I Didn't Know This Would Be Our Last Conversation | My Dad On the Podcast

This was filmed in 2021, and I’m so glad I was able to. I was beyond nervous, and we already had a rocky relationship, so I tried to keep it lighthearted and fun. But I was also SO nervous, as you can see. Either way, here are some bits and pieces of my life from the man who gave me life. Love y’all! 🩷 Watch Full Episodes & More: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Dumbblondepod

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

• 0:00Bunnie XO?

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• 0:41Bunnie XO?

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• 0:52Speaker 01

  Wayfair, every style, every home.

• 0:55Bunnie XO?

  Is this thing on?

• 0:58Speaker 02

  All right, gentlemen, coming to main stage next. This is Bunny. Get up there. She's got a tornado of titties coming your way. Get those dollar bills ready. She's got an ass that shakes like Michael J. Fox. So get up there and throw, throw, throw them dollars.

• 1:10Bunnie XO?

  Dude, that is fucking iconic.

• 1:12Speaker 03

  What's up, you sexy motherfuckers?

• 1:15Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, baby. We got Bill in the house. What is up daddy? How are you?

• 1:21Speaker 03

  Oh, I'm doing great.

• 1:22Bunnie XO?

  Are you just thrilled to be here?

• 1:24Speaker 03

  I'm just so thrilled.

• 1:25Bunnie XO?

  You know, I've been asking you for two years to do my podcast, right?

• 1:28Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:30Bunnie XO?

  And you've told me no all the way up until now. I think you just finally were like, you know what, I'm gonna do it. So she stops fucking asking me. So you're in Nashville.

• 1:40Speaker 03

  Great place.

• 1:41Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. You came out for Daddy Roll's cavern shows.

• 1:47Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:48Bunnie XO?

  For Halloween. You're gonna spend Halloween with the fam.

• 1:51Speaker 03

  It's a great thing.

• 1:52Bunnie XO?

  I'm excited. Well, I'm glad to have you here, finally.

• 1:56Speaker 03

  Well, I love being here.

• 1:57Bunnie XO?

  You ready to dive into some of these questions that everybody was asking?

• 2:01Speaker 03

  Well, if they're not too tough, yeah.

• 2:03Bunnie XO?

  They're not tough at all. Um, let's see, where should we start? And these are painless, dad. I only do about a half hour podcast, so you don't gotta, you don't got to worry about it. A lot of people said I look like you, which I thought was a compliment because you have aged like fine wine.

• 2:24Speaker 03

  Well, at 45.

• 2:29Bunnie XO?

  How do you, how do you keep this physique at forty-five, Dad?

• 2:32Speaker 03

  Well, I already told you that.

• 2:36Speaker 03

  You hadn't agreed to try it out.

• 2:39Bunnie XO?

  My dad takes these drops called MMS drops and he swears by them. And I've taken them and they make me feel like I fucking drank bleach.

• 2:50Bunnie XO?

  But you know, whatever works for him, I'm all for it. Um, let's see.

• 2:57Bunnie XO?

  Somebody wanted to know, did you live through Woodstock?

• 3:00Speaker 03

  Uh, actually I did.

• 3:05Bunnie XO?

  At forty-five?

• 3:06Speaker 03

  In other words, they saw me yesterday and they looked and they said, he must have been through Woodstock.

• 3:14Bunnie XO?

  Now you guys know where I get my smart ass mouth from, over here.

• 3:20Speaker 03

  Uh, yes, I did, but did I go there? No, it was in upstate New York and I lived on the island.

• 3:25Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, let's talk about that. So Dad, you're from New York. A lot of people don't know that.

• 3:29Speaker 03

  I was born in Queens.

• 3:31Bunnie XO?

  Kew Gardens.

• 3:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, Kew Gardens, Queens.

• 3:33Bunnie XO?

  Kew Gardens, Queens. And then from there, you went to where?

• 3:39Speaker 03

  Well, I went to school in New Jersey.

• 3:42Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 3:43Speaker 03

  At, uh, Pennington Prep School.

• 3:47Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 3:48Speaker 03

  So I was in New Jersey for a while. And then of course, after I graduated, I went to Texas and pretty much never left until we went to Las Vegas.

• 4:00Bunnie XO?

  Las Vegas. Everybody wants to know how you met my mom.

• 4:04Speaker 03

  Oh. You're biological?

• 4:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, unfortunately, that mess of a woman.

• 4:11Speaker 03

  Well,

• 4:13Speaker 03

  that's been a while back.

• 4:14Bunnie XO?

  It's like, I don't remember.

• 4:17Speaker 03

  Well, she was, um, let me think here. I don't know exactly how I met her. I don't know. It's been a while.

• 4:24Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 4:25Speaker 03

  But she was a dancer.

• 4:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, my mom was a stripper, just like, like, like daughter, like mother, like daughter.

• 4:32Speaker 03

  And, uh, uh, we, maybe we met there.

• 4:37Bunnie XO?

  Met in the old titty bar, the old clam shaker. Um, so after you moved to Texas and you met my mom, then you had me, which was the, the highlight of your life. Actually, I have an older brother. A lot of people don't know that. I have an older half brother named Billy. So you had Billy and then you had the golden child, which was me.

• 4:58Speaker 03

  Right, right.

• 4:59Bunnie XO?

  And then after me, you had Ashley, my little sister, my half sister. And then I also have an older sister from my mom. So there's four of us. We're all half.

• 5:10Speaker 03

  Right.

• 5:12Bunnie XO?

