June 7, 2025 • 46 mins
Mike D & his wife just celebrated their 4th wedding anniversary, and he has his first piece of marriage advice. He got good news about his teeth journey & next week will be HUGE. Morgan has been on an emotional rollercoaster this week with her cat Hazel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Part one,
I hang a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good Morning, Everybody, Happy Weekend. Mike d is joining me
this week on Best Bits. What's up, Mike?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Are you chugging a coffee right now?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I am chugging a black Rifle Energy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It looks intense. I know it really feels.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That way, but I think it's just because I got
the white frost or like wild frost one. The berry
one looks a little bit less because it's all blue.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Is that carbonated?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Listen, I got these when I played in the softball
game this week. Let's see, we've got low calorie B
vitamin zero sugar.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What did you ask me?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Is it carbonated?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Like?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Is it fizzy or is it it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Has carbonated water? I believe so.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
The one that I tried, it didn't taste too carbonated.
It tastes kind of like an energy drink. That's the
last time you had an energy drink?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Mark? I mean, I drink Celsius aside, like I've been
craving a red bull icce to drink a lot of
red bull, okay, and I just want something that has
that same flavor but not all the things that are
in a red Bull because it messes me up.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I feel like you can have this it's not I mean,
you know, obviously it's an energy drink at the end
of the day, but you should look at them.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm down to drink any Like if I could only
survive off of liquids, I would be so much happier.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I feel like you could survive off of liquids, right,
I mean you could turn food into liquids, like smoothies.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That is like why I usually only have a smoothie
for lunch, just because I don't want to have to
think about making lunch every day, and it's something that
I can make where I just don't think about it.
I just make it, I drink it, and that's it.
Like I wish I could just take a pill and
live off of that.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So you get no enjoyment out a fait zero? Is
that now because of where you're at and like your health.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Journey or I don't know, Like I realize that some people,
especially during the week, enjoy making dinner and enjoy that process.
I do not. Like I just see it as I
need to put fuel in my body. I need to
make something that I can make in like twenty minutes,
eat and then move on.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I wish I was like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm like, a, I have to enjoy what I'm eating.
We had this conversation with Scuba last weekend because I
like started getting like gagging when I was trying to
eat healthy foods and foods that I like normally would love,
and I was so confused. I was like, what is
my body doing? Is this just because I'm not enjoying
this moment, like what is happening? And so for you
to say that you could just like pop something in
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and not worry about it, I wish my body and
taste boats would allow that.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I think I'm also just so set on like routines,
Like I eat the same thing pretty much every week.
That's what's impressive. Guys do that so well. It's the
one thing that I envy about you, guys. I just
like I like what I like. I don't venture out.
I don't feel the need to like experiment with recipes,
so I just make what I make.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's see, that's so cool because then you just don't
have to worry about it, and you're like every week
I can buy I watch my boyfriend by the same
thing at the store every Sunday to make the same
foods that eats every week.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And then there's me.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm just pulling things left around. I'm like, I'm gonna
try this new recipe. Oh I don't like that, Let
me try this new one. And I am so impressed
when people can do that, and I genuinely enviy it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That is a talent.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And if I wouldn't have got married like before that,
I would never go out to eat. I would never
go out to eat if it was me just single,
Like I never just thought of like I want to
go out to eat and enjoy that. No, like I
would just make everything get old.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Mike, I have a whole note staff in my phone
of all the new places I want to try in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I'm just not like that. And it's not that I'm
a picky eater. It's not that I'm not adventurous. It's
just when I sit down and want to eat something
like I don't want to have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I wish I had more of that mentality. I really do.
Like I love going to.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Try newe phones, and I like food restaurants and I
like being a foodie. But I don't like the other
side of it, where I wish I could just like
look at something like food is fuel. I need this
to survive. I had to be like, no, I must
enjoy this very fuller opposite.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I'm just waiting for that pill, that food pill.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Speaking of marriage too, you and your wife celebrated your
four year wedding anniversary.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, it's crazy because I'm at that point in my
life where I don't remember life before her, especially like
her moving here, because even that was like like four
years ago too, or I guess five years ago now.
But I think I kind of have my first piece
of wedding advice or like marriage advice, okay, which I've
never really given before because I'm like, I've only been married,
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you know, not even five years now. But I think
the one thing I've learned after four years is if
there's ever like an issue you're having, I think going
like head on into it and addressing it as soon
as you can is the best way. That's like for me,
because I think a lot of times early in the marriage,
I found myself hesitant of like, oh, we're going to
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fight or we're gonna have like a big problem that
we're not going to be able to address. But I
find now it's just like, hey, let's address this straight on,
deal with it, and then move on.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I assume that would also help with resentment, so you're
not holding anything.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I think that's what it is. I think, like I've
learned from a lot of other people who do build
resentment and things fester up, and it could be such
a little thing too, where it's like that wasn't even
an issue, but then we never addressed it, so then
we all kind of held on to this and it
keeps building and building. And I've learned to get over
feeling this thing where I don't like confrontation, but I
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find that it's a lot easier when you're just like, Okay,
we're here in the moment, we're both kind of annoyed
at each other. Let's get through this now and move on.
And I find that that's been our best way to
deal with things instead of letting it build up for
another day or another week. We disagree on something, we
get through it, and then we move on.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
At what point was it like, Okay, I think the
honeymoon phase has ended and we have entered into real life.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
As far as the marriage or in the relationship, it
could be either. I would say in the relationship, the
first thing was because we were long distance for two years. Yeah,
so there was a lot of times where it just
felt like that because we would go weeks sometimes months
without seeing each other and then we'd be back together
and it'd all be great, I'll be happy. And then
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it wasn't until she moved in in twenty twenty, we'd
already been dating two years, after about a month of
living together where it wasn't just like, oh, this is fine,
We're finally spending time together where real life kind of
set in and we had to do normal things like
unload the dishwasher, cooked dinner where we had our first
argument over unloading the dishwasher. That was like that first
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time of like, oh, this feels real. Now it's not
just that honeymoon phase of dating, going from always being
excited to be around each other to now we have
to deal with real life and we have to deal
with another human living in the same bases us. So
I think as far as the relationship, that was like
the one kind of defining moment I think in marriage,
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I think because we lived with each other for almost
I guess a year and a half before we got married.
I don't know if there was that honeymoon phase after
getting married, because we were already together living with each other,
and it experienced that maybe like within the first few months,
I would say, but it just kind of felt normal
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after that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Did you feel like when you guys got married after
having lived together, was there kind of like this new
special bond that was added on just because you got married,
or was it just literally you guys had a party
signed the deal and that was just kind of it.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It just kind of felt like a formality at that
point because we were even thinking about like not having
a wedding. This was also coming out of COVID too.
When we got married, we really, let's just go to
the courthouse get married. It was just the fact that
our parents and her grandparents couldn't there if we did that.
That was really the primary reason we had a wedding
where it was like, it's just these people who literally
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couldn't get themselves here to see that and witness that,
and we thought that would be a real bummer. So
aside from that, we probably would have just went to
the courthouse and got married just because we didn't really
see it as like we need to have this big party,
we need to do all these things, because we already
felt so like invested in each other and knew this
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was the right thing and knew this felt right that
it didn't really feel like, oh, we're married now after
the fact.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Could you guys have gone to Texas and done the
courthouse in Texas?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Okay, I know how the marriage license over state borders.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I don't know either, because we had to go We
did have to go to Texas to get our license,
so technically we were married in Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I was just sorry, technically not married in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't know how that works. Because not to talk
about the negative side of this, but I started thinking
about when people get divorced, like does do the laws
apply where you got divorced or you got married, because
I know they are different.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, because like what if people who get married in
Europe or Mexico, what are their laws?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And then do you have to buy by nothing? I
imagine it'd be where you're living.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I would imagine too, where it's like your primary residence is.
But it's like, does it really matter where you get
married as far as any legalities, because some people do
get married in remote parts of the country.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right, So you're.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Not following that, are you guys doing the I don't
really know what it is, but every wedding anniversary is
like paper fire water.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, I think we did that the first year. I
think fourth was wood. We didn't do that. I think
fifth is like one of them was fruit. Maybe it
was third that we missed it, But no, we don't.
Really we didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Really, you guys aren't giving each other wood gifts? No, dang,
I was really looking forward to give you guys get well.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Also at the fourth we were like not as adventurous
in our our anniversary gifts. Like my wife, she makes
it easy on me and just like this is what
I want, here's a link, just buy it. And then
I don't like anything, Like I don't like any kind
of possessions. I'm kind of a minimalist and the only
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thing I'm into is like my nerdy hobbies. Yeah, and
she's like, you're the hardest to shop for because you
like things that are so specific. There's no way that
I would know what you want.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, and weren't you guys at one point doing trips
kind of instead of gifts.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, that's kind of what we're doing. So we're doing
our we're really planning for our big trip for our
fifth okay, because we're like fourth, we could go more
all out for a fifth. So I think that's kind
of what we're waiting on. So yeah, I'm always just
hard to shop for.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Just I wish you could get gift cards to a
comic book store.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Maybe that would be yours.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's what she did for Valentine's. She's like, I already
did that.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, you're like, she's like, dang, she gets gift cards
for movie theaters, comic bookstores and anything.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Dallas now was or Texas right now?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Basically yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Or Texas University?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Right yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Texas and Texas? Are they just Texas?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, I just say Texas. It's University of Texas at Austin.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So yeah, I just know the Longhorns. That's really normally
how I identify them. Okay, And then you also told me
you had a final Brace's.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Update as of next week, I'm getting them off for.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Good for good Okay, So last time you were on here,
you were trying to make a decision.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, so I made the decision, so it's still like
a four visit process. So next week I'm getting them
taken off, which is the first step, which is the
biggest step, because I think that's gonna feel like I'm
at the end of something. Yeah, I've had these things
for years now, and it doesn't feel weird to me
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because I've had them for so long. I think if
I only had them for two years, it would feel like, oh,
I'm finally getting them off. But I think because I've
had them for so long, they feel like a part
of me that getting them off doesn't feel exciting. Like
my wife was like, are you excited to finally get
them off? I'm like, not really, because I've just had
them for so long that I don't even think about
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it anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, they're just kind of a piece of you. But
this is where I warn you.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
This happened to me because I had mine on for
six seven years, and when I did take them off,
I cried.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I cried.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I thought my tooth were ugly because I was just
so used to having braces.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, it becomes such a like it's kind.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Of a mind boggling scenario when you see yourself as
one way for so many years and then all of
a sudden it's just gone, and you're like, that's not
what I that's not exactly what I pictured when this
was happening.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I think I could. I could see that for me,
because I feel like my braces hide other imperfections in
my teeth right now, and this first step of getting
them off is gonna leave some other things exposed that
I'm gonna be like a little bit self conscious of.
