June 14, 2025 • 50 mins
Eddie and Morgan turn on the microphones and just start rolling this weekend. They talk about nicknames, baby names, and what it’s like watching your kids grow up. Morgan isn’t sure how to handle this particular baby moment in her future. They discuss traveling and the places in the world that weren’t worth the hype, and other places that definitely were.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I had a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to the weekend, everybody. Eddie is joining me and thanks.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
For being here, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Morgan, Did I just give you a new name?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What was that? I don't know I did.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's like I'm trying to learn to speak again.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I feel like I'm just reverting what happens sometimes with me.
Is funny is that when I type my name sometimes
I type so fast it comes out Edo, And I'm like, man,
that's not a bad name, Like Edo is not a
bad name that I could adopt at some point, you
know how, like you just have a nickname?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes me, okay, this is my pet Peeve. Though, is
I got given a name that doesn't have nicknames?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Morgan? Yeah, Morgie Morgi?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, but Morgi is weird and is a cemetery?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
True? You don't want to be a morg No exactly.
But how about Mo? Though? Most good?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I don't know. Mo feels like, you know, like Larry
Mo and.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Curly Yeah, the Three Stooges.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, like I feel like an old man or I
should be an old man.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I guess I just don't really feel like I have
a name that was destined for nicknames, which is always
a bummer because everybody just always has to call me
Morgan and that's so boring.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What do you think about when people do like M, Like, like,
some people will call me a ell be like what like,
don't what?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
E feels weird to me. M doesn't feel as weird,
but E. Something about it being a vowel.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh, oh, that's the problem with the vowel.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I know, it's like a E.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I owe you like that?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, many of you are a you? A you dang?
I mean you as in the.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Letter What names start with you? Ulysses, uh Ursula ooh yeah, Urgent. No,
that's a.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Word name a name. I think we covered him Ursula
and uh Ulysses. I feel like there's one more, is Eugene.
Now Eugene's with an E.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, that's the silent e. Yeah you you.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
USh usher Usher Usher? I bet you, I bet you.
His people call him you you Hey? What do you
want to play it? Not you? You know?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
This also makes me think when you were naming your kids,
like with your wife, how does it happen where like
are you guys just sitting on the table and you're like, Okay,
this is what I've always thought of, or you just
like drawn from random places.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
What's funny is the first our first child we like had,
I mean we were dating for like forever right before
we got married, and then we got married, so we
already had a name. Like when we were dating, we're like, hey,
if we ever have a kid, we're gonna name it.
You ever do that like with with your boyfriend or
any of your boyfriends?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I don't do I didn't mean.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
No, that's not what I meant. I just meant, have
you ever done that?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Not like I've never done it with somebody. I've done
it on my own. Like if I ever have a child,
I would want these two names, like one for a
boy and one for a girl.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
But you never done that with like someone you're together with.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
No, I really haven't. I was like, you know in
high school when you're like spelling the hearts and you're like, ooh,
where does the last name go together? How does that
look like I would do that? Crap?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I never did that.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You never did that? Well, I guess that makes sense
because they take your name.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh right, traditionally, Yes, you're right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, so you wouldn't be like putting Eddie Smith or Eddie.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Change in the last name Violet just in case tradition
just changes all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, you want to like write a girl's name and
put your last name to it to see if it
was like a vibe?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Uh uh? Never did you feel vibes on anyone you
did that with.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, sometimes I'd be like, dang, I really don't like
that last name.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So you're like, I can't won't ever happen?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, it was always funny like when it when it
work out like this again, this is back when I
was in like middle school in high school, and I
was like, you know, the name didn't really fit anyway,
so this makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, there you go, and that means we're not supposed
to be together. But as far as the child's name,
like I don't know, we had like two if it
was a girl who's going to be this, it was
a boy's going to be this. And then when it
really goes down, you're like, oh, I got a new name,
I got a whole new name. I think this is
going to be it. But my wife totally had she
(04:20):
had the first name picked out. She was ready to
go with that, so I didn't fight it. I liked it,
and I was like, let's go with it. But I'm
naming the second one. And I named the second one.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And she didn't fight your choice for the name.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
She tried to get it. She tried to have okay,
So this is how it went down. She tried to
get his first name, like she wanted his first name.
So our agreement was like, okay, but I want to
name his middle name, and we are going to call
him by his middle name. And that's what we settled with.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah? But so like you got you did get a name,
the second child, but you guys, don't call him by
his middle no.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No, no, no no no. I got the name, okay.
She didn't want that to be his first name. So
I said, fine, name him your name, the first name,
and give me the middle name, but we are going
to call him the middle name. Okay, he goes by
his middle name, got it. So he so much goes
by his middle name that when people call him his
first name, like at school, he doesn't respond to it.
(05:18):
That's like he forgets that that's his name.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Why didn't she like your choice for the first name.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
She didn't like the way it's like you like she
probably wrote it down. I was like, I just don't
like the way this flows.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It is true because it's kind of funny, Like the
two names that I've chosen for, like the girl and
a boy, I do like think of like make like
middle names that I potentially want, because I've thought about
this if I do have kids one day, my dad
has only daughters, and I'm like faced with a decision
of you know, am I going to take his last name?
(05:50):
But then if I do that, I'd want to somehow,
you know, honor my dad in some way. Yeah, And
I've been trying to make his names fit with my name.
I'm like, these aren't working. And then I'm like, then
I'm more of a dilemma of like, Okay, do I
have to give up the names that I always wanted?
Like how does this work?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Do you mean? Like, if you have a boy name
him after your dad? Is that what you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Potentially, you know, just like because if I do decide
to get rid of like my last name, I'm the
last one of his children with that name because he
didn't have any boys. So it's not like there's gonna
be there's there'll be a continuation of our family name
with extended family. But like his, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, but a lot of people keep your name as
the middle name, right, like Morgan Heughlesman, whatever, your new
last name's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, but see, my my last name is just so
like it's a mouthful already. You know. If it was
like Morgan Smith, then yeah, that makes sense, but like
Morgan Hulsman, like, it just feels like a lot. And
I already have two middle names, Eddie, oh right.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Right, hold on, Morgan Lane, Yeah, Morgan Lane, what Nicole? Dang?
I forgot about the Nicole.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I know. So then you have Morgan Lanicole Hills, and
blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You can't keep all that. I'm literally you're gonna have
to get rid of Lane and Nicole though, Like I know,
but I love it. Hold on, hold on, let's talk
this out. So if you were Morgan, Morgan Lane, Nicole
blah blah blah, your new last name that's the same
as Morgan hughls Mean blah blah blah. Maybe even it's
may it maybe even be shorter. If you're Morgan hels
mean blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I know, but I really love my middle names.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah you know that. I get that. But if you
want to honor papa, I know you might have to
do it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Eddie.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, no, no, this is so common, Morgan. Like I'm
telling you, when you have kids, you have all these conversations.
Like I remember my wife was like, I don't want
to keep my maiden last name, Like I want to
keep my middle name like you're saying. And her family
was like whoa, Like we're all girls over here, Like
you got to keep the maiden names.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So she was faced with the similar situation.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Exact same deal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Did any of the daughters like honor their dad in
some way?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Uh, honored them by naming one of their kid's middle names.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, so it got passed down.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I mean her family is very like traditional, so some
of them like use grandparents' names, maids, maiden's last name,
like a lot of they incorporated those in their names somewhere,
not necessarily just their first name, but somewhere in their name.
They like honored people from the past.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
What about your name? Was your name passed down?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I don't think so I don't know there's any other
Eduardo's in my family or middle name, Like.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Did anything about you get passed down?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Uh huh No, because my brother's a junior. So my
brother and my dad had the same name and then mine.
I guess they were just trying something different. But I
love I love Eddie Eddie because it's just it's it's
kind of different, right, Like, yes, we know a lot
of Eddie's, but not that many Eddies.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Did you ever get like when you were in trouble,
were you EDWARDO?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yes, I was at or Lease like my full name.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh you knew when somebody said the middle name you
were in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yes? Yes. What's funny though, is like that's what my
parents did. But now that I'm a dad, I never
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You never use their middle names, No, not like when
they're really really in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like just full name it Nope, Nope, And especially the
one that we call his middle name, like that would
just be too confusing he used.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
To his full name, he'd be like, I don't even
understand what's happening here.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I don't even know who you are. So no, I
don't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's interesting, do you feel like you like didn't want
to pass it down that way.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I don't know, I don't know. I just like it's
just never rolled off my tongue.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Does your wife ever do it? Their full names? We
don't do it, dang, So their full names are just
kind of throwaways. I feel like the whole purpose of
a full.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Name is so you can get yelled at when when
you're mad. Yeah, when you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I know when my dad be like Morgan la Nicole Hillsman,
I was in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
See that's too much, Like I don't want to spend
out Morgan Lane. He was Morgan Nicole Laane blah blah blah,
that's too much. I know.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
But like it was like, you know, I'm not in trouble,
Morgan Lane, I'm getting there, Morgan Lane, Nicole, I'm I'm
already in trouble. And then the full name I was
indeed do doo oh. Yeah, Like the level of tone
happened with my full name.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
How often were you in trouble?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
A lot?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Really you were trouble. You were a trouble kid.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, I mean again, I was the last one, right,
So I.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Pushed a battle away with a lot to bet.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, so I would get away with a lot, and
then I'd push even further boundaries because I was already
getting away with a lot, you know. But it allowed
me to grow up quicker because I kind of experienced
a lot of life, yeah quickly.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
So when you like, when you were growing up, did
your sisters have like strict rules? But by the time
it got to you, you're like, I can stay out
as late as I want, I can do whatever. And
because that's husually what happens with like parents, the oldest child,
you're like, oh, very strict, trying to figure it all out,
and then you realize, I'm not that big of a deal.
So when the youngest comes around, h like, everything's cool.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Wait is because you're the oldest, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I'm the middle Oh you're the middle child?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But but the problem was my youngest was my youngest.
Our youngest in our family was my sister. And we're
all boys. It was two boys and a sister. So
there wasn't any easier with a sister because like my
dad was just terrified when he had a daughter. It
was like, oh, she's not going anywhere, she's not dating anyone.
He was very scared of her.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Like growing up, So, do you feel like the most
lax your parents were were probably on you.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yes, But I also was in trouble.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You never got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
No, not true. I got I did get in trouble,
but compared to my brother, I was like a saint.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah. Again, he's the first child. I do feel like
the oldest always gets the brunt because they're the first
one and they're they're just learned. Parents are learning with
the oldest.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yes, and it sucks for them, it really does. I know.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's why they say, like you have like the oldest child,
you have the younger. The dynamics are pretty like normal
across the board. Yeah, because parents and you can speak
from a parent perspective. But I feel like you've felt
that too. Like your oldest you were probably wildly different,
which we kind of see, you know. We talk about
like the concerts and music and everything like that. You're
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learning with him.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
He's the trailblazer, right, Like he's the one asking to
go to the concert, So by the time the other
ones want to go to a concert, we already realize
that that's okay. He can go to a concert at seventeen,
like you know what I mean, Like you just start realizing, oh,
it was all fine. I don't know why we were
worried about that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, and the pressure is on him a little bit too,
because if it goes well, then yes, you do it.