  We're fucking blended family, let me tell you.

• 5:15Speaker 03

  That's what we try to do.

• 5:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, just blend.

• 5:17Speaker 03

  Everything just blended out.

• 5:18Bunnie XO?

  Just fucking perfectly blended. Um, how much trouble did Bunny get into as a child?

• 5:25Speaker 03

  Uh, which time?

• 5:28Bunnie XO?

  I think I got suspended in kindergarten, right? For ripping a boy's shirt off? He was talking shit about you.

• 5:35Speaker 03

  What did he say?

• 5:36Bunnie XO?

  He said, your dad's an asshole or something like that. So I ripped his shirt off. I threw him up against it. I forget his name. I think his name was Kyle. I'm not sure. I can't remember.

• 5:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, you've always had your way with being, you know, nobody's gonna tell you how to do it.

• 5:53Speaker 03

  And if somebody got smart at the wrong time, you let them know.

• 5:59Bunnie XO?

  Would you say that I've inherited my attitude from Volvo?

• 6:04Speaker 03

  Well, you loved your Volvo. I would put her on a plane and, uh, she would pick you up. You know, I mean, you go from, from Texas to Albuquerque, Texas to, well, from, uh, east Texas, all the way to west Texas to El Paso. And spend a week with, uh, my mom and she really enjoyed that. So. So my. She was, she was a tough woman.

• 6:32Bunnie XO?

  My Volvo was this four foot 11 Brazilian woman.

• 6:36Speaker 03

  She was five foot two.

• 6:37Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 6:38Speaker 03

  Grandma, her mom was.

• 6:40Bunnie XO?

  Four 11.

• 6:40Speaker 03

  Four 11.

• 6:41Bunnie XO?

  I don't know where I get my height from because everybody in my family is short. Um, fucking, yeah. So my Volvo was my dad's, uh, mom and she was this mean, mean, mean, mean Brazilian woman, but she was so nice to me. Like she loved me. She was never mean to me.

• 7:00Speaker 03

  Well, that's what I'm saying. She, yeah, she's, uh, You, you say mean.

• 7:07Bunnie XO?

  All right, spicy.

• 7:08Speaker 03

  She, yeah, she was just direct.

• 7:11Bunnie XO?

  I mean, hello. I get it honestly.

• 7:15Speaker 03

  Right, you were just like her.

• 7:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, for sure. Um, but she was, she was so sweet to me and was always so good to me. I have nothing but fond memories of her. I think she's one of my guardian angels for sure.

• 7:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:26Bunnie XO?

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• 8:07Bunnie XO?

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• 8:38Speaker 05

  Attention all new and existing members of the WDNC. I'm Melanie Sanders and this is the We Do Not Care Club Podcast. We got to midlife and realized we just simply do not care much anymore. Now we gotta help each other make sense of hot flashes, dry coochie, chin hair, trifling families, brain fog and bat wings. We are not alone and we will be heard. So come join the WDNC, follow and listen to the We Do Not Care Club Podcast with Melanie Sanders wherever you get your podcasts.

• 9:08Speaker 03

  Green.

• 9:09Bunnie XO?

  Green, I didn't know that. That couch color green or like olive green?

• 9:13Speaker 03

  Andy green, I like green.

• 9:14Bunnie XO?

  Oh, that's cool. I never knew that.

• 9:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:17Bunnie XO?

  I never knew that about my pops. You learn something new every day.

• 9:21Bunnie XO?

  What is your biggest regret and your proudest moment in life?

• 9:25Speaker 03

  Biggest regret?

• 9:28Bunnie XO?

  He's like, "Ya mother."

• 9:31Speaker 03

  Oh, I don't know.

• 9:32Bunnie XO?

  I'm kidding. Everybody knows I'm a smart ass whenever I say stuff.

• 9:35Speaker 03

  Nah, I really have no, no regrets.

• 9:37Bunnie XO?

  I say the same stuff.

• 9:39Speaker 03

  I would probably do everything over again.

• 9:41Bunnie XO?

  That's exactly what I say.

• 9:42Speaker 03

  Same way.

• 9:43Bunnie XO?

  I tell everybody that. I'm like, "You don't live in regrets. You just fucking either like it or you don't." You learn from what you, you know?

• 9:50Speaker 03

  You try to learn, yeah.

• 9:51Bunnie XO?

  Well, yeah. And if you don't, you do it twice.

• 9:53Speaker 03

  And you keep doing it.

• 9:55Bunnie XO?

  What's your proudest moment in your life?

• 9:58Speaker 03

  Proudest moment? Um, I think having children is your proudest moment.

• 10:05Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I'm never shitting out kids, ever. I think having Chachi was my proudest moment.

• 10:12Bunnie XO?

  Um, when did you first realize that Bunny was going to be a bright star?

• 10:18Speaker 03

  Well, I always knew you were a star. I mean...

• 10:21Bunnie XO?

  He thought I was gonna be a star in juvenile hall.

• 10:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, after that.

• 10:28Speaker 03

  When they, when they let you out, but... No, you never were in.

• 10:34Bunnie XO?

  I mean, I went a couple of times. I went one time and you and my, uh, my stepmom wouldn't pick me up. Remember that? You guys made me stay the night in fucking juvenile hall?

• 10:42Speaker 03

  Oh, well, that was just a suggestion by the police. Maybe she should stay there for a night and see how it is. And maybe she won't wanna go back.

• 10:57Bunnie XO?

  I never went back.

• 10:58Speaker 03

  Nope.

• 10:58Bunnie XO?

  I was like, "Fuck this. I am too wild to be fucking behind a cage." There's, I, I remember I stared out the window all night. It's like in one of those movies, you know, that you see where the, the girl's crying out the window of the jail cell. Like, I really, it resonated with me tough. Um, so we moved to Vegas in eighty-five, right?

• 11:16Speaker 03

  Eighty-six, yeah.

• 11:17Bunnie XO?

  Eighty-six. Growing up, you know, I always tell everybody the story of my life, like, literally, we grew up with you playing with your band in the house. I would fall asleep with you guys fucking practicing across the hallway.

• 11:29Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 11:30Bunnie XO?

  We lived like a rock star lifestyle. And then we, I turned 12 and all of a sudden, we were fucking super Christian, which is fine. I love Jesus. But that's true, right? That, that, that is what happened.

• 11:43Speaker 03

  Well, we, yeah, we went to church quite a bit. Every time the door was open, we were there.

• 11:49Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, but I tell everybody, I went to church, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, church camps, I mean, you name it, I was there.

• 11:57Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 11:58Bunnie XO?

  Yes. So, a lot of people want to know what it was like having a daughter on your own, being a single father, and being a musician. How did you juggle that?

• 12:08Speaker 03

  Well, I was a musician way, way before you came and once you were born, that was, you know, I had settled down, actually married the woman.

• 12:22Bunnie XO?

  Which one?

• 12:23Speaker 03

  Miss Vanessa, it'd be nice.

• 12:25Bunnie XO?

  I am being nice. I love her. I talk to her every three months.

• 12:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, we had actually, well, I'd quit doing that and got a real job, so. But I was a musician for quite a while, yeah, before you were ever thought of and then, but from that time on, it was, get a job, get a check.

• 12:47Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, but you still played whenever I was growing up with Michelle. You always had like band practice and stuff over at the house. We always had a studio in our house, too.

• 12:55Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh, yeah.

• 12:57Bunnie XO?

  I literally grew up with a studio in my house, like, and Jay always wonders, he's like, why don't you ever come to the studio with me? I'm like, because I grew up with one of these in my house. Like, I know how it works. It doesn't fascinate me.

• 13:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, we did that a lot. But it was, uh, how I, during that time, I didn't play in a band, you know, actually for, for money and stuff.

• 13:19Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 13:20Speaker 03

  It was just in the, in the house kind of thing and at church.

• 13:24Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 13:24Speaker 03

  Played in the church, man.

• 13:25Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 13:27Speaker 03

  Had to quit for a while, but I mean, so I played a lot until I had my first child and, and, and then you were the second child.

• 13:37Bunnie XO?

  The golden child.

• 13:38Speaker 03

  The golden child.

• 13:39Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 13:40Speaker 03

  One of the golden children.

• 13:43Bunnie XO?

  My dad's so politically correct. He knows that his other kids might listen to this.

• 13:49Bunnie XO?

  Was your daughter a handful to raise?

• 13:52Speaker 03

  I wouldn't say that. I mean, everybody is is different.

• 13:56Bunnie XO?

  Dad, I was fucking hell on wheels.

• 13:59Speaker 03

  Well, that's what I'm trying to say. You were different.

• 14:04Bunnie XO?

  One of the fondest memories, well, I don't know if it's fond, but one of one of my first, well, I have a ton of first memories, but um, I shoved a rock up my nose.

• 14:15Bunnie XO?

  And I made our landlord get it out.

• 14:21Speaker 03

  She wanted to see what would happen if I shoved this rock up my nose. She found out it didn't come out.

• 14:28Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, so I had to go to my, I would, I didn't want to go tell my parents because I didn't want to get in trouble. So I went to the landlord's house and was like, yo, I got a rock up my nose. Can you help me? And she helped me get it out. Yeah, that was one of my memories whenever we, I mean, I was always doing something like, Michelle, my stepmom would tell me, you can't go to the pool without me. And I'd be like, okay, yeah, whatever. And she went and took a nap one day. And I climbed the entire fence to get into that pool. And when she found me, I was in the pool swimming by myself without floaties. Like, this is how headstrong I was as a kid. Like, you think I'm headstrong now memes? I was like this as a child. I've learned how to wrangle it now and make it constructive. Whereas a child, it was super destructive. Like, I was like, what?

• 15:14Speaker 03

  Do you have those pictures?

• 15:16Bunnie XO?

  My dad brought pictures. I'm scared to see these.

• 15:20Speaker 03

  Well, I wanted to show one of them that we had

• 15:25Speaker 03

  taught you. Let's see here.

• 15:28Bunnie XO?

  Oh, man. This is gonna really age me when you guys see the tent on these.

• 15:36Speaker 03

  These are like those pictures that you have the, you know, with the old.

• 15:40Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. That's me?

• 15:42Speaker 03

  This is you.

• 15:43Bunnie XO?

  Look at that widow's peak. Where'd that come from?

• 15:45Speaker 03

  How do I do this? But?

• 15:46Bunnie XO?

  Just any camera.

• 15:48Speaker 03

  We were, we taught you to drink at an early age.

• 15:52Bunnie XO?

  I mean, shit, now you guys wonder why I'm so irreverent. Drinking since the womb.

• 15:59Bunnie XO?

  I remember I used to sneak Michelle's wine that she would leave out.

• 16:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, you did, yeah, you did. But at an early age, she was doing, doing her thing.

• 16:10Bunnie XO?

  This is fucking awesome.

• 16:11Speaker 03

  She used to travel a lot.

