Season 8: Best Of (Part 4)

Bunnie keeps the party going with more of the best moments from Season 8. We get an update from Bailee Ann, Dolly Parton spills on her biggest musical influences, Demps learns to love herself, MGK talks rituals, and plenty more with Miranda Lambert, Melissa Etheridge, Erica Mena and of course, Jelly Roll. Watch Full Episodes & More: www.dumbblondeunrated.com

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:39Bunnie XO?

  Hey guys, I need to ask you a question. I want to know why in the hell are you not on Patreon? I don't think you guys even realize how much content we have on Patreon. Let me break it down for you. We have the Bunny XO Show, we have Meet the D-Fords, we have Popaganda, we have more shows that we're adding. And not to mention, we have the visuals of the podcast. Head over to www.patreon.com backslash dumbblondepodcast and sign up. Bunny XO. She was a Vegas queen. Bunny XO. She changed my life. Dumbblonde Podcast and Bunny XO. Kelly Rose like Bunny XO. Miss Bunny. Bunny XO. Talk to me about Bunny XO. Barney.

• 1:31Bunnie XO?

  Is this thing on?

• 1:32Speaker 03

  People in the comments of the Christmas song are like, this doesn't even sound like you. This sounds like something Beyonce would do. Oh. What a compliment. That's a bit of a... They're like, you've totally switched. And the OGs are like, this sounds like every Christmas song she's ever done. You have such that new wave that people don't know what to take. Because like, there are people who are in the comments like, is she trying to be a singer now? You're like, no, we just make dirty Christmas. You tried to describe, oh, you were trying to describe your dirty Christmas song to Dolly? What'd I say? You said... Oh my God, how'd you say? It was like you were trying not to call it a dirty Christmas song. So you're using every word. What did you say? Campy. But, yes, campy. Yeah.

• 2:18Speaker 03

  You said something and...

• 2:22Speaker 04

  I can't remember what you said.

• 2:23Bunnie XO?

  We gotta talk about this on the podcast. We're just wasting all this great material because we're not getting started. Ready?

• 2:30Speaker 04

  We're ready.

• 2:31Bunnie XO?

  Okay. Oh, hello. Hi.

• 2:39Bunnie XO?

  Did you find the video? Alright, let's go. Let's, here's pork chop, the heavily seasoned pork chop.

• 2:44Speaker 04

  Stop.

• 2:48Speaker 04

  Stop it.

• 2:49Bunnie XO?

  It is so good.

• 2:55Speaker 03

  It won't go.

• 2:55Speaker 04

  It's even better with no music.

• 2:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, I love it.

• 2:58Bunnie XO?

  I love it too.

• 2:58Speaker 03

  It's like the squeaky shoes.

• 2:59Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 3:00Bunnie XO?

  Oh my gosh, if they don't put that to the squeaky shoes.

• 3:06Bunnie XO?

  Stop.

• 3:08Speaker 04

  And not know you could do this.

• 3:09Speaker 03

  I'm so proud of him.

• 3:10Bunnie XO?

  I know, me too. I told you, my butthole was puckered at first. I was like, oh god, oh god, Cody.

• 3:15Speaker 03

  Don't mess this up, Cody.

• 3:16Bunnie XO?

  And he did good.

• 3:16Speaker 04

  So sad I missed that.

• 3:17Speaker 03

  Great.

• 3:18Bunnie XO?

  No, I'm so proud of him. But yeah, that was Cody doing the seawalk, baby.

• 3:23Speaker 03

  Very good.

• 3:24Bunnie XO?

  Speaking of weight loss, though.

• 3:25Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 3:26Bunnie XO?

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• 3:50Speaker 03

  She uses it religiously.

• 3:51Bunnie XO?

  Religiously.

• 3:52Speaker 04

  Oh, what happened when you didn't have it?

• 3:54Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I freaked out. I felt, it's like you get attached to this little thing, you know? But what it is, is it reads the CO2 levels in your breath. And it tells you your macros for the day. And you can do keto, which is what I'm doing, a form of keto. I'm not going like extreme keto. I'm doing about 80 carbs a day. Um, but you can do keto with like, um, performance enhancement. So you'll get like, you know, a certain percentage of protein. You can do weight loss. You can do maintenance. Like, there's so many different things. And when they started sponsoring the podcast, I was like, I got really curious because I was doing the ads for them and you guys know that I don't like to promote something that I don't do. And I am not getting paid for talking about this right now. I just want you guys to know that.

• 4:36Bunnie XO?

  But I'm so fucking floored by this little creature that I just wanna share it with you guys. And, um, so after I had done the first, um, Add with them. I ordered some or they sent us some.

• 4:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, they had sent you some.

• 4:49Bunnie XO?

  And I started using it and I I'm almost two months in on this thing.

• 4:53Speaker 03

  Oh, she's obsessed with it.

• 4:55Bunnie XO?

  Obsessed. No, everybody.

• 4:57Speaker 03

  They sent you and Jaime then, yeah.

• 5:00Bunnie XO?

  It's, I love it and your macro switch every day, or they stay consistent depending on what you're trying to accomplish. Is I'm eating nineteen hundred to two thousand calories a day and slimming down, like losing inflammation. My blood sugar, I used to wake up in the morning feeling so sick and had to eat immediately. That is not the case anymore. Like this thing is really like working wonders and they have like a support group. I joined the support group on Facebook.

• 5:25Speaker 03

  Part of the Facebook group.

• 5:26Bunnie XO?

  I swear. And it's so fascinating just learning about all of this and like watching how your body works and just seeing like the results and stuff like that. So, I mean, if you guys want to hop on this bandwagon, it's it's.

• 5:38Speaker 03

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• 5:40Bunnie XO?

  We're always comparing our scores.

• 5:41Speaker 03

  Would you blow this morning?

• 5:42Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, like I aim to blow a one or a two in the morning. If I blow a five, I'm fine with it, but I know that I need, I have some work to do or something's going on in my body that's hormonal. Like, I don't know, this thing's just really cool and I wanted to share that with you guys. I, I, we do have a promo code, I think. If you guys want to use it for, to get a percentage off, which is, do you know what it is?

• 6:02Speaker 03

  Pretty sure it's Bunny.

• 6:03Bunnie XO?

  Um, we'll give you guys the promo code, but again, this is not a paid advertisement. I promise you, I would tell you if it was, I genuinely live with this thing in my hand every day. I walk around with it.

• 6:16Speaker 03

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• 6:21Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, you'll get fifteen percent off and I'm telling you, this thing is so fucking worth it. It's a game changer, especially for health freaks like me.