But if it goes bad.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Correct, no, they don't want to do it correct. Like
if they do something sneaky or just ruin our trust
on something like that could definitely trickle down to the
other kids, even though they may never even think about
doing something sneaky or like whatever, but it happens, so
now we got to be on guard. Yeah, it's tough, man.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Family dynamics are just so interesting to me in general, yes,
because like across the board, everybody has similar experiences, but
then it's also unique. I don't know, it's just it's
interesting to hear about.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, well it is. It is interesting. But what's tough
is that you start thinking every kid's the same, right,
so when you start talking to other parents, you're like, oh,
I'm dealing with this, and I'm like, wow, I'm glad
I've never had a dealt with that. But then because kids,
you know, they're different people like people are different. Just
people are made differently, So when you think you're parenting,
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you're like, Okay, this is what you do to a kid.
Like even when we're talking about my kids on the show,
Lunchbox is like, you're an idiot. Why would you? But
my son is different than his son and we know
and Bobby said it before you know. We're like, oh,
I mean you know your so better than we do.
So like it's true. You start learning things about your
kid because they're not like every other kid. So when
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you talk to a therapist, you talk to other parents,
it's not a blanket statement on like what's good for
your kid.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, parenting cells are different based on how you were
also raised?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh correct, And then and then what it's crazier is
how your spouse was raised. Then it's like, oh my gosh,
well I was raised like this. And then they're like,
well I was raised like this. We're like, well, what
do we do? Let's meet in the middle somewhere. It's
very it's it's challenging, Morgan Morgan, Nicole Laine Huesman, and
I hope you're ready for it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You know, you just butchered the ground.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I understand, MORGANA I.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Do want updates on the kids. But we're going to
take a quick break and I'll get the updates on
the kidds. So speaking of all the kids, what has
been the latest or what's going on you and your wife?
How are things? Like, how's life?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
No, life's chaotic. Yeah, summer is hard for us because
there's no school, so like we've got to put them
in every camp or else they will just be bored
at home. And when they're bored, they start fighting, they
start arguing, or they start making a huge mess of
the house, which is okay, like if they can clean
it up, but most of the time they don't want
(15:03):
to clean it up. So by the time they're done
doing the mess, like say, they're bored, right, and I'm like,
go go be creative, Like go in the garage and
like there's a lot of stuff in the garage, Go
be creative, okay, and they go and they just rip
it apart.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Okay. So then I always hear this from like parents, right,
where like summer is always a really tough one. I'm
curious though, like, is it also that it's really fun
because you can create some cool memories, like when you
get home from work, if they are home, you can
go and do fun stuff with them or is it
just truly too exhausting.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, well, I mean we still have work to do, right,
like like with our job, Like you go home and
I still got I still have, like you know, two
three hours left of work. So yes, I could take
a break. I can play with them a little bit,
but that's still got to get stuff done. And it's funny,
like we just have this conversation the other day with
my wife, Like I try to tell them over and
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over like, guys, just because it's summer, my life doesn't change.
You all's lives changed, Like you don't have school, but
I still have work to do. I still have to
go to bed early and wake up early. Them they're like,
can we watch a movie stay up till midnight? Well yeah,
but I still have to go to bed early. So
it's it's tough. It's tough, and I know that. Like
(16:16):
people love to throw around the word like, oh, it's summer,
like relaxed. Yeah, but parents don't have summers off, so
especially the ones that work. So it's it's cool. Yes,
it's fun because they are home and you get to
do stuff with them. But at the same time, man,
it's it's tough because, like you try, you're trying to
stay on your regular schedule when they're definitely not on it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh yeah, well, and do you get like the summer
fever with them where you do want to be going
to do stuff and you're like, I have to do
my normal everyday life, Like, of course, I want to
be doing this, and I want to have sleepovers with you,
and I want to you know, play the water balloons,
but I have.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I definitely want to watch the movie till midnight like
I do. I want to stay up and watch the
movie with them. I want to go to the pool
most of the time. When I like get home, they're like, hey,
we're going to the pool and they all have their
swim trunks on. I'm like that sounds awesome, and you're
getting dad fomo. Yeah, well, I haven't thought about taking
my computer to the pool, but I've done that before.
I've seen that before, and I'm like, that does not
(17:13):
look fun.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, well, at least when you're sitting outside better than Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I don't know. I haven't gotten there yet. I've been
I've been thinking about it, but I haven't gotten I
haven't gotten to dad at the working at the pool mode.
Yet you know what I mean. You know I'm talking
about Have you seen those people that take their laptops
to the pool and they're working under the shade and
aer umbrella?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh yeah, tru when So we would always go to
like the neighborhood pool when we would get out of
school for summers, and it was my favorite thing. But
it was kind of funny because we had very zero
responsibilities in the sense that like, I would eat an
eminem cookie in waffle fries with ranch every single day, Morgan,
Like that was.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
My how are you alive? No, no, I'm not judging
because that's why I hate too, but how are we?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I know, I the world was a little vastly different,
especially in the category of food, but that was my
diet every day, and nobody could tell me any different
because I was at the pool. So I was staying
out of my parents' hair when they were working, So
you know, that was my diet.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
And so both of your parents worked, who would hang like, well,
so watch.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
You When I was a kid, like baby baby Morgan,
my parents switched off shifts, so my dad worked the
night shift and my mom worked during the day, so
they would literally trade. They would have like a few
hours in between where they were both there, but they
would most of the time like switch shifts. My dad
thinks about it often because he would be so excited
when Barney came on because he'd finally get to take
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a nap. We'd be so invested in the TV and
that would be his naptime.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And then as we got older, my older sisters would
watch my sister and I that are closer in age,
so I'm sure they loved that. It's just kind of
like your oldest gets in charge of watching, was like,
I don't want to do this. Yes, I know, speaking
of your oldest. Is he going to be a senior
this year?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Is that right? No, he's gonna be a junior. Okay,
he's gonna be a junior, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I feel weird.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yes, it's all. It's all weird because it's weird.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
You sit here and you think of this and you're like,
yeah and it you know, it's hard and I'm working
in life. But then one is about to be a
junior and you're starting to look at colleges and they're
about to be out of the house, Like how does
that feel.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I mean, I'm excited about it, Like I don't know
some parents are like I don't it's like, oh the
empty nester or whatever. When the kids leave. It's like
I'm really looking forward to It's not and it's not selfish.
It's not me like being like I can't wait time
alone and never no one's here anymore, and just but
like it's exciting to see them grow and like leave
the nest and go see what they're gonna do. I've
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often wondered what are my kids going to do in
their life? And it's cool, this is going to be
the start of like them leaving and going to college
and figuring out what their life is all about. I
think it's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
When you think about your kids getting older. Are you
more excited about them getting married and you have grandkids
and all that? Are you more excited about like them
leaving this retirement? No?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
No, I mean all that. Like I've wondered for so long,
like what they are going to do, who they're going
to marry, how many kids they're going to have, and
like my wife and I have all these little like
predictions like these like this one will for sure work,
like on cars, you know, like just something creating something
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with his hands. That one for sure is going to
be like something in the movie industry like this one's
going to be something in sports like that. It just
we've always when you like see your kids every day
from the time they're born, like where they're little, like
you realize you start seeing like what kind of person
they are and what you know they're almost like what
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they're meant to do or what comes easy to them.
I'll say that, you know, not to say that that
might not change or whatever, but I know already what
comes easy to them and what they're happiest doing. And
then I start wondering, like, man, like how quickly are
they going to get married? I know one immediately we'll
probably get married, like as soon as he graduates college.
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Like one, I already know that he's going to find
fall in love easily and find someone to get married.
One I don't know if he'll ever get married.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's just they're all so different, and I think that's
what I'm really excited about, just to kind of see
like how it's all going to turn out, yeah, and to.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
See like how you're going to turn out in your
next phase of life. Are you excited about that?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I can't wait, Morgan, Like I cannot wait.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Do you think you'll move immediately to somewhere with the beach, yes,
like as soon as the last one leaves next you're
gonna like that's it, tie it up.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I'm out depending on work, right, like, I mean, if
we're still doing this, no, if we're still doing this,
I mean I don't know. But if all of it,
like say, all of it's like done, everyone leaves, work
is different works, We're not doing this anymore, and I
can go to the beach. I think my wife and
I would just move immediately.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
And what would you do?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I mean, my dream is to always live in a
mountain town. That's where I want to be. But I also, Eddie, like,
if everything ended tomorrow and I didn't have a job anymore,
like that's what I'm focused on. I think I would
travel for a while, really, like pack up Remy and
Hazel and be like, Okay, I'm gona hit the road
for a while and go see the world.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I just I love traveling so so much, and I
wish that that was something I could do like full
time and just you know, and there are obviously there's
travel creators and influencers and all of that. But I
also love a steady job and consistency. So I don't
think I could do it genuinely full time, but I
love travel.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That's funny you mentioned that, because like we are creatures
of habit, right, And I've caught myself being like, oh man,
I want to travel and I want to do this
or whatever. But whenever, like there's a crazy two weeks
in our lives and like say we're traveling a bunch,
or we're having to do stuff for work, and we
go from one town to another town to another town.
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After like five days, I'm like, I just want to
get home.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I just want to get home and I want to
get back to my normal life. Do you see yourself
like doing that once you actually do get to go travel.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, I mean I, like I said, I think I
need consistency and routine. I'm very much that because I've
noticed when I don't have that, I kind of become
very agitated and just I'm not a pleasant person because
I I don't understand what's coming next. And I'm very
much the person that likes to be in control if
I can be yeah, not traveling and stuff. There's like
where my adventurous, spontaneous side comes out where I'm kind
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of a little bit more like just whatever and going
with life. But I do like I wish I had
more flexibility so that every weekend, you know, I could
go and like be jetting off and my Monday through
or you know what I mean like that, But.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
That's what I'm saying though, that's what I'm saying. I
don't know if we had the ability to be like Morgan,
you're done, you have enough money for to do whatever
you want to do. You don't have no ties go travel.
I really think that you would travel and have a
blast for two weeks and then you'd be like I
want to get home. Yeah, and then maybe maybe you'd
come home and you would do something else for a
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little bit consistent life, and then in a few months
you're like, I want to go travel again, and maybe
that's it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, that's probably more the consistency.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
But I've met people where I'm like, you're crazy, Like
where they they'd love not having a home. They love
just you know, being in a random city and like
just living there for four days and then going to
another random city and living there for a few days,
Like it's that's crazy to me, Like I feel so
lost if I'm in New Orleans for more than three days,
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Like what do I do? I miss my home?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah? No, I don't think I could do that. Like
I couldn't be a all the time backpacker, right, I
could be a backpacker for like a.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Year, yeah, and then be like I don't know, a
year is a long time.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It is, But like if I'm going constantly to new places,
like if I got to go because my goal, my
goal in life is to visit every continent and see
all fifty states. That's like my travel goal and not
you know, I'm cool if I could see all the countries.