So I get them off next week, and then in
another month they have to go back to start the
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process of them putting the bridge on my teeth, which
is where they're gonna fill in the gaps where I'm
missing some teeth. I didn't realize how long that takes
as well. That's a two hour appointment to get those
things on, and.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Those bridges aren't fun.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, you're gonna get like a little screw that you're
gonna have to expand it if they still do it
that same way, and it is not fun.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, And this is the less invasive way because the
option I was going with before was getting the implant,
and that was gonna be even worse. So I'll take
the two hours over the two appointments where they're drilling
something into my teeth and then putting in a bone
and yeah, that sounded awful.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I had a.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Feeling you were gonna go with that one, just because
it is invasive, right, and mousewacher is already not fun
anything mouth related. Just going for a dental clean is
not a fun experience, let alone them for like for reel,
using big tools on your teeth.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, not fun.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, and it doesn't even so much freak me out
of like the pain or I know some people just
have fear of going to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, people, I don't know that. I think it's just
like the recovery process for me, Like I just don't
want my mouth to be out of commission. And it
came down to I was talking to them about, like
is there any like health implications of like one versus
the other. They're like, no, really, it's just like how
it looks. I'm like, oh, I'm not that concerned with it.
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Then if it's not like a thing of like I'm
gonna take away all the progress I did by making
one decision over the other, then I'm fine with it.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I'm excited for you, Mike. This is a big deal.
So how long will it be once you get your
braces off? How long will it have been?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I would say twenty eighteen seven years.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah, oh yeah, I know that all too well, but
I don't know it as an adult, which is a
vastly different experience.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, it really is, because, like I'm like one of
two of their adult patients, and it's different because I
feel like they deal with me in a different way. Yeah,
because they're like, oh, like this guy has other problems
and like our thirteen year old fourteen year old patients
don't have. I'm like, yo, I gotta take off work
for that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You're like this, U, I have an actual job, guys,
But we got to consider here.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But it is cool because.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You getting to have the money to do that at
this point in your life is still awesome. Yeah, and
you have so much life love that now you're going
to have the smile that you want and that's a
cool thing too.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah. Like I was even at a point considering not
doing the bridge at all once I found out about
like how much it costs and all those other things.
And then it was my wife who got to convinced me, like, no,
you spent so much time invested embraces that to get
to this point and not get to a smile that
you're fully comfortable with m She's like, you gotta go
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the full way, Like we'll make it work. We plan
for this, like you have to see this whole thing out.
And also like when I take pictures right now, like
I don't like the right side of my face, And
she's like, if we take pictures, I'm not sacrificing my
good side because you don't want to use your good side.
I'm like, fine, I'll get the I'll get the bridge.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's so funny because like her being your your wife
at this point, like you actually have to listen to
her with that. It's not like she was your girlfriend
like whatever, but like she's your wife and this is
the rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
She's like, both of our good sides are the same side,
so we need to have you feeling comfortable on that side.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I think you should have just proposed that every photo
you guys are together, you guys did the problem.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Side.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, and you both always have her good side and
you can smart back and forth some like she's in front,
sometimes you're in front. That's my proposal. If this doesn't
work an you want just you know, propose that to her. Okay,
we're going to take a quick break and we will
be right back. So this week has been insanely crazy
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mic for so many reasons. It'd cmafest, but also my
cat hay soul husband in the hospital, and that's been
a really tough experience.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
How did that start?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, she started peeing blood. Oh she wasn't eating or
drinking following that. At first, I was like, oh, we
may have a UTI kind of situation, which is pretty
easy to treat. And then yeah, she just stopped eating
drinking for me. And it took a significant turn within
twenty four hours, and I just felt something in my gut.
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And I had taken her to the vet that morning
and she had gotten fluids and she seemed to be
doing better and a little bit perkier, and I was like, okay,
maybe we're on a corner. I got antibiotics, try and
start treating her, and she still refused to eat for me,
and that she just collapsed in my lap, and I
was like, okay, we're going to the er. I'm not
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gonna risk the fact that I if I just like
sit here and hope that this works out. So we
went to the er, and then we were at the
er for five or so hours, and then they transferred
us to getting her hospitalized. It was a very long
day when it happened on Tuesday, man, And it was
just something that I just I haven't fully experienced before,
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like hospitalization of a pet. I've been lucky that I've
never had to with Remi or Hazel at this point,
and they're both ten years old, so I'm very lucky
that that's been the case. But then it was just
like a whole lot of tests and not a lot
of answers, and now we're kind of at the point
where we still don't exactly have all the answers, but
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it looked like she had a kidney infection most likely,
and she's got some early kidney disease, which they can
still live really good life for however long they want
to and however long you keep them hydrated and on
the right diet and doing the right things.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And they can still live like long lives after that.
But it's still scary, like hearing that they have a disease, and.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Like the worst part, Mike has honestly been that I've
just had to leaver her, and I just couldn't do
anything about it.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It was just I just kind of feel helpless because
you're like, I can't do anything for you.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
But I wanted to, and I wanted to call all
the time, be like, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Can you tell me how she's doing?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But they kept saying no news is good news, and
you have to like you kind of have to let
go of control.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And you know me, Mike, I'm not good at that.
That is not a strong suit of mine.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So I'm sitting there and I'm actually really thankful that
it happened during CMA Fast week, not because of busyness,
because that like sucked. It sucked at the timeline, and
I'm exhausted. By the time Sunday comes, I will be
a zombie and I'll pass out. But it's kept me
dicted that I've had so much to do that I
can't be calling them every hour to be like, what's
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happening with her?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
What's going on? And my family's been in town, so
I'm like, I just had to like turn my energy
in a different direction.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
If I didn't have either one of those things, I
think I might have like literally had a psychotic break.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean I'd be thinking about it all the time
and then worried and then feeling powerless and hopeless, and
then just and just starting day yep.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And then I'd be the crazy person there like all
the time, yelling at him like give me an up
date when she was doing great. It's been a whirlwind
and like a lot of ups and downs and emotions,
and we Mike, it was so heart riching being in
imagine like a people er, right, it's not fun. You
see a lot of Sikh people, and you see a
lot of bad things happening, and then you get to
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like the hospitalization. We when we were at the er,
it was the most sad moment. There was an own
that had come in with the dog that had a
heat stroke and we watched this massive team of vets
do CPR and there was chaos just like you'd imagine
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there would be, and he didn't make it, and it was.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Like my whole body just broke.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm like already in a whole emotional state and not
doing well and then this happens and I just like
my heart goes out to all of those like vets.
You it's not something you ever think about, Right, You're
like sitting there and all these people who work in
medicine on any level, human or pet, you just never
think about that stuff happening all the time. Like this
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is one moment that we were in there for five hours.
That happens every day. And I was just like I
was a gut punched for that owner because it was
just again helpless. You just go in there so helpless
with no answers, no and you just kind of have
to hand them off and say please save them. And
it was it was heartbreaking. I like genuinely never want
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to be in any er situation ever. Can I'm dramatized.
It was so sad.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
So that was like a I feel like I've been
on an emotional rollercoaster this week of a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I mean, hearing you say that is like bringing back
memories of like when I lost my cat, like back
in like when I was a teenager, and like every
memory just came back in the moment you were talking
about that, because I remember like going to the vet
and then telling me that there was nothing they could do,
and like I just had like all these like visual
memories of like specific moments that I didn't realize I
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stayed with me until now to hear you talk.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
About it, that was not what I but it is
because you you sit in there and not the same
thing happened to me when we were in there. Because
my cat before Hazel, she stayed with us until she
was eighteen, but the end of her life was really
hard because you watch them progressively get worse, and you
watch them like I slept in a closet with my
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cat before Hazel, her name was Saffy, and I knew
we were at the end because she wouldn't come out
of my closet and she wasn't really eating or drinking,
And I slept on the closet floor with her for
two days, just knowing that the time was coming, and
even still at the end, like even though I was
prepared and I knew it was coming and she'd had
a long and beautiful life, that those final moments of
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like the panic of us rushing to the vet to
try and save her, even though we knew we probably
couldn't traumatizing, And I was like, I don't know, in.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
A freshman in college.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
At the time, and I still like needed my parents,
and I was like what do I do, what's happening,
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's a crazy feeling that like.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Just having a pet in general, and just that later
part in their life. It's it's sad, it's and it's
like I wish I could describe the feelings better, but
it's just it's just sad.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And it's crazy, like how much it'll always be a
part of your life no matter what. Like even me
thinking about the cats I had, I mean that's like
fifteen years ago. How like I still have like these
attachments to them and like these emotions associated with them
that you don't forget them, and you think, like this
was such like a small part of my life, but
it was like such an important part.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
They make big impacts on you that you don't really
realize in the moment, and then you look at the
course of your life and you realize that was a
huge part of it, especially cats, because they really lived.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
For so long. There's I mean, I think about the
fact that I had a cat for eighteen years. An
animal was with me for eighteen years of my life.