• 6:27Speaker 03

  Let's talk about how you freaked out when it went missing.

• 6:29Bunnie XO?

  Bro, my husband thought it was a vape and stuck it in his backpack, I thought. And it disappeared and he said, when he came home, I had him look through his backpack and he's like, it's not there. So I have another one somewhere around the house.

• 6:45Speaker 03

  Oh, it really is just missing?

• 6:46Bunnie XO?

  It's just missing. I don't know where it went. I might have accidentally thrown it away. I have no idea.

• 6:51Speaker 03

  Counter Nazi. Yeah, counter Nazi, got it.

• 6:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I don't know, but yeah, I, I, for two days, I was literally just like depressed.

• 6:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:59Bunnie XO?

  It's like my little, my little C three P O, my little R two D two.

• 7:03Speaker 03

  It's your own vape. Bunny bait.

• 7:05Bunnie XO?

  I swear, but you're just literally just you breathe in for 10 seconds. You hold it. No, I'm. Yeah, you breathe in for 10 seconds. Hold it for 10 seconds, breathe out and it reads your breath and it tells you.

• 7:16Speaker 03

  Cool, because it's like on that scale. I'll know before I go away whether I lost weight that day by what number I blow. It's crazy. If I'm at a three or four, I don't really do fours and fives very often, but I if I'm in that three to four range, I won't have lost anything. If I'm in the one to two range, I've lost a pound.

• 7:32Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 7:33Speaker 03

  It's crazy. I know. Like, I'll know it before I step on that scale.

• 7:36Bunnie XO?

  I can feel when my body's in fat burn. I will, I'll know I'm in fat burn before I blow. Like, right now, if I were to blow, I bet you I'm in fat burn because I can feel it.

• 7:45Speaker 03

  Give him a blow.

• 7:45Bunnie XO?

  Give it a blow?

• 7:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:46Bunnie XO?

  All right, all right. Today, I got my kid here.

• 7:50Speaker 03

  Me or her?

• 7:52Bunnie XO?

  I know. Which one? Who's who? Which one?

• 7:55Speaker 03

  Million views on that video.

• 7:56Bunnie XO?

  It's crazy. That but what's crazy to me is that, first of all, Bailey, welcome.

• 8:02Speaker 03

  Hi, howdy. Sorry.

• 8:06Bunnie XO?

  What's crazy to me is that people cannot tell you, Haley and Mimi apart.

• 8:12Speaker 03

  It's the craziest thing ever, right?

• 8:13Bunnie XO?

  It's so weird to me. First of all, Mimi is a 30-year-old woman with fucking bright orange hair and black hair and tattoos everywhere. You don't have one fucking tattoo on you. You're 16. You know what I'm saying?

• 8:26Speaker 03

  My favorite comment was they said she's the blank version of me.

• 8:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 8:29Speaker 03

  And I was like, that's so real.

• 8:31Bunnie XO?

  For real, for real. You know who it looks like? You and Gracie look like twins.

• 8:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, you and Gracie now. You both have black hair.

• 8:36Bunnie XO?

  Gracie Taja?

• 8:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 8:37Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 8:38Speaker 03

  Dude.

• 8:38Bunnie XO?

  That was weird.

• 8:39Speaker 03

  Crazy, right?

• 8:40Bunnie XO?

  Crazy.

• 8:40Speaker 03

  No, I saw her yesterday and I looked at her and I was like, oh, my god.

• 8:42Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, you guys are like doppelgangers. There's a couple of times I saw Gracie at the wedding yesterday and I was like. Like, even daddy was like, dude, her and Bailey look so much alike. Like, it was wild. But then, yeah, the Haley, like Haley is just has curly, curly fucking hair. Does not, you guys, none of you guys look alike.

• 9:00Speaker 03

  Curly hair.

• 9:01Bunnie XO?

  Brown curly hair. None of you guys look alike. It's kind of like when people are just like, compare me to other blondes. It's like, oh, you look like Bunny XO. And it's like, we don't even look alike at all. And it's like.

• 9:12Speaker 03

  Literally. They say that he looks like him.

• 9:14Bunnie XO?

  Literally.

• 9:14Speaker 03

  My bad. But yeah, anytime like there's a plus-size dude, they're like, you look like this guy. He's like, what? Because we're both fat?

• 9:22Bunnie XO?

  Bailey. Do you get an allowance?

• 9:27Speaker 04

  I do not. Um, because I, so that, so yes, I do not get an allowance. Period. That's the answer to that question. Period. The context before she fixes her face is I don't really, well, A, I was working, so I, there was no point in an allowance, but B,

• 9:50Speaker 04

  it's like a do something, get something type routine. And I do the bare minimum, if that.

• 9:56Bunnie XO?

  Thank you. Okay. Because we've had, listen, I've tried to work out an allowance with you.

• 10:01Speaker 04

  And that's true. So the, but the answer to that question is no, I don't. And it's via choice.

• 10:05Bunnie XO?

  Okay, perfect. I love that. Good answer, child. I love, I love the accountability.

• 10:11Speaker 04

  To do all of that. Okay. I've got my own stuff going on.

• 10:14Bunnie XO?

  Listen, this kid does not like.

• 10:16Speaker 04

  I am in five college classes as a junior in high school. I'm a little busy, queen. I don't have time.

• 10:21Bunnie XO?

  But you know what I do love is that you will clean up the kitchen without being asked now. And it took years.

• 10:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, I don't want to do it. It's, I mean, it's not a big deal, but it's just.

• 10:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. Like, what does your room look like right now?

• 10:31Speaker 04

  As long as a big deal's not made out of it.

• 10:33Bunnie XO?

  What does your room look like right now?

• 10:34Speaker 04

  That's not a good, that's not, that's not a Q and A question. I'm sorry.

• 10:37Bunnie XO?

  I mean, I want to know.

• 10:39Speaker 04

  It was on the list.

• 10:39Bunnie XO?

  Inquiring minds want to know, how does your room look?

• 10:42Speaker 04

  No comment.

• 10:43Bunnie XO?

  He said, uh.

• 10:44Speaker 04

  Like an unorganized sixteen year olds would.

• 10:46Bunnie XO?

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• 11:31Bunnie XO?

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• 12:18Bunnie XO?

  The top seven foods out there that affect most people, the top seven foods that that whole chapter is written on in there, gluten, dairy, soy, corn, sugar, eggs, and peanuts. Those are the top seven inflammatory foods in the country. They always have been, that's not going to change anytime soon. Who knew rice for you, right? Avocados for me, my body doesn't like avocados. That's crazy. Does not like avocados and does not like cashews. And cashews are my favorite. Oh, I love cashews. And, and anything that's dairy free, because I can't, dairy, eggs, gluten, cashews, avocados. Those are the five big ones for me. Yeah, I don't do dairy, cashews. Last time I ate cashews, I fucking felt like I swallowed glass and had to take Benadryl. I've eaten cashews my whole life. And I ate them one day and it, that was it, game over.

