Sleepovers (or "Spend the Night" Parties) were a childhood rite of passage, and in this episode of Hoot’n and Holler’n, the guys look back on why they were either the best nights of your life or absolute disasters you still think about years later.

Hosts Matt Mitchell (SEC Roll Call, Bless Your Rank, It’s a Southern Thing), Eric Nix, Joey Prestley, and Drake Pittman share stories from the golden age of sleepovers. From planning them weeks ahead of time and learning the hard rule of never falling asleep first, to getting stuck at the wrong house with no TV, strict grandparents, cigarette smoke in the living room, and parents who shut everything down way too early. Things escalate quickly with failed boy band ideas, video game fights, trampoline wrestling, dads who played football like it was full contact, and one legendary taco-night emergency that marked the end of childhood for everyone involved.

It’s a funny, nostalgic conversation about growing up Southern, figuring out friendships, and knowing exactly when it’s time to call your mom and ask her to come get you.

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This week on Hootn and Hollern, the guys kick things off with a serious journalistic investigation into Taco Bell’s ever-rotating menu and whether a quesadilla can, in fact, ruin a man’s afternoon. From there, things spiral—naturally—into a deep dive on early MTV, including a genuinely surprising revelation about which artist absolutely monopolized the network in its infancy (spoiler: it’s way more Rod Stewart than anyone asked for).

Along the way, the crew debates music video overexposure, remembers the lawless early days of MTV programming, and takes a hard left turn into TRL lore, questionable acronyms, and the physical toll hunger takes on a grown man who just wants a hot dog. There’s nostalgia, mild outrage, and the kind of arguments that only happen when everyone is technically right and still wrong.

As always, the episode is held together by friendship, bad transitions, and the shared understanding that none of this needed to be researched—but all of it needed to be said.

In this episode of Hootin’ & Hollerin’, the guys take trip back to the era when MTV stopped playing music videos and started changing television forever. They break down how The Real World laid the foundation for modern reality TV, from its awkward early production missteps to the shockingly low pay for cast members who unknowingly became cultural guinea pigs .

From there, the conversation spirals into MTV’s dating show golden age. The crew revisits Singled Out, Next, and especially Room Raiders, uncovering behind-the-scenes stories involving fake abductions, blacklights, confiscated weapons, angry parents, and one extremely missed opportunity involving a pet bobcat. Along the way, they connect the dots between reality TV, early internet culture, celebrity side quests, and how a single Super Bowl halftime show quietly killed the most horrifying prop in MTV history.

It’s a funny, chaotic, and surprisingly informative look at how reality TV grew up in public—and why none of us were ready for it.