How old were your cats?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I mean, they unfortunately didn't live that they were only
like four or five maybe, Yeah, it was primarily where
we lived at the time, wasn't safe for cats.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, people weren't very nice to cats for a very
long time. We've turned a corner, yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But like I don't even want to say what happened
to my second cat because it was like like why, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I don't because they I'll just be mad at people
and then I'll just be like why why do some
people exist? Because I have a feeling because you have
a lot of were they stray cats before? Were they
like ones you found?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think with these, somebody gave them to us, like
somebody had cats and they were just like my dad
loved cat, Like he still has like probably three or
four cats right now, just because he likes he likes
having them around the house. Yeah, he likes that they
take care of all the mice, and he just enjoys
like hanging out with them and feeding them because he
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always feels like he has friends around. Like the other
day he just sent me a picture of like all
the cats hanging out after you've fed them. Oh. So
I think that's why I had such an attachment to him,
because like, for my dad to have any kind of
like relationship with an animal is huge.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
So yeah, yeah, well and it's funny no your dad,
because I met him at your ass' wedding and he's
so like tough. Yeah, we're like tough guy kind of exterior.
And I'm now just picturing him with four cats and
I think it's the coolest picture of Yeah, and he's
just that's what we talk about, like my dad a lot,
because my parents have three smaller dogs and every time
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he'll be sitting at the table eating and all of
them are circled around him and he's just like feeding him.
He'll take a bite and they all get a bite,
and I'm like, this is the dad who previously was
the dad that wanted no animals.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
It was like, we can't have these dogs.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
And now he feeds the dogs with every meal that
he eats. So it's always that like dad moment where
you're just like the change that has happened.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's a cool thing to witness.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh yeah, same thing with my brother, who has a dog.
Like my dad was always like he never wanted us
to have a dog as a kid, just because he
thought like we wouldn't take care of him. He thought
that having him in the house, they'd rip everything apart,
but now he loves my brother's so much.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
It's so funny to watch you love when, like, animals
just kind of change your perspective.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And I think that happens for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Is you grow up, if you grow up a certain
way or like you've been taught a certain thing about them,
and then you get to have a special bond with
an animal, there's no going back. That's like your moment
and then you're like this because for you, you're talking
about the cats that you grew up with. Now, when
we've talked about you and Kelsey potentially getting an animal,
you've been like, I really want a cat, so like
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those cats changed your perspective. True, So have you guys
made any progress and the animal situation happening at your house? No?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Not, not really, not anymore. I think she still wants one,
but she's less of the pressuring or like really considering it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I think we just kind of consider where we are
in life and as we're booking like a lot of
trips and things to do, or like, yeah, it probably
doesn't fit best right now, But have you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Tried to be like, yeah, but a cat they're a
lot easier to I.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Did pitch that She's like, nah, see, and she probably
grew up with dogs.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I was like, they can take care of themselves for
the most part. They like come out when they want
affection and they go away when they don't.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's so true the Hazel being at the vet.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
It was funny. One of the vet texts came in.
She's like, we just passed Hazel around all morning because
all she wanted to do was snuggle and we all
are obsessed with her, which pretty unusual for a cat.
Most of the time they're like afraid of the cats
and the con because the cats don't like the vet.
But then there's just my cat who's just chilling like, yeah,
here's my arm, Like I guess I have to be here.
And she also got hand fed by the vet, literally
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being princess treatment. I'm that's the thing they've been giving
me updates. I'm like, I'm pretty sure Hazel's not gonna
want to come home.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
She's like, this is the life over here.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So all that to say, we do have good news,
and she is coming home after we record this podcast
sometime this afternoon. This is the day before, so that
right now is this Friday. You know my timing is
all mist up this week.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This is Friday.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
She'll come home this afternoon, so by the time you
can hear all this, she'll be hopefully home. And I
haven't gotten any calls since I went in and had
our visit yesterday. So again, no news is good news,
which is a really.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Thing that you don't want to hear. Is the worst
thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I'm like, I get it, and they totally respect it,
but also I need news like every hour. You just
like text me like she's good. Uh so, yeah, she'll
be She'll be home and I'm really excited.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, but we'll have some I'm gonna have to learn
how to give fluids, Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Okay, So if ever I ever told you, like my needle.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Thing, you're fear of them.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
H yeah, it's not good and you have.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
To give her fluids and it's a needle. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
So I've been terrified of needles ever since I got
bit by brown recluse and they poked me like twenty
times trying to get blood and it was just like
I had somebody who was a disaster with needles and
traumatized me. So then moving forward between having a needle
thing and a nex phobia. Every time a needle would
come out, I'd like grab my neg and I'd start
hysterically laughing.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Don't know the association. I have zero idea.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You could never get a neck tattoo.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
No, absolutely not. I couldn't even get a tattoo normally.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's a real reason I don't have any tattoos that
I hate needles, Like, there's zero enjoyment for that out
of me. And now they said, like, to help with
her early Kenney uses, I can do SubQ fluids, which
is just like right under the skin. It's not like
an ivy, which is like really like straight into kind
of the veins, I guess. But the SubQ goes like
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right under their skin and you can just like pinch
it in their back. And I'm like, I'm sitting there
like listening and I'm talking about this and I'm I
literally wanted to pass out, and I was like, I'm
gonna have to get.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Over the beer of needles for my cat. And I'm
very scared.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
So I don't know that I could give somebody a shot.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I know, I know, but she They're like, she's such
a great cat. You'll be able to do this at home.
Most cats, you couldn't do this because cats.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Will be like like literally like.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Tom and Jerry, but Hazel's so chill. They have full
confidence I could do it at home. I was like, okay,
I'm like and they're like giving myself a pep talk.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
My I can do this. We're gonna do this.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
So I'm gonna have to get over my fear of
needles for my cat, and I'm very nervous, but it's
gonna happen. It's like the mom strength that comes out
that I didn't know was in there where I feel
like it's gonna come. Or I'm just gonna look at
my boyfriend this, which.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
He totally will, but.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's gonna be a crazy lesson. But that's the latest
that's been my week.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
SORR.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I brought up ald emotions that was definitely not my thing,
and hopefully I didn't do that to anybody else either,
But it's also just crazy. I wanted to give, I mean,
a huge shout out to anybody who works in vet
med in general, but really all of those er just
they're incredible people. I couldn't do what they do literally
you just heard me talk about needles and I want
to try so I could not do it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But we need people like that. So apparently we also
need people like Mike and I were on the radio.
I don't know, I don't get it. I'll be right back, Mike.
I saw that post Malone is opening a bar on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah. I don't go to bars, but I gotta go
to bars.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Now, you're like, this changes everything I did learn. Where
it's going to be and it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, it's kind of a small spot.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It's underneath Aldean's.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, that's what I saw. I was like, where is
this exactly? Is it? Inside of it? Is it?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah? So it technically is in Aldans building.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
What used to be Tequila Cowboy is what they're turning
into it.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
It's supposed to have like a kind of a speakeasy vibe,
I guess, but then it's like kind of looped. It's
gonna be interesting. I'm I'm very curious to see all this.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Gus, But how do you feel of post Malone having
a speakeasy Do you feel like that's his vibe?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I I don't know, because he's relatively new to doing
country and I feel like the vibe here is like
the country artist getting the bars, which I means there's
some other people too, But I'm just curious how it's
going to feel like him. Yeah, I don't know if
I really think of him having that kind of vibe.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I feel like he has a bud light and cigarette vibe.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, Like I see more like a dive bar vibe
for him of like an old place that's like cool
and like run down a little bit. That's kind of
what I see. So I don't know what the actual
vibe inside the place is going to be, but I'm
curious to see because I mean he has other things,
Like there's a Canes in Dallas that's all like post
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maloned out, so like he's done pose stuff. No, I
think it's just like a partnership thing.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
So post Malone's raising canes.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, and it's like all Dallas cowboys, which is another
interesting thing. Like I can't see him opening a bar
that doesn't have a lot of Dallas cowboys stuff because
that's so much of his identity. But it's like if
you put all this Dallas cowboys stuff, is they get
to deter other people from going there, especially in a
city that has its own NFL team.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Oh yeah, for sure, but it could become the Dallas
Cowboys bar.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
It's true, which those exist, like of different teams having
bars in different cities. But also I don't know if
like you can license all that stuff in a bar.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I feel like post Malone could do a lot of
the post Malone. But now I'm putting something together. Were
you a Cowboys fan before you became a post Malone fan?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Oh? Yeah, I mean I grew up in Dallas in
the nineties when they were really good. I don't fully
remember it because I was like thirty four years old,
yeah when that happened. But yeah, I've been all Dallas
sports my entire life.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
So then when you realize post Malone was a Cowboys fan,
was it like, oh this crush deepens harder thing.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I mean, yeah, it's like he's a fan of like
all my favorite things and doing all the things that
I was like wanting to do at one point, and
he just embodies them. All.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, this is true.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Okay, Well I'm and it maybe though I feel like
you'd have a hot take on this. What do you
feel like the threshold should be, because listen, I love Broadway.