But this is a lot more continent. It's easier.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
How close are you on the states?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So I have thirteen left, and I'm about to see
three more on our summer vacation. So I'll be knocking
because like every time I have an opportunity, I'm like, Okay,
how can I see as many states and like still
enjoy it and get them all out? And that's what
we're doing. We're doing Minnesota in Illinois and Iowa, which
sounds crazy because you're like, what are those that's there?
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And there's just so much I've done so much research
and there's like really cool things in all of those states.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You've never been to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I've never been to Chicago. So that's one of our
first stops.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You're gonna love it, I know.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm excited to try deep dish pizza.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, you're gonna love it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Oh yeah, you're gonna love all that. So yeah, but
are you Are you going to a baseball game?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I don't think so. We're traveling with Remy. We're doing
a whole bunch of hiking and okay, a lot of sights,
like more outdoor nature trip. I love like nature hiking,
national park, state park stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
So do I And let me ask you this. When
you go to those places and you're hiking in the
middle of nowhere, do you ever feel like whatever you're
worried about or whatever's going on in your life is
just not that important? Oh yeah, Like whenever you go
out to the mountains and you see how big a
mountain is and you see animals that are out in
the mountains and just how quiet it is and how
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peaceful it is, I just like feel every time like
what am I worried about?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yes, but it's like you just forget that such small
things don't really matter in the bigger scheme of things.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
But what's stupid is you go back to it and
then like two days in like I'm worried again.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Hell, that's what nature's for, right, Just keep going to
nature every day. Yes, which, speaking of one, I want
to know if you guys are doing a fun summer vacation.
And then two, I'm going to ask you this, but
maybe you can think on it while you're talking about
summer vacation. But what place actually lives up to the
hype and what doesn't live up to the hype? Like
of all your travels that you've done, like place that
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lives up to the hype one that did not live
it up to it? But first, summer vacation, what are
you doing?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Oh? I thought that was I thought you were going
to break?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Okay, well, no, you know what, Actually okay, perfect, we'll
take it. We'll take a break per second and we'll
come back. We'll give you a second to think. Okay,
we took our break. Eddie had plenty of time. But
first Eddie, let's start with summer vacation. Do you guys
have any fun plans?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Morgan, for the first time in our family life, we're
not going to the beach. What. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I'm shocked. Did you like plan to go somewhere else
or are you guys just staying home?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I think my family just said, you know what, why
don't we try like going west? Like we don't. We
always go to the beach, which is great, Like I
love the beach and I love the summer. Like that's
what it's about, right, like going to the beach and
hanging out whatever. But they were like, let's change it up.
My wife was like, let's you want to go to
the mountains, because I do love the mountains. I love
the mountains, I love the beach, I love all of it.
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And so we want to go to Zion National Park.
And so they've decided to do that and that's what
we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh my gosh, I'm okay. Eddie's so jealous. I've been
to Utah and I did some national parks there. I
didn't make it to Zion, and I'm jealous. So are
you guys going to do more? Than Zion or Zion
just the destination, staying around there.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
So Zion's the meat of the trip. So we're going
to fly into Vegas. The boys have never seen Vegas.
The little boys have never seen Vegas. So we'll fly
into Vegas. And they trust me. I'm not going to
show them too much Vegas, just.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Walking down the strip.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
But not no, not even, not even because the last
time we did that, Morgan, I took my oldest son
to iha Art and we went to bake. He came.
It was his first trip to Vegas, and he was like,
I want to see the strip, Dad, And like, all right,
let's go. We walked down the strip and I mean
the first thing we saw was some lady with like
feathers and no shirt on, and like he was like, whoa,
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this place is crazy, and like yeah, that's culture ready.
Yeah you know what. You know what, I'm going to
just avoid all those conversations for our summer vacation. I
just I'm wanna we're gonna land. I'm want to show
them a little bit of Vegas from a distance. I
want to show them like look at the lights. Look
how cool it's because that's the hotels and then we're
going to drive to Zion. Then we're going to drive
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make that drive whatever it is. We thought, maybe maybe
drive to the to the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Okay, I was just about to ask that you're right there.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
That's what I've heard, and I think it's that's gonna be.
That's gonna be a decision that we make when we
get there, Like, depending if we have time or whatever,
we'll maybe drive to the Grand Canyon, spend a few
hours there and then eventually get to Zion.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Let me see, I'm mapping it for you. Listen, I'm
a queen of mapping. Do it some trips out.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I'm not opposed to it. I'm really not. Like, I
think that would be fun to stop buy and see
the Grand Canyon and then like head on to Zion.
But it just depends on like how long of a
detour that is.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Well, because we did something similar when we went to Utah.
My friend had and I had never seen the Grand Canyon,
but we went on the north side of the Grand Canyon,
which is the most I guess the least amount visited,
but we still got to like go and see the
Grand Canyon, which was really cool for both of us.
But we were on like the the kind of other side.
Let me see here, But I think being near Arizona,
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you're going to be hold on.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I want to I want to say it's like maybe
a two three hour detour. Yeah, I want to say
that's kind of what it is, which again is doable.
But I don't really want to drive all the way
out there and like, well, there it is, and then
get back in the car and drive again. So I
don't know. I think we'll just gauge it. We'll see
how all the kids are feeling. If everyone seems like
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they want to do that, then we'll do that. But
if not, and they want to get straight to Zion,
because I heard a lot about like Zion getting congested
during the summer, like even like hard to find a
place to park all that stuff. So we're kind of
getting all the inside information on the park so that
we kind of like we don't get there and get
a little surprised by.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, well, and you can do like hikes and stuff
in there, which you know, those obviously don't end up
being as congested. They're going to be congested in like
the tourist y kind of picturesque locations, so if you
do like some version of hikes, I think you'll be okay,
because that's how most national parks are. Like when we
went and did Yellowstone and all of that, there was
still plenty of people. But if you kind of went
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against the grain a little bit and did some other
things or just ventured a little bit further into the park,
you were fine. Yeah, So it just depends what you're
trying to do in there. I really want to do
the hike there that's the Narrows, but I don't think
you should do that with kiddos.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
No, no, No, there's definitely some that they're saying that,
like now you don't want to do this with your kids?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, I don't think. So okay. So, like total, just
doing those three things is about six hours, which really, honestly, Eddie,
is not that bad.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Six hours. What do you mean like going like total trip, So.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Say you go to like Las Vegas to Grand Canyon
to Zion. Ideally what you would do is go Las
Vegas to Zion and then down to Grand Canyon and
then get fly out somewhere off there.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Well we're flying out of we're flying out of La
so like so we're trying to do Vegas, drive to Zion,
spend three or four days in Zion, then drive to
LA because the kids want to see, you know, the
West Coast. They want to see Los Angeles, they want
to see like Hollywood or whatever. Possibly taken to Disney
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and so yeah, and then we'll leave from there. That's
kind of the plan. And again, I like the plans
and everything, and my wife is really good at planning stuff,
but I like to not really know what we're doing,
so that I it's just I kind of enjoy it
better that way, you know, not I don't want to.
I don't really want to think about what we're doing.
And then and then like really of the boys in
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the car being like, no, I really want to see
the Grand Canyon, I'll be like, screw it, let's go,
Like I don't know. I love how when you do
that during vacation because sometimes fun things spawn from that.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
So that's kind of in a nutshell what we're going
to do, and we're really excited.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, and oh my gosh, you guys are gonna have
so much fun. It's just honestly, the scenery and being
out in that environment is so vastly different than like
the mountains that you see and things that you see
there are so different than what you would picture of,
like the Rockies or the Smokies. Yeah, they're orange and
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red and just you feel like you're on another planet
all the time, which is so cool.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
That is crazy. So that's what's so cool about the US,
Like our country is so amazing where you can get
like beautiful beaches, beautiful mountains, beautiful forests, desert, like all
kinds of terrain in one country.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
This is why it's my goal to see all of them.
Because we get so stuck and wanting to go abroad,
which I do. I want to go abroad all the time.
But there's so much here.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
There's so much here.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yes, and that's why you know, it's part of the goal. Okay,
so's we're going to the lives up to the hype.
Doesn't live up to the hype, okay, because let me
tell you the reason that I did this right, Okay,
because I went to Jackson Hall lived up to the hype.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
The Wyoming.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yes, the Tetons are my favorite place on Earth so far.
What the tons it?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Why does that sound dirty?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Teton National Park? They do have funny shirts, they're like
the teats, like that's the thing because it's a little
mountain range. And it's right, it's Yellowstone and Teton National
Park are connected at the bottom. Okay, but it Teeton
National Park, Jackson Haw, Wyoming, like genuinely favorite place on
Earth so far. I loved it, and that was worth
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the hype in every way, shape or form. I went
to Mount Rushmore not so much worth the hype. Really, No,
I literally went you look at stupid statue heads and
you leave.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Well, they're not stupid. Those are a founding fathers, you know,
they're actually not right.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I think it's Teddy and.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Teddy's up there. Abe yeah, George Washington, I think no
jeaf person Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Washington. Yeah, I
think that's right. So what is it though, Like is
it not that big? Like what what is it that
you didn't that you were underwhelmed by?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I just think I love and listen, the fascination of
the creation of it is cool and you can see
how everything was made. But I'm such a big fan
of naturally created things.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
That's not natural.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, And I think that's why I wasn't fascinated with it.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Did you think it would be natural? Before you got there. No, No,
and then and then you realized it wasn't when you
got could you imagine You're like, wait a minute, you're
telling me like somebody chiseled them.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That just like perfectly fell to the earth that way
of the perfect people of our founding fathers or whatever. No,
it was just that I have On that trip specifically,
we had seen so much. We'd seen you know, the
bad Lands and Yellowstone and Titans and the Rockies, and
you see Mount Rushmore and you're.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Just likenh yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that,
you know what I mean? How like how close can
you get to the heads so.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You can be close to the I think you can
even go up. I didn't even take like there's a
hike that you can do where you can kind of
be pretty much like I think, right underneath it or
like right out I can't explain it super well, but
like on a platform and you're pretty close to viewing it.
I didn't even walk all the way up to that platform.
I went to like the first bottom platform.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I was like, eh, I'm good if we can leave now.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah, And then they have like this little hole of
rock where you can like see the faces through it.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I was like, okay, cool, do they charge you to
see the faces?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
We didn't get charged. The one thing I did want
to do that they didn't have open when we were there.
We went so early. Apparently they have ice cream there
that is the recipe from one of those people, like
one of their families.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Oh, one of the presidents.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, I think it's George Washington's like ice cream recipe.
And I really wanted to try that because that would
that probably would have made my experience a little bit better.
So maybe I just didn't have the foll I will say,
like the coolest part about it was that all the
state flags, like when you first walk up, there's just
a row on both sides all of the state flags
and then their faces are in the middle as you're
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looking up, and that was like a cool moment. But
the statue at Selton, you know, yeah, like will you
see one? And Dee, You're like, cool, I've seen it,
experience it. I never need to go back.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
I can see that. I can see that because I
have no idea what to expect when I go there exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
But like if you go to South Dakota, it's still beautiful.