• 16:14Bunnie XO?

  I still do. Now do you see?

• 16:18Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, when I get ready to leave town. Look at that.

• 16:21Speaker 03

  There she's ready to go.

• 16:22Bunnie XO?

  I gotta go. Literally gotta go. I told Jay today, I was like, you know, it's starting to get winter out. So this is the time that your wife leaves town all the time. And he's like, oh shit.

• 16:30Speaker 03

  And of course, he loved animals.

• 16:33Bunnie XO?

  Horsey! Oh, I love horsey. See, I know how to ride. I've been riding since I was a kid. People are like, you're not a country girl. I'm like, I am. No, I'm just kidding. I'm a city girl.

• 16:46Speaker 03

  Country.

• 16:49Bunnie XO?

  What else we got up in that? How old's that fucking Ziploc bag?

• 16:56Speaker 03

  I don't know where we got this.

• 17:00Bunnie XO?

  Oh, man, Dad.

• 17:01Speaker 03

  This is the one that actually I was saving it in since.

• 17:04Bunnie XO?

  You brought, you brought a lot of pictures. Don't make me get sentimental on my podcast. I have a reputation.

• 17:10Speaker 03

  And she loved her first dog.

• 17:12Bunnie XO?

  Oh, dog. I've always, look at, I'm literally true to who I was ever since I was a kid, dude.

• 17:18Speaker 03

  Oh, and you, you sent this picture to your, your grandma, vo vo? And it says two years old. Oh, that's Andrea.

• 17:28Bunnie XO?

  That's me.

• 17:29Speaker 03

  That's her name.

• 17:30Bunnie XO?

  Oh, yeah. Everybody go fucking Google that. You're not, you won't find anything.

• 17:34Speaker 03

  Here's her favorite cat.

• 17:35Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I hate cats. Shit, that has changed. I'm like you. You're allergic to cats. I can't fucking handle it.

• 17:43Speaker 03

  Well, you like this one. I don't remember that cat.

• 17:45Bunnie XO?

  I thought it was a dog.

• 17:49Speaker 03

  But I thought I'd bring you these.

• 17:50Bunnie XO?

  Oh, that's sweet, Dad. I love you for that. That's really sweet.

• 17:55Speaker 03

  When you were getting a little bit bigger.

• 17:57Bunnie XO?

  Oh, my God. Look at that fucking bowl haircut. Who did that?

• 18:01Speaker 03

  Put the bowl over the head of her cat.

• 18:04Bunnie XO?

  Nobody believes me that I'm Brazilian either. I tell everybody I'm Brazilian and white trash. I, let me tell you the funniest story. I thought I was Brazilian and Italian my whole life. Fucking, my dad comes to visit me.

• 18:17Speaker 03

  You're not Italian. I thought that too.

• 18:20Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, my dad comes to visit me like four years ago and somebody was telling me like, what are you exactly? And I was like Brazilian and Italian. And he goes, my dad goes, well. I go, I looked at him, I go, my whole life is a lie. And he was like, well, you are Brazilian, you are not Italian. I was like, oh my God. So now I just tell everybody I'm Brazilian and white. Let's see what else. Uh, what's your favorite memory of Baby Bunny?

• 18:46Speaker 03

  Baby Bunny used to dance for me.

• 18:48Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 18:49Speaker 03

  I raised, uh, I raised you, said, well, your mom kinda hung out till about one year.

• 18:56Bunnie XO?

  Didn't she leave me on somebody's doorstep? And like while you were in the hospital when she ran off with your organ player?

• 19:02Speaker 03

  Yeah. Well, yeah.

• 19:07Bunnie XO?

  There's no nice way to put it.

• 19:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, she's, she's a strange one.

• 19:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, she is.

• 19:18Bunnie XO?

  She literally ran off with my dad's organ player.

• 19:21Speaker 03

  That went over well in the courtroom because I got full custody of you.

• 19:25Bunnie XO?

  Yep.

• 19:26Speaker 03

  So it was funny because we were in the courtroom and they always give the, the, the wife, the child, always. And they were just about to do it. And I jumped up and I said, no, there's no way that you can do this. And I told him that story. And then it was, then it was all over after that.

• 19:50Bunnie XO?

  No, I love you dad. I could have had, I would have ended up like fucking Christina if I would have lived with my mom. I'm so happy that you did that for me and I can't thank you enough.

• 19:59Speaker 03

  Right, and that, uh, yeah.

• 20:00Bunnie XO?

  Cause you didn't have to. Dads don't raise daughters like that on their own. They really don't. And that's like the coolest story that I could ever tell people is that I was raised by a single dad.

• 20:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, and that, uh, yeah, very true story, but, uh, that's how it happened.

• 20:15Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:16Speaker 03

  I just thought about that, but.

• 20:18Bunnie XO?

  I love you and thank you for that. I really appreciate it.

• 20:21Speaker 03

  But she used to dance for me.

• 20:23Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:24Speaker 03

  And, oh, hey dad.

• 20:27Speaker 03

  Watch this.

• 20:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:28Speaker 03

  You know.

• 20:29Bunnie XO?

  I think I was always, I always tried to make you happy, like as a kid, because I always wanted to be like your comedic relief. That was like the relationship you and I always had was I just would say the fucking weirdest shit to make you laugh. Salad and crouton, stuff like that.

• 20:42Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 20:45Speaker 03

  She was gonna name her children Salad and Crouton.

• 20:51Speaker 03

  Who would come up with that?

• 20:55Bunnie XO?