I think everybody should visit. It's so cool to see
and win is.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
But the artist bars all look the same, They're all
the exact same.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Swap out the memorabilia and you have a new bar.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I only go to Broadway on runs, like I'll run
by there and it's always in the morning, and I
get to see it like fully lit up, like daylight.
And it's starting to feel now like when you go
to like an amusement park, like I remember going to
six Flags as a kid, and then you see all
these like fake sets of like things. That's what it
feels like now. It doesn't feel real anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
It feels like a small version of the Las Vegas strip,
and it's really like all the bars trying to entice
you to come in with all the things of like
here's this country artist. Here's like Eric Church's stained glass windows.
Here's gently rolls like things poking out of you, and
it's like all these things like come in the bar. Yep.
So I was kind of hoping that he wouldn't do
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the bar thing.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
I'm I'm not shocked that he chose Nashville, but I
am shocked that he's doing a bar. I just to
your point, I just feel like, and I get it. Listen,
when you get to have a lot of money, what
are you gonna like? You gotta invest in things, you
gotta start like doing different stuff. You gotta expand and
try different thing. So I full and understand why all
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these artists do it. I could imagine when you have
too much money, you gotta figure out where to put it.
But I just feel like we're this threshold where it's
like you don't have to do everything, Like you don't
have to do the clothing line, you don't have to
do the bar, you don't have to do the podcast,
you don't have to come out with the alcohol beverage.
I just I'm wondering where that threshold is now.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, I think post Malone is interesting because he literally
has every collab, like he has an Oreo, CROs crocs,
he has anything you can imagine, like he's doing a
comic book now.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Is he really?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I read did you get out about that?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah? That was awesome? Like it's like I'm saying, like
all the things that I love, he loves too and
then puts out. So I feel like he does so
much that it was kind of like, Okay, this is
like the next step. Yeah, but I don't feel like
everybody needs to do everything.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Okay, So let me ask you, because he has so
many you're a huge fan, you love all the stuff
that he's collabing with.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Do you feel like it's overload or every.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Time it happens, are you like me with a Marvel
show where I'm like, it could be crap, but I
love it.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I think for the first time this year, it feels
a little bit overload, okay, And some of the stuff
doesn't feel as unique as I would want it to.
Like he had a Stanley colemb where he came out
with him like a Stanley mug, and I was like,
that's kind of cool, but I don't know if like
I need to go get that.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Yeah, That's what I'm looking at too, because it just
feels like and I don't think it's so much the
artist side, but it's businesses really trying to attach to
these pop culture moments, and post is obviously a big one,
and they find it within these artists or these celebrities,
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and it's influencing and marketing is such a big thing
right now. I think it's going to be an interesting
thing to look back on in like ten years. And
I'll be curious if any of these celebrities, like I
wish I didn't do X Y and Z just because
it was kind of a hot thing at the time.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Yeah, And I think it's also with like musicians especially,
they're just trying to find other ways to make money
because it's hard to make money from your music. Yeah,
even touring has become so expensive, where that was kind
of like the most lucrative thing for an artist, like
go on the road, sell merch, play as many shows
as you can, and now it's like we need to
do even more. So I think that's why we're also
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seeing an influx of this of like how can I
get money from brands to who keep this ship afloat?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, that is very much so.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
And you're just seeing so many of them have access
to see and I like, I like the ones that
are really cool where you're like that makes sense. I
remember seeing one with wranglers, I think, and Laney Wilson
makes sense. Her whole brand is Bell Bottoms wranglers known
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for their jeans. Like I love when I see something
like that. I'm like, this lines up, this makes sense.
But then it's like the random ones where you're like
post alone into Stanley.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Light makes sense, makes it so much sense. I love
when that happens, So I get it from that point.
But I do think.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
There's also this this threshold that they hit and I
just can't tell if it's like we're getting to a
point of so much influence and trying to influence everything
in marketing that we're getting away from. They just want
the access to the artists, in the celebrity in their
fan base versus it being the right fit.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, And that's where I wonder where my threshold is.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
What would be And I don't know that's where I'm going.
It's like topic for conversation.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
What would be your ultimate like fit brand collab. If
you're like, Okay Morgan, We're going to get you your
dream thing. This is like your perfect fit fits your personality.
What would that What would that be?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
I feel like it has it has to be something
in relation to animals. That would be the only thing
that truly like. I think I feel like it'd be
like rescues, Like take all the pictures of me and puppies,
put them up everywhere I feel like that would make sense, right,
Like that's what you would see and be like yeah,
But I don't know how that would turn into like
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marketing because that's not like a brand.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, so I'm trying to brand like a straight up.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Like this, Do you have one? While I think about.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
This, I think for me it would probably be I
mean just Marvel as a whole. Yeah, like Marvel. I'd
either their comments or like the movies or collectibles or
like legos, just something like I'm teeming it with Marvel
and I'm gonna do like all this stuff for them.
I think that would be like my ultimate because I
(41:21):
think even like just doing my podcast, there's like probably
certain movie studios that I'm like, man, I love this
movie studio so much. But I think just Marvel as
a whole would be an ultimate thing. If I could
ever get a payment that said Marvel in my name,
that would be like the ultimate thing for me I
do for free.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Yeah, yeah, that would make sense. That's a good that
would be a good pairing. I think now that you
say that, the overarching of Disney could be mine because
I love to meet a Disney World, Disneyland. I will
be a Disney adult all day long.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
I'd say I could see Disney World for you.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Like, put me on that.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
I'll wear the ears every day and it would be
like I would thrive there. That Honestly, if you think
of Disney World, that's like my personality. When you see
somebody at Disney World, that's like who I am as
a person, just like happy most.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Of the time. You know, life doesn't put me on
emotional roll closures. But I'm like, you know, see, you know,
maybe I have more.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
In common, but I do feel like Disney because I
even love just every aspect of Disney, and I so
am a Disney adult.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
It's just it is what it is. I'll me shy
away from it. So maybe though, so Marvel Disney give
us a call. Yeah, that would be so cool. But
then we're like, hey, then we're in the threshold. Then
we've become those people.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Mike. I'd say my runner up would probably be a
Topo Chico. Oh yeah, because like my ultimate golden life
is to have a house with the Topo Chico fridge
and just fully stuck all the time, like I look
on Facebook Marketplace all the time, like that gets fed
to me as like old coolers that are like branded
with Yeah, I'll see like Coca Cola ones. I'll see
like pepsi ones. I'm like whenever a Tobachico one comes across,
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like I wanted to get that thing.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Did you ever try their alcohol drinks?
Speaker 3 (43:10):
You did?
Speaker 2 (43:10):
You like them?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
They're pretty good? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Yeah, they're like the Selter waters.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Yeah. I think there's like a margarita flavor or a
lime flavor that's really good. But I also really like mongol,
so that's like my I think they have a strawberry
one too. They're all good.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Okay, I need to give those a try. I don't
think I got into the Topo Chico. I do whenever
I go to Texas, but not as much here.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah, you go to the movie theaters in Texas and
you can get one. I'm like, man, this is like ideal.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yeah, you're like, this is.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
What I actually want if I would, if I do
go down a second one and be Taco Bell.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Oh that's good. M h.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
I've been trying to get Taco bells for I arrived
on Taco Bell in college and I still do as
an adult. The amount of times I go to Taco
Bell is insane, except I kind of threw a fit, honestly,
so every time when I wrote your home, there's a
Taco Bell about four.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
So I started like five am.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
I think we talked about this and they stopped selling breakfast,
and I was so mad.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
I was so mad.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
And then I but they had convinced me that all
of them stop selling breakfast.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
But then the one by me hadn't right. I'm like, no,
it's not. It was just you guys. But then the
one by me stop selling breakfast. So now I don't
know if they've double with breakfast or I have to
find another one.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
I wonder they're slowly phasing it out.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I'm gonna be so mad.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
I have to talk to my mom about that.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Please do, because I love your breakfast.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
It was so good, Like I love a little breakfast
burrito in the morning, and Taco Bell kind of gave
me that without having to track down the local place.
And I love my trust me. I found my local
breakfast burritos. I have several on deck, but they're so
far away.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
From me, like Taco Bell was convenient. Was right there
anyways to.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
My mom's Taco Bell or she would hook you up
because what she likes to do is create items that
aren't on the menu. So you can just tell her
what are your favorite ingredients and she can make something.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yes, and potatoes, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Those are one of my favorites too, So she would
make me like custom burritos, which she would take one
and then just add potatoes to it.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Okay, Wait, which one walks Ahatchee.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Next time I'm in Texas on specific so I can
get some.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
All right, we're gonna jump out of here. Mike, thanks
for being here. Tell people where they can find you.
Hear you all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
You can listen to my podcast, Movie Mike's Movie Podcasts,
new episodes every single Monday, spoiler free movie reviews, interviews
with actors and directors. Just search Movie Mike's wherever you
listen to podcasts.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
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The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Part one,
I hang a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good Morning, Everybody, Happy Weekend. Mike d is joining me
this week on Best Bits. What's up, Mike?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Are you chugging a coffee right now?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I am chugging a black Rifle Energy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It looks intense. I know it really feels.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That way, but I think it's just because I got
the white frost or like wild frost one. The berry
one looks a little bit less because it's all blue.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Is that carbonated?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Listen, I got these when I played in the softball
game this week. Let's see, we've got low calorie B
vitamin zero sugar.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What did you ask me?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Is it carbonated?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Like?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Is it fizzy or is it it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Has carbonated water? I believe so.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
The one that I tried, it didn't taste too carbonated.
