September 13, 2025 • 43 mins
Morgan and Eddie have lots of life to catch up on, including clearing the drama from last time Eddie was on the show. Plus, they talk about previous big wins, Morgan’s detox, Eddie not having a “man cave,” and how things are going with his family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan, Part.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
One, behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's up friends, It's time for best Bits and Eddie
is joining me. What's up, Eddie? What's thanks for coming on?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, thanks for having me, especially.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Since there was drama last time we were on.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There was no drama, no drama. You got mad at
me though, I got that at all of you, I know,
but I didn't do anything. I was just laughing. I
was just laughing because it's funny.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, you helped the environment. You helped create the environment
that we were in.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
If something is funny, I laugh. But there was no drama.
There was no drama whatsoever. And we're not even talking
about that again.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Okay, Well, how's life. What's going on with you lately?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Man? Life is good. I will tell you what though.
Last weekend when the lottery was the billion whatever, I
thought I was gonna win it, and like so this
week's kind of been like a little bit. It happens
to me every time, Morgan, every time there's a lot
a big, big jackpot.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You seriously thought you'd win it, especially after they share
the study of like you're more likely to be a president.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
They don't think I can be.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm not saying you can't. It's just anybody the likelihood
of there's been how many presidents in our lifetime fifty
six something like that. Right, we're not even at sixty, I.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Understand, But like, I feel like I can do anything.
Like when people say, like, oh, you know what, the
odds are getting struck by lightning, like it'll probably be me.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Like what I do feel that same?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Right, you know, it's pretty bad someone says like you
can't be president. I'd be like, I bet you I could,
like if I really tried. And so when the lottery
comes up and it's like billions of dollars, I'm just like,
we're going to play this and it's going to be
awesome if we win, like oh my gosh. And then
we do this over and over, here comes the numbers.
We don't win it, and then it's back to life
(01:53):
and Monday morning you're like going back to work, which
I love my job, but god, I can't wait to
like just do nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And I'm assuming you would be the same as Lunchbox.
If you want the lottery, you'd be like, OK, you guys,
gotta put me. You wouldn't peace out completely, but you'd
be like, my two weeks are in them out.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't know, because like my wife was telling me,
because we were talking about it. We went together to
go buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh it was a little date.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And yes, and she had numbers picked out, like we
did want She had her numbers that she liked. We
did our kids' birthdays, and then we were behind this
like work truck where like their phone number was in
the back. It was like some like car carpenter or whatever.
And she was like, oh my gosh, those numbers right there.
Write them down. And so we broke those numbers down
into six number or five numbers, and so we had
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like the numbers that we filled down and then we
did like I don't know, five dollars quick pick. But
she we started talking about like, well, what do we do,
like if we do win it, like and do we
tell the kids? And she was very firm on no,
we will not tell the kids. We won't tell anyone
we want it. We really can't change our life. And
I was like, what, Like, what's the point of winning
(02:58):
the lottery if I'm not gonna buy my boat, Like
if I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Going to put your job and retire the whole point.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And she's like, we can't, Like, can you imagine they'd
be so bratty if they knew we were billionaires and
we just changed our lives. She's like, I think the
most we can do is probably just buy a new
house with some land, but we'd they'd have to stay
in their same school. They would have to live our
life the way we normally do. And then once they
are out, we'll set a little fund up where they
get so much money when they turn a certain age,
(03:26):
and then we tell.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Them, did that crush all of your hopes and dreams? Right?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yes? I was like, there's got to in this little
plan of years, there's got to be a way I
can get to the beach in like two hours and
go fishing on my boat without them knowing.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We have a secret private jet that nobody knows about. Right,
Dad just went to the beach for the day.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, Like why does dad come home with fish every
time it goes to work? You know something? Because like,
how am I going to win the lottery and not
change my life?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah? But it's also hard. I mean, if the guy
who did call into our show Chili was actually real Chili,
who knows, nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Did you believe him? Though?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I think it would be really hard to not do
something when you win that kind of money. Now, granted,
Chili didn't sound like a guy who played the lottery,
so this wasn't something that he ever really planned for.
And so I could see there's a situation where somebody
wins and it was unexpected and yeah, they're like, oh, well,
I'm just going to stock away the money. I would
be similar, but I would still do something right.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I mean, I work, no, I just I mean, what
would you do something like?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I would do something with that money like I won,
Like I would want to do something right yourself, whether
it's like you get a new car if you needed
a new car, you wanted to do like me, I've
always wanted to have a farm, I'd buy the farm
that I've always wanted. I would want to do something correct.
It doesn't have to be extravagant, but I'd want to
do something. And the fact that he did nothing is
what makes it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Chill unreal to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, and that goes to like do this with your
But if it is true he was responsible and write
much of which your wife would be also being.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
What's funny though, It's like you guys would know, because
even if you don't tell anyone, the news comes out
that there's a winner in Tennessee, and then all of
a sudden, I'm not at work because I really would
like I would just not show up, so you lunch
at least for like a couple of days where I
just don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
What would you tell everybody, like I'm not sick.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, but I feel like you guys like don't you
see Bobby just being like hold on, Eddie never calls
him sick, Like hold.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
On, what's happening here?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What could could Eddie have won the lottery? You know?
Like I feel like everyone in this room would know
if it was Amy, if it was Lunchbox, if it
was you, if it was Bobby, we would well maybe
not Bobby because I don't think his I don't think
he would do anything different.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
No, I think he was He's already.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Coming to work voluntarily, like wanting to do this, you know.
But like everyone else, I think we wouldn't know Morgan.
Morgan's not here the day after the lottery was picked,
and it was picked here in Nashville, Like.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Uh uh, you know, I have always wanted to play,
just for the fact of you guys always talk about it.
And my dad's played the lottery pretty much his whole life,
and he's played our birthdays and he's done all the things.
He's done so many different numbers, and he's never had
a huge win or anything like that. But I think
about all of you guys who always play all the time,
and I'm like, dang, you know, I just want to
go buy the lottery one time and then like have
(06:23):
a big win so I can just come back and
be like, guys, I've played one time. I think I've
played the lottery.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's so that's so mean spirited of you.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
But it's more fun. You same, But I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I don't play. He plays like every every week.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And there's so many people like that. I know, I
know and like you. But okay, think of your lotteries
and you're gambling. All of them can bined? Have you
ever won anything big?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So like, let me do the sports gambling and I'll
break it down for you. I get fifty dollars a
week for sports gambling a month, not a week a month,
fifty five dollars a month. So it's kind of fun.
It's a project for me.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Was that also allocated to you from your wife? Yes,
it started forty the finances.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It started us forty like two years ago, and then
I was like, come on, like, let me have ten
more dollars. Fifty forty is a weird number, you know,
So like I talked her up to fifty dollars a mon, negotiated,
I did. I did. So I'm at fifty dollars a
month now and sometimes like I will win, you know,
to I will take my fifty dollars balance to two
hundred into like three months, so I never have to
(07:28):
recharge and put fifty dollars more into it every month,
so I've got like two months credit. So it lets
me go a little harder on the bets. But for
the most part, I do very low risk, high reward bets,
meaning I bet one dollar, one little dollar for like
ten teams to win, and if those ten teams win,
(07:50):
I win like ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But how often.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Never I've never hit the tenth thousand, but I've gotten close.
I've gotten close to hitting I think eight thousand dollar.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I missed it by one, Okay, so I think I
know what you're talking about because there is a bet
on draftings. I just learned that. Ess I'm very new
to all of it. My boyfriend places a bet. It's
a twenty dollars bet that you can make it back.
It's like a risk free bet. Yeah yeah, yeah, hit
the money back, but you decide what all you're betting on.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
They call it that a sweat free bet or no
sweat bet.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah. So he had like eight different things in there,
and he hit seven out of eight. He was hit
like if he hit it, it would have been like three
thousand dollars seay rent. And the last one was like
on the last game was about to happen, and it
could have like the one thing that hadn't hit yet
could have happened. Yes, it didn't, And so I'm sitting
there like but really like you, but you spend He's like, well,
it's no sweat, so I get the twenty dollars back.