Go to the Badlands, yeah, don't go. And the Tons
yeah tee Ton's in the other way. But yeah, those
are so And then now I've been looking at Blue
Ridge Mountains and I'm wondering if those are like living
up to the hype.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
But that's why Blue Ridge Mountains. Is that a Virginia.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I think it's part of Virginia, but mostly the Carolinas.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Maybe because when I did my walk from West Virginia, Tennessee,
I know we were I know we were foothills of
the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
See.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Oh so beautiful, Morgan, Like, it's just I don't know, man,
like the Appalachian Trail.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
You heard of that, Yes, because a lot of people
hike that, I think they do.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
And it goes all the way from like upstate New
York or maybe even further. I don't even want to say,
I'll look it up. I know it's like, you know,
northeast all the way down to Carolinas or something, and
people make that whole hike, which is like a quarter
of our country.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
See. But that's so cool. Yeah, I would love to
do something like that. I mean, I don't want to
bud about myself.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
But no, no, you go with like your boyfriend or something, yeah,
or a couple of friends.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Something fun like that. What did you find, Well, it
took me the conservative hold on Appalachian Scenic Trail. It
definitely starts in Virginia, or at least it looks like
it does.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Okay, starts in Virginia and then probably goes up.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
But okay, the Appalachian Trail stretches through fourteen states along
the Appalachian Mountain Range, so it looks like it's in
Maine all the way down to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
God, that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
That's amazing. Yeah, so Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
That is so cool. You talk about goals, Morgan. I
feel like one day I would love to try that,
but I'll probably be too old and probably wouldn't be all.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
It stretches two thousand, one hundred and ninety miles.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah, and it's not Flatlands's mountain ranges.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
That would be so cool.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
I think people break it up though, People like go,
I'm going to go from Georgia to Virginia and then
and then like take a break and then I'll try
that next month and they'll start where I ended and
then kind of I think that's how they do it.
I don't know if anyone does it straight through, because
that's that would be crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
I mean, talk about a cool like life goal though,
if you could do the Appalachian Trail. Yeah, well, let's
see if anybody's ever completed.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Okay, tell me your yours, well lived, I'll start with
lived lived, the hype, lived up to the hype. That
would be Hawaii. Oh yeah, I know people hype up
Hawaii and the I've been to Hawaii three times, yeah,
three times in my life, and I love it. Like
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I know, it's very expensive to live there and I
probably will never live there, but gosh, I would love
to live there. It's just if. The people are so nice.
The scenery is amazing. You watch Jurassic Park that was
all filmed in Hawaii, like that's it's just beautiful. Those mountains,
those jungles or whatever are so cool. Waterfalls everywhere, and
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then the ocean's are just beautiful. The fishing is amazing,
the surf is amazing.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Like, I just love it there in that particular island.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
No. I mean Kauwhai is really cool, which is a
little tiny island. It's one of the four. And what
I liked about Kawhai is that it's not there's not
a lot of building on it, like there are there
are a few areas where there's hotels and resorts or whatever,
but there's just a lot of wilderness, a lot of trails,
a lot of like you know, like I said, mountains
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and waterfalls and beautiful beaches where like you can go
and there's you don't see a soul around and and
like it's hard to find a place to eat because
everything shuts down at like an eight o'clock so there's
no nightlife in Kauhai, which, like I love that. I
love that it's just purely about nature and it's quiet
and it's beautiful and it almost feels like it's untouched,
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where like I know it's not, but it feels like that.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, it very much gives that essence for sure.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yes, where like you go to Waikiki, you get to
like a Oahu or whatever that's I mean, it's like
a big city on it.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I just love all their names too.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah, aren't the names so cool?
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It's just so fun to say all of them.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah, so that would be live up to the hype.
Didn't live up to the hype, I would say the
first time I went to Hollywood, La.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
M okay, I've never I've spent one night in La
when I was like super young, So I really don't
have a big memory or care of it.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
So and this has nothing to do with like like
the city in itself or whatever. I just I had
something built up in my head that was bigger, like
like La Hollywood, like all the famous people live there,
all the landmarks that you can think of, and then
you get there and it's dirty and it's like, oh,
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that's the Chinese Theater, Like oh, okay, yeah, the Hollywood's
I will say, seeing the Hollywood Sign is cool yea,
because like you know, you think about like, oh, seeing
the Hollywood Sign, that's cool, but like everything else is like.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Just kind of l Why don't when you go with
your kids on your trip, why don't you take them
to somewhere else in California Because there is a lot
of cool spots in California.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah, but they because they want to see it.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
They want to see like the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And totally and I get it, and they'll probably be like, eh, okay,
that's but I think you do have to see that.
Like I think, you know, you grow up watching movies
and knowing it. I mean, it is cool to drive
by a lot like a studio lot and being like, well, look, guys,
there's Warner Brothers and they're just like all the movies
are made in there, like that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
But other than that, it's just kind of like it's
just another city. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
I've heard that before, especially like Walk of Fame, like
Sunset Boulevard. It's just all kind of.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Like okay, yeah, you see it and you're just like okay,
like all right, But what is crazy is everything there
does look like a movie set. Like you can see
anything from like a dumpster and be like, I feel
like that was in a movie, and it probably was,
you know, because they just shoot all over that town.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
I was gonna say, because downtown La is in so
many movies itself, even TV shows, reality shows, you know,
it's everywhere that Yeah, yeah, that tracks.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
So I think the hype of going to la and
like Hollywood was like really big, and then you get
there and you're just like okay, I mean that was fine.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well, and I'm also seeing it from Orleans's Eddie, and
it's clear that you and I both really like nature
and seeing really beautiful just things that were already there
things correct.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
But I will say though, I do love New York City.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yeah, and New York City is not already there.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
That's not natural, like that is the complete opposite of
a natural place. And I like it there like I
like New York. I love the subway, I love all
the buildings. I love the smells of New York Like,
I don't know, man, New York is just cool because
it's so different.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Mm it is and it's its own character truthfully. Yeah, Okay,
I did get some information on our Appllation Trail. Come on,
many people have hiked the entire Appalation Trail no way.
The Trail Conservancy Conservancy.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Yeah word's conservancy.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Thank you. Conservancy estimates that over twenty thousand individuals have
completed a through hike of the at since its creation
in nineteen thirty six. That is a lot, and that
means they've hiked the entire trail in one season. So
I don't know what that means. They did it, you
know some code continuously meaning like in spring, they finish
(45:32):
it all so, but only twenty five percent of those
who attempt it each year successfully finish. I did also
see that there was a thirty one year old named
Tara Dower who became the fastest person to complete it,
averaging fifty four miles per day, completing the trail in
forty days, eighteen hours and five minutes.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
She was hauling ass, but you know, like she wouldn't
even enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, like we stopping and taking pictures or like.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
You're like head down and going like going full speed.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Maybe if she if she'd visited before and she loved it,
and she's like, Okay, I want to come back, and
do you know what I mean? I would I would
imagine that that's probably the because if you wouldn't just
wake up one day and say I'm going to do this, right,
I mean maybe you do.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
And you got to think too, like you're going to
run out of food? Right? So are there like a
little like Walmart's along the way?
Speaker 2 (46:23):
Yeah? I mean I think you pack for that and
then each time when you stop through somewhere, you like
pop off and get or you have somebody.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Bring it to you. On a trail, I don't think
I have a friend that would do that for me.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
I would do that for you, if you know, Morgan.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
I'm like, hey, Morgan, I'm in Maine right now, will
you just get me like a couple of gram crackers
and yeah, and you sleeping back?
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Okay, when you were in Tennessee, like i'd be like, hey,
you're going to try and accomplish this thing. Heck, yeah,
I'm gonna come bring out something to you. No, I
want to drive all the way to Maine for that.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
But when you're here, is it the same as like
somebody trying to go up Mount Everest? Like, is this
kind of like something that you declare like all right, guys,
like I'm going to be gone for a Yeah, I
guess so you're gonna have to tell your family like,
all right, I'm gonna be gone for a few months.
This is what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yeah, it's definitely different. You'd need different skill sets, similar,
but different skill sets because Mount Everest, you're going up
in elevation, which I think she would probably go up
in elevation some too, but you'd be going up and
down a lot versus just up and just back down.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
But yeah, I mean, for sure something that like you're
probably training for. You probably have done a lot of hiking.
You don't just wake up one day and do it.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
I don't know. I might actually be happy with like
doing two miles of that and being like, yeah, man,
I did the Appalation Trails one of the best times
in my life.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
It was. So there's one. There's also a trail on
the West coast, the Pacific Coast.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Hold on, yes, yes, whatever you're gonna say. It sounds familiar.
Let me see if I oh, maybe I'm thinking Pacific
Coast Highway.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Specific Crest Trail. It is the same. It's two thousand,
six hundred and fifty mile long t that runs through California,
Oregon in Washington and connects the United States and Mexico
border and the United States and Canadian border connect Canada border.
Speaker 3 (48:09):
I bet that is so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Well, so what I was going to say, when we
were in North Cascades National Park, which is the tippy
top of Washington, we were on the Pacific Cresh Trail
that where it starts.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Oh, so you did do it.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
So we start we did like a seven mile trail
that was at the.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
Time of it. You did it. You did the you
did the Pacific rim what's it called, Crescent Cress and.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Trail, Pacific Crest Trail.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
You did it, Morgan, for the rest of your life,
just say like, yeah, I've done it. Seven miles of it.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Yeah, just seven mirror miles of the two thousand and
six and fifty miles. Isn't crazy though, like eating border
has one? Yes? Oh yeah. Anyways, Okay, Well we're going
to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
This is a good conversation, man. I love like, like
in our minds, we were in a different part of
the country, multiple different places.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
I know when I was picturing these trail and like
going on it.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah very uh yeah me too.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
What was that game? Everybody used to play the trail game.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Oregon Trail, but you never played that. That was the
way before you.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
I think my sister played and I'd watch her. I
don't think I quite understood it if I'm being on it.
Oh yeah, but we could talk about anything all day long.
I had so many things, and I just kind of
let us always.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
Go, oh we always yeah, we always go somewhere that
we didn't expect.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Yes, every time. But we are going to get out
of herecause we're going to do some listener questions and stuff,
so you guys can gus tick out Part three. But Eddie,
thank you for being here. Tell people where they can
mind you.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah, you can find me at producer Eddie on Instagram, TikTok,
and I'm trying to do more tiktoking, trying to do
a little more Instagram reels.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
You say this like once every six months.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
No, I think I could probably find it.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Okay, maybe it's true. Maybe it's true. You just have
to like put time aside to do it, and it's hard.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
I know posting is hard, but do you ever you
have trouble post Yes, Eddie, I have trouble posting my podcast.
I'm like, I don't even want to take that. I
already have it edited and I don't even want to
take the time to post it. Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yeah, because posting you're like, all right, how do I
describe this? Or when I put in the caps, oh
my gosh. But yeah, a producer Eddie, I know I
really gave it a good promo there on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, whatever.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
Maybe you get more followers, you'll do some more.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
Yeah, maybe that's the goal.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Well and goes subscribe to our YouTube aage because Eddie
does put in a lot of work for that at
Bobby Bone Show. All right, thanks Eddie, Thanks Morgan.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
Bye, guys.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
for listening. Be sure to check out the other two
parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms.