  Salad is French for salad, so. I'm just kidding, I just made that up. Um, was Bunny your favorite child? Yes.

• 21:05Bunnie XO?

  I answered for him.

• 21:06Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 21:07Bunnie XO?

  No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. We don't do the whole, uh.

• 21:10Speaker 03

  We don't do the favorite.

• 21:11Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, we don't do the favorites, cuz I am the favorite, so.

• 21:15Speaker 03

  You just, you don't really have favorite children.

• 21:18Bunnie XO?

  What are you most proud of Bunny for?

• 21:21Bunnie XO?

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• 22:30Speaker 03

  Well, I'm, I'm very proud that, that in the last six or seven years, you've gone in the totally best direction.

• 22:44Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 22:44Speaker 03

  In your life, because you've gone astray in different times.

• 22:51Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 22:52Speaker 03

  And then probably came back a little bit, who knows, but I think the last six or seven years, right about that, you've been growing in your own.

• 23:04Bunnie XO?

  After that abusive relationship that I went through.

• 23:08Speaker 03

  I didn't want to bring that up.

• 23:10Bunnie XO?

  Oh, no, I talk about it. I'm very, I don't say names. Let's not say names because he doesn't ever deserve clout, but um, after that abusive relationship, I kind of had to look within myself and was like, alright, there's something really wrong with me if I'm attracting humans like this. So I've literally sat out, set out on a spiritual journey for the past six, seven years of doing nothing but healing childhood trauma and um, shit that I, you know, have been through and that's, you, you either go one, you either fucking perpetually be a victim or you change what's going on, you know, and I had to change what was going on because that situation was a fucking nightmare and I never wanted to go through that or put my family or anybody that loves me through

• 23:54Bunnie XO?

  that ever again, you know. So, you know, and then Jay coming into my life, we both forced each other to kind of level up. So, we just grew together. It's been a nice little grossish.

• 24:07Speaker 03

  Really good thing.

• 24:09Bunnie XO?

  It's been a nice little grossish.

• 24:10Speaker 03

  And it's not like you all started at the top, you know.

• 24:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 24:13Speaker 03

  You started way down here, both of you.

• 24:16Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 24:16Speaker 03

  I mean, both doing, you know, what you do and, and look at it now, it's just blossoming.

• 24:23Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, it's crazy. It's like taken off. It's just insane. How do you think Bunny would have turned out had you and her mom stayed together?

• 24:32Bunnie XO?

  I would have been, let me tell you, I would have probably been fucking ten times crazier than I already was. My older sister's a nut job and she grew up with her, so, well, partially grew up with her. So, I don't think that would have been.

• 24:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, your biological mom was,

• 24:51Speaker 03

  it was only one year there.

• 24:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 24:54Speaker 03

  And then one year before.

• 24:56Bunnie XO?

  Yep.

• 24:57Speaker 03

  That was about it.

• 24:58Bunnie XO?

  I didn't officially meet my real mom, my biological mom, until I was thirty-five. Right?

• 25:05Speaker 03

  Right.

• 25:05Bunnie XO?

  That's when I met her face to face for the first time. I've still only seen her twice in my life.

• 25:09Speaker 03

  And I told you, you needed to meet her and, you know, you just never wanted to, but, and you, I don't know, I think you talked to her on the phone a few times.

• 25:17Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I mean, I, listen, I love Vanessa because when I was going through a really dark depression, she didn't judge me. Anytime I had, when I had my Xanax problem, she never judged me. She was always there for me. You know, I love her for that, but I also love her from afar because you can't get too close to somebody who, um, isn't in reality. So, what's the craziest thing you caught Bunny doing in her younger days?

• 25:45Speaker 03

  Uh, going out the window in the middle of the night and.

• 25:51Bunnie XO?

  Let me, hold on, let me paint a picture for you guys really quick. I was always sneaking out. I was always in trouble. So, they put bells on the front door, like sleigh bells, on the front door. So, anytime you'd come in and out, it'd be like cling, cling, cling, like, I mean, it sounded like a wind chime every time you walked through the door.

• 26:08Speaker 03

  That was actually symphony sleigh bells.

• 26:12Speaker 03

  The kind they actually use in a symphony where, where you hear the Christmas, and it has like big gigantic bells, you know, it's a real thing.

• 26:22Bunnie XO?

  No, and they were loud as shit. And then they took my door off the hinges.

• 26:28Bunnie XO?

  And then they nailed, screwed my window shut, but they didn't realize that when you screw a window shut, you can unscrew the window shut.

• 26:40Bunnie XO?

  And I had to go. I was ready. I had, listen, man, I had shit to do. I was popular in high school, you know?

• 26:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, you must have been.

• 26:49Bunnie XO?

  Things to do. I had people to, places to go, people to see. So, one night, I snuck out. And I went out, partied, had fun, whatever. Come back home, climb into bed. Old Bill is in bed. Waiting on me.

• 27:08Bunnie XO?

  I got my ass kicked. It was fucked up.

• 27:10Speaker 03

  But you left out a part.

• 27:12Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 27:14Bunnie XO?

  Oh, God.

• 27:15Speaker 03

  Okay, so this went on.

• 27:18Speaker 03

  My, I don't know, it seemed to me like it was every night, once she figured out how to do this. Uh, I wouldn't even go to bed till like midnight. And, uh, about three o'clock in the morning, the phone's right next to me. That's when they had landlines.

• 27:35Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 27:36Speaker 03

  And, uh, three o'clock, phone would ring. Hello? This is the Las Vegas Police Department.

