality show. They don't act with a lot of integrity. Now it's like, oh, I'm going to ham it up because I'm famous. So I watch reality TV. I'm like, man, you're a poser.

You're not really being true. Do you have any resentment toward the real world itself? No, I mean, the real world gave me a platform. I wouldn't be here on the Bobby Bone Show today without, you know, the real world. I'd just be another singer in Nashville. Do you get tired of talking about it? 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, hey, 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 embrace it. Do you like him? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And it was cool to, like, you think that the, the, The narrative that they had is this small town kid.

You know what I mean? He's being exposed to everything. You're like, wow, that is, and he was only, he was 18. So everybody else can go out to the bars and it's like him. He's like, ah, I can't really. And he didn't drink it. But he didn't drink anyway. What did your parents think at 18 when you're going to?

That's what I was going to say. Yeah. So I'm like, hey, mom and dad, you know that really expensive school in Nashville that you got alone 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 cable. You know what they said?

Go make a great opportunity. Oh, that's cool. Did they watch it? Oh, my mom has the VHS tapes. All of them still. Did they like how you were portrayed? Yeah, they did. And so you finished the show, you come back, you're touring.

How about a record deal? Did you sign a record deal? Signed a record deal. With capital records. So a big label? A big label. And what did you think was going to happen when you signed with capital records? So at this time, the judge's 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 a major record label. I thought I was going to be the next big thing. Did you have any hits?

I recorded some songs. But, like, that made it at radio? No, we never released a radio. You never released a singled radio? 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 going to,

we're going to free you up to go and every label in town's going to 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. And you were in the ministry for a long time. Yeah, 20 years. And did you do music the whole time? Like, was that your thing? 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. Did you do Some at morning

When this life is o'er Fly away I always like to always spell Or like oh, apostrophe ER Or, yeah I actually sing that song In a church in Nashville last week So he does know that one

It's a little something I know 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 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. What brought you back?

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, long story, short. We moved back in the same house for three weeks. Did you see that? I watched a little bit of it. Didn't catch all of it. What you're Mr. Diehard? What happened? Luntbox. He became a dad or something. That's the problem.

I don't have as much free time. Yes, you do. You take four hour naps. But anyway. Was it As hard as when you're older? I have more music questions real quick. I'll come back to you. Hold on one second. But we just, you just I'll get a question here. So you're doing that

and then do you move back to Nashville after that? So I moved back to Nashville. I kept coming in and out and, you know, was kind of not fully 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 weren't watching the show. And so, you know, I just said, you know what? It's on you, man. Go record some songs and just get back to Nashville and just say, I'm all in.

One more shot. I mean, I'm all in. This is what I want to do. where I feel comfortable. This is where my goals are. And here I am. You made your Opry debut last year. It was last July. 2020. Right. A year ago. So how did that work out? How did you get the call? So John Conley, Opry member, legend. Rose colored glasses. Yeah, rose colored glasses. Had a number one hit called I'm Only in It for the Love back in 1984. I love the song. Been listening to country music my whole life. And so he's from

Versailles, 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 you like it. He's dying to sing this on the opera with you. And he goes, well, this was a Tuesday. He goes, well, you tell them to come on Friday. And so Friday night, he called me out and said, uh, uh, 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 they, and John Connolly goes, John, won't you tell him who you are? And I said, okay, well, before there was Survivor and the Kardashians, there was me on MTV's The Real World. And you could just hear it across the Grand Ole Opry 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. Did you feel good? Oh, yeah. I mean, I told John Connolly 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 and I'll put your microphone stand there in a circle and you just sing there. That's awesome. And I was like, are you kidding me? How was that? 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 Connolly.

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 every singer's dream, right? We played a clip in 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 this? So tell me about the song. What's the message of the song? I mean, I think I know it, but I'd like to hear from you. Well, first of all, I co-wrote this song, and it's a true story about my parents. And then, you know, I'm known for my little text,

bag from the real world. Do you know what? Oh, boy. Come on now. I don't know what a tag. Oh, you know what a tag is. This is the true story. Of seven strangers picked to live in a house.

But when they asked me to do that on the real world, they said, John, sing that in your most Dwight Yolkham 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 and say true story. say true story. So I wrote this song called True Story, but it has nothing to do with the real world show.

