September 14, 2024 • 32 mins
Happy Weekend! Amy shares some details from her vacation and how her big house move has been going. She also opens up about the kids and exciting things happening in their lives right now. Morgan shares how she’s been feeling lately and what she’s been up to. They both share music recommendations at a listener’s request.
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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):
Behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Let's up, Everybody, Happy weekend. I'm super excited to be
joined by Amy.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Amy.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you hey?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
It really feels like time goes by so fast, because
I feel like I was just here and I don't
know if it's eight weeks apart or seven or six
or what is it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think it's six, okay, because Bobby. I've tried to
get Bobby to do it, but he has it. So
take up Bobby, okay, and then everybody else is in,
and then obviously there's me, so you lose me. Then
there's seven of you guys. Okay, So I think it's
every six weeks. I think, yeah. But thanks for coming
back on. We got some things to catch up on
(00:44):
before we do. If you guys want to check out
part two and catch up on the show, We've got
Ella Lingley and Riley Green and Miranda Lambert dot By
Lunchbox has a situation with the whole thunder down under
raw Doggin sweatshirts. I got an energy massage. Bobby's a loser.
Tuesday Reviews Day, some weird stuff over there but you
can get caught up on the show. Any How is
(01:05):
the new house going, everybody wants to know.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, No, I love it. It's so great. I am very happy,
the kids love it. It's just more our vibe. I
think the last house I moved into, No, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
The last house I moved into was because of the
proximity to my dad's assisted living home, and so I
don't know that it was exactly our vibe. But this
one's just more quaint and older, and so there's was
some work to be done. So I've been renovating some things,
and that part's exciting. I'm ready for that to be done. Yeah,
(01:39):
I just feel as though there's dustin workers there all
the time. But to be able to make the space
my own is really exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
How is it feeling, you know, doing this all for
the first time by yourself, Like you're I mean, and
you went like in the deep end, You're like, got
a house, I'm renovating, I'm doing all these things.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, I'm learning a lot, like a lot and taking notes.
So if I ever do anything like this again, I'll
approach it a little bit differently. But I'm proud of myself,
and I think in the beginning I felt overwhelmed, but
I don't feel that way anymore. I feel capable and
(02:20):
excited and yeah, proud, I guess is a way to
think about it. Because I was talking to Stashira, my daughter,
who's seventeen, and she was talking about trying to be
on her own in just a few years and what.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That will look like a couple two of years.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
She's a junior in high school, so she's about a
year behind her actual age. So when she goes to
college or whatever she decides to do, she might do
an esthetician school instead. She's really into that, so it's
up in the air. And I told her she doesn't
have to decide now, and told her that I went
all the way through college not knowing what in the
world I was going to do and was I going
to be able.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To support myself.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
And I said, life will take you on all kinds
of twists and turns you never know, but you'll learn
a lot along the way, and you will surprise yourself
at what you're able to accomplish. I mean, look, I
just yeah, I just bought this house by myself, and
I didn't even know how to log into my bank
account about a year ago because my entire marriage been
(03:16):
handled that and uh, I was like, you're capable, like
you'll you'll find what you're gonna do, and you'll be
able to take care of yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Just fine.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh I love I love that this is the experience
that you've been having just this past year. Was there
any moments for you yet where you're like, because I
remember when I when I had bought my house and
I had like went through this whole experience. So much
of it was so exciting and I was so empowered,
and then there were other moments where I got really frustrated.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Oh yeah, I want a partner to help me with
certain things, I would say, more so it comes in
handy having a partner. And shout out to any single
moms out there, especially they don't have a solid co
parenting situation. I'm very thankful for mine. And you know,
I think of my mom like I love my dad,
(04:05):
But they didn't have an arrangement. My dad left and
I just stayed with my mom. My sister and I
stayed at my mom's. I don't even really know when
or why I would see my dad. I think maybe
I just once I could start to drive, I would
just drive over to his house if I wanted to
hang out over there. But there was no like, hey,
you got to go be with your dad this weekend,
(04:26):
or hey, your dad wants to you this weekend, like
at spring break. He moved away for a little bit,
I think to help the because he left my mom
for another woman situation. I think to like help die
that down. Because he was able to move away from
Austin for a little bit. He moved to Midland Odessa
area for a couple of years, and I think they
(04:48):
let the the fat settle, and so I remember going
there for like spring break or something. But back to
the original point of this, I think of my mom,
and she didn't really have help. She started working full time.
My dad wasn't there to help with dinner and homework
and school pickups and different things. And I don't know
(05:11):
how she did it, because I know on my weeks
that I have the kids trying to juggle that. Thank
goodness to shares driving now, But it's just the homework
is different, getting meals ready, working full time, it's different.
And I think of moms or dads. Single moms and
single dads that you know, have to do that round
the clock, and so I'm every other week, but three
(05:34):
hundred and sixty five days a year like that would
weigh on me because it gets difficult not having a
partner to divide and conquer, Like, hey, you handle social studies,
all handle math, and then while you're doing that, I'm
going to put dinner on. It's more like it's just
you at the house at night with the kids. So
I know there's a lot of people out there that
can sort of relate to that, and I'm not complaining,
(05:54):
but that's the part where those are the nights that
I want a partner.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, I, And I asked you because it is you.
Really you have this change happening where you get really
excited and there's a lot of empowerment, but there's also
that drastic other side of that that's really hard.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah, Like right now, my hot water is not working
and I don't know why, and I'm sure that I
can figure it out, but.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You're like, I just don't want to.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I know that Ben would have already figured it out,
so I understand.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We'll see. I understand those feelings completely now, and now
you're seeing why there was a moment in time where
I tried to move a TV by myself and where
it fell on me that this was why because I
was so frustrated. I was like, no, I'm gonna do it,
and then just you know, take it from me. If
you feel like you can't.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Do it, just at least ask or hire someone to know, yeah,
versus you know, powering through it, because there are some
of those where you're like, no, I'm just gonna figure
this out, but sometimes you just need a little help
from Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Can you professional right in my hand right now? Do
you see those three blood vessels? They're blood blisters. That
was me trying to do something in my backyard by
myself and it came down on my hand and squashed
it and it didn't break the skin to where there
was blood, but it caused these really.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Ugly like blood vessel pops.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah, blood blister situations, and my hand hurts really bad.