• 13:03Bunnie XO?

  Couldn't eat them again. My heart was racing. Yeah, my body hates cashews. And it is a highly inflammatory nut. Yeah, a lot of people are allergic to cashews. They certainly are, you know? And so peanuts aren't so bad. It's the mold in the peanuts that's the problem, right? It's the aflatoxin. You didn't know that there's mold? No. So the mold in peanuts. Because Mimi eats peanut butter all the time. Mimi, I need you to read that. Which could also contribute to your, your Hashimoto's because it's an inflammatory. Yes, so it is, so polluted peanuts. I have a whole section in here on, on peanuts and, and you know, and it's so good. Peanuts are so good. I love peanut butter. I could eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich right now. Yeah. Sitting here with you. Love it. I don't have a peanut.

• 13:46Bunnie XO?

  sensitivity at all. So I can eat organic peanuts that are not loaded with mold. And so I talk all about it in here, you know, they grow in the ground and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's the same with corn. Corn is the mold problem. Yep. As well, the anthotoxin, right? But Trader Joe's has organic, and as does Costco, organic peanut butter that's Valencia. Peanut butter. Valencia peanut, but Valencia peanuts have less mold in them.

• 14:16Speaker 03

  Okay, I'm gonna go check. I have organic peanut butter at home. I keep it in the fridge.

• 14:19Bunnie XO?

  Valencia. Does it have sugar in it though?

• 14:21Speaker 03

  I gotta, I don't think so, because Jason eats it and he doesn't eat sugar. So it probably shouldn't then if, I don't know.

• 14:27Bunnie XO?

  You gotta be careful because there are some organics that have sugar in it. You have to make sure it says sugar free on it.

• 14:32Speaker 03

  Oh my.

• 14:33Bunnie XO?

  I know, just peanuts. You just need peanuts in it. Yep. You know, and maybe some salt. I taught her that, the least ingredients.

• 14:39Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh, I taught Olivia that recently. She is obsessed with reading ingredients now.

• 14:44Bunnie XO?

  When you read those ingredients, that, you know, if it's got more than two ingredients in it, that's fake food.

• 14:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:51Bunnie XO?

  And you people don't realize it. I mean, they, they, I, I, I just so want to go up to people at the grocery and that are down the frozen food aisle. Oh, yeah. And, and you look at the back of those meals and literally the ingredient list is that long. Yeah. You know, and, and I rat on Chick-fil-A all the time, but I mean, I love, I mean, I think it's great. I mean, it's fun. I think this will be. Fifty-one ingredients in one Chick-fil-A sandwich. This is your time to shine, baby. Twenty twenty-five. It's a new year.

• 15:20Speaker 05

  Fucking right.

• 15:21Bunnie XO?

  You're going into twenty twenty-five. You've got your music that you've been dropping, which by the way, is not bad.

• 15:27Speaker 05

  Is not bad?

• 15:28Bunnie XO?

  It's not bad at all. I was, the first time I heard.

• 15:32Speaker 05

  Not bad.

• 15:33Speaker 03

  No, she said that about me. So you know that's good.

• 15:37Bunnie XO?

  No, no, no.

• 15:37Speaker 03

  You don't suck. I said, oh, thanks.

• 15:39Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. No, like I, when I first heard it, I was like, I was really impressed and I was so proud of you.

• 15:46Speaker 05

  Was it bitch on wine? Because I sent it to Mimi and Haley first.

• 15:50Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 15:50Speaker 05

  I was like, you want to hear something with the little.

• 15:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 15:53Speaker 05

  OG.

• 15:54Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, it's so good. And I'm so proud of you for doing it because you have promoted everybody else's music for years and it's time that you invest in yourself.

• 16:03Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm excited about this new chapter. And I think with all this heartbreak that I've been going through in life experiences, I've been working with other writers and everything and just channel in like putting it through music. Because music is such a big part of me, like promoting it was and all that. And I was like, well, instead of fucking going online and making like a fucking fuck you video, let's make a fuck you song about it, you know?

• 16:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, or even a heartbreak song. Heartbreak songs are always needed.

• 16:33Speaker 05

  I love a heartbreak song.

• 16:34Bunnie XO?

  You know how many motherfuckers we need a, we need a song that we can sit in our car and cry to, you know?

• 16:39Speaker 05

  You just stay tuned, girl. You just stay fucking tuned. But no, I'm excited. I'm just planning-

• 16:44Bunnie XO?

  You've dropped what, like three songs now?

• 16:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, four.

• 16:46Bunnie XO?

  Four. What are the names of them? So people will know about them.

• 16:49Speaker 05

  So if you were a country girl, bitch on wine is my favorite. I made the DJ earlier at brunch, play that for me.

• 16:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 16:57Speaker 05

  I was like, play my song. Um, who's who has to be my absolutely favorite song.

• 17:03Bunnie XO?

  I actually like that one. That one's really cute.

• 17:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, who's who. Um, and then rough cut diamond, which rough cut diamond is speaking a lot to me right now because these flaws are making me flawless. I'm a rough cut diamond.

• 17:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 17:17Speaker 05

  I wasn't mine for you. And it's a shame because I'm a badass fucking person.

• 17:22Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. And you're just working on yourself, baby, and you're getting better. Who's writing these songs? Are you writing?

• 17:27Speaker 05

  Oh, my God. I've had like the pleasure, pleasure for who's who. Um, Kelsey Ballerini absolutely, uh, wrote that. And she commented on one of my videos saying, I always fucking love this song.

• 17:41Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 17:42Speaker 05

  And she said, um, it was like meant for me. And I was like, really? Because when I sing it, I feel like it was meant for me.

• 17:49Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 17:49Speaker 05

  So it's just been like amazing, um, artists like Hardy, Mary Morris, Kelsey Ballerini.

• 17:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 17:55Speaker 05

  But I'm taking a dive into writing my own music.

• 17:58Bunnie XO?

  Good. We just wrapped my Christmas song. We did an original Christmas song.

• 18:03Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, girl.

• 18:03Bunnie XO?

  Oh God, it's so good. I got to write with Jesse Joe Dylan and Alicia Vanderheim, who are all Kelsea Ballerini's writers and Nicolette. I do not know Nicolette's fucking last name, but her name's Pillbox Patty. You guys go listen to her music. She's fucking amazing. But we, we literally started the, the song with just harmony that, that Nicolette came up with. And then Alicia put the guitars and the beat to it. So it's like,

• 18:29Speaker 05

  Isn't it wild?

