#331 - Hulk Hogan's Best Friend Speaks on Suspicious Death & $62 Million Lie | Bubba the Love Sponge

Summary

Danny Jones Podcast #331 — Hulk Hogan's Best Friend Speaks: Suspicious Death & $62 Million Lie | Bubba the Love Sponge

Date: September 12, 2025
Guests: Bubba the Love Sponge, Concrete Clem
Host: Danny Jones

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Episode Overview

This episode is a raw, wide-ranging conversation between Danny Jones and infamous radio host Bubba the Love Sponge, with contributions from Concrete Clem. The central themes are the untold true story behind the Hulk Hogan sex tape scandal, the suspicious circumstances of Hogan’s recent death, media industry war stories, behind-the-scenes feuds, and the evolution of broadcast/podcast culture. Bubba, facing decades of controversy, finally lays out his evidence and emotional perspective—with humor, bitterness, and unapologetic candor.

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Table of Contents

1. Podcasting & Broadcast Evolution
2. Bubba's Media Wars & The Howard Stern Rivalry
3. Hogan’s Suspicious Death—First to Report
4. The Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Saga — Myths, Lawsuits, and $62 Million
5. Personal Stories: Regrets, Lost Friendships & Industry Changes
6. Podcast Guest Drama & the Matt Cox Situation
7. Crazy Radio Bits, Lawsuits, and Wild Radio Era Stories
8. Media Censorship, Politics & AI’s Threat
9. Memorable Quotes
10. Timestamps for Key Segments

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1. Podcasting & Broadcast Evolution <a name="podcasting"></a>

• The Changing Landscape: Both host and guest reflect on how podcasting has replaced radio as the dominant form of talk entertainment, with much less gatekeeping and more audience reach.
• Podcasting Bubble? Bubba predicts a coming “dot-com bubble-like" collapse ("podcasting is becoming so watered down... all these people... are going to quit because...making money in podcasting is not as easy as just two people bullshitting.” - Bubba, 13:32).
• Gentlemanly Competition: Bubba notes podcasting is more collaborative than radio, with top hosts (like Rogan) boosting newcomers, whereas radio was cutthroat.
• New Studios: Danny and Bubba discuss building new podcast studios styled after Tim Pool or Pat McAfee, showing how the on-air business is moving towards quasi-compound “content factories.” (03:12-03:50)

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2. Bubba's Media Wars & The Howard Stern Rivalry <a name="mediawars"></a>

• Rising Star vs. The King: Bubba recalls a period where his call volume rivaled Howard Stern's, and claims SiriusXM dropped him partly because management believed he was a serious threat ("Why do we have to pay Howard $100 million when we can pay Bubba $5 million and get nearly the same audience?” - Bubba, 10:32).
  • “I posed a threat to Howard... that's one of the reasons why they fired me.” (10:48)
• The Reality of 'Sexy' Media: Radio is no longer the “sexiest thing on the dashboard”; now it's all about being on mobile and digital. (12:18)

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3. Hogan’s Suspicious Death—First to Report <a name="hogandeath"></a>

• Breaking the News: Bubba claims to have been the first to report Hogan’s imminent death, initially dismissed as a clout-chaser but says he was tipped off by credible insiders, including hospital staff and even a valet. (17:33-19:00)
  • “I was the first and only guy to go out on a limb and say he was gonna die.” (17:33)
• Reporting Danger: He details navigating legal landmines, reporting “in my opinion” and challenging Hogan's lawyers to shut him up with a "770 notice" if he was wrong—but they never did. (23:23)
• Final Days of Hogan: Bubba recounts Hogan’s rushed neck surgery, defiance of medical advice, final hospitalization, and sequence of family visits before dying at home, likely of heart complications—but with possible complicating factors including leukemia and overwork. (26:21)
• Controversial Autopsy Speculation: Early speculation of overdose or opioid involvement was walked back after family satisfaction with the official report.
  • “Brooke came down... met with the medical examiners... was satisfied with their investigation. So that’s when I kind of laid off.” (27:19)

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4. The Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Saga — Myths, Lawsuits, and $62 Million <a name="sex-tape"></a>

• The Scandal Revisited: Bubba gives a detailed account of the chain of events—his decision to record bedroom activity for legal protection (after a prior false accusation), how tapes not destroyed ended up stolen, shopped, and leaked.
  • “I became public enemy number one because I didn’t destroy that tape when I should have... It made Hogan rich, it ruined my life.” (100:30)
• Major Players: Explains how the unauthorized tape was mishandled, sold, and wound up in Gawker’s hands—discussing extortion, FBI stings, and shifting legal responsibility, ultimately leading to Hogan’s epic $62 million haul.
• Peter Thiel’s Secret Role: Describes how Peter Thiel, outed by Gawker, secretly bankrolled Hogan’s legal battle. (81:10)
• $62 Million Lie: The myth that Bubba profited while Hogan suffered is debunked ("It made Hogan rich. It ruined my life... Hogan sued Gawker and Cox, both settled for huge sums” - 85:59–89:27)
• Public Enemy & Lost Friendship: Bubba expresses bitterness that Hogan never publicly exonerated him, even after admitting to family that Bubba wasn’t the leaker, thereby forcing him to bear the brunt of public scorn and career destruction.

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5. Personal Stories: Regrets, Lost Friendships & Industry Changes <a name="personal"></a>

• Regret & Reflection: Bubba is candid and vulnerable about being “canceled before canceling was a thing,” about the end of his friendship with Hogan, and feeling like a villain largely for speaking the truth and holding public figures accountable.
  • “I wish I could have been there for him [Hogan] when he died... but I hope my documentary gives people the true perspective.” (104:33-105:39)
• Media Backstabbing: Shares pain over industry betrayals, including Howard Stern’s and, more recently, Tucker Carlson’s distancing after being supported early on.
• Radio vs Podcasting: Considers his own late entry to podcasting, challenges of booking guests, and shifting revenue models.

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6. Podcast Guest Drama & the Matt Cox Situation <a name="guestdrama"></a>

• Matt Cox Backstory: Bubba tells the story of a falling out with rising podcast star Matt Cox, not over personal beef but because Cox “lacks a filter” and made comments about Bubba’s guest Dr. Diaco’s surgical litigation live on air.
  • “Matt doesn’t know when to be couth or have any couth.” (67:01)
• Admiration and Openness to Reconcile: Bubba’s honest assessment of Cox (“He’s brilliant... tell fascinating stories... he’s the prime example of the good stuff that will stick when the rest falls away”) and hopes for reconciliation (172:18).

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7. Crazy Radio Bits, Lawsuits, and Wild Radio Era Stories <a name="radiobits"></a>

• Notorious Stunts: Bubba reviews infamous radio contests (“12 boobs of Christmas,” “drag racing” with squirt distances), and the notorious “roadkill barbecue” (where he was nearly jailed for slaughtering a hog live on air, but was eventually acquitted).
• Pranks and Lawsuits: Reminisces about being the most-sued shock jock after Stern, and how local politics and enemies (e.g., state attorney Mark Ober) tried repeatedly to ruin him.
  • “I got canceled before cancel was a thing.” (157:58)
• Survival in a Changing World: Contrasts the anything-goes 90s/2000s radio world with today’s legal and social-justice sensitivities—expressing both nostalgia, embarrassment, and relief.

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8. Media Censorship, Big Tech, Politics & AI’s Threat <a name="censorship"></a>

• YouTube & Big Tech Censorship: Both lament the new world of algorithmic demonetization, shadow banning, and arbitrary bans for speech ("Seven seconds of copyright and you’re out" — Bubba).
• Covid & Pharma Influence: Bubba describes being banned for talking about Ivermectin, even when interviewing a doctor, due to WHO guidelines and ad-friendly distortions (115:02).
• AI & Social Disconnection: The group discusses the impact and future of AI, recounting the Netflix film ‘Companion’ and the movie ‘Her’ as chilling previews of relationship disruption. Bubba marvels at how AI can now write more accurate bios for him than any publicist ever could.
  • “I asked AI to tell me about Bubba the Love Sponge and it wrote something better than any publicist I could have ever paid.”
• Political Disillusionment: Bubba and Danny riff on polarization, dislike of extremes on both sides, and a sense of loss for the “majority” of common-sense Americans drowned out by activist minorities.

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9. Memorable Quotes & Moments <a name="quotes"></a>

• “I was the first and only guy to go out on a limb and say [Hogan] was gonna die.” — Bubba the Love Sponge (17:33)
• “I posed a threat to Howard... that's one of the reasons why they fired me.” (10:48)
• “I became public enemy number one because I didn’t destroy that tape when I should have... It made Hogan rich, it ruined my life.” (100:30)
• “That’s the world I live in... he grabbed her phone, erases the video, cops are called, and she almost gets charged!” (154:38-157:09)
• “Podcasting is more gentlemanly than terrestrial cutthroat radio.” (15:36)
• “There’s going to be a ‘podcast bubble’ and only the good are going to survive.” (13:32)
• “I got canceled before cancel was a thing.” (157:58)
• “He was such a narcissist... he had to keep working... even after winning $62 million, he kept hustling his beer brand until he worked himself to death.” (37:24)
• “‘I wish I could have been there for him when he died... I hope the documentary gives people the truth.’” (104:33-105:39)

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10. Timestamps for Important Segments <a name="timestamps"></a>

• 03:12-03:50 New podcast studios, content compounds, Tim Pool’s setup.
• 10:32-11:50 SiriusXM/Howard Stern rivalry & why Bubba was dropped.
• 13:13-17:13 Podcasting trends—dot-com bubble analogy, the podcast “purge”.
• 17:33-27:20 Bubba’s account of breaking Hogan’s death, investigation, and aftermath.
• 59:00-70:00 Crazy listener story: Concrete Clem’s barbecue, fight, and injury saga.
• 81:10-90:02 Sex tape story, extortion details, Peter Thiel’s secret financing, why Bubba lost everything.
• 104:33-105:56 Bubba’s heartbreak over lost friendship with Hogan, being scapegoated.
• 126:15-131:45 AI, media manipulation, generational disconnect in dating, future tech fears.
• 134:09-147:00 Most outrageous radio stunts (“drag racing,” sex tape legal minefields, roadkill barbecue trial).
• 154:38-157:09 Bubba’s fiancé’s confrontation with Mike Calta, police refusal to charge, systemic bias against him.
• 157:58-162:00 What it means to be "canceled"; the emotional toll of being the perpetual villain.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a must-listen for anyone curious about:

• The truth behind Hulk Hogan’s private scandals & death
• How old-school radio became new-age podcasting (and what the future holds)
• What it’s like to be infamous, ruined by others’ greed
• The evolution and pitfalls of American media in the age of censorship and AI

Bubba the Love Sponge emerges as both brash and strangely sympathetic, a survivor scarred by lawsuits, betrayals, and being misunderstood. The podcast ends on a forward-looking note: plugging his new documentary "Video Killed the Radio Star," available now—and hinting at possible industry reconciliation and new beginnings.

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Where to find Bubba the Love Sponge:

• YouTube: The Bubba Army
• New documentary ("Video Killed the Radio Star"): Available on Apple TV, Google Play, and Amazon.

Listen to the full episode for more wild stories and raw industry insight!

Transcript

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

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[Danny]

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[Danny]

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[Bubba the Love Sponge]

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[Bubba the Love Sponge]

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[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Hello.

[Danny]

We're back.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Hello. Go to bed, you little fetus. How old are you? I'm 12. Call me in six years. Call me when you got some pubes. What's your name? Lisa. Lisa, do you go to middle school? Yes. Is your mom and dad still together? No. Good. How would you like to ride in a love spudge limousine tomorrow to school while I'm your mom tomorrow night? That's some power pig stuff right there.

[Danny]

Miss those days. Oh, my God. I was. I came in after the power pig days.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I came in the 98.

[Danny]

I came in the bone days. The bone.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, the boat. You were. You weren't even a 98 rocker.

[Danny]

No, I'm. It was. It would have been 2006.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, that would have been the bone. Yeah, we were even.

[Danny]

I was in the back of a. Of a paint painting truck. Money and painting truck. Driving to work every morning at 5 to 6am in the back of a paint truck, listening to Bubba every single morning.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And now look at you. You're a superstar. You got more. You got more. More listeners than I do. Jacked up on the. On the. On the. On the gas. Getting ready to get a new studio. I mean, just look at you drinking cranium drinks and nicotine patches and pouches galore. God, I think you bought the whole building from the. From. I think you bought this whole building AC people, didn't you?

[Danny]

No.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, okay. No, no, no, no.

[Danny]

We're moving out of here, bro. We got a new place up. Up in Scientology land.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I know when you guys. When you guys start that, man.

[Danny]

We've been doing construction since March and we're moving. We're trying to move in next month.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Really?

[Danny]

Yeah, we just got to finish up the little.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

What's going to be the difference? Is it going to be kind of like a Pat McAfee? Like, kind of. You know, let me see. All kinds of content.

[Danny]

We got. We got a gym, a full gym in there. We got the golf simulator going in. We. Man cave. Theater with a bar, like a movie theater.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Have you ever seen Tim Pool pipe? Have you ever seen Tim Pool set up Badass. I did Tim Pool's podcast.

[Danny]

Did you?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Six months ago. Oh, no. Yeah. In the middle of West Virginia.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And a big compound. And you should see his. He's got like.

[Danny]

If you got a half pipe, he's.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Got like a 10 pike. I don't know what the hell.

[Danny]

He's got a full skate park in there.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Full blown.

[Danny]

Yeah, full blown. Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know, but I. I mean, I don't know if. I don't know if him and I see you and I can jive a little bit, you know, But I. I was really nervous there.

[Danny]

Really?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, because it was very political, and I'm not that political, you know, and. Right. I think my buddy Alex Stein got me booked on there and they had me on. Oh, listen, great dude. Great dude. Big, big audience. Smart. You know what I think? Because I think he's so smart that he. That he, like, I felt stupid, you know? You know, I mean. Yeah, he's so, so, so smart.

[Danny]

Yeah. Yeah, he's a super smart political. He's. He's really into the political stuff.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. And this does like six shows a day.

[Danny]

Does he really?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He does. Like Tim Pool irl then. Tim Pool uncensored.

[Danny]

Oh, yeah. He's got all those different shows.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. Then he's got. So when you pull into his Compound. He's got this one house that's on the outside of the compound, and it's got two studios in it for two different shows. And then he's got this big warehouse with where the full pike and the skateboard deals.

[Danny]

And the craziest thing to me about Tim Pool is like, I've. I've always seen his interviews, like his Rogan interviews and his pod, obviously, his podcast, which is incredible. But the first time I ever saw him, like, not. You know, usually when you see. When you're used to seeing people talking on talk shows, you only see him from, like, here up, and you're used to that. And when you see him from head to toe, it's kind of like throws you off.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. And he always keeps the same. He's got that same cap with that same. Same gimmick on the. For.

[Danny]

I saw a video of him on Instagra a year or so ago of skateboarding, and he rips on a skateboard.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, dude, he rips like you wouldn't believe. He was. They were just over there when I was there. They were just kind of like, maybe screwing around a little bit, and he was going down these rails and, you know, and then here's my fat ass, who. You know, if I got on a skateboard, I'd break it, you know, And I'm like, look at all these skinny guys over here half piking and stuff. I am so out of my element, you know what I'm saying? I mean, where's the buffet?

[Danny]

Yeah, dude.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's a good dude, though, man.

[Danny]

Good dude.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know, I've not done a lot. I've not done a lot of podcasts.

[Danny]

I know you haven't.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Just you, Tim Pool, and I don't think I've done anybody else, really. Maybe a couple little ones. Like, I think I did something.

[Danny]

Well, the funny thing is, is you had the king of podcasts on your radio show years ago, Joe Rogan, which is incredible.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, what a good.

[Danny]

It was such a good interview, too. He's talking about, like, doing dmt.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. Licking frogs.

[Danny]

Frogs. And he's like, what did he day. He. He described himself as the conduit between the stoners and the juice heads or something like that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, yeah. And, you know, I didn't even really app. You know, I. I knew, you know, knew of Joe from. From. Was it Survivor or. No. Fear. Fear. Fear factor. And then I knew a standup. You know, this is in 2008. Little did I know that, you know, he would come on to be One, you know, the, the largest in the space.

[Danny]

Did you ever think that even when you had him on?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Told me so. When, when we were done, we, and at that time I was doing two shows a day. I was doing mornings on the Bone, which was syndicated on like 19 or 20 stations terrestrially. And then we would take a four hour break and then we would do afternoons on Sirius XM. So as I'm walking 10, as I'm walking Joe out, Joe's like, hey man, what you should do is after this show, this, this, this uncensored SiriusXM show, you should sit down for like 45 minutes, you and the boys, and just bullshit about anything, you know, any, anything that you didn't get to on this show, just, and put it up as a podcast. Make it a little kind of exclusive for people to, to get, but make it different from what you're doing. And I'm like, Joe, man, I'm so tired now. And you know, I, I, I got a family and everything. I don't even know anything about this podcasting or whatever. He's like, just, just think about it, man, was I stupid for not listening. You know, I should, I should have jumped right on it. But he's got, he, what, what a, what a brilliant mind and what a, what a, what a great career.

[Danny]

And you know, the crazy thing about him to me is that he's like, not only is he at the top, not of, not just podcasting, I mean, he's at the top of media and he gets more downloads and views than all media combined, but he also is the number one, like he does out of all the podcasts, I think he puts out more than any other podcaster. He literally records four or five days a week.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, he's, he's, he has got, he's, he's, he's pop culture now. Meaning, like if you want your message delivered or you are, want to know what's going on in the world or want to be able to think outside the media box, the, you know, the standard. Then you go to Joe and everybody, I mean, the numbers are astronomical. And he has become, you know, I worked for Howard, you know, I, I, and I don't ever speak illy of Howard, but he is the king of media. I mean, Joe Rogan is the new. I don't know if he's the new. I think it's been, it's been, it's been that way for a while. But he also still is still out, just an absolute rock star on, on ufc. You know, I Mean, he doesn't really need that if, you know, if he didn't, if he, but he must. He just absolutely loves it. And I mean, you know, he is, he's, he sells out, you know, arenas for his comedy.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So. And then, and he made the best decision of all was getting the out of California and going to Texas. So God bless him, man. What a good dude.

[Danny]

Yeah, man, he is, he is absolutely on fire. But, like, for you, what has it been like? Because you were the, you were the equivalent of, I mean, you weren't like Howard Stern level, but you were like.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Actually during my, when we were at. If you, when I know that you've watched the documentary. And there was a time where my call volume was larger than Howard's when I worked with him. Now, at that time, they didn't have a way to gauge. They didn't have Nielsen or Arbitron or anything, and they still don't, but they didn't have a way. The only way they would gauge how good a show was doing was how many attempted callers. Now, I don't know if that's the right way to gauge or not, but at one time, I had more people attempting to call my show than Howard. Now, you can attribute that a little bit to maybe mornings versus afternoons. People in afternoon might be more likely to call than in the morning when they're first waking up. But, you know, my one, one of the reasons why Sirius XM got rid of me is because I posed a threat to Howard. Oh, really? And if you watch the documentary, you know, my agent says, you know, why would Howard want me on his channel? Went for pennies on the dollar because Howard, Howard's manager, Don Buckwald, who's now dead, told Tim Sabian, who was the president of Howard's channels, when they were getting rid of me, they're like, listen, management at Sirius XM is going to use Bubba against us in negotiation. Why do we, why, why can, why do we have to pay Howard 100 million when we can pay Bubba 5 million and get nearly the same audience? So that's why I got offed from Sirius xm. That's. A lot of people don't know that. And I've not told that story anywhere. But, you know, I, I, I have validation through the guy, Tim Sabian, who ran the channels, who was the program director of Howard 100 and 101 and was part of getting me fired. And that was one of the reasons why they fired me.

[Danny]

That's such a crazy thing, how the, that media landscaped The, The. Just like the talk media landscape has shifted so much because that sounds like such a petty way of doing business, like a. Such a. A weird sort of.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars now. So you're talking about, like, they're paying me a million five.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And they're paying Howard a hundred million. So, I mean, you know, there's a. There's a lot at stake there. So Howard, people. Howard's agent needs to protect that 100 million. And he's got a guy in here, some white trash from Florida, that's doing it for a million five.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And he's afraid management's going to come to him and say, listen, Buckwald, we got numb nuts Bubba doing it for a million five. Why do we want to pay Howard 100 million?

[Danny]

Right. I guess so.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's such a. It's the. The numbers are. The reason why it's so cutthroat is because the numbers are astronomical as far as what Howard was making. Right.

[Danny]

And that all of the viewers are on this one specific platform during this one specific time. And it's a subscription thing. It's not.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's.

[Danny]

It's the complete opposite of YouTube, basically.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And. And it's not nearly as sexy now as it was then. You know, in, oh, right, in, oh seven, oh eight, you know, Sirius XM was about the sexiest person on the dashboard. You know, as far as dashboard real estate, I mean, you know, you. It wasn't as easy to pipe your Google Play or, you know, Your Apple I iTunes through your dashboard as it is now. I mean, every car now is it, you know, you Bluetooth in. And there you are. I can listen to you guys. I can listen to Rogan. I can listen to any, you know, Adam Kroll. I can listen to anybody. I don't have to listen. I don't have to be hooked up to a signal, per se. I just have to have cell service.

[Danny]

Exactly.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And so now what Sirius XM was, in 07.08, super sexy on the dashboard has now become right here. You gotta have. You got to deliver your content to. To. To this device in order to be relevant.

[Danny]

Right?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, you know, whether it's YouTube, you know, whether it's podcasting, but most of it's aggregated through a cell phone.

[Danny]

And the. When you have to do. When you have to publish all of your stuff on social media and your show has to live on social media and be in competition with millions of other shows that are doing the same exact thing, and there's so much crazy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I'm looking for the. Remember back in the 90s where they had the dot com bubble burst, so they had the dot com craze and everybody had a dot com. They had Wipe my ass dot com. They had every dot com you can think of. And, and these dot coms were making, you know, lots of money. Well, then, then it burst. Then the dot com bubble burst and only the good punched through. Only the relevant stuff on the dot com world punched through. I'm. I don't know if I'll be around, but I think that that's going to happen with podcasting. I think podcasting is becoming so watered down and so much out there that I think eventually all these people that are producing are going to quit because they don't realize that making money in podcasting is not as easy as just two people bullshitting. It's, it's, it's a slow burn. It's the right guest, it's the right host, it's the right, you know, it's aggregating through the right channels. It the right algorithm, it's the right hashtag, it's the right everything. And the average person who gets fired from radio or whatever thinks that they can just start or any or anybody that has $100 can go rent a podcast studio. And they think instantaneously they're going to have a huge audience. And so I, I podcasting, I still think needs the kind of cleanse the moment because there's just so much out there.

[Danny]

Yes.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know, but it does also when you are, you have a following, it makes it, you know, it makes it that much more special when you do have the numbers to back up a good podcast.

[Danny]

Right. And the other way it's so much different than radio is that like, it's not like if I get a million views and I, there's another guy who has a podcast next door to me who gets a million million view. Like, it's not like, hey, man, I want to come promote you or, or talk about your show. It's not like I have to give up any of my listeners for you.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

To get more listeners. Right, Right. Casting is more gentlemanly than terrestrial cutthroat radio.

[Danny]

Exactly.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So it's like, you know, not like, yeah, it's more like gentlemanly. It's more like the way it used to be back in the old times when you tried to help out your neighbor rather than to, you know, being at war with your neighbor.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You want to help your guy if you think he's cool. Or, you know, because you've established your crowd and they're going to come, they're not leaving your brand, you know, but if you can help a buddy out who's cool and can bring something to the table. Podcasting tends to be more like that than any other forum of media. You know, like terrestrial radio. It's all about cutthroat, man. If I'm losing, if I'm. If my listener's not listening, there's only.

[Danny]

X amount of listeners and you're not sharing them.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

There's only 17, 18, 19 radio stations and I gotta have that guy on my channel or I'm.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know, whereas podcasting seems to be the buddy system a little bit. A little bit. You know, now there's people that have huge numbers that aren't going to help the guy that's got, you know, 314 followers, you know, but, but, but you.

[Danny]

Have the standout people like Joe Rogan, who's like the number one in the world, who has nobodies on his show.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Literally nobody.

[Danny]

Just because he wants to help them and because he thinks that they have some sort of.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And they're interesting.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I think that's what Joe really cares the most about. You know, I don't think Joe looks at numbers as much as he looks at the message. You know, what, what? You know, because he'll get into some deep. And it's really interesting and the guy is not really even, you know, promoting his channel or promoting what he's got going. He's just very interesting. And I think Joe's probably one of the best at sniffing through what's good and what's not.

[Danny]

Right. Hey, guys, if you're not already subscribed, please hammer the subscribe button below and hit the like button on the video back to the show. So about, I don't know, was it three months ago? Shane sent me the video. The first video I think you ever published about Hogan being in sick or being in the hospital.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I was the first and only guy to go on out on a limb and say that he was gonna die. June 18th, June 18th. I remember, I remember that right.

[Concrete Clem]

To dance.

[Danny]

He sent it to me the day he posted it. I'm like, bubba is losing his. I'm like, bubba's just doing anything.

[Concrete Clem]

Everybody thought I was just trying to get some traction.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I heard it all. Clout, chaser, clickbaiter, irrelevant, you know, desperate. The whole nine yards. They don't realize that I had some very good insources. Now I've befriended Brooke recently, but Brooke wasn't my resource. I had. I had. I had people within the hospital do, you know, down a little bit. Do you. You know, when you're on to something and. And a lot of times, then you kind of have the. The. The Johnny come lately effect. So if you're onto something and you're first on a particular topic, then a lot of times that will lead to other people jumping on and giving you intel as well.

[Danny]

Yes.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So I actually even had the valet guy at Morton Plant that was calling me and letting me know the comings and goings as to who's going where.

[Danny]

Clearwater.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah.

[Danny]

Wow.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So, I mean, that's where Hogan was. The. His last stint was at Morton Platt. Prior to that, he was at Tampa General.

[Danny]

So how did this start?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It started with email to the show, on my show, and it just said, hey, I work at Tampa General. Please do not say my name, but Hogan, Hulk Hogan. Your friend is not doing well. And that's all it was. And at that point, the guy. I should have probably said the person. So I. I mean, but I mean, at this point, Hogan's dead, but the guy gave me his information to call him. So I did my show the next day. This is like, June 16th. I did my show the next day, and I called the dude. He's like, listen, Hogan is on air. No, no, off air. Okay. Completely off air.

[Danny]

Okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, I didn't go on air till June 18. That was the first day. And so I. I call this dude up, I try to vet him. You know, where do you work? What do you do at Tampa General? You know, like, why would you be privy to this? I was more, you know, I was more skeptical than anything. I'm just. I just wasn't there. Like, I just wasn't there. Like, you know, just tell me some information for me to go to air.

[Concrete Clem]

With, because that's dangerous, right?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah.

[Concrete Clem]

I mean, false info.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Hogan's looked. Trust me, I know Hogan's litigious and his family's litigators, as I'm, you know, going through a federal gag order right now with the deal. And so I knew I just couldn't come out. The. The information the guy's giving me is, like, blowing my mind. He's like, you don't understand. They're calling family members, telling them to get their ass to the hospital because you may not see Hogan again. I mean, he is on all these, you know, all these machines, and he's having problems with complications from heart valves. And the guy's going, the guy's all over the place. So I. I sat on it for a day. This was like on the. This would be the. I came out on the 18th, so this would have been like, maybe like the 15th or 16th. And I sat on it on a day, I sat on it and I tried to get another source to verify, and I couldn't. I couldn't. And so I start looking at Hogan's friends and what they're saying, and Jimmy Hart's like saying, oh, Hogan's great. And this kind of stuff and stuff. Yeah, I. I had one of my. One of my producers called Hogan's his restaurant, Hogan's Hangout, whatever the hell it's called, and asked if he was going to be at that karaoke that Monday night. And they're like, no, he's not going to be here. He's, you know, out of town or something. Well, I knew he wasn't out of town. I knew he was in the hospital. I did know that. So I just kind of took a leap of faith with what the guy told me and I got on the air. And I think the actual verbiage was if you do some sniffing around at a local hospital here. And I tried to use everything in radio that I've been taught for 40 years on how to cover your ass, in my opinion, and cover your sources. And cover my sources. So I said, if you do some sniffing around in a local hospital, it's my opinion, I don't know it to be true, but it's on my opinion. And I think, and I've been told, and again, I don't know it to be true, that Hogan's in a hospital here locally in Tampa, and he's not doing well. And I think family sources have. Family has been called to come in and say their. Their goodbyes. So with that, I got more and more brazen. And I continued to get more and more information from this one particular source. But then I got another source, and my other source is like, hey, I heard you saying this about Hogan. And here's what I know, because, you know, I'm close to the source as well. And it just kind of bred itself. So I got more and more brazen. So where I started, I was like, in broadcasting, if you say something wrong, malicious, slanderous, liable about somebody, the first. The first thing that goes down is you get a 770 notice. And so, like, if I said something about Danny Jones and it was just completely, you know, untrue, like, Danny Jones is natural. Danny Jones is on only Fred Flintstone vitamins, and that's it. That's a blatant lie.

[Concrete Clem]

I'm suing.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Exactly. No, but if I said something like, really bad, like, you know, Danny Jones is a kid toucher. I mean, I'm talking about something really bad, like. Like I went to the island, right? You. You're hanging out with Epstein, you know, so. But if I said something completely just 100 false, defamatory, slanderous, liable, then your attorney would be sending me a 7. 7 notice, which means what I said was untrue. And you're putting me on notice to retract that. And it's. It's. You know, or I'm going to be, you know, I have. I have one shot.

[Danny]

Cease and desist.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's. It's. It's. It's worse. It's more than that because it's.

[Concrete Clem]

You gotta backtrack.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Not only do I have to stop, but I have to retract what I said and correct what I said. So that's what a 770 notice is. That's just from being in the business so long. So I knew at that point, I get on the air and I'm like, listen, Hogan's people out there. If Hogan isn't in a hospital bed and he's doing okay and he's not gravely sick, then Send me a 770, shut me up, make me be quiet, because what I'm hearing is he's not doing well at all. And here's this and this and this and this. And every day I would say, send me a 770 if I'm wrong. Well, a lawyer can't send you a 770 if you're not wrong. If you're not wrong, they can't make you shut up. They can't say it being you're being slanderous or liable or anything like that. They just gotta to take it. And they're. And they get real mad that they got a leak within their little world. And so I just kept going on and on. And then I got intel that they transported him in the middle of the night. He was at Morton plant from. At that point. They transferred him in the middle of the night over the weekend.

[Danny]

How long was he at Morton plant for?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I. I don't know. I don't know. I. I think about a week.

[Danny]

Okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I don't know exactly how long he was at Morton plant, but I do know when they transported him, they took him home, like on a Friday via ambulance. And he would and he was doing well through the weekend. Eric Bischoff saw him on Monday. Jimmy Hart saw him on Wednesday, and he died on Thursday. And, you know, I had reports that he was home resting. They didn't send any machines home with him. They just sent a hospital bed home with him so he could be more comfortable. So at that point, they. I think the hospital assumed one or two things. Either. They assumed either one, he's too far gone and we can't help him. And I'm only assuming this. I don't know it to be true. But two, he's getting better, and he's gonna. He might maybe pull through this because they didn't have any ventilation. They didn't have a breathing machine. They didn't have them trached. You know, they didn't have them on any. Any extravagant machines. He just had this little, like, he had a respiratory therapist come in once a day. Once a day and do respiratory exercises with him. And that's all we had.

[Danny]

And so he was, like, fully conscious and awake and 100.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

100, you know, eating, you know, and then Wednesday night, he went to bed. He was sleeping in a recliner, and he was sleeping in a recliner in the. In the living room. That's where he was most comfortable. And, you know, sky, his wife, found him dead in the morning. I think there was a respiratory therapist and another male nurse there reporting for their duty that morning. And I think when they got there at 9, 11 or whatever time, they had found Terry dead. And he was supposedly dead dead, like, in his sleep. It happened like when they. They gave him two shots of Narcan in case there was an opioid over. I thought. I speculated on the air that it was that he had taken too many pain pills and that he. You know, I mean, we've lost 38 wrestlers in the last, you know, 10 years over people, you know, opioids and.

[Danny]

Alcohol and stuff like that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So I thought maybe that was. And I was on the air heavy with that. But then, you know, Brooke came down to Clearwater and met with the medical examiners, and later, you know, pretty much was satisfied with their investigation. So that's when I kind of laid off.

[Danny]

You know, I thought maybe she was satisfied with it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Brooke was. Yeah. So at that point, I kind of laid off and just let him rest in peace. And, you know, knowing my documentary is coming out and, you know, and, like, everybody's like, oh, you timed your documentary to. To coincide with Hogan's death. I've been trying to get this documentary out since the last time I was, I mean what was that two years ago when I saw you?

[Danny]

Yeah, you were talking about it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

We were talking about it two years ago. And I had the wrong filmmaker at the time. I had a guy who, I had a, a group of people that were putting it together. It's not my documentary, it's theirs. I don't have any ownership at all. And so I just felt two years ago we weren't just, they just didn't have the glue to tell the story. And we got a local guy who has had some stuff published on Netflix and he named Ian Longin and he was kind of the difference maker. He really, really knew the story and he put, he was the glue to kind of put this very convoluted story and very long and kind of hard understand story together. And you know, we premiered last Friday and we're dropping today on, on Amazon, Google Play and then of course Apple tv.

[Danny]

It's a great documentary. It's a long one too. Freaking almost three hours.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, 2, 2, 3, 2.

[Danny]

29. 229.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

229. I wish I watched it, you know, at, at the premiere and I think we could have cut out 15 or 20 minutes. I think we could have, I think we were redundant and maybe repetitive on some things. But you know, it's such a, it's such a long story. Initially they wanted us to do, we wanted to do three episodes of like 48 minutes. And then when we started submitting it to the aggregators, the documentary game is such a dirty game. It's not just you make a, you make a doc and send it and they, you know, you have to get it, you have to send it to public, you have to send it to copyright and fair use attorneys, you got to get insurance on it. Then you have to get an aggregator that's going to publish it to these different platforms. And so it's, it's a, it's a, it's a pretty, quite, quite, quite a long process. So when we were giving it to the aggregators, they're like, listen, we're not gonna, you're not going to be able to have a trailer for three episodes. The only way you can have a trailer is if you, if you would combine them. And we're like, oh, it's gonna make for a pretty long, long, you know, deal. So that's why nobody needs to be.

[Danny]

Able to make a trailer for the whole series.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I, I, I don't know, maybe you have to be a bigger slinger. Dick slinging Dick than me in order to get a trailer for a three part series. But they wouldn't, they wouldn't give us a trailer. And I'm like, listen, the trailer is everything. You've got it. I mean, I, I determine whether I'm gonna watch something based on the trailer. Yeah, I mean, right, that or the thumbnail. I mean, I mean, even when I'm looking at porn, I look at the thumbnail.

[Concrete Clem]

That looks good.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

If it's granny. No. And if it's some hot milf. Yes. You know, I mean, it's thumbnail and trailers was what determined everything.

[Danny]

Yeah, that's true. So going back to the, going back to the, the Hogan things, what was the actual like catalyst that sent him in there in the first place?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, he, he had a heart valve replacement it and he didn't have problems with that, but he had what they call, he had a neck, a neck and cervical operation. And that requires them to put a plate behind your, in the back of your neck with eight screws that go into this plate that, that stabilizes the back of your neck. And he was, was supposed to be bedridden four to six weeks. So after you have this cervical neck fusion, you're supposed to be in a, what they call a vagus brace. And that's just as basically, you know, those, those, those foam rubber kind of gimmicks. You're supposed to be in one of those for two months and you're supposed to be taking it easy. And Hogan goes and gets this surgery. There's eight screws in the back of his neck. They have bone cement and everything in there. And it's a very fragile equation. And what does he do? He's being pushed by his beer company, he's being pushed by his new wrestling federation. And Instead of spending four to six weeks bed rest, he spends 46 hours at home and is already out in Milwaukee and Green Bay and Butt, Michigan doing these three and four hour personal appearances for his beer. And he starts his, his neck operation doesn't really have an opportunity to fuse and to heal itself because you know, you're sleeping in hotel bedrooms and you're standing up for Hogan's one big thing is when he would do an autograph session, he would never sit. He always prided himself on standing because it made him bigger than life, you know. You know, he's, you know, so it made, it makes you bigger than life.

[Concrete Clem]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Rather than just sitting. So he, you know, that was his gimmick. And so he's standing for three and four Hours at a time. And he had a. And Terry had a huge head. Yeah. I mean, his head probably weighed 40 pounds.

[Danny]

Yeah, he had a big ass.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Big ass head.

[Danny]

Big head, big star.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. And so had. Had he listened to his. His doctors and not been on the road, you know, 46 hours after a major operation, he probably would have been in better situations.

[Danny]

So I wonder why he needed that operation in the first place. It's not like he was, like, very.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Active, you know, and his. In his family. I've been told by pretty good sources that his family actually argued with him and said, terry, just live with the pain. Because they knew. They knew the complication rate of this particular aggressive procedure. They knew.

[Danny]

And he had already had a ton of neck surgeries.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, he had tons of. A ton of back. Never really with this.

[Danny]

Okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So. But his neck.

[Danny]

And they go through the front.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, they go through the front.

[Danny]

And he had neck surgery.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He had. And he, like, he had numbness in his hands.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And. And stuff like that. And.

[Danny]

Yeah, he would tell me all the time. He's like, I can't even feel my fingers.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right. And so most of his family, from Nick to Brooke to sky, they were telling him, terry, just live. You've lived, you know, you're. You're 71 years old. You've lived with having numbness in your fingers. You know, don't get this neck surgery. Don't get it. Yeah, it's. It's. We've talked to doctors. It's very risky, and you're not going to stay. You're not going to sit still the way you're supposed to. So don't do it. So he instantaneously now gets off the road, and he has complications with this, with this procedure because he didn't do what they told him to. And that was kind of the downward spiral.

[Danny]

And how is that connected with the valve replacement?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I don't know that it was.

[Danny]

Oh, okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I don't know that it was. I. They had to go back in and do a revision on the next surgery. And you have to understand, now you're under again, you know, and anytime you go in under anesthesia, they, you know, they make you sign those forms that you could die. I mean, if you just go in for a, you know, colonoscopy, you know, and if they put you under, they're going to make you sign a form because you're at risk of. Of dying.

[Danny]

You used to be the guy that had to go in with him during his surgeries.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I actually, when we were really rolling hard. One of the procedures I went into was in Buffalo. Dr. Repeat, she did a half knee on him. And Hogan was so worried about. Because he was such a star and he was so worried about taking pictures.

[Danny]

Of his dick when he's.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

People taking pictures of his dick. That, that I imagine. And so I would scrub in. And so you got to understand, you know, in order for a hospital or a doctor to even allow this is mind boggling because, you know, most hospitals and doctors, you're gonna say, hey, I'm gonna bring my buddy in with me. They're like, no, you're not. But he was Hulk Hogan. People made exceptions for him. So I would scrub in and have to do the, do the five minute nail. Meanwhile, I'm just in the corner making sure they're not taking pictures of his dick. I'm not touching the body. I'm not. I'm from here to the door from him, but I'm just making sure that, you know, I did that three different times, but I, I don't know that the neck surgery necessarily caused his death. You know, they say he died of a, of a heart attack with the complications of the heart valve. It also was disclosed that he had leukemia. Oh, yeah. That was time, you know, which is, which is blood cancer. And I'd, you know, Brooke, I've talked to Brooke extensively and that was news to her and news to. News to everybody. Nobody, Nobody knew that, that he was dealing with that. And, and people don't even know that he knew it at the time.

[Danny]

I mean, it was certainly obvious that he didn't look well in the last few. Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

When he did that.

[Danny]

Fox Life Friends.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, he looked really gaunt, frail. Yeah, yeah. And he, you know it. He did. And, and now see, at the rnc, though, he looked pretty good.

[Danny]

He did.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And then from the RNC to where we ended up, he just had a downward spiral. And I think that that's where at the rnc. I don't know if he had his neck hardware done at that time or not, but it seems like. Think the neck hardware complication is what spiraled him down to looking like the way he did on Fox and Friends. And the other thing is, I think they were working and literally the expression working him to death. I think they were working him to death. He was, he was working. He was.

[Danny]

Don't you have enough money, though?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Like, why, why you're.

[Danny]

That you're. How old was he?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

80. You know, he's 71. Because he's. Listen, I hate to talk bad about My former friend. But because he's, he's the one of the biggest narcissists that you'll ever meet in your entire life. He always had to be on the go. He always had to be the center of attention. There was his family and other good people telling him, Terry, you got, you've won 60 some million dollars from this sex tape.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know, you, you got $25 million in properties. You got every Plymouth and Mopar and collector car you could ever want. You got three memorabilia shops. You got a restaurant and a bar. You got everything you could ever want. More money than you could spend so much, sleep in, go to the gym, Jack your dick, I don't give a Right.

[Danny]

But take care of your body.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You don't need to be in sheboygan, Wisconsin at 4:30 meeting 300 cheese heads so that they'll buy 10 cases of beer. Right?

[Danny]

Like, I mean the beer was already in Publix. Like what more do you need to do?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Great. He had great distribution with his beer.

[Danny]

I've never actually had it. I would like to try it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, I haven't, I haven't had. I heard it's very. I heard it's kind of a little thicker. Miller Light is what I heard. But I heard it was pretty good. I don't know what this. I know that right after he died there was a run on, you know, people trying to get it. I don't know if, if they've restocked. That's a story in itself. He originally had a deal with Anheuser Busch and which is owned by what they think InBev now owned by like a Danish company. And he had a deal with, with one of the original Bushes. You know, are they. The Bush family still has a lot to do with it. And he had a deal to do of, you know, a beer, a Hogan type beer with, with one of the Bushes. And two of the story I've been told, two of the highest ranking people underneath the Bush guy stole Terry away with a better deal, quit Anheuser Busch and started the Terry Beard. The Hogan. Hogan beer. Yeah, that's, that's what I was told. Wow. And I think if you research it, you'll find that such a, such a crazy world.

[Danny]

And he was just like constantly, you know, since I, since I met him, which would have been. I mean, I, I mean since I started working with him, which would have been. I don't remember what year that would have been. It was during the, the, the hostomania stuff when he was doing the Hosting company thing, right? Shooting all those commercials. It was just like how did that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Do, did that do anything?

[Danny]

I, I, I think it ended up dying, right? Or I don't know what, I don't know why they stopped doing it, but I think the hosting, the whole web hosting like industry consolidated and it just wasn't, I don't know, it wasn't financially viable anymore. So they just kind of.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right. That's not a sexy space anyway. No. Yeah, posting, you know, Hogan needs to be in.

[Danny]

But we went to a bunch of like Vegas. Even with flair I was into a bunch of like I, all these like crazy like little web conventions out in, in Las Vegas we went to and he would sit there and he would sit there all day signing autograph people and like and you know, I think that, I think that just general industry.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Kind of like, well, Hogan needs to be in a public space and hosting is not a public space. You know, I mean you got stream guys now and you got some major players, you know, aws, you got, no.

[Danny]

One cares about websites.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Nobody gives a, about who's hosting your website. Exactly. You know, you go ask 90% of the GoDaddy. That's what the, they're godaddy. I mean, you know, they're the, they're the Walmart of hosting.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I don't even know that they host. They'll just build it for you and get your domain. But like Hogan needs to be in and sexy Hogan needs to be in a space that a white trash dude from Indiana is going to be in. Like my shirt says the finest strain of Indiana white trash. So beautiful. But, but that's his P1 meaning his number one target audience is probably a 55 year old male. That's so if a 55 year old white male likes whatever product you have, then maybe, maybe Terry was good for your product. Other than that, you know, Terry, Terry doesn't need to be in the hosting business.

[Danny]

Well, I heard that his, his biggest regret as far as like promoting products go was the, the grill.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Because George Foreman, I was there for that.

[Danny]

Oh, were you?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh yeah. He was taking his kids to St. Cecilia School and this guy, this guy who brokers products call, calls him and says listen, I need an answer now. I got a blender and I got a grill. And Hogan goes, you know like, what do you mean? Like what kind of grill? It's this grill where it's slanted and you put your hamburger or your chicken on it and it slides, the grease slides down into this tray and Hogan goes Give me the blender. I, I do, I do protein shakes. Yeah. And. And like that. So the blender. Well, give me the blender. So they did the Hulk Hogan blender, which was this piece of blender that. Pull up the Hulk Hogan blender. And. And then he, they, he, they actually, it was his choice before they went to George for. George Foreman got the grill by default.

[Danny]

He got.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Because Hogan picked the blender. Oh, and Hogan told. He's told the story.

[Concrete Clem]

I've heard him tell it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, he's told the story. If he just would have paid attention. Look, that's what the. He got. And, and George. I think George made what, $300 million. I mean, pull up what George Foreman's made on. Yeah, yeah. It's something like.

[Concrete Clem]

Just more than he ever could have fathomed.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right.

[Danny]

What year was that?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, God, that would have been like 9 90s.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

96, 97ish. You know, but I was so. I saw him that day. This was in the morning. I saw him that day and he's like, hey, man, I gotta. I got a new blender coming out. I go, really? He goes, yeah, some. This dude, you know, Danny McGillicuddy, who represents. Represents these products. Here we go.

[Danny]

George from a grill was used to cook. He didn't invent the grill he was famous for. He received 40 share of the profits, which at its peak meant he was earning millions of dollars a month. Over 200 million in total.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

200 million. So I see Hogan and he goes, I got a blazinger coming out. They wanted me to do some stupid grill, but I got us a blizz ender. So we'll be mixing up our really good. I'm like, we didn't even know what the grill was. Yeah. I mean, so we didn't even know if the grill was stupid or not. We just knew we had a blender coming, you know, and this blender was cheap. It couldn't even get through an ice cube, you know, look at, look at, look at a three little whip. Yeah, it was just completely.

[Danny]

Oh, my God, bro, that's. Look how small it is.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, it was teeny tiny.

[Danny]

Where's the guy?

[Concrete Clem]

You can't even put two eggs in there.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So I was with him during that deal and that's. That's always been. That's always been a rib that we've ribbed him for. Yeah, I mean, it was.

[Concrete Clem]

Look, dude's blown away.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, look at those three little wires down there. Hogan. Hogan got the first one. They sent him like 10, right? And he used the first one he could. It wouldn't even whip up his protein. Like. It wouldn't even whip it up like efficiently.

[Danny]

Dude, I remember the grill too.

[Concrete Clem]

I had one everybody.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I would cook everything on every single household.

[Danny]

Beef hash on the burgers, on it.

[Concrete Clem]

Like it was a miracle.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Not only do we all have them, we've probably had multiple ones.

[Danny]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Because they smorphed in better things, you know, like, you know.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah.

[Danny]

It didn't just target people who were George Foreman friends.

[Concrete Clem]

My mom bought George Florida had nothing.

[Danny]

To do with them. My mom was a freaking.

[Concrete Clem]

My mom had one.

[Danny]

My grandma in college for fine art.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Art.

[Danny]

She was a fine artist.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

George Foreman. No clue. But she knew this girl she can keep in her dorm room and whip her up a, you know, whatever she wanted to do.

[Danny]

Exactly, bro. It's just like these super celebrities just being, you know, just proselytizing all of these products non stop was just always such a weird thing to me. You know, Sales, it's just like. And even now, you know, there's a few guys like Logan. Paul is one of the guys now it's all meme coin. It's all bitcoin coin. It's all crypto. Crypto, crypto scams. And. And now you got, you know, NFTs.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But hasn't the NFT. Didn't I hit the wall? I mean.

[Danny]

Yeah, but they're still doing coins, remember? For a while you got Trump and all his kids doing their own coins.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Remember for a while they were doing those Metaverse and you could buy a.

[Concrete Clem]

Buy a house in the Metaverse.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

In Metaverse and a nightclub and all this kind of. And it was going to be where people go and live their life digitally. And I'm like, if my life is so bad in real life that I got to go live digitally, it's time to eat a bullet. I'm telling you that right now. Listen, I'm a nobody here in Tampa. But I'm the king of Meta world. Meta World 10. I'm the Mayor of mayor. I mean, like, what the. You loser.

[Danny]

Yeah, but it might be cool, bubba. I mean, what if you could go in there? You could be, you know, you could be 6 foot 6, jacked 20 inch dicks, jacked up.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, God, since the last time I saw you, I bet you went Curl from curling £50 to 150. I mean, look at that. Jacked up. You gotta start shaving your arms.

[Danny]

I've looked the same. No. What am I gay?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No. Striations.

[Danny]

What?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Striations.

[Danny]

What the substration.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I'm too fat.

[Concrete Clem]

But ripples.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh no, I'm not much of a. Hold on. Look at your gorilla arm.

[Danny]

It's not a gorilla.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, but first of the same arm.

[Danny]

And it was last.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It happens to be that you haired. So that does help that you're light haired.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, but it looks, it's so much.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's such a cleaner look when you don't have all that hair there. And I'm not even. I'm like three days stubble right now. But like that's like your wife would.

[Danny]

Appreciate it more that. Yeah, we don't do that anymore, bubba.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Not that you're fisting her, but I'm just saying like. I mean, you know like it's just a better presentation. No, they keep the hair.

[Danny]

The girl. My wife likes hair.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Before the show started I gave you a, a little, little, little, little, little tidbit. You need, you really need to just listen. What's the worst. It'll grow back. Shave your arms one time and see if your girl likes it. How about your chest hair?

[Danny]

I have chest hair? Yeah, yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You don't shave.

[Danny]

No. Hell no. I like the hair. I like the way it looks.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

How much do you got?

[Concrete Clem]

Not enough.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

See you're a little blonde twink.

[Danny]

So I'm not like super covered in hair. I'm not like an Italian meatball.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But if you would shave your arms, your wife wife would really like that.

[Danny]

No, I'm not doing that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Why? Why? That's your hard headed about.

[Danny]

I don't like the way it feels. I've shaved him. When I was in high school, I tried shaving my legs.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Now I didn't say your legs. I mean gee, see you it up you a good thing up. You went too far. You would have stepped if you would have stuck to your arms. You've been going my brother, I don't shave my legs. I mean.

[Danny]

Oh right, right, yeah. But my brother in high school was like huge and lifting.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Still is.

[Danny]

And he would always shave his legs at his arms and so his arms look good as. So I tried it once and I hated the way it felt. It feels so weird. I can't explain the way it feels. But I'm not, I don't. It's uncomfortable. Plus you like you know, so hard.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Headed you gotta have a little wonder you're successful because you don't listen. I mean I'm just telling you the, the hair is.

[Danny]

The women like the hair better.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, they don't.

[Danny]

Yes, they Do.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No. Okay, let me ask you a question. What about your bush?

[Danny]

Any woman who's under.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

What about your bush? My shit's completely down.

[Danny]

Oh. I keep it trimmed. Trimmed?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, no, no. Down to zero. Right? Down to zero. Like a hardwood floor.

[Danny]

No, no, no, no. Back in high school. Yeah, but not anymore.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No. What do you mean? Back in high school, but not anymore.

[Danny]

Like, that was. That was in. Back in high school. Back in, like, the two that. When we were in high school in the 2000s. Yeah, yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, so what would change? What has changed? Your wife? I got older. You think she wants that?

[Danny]

Yeah, she likes the hair.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Have you asked her?

[Danny]

Yeah, she tells me. She tells me.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

What did she say? She said I don't.

[Danny]

She says, I don't like it when you shave it down to the skin.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I like some.

[Danny]

I like a little bit of hair down there.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

She likes stubble. So when you're blasting her, she gets that razor burn?

[Danny]

No, she doesn't like the razor burn. That's why she likes a little bit. A little bit hairy. Not the stubble. She likes it longer than stubble.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Like Astroturf.

[Danny]

Kind of like Astroturf. Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Get her on the long Bermuda grass. Yeah, she likes me to braid it.

[Danny]

Braid it long.

[Concrete Clem]

She likes it like the golf course. They gotta mow it and cross patches.

[Danny]

Like a nice fairway.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

In all the years of podcast, has a guest ever got you to talk about your pubic hair here?

[Danny]

Never. You're the first.

[Concrete Clem]

You're the first.

[Danny]

You're the first, Bubba.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You're.

[Danny]

You're. What? You're one of one. A rare one of one.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's hot as in here. Can we turn the air down?

[Danny]

Yeah, Bubba likes it cold. Can we.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Can we.

[Danny]

Can we take it down?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

All you skinny guys in here, I mean, give me a break.

[Danny]

I forgot you told me last time.

[Concrete Clem]

Sweating.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I. I can't wait for Danny to try my. My new cocktail. My. My content host cocktail.

[Danny]

Because that's, you know, you gotta try.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It and then you gotta text me and be like, yes or no. Like, you know, give me a bearing as to how.

[Concrete Clem]

And then we'll. We'll adjust the levels accordingly.

[Danny]

Milligrams of Adderall.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I don't want to be. Necessarily be talking about this on the air.

[Danny]

Oh, okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, because, I mean, yeah, I want to give everybody. Everybody. We don't want to get everybody.

[Danny]

Okay, all right. We won't tell them.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

We don't want everybody to be as cool. Okay.

[Danny]

15 milligrams of something and then a half of Another thing up.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

God, he doesn't listen when he's supposed to with arm shaving. And like look at you though. You're sasquatch too.

[Danny]

We have.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He is.

[Danny]

He's fubar bro. Tell him the story what happened there Shane the other day. Concrete Clam was at a barbecue the other day with his girlfriend and some dude walked by.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Sounds so white trash. Concrete Clem was at a barbecue with his girlfriend and we're talking to him with an arm sling right now and an Ocala Speedway racetrack T shirt. I mean it doesn't get any larghetto than that. It doesn't. So Concrete Clem is at a barbecue with his girlfriend.

[Danny]

He's at a barbecue on the trade winds in St. Pete beach with his girlfriend.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That spiffs it up a little bit.

[Danny]

Okay. It gets. It gets so much better.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Okay.

[Danny]

Okay. So his girlfriend's sister something some family member of his girlfriend is having a their 4 year old's birthday party.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Okay.

[Danny]

Simultaneously they're there.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You're in a family gimmick. That's really good ass on the backside too, you know? No, for you can throw that back in old girl's face. Listen, I went to a four year old's birthday party for you.

[Concrete Clem]

How about some head all weekend?

[Danny]

And it was their.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Maybe too.

[Danny]

And it was their announcement of their. That they're pregnant. They're having a new baby.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right. So they're announc him or the other.

[Danny]

The other part of.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So they're celebrating a four year old and they're announcing they're pregnant.

[Danny]

Y. Exactly.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

This is a big deal. And.

[Danny]

And a. A random friend of them, this dude who's been like a lifelong friend walks by and grabs his girlfriend's ass in front of him.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Grab concrete. Concrete Clemson. Yeah.

[Danny]

No, his girlfriend's asked.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, his girlfriend.

[Danny]

Yes.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, Concrete.

[Danny]

This dude grabbed her ass.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Just big old handful.

[Concrete Clem]

Gave her like a smack. And then they're at the top of the water slide. He tried to pull a quick one.

[Danny]

Yeah, sure.

[Concrete Clem]

She's on this side, he's over here. They're getting ready to go down the slide. Little divider. He gives her a boom and jumps down the slide.

[Danny]

That's it, Just a little boom.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That's. I mean concrete.

[Danny]

You made it sound like worse than that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Concrete.

[Concrete Clem]

As worse as it gotta get.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean. Let me show you how bad bad it can get. Watch.

[Concrete Clem]

Well, no, I know how bad it can get, but how bad does it get?

[Danny]

Let him grab your ass.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I was thinking he was going like that and then like That. I mean, he just. If you just give him a little, maybe.

[Danny]

Maybe he slip a. Slipped a finger in there or something.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

There's no finger slipping. But, I mean, you barely grab my ass. Yeah, I mean, what's the big deal? You're just like, hey, buddy, come on.

[Concrete Clem]

Well, look, I confronted him. I asked him about it. He instantly swolled up on me, ready to fight.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Would you say, hey, buddy, why'd you grab my girl?

[Concrete Clem]

I said, yo, did you touch my girl? What's going on?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I see. It's all in that. See?

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You automatically started with the badass Drop the F bomb. That shows you. How old are you, Concrete Clem?

[Concrete Clem]

37.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

See, you're a young gun. You got way too much testosterone. I mean, almost as much as Danny.

[Danny]

He's on. He's on twice the amount that I'm on.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Don't look it. You might want to change brands and get on the. Get on the Danny. Get on the Danny Jones.

[Danny]

He's minded behind the crunch fitness.

[Concrete Clem]

I might have.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You gotta go.

[Concrete Clem]

I might need the Bubba cocktail.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know where I get my test? Public.

[Concrete Clem]

What do you mean?

[Danny]

Public's pharmacy.

[Concrete Clem]

Public tests, over the counter.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

My doctor.

[Danny]

No, you get a prescription.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You get a prescription.

[Concrete Clem]

Okay. That's a lot of money.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That's real. No, it doesn't. It's a 38 copay.

[Concrete Clem]

Danny pays like three grand a month or some.

[Danny]

He's awesome.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

TRT special, you know? But. So anyway, he grabbed. So you go, why didn't you do this approach? Hey, buddy, did you grab my girl's ass? Ass? Yeah.

[Concrete Clem]

Instead of saying, hey, no, I didn't call him a head. I said, hey, yo. He was walking away. I said, did you touch my girl? And. And I wasn't happy about it.

[Danny]

He was eight mules deep.

[Concrete Clem]

He instantly turns eight.

[Danny]

About eight.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Okay.

[Concrete Clem]

He turns around, he gets ready to fight. He's ready to fight you.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I like that guy's approach. Grabs ass and then wants to fight about it.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, sure.

[Danny]

Respectable.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So what happened? Looks like you got the arm sling and.

[Concrete Clem]

What?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

How's he rolling today?

[Danny]

This is before the sling. Yeah, he already had two.

[Concrete Clem]

Got a bad shoulder. I go to. He swoles up on me. He's a little bigger than me, too, so I can't let him hem me up. I got injuries. I can't. I can't really fight. I got bad shoulders.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And you got your girl looking at you.

[Danny]

His shoulders have been known to pop out, right?

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, my shoulders popped out a lot.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So trolling that concrete stuff.

[Concrete Clem]

So he comes charging at me, and I go to throw a punch, and my shoulder pops out. So I grab my shoulder paper tiger. Once he notices I'm injured, he starts charging me.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Me good.

[Concrete Clem]

So I gave him a kick roundhouse. I left. There's a kick. I got to keep him away from me because if he grabs me up, I'm. So I give him a couple.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

This is so cops.

[Concrete Clem]

I give him a couple kicks, one to the head. One to the head, two to the body. I'm tall man.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And kung fu fighting.

[Concrete Clem]

So once he realizes I'm not letting him get close enough to get me. A kind of ghost for Mary's. You and your. And your pink bathing suit shorts and.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Did you have pink.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, I had pink bathing suit on, man.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You're overpaying for your test and you're wearing shorts. I mean, concrete clam. I just. When I thought I could maybe say.

[Concrete Clem]

I'm out here pouring yards. I don't got the podcast lifestyle, man.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, you should.

[Concrete Clem]

You know what I mean?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You should be Danny's assistant. I mean, you should be.

[Concrete Clem]

Danny calls me, pick me up two white rabbits from the gas station. Bubba's on the way.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I always said, those are $40 a piece.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Concrete Clem]

He said, get me a case. I said, I can only afford two. You.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, concrete claim. You need to. You need to infuse yourself into the Annie Jones world is what you need. Concrete.

[Danny]

He's pouring me concrete countertops for the new warehouse.

[Concrete Clem]

My guy's building industrial right now.

[Danny]

Oh, yeah.

[Concrete Clem]

Let's get you something.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, I ain't in the mood for anything you're slinging, buddy. You can't even buy the right test, can you?

[Concrete Clem]

Throw a guy a bone over here.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So hold on.

[Danny]

So now.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Guy. The guy doesn't whip your ass, but he grabs your girl's ass, tells you about it.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Gives you a couple, let alone you. And then she out on your shorts.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, exactly.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And is that where it ended?

[Danny]

No, that's not where it ended.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That.

[Concrete Clem]

He's. His kids there, too. His kid sees me give him a couple kicks. His kid gets frantic, says, I'm calling the cops. He runs back to the family. They're at the cabana, at the pool. We're on the beach right here. Nobody's even there seeing it go down.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right.

[Concrete Clem]

So I'm like, you know what? He's leaving. He's going back. I'm like it. I'm out of here. I'm going to just go get my car keys. I'm getting the out of here, away from. I got nobody with me, man.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And you're scared, cuz the cops are coming.

[Concrete Clem]

Cops are coming.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You don't know how it's going to.

[Concrete Clem]

And I'm the bad guy right now. So I'm out.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And you got eight. Whatever's in you.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, I got to drink is in me. Pina coladas.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

What about old girl?

[Danny]

Old girls blacked out.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Drunk, blacked out. Did she even know? Her ass grabbed.

[Concrete Clem]

She doesn't understand even what's going. What's happening. What's happening.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Which is even worse, why you shouldn't have.

[Concrete Clem]

Got nobody to back up for me. So anyway, I'm like, I'm. Leave everybody, the family, everybody. I'm out of here. I go to the room to get my car keys. They're not there. I realize they're at the cabana where everybody's at.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And you're probably borderline frantic at this point.

[Concrete Clem]

I'm frantic. I'm sweating bullets. I'm.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Because you're going to jail. You know why? Because he's got more witnesses.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, some of the bad shots. So I realized my keys are at the cabana where they're all at. So I'm like, this is going to be a tough one. Can I sneak my keys out of there in front of everybody and get the out of here? So I put a hoodie on. I change my clothes. I go down.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, you the Unabomber.

[Concrete Clem]

Now I'm looking. I see him over there huddled up by the cabana. And I see my bag.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, they're getting their story together. They're over there.

[Concrete Clem]

He's over there telling.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He's holding court. This is how it's all going to go down.

[Concrete Clem]

This is how everything happened. This guy's drunk.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He's got no backup.

[Concrete Clem]

I got no backup.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Up. Tweaked shoulder that just popped out.

[Concrete Clem]

So I go over there wearing shorts. I sneak. I sneak the bag. I put it over my shoulder. I get out. I got my hoodie on. I walk all the way from the pool, which is on the beach side.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

How about old girl? Where's old girl?

[Concrete Clem]

I don't know where she's at right now.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You don't give a.

[Concrete Clem]

No, I'm out of here.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You're leaving her, too?

[Concrete Clem]

Everybody okay? Gone. She's no help to me right now.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You got to stay out of jail.

[Concrete Clem]

A liability to me.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Exactly.

[Concrete Clem]

So I got to.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I don't even know that.

[Concrete Clem]

I got to get the hell out of there. So I go sneak the bag, throw it on my Shoulder. I walk out, I get past the pool, through the lobby to the parking lot. Out of nowhere, I just get melee in the back of the head.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Boom.

[Concrete Clem]

All my go, spilling everywhere. My phone. I get like knocked out. I'm concussed. I get up, the family's in my face, grabbing me by the shoulders. Why would you do this? You, you're this, you're that. He's trying to fight me still. The brother in law is ready to fight me. The mother in law is ready to fight me, the sister. I leave my phone, I leave everything I get. I got my keys in my hand, I run. No shirt on, no nothing. No shoes, no shirt.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

This is straight Kenish city.

[Concrete Clem]

I'm just tell you that right now. I run to the car, I get in the car, I leave.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But they got your phone.

[Concrete Clem]

They got everything. Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Did you get. You didn't get arrested though?

[Concrete Clem]

No, no. I don't know.

[Danny]

He's got.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Are you still with your girl?

[Concrete Clem]

We're not talking right now. Really?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You want me to. You want me to call her up? Just. What's her first name?

[Concrete Clem]

Alicia.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Be like, listen, Alicia, Concrete Clam was just, you know, you grabbed your ass, was defending your honor.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Things went south on them.

[Concrete Clem]

So that night.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, she'll be sucking your dick by seven o' clock tonight.

[Concrete Clem]

So they gaslight me all night. I was never even on the slide. Nobody was on the slide. You're crazy. What are you doing? You're drunk.

[Danny]

The family, the family's gaslighting them.

[Concrete Clem]

And the family.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, so now the families hooked up with your girl.

[Concrete Clem]

That's her family.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, yeah, and they got everybody's. They got an alliance again. It's called, you know, friends. It's called Friends and Families against Concrete Clam.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, you're.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You got like some. 1 verse 60. Yeah. So now it looks like things are.

[Danny]

Still more of the story.

[Concrete Clem]

So the next day, she wakes up and comes to. She starts remembering everything. Yeah, it did happen. Shane's right. This guy has notoriously been known for this. He's done like this before.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He's had problems.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Concrete Clem]

He's with other people's girl. His wife and kid are there also, which is crazy. She. They've gotten in fights.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Have you ever thought your wife has a pretty nice ass and the guy just felt compelled to grab it?

[Concrete Clem]

Sure she does, man. But I can't just let it slide with every girl. Every guy out there, Bubba Clems grabbing my girl's ass on the water slide.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

On the other side, they're My wife usually.

[Concrete Clem]

I mean, I just. I can't let that slide.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I'm usually on the other side of it, cuz. Yeah, the.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, I don't got MUBA money, man. I could.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

We're having this podcast based on my wife.

[Concrete Clem]

I'm just a loser. Lets guys grab our ass and don't say nothing. But I gotta say something.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I got you.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, that's.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I understand. But look at you though. I mean you're right.

[Danny]

Now he's got to get his shoulders fixed. We need to find him a good surgeon.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He.

[Danny]

I mean, I don't think there's any way he's going to fix it. But you know what I've been told?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I've been told that shoulder surgery, if. Unless it's in. Unless you. If you can still take your arm and walk it up, then you need it. Other than then, other than that, both of them live with it it. Because it is the most.

[Concrete Clem]

Yesterday I was in the car and I reached with this arm to close the passenger window and it popped out.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Can you take a gallon of milk and hold it like.

[Concrete Clem]

Not right now. Not with this arm. No. I'm in excruciating pain.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

At least. Least if I fought you, I'm going right for that shoulder.

[Concrete Clem]

Well, that's why I'm throwing kicks.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Your kicks. My fatness can absorb your kicks, but one of my little T. Rex hitters.

[Concrete Clem]

Teeth ain't absorbing this size 13 shoe. I'll tell you that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

If I came right there, just.

[Concrete Clem]

No, you'll never get that close with those chicken arms, man. Never. Are you getting that close to me?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

This T, they cover T. Rex. T. Rex. You'll never get that close. Just gonna absorb that 13 and I'm gonna get up on that.

[Concrete Clem]

If you got weight over my weight, I'm. I can't let you get close enough to me.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Then. Yeah, cuz I get you wrap me up.

[Concrete Clem]

I'm done.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well here. If I put my knee on that.

[Concrete Clem]

You wrap me up right? I'm over. So you can't. I can't let you touch.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You got to stay. You got to stay. Nimble. Crack nimble.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, I'm fast. And you got to stay away.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I don't know how fast you are.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, I'm faster than you. I know that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well take much to be faster than me. My shoulders. My shoulders are too. Yeah, you know, I mean they're my shit's.

[Concrete Clem]

I'm bad.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Look at steroid boy over there. He's jacked. No problems?

[Danny]

No, no problems yet. My. My joints Are good. I keep.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Are you even 30 yet? Have you. I mean, how old are you? 38.

[Danny]

I just turned 38.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Are you serious?

[Danny]

I'm getting old.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, but you're killing it. Did you ever think that some stupid that was painting lines, you know, for a living, listening to me on the radio.

[Danny]

I was hanging out with crackhead painters at 6am in the back of a bunch.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And painters are straight crackheads.

[Danny]

Oh, straight crackheads.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Straight crack. They only paint enough to make enough money for crack. And then they'll take a couple days off and then they'll come back and paint again for crack.

[Danny]

Exactly.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I know.

[Danny]

Yep. I was, I was, I was. You were probably slipping paint buckets to the up ten stories painting high.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And they're down to you because you're young. You're the young boy. Boy. Hey, young boy. Go get that 5 gallons listening to Bubba every morning.

[Danny]

I would look forward to sitting there.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Now look at you.

[Danny]

Sleep, half conscious, listening. That was the only thing that gave me life.

[Concrete Clem]

Dying for a ned.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Just. Yeah, just look at you. I'm so proud of you. Look what you become. It's pretty wild. I mean just the growth that you've had since I've been here last.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean you've tripled what you've had. I think that's crazy. I don't know.

[Danny]

Why?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I don't know. I know because you're not that fun. I'm not good. You suck.

[Danny]

I do suck.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I look at something like what the he doing?

[Danny]

So it's because I bring people like you in. Well, it's all about the guests.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, I mean, okay, I guess, you.

[Concrete Clem]

Know, we got Bubba and Matt Cox. We're doing good.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, Bubba and Matt Cox.

[Danny]

Morgan fraud.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Matt?

[Danny]

What's wrong with Matt? Why don't you like Matt? Oh, I forgot. He pissed off your buddy. Well, he, he pissed off the ser. The.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Here's the thing. I would boob job guy. I'd love to do stuff with him. He's brilliant. He's a. Listen, I just like you're a good host and I, I, I know how good you are. I look at your. And Matt's brilliant. He's got a great look, he's got a great story. He's a good communicator. But Matt doesn't have a filter and, and so there's just.

[Danny]

What do you mean?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, so I had him on the show and I think we were jiving pretty good. I think maybe I was hogging up. Maybe I, I might have been stepping over him. A little bit. Bit. I might have been, but. But I had diakos in there. Dr. Diako and. Or it actually had JCO in there. And I. Matt just always has to get the last word in. Like Matt can never. I can be the brunt of a joke. I can. You can be the brunt of a joke. We with you about your arm hair and like that concrete Clem can be the brunt of the joke. You got to be self deprecating.

[Danny]

Unless you're grabbing this chick's ass.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right, right. And. And in the right circumstances, you might let a guy grab a girl's ass.

[Concrete Clem]

You know, if it was you, bubba, it had been a different story.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But let me ask you a question. If the dude would have said if you rolled up on him. And he said. And the dude went, you know what, dude? I did. And I. I don't even know what's. I mean, I've been drinking and I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything exactly. Like if a guy was. Yeah, you know, I mean, you're gonna. You're not gonna.

[Concrete Clem]

Look, I'm not there to blow the whole family event up.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Exactly. If he. So if the guy said, hey, dude, you know what?

[Concrete Clem]

Drunk and I Up drunk.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I think I could have said that.

[Concrete Clem]

I was hoping it went that way when I was going to walk to him to ask him in my head, I'm hoping this is a misunderstanding.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Guy's gonna be cool.

[Concrete Clem]

Hope it. Oh, it wasn't that. It was. I'm sorry. Whatever.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And if he even.

[Concrete Clem]

But as soon as I asked him, he turned around and he squared up on me. So what the are you gonna do at that.

[Danny]

There's.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That's the point that comes with agent wisdom.

[Concrete Clem]

So that's how I know what I saw.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So if I grabbed your girl's ass, I would have said, you know what, bro, I've been having way too much to drink.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, we're all drunk. Let me buy a shot of. Yeah, here's the.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I'm taking testosterone. I got a hard dick. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that ass. Me too. And I. And I did. And you know what? You know what? I.

[Concrete Clem]

Your girl has nice titties. Let me get a feel over there.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

My girl's got nice titties. And your girl got a nice. Maybe we can get them to scissor and we can watch in the corner. I don't know.

[Concrete Clem]

It could have went different.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Could have said, yeah, you know, I'm like, you know what, brother? I got an ass kicking Coming. If you want to lay one in on me, man, go. You would have said, nah, I got you, brother. Yeah, but you know, the guy, the guy determined what the fuck happened. Well, with Matt.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Matt is so. I don't want to say so much of a con, but he's led such a con like life and that he doesn't know when to be couth or have any couth. And so him and Diago got into a little bit of a. Of an argument or a disagreement or maybe it was about the subject matter we were talking about. I don't know. It wasn't anything that I thought was. That I needed to on. They were, you know. You know, when you got two like me and Concrete Clem going out, if we were, if we were really mad at each other, you would step in and say, hey, you two settle down. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't like that at all. I thought it was just.

[Danny]

He was asking him about his case, right? Something about his case, something like that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, Matt, and Matt had had a girl that he knew that supposedly got a boob job from Dr. Diaco that I don't think. I think there was complications involved in it. And I think the woman maybe sued Dan, you know, for replacement boobs or something like that. And it was, it was something like that. But to a doctor, you just don't say that.

[Danny]

Oh, he said that on the air?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yes.

[Danny]

Oh, God.

[Concrete Clem]

Oh, yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So on on the air. So like Dan, Dr. Diaco, who's a doctor and a lawyer, you know, that's a, that's a pretty big swinging dick in life he's got.

[Danny]

It's a hell of a combo.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You're a doctor and a lawyer. I mean, you're, you're, you know, you're cover. You're. You're kind of a sling and dick. And you're not going to have some con say that to you on the air, disclosing a mess up that you made. And it just was like. And you know, out of loyalty to the Diakos who are on my air.

[Danny]

He wasn't having it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I would love to have Matt back. I think he's got a fascinating story. I think he's a great interviewer and some of his guests, his, his podcast is blowing up. Oh. As it should. He's good. You know, like, I remember earlier I talked about how this shit's gonna fall away and the good stuff's gonna stick. Yeah, that's a prime example of. That's a prime example that, you know, started with zero followers and now has what, 250, 000.

[Danny]

He has almost 800, 000.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. On. On. Yeah, on YouTube. Yeah. So God bless him. And I could tell that the guy had the it factor when I had him on the show. He just. He tells fascinating stories, great stories. He gets. Oh, he's fascinating story in himself. Good looking guy. Talented, great painter. I loved the dude.

[Danny]

Jack to the gills.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Jack to the gills on triple. Whatever you are. I guarantee you that shaves his arms. I promise you he does.

[Danny]

Of course he does.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Great. He's also very talented painter. Yeah, I mean, he's a. He's a. He's a. He's a. I wish I wouldn't have had that conflict with him because I'd love to do business with him or, you know, you know, have him back on or him have me back on or, or. Or something like that. You. Maybe you can help me bridge that gap because it wasn't between me and.

[Concrete Clem]

Matt would do it again.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I think it wasn't between me and Matt. It was between, you know, my guy.

[Danny]

And I think Matt thinks that you won't talk to him anymore because you don't want to piss off your. Your friend.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, no, that's not the case.

[Danny]

Oh, okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, I wouldn't have Matt on my show with them in there, but I would have. They're only in there twice a week. I would have Matt and vice versa. And listen, I. I admire his work. I mean, I could tell you three or four guests that he's had. He had a guy that was making counterfeit money out of Bibles. Was that you?

[Danny]

Yeah, that was you. He had him on first, but he gave. He came on my show after he went on.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right. You know, and so Matt. Matt has some great guy and the. Has the it factor.

[Danny]

He's a workhorse too.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He.

[Danny]

He does. He records like five to six podcasts a week, every day, back to back. Sometimes he does two or three a day. I'm like, Matt, how do you do it? I'm like, because when I have people on, I usually like, take some time, like research them, watch their documentaries, read parts of their. I can't read a week, but like, I. I'll skim the book, read a lot of the book, watch other podcasts they've done. So I'm like, somewhat coherent what they're talking about. Cuz like, I don't just cover true crime. I cover a wide variety of topics. Matt goes, bro. He's like, I don't do anything. He's like, I, I basically read like a paragraph of what their story is, and then I go in and do it and I do like two a day, six days a week.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And. And guess what? He does it well.

[Danny]

He does do it well.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, he does it well. That's.

[Danny]

That's a talent, man. That's something that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He's a very, very talented dude. I mean, just how he got himself involved in being in trouble was brilliant. Brilliant and cool in the pocket. You know, some of the stories when he's in the bank and he's cool as a cucumber and he knows that it might not go through and that the cops might become like, I would be a nervous wreck, right? Not Matt. Matt's, you know, and I got a lot of, I mean, I got a lot of respect for his ability. He's got to, you know, he's the prime example of what I said. The will fall away and the good stuff will come through. And I think happening more and more with podcasting. I used people shutting their down because they suck.

[Danny]

Are you having guests in on your show? Your. Your show is daily, right?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, daily, yeah. Are. Do you.

[Danny]

Do. You don't do guests?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I'd love to, but doing 6 to 10, you know, I do 6 to 10. It's so hard to get a guest.

[Danny]

Why can't you change the time?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I. Well, because I'm still. I'm still on five terrestrial radio stations. You know, I'm still on five terrestrial radio stations, but, you know, realistically, digital pays the bills. Even in my world, digital pays the bills. And so I'm getting ready to. If this documentary doesn't somewhat reinvent me terrestrially or I would get some large, large affiliates that would want to have me on as their morning guy, I'll probably change the time and go like 11 to 2 digitally and just stay all digital.

[Danny]

Do you like having guests or do you like just. Just talking and just going?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, I love having guests because your.

[Danny]

Your ability is just to like, go crazy and freaking let go.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I don't need a guest.

[Danny]

You don't need a guest by yourself.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But I can, I can, you know, I can. I've interviewed Joe Rogan. I've interviewed. I mean, I've interviewed everybody. So I, I pride myself on being a really good interviewer. I just need to, you know, we're. I was at my lowest point in 18, so I didn't have. Have an opportunity to have a big staff and I, I quite frankly need, need to get back into the guest booking arena. It's just hard. I'm not, I'm not part. I'm. I was, I was late to the podcasting game. I was late to the YouTube game, you know, so, you know, my, my, my numbers aren't nearly as impressive as what they should be to probably book big guests, but I do have, you know, the name value, the, you know, time served, so to speak, and, you know, still have probably within the shock jock world, probably one of the premier radio people that are still around. You know, how do you.

[Danny]

I was, I was asking Rogan about this when I was talking to him, because I was. Because I. When I went and met with him in Austin the night before he did a comedy show, like, at like 7 or 8 o' clock at night or something like that. And he was like, on stage. You could tell this was like, he was working out material that he obviously had been working out for a while that he hasn't come out public with yet. It's like, because when you go to his club, you have to lock your phone in the little case. You can't record it because he. They're just trying to, like, figure out what works, what doesn't work. And he was also just like, riffing. He, like, he finished his set and he goes, I got like 30 more minutes to go. So if you guys just want to ask me questions, Q and A.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He.

[Danny]

I'll do a Q with the crowd. He did that for like an hour. And people were asking him questions about, like, relevant current event topics. And he would come out, like, high octane. He would have funny opinions on everything that had just happened in the news that week or that day.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

See, that's kind of what we.

[Danny]

And it was like, I don't, like, I wasn't even aware of some of the stuff that he was talking about, but he was like, super quick, super funny, and, like, roasting people while he was doing it. It was just like another level. I've never seen that on any of his podcasts. He was like, he shifted like, three gears above how he is on his podcast during that comedy. I was like, dude. I was like, how do you.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And that's an art form in itself, being able to be on your toes, talk about current events, have an opinion about it, make it funny, and all while potentially turning it around on the person that asked the question.

[Danny]

Right. And that's what you did. That's. Or that's what you do.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's what I do. Yeah. That's what I do. So I, I would love to have guests But a lot of guests are afraid of me because of my reputation that, you know, so. But yeah, I need to start, I need to start having guests. And if I, if I switch my time, which looks like I'm probably gonna do maybe mid, probably first quarter of next year, do more, do more of like a 11 to 2 digital kind of deal, I think I'd be more, more, more guest friendly than 7:00am, you know.

[Danny]

So you would you wake up at like 4am, 3:40. And then how does that, how does that work? How's that process?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I wake up at 3:40, eat breakfast, take a shower, leave the house at 4:15, get to the studios at 4:45. And then all my, then, then I have two, two of my guys, Lummy and Seth, my co host, that the night before, we'll go through all the stories, stories that I like, you know, like, and, and have. So in my email I'll have 20 stories and I'll go through those and pick sometimes all 20 of them, sometimes, you know, 13 of them. And we, we, we, we talk about that, that in conjunction with just, you know, stuff that happens in our personal life. Like with Concrete Clem, if he was in there, we would have told the, the, you know, right. Him, him and his, his pink short story, you know.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So, but I need to do more guests. I mean, I, I had Mark Cuban on not too long ago and he sent me a note, says, you know, God dang, you're a good interviewer. You know, so I, I, I, I, I need to do that more. I really do. I probably need to take a page from. How do you, how do you book your guests?

[Danny]

We get, usually they're just.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, you're now at a point where people are begging, sucking your dick to come on your show.

[Danny]

We get a lot of requests to come on the show. People that, it's mainly people that want books, like authors and things like that or, but like, also one of the biggest ways we get guests is from guests just recommending their friends.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right.

[Danny]

Oh, I know a guy who'd be great who wants to show kind of.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Like you and Matt Cox, like, like, you know when he had that dollar, that counterfeit guy.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He's like, hey, hey, Danny, I got this counterfeit guy. He's a good dude, you know, so that's the difference between podcasting and regular radio. The regular radio guy won't give you that up. The podcasting guy will.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know, so that's kind of the difference.

[Danny]

The debates are fun too, like having people. Because I have a. In here who have like pretty controversial opinions on things like on crazy topics and then like getting other people in there in the podcast to like h. Debate them or like go back and forth. Like, that can be really fun.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I'm a good friend, I'm good friends with Alex Stein and he does that a lot. Alex Stein, he. I don't know if you've heard of him or not.

[Danny]

I've heard of him.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He, he. He's a big debate kind of guy. You know, I want to get debating.

[Danny]

I want to get a Peter Teal in here. Talk about the Antichrist.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, yeah. I mean he's the one that financed Hogan.

[Danny]

I know. Legal gay Christian billionaire.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, I mean that's a combination. I don't know if he would come. I mean he's pretty, pretty. I don't know.

[Danny]

I have a friend who works for him.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, well, see, there's your end. Yeah, there's your in. Talk about ends. You know.

[Danny]

You know, what do you think about him going on this tour to promote the Antichrist in Silicon Valley? He's doing a four part lecture that's sold out all about the Antichrist. Have you seen these clips?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, why?

[Danny]

I said I sent you the one of Tim Dylan talking about it on Rogan.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh yeah, I did get that. I did get that. I watched that. Yeah, yeah.

[Danny]

This guy who sent in drones all over the world to all these war zones to kill all these people simultaneously put. Putting together this AI that he's selling to the CIA to surveil us and our neighbors society and, and his pet project seems to be a, A keen interest in Satan.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And this is Peter Thale.

[Danny]

Peter Thale, Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Danny]

He's like, he's behind this big. I mean, you know all about Peter Teal. Most people know, you know his history. He's like the biggest invest. He was one of the early investors in Facebook. He owns PayPal as well. Paler. And he's.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And his. And his number one goal was to bury Gawker because at. Nick Ditton was the one that, that, that outed him as being gay. So that was his biggest big hard on with Gawker. So when Hogan started to sue Gawker, Hogan didn't have the resources locally to step up to the big boy league. And Gawker did at, at one point Gawker had way better representation than Hogan did. And once Peter Teal tail. Whatever the. Once he found out that Hogan had an ongoing, ongoing legal battle with Gawker, he called up his lawyer Charles Hart Carter out of Beverly Hills and said, I don't care what it takes, I will pay for every dollar of that of that litigation. And it changed everything. Hogan was able to do research, he was able to do mock trials. He was able to. Oh, yeah, it changed. I mean, rumor has it is that his legal bill was upwards of $8 million. You know, and at that point, you know, they had determined they'd mock tried it. You know, they had, they had all the research that they needed and, you know, they, they'd already deposed me. They knew what my testimony was going to be. And that's one of the reasons why I think, well, Hogan prevailed because Gawker invaded his privacy. Let's be honest. I mean, you know, they had no business on publishing that tape. You know, they got, they obtained it illegally. They, they knew it was stolen. They didn't have consensual forms from Heather or him, so they should have never published it. It wasn't a newsworthy event. Hogan, my wife is not a newsworthy event if it's not on the beach. But it's in, it's in my, it's in my house with closed curtains. So.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Why Gawker even published that, you know, is beyond me.

[Danny]

Yeah, that was a, that was a crazy thing. And, and the consensus, the general consensus, like for people that aren't paying attention, was that you released it as a publicity startup to make money on it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Everybody thinks that I did it all. I planned it, I taped it, I took that footage to my work. I then strategized with whom ever to try to broker it. I tried to extort Hogan. I then, when none of that worked, leaked it to Gawker so that I could get myself fired. I mean, it doesn't even make sense, you know, I got fired.

[Danny]

Is that the peak of your career right there? Like that, at that point, 2012?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. Well, no, I just left serious because they had low dogged me right on. On the money, but I was still on Cox on the Bone and had had, you know, 14, 14 affiliates, you know, probably doing two and a half million a year, you know, something like that. So, you know, we were, we were doing. We were doing well, and so.

[Danny]

And how much would have this tape have met banked you if, if you would have been behind it to promote it, to sell it to.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I would have. There's no value in it at all. There's no, there's, there's no, that's what people don't realize is the dude who.

[Danny]

Tried extorting him wanted, like, 300 grand, right?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, the guy who extorted to him, Matt Lloyd, spice boy, wanted $300,000 because he'd already shopped it to Hollywood with Digital Underground and Wicked. And they said, well, you know, yeah, we'll be interested. We'd be very interested in that, but do you have 2257 consent forms on the people that appear on camera? And he's like, well, no. Like, well, it's not worth nothing. It's not worth nothing. So Spice Boy, Matt Lloyd switched gears and stuff, said, okay, I can't sell it in the marketplace, but I can extort Hogan with it because it's. You know, why would. You know, Hogan will pay any. He wanted a million dollars, and they settled for 300,000 at the same. When they met at the Sand Pearl. And so. And the reason why Hogan was willing to pay $300,000 for us, because he didn't. It was very damning. You know, nobody wants that out. Nobody wants. You know, he was caught saying the nword and.

[Danny]

Right, right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And why would he want that out? Why would he.

[Danny]

Kicked out of the WWE for that?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Why would. Why would he. He want. Why would I want that? I mean, if you really take a look at it and be like, oh, Bubba did it all. Why would I want any of all that? Why would I want to tape burn.

[Danny]

The bridge with you and your best.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Friend Hogan, My wife, and. And. And I'm going to lose my job. I'm going to look like a. Like, I mean, there's no upside for me. I'm making a couple million dollars in radio. Why do I want to. So. So Cox comes to me. I'm still doing morning mornings, and Cox comes to me and says, you got to make this go away. Like, you got to make this go away. So Hogan at that time was suing me, too, because he didn't know that I wasn't part of the deal. So he settles with me. I have to write him a check for $5,000 to get out of the lawsuit. So I write him a check for $5,000 and give him all the rights to the tape. You have here. You own this tape? These tapes that are out there floating around that's causing all this hat havoc. You. They're yours. I don't want them. Now, if I'm the guy that's trying to extort him or sell him. Sell it or broker it, why would I pay the guy $5,000 and sign over the rights to the tape? The only way he could sue Gawker is if he owned those tapes, right? So when they go to the San Pel Rest Hotel, the FBI arrests the person that Spice Boy sent to represent them and arrests Keith Davidson, the guy who brokered the tape. And Hogan. Hogan is the one that alerted the FBI that he was being extorted. And they arrest these people. And then once it goes through the state attorney or the U.S. attorney, they figure out, they find out that Bubba and Hogan are your victims. And they're like, listen, you got. That's a pro wrestler and a shock job. This could be a fucking clown show, you know. And you know the feds only go to trial when they know they're going to win. And you know, they decided to no file. So nobody was held accountable for the leak. Nobody was held accountable. So once Spice Boy got arrested but then didn't get prosecuted, the tape is dead. There's no value to that tape, right? There's nothing unless you can get it published somewhere. So Spice Boy give, gives it to Mike Calta and Mike Calta leaks it to A.J. deLirio of Gawker, and I get fired and Mike Calta of all people, because Cox doesn't know who, who leaked it. They promote Mike Calta to do my job. Who's still there today doing my job.

[Concrete Clem]

Mornings.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And.

[Danny]

Oh, he does mornings now.

[Concrete Clem]

Does the morning show. Used to have the morning show that.

[Danny]

You listen to now is him.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Is him. Has been for well over a decade.

[Danny]

Wow. I never listened to him once.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And so here's the deal. Hogan is brilliant. Was brilliant. He's like, once he got Peter Thiel involved, they're like, we can take two bites of this apple. We can take a bite of the apple for the people that published it, which is Gawker. And they're worth, at that time, their worth was 135 million. And then when that lawsuit goes down, we don't, we don't know what the outcomes that's going to be yet. But however that fairs, then we're going to take a, a bite at who distributed it, who leaked it, and that was Cox Media. And as I've been told that, that they wrote us, they, they wrote a $52 million check to Hogan and so Hogan sued Gawk and they navigated through that lawsuit and they knew that where that, where that ended up and that ended up with 141 million dollar verdict that that gawker only could pay 35 million of because they filed bankruptcy and that and Hogan was their largest creditor. So. But they had already tried this case and they knew what. What of what. What a jury would do. So they went and tr. They. So they start to depose Mike Calta and Cox settles the next day for 52 million because they didn't want any of that information because at one time, that sex tape was hosted on Cox management servers and they. I mean, they were afraid Hogan was suing them for 110 million and they were afraid that they were going to lose. Gawker Law lost. Why wouldn't they?

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

The. The details of the dissemination and the leakage didn't change from the Gawker deal. They'd already tried it once and won. The second trial was going to go the same way.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Got Cox, fired me, put Calte in there. Didn't know Calco Calta was part of this until they start doing investigation and phone records and things like that. And he's still there to this day. But there's a bigger piece in my documentary video Killed the Radio Star, that a lot of people don't know about. And that's who they were after as well as. Which is. Which I'm sure that you know now, you know they wanted Trump.

[Danny]

Yeah. This is the Keith Davidson.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

This is the Keith Davidson tie in. So Keith brokered the tape and also brokered all the negotiations between Karen McDougal, Google and Stormy Daniels with Michael Cohen, which was Trump's personal fixer attorney, and he was negotiating exclusively with Keith Davidson, who was the broker of the Hogan tape. And they went to Keith Davidson and said, if you don't give us all correspondence that you've had with Michael Cohen, we still have four years of statute of limitations left in the Tampa sex tape that we didn't prosecute. We're going to go for you on that deal. So he laid down, was government's witness and gave him all the correspondence that he had with Michael Cohen. And they got Michael Cohen to testify against the president.

[Danny]

Wow.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

All from my little old sex tape that I. That at the end of the day, call me. I mean, I'm not quite as jealous. I am, you know, like that you are of your girl. I just let my girl. Hogan. That's it. He was living with me. He was down on his luck.

[Danny]

Yeah. How long it was the.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

The with me for three or four.

[Danny]

Months living at your house. Because that was the middle of his divorce.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

The middle of his divorce. And I'm like, listen, I'm not a jealous. We were kind of in the lifestyle a little bit. And so I was just like, won't you, Hogan, cheer him Up a little bit. My home surveillance caught it. I have some skin in this game.

[Danny]

Like I've said before, you had the. I mean, you had the camera pointed at the back bed, though. That's what some of the people say.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, that. That was a. A peripheral view of my whole bedroom.

[Danny]

Oh, was it?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, I mean, yeah, it was. So. And let me just clarify why that.

[Danny]

You were in the other room watching the feed. Bubba, don't get me wrong. Don't. Don't try to swindle me.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Can I, with your hairy arms and.

[Danny]

All, try to pull McGillicuddy on me.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Can I tell you what I was really doing?

[Danny]

Yes.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

This is pathetic. I. I was buying Go Kart parts for myself son.

[Danny]

Were you?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yes. My son was in the Quarter Midgets at that time, and I was buying titanium axles, which are like 800 bucks. I was trying to find the best price on titanium axles. The reason why I had surveillance in my bedroom. And my whole house was surveilled except for other bedrooms, but my bedroom was. Was. Was under surveillance because I had a situation back in 99 where I was with a girl, and I was a bachelor back then. I was a bachelor. Big ass house, you know, making a lot of money.

[Danny]

This is power pig days.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, this is 98 Rock Days.

[Danny]

Okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know. You know, go having a stripper every night, whole nine yards. And I had a woman, a girl that I. And she, about a week later, calls me up and wants to come over again. And I can. I can tell you her. Just her first name. First name was. Her name was Kathy. And I mean, there's a. There's a million Kathy's out there, so.

[Danny]

Not anymore. You can tell it was the 90s.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, exactly.

[Danny]

There's no girls born after 2010 named Kathy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So on the SEC. On the second time she came over, she got too drunk. She had. She liked wine. I had a big wine cellar. I'm not a wine drinker, but, you know, in order to be a pimp, you have to have a wine seller. I had a wine seller. So she's out picking. I think she drank like a bottle and a half of wine. And. And we. We. And she. The next day goes home, does the walk of shame. Wakes up hungover, drunk. Goes. Goes back to her apartment, and her girlfriend says, you know, where have you been all night long? You know, and she says, I've been with Bumper, the Lovesburg sponge. And her girlfriend's like, well, what happened? And she was like, well, you know, we. And I got Drunk. And the girl starts putting in her head, well, did you, you know, did, did he, you when you were drunk and were you of, of, of sound mind and did you really want to do it and all this kind of. So I get a call from Kathy and she's like, you know what? I, I don't know if I feel real good about what happened two nights ago ago. You know, I, I, I think maybe you took advantage of me or you know, stuff like that. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the on. Yeah, I've been with you before and you know, and I didn't have any surveillance at that time. And so I get a hold of my agent, I tell him that this Kathy is saying I may have been inappropriate, which I have never had that allegation against me ever. A lot of things I've done, that's not one of them. So he goes, listen, we're going to camera up your bedroom and if you ever get in that situation, you'll be able to prove you can tell consensual sex from non consensual sex. You, I mean from a videotape. And he goes, bottom line is if, if it would ever come into play, it's a misdemeanor for recording somebody against their will.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And we would be able to prove that it wasn't, that it was, it was consensual. So here I am, a bachelor, bachelor, you know, dollhouse, you know, just being the man being, being, being 30 some year old multi millionaire. And I, sir, I put surveillance in my bedroom and that's why I did it. I wasn't in their next room looking, I wasn't in, in the corner jacking off. Yeah, it just, it just, it just. So then at that point, at what.

[Danny]

Point do you have to start getting girls to sign, signed like NDAs?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I think, I think, I mean, I think now.

[Danny]

Yeah, I think so.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I think if you're a person of.

[Danny]

Wealth, there's probably super athletes out there who go to parties. Oh, I bring a stack of NDAs.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I know of athletes that make girls sign NDAs. I'm not hearing stories too. Yep, I've. And with a driver's license, like a take a picture of your driver's license and make you sign an NDA before they'll you, you know, so that's the world we live in.

[Danny]

But like what would happen even if the girl did sign the NDA and she went out and just like told the world about it? Like what would, I mean, if they had nothing to lose what would they.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

What would much kind of like the Shannon Sharp deal. Like, how did that go down? Like, I mean, I felt like that girl kind of extorted him a little bit.

[Danny]

Definitely.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know, like, what was that story?

[Danny]

It was only fans girl or something.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, it was only fans girl and you know, you know, you and he.

[Danny]

Had been like, been with her many times.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

They were boyfriend and girlfriend.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And you know, they were into some kink they were doing, you know, like to each, like what, what people. What consenting adults do in their bedroom. To each our own. Yeah. I mean, as long as it's not involved in animals and kids.

[Danny]

Exactly.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

On somebody's chest and just some. Just crazy, you know, if you're, if you're a swinger or you. Whatever, whatever.

[Danny]

It gets weird when, when you start to add the power dynamic to it, you know, like, like with the Harvey Weinstein stuff and, and with the Diddy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Stuff, you're in a position of power and you're brokering, you're brokering sex for something else.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Now that's a problem.

[Danny]

Right. It doesn't even necessarily have to be over the top brokering. It doesn't. It could be un, un, untalk, like unsaid. Right. If you're going, if you're a young girl, 17, even 16, whatever it is, and you're going to a Diddy party or a, A Harvey Weinstein party or whatever it is, and you're going there and sleeping with these guys, you, you're not just going there because you think these guys are attractive. You're going there because these guys you got a shot of getting in on whatever they're a part of.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right. So I'm not putting the blame on them. No, by all means. But they're, they're not innocent. They're putting themsel in a situation.

[Danny]

Yes.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Where some could go down and you know, the man, the guy is never going to get the favorable ruling on that.

[Danny]

No.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No. Ever. I mean, even if a girl, 17, 16, and her, and her. And, and her and her two little buddy girls were talking about. About it on the limo ride over and the limo driver was able to testify. Hey, they were strategizing.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

The guy would still go down, of course, as he probably should. You know, I mean, today's world is a different world than when, you know, I was running livestock and, and, and 12 boobs of Christmas.

[Danny]

Well, here's my problem with it. My problem with it is when you, when you're, when all these celebrity parties with these girls going over there Claiming, you know, they were getting taken advantage of or did or whatever. But these girls are. They're going there on their own will. It's not like they're dragged and handcuffed.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And put in a cage and they're not going to church, they're going home.

[Danny]

At the end of the night, going back to the next party the next weekend. And you start and you make this, these, this is what takes all the attention and everyone freaks out about it, but nobody talks about the fucking children who are trafficked to the tune of like hundreds of thousands all over the United States every single day by super powerful people and put into like they're taken from foster homes or trafficked across the border border and put into these trafficking rings.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Very influential, very powerful, untouchable people. Yeah. That are. No one talks that are so powerful and so influential that nobody even talks about it. And if you do talk about it, watch the out. I mean like, nobody talks about that but you know, it's just, it's a different world that we live in and it's so easy to set up an influence guy nowadays that you know, these athletes and, and other people, they have to have NDAs. I mean I. Here's what I hate is I hate when girl a of age 21, 22 influential guy 15 years ago and, and like the Danny Matherson guy guy from, from that Scientologist, from that. Yeah, from that 70s show. Now I, I don't know all of what happened, but I know it was like 10 years later. 10, 10 years later these girls came by or whoever came by and said Danny Matherson us dirty and whatever the happened, maybe they were underage, man. I think. Think that it's so anti, it's skewed so anti men that I think that there needs to be some type of time if, if certain amount of years have gone by and it wasn't a crime 10 years ago because you weren't worried about it. But this guy's now become popular or become famous or become rich. Now all of a sudden it's a problem. I got a, I got a pro. I got a problem with that. You know, I know, I don't know specifically what the Danny sentence to 30 years to life. So let's say you're Danny Matherson and you're out these, you know, you're living the Hollywood lifestyle of being a. On a hit show called that 70 Show. And you're, you know, you're, you know, you're these hot, you know, little groupie that are hopefully of age I don't think his was anything to do with underage. I don't think.

[Danny]

No, I don't. I don't think so either.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I think it was just. Yeah, he. He. Them.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And they didn't want to be, I guess, 15 years later.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Which is. I mean, I. How can you say. I don't. I didn't want to be 15 years ago, but 15 years ago it was okay.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But I didn't say anything then. I didn't go and get a me. Now listen, I don't want that to underscore women who get raped and didn't want it. And I hope that people, women or something like that, you immediately go and get it reported and get a kit and go to the cops and get that. That sick. That did it to you. Busted immediately. But for these people that wait 10 years, 15 years, I, I think that's.

[Danny]

Yeah, yeah.

[Concrete Clem]

Because it's hard to decipher whether they're telling the truth at that point. Right. Because it sometimes just seems like a money grab. It's like, oh, hey, I. This guy 15 years ago. And I didn't really want to, but I did.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So I was never going to get caught in that trick bag. So people often say. You kind of back to your original question. Well, why'd you have surveillance? That's why I had it.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I had one. I had one little bright brush up and I was ever so. Then I'm getting ready to go through a divorce. So I rip out my whole system. I take it to work, okay? And I saved that file. I. I saved that file and burned it to disk. My bad. I did it. I've owned that. I've did it. I've never said that I didn't do that. And that was one of the. That's the biggest mistake that I've made in my life. I'm here today. I lost it all. I became public enemy number one because I didn't destroy that tape when I should have, which allowed it to be stolen, which allowed it to be shopped, which allowed it to end up doing what it did. And it ruined my life. It made Hogan rich. It ruined my life and it caused Mike Kelton to take my job. Who's the person who shopped it, by the way, and sent it to Walker. It's just so unfair to the day they put.

[Danny]

Does he admit this now? Does he deny it?

[Concrete Clem]

I never knew that part, actually.

[Danny]

No, but it's in the, it's in all the court records.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, it's. It's it's in refute. It's in, it's in whatever.

[Danny]

And your documentary is the first time that this evidence has like, actually been shown to the public?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yes. Phone records, emails, addresses, you know, an email from Mike Calted to his agent, Tony Burton, saying, where do I send the video tape? An address given. You know, I know, I know the UPS store off of State Road 41 that he shipped it from. I mean, that's how much, that's how much due diligence we've done. And you know, again, I probably deserve what I got, but he certainly shouldn't still be, you know, doing radio in Tampa, Florida for 12 years thereafter. And, and at the tune of where his company had to write a 52 million dollar check to save his house ass. I couldn't survive a $755,000 fine from the FCC. How does, how does he survive that? I. I have no idea. Oh, my God. Other than if they fire him, then they admit that they did it. So that's the only thing that I could ever come up with in my, in my, in my documentary, which comes out today on, on Google Play, Amazon and Apple tv. TV video killed the radio star really takes you. You've seen it. It takes you. I mean, when you watched it, did you. What. Did you know any of that?

[Danny]

No, no, I knew none of it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Because you know why that Lawsuit settled. Cox versus Hogan settled. And never on Channel 13 live. Lead story tonight on Channel 13, the lawsuit that got settled. No settled. Lawsuits just go away.

[Danny]

Right?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So that's what happened in my situation. Had caught, had Cox vs. Hogan went to trial, all of the information basically in this documentary would have come out.

[Danny]

Wow, that's so crazy. And, and during that FBI sting when Hogan was getting wired up to go to the Sand Pearl to meet with the people, the extortionists. Brooke was on your show. She said that Hulk told her.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Hogan came back. He came back after the sting and said to Jennifer, his wife, and Brooke, his daughter, Bubba didn't have anything to do with, with, with the distributing or leaking of this tape. Bubba didn't do it.

[Danny]

So why didn't he try to like, at least repair the friendship with you or at least think. Did you ever try to reach out?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I think public perception was, you know, he didn't want people to think that if he, if he acknowledged me or we became friendly again or, or I wasn't, you know, public enemy number one, that people may have thought it was a work or it was a wrestling inside job and we did it. We did it together. And that's not the case. But he didn't want that chance of people saying or thinking that. So selfishly he let me sit here and just absolutely get my life destroyed and didn't give a.

[Danny]

That's crazy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, and we were best friends. I mean, we were best friends.

[Danny]

You had the. In the documentary, there's the footage of your wedding where he's like doing the speech and he's the best man saying that you're the only person that he would trust with his kids.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yes, he's a. He's the godfather of my son. He was the best man on my wedding. It's. It's sad. It's sad because I wish I could have been there for him when he died. I wish I wasn't public enemy number one in his world world. But I hope that my documentary video killed the radio star will give people that watch it the, the true perspective on what I did do and what I didn't do. And I forever get judged for what I didn't do. If you go and ask. And I said this last time, if you go and ask anybody in Tampa. Hey, tell me about the Hogan sex tape. Well, his best friend Bubba taped it. It tried to extort him, tried to sell it. And, you know, is. He's a piece of. Well, I did some of that, but not all of it. And I probably am not the piece of that you think.

[Danny]

You definitely didn't get anything out of it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, it ruined my life.

[Danny]

It got a ton of money.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

62 million all in. I mean, you know, and listen this. In his entire career, he never made more than 10 million in one. In one fiscal year.

[Danny]

Really?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And his, in his, in his, in his career, the most he ever made was between 10 and 12 million. In one year. In one year. So.

[Danny]

And this was. What was the peak, do you think.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

When he was with WCW?

[Danny]

What year, what year would that have been?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

99, 2000, 2001. He was probably making about 8, 8 to 10 million, right? I know that a couple times when we were working out, a couple of his pay per view checks would come in and they'd be like 1.2 million. And I'd never seen a check that big before. He be like, how many zeros are on there, brother? And I'd be like, I don't know, but a lot. I got, I got the best story ever.

[Danny]

I found a check under a candy bar.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So listen to this. Best story ever. He used to go in for these back injections Called fert injections. And the only place that he really thought did him well were, was this place in Beverly Hills. So I would, we were best friends. So we would take the 6 o' clock in the morning Delta direct flight to El LA. And he would be, we'd lot we'd land like at 10 in the morning. He would go right to the hotel. I mean, I'm sorry, he'd go right to the doctor. I'd go scrub in and be with him. And it was a, it was an out. It wasn't. They didn't put him under, but they, they would put these injections in his back. Okay. These, for these, for these first set injections. And they basically lasted him about three or four months where he had some reference relief. You know, his back didn't hurt so bad. It was kind of like a lubrication. It was just kind of like putting a band aid on his back problem. He really knew he needed back surgery, but he would do this for a while. So we're sitting in the Delta Crown room in Tampa one morning. It's like 505, the plane loads like in 30 minutes. And he has like 300 bucks cash on him and he goes, I need some, I need some more money. So he gets his wallet out and he finds this beat up ATM card and it's like scratched all up and stuff. And he goes, oh man, I forgot about this account. Linda doesn't even know about this account. And, and I know his PIN number and I'm not going to say it on the air because it's also his house. Like it's, it's the number that he used for everything in life from his, from his pen to his house security number. So this, there's a certain number that.

[Danny]

Is this when he was living at Will Willowdell?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yes, this is when he's living at Willowdale.

[Danny]

Okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So he goes, brother Bubba, do me a favor, go down to the ATM and see if you can get, I don't know, 600, see if it'll, it might not be worth. There might not be nothing in there. Yeah, but just get 600 if you can slide on there, stick it in the machine, type in the, the PIN code and it says, it starts spitting it out. So I know I'm good for six. And it says, do you want a receipt? I'm like, well yeah, yeah. So I hit the.

[Danny]

Do you want to know the balance?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That's what it said. So I hit it. So I got it out and I looked at it and I was like, So I went over to the Sunglass place that sold sunglasses. I said, can I borrow a pen? They're like, sure. Because I wanted to put the commas. There were so many. Zero. I was wonder. I wanted to take it and do the commas. Commas.

[Danny]

They didn't put the commas in.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, no, I mean, they had 0.00 cents, but there was a whole bunch of numbers. So I needed to comment it out.

[Concrete Clem]

Figure where it's at.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, I needed to fit. Oh, my God. 4.4.325 million in a county that he forgot about that he thought was dead. And I go. He goes, did I have. Did you get six? And I go, oh, yeah, I got six. He goes, great ring. And I gave it back to him. I go, terry, do you have any idea how much money is in that account? He goes, no, brother. Eight. Two GS. Four GS. I go, no, 4.2 million. He goes, don't tell Linda about that account. Linda never knew about hit $4.2 million. And I was just like, oh, my God. So he. He hid that one. He kind of tucked that one behind his Social Security card.

[Danny]

And Linda went after him again after the Gawker case.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, Linda got. I think Linda got 40. I think Linda, for all perpetuity gets. Like, now, I don't know about death. For as far as his estate, I don't think she gets. But I. Forever. I think he. She made 40% of all that. Of everything. No way how that was.

[Danny]

So. Because that happened during the marriage or during the divorce, because they.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

If you. If you've been married in Florida more than 20 years, then this ultra gimmick kicks in where you have to. Now, I think DeSantis changed the law. But before Hogan, when Hogan obviously got divorced in 07, it was called, like, injunctive relief alimony, where you had to provide somewhat the same type of lifestyle. After 20 years, you had to provide for your ex for.

[Concrete Clem]

Or maintaining that lifestyle.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Maintaining that lifestyle forever. Oh, my God. Now that's been changed. But under. When he got divorced, it was. I think he's grandfathered in.

[Danny]

I just saw something on, like, Instagram, I saw something somewhere about this football player, Tyreek Hill.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. Where you saw it today, it listed all 11 kids.

[Danny]

I know he's got more kids than touchdowns.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yes, he does. Yeah, we said that on the air today. Yeah, yeah. And he's got. And you see, like, he had to give like, 150,000 down, and then he got like 40,000 and then he won. He has 11 kids and one baby mama. I think all of them get 30 and then there's a bunch of kickers like you know one, one baby mama gets like a hundred grand and one baby mama gets like 40 grand.

[Danny]

Well one of them got like 50 grand a month just for lifestyle maintenance.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. Yes. Just to maintain her lifestyle that she's accustomed to while living with that and.

[Danny]

That was in Florida because it was. He was living in my was hot.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And had a vagina name man. I'd just be rich dudes. I'd be such a. I'd actually be skinny and in shape. I'd go to the gym every day, get some tits concrete Willie over here has to trial concrete for a living.

[Danny]

Look at him.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Meanwhile, if he had a hot and a set of tits on him. Think about how life easy easy would be for us. We actually gotta work and you know, but if you're, if you're a hot chick, if you're a one of these really, really hot chicks now you don't. Now you don't even have to go out. Yeah but now you just go start an only fans.

[Danny]

They don't even gotta be that hot anymore. Yeah but it's. There's two sides to everything at the same at the, on the other side of the coin they only have a certain amount of time that that's good for sure.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean you can make girls. I know that but I mean if you were, if you had your together you're 18, 19, you're hot as you're dealing yourself three four times a week on only fans.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah. Making a million a month.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Making a million a month. You you need to you know and you and say you time out at 25 but you've made a million a month since you're 18 and you had somebody that was responsible enough to keep you on track to not living like a idiot. Right.

[Concrete Clem]

You could really for life.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Set for life. Set for life.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Concrete Clem]

Retire.

[Danny]

Yeah. If you play your cards right when you're young.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I actually have known you know back in, in the eight back in the 90s and early 2000s, these strippers I would hang out with from the dollhouse and stuff that really did have their together.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And they really, they drove Mercedes and they lived in you know, three or four thousand dollar a month cribs but they were making twenty grand a month stripping and they were actually you know.

[Danny]

Had three houses but they actually were.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Getting buying rental properties and you know, making investments and stuff like that. And these women are 50, 55 now and they're still set. Yeah, they're. They stripped for 10 years. They didn't get caught up in the cocaine and all the stripper drama. They actually had a mission. Most of them went through school and. And they made a lot of money now. I mean, you don't even have to be a stripper anymore. You don't have to leave the privacy of your own home. You can just kick it out wide at home. Just the. Kick it out wide. Kick it out wide and the. Out of each other. Just in there. Something crazy.

[Danny]

Oh, God. Dude, Tyler's gonna have to censor the living out of this episode so we don't get nuked off YouTube.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, really? Sor. Carly, I'm so sorry.

[Danny]

It's okay. No, it's fine. It's fine. This is the Bub A special again. We can't be. We can't be holding back.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Might not even have this thing edited in time for the release.

[Danny]

No, we'll. We'll have a fine time.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Fast editor.

[Danny]

Yeah, Tyler's.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Tyler should have told me it was PG. I can go PG.

[Danny]

No, it's not PG. It's just like certain things, you know, algorithm. YouTube is like the FCC.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Trust me. I play the YouTube game.

[Danny]

The YouTube game's tough.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, and you, you know, you pay. You play seven seconds or something. You don't think you'll get a copyright strike and you get a copyright strike.

[Danny]

Well, not only the copyright stuff, the copyright stuff's easy to navigate. Just don't play video videos because then you'll be fine. Or music. But like, the speech censorship is crazy with like the. They'll find any excuse to demonetize or shut down a video for different reasons. For like saying the F bomb too many times. Talking about sexual stuff. Saying the C word. The four letter C word. That'll get you nuked.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I got nuked with Dr. Diaco.

[Danny]

Talking about the vaccines will get you nuked.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, so Dr. Diaco is a doctor. He's a doctor and he was very aggressive on the ivermectin. Yeah, he was a deoxycycline, zinc. Kind of like what Joe. Joe was pushing Joe Rogan. Right, right. On that same deal. And we're early on in Covid. Now, this isn't Joe Rogan. This isn't an expert. This. This is a doctor who is talking about the prescribing of medication.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

To his patients.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And how it's working. Or not. Two week ban. I was banned for two weeks for going against WHO guidelines because they were all about, they were all about, you know, the shot.

[Danny]

Yep.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And the vaccine. And, and, and, and you couldn't. But, but I was like, listen, this is a doctor, doesn't matter. And this is his remedy to fight this disease. And he took, took a, the, the doctor oath to do good by your patients and try to make them better.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

They didn't care.

[Danny]

Nope.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

They did not care.

[Danny]

And there's nothing, there's nobody you can talk to. There's no jury you can go in front of. Nope. Just some late, some freaking chick with pink hair sitting in her house getting paid to work remotely to, to set to life. Yep. Exactly.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And probably men.

[Danny]

Yep. And they're, and you can send emails until you're blue in the face. No one's going to respond to them. They're not going to do anything. They don't care.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Care.

[Danny]

And it's not like it's, it's, it's. God, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how you compare it to the fcc, because at the end.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Of the day, because the fcc, you have clear guidelines, like, you know that you can't say tits. You know that you can't say you, you know that you can, you know, it's community guidelines, but you know, you know the, the words you can't say. But even on regular radio, they weren't regular regulating talking about the vaccine or Ivermectin. They weren't, they weren't regulating any of that. The fcc. So if it's goodbye broadcast standards.

[Danny]

Even during COVID they weren't.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No.

[Danny]

Really?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No. Now some companies were. But I'm an independent. When I, when I went on the terrestrial stations that I'm hurt on, I'm an independent contractor. I don't work for that company. I just license my show to them. So I don't work for Cox or I don't work for iheart. I work for the Bubba Radio network. Network. Right. So some companies had like iHeart and they had policies, but nobody could tell me what I could say.

[Danny]

Yeah. The crazy thing about YouTube and Google, which owns YouTube, is that they're, they make a lot of their money from the pharmaceutical companies and the pharmaceutical companies are the ones that control all this stuff, everything.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Did you know this, that cbs, the pharmaceutical companies, during the co. During the coast deal got so creative that they didn't want to. During the CBS Evening News and during things like that, they didn't want to actually run the go get the shot commercial or that. Although, although they did, you know, Pfizer, whatever, go get the shot. Moderna Vaccine. Vaccine. Vaccine. So they went to CBS and said we don't want to advertise in between. Between when you do news and then you go to your 3 minute commercial break and then you come back. We don't want to be in that three minute commercial break as a shot. We want the news stories talk about it to be about us. And so they would show this file footage of completely jam packed operating rooms that weren't really jam packed, they were B roll footage from some other disaster. And they would show ventilators and all this, this stuff and, and make, make the COVID way more than it really was. And so instead of buying advertisers, they would buy story placements. So CBS would make the story about COVID Right. And it was always, you know, pro vaccine, this and this ventilator, this and this. And so they got creative and they actually spent 30% more money that way than, than just the regular advertising one.

[Danny]

Yeah, it's so crazy. It's, it's, it's sickening. And, and the crazy thing about it is, is Google and YouTube, they don't need to do the bidding of these companies. They own a monopoly on advertising across the globe.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right.

[Danny]

They like even if you told those companies no get effed, like we're not going to follow your, your rules that you want to impose, they, I don't think those pharmaceutical companies would have any leg to stand on. They would say okay, like where else are you going to go? There's nowhere else to go to advertise But Google and YouTube.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, but, but here's the deal. It's all California based. It's all woke, it's all highly blue liberal. You know, it's like, it's like, it's, it's, I think the majority of the Google and the YouTube and, and the meta and all that. The majority of the problem you have is where they're based out of, where their management comes from, where they live, how the lifestyles that they live. I mean, you know, people in California are way different than us here, us guys here in Florida. I mean go, go to Grady Judd in Polk county and rob $940 worth of stuff at Walgreens and watch how fast you're eating cement and then go to San Francisco and, and, and do it and you probably won't get charged.

[Danny]

Right?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That's the difference.

[Danny]

It's crazy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's, I, like I said about Joe Rogan, the best thing he ever did was get the out of California. And he was one of the very first. So, I mean, California is a show.

[Danny]

Well, Gavin Newsome's trying to. He's trying hard right now to like, revive his image and he's trying to. He's trying to like slowly tiptoe out of that woke camp and trying to like, be more middle of the road, be more of like a, a guy's guy. And, and have you just been noticing what he's been doing with his interviews and going on all these big podcasts. Podcasts and stuff like this?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right. I mean, he might be the only chance they have. I don't know. I mean, I mean, you know, here's the problem. You could see when the Democratic Party was grooming Barack Obama. You could see it when they brought him out at the Democratic National Convention during, I think it was during the Bush, the Bush second term. And he was this fresh face senator out of, out of Chicago. And Barack Obama wasn't that bad. I mean, Barack Obama did some good stuff. You know, he wasn't so far woke and so far left. You know, he was still a bonafide Democrat. He was a, you know, he was a Democrat right here. Democrat. Well, the problem is they were grooming him to be somebody. The Democratic Party is in such shambles now. Who's their Barack Obama? Who's. Who, who are they grooming?

[Danny]

Candace Owens.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, I think she could be.

[Danny]

The next one, bro.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

The problem is here's a Democratic Party just like Elon Musk said.

[Danny]

Elon.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Elon Musk, just like Elon Musk said is he used to be here with the, with the Democratic Party right here.

[Danny]

Yep.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, now the Democratic Party is here.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And you know, it could, it could survive here, but it's, it's, it's way over over here. Whereas the Republicans and they're, they're just as guilty with their evangelical, anti abortion. I mean, like, you know, I mean, it's just they both have gone to. They both have gone so far one way that that guy that's stuck there in the middle. You know, we're the ones that make the most sense, but we aren't necessarily the ones that are people that are in making any, any decisions or, you know, I mean, we're just stupid streamers and podcasters. We're not politicians. So you got to be one way or the other. And you know, I, I don't know. I. We could sit here and talk politics all night, but I would rather not because it's not fun and, and it's so polarizing. You know?

[Danny]

Yeah, it really is. It really is. And it's like the whole, like what you're describing is it's like the horseshoe theory where the, when you get to the extreme right and the extreme left, you come together.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right.

[Danny]

You know, it's like the bootlegger and the Baptist.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Like, here's the deal, you know what? Like, okay, I believe in guns. I believe that you should be able to take your 18 year old girlfriend to the abortion clinic smoking a joint with your handgun.

[Danny]

Yeah. Yep.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And that covers all. That covers it all. That's pro. That's, that's pro gun. That's right. That's pro abortion. Which is left. Right. I don't know where marijuana, I don't know where marijuana stands in, in, in that. I don't know. I don't know who's more probably the left is probably more pro marijuana than right. So, you know, I believe in abortion, weed and handguns. And I think that's the way most Americans are definitely. But we're the minority. But we're really not, we're really the majority. And it's just these fringe.

[Danny]

We don't realize it because it's only the only lives on the Internet.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right, right. And you get these fringe, like trans. Let's talk about trans.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It doesn't affect anybody in this room. It doesn't affect anybody that I know. It doesn't affect anybody that I associate with. And if a person wants to do that, great, let them go ahead and do that. Let them train. But there should only be one rule. They should have to be an adult. When you're 18 and you want to cut off your wiener, go ahead. If you're 18 and you want to get a set of boobs. Boobs, go ahead. If you're 18 and you wanna attach a wiener, go ahead. But you gotta be 18. Yeah. You can't be like in California where their law is, if you're a kid, you can hide it from your parents of what you want to become and tell your teacher and your teacher will hide it from. The teacher can hide it from your parents. Fundamentally, man, that's just not cool. No matter how you slice it. No matter what political party you are in.

[Danny]

Yeah. I think that's the symptom of empire in decline.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know how badass of a softball player I would have on the, on the worst all girls softball team. I mean, I was a pretty badass football player, but I would have been hitting dingers. I would have been, I would have been Bubba Bonds if I was Playing against back in 1984, I would just been driving them out. I mean, so that's what you can do now in some states, hey, I'm. I'm Backup Jones when I play with the boys, but I'm All Star Willie. I'm All Star Willie when I'm playing. When I'm playing. What I'm. I'm Martha Maguire when I'm playing Mark.

[Concrete Clem]

McGuire with a wig on.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And that's what, that's what some of these states allow.

[Danny]

The crazy thing too is how like a lot of the crazy trans activist people are now really into violence and guns and stuff like this. Have you seen them wearing the shirts with like the machine guns on them?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And you, you look at the school shooters.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And there's a percentage of them that are, that are. Are either have transition. Were transitioning, were into it, you know, had books on it, you know.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So it's just like.

[Danny]

And that recent, the recent one, the guy who shot up the kids, he was trans. The, The Christian or the cat, the Catholic church or whatever it was and.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Had that whole manifestation.

[Danny]

He regretted it. He regretted it. He wanted to go back to.

[Concrete Clem]

He was like, wish he never did.

[Danny]

You wish he never did it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right, right. And it's just like, you know, I don't know, it just the, these, these fringe topics that we talk about that make the news really don't affect any of us.

[Danny]

No, it's. It's the Wawa.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's what divides us all.

[Danny]

My friend Julian has this great theory called. He calls it. He lives in New Jersey. He calls it the Wawa theory. He's like, you go on, you live on Twitter all day and you, you think that the world's going up in flames. You know, everyone wants to kill. The trans people are shooting up everyone. You know, the, the Nazis are probably pro, are marching down the street on this street and everything's going up in smoke. But you step up from the computer, drive your car to Wawa, and you see the fat chick with green hair holding the door for the Vietnam veteran.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. You know, the problem is most people are recluse and they, they're living. Remember how we were talking about earlier about the metisphere and how we could be the mayor of. Well, right, that's, that's the problem of the world that, you know, when we were kids, we had our bikes and we, we were out, out late until the street lights came on and we were out there just, you know, making forts and trying to find our dad Playboy books and you Know, like that. But we, I, I was gonna, I would ride over to Danny's house or Danny would come over to my place and I didn't have to talk to him through a, a headset or anything like that. And you know, that's why, that's why the younger generation can't date efficiently because they don't know how to talk. They don't, they don't. Some of our homeschooled. So you don't even go to school with girls or boys. Girls, boys, boys, girls. You, you don't really know how to talk or interact because everything you do is electronically. Now let's add on the other fuck with factor, and that is AI. I mean, where are we headed there? I mean, I asked AI to tell me about Bubba the Love Sponge and it wrote something better than any publicist I could have ever paid written. It wrote everything. I mean, from my hog deal to the Hogan scandal to everything. I mean, it wrote everything. And I was like, I couldn't have.

[Concrete Clem]

Accurately, accurately in 10 seconds.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

In 14 seconds. Yeah. And it was better. I've had publicists before and they're usually about 2500amonth when you're really rolling hard. And there's no publicist that could have written something that accident accurate about me. It's like crazy making people lazy.

[Danny]

You don't have to do the work anymore. You don't think make it so you don't have to use your brain anymore.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You don't have to that. But what, what. Where does it come. Where do we start? Have you guys seen. It was. Was on Netflix called Companion. Have you seen that?

[Danny]

No.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, it's about this guy and it. He orders a artificial intelligent girlfriend named Ivy and she's like, this is a.

[Danny]

Real documentary or is this fiction?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, it's fiction.

[Danny]

Okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's fiction.

[Concrete Clem]

Movie.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It's a movie. Yeah, but it's fiction. Okay, but it, it's. I don't think we're that far off from it. And this and so.

[Danny]

Well, have you seen her, Spike Jones's movie?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Her? No.

[Danny]

With Joaquin Phoenix?

[Concrete Clem]

No, that's the one I was thinking of.

[Danny]

Yeah, that's one of my favorite movies.

[Concrete Clem]

Falls in love with an A.I.

[Danny]

Yeah, this was, this was, was. I think her. Came out in like the early 2000s, Steve.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, so way ahead of this.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So comparing. This guy has this hot ass and he even went in and set up how they met, where they met at. He set it up. He set it up.

[Danny]

Oh, 2013.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He set it up that they met at the grocery store and they started flirting with each other and then they fell in love. And then they start. Then they went to this weekend getaway and it if from there it just turns and then there's this gay guy and he orders a guy. Gay. A gay AI robot. And you can have, you can, on your phone, determine. You can fix every. You can determine. And so Ivy, the guy who owned Ivy, now she. And she. I make, you know, she, she does it all. I mean, she's, she looks. But you can put her, her intelligent level, you know, from dumb to smart. So he had. There she is right there.

[Danny]

Oh, wow.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And that was creepy. Somehow she turns against him and she grabs his phone and she. And he has her as dumb at 40%. And she jacks herself up to 100% so she can outsmart the motherfucker. And she outsmarts him and ends up killing him. No. Yeah. It's so great. Wow. It's so great. Oh, yeah.

[Danny]

There's so many good movies based on this exact premise.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But how. I mean, I don't think we're that far from.

[Danny]

No, I don't think so either. No. We're getting close to closer at all. We're getting closer and it's ramping up.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I think maybe in our life. I'll probably die before you, Danny, because you're on roids. But I'm just saying, bubba, I'm not on Roy.

[Danny]

You're on Roy's. Over here.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Fat roids. You're on bodybuilding roids. I'm just saying, probably in my lifetime, I. But I think in your lifetime, in your lifetime, you're going to have to deal with. Am I talking to a real person or am I talking to a robot? I really do. I, I think, I think, I think that. I mean, who would, who would have thought the advancements we've made in the last 10 years, you know, just think of the advancement we've made in electronic cars and space travel and, and, and just these AI now that, you know, the a. The AI that they have out now that are getting pretty damn, you know, pretty, pretty. Pretty damn fluid, if you, you will.

[Danny]

Well, I mean, for sure, on Instagram, I get tricked every day with videos that I think are real that are AI.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Absolutely.

[Danny]

It looks insanely.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Think about this. You're 38, I'm 59. I'm old as I'm a boomer compared to you. So I get tricked double the amount of times, right? I mean, there's so many times I'll come up with a story and my producers will be like, bubba. That's AI. I'm like, oh, I feel real stupid, you know, because I thought it was for real, you know, I mean.

[Danny]

Yeah, it happens every day, man. It's crazy. It's everywhere.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Thing.

[Danny]

I gotta take a leak real quick. Yeah, we'll be right back. We're back from words.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

We're back from words.

[Danny]

What are we talking about? AI? We're talking about technology and AI.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Let's talk about your new studios. You've been telling your fans about that at all?

[Danny]

No, we haven't talked about it at all. Really?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Really.

[Danny]

But we're moving in soon. We're trying.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, the big what's your move in date? My move in date is hopefully March 1st of next year for my new studio.

[Danny]

Oh, you got. Oh, you already got your new new place?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yes, yes, I got my new place.

[Danny]

And you're building it out right now?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Building it out right now. And see, you got to understand, my studio was made for terrestrial radio.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Like you've been in there.

[Danny]

You've been. So you've been in that building for how long?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Since 10. Whoa. Prior to that, I was in another building not too far down the road, which was much smaller. Much kind of like this.

[Danny]

Okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And then I bought that big place that had upstairs down where I am now.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I have goats out back and, and all that. But, um, so I'm. I'm in the process of kind of downsizing and you're in the process of upsizing. But, you know, today's world is the amount of equipment that you don't need compared to what you did need When I was rolling hard back in 2011, when I bought that place. I mean, you needed. I mean, just the amount of equipment. Our rack room is the size of this whole room, you know, with. For equipment and mic processing and, you know, everything is. Everything has become more simpler and easier to do now that we don't need. We don't need a stage, we don't need a shower, we don't need a bar, we don't need a stripper pole. You know, we don't need any of that anymore because I don't got strippers in there pissing and coffee cans and, and, and. And doing. Doing the stuff that I used to do that not because I don't want to do. You can. You couldn't do what I used to do anywhere unless it was only fans. Back when I used to have the strippers in there and we would do drag racing and we would do. You Know, you know, like, you know.

[Danny]

What was drag racing?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, now that you ask is you take two girls and you put them on a couch and you put towels underneath them. And some girls can squ. And some girls cannot. And you have time and distance. So you say ready, go. And they start take care of themselves. Taking care of themselves. And the one that the first is the winner for the speed and then you have a distance one and there's a girl that we had that could from here to that screen.

[Danny]

Whoa.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I'm not kidding you, she won the distance.

[Danny]

No, this was all on film.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, I got it on film. I have all this on film.

[Danny]

And this was allowed to be on radio. The FCC didn't care.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh no, no, that was on Sirius XM.

[Danny]

Oh, SiriusXM.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

When we had a sibian, a monkey rocker. You know, we had, I mean we had. Literally we would have girls with strap on.

[Danny]

Wow.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Having sex with each other.

[Danny]

Oh my God.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

While, while giving oral to 25 cent the black guy. And you wonder why I can't get guests at 7am no, that was like at 4pm we were afternoon drive. We weren't waking people up with that. You know, we, my most, you know, my most famous, my most famous contest in Tampa ever, and I'm thinking about bringing it back was the 12 boobs of Christmas where I gave 12 sets of tits away to flat chested women every Christmas, right? And we couldn't do that anymore because Dr. Diaco's competition called and the board of health, the board of medicine, the board of doctors or whatever and made it illegal to have a contest on the radio. And so we couldn't do it anymore because. Because there, because Dan would get, we get a thousand women that would sign up for a pair of boobs and then dan would only 12 would win. But the other 980 would wanted some titties. No, no, they would get coupons for 25% off. Like so, so, so they're getting them anyway. So. So we would do like 50 finalists and, and 12 one. And then the other 38 would get like get a bogo. No, like, like literally 50% off.

[Danny]

Wow.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So that's like Dan's cost. That's about his cost. And then the other 925 would get 25% off. So a $5,000 boob job back in the day, now all of a sudden it's 3500 and he couldn't book him fast. I mean he would literally be doing, doing 25 boob jobs a week. And the Next doctor in Tampa would be doing six.

[Danny]

How many could you possibly do in a day?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He can do one in 52 minutes.

[Concrete Clem]

One pair.

[Danny]

How. What's the most he's done in a day? Do you know?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I think the most he's ever done in the days. Eight. Whoa.

[Danny]

Eight sets.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Eight sets. You gotta say you're never doing one. But, but you understand he, he would, when we were, when we would do this contest, he would, you know, you can look at a girl and if she's a little bit older and you have to do a little lipo here to get that one to do. He would pick the best candidates.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That, that he could do the quickest and have zero complications.

[Danny]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So you know, he was the doctor that was picking out the winners because he would, as part of the entrance you would have to take a picture of your. And it was private, but you'd have to take a, submit a picture to the doctor with your shirt off. So he knew what you. It was a, it was a medical file.

[Danny]

Right. So hippa.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. So you would take a picture of your shirt off so he could get an idea what you had stock and he would be able to like, you know, if a girl had him just drooping down and she, you know, he would stay away from.

[Danny]

That's going to be an expensive lift kit, right?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You need a lift kit on that. So he get that 20 year old who hasn't had a kid who's just got a really good nice set of natural bo boobs, you know, like a 32B natural that wanted to jack him up to a 34C, you know, and he would pick those so he could get them done and he could do a boob job at an hour, you know, whereas if you get a, you know, you get a mom who's had a couple kids and she has to have a little, little nip tuck, you know, she has to, he has to kind of navigate him differently when you got, you know, there's different levels of, of, of, of what you have, of what you have to do. You know, like sometimes you have to take a little liposuction here to make it so set. Right. And stuff like that. So he wouldn't take any of those cases at all.

[Danny]

Yeah, you don't want to put a, have to worry about putting a brand new suspension on like a 95 day.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right, right. You just want to put new wheels on it and let it roll.

[Danny]

Right, right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So I mean, but he, but then we would. One of the things about the 12 boobs of Christmas was after you got your. Your titties, you would have to come to the studio and show us. So that was part of the deal. So we, you know, six months later, after these girls, let's see how that could go south. Oh, but then I also also owned. I had 2257s, consent forms and all these chicks. And where I kicked myself in the ass is I was going to come up with a year, a yearly calendar with the 12 girls each month and sell like a Hooters calendar. But it was going to be a Bubba army calendar with all these topless. But I. I never. I never. I. I missed. I missed. I missed a lot of money there, I think.

[Danny]

I think there. You probably could have gotten a lot of trouble too. They probably. They probably would have come after you.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, they. They could not. My 2257 was rock solid. Rock solid.

[Danny]

Wow.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

It said, I can even sell your image. I own your image. The image that you're submitting to me, I own. And I can sell and repurpose it in any way I want. Chicks will sign anything for new tits.

[Danny]

Right?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Let's just be honest.

[Danny]

That's true. What. And then what. What happened with the story that you haven't told, which I think is a. Interesting story, is about the hog. The slaughtered hog. What was this? What year?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That was when you were doing.

[Danny]

That was when you were doing Power Pig.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, I went on trial. They put me on trial for that.

[Danny]

And that was.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I was facing five years in prison for that.

[Danny]

That was your first big, big lawsuit?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, I had one from. From a state trooper that I called, you know, some guy. I was with the Power Pig back in the day, and we were going down to Kentucky Fried Chicken and Brington to hand out free chicken boxes to the homeless. And we were doing something good. And I'm on the inner. I'm on the Power Pig van going about night 90.

[Danny]

You gotta make it funny. You gotta do it at kfc.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, no, they were our sponsor. Oh, okay. They were. They. They were. You know, it was in conjunction with. It was in conjunction.

[Danny]

Funny.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, it was. And it was like, you know, it was a. It. It was. It was with Kentucky Fried Chicken and we'd already done it, like in Largo and Lakeland.

[Danny]

Didn't you get sponsored by yaya's?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I was sponsored by yaya's. Whatever happened to them?

[Danny]

We were talking about that the other day. Is there still mashed potatoes and gravy and the.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

The ranch dressing? The buttermilk ranch dressing? I probably have £50 just because of that.

[Danny]

I'm salivating, right, Just thinking about, is.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

There still one on fourth? Did they close it down?

[Concrete Clem]

I don't know if they closed them all down, man.

[Danny]

But I think there's one up in Dunedin that we found. But that was.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, that used to be an old Long John Silvers. And it was kind of shitty, but. Oh yeah, Y. Oh my God. So anyway, I was driving the power. Big fan. And I was speeding on the skyway and they had the aircraft up and they were timing you that way. So I got pulled over and this. This old cop came up and started with me. And of course I got a ticket. And of course I just didn't get on the air that night and say I got stopped by a lovely police officer. I just drug him through the mud like you wouldn't believe. That was my first lawsuit. Called him an old grandpa. He had a Geraltol drip and all that kind of stuff. Stuff. He took me to court and I won. That was my first one. Then my second one was a hog deal. And we had a thing called roadkill barbecue. And it was for Marilyn Manson or Metallica tickets. And we wanted people to go get roadkill like possum and raccoon and squirrel, things that had been hitting by cars. And we were going to barbecue them and make listeners eat them for concert tickets. So it was going great. We. We had a plan for a Friday. And all of a sudden, at 5 in the morning, this hunter calls it. He's a professional hunter and trapper. He's got a Florida license and people paid this guy 500 to take wild feral hogs off of their property. Because those wild feral hogs are just. I mean, they will root up your entire life lawn. So they would call him, as a professional hunter to come and kill these hogs and take them off our property. So he calls us up at 5, 30, 30 minutes before the show starts and says, hey, I know you guys are doing roadkill barbecue today, but what if I bring a hog? I got a real live hog I just trapped and I'll kill him right there in the parking lot. The humane way to kill him. There's three. Three ways you can kill a hog with a bow and arrow, with a gun. Gun. Or you can slice its neck. Well, we couldn't use a bow and arrow or a gun because we're in city limits. So the hogs the. The hunter slice.

[Danny]

So he brought you the hog live.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Brought us the hog live. And so that was mistake one. So we Call the Florida Fish and Wildlife emergency hotline. And we get a hold of a real, for a real game warden and we tell them where it located at 4002 Gandy. And we want to do, we have a professional hunter that wants to kill a hog and we want to eat it, we want to barbecue it. He said, well, you need to cut its throat. And if you'd like for it to be less gamey, the, for the meat to be less test. Less gamey.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Then you, right before you kill it, you cut off its testicles and then you cut, slit its throat. Okay. That way if you don't, if you slit its throat and it still has its testicles, it gets a testosterone surge and takes taints the meat.

[Danny]

Interesting.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

They, they, the hunter did it. We're live on the air, you know, raising hell.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Couple, couple sales women call the cops and the cops show up. They look at the state statute book. We did it according to the state statute. Now it was distasteful and I would never do that ever again if I was, it makes me cringe today because I love animals. I, I, I'm not a hunter or anything like that. But we didn't do anything wrong.

[Danny]

It wasn't what you would do even if you weren't rolling. The cameras are on air.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Right.

[Danny]

That's the way you would do it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. That's how you do it.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And so we did it. We didn't waste any of the meat. The, the, the hog didn't die for entertainment purposes. And we threw the carcass in the back. We, they, they actually, we ate it. We, we had bar barbecue that day for all the, the 150 fans that were there. And they organized with the state attorney and said it was a felony animal cruelty for entertainment purposes. There is no state statute about that. And they arrested me and put me on trial. And I was in front of a jury trial. They deliberated for a week. We were able to present four or five expert witnesses. Witnesses veterinarians and hunters that said that we did it the correct way. The state wasn't able to produce any witnesses because they couldn't find anybody. Said it was distasteful. And I, and it was crude and it was shocking. That's the shit that I do. But it wasn't illegal. And in a jury deliberated for 52 minutes while the state served them ham sandwiches for lunch. Needless to say, and I was clear, I was cleared, you know, cleared of that. Otherwise I was facing five years in prison. In prison and, and so that was probably one of the most scarier things that I've did. And you know what? Thinking about it now and it's, it was really not cool. I'm now a member of PETA. I have. I'm. I'm a member of PETA.

[Danny]

And you're a vegetarian. Vegan. Which is commendable.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I eat red meat. I mean I was trying to find a McDonald's on the way here. I end up stopping at the subway down the street. But you notice I was not late. I was one minute, a minute before, before I was supposed to be here.

[Danny]

You were.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And, but I thought I ate a. I ate subway on the way here. But no, I'm not a vegetarian. But I am. But I am a member of PETA because I, I don't believe in being cruel to animals or anything like that. And so yeah, such a crazy story.

[Danny]

You and Howard were like the most persecuted radio personalities. And that was part of what made you guys so fun. Because you guys were always getting in trouble with the, the law and you guys were always talking about it. Talking about the politicians who were doing corrupt in your towns.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

The big one of the biggest troubles I ever got was Mark Gober. There was a guy, I forget what the kid's name was. He was, he was 15 years old and there was Jesse Hargrove and another kid were seven. Were, were 16 and 17. They lived in Gibsonton. And they took this 15 year old boy, boy out. They lived in a trailer park, imagine that, from Gibsonton. And they took this boy out of his house, took him down to the creek. They had sex with him. Oh God. And shot him in the back of the head and killed him execution style. These two, this a 16 and a 17 year old were the bad guys and the 15 year old was the victim. Well, Mark Ober gets on and starts saying that he's going to try these two kids as juveniles. And there's a law in Florida that if a crime is so heavy, heinous, if you're 16 or 17, the judge can bump or the state attorney can bump it up to a, to an adult crime. It was a difference between them doing like five years in prison or life in prison. So Mark Oberg chose to choose, chose to, to prosecute them as juvies. And I flipped out, flipped out on 98 Rock. I had everybody send at that time. Remember faxes when you had a fax machine? I, I burned up two or three fax machines within the state attorney's office. And Mark Ober made it his Personal vendetta to. With me for the rest of my. And. And to this day, to the rest of my career. In. In Tampa, I always had that Mark Ober shadow over me. I just had an employee extort. I just had. I just had an employee embezzle $200,000 of my business. And I found. Fired him. And the state attorney, because it was me, refused to prosecute because I allowed him to say goodbye on the air. And I didn't make an example out of him. I let him go because he was a friend, but I still wanted him arrested, and I allowed him to say goodbye. Just. I didn't tell the fans necessarily how.

[Danny]

Long it was this.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

A year, two years ago.

[Danny]

Oh, wow.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Two years years ago. And it went through the state attorney's office. And because I didn't get on the air and say, hey, this piece of. Stole $200,000 from me. Instead, I let him get on the air and say, you know, I'm moving on, you know, because I didn't want to. You know, I. I tried to be a good guy for once. I tried. I tried to actually be a good guy. And the state attorney used me being nice against me and said, well, it looks like you didn't really care or that you. You kind of knew about it. And they chose not to press charges because it's me.

[Danny]

Jesus Christ.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, just like the no file on the Hogan sex tape, you know, they didn't. They didn't file. They never. They never, never filed charges on the people that stole it. They never filed charges on the people that extorted Hogan. They never filed charges on the people that distributed it. None of that, because it was me. You. My Calta punched my girlfriend in my fiance in the face at a public event two years ago. Punched her in the face, took her phone from her, punched her in the face. And because she's my fiance, they didn't press charges. And they told her that she's lucky she didn't go to jail because she was the aggressor. She's 5 foot, won 15 pounds.

[Danny]

Oh, my God.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, there was video of it. I wish you could see it.

[Danny]

Really?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah.

[Danny]

I wish you could see on YouTube.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, there's video of it.

[Danny]

How does he search for it?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Type in go to my channel, which is the Bubba army, and then just type in Mike Calta. And wait till you see what he did to her. She walked. She walked up to him at a personal appearance. He was at a personal appearance at a gun at a Shark Coast Tactical, and she Walked up because nobody's ever asked this one this question. And she had her phone and she said, mike Calta, Mike Calta, can I ask you a few questions? And he's like, sure, come on in. Welcoming her in a public. Keep on going down, down, down, down. Right. Up, up. Let me see. Here we go.

[Danny]

That's it. Two years ago.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So wait, did you see this? I was joking. I used to tackle her. Come be my friend. Yeah, so she's ask. She's. She's asking him.

[Danny]

He looks drunk.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. So she. You can see he's really nice. He doesn't know who she is. So he thinks he's going to get some ass, thinks of some groupie. And so she asks him questions about the sex tape. Okay. Right. I mean, you know, and. And everybody can learn something. You can fast forward it a little bit. I'd say I'd fast forward it maybe. Yeah, about right there. About right there. Okay. Where is the lie? I understand that, but answer my question. Where is the lie? Okay, so you're admitting that you did that? It's in court record. Danny. Wait till you see this. And guess what? They were going to arrest her. I've not been able to tell anything. I'm under a gag order. So when I say that if you can show me one time where I said I've told everything, it starts getting real good. I have not been able to talk about anything. Okay. All right. So admit that you're wrong. I admit that I'm wrong. Wrong on that. Look at the camera and put it in your face and throw your face. So she. So he makes her admit that she's wrong about a certain aspect. You forward an email. Put that, put that on. Okay. You're not. You're not being truthful. Let's talk about September 27th not being truthful in yourself. I'm being honest with you. Let's talk about not interested in the truth. I understand. This is when it starts getting real good. September 27th, when you're 18. Agent. Who are you and why would I waste my time? Don't try to deter. Don't. Don't try to deter the facts. They're in public at a personal period. You are.

[Danny]

Okay.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I love this. Okay. Yeah, I love this too. The next one when you. When you. This is. This is what makes him flip out. This makes him flip out. The question she asked makes him flip out. Cuz this is. This is his attorney instructing him where to send the table. This is his attorney telling him where to send the sex Tape. Watch. Your agent sent you Gawker's address to send the tape. You asked him Nothing yet on September 27th at 4:54. So at that point, he's telling the security, let, Let her go, let her go. You. You asked him, nothing yet. And then he replied, what was that about? Well, in his reply, it was obviously about assumption. What, you think you know what it was about? And within. Danny, you're gonna flip out when you see this. This is the world that I live in. This is the world that I live in. 210 Elizabeth Street, New York, New York, and where to send the tape. So you're telling me two weeks before Gawker got the tape, and your agent gives you the address you didn't send. Send the tape? I've never said the tape. You've never. The address from your agent to send the tape. You have no idea what that was about. Okay, what else were you going to send to Gawker? You have no idea. You're just fine. You act like a tough guy on the radio all the time saying, he's got. She's got him here. Yeah, she's got him. And you're wrong. But you don't want to admit it, so I don't know what more you want me to do. Are you admitting that you got. You got the address for Gawker from your agent? I don't know.

[Danny]

I did.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That. You admitted the other email. Email. Yeah, because the other email was true. This is true. Assuming you know what that's about. Assuming you know. So your agent gave you Gawker's address two weeks prior. How pathetic is your life that you're here fighting this fight? How pathetic is your life? Now watch this. Look, turn around. Look at these people.

[Danny]

Turn around.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Turn. He grabs her phone. Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it. Pause. You don't have. Stop it. So he grabs her phone, which is grand theft. He grabs her. He makes first contact. He grabs her phone, and now he's videotaping the entire, you know, the entire place. But he took. He took her phone from her.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Okay, now continue on. It's almost over, all right? And she says.

[Danny]

My life is not pathetic.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Look. Turn around. Look at these people. Turn around. Turn. Your camera shows her.

[Danny]

Oh, he just takes her phone.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yep. Strong arm. Strong. Wrong robbery by sudden snatching. You don't have permission to take my phone. Now watch this. So she tries to get her. She tries to get her phone back. Back away from here. I'm gonna.

[Danny]

What?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I'm gonna kick the out of. Watch this, watch this. He takes and erases. He erases her phone. He's going through her phone right now. She reaches over his shoulder to grab. Grab her phone. Now watch this. Look at this. Watch his hand right on her face.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, just mush her right out. That's.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Sucks. Then, then sends her outside, erases two of the videos off of her phone and sends her phone back out there. The cops come Mirandize him, get reading his rights. He makes one phone call and the cops leave and the case gets dropped. And the cops tell her, you're lucky he doesn't press charges because you were the aggressor when you went to get your phone. And the Florida state statute states, if something. If I take your phone from you, let's say this is your phone, I take this from you. You have the right to exert a certain amount of energy to get this back. Now you don't have the right to punch me in the mouth, but you can be like, man, give me my phone back. You know? And that's, that's the world that I live in. He didn't get prosecuted because. Because this is in Sarasota. They found out who her fiance was. That's the Bubba factor right there.

[Danny]

That's how much they hate you.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And that is the morning drive guy who shopped the tape and has been doing mornings for 12 years. Right there. Right the there.

[Danny]

Bananas, man. What a crazy world.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

What a bunch of. And what did I do to be the bad guy? Like you said earlier, I held people accountable. I would bust politicians balls, right? I would stick up for the guy that was out there painting like you, right? I was the man's man, the people's hammer. And you do that long enough, then you become villain. Eventually. I got canceled. I got canceled. I got canceled before. Cancel was a thing.

[Danny]

Wild man. And the story, the, the documentary lays it all out perfectly with all the evidence.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So you watched it other than being a little bit long. Did you like it?

[Danny]

Oh, yeah, I thought it was amazing.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, and to think that they, they used it to try to take a hack at Trump.

[Danny]

Yeah, that's crazy too. I love how you had Roger Stone come in there.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, Roger Stone did a great job. I tried to get Tucker, but I couldn't coordinate with Tucker because I've had Tucker on my show for years. Tucker. And you know the thing about Tucker, Love Tucker. I had Tucker on Tucker Tuesdays. And this was, this was for six years. And this really. I'm kind of, I'm kind Of I've not really ever talked about this, but I'm really upset in the fact that when Tucker got fired from MSNBC and he was just a. A small contributor on Fox and Friends in the morning twice or three times a week. I used to have Tucker on when he had no platform at all. None, like none. No more msnbc, nothing. And we had Tucker Tuesdays and you know, it was great. And now Tucker won't have me on. He just.

[Danny]

Have you talked to him?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, I've tried. And he just like, ah, you know, h. Not, you know. No, basically. No.

[Danny]

That's so weird.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah. And like I was, it was just like what the did I do? What the did I do or have I done to make even Tucker not like me?

[Danny]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I know that there was a place called Media Matters and when he was with Fox they went and subscribed to my Bubba Army HQ.com which has all my archives of everything I've ever done and this. And this company called Media Matters went. And there's a pretty extensive search engine on Bub Army HQ where you could type in literally, you know, Matt Cox and show you the show that Matt was on. Well, the Media Matters paid for a membership, it's like 9.99amonth. And they went and downloaded all 168 shows or that Tucker was on. And then they cherry picked it and kind of made a worst of Tucker tape. That's when he was really, really big on Fox. When he was huge on Fox. And they caused quite a bit of, quite a bit of a shitstorm for T. Tucker with regards to Fox. They got a lot of advertisers to pull based on what he said on my radio show a decade earlier. And that caused, I think some dissension. But I'm like, Tucker, that's not my fault. That was. You were on my show being yourself, talking about like how Iranian women smelled like camels and you know, like just outrageous. Because at that point he wasn't beholden to anybody. You know, he didn't have to really watch what he. So he would say like, you know, I hate, I live in Maine and I hate Canadians and if all Canadians, Canadians, that would be cool. Just, you know, crazy.

[Danny]

Oh my God.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And they use that against him. And they got like Mercedes and some big companies to pull their advertising based on his appearance on my show. And I think that Tucker still holds that against me and I didn't have anything to do with that. I mean, you know, I mean, so I don't know.

[Danny]

I don't know. I don't know. I don't understand some of the drama between some of these OG talk show guys. I mean, some of them figured out, figured out the new media YouTube landscape and just hit it, hit a home run with it. Like Tucker, like as soon as he left Fox, he went on YouTube and just blew up.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

He's just killing it, crushing it, man. But why, why would you forget about your buddy?

[Danny]

I don't know.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Why would you forget about your buddy that when you weren't, when you weren't, when you weren't even on Embassy NBC, you still had Tucker, Your buddy still had Tucker Tuesdays. Like, I don't understand.

[Danny]

Yeah, I don't understand it either, man.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, you know, you're my friend. Why do people hate me, Danny?

[Danny]

I don't know why people hate you, bubba. I don't, I don't know. I don't know. I wish I knew the answer. I don't think Rogan hates you. I think Rogan loves you.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I think Joe, I think Joe, I think Joe likes me too.

[Danny]

He loves, he, he, he loves everybody, man. He, he, he, he's the type of dude who's not, he's not like that. He's a type of guy who likes to share everything. He likes to help boost people up.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Well, and I've never. Oh my God, I've, I've, I've never said an ill word towards him. In fact, I've borderline worshiped him just based on how, how well he's done and how he's become the, been the it factor for a long time.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, and you know what? It's only going to go away when he decides to wrap it up.

[Danny]

Right. And how long you're him. How long do you even want to do it for?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You know, I think for Joe, for. I think Joe's going to want to do it for a long time because Joe's so good at it.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And he's such a conversationalist and he's got such a great compound that he can do it on his terms.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And you can hand select. You know, you're not ever hurting for guests because you are the absolute pink pinnacle of getting on the Joe Rogan show and is the absolute pinnacle of media. So I think Joe does it. Maybe Joe will scale back a little bit. You know, maybe, maybe as he gets older, he's like, hey, I only want to do, you know, twice a week or once a week or, you know, I think he'll Scale back before he quits. I think he loves it too much.

[Danny]

Yeah. I feel like he treats the podcast as like a warm up for his comedy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, I think they. I think they intertwine.

[Danny]

They definitely do.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

They definitely intertwine. And he can try new stuff, stuff out, you know, on the road. And he's right there in Austin. I think he's got his own joint now, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, he's got his own joint. So he's got. He's got kind of his. He's kind of made this Joe Rogan bubble universe universe this. In this Joe Rogan universe bubble that, you know, he's got everything. He's got. He's got a perfect setup. Like, you know, nobody will ever. Nobody ever will get to that status, I don't think until he leaves. And at that point, you're just a Joe Rogan ripoff.

[Danny]

Well, I think whoever. I don't think even if somebody is able to come up with the same amount of talent that he has, I don't think still anyone will ever be able to achieve what he did in media just because the timing.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

No, he had the perfect timing. He had the perfect timing and he's got the perfect setup. And let's not. Let's not take the talent away from the fact that anybody can get the set up. And. But you got to be talented and you got to be quick on your feet and you got to have the infrastructure and you gotta. I mean, he didn't. This just isn't all the come to him. I mean, you know, don't forget it wasn't too far removed from being on Fear Factor, which I'm sure he cringes at times like, oh, my God, I didn't Fear Factor. Oh, God, I look like a. You know what? I'm sure Joe sometimes cringes getting people.

[Danny]

To drink bull semen.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, exactly. You know. You know, I mean, I'm sure he cringes at some of that early, but I mean, nobody, Nobody. And he. And, and. And I'm not. I'm so thankful for the. The opportunity Howard gave me. Me. But he has completely surpass. Sur. Surpassed Howard.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I don't.

[Danny]

And Howard doesn't like pod. He like, talks about Joe and podcasting all the time.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I don't understand why Howard wouldn't give Joe his flowers. Because Joe has earned him. The reason why is because Joe surpassed him.

[Concrete Clem]

Right.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, that's. That's just the way it is. That's the way it is.

[Danny]

Joe and. And Howard's gone, like, super, like, lefty woke.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, Joe. I mean, Howard. Howard. Yeah, he's. He's. And Joe's not Joe's. Joe's still that American dude that's doing kettlebells, that's shooting his bow and arrow, that's looking for moose meat. I mean, Joe's still a dude that would get. If he knew how to run an excavator, he would.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Howard is so far removed from the average man and, you know, the average dock worker, long, long shoreman back in the day, used to like Howard. Now they like Joe.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Joe is the new it factor. And I don't see it going away until he quits. And I don't ever see it being emulated to the. To the way Joe's doing it.

[Danny]

Right. Well, bubba, this has been amazing. Thank you for coming in, dude. And thank you for letting me watch your documentary early with the early release.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Thank you for pushing it. And don't forget, it comes out today on. Okay.

[Danny]

Video Killed the radio star on Apple.

[Concrete Clem]

Where.

[Danny]

Where else is it available?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Apple, Apple, Google Play, and Amazon.

[Danny]

Hell yeah, man.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

My wife was hot, wasn't she?

[Danny]

I mean, smoking. Send me the links. I will put the links down below so people can find. Find.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I appreciate that.

[Danny]

The documentary and download it and anything else we should tell people about your show. Where to listen to, where to. Where to tune in.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Every day we're on YouTube like you guys are. You know, we. We just hit 100, I think 35,000, 000 subscribers, which is a lot for us. Amazing. You probably remember those days, dude, can you remember. Can you remember when you were at 135 and you thought you were all that?

[Danny]

Yeah, I remember.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That's where I'm at. And I'm not all that.

[Danny]

It starts snowballing. It starts picking up speed.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Does it really?

[Danny]

Before you know it, you're at a million.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, please. I couldn't even look at that. I mean, we got. Yeah, we, we. We. I got some good. I got some good stuff. And. And I mean, but I mean, how fast did it take you to get to a million?

[Danny]

A long time.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Long time.

[Danny]

I think I started. I really started.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Like, when does gasoline start getting poured on it? Like, you know, like, when. Like If I'm at 135 now and, you know, the average.

[Danny]

Well, for me, the problem. The problem with it for me is I started doing different. I was doing documentary stuff first, and then I started doing the podcast. I didn't start doing the podcast until, like, 2019, but we were only doing like one, one or two podcasts a month.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, that's it.

[Danny]

And that's it for a while. Once we started doing one a week, then it started to pick up more. And now that we're doing two week, it's going crazy. So I think it's a lot about, like, the more you do, the faster it grows.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Every one of our daily shows up there and you know, our daily shows are now getting, you know, like, look.

[Danny]

You got the good thumbnails you guys got.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I got a guy, my new. My new guy. Really? And then he'll take each show and, and make reels.

[Danny]

Yeah, yeah. Clips out of it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yeah, Little, little, little minute. 57 second reels. Listen this. I, I did hit it out. I don't laugh at me because I'm way lower, you know, I'm way low on the digital pecking scale than you are. I couldn't be a pimple on your ass. And I'm very, you know, as much as you used to listen to me back in the day, I'm honored and to call you a friend. And I'm very. I was just, I was just telling concrete Clem here when you were pissing, I go, I'm proud of that kid. Didn't I?

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, I said, I said, I am proud of that kid. He is killing it. But we on fake, we. Because of. I'm a little bit older, we also aggregate some of our stuff on Facebook too. So, you know, every clip that we make, we figure we might as well put across all, you know, all, all, you know, we're on Rumble, you know, so if we make a clip, a 57 second clip, it'll go on insta. It'll go on TikTok, tick tock. It'll go on Facebook, it'll go on YouTube, it'll go everywhere.

[Danny]

And you guys clip them out and put them out like instantly. The same day. The same day you record.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh, yeah. Like by the time the show's over, the first hour clips are done.

[Danny]

That's crazy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So we're getting them out. But we hit, we hit it out. And don't laugh at me. Okay? But we hit on Facebook. We hit a reel that did 91 million views. Damn.

[Danny]

Holy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And I mean, now is that. I mean, and it made like that, that clip made like 12 grand.

[Concrete Clem]

Hell yeah.

[Danny]

How long was it?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

57 seconds. Oh my God. And it was about me talking. It was just like. It wasn't. I don't know if it was just hashtag right. If it. But it obviously got put up on people's recommendation pages, but we did 91.4 million views.

[Danny]

Which clip was that?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And it was just a clip about. It was about the cost of. Of super bowl commercial ad ads, and it was just something real.

[Danny]

I think we hit a Super bowl.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Gimmick or something like that. And, you know, I. I think that's pretty good.

[Danny]

That's really good.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, I think that's.

[Danny]

I don't think I've ever gotten that many views on a clip, so.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

And we've gotten, you know, we've gotten several clips that, you know, do have done. You know, hell, I think that Brooke Hogan clip right there has done on Facebook, 465,000 video views.

[Danny]

Wow.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So, I mean, you know, and you're.

[Danny]

On Tik Tok and all that stuff.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Everything's at the Bubba Army. Every. Everything is at the Bubble Army. But Tik Tok doesn't pay you. You do Tik Tok?

[Danny]

Yeah, we do the Tik Tok, but I don't pay attention to it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

But you do you make that. I mean, you probably don't make no it. And. And Rumble doesn't really pay that well. You know, you got YouTube and. And. And oddly enough, Danny, you're probably a little too young for it, but Facebook pays pretty good.

[Danny]

It. Really?

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Yes. Facebook.

[Danny]

We just actually started working with this company that's going to start posting our clips on Facebook because we never touch Facebook.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You. You listen, you could easily be pulling down an extra. This is probably short money for you, but you could probably with. With. You could probably pull down an extra five to seven thousand a month on. On. On Facebook if you start clipping up.

[Danny]

It. I got to hit up.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

You really got to do that.

[Danny]

I got to email that guy.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That's. That's your own upper demos. I mean that, you know, and these upper. These 45 plus people are looking for good content because there's so much shitty stuff out there.

[Danny]

Yeah.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

So, you know, when you. Everything that you do, Danny, you should clip up and. And distribute across the platforms that are going to pay you the most.

[Danny]

Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna do that.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I mean, I know you put all. I know you put all your eggs in the YouTube basket, but there's. There's a couple other baskets out there that could get you some flowers.

[Danny]

We've been blowing up on Spotify lately. Like, our Spotify numbers have been like equal or more than our YouTube that goes.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

That go through Songcast.

[Danny]

Well, no, my. Our Spotify thing goes through Megaphone. This company called Megaphone, and it's the same company. So we have a. We had this company that sells our advertising, like, our. Our read ads that we do, and they also. They also collect all my Spotify money, and then they cut me a check. So I don't. I'm not sure exactly what the Spotify specific money is, but, I mean, you.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Could get a bag. Bag from Facebook. You could get it.

[Danny]

Yeah. Matt Cox is all over the Facebook stuff.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Oh. And I. I bet you I'd be willing to say that Matt Cox's Facebook money is good.

[Danny]

I call up Matt Cox once a week. I'm like, bro, tell me what you're doing. I need to learn. He teaches me stuff all the time.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

About this stuff, the guys, like I said earlier, I know he's got heat with me or.

[Danny]

He doesn't have heat with you. He loves you.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

I love him.

[Danny]

He thinks you don't like him.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Will you make sure you rectify that playing that clip? Because, I mean, I. I'll build bridge.

[Danny]

Back.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Back. Cox.

[Danny]

I love you, brother. Let's.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Let's do some together.

[Danny]

All right, brother. Thanks for coming, brother. Link everything below video. Kill the radio. Star out now. Go get it.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Thank you, Danny.

[Danny]

Good night, everybody.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Thank you. Submit Clem.

[Concrete Clem]

Yeah, man.

[Bubba the Love Sponge]

Concrete Clem.