• 27:46Speaker 03

  Your daughter is here. Will you please come pick her up?

• 27:50Bunnie XO?

  Oh, man.

• 27:51Speaker 03

  Okay, I'll be right over. Well, because you have to. I can't like leave you there.

• 27:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 27:56Speaker 03

  You know, anything, or then I get in trouble too, so. But she would actually sneak out the window and God knows what she did after that. I'm sure she's partying with her friends and stuff. Party.

• 28:09Bunnie XO?

  Party.

• 28:10Speaker 03

  Well, Las Vegas, come on.

• 28:11Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. That's all we did when we were kids, was just party. We had a blast. My childhood was actually really fucking cool. I mean, besides all the fucking shit I put myself through, it was a cool childhood.

• 28:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:22Bunnie XO?

  You know?

• 28:23Speaker 03

  It's a good place.

• 28:25Bunnie XO?

  How do, Bill, how do you feel about how Bunny has made a brand out of her simply being her?

• 28:31Speaker 03

  Well, I don't really watch it.

• 28:37Speaker 03

  Because.

• 28:38Bunnie XO?

  Thanks, Dad. Most dads are like, I'm her number one fan.

• 28:42Speaker 03

  Well.

• 28:43Bunnie XO?

  He's like, no, bitch, I know you.

• 28:47Speaker 03

  I, you know, I, like I said, I'm never surprised. I mean, you, you don't surprise me with things that you do. So, sometimes I just don't wanna be surprised.

• 29:03Speaker 03

  You know, and I'm glad you're doing well.

• 29:04Bunnie XO?

  That's real.

• 29:05Speaker 03

  And, uh, I'm gonna get more involved, I'm sure.

• 29:09Bunnie XO?

  Oh, I don't care, Dad. You know, it doesn't bother me. I actually would prefer if you don't watch, because there's a lot of weird shit that happens. Um, let's see, let's see. What was the hardest thing you had to do, or that you realized as a parent?

• 29:27Speaker 03

  Raise girls.

• 29:29Bunnie XO?

  Oh, fuck.

• 29:31Speaker 03

  Because they don't have a very good choice of men sometimes. And, uh, you've already spoken about that.

• 29:40Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 29:40Speaker 03

  And when that happens, it's, it's a rough thing for the dad and for the, for you.

• 29:46Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 29:47Speaker 03

  And for anybody else who's involved.

• 29:50Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, you mean.

• 29:51Speaker 03

  It's hard to watch, you know, and it's, uh, you know.

• 29:54Bunnie XO?

  Raise them right, so that they don't attract those kind of men.

• 29:58Speaker 03

  You would think.

• 29:59Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 29:59Speaker 03

  I mean, it, that doesn't, it, it's like, these guys nowadays, uh, I'm sure there's some, you know, there's, there's some good ones out there, you know, but you gotta dig and find them. But there's a lot of them that are.

• 30:13Bunnie XO?

  I had to get mine, I had to find mine in Nashville.

• 30:16Speaker 03

  There you go.

• 30:16Bunnie XO?

  Yep.

• 30:17Speaker 03

  But, I mean, it, it's almost like they read the book on how to.

• 30:21Bunnie XO?

  Be narcissist.

• 30:23Speaker 03

  You know, whatever you wanna call it, but I mean, to be abusive and stuff to, to women and try to have them under thumb, instead of just, you know, why? You know, I, I don't get it, but it seems like they just, there's a book on it somewhere that they've read.

• 30:38Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 30:39Speaker 03

  I mean, because they couldn't have all just naturally done this.

• 30:41Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 30:42Speaker 03

  Unless they were raised by somebody like that, I guess.

• 30:44Bunnie XO?

  Oh, yeah, for sure. Genetics, too. Fucking mental illness, all that shit, all plays into it.

• 30:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:53Bunnie XO?

  What does a perfect life look like, Bill?

• 30:56Speaker 03

  The perfect life?

• 30:57Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 30:59Speaker 03

  I don't think there's a perfect life here.

• 31:01Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 31:02Speaker 03

  No, but we just have to make the best of it.

• 31:08Bunnie XO?

  Yep, for sure.

• 31:09Speaker 03

  Do what we think is right and right for others.

• 31:14Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I agree. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. What's the worst thing Bunny's ever done as a child?

• 31:22Speaker 03

  The worst thing?

• 31:23Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 31:25Speaker 03

  I don't know, you weren't, you know, you weren't a bad child at all, you were.

• 31:30Bunnie XO?

  I was very rambunctious and tenacious.

• 31:33Speaker 03

  Well, you're.

• 31:35Bunnie XO?

  My kindergarten teacher put that on my report card. She's very tenacious. That was my first big word I learned. I was like, what the fuck is tenacious? Five, looking it up in the dictionary.

• 31:46Speaker 03

  Well, you've always had a lot of energy and I'm glad now you're using it for your benefit.

• 31:52Bunnie XO?

  I used to get so hyphy that I would jump up and run straight into walls.

• 31:58Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah, there was a time. Well, of course, that was my fault.

• 32:06Speaker 03

  We were over at a friend's house, Mark and I don't.

• 32:09Bunnie XO?

  Was that the people whose makeup I got into?

• 32:12Speaker 03

  Probably.

• 32:13Bunnie XO?

  We went, my dad took me over to my, his boss's house one time for a nice dinner.

• 32:18Speaker 03

  Oh, Gary?

• 32:19Bunnie XO?

  Oh, was that who it was, Gary? And I got into his wife's makeup and smeared it all over the bathroom.