(08:42):
I was like, that's gambling that I feel like people
would enjoy. But that's how it makes it addictive.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I mean addictive is like I could be like when
I'm out of my fifty dollars, I'm never like, gosh,
I wish I had fifty dollars, So like, I don't
do that. Okay, once the fifties over, it's over. But
it's so much more fun to watch a game that's
it's not your team, it's not the Cowboys, it's Washington
versus Arizona. Would never care about that game. But the
fact that I have, like I could win six hundred
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dollars off that one game makes it really exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Does it make it more exciting than already being a
sports fan? Or like different exciting?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Different exciting because it's not just watching a fun game,
watching a cool play go down or a comeback. It's
like I can win money off this. It's a whole
different other. It's a different ballgame. But let me tell
you about one time when I is. So those are
called parlays. You what your boyfriend does. You pick six games,
you have to win all of You have to hit
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all of those six games. So say, like it's Cowboys
and Giants, you pick the Cowboys. Cowboys have to win
that game. Next one, if it's Arizona and Cincinnati and
you pick Cincinnati, Cincinnati has to win that game. If
you hit all six of those, you get paid. If
you miss one of those bets over, you lose whatever
you put in. So I put one dollar right for
(09:59):
like I think it was a eight games, one dollar,
picked eight teams and it was the last team. I'd
hit them all. And so what they do is they
give you a cash out option, kind of like you
ever see Dealer No.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Deal Yeah, So it's like you can cash out right
now and get some money.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But if you win the six games, you get and
I think mine was like eight hundred bucks, and I'd
bet one dollar one dollar eight hundred is awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And I'm sure there's a timing threshold because they obviously
if you're too much into that last game, it's like, okay,
well you can't pull out now.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right or or if it looks like that that you're
in the last game and they're getting beat by like
twenty points, you can't. They don't give you that good
of a of a cash out. But if you're down
to that last game, sometimes if it's eight hundred dollars,
the cash out will be two hundred. You can cash
out right now for two hundred dollars, or you can
(10:50):
keep playing and not get anything or win the eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's what they call gamblings. Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So then I tell my wife. I'm like, oh my gosh,
what do I do? Like they're offering me two hundred
dollars and I remember I remember this vividly. They were
college games and I think it was the Longhorns where
that was the last team, Texas Longhorns. And I told
my wife, I'm like, I could win eight hundred dollars
or I can cash out right now and win like
two fifty. And she was like, and how much did
(11:16):
you bet? I was like a dollar. She's like, why
would you cash out? It's a dollar? Like, it's just
one dollar, it is true.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Leave it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
So then the Longhorns took the lead and the cash
out ended up being like five hundred, almost six hundred dollars,
and my wife's like, it's just you're gonna win. Just
to just leave it in there, like just win the
eight hundred and they end up losing the game, and
I was so pissed, like, ah, this could have been
my biggest hit ever, you know, like six hundred dollars
(11:46):
and I never want it. But the most I think
I've ever gotten is like two hundred, three hundred on
a dollar though, pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, because you're doing very low risk. Would you ever
do like all fifty on one thing if you're so confident.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I've done that and I've lost, And it's the worst
falain ever because I'm I'm already kind of tight with
money because I have four kids, And whenever I lose
fifty dollars on one game, I'm like what, Like why
did I do that? Like that could have been pizza night.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, that fifty dollars could have gone to a whole lot,
you know what I mean there?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, the fact that, like off a dumb game, you
just lost fifty dollars, Like it hurts my feelings a
little bit, and I feel like a loser. Dad. But
when I lose, when I lose five dollars a night
because I did five parlays, I don't that bad.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
No, that's fair. And also I think that's a good
conscious to have on you, because yeah, that's how you
don't get into a gambling situation where you have to
gamble all the time. You come back to reality and say, Okay,
we're not going to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Did you play the lottery this time around?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
No? I didn't. I'm just not why not?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Though? Like why not?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's because I don't you want to talk about being
tied with money. I do not like wasting my money.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It's two dollars for a lot. I want to I
want ticket, two dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Still, I spent ten dollars on mine.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Okay, I thought it was like ten or twenty, and
that's why I was like, I don't really care.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Two dollars a number, okay, well, a number like one
one one, like one strip of numbers, one strip of numbers,
one play.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, maybe next time I will. But I've always been
that person. I do not I don't like paying people
to do things that I can do. I don't like ohran,
like for mowing, or you mow your onwn yard? Yes,
well now my boyfriend helps me.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Do you do it shirtless?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Sometimes? Well it was really hot out, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Of course he does.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
It's nice.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Need to.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Work on the back porch. And he comes over and mows.
I'm like, this is nice.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I wonder if he likes doing that, he loves to
no stop like I wonder, or if he's just mows
my neighbor's yard too, because he wants are you talking
about the strip that you all share or like? Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And so he also mows her backyard too.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wow. Is it a single lady or something? Yeah, but
he like, no, no, not like that. I meant like
a lady that just doesn't probably pay someone to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, but her friend would help her sometimes and like
she'll go out and do it, but she just doesn't.
He loves it, like he loves yard work.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
He was so excited to like have a yard to
do something with. I was like, have at it.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh, because he lives in an apartment.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, so he was like, yeah, I'll come over and
take care of this. Just tell me when.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
What are your thoughts on that strip?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Like, because shared space?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, because I didn't when I grew up growing up,
like we didn't have I lived in a lot of
like our house is like on a big lot, and
so we never shared yards. When I didn't live in
a real neighborhood, it was kind of like out in
the outside of the town.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, you had land.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
But so the first time I got i'd moved into
a neighborhood and there's that strip that you share with
your neighbor and they would cut their grass and like
literally make this imaginary line and just cut half of
the strip and leave the other half for me, and
I was I was like, why don't you just do
the whole strip, like it's it's just two more passes. Well,
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but people are so particular about that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I was going to say, this depends on the other
person for a lot of ways. Because one, people don't
like you touching their yard. Like some people are very particular.
So like my neighbor when she most she'll never touch mine,
She's like, I know Morgan likes her grass a certain way,
so like I'm not gonna I'm not a good mower,
so like I'm not gonna butcher her yet.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So, but like vice versa, sometimes if I knew stuff
was going on with her, I'd mow our shared strip
together and then she'd take care of the rest. And
like my dad, whenever he'd visit in town, he'd mow
all of it. And he's like, well, why don't you
just take care of it? I was like, this is
a lot of work for me. Like I have little
arms and little legs. You are a dad, Okay, I
am like a baby t rex trying to use this
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like weed eater, and like my arms feel like yellow
after an hour. Very different experiences. He's like, Okay, I
get that. So like for me, most of the time,
I wouldn't just because I knew she would take care
of it unless she like needed me to. But I
always knew most people wouldn't because like people are particular
about their yards. I get that, and so like unless
you have an agreed upon arrangement or like you know
(15:56):
your neighbor's super well, I don't think you've crossed that bound.
I think people really are like stingy about their yards.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I always thought it was just like what just just
do the whole thing, But I get that, like is
your yard, Like, what's so particular about your yard?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Like I used to be, because I'd be really good
about lane seed and I'd have good crass And now
I've I've honestly given up trying to maintain it because
it's so much work, especially in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It is hard.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
But I used to have like this really nice, lush yard,
and so she would always see me and I'd have like, my,
I'm just very particular person in general, like I have
very like I'm very ocd in ways, and like, so
certain maneuvers and aesthetics look better to me, and so
I would just do it that way, and she's like,
I don't even know what I'm doing, so I'm not
(16:43):
gonna do y.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Do you ever see those yards they have like checkered
like they look like baseball fields, yes, or like fairways
and golf courses.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yes, how they do that. That's my brother in law
and my dad. They do that, not kidding. Like when
my my sister first got married, he would they would
send their grass pictures back to each other in the
group chat.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And it's in mind because mine's not big enough to
have me that I just have like straight lines. I'm like, well,
my look's pretty too. Yeah, but yeah, people can do that.
You don't do like the line when your kids do it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I don't know how to. Well, now my kids do it,
But before I made my kids do it.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Wait pause, pause, we need a break really quick and
I want to keep talking about this. Pause Okay, please continue.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So before my kids were doing that we're cutting the grass,
I was doing it. And then I was doing better
help with this with the therapist. Yeah, and I remember
me talking about how I get stressed out about money
and my wife clicking Amazon and like all that, and
(17:47):
he started talking to me about money. He's like, well,
what's money to you? Like what do you buy for yourself?
And I'm like nothing, like I don't do anything. I
played golf, but like I probably play golf like once
or twice a month, and I walk, you know, and
that's not a money thing, but I just like to
go walk the golf course. So usually around of golf
for me is like twenty five dollars thirty dollars versus
like could be one hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So I'm like, really, I don't spend that much on me,
but it bothers me when other members of my family
spend so much on them and I don't spend much
on me. And he was like, look, man, you have
to invest in yourself, Like what is something that you
just are tired of doing. I'm like cutting the grass,
Like invest in yourself. Take the thirty dollars and hire
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someone to cut your grass. That way you cannot do
it and it makes you feel better about like feel
accomplished or whatever or I don't have to do that anymore.
And so I did it, and I'm like he's right,
like I feel great that I don't have to cut
my grass anymore. And so I love that, Like I
love that feeling. Now obviously like we I don't have
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anyone that comes and cuts my grass because now I
have four boys that are older and they all cut
the grass.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, it's one of the chortes.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
They don't do it great, which is like kind of
makes me a lot upset, Like guys come on like
take a little pride and like making our yard look good.
But we're working on it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Was that an interesting dilemma though, because before that, probably
the oldest is the only one that would have any
recollection of like you hiring somebody to do it. Do
you feel like there's that disconnect between them not taking
pride in it because they never really saw you do it.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I mean they saw me do it, Okay, they saw me.
I think it was only like a two year, two
year time period where somebody a company came and did it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Which also I approve of you doing that. I think
you should do whatever is going to make your life easier.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I told my wife too, him, like hire someone to
clean the house once every two weeks or something, you know,
so we don't have to do it all the time.
Where you don't have to do it all the time,
and it makes you feel better, and it really does,
like it really does make you feel like, Wow, I
didn't have to clean the house this week. Yeah, like
that's awesome and so but and then we talk about
the boys and it's like we have My big thing
about the boys is like we have all these boys
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that are able and strong and can do stuff like
cut the grass, wash the dishes, sweep the floors, everything.
But my wife's just like, yeah, but they suck at it.
And it's like we have to end up doing it
anyway because they're so bad at it. And I'm like, no,
let's take the time in trying to teach them to
(20:20):
do it better. But it's so hard because like as
a parent, and I know there's probably parents listening to
being like it's just easier for us to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I think that's how most people feel with a lot
of things. Sometimes, like teaching somebody a new skill, you're like,
I would just rather take care of this myself. Yes,
there is that in most things in life, Like I'll.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Grab a spoon and be like this is gross, Like
like this this wasn't even washed, you know, and like
here we go, I gotta wash it myself.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Now, and it creates more work for you, like it does, but.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Again, we're teaching them to be responsible boys and able
to do that. What's funny too, is like we've been
playing I've been teaching them poker, okay, just kind of
not like I feel like they should know poker. One
of them came, like one of them had to sleepover
or whatever, and they were like they were hanging out
with their friends and like, yeah, they had a poker night.
It was really cool. We played poker and I was like, oh,
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we can play poker here, and they're like, well you
teach us. I'm like, yeah, so I taught them how
to play poker, but none of them knew how to shuffle.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Oh, shuffling is a is a big learn skill as a.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Kid, yep. And that's when my wife said, like, we
need to teach these boys how to shuffle. They can't
be like growing up and like get invited to poker
night and like all right, it's your turn of shuffle.
They're like, we never learned how to shuffle.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I wonder what other things are like that that are
learned skills that like we automatically just kind of picked
up because it was the thing. Yeah, like Shuffling is
something I never realized that other people didn't know. Right,
whenever I do it, somebody's like, oh, I never learned
how to shuffle. I'm always like what and I can
do the bridge. I got the whole thing out wondering
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what else there is.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Let me think shuffling was the was the one that
for sure came up recently, where like we have to
teach our kids how to show.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, and maybe it is stuff like mowing the yard
because I never mowed the yard as a kid. My
dad always mowed.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Because we're about cooking, cooking is a good one. Oh yeah,
because it's a good one. I mean, so many friends
of mine in college like did not to cook. I
did because I've always loved cooking, watching my mom cook,
learning from my dad how to grill, and like, but
people don't grow up knowing how to cook. So like
they're like ramen and then it goes in a microwave,
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like that's what we're having for dinner. And so like
that's one where I'm teaching my boys, like hey, uh huh,
stay in the kitchen, learn how to cook this because
I want you to learn. And my wife always says,
like your wives are gonna love love If you know
how to cook, they're gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Well, they're also just gonna be able to find for
themselves a significant amount of their life. Like, yeah, I
was that way. I knew how to bake. I was
really good at baking because we would always do cookies
and all kinds of like desserts all the time. But
cooking I didn't. I was also a vegetarian, so like
I would make mac and cheese, I knew how to make.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's easy, yeah, like or trees.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Or cheese kseydiya. It wasn't really hard for me. I
didn't really learn to cook until really during COVID. Really
I picked up on how to make recipes. I started
getting recipes from home.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Do you see stuff? Oh do you ask your mom
for stuff?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Recipes? Did you ever see stuff online?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh? Yeah, I mean I did, like a little when
I was doing Food World a long time ago. I
was doing like a series where all the restaurants were
putting out like their best dishes, like the recipes to them,
and so I would make them at home to be like, Okay,
does it actually taste like the restaurant kind of thing?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That's so hard, right, like because you you do exactly
what they say and then you're like, this tastes nothing
like the restaurants.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh my gosh, so much so, and like now I
feel like I'm actually really really good at cooking. Yeah,
but it's only because of COVID. I don't know that
I would have ever had that without it. I can,
I can follow instructions super well, but there's an art
to cooking and understanding, like you kind of have to
go off script a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I've learned a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, and everyone's taste buds are different. Like a recipe
like I know, like my this is my mother in law, somebody,
somebody in my family. I don't remember who, but like
they were they were doing a dinner for like the
whole family, and they were reading the recipe and they're like,
oh my gosh, it calls for a regano, Like we
don't have a regane. I'm like, relax, Like you don't
need a regano, Like it's not gonna make or break
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the dish or like, oh my gosh, we ran out
of sugar, and like, well, use whatever you have and
then it'll be fine. No, one's gonna notice, like, hold on,
we're missing a regano and this dish, you know. Like,
but some people that don't know how to cook or
have never cooked really stress out over.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Recipes very much so. And because you start to learn,
also what can substitute, you can learn, what you can
switch out for things. Maybe there's a dish that you love,
but there's a certain ingredient you don't like. There's just
like so much you learn. It's cool in it it is.
I love cooking. I did too, but I don't. I
love cooking when I get to do it for fun
and for like other people, or if like I'm sharing
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a meal with somebody, but like cooking for me every day,
which I'm happy to to do for like my whole
detok thing honestly kind of miserable, mostly just because I'm
having to cook a whole lot. Yeah, And the dishwasher
gets run like once a day. It used to get
run like maybe once a week.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Really, yeah, twice a day. Really have to run it
twice a day, and then we do overnight and then
somewhere in the middle of the day.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, stresses me out. One a day
is stressing me out, Well, what are you making?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That's like stressing you out? Like what you your meal prepping?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, so I eat so much more food now. Before
I was such a snacker and I've learned that that's
really bad.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
But now your focus on meals.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, and so like I have to eat scrambled eggs
and fruit every morning, and I have to do smoothies
for lunch.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You make the scramble eggs before you come in to work. Yeah,
well that's tough.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, and that would be some nice we're all prepping,
but it just doesn't taste quite as good.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Doesn't eggs? Eggs have to be fresh.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, so I making moiled hard boiled, yes, And like
sometimes I can do like a leftover and add eggs,
but it's just easier to do that. I've really simplified it.
And then dinner, I always have to cook a meal.
Sometimes at dinner will last a few days, but like
it's still I'm still having to make all this food
all the time, and that's what's like adding and I'm
not eating out near as much. So if I'm like,
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there'll be times where I've been out socializing and I'm
like I have to go there. Case in point, I
had a birthday party I had to go to, okay,
and I was starving, but like the timing wasn't working out.
We'd been gone all day. We'd been hanging out with
different friends and like we were bopping to the different
places we had to go. By the end of the night,
we ended this birthday party and I still had to eating.
There were snacks and there was things to eat at
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this party, but I couldn't eat it yeause of what
I'm doing. And I'm like, Okay, well I have to
go home and cook dinner. Like I can't just like
order something from Uber Eats. I can't eat what's here.
So we get home at eleven o'clock. I'm making chili
until twelve thirty. Then I finally get to eat my dinner.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So, like that's part's hard, especially if I'm not planning ahead.
So it's just it's a lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
What do you eat? What are you doing? Or have
you talked about that? Like what are you doing with
your diet?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, I mean it's like it's full full detox of
just like whole foods. I'm basically vegan right now, all
gluten freeze, so same stuff that I've done, but also
now doing infrared saunas and walking a lot more each
day and red light therapy and lymphatic drainage. There's just
so much more going into it than I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
The emphatic drainage, what is that? That sounds serious? Yeah,
what are you draining? You're draining your lymph.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Nodes kind of because we take in like toxins every day,
heavy metals and all kinds of stuff, and the drainage
is supposed.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
To what do you mean heavy metals? What are you taking? Like,
what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's just in the atmosphere if you're drinking out of
certain things or having food, this is metal. I don't
know the exact science behind it, so don't quote me
on that, but yes, there's like heavy metals and certain things,
just like we hear all the studies. Yeah, so you're
just it's a constant flow. But like again, once I
get to a point, I'll be able to balance and
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like have food at different places and not be completely
vegan and all this other stuff. But it's just a
change right now.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, that's it's hard. It's hard to like cook that
much and then go places and expect them to have
something you can eat. Like, that's so hard. Oh, even
just restaurants that you would think like, oh, they've got
to have something. No, some restaurants don't have anything that
are good for you if you're trying to.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Do that, yeah, exactly. So I've had to avoid a lot.
I've had to stop socializing as much.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I'm sorry it's hard for you.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, it's hard for both of us. Like you are
most very social creatures. So I've had to very much
be like we just need to stay home and hang out, Rimmy, Hazel.
We're all going to get better, okay, Like if we
get healthy, we're just gonna hang out. That's why I
like redid my whole deck and everything, because I'm like,
I need to spend more time at home for a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Is it? Is it finally where you want it?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yes? I need I need my boyfriend to come over
and install the projection screens.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
That's the last piece.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, I'm excited. So the couch is all in and
it's all screened in and stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
But yeah, man, home is like where we I mean
for us, we spend eighty percent, well maybe less because
of all the sports stuff, but like we spent most
of our time at home, you know, like you want
it to be.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Have you created a space at your house that's like
your area, dad's area. You don't have a man cave
or no.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
The kids kind of just take over the house. Like
I have my office, but like one of my boys,
that's where kind of he like does all his work.
So he's in there all the time. Yeah. School, Yeah,
he homeschools now, so like so he's in there all
day and then he writes scripts. He tries to he
writes movie scripts, so he works there like at night,
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you know. So like I'll walk in there and be like, oh,
I guess he's in there.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay, cool, You're like I'm going to wear a cat.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
But it's got all my stuff in there, you know,
like pictures on the on the wall, trophies, all our
awards stuff and like whatever. It's definitely my my spot.
But he's in there all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
He's taking it over.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Oh man, Well, I also that's new homeschool. How's it going?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Good? Homeschool is awesome like for for him.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Because before and I didn't I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Know, maybe not maybe not. It was. I think for him,
like school was hard because there's just a lot of distractions.
There's you know, there's the social aspect of school is stressful.
It was stressful for him, and like he wasn't doing
well in class, Like the academic part was suffering because
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he was trying to figure out where he'd fit in
or like, you know, try to make people laugh so
people think he's funny, And I get that That's how
I was. You know in high.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
School you had social anxiety.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
No, I was just more I prioritized making friends and
having fun more than doing the school part.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
So is that what more what he was trying to do?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Kind of yeah, like he's he's a little more socially awkward,
So I think for him it was more of like
just kind of that consumed his his mind so much
that like he wouldn't listen to any lecture and so
then when it was time to do his homework, he
was just like, uh, what, I don't remember us talking
about that. Well, yeah, because you were so busy like
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trying to make people laugh or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
But are being a teenager is hard when you're trying
to fit in and understand it is hard make friends
and do the whole.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Thing very challenging for him, and so when we decided
to try the homeschooling thing, it was like, wow, well,
first off, who's going to do it? Like is my
wife going to do it? Like, I'm not gonna, you know,
be the what do they call it, I don't know
what it's called. Whoever like conducts the homeschooling you know,
Like sure, yeah, but it's like usually a parent who
has to organize everything. Okay, But we found one that
(31:36):
we can do online that was done through a university,
and the university handles all that the university does, the curriculum,
the university does tutoring, it does you can do zoom
calls with a professor if you have any questions, but
you just watch a video and then you do homework
or you do lessons and you take tests. And like
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he's got all a's and b's. That's awesome, Like for
the first time in his life, he just like dominates
school now and he's done by like noon, and he
goes to the gym from like one to two, and
then he's got a job that he does at three
and he's home at like six.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
He's getting more prepared for the workforce than half of
us were by the time we went.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
To totally totally and like I would have never thought that,
like that the homeschool would have been the answer. You know.
Now the social part, he has to do a little
more effort. Yeah, he has to make, you know, because
it's all you know how it is like in high school,
like if you're not around friends, don't think about you,
(32:36):
Like it's kind of just like where's Eddie? Like, and
then they try to invite you a couple of places
and then they don't see you every day, so then
they forget about Eddie, you know. So like he's got
to kind of make the effort now and be like
what are you guys doing this weekend because the calls
aren't coming in and being like hey, you want to
come with us? Because he doesn't go to school with
them anymore, so that's a little more challenging. And then
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we have to remind him like, hey, have you talked
to your friends this week? And he's like, no, I haven't.
I'm like, see what they're doing Friday?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
All right, I have a follow up question. We need
a quick break, but I have more questions. Okay, So
it kind of feels honestly like he's having to date
in a way, like he has to really force energy
to put his focus on having his friendships and maintaining
his path. Yeah. Yeah, because so much of the benefit
(33:24):
of school is that you're around your friends all the
time all the time, so friendship they can come easy,
depending on scenarios and so like, the hope is that
you just make friends naturally and it's it's not something
that you really have to think about, whereas his is
really more reverse.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yes, but it's weird too because I'm like, and I
have to be careful how I talk to him about it,
because I do want to want to let him know, like, dude,
high school, like sometimes those friends, like you all go
to colleges and then you kind of lose those friendships
colleges where you make those lifelong friends. That's the way
it was for me. I still know some you know,
(33:59):
some friends of mine that they're still close to all
the high school guys. So it's not the same for everyone.
But since it's so challenging for him, I kind of
want to encourage him by being like, don't sweat it, sure,
get your social your need out of it, and call
him up and go out do whatever you need to,
but don't put too much pressure on yourself to like
(34:22):
try to be accepted or find your friend group in
high school because sometimes like those don't last. In college
is where I made all my lifelong friends.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Now, do you think he will go to college? A
traditional college because of I mean, you want to talk
about a distraction from studies.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, it's every big time I know.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So do you think that's going to be the route
that he goes?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I think that's the route he wants to go. You're
you worried about that a little bit a little bit,
and I kind of tell him to, like that's why
homeschool there. He's got to be up at a certain time.
He's got to be he's got to be like sho
He's got a shower like he's going to school. He's
got to dress like he's going to school every day
(35:06):
even though he's just going downstairs. He's got to go
work out like he does, you know, like he would
at school. He's got it's all those things that we're
trying to be, Like, you've got to go hang out
with your friends, like have that social time, because like
if he doesn't, if he doesn't have that consistency or
that like pattern. Yeah, I think he will kind of
go haywire in college and be like woo, do whatever
(35:28):
I want. But the way his personality is, he is
just very like like I wake up and I do
things this way every day. Like even if he doesn't
want coffee, he still makes his coffee in the morning,
you know what I mean. Like he's a very routine guy.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Well, and routine is really good for people in general too,
if they can understand what works best for them. Routine
can really help people just have consistency and that allows people,
especially if you have a situation like this where your
brain can kind of go in all different places. It
allows him to have some normalcy. But I also want
to hear about the other kids too. How is everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, they're fine, They're good. They're good. Like with them,
sports just drives their world. I think there is the
second to oldest. He's eleven. He is in middle school.
It's his first year in middle school, so he's kind
of like we're kind of seeing a little bit of
stress too. He's not a stressful kid. Everything's easy to him.
(36:27):
He's responsible, he gets everything done, don't have to check
his homework. He double checks his own homework, like he's
that kind of kid. But going into middle school, like
he's starting to forget things like he forgot to take
his shoulder pads to school, you know, and he's just
like little things like that, and I'm like, what what's happening.
But it's the same thing. It's the same thing of
(36:49):
like you know, going from elementary school that jump to
middle school and you're like, oh my gosh, is so
much bigger. Kind of liking girls now, you know, like
friends start finding other friend groups and like, well we're
not just all of this like drama, unnecessary drama that
we put on ourselves around that time eleven twelve, you know.
(37:11):
And so I don't know, I just I worry for
him and then especially you know, my oldest with his things,
but even him now going into this, like I just
want them to like realize it's okay, Like don't worry
too much about this stuff, even though you know that.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
That's not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
It's not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I mean, all of us we are. That's I was
just about to say, I don't think there's enough credit
given to kids and as they grow up in age
you go through so many life changes in such a
short amount of time, and there's so much you have
to learn and understand, and you're trying to figure out
who you are and what that looks like and how
do I fit in here? And who are these people?
(37:51):
And you can't look at any of that from a
bird's eye view until you're older.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I know. And I don't even think they know that
that's happening, Like he doesn't know that that's what's happening.
But we're older, we know exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You're having that moment as a parent that I'm sure
your parents have with you and the parents before and
et cetera, where they're like, gosh, I wish I could
just shake this kid and be like it's gonna be okay,
don't think about this and don't worry.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
You worry about that stuff. But you can't. They have to.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, they have to go through those things to become
who they're gonna be mm hmm. And that's hard. Yeah,
you have to really like kind of let go and
let life happen. Is that weird?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
It is? It is weird. I mean, it is weird,
and you just kind of like hope that everything is
gonna be they'll they'll be fine, and I know they'll
be fine, but it sucks for them, especially like you know,
seeing personalities change, because he's always been a certain kind
of person and now he's kind of forgetting things. And
I'm like, poor guy, man, Like he's probably thinking like
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what is happening to me right now? Like I never
act like this.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
You gotta go through a lot of different life stages
to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And then the two little ones, they're great.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I mean they're they're still living life normally right now.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, well, yes, our ten year old he's still in
he's still in elementary school, so like and I think
the jump from the jump from elementary school to middle
school is just so big that like they don't even
see that coming, like right now, you know, are the
ten year old he's in fourth grade and like he
has no idea what's about to hit him? Like no idea,
(39:19):
Yeah we never did. No, you just jump right in
there and you're like what is this?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
And how are your mom and sister? And they visited.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, they're good, they're good. They so my mom's been
here for two and a half weeks. She just kind
of she just loves being around the grandchildren. I mean,
we keep her busy. Man, Like she comes into town
and we're like, all right, do you want to go
to his practice? Or do you want to go to
his game? Or do you want to come with me
to that?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
And like she probably really enjoys the busyness she does
because she lives alone.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Even though she lives near my sister and they see
each other all the time, she still lives alone. So
she loves the busy and this she loves staying busy.
She loves seeing the grandkids and doing seeing what they do.
But uh, we never really have fun. Like it's always
just like boom, practice game, practice game. Once in a while,
maybe let's go out to eat. But my sister was like,
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I'm coming in and I'm not going to go to
games and practice the whole time. Like let's go to
the Opry. And I was like, the great idea, Like
I've never been to the Opry kind.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Of just to go watch as a spectator.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Never and then you know, we've played it a handful
of times, but like I've never gone to sit down
on the pews and and watch the show. And my
mom was like, oh, my gosh, that'd be amazing. You
think can get tickets and like, yeah, so we went
the other night and she loved it. My sister loved it.
It's just cool. It was cool to like, we had dinner.
We like, I think there's an olive garden near near.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
There, and like, yeah, I love that olive garden.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, what what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
But I went back with my boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
No, hold on, so you had a date.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah you remember.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Are we talking about this at Olive Garden?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yeah? I talked about it on the show. I got
stood up there.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
No, I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
It was the first day and he just like showed up, No, showed.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
The one by the opry.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah you know. But then like two months and.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
I do remember. You did get stood out, you got
stood up, but I guess I didn't remember. It was
all garden.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, but my boyfriend, now, I was like, I've still
been craving Oliver. I never got it, So can we go?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Like, yeah, we can go. It's so good, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, now that memory, Rice knew one.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Good forget that crap.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well, I'm glad that your your trip with your mom
and sister that has been good and hopefully you did
more than just the opry.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
We did the opry. They love, Like my sister loves
to try new or try restaurants. So like they went
to a restaurant they I don't know where they went,
but oh you didn't go with it, no, because somebody's
gonna stay with the kids. And it's and I get it.
She has no kids. My sister has no kids. She's married,
but no kids, and so she's used to like a
silent life whereas and they get to do whatever they want.
(41:58):
My life is not that we're all poll her opposites.
And like she always comes to the house and like
she hears just rumblings upstairs and like someone falling and
like tackling. They're playing football upstairs, and she's like are
they okay? Like yeah, they're fine, Like this is just
start live. And so sometimes she's like get me out
of here, like I need to go go to a
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restaurant or something.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
I guess I get it too. I just they laugh
because like I don't hear it.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, well you're so used to it. That's your life now.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Anytime anyone comes over, like do you hear that? And
like now not.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Really like, I've learned how to tune things out, and.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
We know how to get we know how to gauge
the screams.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Right, Like, what's an actual importance?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Yes, like what's a fun funny scream? What's a how
that hurts scream? But I'm not really hurt? And then
one like I need attention because I die?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yes, Oh that's so funny. Well Dad, Edie, Yes, it
was Eddie the Dad. Thanks for being on. Thank you
for everything. Tell the people where they can hear you.
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The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan, Part.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
One, behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's up friends, It's time for best Bits and Eddie
is joining me. What's up, Eddie? What's thanks for coming on?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, thanks for having me, especially.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Since there was drama last time we were on.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There was no drama, no drama. You got mad at
me though, I got that at all of you, I know,
but I didn't do anything. I was just laughing. I
was just laughing because it's funny.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, you helped the environment. You helped create the environment
that we were in.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
If something is funny, I laugh. But there was no drama.