It tastes kind of like an energy drink. That's the
last time you had an energy drink?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Mark? I mean, I drink Celsius aside, like I've been
craving a red bull icce to drink a lot of
red bull, okay, and I just want something that has
that same flavor but not all the things that are
in a red Bull because it messes me up.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I feel like you can have this it's not I mean,
you know, obviously it's an energy drink at the end
of the day, but you should look at them.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'm down to drink any Like if I could only
survive off of liquids, I would be so much happier.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I feel like you could survive off of liquids, right,
I mean you could turn food into liquids, like smoothies.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
That is like why I usually only have a smoothie
for lunch, just because I don't want to have to
think about making lunch every day, and it's something that
I can make where I just don't think about it.
I just make it, I drink it, and that's it.
Like I wish I could just take a pill and
live off of that.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So you get no enjoyment out a fait zero? Is
that now because of where you're at and like your health.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Journey or I don't know, Like I realize that some people,
especially during the week, enjoy making dinner and enjoy that process.
I do not. Like I just see it as I
need to put fuel in my body. I need to
make something that I can make in like twenty minutes,
eat and then move on.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I wish I was like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm like, a, I have to enjoy what I'm eating.
We had this conversation with Scuba last weekend because I
like started getting like gagging when I was trying to
eat healthy foods and foods that I like normally would love,
and I was so confused. I was like, what is
my body doing? Is this just because I'm not enjoying
this moment, like what is happening? And so for you
to say that you could just like pop something in
(02:27):
and not worry about it, I wish my body and
taste boats would allow that.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I think I'm also just so set on like routines,
Like I eat the same thing pretty much every week.
That's what's impressive. Guys do that so well. It's the
one thing that I envy about you, guys. I just
like I like what I like. I don't venture out.
I don't feel the need to like experiment with recipes,
so I just make what I make.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's see, that's so cool because then you just don't
have to worry about it, and you're like every week
I can buy I watch my boyfriend by the same
thing at the store every Sunday to make the same
foods that eats every week.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And then there's me.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm just pulling things left around. I'm like, I'm gonna
try this new recipe. Oh I don't like that, Let
me try this new one. And I am so impressed
when people can do that, and I genuinely enviy it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That is a talent.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And if I wouldn't have got married like before that,
I would never go out to eat. I would never
go out to eat if it was me just single,
Like I never just thought of like I want to
go out to eat and enjoy that. No, like I
would just make everything get old.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Mike, I have a whole note staff in my phone
of all the new places I want to try in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I'm just not like that. And it's not that I'm
a picky eater. It's not that I'm not adventurous. It's
just when I sit down and want to eat something
like I don't want to have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I wish I had more of that mentality. I really do.
Like I love going to.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Try newe phones, and I like food restaurants and I
like being a foodie. But I don't like the other
side of it, where I wish I could just like
look at something like food is fuel. I need this
to survive. I had to be like, no, I must
enjoy this very fuller opposite.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I'm just waiting for that pill, that food pill.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Speaking of marriage too, you and your wife celebrated your
four year wedding anniversary.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, it's crazy because I'm at that point in my
life where I don't remember life before her, especially like
her moving here, because even that was like like four
years ago too, or I guess five years ago now.
But I think I kind of have my first piece
of wedding advice or like marriage advice, okay, which I've
never really given before because I'm like, I've only been married,
(04:39):
you know, not even five years now. But I think
the one thing I've learned after four years is if
there's ever like an issue you're having, I think going
like head on into it and addressing it as soon
as you can is the best way. That's like for me,
because I think a lot of times early in the marriage,
I found myself hesitant of like, oh, we're going to
(05:00):
fight or we're gonna have like a big problem that
we're not going to be able to address. But I
find now it's just like, hey, let's address this straight on,
deal with it, and then move on.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I assume that would also help with resentment, so you're
not holding anything.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I think that's what it is. I think, like I've
learned from a lot of other people who do build
resentment and things fester up, and it could be such
a little thing too, where it's like that wasn't even
an issue, but then we never addressed it, so then
we all kind of held on to this and it
keeps building and building. And I've learned to get over
feeling this thing where I don't like confrontation, but I
(05:37):
find that it's a lot easier when you're just like, Okay,
we're here in the moment, we're both kind of annoyed
at each other. Let's get through this now and move on.
And I find that that's been our best way to
deal with things instead of letting it build up for
another day or another week. We disagree on something, we
get through it, and then we move on.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
At what point was it like, Okay, I think the
honeymoon phase has ended and we have entered into real life.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
As far as the marriage or in the relationship, it
could be either. I would say in the relationship, the
first thing was because we were long distance for two years. Yeah,
so there was a lot of times where it just
felt like that because we would go weeks sometimes months
without seeing each other and then we'd be back together
and it'd all be great, I'll be happy. And then
(06:25):
it wasn't until she moved in in twenty twenty, we'd
already been dating two years, after about a month of
living together where it wasn't just like, oh, this is fine,
We're finally spending time together where real life kind of
set in and we had to do normal things like
unload the dishwasher, cooked dinner where we had our first
argument over unloading the dishwasher. That was like that first
(06:45):
time of like, oh, this feels real. Now it's not
just that honeymoon phase of dating, going from always being
excited to be around each other to now we have
to deal with real life and we have to deal
with another human living in the same bases us. So
I think as far as the relationship, that was like
the one kind of defining moment I think in marriage,
(07:08):
I think because we lived with each other for almost
I guess a year and a half before we got married.
I don't know if there was that honeymoon phase after
getting married, because we were already together living with each other,
and it experienced that maybe like within the first few months,
I would say, but it just kind of felt normal
(07:29):
after that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Did you feel like when you guys got married after
having lived together, was there kind of like this new
special bond that was added on just because you got married,
or was it just literally you guys had a party
signed the deal and that was just kind of it.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It just kind of felt like a formality at that
point because we were even thinking about like not having
a wedding. This was also coming out of COVID too.
When we got married, we really, let's just go to
the courthouse get married. It was just the fact that
our parents and her grandparents couldn't there if we did that.
That was really the primary reason we had a wedding
where it was like, it's just these people who literally
(08:06):
couldn't get themselves here to see that and witness that,
and we thought that would be a real bummer. So
aside from that, we probably would have just went to
the courthouse and got married just because we didn't really
see it as like we need to have this big party,
we need to do all these things, because we already
felt so like invested in each other and knew this
(08:26):
was the right thing and knew this felt right that
it didn't really feel like, oh, we're married now after
the fact.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Could you guys have gone to Texas and done the
courthouse in Texas?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Okay, I know how the marriage license over state borders.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I don't know either, because we had to go We
did have to go to Texas to get our license,
so technically we were married in Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I was just sorry, technically not married in Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't know how that works. Because not to talk
about the negative side of this, but I started thinking
about when people get divorced, like does do the laws
apply where you got divorced or you got married, because
I know they are different.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, because like what if people who get married in
Europe or Mexico, what are their laws?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And then do you have to buy by nothing? I
imagine it'd be where you're living.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I would imagine too, where it's like your primary residence is.
But it's like, does it really matter where you get
married as far as any legalities, because some people do
get married in remote parts of the country.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right, So you're.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Not following that, are you guys doing the I don't
really know what it is, but every wedding anniversary is
like paper fire water.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, I think we did that the first year. I
think fourth was wood. We didn't do that. I think
fifth is like one of them was fruit. Maybe it
was third that we missed it, But no, we don't.
Really we didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Really, you guys aren't giving each other wood gifts? No, dang,
I was really looking forward to give you guys get well.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Also at the fourth we were like not as adventurous
in our our anniversary gifts. Like my wife, she makes
it easy on me and just like this is what
I want, here's a link, just buy it. And then
I don't like anything, Like I don't like any kind
of possessions. I'm kind of a minimalist and the only
(10:19):
thing I'm into is like my nerdy hobbies. Yeah, and
she's like, you're the hardest to shop for because you
like things that are so specific. There's no way that
I would know what you want.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, and weren't you guys at one point doing trips
kind of instead of gifts.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, that's kind of what we're doing. So we're doing
our we're really planning for our big trip for our
fifth okay, because we're like fourth, we could go more
all out for a fifth. So I think that's kind
of what we're waiting on. So yeah, I'm always just
hard to shop for.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Just I wish you could get gift cards to a
comic book store.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Maybe that would be yours.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's what she did for Valentine's. She's like, I already
did that.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, you're like, she's like, dang, she gets gift cards
for movie theaters, comic bookstores and anything.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Dallas now was or Texas right now?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Basically yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Or Texas University?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Right yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Texas and Texas? Are they just Texas?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, I just say Texas. It's University of Texas at Austin.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So yeah, I just know the Longhorns. That's really normally
how I identify them. Okay, And then you also told me
you had a final Brace's.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Update as of next week, I'm getting them off for.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Good for good Okay, So last time you were on here,
you were trying to make a decision.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, so I made the decision, so it's still like
a four visit process. So next week I'm getting them
taken off, which is the first step, which is the
biggest step, because I think that's gonna feel like I'm
at the end of something. Yeah, I've had these things
for years now, and it doesn't feel weird to me
(11:55):
because I've had them for so long. I think if
I only had them for two years, it would feel like, oh,
I'm finally getting them off. But I think because I've
had them for so long, they feel like a part
of me that getting them off doesn't feel exciting. Like
my wife was like, are you excited to finally get
them off? I'm like, not really, because I've just had
them for so long that I don't even think about
(12:18):
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, they're just kind of a piece of you. But
this is where I warn you.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
This happened to me because I had mine on for
six seven years, and when I did take them off,
I cried.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I cried.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I thought my tooth were ugly because I was just
so used to having braces.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, it becomes such a like it's kind.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Of a mind boggling scenario when you see yourself as
one way for so many years and then all of
a sudden it's just gone, and you're like, that's not
what I that's not exactly what I pictured when this
was happening.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I think I could. I could see that for me,
because I feel like my braces hide other imperfections in
my teeth right now, and this first step of getting
them off is gonna leave some other things exposed that
I'm gonna be like a little bit self conscious of.
So I get them off next week, and then in
another month they have to go back to start the
(13:13):
process of them putting the bridge on my teeth, which
is where they're gonna fill in the gaps where I'm
missing some teeth. I didn't realize how long that takes
as well. That's a two hour appointment to get those
things on, and.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Those bridges aren't fun.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, you're gonna get like a little screw that you're
gonna have to expand it if they still do it
that same way, and it is not fun.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, And this is the less invasive way because the
option I was going with before was getting the implant,
and that was gonna be even worse. So I'll take
the two hours over the two appointments where they're drilling
something into my teeth and then putting in a bone
and yeah, that sounded awful.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I had a.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Feeling you were gonna go with that one, just because
it is invasive, right, and mousewacher is already not fun
anything mouth related. Just going for a dental clean is
not a fun experience, let alone them for like for reel,
using big tools on your teeth.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, not fun.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, and it doesn't even so much freak me out
of like the pain or I know some people just
have fear of going to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, people, I don't know that. I think it's just
like the recovery process for me, Like I just don't
want my mouth to be out of commission. And it
came down to I was talking to them about, like
is there any like health implications of like one versus
the other. They're like, no, really, it's just like how
it looks. I'm like, oh, I'm not that concerned with it.
(14:37):
Then if it's not like a thing of like I'm
gonna take away all the progress I did by making
one decision over the other, then I'm fine with it.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I'm excited for you, Mike. This is a big deal.
So how long will it be once you get your
braces off? How long will it have been?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I would say twenty eighteen seven years.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah, oh yeah, I know that all too well, but
I don't know it as an adult, which is a
vastly different experience.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, it really is, because, like I'm like one of
two of their adult patients, and it's different because I
feel like they deal with me in a different way. Yeah,
because they're like, oh, like this guy has other problems
and like our thirteen year old fourteen year old patients
don't have. I'm like, yo, I gotta take off work
for that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You're like this, U, I have an actual job, guys,
But we got to consider here.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But it is cool because.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You getting to have the money to do that at
this point in your life is still awesome. Yeah, and
you have so much life love that now you're going
to have the smile that you want and that's a
cool thing too.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah. Like I was even at a point considering not
doing the bridge at all once I found out about
like how much it costs and all those other things.
And then it was my wife who got to convinced me, like, no,
you spent so much time invested embraces that to get
to this point and not get to a smile that
you're fully comfortable with m She's like, you gotta go
(16:08):
the full way, Like we'll make it work. We plan
for this, like you have to see this whole thing out.
And also like when I take pictures right now, like
I don't like the right side of my face, And
she's like, if we take pictures, I'm not sacrificing my
good side because you don't want to use your good side.
I'm like, fine, I'll get the I'll get the bridge.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's so funny because like her being your your wife
at this point, like you actually have to listen to
her with that. It's not like she was your girlfriend
like whatever, but like she's your wife and this is
the rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
She's like, both of our good sides are the same side,
so we need to have you feeling comfortable on that side.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I think you should have just proposed that every photo
you guys are together, you guys did the problem.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Side.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, and you both always have her good side and
you can smart back and forth some like she's in front,
sometimes you're in front. That's my proposal. If this doesn't
work an you want just you know, propose that to her. Okay,
we're going to take a quick break and we will
be right back. So this week has been insanely crazy
(17:14):
mic for so many reasons. It'd cmafest, but also my
cat hay soul husband in the hospital, and that's been
a really tough experience.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
How did that start?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, she started peeing blood. Oh she wasn't eating or
drinking following that. At first, I was like, oh, we
may have a UTI kind of situation, which is pretty
easy to treat. And then yeah, she just stopped eating
drinking for me. And it took a significant turn within
twenty four hours, and I just felt something in my gut.
(17:46):
And I had taken her to the vet that morning
and she had gotten fluids and she seemed to be
doing better and a little bit perkier, and I was like, okay,
maybe we're on a corner. I got antibiotics, try and
start treating her, and she still refused to eat for me,
and that she just collapsed in my lap, and I
was like, okay, we're going to the er. I'm not
(18:08):
gonna risk the fact that I if I just like
sit here and hope that this works out. So we
went to the er, and then we were at the
er for five or so hours, and then they transferred
us to getting her hospitalized. It was a very long
day when it happened on Tuesday, man, And it was
just something that I just I haven't fully experienced before,
(18:30):
like hospitalization of a pet. I've been lucky that I've
never had to with Remi or Hazel at this point,
and they're both ten years old, so I'm very lucky
that that's been the case. But then it was just
like a whole lot of tests and not a lot
of answers, and now we're kind of at the point
where we still don't exactly have all the answers, but
(18:51):
it looked like she had a kidney infection most likely,
and she's got some early kidney disease, which they can
still live really good life for however long they want
to and however long you keep them hydrated and on
the right diet and doing the right things.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And they can still live like long lives after that.
But it's still scary, like hearing that they have a disease, and.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Like the worst part, Mike has honestly been that I've
just had to leaver her, and I just couldn't do
anything about it.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It was just I just kind of feel helpless because
you're like, I can't do anything for you.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
But I wanted to, and I wanted to call all
the time, be like, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Can you tell me how she's doing?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But they kept saying no news is good news, and
you have to like you kind of have to let
go of control.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And you know me, Mike, I'm not good at that.
That is not a strong suit of mine.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So I'm sitting there and I'm actually really thankful that
it happened during CMA Fast week, not because of busyness,
because that like sucked. It sucked at the timeline, and
I'm exhausted. By the time Sunday comes, I will be
a zombie and I'll pass out. But it's kept me
dicted that I've had so much to do that I
can't be calling them every hour to be like, what's
(20:04):
happening with her?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
What's going on? And my family's been in town, so
I'm like, I just had to like turn my energy
in a different direction.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
If I didn't have either one of those things, I
think I might have like literally had a psychotic break.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean I'd be thinking about it all the time
and then worried and then feeling powerless and hopeless, and
then just and just starting day yep.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
And then I'd be the crazy person there like all
the time, yelling at him like give me an up
date when she was doing great. It's been a whirlwind
and like a lot of ups and downs and emotions,
and we Mike, it was so heart riching being in
imagine like a people er, right, it's not fun. You
see a lot of Sikh people, and you see a
lot of bad things happening, and then you get to
(20:51):
like the hospitalization. We when we were at the er,
it was the most sad moment. There was an own
that had come in with the dog that had a
heat stroke and we watched this massive team of vets
do CPR and there was chaos just like you'd imagine
(21:11):
there would be, and he didn't make it, and it was.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Like my whole body just broke.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm like already in a whole emotional state and not
doing well and then this happens and I just like
my heart goes out to all of those like vets.
You it's not something you ever think about, Right, You're
like sitting there and all these people who work in
medicine on any level, human or pet, you just never
think about that stuff happening all the time. Like this
(21:42):
is one moment that we were in there for five hours.
That happens every day. And I was just like I
was a gut punched for that owner because it was
just again helpless. You just go in there so helpless
with no answers, no and you just kind of have
to hand them off and say please save them. And
it was it was heartbreaking. I like genuinely never want
(22:05):
to be in any er situation ever. Can I'm dramatized.
It was so sad.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
So that was like a I feel like I've been
on an emotional rollercoaster this week of a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I mean, hearing you say that is like bringing back
memories of like when I lost my cat, like back
in like when I was a teenager, and like every
memory just came back in the moment you were talking
about that, because I remember like going to the vet
and then telling me that there was nothing they could do,
and like I just had like all these like visual
memories of like specific moments that I didn't realize I
(22:37):
stayed with me until now to hear you talk.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
About it, that was not what I but it is
because you you sit in there and not the same
thing happened to me when we were in there. Because
my cat before Hazel, she stayed with us until she
was eighteen, but the end of her life was really
hard because you watch them progressively get worse, and you
watch them like I slept in a closet with my
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cat before Hazel, her name was Saffy, and I knew
we were at the end because she wouldn't come out
of my closet and she wasn't really eating or drinking,
And I slept on the closet floor with her for
two days, just knowing that the time was coming, and
even still at the end, like even though I was
prepared and I knew it was coming and she'd had
a long and beautiful life, that those final moments of
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like the panic of us rushing to the vet to
try and save her, even though we knew we probably
couldn't traumatizing, And I was like, I don't know, in.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
A freshman in college.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
At the time, and I still like needed my parents,
and I was like what do I do, what's happening,
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's a crazy feeling that like.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Just having a pet in general, and just that later
part in their life. It's it's sad, it's and it's
like I wish I could describe the feelings better, but
it's just it's just sad.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And it's crazy, like how much it'll always be a
part of your life no matter what. Like even me
thinking about the cats I had, I mean that's like
fifteen years ago. How like I still have like these
attachments to them and like these emotions associated with them
that you don't forget them, and you think, like this
was such like a small part of my life, but
it was like such an important part.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
They make big impacts on you that you don't really
realize in the moment, and then you look at the
course of your life and you realize that was a
huge part of it, especially cats, because they really lived.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
For so long. There's I mean, I think about the
fact that I had a cat for eighteen years. An
animal was with me for eighteen years of my life.