• 18:31Bunnie XO?

  It's, it's crazy to watch a song come to life like that.

• 18:34Speaker 05

  I love it.

• 18:34Bunnie XO?

  It's a beautiful process.

• 18:36Speaker 05

  And I think it's just like a new passion of mine. Like when I stepped into that booth and to record my first song, I was like, oh my God, no wonder I have friends who do this for a living. This is so much fucking fun.

• 18:48Speaker 03

  What got you to that point though? Like, I know you always like sang on lives and things like that, but like, how did you get to the point of the booth?

• 18:55Speaker 05

  So what, obviously I was a music promoter and I'm still a music promoter. Um, somebody reached out to me and they were like, Dumps, we have these songs and we want you to sing them. Like Jimmy, uh, Robbins, who's an amazing writer, like number one hits. And he had these songs that he co-wrote with Kelsea, Mary Morris, Hardy and all that. And they thought it would just be fun to do a project, just like a simple project. I didn't think it was gonna do anything or anything. And here I am getting booked shows. Y'all buy tickets for my show.

• 19:27Bunnie XO?

  Let's go, baby.

• 19:28Speaker 05

  November 15th.

• 19:29Bunnie XO?

  Oh, we'll be home. We could probably go to it.

• 19:32Speaker 05

  Oh girl, you gotta dress in cognito and come out there.

• 19:36Bunnie XO?

  Oh girl, shit, just bring me on stage. I'll show my titties. I'll only do that for you.

• 19:41Speaker 05

  Oh my God, stop. We'll talk after this. Oh my God, my little heart.

• 19:46Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, it will come. I mean, I don't see why not. Are we filming with CBS that day? 15th and 16th or is it 17th and 18th?

• 19:52Speaker 03

  15th is your hair.

• 19:53Bunnie XO?

  15th is my hair. Okay, we'll figure it out. Yeah, yeah.

• 19:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, call me.

• 19:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I'll have my people call your people.

• 20:00Speaker 05

  Okay, good, good, good.

• 20:00Bunnie XO?

  No, no, no.

• 20:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, so, but I will.

• 20:02Bunnie XO?

  Where's it at?

• 20:03Speaker 05

  Coots in Lebanon.

• 20:04Bunnie XO?

  Okay, okay.

• 20:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, girl. We're fucking just, I'm super excited.

• 20:11Speaker 05

  So that's how it all came about. And then I can honestly say the first time hearing myself come out the speakers and seeing my daughter's eyes light up. I was just like, yeah, girl, you can do anything you set your mind to.

• 20:26Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:27Speaker 05

  Yeah. Who cares what anybody else says or all these back noises? If you want to do something, go do it.

• 20:33Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:33Speaker 05

  Go do it.

• 20:34Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 20:35Speaker 05

  But I will say my first show that I did, Bunny, I want to tell you, I didn't think you could throw up from nerves, girl. I was in the bathroom. I went through the fuck up.

• 20:45Bunnie XO?

  Aww.

• 20:46Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm. But when I got on that stage, it felt like I was just doing it for years.

• 20:51Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:51Speaker 05

  So I'm enjoying life right now. And I think I'm gonna take, you know, what you said and just enjoy myself. Life's putting out music.

• 20:59Bunnie XO?

  Dude, life's so good right now.

• 21:00Speaker 03

  Date music.

• 21:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, date music.

• 21:03Bunnie XO?

  But you already have a family. You have you and Lily. And if you just pour your love into both of you and stop looking, I promise you that love is gonna fall out of the sky.

• 21:11Speaker 05

  My three cats and my dog.

• 21:13Bunnie XO?

  Literally, you got, well, yeah, Kolslaw, fucking, what's the other one's name?

• 21:17Speaker 05

  We have Kolslaw, sauerkraut, and Zeus.

• 21:19Bunnie XO?

  I don't know if I ever even seen Zeus, but yeah.

• 21:22Speaker 05

  He's an old man. He hasn't lied to me.

• 21:24Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha, gotcha. I feel like Kolslaw's like the star of the show. He's your Chachi.

• 21:29Speaker 05

  He, he, he really is. One of these days, I'm gonna bring him over here.

• 21:32Bunnie XO?

  Oh, God. I don't know. I don't know how Chachi will act towards a cat. We're gonna see how he's gonna act with a possum tomorrow.

• 21:38Speaker 03

  He doesn't even like his cousin, so I don't know about a cat.

• 21:40Speaker 05

  Only one way to find out, you know?

• 21:41Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 21:43Bunnie XO?

  But like, all that love and that pizzazz for life that you have, just harness that for all of 2025 and literally pour into you. Whether that's going and fucking getting a little bit of therapy, or going and fucking, you know, feeding the homeless, or going and just doing something that is like chicken soup for your soul, writing music, writing a heartbreak song, doing a fucking rap song, whatever you want to fucking do. Put all that energy into you, because these men, man.

• 22:09Speaker 05

  Girl, I learned a big lesson with this one.

• 22:12Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 22:12Speaker 05

  Oh, my goodness. I would have, I would have gave that man like the moon.

• 22:17Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 22:18Speaker 05

  And all I wanted was um to start this new journey and share it with someone, but I was like, well, I'm already sharing it with someone, my daughter.

• 22:26Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 22:27Speaker 05

  Who watches me.

• 22:28Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 22:29Speaker 05

  So why am I trying so hard for something when it's already there with my daughter?

• 22:35Bunnie XO?

  And you can give the man the moon and he's still gonna want the stars.

• 22:37Speaker 05

  I know, girl. Ooh.

• 22:40Bunnie XO?

  That's right, baby. That's right. Mm-hmm. Remember that. Ladies, write that down.

• 22:43Speaker 03

  That was good.

• 22:44Bunnie XO?

  Ladies, I'm a Van Wilder of fucking quotes over here, okay? I'm fucking Oscar, Oscar Wilde. Um, but no, it's for real. And until that real love comes along for you, baby, just focus on yourself.

• 22:57Speaker 05

  I think um 2025, people are gonna see a different, I mean, we've seen Demp's like, be the funny comedian, you know, go through, fuck with the internet with my love life. That's like my favorite thing to do. I will admit. It's my favorite thing to do.

• 23:11Speaker 03

  That is my favorite thing to watch.

• 23:15Bunnie XO?

  One thing you know how to do is play your crowd and they go into a fucking frenzy anytime you date somebody.