It's a true story about my life and my parents, but I thought, you know what? That'd be a little snarky to put True Story as my song. And 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. That's super cool. We host a national countdown show

that's played in like a few hundred cities, and we're actually going to feature that song. And it's... Let's go! Let's go! I'm what I'm talking about! Lynchbox, can you be my hype man? Exactly. It scared me, actually.

Yeah. 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. I'm so honored. And play it nationally. Man, thank you. Yeah, it's really awesome.

And love that you're still going, right? Like, 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. Yeah. And that's also a win.

I love it. I mean, there's so many cool things that happen because of this. Like, I drive Uber. So I'm driving past Zanis last night yesterday afternoon with some passengers, and I see a friend of my name on the marquee. So Theo Vaughn is, you know. Oh, yeah, he's good road rules. Yeah, he started on road rules.

That's right. He started on road. Wait, you know road rules, but you don't know the real rules? No, I know Theo. I saw him at a restaurant. But I only know I'm from TikTok. 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 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 I met Garth Brooks for the second time, he remember. He goes, we've met before. That's a good impression. I'm like, yeah.

That's a good impression. Hey, John, hey, you know, I'm like, hey, Garth. And he's like, 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 checkmark text me. And he and similar to what Lunchbox just said, are you going to be on these reunions? Are you going to be on All-Stars? And I'm like, Shooter's Waylon sign.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so. And a Grammy award winning producer. So I immediately message him back. I said, is this Shooter Jennings? Because I need you to know something.

and I only sung 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, look 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 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's guitar. So I'm playing whaling's guitar on MTV. That's rock star right there. That's crazy. Lunchbox, what would you like to ask? I would give you a few more minutes.

Yeah, I got a couple more questions. I'll give you two more questions. Oh, man, that's not enough. Three, you got three. Okay, it may be a run on question. Go ahead. So at the end of every season, you see them like, oh, the cab's here. Oh, who's this cab for?

And they take them to the airport, you know, to fly away. Do you guys really go to the airport? Because I've always like, man, that's so sad. You go to the airport after having this so much fun? The cab drives away, and then you guys get together and do press. Well, 30 years ago, the very last scene of my 22 episode season was me walking through the airport in Los Angeles towards a sign that says to Nashville. John's going to Nashville. And then credits roll and 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 to turn this way and now say this to lunchbox. And I'm like, that's not real. That's not what we did back in the day.

So, you know, everything's changed. Go ahead, 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? 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. Final question, lunchbox. 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. Exactly what happened. I mean, we talked once a year on the phone.

There was no texting. It took Facebook. When Facebook came out, we all kind of reconnected. Who are you closest to that? That's three. You can have one. Let me roll this into it.

I want to say maybe Beth, because I wanted to talk about his podcast. You and Beth have a podcast. Yeah, that's great segue. Yeah. See, I know what you got going there. I knew that. What's it called? Yeah, exactly.

It's called Getting Real with John and Beth. And 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 talk, because Beth's a music lover and I'm a musician.

And we're actually going to have Shooter on pretty soon. and 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, lunchbox. I'm going to check it out. Do you know how to download a podcast? Yeah, you go to the IHeart Radio 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 you do it via Zoom? Via Zoom. She's in Los Angeles.

Still, man, she's crushing it. Beth, 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 she's like, I'm back. And she said the B word. Yeah.

She did. Well, look, everybody out there is so cool, man. Like, this is so cool. You can follow John at John Brennan underscore com. Like dot com. Like dot com. Yeah. John Brennan, B-R-E-N-N-A-N-U-N-Ur.

We're going to play True Story on the National Countdown this weekend, which is going to be super cool. Thank you. For us and for you. Our biggest interview, yeah. Lunchbox, you're exactly right. This is the biggest interview. It is.

Well, he was going to say of the year, and then he changed it to yet, like mid-bredd. Biggest interview. I mean, we've had a couple teen moms on here, but this. John, we really appreciate you. I'm flattered and honored. 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, was Bobby Bones played your song and was talking about you in 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 it says text in. So I'm texting in. 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. That's awesome. Ah, Scoop Steve, man.

I'm under who hit him up. Was it David? Was it Beth? I mean, I'm just people from the real world. No, it was. It was his cousin, dude. Yeah, everybody in Kentucky and Alabama. John, really great to meet you.

Thank you so much. Yeah, awesome. Final words, lunchbox. Man, it is just awesome. One of my dreams was to be on real world. Real world doesn't happen anymore. But, I mean, it's cool to live through you. Man, let's be friends.