How old were your cats?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I mean, they unfortunately didn't live that they were only
like four or five maybe, Yeah, it was primarily where
we lived at the time, wasn't safe for cats.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, people weren't very nice to cats for a very
long time. We've turned a corner, yeah, I think.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But like I don't even want to say what happened
to my second cat because it was like like why, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I don't because they I'll just be mad at people
and then I'll just be like why why do some
people exist? Because I have a feeling because you have
a lot of were they stray cats before? Were they
like ones you found?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think with these, somebody gave them to us, like
somebody had cats and they were just like my dad
loved cat, Like he still has like probably three or
four cats right now, just because he likes he likes
having them around the house. Yeah, he likes that they
take care of all the mice, and he just enjoys
like hanging out with them and feeding them because he
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always feels like he has friends around. Like the other
day he just sent me a picture of like all
the cats hanging out after you've fed them. Oh. So
I think that's why I had such an attachment to him,
because like, for my dad to have any kind of
like relationship with an animal is huge.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
So yeah, yeah, well and it's funny no your dad,
because I met him at your ass' wedding and he's
so like tough. Yeah, we're like tough guy kind of exterior.
And I'm now just picturing him with four cats and
I think it's the coolest picture of Yeah, and he's
just that's what we talk about, like my dad a lot,
because my parents have three smaller dogs and every time
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he'll be sitting at the table eating and all of
them are circled around him and he's just like feeding him.
He'll take a bite and they all get a bite,
and I'm like, this is the dad who previously was
the dad that wanted no animals.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
It was like, we can't have these dogs.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
And now he feeds the dogs with every meal that
he eats. So it's always that like dad moment where
you're just like the change that has happened.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's a cool thing to witness.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Oh yeah, same thing with my brother, who has a dog.
Like my dad was always like he never wanted us
to have a dog as a kid, just because he
thought like we wouldn't take care of him. He thought
that having him in the house, they'd rip everything apart,
but now he loves my brother's so much.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
It's so funny to watch you love when, like, animals
just kind of change your perspective.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And I think that happens for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Is you grow up, if you grow up a certain
way or like you've been taught a certain thing about them,
and then you get to have a special bond with
an animal, there's no going back. That's like your moment
and then you're like this because for you, you're talking
about the cats that you grew up with. Now, when
we've talked about you and Kelsey potentially getting an animal,
you've been like, I really want a cat, so like
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those cats changed your perspective. True, So have you guys
made any progress and the animal situation happening at your house? No?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Not, not really, not anymore. I think she still wants one,
but she's less of the pressuring or like really considering it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I think we just kind of consider where we are
in life and as we're booking like a lot of
trips and things to do, or like, yeah, it probably
doesn't fit best right now, But have you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Tried to be like, yeah, but a cat they're a
lot easier to I.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Did pitch that She's like, nah, see, and she probably
grew up with dogs.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I was like, they can take care of themselves for
the most part. They like come out when they want
affection and they go away when they don't.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's so true the Hazel being at the vet.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
It was funny. One of the vet texts came in.
She's like, we just passed Hazel around all morning because
all she wanted to do was snuggle and we all
are obsessed with her, which pretty unusual for a cat.
Most of the time they're like afraid of the cats
and the con because the cats don't like the vet.
But then there's just my cat who's just chilling like, yeah,
here's my arm, Like I guess I have to be here.
And she also got hand fed by the vet, literally
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being princess treatment. I'm that's the thing they've been giving
me updates. I'm like, I'm pretty sure Hazel's not gonna
want to come home.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
She's like, this is the life over here.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So all that to say, we do have good news,
and she is coming home after we record this podcast
sometime this afternoon. This is the day before, so that
right now is this Friday. You know my timing is
all mist up this week.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This is Friday.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
She'll come home this afternoon, so by the time you
can hear all this, she'll be hopefully home. And I
haven't gotten any calls since I went in and had
our visit yesterday. So again, no news is good news,
which is a really.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Thing that you don't want to hear. Is the worst
thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I'm like, I get it, and they totally respect it,
but also I need news like every hour. You just
like text me like she's good. Uh so, yeah, she'll
be She'll be home and I'm really excited.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, but we'll have some I'm gonna have to learn
how to give fluids, Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Okay, So if ever I ever told you, like my needle.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Thing, you're fear of them.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
H yeah, it's not good and you have.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
To give her fluids and it's a needle. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
So I've been terrified of needles ever since I got
bit by brown recluse and they poked me like twenty
times trying to get blood and it was just like
I had somebody who was a disaster with needles and
traumatized me. So then moving forward between having a needle
thing and a nex phobia. Every time a needle would
come out, I'd like grab my neg and I'd start
hysterically laughing.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Don't know the association. I have zero idea.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You could never get a neck tattoo.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
No, absolutely not. I couldn't even get a tattoo normally.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That's a real reason I don't have any tattoos that
I hate needles, Like, there's zero enjoyment for that out
of me. And now they said, like, to help with
her early Kenney uses, I can do SubQ fluids, which
is just like right under the skin. It's not like
an ivy, which is like really like straight into kind
of the veins, I guess. But the SubQ goes like
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right under their skin and you can just like pinch
it in their back. And I'm like, I'm sitting there
like listening and I'm talking about this and I'm I
literally wanted to pass out, and I was like, I'm
gonna have to get.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Over the beer of needles for my cat. And I'm
very scared.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
So I don't know that I could give somebody a shot.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I know, I know, but she They're like, she's such
a great cat. You'll be able to do this at home.
Most cats, you couldn't do this because cats.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Will be like like literally like.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Tom and Jerry, but Hazel's so chill. They have full
confidence I could do it at home. I was like, okay,
I'm like and they're like giving myself a pep talk.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
My I can do this. We're gonna do this.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
So I'm gonna have to get over my fear of
needles for my cat, and I'm very nervous, but it's
gonna happen. It's like the mom strength that comes out
that I didn't know was in there where I feel
like it's gonna come. Or I'm just gonna look at
my boyfriend this, which.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
He totally will, but.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's gonna be a crazy lesson. But that's the latest
that's been my week.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
SORR.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I brought up ald emotions that was definitely not my thing,
and hopefully I didn't do that to anybody else either,
But it's also just crazy. I wanted to give, I mean,
a huge shout out to anybody who works in vet
med in general, but really all of those er just
they're incredible people. I couldn't do what they do literally
you just heard me talk about needles and I want
to try so I could not do it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But we need people like that. So apparently we also
need people like Mike and I were on the radio.
I don't know, I don't get it. I'll be right back, Mike.
I saw that post Malone is opening a bar on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah. I don't go to bars, but I gotta go
to bars.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Now, you're like, this changes everything I did learn. Where
it's going to be and it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, it's kind of a small spot.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It's underneath Aldean's.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, that's what I saw. I was like, where is
this exactly? Is it? Inside of it? Is it?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah? So it technically is in Aldans building.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
What used to be Tequila Cowboy is what they're turning
into it.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
It's supposed to have like a kind of a speakeasy vibe,
I guess, but then it's like kind of looped. It's
gonna be interesting. I'm I'm very curious to see all this.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Gus, But how do you feel of post Malone having
a speakeasy Do you feel like that's his vibe?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I I don't know, because he's relatively new to doing
country and I feel like the vibe here is like
the country artist getting the bars, which I means there's
some other people too, But I'm just curious how it's
going to feel like him. Yeah, I don't know if
I really think of him having that kind of vibe.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I feel like he has a bud light and cigarette vibe.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, Like I see more like a dive bar vibe
for him of like an old place that's like cool
and like run down a little bit. That's kind of
what I see. So I don't know what the actual
vibe inside the place is going to be, but I'm
curious to see because I mean he has other things,
Like there's a Canes in Dallas that's all like post
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maloned out, so like he's done pose stuff. No, I
think it's just like a partnership thing.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
So post Malone's raising canes.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, and it's like all Dallas cowboys, which is another
interesting thing. Like I can't see him opening a bar
that doesn't have a lot of Dallas cowboys stuff because
that's so much of his identity. But it's like if
you put all this Dallas cowboys stuff, is they get
to deter other people from going there, especially in a
city that has its own NFL team.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Oh yeah, for sure, but it could become the Dallas
Cowboys bar.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
It's true, which those exist, like of different teams having
bars in different cities. But also I don't know if
like you can license all that stuff in a bar.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I feel like post Malone could do a lot of
the post Malone. But now I'm putting something together. Were
you a Cowboys fan before you became a post Malone fan?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Oh? Yeah, I mean I grew up in Dallas in
the nineties when they were really good. I don't fully
remember it because I was like thirty four years old,
yeah when that happened. But yeah, I've been all Dallas
sports my entire life.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
So then when you realize post Malone was a Cowboys fan,
was it like, oh this crush deepens harder thing.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I mean, yeah, it's like he's a fan of like
all my favorite things and doing all the things that
I was like wanting to do at one point, and
he just embodies them. All.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, this is true.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Okay, Well I'm and it maybe though I feel like
you'd have a hot take on this. What do you
feel like the threshold should be, because listen, I love Broadway.
