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Kevin Jonas
All right, guys, we're back on the pod. We're back. You've heard about the recent disclosures with regards to the aliens, correct?
Joe Jonas
The aliens.
Nick Jonas
The aliens.
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Joe Jonas
Oh, new disclosures.
Kevin Jonas
Well, there was a previous one up in Canada at a. At a hearing where a person who was in a top secret program has no reason to lie about this. Described the aliens as tall whites. And. And today on the pod, we have a tall person named Russell Dickerson.
Nick Jonas
Let's bring him in and ask him if he's an alien.
Kevin Jonas
Could he be an alien? That is the question on all of our minds.
Nick Jonas
That is an easy answer.
Kevin Jonas
Yes. I've met him a few times. I've had some great memories with him over the years. I cannot confirm or deny if Russell is in fact an alien.
Joe Jonas
Russell also, correct me if I'm wrong. He's a country singer.
Kevin Jonas
He's a country singer.
Joe Jonas
Which means.
Kevin Jonas
Which could mean he's a country singer
Joe Jonas
that also is an alien.
Kevin Jonas
Correct.
Joe Jonas
And possibly a Wrestlemania.
Kevin Jonas
Like we all know most country singers. These are facts. We only speak facts on this show. Yeah, everyone knows most country singers are in fact aliens. Aliens.
Joe Jonas
Sometimes. Canadian.
Nick Jonas
On that note, bring them in.
Joe Jonas
Thank you so much for sharing the stage with us a couple weeks back. That was very fun. My absolute honor, Joe, Our second time sharing the stage with us.
Kevin Jonas
Russell Dickerson on the pod.
Nick Jonas
Let's go.
Bowen Yang
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Unidentified Male Speaker
We.
Kevin Jonas
We go way back. We go way back to. I think it was. I think it was 2017.
Russell Dickerson
Okay.
Nick Jonas
We have a running joke that we can't remember anything at any time. And we all remember it differently anyway,
Joe Jonas
so it's not necessarily a joke. It's a condition.
Kevin Jonas
Came to me and Joe's house with a mutual friend and we had a great night.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
Sat with the fire, talked about life, music, creativity. And then the next time I saw you was after that.
Russell Dickerson
I will concur with that story, honestly.
Kevin Jonas
But I thought it was.
Nick Jonas
Which house was it? I thought it was vague. It was.
Russell Dickerson
We walked from a restaurant, we had dinner and walked to Yalls house.
Kevin Jonas
The true story is, I think the reason I can't really remember this as clearly as I would like to is because before the walk to dinner, I did partake in some. Some marijuana, which caused My memory to be perhaps a little skewed.
Nick Jonas
Yeah. Joe does not believe he was there.
Kevin Jonas
So my question for you, first question of the pod is, did I seem high?
Russell Dickerson
No.
Kevin Jonas
Great.
Joe Jonas
Mutual friend. Who's the mutual friend?
Kevin Jonas
Daniela Mason.
Joe Jonas
I was there.
Russell Dickerson
No, I just remember sitting in your backyard. You played us, like, your whole record. You were high?
Unidentified Male Speaker
Yeah.
Russell Dickerson
I mean, do, like, top to bottom.
Kevin Jonas
The whole thing.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. 13 songs.
Kevin Jonas
13 songs?
Unidentified Male Speaker
Yeah.
Russell Dickerson
Like, guys don't. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Nick Jonas
Did I do the thing?
Kevin Jonas
Where was I? Like, I don't. If you want to hear one more, it's.
Russell Dickerson
Can I play you one more?
Nick Jonas
Do you like doing that? Do you like playing, like, early music for people, like, way before it comes out sometimes?
Russell Dickerson
If it's the right peeps. Yeah, if it's the right peeps.
Nick Jonas
And do you do, like the. You listen to the whole thing or you shut it down, like, halfway after, like, the first chorus?
Russell Dickerson
I like to play the whole thing.
Nick Jonas
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
You played us some music at the Detroit show that you popped up at the hometown tour, which was amazing.
Russell Dickerson
It was.
Kevin Jonas
I think it was incredible to see all that you were doing online. TikTok what happened to me and then how it translated real time to that show. And then now, whatever it's been six or seven months later when you popped up in Vegas with us, massive. Just even more massive and insane.
Russell Dickerson
Well, you guys helped. Well, so thank you.
Kevin Jonas
No problem. We did a remix of a song for those that don't know. You were gracious enough to let us do it.
Nick Jonas
You even got us to dance, which is a lot.
Russell Dickerson
I could tell you guys. It was like a little uncomfortable to shake the hips that much.
Nick Jonas
You know, Russell dances and it's something that we had to get comfortable with.
Joe Jonas
You had to get comfortable with. These hips don't lie.
Kevin Jonas
Mine do for sure. They're liars.
Russell Dickerson
Yes.
Nick Jonas
Lie.
Kevin Jonas
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
This is not on our prep sheet. We get a little prep sheet about you. Even though I. I read it all. We are doing a bit of raw potting, which is where we come into a podcast. Raw dogging the podcast.
Russell Dickerson
Absolutely.
Joe Jonas
Raw pod. I had a dream. I asked you this question, so I'm going to ask you this for real. What is the country is thing you've ever witnessed?
Nick Jonas
What a great question. You dreamt of this?
Joe Jonas
I dreamt that we were going to ask you this question. And I'm witnessed or saw with your own eyes.
Kevin Jonas
Wait, Dream Joe has great questions.
Joe Jonas
That is Dream Joe is coming to work more often.
Kevin Jonas
Real Joe has good questions.
Russell Dickerson
It probably have to do with probably Deer hunting, I would say.
Joe Jonas
That's pretty country.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. My. My adopted uncle. Well, I. It's not necessarily me hunting. I was. But my uncle, just, like, watching him skin a deer and just like.
Kevin Jonas
Yeah.
Russell Dickerson
Hacks. Like, it involved a, you know, a sawzall and. Wow.
Nick Jonas
You know, just like, it's just getting in there. Yeah.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nick Jonas
Wow.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. So it's. That's pretty.
Joe Jonas
That's pretty country.
Russell Dickerson
But that's just.
Kevin Jonas
That's just life.
Nick Jonas
That's.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. That out there, that's just another. Another afternoon in November, you know?
Nick Jonas
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
Where did you grow up?
Russell Dickerson
I was born in Union City, Tennessee, which is, like, the furthest northwest you can go before Kentucky.
Joe Jonas
What was life growing up there?
Russell Dickerson
Like, oh, small town. Like, ride your bike until the best. Like, you don't even talk to your parents all day.
Nick Jonas
That's how we were.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
Safe.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. Knock on anybody's house in the entire town, like, oh, Russell, come on in. You know.
Nick Jonas
Right.
Russell Dickerson
The best. And then move to Nashville when I was 10, fifth grade. So fifth grade on was Nashville.
Kevin Jonas
So you grew up singing in church? Yeah.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
Is that kind of where you cut your teeth and learned how to play and sing?
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, pretty much was like, you know, the choirs and then, you know, get a solo every now and then. My dad was the worship leader, the music minister.
Nick Jonas
You know, ours was, too, right?
Russell Dickerson
Oh, yeah.
Nick Jonas
At CFNI, Inc. In Dallas, which is crazy.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. And so, you know, get a solo every now and again. And then by youth group. I was, like, leading worship with the band every Wednesday, every Sunday. And that was like. That was kind of like. Well, sometimes it was just me, though, you know, like, solo acoustic, leading worship and stuff. And then I was like. As I hit, like, being an artist and being on radio tour, it's just like, right back to that of, like, walking into a radio station with me, me, myself in an acoustic guitar and, like, having to win over the prep was there. Right.
Nick Jonas
Awesome.
Kevin Jonas
And when did you get tall?
Russell Dickerson
Honestly, I don't. I'm six four now.
Nick Jonas
It's intimidating being on stage with you, I'm going to be honest.
Kevin Jonas
I wouldn't say it's intimidating.
Joe Jonas
Yeah, I will.
Nick Jonas
Damn your.
Kevin Jonas
But I did appreciate the last performance you did with us. Whether it was intentional or not, you sort of were crouched down singing, and I was trying to stand up as
Joe Jonas
tall as I could to get a little eye level.
Nick Jonas
I added lifts to my shoes.
Kevin Jonas
It was a crouch. It was more like just a rock. So wear my flag. Yeah.
Joe Jonas
Was there a moment when you thought you would go into like Christian music at all, or was it kind of like you felt like country was always kind of the lane growing up in that? I'm curious because that was similar for us. Like we had a moment there. I saw somebody pulled up a video of us being like, cringe, cringe, talk. But TikTok of us being like, yeah, we are. We're only doing Christian music for the rest of our lives. And if you ever see a video where we talk about we're not going to be doing that, you slap us in the face.
Kevin Jonas
That's not what we said.
Joe Jonas
But it's like that, you know, you're
Russell Dickerson
gonna know something's wrong.