• 23:21Speaker 05

  I know, but I think.

• 23:22Bunnie XO?

  I'm so thankful I'm married. Like, I just, there's no way I could deal with all the shit you have to deal with.

• 23:27Speaker 05

  Dating in this day and age sucks.

• 23:29Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I, yeah. I see what Haley has to go through. Me and me.

• 23:33Speaker 03

  Haley don't even date.

• 23:34Bunnie XO?

  We, listen, I'm trying to force her to, you know, but it's, it's rough. It's rough out there.

• 23:39Speaker 03

  We need a dating show for Demp's and Haley.

• 23:41Bunnie XO?

  Oh, my God, that would be great. I'll do it. Let's do it. We can make one. We could do, we could make anything come to life.

• 23:47Speaker 05

  Oh, my God, get the buzzers.

• 23:51Speaker 05

  Not yet.

• 23:52Bunnie XO?

  That would be fucking awesome. Yeah, let's, we'll throw it around and see what we can do.

• 23:56Speaker 05

  How much are you packing down there?

• 23:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, they all have, they all have to wear banana hammocks. And if they aren't, and if, and if they get measured with a ruler, if they're not a certain size, they're off the show. Cause we know you're a fucking.

• 24:07Speaker 03

  You're a size queen. She's a size queen.

• 24:09Bunnie XO?

  A lot of people don't know this about Dimp's. She is a size queen. Like, you love a good stealthy, healthy weener.

• 24:17Speaker 03

  I do.

• 24:18Bunnie XO?

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• 26:30Speaker 05

  But working with The Caswalk Show was amazing. Bill had taken me there. Um, early on, before I got the job, he's the one that got me, as you, as you mentioned, got me on the Cast Walk Show and he'd take me to the, to the fair, the county fair where I could, you know, join in contests and different things like that. And then eventually, he would take me back and forth to Nashville.

• 26:52Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 26:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, and so he just had, he saw that I was so serious about it and he saw that I had potential and I just, and Bill was a great guitar player. Bill wrote great songs. We wrote great songs together. In fact, in nineteen, I guess it was sixty-seven, we won the Song of the Year, BMI Song of the Year, and put it off until tomorrow. Uh, Bill Phillips on Deca Records, he was a pretty big artist at the time. And so I got to, when I had, we had sent the demo to him from when we'd just written it. Then they wanted me to sing on the demo, so that was kinda like my first kinda break of being heard, like on the, on the real radio. Uh, everybody was, DJs were calling, who's the girl singing with the, Bill Phillips on the Bill Phillips song?

• 27:37Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 27:38Speaker 05

  So anyway, that was kind of a moment, too.

• 27:40Bunnie XO?

  That's awesome that Uncle Bill's been so pivotal in your career. That's amazing. At ten years old, being on the Cast Walker Show, who were some of your musical influences? Was there anybody that you wanted to be like, or did you have an idea of like, hey, I'm gonna pave my own way?

• 27:56Speaker 05

  Well, all of my people were very musical. And so I think some of my greatest influences were within my own family. My, I had an aunt, Dorothy Joel, one of my mom's sisters. Well, she played the banjo, she played the guitar and she wrote great songs. And she was an evangelist. She also was a Pentecostal preacher.

• 28:16Bunnie XO?

  I love that.

• 28:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, and I used to, oh, I was just totally influenced, you know, by her. But as far as some of the others, there were the kitty, you know, there was Kitty Wales on the Grand Ole Opry and Roy Acuff and... And there was the some early on after I got to out to where we really had had a little bit more exposure to to big radio and all. There was a woman named Rose Maddox. She was it was the Maddox Brothers and Rose. She worked with her brothers and that was the first time I'd ever seen people dress in the rhinestones. They wore kind of western. Kind of like the how the Grand Ole Opry does, but they were the first ones I'd ever seen do that.

• 28:56Speaker 05

  And so and they also put a show together, a little they did a little bits, a little comedy and little things. And I thought that was amazing. So you you find that now that I'm older, I look back and I I find that I have just picked up bits and pieces from so many people through the years and I've learned so much that I didn't realize I'm like a sponge.

• 29:18Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 29:18Speaker 05

  You know, I just without even knowing that I'm doing it. And then later on I'll do something I'll think, oh, that reminds me so much of when I saw so and so or or, you know, you just learn, you just learn through watching.

• 29:32Bunnie XO?

  I always say we're like a masterpiece of all the art we pick up from each person. You know, it's just like little little gems of their souls that we take with us and that, you know, we look back on and we're like, okay, this influenced this and this influenced that. So I love that you always give credit where credit's due because I'm the same way. Like if I see if if anybody asks me what's your look, I'm like Dolly. I'm Dolly all day long, you know?

• 29:52Speaker 05

  Well, I wish I looked like you. You didn't need me for that.

• 29:56Bunnie XO?

  Oh, you listen, we could trade outfits right now and I'd be happy. I love this outfit right here.

• 30:00Speaker 05

  Well, yeah, we love God, I guess. I I do you believe in like um like many lives?

• 30:06Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. And I also believe in soul contracts and I believe that.

• 30:09Speaker 05

  Me too.

• 30:10Bunnie XO?

  Oh, tell me, what do you believe? Let me know.

• 30:12Speaker 05

  Okay, so I'm I believe um I did, okay, this is kind of wacky and

• 30:17Bunnie XO?

  No, I love it.

• 30:17Speaker 05

  I don't know if people believe in this stuff.

• 30:18Bunnie XO?

  No, we do.

• 30:18Speaker 05

  I'm so into it. I'm very spiritual. I'm very connected to spirit. I meditate. I've got guides.

• 30:25Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I love you.

• 30:26Speaker 05

  Sister. Yes.

• 30:27Bunnie XO?

  Where have you been? They're all over here laughing because I this is me.

• 30:30Speaker 05

  Okay, amazing. Okay, good. Then I'm I'm I'm

• 30:33Bunnie XO?

  You found your you found your coven.

• 30:35Speaker 05

  Okay, great, sick.

• 30:37Speaker 04

  I did this one reading um with a with a woman and she was it was called like a rose reading. I'd never done anything like that and she went through some past lives and because I'm clairvoyant and claresentient, I also don't talk about this a lot, but I don't I don't care. I have nothing to hide. And you are too? Yes. Okay, I believe that and I I feel like that's why we're like supposed to be connected. Um, I it was like over the phone because it was during covid. It was right before covid when things were like starting to like get crazy and um she was explaining a couple of my past lives and I could I was like locked in with her and I could see her. Um, like I could see everything that she was seeing and I'm everything lined up and I asked her, I said, have I ever had a child in a past life? And she said, no.