Let's hang out. And my next big dream is for you to be saying, and now here's John Brennan on the Grand Ole Opry. That would be a good... I would love to go back. That would be a good one. I mean, I can say it, but you won't be there. I mean, I can say it right now, but yes, I hear what you're saying.

John Brennan, there is. go follow and we'll put the link up to a stuff on our website too. Thank you, John Brin. Thank you so much. It's time for the good news. With producer Eddie. Tell me something good. 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? Little Preston's in the back. He's doing magic tricks, trying to hide a quarter. He puts a quarter in his mouth, right? Runs up. Preston, what's wrong?

Raquel thinks, oh my gosh, Preston's going to throw up. So she pulls the bus over, opens the door. He compressing goes out. He's like, no, don't throw it off. I'm choking. So she realizes. He was hiding a quarter in his mouth. The first thing about magic is don't put anything in any holes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. First rule of magic, don't put any of that stuff in holes. Okay, go ahead. So the bus driver's like, oh my gosh, he's choking. So she starts doing the hymlich, oh, oh, oh, spits the quarter out, saves the boy. Nice. Yeah, nice. That choking.

When you can't breathe and you're choking, it is the most helpless. feeling. Oh, asked Mike D, man. We were sitting in the car. Oh, and you saved his life? He was choking. For like three seconds. I went into action and I hit him as hard as I could on his back three times and the food. What was the food? Mine's always a chip. I'm like, hey, I'm going to die from a chip. It was a wrap.

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 lunchbox and ordered four entrees. It was like three. It was like three. I think it was that the day I ordered avocado toast and no avocado. Accidentally hit the no avocado button and literally have a piece of toast. Different day. Yeah, different day. Same place.

I said, Amy, here, I'm going to get lunch if you guys want anything. And she goes, yeah, I'm going to get some avocado toast. And it shows up. And I get the toast. And I'm like, what is this? I'm like, did someone order just toast? It's like literally the most expensive piece of toast. Yeah. Because they still charge you for the avocado. They still charge me for the avocado and removing it. Avocado toast, please. No avocado.

Hold the avocado. Right. Right. Yeah. The kid's safe. He's good. And she's a hero. Always keep your avocado on the avocado toast. or just order toast. That was great. I was like, she goes, no, there's no way.

Then she looked at her phone, or we looked at it, and it said minus avocado. Yeah. All right. Thank you. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. 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 pole. They were doing it on a street sign at first, and the skeleton was pole dancing. with other skeletons sitting in chairs watching it. It's funny, but I don't want it in my neighborhood. You don't want it your neighborhood. It's not appropriate. I don't want to have to drive by it with my kids and explain anything. 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, its head was down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like acrobat, big stuff. 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, when they have the manger, but it's like that, it's big, it's Halloween. So people are upset, oh, take it down to me.

Thoughts. In your neighborhood, would you like it, Amy? No, but I won't. I'm not going to complain about it. I'll just go another way, maybe. Why couldn't you just tell kids that didn't understand it that it was just climbing on a monkey bar?

Sure. Yeah, I mean, there's ways around it. Like I said, I'm not going to complain, but I'm going to be like, okay, stop being ridiculous. Eddie? I don't think my kids would even know what they're doing. So I'd say, yeah, let's keep it.

That's funny. Lunchbox? 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. I could see my kids going home to being like, Googling, like, you know, person on a pole with people watching. Oh, that's dangerous. But also, and you know, they're putting them in those chairs, like when you go to a game, you unfold. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But it's also, what if. What if they're at like a workout class? Yeah. No one ever thought about that. They do have pole dancing workout classes. Absolutely they do. Okay. They could be at a workout class watching their friend who just rehabilitated from a motorcycle accident.

Oh, a fireman going down a pole. Oh, that's good. But not like that. But actually got flipped upside down. Yeah, not like that. Speaking of bones, listen to this. Four people have been accused of illegally trafficking over a million dollars worth of dinosaur bones. Like real ones?

Where do they get those? Yeah, 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. These are two Utah stories here. A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City and died to the group for their alleged involvement of purchasing and selling more than $1 million worth of resources which included 150,000 pounds of dinosaur bones illegally taken from federal and state lands in southeastern Utah. Sounds like they dug them up themselves. Well, finderskeepers.