I think everybody should visit. It's so cool to see
and win is.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
But the artist bars all look the same, They're all
the exact same.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Swap out the memorabilia and you have a new bar.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I only go to Broadway on runs, like I'll run
by there and it's always in the morning, and I
get to see it like fully lit up, like daylight.
And it's starting to feel now like when you go
to like an amusement park, like I remember going to
six Flags as a kid, and then you see all
these like fake sets of like things. That's what it
feels like now. It doesn't feel real anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
It feels like a small version of the Las Vegas strip,
and it's really like all the bars trying to entice
you to come in with all the things of like
here's this country artist. Here's like Eric Church's stained glass windows.
Here's gently rolls like things poking out of you, and
it's like all these things like come in the bar. Yep.
So I was kind of hoping that he wouldn't do
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the bar thing.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
I'm I'm not shocked that he chose Nashville, but I
am shocked that he's doing a bar. I just to
your point, I just feel like, and I get it. Listen,
when you get to have a lot of money, what
are you gonna like? You gotta invest in things, you
gotta start like doing different stuff. You gotta expand and
try different thing. So I full and understand why all
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these artists do it. I could imagine when you have
too much money, you gotta figure out where to put it.
But I just feel like we're this threshold where it's
like you don't have to do everything, Like you don't
have to do the clothing line, you don't have to
do the bar, you don't have to do the podcast,
you don't have to come out with the alcohol beverage.
I just I'm wondering where that threshold is now.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, I think post Malone is interesting because he literally
has every collab, like he has an Oreo, CROs crocs,
he has anything you can imagine, like he's doing a
comic book now.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Is he really?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I read did you get out about that?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah? That was awesome? Like it's like I'm saying, like
all the things that I love, he loves too and
then puts out. So I feel like he does so
much that it was kind of like, Okay, this is
like the next step. Yeah, but I don't feel like
everybody needs to do everything.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Okay, So let me ask you, because he has so
many you're a huge fan, you love all the stuff
that he's collabing with.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Do you feel like it's overload or every.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Time it happens, are you like me with a Marvel
show where I'm like, it could be crap, but I
love it.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I think for the first time this year, it feels
a little bit overload, okay, And some of the stuff
doesn't feel as unique as I would want it to.
Like he had a Stanley colemb where he came out
with him like a Stanley mug, and I was like,
that's kind of cool, but I don't know if like
I need to go get that.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Yeah, That's what I'm looking at too, because it just
feels like and I don't think it's so much the
artist side, but it's businesses really trying to attach to
these pop culture moments, and post is obviously a big one,
and they find it within these artists or these celebrities,
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and it's influencing and marketing is such a big thing
right now. I think it's going to be an interesting
thing to look back on in like ten years. And
I'll be curious if any of these celebrities, like I
wish I didn't do X Y and Z just because
it was kind of a hot thing at the time.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Yeah, And I think it's also with like musicians especially,
they're just trying to find other ways to make money
because it's hard to make money from your music. Yeah,
even touring has become so expensive, where that was kind
of like the most lucrative thing for an artist, like
go on the road, sell merch, play as many shows
as you can, and now it's like we need to
do even more. So I think that's why we're also
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seeing an influx of this of like how can I
get money from brands to who keep this ship afloat?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, that is very much so.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
And you're just seeing so many of them have access
to see and I like, I like the ones that
are really cool where you're like that makes sense. I
remember seeing one with wranglers, I think, and Laney Wilson
makes sense. Her whole brand is Bell Bottoms wranglers known
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for their jeans. Like I love when I see something
like that. I'm like, this lines up, this makes sense.
But then it's like the random ones where you're like
post alone into Stanley.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Light makes sense, makes it so much sense. I love
when that happens, So I get it from that point.
But I do think.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
There's also this this threshold that they hit and I
just can't tell if it's like we're getting to a
point of so much influence and trying to influence everything
in marketing that we're getting away from. They just want
the access to the artists, in the celebrity in their
fan base versus it being the right fit.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, And that's where I wonder where my threshold is.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
What would be And I don't know that's where I'm going.
It's like topic for conversation.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
What would be your ultimate like fit brand collab. If
you're like, Okay Morgan, We're going to get you your
dream thing. This is like your perfect fit fits your personality.
What would that What would that be?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
I feel like it has it has to be something
in relation to animals. That would be the only thing
that truly like. I think I feel like it'd be
like rescues, Like take all the pictures of me and puppies,
put them up everywhere I feel like that would make sense, right,
Like that's what you would see and be like yeah,
But I don't know how that would turn into like
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marketing because that's not like a brand.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, so I'm trying to brand like a straight up.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Like this, Do you have one? While I think about.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
This, I think for me it would probably be I
mean just Marvel as a whole. Yeah, like Marvel. I'd
either their comments or like the movies or collectibles or
like legos, just something like I'm teeming it with Marvel
and I'm gonna do like all this stuff for them.
I think that would be like my ultimate because I
(41:21):
think even like just doing my podcast, there's like probably
certain movie studios that I'm like, man, I love this
movie studio so much. But I think just Marvel as
a whole would be an ultimate thing. If I could
ever get a payment that said Marvel in my name,
that would be like the ultimate thing for me I
do for free.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Yeah, yeah, that would make sense. That's a good that
would be a good pairing. I think now that you
say that, the overarching of Disney could be mine because
I love to meet a Disney World, Disneyland. I will
be a Disney adult all day long.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
I'd say I could see Disney World for you.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Like, put me on that.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
I'll wear the ears every day and it would be
like I would thrive there. That Honestly, if you think
of Disney World, that's like my personality. When you see
somebody at Disney World, that's like who I am as
a person, just like happy most.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Of the time. You know, life doesn't put me on
emotional roll closures. But I'm like, you know, see, you know,
maybe I have more.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
In common, but I do feel like Disney because I
even love just every aspect of Disney, and I so
am a Disney adult.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
It's just it is what it is. I'll me shy
away from it. So maybe though, so Marvel Disney give
us a call. Yeah, that would be so cool. But
then we're like, hey, then we're in the threshold. Then
we've become those people.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Mike. I'd say my runner up would probably be a
Topo Chico. Oh yeah, because like my ultimate golden life
is to have a house with the Topo Chico fridge
and just fully stuck all the time, like I look
on Facebook Marketplace all the time, like that gets fed
to me as like old coolers that are like branded
with Yeah, I'll see like Coca Cola ones. I'll see
like pepsi ones. I'm like whenever a Tobachico one comes across,
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like I wanted to get that thing.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Did you ever try their alcohol drinks?
Speaker 3 (43:10):
You did?
Speaker 2 (43:10):
You like them?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
They're pretty good? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Yeah, they're like the Selter waters.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Yeah. I think there's like a margarita flavor or a
lime flavor that's really good. But I also really like mongol,
so that's like my I think they have a strawberry
one too. They're all good.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Okay, I need to give those a try. I don't
think I got into the Topo Chico. I do whenever
I go to Texas, but not as much here.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah, you go to the movie theaters in Texas and
you can get one. I'm like, man, this is like ideal.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yeah, you're like, this is.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
What I actually want if I would, if I do
go down a second one and be Taco Bell.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Oh that's good. M h.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
I've been trying to get Taco bells for I arrived
on Taco Bell in college and I still do as
an adult. The amount of times I go to Taco
Bell is insane, except I kind of threw a fit, honestly,
so every time when I wrote your home, there's a
Taco Bell about four.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
So I started like five am.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
I think we talked about this and they stopped selling breakfast,
and I was so mad.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
I was so mad.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
And then I but they had convinced me that all
of them stop selling breakfast.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
But then the one by me hadn't right. I'm like, no,
it's not. It was just you guys. But then the
one by me stop selling breakfast. So now I don't
know if they've double with breakfast or I have to
find another one.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
I wonder they're slowly phasing it out.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I'm gonna be so mad.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
I have to talk to my mom about that.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Please do, because I love your breakfast.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
It was so good, Like I love a little breakfast
burrito in the morning, and Taco Bell kind of gave
me that without having to track down the local place.
And I love my trust me. I found my local
breakfast burritos. I have several on deck, but they're so
far away.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
From me, like Taco Bell was convenient. Was right there
anyways to.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
My mom's Taco Bell or she would hook you up
because what she likes to do is create items that
aren't on the menu. So you can just tell her
what are your favorite ingredients and she can make something.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yes, and potatoes, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Those are one of my favorites too, So she would
make me like custom burritos, which she would take one
and then just add potatoes to it.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Okay, Wait, which one walks Ahatchee.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Next time I'm in Texas on specific so I can
get some.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
All right, we're gonna jump out of here. Mike, thanks
for being here. Tell people where they can find you.
Hear you all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
You can listen to my podcast, Movie Mike's Movie Podcasts,
new episodes every single Monday, spoiler free movie reviews, interviews
with actors and directors. Just search Movie Mike's wherever you
listen to podcasts.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
I love that, and make sure you go subscribe to
us on YouTube at Bobby Bone Show. We need to
be able to ring that bell hopefully next week, and
you can follow my podcast to take this personally, it's
a little bit more sappy, much more emotional roller coaster.
You need some good vibes listening to Mike. You need
some good lessons, Listen to mine and you can follow
both of us.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Did you say that?
Speaker 3 (45:54):
At Mike d Show and then I'm at web Girl Morgan. Okay, bye,
everybody bye.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
That's the best of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening.
Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend.
Go follow the show on all social platforms Bobby.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Bob Show and follow at Webgirl Morgan
Speaker 4 (46:10):
To submit your listener questions for next week's episode.
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