Best Bits with Morgan & Special Guest Scuba Steve

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.
What is up? Y'all? Welcome to the Best Bits. Thank
you everyone who listened to the Best Bits of the year,
the Best Challenges. I am glad to hear that it
gave you guys some extra content while we were away.
And this is the first Best Bits of twenty twenty two.
Actually I think the other one was, but technically this

(00:23):
is the first Best Bits. So we're just gonna roll
with it, okay, And I'm bringing on my guy, Scoopa Steve.
What up? I'm your guy? Yeah, you're my guy. And
now we are curling in a snowstorm while we're recording this,
So that's maybe a little shorter, depending on how Scooba
Steve talks. We will find out, but we're gonna try
and make it a little bit shorter than usual because

(00:44):
of the snowstorm and we need to get home safely totally,
so that's our plan. But we do have a lot
to talk about, so we're just gonna get going. Maren
Morris was on the show this week. She was supposed
to come in studio and perform, but you know, snowstorm
situation is happening, so she couldn't, but she did come
on virtually and shared the story behind her new song,

(01:04):
Circles Around This Town. She also talked about what it
was like when she first moved to Nashville and her
story of why she decided to do it, and then
she talked about when she met Amy Poehler, who is
a huge idol to her. So super cool interview and
definitely want to check out number seven The Friday Morning
conversation with Marion Morris. Maren, how are you? I'm good?

(01:27):
How are you doing? Pretty good? You would be here
with us, but there is a massive snowstorm. There's a
quite the accumulation of snow outside. What is it like
outside where you are right now? It's snowing, It's beautiful.
But yeah, definitely staying inside today. We'd track. We're confused
on if our cars can make it. We were having
this debate like if we had to leave right now,

(01:47):
who has a strong enough car or truck to actually
get out through the snow? Are you guys good if
you needed to go to the grocery store, you have
a big four wall drive. I mean Ryan has a truck.
I don't think my Tesla would make it to the
store safe. What was the moment for you when you
were still living in Texas where you thought, man, I've
got to go to Nashville. Like, what was it that

(02:07):
made you move? I had taken a couple of trips
to Nashville, and I hadn't really taken the full plunge,
but I was saving money just being a receptionist at
my parents hair salam and I wanted to move to
Nashville and not have to like immediately find work. I
wanted to just throw myself into songwriting. And I think
in Texas it gave me such a great springboard of

(02:30):
like a rich music culture to grow up in in
my teens. But moving to Nashville, I wanted to be,
you know, a professional songwriter. And you know, obviously I'm
biased because I live here now and it's my home.
But I feel like the best songwriters in the world
live in Nashville. So that's what prompted me to come here.
So we know you now as you know, a superstar.

(02:51):
But when you first moved to Nashville, is it hard
sledding it first? Like hard to get people to write
with you, hard to get people to care. Yeah, I
think my whole strategy even to this day, is like
underplay everything and don't come into the room assuming that
people know who you are or talking a big game.
Just like wait your turn and know that you're good.

(03:12):
It's not about you know, being meek or watering down
your confidence or your talent. It's just about like respect
and knowing that there are so many talented people in
this town. So I really slow played it, and I
still kind of keep that motto to this day, like
don't oversell because you know, it kind of ends up

(03:33):
being disappointing in the end, and you don't want people
thinking that like you're rubbing them the wrong way. So
I was definitely very shy, but it was hard. It
was hard to get rights. But you just have to
like put yourself out there and go to shows by yourself,
even though you feel super lame. And but that's honestly
how I ended up, like making friends and getting co writes,

(03:54):
and some of those co writs are you know written
co written by my best friends today. So m yeah,
it's it's hard in the beginning, but the payoff is
worth it. You got a new song on this out today.
I'm always curious because this, you know, is a very
anticipated new project from you. Do you have to kind
of lock this down so it doesn't leak out early? Yeah,

(04:15):
I'm probably a little overly paranoid about stuff like that,
Like I'm not that cool to have a giant leak.
But yeah, I mean I've send it around to friends
and like my team and obviously my co writers. But yeah,
I try to keep some air of you know, mystery
or element of surprise as much as you can. But yeah,

(04:38):
I think we kind of accomplished that. But here we are.
It's it's out so circles around this town. We've been
playing it all morning. And you wrote this with Ryan,
with Julia Michaels and with Jimmy Robbins. And so tell
me about this. Did you all for write this in
the same room? And do you get in the room
and go all right, I got this idea. How does
this song come together? Yeah? I epically failed at the

(04:59):
zoom writing phase everyone was in in twenty twenty. So
I just decided, like, I don't really want to write
over a computer until we can safely do it in person.
So we all quarantined in the fall of twenty twenty
so we could be in person with Julia and Jimmy
because obviously Ryan and I are in the same house.
But yeah, we all wrote at Jimmy's place, and it

(05:22):
was my first time writing with Julia, and obviously she's
a mega talented songwriter and artist in her own right.
And yeah, I just you know, I tried to come prepared,
and you know, writing with her, I wanted to come
with something. So I had the title Circles around this Town.
And the hardest thing when you're writing with people that

(05:42):
are writers but also artists is figuring out who are
we writing for today? And I was outvoted and everyone
decided this was going to be mine. But I'm glad
that they pushed me in that direction because they were right. So,
as you guys are writing the song, let's say you're
not even finished yet, you haven't declared who is actually

(06:03):
going to get the song? Is that what I'm hearing?
I mean, I think in the first thirty minutes we
were trying to figure out what the first verse would say,
because I had the chorus pretty flushed out, and Julio
was just like, when did you move to town? And
I was like about nine years ago, and she just
started kind of quizzing me on my background and what
she was doing, very brilliantly and very slyly was getting

(06:24):
lyrics out of it, and then it was decided that
it was my story and we just I really leaned
into it in the second verse where I kind of
name dropped older songs of mine that kind of were
the stepping stones to where I am now. But it
ended up being one of my favorite songs to kick
off this whole record, and yeah, I'm it's probably the

(06:48):
most specifically autobiographical song in my repertoire. Marin. You said
one thing you hope not to do this year in
twenty twenty two is fall on stage. Have you ever
fallen on stage in the middle of a big show.
I mean, I've had some close calls, um wearing heels,
tripping on chords, but not fully eating it. But I
mean now that I say that it's going to happen
this year, yes, yes, you have sealed your destiny. I

(07:11):
was watching maybe it was an Instagram live if some
clipp and you were doing the twenty one questions, which
was really funny by the way, great great content there,
and you were talking about I think the question was,
what's the weirdest thing in your closet, and you said
something about all the fake hair, like what does that
mean exactly? And how much fake hair is in there? Um,
more than I would care to admit. I mean, Ryan

(07:32):
is so curious slash grossed out by it because it's
just dead hair that belonged to someone else. Um, if
you think about it, it is really bizarre. But yeah,
there's there's some clip ins, there's some like wigs in there,
there's some fake bangs, um just you know, every shade
of color because I changed my hair a lot. So yeah,

(07:54):
there's there's there's a lot in there, and it's probably
just all some Russian girl. That another thing that you
were talking about, because I really love that twenty one
questions thing. What we were talking about. I think the
wildest thing you had done, and I was going to
ask you about this anyway, was that, because I talked
to Ryan, your husband about it, was you getting in
that fighter jet. So when does someone call you and say, hey, Maren,

(08:18):
we'd like for you to do this, or do you
kind of reach out and go out, Hey, if anybody's
got a fighter jet, I'd love to hop in one.
Definitely the former I don't know if I could ever
be ballsy enough to reach out and be like, put
me in this jet with you. But know the Thunderbirds,
the Air Force Thunderbirds reached out to me last summer,
and I think Old Dominion recently did something similar where

(08:41):
you do the training and you have to learn how
to like train your body into going into you know,
g force, and you know, knowing what I know now,
I probably would have backed out because it was so intense,
but I'm really glad that I did it. I scared
the f out of myself, and I'm you know, I'll
never do it again, but it was such an honor

(09:03):
and just meeting all of those guys and women and
you know, being trained to go into the jet. I
didn't throw up and I didn't pass out, so I
feel like that was a huge win. And they actually
told me that short shorter women, because I'm five one,
fair better with gravitational force and they don't get as
sick or lightheaded as like tall men do. So I

(09:25):
kind of hung that over Ryan's head. Marion Morris is
on with us. It helped me just understand this jet
because you're in it and it looks awesome. You have
a picture that you can frame and is an amazing
picture for the rest of your life, and you can
show your kid, you know, kids eventually if that's the case.
But you get in this thing, is that like an
intense roller coaster or is it so much more than
even you know, the craziest roller coaster you've been on.

(09:47):
I remember there was a roller coaster at the six
Flags in Arlington, Texas that was called G Force, and
you would lay back and then it would take you
up and then drop you, and I guess it was
sort of similar to what UM I did. I think
I got up to five five g's. We were supposed
to go up to ten UM. But yeah, it was

(10:10):
a short trip, but I yeah, it was a really
claustrophobic environment. It's really tiny and I can't imagine being
in the single person planes because obviously I'm with a pilot.
I'm not flying it. But UM, it was very wild.
They give you these G pants or it's called the
G suit, and these pants you put on, um the

(10:31):
second you go into G Force, they fill up with air,
so it's um it's compressing your blood flow and your
legs and moving it up to your head because the
reason people pass out is because the G force makes
all the blood rush out of their head and that's
when like the lights go out. So I mean, but
it was it was a lot of a lot of work.
But um, I just have so much more respect than

(10:54):
I even had for anyone that is a pilot or
in our armed US that flies those jets, because not
only do they have to stay aware while going into
doing loops and going into d force, but they also
like are sometimes in combat and it's just insane that

(11:15):
they can function while up there. Yeah, if I had
those pants, that wouldn't be feeling filling with air. I'll
tell you that it may there may be here in them,
but it's not gonna be just are I have two
final questions for you, Maaron. By the way, Marion Morris
is on with us a brand new song circles around
this town. We've been playing it all morning. We'll played
again a little later. Okay, two questions. My first one,
I saw that picture of you and Amy Poler. I'm

(11:36):
such a massive fan of Amy pol Or, read her book,
you know, watch everything she does. How did that picture
come about? And also who asked for the picture? Because
sometimes I'll also get to be around people that are
kind of cool, but I don't want to ask for
a picture because I don't want to be that person.
So how did you get the guts to ask for
the picture? Or did you not? Um? I did? I
asked her, And I actually thought of you, because I

(11:57):
know you've said as long as someone is not with
their children, when you're a fan of them, it is
totally okay for you to go up and say that
you are you admire somebody and they would hopefully be,
you know, flattered. But I never go up to people
because I just don't want to bother them. But this one,

(12:18):
you know, Amy Poehler growing up watching her on SNL
was so formative in my like junior high in high
school years. It's like who we would watch every Saturday
night and she was so funny and then obviously Parks
and Wreck and Mean Girls and every iconic thing she's been,
and I just thought, you know, what the heck, I'm
going to go up to her. We were at this

(12:40):
the Beatles documentary that just came out a few months
ago on Disney Plus. They were having a party at
Henson Studios in LA and my producer Greg was playing
at it, and so we just randomly went last minute.
But Janet, my manager, and I left kind of early
because I was shooting like album artwork all day and
I was exhausted, so we left early, and Amy and

(13:01):
her manager were also doing the same thing, and so
we had a moment where it was just the four
of us all leaving and getting our coats, and I
was like, I'm going up to her right now, and
I just said, you know, I also had like two margaritas,
so I think that was probably part of it, but
I had the guts to go up to her, and
I just said, look, I don't want to bother you,

(13:22):
even though I am about too, but I'm such a
fan of yours and your humor as not just a woman,
but just as a human being that's shaped so much
of my upbringing is just so special to me and
always will be. That's all I want to say. Good night.
And then she turned to me and she was like,
I know who you are, and she was like, I'm

(13:43):
a huge fan and I love the high Women, and
I was just I wanted to ball. And then I said,
can we get a picture. And in the photo that
I posted, you can actually see I like, I look
like I need to be medicated because there's tears in
my eyes and but it was just so special. Like
I think, when you know that you're never going to

(14:04):
see someone like that again, just go for it. I
love it, and I yes, I don't have the courage
to do that, but I do say if you love
someone's work and they're not with their kids, who are
not eating, go tell them because they probably wanted to
be told that. I mean, you love to be told that, right,
Marian Now you're a superstar and people would think that's
Marion Morris. I don't want to bother her, But don't
you like people going, hey, your song has changed my life.

(14:25):
As long as they're not you know, reaching their hand
into your macaroni, it's all good. Yeah. I'm always so
floored when people have the guts to come up to me,
because I don't have the guts to go up to
people most of the time. But yeah, it's a huge honor,
and I think if you start becoming like a jerk
about it, you should probably just call it a day
and retire, because, like, if you remember your ten year

(14:47):
old self, that's what you thought would be the coolest
thing is people coming up and saying that they're a
fan of your work. Last question, You have a new
song out, but is this, you know, the first part
of a new project where we're gonna get a whole
lot more. Yeah, I'm I'm an album gal. I love

(15:08):
making full records, and it's it's the first kickoff. So
it's been about three years since I've put new music out,
and this just felt like the first, the best first
chapter to release. And it's upbeat. I really at the
beginning of the year just wanted to hear something that
was jangly and fun and hopefully inspiring. And I, um, yeah,

(15:33):
so it's there's an album coming, it's it's imminent. Well,
and I'll rap on saying this that we have a
little set up at the house so if I'm doing
any remote TV stuff, we have a little fake set
and in the background, I have two music things. It's
your first album in Keith Urban and way back in
the day it was a little note you wrote on there,

(15:53):
and I just, you know, love the music and love
you and Ryan so much. So whenever you do get
the new album, I need a new framed album to
put there because I'll only replace you with you. That's
the deal that you don't care that I'm making with you,
but I'm making with you right now. So when you
get the new album, I'm holding that spot for you
to put that album, that large vinyl print there as well.
You're the first final that I will send out. I

(16:15):
do have a question, which Keith Urban It is not
the last record, but the one before that, And you're
putting me on the spot because I remember no names
of any records at all. So it's a John John Cougar,
John Dear John three sixteen that album right there. Yeah, yes,
they're all good. It's hard to pick, but I'm honored

(16:37):
to be up there with him on your wall. Graffiti
You is the name of that album. There it is,
and I promise I didn't google that. All right, Marion,
I'm so glad you have a new song out the radio.
The streaming services are better when you have music out
that people are loving and listening to. So thank you
for spending time with us, and hopefully we'll see soon.
Thanks y'all, enjoy the snow day, all right, bye, Marion. Bye.

(17:01):
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number
two of course, with a new year, means everybody's starting
to talk about their resolutions. For the three hundred and
sixty five days, Bobby and Amy shared their resolutions or
as you could call them, intentions. Now, Scuba Steve, we
need to talk. What is your resolution for twenty twenty two?

(17:22):
Is it hella lame for me not to have resolutions?
I don't think so. I mean, I think at this
point we're all just like growing constantly, right, that's what
you should be doing. Yeah, I think we have resolutions
just in general, always throughout the year, and every day
you're always trying to say growing. So it's like I've
never really, even as a kid, I've never been like,
you know, I want to get a better shape or I
I want to eat healthier, all the cliche resolutions. I

(17:44):
think one year when our resolutions was trying to curse
not as much because you're about to say curse more,
and I was gonna be like, yeah, no, Like when
I first met my she's my girlfriend at the time
and now my wife, she was like, you curse a lot,
and I was like, now from the sailor exactly, like
we'll try to make it to And it was like
around the December of time She's like, can you try
to make a resolution? I was like, I don't need resolution.

(18:05):
She was, but do this one where you try to
curse less. She's like, you work in radio entertainment. You
can't curse. You can't be on the radio saying curse words,
So why do you curse so much? And I was like,
maybe because I can't say curse words. So when I'm
off a microphone, I want to get it all out.
I want to say things like kidding, But isn't it
so true? I'm with you. I have the mouth of
a sailor, and my parents have tried as they might

(18:26):
to get it to go away, but it doesn't. But
I think it's so funny because I have such good
self control when I am on the radio or when
I'm doing this podcast. Yeah that it's never slipped up,
knock on some freaking wood around me. It's never happened.
But then I go home and it's like the bombs
are dropping everywhere, and I'm like, how do I manage
to do it for five hours? But I can't do

(18:48):
it in my daily life. Yeah, it's tough. I've been
the same where I haven't been able to I've been
able to do that, except for one time when I
was working in San Francisco and I said the F
word on the radio, like live on the radio. But
because I was so f and frustrated at the people
I was working with a quick story like we said,
we're trying to keep this thing short, and here I go,

(19:08):
here we go, We're not going short. It's a super
quick story where they were wanted to put together this
big party bus. I forget what the reason was, so
some sort of we always threw parties on this on
this radio show of like with listeners, like doing like
get togethers and stuff like that, and there was a
party bus they wanted to set up before oh I remember,
which also low key. Yeah, party bus is so fun.
Party buses are great. They're amazing. They're amazing. So um.