Wow. I don't know. That's the case. Let me read on. From 2018 to 2023, they engaged in the purchase transportation and export of dinosaur bones from federal lands. Wow, some of this stuff looks crazy. So if you find dinosaur bones, you can't keep that stuff? That's what I'm saying. Maybe it depends on where you find it. Your land. Well, first of all, they did steal some of this, if not all of it.

But on that, I don't know. But I would think if he found it on your land, you probably get to keep it. That's my, that's my dinosaur bone. But I don't think they found it on their land. But if you find it in a national park, it's the National Park Service. That's it. That's it. They're accused of conspiring to conceal and retain stolen U.S. property knowingly.

They stockpiled these resources for sale at gym and mineral shows in national vendors. And they were showing some. They are now in trouble, obviously. But that's a lot of dinosaur bones. I would think that all those dinosaur bones, too, would be more than a million dollars. 150,000 pounds. Some more than $1 million. Like dinosaur bones, that's so rare.

That should be like. But I don't know that it's all dinosaur bones. I think there's some dinosaur bones. bones and they also say they were paleontological resources. Okay. And so it just rocks too? Or rocks that have fossils, fossil type things?

I only know paleontology because Ross on friends. I just don't understand how, like how do you go to your buddy and like, hey man, I got a great idea. I think we should steal some dinosaur bones and palatology tools. 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? I'm sure someone works in an area where they know the value of it.

They could work in minerals. Yeah. And then all it takes is to go, hey, I know how we can make some money. Okay. I'm in. Yeah. I'm down with money. Never sure.

And then that's from NBC, L.A. 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 this mysterious palette for over 500 bucks. We all put in like $80.

We've been opening stuff. Right now, we have guessed all the stuff we've opened. If we sell it all, the value's worth about $321. But that's if it sells and if somebody does all the work. So we have the guys, they have big boxes now. Dude, that looks awesome. Eddie, just, Ed Lundschmust goes, what is that? And Eddie Lassing goes, I don't know.

Oh, you don't know what it is. But it looks awesome, dude. It's a big and. It looks expensive. Yeah, it's really expensive. Nothing has been expensive. we have. It's all garbage. Hey. Okay, lunchbox, what do you have for us first?

First, we have a A black... Looks like maybe a tent or something? It looks like a tarp, maybe. It's a C-E-M-O-F-E-14-16 feet. C-E-M... Oh, yeah, this is real... Oh, it's like a canopy, baby. Oh, it is. It's a 14-by-16-foot waterproof bass boat cover. Woo! Hey, we got some fishermen out there that need it. All right, new.

60 bucks. It's new. We'll say 25. Okay. Okay. All right. Sell it for 25. Fine, fine.

Okay. Next. Oh. We don't need to open it. It's sealed. Yeah, it's sealed. Do we have any cat lovers out there? Amy is.

Oh, we got a new age pet house. New age pet, outdoor cat shelter. Yes. Natural. Russet. One set. Brand new. Never been open, baby.

Let's go, Mikey. I have an indoor cat, so. Well, maybe he wants to go outside. Get some fresh air. New age, the size is 19 by 25. It's a bunch of centimeters. Okay, it looks here like the price is. 300.

No, 80 bucks. All right. So we'll go, we can get 50% then, 40. All right. Hey, that's good. That's good. Really good. Rarely, well, I say we can get 50% for anything in this thing.

This is a big one. Wait, you want to put it up here so they can see it? Bose, this is crazy because it's got like five boxes in one. Five boxes. One, two, three, four, five, six. boxes in one. Let's pull it out. What do we got?

Sounds like more crap way for toilet. Oh, hey. Toilet seats. Everybody needs toilet seats. Are there six toilet seats? Yeah. What kind, though? BEMIS.

Rings and covers. Made in the USA. Those go for $7 each. Bemis right there. B-E-M-I-S-70 toilet seat. Well, they're 955 count. How many are in there? Six.

Six. They go for $7 each. Okay. Six times seven is 42. We could probably sell them to our company because we need new toilet seats in there. I'd say you'd get $15 to that box. Okay. All right.

There's someone that owns like an apartment complex or a dormitory that needs those. Maybe an old. Oh, big dogs. This is like under the Christmas tree, the big gift, the big gift. Oh, man. Oh, boy. This thing is probably four foot long. Oh, yeah.

A foot and a half wide. Whoa. What's the brand? Hands grow. H-A-N-S-G-R-O-H-E. Don't know what it is. It is awesome looking, though. It's got a box.