There was no drama whatsoever. And we're not even talking
about that again.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Okay, Well, how's life. What's going on with you lately?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Man? Life is good. I will tell you what though.
Last weekend when the lottery was the billion whatever, I
thought I was gonna win it, and like so this
week's kind of been like a little bit. It happens
to me every time, Morgan, every time there's a lot
a big, big jackpot.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You seriously thought you'd win it, especially after they share
the study of like you're more likely to be a president.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
They don't think I can be.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm not saying you can't. It's just anybody the likelihood
of there's been how many presidents in our lifetime fifty
six something like that. Right, we're not even at sixty, I.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Understand, But like, I feel like I can do anything.
Like when people say, like, oh, you know what, the
odds are getting struck by lightning, like it'll probably be me.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Like what I do feel that same?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Right, you know, it's pretty bad someone says like you
can't be president. I'd be like, I bet you I could,
like if I really tried. And so when the lottery
comes up and it's like billions of dollars, I'm just like,
we're going to play this and it's going to be
awesome if we win, like oh my gosh. And then
we do this over and over, here comes the numbers.
We don't win it, and then it's back to life
(01:53):
and Monday morning you're like going back to work, which
I love my job, but god, I can't wait to
like just do nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And I'm assuming you would be the same as Lunchbox.
If you want the lottery, you'd be like, OK, you guys,
gotta put me. You wouldn't peace out completely, but you'd
be like, my two weeks are in them out.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't know, because like my wife was telling me,
because we were talking about it. We went together to
go buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh it was a little date.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And yes, and she had numbers picked out, like we
did want She had her numbers that she liked. We
did our kids' birthdays, and then we were behind this
like work truck where like their phone number was in
the back. It was like some like car carpenter or whatever.
And she was like, oh my gosh, those numbers right there.
Write them down. And so we broke those numbers down
into six number or five numbers, and so we had
(02:36):
like the numbers that we filled down and then we
did like I don't know, five dollars quick pick. But
she we started talking about like, well, what do we do,
like if we do win it, like and do we
tell the kids? And she was very firm on no,
we will not tell the kids. We won't tell anyone
we want it. We really can't change our life. And
I was like, what, Like, what's the point of winning
(02:58):
the lottery if I'm not gonna buy my boat, Like
if I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Going to put your job and retire the whole point.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And she's like, we can't, Like, can you imagine they'd
be so bratty if they knew we were billionaires and
we just changed our lives. She's like, I think the
most we can do is probably just buy a new
house with some land, but we'd they'd have to stay
in their same school. They would have to live our
life the way we normally do. And then once they
are out, we'll set a little fund up where they
get so much money when they turn a certain age,
(03:26):
and then we tell.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Them, did that crush all of your hopes and dreams? Right?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yes? I was like, there's got to in this little
plan of years, there's got to be a way I
can get to the beach in like two hours and
go fishing on my boat without them knowing.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We have a secret private jet that nobody knows about. Right,
Dad just went to the beach for the day.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, Like why does dad come home with fish every
time it goes to work? You know something? Because like,
how am I going to win the lottery and not
change my life?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah? But it's also hard. I mean, if the guy
who did call into our show Chili was actually real Chili,
who knows, nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Did you believe him? Though?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I think it would be really hard to not do
something when you win that kind of money. Now, granted,
Chili didn't sound like a guy who played the lottery,
so this wasn't something that he ever really planned for.
And so I could see there's a situation where somebody
wins and it was unexpected and yeah, they're like, oh, well,
I'm just going to stock away the money. I would
be similar, but I would still do something right.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I mean, I work, no, I just I mean, what
would you do something like?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I would do something with that money like I won,
Like I would want to do something right yourself, whether
it's like you get a new car if you needed
a new car, you wanted to do like me, I've
always wanted to have a farm, I'd buy the farm
that I've always wanted. I would want to do something correct.
It doesn't have to be extravagant, but I'd want to
do something. And the fact that he did nothing is
what makes it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Chill unreal to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, and that goes to like do this with your
But if it is true he was responsible and write
much of which your wife would be also being.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
What's funny though, It's like you guys would know, because
even if you don't tell anyone, the news comes out
that there's a winner in Tennessee, and then all of
a sudden, I'm not at work because I really would
like I would just not show up, so you lunch
at least for like a couple of days where I
just don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
What would you tell everybody, like I'm not sick.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, but I feel like you guys like don't you
see Bobby just being like hold on, Eddie never calls
him sick, Like hold.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
On, what's happening here?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What could could Eddie have won the lottery? You know?
Like I feel like everyone in this room would know
if it was Amy, if it was Lunchbox, if it
was you, if it was Bobby, we would well maybe
not Bobby because I don't think his I don't think
he would do anything different.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
No, I think he was He's already.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Coming to work voluntarily, like wanting to do this, you know.
But like everyone else, I think we wouldn't know Morgan.
Morgan's not here the day after the lottery was picked,
and it was picked here in Nashville, Like.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Uh uh, you know, I have always wanted to play,
just for the fact of you guys always talk about it.
And my dad's played the lottery pretty much his whole life,
and he's played our birthdays and he's done all the things.
He's done so many different numbers, and he's never had
a huge win or anything like that. But I think
about all of you guys who always play all the time,
and I'm like, dang, you know, I just want to
go buy the lottery one time and then like have
(06:23):
a big win so I can just come back and
be like, guys, I've played one time. I think I've
played the lottery.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's so that's so mean spirited of you.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
But it's more fun. You same, But I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I don't play. He plays like every every week.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And there's so many people like that. I know, I
know and like you. But okay, think of your lotteries
and you're gambling. All of them can bined? Have you
ever won anything big?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So like, let me do the sports gambling and I'll
break it down for you. I get fifty dollars a
week for sports gambling a month, not a week a month,
fifty five dollars a month. So it's kind of fun.
It's a project for me.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Was that also allocated to you from your wife? Yes,
it started forty the finances.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It started us forty like two years ago, and then
I was like, come on, like, let me have ten
more dollars. Fifty forty is a weird number, you know,
So like I talked her up to fifty dollars a mon, negotiated,
I did. I did. So I'm at fifty dollars a
month now and sometimes like I will win, you know,
to I will take my fifty dollars balance to two
hundred into like three months, so I never have to
(07:28):
recharge and put fifty dollars more into it every month,
so I've got like two months credit. So it lets
me go a little harder on the bets. But for
the most part, I do very low risk, high reward bets,
meaning I bet one dollar, one little dollar for like
ten teams to win, and if those ten teams win,
(07:50):
I win like ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But how often.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Never I've never hit the tenth thousand, but I've gotten close.
I've gotten close to hitting I think eight thousand dollar.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I missed it by one, Okay, so I think I
know what you're talking about because there is a bet
on draftings. I just learned that. Ess I'm very new
to all of it. My boyfriend places a bet. It's
a twenty dollars bet that you can make it back.
It's like a risk free bet. Yeah yeah, yeah, hit
the money back, but you decide what all you're betting on.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
They call it that a sweat free bet or no
sweat bet.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah. So he had like eight different things in there,
and he hit seven out of eight. He was hit
like if he hit it, it would have been like three
thousand dollars seay rent. And the last one was like
on the last game was about to happen, and it
could have like the one thing that hadn't hit yet
could have happened. Yes, it didn't, And so I'm sitting
there like but really like you, but you spend He's like, well,
it's no sweat, so I get the twenty dollars back.
(08:42):
I was like, that's gambling that I feel like people
would enjoy. But that's how it makes it addictive.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I mean addictive is like I could be like when
I'm out of my fifty dollars, I'm never like, gosh,
I wish I had fifty dollars, So like, I don't
do that. Okay, once the fifties over, it's over. But
it's so much more fun to watch a game that's
it's not your team, it's not the Cowboys, it's Washington
versus Arizona. Would never care about that game. But the
fact that I have, like I could win six hundred
(09:10):
dollars off that one game makes it really exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Does it make it more exciting than already being a
sports fan? Or like different exciting?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Different exciting because it's not just watching a fun game,
watching a cool play go down or a comeback. It's
like I can win money off this. It's a whole
different other. It's a different ballgame. But let me tell
you about one time when I is. So those are
called parlays. You what your boyfriend does. You pick six games,
you have to win all of You have to hit
(09:38):
all of those six games. So say, like it's Cowboys
and Giants, you pick the Cowboys. Cowboys have to win
that game. Next one, if it's Arizona and Cincinnati and
you pick Cincinnati, Cincinnati has to win that game. If
you hit all six of those, you get paid. If
you miss one of those bets over, you lose whatever
you put in. So I put one dollar right for
(09:59):
like I think it was a eight games, one dollar,
picked eight teams and it was the last team. I'd
hit them all. And so what they do is they
give you a cash out option, kind of like you
ever see Dealer No.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Deal Yeah, So it's like you can cash out right
now and get some money.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But if you win the six games, you get and
I think mine was like eight hundred bucks, and I'd
bet one dollar one dollar eight hundred is awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And I'm sure there's a timing threshold because they obviously
if you're too much into that last game, it's like, okay,
well you can't pull out now.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Right or or if it looks like that that you're
in the last game and they're getting beat by like
twenty points, you can't. They don't give you that good
of a of a cash out. But if you're down
to that last game, sometimes if it's eight hundred dollars,
the cash out will be two hundred. You can cash
out right now for two hundred dollars, or you can
(10:50):
keep playing and not get anything or win the eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's what they call gamblings. Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So then I tell my wife. I'm like, oh my gosh,
what do I do? Like they're offering me two hundred
dollars and I remember I remember this vividly. They were
college games and I think it was the Longhorns where
that was the last team, Texas Longhorns. And I told
my wife, I'm like, I could win eight hundred dollars
or I can cash out right now and win like
two fifty. And she was like, and how much did
(11:16):
you bet? I was like a dollar. She's like, why
would you cash out? It's a dollar? Like, it's just
one dollar, it is true.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Leave it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
So then the Longhorns took the lead and the cash
out ended up being like five hundred, almost six hundred dollars,
and my wife's like, it's just you're gonna win. Just
to just leave it in there, like just win the
eight hundred and they end up losing the game, and
I was so pissed, like, ah, this could have been
my biggest hit ever, you know, like six hundred dollars
(11:46):
and I never want it. But the most I think
I've ever gotten is like two hundred, three hundred on
a dollar though, pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, because you're doing very low risk. Would you ever
do like all fifty on one thing if you're so confident.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I've done that and I've lost, And it's the worst
falain ever because I'm I'm already kind of tight with
money because I have four kids, And whenever I lose
fifty dollars on one game, I'm like what, Like why
did I do that? Like that could have been pizza night.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, that fifty dollars could have gone to a whole lot,
you know what I mean there?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, the fact that, like off a dumb game, you
just lost fifty dollars, Like it hurts my feelings a
little bit, and I feel like a loser. Dad. But
when I lose, when I lose five dollars a night
because I did five parlays, I don't that bad.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
No, that's fair. And also I think that's a good
conscious to have on you, because yeah, that's how you
don't get into a gambling situation where you have to
gamble all the time. You come back to reality and say, Okay,
we're not going to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Did you play the lottery this time around?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
No? I didn't. I'm just not why not?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Though? Like why not?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's because I don't you want to talk about being
tied with money. I do not like wasting my money.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It's two dollars for a lot. I want to I
want ticket, two dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Still, I spent ten dollars on mine.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Okay, I thought it was like ten or twenty, and
that's why I was like, I don't really care.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Two dollars a number, okay, well, a number like one
one one, like one strip of numbers, one strip of numbers,
one play.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, maybe next time I will. But I've always been
that person. I do not I don't like paying people
to do things that I can do. I don't like ohran,
like for mowing, or you mow your onwn yard? Yes,
well now my boyfriend helps me.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Do you do it shirtless?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Sometimes? Well it was really hot out, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Of course he does.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
It's nice.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Need to.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Work on the back porch. And he comes over and mows.
I'm like, this is nice.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I wonder if he likes doing that, he loves to
no stop like I wonder, or if he's just mows
my neighbor's yard too, because he wants are you talking
about the strip that you all share or like? Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And so he also mows her backyard too.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wow. Is it a single lady or something? Yeah, but
he like, no, no, not like that. I meant like
a lady that just doesn't probably pay someone to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, but her friend would help her sometimes and like
she'll go out and do it, but she just doesn't.
He loves it, like he loves yard work.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
He was so excited to like have a yard to
do something with. I was like, have at it.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Oh, because he lives in an apartment.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, so he was like, yeah, I'll come over and
take care of this. Just tell me when.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
What are your thoughts on that strip?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Like, because shared space?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, because I didn't when I grew up growing up,
like we didn't have I lived in a lot of
like our house is like on a big lot, and
so we never shared yards. When I didn't live in
a real neighborhood, it was kind of like out in
the outside of the town.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, you had land.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
But so the first time I got i'd moved into
a neighborhood and there's that strip that you share with
your neighbor and they would cut their grass and like
literally make this imaginary line and just cut half of
the strip and leave the other half for me, and
I was I was like, why don't you just do
the whole strip, like it's it's just two more passes. Well,
(14:54):
but people are so particular about that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I was going to say, this depends on the other
person for a lot of ways. Because one, people don't
like you touching their yard. Like some people are very particular.
So like my neighbor when she most she'll never touch mine,
She's like, I know Morgan likes her grass a certain way,
so like I'm not gonna I'm not a good mower,
so like I'm not gonna butcher her yet.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So, but like vice versa, sometimes if I knew stuff
was going on with her, I'd mow our shared strip
together and then she'd take care of the rest. And
like my dad, whenever he'd visit in town, he'd mow
all of it. And he's like, well, why don't you
just take care of it? I was like, this is
a lot of work for me. Like I have little
arms and little legs. You are a dad, Okay, I
am like a baby t rex trying to use this
(15:35):
like weed eater, and like my arms feel like yellow
after an hour. Very different experiences. He's like, Okay, I
get that. So like for me, most of the time,
I wouldn't just because I knew she would take care
of it unless she like needed me to. But I
always knew most people wouldn't because like people are particular
about their yards. I get that, and so like unless
you have an agreed upon arrangement or like you know
(15:56):
your neighbor's super well, I don't think you've crossed that bound.
I think people really are like stingy about their yards.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I always thought it was just like what just just
do the whole thing, But I get that, like is
your yard, Like, what's so particular about your yard?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Like I used to be, because I'd be really good
about lane seed and I'd have good crass And now
I've I've honestly given up trying to maintain it because
it's so much work, especially in Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It is hard.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
But I used to have like this really nice, lush yard,
and so she would always see me and I'd have like, my,
I'm just very particular person in general, like I have
very like I'm very ocd in ways, and like, so
certain maneuvers and aesthetics look better to me, and so
I would just do it that way, and she's like,
I don't even know what I'm doing, so I'm not
(16:43):
gonna do y.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Do you ever see those yards they have like checkered
like they look like baseball fields, yes, or like fairways
and golf courses.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yes, how they do that. That's my brother in law
and my dad. They do that, not kidding. Like when
my my sister first got married, he would they would
send their grass pictures back to each other in the
group chat.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And it's in mind because mine's not big enough to
have me that I just have like straight lines. I'm like, well,
my look's pretty too. Yeah, but yeah, people can do that.
You don't do like the line when your kids do it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I don't know how to. Well, now my kids do it,
But before I made my kids do it.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Wait pause, pause, we need a break really quick and
I want to keep talking about this. Pause Okay, please continue.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So before my kids were doing that we're cutting the grass,
I was doing it. And then I was doing better
help with this with the therapist. Yeah, and I remember
me talking about how I get stressed out about money
and my wife clicking Amazon and like all that, and
(17:47):
he started talking to me about money. He's like, well,
what's money to you? Like what do you buy for yourself?
And I'm like nothing, like I don't do anything. I
played golf, but like I probably play golf like once
or twice a month, and I walk, you know, and
that's not a money thing, but I just like to
go walk the golf course. So usually around of golf
for me is like twenty five dollars thirty dollars versus
like could be one hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So I'm like, really, I don't spend that much on me,
but it bothers me when other members of my family
spend so much on them and I don't spend much
on me. And he was like, look, man, you have
to invest in yourself, Like what is something that you
just are tired of doing. I'm like cutting the grass,
Like invest in yourself. Take the thirty dollars and hire
(18:30):
someone to cut your grass. That way you cannot do
it and it makes you feel better about like feel
accomplished or whatever or I don't have to do that anymore.
And so I did it, and I'm like he's right,
like I feel great that I don't have to cut
my grass anymore. And so I love that, Like I
love that feeling. Now obviously like we I don't have
(18:51):
anyone that comes and cuts my grass because now I
have four boys that are older and they all cut
the grass.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, it's one of the chortes.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
They don't do it great, which is like kind of
makes me a lot upset, Like guys come on like
take a little pride and like making our yard look good.
But we're working on it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Was that an interesting dilemma though, because before that, probably
the oldest is the only one that would have any
recollection of like you hiring somebody to do it. Do
you feel like there's that disconnect between them not taking
pride in it because they never really saw you do it.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I mean they saw me do it, Okay, they saw me.
I think it was only like a two year, two
year time period where somebody a company came and did it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Which also I approve of you doing that. I think
you should do whatever is going to make your life easier.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I told my wife too, him, like hire someone to
clean the house once every two weeks or something, you know,
so we don't have to do it all the time.
Where you don't have to do it all the time,
and it makes you feel better, and it really does,
like it really does make you feel like, Wow, I
didn't have to clean the house this week. Yeah, like
that's awesome and so but and then we talk about
the boys and it's like we have My big thing
about the boys is like we have all these boys
(19:59):
that are able and strong and can do stuff like
cut the grass, wash the dishes, sweep the floors, everything.
But my wife's just like, yeah, but they suck at it.
And it's like we have to end up doing it
anyway because they're so bad at it. And I'm like, no,
let's take the time in trying to teach them to
(20:20):
do it better. But it's so hard because like as
a parent, and I know there's probably parents listening to
being like it's just easier for us to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I think that's how most people feel with a lot
of things. Sometimes, like teaching somebody a new skill, you're like,
I would just rather take care of this myself. Yes,
there is that in most things in life, Like I'll.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Grab a spoon and be like this is gross, Like
like this this wasn't even washed, you know, and like
here we go, I gotta wash it myself.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Now, and it creates more work for you, like it does, but.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Again, we're teaching them to be responsible boys and able
to do that. What's funny too, is like we've been
playing I've been teaching them poker, okay, just kind of
not like I feel like they should know poker. One
of them came, like one of them had to sleepover
or whatever, and they were like they were hanging out
with their friends and like, yeah, they had a poker night.
It was really cool. We played poker and I was like, oh,
(21:10):
we can play poker here, and they're like, well you
teach us. I'm like, yeah, so I taught them how
to play poker, but none of them knew how to shuffle.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Oh, shuffling is a is a big learn skill as a.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Kid, yep. And that's when my wife said, like, we
need to teach these boys how to shuffle. They can't
be like growing up and like get invited to poker
night and like all right, it's your turn of shuffle.
They're like, we never learned how to shuffle.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I wonder what other things are like that that are
learned skills that like we automatically just kind of picked
up because it was the thing. Yeah, like Shuffling is
something I never realized that other people didn't know. Right,
whenever I do it, somebody's like, oh, I never learned
how to shuffle. I'm always like what and I can
do the bridge. I got the whole thing out wondering
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what else there is.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Let me think shuffling was the was the one that
for sure came up recently, where like we have to
teach our kids how to show.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, and maybe it is stuff like mowing the yard
because I never mowed the yard as a kid. My
dad always mowed.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Because we're about cooking, cooking is a good one. Oh yeah,
because it's a good one. I mean, so many friends
of mine in college like did not to cook. I
did because I've always loved cooking, watching my mom cook,
learning from my dad how to grill, and like, but
people don't grow up knowing how to cook. So like
they're like ramen and then it goes in a microwave,
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like that's what we're having for dinner. And so like
that's one where I'm teaching my boys, like hey, uh huh,
stay in the kitchen, learn how to cook this because
I want you to learn. And my wife always says,
like your wives are gonna love love If you know
how to cook, they're gonna love it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Well, they're also just gonna be able to find for
themselves a significant amount of their life. Like, yeah, I
was that way. I knew how to bake. I was
really good at baking because we would always do cookies
and all kinds of like desserts all the time. But
cooking I didn't. I was also a vegetarian, so like
I would make mac and cheese, I knew how to make.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's easy, yeah, like or trees.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Or cheese kseydiya. It wasn't really hard for me. I
didn't really learn to cook until really during COVID. Really
I picked up on how to make recipes. I started
getting recipes from home.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Do you see stuff? Oh do you ask your mom
for stuff?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Recipes? Did you ever see stuff online?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh? Yeah, I mean I did, like a little when
I was doing Food World a long time ago. I
was doing like a series where all the restaurants were
putting out like their best dishes, like the recipes to them,
and so I would make them at home to be like, Okay,
does it actually taste like the restaurant kind of thing?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That's so hard, right, like because you you do exactly
what they say and then you're like, this tastes nothing
like the restaurants.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh my gosh, so much so, and like now I
feel like I'm actually really really good at cooking. Yeah,
but it's only because of COVID. I don't know that
I would have ever had that without it. I can,
I can follow instructions super well, but there's an art
to cooking and understanding, like you kind of have to
go off script a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah, and so.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I've learned a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, and everyone's taste buds are different. Like a recipe
like I know, like my this is my mother in law, somebody,
somebody in my family. I don't remember who, but like
they were they were doing a dinner for like the
whole family, and they were reading the recipe and they're like,
oh my gosh, it calls for a regano, Like we
don't have a regane. I'm like, relax, Like you don't
need a regano, Like it's not gonna make or break
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the dish or like, oh my gosh, we ran out
of sugar, and like, well, use whatever you have and
then it'll be fine. No, one's gonna notice, like, hold on,
we're missing a regano and this dish, you know. Like,
but some people that don't know how to cook or
have never cooked really stress out over.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Recipes very much so. And because you start to learn,
also what can substitute, you can learn, what you can
switch out for things. Maybe there's a dish that you love,
but there's a certain ingredient you don't like. There's just
like so much you learn. It's cool in it it is.
I love cooking. I did too, but I don't. I
love cooking when I get to do it for fun
and for like other people, or if like I'm sharing
(24:56):
a meal with somebody, but like cooking for me every day,
which I'm happy to to do for like my whole
detok thing honestly kind of miserable, mostly just because I'm
having to cook a whole lot. Yeah, And the dishwasher
gets run like once a day. It used to get
run like maybe once a week.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Really, yeah, twice a day. Really have to run it
twice a day, and then we do overnight and then
somewhere in the middle of the day.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, stresses me out. One a day
is stressing me out, Well, what are you making?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That's like stressing you out? Like what you your meal prepping?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, so I eat so much more food now. Before
I was such a snacker and I've learned that that's
really bad.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
But now your focus on meals.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, and so like I have to eat scrambled eggs
and fruit every morning, and I have to do smoothies
for lunch.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You make the scramble eggs before you come in to work. Yeah,
well that's tough.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, and that would be some nice we're all prepping,
but it just doesn't taste quite as good.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Doesn't eggs? Eggs have to be fresh.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, so I making moiled hard boiled, yes, And like
sometimes I can do like a leftover and add eggs,
but it's just easier to do that. I've really simplified it.
And then dinner, I always have to cook a meal.
Sometimes at dinner will last a few days, but like
it's still I'm still having to make all this food
all the time, and that's what's like adding and I'm
not eating out near as much. So if I'm like,
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there'll be times where I've been out socializing and I'm
like I have to go there. Case in point, I
had a birthday party I had to go to, okay,
and I was starving, but like the timing wasn't working out.
We'd been gone all day. We'd been hanging out with
different friends and like we were bopping to the different
places we had to go. By the end of the night,
we ended this birthday party and I still had to eating.
There were snacks and there was things to eat at
(26:28):
this party, but I couldn't eat it yeause of what
I'm doing. And I'm like, Okay, well I have to
go home and cook dinner. Like I can't just like
order something from Uber Eats. I can't eat what's here.
So we get home at eleven o'clock. I'm making chili
until twelve thirty. Then I finally get to eat my dinner.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So, like that's part's hard, especially if I'm not planning ahead.
So it's just it's a lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
What do you eat? What are you doing? Or have
you talked about that? Like what are you doing with
your diet?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, I mean it's like it's full full detox of
just like whole foods. I'm basically vegan right now, all
gluten freeze, so same stuff that I've done, but also
now doing infrared saunas and walking a lot more each
day and red light therapy and lymphatic drainage. There's just
so much more going into it than I've ever done.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
The emphatic drainage, what is that? That sounds serious? Yeah,
what are you draining? You're draining your lymph.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Nodes kind of because we take in like toxins every day,
heavy metals and all kinds of stuff, and the drainage
is supposed.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
To what do you mean heavy metals? What are you taking? Like,
what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's just in the atmosphere if you're drinking out of
certain things or having food, this is metal. I don't
know the exact science behind it, so don't quote me
on that, but yes, there's like heavy metals and certain things,
just like we hear all the studies. Yeah, so you're
just it's a constant flow. But like again, once I
get to a point, I'll be able to balance and
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like have food at different places and not be completely
vegan and all this other stuff. But it's just a
change right now.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, that's it's hard. It's hard to like cook that
much and then go places and expect them to have
something you can eat. Like, that's so hard. Oh, even
just restaurants that you would think like, oh, they've got
to have something. No, some restaurants don't have anything that
are good for you if you're trying to.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Do that, yeah, exactly. So I've had to avoid a lot.
I've had to stop socializing as much.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I'm sorry it's hard for you.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, it's hard for both of us. Like you are
most very social creatures. So I've had to very much
be like we just need to stay home and hang out, Rimmy, Hazel.
We're all going to get better, okay, Like if we
get healthy, we're just gonna hang out. That's why I
like redid my whole deck and everything, because I'm like,
I need to spend more time at home for a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Is it? Is it finally where you want it?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yes? I need I need my boyfriend to come over
and install the projection screens.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
That's the last piece.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, I'm excited. So the couch is all in and
it's all screened in and stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
But yeah, man, home is like where we I mean
for us, we spend eighty percent, well maybe less because
of all the sports stuff, but like we spent most
of our time at home, you know, like you want
it to be.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Have you created a space at your house that's like
your area, dad's area. You don't have a man cave
or no.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
The kids kind of just take over the house. Like
I have my office, but like one of my boys,
that's where kind of he like does all his work.
So he's in there all the time. Yeah. School, Yeah,
he homeschools now, so like so he's in there all
day and then he writes scripts. He tries to he
writes movie scripts, so he works there like at night,
(29:34):
you know. So like I'll walk in there and be like, oh,
I guess he's in there.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay, cool, You're like I'm going to wear a cat.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
But it's got all my stuff in there, you know,
like pictures on the on the wall, trophies, all our
awards stuff and like whatever. It's definitely my my spot.
But he's in there all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
He's taking it over.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Oh man, Well, I also that's new homeschool. How's it going?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Good? Homeschool is awesome like for for him.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Because before and I didn't I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Know, maybe not maybe not. It was. I think for him,
like school was hard because there's just a lot of distractions.
There's you know, there's the social aspect of school is stressful.
It was stressful for him, and like he wasn't doing
well in class, Like the academic part was suffering because
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he was trying to figure out where he'd fit in
or like, you know, try to make people laugh so
people think he's funny, And I get that That's how
I was. You know in high.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
School you had social anxiety.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
No, I was just more I prioritized making friends and
having fun more than doing the school part.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
So is that what more what he was trying to do?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Kind of yeah, like he's he's a little more socially awkward,
So I think for him it was more of like
just kind of that consumed his his mind so much
that like he wouldn't listen to any lecture and so
then when it was time to do his homework, he
was just like, uh, what, I don't remember us talking
about that. Well, yeah, because you were so busy like
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trying to make people laugh or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
But are being a teenager is hard when you're trying
to fit in and understand it is hard make friends
and do the whole.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Thing very challenging for him, and so when we decided
to try the homeschooling thing, it was like, wow, well,
first off, who's going to do it? Like is my
wife going to do it? Like, I'm not gonna, you know,
be the what do they call it, I don't know
what it's called. Whoever like conducts the homeschooling you know,
Like sure, yeah, but it's like usually a parent who
has to organize everything. Okay, But we found one that
(31:36):
we can do online that was done through a university,
and the university handles all that the university does, the curriculum,
the university does tutoring, it does you can do zoom
calls with a professor if you have any questions, but
you just watch a video and then you do homework
or you do lessons and you take tests. And like
(31:57):
he's got all a's and b's. That's awesome, Like for
the first time in his life, he just like dominates
school now and he's done by like noon, and he
goes to the gym from like one to two, and
then he's got a job that he does at three
and he's home at like six.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
He's getting more prepared for the workforce than half of
us were by the time we went.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
To totally totally and like I would have never thought that,
like that the homeschool would have been the answer. You know.
Now the social part, he has to do a little
more effort. Yeah, he has to make, you know, because
it's all you know how it is like in high school,
like if you're not around friends, don't think about you,
(32:36):
Like it's kind of just like where's Eddie? Like, and
then they try to invite you a couple of places
and then they don't see you every day, so then
they forget about Eddie, you know. So like he's got
to kind of make the effort now and be like
what are you guys doing this weekend because the calls
aren't coming in and being like hey, you want to
come with us? Because he doesn't go to school with
them anymore, so that's a little more challenging. And then
(32:56):
we have to remind him like, hey, have you talked
to your friends this week? And he's like, no, I haven't.
I'm like, see what they're doing Friday?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
All right, I have a follow up question. We need
a quick break, but I have more questions. Okay, So
it kind of feels honestly like he's having to date
in a way, like he has to really force energy
to put his focus on having his friendships and maintaining
his path. Yeah. Yeah, because so much of the benefit
(33:24):
of school is that you're around your friends all the
time all the time, so friendship they can come easy,
depending on scenarios and so like, the hope is that
you just make friends naturally and it's it's not something
that you really have to think about, whereas his is
really more reverse.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yes, but it's weird too because I'm like, and I
have to be careful how I talk to him about it,
because I do want to want to let him know, like, dude,
high school, like sometimes those friends, like you all go
to colleges and then you kind of lose those friendships
colleges where you make those lifelong friends. That's the way
it was for me. I still know some you know,
(33:59):
some friends of mine that they're still close to all
the high school guys. So it's not the same for everyone.
But since it's so challenging for him, I kind of
want to encourage him by being like, don't sweat it, sure,
get your social your need out of it, and call
him up and go out do whatever you need to,
but don't put too much pressure on yourself to like
(34:22):
try to be accepted or find your friend group in
high school because sometimes like those don't last. In college
is where I made all my lifelong friends.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Now, do you think he will go to college? A
traditional college because of I mean, you want to talk
about a distraction from studies.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, it's every big time I know.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So do you think that's going to be the route
that he goes?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I think that's the route he wants to go. You're
you worried about that a little bit a little bit,
and I kind of tell him to, like that's why
homeschool there. He's got to be up at a certain time.
He's got to be he's got to be like sho
He's got a shower like he's going to school. He's
got to dress like he's going to school every day
(35:06):
even though he's just going downstairs. He's got to go
work out like he does, you know, like he would
at school. He's got it's all those things that we're
trying to be, Like, you've got to go hang out
with your friends, like have that social time, because like
if he doesn't, if he doesn't have that consistency or
that like pattern. Yeah, I think he will kind of
go haywire in college and be like woo, do whatever
(35:28):
I want. But the way his personality is, he is
just very like like I wake up and I do
things this way every day. Like even if he doesn't
want coffee, he still makes his coffee in the morning,
you know what I mean. Like he's a very routine guy.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Well, and routine is really good for people in general too,
if they can understand what works best for them. Routine
can really help people just have consistency and that allows people,
especially if you have a situation like this where your
brain can kind of go in all different places. It
allows him to have some normalcy. But I also want
to hear about the other kids too. How is everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, they're fine, They're good. They're good. Like with them,
sports just drives their world. I think there is the
second to oldest. He's eleven. He is in middle school.
It's his first year in middle school, so he's kind
of like we're kind of seeing a little bit of
stress too. He's not a stressful kid. Everything's easy to him.
(36:27):
He's responsible, he gets everything done, don't have to check
his homework. He double checks his own homework, like he's
that kind of kid. But going into middle school, like
he's starting to forget things like he forgot to take
his shoulder pads to school, you know, and he's just
like little things like that, and I'm like, what what's happening.
But it's the same thing. It's the same thing of
(36:49):
like you know, going from elementary school that jump to
middle school and you're like, oh my gosh, is so
much bigger. Kind of liking girls now, you know, like
friends start finding other friend groups and like, well we're
not just all of this like drama, unnecessary drama that
we put on ourselves around that time eleven twelve, you know.
(37:11):
And so I don't know, I just I worry for
him and then especially you know, my oldest with his things,
but even him now going into this, like I just
want them to like realize it's okay, Like don't worry
too much about this stuff, even though you know that.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
That's not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
It's not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I mean, all of us we are. That's I was
just about to say, I don't think there's enough credit
given to kids and as they grow up in age
you go through so many life changes in such a
short amount of time, and there's so much you have
to learn and understand, and you're trying to figure out
who you are and what that looks like and how
do I fit in here? And who are these people?
(37:51):
And you can't look at any of that from a
bird's eye view until you're older.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I know. And I don't even think they know that
that's happening, Like he doesn't know that that's what's happening.
But we're older, we know exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You're having that moment as a parent that I'm sure
your parents have with you and the parents before and
et cetera, where they're like, gosh, I wish I could
just shake this kid and be like it's gonna be okay,
don't think about this and don't worry.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
You worry about that stuff. But you can't. They have to.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, they have to go through those things to become
who they're gonna be mm hmm. And that's hard. Yeah,
you have to really like kind of let go and
let life happen. Is that weird?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
It is? It is weird. I mean, it is weird,
and you just kind of like hope that everything is
gonna be they'll they'll be fine, and I know they'll
be fine, but it sucks for them, especially like you know,
seeing personalities change, because he's always been a certain kind
of person and now he's kind of forgetting things. And
I'm like, poor guy, man, Like he's probably thinking like
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what is happening to me right now? Like I never
act like this.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
You gotta go through a lot of different life stages
to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And then the two little ones, they're great.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I mean they're they're still living life normally right now.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, well, yes, our ten year old he's still in
he's still in elementary school, so like and I think
the jump from the jump from elementary school to middle
school is just so big that like they don't even
see that coming, like right now, you know, are the
ten year old he's in fourth grade and like he
has no idea what's about to hit him? Like no idea,
(39:19):
Yeah we never did. No, you just jump right in
there and you're like what is this?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
And how are your mom and sister? And they visited.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, they're good, they're good. They so my mom's been
here for two and a half weeks. She just kind
of she just loves being around the grandchildren. I mean,
we keep her busy. Man, Like she comes into town
and we're like, all right, do you want to go
to his practice? Or do you want to go to
his game? Or do you want to come with me
to that?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
And like she probably really enjoys the busyness she does
because she lives alone.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Even though she lives near my sister and they see
each other all the time, she still lives alone. So
she loves the busy and this she loves staying busy.
She loves seeing the grandkids and doing seeing what they do.
But uh, we never really have fun. Like it's always
just like boom, practice game, practice game. Once in a while,
maybe let's go out to eat. But my sister was like,
(40:15):
I'm coming in and I'm not going to go to
games and practice the whole time. Like let's go to
the Opry. And I was like, the great idea, Like
I've never been to the Opry kind.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Of just to go watch as a spectator.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Never and then you know, we've played it a handful
of times, but like I've never gone to sit down
on the pews and and watch the show. And my
mom was like, oh, my gosh, that'd be amazing. You
think can get tickets and like, yeah, so we went
the other night and she loved it. My sister loved it.
It's just cool. It was cool to like, we had dinner.
We like, I think there's an olive garden near near.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
There, and like, yeah, I love that olive garden.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, what what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
But I went back with my boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
No, hold on, so you had a date.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah you remember.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Are we talking about this at Olive Garden?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yeah? I talked about it on the show. I got
stood up there.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
No, I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
It was the first day and he just like showed up, No, showed.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
The one by the opry.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah you know. But then like two months and.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
I do remember. You did get stood out, you got
stood up, but I guess I didn't remember. It was
all garden.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, but my boyfriend, now, I was like, I've still
been craving Oliver. I never got it, So can we go?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Like, yeah, we can go. It's so good, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, now that memory, Rice knew one.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Good forget that crap.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Well, I'm glad that your your trip with your mom
and sister that has been good and hopefully you did
more than just the opry.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
We did the opry. They love, Like my sister loves
to try new or try restaurants. So like they went
to a restaurant they I don't know where they went,
but oh you didn't go with it, no, because somebody's
gonna stay with the kids. And it's and I get it.
She has no kids. My sister has no kids. She's married,
but no kids, and so she's used to like a
silent life whereas and they get to do whatever they want.
(41:58):
My life is not that we're all poll her opposites.
And like she always comes to the house and like
she hears just rumblings upstairs and like someone falling and
like tackling. They're playing football upstairs, and she's like are
they okay? Like yeah, they're fine, Like this is just
start live. And so sometimes she's like get me out
of here, like I need to go go to a
(42:19):
restaurant or something.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
I guess I get it too. I just they laugh
because like I don't hear it.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, well you're so used to it. That's your life now.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Anytime anyone comes over, like do you hear that? And
like now not.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Really like, I've learned how to tune things out, and.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
We know how to get we know how to gauge
the screams.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Right, Like, what's an actual importance?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Yes, like what's a fun funny scream? What's a how
that hurts scream? But I'm not really hurt? And then
one like I need attention because I die?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yes, Oh that's so funny. Well Dad, Edie, Yes, it
was Eddie the Dad. Thanks for being on. Thank you
for everything. Tell the people where they can hear you.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Find you. You can hear me on the Bobby Bone Show.
You can hear me twenty five whistles our sports podcast
at producer Ready on Instagram TikTok.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Why did you say this is sad at.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Producer Ready on TikTok. I was just trying to think. Okay,
just make sure you're so I'm not sad.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Okay. Well, bye, everybody, go subscribe to our YouTube page
at Bobby Bone Show and we're gonna jump over in
part three here in a little bit, so go check
that out and part two if you want to catch
up on the show. Bye. That's the best bits of
the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Be sure to check out the other two parts this
weekend go follow the show on all social platforms and
followed
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Web girl Morgan to submit your listener questions for next
week's episode.
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