• 32:24Speaker 03

  Well, you were just little, I mean, it was, we were all raising kids at that time.

• 32:30Bunnie XO?

  And I used like her nice towels to try to wipe up all the makeup and shit.

• 32:36Bunnie XO?

  I was always in trouble, dude. I'm telling you, I literally, I don't know what the fuck was wrong with me. But I fucking, if there was trouble, I found it.

• 32:45Speaker 03

  I think trouble found you.

• 32:47Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, I agree. I couldn't agree more. How do you feel about Bunny and Jelly?

• 32:53Speaker 03

  Oh, I think you guys are a great couple.

• 32:56Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. How do you feel about Jason D Ford?

• 33:01Speaker 03

  He's a great person. I mean, that guy's got a heart.

• 33:05Speaker 03

  You know, that is, he loves, uh, all of his, uh, uh, you know, the people that, uh, you know, baby support his, his songs and his music.

• 33:17Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 33:17Speaker 03

  And, uh, but he loves everybody around.

• 33:19Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 33:20Speaker 03

  I've never seen him say a bad word about anybody.

• 33:22Bunnie XO?

  Mm-mm.

• 33:23Speaker 03

  Ever.

• 33:23Bunnie XO?

  It's not his style.

• 33:25Speaker 03

  It's not his style and he's, uh, but he's just got the biggest heart.

• 33:29Bunnie XO?

  It's what he has his wife for.

• 33:33Bunnie XO?

  I'm so protective over him. I'm just like, rrrr.

• 33:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, you are. But I think you'll make a great couple.

• 33:39Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. He say you love you some Jason D Ford is what you're saying.

• 33:44Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 33:46Bunnie XO?

  Um, what was the hardest thing to watch Bunny go through? Did we answer that already?

• 33:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, I think so.

• 33:52Bunnie XO?

  Hold on, let's see. We'll do a couple more and then we'll wrap this up because I know you are not thrilled about doing this. What is Bill's inspiration for his hair?

• 34:01Speaker 03

  My hair?

• 34:01Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 34:04Bunnie XO?

  Somebody noticed it. They said, what's the inspiration for the hair, Bill? Love it.

• 34:07Speaker 03

  Well, I like everybody calling my hair a mullet.

• 34:10Bunnie XO?

  Oh, God. He's got his Morgan Wallen going on.

• 34:15Speaker 03

  I have never, I don't know where everybody gets that mullet.

• 34:19Bunnie XO?

  Well, it's because it's, he got business in the front, party in the back.

• 34:22Speaker 03

  I don't look like that guy on, what was the name of that?

• 34:25Bunnie XO?

  Joe Exotic?

• 34:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, Jo- Joe, whatever his name is.

• 34:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, we got a few of those in here, too.

• 34:29Speaker 03

  Now, that's a mullet. That's a mullet.

• 34:31Bunnie XO?

  He's coming on the podcast. It's because you got the little fringes in the front, Dad.

• 34:35Speaker 03

  Well, but it's.

• 34:36Bunnie XO?

  You gotta push those back. No fringes.

• 34:39Speaker 03

  They fall.

• 34:41Bunnie XO?

  Hey, man, at least you got hair.

• 34:43Speaker 03

  You want to just a little bald spot there in the front?

• 34:45Bunnie XO?

  Why don't you do the bowl cut that you did to me on your hairdo?

• 34:49Speaker 03

  Bowl cut?

• 34:50Bunnie XO?

  Just fucking stick a bowl in there.

• 34:52Speaker 03

  Well, I do use RoboCut.

• 34:53Bunnie XO?

  Oh, Mike, what is that?

• 34:55Speaker 03

  It's like the bowl cut.

• 34:57Bunnie XO?

  You cut your own hair?

• 34:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 34:59Bunnie XO?

  Why?

• 35:00Speaker 03

  Because when anybody else does it, it's terrible.

• 35:04Bunnie XO?

  That's a Virgo. My dad's a Virgo.

• 35:05Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 35:06Bunnie XO?

  He is a perfectionist.

• 35:07Speaker 03

  I hate getting a haircut.

• 35:09Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 35:10Speaker 03

  Oh, I have one of these things you hook up to the vacuum cleaner and. Is it a Flowbee? Well, it's, yes, like that. It's called a RoboCut. I love it.

• 35:18Bunnie XO?

  My dad uses a fucking Flowbee.

• 35:22Speaker 03

  I've always used the one because every time I get a haircut, they cut it way too short. Yeah. Or they cut it weird and it's all different. Yeah, I can't, I can't do that.

• 35:32Bunnie XO?

  All right, well, you learn something new about your folks every day. I gotta, you know, now I gotta get you on film, cutting your hair, one of these times.

• 35:41Speaker 03

  Oh, no problem.

• 35:42Bunnie XO?

  That'll be fucking awesome. We'll do it. That'll be, that'll go viral on TikTok. That'll be fucking hilarious. How do you feel about your daughter's success? I think we answered that in a different way.

• 35:54Speaker 03

  Well, of course, I think it's great.

• 35:57Bunnie XO?

  What is your favorite rock band?

• 36:00Speaker 03

  Oh, my, Boston. I ju- I just love music the way it is. I mean, I like, you know, slow jazz all the way to, you know, rock and roll, like some country. Uh, but I don't have any just favorite bands.

• 36:20Speaker 03

  But Boston was one of the best.

• 36:22Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I know that every time I hear More Than a Feeling, I always think about you. Actually, when I hear like Doobie Brothers too, uh, Chicago.