(19:31):
I was the executive producer of the show. It's called
The JB Show, And while the night for nine in
San Francisco, and we we do this annual event called Girls'
Night Out, and it's basically an event for women only,
and it was usually for like moms and teachers and
always women who work really hard and have a lot
of you know, a lot of stresses in life. We
give them this one evening where they can all come
together at this club, not to worry about sleazy dudes

(19:53):
bothering them and trying to buy them drinks and hooking
up with them and touching them on the dance floor.
It was a chance for just a bunch of girls
to get together, have fun, free drinks. We had food,
it was catered, we had it doesn't epic momine rippers like.
It was like it was always the best thing. They've
been doing it prior to my time there. It's been
like a staple in the Bay Area for a really
long time. And then we always try to elevate it

(20:13):
every year. And then we did this VIP thing and
they wanted to set up like a tour bus and
all these other things to drive around before the party
and all these things. And I think, so I did
all these I got, and everything we did I would
get for free because there was no money. If anyone
listening out there, usually on a local level, there isn't
a big budget. Usually try to get things through trade.
General does not have a lot of money. True, yet
we get some more cash on a national level, but

(20:35):
locally you got to figure it out whether through trade
or however you can get it. You know, you get it.
You're working on those sales skills that you may not have, yeah, exactly, yeah,
which I developed every time. And so I set up
all these great things and I got all these things
for the party. And then they wanted a party bus
and I got that. I got this like multi huge,
massive bus with like a pull on it and lights

(20:58):
and all this. It's like a it was a couple
of thousand dollars if you were to pay for it outright.
I got it for free. I got everything for free.
And then and I came the next day like to
present what I what I had for this girl's line
out and everything, and I ended on the party bus
because I was the big one they really wanted. And
I got the party bus for free, and they're like, oh,
it's a great new Did you get free alcohol? And
then and then it became like one of the things
I didn't get. But I couldn't get alcohol on the

(21:19):
bus because it was a legal thing. You can't give
listeners alcohol while driving. All this crap. And then they'd
started going in on me and picking on me and
call me a loser, and I don't and they basically
trying to get me to crack, even though they knew
I wasn't. I knew after the fact. They were just
trying to get me to to get to the point
where I got to just for content. But I was like, dude,
I had spent all weeks on this crap, and I'd

(21:41):
been here all day, twelve to fifteen hours a day,
all this stuff, trying to get your your party bus.
And I said the F and party bus. And then
then I was like, if you guys, I'm fan out
of here, and I closed the door. Three bombs. He
may have caught the first F bomb, We didn't catch
a second or the third one. Did they get fined? No,
we had no one. No one caught it. Goodness. That

(22:02):
would have made it so much worse, right, Oh yeah, totally, Yeah,
an FCC violation, they would. But now at least you
can say, like, hey, I dropped three F bombs and
nobody knows. Everybody's not proof of it, so this could
all be a lie, but it's not. But it is,
but it's not. Oh, and I go back to the
party buses because and I shouldn't. Maybe I shouldn't say

(22:24):
low key because now people know about them. But when
I was in middle school, that was the party that
I had. Like, if we wanted to get together with everybody,
people had party buses. And maybe it's because it was
Kansas and you know, there's at the time there wasn't
terribly a lot of things for us to go do
that we hadn't already done for like PTO nights at
school or whatever, and so party buses were this huge thing.

(22:45):
And gosh, if I can look back on myself and
see how I was dancing as a middle school role
not my shiny moment, yeah, like you know what, I
look at young people now and how they're growing up
so quickly and just the different. But then but then
I think back to myself on a party bus, and
I'm like, nah, I was pretty grown up when I

(23:05):
was in fifth grade dancing too in some songs that
they should have been dancing. Yeah, So I love that
y'all did that as a station. But I do think
party buses, like even still, like Nashville has all these
crazy things drive around, but party buses like a genuine,
actual inclosed like bus. Yeah, not the one with the
wheels the windows open, massive limo basically yes, and yes,

(23:28):
there's polls in them, not that anybody ever knew how
to dance in them. Yes, but those are so legit
and I think we should bring them back. I think
we should bring them back as a thing. I don't
know why they aren't you. I know they get you
sometimes like wedding parties and bachelor parties and stuff, but
they aren't. They're not as big as they used to be.
And maybe because of COVID, and it's because it's an
enclosed space, I think COVID. I think they got more expensive.
Like when they first came out, I don't think it

(23:50):
was terribly expensive to do it, not any more than
doing anything else. But now I do think it's more money. Yeah,
but they are really cool. I'm not a fan of
the ones that we have here in Nashville where it's
I mean, I get it, you're coming to town. You
want to be a woo girl and have a great time.
I mean the different variations. There's so many differ variations.
It's actually fun. They'll see all differ variations that they
have out there, from the school bus to the open
whatever tractor trailer. For me, they're just a pain in

(24:11):
the ass because they're slowing down traffic and you can't
get around them. So for me, it's a bother and
a frustration. I'm sure Evan's having a great time on them,
but I get worried though, because where they drop off
at They drop off by Titan Stadium and they let
them go to their cars and they've been drinking for
like three to four hours, and they're like, hey, drive home,
and You're like what. And I live pretty close to
that area, so every time I go near there, I'm
always in a little bit of fear that there's somebody

(24:32):
driving drunk after being on a party bus for three hours.
The unfortunate reality is I feel like that is most
of the downtown Nashville area. Yes, yeah, we haven't exactly
kicked that part of things into When you were on
here last we were talking about issues with the city.
Oh yeah, infrastructure probably, I gotta add that to the list.
Is there's not a lot of monitoring of things like that,
oh yeah, even though we have this massive downtown area. Though,

(24:54):
I will say, it's very difficult to park in downtown Nashville.
So that is the one saving grace is that most
people do ten tuber. Yeah, I think you wouldn't. I mean,
you live in an era now where you should Uber.
You don't have an option, it's it's there. Uber and
Lift are available to you. But can I point out
and probably you know you being a dad, you haven't
had to deal with the going out at all. But yeah,
and we're in this weird period now, we're we're kind

(25:16):
of back into COVID but post COVID ish time. Right now,
ubers are so freaking expensive, like you've driven out the
price on them, not even not. I just don't know
if there's as many anymore because of safety and all
of that. So like what used to be getting me
from you know, my house to downtown was like twelve bucks,
and now it's like fifty dollars And I'm like, oh wow, okay,

(25:38):
So then for me instead of like driving drunk, I'm like,
I'm just gonna stay home and drink. That's my alternative.
But I know some people don't see that. Well if
you think about the cost though, fifty dollars versus ten
thousand dollars of a dui with the court case and something, yeah, yeah,
but it has made me save more money because now
I'm just like, nah, I don't want to go. Yeah,
it's not worth it. I'll just go to costs, can
pick up a bottle, hang out of the house. Yeah. Actually,

(26:00):
like house parties also came back, but I think party
buses and house parties is going to be it for
twenty twenty two. That's my heck, yeah, my goal for
everybody else in prediction and so talking about like the
new year and everything too, is there anything in twenty
twenty two that you're hoping to accomplish? I don't. I mean,

(26:23):
I feel like i want to add more to the family,
but I'm also nervous to add the family, not knowing
where I'd be in three years, oh like another human
human being. Yeah, like I still want more kids and
my wife, and I'm like, let's wait a little bit
and see we're at. Plus, we have the theory of
like having the two now, letting them grow up to
be five or six or seven, and then having one
or two more because then they can help out because

(26:44):
they're of an age where they can do stuff and
understand that. Right now, my three year old is in
the no no, no, no, I told you no, and
you're like, who the hell are you? And then have
a one year old who just who's teething and crying
and they're of no help whatsoever. If we had a
third kid like Lunchbox, I feel like that must be
absolute mayhem. At his house with three kids under three, Yeah,

(27:04):
it must be awful. There's no help because and he
doesn't barely even help out. It's basically this is wife
doing everything. So I feel for her. Yeah, So hopefully
maybe a new baby, maybe at the end of the year,
at some point in your life. Later later, yet another baby.
And then I think, at some point I need to
figure out what I want to do um because I've

(27:25):
always put off me and I've put everything into whatever
show I've been a part of, which is which has
helped me, and it's done great things for my career,
but I've never done anything for myself career wise, or
or I've started it, and then I get so bogged
up into my work again. Then I put I postpone
my things for me, whether it be you know, something

(27:46):
to do in television or film or whatever, or writing
or whatever it may be, I'll jump into it improv
and I did it for six months, and then I
got so busy with the Secret show that I was
I didn't have time to do it anymore, and I
was like, I was doing so well at it and
having so much fun with it and developing characters. And
then it's the point where my role increased with the
show and then adding on A Faris's show onto my lap,
and I was like, when I don't have time for
myself again. So I guess one thing I'll try to

(28:08):
do this year, and I always say I'm gonna try
to do it, is try to do something for me.
I have a couple of TV shows, I have concepts
I've been trying to write with some friends and haven't
been able to do that. So maybe I'll spend this
year writing a couple of shows or something. I don't know. Yeah,
don't say I don't say I'm gonna do it. I'm
gonna do it. I've had a TV show I've been
trying to write for ten years. Yeah, you know what, Steve,
twenty twenty two is your year to finish that TV show? Yeah? Well,

(28:31):
having started, it's just concepts in like a storyboard. Well,
I still believe you have three hundred Well what is today?
Three hundred and fifty nine days? Yes, a by the
time people are in the math is off, but maybe
listening to this, but right now, three hundred and fifty
nine days to finish a script for the TV show
Yes and I believe in you, or at least one
episode of the TV Yes something something something to get

(28:51):
it out there to where I can start pitching it
to somebody to pick up. So that way, I've already
had What sucks is the name of my show just
recently got taken by a sitcom on CBS, and I
was like, you, mother, what is it? I've had the name, well,
the name I had for for ten years, it was
a working title, was the Neighborhood. And and then there's
a TV show out. I was said to Detainer and

(29:11):
it was like the Neighborhood and I was like, you asshole,
that's my TV show tellment, that's my name. It's the
one that I had in my head that I haven't
put together yet, but it was there. It was there
then my iPhone notes since I've had my iPhone three yeo,
I think you can accomplish that this year. But you
have to be the one to make sure you do it. Yes, exactly. Yeah,
So it's always on me. I'm the one. It's it's
my fault. It really is that I don't carve the

(29:33):
time out for myself and I keep ingrating myself so
much into other people's projects, which is what pays my bill,
so I have to do that. It's really hard. I mean,
I will say, and you know, maybe some people who
have very demanding jobs will will feel this way too,
But just in general, there's so many times that I
come home because you know, when I leave the studio,

(29:55):
I work until nine o'clock, ten o'clock at nine doing
stuff liberally. Yes, like my whole existence is basically there
from Monday to Friday, and even on Saturday and Sundays. Sometimes, yeah,
it's hard to get away from it. But like there's
some days I go home where I'm like, how am
I going to have a great career? Take care of
my dog, take care of the relationship that I'm to have, friends,

(30:19):
have a social life, make sure I have a good body, also,
eat healthy, And I start listening the things that I'm
supposed to be doing, and I'm like, how the frick
does anybody actually do any of this in twenty four hours?
Not even twenty four hours because we sleep hopefully eight
hours of that, right, like, I don't know, eighteen hours
and I look at that and I'm like, that's so
daunting to me to even think about having that. And

(30:39):
a lot of people say, you can really only have
like three of those, right, Either you have like a
social life and a great career, but you maybe don't
have a great body. I don't know, maybe you work
out really hard and you have a social life, you
don't have a great career, whatever it is. But I've
always been like, no, that's not what's going to happen
in my life. And I always try and make a
point to spend this is one a goal for this

(31:00):
or it's not even a resolution, it's just something I
hope to do. It's for twenty minutes a day I
take to focus on something that I want to do
to further myself. However, that looks like yeah, and maybe
that's something you can use something that my therapist suggested
to me, because she's like she's like, maybe it's five.
Maybe you start at five minutes. Maybe it's writing stuff down,

(31:20):
and then it goes to ten and it goes to twenty.
But she's like, you need to take this space in
each day to do something that is so important to
you that you get done, Yeah, because it will fulfill
you to keep moving forward, because if you keep pushing
it away, you're going to just keep presenting things and
wishing for other things to come back instead of just
being there in the moment and allowing yourself to do

(31:42):
what you want to do in the first place. Yeah, exactly.
So right now, it's starting for me at five minutes
where I just take time and I write down ideas.
I have things that I want to do, things I
want to accomplish at some point. And the basis of
that was creating like my little actually not a board
because it was all words, but just like things that

(32:02):
I want to do, things I hope to do. Yeah,
and now I'm taking those five minutes every day to
just be like, Okay, here's an idea to go into that.
So maybe you can use that tip that my therapist
gave me something to help you to write this show.
So within your your thing are you putting so are
you eventually going to like nail down one of those
things you're writing down that becomes your twenty minutes a
day or is this twenty So that's what you're building.

(32:24):
You're just growing, like constantly towards that goal. So, like
the first thing that I wrote down on the first
day of it was like, these are things I hope
to do in my career, this is what I hope
to do in my personal life and whatever. And then
it's just putting it on pin to paper, right. So
now it's like, you know, I hope to do more
video content this year because that seems to really help

(32:45):
for me. Yeah, and I can connect with people really
well that way. So I started writing down ideas for videos.
Now as I've written down all of those ideas in
those five minutes, I can spend creating those videos as
I keep moving forward. Got Okay, So what you're saying
with it like starts that way, but you keep growing it, yeah,
and keep building it and expanding on it. Yet, but
every day it's just five minutes. So even if you

(33:05):
don't get it done, you're like, I spent five minutes
on it that were for this that I wanted to
get done. For suspending zero minutes on it and doing
nothing for it for ten years, it's just sitting there, yep.
So it like forces you to do it, like, hey,
this is important. For five minutes you can set a timer.
Say you did it for five minutes, You're okay, I
did something five, ten, fifteen minutes, whatever it is, whatever
time you can make. She's like, just find time to

(33:29):
do what is going to fuel you, because it's the
only thing that's going to keep you one from getting burnout.
Because I experienced hard. You and I both went through
this at the end of last year. Hard burnout. Oh yeah,
so hard like crash and burn burnout, massive burnout. Yeah.
And she's like, it's the one thing that's going to
keep you moving forward from that, and it's the one
thing that's going to keep you fueled and energized so

(33:49):
you can move from day to day. Yeah. So if
that's a tip that may help you, it may help
some other people, but it has seemed to help me
at least in these few, the starting few. And I
think the way it makes me feel, I have a
feeling it's going to continue home. And it's a manageable timeframe.
It's not like dedicate two hours yourself. It's five minutes,
twenty minutes. So it's like it's I mean, it could
just literally be as you're on your drive home. If

(34:10):
it requires more writing or anything, yeah, just twenty minutes
yourself thinking about whatever I'm making phone calls or something.
That's a good tip. I like that. Yeah, I could
do twenty minutes. I can't do anything more than that, right, Like,
I know that's really hard, and maybe it's only ten
minutes for you, Like you know, I know, parents and
stuff like you should never we get so caught up
in our day to day that we kind of skip
out on our passions and things that we may want

(34:30):
to do. And the only way to make that happen
is to force ourselves to spend a few minutes a
day doing it. And that was like the helpful thing
for me to remember because I needed it. I needed
that reminder. Yeah, because you I mean, you know, we
heard a little bit of what you were going through
on air when you were like, I'm burnout and done. Yeah,
and I'm you know, I'm super quiet when I go

(34:52):
through burnout. I just stopped talking to people. I just
kind of go into a hole and try and get
things done and push through. Yeah. I spiral, Yeah, like
your spiring right now. I've been spiring for the last
two damn months, and I'm gonna keep spiring until we
get to Hawaii. I know even still like then you
come back, you're like, okay, here we go. Yeah, yeah,
you get back on the train, and then it's you know, monotony,
and you keep doing it. So maybe that helps you.

(35:14):
I don't know. Ye, well, because my greatest fear and
it's already happened with with the name title, and that's
I can figure out a different name title the greatest fear.
And I don't see anyone taking this concept. If somebody
is me watching something on the internet whatever, and it's
like and it's like a film or a TV show,
it's like coming this fall and it's like the same
or similar concept to mine, I will lose it. I
will probably just go into the door space. If that

(35:35):
happens before you give yourself the time to work on it,
you can't do anything about it exactly. But if you
start working on about you can do something about it exactly. Yeah,
you know you can. Maybe you can copyright something maybe,
I don't know. Yeah, but if you start just a
few minutes each day, you'll get there. Because a few
minutes each day for three hundred sixty five days adds
up to a whole lot of time. Yeah, it doesn't
feel like it in this grand scheme. And I'm somebody

(35:55):
who loves to mark things off a list, so I
had to start like saying, okay, I could do a
little bit each day. I had to like kind of
separate that because I love getting a project done, Like, yes,
market off the list, I'm done, no more thinking about it. Yeah,
but with something that's like this, with a career or
personal growth or whatever, you can't it's not a one

(36:16):
fixedball and you can't just mark it off the list.
I mean five minutes a day times three sixty five,
that's one thousand, eight hundred and twenty five minutes, which
survide by sixty minutes an hour. It's thirty hours a year, yeah,
which is a lot of time really, That's it's a
lot of time to change. Yep. Yeah, so at least
like in a day, if you had a full day
to probably sit and you have all your ideas, you

(36:36):
can finish that, right if you actually had a day.
But the reality is, we don't have a day. Nobody hasn't. No,
we don't. Yeah, especially when you have kids and you
have a job and there's all kinds of things that
you're doing, right, So yeah, that's my pro tip for
you that not really came from me, but came from
my therapist. Yeah, but someone's going to pass it on, right.
I was like, you know what when you're talking about

(36:57):
I was like, this would be helpful for him. Yeah,
five minutes. I encourage you just maybe start for a
week and you see how it does. Okay, all right,
I like that will be helpful because I really want
to get on this. And I say that every year.
I've even had like the phone call with my friends
that I have plans to write with us. We even
had like a meeting like four years ago when I
was in LA I was like, all right, guys, I'm
gonna have some extra time. Let's get working on this
with a set of time. This is before even like

(37:18):
Zoom and all that. We're like, how do we get
together digitally on a screen? There was like a bunch
of different like apps so you could use to like
work together, and we were trying to figure out that concept,
like how do we connect we can do Google docs
all this stuff. And then a week later and then
we all got busy and never did anything. And we've
talked about concepts of characters within the show, and how
I wanted to evolve and change and the constant characters

(37:39):
and all that kind of stuff. So there's things going.
It's just we need to really get together and but
this will be helpful. But you don't even have to
get together. And now you just have to start writing. Now,
just be me. Yeah, it can just be me. And
then once I get to a level where it's like okay,
now I can bring my guys back in and then
we can move forward on it. Yep, five minutes a day,
that's your start, and then maybe it goes to ten
or fifteen minutes of data start. That's easy. I encourage

(38:02):
everyone because you will always get busy. You will always
have other things to do, but you need to take
five minutes for yourself anyway, So might as well do
five minutes of something that you really like. Yeah, that's true. Right, Yeah,
We're gonna end on that note because I think we
could keep talking about this for a lot of time.
Our sessions always started into therapy sessions. And I know
where this is going. But right now, y'all can hear

(38:22):
Bobby and Amy. They shared their resolutions for twenty twenty
two and what they hope to do this year. Number
six all right, So what's your resolution for this year? Oh?
I didn't really make a specific one, but I have
a list of things I want to be intentional about,
and one of them is taking more walks but with
just me, not anybody else and no audiobook, no podcast, nothing,

(38:43):
just me and nature and my thoughts. But that's a resolution.
You just made it more hippie okay. Finds like to
go on more walks, Well, I mean I want, I mean,
I want to be intentional about taking walks with me nature.
There you go. What a resolution. It's good and that's
something you can do, Okay, But I mean I'm also

(39:04):
not going to be like, Okay, if I don't do it,
I'm a failure. Well I don't think that's a case.
We'd always right, I know. So I just don't want
to set that resolution expectation on myself. I just want
to be more, like I said, intentional. What about you,
I'm going to do less? Yeah, what do you mean?
I don't know. I'm really gonna I'm trying. Well, don't

(39:26):
if that doesn't work out. Last year, I ran myself
into the ground and I'd have a problem with it.
But this life is not just about me. Anymore. And
so I was gone all the time shooting shows or
um working, and I'm just gonna do less. I'm gonna
stay home more and invest into that part of my life.
And I'm just gonna do less. I don't really know

(39:47):
what that means yet, but I'm what do you say,
I'm going to be conscious of the effect. No, You're
going to be intentional about being more president at home
with Caitlin and doing less. It's the same thing, but
you just have dreads when you say it, playing like
this weird non hippie hippie person. I hope everybody had

(40:08):
a great new Year. It's the best bits of the
week with Morgan. Number two. Amy's daughter got her very
first iPhone over the holiday break. She's fourteen years old,
and that spiraled into a conversation about our teen celebrity
crushes because her daughter has her celebrity crush on her

(40:28):
screen of her phone, Scuba. We are different ages, not
too far apart, at different ages. I admitted my celebrity
crush on aar was Aaron Carter, which was one of them.
Makes him up with Jessie McCartney, which was also another one,
and then Justin Timberlake. There was so many of my
time frame. But I love hearing guys celebrity crushes because
most of the time it's supermodels. Yeah, so I want

(40:51):
to hear who yours was. So as a child, my massive,
huge crush. And I remember, like I remember just seeing
like the moment I realized that, I was like, Okay,
I mean definitely in the Chicks. It's a good it's
a good way to figure out what you like. Hell yeah.
I remember seeing the magazine cover at the public or
when Dick see whatever it is boy my house, and
it was a supermodel. No, it wasn't a supermodel. Oh okay,

(41:13):
it wasn't a supermodel, but definitely a celebrity. Okay, we've
had her on the show recently, we've had her. Oh
Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey carry changed the way I thought
about my body. Like I saw this Mariah Carey magazine cover.
I think it was what year was it, I mean
like ninety six or something like six, and I was like,

(41:34):
I was like, good God, that's a woman right there.
And then I then I started like getting it thralled
in her music videos on MTV and everything, and and
like I was just like, I mean, I liked them, Sure,
the music was great, whatever, but I just could not
get over Mariah Carry and Mariah Carry. I would think
about Mariah Carry all the time. So was this the
first interview that you'd been around for or I assume

(41:55):
with Ryan Seacris that maybe at some point you guys,
did we have Maria Carrey on a couple of times yet? Okay,
So when the first interview happened or when this first
first time you got to interact with Mariah Carey in
some way? How did that go? So it was on
the phone, so it wasn't anything in person, okay. But
the interview is funny though, because we're interviewing her about
whatever she was plugging at the time, and we're talking
to her. Midway through the interview, it just cuts out

(42:16):
and Ryan's like, hello Mariah, Mariah, and then we figure
out the phone dropped out. She'll call back, minutes go by,
no callback, We reach out to the VP person, no answer,
and like a whole the whole day goes by. So
we don't end up airing the interview because it just
stops and we get an email the next day saying, oh,
Mariah was in her swimming pool and the phone dropped
and she just carried on. They just forgot about it.

(42:38):
It was like oh whatever, and just and just like
she's at that level where she's just like m whatever
and just kept swimming in her pool or whatever she
was doing, floating on her rip dropped the phone and like,
think about you me, we drop a phone in a sweep?
Oh my god, what's happening? What do I do? Get
it right? And she's like it's fine. Later, I'm gonna
go get me one. Yeah, some gonna pick another one

(42:58):
please now, Oh my gosh, that's crazy. So just so
interacting with her in this kind of a professional form,
did it change the way that you kind of the
thoughts you had when you were younger at all or not?
Um No, because when I was younger, I'm you know
that was involved care physical. It was all physical. There
wasn't anything about a personality that I cared about whatsoever.
So it was a physical attraction. Definitely a dude over

(43:20):
here that way. Definitely physical. Emotional happens when you fall
in love with somebody. I didn't really fall in love
with her, and I guess I didn't know her. You
fell in some lust I felt it was less exactly
it was lust. Yeah, for sure. That was funny now
And when we were talking about these like celebrities back
in the day, it got me thinking about like nostalgia.

(43:42):
Nostalgia has been so big in recent years. Everybody's bringing
everything back right, Yeah, it's comfort. What is something that
you'd miss and you don't miss from back in the day. Um,
something I miss, I really miss And I don't know
if you ever did this, but I was such a
nerd for it was. I used to love calling like
like phones, like being on the phone, but then when

(44:03):
you call a phone and it'd be like, I'll give
you an example, like Halloween Hornites. I loved Halloween Hornites,
and I loved every year calling the Universal phone number
and selecting the option for Halloween Hornites because then he
would come on and it was this audio presentation of
Halloween Hornites and they'd have a voice actor. And it
was my one of my goals to be like, oh,
one day I'm going to be the voice guy for

(44:24):
the Halloween Horrnites phone line. When you call it a
Universal and select option three for Halloween Hornites, this voice
would come on and be like Universal is Halloween Hornites.
It's like, all I could say right now is this
is like an NSFW line, but my kid edition. Right now,
I gotta call Disney. Yeah, and Disney was another one.
But I'd be obsessed to hear about Halloween Hornites and

(44:46):
this year's and you'd get to listen to all the
horror houses and the scare zones and and Jack the
Clowns coming back and all the stuff. And it was
such a thrill to hear it because I couldn't go.
I was a kid. My mom was not letting me go.
So I would see the commerce shows and like call
Universal now one one hundred or whatever. And I would
remember calling every year, and I would call and I
was like every year, I would get so anxious to

(45:06):
call to see when they would update their phone. And
I remember calling like July August, and finally got the
end of August September they started they started doing their
options for the Halloween hornits, and I'd remember just sitting
there listening on the phone for five ten minutes and
then calling back every couple of days they hear it
to see there's any updates to it. And if it wasn't,
I would be fine, listening to it all over again.
And I used to love calling Time almost it was Yeah.

(45:28):
And then I used to love calling Disney and hearing
about Disney's things and going through their options and all
that kind of stuff. And then if I ever collected
option where it would go to pass him to the operator,
I'd like, my stomach could drop and I quickly hang
up because I didn't want to talk to a person.
I just wanted to hear it, frank but not. Yeah,
So I used to love it. Did they not do
that anymore? Though? I don't know, because I haven't called
the stop calling the number. And then I got to

(45:50):
the point where I was old enough to actually go
to Universal Halloween Hornets, and I would just go and
experience it myself instead of hearing about it. Yeah, you're like,
I don't need to listen to audio anymore. I can
see it in experienced this entire thing now, and can
get my jeep and drive down to myself, take my boys,
let's do it. Oh that's a good one, though, that's funny.
There's one thing that and everybody knows my obsession with
Taco Bell, but I love old school Taco Bell. When

(46:12):
Taco Bell used to be like the pastel colors. Yes,
and you would get like a soft taco and you'd
get the cinnamon crunches. And they saw the cinnamon twist.
Is that? Oh? Yeah? The Mexican pizza, which they are
finally bringing back in twenty twenty. Yes, for everybody who
tagged me, I saw it. I know. I'm so excited,
um because as a vegetarian, Mexican pizza is something I

(46:33):
could get. You just put beans instead of meat in it,
and so I always ate Mexican pizza in my little
white uh my little white chair at Taco Bell with
my cup that looked like it was from the eighties. Yeah,
and I would just sit there and I would eat
my Mexican pizza. So I miss old school Taco Bell. Yeah.
I wish they would kind of. I feel like they
built some new ones. There's one closer to where you live, um,

(46:55):
and they've kind of they redid that. One almost has
like a the esque of the old taco belt mixed
with a new or like a modern version of it. Yeah,
which is kind of cool. But I wish they would
do just one old school Taco belt somewhere with the
brick and the old crappie like look in the front
and really cool. Can be so cool of some of
these businesses that have been around for such a long time,
like took their old look but made it modern, right,

(47:16):
like yeah you can. You can still have a very
like well kept building and still look like it's from
the eighties. Yeah, why don't they do that with cars?
Like I love older cars, but the problem with getting
an older car like Bobby's head and it problem like
they they're a piece of crap. They fall apart, they
break unless you've done a full remodel on it and
put a new engine in and everything well because the
parts aren't even here. An Yeah, it's tough. But what

(47:37):
if like what if a manufacturer, like a Hyunday or
something did a retro version of a car but like
a new Like like shoes they come out with Jordan's
but they're new, or their retros but they're the shoes
that came out twenty years ago. Why doesn't a car
manufacturing company take an old car but make it new
but it's old, Like four kind of did it with
like the Mustang, but they kind of gave a look
to it, but it wasn't the actual old vehicle, but

(48:00):
just new. Yeah. Well, and we've done it with clothes
and shoes a point, why can't we do it with
businesses and everything else? Car? Yeah, we're there. Everybody's ready
for the nostalgia. Yeah. I love to drive a fifty
five Chevy. But it's a brand new fifty five Chevy
from twenty twenty two. It's got the same exact body,
same everything, but just everything inside could be all digital
and new and whatever, but the outside body is the

(48:21):
old car like that, and it has one mile on it,
like brand spanking new. Believe that's happening on some level.
I have to believe that they haven't rolled it out
yet though. No, they're none. There's no vehicle brand that's
done that at all. Yeah, I'd love to see that.
So definitely cars that would be cool and in businesses
if they can. Like I was on TikTok and show,

(48:41):
somebody showed like Target. This is a crazy thing that
happened over the holiday break. So somebody showed like an
old school Target. First of all, do you even know
Target was around in like the nineteen eighties or whatever.
It came around like the eighties, early nine either thing. Yeah,
and it looks so old school. You see all the
people in the old outfits like in this Target's old pictures.
And I show my dad. I'm like, this is so crazy.
Is this what Target looked like? And he was like yeah,

(49:03):
he's like you know, actually I built one of the
first ones in Wichita. And I was like, quick, yeah, Target. Yeah,
he was like one of the people that helped build
one of the first ones in Wichita. And I was like,
how did I never know that? He's like it was
one of my first jobs out of high school, Like
I was just building stuff. That's awesome before he got
because I mean, gosh, he's been with like the airline
side of everything in Wichita and Boeing and Spirit and

(49:25):
all of that since before I can remember. But before
that he was like yeah, like my my grandparents, I
know how to restaurant that he worked in. And then yeah,
apparently he built a Target. Wow, that's pretty freaky. You
would your dad's I guess position or what does he
do now? What's his profession? Unfortunately I can't talk about it, Okay,
Like he can't even talk to me about that, which
is crazy. Dad was like, my dad then my dad

(49:47):
worked for Paige ab Jack, which is like a plane
company that was based in Orlando area. They folded and
then he moved to Melbourne and we're for Patrick Air
Force Base. And he would travel all of the country
like wom Iraq and Iran. This isn't like eighties and
nineties before all the wars happened, and he'd always come
back with like injuries and stuff, and we'd always like,
what did dad do. Moms like, oh, he fix his airplanes.

(50:09):
And so we found out years later he's dead now,
and I don't care if he gets in trouble because
he sucks. Think now he's gone. But he was one
of the people that worked on before we went to
war with Iraq and Iran all that stuff. After nine
to eleven they were having turmoil already, and so yeah,
so he was he would go over to Iraq and
Iran and he would fix and build fighter jet planes

(50:31):
for the government, and he was working on some other
top secret stuff that I still will probably never know
about because he's long gone, But he'd working all kinds
of stuff for the government and he would kind of
like maybe that was probably why he became the way.
He was getting addicted to drugs, alcohol, because of the
crap that he saw that he mentally couldn't handle what
he was around. It could have been alien stuff like
he could have been involved in all that stuff that

(50:54):
I will never know because he worked for the government
and he had to keep his mouth shut. I remember,
I'm coming back trauma to almost every time you come back.
He come back from Guam and he and it was
like a different every time you come back he got
He got older and older looking, and more and more
like anxiety written and would drink more. I'm like, oh
my god, Like as a kid, you didn't really put
it together, but looking back on an air like my

(51:14):
dad must had a really tough job. Yeah, it doesn't
excuse things right, but doesn't know, but it gives you
an understanding and that helps in some way. I think, Yeah,
I guess we with our jobs that we talked about
it earlier, the burnout, Like I could easily become a
drug addict to numb the pain, but I guess I've
seen the example of it, and I'm like, oh, well,
I've seen what that can do, so I need to

(51:34):
stay away from that. So maybe that was my example
for me to be like a high stress situation just
go other routes versus the routes your dad went. Yeah,
he became your example in a way, he was a lesson,
But it doesn't mean it made it any easier to
go through. No, of course, no, no, no, no, And
it's fine. I'm well over and I'm not going to
cry in this episode. No tears, I swear, I don't

(51:56):
try to make But it was just interesting. I guess
my whole point was, it's interesting that your dad and
my dad probably have a very similar past, and they
may have even work together. And I didn't even know
it because he traveled all over the country and all
over the world. Yeah, I mean on some level, you know.
And now, like the only thing that he can say
is that he works for the military side of things.
And yeah, like once we knew about the turmoil and
Iraq and I ran, He's like, yeah, because a lot

(52:17):
of those planes you see flying over there to bomb crab.
He goes, I fixed those or built those, and I
was like, godly grab. It's so fascinating when you when
you And maybe it's just because everybody loves government secrets, right,
of course, there's all these things that we love to
find out that we were not supposed to know or
weren't supposed to know at one point and now we
get to know. Um. But just hearing my dad talking
about it's really cool and he's so excited to share it,

(52:37):
but he's like I can't. He's like, one day I will,
and I'm like, this is crap. I want to know
about him though, Like he had this awesome, cool secret
that you can't tell anybody, and you want to tell everyone,
but you can't, but you want to. He can't even
have his phone. He has to check it before he
goes in. Oh yeah, damn. He's like one of those
guys that flies in the area fifty one where they
go on those secret planes out of the hobby desert.

(52:59):
I have loved to talk to my dad about aliens
and so long time ago. But no, he's not doing
anything but aliens, at least I'm aware of, because I
think he'd definitely be freaking out to tell me about it,
because that's always our our thing, because he'll call me
about about things and be like, we'll talk about things
that people spot in there and I'm like, is that
what it is? And he's like, no, that's not what

(53:20):
I'm working on. Morgan like, yeah, oh man, so so
yeah that that is a super cool part about my dad.
But I don't even remember how you were asking about
nostalgia and then things that we love and hated, and
I just talked about how I love calling the hotline
at Universal Students horn Knights, So those are things we loved,
and I guess you're asking about the things that we

(53:41):
and you would talk about talk about and all that
things we don't love. It was the next question, Yeah,
well we don't miss from back, and we don't miss
you know what I don't miss gauchos. You ever see
girls wearing gauchos. Gauchos they're pants. They were like leggings,
but they were like wide legged, right, oh, like the
bell bottom pants. Right, They weren't bell bottoms, they were
they were capris. Look, they were like at your instead

(54:03):
of at your ankles, they were at your like mid calf,
and they spread out but they haul. I wore gauchos
all the time, and yes, yes, yes, these yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah right those Yeah they don't look quite as a
wide leg, does that. But yeah, back in the day,
I wore so many gauchos. And please if somebody ever
tries to bring them back, which I feel like they're
kind of being brought back. Just don't It's like it's

(54:25):
like the it's like the Jinko Jean's high cutoff look. Yes, yes, yeah,
the right is definitely what most people were in that phone. Okay, yeah, yeah,
my ex wife wore those and feel terrible on them.
Oh they're they're terrible. Whoever thought a wide legged capri
at the calf was a good idea? I have no idea.
Flattering in any way, no, terrible. It was like a
mix of gene and legging at the time, and now

(54:47):
we have leggings and obviously that's what everybody wears. But
if somebody ever tries to bring about gauchos, I literally
may screw the fashion world myself. Yeah, yeah, they bring
me everything back. I think we've almost not we haven't,
but they haven't accepted new ideas. And it goes even
a film and television, like we're constantly recycling things just
because it's easy, and people are like, oh, I remember that,

(55:07):
and I couldn't get it when I was a kid
or whatever, so I want to buy it now kind
of thing. But I wish we would come up with
some new concepts and new ideas for fashion and for entertainment.
But it seems that people don't want new, they want
old but old new. And I think, like I can
attest to that side is that I always go after
my comfort TV shows and movies that made me feel good.

(55:28):
And maybe that's why is we're just in this side
that we just want to feel good. We don't we
don't want to worry about anything else at this point,
especially after like the last two and a half years,
We're just like, you know what, we just we won't
feel good. We want to feel the way that we
felt in the nineties. Give me a reboot. Yeah, I'll
watch all of it, you know, all my favorite. I've
been watching the Sex in the City reboot. I'm obsessed

(55:50):
with it, like I'm all about it. So I'm the
worst sucker to say like, no, we shouldn't do it,
because yeah, do it all all the time. Yeah, yes,
But what about you? Is there anything you don't miss
from back in the day. I don't miss from back
in the day. I was trying well, doesn't doesn't make
a resurface? Yeah, I don't know. I'm I mean, even

(56:11):
flip phones are making a comeback. They are. Yeah, like
Samsung came out with the flip phone or the Razor.
It came back Razor. They're even making ones that fold,
and I'm like, yeah, I saw somebody at the gym
with one of those, and I was like, why tell
me why that makes sense? Yeah? Exactly, And how how
long is that going to last? I know, I feel
like it's gonna have some sort of technology issues with it,
but but they say it works. One it's like a

(56:32):
full around screen. I'm like, this doesn't even make sense,
but yeah, that's all lady using at the airport. It
looks pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah, But then the
problem is then you become that person in the text
group that has the green and you ruin everything for
everyone on my message. Nobody likes that you're that person.
You also can have a case on them, like who's
going to make a case for that? It's a box?
Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, how does that cake to work
for that as well? Yeah? Yeah. Some things that I

(56:53):
don't like from the past, I mean I don't hard though,
because most things we do like, so we're like, oh,
that has good memories. I really like a lot of things.
Maybe there was a candy you didn't like, you know,
it was a good candy, big league chew, big leage chew. Yeah,
everyone forgets about a good big league chew. Oh yeah.
I love billy cheep and a big old wad of
my mouth, huh. And I used to love taking um
you ever seen ground that they used to do it.

(57:15):
I used to try to act because my friends would
all dip and like when we were eighteen nineteen, um,
and I didn't want it. I dip one time and
I threw up, and so I would like to try
to like look like I'm still dipping. They had like
this jerky chew and it come in to dip cans
looks like it but yep, but it's beef jerky, and
so I put that in my lip and I would
look at I was dipping with them, but I was

(57:35):
just it was beef jerky. And then at the end
of it, when they were all done with it, they'd
like take it out of the lip and they throw
it out and I would swallow it and they're like, dude,
you swallow your dip. And I was like, yeah, bro,
I'm pretty hardcore if I still have them fooled to
this day. Oh yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah. Well maybe you
don't have anything, but I do have some questions from okay,

(57:56):
not from me, for you, from people on my Instagram
that I posted. So we'll get into Hawaii, our holiday
breaks and stuff in the last one we'll do so
we will talk about that quite yet. Um, let's see
some of these. Somebody said, don't make him cry this time.

(58:17):
Another one just don't cry, y'all had me in tears. Yes,
he's the best guest. Okay, Um, how do you feel
now that, like when you moved away from your family, yeah,
from California, which you guys had out there, How was
that for you? And how is it now for me?
I think it's more it's more difficult my wife because
I moved away from my home Orlando, Florida, like fifteen

(58:41):
years ago, and that was a struggle and I dealt
with that living in San Francisco. But it was kind
of cool because I got to live in a really cool,
amazing city during a time when like Twitter was becoming
a thing and they developed Instagram and all this cool
technology was being developed and I lived in a place
where it all stem from San Francisco Lakon Valley, So
it was kind of tough at first, but then just

(59:03):
immersing myself in the really interesting culture and just kind
of forgetting about forgetting about that I had, not figuring
about that I had family, but trying to think about
it as much and just immersing myself and everything that
the city had to offer, and it was a cool
new space and just doing as much new, cool things
as I possibly could to kind of numb the pain
of not having family and friends around, which then helped

(59:24):
me develop a new circle and new friends and that
kind of stuff. But for my wife, she's had a
little more of a difficult time. Not we moved to
LA because it was still close en up to San
Francisco where we could as an hour flight or a
five hour drive, so that was good. This move has
been very difficult on her, and it wasn't going to
be difficult until we had the freaking pandemic and then

(59:44):
travel ceased and we couldn't do anything for a solid year.
And she used to see her family before moving to LA.
She'd see them every day, and she has a big,
huge Filipino family and they all live like within a
one mile radius and They're always cooking for each other
and hang out out and having house parties and watch
a movie. So it was a very close, tight knit
community which I then got ingrained into. So that helped

(01:00:07):
me with missing my family. As I got adopted into
her family and then we moved to LA it was
a little bit all right, we would see them once
a month, and then moving here to Nashville was really
tough on her, and then again with the pandemic made
it even more difficult. So she had the toughest time
more than I did with the move from the family.
And the answer is if she has gotten better and

(01:00:29):
gotten over it a little bit. It's a little helpful
now that we've developed our own family with our kids
and stuff, that kind of helps with it. And then
we've had a little bit of travel here and there
to see family, which has kind of helped with her
coping being away from family. But I think overall not
fully there yet with being okay with being away from family. Yeah,

(01:00:50):
And I don't I don't know that you ever get
okay with it, right. I mean, like, the best thing
I've read it for myself was moved to Nashville and
this career and just moving away from home. It was
the best thing I ever did. Yeah, but like I
miss my family every day. That is the toughest part
about it. And so you know, I whereas my sister

(01:01:10):
is a huge home buddy, she wouldn't moving to Nashville
wouldn't have been the best thing for her. Yeah. I
think you have to like do as a as a person,
just figure out if you can handle that. It's different
for everyone, right, Yeah, it's tough for people just they're
in their comfort zone and then they but then but
also it kind of sucks for them too because you
never get to experience anything else because you've never put

(01:01:31):
yourself in an uncomfortable situation. Because it's tough to do.
It's hard. I think if you're going to decide to
be one of those people to stay stay home or
stay close to family, then you make sure that you
travel a lot or a lot of other things because
that will help that gap. Right, Yes, but yeah, I
mean I do agree. I just don't think you ever
really get past it. You just kind of learned to

(01:01:53):
live with it. And I mean I talked to my
mom every day on the phone. Yeah, my niece and
nephew are growing like crazy, and I'm like, well, how
is this happening? Like last time I saw you, I
feel like you were crawling. Yeah, it's hard, it's so hard,
but it's also very important for your own personal health
to grow beyond that. And it's a cool experience if
you get to experience it. Yes, yeah, it is a

(01:02:14):
great experience, and I've I'm very grateful for the movement.
At the moment, I was like, I'm moving to San Francisco.
My ex wife is ridiculous, I'm leaving my family, my home.
I was this sucks, and I was like, but I'll
make the best of it kind of attitude because I'm going. So.
I didn't even know anything about San Francisco. All I
knew was the forty nine ers. I had no idea
what it was, and I figured California, So I can't
do with my sandals and my shorts, and now you

(01:02:36):
couldn't imagine your like kind of path of growth without it, right. Yeah,
that's how I met my wife. That's how that's how
I figured everything out. I grew. I was born and
raised in Florida, but I became a man in California
because that's where I moved there. In my early twenties,
and that's where I developed my personality and who I
was and and everything and met you know, more friends

(01:02:57):
and got out there and it kind of got me
out of my shell. And I was I was not
an introvert, but a little bit of an introvert, and
then it became extremely extra introvert. Yeah, because then I
wasn't hold in the place and it was and it
was San Francisco. If you haven't been there before, it's
very free. Everything free, loven free, whatever you name it,
it's there, and they're doing it very accepting, very accepting. Yeah,

(01:03:18):
which also was great for me too, because then it
gave me another perspective on everyone's lives. I'm not saying
I wasn't open to other things living where I grew
up at, but going somewhere else where everything's accepted, it
was like, oh okay, cool, Like it gives you a
different perspective on everyone's life, im merses you into different cultures. Yes, yeah,
Oh my god, my food culture just completely expanded because

(01:03:39):
there's within San Francisco, it's only seven miles a little peninsula,
but within that seven miles it is jam packed, like
the blocks are only like as big as this room.
Like it's like the houses are stacked and there's every
every block's got a different restaurant. There's an Italian district,
there's the Russian district. There's all these different going to
need to go. Yes, well that was the one thing.

(01:04:00):
Oh my god, I was so excited. I went to
San Francisco. I lived near Chinatown, and then I realized
when I because every day I get off work, I
would well, First, when I moved there, I didn't have
a job. I quit my job to move. My ex
wife put my radio job, and I was like, well
just his wife situation just keeps popping up and just
making me angry. But it was like you to your point,
it Uh, it happened for a reason because if I

(01:04:22):
didn't move, I never would be where I'm at right now.
I probably would be back. I mean, I'm sure i'd
be fine living back in Orlando and doing everything. Different life,
different life path. But this path I'm glad I took
because then everything happened the way it happened. But yeah,
just being that now, I'm gonna say Italian. Yeah, they
they had this thing called Columbus Avenue very close where
I lived. And it's the Italian district, and it's got

(01:04:43):
the Purple Onion, which is they're a comedy club. But
all these Italian restaurants, and it's like people that are
like straight from Italy. And so I made it a
mission when I would like almost you know, once a
week or once a month, I try out all the
different restaurants and try out to Lasagna because I feel
like Lasagnia is the most basic thing that you could
get right or wrong. And if you can't do those
on you're right, then you can't do anything else right.

(01:05:04):
I have a feeling none of them messed it up. Um,
there was a couple, but the majority of them were phenomenal.
You still dream about them, Oh my god. Yeah, because
then I would go back and try their other Aposta
dishes and it was all just incredible. Where it's generations
and generations of people that came from Italy and they
passed down to the next generation and the recipe sticks.
But yeah, tangent. But if you ever get a chance

(01:05:25):
to go to San Francisco, immerse yourself in the food
culture because there's so much there. Listen, I'm a sucker
for Italian little spots. Boston New York. Now I gotta
go to San Francisco, so thanks for that worth it
though there's one in here. We'll do a quick hot take,
so I had I had prought this in the week,
but it didn't get brought up. And but now somebody's
asking if we have any hot takes. Hot takes, so like,

(01:05:49):
I'll share mine. Okay, give me exact. We're gonna keep
them short and sweet too. Okay. The Pope this week
made me very mad. Okay, I don't you know. I'm
not Catholic anyway, but the Pope came out and was like,
basically they said people who choose to not have kids
instead choose to just have pets. I saw that they're selfish, right, Yeah,
they're selfish and it doesn't allow them to show humanity

(01:06:11):
or something. And I was like, that is absolutely wrong
in so many levels. But I never wanted to get
into it. But for one part of that, I do
think it's entirely wrong because as someone who doesn't know
if I want to have kids, I will absolutely have
a lot of animals and having a rescue dog and
continuing to rescue dogs and cats and everything that I
try and do. I have more humanity for things that

(01:06:35):
can't take care of themselves. Yeah, than most people do
who have kids. And that's not saying having kids it's bad,
but I'm saying it changes an outlook. I think there's
benefits to both into saying one or the other is
wrong or right is absolutely like astronomically the worst thing
you can say, oh toll. And it's also a great
stepping someone to teach you how to take care well

(01:06:56):
if you want to have kids. Yeah, and maybe you
find out you don't, maybe you're like, oh, I love
so much. Yeah, and I had dogs first, so it
was like selfish and then I had kids, and now
now I'm okay with the Pope now, which is kind
of weird because yeah, I had dogs and that was
my first thing. Wasn't two dogs. So that's my hot take. Okay,
Pope made me angry, very angry, not even just like
a little very angry. So it's a hot take. Something
that has to do with the news. No, it could

(01:07:17):
just be controversial, something that you're like, oh, people may
not agree with this. Um. It doesn't even have to
be like bad. It could be like I don't I
don't like sushi. Oh I don't have a vegetarian. I
don't like the movie. I don't like to take the
television show of Friends, I don't get it. I don't
like to take I can't stand it. I've tried watching
a couple episodes, and I'm just like, this isn't for me.
And I liked the Arab television like Steinfeld and all
the shows that came out then. But I just I

(01:07:38):
don't get I don't get the Friends train. Can't get
into Friends, can't get into it, not on it. I've
tried many different episodes. I've seen it in reruns and
here and there, and just like, I just can't get
into it. Well, I have a working theory if you
watched How I Met Your Mother? Did you have? If
you are How I Met Your Mother's your favorite show,
then you're typically not a Friends fan. Okay, And why

(01:08:00):
is that theory? I don't know. It's just enough people
that I've talked to that seemed to be the case
because I've never seen How I Met Your Mother and
Friends is one of my favorite TV shows. Okay, you
should watch Talking About Your Mother to see that theory.
See if I've tried, I will say I've tried. To
watch episodes. I just never got into I don't hate it.
Yeah it's fine, but I just I don't care for it.
And most people that I talked to would liked one

(01:08:23):
or the other. Okay, it wasn't both. Yeah, I love
I love the storyline and how you have m I want,
said Danny Tanner, which is it Kirkin and full House
Bob Saga. I love that he narrates it and the
whole storyline. It's it's a really cool concept, especially when
you get the payoff in the end. You're like, oh
my god, it's so cool. Yes, it's a great storytelling,
and I guess to like storytelling a lot, so that's

(01:08:43):
kind of why I think I gravitate towards that versus
the six started asking people if you find out which
one they like, I'm telling you it's it's a work
in theory. Yeah it's not. It's not like there are
some now'll probably like both, but I think it's the thing,
but majority would pick one of the other. Yes, okay,
I do believe. So. Um, what's the craziest situation you've

(01:09:04):
had to handle since becoming the exact producer of our show? Um,
the craziest thing. I think I have a couple, but
I don't think I can say that. I was gonna say,
I know, I'm gonna ask you this or you like,
I can't tell you. There's a lot of things that
I've had to do that I haven't I haven't even
told Bobby that I've just had to do because I
just have to do it or I have to make
it go away. That's like what my dad tells me.
We're gonna can't talk about it. Yeah, I'm like the

(01:09:25):
I'm like the guy in the mob. I'm like the
Frankie or the guy that makes it go away, or
the guy that makes it happen or makes it go
he makes things go away. How we do not know? Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
and we don't ask questions. Yeah, I've got a lot
of dead bodies buried in the Hudson. Okay, now you're
gonna get looked into. Um, how do you think the
dynamic of the show has changed since COVID? Interesting question. Yeah,

(01:09:48):
it's interesting because it's kind of it's had some ebbs
and flows. In the beginning, there was a lot of
technology frustrations um with between the home studios and the
main studio and that kind of I think hindered us,
not creatively, but kind of was like, because we're so
frustrated with the technology, trying to figure it out and
trying to figure out what the hell we're supposed to do,

(01:10:09):
because everyone it's a new thing that nobody had experienced
in our lifetime. So that was really tough, and it
made the show a little different because there was a
little bit of a disconnect and things weren't the same
as they used to be. So there was like that
era figuring out how we're going to do this. Especially
it was I had just been here for only a
few months. I think we're gonna be doing a regular
everyday morning radio show, and then it completely went up

(01:10:32):
in the air and blew up. Everything changed. Everything changed,
and like this whole strategy and plan that I had
from day one never got never became a thing because
it was it was you know, unforeseen circumstances that we
couldn't control. And that kind of changed things for a
little bit, and the show became a little different, and
it just changed the dynamic of how we were handling things.
But then it also kind of made us a little
more versatile because then we had to figure out, you know,

(01:10:54):
how to make it work. That was kind of cool.
I think a lot of things that you'll see or
to answer this question, a lot of it's more behind
the scenes really of how things were versus what you
would see or you would hear on the radio. I guess. Yeah,
like the chemistry of things and the behind the scenes
with Nusha was more different. That kind of just goes
over anyone's head if we had if I had to
sit here and explain it, yeah, of what we did.

(01:11:16):
But when I feel like life changes situations also had
to play in that too. Yeah, a lot of things
changed for a lot of people in the last few years.
It's a lot. Yeah, So the dynamic of people's personal
lives and personalities evolved in change based on the pandemic
and based on personal things that had happened to them,
from Amy to Bobby to Eddie, Lunchbox, you, everyone, everyone. Yeah.

(01:11:37):
So the show just kind of grew differently over the time,
and it changed a lot. I was almost like every
every week was a different week based on whatever new
challenges we had to face, either personally, professionally, or technology, technologically,
everything everything. Yeah, Oh, I have a feeling I'm about
to make you crag in. So I'm just not I'm
not going to know. I'm saying, if we keep talking

(01:11:57):
about work and how we uh oh no, fine with that. Yeah,
work will never make me cry, never know. Yeah, there's
nothing Listen, I wasn't ready for the last one. I
don't know anymore. Yeah, I know that's true for me,
Like legit, work will never made me cry. It's it's
the one thing that makes me physically and mentally emotional
is family and things that like I've been attached to

(01:12:19):
for this impacts that it does, right, That's what I'm saying.
It cold, especially when you know, bottle up, twisted out,
it's coming out, never know every direction. Do you have
a question there that that may get to that? Is
that why you're no? But I think if we keep
talking about this we'll get there. Oh yeah, yeah, I
think so too, probably, That's what I'm saying. That's why
I'm like I will over other questions. Well, a lot

(01:12:45):
of them want to know about our our holiday trips
and everything like that. So we were just going to
stop from this one. Okay. People can hear about Amy's
daughter getting her first iPhone and our celebrity crushes, which
is where this all started. Yeah, and that's okay. We
love going on to and we love going in different directions.
That's always our best conversations. Yes, but for right now,
you guys can hear that. And just coming up in

(01:13:07):
a few segments, we will get all into Steve Strip
back home Hawaii, all the things everything. Number five, Amy,
what's up? Well, got my daughter her first iPhone? Oh yeah,
that's right, big deal. That is a big deal. I
was over at your house and she had a phone. Yeah,
and you know she's fourteen and a half. A lot

(01:13:28):
of well, I see, I don't want to make a
blanket statement. Every single one of her friends at school
has an iPhone, but in church, every single one of
her friends stool and third as an iPhone. So it's
just been a thing that was inevitable was going to come.
We need a way to contact her, quite honestly, there's
sometimes where she was at the school and she would
have to call us from the office if she needed us.
We had gotten her a different kind of phone, but again,

(01:13:50):
she just wasn't really feeling it, so she didn't want
to carry that one around. How did it make her feel?
All of her friends and peers were trusted with a
phone that she she was only trusted with a special
phone that couldn't have any apps or do anything. I mean,
that's a good point. Like it was kind of like,
why can't I have this? There have been some situations
that have happened where you know, trust was lost. So

(01:14:13):
we had to work through some things, and we did,
and she proved to us that she can do it.
And I mean, the iPhone actually is great, though I
had no idea. You can just from your phone control
so many things, like I can shut her down, like
we can just turn every half off. There's a certain
time where it stops working. And then we implemented a
role that it has to it charges in our kitchen.

(01:14:35):
We have a little nook area where all electronics now charge.
And I will admit I was not always that parent.
I would let tablets upstairs. I still let some alone
time with it upstairs, but I really wanted to be
set a boundary here and so it has to be
used in a common area. And I'll go back to
the question, how did she feel that she wasn't trusted
with a phone while of her friends were. I think

(01:14:56):
that it bummed her out, and then she ultimately ended
up sneaking stuff and that caused other issues. So we
made a repair with that and now we're moving forward
and we trust her with the iPhone except where we
can shut her down. So what's the most surprising thing
now about her having an iPhone? She has a screensaver
and it's not I thought, oh, what's this new screensaver?

(01:15:17):
Is it a picture of our family, a picture of
your cat, your fish? What is it? No? It is
her celebrity crush again. She's fourteen. And the kid she
has a crush on. He plays a kid on TV
Cobra Kai. He's like the Robbie team guy Robbie. Yeah, yeah,
he's I don't watch. So who's that the blonde hair

(01:15:38):
since his son? Yeah? Okay, so that kid, the bad
guy from the original Karate Kid moves Johnny. Yeah. Well
in real life his name is Tanner Buchanan because I
had to google him and he's twenty three years I
watched Cobra. I know he's twenty three. Well at least
that's what is the Wikipedia said twenty three wow, And
I thought, okay, but that it's okay. I'm sure I

(01:16:01):
had crushes on the older guys. When I was fourteen.
He doesn't look twenty three, but he hits his entire
face as her screensaver. He's right there. Hello. How do
you feel about that? I think it's fine, it's cute.
I mean I had I was obsessed with, you know,
new Kids on the Block, and we had posters. They
have screensaver digital devices. Perfect example. When you were fourteen,

(01:16:23):
let's go around the room. When you were fourteen, we'll
just say, who would you have had on your iPhone
screen as your celebrity crush? Yeah? I mean there's probably
so many, but I think Dawson's Creek was picking up
around them, so I would have had, like, um, what
is the main guy from Dawson's Creek? Vanderbeek, Yeah, James Vanderbeek.
I would have had either Elissa Milano from Who's the

(01:16:46):
Boss and maybe that was a little before fourteen, yea,
or Danika mckeller who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years.
A big fan of both of them when I was
a kid. Yeah, Morgan, I'm curious about you because you're
a bit younger than us, but when you were fourteen,
who was your crush? It probably would have been Aaron Carter.
Oh yeah, yeah, well he's saying beautiful soul. He showed

(01:17:07):
up on Disney Channel all the time. I mean like
he was the hot guy singing beautiful, souldier Jesse McCartney
seing beautiful. Oh yeah, and they combined. To me, they
are very similar. So are you still sticking to Aaron Carter?
It's still Aaron Carter because he showed up in Lizzie
McGuire and from there, I'm pretty sure everyone my age
had a crush on him until we got into high
school and realized we didn't like him anymore. I mean,

(01:17:28):
I'm assuming Jesse mcartney thinks, what do I know about
that pop stuff? That Eddie? You're fourteen? Who was on
your dude back then? Kathy Ireland was everything to me,
and she was probably like thirty, you know how thirteen
she was thirties though, Yeah, that is yeah. She was
one model, Yeah for sure. Lunchbox guys, it's easy. Cindy Crawford,

(01:17:50):
Oh my goodness, that little mole she had. She was
the most gorgeous woman in the world. Had her poster
on the wall and she would have been on my
screen saver. Whooo. Her daughter looks exactly like exactly Kara Garber.
I mean she her DA's probably twenty one or twenty two. Now, yeah,
she's good looking, the same, looks exactly the same, Raymond, No,
what about you? Yeah, Katie Holmes, I had that poster

(01:18:13):
of her coming out of the water. I believe it
was Dawson's Creek. She was awesome, Katie Holmes. Yeah, yeah,
so she did a poster coming out of the water.
I think you're thinking at Kathy Ireland or No, that
was my girl, because I had it on the wall. Well,
I'm sure one quick Richards find it. I never knew
she was coming out of the water. She's pretty wholesome
to me. All right, we're gonna play Blake Shelton, God's Country. Bobby. Oh,

(01:18:35):
there it is. Ray You're right. Wow, I don't feel
like I should be looking old. When do you see it? Yes,
I got it. It's all you can get an autograph
on sale thirteen ninety nine. She looks like a kid. No,
I know what I'm talking about me. I don't even
though I was a kid then too. I don't feel
comfortable looking at this, this kid version of her. It's

(01:18:58):
the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.
On New Year's Eve, Bobby hosted CBS's New Year's Eve show,
which was one of the first ones from Nashville, and
it was super cool. But he answered all of our
questions about it and just shared some behind the scenes
which was pretty cool to listen to. So here you

(01:19:18):
can have it right now. Number four, I hosted New
Year's Eve Live on CBS, which was really great. We
had a big show. There was no rain. We're worried
about that. Ray Mundo had some questions about it. And
first of all, thanks to everybody who watched the show,
because for the first year, the ratings were really good.
They didn't beat Seacrest, but that show is just what

(01:19:39):
everybody associates with New Year's right and so but it
did really well considering it had never been a thing
yet and hopefully represent a country music well. So so
just thanks. But Ray, what are your questions? Yeah, first off,
we're the performances when the country artists would play, were
they live, some were, some weren't. Because of COVID, we
didn't know what we'd be able to do on December thirty.

(01:20:01):
First we didn't know what the restrictions would be so
we recorded. I went to one venue with al Dean
Brooks and Done and Darius. Okay, that's the one I thought.
My sister and I were debating if the Brooks and
Done one was live or recorded. Anything inside was prerecorded
because we didn't know what we could do with COVID
got so there were like two or three prerecorded places

(01:20:23):
where we did stuff. And one point, because I had
to go for two different things. I wore two different
wedding rings, and one of them I had a silk
had my silver fans if one had a red one on.
Oh no, Listeners were like, why you weren't two wedding rings? Mad?
But yes, so some of it, but all most of
my stuff was live. Anything on the big stage was live,
all right? What else? Ray, did you ever go and
ride that scooter to Broadway or did you just stay

(01:20:44):
at Bicentennial mall the whole time? Okay? Never there was
a joke. It's like, hey, I gotta go to the bar,
which we prerecorded. So I said, if you see a
six foot guy on on a bird scooter we even
in out of traffic, that's me. And it was just
a joke. I never loved I just stayed there, I believe, Yeah, yeah,
all right. What else? Yeah, so Caitlin, when y'all kissed
at the very end, did you guys do that live
or was that recorded the day before? No? That was live,

(01:21:06):
and that was we weren't supposed to a matter of
fact that we're like, do not put your no no
spouses on stage. And I was like, all right, well
I'll get off stage and then bring her on, and
so that's what we did. What else the band members,
if we saw some of them, were they all playing
live when they did their stuff? Or did some of
them just use audio tracks? Why are you talking? And

(01:21:29):
everything's all about is it live or not? That's it.
If you saw somebody playing, it was either played and
then recorded or played live. There was nobody was faking
playing anything. Okay, all right, one more? Yeah, anymore? I
guess really it was just so you're telling me that
you guys convinced all the crowd members just to where
New Year's Eve hats and stuff a week ago. Yes, No,

(01:21:51):
not a week ago. I shot some of it two
months ago. I shot some of it before I went
to coache That's what. Yeah, Okay, so those people were
aware is pre tape for New Year's Eve, just to
act like it's New Year's Eve. Yes, okay, that's okay,
yat TV's done. I know it is. But then when
you get an arguments with other people, like my sister
and I were just talking about and she's like ten
months ago. No, no, no, they had on the hats

(01:22:11):
and the I mean, so whatever, y'all did a good job.
Thank you, And we wouldn't have tried to fake everybody out,
but we just didn't know what we could do as
a show because of COVID. Yeah, and so the inside
stuff we did. Yeah, thank you, Ray for your question.
Dirk's and I did a lot together on the New
Year's Show. Here's Dirk's and I asked Derek's this is
clip number two, Ray, like, what's your favorite moment of

(01:22:34):
twenty twenty one? For twenty twenty one though? For you, like,
tell me something really good that happened this last year. Well,
you know, one of my favorite moments is seeing two
couples come together and holy matrimonial and seeing you're in
Caitlin's wedding, being invited to the wedding, one of the
few It was a special moment for me. Man it
was I don't go to too many weddings. I've been
to four weddings of my life. One of them was
Steve on the drums because he got married on a Tuesday,

(01:22:55):
So that's like the fourth wedding I've been to him
my entire life. It was the best one other than
the mine and mine for you is you healed up
from your bike accident? Did you know? Yeah, even though
you're like thirty four whatever, how old you are? Yes,
how you healed up and you're doing good. I am.
Here's another one. This is about two hours away from midnight,

(01:23:16):
and I guess we were talking about what my mantra
would be for the year, and I'm on the big stage.
There's twenty thousan people in front of me. Here's this
next clip, which means too glass of champagne, a double
apple juice for me, and obviously, since we're celebrating twice,
everyone gets two kisses at midnight, right consensual? Of course,
we don't want anyone to get canceled, which is my

(01:23:38):
mantra for twenty twenty two. Don't get canceled, stay it
with me, don't get canceled. Hey, let me say this
because tonight is a great night. I do want to
acknowledge Betty White, who brought us so much joy. She
was about to have her one hundredth birthday. Betty White
passed away today, and instead of being sad, let's just

(01:23:59):
give a big old chair for Betty White because she
was always there for us. We love you, Betty White.
Because I know she was watching CBS from yes, yeah,
I know she had just died. She tryed a lot
to take care of but she's still probably watching that show.
I'll do one more thing here. This is Eddie. Eddie
texts me yeah, and he goes, hey, man, will you
say fry ya on the show? Oh my gosh. And

(01:24:19):
I was like, all right, whatever. I was really expecting
to know, Like honestly, I was expecting the text back
and said, no, dude, I'm not doing that. So this
is when the when the music note is dropping, right,
it's about to be New Year. I fit in fry
ya as I'm on stage on CBS. Here you go,
it's fry ya. It's almost New Year's. If you're at home,

(01:24:40):
go grant wake them up. If they're in the bed,
because I'm known to go to sleep early, go wake
him up. There you go, Eddie, there you go, buddy, Hey,
thank you. That was the opposite response as from the
Betty White thing, like it was like really, dude, fye,
you gotta repeat it too. I hope everybody had good
New Year, safe New Year. Mike d was real MVP
for us because they were just laying low and so
he went over and mature. The dogs were good. There's

(01:25:02):
fireworks and dogs a precount. But I hope everybody had
a good one. And I hope you make a resolution
or a intentional gesture or whatever. I don't know, an
intentional It's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Number two, the update everybody has been waiting to. Here,

(01:25:25):
Eddie gave an update on the Belogney sandwiches punishment he
gave his son. Basically, his son had a lot of
bad grades and so to help make the situation better,
Eddie punished him by only allowing him to eat Blogney sandwiches.
And well, we found out didn't work or didn't not work.
I mean, maybe it's something you guys want to do
with your kids. I don't know, but you can hear

(01:25:45):
how that went over the holiday break. Here. Number three,
let's do a little update here. Update. So before we
left for our vacation, Eddie said his son was only
getting to eat Belogney sandwiches for lunch and dinner every
da for how long until I got his final exam grades?
But how long do you think? That was? About two weeks?
So for two weeks for lunch and dinner only Blogny

(01:26:07):
sandwiches and no no mustard, no cheese, no condiments at all,
just the white bread with bologny in it. And what
was the purpose of this? So, I mean, he's been
getting bad grades for about six months, so finally it
was like the last straw, Like, dude, if you don't
work hard in life, and right now your priority is
your grades in school. If you don't work hard, you're
gonna not be able to afford you whatever you want.

(01:26:28):
And in this case, it's eating good food. So oh,
because he loves going to restaurant, he loves he's a foodie.
So it's like, all right, but here you go, this
is a taste of what life will be like. If
you don't work hard, You're gonnat Blogney sandwiches for the
next two months. Did he get two weeks? Did he
get tired of the blowney sandwiches. Yeah, Like he would
beg for like soup, and I'd be like, he can't
afford that because it's begging for soup at home. Hey, dude,

(01:26:48):
And that's the thing. When you come up with something
like this, you have to stick to your guns. So
I would be like, you can't afford soup because you
didn't work hard. So let's get your sandwich. Would you
have ever done a punchment like this. I don't think so,
just because he has biological children. I have children adopted
from an orphanage that had different food insecurities, and I
don't think I can ever use food. Plus my daughter,

(01:27:10):
she's the fourteen year old, but really at the orphanage,
if they served or something, she didn't eat. She just
didn't eat. If I'm serving something she doesn't like. I
told her that Eddie's was doing this to a son,
and she's like, I just wouldn't eaven trust me, I
can go days. Well that wasn't an option. Oh they
go full gandhi. My son tried not to eat and
I was like, ah, you're eating that. Yeah, But she
she's like she'll prove it. She's not scared to prove it. Saying,
she's like, I've already done that at the orphanage, like

(01:27:32):
if on days they had served stuff I didn't like,
She's like, I just didn't eat because I tried that
approach of like, well, think back to when you're at
the orphanage, like this is what this is what we're
eating right now. You used to have to do that.
You didn't have a choice in anything. And she's like, yeah,
I did. I wouldn't eat. I was like, okay, never
good thing. He didn't do that, No, he didn't, but
he ate Blogney sandwiches every day for two weeks. Two weeks.
How the grades turned out? So, I mean he studied

(01:27:53):
his butt off, dude, I've never seen him study so
so so hard, and in return he got Sea's, a
couple bees and one seat and that c was from
the class that he got like f's over and over
and over. So to me, it worked. It was the
experiment was a success. I love it bones and the
best thing about it is I may not have to

(01:28:14):
do it again because he hated it so bad. And
he's got three younger brothers that are watching and do
this and say I do not want to do this
when I grow up, so I love it. Anytime he
starts to slide, you just do some blooney on the
table the back. Yeah, all right, you want to go
back down? Do we want to do this again? Was
his c and like, um, you know meets from Kroger.
It was no, no, it was in science. He struggles

(01:28:35):
with science. But but and when we came back from
the break, I'm like, dude, do you want to I mean,
notice how hard you study and how hard that was.
You can avoid all that by working hard every single day.
So I think we're on the good road. You've had
a couple of interesting tactics. Or you've locked him in
the bathroom once and made him listen to Michael Jackson
Man in the mirror. Yeah, because these are all last
I mean, this is last resort looking in the mirror.

(01:28:56):
I know what else to do, So let's get creative.
So yeah, now, Balogne sandwiches. You can't wait for Eddie's
parenting book to come out. Eddie will get canceled after
NA worked. Though it worked? Yeah, good, So thank you. Yeah,
you're welcome. I don't know what I did, but you're welcome.
I don't know. I don't know why I said that
if it's the best bits of the week. With Morgan

(01:29:19):
number two coming back from holiday break, everybody started to
share some stories from the whole time we were gone,
and Lunchbox gave his holiday celebration a great f Now
you can hear about that here in a little bit.
But we gotta get into Scoopa Steve's holiday break. He
went to Hawaii. Yeah, and you had a crazy trip home.

(01:29:41):
So let's do it. Let's get into it. Tell us
about Hawaii. So the Hawaiian part of it was awesome.
It was phenomenal. My grave was an A plus plus plus.
It was a great trip. Um. Going there was easy.
We flew into Oakland and stayed the night. Because usually
we go to Hawaii, we fly out of California. It's
one flight, four and a half, five hours done. But
not coming from Tennessee. It's a different hall. Now it's

(01:30:03):
probably like eight hours. Oh it's longer than that. It's
probably close to ten eleven hours. You're flying from Nashville
to somewhere in the West coast, whether it be lax Sfo.
We fly into Oakland because a little easier to get
to the East Bay of the San Francisco area, So
we flew into Oakland and then had her family pick
us up. We spent the night in the Bay Area
for one night, next morning out And how long were

(01:30:25):
you in Hawaii for? We were in Hawaii for almost
two weeks. Oh man, it was It was awesome. And
we went to my favorite island. I always hate talking
about it because I want to keep it more low key.
You don't have to, Yeah, you can keep it to
yourself if you want. I mean, it's obvious if I
say low key, because it's like because everyone goes to
Oahoo because it's where Honoluluz and it's like got Disney Alanie.

(01:30:45):
It's got all the shopping and the glitz and the
glamor and nightclubs and drinking. And Maui's like the sophisticated
rich person island. They have a lot of nice roosters
and beautiful resorts and it's expensive and ConA is kind
of in between in a mix. But I like Hawaii.
Hawaii is like almost not like the redneck island, like
the country island of them all where, believe it or not,

(01:31:08):
every and I was like, we need to get bibone
show on in this island because every restaurant store, anything
that had a radio playing. It was always country music.
That's crazy, and it's all these Hawaiian people who were
like like usually in other islands, it's like Top forty,
it's reggae, a lot of reggae, a lot of like
island type vibes, like Jimmy Weeks Project. But this island

(01:31:30):
is all country, and I noticed it came to my advantage.
I didn't know they were big in the country because
last time I was there, I didn't. It wasn't I
didn't think about it. I wasn't in the country of space.
But I was sending out some emails to try to
get dinner reservations and reservations for places because it was
fully booked because it was the holiday, and it's more
people going to that island in general than normal because

(01:31:50):
it's Christmas and New Year's and a lot of people
were escaping snow, which will come to the end of
this story to go to a place like Hawaii. So
I realized that when I started Emai places and I
would use my work email and I use the Body
Bones Show signature EP and I got immediate responses on
all these places and they were like, hey, we love
the show. So we have listeners that live in this island,

(01:32:12):
but we don't broadcast on that island. Either they listen
on the podcast or maybe they pick up the station
through like I hear radio app or something. I hear country. Well,
and there's a an army base out in Hawaii somewhere.
I don't know where is it on that island. That's
another that's another part of the story where we drove
to the army base and I got I didn't get

(01:32:32):
in trouble, but I felt like we're gonna get arrested. Okay,
I want to hear that. Yeah, Well, I say that
because typically army they move around a lot. So if
they've hurt us in a different city and then they
kept listening to us, and what we have a lot
of people on our lives streams who'll be like listening
from Japan and I'm like, why are you listening to us? Yeah,
because anywhere else they came from somewhere else, So that
could be part of it too. Yeah. I don't know

(01:32:53):
if that's on that same island, but it is. Yes,
there's yeah, yeah, so yeah, there's a base there and
there's um is that what your question was, Yeah, there's
definitely a base there. I mean there's there's even a
NASA like there's a there's like a hidden and that's
another part of the story too, but I'll often finish
up this part of the story of going to Kauai.
Love it relaxing. They shot Durrassic Park there, Indiana Jones beaches,

(01:33:15):
really cool beaches, the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen.
And it's a mixture of beach and like jungle forests. Um.
They've got a place called Waimea Canyon, which is like
they're a grand canyon um and it's absolutely beautiful. Volcano.
There's no active volcano on that island. Okna, I believe
is the one that has the active volcano. That's the
furthest island but closest to the States. Um And Yeah,

(01:33:39):
so it's just really beautiful. It's a mixture of beach
and like forest jungle, and it's really really cool and
it's laid back. There's not as much traffic, not as
many tourists usually go to that island because it's a
little further out and they don't have the luxuries of
like the clubs and the bars and the and there's
many restaurants in shopping, but when I'm going on vacation,
I want I don't want any of that. I want

(01:34:00):
to be disconnected. I don't want to I don't want
any of that stuff. I want. I want that kind
of vacation. I'm almost like a country vacation, but on
an island roosters everywhere. They have roosters and chickens everywhere.
Like I have a stick on my computer now because
there are just so many chickens and roosters on the
on the island. They're like they're everywhere. They're like the
rats in New York. That's the one from yeah, but

(01:34:20):
that's kind of where where they all came from. The chicken.
There's these chickens and roosters that are all over the
island of Kawai, almost like how we have squirrels or
New York has rats, Like they're everywhere. And it was
almost funny. We're we're on a spot one day and
they were and she's like, oh, well, because I was
gonna get tacos and I wanted one of myse was
gonna be chickens. She's all right out a chicken and
as I can go grab them real quick if you want.

(01:34:44):
There's one right there walking around in front of me. Terrible.
But they're all over the place, like it's literally like
they're like the squirrels of Hawaii or yeah for that
island Kawai. Um but yeah, I love it. If you've
never been to Hawaii, I recommend check them all out.
But my favorite's Kawai. Oh man, that sounds so cool.
Hawaii is beautiful, so very beautiful. Yeah. Okay, so tell

(01:35:06):
us about your NASA or air or army base. So
we went to a lot of different We always try
to go to all the beaches and check them out
and revisit some of the beaches. There's a lot of
different like cool spots that There's a place called Tunnels Beach,
which is on one end of the island and it's
got like all these like caves and cool stuff, and
like every beach has almost got its own different topography

(01:35:27):
and like like vibe and thing to it, which is
weird because they're so they're like like right next to
each other, but they're all different beaches almost like San Francisco,
going back to we talked about earlier. It's like different
pockets of beaches. Yeah, within each other. So, yeah, Tunnels
Beach is one, and it's got this cool like little cave,
and then you got Queen's Bath where it's like this amazing,
huge like pool that's created with rocks and the water

(01:35:51):
rushes up on it and refills it every once in
a while, and it's like it's almost like a free wheelie.
You're seeing free willie. Yeah, it's like a free wheelie
type thing where you like, I can envision the whale
jumping over the rock wall and going to safety. And
then you've got the beaches that are just beautiful sands
with mountains in the background. And there's some beaches that
most tourists don't go too because it's um very far

(01:36:12):
on the island from where most people are staying in
hotels and you have to go through dirt roads to
get to them. Oh, which really is country. So it
is country. Yeah. We went to one where we went
on a dirt road and my brother in law was
in front of me and I used to I used
to call it. I call it neck and back in
the day, we used to drive my jeep and I
used to go neck and which is off roading. And
so I'm very experienced with off roading with vehicles and

(01:36:35):
knowing like how far you can push it and where
you can where you should drive, where you shouldn't drive.
He's driving a tahoe and I see him go for
the soft sand and I thought he was gonna make
a laugh and he goes right for the soft sand
and then he stops and I'm like, no, first one
into the soft sand. And now you didn't keep the
momentum and you're sure enough he gets stuck, and then
some locals come over to kind of pull us out,
like you like, like you guys are aboutching idiots. Yeah,

(01:36:56):
and you're like, I'm not. I'm not them. I know
what I'm doing. Look at me, I'm My car isn't stuck.
It's just him. Um. So we went to like Lawa's
kind of beaches that are a little hidden off the
beaten path. And one of the beaches we went to
was really far out and it was near an Army
Air Force base. Okay, air Force Army as an army base.
I know, I keep, I keep accidentally says yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm getting it from you. Dang Italian Army Air Force base.

(01:37:19):
But it's an army base, and um, I didn't know,
but we're looking for a restaurant to go to after
the beach to eat. And on every base there's food,
and there's a p X to go shopping in, and
they have a restaurant usually. And one of the restaurants
that popped up nearby was this place called Smorgasborgs or something,
and it had like a five star rating, and like
all the pictures look gray, all this great food, and

(01:37:40):
next to it was like it was an acronym. It
was like a like something to do with Army base
and a f B or something, and I didn't know
what that was. And sure enough we pull up and
I'm like following the map to get to it, and
then says like Missile Launching Area base, and I was like, Oh,
it's pretty cool. And we're like eating lunch next to
like a missile launching This is pretty rad. And turn

(01:38:01):
right and then I immediately see the little hut and
I see the guys out in front. And my grandpa
was retired Air Force and so we used to go
to the Navy base all the time in Orlando. And
I'm like, oh, no, we're pulling up to the Air
Force base or the Army base. Yeah, as I know
how this goes, and and the guy goes, he goes hey,
and I was, oh, we're looking for this restaurant. And
he goes, oh, yeah, it's on the base. It's just
for you know us. He goes, but you can get

(01:38:23):
a day pass to go on there, but it's closed
right now, it's the holidays. I was all right, cool,
and I was like, where can I go to turn around?
He goes, well, before you turn around and you see
your ID. And I was like, I'm not going in.
I had no intention to go in. I just want yeah,
And I was like what. I was like, well, no,
I didn't do anything wrong and I don't have a
criminal record or anything. But I immediately got nervous and

(01:38:45):
my stomach drop and I got super afraid of nothing.
But just when someone asked your ID, you just get
nervous and you freak out. Opening there with weapons and
stuff because they're protecting the base, and you're like, uh, yeah,
one dude would have like an AK forty seven strapped
acrosses yeah thing and he had like a knife and
all these like like like yeah, can I see your ID?

(01:39:06):
It's not an officer. I get nervous when you get
someone with all that on them and ask me for
your ID. I was like uh, and I was like
and I was like and then I just like try
to like I try to get all like kind of
knew all the jargon what to say because my grandpa,
and and I'm like, oh yeah yeah. And the problem
I was like, so like like like you guys have
a px on here to go shot, Like I sort
of like chopping it up with him and all like
the terms to say, make it easier, to make it

(01:39:26):
easier and hopefully he can like not ask for I
d still and forget about it, and he goes, I
still need the ID, and like, oh crap. So the
guy goes. So it goes to run my ID and
then the other guy standing there like a freaking like stone.
And then I rolled out my back window my son
sitting back. Then I was like, hey, say hi to
the guy and then guy and he goes he goes,
oh hi, And then the guy starts to break character
and become like a human because I guess he had
kids or whatever and were talking about where are you from?

(01:39:48):
He goes on from jackson Jacksonville and kind of like
but still very stern and trying to like kind of
trying to make trying to humanize me and my family,
Me with my family, And this is a pure mistake.
You're not a scary person trying to I'm on the base.
I have no intention to kind of a basis eff
Yet at that restaurant they had five star rating. I didn't.
I didn't want to come here to do anything bad.
And then but then he's like running my ID and
he's like taking a really long time to run my ID,

(01:40:10):
and I'm like, oh my god, what's happening right now? Well,
it's like all the clearance levels that they have to do. Yeah, yeah,
And he ran my ID and he goes, oh, you're
with the media, And so I guess because it's the government,
they know a lot more about you than just they
know everything about you if they want to know everything. Yeah,
and he goes, he goes, all, you're with the media,
and he goes, I got a little nervous if you
were going to try to like report something or create

(01:40:31):
a story or whatever. And I was like, no, I'm
just on vacation. I have no intention of doing any
right now. Like I haven't really been on my phone.
I just was looking for something to eat for my family.
He goes, all right, man, he goes good, he goes,
you know, enjoy the rest, vacation, have a great day.
And I was like, but the whole time, I'm like thinking,
I'm interrogated. You're like, I was just trying to go
to a restaurant. Yeah, I'm not. I'm gonna be an
army jail. I'm gonna lose my family. I'm gonna be

(01:40:52):
like I have to go on the run. Like what's
going on here? Oh my gosh, that's been funny, scary,
it's been funny. And then the day before that, we
went to my make hand which is the Grand Canyon,
and as I'm driving through it, there's a sign that
says NASA. And it wasn't like it wasn't an official sign.
It was like this like small hidden sign and it
was like painted on it and it said NASA and
it's a research center and and they definitely don't want

(01:41:14):
you stopping because I stopped to take a picture of it.
And as I'm going to stop take a picture of
this guy comes around the corner and there's like a
gate and he goes, what are you guys doing here,
and I was like, oh, I'm just look. I just
wanted to take a picture of it. Goes you need
to get out of here and now, and I was
like okay, But then it made me think of like
what do they got hidden in them out? Yeah, what's
in that canyon? It's NASA aliens. All these things are
going through my head. Yeah, there's been aliens side, particularly

(01:41:37):
over Hawaii. There's if you do some research on some
news articles, there's some theories about something on Hawaii. Oh
and I'm sure where I was because when we were
driving we drew up past it. The first time I
saw a bunch of guys out in front of there
and like SUVs like and like suits and like like
almost like m ib and then so I was like, oh,
on the way back, I want to go check it
out and see there's still there and take a picture
of it. And I think that was the bad I

(01:41:59):
should have done that, because they got really upset. And
then the next day I get in trouble with the army.
So maybe they were tailing me. Maybe they were like
maybe like this guy, we got to watch him. Yeah,
he's trying to get on the base or something. Maybe
that maybe back to Hawaii. Yeah, yeah, I'm on the
no fly list to Fla ever again. Now they think
I'm trying to like figure out what the governments figured out.

(01:42:20):
You're done. Yeah, I'm over. I can't go to Kwie
ever again. Now, Oh my gosh, that sounds like a
fun trip, though, I mean, beaches and two weeks in
Hawaii sounds amazing. Oh yeah, it was great. It was
a really great time. It was nice to dis connect
you with the family and hang out my wife's family
as well, and just just really just just chill. Like
I've very really checked my email. I haven't put up
in a way message on my email in years. And

(01:42:41):
I was like, I'm out if if something's on fire,
text me or calling me. Other than that, I don't
want to hear from you. I think you an email
and I saw that. I was like, that's funny. I
was like, something's on fire, see now, Yeah, I just
want to enjoy it. Yeah, And everything was great until
we were on our way back home, and that's when
all hell broke loose. Yeah, so, so give us the

(01:43:02):
breakdown of your trip home. So I was already like
a little bit worried because when we flew out there.
We broke it up in two days. It was the
flight from Fantasy to California, next day, California to Kawaii.
And I was like, oh, on the way back, we're
gonna have to do it all in one day. And
I was like, well, we can do it. And so
we flew from Kawaii to in this connecting fly we
went to Las Vegas. We didn't need to go back

(01:43:24):
to California because we're like, we're just gonna keep going,
and Las Vegas got us further and it made the
next trip a little shorter. Yeah, so we got to
Las Vegas and there is a two hour delay and
we're just like all right, not really thinking much into it,
just thinking it's just the regular holiday delays that are
going on because it's it was January second. I think
it was Sunday we were flying, Yeah, Sunday. We flew back,

(01:43:44):
left Kawaii at like five or six in the morning,
got on the planet eight, got to Las Vegas around
I think three o'clock their time Pacific, and then we're like, okay,
our next flights at like four or something. We have
to quickly get on that because then we gotta fly
to Nashville and then by to make the Nashville it'll
be close to midnight, and man, we at work the
next day. It's gonna be a long day sitting in

(01:44:05):
the Vegas airport. The time keeps getting further and further
and further away from us, you know, getting on the plane,
and then finally like okay, they're starting to do boarding.
But now at this point, I think it's like like
seven or eight o'clock PM Pacific and we're boarding. We
get on the plane and didn't even like research to
figure out why there was a delay. Well, the delay

(01:44:25):
was the snowstorm. Had no idea. They didn't even talk
about it. They weren't like, hey, there's a storm, that's
why we're delaying it. I just figured it was holiday delays.
And so we get on the plane. Well, because that
was a story too, Is that everybody's holiday flights we're
getting canceled and delayed. Yeah, it was two news stories happening,
just not the good one. And I figured just that
happens every year. There's always delays with flights. Didn't even
think about snow because in my previous experience of flying

(01:44:47):
through the holidays, I've never had to fly to a
snow area. It's always been back to California or to
Florida or somewhere there's a beach and good weather. Never
snow has ever stopped me ever. And so we're flying.
Then we're in the air and we're I feel like
we're about we're getting close because I can you know,
it's been about an hour and a half, two hours.

