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Bunnie XO · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is on with Mario Lopez. You're all Mario Lopez
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  Speaker 1: joining me right now, podcast or influencer, author, and she's
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  Speaker 1: married to one of the biggest country stars on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: My man, Jelly Roll, Bunny Xcel. How are you, Bunny,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, babe?
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  Speaker 1: I'm well, thank you for asking. Congratulations. Your new memoir
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  Speaker 1: just came out called stripped Down, unfiltered, and unapologetic, and
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  Speaker 1: you're really talking about everything here, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, isn't that the point of writing a memoir?
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  Speaker 2: You got to use it like a diary?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely. What's the most surprising thing fans are gonna
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  Speaker 1: find out when they read.
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  Speaker 2: Surprising?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I mean, because I give so
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  Speaker 2: much of myself online and in the podcast, But I
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  Speaker 2: think surprising is just the entire story.
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  Speaker 3: Once they see it all unfold together, I think they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be like, oh, yeah, okay, this explains everything.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you also talk about originally meeting Jelly
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  Speaker 1: Row in the book is a tree who was living
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  Speaker 1: in a van at the.
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  Speaker 3: Time at Big Bertha, a big brown band that had
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  Speaker 3: a map dress. Mario, When I tell you, this van
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  Speaker 3: was so dirty and so disgusting. I was like, how
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  Speaker 3: are at least three to five guys living in this van?
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  Speaker 4: Like it was so and he loves that van's love
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  Speaker 4: I love as a staple And cut to now one
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  Speaker 4: of the biggest music stars on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: I love those kind of stories. And I saw on
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  Speaker 1: your ig you guys live on a.
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  Speaker 3: Farm now, right, we do, and we've got Crunch and
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  Speaker 3: some Moore and Nova and Donkey. You never realize how
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  Speaker 3: much animals just bring you so much joy until you
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  Speaker 3: own them and you're just like, oh my god, this
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  Speaker 3: is like these are my children.
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  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right about that.
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  Speaker 2: And do you have animals?
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  Speaker 1: I have dogs? Okay, yeah, you have three dogs, so
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  Speaker 1: we love but you know here in La it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of hard to have. Yeah, a bunch of this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You're also doing a tour with his book as well,
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  Speaker 1: The Bunny Exo stripped down, unfiltered and unapologetic tour. What
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna be doing when you hit the stage
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  Speaker 1: with these shows?
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  Speaker 3: So when they first came to me, they were like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: do you want a tour to do this book? I
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  Speaker 3: was like, absolutely not, because that's what I do for
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  Speaker 3: a living with my husband.
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  Speaker 2: But they were like, we'll let you do it your way,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, if I'm going to do a book tour, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to bookstores to sign books.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I want to put on a late night.
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  Speaker 1: Talk show fun.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's how we have scripted this entire show.
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  Speaker 2: It is just a late night talk show.
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  Speaker 3: We have special guests that will come out in every
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  Speaker 3: city and surprise the guests that'll be there, I haven't
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  Speaker 3: announced to any of them are, but it's just going
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  Speaker 3: to be a night full of.
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  Speaker 2: Fun, entertainment, music and just.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everybody getting to hang and forget about the
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  Speaker 3: world for at least an hour to you know, an
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  Speaker 3: hour and a half.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good time. That's a good time. And you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned your podcast dumb Blonde, funny title and you sit
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  Speaker 1: down all kinds of people. I mean, you've had Jan
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  Speaker 1: bon Jovi with Khalif Mariy Povich. That's gotta be so
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  Speaker 1: much fun. You still enjoy that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm having a blast.
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  Speaker 3: And I actually named it dun blonde because you know,
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  Speaker 3: when I first got with my husband, everybody used to
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  Speaker 3: be like, oh, she's just a dumb blonde. And then
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  Speaker 3: our Dolly Parton, who's one of my you know idols
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  Speaker 3: that I look up to.
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  Speaker 2: Her first hit on the radio was dumb Blonde, so it's.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like an oxymoron tongue in cheek, and they're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: when she starts talking, maybe she.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't so much of a dumb blonde. So I'm loving it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm having a blast. I love being a safe space
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  Speaker 2: for people.
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  Speaker 3: To come on and tell their truth and their stories
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  Speaker 3: of survival and like what they did to rise up
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  Speaker 3: from the ashes. I just find so much power in
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  Speaker 3: people's stories and their authenticity and I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I agree, that's that's very therapeutic too.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Oh for sure, you mentioned touring. I know you're going
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  Speaker 1: on tour. I know I know Jelly's doing a tour
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  Speaker 1: with Post. Are you out on the road with him
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  Speaker 1: as well? Are you to be balancing tours?
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  Speaker 2: So I only have four show dates.
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  Speaker 3: I did a very small tour because I know what
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  Speaker 3: tours intel. But anytime my husband goes.
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  Speaker 2: On tour, ever since he first started touring, he always
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  Speaker 2: wants me to be there with him. So now I get.
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  Speaker 3: My own bus and it's we call it it's my
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  Speaker 3: group of girlfriends call us the covin because we're just like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just this bonded group of powerful women.
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  Speaker 2: And we have our own bus. It's all girls. We
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  Speaker 2: do crock pot meals on the bus. We like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a girl pad. So we'll be out with
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  Speaker 2: him on the post went on tour.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure exactly what dates, but we always announce
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  Speaker 3: it online and everybody shows up and it's a good time.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like such a fun time right there. What
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  Speaker 1: a cool fun marriage.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I get to check out that show. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: come out, Wes, will you.
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  Speaker 3: Please come to a shop at Slater in the flash,
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  Speaker 3: I think you've met my husband though, right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I never have. I never have. My gosh,
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  Speaker 1: we got to.
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  Speaker 2: Make that happen. I would love you. He just left
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  Speaker 2: her and he was so excited we were going to talk.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, well, tell him, tell him a fan. I
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  Speaker 1: hope to check out the show and hopefully somebody will
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  Speaker 1: connect us so.
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  Speaker 2: We'll make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, well, congratulations on the new memoir and
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  Speaker 1: on everything you've got going on, and everyone listen. Be
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  Speaker 1: sure to check out Monddy's new memoir Stripped Down, which
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  Speaker 1: is out now, and were podcast dumb one on YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your pods. Bunny, thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for checking in.
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  Speaker 2: Mario, thank you so much. I'll see you soon. We
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  Speaker 2: got to get you on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I appreciate it. Sounds good.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: But okay, thank you. Nice meeting you, hope, time to
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  Speaker 1: you in person, all right? Fraser, who get up with
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez