March 14, 2026 • 43 mins
Morgan and Amy share all the details post-cruise! From their favorite parts and to things they missed, and even the drink they both finally had a pretty martini bar after years of planning. Plus, Amy recalls the time she ran a marathon and how it impacted her life. Morgan’s been thinking a lot about her past and the “roles” she has played in people’s lives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with morgane Part one.
Behind a scene with a member of the show, Welcome
to the weekend, Amy is joining me. What's up Amy?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hello, time for a best Bits and we are in
post cruise territory. Oh gosh, okay, so we need like
recaps on what happened because this was your first cruise.
We need to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, I guess I did go on a cruise and
when I was in eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Okay, so but does he count? Do you feel like
different life?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Definitely probably doesn't count. But we did. It was same.
I think the same voyage really imas Yeah, Nasau. I
don't know that it was Bimini.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But do you remember that cruise very much?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I mean I remember getting off in Nassau. I remember,
you know, the mules, like everybody gathering together to eat
and getting my hair braided.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yes, I saw so many people walking back with braids.
It was like I did that one time.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Very much forgoted it, but as an adult with very
fresh memories, it was so fun. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I want to hear like it's your favorite moments, the
things that you enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I mean, it was obviously really cool to meet that
many listeners, and some that have listened for twenty years
or longer, and then some that were kind of not
new listeners but not hardcore, like some hardcore, but some
just lay like country music and yeah, okay, we know
(01:33):
who you are, and so it's like that and everything
in between. I there's a couple from like the Austin area,
I know, Texas, and I cannot think of their names
right now, but I would know their faces and it
was just so fun like getting to talk to them.
I'm using them as an example right now because there
were several people. I mean, there was like individuals on
(01:55):
a walk, but I feel like I would run into
them a lot, and they just we're there to have
a good time. And I love that everybody got to
escape and sort of like we were own on our
own little bubble in the ocean because the world is
really cuckoo right now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It is the best part about being out on a
cruise ship. I feel like you get to beyond just
a tiple of vacation, right because you go to a resort,
you still have access to all.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Your normal things that you need, but you go on
a cruise ship and you're kind of secluded.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You can't really do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And we still have our phones. You can be as
connected or not connected as you want to be. But
I don't know. I'm just I've thought of that couple
multiple times because they were just on vacation, living their
best life together, and I was like, Oh, that'd be
fun to like be on a boat. And we met
a few couples too that were younger. One of them
was even on their honeymoon. That was their honeymoon. Really
(02:48):
liked them. I don't think this for your guys's.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Honeymoon, and they had been saving up for it. They
had so much fun and it was interesting talking to
them because, like them, they didn't pay for the Wi
Fi package or anything, so they were completely cut off
or an entire week and they just enjoyed themselves so much.
We stumbled upon them one night when Lunchbox and I
were going back to our rooms and they were just
sitting in the chairs together and they were both reading
(03:10):
on their books and they were just adorable.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I love that. That reminds me. Speaking of chairs, I
met a mother and a son that were there and
they were in chairs one night, like watching one of
the concerts, just laying laying out on the deck and
they that was something they did like the other siblings
weren't invited, nobody else was invited. Was like their special
mother son trip and that they while they were there,
they signed up for next years, so they're gonna do that.
(03:36):
So it wasn't Yeah, it was like couples, individuals, girlfriends,
like just groups of friends.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So many variations of different people.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, I think the average age too. I mean you had, yeah,
thirty year olds to eighty year olds. I think the
average age is like sixty, but it felt younger than that.
But maybe just because a lot of people I'm getting older,
sixty doesn't seem that old to me. So because if
I were to hear there's a point in my life
if I heard the average age was sixty two, then
I'd be like, oh wow, that cruise is full of
(04:09):
older people. But I think because I'm getting older, even
looking around, you wouldn't have thought it was an older cruise.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
And it was a no kid cruise, which also adds
to that layer.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
True, no kids, but there was somebody with a did
you see her? She was with the walker, Yes, she
was partying it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Lucy still okay.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know, you got her name living her best life,
and so many people that would be line dancing. I
met this one couple from North Carolina, and the wife
had been taking line dancing lessons since last April, not
to prepare for the cruise or anything. It's just something
she's been doing for fun with her girlfriends. But it
really came in handy because there was so much line
dancing on the cruise and she knew all the dances.
(04:54):
Oh that's fun, I know. Then she got to like
relive it while she's on a cruise ship.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's fun. Yeah. And to your point about Lucille, she
was hilarious. She came to the karaoke competition every time
and she was up at one point. The first night,
she was creating the whole party. She was dancing, everyone
was dancing around her. The second night I saw her,
I was like, oh, you love to dance. So I
went over to her when one of the songs was happening,
and she got up and we started dancing together, and
(05:18):
then soon enough there was just this huge you know,
one of those dances where a circle forms around somebody
in the middle. That's what was happening with Lucilee. She
was the life of the entire party. And I saw
her actually got the airport. I walked up to her.
She's like, oh, hey, dance partner, and I was like hi.
That's how I finally learned her name. And she was
so funny. She's like, I loved my jacket on the ship,
(05:39):
you know, just I partied too much. I was having
too much fun and she was so cute.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, I will never forget her. I did not thank
you for giving me her name. So many people, it's like,
oh gosh, there were so many people to get their
names or sorry, I probably got their names, but to
remember m hmm. And I'm already the worst with names,
so I feel bad about that. But there you would
recognize people, yeah, like by the cane or by their
outfits or their hairstyle or there was in the We
(06:05):
had the one girl call in. She was like, I
was the one in the old miss sweatshirt yep, And
that's how I would always I mean, I recognize her
face at this point, but at first it was easy
to spot her because of her sweatshirt so much said
that when she called in, she was like, I'm the
one in the old Miss sweatshirt. I was like, yeah,
and so now in my head I know exactly who
she is.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's funny how he used those identifiers. There was one
guy that was in the karaoke competition and I'd called
out for him and I did this thing where if
they didn't show up, I'd count him down. And I
was starting to count him down and he came from
the sushi restaurant, which was like two floors above where
the karaoke competition was. He's like, hey, I'm a beer
eating sushi and the rest of the trip he became
known as Sushi Man.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And so he sent me a message after like the
trip ended or whatever he did. He was in the finals,
and he was like, I think my wife is going
to call me Sushi Guy for the next six months
of my life. And that's how I recognize him. It
was funny, Like, I feel like I.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Saw a whole bunch of people a lot of times,
and then there was some people I didn't even meet.
I know, is that weird? When someone sent me a
DM They're like, oh my gosh, you left already I
didn't get to meet And when I'm like, how how,
Because I feel like we met so many people all
the time, whether it was at specific events, we were
doing in the elevator, walking up and down the stairs
(07:20):
while eating, like I just feel like there was so
many opportunities. I don't know, but I guess, Yeah, the
ship is bigger than you think, and people are so
spread out doing so many different things that, yeah, you
weren't even though it felt like we were on the
same place. I guess when we would do when we did,
like the set sail thing, that was cool, like where
(07:41):
everybody comes out onto the debt the pool deck and
the boat takes off. It's like the set sail party,
and that was a cool moment because everybody's out there.
But then at that point then everybody scatters, and yeah,
hard to and I don't even feel like everybody's all
up there for them because everybody's just excited to be
on a ship. You're The first thing I do when
(08:03):
I get on a cruise ship is walk around. I'm
trying to figure out where everything is, figure out what
options are for restaurants, where's the shop set?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Let me figure out where I'm at. And I still
don't know where I'm at on the boat, even though
I do that the first thing I do when getting
on a ship. Even by the last day we were leaving,
I still was going the wrong direction. I still couldn't
figure out where I was in relation to the boat.
So I can't imagine just how many people were in
different places that I never ran into because I never
got to that part of the boat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Like one night I got lost and I ended up
in the spa area and I was like, what, there's
a spot and the employees were having a meeting and
there was like seventy five you know, massage therapists or something.
It felt like Matt And I'm like, who are these
women and where did they come from? And I mean,
I assume there maybe were some men in the mix,
(08:51):
but it was predominantly women, and I had never seen
them nor. I didn't even know that SPA section existed.
Did you get any spa treatments? No? I did go
and sit in the sauna one day. I went and
worked out one day. That was a sauna. Yeah, And
it was such a pretty sauna because it was out
it looked out to the ocean.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So you just sat there, you're heating and you're just
watching the waves.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It was really pretty. But that was the one I've.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Done that because I wouldn't have wanted to sweat off
my spray tand.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But I know and I needed it that day because
I really enjoyed the soft serve machine. That's my favorite
thing about cruise ships is that there's something limited soft serve,
just whenever you want it. Did you eat any of
the soft serve?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You never induled?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No? Was that up on the top deck.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
It was. There's one at the buffet with like you
can do chocolate vanilla swirl, And then there was one
that was strawberry by the Hamburgers and hot dogs area
and it's available all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Okay, I did go late night one night to get
food up there, but I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The Oh dang amy serve. It's like, my favorite part
about cruising is that you just have twenty four hour
access to free ice cream home.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I missed that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But I also just it's crazy two we were talking
about like how you get lost in there.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
There's a whole underground too. There's back passageways of things
to go, and the crews are all the way down
to the bottom where there's things that most of the time.
You don't even go to those areas of the ship.
Is that that crazy too?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah? I went down there to take a short cut
and there there was a whole different cafeteria and eating
area like sort of like the for the staff. But
it was full, blunt, like a When I say cafeteria,
I guess I'm picturing it, you know, like at Loubi's
or something like a whole salad bar, a whole buffet.
(10:35):
But it was strictly for the employees, so that's how
many people they're feeding. It's like there's the cooks for
the upstairs and then there's entire kitchens for their only
job is to cook for staff.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Is that it's so wild? Like cruise ships to me
are just I sit on them and I'm like, we're
on a floating thing that's in the ocean somehow stain
up with all of this equipment, all these people, and
we were just all out here pretending like we've known
each other for a whole week. It's a wild experience.
Cruise ships are.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah. I liked it, though. Did you have any Lee's
favorite things with the cruise? When I drank too much,
that was not it. No, I was so sick. I
don't know if it was a combo of what. And
I'll also just take responsibility that the type of martini
that we were having that Ray's wife introduced me to leechy,
(11:26):
but Scuba Steev says it's light chy or something whichever way.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The el fruit, it's this.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's a kind of fruit, I guess, And it was
kind of weird because it looked like an eyeball. Did
you get one?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I didn't get one, but I drank some of Wora's. Okay,
it's really good, and the fruit does look like kind
of an eyeball. It's really like squishy, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Really weird but yummy, and the drink like, I don't know.
I think they were just making them strong. I am
not really sure they were tasty. And you were so
busy too, though, I think I need to probably I
probably should have found the self serve machine because I
think I also just wasn't eating as much as I
normally do. Yeah, so it's a combo of that. Well,
(12:14):
and you don't drink much like that anymore, no, no, no,
So it was fun and it was fun to just
kind of, yeah, detach from the world for a little bit,
and the ride to the airport was brutal. And then
when I got to the Nassau Airport, I was waiting
in line to check our bags and I looked at
(12:36):
Eddie and I was like, watch my bag. I have
to go throw up. And I went and I did,
and I feel like people were like, oh gosh, stay
away from that girl. She's sick. And I'm like, no, no, no, no,
it's just alcohol. We are good because after I threw up,
I was feeling so much better, so much better.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Did you eat anything at the airport? Just soak up
some of the remains of the alcohol.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It took us so long. Eddie and I both have
TSA pre but when work booked it, they didn't put
us on there, which there was no line in the
TSA free not a not a person and we would
have been through and had plenty of time to chill.
Maybe you get something eat, because we didn't have it.
We were in the longest line ever and we had
(13:15):
enough time. Eddie and I got separated though, because he
got taken back to a room and customs, so then
I didn't see mun till we got to the gate.
But even to get to the gate. I only had
time to go to the little store and I bought
cheese crackers that sounded like crackers, just sounded good, you know, Yeah,
and oh oh, nutter butter. Those are the two things
(13:37):
that sounded good, just like something like a cracker. Yeah,
but one was salty and one was sweet. Those felt
safe to me. I don't know. Eddie walked on with
a greasy pizza and I was like, I don't know
that that's for me right now, but you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Have to go with whatever sounds good when you're hungover. Honestly,
it used to be for me.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'd always get this Taco Bell potato griller thing and
it was the only thing that could solve my hangover problem.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Anything else I tried to eat it never worked. But
whatever your craving is always your hangover. Here, I've realized,
like your body is telling you exactly what it needs
in that moment, and some people need a greasy pizza
or greasy burger. I needed my Taco Bell griller, and
you needed cheese and crackers and nutter butters.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yep, that's what I had on my flight. And then
we got to Atlanta and we had to buck it
to our next flight. And so then when I got home,
I finally was I ordered a salad. I was like, oh, greens, protein.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Rice cleanses from my body.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, we did do something. I want to mention this,
but we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be
right back. We talked about this on Best Bits. Gosh,
it's probably been three or four years now, but we
had planned always to go sit at a bar during
happy hour and have a drink, and we did technically
accomplish that on the cruise.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We did do that, although I think I got a
phone call about my daughter to that, so I feel
like Ray captured it on video or somebody did, or
it was definitely Ray. Yeah, and you and Bay look
like y'all are there like talking, and then you can
tell I'm on a serious call. And I did take
it right there at the bar. You did, but we
were before that moment. We were all having martinis and
(15:18):
sitting at the bar. So we half accomplished it. Yes,
we did.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It only took us four years in a cruise, but
we got there.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yes, So I wanted to at least applaud us for that,
because there's a few things that we accomplished on this cruise,
but anything else that comes to mind, anything you were
surprised about by the cruise. The theater is really big,
like the concerts and there were very cool Yeah, just
how like the shops in the store, How big it
is in the restaurant like yeah, h like yet in
(15:46):
the different part like the casino, Oh my gosh, that's
probably my favorite part. I'm not a big gambler, but like,
I've gone to Vegas so many times and I will
go and not even touch a blackjack table or any
gambling at all. And you know our hotel, like our room,
like you have to walk through the casino to get
to my room, and I'm never tempted to stop. Well,
(16:06):
let me tell you, I had such a good time
playing blackjack on the boat that come Vegas in September.
I'm probably gonna have to play blackjack when I get
there because we had so much fun. Lunchbox was like
my coach, and we were winning. I mean, maybe that's
why I had so much fun. It's because we were winning.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It definitely had to When you lose, for sure, it
makes you never want to go back.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Winning. It was crazy. I mean, of course we had
some losses, but I was still up, and I'm like,
this is weird, like blackjack different at Sea just feels different.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It does feel a little different, and it was such
a fun atmosphere in there, something about the casino and
everyone kind of feeling like they knew each other, innocent.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
The dealers were nice, yes, and fun.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The dealers are so much fun. At the end of
the day. They wanted you to win, but also them win,
which is a funny experience. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
We spent more time in the casino, but that's also
because I was with Lunch most of the time and
that's where he wanted to spend time.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And I was like, you know, I'm good. I don't
need to spend money. I was spending other people's money,
not my own. Yeah, I'm really bad about Like if
I've ever gone into a casino before, I'll give myself
twenty five dollars and you can't do a lot with
twenty five dollars dollars. But once I lose it, I'm
out hole And that's typically how I play. But there
was Shelley and Damon the listeners who kept giving me.
(17:22):
Every time I would lose, they just give me more money.
And I was like, please stop making me lose your money.
I'm going to keep doing this until crabs. That's where
I finally craps.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Crabs, craps, definitely craps.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Craps, not crabs. That was where I finally started to
have some winnings and blackjack in the tournament. But that
was all fake. It was just a house's money situation, right,
so it didn't count, But it would have been baller
if I did actually put in one thousand dollars of
money and win one thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Dollars pretty legit.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
How much did you end up walking away with?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I want a few hundred dollars, because I mean I
put in one hundred total and then walked away with yeah,
four hundred something.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh yeah, that's a big one. And you cashed them out.
You have you cashed it.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Out, I have the cash.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It did better than me. That was That's another side
to it is the casino shuts down when you go
into port. It only the casino's only active when you're
out into the middle of the ocean, which I find
really interesting too.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, that's why I had to go back down and
get my other chips, because I cashed them out and
they're like, Oh, by the way, we're going to be
once we port. We're shut down. We're not open tomorrow.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I have more
chips in my room from last night. Be right back,
and I went, I cashed them out, and then I
went up to my room, got more chips, cashed those out,
and then I was good.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And that was all from the same winnings were different.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well that was the chips in my room or from
the night before.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Okay, so total, you think.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
But it's all everything I was playing off of was
from my original investment. Yeah, that's some the lunchbox terminology
there when it comes to the because he know dangerous language,
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Okay, well cruise, we feel good, we feel recapped. Yeah,
are you ready for next year now that you've had
this one under yah, especially.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Now that I know what to expect and kind of
all know how to pack better and I just didn't know.
Now I'm like, okay, I know, I got it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Have a little more grip on it. Do you Does
this make you want to go on the Alaskan Cruise
more or less?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I still want to go on the Alaskan Cruise. I
just feel like it'd be a very different vibe.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It is. As far as the clothes, you think you
know how to pack for this one now, but clothes
are different for Alaska, but similar demographic. I would say
the Alaskan crowd is typically a little bit on the
older side.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I don't know why that is, but uh, I think
just appreciation of nature and.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, maybe I don't know why, and maybe it's not.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Maybe it's it's not one you maybe take kids on.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, definitely a different environment, but everything else. As far
as the cruise ship itself saying name, yeah, so I
didn't know if it further pushed that along, like you're
I have to make that happen now, or you're just
kind of the same.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I need to call my sister and be like, are
we going to do this or what? Because I also
really want to go to Paris. I feel like I
got to get some trips under my belt.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I feel like you just have to make it happen.
I know, you just got to make the call.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I know, well, we only have two times a year
where we can really take trips, so it's like Summer
or Christmas, and then Christmas is hard to do anything
because we have our family traditions and but.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
But you have two vacations a year, and I think
you should take them this year fully.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, I know, but the Christmas one isn't just as
simple as like, okay, well maybe do Alaska then, or
do Paris then. It's more of like the summer one.
I need to figure that out. I don't know. I'll
call my sister.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I at least one of them. You have to go
somewhere you've never been. Yeah, that's what I would encourage
you to do, for sure. Thank you for the I
think this is the year you make it happen.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I think, yes, I do think I'll go to Paris
this year.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That one's like, that's the itch, the one you have.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
They often say too that the place you long to
go the most is the one like that will bring
out the best version of yourself. Like if you ever
really longing to go somewhere for a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh well then that's probably yeah, Paris for me, or
somewhere in Spain for me. The Alaskan cruise we just
want to go on because that's what our mom wanted to.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Do, which I highly encourage. I think you will love it.
But yeah, as far as your personal how you feel.
I think Paris has been one of those for you
for a long time, and maybe there's a reason.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Got a boocket find that version of me.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
My girlfriend and I that we did the Paris Barcelona,
Belgium trip together. Yes, we talk about it often. It's
I mean, every time we see each other, something from
that trip comes up to our mind or will be
doing something and it reminds us it was that felt
like one of those trips that you're never going to forget,
you know what I mean? Of course not, and you
could go anywhere, but something about that one in particular,
(22:00):
and maybe that's what's gonna happen with you, and that's
why your body's like pulling you to go. Yeah, do it?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, I guess I just need to. Yeah, I'll figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I believe in you. I will it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It's just like there's so many schedules to like keep
in mind and to figure out, but it's on the
I don't have a vision board for this year, but
it's on my mental vision board. Okay, Well, I'm like
a physical one.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I'm gonna push you even harder and say there's always
gonna be things to figure out, but this has been
something that you wanted to do for so many years. Yeah,
and I think this is the year you just have
to say, I'm gonna do it and it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Okay, I'm gonna do it and it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I feel like Amy and Paris will be a moment.