(01:45:08):
The flight total was only three hours and change. And
then captain comes on and nine times out of ten
you can hear dancing, the captain says, because he's so quiet,
and he abruptly interrupts you usually in the middle of
a nap or something, and so he kind of catch
you off guard, and you got the background noise of
shot and he comes on, there's your guy's big innagroun
that we're in Las Vegas. Another hour and forty five minutes.
And I was like, and I woke up and I

(01:45:29):
was like, huh. And I was like, Las Vegas, which
you don't hear that you're expecting to hear. You know,
we're near Nashville or something. Las Vegas is out of
my out of my world, because if we have left it,
Nashville is where we're going and then I and I'm like, hunh,
I hear And I go to my wife and I'm like,
he said Las Vegas, Like, but we're going to Nashville,
and what's happening? She was I don't know. I heard
that too, and she talks to the guy in front

(01:45:50):
of him. She goes, Hey, did you happen to hear
that announcement? He goes, yeah, something like that. Captain said
we're going back to Las Vegas. And I was like,
I was like what. And then as soon as I
said it really loud and I heard heard one of
the stewardess go oh no. And then so he went
to the his little speaker and he goes, oh, you
guys may have not heard the captain. And I just
want to clarify this has never happened ever in my

(01:46:11):
career or anyone's on this, So this is what's happening.
And I was like, oh no, this is not good.
He goes, We're actually going to be going back to
Las Vegas. There was snow on the ground in Nashville,
and there are planes flying around Nashville that can't land
in Nashville. Here we go, we get with the damn
infrastructure Nashville can't handle the snow on the ground at

(01:46:32):
the airport, yep. So therefore everyone is being directed back
to their original stop, and for us it was Las Vegas,
so now instead of Gold it doesn't make any sense.
But realistically, if you were trying to land somewhere else,
that airport wasn't ready for it. So the only place
that would have been ready was where you came from.
We came from, but for us it was Las Vegas,
so then we had to turn back around and go

(01:46:53):
another hour and forty minutes back to where we came from.
When my mindset is, if the storm, the snowstorm is
affecting that area, then go to another freaking airport near it. Yeah,
go to Saint Louis, go to Kansas City, go to Atlanta,
go somewhere where it gets me closer, so then I
can rent a car and then just drive home. Yea
within driving distance. No, we're gonna go back to freaking

(01:47:14):
Las Vegas, which I looked on my thing. It's like
a two hour, two day drive and I've done that
drive before longer, Like I can't rent a car and
drive and get back in time. And I'm like, oh,
my God. And then I'm thinking Dallas, go back to Dallas.
Dallas is your main hub, and then at least Dallas
is somewhere closer and I can get a direct out
the next day. So now we're going back to Las Vegas.
So we're going back to Las Vegas. And then they

(01:47:35):
keep updating us every thirty minutes because the people are
getting pissed. Oh yeah, everybody's fine on that because you
just flew that far and then you have to fly
back and then you're not even gonna be at your destination. Yes,
And so most people on that flight came from Hawaii
like us, are they or they were going to Nashville
for vacation or back home or whatever the case was.
They went to Las Vegas for their New Year's and
they're going back home to Nashville. So this is a

(01:47:55):
packed flight of tired, angry, I want to get a
home people. And then when they hear they're having to
go back to Las Vegas where they came from, it
was like Mayhem on that plane. You know that pilot too,
making that was like I tone happening because he didn't
have confidence in his voice when he came on the thing.
It was like, oh good, like just trying to stay

(01:48:17):
hall like, you know, and he can't say sorry because
it's not as ball like. And and also in retrospect,
I'm like, thank god we didn't land in Nashville, because
if they weren't ready for us and he was nervous
to land, we could have like crashed or we could
have something could have happened where yeah, much worse. So
the inconvenience was worth it if it meant we were

(01:48:37):
gonna jeopardize our lives landing in Nashville and they weren't
ready for us, So it was a massive inconvenience. But
looking at that side of it, okay, it was worth it.
So let me get back to Las Vegas and you're
already dealing with cancelations and flights are completely packed and
booked and you can't book another flight. There's no other
flight to book because now you've got one hundred and
seventy five plus passengers who all have to be rebooked. Yea,

(01:48:58):
So my logic is, why doesn't the freaking airline keep
that plane where it's at, refuel clean it, get it
ready to go, and the next morning put us all
back on that airplane and get us to Nashville. That
would make the most logical sense, because now you have
to rebook all those passengers, yeah, versus just putting us
back on that same damn airplane and then bring us
back to Nashville the next day. Because the next day

(01:49:19):
it was okay to fly the Nashville flight, skin canceled
all over the place. I mean, I don't know where
that plane was headed, but I don't know. Yeah, so,
but still I would just think, you just it's already
allotted to us. Yeah, keep it with us and get
us back to Nashville. Then figure out what you're gonna
do the next day and move forward, versus having a
rebook everybody. For sure, it probably has something to do
with the pilot and the stewardess and stuff on their

(01:49:40):
timing if they had to get on a different plane
and then not plane no longer had anybody to Yeah,
like staff it, I guess true. But I'm selfish and
effort the people I wanted to get back home. Wellsten,
nothing is ever as easy as it seems, right, Like
never ever. Okay, so you're back in Vegas. Then what
happens we're back in Vegas. It's about one thirty am

(01:50:00):
specific time, and now it's Monday morning, and I'm like,
I gotta get back to work because we have, you know,
work the next day. I gotta I gotta get there.
And then I immediately email Bobby. I'm like, kay, I've
been delayed. I I don't have no idea what's happening
or where I'm going. I may not be there the
next day. And I apologize, and it was the first
day back, but I'm not gonna be there. It's like

(01:50:20):
it's all good, made no stress, just get home safe.
And I was like, all right, cool, So at least
I got work taken care of, and I let everyone
else know. My higher ops like that, I'm this is
what I'm dealing with, and I won't be there for
my conference call tomorrow and all these other things, like
it's just I'll catch you guys next week. Let me
just get home first. I gotta get home, and so
then then then it's like, okay, when you get back
to the gate, there'll be a supervisor there to help
you guys coordinate your next flight. And I'm like already thinking,

(01:50:41):
like there's nothing to coordinate, there's nothing available, Like most
people are saying we're gonna stay in a hotel for
a day or two and ride it out and fly
back the next day. And if it was somebody going
to Nashville from last days, so I just like, we're
just gonna postpone on a trip till next week or
whenever and go to Nashville then. But I've got two
kids and a wife and we have to get back
to Nashville, So I have to do whatever it takes.
It gets back to Nashville. We have work and then

(01:51:02):
and I want to get him back home. So it's
one thirty in the morning. We get back to the
airport and it's one hundred and seventy five people going
to the desk. Three book their flights. So we're midplane.
You know when you when you deep plane takes forever
for some reason, I don't I don't understand. Grabber shit
and go. Sorry, I curse, but you got to get
off the airplane. Grabber back and go. Why does it
take so damn long to get off the freaking airplane?
Just go? So now the plane, yeah, just go. So

(01:51:25):
everyone's dilly dowing to get off the freaking airplane, and
so that slows me to get to the desk. So
by the time we get out there plane get to
the desk, it's like it's it's deep. It's all way
out in Tim Buck two, which I know you said
it long one time before. What do you say one time?
I don't remember, Tim tim something that was remember, Yeah,
I remember. I believe your mind when I told you
Tim Buck two. Oh yeah. So yeah, the line is deep.

(01:51:47):
And it's like and there's four different lines and they're
all deep. And I'm like, god, so oh, I have
some line. I have to go bathroom real quick, and
I'm frustrated. I need a moment. So okay, it's all good.
I got the kids, just go to the bathroom. I
go to the bathroom and I'm walking back from the
bathroom and I see this this ticket agent at another
desk and she's there by all by herself, and some
other lady walks up for some help for that for

(01:52:08):
whatever is going on over there, and she walks off,
and I'm like, I'm just gonna see what happens if
I walk up to her and if I can maybe
talk to her because I'm not waiting that long ass
line over there. So I walk up and she goes, oh,
how can I help you? And I was like perfect,
and I was like, let me just see how far
I can get with this. I was like, hey, we're
just in a flight and they got oh yeah, I
saw that he got canceled and you need to get
back home right. I'm like yeah. I was like, what

(01:52:29):
are my options to get back home so I can
help you out? And I'm like yes. So we'd avoided
that big ass line because by the time they got
to us, they've been nothing left, absolutely nothing left, and
there are people there and they're flying by themselves or
just boyfriend and girlfriend, her husband and wife. I feel
it for you, but it's not difficult for you to
get back home then it is for me with two
kids under three. Yeah, so I'm sorry for being selfish,

(01:52:51):
but I want to get my ass on whatever plan
I can get on so I can get home. So
we talked to her. It's literally putting together a puzzle.
She's like, well, if you're flying the year, then you
can do this, and then we can and then you
have the two hour lay over. It's like basically trying
to figure out what we can do to get from
one city to the next city, to the next city
to eventually get us to Nashville, and we put together
this puzzle, the original puzzle of Okay, you're gonna fly
into Long Beach and then Long Beach, I think to Oakland,

(01:53:14):
Oakland to Phoenix, and then Phoenix to Nashville. So we
set on that. I was like, okay, it's paying the ass,
we'll do that. So we set that up. That's our flight.
It's now like two thirty in the morning, and that
flight takes up at six fifty five and so we're like,
all right, we're not gonna go to a hotel because
n get to the hotel to come back and you
can check your bags in four hours early. And I
was like, well what about our bags? She was a

(01:53:35):
way to go get your bags and recheck them in again.
So we have to leave the secure area, which you know,
once you're there, you're there. It's game on. It's much
easier leave the secure area, get our bags, which by
the way, they have like three bags and two car seats.
So to go get my three bags and my two
car seats, leave the security checkpoint, grab those, and then

(01:53:56):
wait in an area for about an hour until all
had too Because it's not like you could have grabbed
all those things. No, yeah, so everyone's doing that, and
then there are other cancel flights that wasn't just our
cancel flight. So then we wait to when we can
start to check in, which is four hours before, which
is like thirty minutes an hour later. And then now
everyone's grabbed and everyone's going down to the counter to
recheck their bags and go through security. So there's that

(01:54:18):
massive line to get your bag checked. And then so
we're like, okay, there's the Sea A ticket agent and
then there's the print your own ticket. Yeah, so like, oh,
we'll go to the print own ticket because we have
a confirmation we're good. And of course, because of the
delay and the cancelation, all that crap ours isn't in
the system, so so now we have to So we
were already in that long ass line to get the
printed baggage tags, and I had to get into another

(01:54:40):
line because it wasn't in the system because of all
the crap. And now we're getting in another long ass
line with two kids. I'm getting a lot of lines
in the story, a lot of lines. And then so
then we're in this long line and we're about halfway
through it, and then this jerk who had the same thing.
I realized the same thing happened to him, happened to us,

(01:55:01):
happened to him where he had he went from the
ticket line and get to get the bag, and then
he got denied and had to go on our line.
So he like slowly moses on up with his girlfriend
on his phone, not acting like he's like trying to
be sly, and then walks right in front of us
and then gets into our line. And I look at him,
and then he looks at me, and I look at
my wife and I was like, I was like, did
he just cut us? And I was and my wife goes,

(01:55:23):
he was excuse me the lines back there. He goes, oh,
I gotta I gotta catch my flight. I was like,
and I was like, oh, dude, we all got to
catch our flight. And he was like, well, I went
there in the bag. And I was like, that happened
to us too, and it happened to everybody. I was like, unfortunately,
you gotta get in that line right there. And I
was like, I'm not letting you cut me, mostly because
you didn't ask, and you just assumed that I was
gonna let you in because you weren't paying attention on

(01:55:43):
your on your phone, trying to slyly to get in.
I was like, and you gotta ask everyone behind me
if they're okay with you getting in front of them
as well. And he's like, well just I was like,
gous a kick rocks, dude, get them back to the line.
This is like a survivor situation happening at the airport.
Because the guy's behind me, I knew would have also
said something. They were at the point where they were
because they were complaining and talking about okay, we gotta

(01:56:04):
get on the flight and were like I could tell
they were like also, that's happening. And it wasn't just
me then it's them, It's them and the thirty of
the people behind them. So I was like, dude, we're
all doing with what you're dealing with. Get your ass
in the back of the line. And he got all
huffy and puffy and mad and he's like, well, why
do you got to confront me like and I was
just like, all right, dude, I've been flying for almost
twenty four hours. I had nothing nice to say to you.

(01:56:24):
Please go. And then so he finally went and went
the whole line now we get to the baggage line
and where we're getting our bags checked and we're getting
our tickets, making sure everything secure before we get to
the security line, and the woman goes, oh, oh, I
have some bad news, and I was like what. She's like,
your Phoenix flight has been canceled. And I was like,
I was like what she was so you can get

(01:56:46):
to Long Beach to Oakland. But then we get the Phoenix.
You're gonna be stuck there because there's no flights going
out of Phoenix to where you're going to. And I
was like what, And she's like, let me see what
I can do. And she's on the phone for like
thirty minutes, and we're about to miss that flight that
gets that gets to Long Beach because she's trying to
figure everything out to get us to where we need
to get to. She's okay, I know I figured it out.
She goes, You're still going to fly to Long Beach,
and I think it maybe a little better now now

(01:57:07):
you don't have to change planes. You're gonna stay on
the plane at Long Beach, and it goes from Long
Beach to Austin. You stay in the Austin plane and
goes Austin to Dallas, and then she goes. Now you
get to Dallas, she goes, and then you'll get off
the plane there. So okay, so we stay in the
plane for the whole thing. That's fine, it's easier, less stress.
But when you get to Dallas, there's a chance that
flight may canceler. Going in Nashville, you're like, well, I

(01:57:30):
guess we're taking a chance. I was like, all right,
so we're going back even further backwards in this country
going to Long Beach. We were going from Long Las
Vegas to Nashville, and I went to Nashville, Las Vegas,
Las Vegas to Long Beach and then over to Austin,
then down to Dallas, and we may get to Nashville
at that point. So and you did make it on
that flight. So that Long Beach to Buston to Dallas.

(01:57:52):
How long was that flight in its entirety? So the
Las Vegas to Long Beach was I think maybe an
hour and as like maybe an hour. It was quick,
wasn't too bad, and then long I think our longest
flight was in Long Beach to Austin. I think that
was like two hours, two and a half hours and
then Dallas and then Austa Dallas quick thirty minutes. Okay.

(01:58:13):
My biggest warrior was how how are my kid's gonna
handle this? Like? They did great? They were great. I
was like, hey, dude, we're having to get on another airplane.
We're gonna sleep here for a little bit and then
we're gonna get on this airplane. He goes another airplane
and I was like yeah, He's like, oh, let's do this,
And I was like cool. My biggest warrior was, how
are my kid's gonna handle this? Yeah, and my daughter's
won and she's teething, and she's like feeling the stress

(01:58:35):
of this, and she was actually pretty calm and good.
So the kids factor of that was what made it
easier because they were handling it properly. And he was
so excited, but he kept but then he would sleep
a lot, and he would he loved, he loved to
take off in the landing, and so the fact that
he was enjoying it made it easier on us because
I could see him being stressed out or you know,

(01:58:56):
pitching a fit and crying, and then everyone else in
the plane, you know, having to deal with us, us
and all that crap. But he did a great job.
All the flights were good, except for when we went
from um Long Beach to Austin, Austin and Dallas. This
lady gets on at Long Beach and immediately my son
sitting behind her, and he kicked her seat one time.
One time, and he'd been in an airports for twenty

(01:59:16):
four hours. And she reached her handback it's hard to
swat his feet, and I was like, and I was like, whoa,
and she was what's going on? She goes, your son
kicked my seat and I was like, I was like,
I'm sorry. We haven't even taken off yet. We're just
getting settled and he's maneuvering. I'm getting in a seat.
She goes, I don't even kick my seat the entire time,
and I was like, ma'am. I was like, we have
been in an airport and planes for over twenty four hours.

(01:59:37):
I was like, I was like, we are doing our
best to keep it together, as like we've flown all
this damn country trying to get home. And she's like, oh, oh, okay,
I'm really sorry, and I understand. I have kids, so
I know it's like and then just swatted my kid.
I like, what the hell? And then she ended he
ended up being really good and she's like why, I
was a really great kid, and she was really sorry
about earlier when I touched her kid, and I was like, yeah,
it's all good. And we ended up becoming friends with

(01:59:57):
her and she's really nice. Um. And but then we
get the Dallas Now we're in Dallas, and then there's
a delay in Dallas, and I'm like, oh crap. And
I was all right, well, here we go. Are we
gonna make it to Nashville? Now we finally get on
the Dallas plane. And even with getting on the Dallas plane,
I ptsd of thinking like I don't know if we're
gonna actually make it to We're on the plane, but
I've been on a plane before and it turns around
mid air, So now anything, I don't know anymore. Yeah,

(02:00:20):
I just have no idea what is possible anymore. I
believe in nothing. I have faith in absolutely nothing at
this point. So yeah, we're on the plane. Sure, congratulations,
but this this thing can turn my background again. Yep.
So we're on the plane from Dallas to Nashville, which
is a really quick fly. I think it's like an
hour and a half and like I'm just like every minute,
just like waiting for the captain to come on and
say we're turning back around again because of some sort

(02:00:40):
of unforeseen circumstances or whatever the crap is happening, and um,
and we get on the we get on the plane
in Dallas, He's like, oh, this plane just had some
maintenance done to it, so we're not leaving the time
back for a minute. We have to get some paperwork signed.
Like great, we're on a plane that just got fixed. Cool,
now we're flying back. So there could could that could
also be another problem midair? Is the plane freaking breaks
mid air because you guys just fixed it for whatever

(02:01:02):
whatever the reason was. But besides the delay, you made
it to Nashville. Made it to Nashville. Finally made it
to Nashville, and it was I think, um, Tuesday, at
like eleven pm Tuesday. We made it. So yeah, so
does this make you never want to fly again? Was
it Tuesday? I don't remember a day? It was? What's today?
Today's Thursday? Flew Sunday into Monday? Yeah, it was it

(02:01:26):
was no, was it tuesday? Oh my god, I don't
know what day was I think it was Tuesday. Yeah,
I think it was Tuesday. It was Tuesday early morning
we got in okay, yes, yeah, Tuesday early morning because
then I wasn't there for Tuesday and I wasn't here
for Wednesday. I believe or was here for Wednesday. I
don't even know. Oh I know is we were in.
We were in airports and planes for over thirty six hours.
So but doesn't make you know, want to fly again? Um, yes,

(02:01:48):
But unfortunately I had to fly for the Soul Losers
Coaches Convention next weekend. I was when I when I
flew back to the Las day in which is where
we're going, I was I almost emailed Lunch and Rack
and all him. I was like, I ain't going like this.
I'm surprised you haven't. At that point, I'd be like, nah,
I'm not gonna take this risky and right now, I
just don't want to do it. I don't want to
I don't want to have to be delayed or connected
or whatever. I'm not doing this crap. I'm not going

(02:02:10):
to Las Vegas. But unfortunately I have to go because
they need someone to go there and help manage some
of the stuff that's going on. So I I'm obligated
to go, and I feel bad if I would. Man,
just you telling me that story makes you want to
go take a nap. Yeah, but that's a long travel day,
and man, I feel for you guys. But I'm so
glad you guys made it back safely and the kids
were okay. So yeah, the kids were good. An hour

(02:02:33):
sleep total, I think for me, my wife over thirty
six hours and you start, you just start year in
a daze. Jeez. I'm so glad that you guys are
back though, like truly, and I'm really glad that your
holidays were great. Yes, besides the traveling, I wish that
would have happened in the beginning of the trip because
in the payoff would have been Hawaii instead of my
payoff was thirty three weather and snow. You know, sometimes

(02:02:56):
things happen, and now you just know what it's really
like to stay in airport, so true. Yeah, yeah, and
that was weird, like there are people sleeping everywhere at
the airport. It was it was like terminal yeahs internal. Yeah,
Victim Nevorski, It's almost like I was like living that thing,
which I had never experienced my life. I've always you
never want to experience it again, never again. I've always
had great travel. I've never had anything cancel. I've had

(02:03:17):
some slight delays. That's what happens. It's just all piled
up on you at once you're here. It is yeah,
freaking got me. Oh man. Well, the show also talked
about their holiday celebration, so you can hear that right now.
And somebody did give theirs an f which is probably
about the same Scuba would give his trip back, but
not an actual celebration. Here you guys go number two.

(02:03:39):
What would you rate your overall holiday experience if you
were to grade it? Oh, I have this one a
ten out of ten. That's not a grade great, is like, yeah, yeah,
because listen, I'm just conferring it to last year. Things
are looking up. Yeah, it's so good. Guys, ever, leave

(02:04:00):
town did not leave. I think that helps the vibe
for us this year. At least that was important. I
like leaving to go see family and stuff, but for
this year, it made sense to stay put. And I
just feel like we just had a great Christmas break
one for the books. Yeah, what about you? I give
it an a oh hey, yeah, we went to Arkansas,

(02:04:23):
for a day on the front side and saw my
sister in Arkansas. Keith went to Oklahoma for four days
and then came back and stayed in Arkansas again for
a day, but had to get back for the New
Year's Show. And the New Year Show went great, and
so Christmas was good New Year. The only thing that
doesn't make it an A plus is they were doing
promo in one of the bowl games promoting the New

(02:04:43):
Year's Eve show, and they were like, hey, watch tonight
on New Year's Eve, Nashville's Big Bash. Have you heard
the clip yet? Okay, here's a clip of the promo
on CBS during the college footballball game. Go ahead, there

(02:05:06):
you go? No way? Yeah, Host Bobby Jones yang, it's
Brad Nessler. Sorry, dude, Brad Nesler call. I think I
deserve an apology? Oh yes, Oh good point got him. No,
I don't care. Everybody does that, but they except for
them calling me Bobby Jones. I mean it's good. The

(02:05:27):
weather was on New Year's Eve night. It was like
seventy here and I was sweating. I had to wear
clothes because I had outside clothes and I had a
white jacket. But I was gonna have a big coat
to wear over the top of it. But it was
so hot I couldn't wear the big coat and I
had to wear the white jacket. I'm still sweating all
night long. It was weird, and then it snowed like
a day later. But I give it a solid a eddie.

(02:05:49):
I'm gonna go be just because. And it's not being
a down or anything, but you go from family to
family and it's like, you know, you're in their environment.
I was. I was with my parents for about four days,
and then my wife's family for about five days, and
after a while, You're just like, I want to go
to my house where I have my rules and all
that stuff. So I'm just gonna go solid bluchbox. Yeah

(02:06:09):
right now, guys. Was terrible. Like we drove all the
way to Texas, and the day we got there, my
wife woke up and she wasn't feeling well. Two days later,
my kid, oh my throat hurts. Christmas morning, Your boy,
who thought he avoided all the sickness, wakes up in
the sweats and the chills, feeling terrible. I didn't get
to see opening Christmas presidents, didn't have a big meal.

(02:06:31):
Your boy was down with strep throat. Oh, it wasn't COVID.
It wasn't COVID. I had the COVID test, the flute test,
and the strep test, and they said, congratulations, you got strep.
And I'll be honest, I've never been excited to get
strep except for that time when they said it wasn't COVID.
M So it's miserable. So Christmas, you're expecting COVID, right,

(02:06:52):
he was saying it. I expected everybody had COVID. Everybody's
had COVID, like again, even that production we were doing
day out day before, Sam month out, Zach brown out,
l king out. I had friends I get COVID. I
mean a lot of people had COVID. Huh. I know.
Still not me, but I knock on wood anytime I
say that I've never had it. You guys are crazy,

(02:07:13):
and I'm everywhere. Yeah, I'm Johnny Cash. I'll be everywhere. Man,
I've been everywhere, let me tell you. Because COVID was
going crazy over Christmas, but I had school was out,
but I had to keep my son involved in something
because we just he needs to be out and stimulated
in some way. And I sign him up for this
gymnastics camp. Let me tell you, COVID was not happening

(02:07:35):
at this camp. Like I was all nervous, like, what
is it gonna be? Like masks, like there's probably be
social distance like these kids. Nope. You walk into this
camp and it's like COVID doesn't even exist, like they
were just living their best life. And I'm like, well,
if this is gonna be the time I get it,
because he brings it home to me, we get it.
You know, he did that camp for two weeks straight nothing,
so I don't know. I still have to knock on

(02:07:56):
wood when I say that, what's happening? Why don't we
get it? You want it? Because I want to go
ahead and just get it. No, I don't want it,
but like if right now, no, but listen, if, if,
if we're gonna get it, I just want to go
ahead it. I wish I would have gotten it so
then I had the antibodies and then I knew that
I was okay. But right now I'm just you know, vaccinated,

(02:08:19):
which is good, but a lot of my friends are
vaccinated are still getting it anyway, so it's like it's
just not as bad. They don't get it as bad. Right,
so you want it. I don't want it, But I'm
just saying, why hasn't we gotten it? Is your fish
still alive? Yeah? Be honest. Yes, when when I was
I went to Amy's house two days ago, I didn't
even look for the fish. I forgot it. Room, What

(02:08:42):
were you there for? Then? Christmas presents on my Instagram?
There's a sweatsuit Amy got me of my wife's face.
I'll ever Yeah, um, okay, you've had Edie. I've had it.
And I tell you what, that COVID doesn't stress me out.
Twice right, no, just once, but it was like a
month just the once. But what stresses me out is
the timing. I'm like, oh, if I get it, like, please,

(02:09:03):
don't let it me when I'm were working because because
last time I was gone for like two months. Yeah.
But then if you get it like Lunchbox, well he
had strapped. But if you get sick, then you miss
out on Christmas break. Mike, you've had it. No, I
never had it. Oh. I mean the old mcron was
flying around town, right, I mean like everybody, Yeah, I
had it. Well, no more knocking though, that feels weird.

(02:09:24):
When you started talking. I don't know what else to
do because I feel like saying it is wrong. Yeah,
but I do wonder I say it too. I haven't
had it yet. And I had dinner for three hours
with a friend who was like, I tested today, negative,
caused us back. Like fourteen hours later, I tested again. Yeah,

(02:09:45):
I'm positive. We sat with them for three hours at dinner.
But again, what the world have vaccine? I got to
I got a booster. Oh yeah, you got the booster.
And then I got a flu shot in the other
shoulder on the same day. Oh my god, my arms
were useless for about twenty four hours, both of them.
To sleep on my back and not roll over at
all because it was killing me. It's the best bits
of the week, with Morgan number two coming in hot

(02:10:11):
At number one, Bobby scratched a lot of ticket on
air and he won some big money. Now, this was
fun because it's never happened on the air before and
and big money is a relative, but just listen, it
was pretty fun. Number one. You gave me this ticket, right,
I'm gonna make sure, okay, Yes, it's a twenty dollars
scratch off. Millionaire jumbo bucks went up to one million

(02:10:33):
dollars this isn't a joke ticket. Rightly, that would be terrible.
Get out of the gas station. I did. Huh. There
has to be regret for that person that gave the
million dollars ticket. They're like, why did I give kept
that one? Yeah? Okay, so I've scratched the top numbers already,
but now I'm gonna scratch the ones. If they match,
I'm gonna win the cat. Okay. Do you want to
hear the top numbers? You don't care? I do real quick?

(02:10:55):
Oh yeah, we care. There's thirty four, twenty seven, thirteen,
forty to forty three, thirty seven, twenty four, and thirty eight.
You're not gonna remember that. We go first number seventeen,
No winner, forty five, no winner, Wait, no, no, all right,
forty one winner, forty seven, no winner. I want something.

(02:11:21):
I get a jumbo, says jumbo. Oh my god, what
does that mean? Double? It says five times? Do you
want to see this? Because I haven't scratched the money
off of it yet. Look, it says jumbo. I'll come
back to it at the end. Yes, eight, How does it?
Says jumbo? It may be two dollars on the bar?
Plame two dollars, but it says jumbo five to oh,

(02:11:42):
I'm coming back to that one day. So let's say
it is. If it is two dollars, it's just two
jumps five yeah, Or if it's one hundred dollars, it's
all here we go. Next up forty six no winner,
thirty one, no winner, lunch bombs, be happy for him,
twenty no winner, forty four no winner, thirty three no winner. Jumbo.

(02:12:09):
I know, I don't like to think about the JUMBOO
got scratch the jumbo at the mottom of supposed to
match just one. There's all you gonna do. There's one number, hey,
lunch and he's scratching him down. He doesn't go across.
That's the weirdest strategy. There's no strategy. It's all the
same yea like six left, thirty six, no winner. I
don't really see me winn except go back to that jumbo. Yeah,
jumbo is the winner. You don't need to scratch any more. Fourteen,

(02:12:31):
no winner. It's a jumbo. Rare get another jumbo. I
got another jump jumbo. Yeah, well I got a second jumbo.
I got a second jumbo. Abby's kicking herself right now.
It says five times, I got two jumbos, Which jumbo
you gonna do? First? Come on? What's the prediction, lunchbox?
What's gonna be under the jumbo? The first jumbo is

(02:12:54):
gonna be two dollars and the second one is gonna
be two dollars for a total of twenty bucks to
get my money back? Ye, get your money back? Will
you be a hater with prediction? Yep? Absolutely would hate
to see you get a million dollars here, okay, here
we go. Oh, I bet it's gonna be ten thousand.
Can you imagine if I want ten thousand dollars on
the show you win, I'd pee everywhere and then walk out. No,

(02:13:15):
it would be ten thousand under jumbo bones. I'd pee
everywhere and walk out, and then I would like, what
back tomorrow? That would be a fun moment. It would be. Yeah,
I don't know how you're at scuba. Okay, first jumbo,
this bratch is come on, big money. I'll tell you this.

(02:13:36):
It's filing. It's more than two dollars. Oh man times five?
What times five? But it's not a lot. Yeah, it's
more than two dollars. It's more than five dollars. No way,
no way, Oh my god. Okay. The first one it's
five times ten dollars. You won't okay, I've already hit

(02:13:57):
fifty dollars. How do you have the most luck in
the world? The time? Unbelievable. Bit let's go all right.
Second one, we already know what it is. How much
is it to be for Abby to get a call?
Thousand dollars he's getting at least the second jumbo, it's

(02:14:18):
five times ten dollars. Okay, this is a one hundred
dollar ticket, one on the air. Good well, Abbey, thank
you very much. Yeah, you're an understood Wait what do
you understand? I don't understand how you, of all people,
have the most luck in the world, like any of
your Amy Amy, who has the most luck? You know? Bobby?

(02:14:39):
Bobby for sure, But technically Abby bought it. Hey, Abby,
I'm gonna give this to you. You can your stuff.
Who are you giving her one hundred dollars? It's your gift.
I can't take it back. I would like to give
to you this one hundred dollars. Take it, ay, take it,
take it, abb don't take it Abby, Abby, just leave
it there, leave it in the studio. Just sa it's

(02:15:00):
a test. I haven't got a mask on. By the way,
you can get COVID. I would like to give you
this ticket. Why you would like to have it? Don't
I want you to? Okay, Okay, I tried. It's the
best bits of the week with Morgan number two. Well, Scuba,
it was so fun having you on another great podcast

(02:15:23):
therapy session. But also we heard about your crazy, crazy
trip back home, which was also was making me want
to leave right now to go take a nap in
this snowstorm. So yeah, thank you for the PTSD. You
know now you've lived it and you don't have to
ever talk about it again. It's all out there. Yes, yeah,
I'll tell the story ever again. It's all gone. Thank you.
I'm so glad you're back safe, and I'm glad you

(02:15:45):
had a good holiday in Hawaii. And thanks for hanging
out with me for a little bit. Yeah, we don't
think we talked about your vacation. Did you talk about
yours in the show? That's all right? Oh no, we
didn't it. But that's okay, that's crap. Okay, you can
give us a little bit or no, the little I'll
give you to keep it, Scuba, we we decided to
keep this podcast short and sweet. But our short and
sweet is an hour and a half already. Okay, but

(02:16:06):
I will tell I went home to Kansas, which is
where I'm from. Okay, um, and it was awesome. I
got so much family time. I really tried to not work,
though I still ended up working decent amount. Unfortunately, UM,
I met a sloth. The most epic part, most epic
Christmas gift my parents gave me was getting to go

(02:16:27):
and encounter with a sloth and I got to feed them.
That's really cool. Um and they were so cool. Yeah,
so that was like the highlight of it. But really
I just hung out with my family and we I
ate so much food, more than I needed to. Nothing crazy.
I rode tripped home with one of my best friends
to Kansas City guys, see my friends. And when I
wrote trip back, it's twelve hours each way. My dad

(02:16:48):
rode with me, and so for his one night that
he was here, we went out hit the town to
see the bars that he wanted to see. Um, and
that was about it. It was a good, good chill
vacation which I needed. You're family vegetarian begin as well. Nope,
I'm the only one. My mom doesn't eat a lot
of meat, she'll chicken. Um. But yeah, I'm the only vegetarian.
So they accommodate you and make whatever you have or

(02:17:09):
you have to go pick up food. No, I just eat. Listen.
When it comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas, I am a
side dish queen. I eat all the sides because I'm
not vegan, so that helps things, right, Um, I will.
I will have every single side dish on a plate. Okay,
and it's amazing as great as you have a collection
of all the different flavors and taste, which is also

(02:17:29):
where my sweet tooth comes from, because then I always
love desserts. Yes, it's not good for me, which is
why for January my goal is to nat eat sweets.
I have accomplished decently so far. Yeah, not great, but
we're working on it. Yeah. Well there's there's my vacation
wrapped in a pretty little bow. A cool it was good.
Sloth was the main one. Oh. I saw that video.

(02:17:51):
I was like, that is the coolest thing I've ever
seen to see the name Like, I've seen a sloth
like at the zoo and stuff, but never like an
encounter with a slow Yeah. The place that we went
or that happened was at Tanganika Wildlife Park and it's
a breeding facility, so they breed endangered and rare species
that we never lose them. Yeah. Um, And we were

(02:18:12):
talking about zoos and stuff before and how it's really
it's kind of a love hate relationship. But this place
is one of my favorites because of everything they do. Um,
just for like like dinosaurs that they have an extinct
did you see the news story about the and and
maybe it was a false one because I never really
clicked into it, but there was a preserved dinosaur egg
that somebody found. Yeah, Like, why don't we if there

(02:18:32):
is I mean, we have all these fossils and things
that are in the ground, why don't we try to
like re like re erected. I'm sorry, are we trying
to go through Jurassic Park again? You saw how that
happened for everybody? It was not good. Yeah, that's true,
a good point. Oh but yeah, maybe a little baby one, yeah,
you know the one the ones that have the cool
lung necks and they don't hurt anybody. Coronosaurs whatever, omnivores

(02:18:55):
or whatever. Yeah, I could deal with one of those. Yeah,
so yeah, it was really cool. That was school. That
was my favorite. So if you're ever in witch Stock, Kansas,
go to Tanganika Wildlife Park. Yeah so awesome. Um, but yeah,
there's my vacation. Very cool. We won't keep our yeah,
I see the time clocking down, I was like starting.
We literally started this, I saying we're gonna keep it
short and sweet. Two hours. All right, Steve, tell them

(02:19:20):
where they can find you. They can find me on
my Space, friends, stir and Yahoo email. I'm just kidding,
basically just Twitter and Instagram. It's Scuba Steve radio suba
stev r Ado. No, that was a lot of spelling,
but I did not get radio there he is. I'm
so glad you stopped by. And I am Morgan at

(02:19:43):
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hit up the show on everything at Bobby Bones Show
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(02:20:03):
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