But that was me trying to do something myself. It's okay,
I got it done.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
See, in some moments, you do get it done. So
I totally understand. How was vacation for you?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It was good?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
What did I I mean I was at the house
most of it. Because I had work being done and
I needed to stay there. I was gonna leave and
try to go see my sister in Colorado, and then
it just would have been.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Really difficult to navigate.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So then I just ended up going to New York
for they So Open because I got invited, and I thought, okay, well,
I've never been there, and speaking to my parents, they
loved tennis, and my mom watched every tournament, all the
big ones that were on TV.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Growing up.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
There was always tennis on with her and I was like, oh,
she would freak.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Out if she knew I was going. So I went
to that and.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And how was it. Did you see any like celebrities
or anything.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
No, I was there the first weekend, and so I
guess Taylor and Travis they were there this past for.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The final weekends.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's a two week tournament, okay, so and then people
are getting eliminated so as it gets closer, and there
was an American that made it towards the end. So
I think that's why it became a big deal for
some of the celebrities to be there. But no, I
didn't see anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's funny. I feel like there's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
People, is there.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, but there's a lot of games going on at
the same time. And there's different stadiums. Oh so I
didn't realize that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I thought there was just one and everybody's at the
same one. No, there's multiple.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You like walk in to this almost like you're going
into a sporting event, and you go through the little
ticket thing, and then there's the Arthur ash there's the
Armstrong Stadium, which is where we win. Then there's the
Grand Slam Stadium.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
How do you just to go to whatever you have
tickets to?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Got? Okay, so you have specific tickets to see a
certain match. Okay. Yeah, I'm so naive when it comes
to you.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Trust me.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I just learned myself. I'm not acting like I really know.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I just know. But that's why I want to hear
about it, because I I only see pictures of people there.
That's really the only experience. And I never like played
tennis or anything growing up, so I'm really naive to it.
But it looks like a lot of fun because you
have a good time. It's great.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
They have these drinks called the Honey Deuce, okay, and
those are the popular drinks, and they have little balls
on there that they carve out of a melon.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
They look like little tennis balls.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Cute.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah, you have to get a honeyduce if you go.
But I saw an article that last year it generated
the US Open ten million dollars just the sale of
this drink.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So I was like, is it really that good?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Not?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I mean, it's okay to me? Is a little sweet?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
They charge twenty three dollars, Well that's why, because they can.
I mean, why not? And so that part was wild
to me. But I was like, oh, that's how they
afford the payouts because each person playing gets paid makes it.
I'm like, they just sell these expensive little cocktails with
melon balls that look like tennis balls, and they that's
(10:22):
how they pay for everything.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Oh that's fun. Okay, So you had us the US Open?
Did you do anything else while you were in New York?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I went to see Hadestown, which is a Broadway show,
which is really good, and then went to Arthur and Sons,
which is an Italian restaurant that I've been wanting to
go to for a long time.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Was it good?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It was really good? Yeah, it was like good.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, it's like a nice diner vibes like it wasn't
anything too fancy, but you could. It's you can see
in the kitchen, which is fun watching you work and
do all that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The New York energy. And I went.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
With this guy that I'm I was in vie with
the group. It was a group like there was other
people there too, but just entertaining a situation okay, And
so that was fun.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Okay, do you want to elaborate any further? Are you
pleading the fifth?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I don't have to plead the fifth, but there's just
a lot of.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Uh yeah, moving parts when you're dating. You've got kids,
They've got kids, everybody's got kids, and being thoughtful of
that situation and then also for sure, for sure where
it's going to go. But I love New York. So
if there's ever a group going of my friends or people,
(11:36):
I will be down for that. Just it's I don't
know that they felt the same way about the city.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I was like, oh, but we stayed in Queens.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
The tournament is in Queens, Okay, it's not in the city,
got it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And so there you have to take.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That subwhere or uber to like downtown to New York City.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, to get into Manhattan, we took we all hopped
in a uber one night, but then on Sunday we
went to Central Park and went around and we took
the subway, which.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Was fi And maybe it's because I don't know if
you feel this way, but I love the subway because
I think it's because I've never had that experience. Like
growing up in Kansas, we didn't have a subway. So
when I went to New York for the first time
and saw the subway, I thought it was the coolest
thing ever. Even though everybody else is like, it's so
dirty and gross, It's like, no, I'm sitting on the
subway underneath the city.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, it's a vibe. I think that I get where
you're coming from. When I went for the first time,
I was twenty or twenty one, and I was enamored
with everything that I was experiencing. And actually when I
went at that age, I was staying in Queen's because
my friend was going to college there, so I got
to stay at their place. But then going into the
city and taking the subway, I just felt cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
See, it's like I was having my sex in the
city moment. Kind of thing looked a lot more glamorous
on TV but you know, same experience. Okay, we're gonna
take a quick break. We'll be right back and got
Moore and talk about you're also talking about Stash here
and the kids. Got I cannot believe she's seventeen years old.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
That feels you and old man. She's working and doing
well in.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
School, and how is the job going?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
She loves it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I mentioned on the show she's been a hostess, but
she just started bussing tables too, and so she's real
excited when she looks at the schedule and sees that
she gets to bust because she gets to be part
of the family meal. And then that's one step closer
to if she were to be a server.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
So we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But how's she liking? Like getting paid minimum wage? Is
she like? How's that experience? She's just getting paid? So okay,
she's happy.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, I don't think she Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Does she know if she because I assume at this
place that the servers are still getting paid like like
two or three dollars an hour.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, Shell, she knows that if she were to serve,
she would have to get tips.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Got it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
To make it survive?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The make it kind of a shock when you go
from like a eight or eight or you know, twelve
whatever the hourly wages now to then like two dollars
and you're like, what your paycheck is nothing? It all
at all his tips or whatever. That is a little
bit of a shock. But that's fun. And how is Stevenson.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
He's doing great doing cross country just this. Teachers say
he's great at school, and we had a parent teacher
meeting and they said they love his personality so much,
like every time he comes in the classroom.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And so that's always good to hear.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah, I like that, uh, and yeah, they're there.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
They seem to have adjusted.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well. One of my biggest fears was, you know that
Been and Eye divorcing was gonna cause some major things
with them, and of course there were, and who knows,
later in life there may be some stuff that we address.
But thankfully and I've been able to co parent in
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a way that I think is impacting them minimally. And
living so close to each other and the kids being
back and forth, and then like Las House Saturday, you know,
Ben had the kids, but then Stashira had some stuff
to do it at my house, so she came over
and I feel like she was at the house all
day and we ran some errands together, and so it's
still that vibe.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's so sure that you can't like move and do things,
you know what I mean. That's cool. And they liked
the new house, Yeah, they love it. Okay, are they
getting to kind of design their rooms and have that experience?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You know? We just kind of transferred everything, got it
that was at the other house into their room. I
mean Stashira picked like the guest bed. She was asked
if she could have that in her room, the bed frame,
and so I swapped that and put her bed in
the guest room in that so she had some stay there,
but everything else, I was like, y'all's stuff is great,
let's just put it in there. And their rooms aren't
(15:41):
that biggest sort of like was even their rooms that
the other house were bigger, so we had to adjust
that way.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But did they get to choose the paint on their walls?