So I know you'll have your Emily in Paris moment.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I mean maybe a little.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I mean, maybe you find like a job there. Maybe
there's said I knew, but I don't know, you know,
like maybe you fall in love with with bakery. When
I was over in Paris, I fell in love with
the baking.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
A lot, and I thought a lot about, Oh, maybe
I go to like making school court on blue croissants, yeah,
and bake and then I just work in like a
chocolate factory for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I to think about that sometimes.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, I mean, sometimes it'd be nice to just escape everything,
but I have to be realistic. I'll probably just go
for five to six days and come back on that attitude.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yes, that might be what happens. Okay, We're gonna take
one more quick break and we'll be right back. What
about everything else? How's Maggie and how's Kara?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Everybody's doing I love how I went immediately to ask
about the animals. Sorry, are your kids?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Also?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I feel like everybody is doing good right now. I
guess the main thing on our calendar is track season
is beginning for Stevenson, so he's very pumped and he's
really trying to improve his time on the mile, which
he has done.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And have you started running with him? Is that a
thing yet?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
No? I ran with him when he was fundraising for
Haiti a few months ago, but I did one mile.
Uh and on the app he had an app tracking
every mile because he did a half marathon. The mile
he ran with me was his slowest. He was like, mom,
this is a mile I did with you and it
was like way slower than everybody else's. So do you
(24:15):
feel like it'll encourage you to run more? Or run?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
No more.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I just don't think I'm a runner. I'm a I
used to be a runner, but I just don't think
my body is made for that. I have started stretch
classes at the Stretch Lab Okay Stretch Lab, which based
in place my body and maybe my my ability to
run or just feel more agile and flexible.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And why did you start going to classes for this?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Did?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay, I feel like a home was.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
At I guess I'll call it a session. I don't
know that it's a class, but so I bought I
signed up for three months to go, like you twice
a month or something. For three months, I could go
once a week, but I was like, honestly, that's going
to be hard for me to do. So I gave
(25:06):
my goal myself a goal of every other week and
then I stretch it home in between. I really just
amusing it as a kickstarter because I need to start
stretching more at home before and after walks and maybe
just when I wake up or if I'm watching TV
or doing something like just making sure I'm being wise
with that time. And of course not I'm just stretch
(25:28):
the whole time, but I just find the older I
get like I'm really starting to feel it, and so
I go in there and they kind of assess like
where I might need to focus my attention, and then
they help give me stretches, and then they help and
one of the things that is impactful is creating the resistance.
(25:51):
So they want you to like push against them with
like twenty percent of your force and then release, and
they'll be able to push a little bit further after
you release. And you can do that sort of thing
at home, like in the doorway, like using a wall
or the door the doorway, like I just said, as
your resistance and then release. And so just learning things
(26:11):
like that are going to help keep me strong. And
so do you feel like this is a little bit
from your because you've always had the low back injury? Yeah?
I have low Yeah, my low back has always been
weird from running. Like when I ran a marathon in college,
I hurt my right knee and my because it was overcompensating,
(26:32):
then my left foot. So those two things have always
caused me issues.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
It never fully broken, you never had surgeries or anything, right,
just no, I trained.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Oh gosh, I don't even know what I did, but
let me tell you, I should not have even completed
the marathon, but I had put in so much training
that I wanted to finish it. And my mom and
my boyfriend at the time were meeting me, like every
four miles. They would go to a different checkpoint and
my mom would give me a leave I'd pop more
(27:07):
pills just so I could mask the pain enough to
cross the finish line.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Why did you train for a marathon? What was behind that?
Did you love running?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I mean, yes, I used to run, or I thought
I loved to run. I mean I ran cross country
in high school.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I also think I looked at it as a way
to force me to exercise, and I so some of
that probably was unhealthy because I was using it as
a tool to or is like an excuse of like, oh, well, yeah,
I'm a runner, so I need to go run five
miles or six. But also that's how I had girlfriends.
That's how we would bond and hang out, Like we
(27:49):
would go for runs. Some of my sorority sisters like
that's what we would do, so like, I mean, of
course we would go out afterwards, but it was that's
where we would talk and ketch up because we would
talk the entire time. And one of my Storty sisters, Laurence,
signed up for the marathon training at Texas A and
M because every year A and M would take a
(28:11):
group to a marathon in Austin, and she was like,
I'm going to do this. She ended up dropping out,
but I was like, well, I'm going to stick with
it because I've already done it. And the guy was
doing all the time. He thought it was really impressive,
and I was like, yeah, it is, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
At that point?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
So then I did it, and then I was so
miserable afterwards that I was horrible to be around. He
broke up with me. Not because of that, no, no, no,
because of that. I was horrible to be I was
in so much pain. My body got I don't know
if it's like the acid, there's something that releases with
the running. I was so swollen and just retaining so
(28:53):
much water, the lactic acid build up, Like there's something
that my body was did not respet well to the marathon.
So the furthest I had run before the marathon. So
a marathon's twenty six point two the furthest I'd ever
run was twenty miles, and our coach said, that's all
you need. If you can do twenty, you can do
twenty six, Like it's the rest of the seventy five
percent mental after that. As long as you've done twenty,
(29:15):
your body should be fine. Well, I went into the
marathon with my body already not fine. I had been
water jogging a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Which what is water jogging?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Just I would get there were groups of us in
our training group. If you couldn't hit the street, hit
the pavement, if you had any injuries, they would we
would meet at the pool at A and M and
put these harnesses on, and you're in the water and
you jog, and you jog for a certain amount of time,
and that's basically your distance, and you're working the same
muscles as you would if you're running, So you could
(29:45):
essentially train in water and then take it to land
and be.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Gosh, being on pavement was hurting you, right, And so
is that why you were water jogging? Yes?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, I was giving my joints a break through the
water jogging, so that way, I mean, it would been
far worse if I had just kept training on the pavement. Anyway,
I should not have run the marathon. But I did.
I have the T shirt to prove it. You can
T shirt, I no, I cannot, and a medal somewhere.
But I really was swollen and I couldn't walk, so
(30:19):
none of my clothes were fitting, and I carbo loaded
like crazy before it, so of course, and then I wasn't.
