# Bretman Rock says he has 50 chickens but refuses to eat their eggs

The influencer's farm logic is ridiculous, intimate, and weirdly clarifying about why he never became an LA content robot.

From [Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce](https://listenerreader.com/shows/not-gonna-lie)  
By ListenerReader Culture Desk, published 2026-09-06  
Canonical: https://listenerreader.com/story/bretman-rock-says-he-has-50-chickens-but-refuses-to-eat-their-eggs

[Bretman Rock](https://listenerreader.com/guests/bretman-rock) owns 50 chickens in Hawaii and refuses to eat their eggs because, in his words, he knows who laid them. That is not a farming philosophy so much as a parasocial relationship with poultry, which makes it the most Bretman Rock possible answer.

On Power Hour, Ilona Maher dragged him through presses, pull downs, curls, and the usual gym patter about strength and confidence. Fine. But the episode’s real little jewel is the way Bretman describes his life away from Los Angeles, where celebrity has bought him not a bigger room at the Chateau Marmont, but land, animals, family proximity, and a moral crisis every time Britney the chicken lays breakfast.

> The only thing that I cannot do girl it's so bad. I have 50 chickens and I cannot eat their eggs.
>
> Bretman Rock, on the episode ([19:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pDiirgdn0&t=1187s))

This is, objectively, insane. It is also completely coherent. Bretman eats eggs. He eats chicken. He is not staging some ethical conversion for a camera, the influencer version of discovering compost. His line is closer to old village logic than TikTok wellness logic, once an animal has a name, a face, and a place in your daily routine, it stops being an ingredient and starts being a roommate with feathers.

## Bretman Rock's farm life is not tradwife cosplay

The funniest part is that Bretman is not pretending to be a pure homesteader. He freely admits the contradiction, which is why it lands. His dogs eat the eggs. He knows the yolks are probably spectacular. He still can't do it.

> I have six dogs that eat like two eggs a day.
>
> Bretman Rock, on the episode ([20:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pDiirgdn0&t=1231s))

> No, [ __ ] no girl. I can't. I really can't.
>
> Bretman Rock, on the episode ([20:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pDiirgdn0&t=1243s))

The real subject here is proximity. Bretman grew up partly in the Philippines, says he was used to raising and growing food, and now lives in [Hawaii](https://listenerreader.com/topics/hawaii) with the kind of creature-filled solitude that sounds like a children’s book until you remember he is also one of the internet’s great glam chaos agents. He is not selling purity. He is selling, or maybe just accidentally revealing, a border between commodity and kinship.

That border also explains why he never made the obvious creator move. For a certain era of [influencer culture](https://listenerreader.com/topics/influencer-culture), LA was the mothership, the place where everyone moved to collab, get photographed, become unbearable, and then apologize on a couch. Bretman says he sampled it early and opted out.

> thankfully like I blew up a little bit in high school and I visited LA and I'm like, yeah, I'm staying home.
>
> Bretman Rock, on the episode ([18:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pDiirgdn0&t=1094s))

That is the cleaner version of the chicken story. He can enjoy what fame buys, especially money, as he says with refreshing bluntness, without letting fame decide the shape of the house. The claim is not that LA corrupts everyone. Please, Los Angeles has suffered enough podcast moralizing. The claim is smaller and better, Bretman went there, saw the creator terrarium up close, and chose animals, family, and being alone but not lonely.

## The gym baddie thing is not a costume

Maher, who knows something about people projecting gender panic onto strong bodies, gets Bretman talking about fitness as performance and inheritance. He says his dad named him after wrestlers, accepted that he was gay, and still insisted on sports. That makes his current gym content feel less like a pivot than a delayed reveal.

> Because if the gym is only like for straight people, then why am I stronger than you?
>
> Bretman Rock, on the episode ([12:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pDiirgdn0&t=754s))

That is a perfect Bretman sentence, half joke, half elbow to the ribs. It also keeps the episode from becoming a cute celebrity workout with a hydration ad in the middle. The through line is ownership. Of his hair. Of his body. Of his home. Of the ridiculous fact that he will incubate eBay eggs like babies, name the resulting birds, and then buy eggs somewhere else like a maniac with boundaries.

If his farm math is impractical, it is at least honest. The dogs eat like royalty. Bretman gets to keep pretending the coop is not a breakfast factory. Somewhere in Hawaii, Britney lays another egg, and Bretman looks away.

## Source episode

Bretman Rock Unleashes His Inner Gym Baddie with Ilona Maher 🔥 | Power Hour

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pDiirgdn0