• 31:22Speaker 04

  And um, and so she said, you're gonna have to make a soul contract with someone to bring like for this lifetime. And um, I mean, I've even had like like psychics. One time I was pregnant before I had a miscarriage and he was like, have you ever had a miscarriage? And I was like, no, not that I know of. Like boom, a week later I had like I had a miscarriage and then the next pregnancy was missed and um, and so I think that I had to have a soul contract with either my baby. I don't know how all of it works. Yeah. But I know that like my baby chose me and I know that he's like destined to be here. But to do that, like I'm so into healing and I'm all into like a lot of like spiritual stuff. So I felt like

• 32:07Speaker 04

  it's true. I saw something online. It was like if you're ever feeling like called to a place, like you need to go. Yeah. Because there's something that has to happen there.

• 32:14Bunnie XO?

  What was he DMing the football player?

• 32:16Speaker 04

  I guess he wanted to tell him that like, so I'm dating this guy, talking to him, but he still was kind of coming at me. He got this is the guy that I was at Carbone with. He found out who it was and starts DMing him, talking about he had stuff to tell him.

• 32:33Bunnie XO?

  What it? You wanna see it? If, yes, I would love to see it. If people don't see that he's the problem. Yeah. Then I just, after this podcast, if I see another blog about you being the problem here, I'm going to probably lose my mind. I mean, like I say, I'll take accountability, babe. I'm not gonna say I'm innocent, cuz I'm not. I get it. But one thing's for sure, it does take two to tango. But. And trust me, the sex, our sexual chemistry is so like bombed that it was hard for me to let go. Well, you guys also have a trauma bond too, so that makes everything ten times more intense. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So, look, this is, hold on, let me get the bifocals on.

• 33:23Bunnie XO?

  He said. So this was after he had me hop the fence. He, he got wind, okay, so he found out, so they just told him that I was there with a guy. But once he found out it was a football player, and this football player, when I tell you is fine, does the, he's, he said, what up? Let me know when you see this. Trying to send you some info, just wanna make sure you're the right person.

• 33:47Bunnie XO?

  So, yeah, he basically, every time I'm ready to move on or I've moved on, like, this man can't take it. So it's like, if I'm all of this, if I'm this crazy, let's just say it like that, why haven't you been to court to get your kids away from me, for one, for two? Why haven't you gone to court because I'm keeping your kids from you? Like, why? It's just an abusive relationship. There's just so much that I just wish people were smart enough to see. I think after this podcast. A lot of celebrity women reached out to me, like, big name women, that were like, listen.

• 34:27Speaker 04

  What you did is nothing compared to what X, Y, and Z made me do. And it's like, you'd be surprised how many men, and I'm saying it's right, but men literally purposely antagonize, provoke women. And then when they lose their shit, it's like, she's crazy, she's this, she's this, that. They never tell the whole story.

• 34:47Bunnie XO?

  It's reactive abuse, and that's part of controlling the narrative. If he can't control you, he wants to control what people think about you. And after this podcast, if people can't see what's going on here, especially now that you're distancing yourself from him and saying, hey, you know what? No more.

• 35:04Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 35:04Bunnie XO?

  Just let this dude crash out.

• 35:05Speaker 04

  Like, I would never let this man touch me again.

• 35:09Bunnie XO?

  I mean, he's gonna crash out on his own.

• 35:11Speaker 04

  I mean, he's crashing out already.

• 35:12Bunnie XO?

  So moving on from Safari, though, and no matter what this man has done to you, you have literally just risen from the ashes like a fucking, the phoenix that you are. You have done this your entire life. It seems like to be a theme for your life. Like, no matter what fucking adversity his life throws at you.

• 35:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, I don't know how. I really have like 10 lives. I would say nine, but I say.

• 35:31Bunnie XO?

  No, you always.

• 35:33Speaker 04

  I have a couple of lives on me.

• 35:34Bunnie XO?

  I'm telling you, you always come back full force. And now you have a dating show coming out on Zeus. Tell me all about this.

• 35:41Speaker 04

  I'm super excited about that. I feel like this show, I mean, it's definitely Zeus, so it's crazy, it has its elements. But what I love about it is that Lemmy and LJ let me create a format where I still gave them Zeus. But I wanted to tap in and show how fun and sexy and wild, you know, being a bisexual woman could be. What I love about it is I got to be myself, you know, in the sense of like, once I'm like in my world, in my element, I. Sex is like my favorite conversation. I love to talk about sex. I'm a Scorpio, so I love to talk about sex.

• 36:16Bunnie XO?

  Do you know what your moon sign is?

• 36:18Speaker 04

  I don't.

• 36:18Bunnie XO?

  Haley was asking me, because she said you were gonna ask me.

• 36:21Speaker 04

  So I was like, oh shit, how do I find that out? She's like, you gotta find out your moon sign, because she's gonna wanna know. I'm like, fuck, okay, good to know.

• 36:31Speaker 04

  But yeah, I love to talk about sex. I just feel like, you know, in a safe space. Like, we all do it.

• 36:36Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 36:37Speaker 04

  Whatever, right? So, I've been an open bisexual for like years and um I love love and I haven't been lucky in it, but I know I'm deserving of it.

• 36:49Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 36:49Speaker 04

  And um, one thing people don't know is how fun and crazy and you know, wild I am. Well, wild, yes, but like, you know.

• 36:57Bunnie XO?

  I think we all know you're fun and crazy and wild.

• 37:00Speaker 04

  But like, in a fun way, where it's not love and hip hop drama. Like, people know me drama crazy. Now it's like fun crazy, turn up crazy, like tap into like how fun it is to be around me when I'm in, you know, a good, healthy environment.

• 37:16Bunnie XO?

  You lead with love in everything you do and I, if people can't see that, then it's like you said, they're just not wanting to. It's also about seeing people for people. The fight before that, I'd sat next to Don Jr. and um, his, his whole family, his wife, daughter. I sat next to their whole family. And what a sweet guy. Yeah. You know, as a human, right? Like, as a human being, like, he was self-deprecating, he was funny, he made light of himself, like, he was charming, he was just fun to sit next to. You know what I mean? It's like, dude's a great guy, you know what I mean? Like, the time I spent with him, what a great guy. So it's like, you start meeting these people as humans, you know? Yeah. When I got to spend an hour talking to Bobby Kennedy in Tulsi and they were really telling me what their plans are

• 38:00Bunnie XO?

  and help addicts and what their plans are to kind of change the health, I don't want to, you know, speak, but they got real plans on how to help my people. America. Yeah, people that are really struggling. And an epidemic that's happening in America, so. Moving on from that amazing story, because it is amazing, um, you're going on tour with Posty Maloney. First, you're going on tour in Canada and then you're doing Post. Yes, well, yeah. I can't believe that they're, they were finally getting into Canada. We'll go do Canada in March. It's my first time headline in Canada. I mean, I did those three festivals last year. Mm-hmm. This is our first headline and arena tour in Canada. And you don't want to fuck with someone who has a weekly podcast.