I went from running a ton to not running at all.
So I kept to carbo loading so like I don't
even know like where I thought. I was like, oh,
maybe I'll lose weight doing this marathon. I gained weight,
which for me at the time in college, that didn't
feel good. So I think I was unhappy about that.
(30:41):
I couldn't walk like he would drop me off. We
were neighbors, so he would pick me up for classes
on campus and then drop me off close to where
and then he would go park and walk, because I mean,
obviously on college campuses you walk a tone. I was
in my pajama pants limping to class, miserable, like not
(31:01):
nice and I mean not meaning to be.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, you were going through that.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I was what's the word, I was irritable? Yeah, because
I felt so uncomfortable, and I would have broken up
with me too. I do not blame him at all
one bit. We ended up eventually getting back together maybe
a year and a half for two years a year
and a half after maybe okay, we got back together,
but that it didn't did it not last? Then? Either?
(31:29):
I had other issues and then he broke up with
me again. Looking back, I'm like, I don't blame you.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Have you seen this guy at all since in anyway
up perform?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yes, yes, because he's married to a girl. We both
know he's married to her sister. That's wild, Like small world.
I had a conversation about that. So I'm at a concert.
We were in Austin for something, and I was right
after my mom died, and he he came up and said, hey,
it's really sorry to hear about your mom, and I
was like, yeah, but that's that's the first time i'd
(32:02):
seen it since we're broken up. That's crazy that he
came and he was only there because of that mutual
friend I'm talking about, and so that was interesting. But
it was such a long time ago, Like it didn't
even feel like he's got a family. I have a family,
Like it's not it wasn't an It's just one of
(32:22):
those more of like I'm embarrassed how I acted. I mean,
he probably hasn't even thought twice about it. But it's
sort of when you're the one getting broken up with
and later in life you think of I mean, I
had two relationships in college that meant a lot to me.
He was one of them, so obviously you think that
your college relationships do count more than like high school.
(32:43):
And while they weren't that long, it was just we
tried to get back together and then he was like, oh, nope,
I guess this time it's not the marathon and something else,
and it was I had stuff I needed to work through.
I wasn't healthy.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I was thinking about this the other day because so
somebody on the this happened on the cruise. Some girl
had come up to me and she was like, hey,
we went to college together, and I was like, what year?
And I was trying to put all the pieces together
and I didn't know her, but we had like one
mutual friend. And later on I got a message from
another listener on the ship was like, Hey, do you
know this girl. She's like really, she's sharing a lot
(33:18):
of information about you and like saying that you weren't
kind to her in college, and I was like, we
didn't even go to school together. We already confirmed this
like that way we had different times and then I
was like spirally and I was like, man, if you
think about your life and just all the people that
you passed in your life and all the people you
interact with, all the relationships you've had, and even just strangers,
even moments in time where somebody was part of your
(33:40):
life for a few months rather than years or whatever,
and you just really think about that concept of you
never know the part you played in somebody's story. And
that was like a moment where I was very much
like trying to go through my file in my brain
of like did I did something happen? Am I missing something?
That I do something? And I never I didn't know
that person at all. I've never met her up until
(34:02):
that moment, but it at least had me spiraling in
that direction, you know, to be like did I and
it is you? It's wild the roles you will play
in somebody's life, whether they're small or significant, and you
don't know until you maybe cross paths one day again,
or you never cross paths. But for somebody it was
a huge moment and for the other person it was nothing. Yeah,
(34:25):
it's crazy to think about that.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
There are different people we've worked with over the years,
or like I think even at this company or being
in Austin, and then people I don't know. Yes, you're right,
it's like high school, college, career, different careers encounters, maybe
(34:47):
how you were acting during a certain season, or if
it was a small encounter maybe one day, or a
season that was maybe six months or a year. Like,
there's definitely times I'm not proud of how I act
or behaved, And there's probably some people that I definitely
owe an apology to. For sure, I won't. I don't
(35:09):
know if I'll ever see them again. Yeah, well, and
that's the thing, you don't The perception of me might
be very different then, yeah, because you meet them at
different phases of your life, So who you were then
is probably a different person than now. And I think
where the lack of that comes from is if you
meet somebody again and they're the same person, You're like, oh, okay,
that's just that's who you are.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, But I think for most people that's not the case.
You know, they grow and evolve and life changes them.
But it's it was just funny. It had me like
in a rabbit hole of just thinking about all the
people I've encountered in my life and all the moments
where maybe I was a villain, maybe I was a hero,
or maybe I was nothing, you know of like, where
where did that impact somebody along the line, And now
(35:50):
I'm thinking about you.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
And your ex boyfriend and how you have.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Like this these two moments and now he's kind of
like a acquaintance in a way. And I mean not really,
I haven't seen him. I mean even seeing him that
for some that was years ago. I mean that's probably
two thousand. My mom died in twenty fourteen, so I
probably still haven't seen him in a decade. But I
mean I'll see him on our friend's Instagram or whatever
and be like, oh, that's crazy. Yeah, they're family now,
(36:16):
because you know. And I think you can also romanticize
the past some too, Like for me, I was so
heartbroken when we broke up that I probably romanticized what
version he was to me because I was so devastated. Yeah,
and it was so perfect. But again I get it,
(36:37):
and I am thankful that I have had growth and
I'm not stuck in that. I think a lot of
that time in my life was very I was very insecure,
which also would lead to being misunderstood a lot, because
sometimes when you're insecure and you might be quieter, it's bitchy.
(36:58):
And so I definitely had those moments, but those in
eating disorder era for me, so I was very preoccupied.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Well, and we had Jody Messina on this week, and
she mentioned something like that about being at an award
show and how she was very just insecure being in
a room of a bunch of women like Faith Hill
and oh.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah, she said she didn't want to leave her dressing room.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, and how it could have likely been perceived that
she was being mean when she was just afraid to
be in that space. And it's just it's a it's
a funny, like retrospective way of looking at things and
seeing just a role that you play in a lot
of things and what you were like in those situations.
And this is one of those where you had a
really unique one where you can look at it and oh.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
My god, I was crazy town yeah, and all of
those but probably didn't work out the second time, because
I've told this story on my podcast with Kat and
she loves to bring it up from time to time.
But like he had made eggs one morning and I
wasn't eating egg yolk at the time, and yoke. She
also says, I say egg yolk weird, which I do, uh,
(38:06):
And I it was, you know, the early two thousands,
I was only eating egg whites, and I freaked out,
like not at him, but it was like I didn't
know what to do, Like I almost like it's like
it paralyzed me because it was all mixed together and
I was I clearly needed food. I think I was hungry,
(38:27):
but when they were mixed, I was like what do
I do? And I was so restricted and my brain couldn't.