• 36:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, I love, oh, Chicago. I love Chicago.

• 36:31Bunnie XO?

  Billy Ocean.

• 36:33Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. We used to do Billy Ocean in the living room in Vegas.

• 36:37Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 36:38Speaker 03

  Every night.

• 36:39Bunnie XO?

  I had to sing back a beep beep, yeah.

• 36:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. We'd be laying and singing it.

• 36:45Bunnie XO?

  Yep, no, we definitely.

• 36:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, Billy Ocean was good.

• 36:48Bunnie XO?

  We rocked out. Um, you know what? I think that's it, Dad. Pretty much everybody just wants to know what a frickin' nutbag I was as a child. Oh, wait, sorry. We have more questions. Hold on. I forgot. How did you feel when Bunny left home?

• 37:02Speaker 03

  That was, well, it was, it wasn't like he left. Well, I guess he kinda left home, but, uh, she was living with another family, um,

• 37:14Speaker 03

  one of her best friends.

• 37:16Bunnie XO?

  Tasha.

• 37:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, Tasha and her mom, but it's kinda like over in Vegas, they have the, the, uh, I mean, I could never do something like that. If Tasha would've come and stayed with us, I would've talked with Tasha's mom and said something and tried to work something out. Nobody ever said anything. You went over there and I didn't know where you were, you know, or I, well, I kinda figured you were there, but, it, the saddest day in my life was when we'd sold the house in La- in Las Vegas and

• 37:55Speaker 03

  We said, you know, once we had the trailers hooked up and the truck and all that stuff with everything in it, meet us here. If you want to come home with us, you can come home. And we waited and waited and waited at that time, and you never showed up, and we had to leave without you.

• 38:13Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 38:14Speaker 03

  And that was like leaving your child in another state. But that's what you wanted.

• 38:21Bunnie XO?

  In my dad's defense, I left home because you and Michelle like argued all the time about money, which I think is another reason why I've been such a hustler, you know? And then do you remember the one time when we were standing in the driveway and I was like, Dad, you don't have to buy me school clothes. You know, I'll figure it out. I'll do it myself. And you were like, shut up. I have to take care of you till you're 18. You know, just whatever. We had that conversation. And I just didn't want to be a burden anymore. You know, like I just wanted to roll out because I just didn't want to deal with it. So it wasn't you. I was just such a headstrong kid that I wanted to be on my own. I wanted to do it myself. I love you. You look like you got a little tear in your eye, Dad.

• 39:01Speaker 03

  Well, you were only 15, you know, at that time.

• 39:05Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 39:05Speaker 03

  So it was kind of, you know, something that nobody wants to go through.

• 39:10Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, for sure. But I mean, we've gotten through it and, you know, we're stronger than ever and

• 39:14Speaker 03

  We're back together again.

• 39:15Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, everything happens for a reason. I just, I've always wanted to do my own thing. Literally. That's exactly how I was as a child. I've just always wanted to do my own thing. So it didn't matter that me and Michelle didn't get along. I would have left anyways at an early age because I just was ready. I don't know. I literally left home and just never looked back. And it wasn't because I wanted to hurt anybody. It was just because I had shit to do, you know, and I was just ready to fucking do it. Bill, how do you not have any gray hair?

• 39:47Speaker 03

  Well, being 45.

• 39:53Speaker 03

  Staying that way my whole life, it seems. I just don't have any.

• 39:58Bunnie XO?

  I told my dad, my whole life has told people he's 45 and finally I was like, the other day, I was like, Dad, you can't say that anymore. I was like, you have a fucking doubt. You gotta at least move it up to 50. Okay. Tell people you're 50. Who's your celebrity crush?

• 40:13Speaker 03

  Celebrity crush?

• 40:14Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm. It was Sophia, what's her face, right?

• 40:19Bunnie XO?

  Sophia Loren?

• 40:20Speaker 03

  Oh, boy. That's a, yeah, that's an old crush.

• 40:23Bunnie XO?

  I remember you, yeah, I remember you had a crush on her.

• 40:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:28Speaker 03

  Nobody even knows who that is now.

• 40:30Bunnie XO?

  I do.

• 40:31Speaker 03

  You do?

• 40:32Bunnie XO?

  Um, who's your celebrity crush now?

• 40:36Speaker 03

  I really don't.

• 40:37Bunnie XO?

  He's like, I don't even fucking care.

• 40:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't have any.

• 40:41Bunnie XO?

  Did you, did Bunny inherit her pimp skills naturally from you?

• 40:47Speaker 03

  I don't exactly know what pimp skills are. So, I would probably say no.

• 40:54Bunnie XO?

  My dad's a smooth daddy-o though. Um, I think that's, um, I think we'll go ahead and leave it at that and wrap it up and go eat dinner and just enjoy each other while you're here.

• 41:06Speaker 03

  Sounds great.

• 41:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. I love you, Dad. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. It was painless, right?

• 41:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, no pain.

• 41:15Bunnie XO?

  It wasn't, it wasn't as crazy as you thought it was gonna be.

• 41:18Speaker 03

  No.

• 41:19Bunnie XO?

  Well, I love you so much and

• 41:20Speaker 03

  Love you too.

• 41:21Bunnie XO?

  I want you to come back on whenever you feel like it.

• 41:23Speaker 03

  Sure.

• 41:23Bunnie XO?

  I won't, I'll, I'll let you go another two years without coming on. How about that?

• 41:26Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 41:28Bunnie XO?

  Thank you guys so much for listening to another episode of Don Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye.