Jim Belushi – actor, Blues Brother, and now cannabis farmer – joins us to talk about his new Discovery Channel show “Growing Belushi.”
“Growing Belushi” premieres Wednesday, August 19 at 10/9c on Discovery.
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Episode 20 – Stay Home Numbnuts!
Jim Belushi joins us to talk about his pot farm & new show “Growing Belushi.” The Italian duo who did the song “Stay Home You Sonnomabetch” give us a taste of it live. Johnny gets political (about scrotum frogs in Lake Titicaca), talks about Smash Mouth going crazy at the Sturgis Biker Rally, and has some sound advice for MLB broadcasts with no crowd.
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Episode 19 – There Goes My Show
An R-rated voicemail almost takes the show in an ugly direction, a listener wants a singing lesson from JB, Buzz is annoyed by news reporters wearing masks on TV and is going to hell for stealing avocados, and more. Plus: With the Sturgis motorcycle rally happening this week, JB remembers trying to join Hells Angels with founder Sonny Barger.
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Episode 18 – The $12,000 Car Wash
We talk to some people in the news: Lynn from Lake Geneva questions Chicago’s plans to fine people who don’t quarantine after visiting Wisconsin and Richard from Austin explains how he caught his Uber Eats driver eating his chicken wings. JB warns against car washes with tracks after getting stuck in one and crushing his car. We play some quick requests from the archives (a denied Lobster Gram, a kid named Stoner, the making of a Neil Diamond album), and more!
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Episode 17 – London Calling
UK radio personality Graham Mack talks about the latest news out of Britain, an LA listener spills stories from his job cleaning celebrities’ carpets, JB dials up a “bear whisperer” after hearing he lost his job due to the coronavirus, and more!
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JB on London’s Podcast Radio
Award-winning U.K. radio personality Graham Mack interviews Johnny B. via Zoom for his show “The Pod 20” on London’s Podcast Radio. JB gets real about his experiences in the radio & TV biz (from getting fired at Westwood One to being yelled at by Mary Tyler Moore…and more), wonders if he’d fit in if he moved to London, and talks about launching his “shit show” live from his new home studio during the pandemic and how he plans to make money doing it (spoiler alert: he doesn’t know).
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Jimmy Buffett
After some trouble connecting via Zoom, Jimmy Buffett joins the show from his quarantine in “dry dock.” He talks about his latest album Life on the Flip Side, from the notes he got from Paul McCartney to the stories behind the songs Cussin’ Island, Hey, That’s My Wave, and Johnny’s favorite, Book on the Shelf (which also made Buzz “well up”). He talks about his postponed shows (“for 42 years I’ve been telling people I’d take a summer off, this is not what I had in mind”), how he’s staying connected to fans, and more. Plus: he performs an unplugged cover of Everybody’s Talkin’ by Fred Neil.
Episode 16 – Don’t Robocall Us, We’ll Call You
JB & Buzz remember Charlie Daniels and have a séance with Dead Harry Caray to talk about the upcoming baseball season. JB plays the robocalls he’s been getting and calls one back. We try to learn from animal attack stories in the news, follow-up with Sergio (the listener we eavesdropped on in Episode 13) and Anita Tequila (the waitress at Buzz’s favorite Mexican restaurant, who now has a wacky weenie written about her), and end the show with another upbeat voicemail from Pat the Complainer.
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