It's like my lid flipped sort of you know, describe
like the front part of your brain if you look
at that prefuntal cortex as like once it lifts up
and flips, like if you have kids that sometimes you're like,
why are they being so irrational right now? They're not
(38:48):
understanding what their lid maybe is flipped and there's no
rational thinking when the lid is flipped. And I think
that because I was in the throes of my eating disorder,
my lid flipped over, not knowing how I was supposed
to eat these eggs now, and I was panicked and
freaking out. And I think if that's when he was like, Okay,
this is not how I would have lived my life
(39:11):
to fight over ag Like. I wasn't mad at him,
it just root my attitude. It ruined the morning like
whatever we had the rest of the day, like we
were at his family's place in Texas, and I think
I just ruined the vibe, like a total buzzkill. But
I have compassion for that version of me too, because
(39:32):
I was doing the best that I could, I guess
at the time without the proper tools at all, I
had none. I feel like at that moment somebody probably
should have checked me in somewhere, but even he didn't know,
Like it's not like I was being vocal with him,
like like as an adult now I can look back
at I wasn't even twenty five minutes so, and my
underdeveloped brain because now we know the brain's don't even
(39:53):
developed till twenty five. So in my young twenties having
a neating disorder and trying to trying to rationalize my behavior,
it's not I'm not gonna be able to make it
make sense. I can't. So I have compassion for that
version of me, And I'm thankful that I have healing
(40:14):
and that there is hope and healing in that because
I had it when it came back after my mom
died in my marriage too, and I would I got
restrictive again and I'm sure there wasn't the egg white episode,
but there was probably another something similar that my husband
had to deal with. But I think as you're married,
that's the difference. Like I was able to I felt
(40:35):
safe with this partner that I had, and I wanted
to tell him about it when it returned after my
mom died, we had conversations. That's the difference. Like young
brain me what I wasn't having conversations with my boyfriend.
I'm like, oh, this is actually what's happening. I have
any disorder. He didn't know. You know, no, at the time,
(40:56):
I kept it very secret. It was hidden. I felt shame.
That was you know. I felt like, why can't I
just be like normal girls? You'll just eat an egg
I don't know, or at that point, maybe a MIT
griddle or something, because I felt like normal girls they
could just go through the drive through and you know,
because I think that's what he had that morning and
then like I was like, no, I'll make eggs at
(41:19):
the house, and he was like, okay, we'll do it
for you. But he had picked up McDonald's anyway, good times.
Can anyone just relate to this?
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Yes? Yes, again, Hey, it's it's back to being. It's
it's the story you played in other people's lives, and
it's an interesting It's just something to think about in retrospect.
And I sometimes wish there was just a button I
could press and kind of play memories and say, how
did I forget that memory completely? Is that like something
I blacked out? Was that something I need to remember?
(41:49):
Do I owe somebody an apology?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Like, like, now I'm thinking about him and I was like,
he was just an overall awesome, good dude. And then
if I were to come up with him, which I'm
probably has not been the case, but like if someone
would be like, oh wow, okay, you know Amy or whatever,
he might be like, yeah, she's freaking crazy.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Right, And I'm like, dang, I really need to like
make some.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
What do you mean she's crazy? Well, one time I
made her eggs.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
He probably doesn't about it.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
If he ever makes eggs now in his life is
probably like there's that one time. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Oh, well, thanks for being here this week and Amy
talking about all kinds of random things, and it was
a good cruise recap and if you want to remember,
you can come on the cruise next year. Topshelf Countrycruise
dot Com. You can get your cabin and come hang
out with us. If there's another Martini bar, you.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Know, my find us there. I mean I'll probably have
a year to recover. Yes, at that point I will
be able to, but I'm gonna need a limit. Well,
we'll have somebody watching you this time. We'll have people
watching both of us. I think that will be a
good thing. Okay, we're jumping out of here.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
We're gonna go answer some listener questions in part three
if you want to check that out. Otherwise, if this
is where we leave you, Amy, where can are you good?
Over there?
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah? I was trying to read my ball, but I
realized I just opened up a little suja drink lemon
cayenne pepper suja juice thingy, and I was like, oh,
what is in here? And I was trying to read
the ingredients and I cannot because I need my readers.
I can read it for you, I hoped, Eddie. The
print is too tiny. People can find me Radio Amy
(43:19):
on Instagram and Feeling Things with Amy and Kat on
Instagram for our podcast, which obviously is the name of
our podcast, which is Feeling Things with Amy and Kat
new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Awesome and you can follow me at web Girl Morgan
and the show at Bobby Bone Show. Check us out
on YouTube. Lots of content up there, all right, buye everybody.
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
for listening. Be sure to check out the other two
parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
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Speaker 1 (43:48):
Submit your listener questions for next week's episode.
The Best Bits of the Week with morgane Part one.
Behind a scene with a member of the show, Welcome
to the weekend, Amy is joining me. What's up Amy?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hello, time for a best Bits and we are in
post cruise territory. Oh gosh, okay, so we need like
recaps on what happened because this was your first cruise.
We need to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, I guess I did go on a cruise and
when I was in eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Okay, so but does he count? Do you feel like
different life?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Definitely probably doesn't count. But we did. It was same.
I think the same voyage really imas Yeah, Nasau. I
don't know that it was Bimini.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
But do you remember that cruise very much?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I mean I remember getting off in Nassau. I remember,
you know, the mules, like everybody gathering together to eat
and getting my hair braided.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yes, I saw so many people walking back with braids.
It was like I did that one time.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Very much forgoted it, but as an adult with very
fresh memories, it was so fun. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I want to hear like it's your favorite moments, the
things that you enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I mean, it was obviously really cool to meet that
many listeners, and some that have listened for twenty years
or longer, and then some that were kind of not
new listeners but not hardcore, like some hardcore, but some
just lay like country music and yeah, okay, we know
(01:33):
who you are, and so it's like that and everything
in between. I there's a couple from like the Austin area,
I know, Texas, and I cannot think of their names
right now, but I would know their faces and it
was just so fun like getting to talk to them.
I'm using them as an example right now because there
were several people. I mean, there was like individuals on
(01:55):
a walk, but I feel like I would run into
them a lot, and they just we're there to have
a good time. And I love that everybody got to
escape and sort of like we were own on our
own little bubble in the ocean because the world is
really cuckoo right now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It is the best part about being out on a
cruise ship. I feel like you get to beyond just
a tiple of vacation, right because you go to a resort,
you still have access to all.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Your normal things that you need, but you go on
a cruise ship and you're kind of secluded.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You can't really do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And we still have our phones. You can be as
connected or not connected as you want to be. But
I don't know. I'm just I've thought of that couple
multiple times because they were just on vacation, living their
best life together, and I was like, Oh, that'd be
fun to like be on a boat. And we met
a few couples too that were younger. One of them
was even on their honeymoon. That was their honeymoon. Really
(02:48):
liked them. I don't think this for your guys's.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Honeymoon, and they had been saving up for it. They
had so much fun and it was interesting talking to
them because, like them, they didn't pay for the Wi
Fi package or anything, so they were completely cut off
or an entire week and they just enjoyed themselves so much.
We stumbled upon them one night when Lunchbox and I
were going back to our rooms and they were just
sitting in the chairs together and they were both reading
(03:10):
on their books and they were just adorable.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I love that. That reminds me. Speaking of chairs, I
met a mother and a son that were there and
they were in chairs one night, like watching one of
the concerts, just laying laying out on the deck and
they that was something they did like the other siblings
weren't invited, nobody else was invited. Was like their special
mother son trip and that they while they were there,
they signed up for next years, so they're gonna do that.
(03:36):
So it wasn't Yeah, it was like couples, individuals, girlfriends,
like just groups of friends.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So many variations of different people.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, I think the average age too. I mean you had, yeah,
thirty year olds to eighty year olds. I think the
average age is like sixty, but it felt younger than that.
But maybe just because a lot of people I'm getting older,
sixty doesn't seem that old to me. So because if
I were to hear there's a point in my life
if I heard the average age was sixty two, then
I'd be like, oh wow, that cruise is full of
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older people. But I think because I'm getting older, even
looking around, you wouldn't have thought it was an older cruise.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
And it was a no kid cruise, which also adds
to that layer.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
True, no kids, but there was somebody with a did
you see her? She was with the walker, Yes, she
was partying it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Lucy still okay.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know, you got her name living her best life,
and so many people that would be line dancing. I
met this one couple from North Carolina, and the wife
had been taking line dancing lessons since last April, not
to prepare for the cruise or anything. It's just something
she's been doing for fun with her girlfriends. But it
really came in handy because there was so much line
dancing on the cruise and she knew all the dances.
(04:54):
Oh that's fun, I know. Then she got to like
relive it while she's on a cruise ship.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's fun. Yeah. And to your point about Lucille, she
was hilarious. She came to the karaoke competition every time
and she was up at one point. The first night,
she was creating the whole party. She was dancing, everyone
was dancing around her. The second night I saw her,
I was like, oh, you love to dance. So I
went over to her when one of the songs was happening,
and she got up and we started dancing together, and
(05:18):
then soon enough there was just this huge you know,
one of those dances where a circle forms around somebody
in the middle. That's what was happening with Lucilee. She
was the life of the entire party. And I saw
her actually got the airport. I walked up to her.
She's like, oh, hey, dance partner, and I was like hi.
That's how I finally learned her name. And she was
so funny. She's like, I loved my jacket on the ship,
(05:39):
you know, just I partied too much. I was having
too much fun and she was so cute.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, I will never forget her. I did not thank
you for giving me her name. So many people, it's like,
oh gosh, there were so many people to get their
names or sorry, I probably got their names, but to
remember m hmm. And I'm already the worst with names,
so I feel bad about that. But there you would
recognize people, yeah, like by the cane or by their
outfits or their hairstyle or there was in the We
(06:05):
had the one girl call in. She was like, I
was the one in the old miss sweatshirt yep, And
that's how I would always I mean, I recognize her
face at this point, but at first it was easy
to spot her because of her sweatshirt so much said
that when she called in, she was like, I'm the
one in the old Miss sweatshirt. I was like, yeah,
and so now in my head I know exactly who
she is.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's funny how he used those identifiers. There was one
guy that was in the karaoke competition and I'd called
out for him and I did this thing where if
they didn't show up, I'd count him down. And I
was starting to count him down and he came from
the sushi restaurant, which was like two floors above where
the karaoke competition was. He's like, hey, I'm a beer
eating sushi and the rest of the trip he became
known as Sushi Man.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And so he sent me a message after like the
trip ended or whatever he did. He was in the finals,
and he was like, I think my wife is going
to call me Sushi Guy for the next six months
of my life. And that's how I recognize him. It
was funny, Like, I feel like I.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Saw a whole bunch of people a lot of times,
and then there was some people I didn't even meet.
I know, is that weird? When someone sent me a
DM They're like, oh my gosh, you left already I
didn't get to meet And when I'm like, how how,
Because I feel like we met so many people all
the time, whether it was at specific events, we were
doing in the elevator, walking up and down the stairs
(07:20):
while eating, like I just feel like there was so
many opportunities. I don't know, but I guess, Yeah, the
ship is bigger than you think, and people are so
spread out doing so many different things that, yeah, you
weren't even though it felt like we were on the
same place. I guess when we would do when we did,
like the set sail thing, that was cool, like where
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everybody comes out onto the debt the pool deck and
the boat takes off. It's like the set sail party,
and that was a cool moment because everybody's out there.
But then at that point then everybody scatters, and yeah,
hard to and I don't even feel like everybody's all
up there for them because everybody's just excited to be
on a ship. You're The first thing I do when
(08:03):
I get on a cruise ship is walk around. I'm
trying to figure out where everything is, figure out what
options are for restaurants, where's the shop set?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Let me figure out where I'm at. And I still
don't know where I'm at on the boat, even though
I do that the first thing I do when getting
on a ship. Even by the last day we were leaving,
I still was going the wrong direction. I still couldn't
figure out where I was in relation to the boat.
So I can't imagine just how many people were in
different places that I never ran into because I never
got to that part of the boat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Like one night I got lost and I ended up
in the spa area and I was like, what, there's
a spot and the employees were having a meeting and
there was like seventy five you know, massage therapists or something.
It felt like Matt And I'm like, who are these
women and where did they come from? And I mean,
I assume there maybe were some men in the mix,
(08:51):
but it was predominantly women, and I had never seen
them nor. I didn't even know that SPA section existed.
Did you get any spa treatments? No? I did go
and sit in the sauna one day. I went and
worked out one day. That was a sauna. Yeah, And
it was such a pretty sauna because it was out
it looked out to the ocean.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So you just sat there, you're heating and you're just
watching the waves.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It was really pretty. But that was the one I've.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Done that because I wouldn't have wanted to sweat off
my spray tand.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But I know and I needed it that day because
I really enjoyed the soft serve machine. That's my favorite
thing about cruise ships is that there's something limited soft serve,
just whenever you want it. Did you eat any of
the soft serve?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You never induled?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No? Was that up on the top deck.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
It was. There's one at the buffet with like you
can do chocolate vanilla swirl, And then there was one
that was strawberry by the Hamburgers and hot dogs area
and it's available all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Okay, I did go late night one night to get
food up there, but I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The Oh dang amy serve. It's like, my favorite part
about cruising is that you just have twenty four hour
access to free ice cream home.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I missed that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But I also just it's crazy two we were talking
about like how you get lost in there.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
There's a whole underground too. There's back passageways of things
to go, and the crews are all the way down
to the bottom where there's things that most of the time.
