Justin Lloyd joins to talk about his new book The Importance of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is your home stressing you out? |
| 0:02.0 | Why not sell it to us? |
| 0:03.0 | We will buy any property in any condition. |
| 0:06.0 | We receive a tremendous amount of phone calls on that property. |
| 0:10.0 | A lot of them are very aggravating. |
| 0:12.0 | You're not going to buy it over the phone, so let's don't kick tires. |
| 0:16.0 | Come and look, say, yeah or nay, and then we can both go down the street. |
| 0:20.0 | And so James did come, looked it over, we talked, chatting. |
| 0:24.1 | James, he did a good job. |
| 0:25.3 | Did what he said he was going to do. |
| 0:26.9 | Call Simple Quarters 317, 900 Home. |
| 0:31.9 | So we somehow went from obscurity to being one of the biggest stars in the 1980s and into the 90s. And thankfully, |
| 0:39.2 | one of his family members has told his story. It's a Kennel-Lacayze show. I'm Rob Casey's out today. |
| 0:44.2 | Ethan Hatchers here. Joining us now on the WIBC hotline is Justin Lloyd. He is the author of the book, |
| 0:50.3 | now available in audiobook, The Importance of being Ernest, the life of actor Jim |
| 0:54.6 | Varney. Of course, Jim Varney, best known for playing Ernest P. Whorrell on the big screen, |
| 1:00.7 | went from sort of an obscure character actor in commercials to a mega start the box office. |
| 1:07.1 | Justin, you were his nephew. You were on the scene with him for many of his movies and acting endeavors. |
| 1:14.0 | Tell us about this guy who people loved, but not too many people knew all that much about. |
| 1:19.6 | Good morning. |
| 1:20.4 | It was great. |
| 1:22.0 | It was quite surreal at times, you know, to see him coming on our TV. |
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