It's got some like poles or something. I know we got poles. Is it a sink? Oh, it might be a sink, man. Because one of these options is pretty expensive, one's pretty cheap. Oh, it's probably the expensive one if I know us. Our luck.

Is that a sink? What is that? Definitely a sink. It's a sink. Okay. Oh, it's a shower. It's a shower. It's a shower. Nozzle. Nozzle. Shower. We got a shower. Is it a sink or a shower?

Oh, my God. Hands grow. Rain dance. Oh. Like a shower head. Hold on. Say it again. Rain Dance what? 300. Yeah, Rain Dance 300. We are in the money. Hands grow. We can't find the Rain Dance 3. Is there some of the two?

No, it says 300, man. Okay. Oh, yeah. Mike, do you want to come look? Will you hand that to Mike? Thank you. We're right. Okay, what do you have? Rain Dance, baby. Let's make it rain money. Which one, Mike? Eddie.

This is it. Hey, guys, it's the whole set. Okay. It's the whole set. Brand new. Brand new. It goes for, if you were to get it on eBay. Are you sure? That's it, Mike.

I'm sure. Let's circle back. Oh. Oh, circle back. Who's glad they invested now? Wait, Eddie, we got to put this away, man. Oh, we got something else? You want to keep going?

Yeah. Here, one more, one more. Oh, boy. Don't even open it. Oh, yeah. Item number 8-9-47. We're playing bingo? It is cubicle stack and hang, two-cube organizer,

color white dimensions made in Malaysia. Yeah, but we don't know what that means. Yeah, I don't either. I'm just telling you what it is. It doesn't have a brand name. So that's what we got. Are we running out of stuff in the box, Eddie? No, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no. Okay, it's a cubicle stack and hang. It's a It's a cube organizer So there's two cubicles Stack and hang Two cube organizer

That's what I said And I said it was made in Malaysia Hanging in a bathroom or something maybe Next 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 I mean we could start to throw together Like packages like Everything you need for a bathroom. We got a stuff to build a house. We got a toilet paper the other day, didn't we? Yeah, we did. Okay, let me play this song.

We'll come back and get two answers on those. All right, I've been working with the crew. The hangar thing that we have, it's a closet-made cubicle, two-cube storage unit, shelf organizer. You got made in Malaysia. They're breaking things. That's it. If you were to buy it new, it'd be 20 bucks. We could probably get...

20? 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 going to get new. price for it. The other thing that we couldn't figure out because there was so much in the box was some kind of

shower set. Yeah, it's a rain dancer, shower like. Hands grow. We looked this up. I mean, hands grow sounds like it is European. So if I said 60 bucks, would you feel like that was under or over

selling it? Under. Okay. Because it's listed new as 600. What? But you can't sell it. new. Okay, 300. 300.

We'll put down for 300. Oh, guys, we did it. We hit the big jackpot. Woo! We haven't done anything yet, but that is a good find. Wow.

Oh my goodness. So how does this get returned? I don't understand. Well, they get their money back and it just goes into the return. Millionaires, man. We, I mean. So that is,

the price to buy it new is $630. $0.53. Careful, the bottom's about to fall out of it. We can probably sell it for $300. Oh, my goodness. So total right now, Amy runs over $2. it to look at it. Amy wants to buy it? We'll sell it to Amy right now for how much?

$3.50. $2.2. My total price on what we have. So, $7.37. So right now, if we sold everything, $737. That looks nice, right, Amy? Go to. It's definitely not.

$600. Remember, we have to mail stuff out too. There's a lot of stuff. Yeah, they pay for shipping. We don't handle that. We'll see. Right now, we're at $700. Oh my goodness.

How much do we spend on the whole thing? $500. Okay. 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. It just takes one. Like they said to the Challenge USA, you just have to have one ball in the hopper. Here are your big songs. The number one country song, Jason Aldeen. Here you go. Try that in a small sound.

Number one pop song, Doja Cat, Paint the Town Red. I said what they said. Number one rock song, Blink 182. One more time. I just picture the dude being 60 still singing the same way I know I miss my mom She went to work

How long do I sit in the basement I'm 63 years old I do like that song though I do like Blank 182 That's just that sound You feel like should tap out at some point But I'm glad it doesn't But if it worked for so long

Why change it? Even if you're way older I'm hitting puberty Dude you're 73 Here's Amy's pile of stories. So Bumble and Butterball are working together to help people find Friendsgiving plans. Bumbleball. Okay, that's cool. Yeah, 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 1st that will help connect users for holiday plans. So, like, if you don't have anything to do, maybe you can find a place to go. In theory, I like it. Bumble is probably still 99% of dating app, right? It's one of the safer ones, Morgan, right? Because the woman has to go to the guy or no?