Did you paint?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I did, but I just did all all the same calbaster.
Stevenson wanted his room green and I I don't know
if he'll grow out of that. And I in the
rooms again, they're smaller, so I felt like it might
close it in, and so I suggested, what if we
get some green pillows or something, and he was like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You know that's funny because when I was growing up,
I think it was high school when I made my parents,
I was like, I really want to paint my room
lime green and pink. And you know what happened. My
room got paint in lime green and pink, and my
sister's room got painted all pink. And for a long time,
our rooms stayed that way, like even out when we
were in college and stuff. It was only until like
(16:32):
the last gosh five or six years my parents finally
redid them and now they're like their style and stuff.
But I would go home and I'm like, this room
is so horrible. And I made my parents have a
pink and lime green room in their house. And so
it's probably a better experience to not have your kids
paint the walls.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
I just like, I don't want to deal with painting
this again. So yeah, you just stuck with the like
it's a white, but the colors alabaster. Okay, so anybody's
looking for a good white. I really like that one
from Sherwin Williams.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That one Alabaster. I feel like I saw that when
I was looking for some Okay, well, I mean any
other life updates. I feel like I got the full scope.
Is there anything else you're wanting to talk about her share?
I want to keep pushing you and be like, tell
me everything.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
No, I want.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I think that I'll share more when I'm readier, we're
readier whatever that looks like. I'm not really sure. Of course,
I am used to sharing a lot. And I even
thought back to when I first started dating beIN on
The Bobby Bone Show. But I didn't say his name
for a long time, and he was in the military,
(17:42):
and we called him Air Force Guy, and.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It was we got engaged and he was Air Force guy.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We got married and he was Air Force Guy, and
so it became a narrative on the show pretty quick.
But I don't know how to That's probably one of
the bigger changes in my life life right now.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
But it's just figuring.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Out how to talk about it when it's right.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Okay, we're gonna take one more quick break. We'll be
right back. Speaking of that energy massage, Amy also got
one done. We had talked about it on our vacation.
I did, and you got on how did it go
for you?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It was really good.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I enjoyed it a lot. That was part of my
I guess, if I'm going to be home for most
of the vacation, I'm not really taking a trip other
than the weekend. I mean I was in New York
for less than forty eight hours on the weekend, so.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That you know, we had a week off.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeh.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Didn't feel like anything relaxing, especially with work being done
at the house, and in fact, when she came over
to do it, there was construction happening. So I was
laying there on the table and you could hear like bank, bank, bank.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And I was like, can you just go ahead?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And you know, energy heal me from that noise. She
was really sweet and I felt amazing after. I think,
just very relaxed.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Again.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I don't know that I had anything specific going on
like you did where I could feel this drastic thing,
but I I can relate to your story. There's times
where I've laid down on a massage table and had
a lot of emotion come out of me. There's been laughter,
there's been tears. I think for me, what that provided
(19:24):
in that moment. Was I just needed to relax a
little and it gave me that. But if I needed
to release, I could see how it could totally provide
that as well, because she was awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, well, I'm so glad you liked it and you
got to do it. Like on our vacation, we both
had it. Amy and I had went on a walk.
I had just done the massage, told Amy about it,
then Amy on it done. So that was Amy and
I's really most of our vacations besides both of our
one weekend trip. So I'm glad to hear that. And
I do you know, I know Lunchbox was giving me
a hard time of like feeling better, but I do
(19:56):
finally feel like I'm in a better place. And I
think that Missa kicked it off. I mean, it wasn't
the you know, it wasn't day and night like that
massage changed my entire life. But I do think it
put me on a path kind of like how you
were talking about, you know, clearing out the cob webs
for what you're experiencing. But that massage just like felt
like it kind of gave me this like clean slate
(20:17):
to just take my few steps forward and feel good
again and be okay with feeling good again. You know,
it was like because that whole week that we were
off and you saw me, and I mean I was
I was holding it together, but I wasn't like a
shell of yourself. Yes, like I'm just kind of existing,
and that whole week was was really full like, which
(20:41):
is also hard on me, because you know me, I
love to go places and go adventure and see things,
and to be like sitting home for a week and
just like wallowing in something that had happened to me,
I was just I was in it. I was going
through the suck of it like every day, every hour,
every minute. And then that massage happened, and then I
was like, Okay, now's the time, you know, I got
(21:02):
to take my steps forward. I did my I did
my like I sat in the suck of this for
an entire like week and a half where I just
like let it happen to me. And now I don't
deserve to do that anymore. It's time to step forward
and see what else is going to be out there
in my life. And so I do feel like I'm
in a much better place now than I was.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I see you, yeah, very well.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I mean i've seen you at work.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's true, but I mean on our walk and like
getting to talk and have our conversations, because like on
our walk, it was like every other time of it,
like something would make me cry or there was just
so many emotions that were happening. And now that's just
that's gone. You know. There was like a I had
kind of an aha moment where like he was a
he was a great human being besides obviously the ending
(21:51):
and what happened, but like my, my rose colored glasses
came off, you know, and like my I'd put him
on a pedestal and I had I had paid sure
this human being in this whole life with this person,
and once I took the steps backward and like looked
at it from me not being in it, I just
saw things so much differently. You know, in hindsight's always
(22:13):
twenty twenty always, But I really had that like aha
moment where I was like, no, this is what was best.
And in that moment, and when I was in that
whole week and a half of like feeling it, I
couldn't see that and I couldn't feel that because I
was blindsided and it didn't make any sense to me,
but like taking the steps back, I was like, oh yeah,
and my therapist had me do you know. And also
(22:35):
maybe I've just been through in a heartbreak that I'm
just getting really good at healing from it. But she
every time I've gone through these like relationship endings, she's like, Okay,
when you're ready, I need you to write down in
a journal, just thoughts or whatever. When you're feeling angry,
you're feeling sad, and when you're feeling happy, I need
you to Like it's a version of brain therapy of
where you're rewiring your brain to just see things from
(22:57):
different angles. And I did that journaling and it gave
me just so much perspective that I didn't have when
I was in all of those emotions. And releasing all
of that too allowed me to see it and like
take a step back and be like, oh, Okay, I
wasn't getting this from this relationship, and I wasn't receiving
this in the way that I needed. I was just
(23:17):
and like, I think that was my lesson that I
had to take away from it was that like, there
is somebody out there who will be a nice person
and respect me, but also like, you don't.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Have to sacrifice other things.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yes, yeah, Like I was so longing for love and.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
A partner, that respectful partner.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, like a good one that I got so excited
about it. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I think I needed that at that moment. But now
I'm like, Okay, now I know that that exists, and
I don't have to long for that. I can now
I really can sit here and not compromise on everything
that matters to me, because being with him would have
(23:56):
compromised some things. Not that I would have known that
or not that it would have been the end of
the world.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Time you would have eventually known that.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yes, yeah, I would have, and you would have already
been living with him, which would have been far more difficult.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
So he did you a favor.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, And that I have I have been able to
accept all the things that everybody has been telling me
and everything I already knew. It just happened a lot
quicker than I was ready to expect, you know what
I mean, Like, because all the last ones do you
let you go through enough of them, and then you
get to this point where you're like, Okay, use your tools,
use your resources, and let's go. And that's kind of
(24:30):
what happened. So I am on a little bit more
of a speed track than I think I anticipated, especially
how deeply I was feeling in that week and a half.
But I do feel better. Good.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
So you're seeing me now and I know you're smiling
right now. It's like I do.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Your energy is very different, but that's good.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, it's a good thing. So that's that's where we're
at right now. I want to end on something about
a listener had to emailed me and requested that we
share some music. Pick She's like, I just feel like
we go through different phases life and a lot of
people use music. I don't know if you do this,
but I use like music to kind of heal my
body when I'm going through things.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Uh huh, do.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
You have any song pigs, because my therapist sent me
the when you're on the Kedymene thing, you're listening to
a playlist and she sent me my it's called cat
Journey one Gentle. So if you go to different streaming services,
(25:29):
you can even type in Keneman playlist and it always
pop up.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But like everybody, this is very soothing.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Now I hear in the background, I hear like a
cricket or a frog or something, and that probably that
makes sense, now why my sister and I were frogs?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wait, in my mind, you can't just oh got it? Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Only the only people that showed up in my mind
during that time my mom, my dad.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
My sister. Okay, but anytime my sister was there, we
were frogs.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I was like, you just threw it out there that
you guys were frogs, and.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Frogs with big eyes and really big eyelashes.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
God, and so I have been.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
She encouraged me to listen to my Keademine playlist as
much as possible.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Like throughout the day, not just when you're in that experience.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Throughout the last week. So that's that is all I
have for y'all. I'm sorry that is not exciting, but
it does show how music is so powerful, because when
I hear certain songs as I was going through it,
like I took a bath one night and put it
on and the different song and my brain would go
to what my brain was thinking during the song in
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the session. And there was one time I was in
these rice fields like on a roller coaster, and my
brain went to that and I could it felt the same,
although I didn't have any.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ket I mean right, a just path.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It was like your brain picking up on something that
it had experienced.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yes, and it was very soothing and calming, like I
remember feeling very peaceful, blissful, all the things. It felt magical,
quite honestly. And while I'm in the bath hearing those songs,
I felt that same way, but I had no nothing
under my tongue got it altering my brain. So I
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think music that's the perfect example, Like some of the
songs you might share can instantly take you back to
If you hear a song from when you were a teenager,
it's going to take you back to that moment and
you're going to feel those same emotions that you felt.
Or they could be positive or negative emotions attached to that,
but I like to focus on the positive ones. So
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what's been healing for you?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That's a good one, because I do think you can
put that onto and some people need the soothiness of that.
Those sounds like it feels very spa related, right, and
you kind of need that soothing like relaxing or around
you when you're just kind of existing in the chaotic world.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, or if there's any song that you know, like
whatever you need to feel, like, do you need to cry?
Do you need some feel some of the negative to
get it out, Like put on a song that you
know evokes that emotion. Do you want to think of
happy good things? Put on a song that you know
evokes that emotion and your brain will go there.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You know. And I'm i've I've I had my little
rollercoaster speaking of like going through different emotions. First it
was like the sad, then it was the anger, and
now it's like the understanding and next will be like
the happy one, right, or it's my music translates through
through the grief process in a way. So that's been
funny to watch an experience. But some of these that
are good that I think people if they're going through
(28:46):
something in particularly a breakup or some experience of that kind,
These are some good songs. So Arm's Length from Casey
Muskgraves Deeper Well from Casey Muskerves, both of those are
on her new album, A Lot More Free from Max
McNown and then Just Keep Breathing from Logan Mize and
(29:07):
Good Grief from Mary L. Kraft and The Good grief.
One is interesting because I had posted, you know, I
had my little crying video on Instagram, and I got
some flack for that. But what was funny about that
video is I didn't post that with I When I
was creating that video, I didn't know that I was
going to cry like I was doing it with the
intention of sharing the song because I thought it was
really important for people to hear that. I thought would
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heal a lot of people they were going through something similar,
and I just so happened to cry, and I was like, oh,
I should reshoot that, you know, because I know I'm
gonna get made fun of for crying and being that
person that cried on Instagram. But then I was like,
you know, somebody probably needs to feel what I just
felt in that moment, and I'm just gonna let this
be what it is instead of sitting here and trying
(29:48):
to shoot this video over and over again and pretend
like I'm okay when I'm not. And so I posted it.
So but that song really helped me turn a corner
because it was it was recognizing that the grief I
was feeling was good and not bad, and that's hard. Yeah,
So those are some good songs. Thanks for our listener
for emailing and suggesting that I have one other song.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
It's actually a real song that I thought of too,
that I have been revisiting.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And I don't know if it's because my mom was a.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Part of the you know, showing up in my journey.
I mean, she's always with me, but when she was
in hospice care, we would listen to ten Thousand Reasons
on repeat, which is in parenthes. It's ten thousand Reasons parentheses,
Bless the Lord, and it's by Matt Redman, and.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
It's bless a lot o my soul, oh my soul.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Lership of this like, it's just it gives me goosebumps
even thinking of the lyrics right now. But I've been
listening to that a lot, and again it's taking me
back to that time when I hear it and I
think of her, and that was a heavy time. She's
on her deathbed. But I'm not feelings when I'm listening
to it. I'm feeling hope. And this is a really
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good song.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
If you.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Like any kind of worship music. No, that's oldie Buddy Goody.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Powerful for that to have evoked that memory and emotion
for you, So, okay, tell the people where they can
find you, hear you, all that good stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Tell the people, okay, the people at Radio Amy on
Instagram and then in my bio there you can find
links to everything else.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I have a link tree.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Love it so proud. Yeah, and I am at web
Girl Morgan on All the Things. You can follow the
show at Bobby Bone Show and check out both of
our podcasts. If you like the emotional talk. Amy has
four things with Amy Brown, I have take this personally.
They're fun stuff that I think you guys will enjoy.
If you liked the conversation that we had today, all right,
see y'all later. Bye.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
That's the best Bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
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Bobby and followed web Girl Morgan to submit your listener
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Let's up, Everybody, Happy weekend. I'm super excited to be
joined by Amy.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Amy.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you hey?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
It really feels like time goes by so fast, because
I feel like I was just here and I don't
know if it's eight weeks apart or seven or six
or what is it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think it's six, okay, because Bobby. I've tried to
get Bobby to do it, but he has it. So
take up Bobby, okay, and then everybody else is in,
and then obviously there's me, so you lose me. Then
there's seven of you guys. Okay, So I think it's
every six weeks. I think, yeah. But thanks for coming
back on. We got some things to catch up on
(00:44):
before we do. If you guys want to check out
part two and catch up on the show, We've got
Ella Lingley and Riley Green and Miranda Lambert dot By
Lunchbox has a situation with the whole thunder down under
raw Doggin sweatshirts. I got an energy massage. Bobby's a loser.
Tuesday Reviews Day, some weird stuff over there but you
can get caught up on the show. Any How is
(01:05):
the new house going, everybody wants to know.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, No, I love it. It's so great. I am very happy,
the kids love it. It's just more our vibe. I
think the last house I moved into, No, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
The last house I moved into was because of the
proximity to my dad's assisted living home, and so I
don't know that it was exactly our vibe. But this
one's just more quaint and older, and so there's was
some work to be done. So I've been renovating some things,
and that part's exciting. I'm ready for that to be done. Yeah,
(01:39):
I just feel as though there's dustin workers there all
the time. But to be able to make the space
my own is really exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
How is it feeling, you know, doing this all for
the first time by yourself, Like you're I mean, and
you went like in the deep end, You're like, got
a house, I'm renovating, I'm doing all these things.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, I'm learning a lot, like a lot and taking notes.
So if I ever do anything like this again, I'll
approach it a little bit differently. But I'm proud of myself,
and I think in the beginning I felt overwhelmed, but
I don't feel that way anymore. I feel capable and
(02:20):
excited and yeah, proud, I guess is a way to
think about it. Because I was talking to Stashira, my daughter,
who's seventeen, and she was talking about trying to be
on her own in just a few years and what.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That will look like a couple two of years.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
She's a junior in high school, so she's about a
year behind her actual age. So when she goes to
college or whatever she decides to do, she might do
an esthetician school instead. She's really into that, so it's
up in the air. And I told her she doesn't
have to decide now, and told her that I went
all the way through college not knowing what in the
world I was going to do and was I going
to be able.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To support myself.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
And I said, life will take you on all kinds
of twists and turns you never know, but you'll learn
a lot along the way, and you will surprise yourself
at what you're able to accomplish. I mean, look, I
just yeah, I just bought this house by myself, and
I didn't even know how to log into my bank
account about a year ago because my entire marriage been
(03:16):
handled that and uh, I was like, you're capable, like
you'll you'll find what you're gonna do, and you'll be
able to take care of yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Just fine.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh I love I love that this is the experience
that you've been having just this past year. Was there
any moments for you yet where you're like, because I
remember when I when I had bought my house and
I had like went through this whole experience. So much
of it was so exciting and I was so empowered,
and then there were other moments where I got really frustrated.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Oh yeah, I want a partner to help me with
certain things, I would say, more so it comes in
handy having a partner. And shout out to any single
moms out there, especially they don't have a solid co
parenting situation. I'm very thankful for mine. And you know,
I think of my mom like I love my dad,
(04:05):
But they didn't have an arrangement. My dad left and
I just stayed with my mom. My sister and I
stayed at my mom's. I don't even really know when
or why I would see my dad. I think maybe
I just once I could start to drive, I would
just drive over to his house if I wanted to
hang out over there. But there was no like, hey,
you got to go be with your dad this weekend,
(04:26):
or hey, your dad wants to you this weekend, like
at spring break. He moved away for a little bit,
I think to help the because he left my mom
for another woman situation. I think to like help die
that down. Because he was able to move away from
Austin for a little bit. He moved to Midland Odessa
area for a couple of years, and I think they
(04:48):
let the the fat settle, and so I remember going
there for like spring break or something. But back to
the original point of this, I think of my mom,
and she didn't really have help. She started working full time.
My dad wasn't there to help with dinner and homework
and school pickups and different things. And I don't know
(05:11):
how she did it, because I know on my weeks
that I have the kids trying to juggle that. Thank
goodness to shares driving now, But it's just the homework
is different, getting meals ready, working full time, it's different.
And I think of moms or dads. Single moms and
single dads that you know, have to do that round
the clock, and so I'm every other week, but three
(05:34):
hundred and sixty five days a year like that would
weigh on me because it gets difficult not having a
partner to divide and conquer, Like, hey, you handle social studies,
all handle math, and then while you're doing that, I'm
going to put dinner on. It's more like it's just
you at the house at night with the kids. So
I know there's a lot of people out there that
can sort of relate to that, and I'm not complaining,
(05:54):
but that's the part where those are the nights that
I want a partner.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, I, And I asked you because it is you.
Really you have this change happening where you get really
excited and there's a lot of empowerment, but there's also
that drastic other side of that that's really hard.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah, Like right now, my hot water is not working
and I don't know why, and I'm sure that I
can figure it out, but.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You're like, I just don't want to.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I know that Ben would have already figured it out,
so I understand.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We'll see. I understand those feelings completely now, and now
you're seeing why there was a moment in time where
I tried to move a TV by myself and where
it fell on me that this was why because I
was so frustrated. I was like, no, I'm gonna do it,
and then just you know, take it from me. If
you feel like you can't.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Do it, just at least ask or hire someone to know, yeah,
versus you know, powering through it, because there are some
of those where you're like, no, I'm just gonna figure
this out, but sometimes you just need a little help
from Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Can you professional right in my hand right now? Do
you see those three blood vessels? They're blood blisters. That
was me trying to do something in my backyard by
myself and it came down on my hand and squashed
it and it didn't break the skin to where there
was blood, but it caused these really.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Ugly like blood vessel pops.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah, blood blister situations, and my hand hurts really bad.
But that was me trying to do something myself. It's okay,
I got it done.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
See, in some moments, you do get it done. So
I totally understand. How was vacation for you?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It was good?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
What did I I mean I was at the house
most of it. Because I had work being done and
I needed to stay there. I was gonna leave and
try to go see my sister in Colorado, and then
it just would have been.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Really difficult to navigate.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So then I just ended up going to New York
for they So Open because I got invited, and I thought, okay, well,
I've never been there, and speaking to my parents, they
loved tennis, and my mom watched every tournament, all the
big ones that were on TV.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Growing up.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
There was always tennis on with her and I was like, oh,
she would freak.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Out if she knew I was going. So I went
to that and.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And how was it. Did you see any like celebrities
or anything.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
No, I was there the first weekend, and so I
guess Taylor and Travis they were there this past for.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The final weekends.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's a two week tournament, okay, so and then people
are getting eliminated so as it gets closer, and there
was an American that made it towards the end. So
I think that's why it became a big deal for
some of the celebrities to be there. But no, I
didn't see anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's funny. I feel like there's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
People, is there.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, but there's a lot of games going on at
the same time. And there's different stadiums. Oh so I
didn't realize that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I thought there was just one and everybody's at the
same one. No, there's multiple.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You like walk in to this almost like you're going
into a sporting event, and you go through the little
ticket thing, and then there's the Arthur ash there's the
Armstrong Stadium, which is where we win. Then there's the
Grand Slam Stadium.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
How do you just to go to whatever you have
tickets to?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Got? Okay, so you have specific tickets to see a
certain match. Okay. Yeah, I'm so naive when it comes
to you.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Trust me.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I just learned myself. I'm not acting like I really know.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I just know. But that's why I want to hear
about it, because I I only see pictures of people there.
That's really the only experience. And I never like played
tennis or anything growing up, so I'm really naive to it.
But it looks like a lot of fun because you
have a good time. It's great.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
They have these drinks called the Honey Deuce, okay, and
those are the popular drinks, and they have little balls
on there that they carve out of a melon.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
They look like little tennis balls.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Cute.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah, you have to get a honeyduce if you go.
But I saw an article that last year it generated
the US Open ten million dollars just the sale of
this drink.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So I was like, is it really that good?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Not?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I mean, it's okay to me? Is a little sweet?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
They charge twenty three dollars, Well that's why, because they can.
I mean, why not? And so that part was wild
to me. But I was like, oh, that's how they
afford the payouts because each person playing gets paid makes it.
I'm like, they just sell these expensive little cocktails with
melon balls that look like tennis balls, and they that's
(10:22):
how they pay for everything.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Oh that's fun. Okay, So you had us the US Open?
Did you do anything else while you were in New York?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I went to see Hadestown, which is a Broadway show,
which is really good, and then went to Arthur and Sons,
which is an Italian restaurant that I've been wanting to
go to for a long time.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Was it good?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It was really good? Yeah, it was like good.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, it's like a nice diner vibes like it wasn't
anything too fancy, but you could. It's you can see
in the kitchen, which is fun watching you work and
do all that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The New York energy. And I went.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
With this guy that I'm I was in vie with
the group. It was a group like there was other
people there too, but just entertaining a situation okay, And
so that was fun.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Okay, do you want to elaborate any further? Are you
pleading the fifth?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I don't have to plead the fifth, but there's just
a lot of.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Uh yeah, moving parts when you're dating. You've got kids,
They've got kids, everybody's got kids, and being thoughtful of
that situation and then also for sure, for sure where
it's going to go. But I love New York. So
if there's ever a group going of my friends or people,
(11:36):
I will be down for that. Just it's I don't
know that they felt the same way about the city.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I was like, oh, but we stayed in Queens.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
The tournament is in Queens, Okay, it's not in the city,
got it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And so there you have to take.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That subwhere or uber to like downtown to New York City.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, to get into Manhattan, we took we all hopped
in a uber one night, but then on Sunday we
went to Central Park and went around and we took
the subway, which.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Was fi And maybe it's because I don't know if
you feel this way, but I love the subway because
I think it's because I've never had that experience. Like
growing up in Kansas, we didn't have a subway. So
when I went to New York for the first time
and saw the subway, I thought it was the coolest
thing ever. Even though everybody else is like, it's so
dirty and gross, It's like, no, I'm sitting on the
subway underneath the city.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, it's a vibe. I think that I get where
you're coming from. When I went for the first time,
I was twenty or twenty one, and I was enamored
with everything that I was experiencing. And actually when I
went at that age, I was staying in Queen's because
my friend was going to college there, so I got
to stay at their place. But then going into the
city and taking the subway, I just felt cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
See, it's like I was having my sex in the
city moment. Kind of thing looked a lot more glamorous
on TV but you know, same experience. Okay, we're gonna
take a quick break. We'll be right back and got
Moore and talk about you're also talking about Stash here
and the kids. Got I cannot believe she's seventeen years old.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
That feels you and old man. She's working and doing
well in.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
School, and how is the job going?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
She loves it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I mentioned on the show she's been a hostess, but
she just started bussing tables too, and so she's real
excited when she looks at the schedule and sees that
she gets to bust because she gets to be part
of the family meal. And then that's one step closer
to if she were to be a server.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
So we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But how's she liking? Like getting paid minimum wage? Is
she like? How's that experience? She's just getting paid? So okay,
she's happy.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, I don't think she Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Does she know if she because I assume at this
place that the servers are still getting paid like like
two or three dollars an hour.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, Shell, she knows that if she were to serve,
she would have to get tips.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Got it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
To make it survive?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The make it kind of a shock when you go
from like a eight or eight or you know, twelve
whatever the hourly wages now to then like two dollars
and you're like, what your paycheck is nothing? It all
at all his tips or whatever. That is a little
bit of a shock. But that's fun. And how is Stevenson.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
He's doing great doing cross country just this. Teachers say
he's great at school, and we had a parent teacher
meeting and they said they love his personality so much,
like every time he comes in the classroom.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And so that's always good to hear.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah, I like that, uh, and yeah, they're there.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
They seem to have adjusted.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Well. One of my biggest fears was, you know that
Been and Eye divorcing was gonna cause some major things
with them, and of course there were, and who knows,
later in life there may be some stuff that we address.
But thankfully and I've been able to co parent in
(14:46):
a way that I think is impacting them minimally. And
living so close to each other and the kids being
back and forth, and then like Las House Saturday, you know,
Ben had the kids, but then Stashira had some stuff
to do it at my house, so she came over
and I feel like she was at the house all
day and we ran some errands together, and so it's
still that vibe.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's so sure that you can't like move and do things,
you know what I mean. That's cool. And they liked
the new house, Yeah, they love it. Okay, are they
getting to kind of design their rooms and have that experience?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You know? We just kind of transferred everything, got it
that was at the other house into their room. I
mean Stashira picked like the guest bed. She was asked
if she could have that in her room, the bed frame,
and so I swapped that and put her bed in
the guest room in that so she had some stay there,
but everything else, I was like, y'all's stuff is great,
let's just put it in there. And their rooms aren't
(15:41):
that biggest sort of like was even their rooms that
the other house were bigger, so we had to adjust
that way.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But did they get to choose the paint on their walls?
Did you paint?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I did, but I just did all all the same calbaster.
Stevenson wanted his room green and I I don't know
if he'll grow out of that. And I in the
rooms again, they're smaller, so I felt like it might
close it in, and so I suggested, what if we
get some green pillows or something, and he was like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You know that's funny because when I was growing up,
I think it was high school when I made my parents,
I was like, I really want to paint my room
lime green and pink. And you know what happened. My
room got paint in lime green and pink, and my
sister's room got painted all pink. And for a long time,
our rooms stayed that way, like even out when we
were in college and stuff. It was only until like
(16:32):
the last gosh five or six years my parents finally
redid them and now they're like their style and stuff.
But I would go home and I'm like, this room
is so horrible. And I made my parents have a
pink and lime green room in their house. And so
it's probably a better experience to not have your kids
paint the walls.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
I just like, I don't want to deal with painting
this again. So yeah, you just stuck with the like
it's a white, but the colors alabaster. Okay, so anybody's
looking for a good white. I really like that one
from Sherwin Williams.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That one Alabaster. I feel like I saw that when
I was looking for some Okay, well, I mean any
other life updates. I feel like I got the full scope.
Is there anything else you're wanting to talk about her share?
I want to keep pushing you and be like, tell
me everything.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
No, I want.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I think that I'll share more when I'm readier, we're
readier whatever that looks like. I'm not really sure. Of course,
I am used to sharing a lot. And I even
thought back to when I first started dating beIN on
The Bobby Bone Show. But I didn't say his name
for a long time, and he was in the military,
(17:42):
and we called him Air Force Guy, and.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It was we got engaged and he was Air Force guy.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We got married and he was Air Force Guy, and
so it became a narrative on the show pretty quick.
But I don't know how to That's probably one of
the bigger changes in my life life right now.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
But it's just figuring.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Out how to talk about it when it's right.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Okay, we're gonna take one more quick break. We'll be
right back. Speaking of that energy massage, Amy also got
one done. We had talked about it on our vacation.
I did, and you got on how did it go
for you?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It was really good.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I enjoyed it a lot. That was part of my
I guess, if I'm going to be home for most
of the vacation, I'm not really taking a trip other
than the weekend. I mean I was in New York
for less than forty eight hours on the weekend, so.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That you know, we had a week off.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeh.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Didn't feel like anything relaxing, especially with work being done
at the house, and in fact, when she came over
to do it, there was construction happening. So I was
laying there on the table and you could hear like bank, bank, bank.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And I was like, can you just go ahead?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And you know, energy heal me from that noise. She
was really sweet and I felt amazing after. I think,
just very relaxed.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Again.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I don't know that I had anything specific going on
like you did where I could feel this drastic thing,
but I I can relate to your story. There's times
where I've laid down on a massage table and had
a lot of emotion come out of me. There's been laughter,
there's been tears. I think for me, what that provided
(19:24):
in that moment. Was I just needed to relax a
little and it gave me that. But if I needed
to release, I could see how it could totally provide
that as well, because she was awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, well, I'm so glad you liked it and you
got to do it. Like on our vacation, we both
had it. Amy and I had went on a walk.
I had just done the massage, told Amy about it,
then Amy on it done. So that was Amy and
I's really most of our vacations besides both of our
one weekend trip. So I'm glad to hear that. And
I do you know, I know Lunchbox was giving me
a hard time of like feeling better, but I do
(19:56):
finally feel like I'm in a better place. And I
think that Missa kicked it off. I mean, it wasn't
the you know, it wasn't day and night like that
massage changed my entire life. But I do think it
put me on a path kind of like how you
were talking about, you know, clearing out the cob webs
for what you're experiencing. But that massage just like felt
like it kind of gave me this like clean slate
(20:17):
to just take my few steps forward and feel good
again and be okay with feeling good again. You know,
it was like because that whole week that we were
off and you saw me, and I mean I was
I was holding it together, but I wasn't like a
shell of yourself. Yes, like I'm just kind of existing,
and that whole week was was really full like, which
(20:41):
is also hard on me, because you know me, I
love to go places and go adventure and see things,
and to be like sitting home for a week and
just like wallowing in something that had happened to me,
I was just I was in it. I was going
through the suck of it like every day, every hour,
every minute. And then that massage happened, and then I
was like, Okay, now's the time, you know, I got
(21:02):
to take my steps forward. I did my I did
my like I sat in the suck of this for
an entire like week and a half where I just
like let it happen to me. And now I don't
deserve to do that anymore. It's time to step forward
and see what else is going to be out there
in my life. And so I do feel like I'm
in a much better place now than I was.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I see you, yeah, very well.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I mean i've seen you at work.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's true, but I mean on our walk and like
getting to talk and have our conversations, because like on
our walk, it was like every other time of it,
like something would make me cry or there was just
so many emotions that were happening. And now that's just
that's gone. You know. There was like a I had
kind of an aha moment where like he was a
he was a great human being besides obviously the ending
(21:51):
and what happened, but like my, my rose colored glasses
came off, you know, and like my I'd put him
on a pedestal and I had I had paid sure
this human being in this whole life with this person,
and once I took the steps backward and like looked
at it from me not being in it, I just
saw things so much differently. You know, in hindsight's always
(22:13):
twenty twenty always, But I really had that like aha
moment where I was like, no, this is what was best.
And in that moment, and when I was in that
whole week and a half of like feeling it, I
couldn't see that and I couldn't feel that because I
was blindsided and it didn't make any sense to me,
but like taking the steps back, I was like, oh yeah,
and my therapist had me do you know. And also
(22:35):
maybe I've just been through in a heartbreak that I'm
just getting really good at healing from it. But she
every time I've gone through these like relationship endings, she's like, Okay,
when you're ready, I need you to write down in
a journal, just thoughts or whatever. When you're feeling angry,
you're feeling sad, and when you're feeling happy, I need
you to Like it's a version of brain therapy of
where you're rewiring your brain to just see things from
(22:57):
different angles. And I did that journaling and it gave
me just so much perspective that I didn't have when
I was in all of those emotions. And releasing all
of that too allowed me to see it and like
take a step back and be like, oh, Okay, I
wasn't getting this from this relationship, and I wasn't receiving
this in the way that I needed. I was just
(23:17):
and like, I think that was my lesson that I
had to take away from it was that like, there
is somebody out there who will be a nice person
and respect me, but also like, you don't.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Have to sacrifice other things.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yes, yeah, Like I was so longing for love and.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
A partner, that respectful partner.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, like a good one that I got so excited
about it. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I think I needed that at that moment. But now
I'm like, Okay, now I know that that exists, and
I don't have to long for that. I can now
I really can sit here and not compromise on everything
that matters to me, because being with him would have
(23:56):
compromised some things. Not that I would have known that
or not that it would have been the end of
the world.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Time you would have eventually known that.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yes, yeah, I would have, and you would have already
been living with him, which would have been far more difficult.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
So he did you a favor.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, And that I have I have been able to
accept all the things that everybody has been telling me
and everything I already knew. It just happened a lot
quicker than I was ready to expect, you know what
I mean, Like, because all the last ones do you
let you go through enough of them, and then you
get to this point where you're like, Okay, use your tools,
use your resources, and let's go. And that's kind of
(24:30):
what happened. So I am on a little bit more
of a speed track than I think I anticipated, especially
how deeply I was feeling in that week and a half.
But I do feel better. Good.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
So you're seeing me now and I know you're smiling
right now. It's like I do.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Your energy is very different, but that's good.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, it's a good thing. So that's that's where we're
at right now. I want to end on something about
a listener had to emailed me and requested that we
share some music. Pick She's like, I just feel like
we go through different phases life and a lot of
people use music. I don't know if you do this,
but I use like music to kind of heal my
body when I'm going through things.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Uh huh, do.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
You have any song pigs, because my therapist sent me
the when you're on the Kedymene thing, you're listening to
a playlist and she sent me my it's called cat
Journey one Gentle. So if you go to different streaming services,
(25:29):
you can even type in Keneman playlist and it always
pop up.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
But like everybody, this is very soothing.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Now I hear in the background, I hear like a
cricket or a frog or something, and that probably that
makes sense, now why my sister and I were frogs?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wait, in my mind, you can't just oh got it? Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Only the only people that showed up in my mind
during that time my mom, my dad.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
My sister. Okay, but anytime my sister was there, we
were frogs.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I was like, you just threw it out there that
you guys were frogs, and.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Frogs with big eyes and really big eyelashes.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
God, and so I have been.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
She encouraged me to listen to my Keademine playlist as
much as possible.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Like throughout the day, not just when you're in that experience.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Throughout the last week. So that's that is all I
have for y'all. I'm sorry that is not exciting, but
it does show how music is so powerful, because when
I hear certain songs as I was going through it,
like I took a bath one night and put it
on and the different song and my brain would go
to what my brain was thinking during the song in
(26:49):
the session. And there was one time I was in
these rice fields like on a roller coaster, and my
brain went to that and I could it felt the same,
although I didn't have any.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ket I mean right, a just path.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It was like your brain picking up on something that
it had experienced.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yes, and it was very soothing and calming, like I
remember feeling very peaceful, blissful, all the things. It felt magical,
quite honestly. And while I'm in the bath hearing those songs,
I felt that same way, but I had no nothing
under my tongue got it altering my brain. So I
(27:27):
think music that's the perfect example, Like some of the
songs you might share can instantly take you back to
If you hear a song from when you were a teenager,
it's going to take you back to that moment and
you're going to feel those same emotions that you felt.
Or they could be positive or negative emotions attached to that,
but I like to focus on the positive ones. So
(27:48):
what's been healing for you?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That's a good one, because I do think you can
put that onto and some people need the soothiness of that.
Those sounds like it feels very spa related, right, and
you kind of need that soothing like relaxing or around
you when you're just kind of existing in the chaotic world.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, or if there's any song that you know, like
whatever you need to feel, like, do you need to cry?
Do you need some feel some of the negative to
get it out, Like put on a song that you
know evokes that emotion. Do you want to think of
happy good things? Put on a song that you know
evokes that emotion and your brain will go there.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You know. And I'm i've I've I had my little
rollercoaster speaking of like going through different emotions. First it
was like the sad, then it was the anger, and
now it's like the understanding and next will be like
the happy one, right, or it's my music translates through
through the grief process in a way. So that's been
funny to watch an experience. But some of these that
are good that I think people if they're going through
(28:46):
something in particularly a breakup or some experience of that kind,
These are some good songs. So Arm's Length from Casey
Muskgraves Deeper Well from Casey Muskerves, both of those are
on her new album, A Lot More Free from Max
McNown and then Just Keep Breathing from Logan Mize and
(29:07):
Good Grief from Mary L. Kraft and The Good grief.
One is interesting because I had posted, you know, I
had my little crying video on Instagram, and I got
some flack for that. But what was funny about that
video is I didn't post that with I When I
was creating that video, I didn't know that I was
going to cry like I was doing it with the
intention of sharing the song because I thought it was
really important for people to hear that. I thought would
(29:28):
heal a lot of people they were going through something similar,
and I just so happened to cry, and I was like, oh,
I should reshoot that, you know, because I know I'm
gonna get made fun of for crying and being that
person that cried on Instagram. But then I was like,
you know, somebody probably needs to feel what I just
felt in that moment, and I'm just gonna let this
be what it is instead of sitting here and trying
(29:48):
to shoot this video over and over again and pretend
like I'm okay when I'm not. And so I posted it.
So but that song really helped me turn a corner
because it was it was recognizing that the grief I
was feeling was good and not bad, and that's hard. Yeah,
So those are some good songs. Thanks for our listener
for emailing and suggesting that I have one other song.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
It's actually a real song that I thought of too,
that I have been revisiting.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
And I don't know if it's because my mom was a.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Part of the you know, showing up in my journey.
I mean, she's always with me, but when she was
in hospice care, we would listen to ten Thousand Reasons
on repeat, which is in parenthes. It's ten thousand Reasons parentheses,
Bless the Lord, and it's by Matt Redman, and.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
It's bless a lot o my soul, oh my soul.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Lership of this like, it's just it gives me goosebumps
even thinking of the lyrics right now. But I've been
listening to that a lot, and again it's taking me
back to that time when I hear it and I
think of her, and that was a heavy time. She's
on her deathbed. But I'm not feelings when I'm listening
to it. I'm feeling hope. And this is a really
(31:04):
good song.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
If you.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Like any kind of worship music. No, that's oldie Buddy Goody.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Powerful for that to have evoked that memory and emotion
for you, So, okay, tell the people where they can
find you, hear you, all that good stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Tell the people, okay, the people at Radio Amy on
Instagram and then in my bio there you can find
links to everything else.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I have a link tree.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Love it so proud. Yeah, and I am at web
Girl Morgan on All the Things. You can follow the
show at Bobby Bone Show and check out both of
our podcasts. If you like the emotional talk. Amy has
four things with Amy Brown, I have take this personally.
They're fun stuff that I think you guys will enjoy.
If you liked the conversation that we had today, all right,
see y'all later. Bye.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
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.
Bobby and followed web Girl Morgan to submit your listener
questions for next week's episode.
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