• 38:43Bunnie XO?

  Like, you know that, like, I'll come out and say whatever, I'm also a loose cannon sometimes.

• 38:47Speaker 04

  Let's talk about your podcast really quick. What is the name of your podcast so people want to listen to it?

• 38:52Bunnie XO?

  Let's be honest, um, yeah, it's, you know, wherever you get your podcasts, yeah. But it's, and it's a mix, you know, that's what I like. Love is having creative freedom with, you know, uncommon James and the podcast to talk about whatever I want to talk about. I mean, you get that if one week I want to talk about, you know, fucking Scott Disick sliding into my DMs or interview a neurosurgeon. Yeah. You know, like I have that freedom, which is really great and keeps it exciting for me. I admire the fact that you could do podcasts by yourself. Thanks. Do you never do them? No, I haven't mastered that. You would be so good at that. I feel like nobody wants to hear me talk that much. Oh, that is not true. You would be so good at it. I'll just be sitting here talking. I would probably, they'd be like, by the time I got done, they'd be like, does she have five personalities? Cause she literally made herself laugh and she couldn't stop laughing and then she got pissed off. Like what just happened? Like it is, but it's weird.

• 39:38Bunnie XO?

  It might be bad for me.

• 39:41Bunnie XO?

  I remember when I started doing them, I was like, this is the most unnatural awkward thing on the planet. I'm just talking to myself. Like it's weird, but it's a, it's a muscle. You, you would be so good at it, Bonnie. I feel like you should try it. I don't know. Listen, if you guys see me talking to myself, it's because Kristen told me to do it. So let's talk about the Montana boy. Okay. Okay. Because listen, I was fucking rooting for you, dude. You were so cute on TikTok. I was, cause I was like, let this fucking woman live, bro. Thank you. I know. What was the age difference? 13 years. I mean, it's not terrible. I mean, you know, the thing is, I, I will stand by this. I still think age is just a number and um,

• 40:22Bunnie XO?

  it was so interesting for me to see how up in arms people were because I was older and I'm the woman compared to how it is for men. But Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher got away with it and they were the cutest thing ever. And there's so many people, talk about Jason Statham. I think he's like 20 something years older than Rosie. I mean, like there are so many relationships out there and people don't bat an eye, but when a girl does it, that really pissed me off. I was like, what the fuck? Also, it's not like, I don't know. I think, so, okay, actually here's my real opinion on it. This is what I think. I don't think people give a shit that I'm dating, that I was dating someone younger. I think it's that I can do whatever the fuck I want in my life. I'm out there doing what I want. Yes.

• 41:06Bunnie XO?

  And a lot of people can't do that. And that's what's triggering for people. Amen. Yeah. And so, yeah, it was fascinating for me to see that whole thing. To see the reaction. Yeah. Life is so, so the, I'm so grateful for breast cancer and I went through it, got.

• 41:22Speaker 04

  Uh, two surgeries, it was stage three. They told me, you know, I was always gonna, and I don't believe any of that. I, I believe that I understood what gave me the cancer. And if I can make joy a priority in my life, if I can eat the things that bring me joy, make me feel good and, and do the things and make the choices for myself, that I will be able to live a healthy, happy life. And it's been 20 years and I think I can brag about it now.

• 41:50Bunnie XO?

  Yes, ma'am, you can. You earn that, right? You earn those stripes. I am a firm believer and I preach this on the podcast. I know they're so tired of hearing it, but what the mind feels, the body will follow.

• 42:00Speaker 04

  Hundred percent. The, the body is in reaction to the mind. The mind, the, like I said, meat soup.

• 42:06Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 42:06Speaker 04

  Total meat soup.

• 42:07Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely.

• 42:07Speaker 04

  And it, I know instantly, I can tell. It's like, oh, this hurts, that hurts. Oh, that's because, you know, you, you get things and it's, wow, well, I've been feeling very closed down. And, you know, of course my back's gonna start hurting. I don't feel supported. You know, oh, you know, just all of that stuff and it makes, it, it makes our, our bodies make sense. When, when you have the belief that, oh, something might happen to me. I might get cancer out of nowhere. I might get heart disease out of nowhere. That's not how it works.

• 42:37Bunnie XO?

  What you fear you'll feed.

• 42:39Speaker 04

  Yes, thank you. You know it all.

• 42:40Bunnie XO?

  No, for sure.

• 42:41Speaker 04

  You're just on the, you're on that journey.

• 42:43Bunnie XO?

  Well, I had to. I got sober and I, you know, went on, I saw the dark night and went on my spiritual journey. And I'm telling you, I, I just got misdiagnosed with an aneurysm last month. And I told myself, like, I thought I was gonna pass out when I got the news. Said it was on my carotid artery and my mom actually had one and almost died. So I felt like I was gonna pass out. Anyways, long story short, uh, cause this isn't about me, but it's just, I didn't believe it. I was like, this is not, and if I do, and if I do have it, I'm gonna have surgery and it's gonna be fine or whatever.

• 43:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 43:15Bunnie XO?

  I was getting a CAT scan. I heard the, the loudest voice in my head and it said, it's not an aneurysm. Went to two neurosurgeons, turned out that I have two identical blood vessels on both sides of my carotid arteries. That's just my part of my DNA. So I was just like, praise Jesus, you know? Like it's just but you have to literally just no matter what I think our our life lesson is to learn how to have faith. You cannot control everything and you have to just sometimes you have to say, you know what, God? Whatever your will is gonna be or whatever higher power you believe in, you know, it's just whatever your will is, let it happen and. Kinda it's it's hard not to say ritual because people just take it and and run. A ritual is something that you do over and over and over again. It doesn't have to be something satanic.

• 44:00Bunnie XO?

  No, not at all. That's what's so sad is that the. OCD people have rituals. I have rituals. Right, right, but the but what's so sad is that magic is so real and it's it's such a uh. It's been erased from our entire history because it's so scary to know that we all have the power to.

• 44:21Bunnie XO?

  Create.

• 44:26Bunnie XO?

  A product out of a dream. And. You know, even, you know, if we're just speaking about, you know, uh, moon phases, like the the beauty of. Tapping into that, like, you know, when people struggle with fasting or something, like if they would just tap into what like Ikadashi, which is an Indian.

