EP. 366 - Bowling For Soup vs Wheatus (Jaret Reddick & Brendan B. Brown) | Wembley 2025

Nov 28, 2025

Jaret Reddick, lead singer of Bowling For Soup, and Brendan B. Brown, frontman of Wheatus, join for a lively discussion on their pop-punk history and friendship. They delve into the struggles of touring, sharing harrowing tales from the road and the bittersweet nature of hit singles. Excitement bubbles over as they reveal their plans for the monumental Wembley 2025 show. They also reflect on the genre's resurgence, muse about alternate takes on their iconic songs, and share bucket list dreams, leaving fans eager for what's next.

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ADVICE

Learn The Practical Side Of Touring

Do learn the practical nuts-and-bolts of touring (permits, manifests, basic fixes) if you lead a band.
Brendan warns ignorance on these items invites costly mistakes and missed shows.

ANECDOTE

Midnight Bus Repairs To Make A Show

Brendan describes cutting a chain-link fence from his bus at 2am with a hacksaw to reach the next gig.
He says you do whatever it takes because missing one show breaks the dominoes that pay the crew and band.

INSIGHT

Leaders Must Know Touring Logistics

Brendan argues lead singers must learn logistics because ignorance causes costly mistakes on tour.
He says knowing permits, shipping, drivers, and basic mechanical fixes prevents domino failures for the whole operation.

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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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