EP. 366 - Bowling For Soup vs Wheatus (Jaret Reddick & Brendan B. Brown) | Wembley 2025
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Dirtbag(s) All The Bad Guys Want! This generations two greatest pop-punk vs pop-culture lyricists, Jaret Reddick and Brendan B. Brown, are our guests on Episode 366 of Sappenin' Podcast! The Bowling For Soup and Wheatus icons, exclusively team up for a roundtable full of untold secrets, behind their most famous songs, concurring the scene on their terms and sharing their biggest ever show, playing Wembley Arena, UK on December 13th 2025. In this conversation, JR + BBB open on their friendship, overcoming very similar industry struggles, the curse vs blessing of living with hit singles, earning their does in beaten up tour vans, rejecting new label offers, independent kinships, how both bands are bigger than ever thirty years later, songwriting loopholes, Teenage Dirtbag vs 1985 character conspires, new music, Wembley surprise, magic Lucozade vs Ribena, important no stage food rules, what songs from each-others back catalog they wish they written and more! Turn it up and join Sean and Morgan to find out Sappenin' this week!
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