• 44:47Bunnie XO?

  Practice of. Fasting, which is eleven days after the full moon or new moon. Either one, the the pull of the moon is a lot less, so the demand for your body to have food and water on that day is.

• 45:05Bunnie XO?

  Is the least. I love that. That's fascinating because the moon makes women have their periods. It makes the tides. Yes, so there's so much power in that. There's so much power in that, so. Uh, it's it's there. There's the least amount of pull from the moon on that day, so you're able to. Go that whole day without without really feeling that urge if you. Um, you know, work up to that point and you could just start there. It's a really, really special day. If you're ever trying to, uh, you know, get into that because it it helps your your body kill all the sicknesses like when you when you practice those things your cells, you know, turn over and

• 45:48Bunnie XO?

  it's a lot of magic and just just that practice, but um. There's a lot of magic in everything and if you can just, I wish more people didn't demonize it as much as they do. And I just feel like even, you know, not to get into religion because I don't really talk about religion that much on the podcast, but you know, even Christianity has taken so many things from pagans and you know, there's just there's a whole world out there that if people just kind of explored it, they would see that it's not bad and it's not evil. It's not like what they portray in the movies and it's not like good witch bad witch. Of course, there's bad people who do bad things with good things that they're given, but that doesn't mean that that's how it has to be. Yeah, but I I guess I

• 46:32Bunnie XO?

  I also enjoy that. It's a

• 46:40Bunnie XO?

  a scary

• 46:43Bunnie XO?

  idea because it would then just become oversaturated and True. It's, you know, I don't know, you need, you need, you need some people to be over on that side so that.

• 46:58Bunnie XO?

  I always say we're the kids from the witches that were burned.

• 47:01Speaker 05

  In a virtual, you're like, I don't want to see this bus again.

• 47:02Bunnie XO?

  No, we're we're clamoring to get back on tour. We can't wait to get back on the bus.

• 47:06Speaker 05

  But you have to, it's good to miss it and Vegas helped me do that. And it also just was so fun with like the production stuff because you could just take it to a whole nother level because you're not putting it in trucks every night, you know, so I'm really thankful for it and I got to love your city. I mean, the strip isn't Vegas.

• 47:22Bunnie XO?

  No, it's not.

• 47:24Speaker 05

  And that's all I knew of it from going to the ACMs for eighteen years in a row, but I really learned to love like the outskirts. We stayed in the burbs and like, you know. I walked my dog every day and made eggs and like had a real life there and um and I love the desert and just I really, I really, I went to a Knights game. I loved it.

• 47:44Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 47:44Speaker 05

  It was my first hockey game to ever go to.

• 47:46Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 47:47Speaker 05

  It was really fun. So I just, I found like the things of Vegas that aren't like, you know.

• 47:52Bunnie XO?

  How beautiful are the sunsets?

• 47:53Speaker 05

  The sunsets are incredible. The weather in December is amazing.

• 47:57Bunnie XO?

  Yes, yeah.

• 47:58Speaker 05

  Yeah. And the, and the food scene's amazing, even off the strip. So like, I just really, I grew to really love like the locals too. Like I made friends with a lot of people that, that I've seen there for work, but they like live there. So we'd go to their house for dinner and it felt like, oh, this is just a really great community. Not that I don't love the strip, but for two days and you're good, you know?

• 48:18Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah. No, I had never, whenever, because we're selling our house out there now, but whenever I would go out there, people are like, do you live on the strip? And I'm like, absolutely not.

• 48:25Speaker 05

  No one lives there.

• 48:26Bunnie XO?

  I will not go to the strip unless there is a reason. Like my husband has to be having a show or I'm going to see you or like, I'm never gonna step foot on that strip unless I have to.

• 48:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:36Bunnie XO?

  The house that built me, by the way, when my dad passed away in May was the only song that got me through. I think I cried my eyes out for like a month straight with the house that built me playing in the background. So.

• 48:45Speaker 05

  That song's such a blessing. Like it's just one of those songs I'm so thankful to have.

• 48:49Bunnie XO?

  It is beautiful. Like if you listen to the words, just you literally paint a visual in this song and like you just walk people through just a moment in your life, a snapshot in your life.

• 49:01Speaker 06

  So I'm in Thailand, it's gonna be shocked.

• 49:04Speaker 05

  What?

• 49:05Speaker 06

  That I'm gonna talk about this part.

• 49:07Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 49:09Speaker 06

  Um.

• 49:10Bunnie XO?

  I love that she's just got your back. She's like, okay, here we go.

• 49:13Speaker 06

  Well, I mean, she's, she's, this is really gonna shock, shock her because it's uh, so my um, I got my baby in my mind, you know, and before I leave for Iraq, I mean, I'm all over her. It's my, my, my daughter and I got another one on the way.

• 49:31Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 49:32Speaker 06

  So it's, it's all clicking to me like, okay, this is, this is gonna be the rest of my life. But I'm, I'm a part of one sixth infantry, second brigade, first armor division. We're in Iraq.

• 49:47Bunnie XO?

  Thank you for your service, by the way.

• 49:50Speaker 06

  Thank you. Um, and my first encounter was with an eight-year-old Iraqi boy.

• 49:55Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 49:56Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 49:58Speaker 06

  And uh.

• 50:01Speaker 06

  That is where the PTSD came from. It's right there.

• 50:06Speaker 06

  Because he's eight on paper. But he's our age in reality. And he's shooting.

• 50:18Speaker 06

  And I've got a decision to make. And either accept that or, you know, take that life. And the latter is the decision that I had to make. Because it's, at this point, it's between him and Michaela. And when those kinds of things happen, they just happen. In the war, it's a part of war. You just keep rolling. And I wasn't built like that. You know, I mean, the most things I ever did in the streets was fighting. I got, yeah, I got stabbed and I made it, you know.

• 51:02Speaker 06

  But when you have to take a life, it changes you. So it changed me. And then the rest of the fighting changed me. And then realizing that our freedoms do come at a high price. And then when you have a connection with God, you're like, God, like, keep it one hundred with me. How do you really feel about this? Because that's my brother over there. I know that we don't, we don't really act like it right now. And we've got a history of fighting with each other on earth. But the truth is, we're all brothers and sisters. And so how do I justify my actions?

• 51:47Speaker 06

  And when his father and mother are doing the same thing I'm doing, you know. So.

• 51:56Bunnie XO?

  I couldn't imagine.

• 51:56Speaker 06

  Yeah, so I had a lot to carry into 2010.

• 52:06Bunnie XO?

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