Yeah, it's one of the safer ones, that and hinge. And so with Bumble and the friendship thing, people that get on apps looking for friends, do you feel like they're losers? No, I mean, I did it. I made a friend on there when I first moved to Nashville. Purposefully? Yeah, like I got on the friendship side of. Bumble and we didn't like stay friends

but we went out a few times and like we hung out and it was, it just didn't like work out as being friends long term but it was great to like have somebody when I first moved here. Yeah, I felt like I would have done that and I'm a loser and would have been a loser so I felt like that was for the losers. I could have used that in college like in college when I first got that I'm like I don't know anyone.

That would be cool. Yeah, in college. Like you're an adult if you're 30. I just felt like that had been something I would have been on and it made been made fun of just mercifully by lunchbox. Yeah. Like I'm trying to find friends on Bumble and it would ever just been destroyed. But if it's normal people, then go for it. No, they're not normal people.

If you're online looking for friends, they're not normal people. That's not true. Okay. I think you at one time could say that about people dating on aspect, but that's so normal now. Right. The friendship thing, I think, is where dating used to be, where people are probably doing it, but it's weird. I mean, think about it.

What if you move to a new city and it's a holiday, and you know you're going to a safe space where... You sound like something's bad about to happen. Yeah, you sound like a murder mystery. Yeah. No, I'm going to a new city. Safe space is there. A safe space online.

Colonel mustard has the candle stick. It's a Friendsgiving feature. I definitely am not going to go to somebody's Thanksgiving, though, that I don't know. And I just met on a nap as a friend. How cool, though. I like it. In theory, I like it a lot. Nerd alert.

But I knew that would happen. Yeah, go ahead. 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 sleep quality for a group of athletes. They fell asleep 35% faster and slept 8% longer. Kiwi.

I really have no opinion on kiwi 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. Yeah, sometimes it's just there. It's like sour. It's the green one, right? Yeah, it's like sour a little bit.

Kiwi is amazing. And if you're going to eat it right, you eat the brown stuff on the outside. It's like Kiwi aficionado over here. Yeah. Listen to him. Yes. Yeah, the skin's kind of hairy to me. That bothers me, but I've heard it's nutritious.

And it's an underrated fruit. If you ask me, now I'm going to go get some. Okay. Lunchbox convinced me. So Dolly Parton recorded Recking Ball with Miley Cyrus. It's Miley 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. I remember the first time I heard Wrecking Ball.

It hit me the same way. It did the first time I heard I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston. I was driving, heard that one, and I almost wrecked. And when I heard Reck and Ball, I almost wrecked again. I thought when it started into that course, I thought, it hit me like a wrecking ball. I thought, well, how great can a song be? It's on her new rock record. So cool.

All he can still sing. She's so good. Yeah. And you're like, can't she? And then she goes, eh, yep, she can. Okay.

I'm Amy. That's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. Oh, it's Bobby. Tell me something good. Back in 2013, this family lost their home in Queens, and there was a big fire.

And so they spent the next four or five years moving between friends and relatives' homes. There were six sisters. And so the dad was homeschooling them. and they would live temporarily with people as they were trying to get back on their feet. So that's exactly what happened. These six sisters all got their GEDs.

They received bachelor's degrees, then from State University of New York, and now they're all between 19 to 25. They're either in the master's program or they are nurses already. Wow. 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 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. They got through it and they're going to be better for it.

I love that story. And big shout out to the dad too. David Lawrence. Big shout out to that. That's encouraging to me as a parent, like just to persevere through homework with my kids. Homework, yes. There's some people whose house burns down and there's homework. No, I mean, he still.

making the time to do all of that and commit because sometimes like that's a lot. That's not lost on me at all like he's a hero. Six kids. Yeah. I started thinking like I'm canceling practices because I'm overwhelmed. Right. And he's committed. Their house far down. I know.

I know. I'm just saying like he did it at the worst of times and here I am at the not so worst of times. That was my point. Yeah. I hope that came across right. It did. I'm just giving you a hard time for sure. Thank you. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me,

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