Show and followed web girl Morgan to submit your listener
questions for next week's episode.
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I had a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to the weekend, everybody. Eddie is joining me and thanks.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
For being here, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Morgan, Did I just give you a new name?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What was that? I don't know I did.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's like I'm trying to learn to speak again.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I feel like I'm just reverting what happens sometimes with me.
Is funny is that when I type my name sometimes
I type so fast it comes out Edo, And I'm like, man,
that's not a bad name, Like Edo is not a
bad name that I could adopt at some point, you
know how, like you just have a nickname?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes me, okay, this is my pet Peeve. Though, is
I got given a name that doesn't have nicknames?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Morgan? Yeah, Morgie Morgi?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, but Morgi is weird and is a cemetery?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
True? You don't want to be a morg No exactly.
But how about Mo? Though? Most good?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I don't know. Mo feels like, you know, like Larry
Mo and.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Curly Yeah, the Three Stooges.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, like I feel like an old man or I
should be an old man.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I guess I just don't really feel like I have
a name that was destined for nicknames, which is always
a bummer because everybody just always has to call me
Morgan and that's so boring.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What do you think about when people do like M, Like, like,
some people will call me a ell be like what like,
don't what?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
E feels weird to me. M doesn't feel as weird,
but E. Something about it being a vowel.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh, oh, that's the problem with the vowel.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I know, it's like a E.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I owe you like that?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, many of you are a you? A you dang?
I mean you as in the.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Letter What names start with you? Ulysses, uh Ursula ooh yeah, Urgent. No,
that's a.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Word name a name. I think we covered him Ursula
and uh Ulysses. I feel like there's one more, is Eugene.
Now Eugene's with an E.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, that's the silent e. Yeah you you.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
USh usher Usher Usher? I bet you, I bet you.
His people call him you you Hey? What do you
want to play it? Not you? You know?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
This also makes me think when you were naming your kids,
like with your wife, how does it happen where like
are you guys just sitting on the table and you're like, Okay,
this is what I've always thought of, or you just
like drawn from random places.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
What's funny is the first our first child we like had,
I mean we were dating for like forever right before
we got married, and then we got married, so we
already had a name. Like when we were dating, we're like, hey,
if we ever have a kid, we're gonna name it.
You ever do that like with with your boyfriend or
any of your boyfriends?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I don't do I didn't mean.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
No, that's not what I meant. I just meant, have
you ever done that?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Not like I've never done it with somebody. I've done
it on my own. Like if I ever have a child,
I would want these two names, like one for a
boy and one for a girl.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
But you never done that with like someone you're together with.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
No, I really haven't. I was like, you know in
high school when you're like spelling the hearts and you're like, ooh,
where does the last name go together? How does that
look like I would do that? Crap?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I never did that.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
You never did that? Well, I guess that makes sense
because they take your name.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh right, traditionally, Yes, you're right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, so you wouldn't be like putting Eddie Smith or Eddie.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Change in the last name Violet just in case tradition
just changes all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, you want to like write a girl's name and
put your last name to it to see if it
was like a vibe?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Uh uh? Never did you feel vibes on anyone you
did that with.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, sometimes I'd be like, dang, I really don't like
that last name.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So you're like, I can't won't ever happen?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, it was always funny like when it when it
work out like this again, this is back when I
was in like middle school in high school, and I
was like, you know, the name didn't really fit anyway,
so this makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, there you go, and that means we're not supposed
to be together. But as far as the child's name,
like I don't know, we had like two if it
was a girl who's going to be this, it was
a boy's going to be this. And then when it
really goes down, you're like, oh, I got a new name,
I got a whole new name. I think this is
going to be it. But my wife totally had she
(04:20):
had the first name picked out. She was ready to
go with that, so I didn't fight it. I liked it,
and I was like, let's go with it. But I'm
naming the second one. And I named the second one.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And she didn't fight your choice for the name.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
She tried to get it. She tried to have okay,
So this is how it went down. She tried to
get his first name, like she wanted his first name.
So our agreement was like, okay, but I want to
name his middle name, and we are going to call
him by his middle name. And that's what we settled with.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah? But so like you got you did get a name,
the second child, but you guys, don't call him by
his middle no.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No, no, no no no. I got the name, okay.
She didn't want that to be his first name. So
I said, fine, name him your name, the first name,
and give me the middle name, but we are going
to call him the middle name. Okay, he goes by
his middle name, got it. So he so much goes
by his middle name that when people call him his
first name, like at school, he doesn't respond to it.
(05:18):
That's like he forgets that that's his name.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Why didn't she like your choice for the first name.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
She didn't like the way it's like you like she
probably wrote it down. I was like, I just don't
like the way this flows.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It is true because it's kind of funny, Like the
two names that I've chosen for, like the girl and
a boy, I do like think of like make like
middle names that I potentially want, because I've thought about
this if I do have kids one day, my dad
has only daughters, and I'm like faced with a decision
of you know, am I going to take his last name?
(05:50):
But then if I do that, I'd want to somehow,
you know, honor my dad in some way. Yeah, And
I've been trying to make his names fit with my name.
I'm like, these aren't working. And then I'm like, then
I'm more of a dilemma of like, Okay, do I
have to give up the names that I always wanted?
Like how does this work?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Do you mean? Like, if you have a boy name
him after your dad? Is that what you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Potentially, you know, just like because if I do decide
to get rid of like my last name, I'm the
last one of his children with that name because he
didn't have any boys. So it's not like there's gonna
be there's there'll be a continuation of our family name
with extended family. But like his, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, but a lot of people keep your name as
the middle name, right, like Morgan Heughlesman, whatever, your new
last name's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, but see, my my last name is just so
like it's a mouthful already. You know. If it was
like Morgan Smith, then yeah, that makes sense, but like
Morgan Hulsman, like, it just feels like a lot. And
I already have two middle names, Eddie, oh right.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Right, hold on, Morgan Lane, Yeah, Morgan Lane, what Nicole? Dang?
I forgot about the Nicole.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I know. So then you have Morgan Lanicole Hills, and
blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You can't keep all that. I'm literally you're gonna have
to get rid of Lane and Nicole though, Like I know,
but I love it. Hold on, hold on, let's talk
this out. So if you were Morgan, Morgan Lane, Nicole
blah blah blah, your new last name that's the same
as Morgan hughls Mean blah blah blah. Maybe even it's
may it maybe even be shorter. If you're Morgan hels
mean blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I know, but I really love my middle names.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah you know that. I get that. But if you
want to honor papa, I know you might have to
do it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Eddie.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, no, no, this is so common, Morgan. Like I'm
telling you, when you have kids, you have all these conversations.
Like I remember my wife was like, I don't want
to keep my maiden last name, Like I want to
keep my middle name like you're saying. And her family
was like whoa, Like we're all girls over here, Like
you got to keep the maiden names.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So she was faced with the similar situation.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Exact same deal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Did any of the daughters like honor their dad in
some way?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Uh, honored them by naming one of their kid's middle names.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, so it got passed down.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I mean her family is very like traditional, so some
of them like use grandparents' names, maids, maiden's last name,
like a lot of they incorporated those in their names somewhere,
not necessarily just their first name, but somewhere in their name.
They like honored people from the past.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
What about your name? Was your name passed down?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I don't think so I don't know there's any other
Eduardo's in my family or middle name, Like.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Did anything about you get passed down?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Uh huh No, because my brother's a junior. So my
brother and my dad had the same name and then mine.
I guess they were just trying something different. But I
love I love Eddie Eddie because it's just it's it's
kind of different, right, Like, yes, we know a lot
of Eddie's, but not that many Eddies.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Did you ever get like when you were in trouble,
were you EDWARDO?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yes, I was at or Lease like my full name.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh you knew when somebody said the middle name you
were in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yes? Yes. What's funny though, is like that's what my
parents did. But now that I'm a dad, I never
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You never use their middle names, No, not like when
they're really really in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like just full name it Nope, Nope, And especially the
one that we call his middle name, like that would
just be too confusing he used.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
To his full name, he'd be like, I don't even
understand what's happening here.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I don't even know who you are. So no, I
don't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's interesting, do you feel like you like didn't want
to pass it down that way.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I don't know, I don't know. I just like it's
just never rolled off my tongue.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Does your wife ever do it? Their full names? We
don't do it, dang, So their full names are just
kind of throwaways. I feel like the whole purpose of
a full.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Name is so you can get yelled at when when
you're mad. Yeah, when you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I know when my dad be like Morgan la Nicole Hillsman,
I was in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
See that's too much, Like I don't want to spend
out Morgan Lane. He was Morgan Nicole Laane blah blah blah,
that's too much. I know.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
But like it was like, you know, I'm not in trouble,
Morgan Lane, I'm getting there, Morgan Lane, Nicole, I'm I'm
already in trouble. And then the full name I was
indeed do doo oh. Yeah, Like the level of tone
happened with my full name.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
How often were you in trouble?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
A lot?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Really you were trouble. You were a trouble kid.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, I mean again, I was the last one, right,
So I.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Pushed a battle away with a lot to bet.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, so I would get away with a lot, and
then I'd push even further boundaries because I was already
getting away with a lot, you know. But it allowed
me to grow up quicker because I kind of experienced
a lot of life, yeah quickly.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
So when you like, when you were growing up, did
your sisters have like strict rules? But by the time
it got to you, you're like, I can stay out
as late as I want, I can do whatever. And
because that's husually what happens with like parents, the oldest child,
you're like, oh, very strict, trying to figure it all out,
and then you realize, I'm not that big of a deal.
So when the youngest comes around, h like, everything's cool.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Wait is because you're the oldest, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I'm the middle Oh you're the middle child?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Did you?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But but the problem was my youngest was my youngest.
Our youngest in our family was my sister. And we're
all boys. It was two boys and a sister. So
there wasn't any easier with a sister because like my
dad was just terrified when he had a daughter. It
was like, oh, she's not going anywhere, she's not dating anyone.
He was very scared of her.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Like growing up, So, do you feel like the most
lax your parents were were probably on you.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yes, But I also was in trouble.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You never got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
No, not true. I got I did get in trouble,
but compared to my brother, I was like a saint.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah. Again, he's the first child. I do feel like
the oldest always gets the brunt because they're the first
one and they're they're just learned. Parents are learning with
the oldest.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yes, and it sucks for them, it really does. I know.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's why they say, like you have like the oldest child,
you have the younger. The dynamics are pretty like normal
across the board. Yeah, because parents and you can speak
from a parent perspective. But I feel like you've felt
that too. Like your oldest you were probably wildly different,
which we kind of see, you know. We talk about
like the concerts and music and everything like that. You're
(12:14):
learning with him.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
He's the trailblazer, right, Like he's the one asking to
go to the concert, So by the time the other
ones want to go to a concert, we already realize
that that's okay. He can go to a concert at seventeen,
like you know what I mean, Like you just start realizing, oh,
it was all fine. I don't know why we were
worried about that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, and the pressure is on him a little bit too,
because if it goes well, then yes, you do it.