Joe Jonas
Young and influenced. I'm curious, was there a time when you're like, I think I'm gonna go Christian music. Or you were like, oh, you know what? Country's just kind of the lane that always felt like it'd be comfortable for me.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, I did always feel like that. But I toured with Chris Tomlin.
Nick Jonas
I was his guitar tech.
Joe Jonas
Yeah, he's a guitar tech.
Russell Dickerson
I was guitar tech for Chris Tomlin when I was 19 years old.
Nick Jonas
That's awesome.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, I was so sick. It was like that first introduction to the road. Sleeping on a bus, waking up in a different city.
Joe Jonas
Wow, that's crazy. How long did you do that?
Russell Dickerson
Probably two years.
Joe Jonas
Just love it.
Russell Dickerson
Love.
Nick Jonas
So college education was the road.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, I dropped out of college.
Joe Jonas
I went to Belmont.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, I finished at Belmont.
Nick Jonas
Our brother went to Belmont as well for a short time. And we have a lot of friends that went to Belmont. Belmont's obviously a music school. Well, I guess it's a. It's a full school, but entertainment school in New York.
Kevin Jonas
He wouldn't mind just saying this, but Franklin, he got kicked out of Belmont.
Joe Jonas
Franklin, he decided to smoke weed across
Nick Jonas
the street from the school.
Joe Jonas
Not at a Christian school, but he went to the.
Nick Jonas
Was it the back of the 7
Joe Jonas
11, circle K. Circle K right across.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
But it was like everybody, that's where,
Russell Dickerson
that's where you go.
Nick Jonas
Well, I think they had it out for him.
Joe Jonas
They. They made an example of him.
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Joe Jonas
They were like, unfortunately, his last name's Jonas. Oh, yeah, kick him out. Yeah, make it a thing.
Russell Dickerson
They're not Christian. Yeah, they're not doing Christian music.
Nick Jonas
They're not doing Christian.
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Obviously one of your great songs that we are lucky enough to be a part of is A Little bit of A nod to another song as well, lyrically. You know the great Cindy Lauber, who has a song in the Goonies movie which is quite epic. Have you seen this video?
Russell Dickerson
No.
Joe Jonas
Oh, yeah, it's Goonies movie. They have her with famous gooney characters and wrestlers. They're all in the. They're all in this video. Oh, you guys don't know this?
Nick Jonas
No, no. We don't know what you're talking about.
Joe Jonas
Was this in your dream?
Nick Jonas
I think you dreamt this.
Joe Jonas
No, tell me. I didn't do the prep. Guys, look at this.
Bowen Yang
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Unidentified Male Speaker
See?
Joe Jonas
Look. Look at our producer. Look at this.
Nick Jonas
I guess I didn't read that part.
Joe Jonas
It says, we say, obviously sampling girls just want to have fun. Fact. Fun fact. Did you know that Cyndi Lauper has a song in the original Goodies movie, the Goonies Are Good Enough.
Russell Dickerson
Did you say. Did you know that before the prep sheet?
Joe Jonas
Oh, yeah, I watched it. It's a very bizarre thing. Now, just little, obviously this sidebar. How old are you?
Russell Dickerson
39.
Joe Jonas
39. Okay, so we're all in the same realm here.
Nick Jonas
We're almost there, buddy.
Joe Jonas
Childhood favorite film. TV show. Goonies is kind of in that world. That's why I ask.
Nick Jonas
See? See that?
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Joe Jonas
I like it.
Russell Dickerson
There you go.
Nick Jonas
Prep.
Joe Jonas
She's a pro.
Nick Jonas
Identical age. I don't know if we. We watch the same things, but like, early Saturday morning Power Rangers.
Unidentified Male Speaker
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
Was.
Nick Jonas
That was my. That was it.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, dude. Yeah. The Power Power Rangers.
Nick Jonas
One of those.
Russell Dickerson
All the Power Ranger toys. All of them, like, their chest flipped open and their head turned back to normal.
Nick Jonas
Dude, what was the dinosaur version?
Joe Jonas
I know.
Nick Jonas
Speaking of things to do with old school 1990s things.
Joe Jonas
Joe, what do you got over there?
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Before we go to the packs, I gotta ask, were you into wrestling? Is that because you.
Russell Dickerson
You're.
Joe Jonas
Yeah.
Nick Jonas
WrestleMania is fantastic.
Russell Dickerson
Thank you.
Kevin Jonas
And do you think you could actually be a wrestler?
Russell Dickerson
I mean, this.
Kevin Jonas
Joe's gone to WrestleMania. He can tell you what the experience is like.
Russell Dickerson
Were you, like, involved in it? You just went attended?
Joe Jonas
Yeah, I'm kind of a big name around there.
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Joe Jonas
You know, I got a. Asked to sing the national anthem.
Russell Dickerson
Okay.
Joe Jonas
And we kind of wrote off ever singing the national anthem after we did it at the Easter egg roll. George W. Bush was in office, and we sing it on the back lawn of the White House. And this is probably one of the probably worst sounding Jonas Brothers live audios you can find online. And after that, us singing national anthem.
Russell Dickerson
Oh, man.
Joe Jonas
And then George comes out of like the wings and like. Like Darth Maul looking at Kevin and we.
Nick Jonas
Haunts my dreams.
Joe Jonas
What are you doing? We were just kind of like, we shouldn't do that again. So years later, when I got asked, I was like, you know what? I gotta get over this fear.
Nick Jonas
Am I gonna do it?
Joe Jonas
And it was pretty nerve wracking. Rick Rubin's right in the front. All these incredible wrestlers. I was more nervous to meet John
Nick Jonas
Cena, to be honest.
Joe Jonas
But it went over well and it was really fun solo and solo. I was with DNC, but I sang solo. And watching WrestleMania is one of the greatest things. It's so incredible.
Russell Dickerson
I haven't been to Russell Mania. I've been to some Monday night raws.
Joe Jonas
Come. Okay, good. Well, let's go together because it's so fun, you know, I think one of the most amazing things is the fans. And it's kind of similar to what we do with music and our fan base. What's the. What's the most interesting or best fan gift you've received?
Russell Dickerson
Oh, I kept. It was this. It was one that I kept for a long time. It's like a. What do you call it? Not cross stitch, but it's like the stitch thing of, like, one of our family portraits. Like, I know we got a lot of crazy stuff.
Nick Jonas
That's amazing.
Russell Dickerson
But, like, the ones that you actually keep, we keep all of them.
Kevin Jonas
Thank you.
Joe Jonas
The ones that go on the wall. The ones that go on the walls, yeah.
Nick Jonas
You and Kayla, you met in Belmont, is that correct?
Russell Dickerson
Oh, yeah, we met in Belmont.
Nick Jonas
That's amazing.
Unidentified Male Speaker
Is.
Nick Jonas
She directs your music videos, did she?
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, she. In the beginning, she shot. So she shot the music video for yours? My first single, Amazing. And that was like the video that, like, I couldn't get a record deal at all. Nobody would sign me. Nothing. And we took this into xm, took this video in and like, that. The video alone was what, like, started my career. Yeah. So she shot my first album cover. Shot like a few videos after that too. Now she's just like executive creative.
Joe Jonas
So funny because I love that together.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. Yeah. So, like, she's got the eye, the
Nick Jonas
photograph, whatever she's done has worked.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. Yeah.
Nick Jonas
Amazing.
Russell Dickerson
Thanks, man. Well, now Daniella is running my whole creative wild.
Joe Jonas
And for those of you that are listening and watching, Danielle Mason is like a longtime friend of ours. Family friend.
Nick Jonas
Grew up together.
Russell Dickerson
Hardcore. Grew up.
Joe Jonas
Her dad was like our second father. He was like, actually my godfather. So it's wild, but so small world.
Kevin Jonas
All right, let's get to the packs.
Joe Jonas
Joe, a couple weeks ago, when we got the opportunity to play with you for the second time, which was. You're so gracious. In my life so far, you opened a Pokemon pack that I gave you,
Russell Dickerson
which was my first ever.
Joe Jonas
And he pulled a Psyduck, which is really hard to pull on your first.
Kevin Jonas
What makes a Psyduck special?
Joe Jonas
Psyduck is.
Nick Jonas
Okay. Psyducks kind of have the same energy. I feel like me and Psyduck, he's just like, chill.
Joe Jonas
Sorry, Kev. Psyduck actually is very stressed out a lot.
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He has constantly a headache because he can see the. He sees the future, though. That's cool. He sees what's gon. He's stressing out because he's like, oh, no. If Nick doesn't like. He sees the future. Nick doesn't what the future? Like, what could happen bad if something doesn't go right?
Kevin Jonas
So he has anxiety.
Joe Jonas
His anxiety. Okay, cool.
Kevin Jonas
He's got poke anxiety.
Joe Jonas
Anyway, so we came with a little gift for you today. And for those that are watching, it's very niche, but also people are gonna flip. This is a pack from 1999. Sealed, never been opened. These puppies go for quite a penny. And we'd like you to open it. And we are going to see if you hit anything. Great. And by the way, you open this. This is yours. This is your gift.
Russell Dickerson
Okay. Wow.
Joe Jonas
We'll take some tax, but this is yours.
Nick Jonas
Okay.
Joe Jonas
We're looking for this puppy. We're looking for this puppy here. For sure, the two of us will know what you get. You'll probably know. So be very careful opening this.
Kevin Jonas
You need to get like gloves that
Russell Dickerson
people can wear, which is like they're just crumbled.
Joe Jonas
Oh, yeah, there's some ASMR.
Russell Dickerson
Oh, gosh dang it.
Joe Jonas
Now it's $200 now, not 300. It's actually way more than that. A Charizard would actually go for about 40k. Just putting it out there.
Russell Dickerson
This whole pack.
Unidentified Male Speaker
No.
Joe Jonas
Did you not. No, no, no, no.
Nick Jonas
He stopped ripping right there.
Joe Jonas
Do you want me to help you open that? You got it.
Russell Dickerson
No, just.
Joe Jonas
Okay.
Kevin Jonas
ASMR.
Nick Jonas
ASMR for the list.
Kevin Jonas
I feel like it's gonna be good.
Nick Jonas
This is. This is. This is big. Okay.
Russell Dickerson
All right, guys.
Nick Jonas
All right. One at a time.
Joe Jonas
Let's walk down. You gotta Diglett. Okay, not bad.
Russell Dickerson
Diglett.
Joe Jonas
Diglett. And hold on to these for you.
Russell Dickerson
Metapod.
Joe Jonas
Metapod.
Nick Jonas
Metapod's good.
Russell Dickerson
Excitement on.
Joe Jonas
Actually, Metapod's good. We're looking for Hollows but these are
Nick Jonas
looking for the ones that shine.
Joe Jonas
These are still good. These all go for value. Squirtle. Okay, go off. Go off. Squirtle's good. That's a good. That's a good poll.
Nick Jonas
A couple hundred dollars.
Joe Jonas
Actually, that's actually about. I'll scan it. But really about probably four or five
Kevin Jonas
hundred dollars right there.
Russell Dickerson
Rata Tata.
Joe Jonas
Okay.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah. Should I be sure?
Joe Jonas
Yeah, sorry. Show the class.
Nick Jonas
Sorry. You're about like two more away from a hollow if we have it in the pack.
Joe Jonas
A trainer card. People love a trainer card.
Russell Dickerson
Okay, cool.
Unidentified Male Speaker
Oh, gee.
Nick Jonas
Trainer card.
Russell Dickerson
Magikarp.
Joe Jonas
Magikarp. Great pull.
Russell Dickerson
Great pool.
Joe Jonas
People love a Magikarp.
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Russell Dickerson
30 hp, dude. 30 horsepower. Wow.
Joe Jonas
Yeah.
Russell Dickerson
Polio whirlow.
Nick Jonas
Nice.
Joe Jonas
OG OG fave.
Russell Dickerson
Okay. Dugong.
Kevin Jonas
Nice.
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Nick Jonas
Pretty.
Joe Jonas
Fans love that.
Russell Dickerson
Okay. Energy.
Kevin Jonas
We gotta have energy.
Russell Dickerson
We love energy. We got two energies. And we have a trainer. Trainer.
Joe Jonas
I'll scan these for you. We'll see what you're walking away with here.
Russell Dickerson
Tell the story of a few weeks ago when what your buddy pulled.
Joe Jonas
Oh, that was insane.
Nick Jonas
Your cast mate.
Kevin Jonas
Oh, my gosh.
Joe Jonas
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
So Justice Smith, who was in Detective Pikachu, he and I just did a movie together called White Elephant.
Nick Jonas
He's got nerds.
Kevin Jonas
We did a movie together called White Elephant with another co star named Kathryn Newton who was also in Detective Pikachu. And he gave me kind of all the info they had to go through, like Pokemon, like training and all this kind of stuff to know about the lore and the history. And he pulls a card from this pack. And Joe, you tell it because I don't know what it is.
Joe Jonas
Your boy justice, he just like opens his pack and I'm like, he's going through. He's like, doesn't really know. And I posted it.
Kevin Jonas
People freaked out.
Joe Jonas
I posted it because he pulled an Umbreon Ex, which is probably the hardest card to pull from that pack. Anyway, enough about Pokemon.
Russell Dickerson
These are calling home, which is like $10,000 or something.
Joe Jonas
It's up to 20. If graded at 10, you're looking upwards of 5k probably.
Kevin Jonas
Okay, that's so incredible. So we have a hotline. People can call and leave messages for us and ask for. Ask for advice. And we would love for you to join and give some advice unsolicited.
Nick Jonas
Because we're all qualified to do this in every facet of life.
Kevin Jonas
Actually, we might be. For this first one. We might be qualified.
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Unidentified Short Interjection
Hey, gentlemen brothers, this is Neff. Martinez from Jersey. And I know you brothers are from Jersey as well. Pastor's kid here. And, you know, I've just been a little lonely lately, and I just really want some advice. And my question to you brothers are, how do you know when it's actually the one? When you know that the girl is the one or not, hopefully. Guys, you get this later.
Kevin Jonas
All right, Neff, thanks for the question and shout out fellow pastor's kid and Jersey.
Nick Jonas
Yeah, he said he's feeling a little lonely.
Kevin Jonas
Well, it got a little heavy there from it.
Nick Jonas
I'm sorry to hear that.
Russell Dickerson
Sorry, Neff.
Nick Jonas
We've all been a little lonely before.
Russell Dickerson
So are you with someone?
Kevin Jonas
It sounds like.
Joe Jonas
I think it sounds like maybe there's
Kevin Jonas
a person of interest.
Joe Jonas
Person of interest. And he's not sure if it's the one. I think. Well, just starting off, I think putting pressure on it, if it's the one in general, it's gonna. That just is a bit overwhelming.
Unidentified Male Speaker
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
That's something that I think should just. It finds itself out.
Nick Jonas
I agree. How did you know?
Russell Dickerson
I broke up with my wife. Girlfriend at the time, and it took about a month to be like, wow. Yeah. No. Wow.
Nick Jonas
Identical story.
Joe Jonas
Really?
Nick Jonas
It's 100%.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
You're like, I really screwed up. I need to fix this.
Nick Jonas
My wife knew exactly what she was doing. She sent me a picture.
Unidentified Male Speaker
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Nick Jonas
I hit her back up on AOL AIM back in the day after the breakup. And I'm like, hey, how are you? We're on the Hannah Montana tour now at this point. And she sends me a picture of what she went out to out in her Halloween costume.
Joe Jonas
And I was like, cool.
Nick Jonas
It was Alice in Wonderland. It was the whole thing. It was like, okay, we're back.
Joe Jonas
She went, his Magikarp.
Nick Jonas
She want his Magikarp. 360$Magikarp.
Joe Jonas
Neff, I don't know if there is a person of interest, but my encouragement to you, my friend, is get yourself out there and go meet people. Get out of your little bubble. Get out of your church bubble. Because that also can be. That can be tough.
Kevin Jonas
That's what I was gonna say. I think that sometimes there's a pressure to go, oh, it's the one. Because you're in church and it's a race.
Joe Jonas
Especially pastors.
Nick Jonas
Yeah.
Russell Dickerson
No dating unless it's the one.
Kevin Jonas
Exactly. And it's okay to meet people and have connections. All right, Joe.
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Joe Jonas
Just kidding. Just kidding.
Nick Jonas
I know.
Joe Jonas
It's a. It's a touchy thing when you're growing up in the church and you're like, pew number two. So I think, put yourself out there. Believe in yourself. Go find things you really like. You might be doing a pottery class and you look up and you're like, oh, that teacher's cute. And she's like, may I help you? And she does that classic reachover and she helps you mold that thing.
Nick Jonas
She ghosts you.
Joe Jonas
She ghosts your a Getting to a
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Joe Jonas
okay, next one.
Unidentified Short Interjection
Hi, my name is Alison. My mom needs help picking a song for my brother's wedding to dance with him for the mom and son dance.
Joe Jonas
Mommy son dance.
Unidentified Short Interjection
Their wedding is October 11th, and she still hasn't been able to pick out a song. And I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations for a good mother and son dance. October, we went to your concert in Grand Rapids, and we're really big. We had so much fun. We're really big fans.
Joe Jonas
Thank you so much.
Kevin Jonas
I mean, I got this song. It was a song that my mom and I danced at our wedding.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
I hope you dance okay. I mean, come on. It's the perfect.
Joe Jonas
I feel like if there's a balance here because it can quickly get romantic, and that's weird.
Nick Jonas
Great song.
Joe Jonas
And they say Grand Rapids, this is going to be perfect for their boys.
Russell Dickerson
To men.
Nick Jonas
Okay.
Russell Dickerson
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Nick Jonas
No, the NSYNC one too.
Joe Jonas
Is.
Nick Jonas
Is it the NSync or is it Backstreet? Which one has the one Mama? I can't remember.
Joe Jonas
I saw October. I'm just saying. Who you gonna call?
Kevin Jonas
Ghostbusters.
Joe Jonas
And they could be like, in the outfits and have, like, outfit changes, have a whole dance routine.
Nick Jonas
People would go off and it'd be
Joe Jonas
like, be perfect season. People like, dude, they just did a this epic Halloween themed mommy sun dance.
Russell Dickerson
Don't sleep on me.
Nick Jonas
She said mommy. She said mommy. She said mommy. The question is, does he?
Unidentified Male Speaker
Okay.
Joe Jonas
But good luck, guys.
Russell Dickerson
Congrats.
Kevin Jonas
Congrats.
Russell Dickerson
Congrats.
Kevin Jonas
All right, and now we have this more important business to get to, which is that we're gonna do a dramatic reading today. So, yeah, we are a dramatic reading.
Nick Jonas
Yeah, we are.
Kevin Jonas
Because your first concert was by this band, correct?
Russell Dickerson
Yes.
Kevin Jonas
Yeah.
Russell Dickerson
Just moved to Nashville. Yeah. And my cousin and her. All her cute friends were going, so I was like, yeah, I'll buy a lawn ticket for $25.
Joe Jonas
Love it.
Nick Jonas
Love a lawn seat.
Russell Dickerson
Add to our.
Kevin Jonas
Your first concert was what?
Russell Dickerson
Don't lie. Don't try to be cool.
Nick Jonas
My first concert, like, real concert or like. Or like one of parents?
Joe Jonas
It was real concert, I think it was probably.
Russell Dickerson
No, like, you bought a ticket. You like you.
Nick Jonas
It was that me and Joe, we went to mxbx.
Joe Jonas
So it was pretty cool.
Nick Jonas
And we told our parents it's totally Christian base.
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Joe Jonas
I was just about to say Kevin. Kevin did this.
Kevin Jonas
I.
Joe Jonas
This is a true story. Kevin and I, we used to be pretty badass. We'd wear some jean jackets and go in the mosh pit.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
I was always, like, on the corner, like, watching. We would go to, like, these punk rock shows in New Jersey in a basement somewhere. And Kevin was a gymnast growing up, and he would be pretty athletic in the pit.
Nick Jonas
And I can't believe I did this.
Kevin Jonas
He would do backflips.
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Joe Jonas
Kevin backwards handsprings. I do a little flippy flip. And he get this.
Kevin Jonas
This is.
Joe Jonas
I witnessed. He kicked a guy in the nuts on the way back. And the guy was like, oh. And I was like, he's gonna beat Kevin's ass. And he looks at Kevin, he's like, it's all good.
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Joe Jonas
I was like, all right, that's good. Kevin proceeded later on, like an hour later, to kick the same guy in the balls again, doing the backflip. Is this true story? It is a true story. This guy, by the way. And I was like, he's gonna kick. He has to kick his ass now. He still was. And even Kevin was like, he's gonna kick my ass. And the guy looked at me, he's
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Nick Jonas
Yo, it's all love.
Joe Jonas
And I was kind of like, I'm
Russell Dickerson
about to say it's all love in the pit. It's all fair in the pit, dude.
Joe Jonas
But I mean, like, anything goes. Two times in the nuts, two times the free game.
Unidentified Male Speaker
Yeah. Okay.
Russell Dickerson
Same notes.
Nick Jonas
So that was a great show.
Joe Jonas
A dramatic reading for everyone.
Nick Jonas
This is a dramatic reading of one of our longtime favorite groups here.
Kevin Jonas
Duh. You have so many relationships in this life. Only one or two will last. You go through all the pain and the strife oh, yeah.
Nick Jonas
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast oh, yeah and they're gone so fast yeah oh so hold on the ones who really care in the end they'll be the only ones there when you get old start losing
Joe Jonas
your hair can you tell me who will still care? Can you tell me who will still care? Oh, oh yeah, yeah Mbop
Russell Dickerson
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Kevin Jonas
Fantastic.
Nick Jonas
Wow. That was on that note.
Joe Jonas
Clip it on that note. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for the concert a couple weeks back. You're the best.
Kevin Jonas
We're gonna see you in August.
Russell Dickerson
Thank you.
Kevin Jonas
At the Boots and Hearts Festival.
Russell Dickerson
Dude, we gotta figure out what we're gonna do.
Nick Jonas
We're gonna run it back, right?
Russell Dickerson
Sure. We can run it back. We can.
Kevin Jonas
I think we gotta do a cover.
Russell Dickerson
Yeah, we talked about a cover.
Nick Jonas
What cover are we talking about?
Joe Jonas
How about this?
Kevin Jonas
How about this? If you're listening, call the hotline, 1, 8, 4, hey Jonas. And tell us what we should cover with Russell.
Joe Jonas
We're going to break some hearts and break in some boots.
Kevin Jonas
Hey.
Russell Dickerson
Yes, we are. Are we going? Are we doing country? Are we doing.
Kevin Jonas
I think we got a country.
Joe Jonas
I do a country cover. It'll be fun.
Russell Dickerson
Okay, cool.
Kevin Jonas
Let's do it.
Nick Jonas
All right, let's see.
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Kevin Jonas
Oh, and on that note.
Joe Jonas
See you guys.
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Joe Jonas
Bye.
Russell Dickerson
Bye.
Joe Jonas
Thanks, Russell.
Unidentified Male Speaker
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Russell Dickerson
Thanks, guys.
Joe Jonas
Bye Bye.
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Kevin Jonas
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Joe Jonas
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Kevin Jonas
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Joe Jonas
What do you mean?
Kevin Jonas
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Joe Jonas
Maybe we're saved.
Kevin Jonas
Wait a minute. Yellow. Have you been eating them this whole time?
Joe Jonas
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Nick Jonas
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Joe Jonas
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Podcast: Hey Jonas!
Hosts: Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas
Guest: Russell Dickerson
Release Date: June 16, 2026
This lively episode of the official Jonas Brothers podcast brings country star Russell Dickerson into the fold for a conversation that’s equal parts playful, personal, and insightful. The Jonas Brothers and Russell reminisce about their shared history, discuss creativity and music, open up about their upbringings, and field hotline calls from fans seeking life advice—all peppered with their trademark humor and candidness.
The group reflects on their first meeting, (possibly) at the Jonas house after dinner, with playful confusion about who attended and whether Kevin seemed high.
Russell describes growing up in Union City, Tennessee, the small-town vibe, moving to Nashville, and singing in church where his father was the music minister.
When asked about the "country-est thing" he'd witnessed, Russell describes his uncle skinning a deer, using a sawzall—a quintessential, rural memory.
The group shares stories about growing up as pastor's kids, moving for music, and whether they ever considered Christian music as a career.
Jonas family stories: Franklin getting kicked out of Belmont for smoking weed, and the circle of mutual friends in Nashville.
The discussion veers to childhood favorites, ‘90s cartoons (Goonies, Power Rangers), and wrestling fandom.
Wrestling tales: Joe’s experience singing the national anthem at WrestleMania and Russell’s attendance at Monday Night RAW.
Russell shares the best fan gifts he’s received, especially a stitched family portrait.
On his wife Kayla: They met at Belmont, she shot his breakthrough music video, and now leads his creative direction.
On memory and friendship:
“We have a running joke that we can’t remember anything at any time. And we all remember it differently anyway, so it’s not necessarily a joke. It’s a condition.” — Joe Jonas (04:49)
On opening early music to friends:
“If it’s the right peeps…Yeah, if it’s the right peeps.” — Russell Dickerson (06:09)
On growing up “country”:
“That’s pretty country.” —Joe Jonas (08:08)
“But that’s just…life.” —Kevin Jonas (08:11)
On shift from Christian music to country:
“I did always feel like that. But I toured with Chris Tomlin. I was his guitar tech when I was 19 years old.” —Russell Dickerson (10:46)
Advice to lonely listeners:
“I think putting pressure on it, if it’s the one in general…that just is a bit overwhelming.” —Joe Jonas (24:23)
“My encouragement is get yourself out there…get out of your little bubble.” —Joe Jonas (25:20)
On his wife’s early impact:
“The video alone was what started my career.” —Russell Dickerson (18:21)
On performing together:
“You even got us to dance, which is a lot.” —Nick Jonas (06:48)
The episode is infused with the Jonas Brothers’ recognizable mix of playful banter, honest storytelling, and earnest advice. Russell Dickerson matches their energy, creating a warm, friendly, and occasionally irreverent tone that feels like a group of friends catching up and letting listeners in on their unfiltered conversations.
The hosts close the episode by encouraging fan input on their next live cover song, inviting calls to their hotline—a classic example of the Jonas Brothers’ community focus and engagement.
For fans of the Jonas Brothers, Russell Dickerson, or music podcasts in general, this episode delivers nostalgia, laughs, practical wisdom, and a peek behind the curtain at creative lives lived with genuine friendship and fun.