But if it goes bad.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Correct, no, they don't want to do it correct. Like
if they do something sneaky or just ruin our trust
on something like that could definitely trickle down to the
other kids, even though they may never even think about
doing something sneaky or like whatever, but it happens, so
now we got to be on guard. Yeah, it's tough, man.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Family dynamics are just so interesting to me in general, yes,
because like across the board, everybody has similar experiences, but
then it's also unique. I don't know, it's just it's
interesting to hear about.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, well it is. It is interesting. But what's tough
is that you start thinking every kid's the same, right,
so when you start talking to other parents, you're like, oh,
I'm dealing with this, and I'm like, wow, I'm glad
I've never had a dealt with that. But then because kids,
you know, they're different people like people are different. Just
people are made differently, So when you think you're parenting,
(13:31):
you're like, Okay, this is what you do to a kid.
Like even when we're talking about my kids on the show,
Lunchbox is like, you're an idiot. Why would you? But
my son is different than his son and we know
and Bobby said it before you know. We're like, oh,
I mean you know your so better than we do.
So like it's true. You start learning things about your
kid because they're not like every other kid. So when
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you talk to a therapist, you talk to other parents,
it's not a blanket statement on like what's good for
your kid.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, parenting cells are different based on how you were
also raised?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh correct, And then and then what it's crazier is
how your spouse was raised. Then it's like, oh my gosh,
well I was raised like this. And then they're like,
well I was raised like this. We're like, well, what
do we do? Let's meet in the middle somewhere. It's
very it's it's challenging, Morgan Morgan, Nicole Laine Huesman, and
I hope you're ready for it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You know, you just butchered the ground.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I understand, MORGANA I.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Do want updates on the kids. But we're going to
take a quick break and I'll get the updates on
the kidds. So speaking of all the kids, what has
been the latest or what's going on you and your wife?
How are things? Like, how's life?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
No, life's chaotic. Yeah, summer is hard for us because
there's no school, so like we've got to put them
in every camp or else they will just be bored
at home. And when they're bored, they start fighting, they
start arguing, or they start making a huge mess of
the house, which is okay, like if they can clean
it up, but most of the time they don't want
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to clean it up. So by the time they're done
doing the mess, like say, they're bored, right, and I'm like,
go go be creative, Like go in the garage and
like there's a lot of stuff in the garage, Go
be creative, okay, and they go and they just rip
it apart.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Okay. So then I always hear this from like parents, right,
where like summer is always a really tough one. I'm
curious though, like, is it also that it's really fun
because you can create some cool memories, like when you
get home from work, if they are home, you can
go and do fun stuff with them or is it
just truly too exhausting.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, well, I mean we still have work to do, right,
like like with our job, Like you go home and
I still got I still have, like you know, two
three hours left of work. So yes, I could take
a break. I can play with them a little bit,
but that's still got to get stuff done. And it's funny,
like we just have this conversation the other day with
my wife, Like I try to tell them over and
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over like, guys, just because it's summer, my life doesn't change.
You all's lives changed, Like you don't have school, but
I still have work to do. I still have to
go to bed early and wake up early. Them they're like,
can we watch a movie stay up till midnight? Well yeah,
but I still have to go to bed early. So
it's it's tough. It's tough, and I know that. Like
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people love to throw around the word like, oh, it's summer,
like relaxed. Yeah, but parents don't have summers off, so
especially the ones that work. So it's it's cool. Yes,
it's fun because they are home and you get to
do stuff with them. But at the same time, man,
it's it's tough because, like you try, you're trying to
stay on your regular schedule when they're definitely not on it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh yeah, well, and do you get like the summer
fever with them where you do want to be going
to do stuff and you're like, I have to do
my normal everyday life, Like, of course, I want to
be doing this, and I want to have sleepovers with you,
and I want to you know, play the water balloons,
but I have.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I definitely want to watch the movie till midnight like
I do. I want to stay up and watch the
movie with them. I want to go to the pool
most of the time. When I like get home, they're like, hey,
we're going to the pool and they all have their
swim trunks on. I'm like that sounds awesome, and you're
getting dad fomo. Yeah, well, I haven't thought about taking
my computer to the pool, but I've done that before.
I've seen that before, and I'm like, that does not
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look fun.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, well, at least when you're sitting outside better than Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I don't know. I haven't gotten there yet. I've been
I've been thinking about it, but I haven't gotten I
haven't gotten to dad at the working at the pool mode.
Yet you know what I mean. You know I'm talking
about Have you seen those people that take their laptops
to the pool and they're working under the shade and
aer umbrella?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh yeah, tru when So we would always go to
like the neighborhood pool when we would get out of
school for summers, and it was my favorite thing. But
it was kind of funny because we had very zero
responsibilities in the sense that like, I would eat an
eminem cookie in waffle fries with ranch every single day, Morgan,
Like that was.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
My how are you alive? No, no, I'm not judging
because that's why I hate too, but how are we?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I know, I the world was a little vastly different,
especially in the category of food, but that was my
diet every day, and nobody could tell me any different
because I was at the pool. So I was staying
out of my parents' hair when they were working, So
you know, that was my diet.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
And so both of your parents worked, who would hang like, well,
so watch.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
You When I was a kid, like baby baby Morgan,
my parents switched off shifts, so my dad worked the
night shift and my mom worked during the day, so
they would literally trade. They would have like a few
hours in between where they were both there, but they
would most of the time like switch shifts. My dad
thinks about it often because he would be so excited
when Barney came on because he'd finally get to take
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a nap. We'd be so invested in the TV and
that would be his naptime.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And then as we got older, my older sisters would
watch my sister and I that are closer in age,
so I'm sure they loved that. It's just kind of
like your oldest gets in charge of watching, was like,
I don't want to do this. Yes, I know, speaking
of your oldest. Is he going to be a senior
this year?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Is that right? No, he's gonna be a junior. Okay,
he's gonna be a junior, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I feel weird.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yes, it's all. It's all weird because it's weird.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
You sit here and you think of this and you're like,
yeah and it you know, it's hard and I'm working
in life. But then one is about to be a
junior and you're starting to look at colleges and they're
about to be out of the house, Like how does
that feel.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I mean, I'm excited about it, Like I don't know
some parents are like I don't it's like, oh the
empty nester or whatever. When the kids leave. It's like
I'm really looking forward to It's not and it's not selfish.
It's not me like being like I can't wait time
alone and never no one's here anymore, and just but
like it's exciting to see them grow and like leave
the nest and go see what they're gonna do. I've
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often wondered what are my kids going to do in
their life? And it's cool, this is going to be
the start of like them leaving and going to college
and figuring out what their life is all about. I
think it's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
When you think about your kids getting older. Are you
more excited about them getting married and you have grandkids
and all that? Are you more excited about like them
leaving this retirement? No?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
No, I mean all that. Like I've wondered for so long,
like what they are going to do, who they're going
to marry, how many kids they're going to have, and
like my wife and I have all these little like
predictions like these like this one will for sure work,
like on cars, you know, like just something creating something
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with his hands. That one for sure is going to
be like something in the movie industry like this one's
going to be something in sports like that. It just
we've always when you like see your kids every day
from the time they're born, like where they're little, like
you realize you start seeing like what kind of person
they are and what you know they're almost like what
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they're meant to do or what comes easy to them.
I'll say that, you know, not to say that that
might not change or whatever, but I know already what
comes easy to them and what they're happiest doing. And
then I start wondering, like, man, like how quickly are
they going to get married? I know one immediately we'll
probably get married, like as soon as he graduates college.
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Like one, I already know that he's going to find
fall in love easily and find someone to get married.
One I don't know if he'll ever get married.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's just they're all so different, and I think that's
what I'm really excited about, just to kind of see
like how it's all going to turn out, yeah, and to.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
See like how you're going to turn out in your
next phase of life. Are you excited about that?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I can't wait, Morgan, Like I cannot wait.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Do you think you'll move immediately to somewhere with the beach, yes,
like as soon as the last one leaves next you're
gonna like that's it, tie it up.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I'm out depending on work, right, like, I mean, if
we're still doing this, no, if we're still doing this,
I mean I don't know. But if all of it,
like say, all of it's like done, everyone leaves, work
is different works, We're not doing this anymore, and I
can go to the beach. I think my wife and
I would just move immediately.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
And what would you do?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I mean, my dream is to always live in a
mountain town. That's where I want to be. But I also, Eddie, like,
if everything ended tomorrow and I didn't have a job anymore,
like that's what I'm focused on. I think I would
travel for a while, really, like pack up Remy and
Hazel and be like, Okay, I'm gona hit the road
for a while and go see the world.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I just I love traveling so so much, and I
wish that that was something I could do like full
time and just you know, and there are obviously there's
travel creators and influencers and all of that. But I
also love a steady job and consistency. So I don't
think I could do it genuinely full time, but I
love travel.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That's funny you mentioned that, because like we are creatures
of habit, right, And I've caught myself being like, oh man,
I want to travel and I want to do this
or whatever. But whenever, like there's a crazy two weeks
in our lives and like say we're traveling a bunch,
or we're having to do stuff for work, and we
go from one town to another town to another town.
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After like five days, I'm like, I just want to
get home.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I just want to get home and I want to
get back to my normal life. Do you see yourself
like doing that once you actually do get to go travel.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, I mean I, like I said, I think I
need consistency and routine. I'm very much that because I've
noticed when I don't have that, I kind of become
very agitated and just I'm not a pleasant person because
I I don't understand what's coming next. And I'm very
much the person that likes to be in control if
I can be yeah, not traveling and stuff. There's like
where my adventurous, spontaneous side comes out where I'm kind
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of a little bit more like just whatever and going
with life. But I do like I wish I had
more flexibility so that every weekend, you know, I could
go and like be jetting off and my Monday through
or you know what I mean like that, But.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
That's what I'm saying though, that's what I'm saying. I
don't know if we had the ability to be like Morgan,
you're done, you have enough money for to do whatever
you want to do. You don't have no ties go travel.
I really think that you would travel and have a
blast for two weeks and then you'd be like I
want to get home. Yeah, and then maybe maybe you'd
come home and you would do something else for a
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little bit consistent life, and then in a few months
you're like, I want to go travel again, and maybe
that's it.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, that's probably more the consistency.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
But I've met people where I'm like, you're crazy, Like
where they they'd love not having a home. They love
just you know, being in a random city and like
just living there for four days and then going to
another random city and living there for a few days,
Like it's that's crazy to me, Like I feel so
lost if I'm in New Orleans for more than three days,
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Like what do I do? I miss my home?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah? No, I don't think I could do that. Like
I couldn't be a all the time backpacker, right, I
could be a backpacker for like a.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Year, yeah, and then be like I don't know, a
year is a long time.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It is, But like if I'm going constantly to new places,
like if I got to go because my goal, my
goal in life is to visit every continent and see
all fifty states. That's like my travel goal and not
you know, I'm cool if I could see all the countries.
But this is a lot more continent. It's easier.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
How close are you on the states?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So I have thirteen left, and I'm about to see
three more on our summer vacation. So I'll be knocking
because like every time I have an opportunity, I'm like, Okay,
how can I see as many states and like still
enjoy it and get them all out? And that's what
we're doing. We're doing Minnesota in Illinois and Iowa, which
sounds crazy because you're like, what are those that's there?
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And there's just so much I've done so much research
and there's like really cool things in all of those states.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You've never been to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I've never been to Chicago. So that's one of our
first stops.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You're gonna love it, I know.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I'm excited to try deep dish pizza.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, you're gonna love it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Oh yeah, you're gonna love all that. So yeah, but
are you Are you going to a baseball game?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I don't think so. We're traveling with Remy. We're doing
a whole bunch of hiking and okay, a lot of sights,
like more outdoor nature trip. I love like nature hiking,
national park, state park stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
So do I And let me ask you this. When
you go to those places and you're hiking in the
middle of nowhere, do you ever feel like whatever you're
worried about or whatever's going on in your life is
just not that important? Oh yeah, Like whenever you go
out to the mountains and you see how big a
mountain is and you see animals that are out in
the mountains and just how quiet it is and how
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peaceful it is, I just like feel every time like
what am I worried about?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yes, but it's like you just forget that such small
things don't really matter in the bigger scheme of things.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
But what's stupid is you go back to it and
then like two days in like I'm worried again.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Hell, that's what nature's for, right, Just keep going to
nature every day. Yes, which, speaking of one, I want
to know if you guys are doing a fun summer vacation.
And then two, I'm going to ask you this, but
maybe you can think on it while you're talking about
summer vacation. But what place actually lives up to the
hype and what doesn't live up to the hype? Like
of all your travels that you've done, like place that
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lives up to the hype one that did not live
it up to it? But first, summer vacation, what are
you doing?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Oh? I thought that was I thought you were going
to break?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Okay, well, no, you know what, Actually okay, perfect, we'll
take it. We'll take a break per second and we'll
come back. We'll give you a second to think. Okay,
we took our break. Eddie had plenty of time. But
first Eddie, let's start with summer vacation. Do you guys
have any fun plans?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Morgan, for the first time in our family life, we're
not going to the beach. What. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I'm shocked. Did you like plan to go somewhere else
or are you guys just staying home?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I think my family just said, you know what, why
don't we try like going west? Like we don't. We
always go to the beach, which is great, Like I
love the beach and I love the summer. Like that's
what it's about, right, like going to the beach and
hanging out whatever. But they were like, let's change it up.
My wife was like, let's you want to go to
the mountains, because I do love the mountains. I love
the mountains, I love the beach, I love all of it.
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And so we want to go to Zion National Park.
And so they've decided to do that and that's what
we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh my gosh, I'm okay. Eddie's so jealous. I've been
to Utah and I did some national parks there. I
didn't make it to Zion, and I'm jealous. So are
you guys going to do more? Than Zion or Zion
just the destination, staying around there.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
So Zion's the meat of the trip. So we're going
to fly into Vegas. The boys have never seen Vegas.
The little boys have never seen Vegas. So we'll fly
into Vegas. And they trust me. I'm not going to
show them too much Vegas, just.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Walking down the strip.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
But not no, not even, not even because the last
time we did that, Morgan, I took my oldest son
to iha Art and we went to bake. He came.
It was his first trip to Vegas, and he was like,
I want to see the strip, Dad, And like, all right,
let's go. We walked down the strip and I mean
the first thing we saw was some lady with like
feathers and no shirt on, and like he was like, whoa,
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this place is crazy, and like yeah, that's culture ready.
Yeah you know what. You know what, I'm going to
just avoid all those conversations for our summer vacation. I
just I'm wanna we're gonna land. I'm want to show
them a little bit of Vegas from a distance. I
want to show them like look at the lights. Look
how cool it's because that's the hotels and then we're
going to drive to Zion. Then we're going to drive
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make that drive whatever it is. We thought, maybe maybe
drive to the to the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Okay, I was just about to ask that you're right there.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
That's what I've heard, and I think it's that's gonna be.
That's gonna be a decision that we make when we
get there, Like, depending if we have time or whatever,
we'll maybe drive to the Grand Canyon, spend a few
hours there and then eventually get to Zion.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Let me see, I'm mapping it for you. Listen, I'm
a queen of mapping. Do it some trips out.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I'm not opposed to it. I'm really not. Like, I
think that would be fun to stop buy and see
the Grand Canyon and then like head on to Zion.
But it just depends on like how long of a
detour that is.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Well, because we did something similar when we went to Utah.
My friend had and I had never seen the Grand Canyon,
but we went on the north side of the Grand Canyon,
which is the most I guess the least amount visited,
but we still got to like go and see the
Grand Canyon, which was really cool for both of us.
But we were on like the the kind of other side.
Let me see here, But I think being near Arizona,
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you're going to be hold on.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I want to I want to say it's like maybe
a two three hour detour. Yeah, I want to say
that's kind of what it is, which again is doable.
But I don't really want to drive all the way
out there and like, well, there it is, and then
get back in the car and drive again. So I
don't know. I think we'll just gauge it. We'll see
how all the kids are feeling. If everyone seems like
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they want to do that, then we'll do that. But
if not, and they want to get straight to Zion,
because I heard a lot about like Zion getting congested
during the summer, like even like hard to find a
place to park all that stuff. So we're kind of
getting all the inside information on the park so that
we kind of like we don't get there and get
a little surprised by.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, well, and you can do like hikes and stuff
in there, which you know, those obviously don't end up
being as congested. They're going to be congested in like
the tourist y kind of picturesque locations, so if you
do like some version of hikes, I think you'll be okay,
because that's how most national parks are. Like when we
went and did Yellowstone and all of that, there was
still plenty of people. But if you kind of went
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against the grain a little bit and did some other
things or just ventured a little bit further into the park,
you were fine. Yeah, So it just depends what you're
trying to do in there. I really want to do
the hike there that's the Narrows, but I don't think
you should do that with kiddos.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
No, no, No, there's definitely some that they're saying that,
like now you don't want to do this with your kids?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, I don't think. So okay. So, like total, just
doing those three things is about six hours, which really, honestly, Eddie,
is not that bad.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Six hours. What do you mean like going like total trip, So.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Say you go to like Las Vegas to Grand Canyon
to Zion. Ideally what you would do is go Las
Vegas to Zion and then down to Grand Canyon and
then get fly out somewhere off there.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Well we're flying out of we're flying out of La
so like so we're trying to do Vegas, drive to Zion,
spend three or four days in Zion, then drive to
LA because the kids want to see, you know, the
West Coast. They want to see Los Angeles, they want
to see like Hollywood or whatever. Possibly taken to Disney
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and so yeah, and then we'll leave from there. That's
kind of the plan. And again, I like the plans
and everything, and my wife is really good at planning stuff,
but I like to not really know what we're doing,
so that I it's just I kind of enjoy it
better that way, you know, not I don't want to.
I don't really want to think about what we're doing.
And then and then like really of the boys in
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the car being like, no, I really want to see
the Grand Canyon, I'll be like, screw it, let's go,
Like I don't know. I love how when you do
that during vacation because sometimes fun things spawn from that.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
So that's kind of in a nutshell what we're going
to do, and we're really excited.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, and oh my gosh, you guys are gonna have
so much fun. It's just honestly, the scenery and being
out in that environment is so vastly different than like
the mountains that you see and things that you see
there are so different than what you would picture of,
like the Rockies or the Smokies. Yeah, they're orange and
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red and just you feel like you're on another planet
all the time, which is so cool.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
That is crazy. So that's what's so cool about the US,
Like our country is so amazing where you can get
like beautiful beaches, beautiful mountains, beautiful forests, desert, like all
kinds of terrain in one country.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
This is why it's my goal to see all of them.
Because we get so stuck and wanting to go abroad,
which I do. I want to go abroad all the time.
But there's so much here.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
There's so much here.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yes, and that's why you know, it's part of the goal. Okay,
so's we're going to the lives up to the hype.
Doesn't live up to the hype, okay, because let me
tell you the reason that I did this right, Okay,
because I went to Jackson Hall lived up to the hype.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
The Wyoming.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yes, the Tetons are my favorite place on Earth so far.
What the tons it?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Why does that sound dirty?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Teton National Park? They do have funny shirts, they're like
the teats, like that's the thing because it's a little
mountain range. And it's right, it's Yellowstone and Teton National
Park are connected at the bottom. Okay, but it Teeton
National Park, Jackson Haw, Wyoming, like genuinely favorite place on
Earth so far. I loved it, and that was worth
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the hype in every way, shape or form. I went
to Mount Rushmore not so much worth the hype. Really, No,
I literally went you look at stupid statue heads and
you leave.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Well, they're not stupid. Those are a founding fathers, you know,
they're actually not right.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I think it's Teddy and.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Teddy's up there. Abe yeah, George Washington, I think no
jeaf person Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Washington. Yeah, I
think that's right. So what is it though, Like is
it not that big? Like what what is it that
you didn't that you were underwhelmed by?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I just think I love and listen, the fascination of
the creation of it is cool and you can see
how everything was made. But I'm such a big fan
of naturally created things.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
That's not natural.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, And I think that's why I wasn't fascinated with it.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Did you think it would be natural? Before you got there. No, No,
and then and then you realized it wasn't when you
got could you imagine You're like, wait a minute, you're
telling me like somebody chiseled them.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That just like perfectly fell to the earth that way
of the perfect people of our founding fathers or whatever. No,
it was just that I have On that trip specifically,
we had seen so much. We'd seen you know, the
bad Lands and Yellowstone and Titans and the Rockies, and
you see Mount Rushmore and you're.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Just likenh yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that,
you know what I mean? How like how close can
you get to the heads so.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You can be close to the I think you can
even go up. I didn't even take like there's a
hike that you can do where you can kind of
be pretty much like I think, right underneath it or
like right out I can't explain it super well, but
like on a platform and you're pretty close to viewing it.
I didn't even walk all the way up to that platform.
I went to like the first bottom platform.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I was like, eh, I'm good if we can leave now.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah, And then they have like this little hole of
rock where you can like see the faces through it.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I was like, okay, cool, do they charge you to
see the faces?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
We didn't get charged. The one thing I did want
to do that they didn't have open when we were there.
We went so early. Apparently they have ice cream there
that is the recipe from one of those people, like
one of their families.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Oh, one of the presidents.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, I think it's George Washington's like ice cream recipe.
And I really wanted to try that because that would
that probably would have made my experience a little bit better.
So maybe I just didn't have the foll I will say,
like the coolest part about it was that all the
state flags, like when you first walk up, there's just
a row on both sides all of the state flags
and then their faces are in the middle as you're
(37:32):
looking up, and that was like a cool moment. But
the statue at Selton, you know, yeah, like will you
see one? And Dee, You're like, cool, I've seen it,
experience it. I never need to go back.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
I can see that. I can see that because I
have no idea what to expect when I go there exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
But like if you go to South Dakota, it's still beautiful.
Go to the Badlands, yeah, don't go. And the Tons
yeah tee Ton's in the other way. But yeah, those
are so And then now I've been looking at Blue
Ridge Mountains and I'm wondering if those are like living
up to the hype.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
But that's why Blue Ridge Mountains. Is that a Virginia.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I think it's part of Virginia, but mostly the Carolinas.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Maybe because when I did my walk from West Virginia, Tennessee,
I know we were I know we were foothills of
the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
See.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Oh so beautiful, Morgan, Like, it's just I don't know, man,
like the Appalachian Trail.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
You heard of that, Yes, because a lot of people
hike that, I think they do.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
And it goes all the way from like upstate New
York or maybe even further. I don't even want to say,
I'll look it up. I know it's like, you know,
northeast all the way down to Carolinas or something, and
people make that whole hike, which is like a quarter
of our country.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
See. But that's so cool. Yeah, I would love to
do something like that. I mean, I don't want to
bud about myself.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
But no, no, you go with like your boyfriend or something, yeah,
or a couple of friends.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Something fun like that. What did you find, Well, it
took me the conservative hold on Appalachian Scenic Trail. It
definitely starts in Virginia, or at least it looks like
it does.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Okay, starts in Virginia and then probably goes up.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
But okay, the Appalachian Trail stretches through fourteen states along
the Appalachian Mountain Range, so it looks like it's in
Maine all the way down to Georgia.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
God, that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
That's amazing. Yeah, so Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
That is so cool. You talk about goals, Morgan. I
feel like one day I would love to try that,
but I'll probably be too old and probably wouldn't be all.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
It stretches two thousand, one hundred and ninety miles.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah, and it's not Flatlands's mountain ranges.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
That would be so cool.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
I think people break it up though, People like go,
I'm going to go from Georgia to Virginia and then
and then like take a break and then I'll try
that next month and they'll start where I ended and
then kind of I think that's how they do it.
I don't know if anyone does it straight through, because
that's that would be crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
I mean, talk about a cool like life goal though,
if you could do the Appalachian Trail. Yeah, well, let's
see if anybody's ever completed.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Okay, tell me your yours, well lived, I'll start with
lived lived, the hype, lived up to the hype. That
would be Hawaii. Oh yeah, I know people hype up
Hawaii and the I've been to Hawaii three times, yeah,
three times in my life, and I love it. Like
(40:34):
I know, it's very expensive to live there and I
probably will never live there, but gosh, I would love
to live there. It's just if. The people are so nice.
The scenery is amazing. You watch Jurassic Park that was
all filmed in Hawaii, like that's it's just beautiful. Those mountains,
those jungles or whatever are so cool. Waterfalls everywhere, and
(40:56):
then the ocean's are just beautiful. The fishing is amazing,
the surf is amazing.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Like, I just love it there in that particular island.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
No. I mean Kauwhai is really cool, which is a
little tiny island. It's one of the four. And what
I liked about Kawhai is that it's not there's not
a lot of building on it, like there are there
are a few areas where there's hotels and resorts or whatever,
but there's just a lot of wilderness, a lot of trails,
a lot of like you know, like I said, mountains
(41:27):
and waterfalls and beautiful beaches where like you can go
and there's you don't see a soul around and and
like it's hard to find a place to eat because
everything shuts down at like an eight o'clock so there's
no nightlife in Kauhai, which, like I love that. I
love that it's just purely about nature and it's quiet
and it's beautiful and it almost feels like it's untouched,
(41:50):
where like I know it's not, but it feels like that.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, it very much gives that essence for sure.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yes, where like you go to Waikiki, you get to
like a Oahu or whatever that's I mean, it's like
a big city on it.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I just love all their names too.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah, aren't the names so cool?
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It's just so fun to say all of them.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah, so that would be live up to the hype.
Didn't live up to the hype, I would say the
first time I went to Hollywood, La.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
M okay, I've never I've spent one night in La
when I was like super young, So I really don't
have a big memory or care of it.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
So and this has nothing to do with like like
the city in itself or whatever. I just I had
something built up in my head that was bigger, like
like La Hollywood, like all the famous people live there,
all the landmarks that you can think of, and then
you get there and it's dirty and it's like, oh,
(42:49):
that's the Chinese Theater, Like oh, okay, yeah, the Hollywood's
I will say, seeing the Hollywood Sign is cool yea,
because like you know, you think about like, oh, seeing
the Hollywood Sign, that's cool, but like everything else is like.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Just kind of l Why don't when you go with
your kids on your trip, why don't you take them
to somewhere else in California Because there is a lot
of cool spots in California.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah, but they because they want to see it.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
They want to see like the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And totally and I get it, and they'll probably be like, eh, okay,
that's but I think you do have to see that.
Like I think, you know, you grow up watching movies
and knowing it. I mean, it is cool to drive
by a lot like a studio lot and being like, well, look, guys,
there's Warner Brothers and they're just like all the movies
are made in there, like that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
But other than that, it's just kind of like it's
just another city. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
I've heard that before, especially like Walk of Fame, like
Sunset Boulevard. It's just all kind of.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Like okay, yeah, you see it and you're just like okay,
like all right, But what is crazy is everything there
does look like a movie set. Like you can see
anything from like a dumpster and be like, I feel
like that was in a movie, and it probably was,
you know, because they just shoot all over that town.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
I was gonna say, because downtown La is in so
many movies itself, even TV shows, reality shows, you know,
it's everywhere that Yeah, yeah, that tracks.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
So I think the hype of going to la and
like Hollywood was like really big, and then you get
there and you're just like okay, I mean that was fine.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well, and I'm also seeing it from Orleans's Eddie, and
it's clear that you and I both really like nature
and seeing really beautiful just things that were already there
things correct.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
But I will say though, I do love New York City.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yeah, and New York City is not already there.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
That's not natural, like that is the complete opposite of
a natural place. And I like it there like I
like New York. I love the subway, I love all
the buildings. I love the smells of New York Like,
I don't know, man, New York is just cool because
it's so different.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Mm it is and it's its own character truthfully. Yeah, Okay,
I did get some information on our Appllation Trail. Come on,
many people have hiked the entire Appalation Trail no way.
The Trail Conservancy Conservancy.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Yeah word's conservancy.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Thank you. Conservancy estimates that over twenty thousand individuals have
completed a through hike of the at since its creation
in nineteen thirty six. That is a lot, and that
means they've hiked the entire trail in one season. So
I don't know what that means. They did it, you
know some code continuously meaning like in spring, they finish
(45:32):
it all so, but only twenty five percent of those
who attempt it each year successfully finish. I did also
see that there was a thirty one year old named
Tara Dower who became the fastest person to complete it,
averaging fifty four miles per day, completing the trail in
forty days, eighteen hours and five minutes.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
She was hauling ass, but you know, like she wouldn't
even enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, like we stopping and taking pictures or like.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
You're like head down and going like going full speed.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Maybe if she if she'd visited before and she loved it,
and she's like, Okay, I want to come back, and
do you know what I mean? I would I would
imagine that that's probably the because if you wouldn't just
wake up one day and say I'm going to do this, right,
I mean maybe you do.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
And you got to think too, like you're going to
run out of food? Right? So are there like a
little like Walmart's along the way?
Speaker 2 (46:23):
Yeah? I mean I think you pack for that and
then each time when you stop through somewhere, you like
pop off and get or you have somebody.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
Bring it to you. On a trail, I don't think
I have a friend that would do that for me.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
I would do that for you, if you know, Morgan.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
I'm like, hey, Morgan, I'm in Maine right now, will
you just get me like a couple of gram crackers
and yeah, and you sleeping back?
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Okay, when you were in Tennessee, like i'd be like, hey,
you're going to try and accomplish this thing. Heck, yeah,
I'm gonna come bring out something to you. No, I
want to drive all the way to Maine for that.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
But when you're here, is it the same as like
somebody trying to go up Mount Everest? Like, is this
kind of like something that you declare like all right, guys,
like I'm going to be gone for a Yeah, I
guess so you're gonna have to tell your family like,
all right, I'm gonna be gone for a few months.
This is what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yeah, it's definitely different. You'd need different skill sets, similar,
but different skill sets because Mount Everest, you're going up
in elevation, which I think she would probably go up
in elevation some too, but you'd be going up and
down a lot versus just up and just back down.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
But yeah, I mean, for sure something that like you're
probably training for. You probably have done a lot of hiking.
You don't just wake up one day and do it.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
I don't know. I might actually be happy with like
doing two miles of that and being like, yeah, man,
I did the Appalation Trails one of the best times
in my life.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
It was. So there's one. There's also a trail on
the West coast, the Pacific Coast.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
Hold on, yes, yes, whatever you're gonna say. It sounds familiar.
Let me see if I oh, maybe I'm thinking Pacific
Coast Highway.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Specific Crest Trail. It is the same. It's two thousand,
six hundred and fifty mile long t that runs through California,
Oregon in Washington and connects the United States and Mexico
border and the United States and Canadian border connect Canada border.
Speaker 3 (48:09):
I bet that is so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Well, so what I was going to say, when we
were in North Cascades National Park, which is the tippy
top of Washington, we were on the Pacific Cresh Trail
that where it starts.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Oh, so you did do it.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
So we start we did like a seven mile trail
that was at the.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
Time of it. You did it. You did the you
did the Pacific rim what's it called, Crescent Cress and.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Trail, Pacific Crest Trail.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
You did it, Morgan, for the rest of your life,
just say like, yeah, I've done it. Seven miles of it.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Yeah, just seven mirror miles of the two thousand and
six and fifty miles. Isn't crazy though, like eating border
has one? Yes? Oh yeah. Anyways, Okay, Well we're going
to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
This is a good conversation, man. I love like, like
in our minds, we were in a different part of
the country, multiple different places.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
I know when I was picturing these trail and like
going on it.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah very uh yeah me too.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
What was that game? Everybody used to play the trail game.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Oregon Trail, but you never played that. That was the
way before you.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
I think my sister played and I'd watch her. I
don't think I quite understood it if I'm being on it.
Oh yeah, but we could talk about anything all day long.
I had so many things, and I just kind of
let us always.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
Go, oh we always yeah, we always go somewhere that
we didn't expect.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Yes, every time. But we are going to get out
of herecause we're going to do some listener questions and stuff,
so you guys can gus tick out Part three. But Eddie,
thank you for being here. Tell people where they can
mind you.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah, you can find me at producer Eddie on Instagram, TikTok,
and I'm trying to do more tiktoking, trying to do
a little more Instagram reels.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
You say this like once every six months.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
No, I think I could probably find it.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
Okay, maybe it's true. Maybe it's true. You just have
to like put time aside to do it, and it's hard.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
I know posting is hard, but do you ever you
have trouble post Yes, Eddie, I have trouble posting my podcast.
I'm like, I don't even want to take that. I
already have it edited and I don't even want to
take the time to post it. Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yeah, because posting you're like, all right, how do I
describe this? Or when I put in the caps, oh
my gosh. But yeah, a producer Eddie, I know I
really gave it a good promo there on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, whatever.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
Maybe you get more followers, you'll do some more.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
Yeah, maybe that's the goal.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Well and goes subscribe to our YouTube aage because Eddie
does put in a lot of work for that at
Bobby Bone Show. All right, thanks Eddie, Thanks Morgan.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
Bye, guys.
Speaker 1 (50:30):
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
for listening. Be sure to check out the other two
parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms.
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