You don't even go to those areas of the ship.
Is that that crazy too?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah? I went down there to take a short cut
and there there was a whole different cafeteria and eating
area like sort of like the for the staff. But
it was full, blunt, like a When I say cafeteria,
I guess I'm picturing it, you know, like at Loubi's
or something like a whole salad bar, a whole buffet.
(10:35):
But it was strictly for the employees, so that's how
many people they're feeding. It's like there's the cooks for
the upstairs and then there's entire kitchens for their only
job is to cook for staff.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Is that it's so wild? Like cruise ships to me
are just I sit on them and I'm like, we're
on a floating thing that's in the ocean somehow stain
up with all of this equipment, all these people, and
we were just all out here pretending like we've known
each other for a whole week. It's a wild experience.
Cruise ships are.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah. I liked it, though. Did you have any Lee's
favorite things with the cruise? When I drank too much,
that was not it. No, I was so sick. I
don't know if it was a combo of what. And
I'll also just take responsibility that the type of martini
that we were having that Ray's wife introduced me to leechy,
(11:26):
but Scuba Steev says it's light chy or something whichever way.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The el fruit, it's this.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's a kind of fruit, I guess, And it was
kind of weird because it looked like an eyeball. Did
you get one?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I didn't get one, but I drank some of Wora's. Okay,
it's really good, and the fruit does look like kind
of an eyeball. It's really like squishy, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Really weird but yummy, and the drink like, I don't know.
I think they were just making them strong. I am
not really sure they were tasty. And you were so
busy too, though, I think I need to probably I
probably should have found the self serve machine because I
think I also just wasn't eating as much as I
normally do. Yeah, so it's a combo of that. Well,
(12:14):
and you don't drink much like that anymore, no, no, no,
So it was fun and it was fun to just
kind of, yeah, detach from the world for a little bit,
and the ride to the airport was brutal. And then
when I got to the Nassau Airport, I was waiting
in line to check our bags and I looked at
(12:36):
Eddie and I was like, watch my bag. I have
to go throw up. And I went and I did,
and I feel like people were like, oh gosh, stay
away from that girl. She's sick. And I'm like, no, no, no, no,
it's just alcohol. We are good because after I threw up,
I was feeling so much better, so much better.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Did you eat anything at the airport? Just soak up
some of the remains of the alcohol.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
It took us so long. Eddie and I both have
TSA pre but when work booked it, they didn't put
us on there, which there was no line in the
TSA free not a not a person and we would
have been through and had plenty of time to chill.
Maybe you get something eat, because we didn't have it.
We were in the longest line ever and we had
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enough time. Eddie and I got separated though, because he
got taken back to a room and customs, so then
I didn't see mun till we got to the gate.
But even to get to the gate. I only had
time to go to the little store and I bought
cheese crackers that sounded like crackers, just sounded good, you know, Yeah,
and oh oh, nutter butter. Those are the two things
(13:37):
that sounded good, just like something like a cracker. Yeah,
but one was salty and one was sweet. Those felt
safe to me. I don't know. Eddie walked on with
a greasy pizza and I was like, I don't know
that that's for me right now, but you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Have to go with whatever sounds good when you're hungover. Honestly,
it used to be for me.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'd always get this Taco Bell potato griller thing and
it was the only thing that could solve my hangover problem.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Anything else I tried to eat it never worked. But
whatever your craving is always your hangover. Here, I've realized,
like your body is telling you exactly what it needs
in that moment, and some people need a greasy pizza
or greasy burger. I needed my Taco Bell griller, and
you needed cheese and crackers and nutter butters.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yep, that's what I had on my flight. And then
we got to Atlanta and we had to buck it
to our next flight. And so then when I got home,
I finally was I ordered a salad. I was like, oh, greens, protein.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Rice cleanses from my body.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, we did do something. I want to mention this,
but we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be
right back. We talked about this on Best Bits. Gosh,
it's probably been three or four years now, but we
had planned always to go sit at a bar during
happy hour and have a drink, and we did technically
accomplish that on the cruise.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We did do that, although I think I got a
phone call about my daughter to that, so I feel
like Ray captured it on video or somebody did, or
it was definitely Ray. Yeah, and you and Bay look
like y'all are there like talking, and then you can
tell I'm on a serious call. And I did take
it right there at the bar. You did, but we
were before that moment. We were all having martinis and
(15:18):
sitting at the bar. So we half accomplished it. Yes,
we did.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It only took us four years in a cruise, but
we got there.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yes, So I wanted to at least applaud us for that,
because there's a few things that we accomplished on this cruise,
but anything else that comes to mind, anything you were
surprised about by the cruise. The theater is really big,
like the concerts and there were very cool Yeah, just
how like the shops in the store, How big it
is in the restaurant like yeah, h like yet in
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the different part like the casino, Oh my gosh, that's
probably my favorite part. I'm not a big gambler, but like,
I've gone to Vegas so many times and I will
go and not even touch a blackjack table or any
gambling at all. And you know our hotel, like our room,
like you have to walk through the casino to get
to my room, and I'm never tempted to stop. Well,
(16:06):
let me tell you, I had such a good time
playing blackjack on the boat that come Vegas in September.
I'm probably gonna have to play blackjack when I get
there because we had so much fun. Lunchbox was like
my coach, and we were winning. I mean, maybe that's
why I had so much fun. It's because we were winning.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It definitely had to When you lose, for sure, it
makes you never want to go back.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Winning. It was crazy. I mean, of course we had
some losses, but I was still up, and I'm like,
this is weird, like blackjack different at Sea just feels different.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It does feel a little different, and it was such
a fun atmosphere in there, something about the casino and
everyone kind of feeling like they knew each other, innocent.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
The dealers were nice, yes, and fun.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The dealers are so much fun. At the end of
the day. They wanted you to win, but also them win,
which is a funny experience. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
We spent more time in the casino, but that's also
because I was with Lunch most of the time and
that's where he wanted to spend time.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And I was like, you know, I'm good. I don't
need to spend money. I was spending other people's money,
not my own. Yeah, I'm really bad about Like if
I've ever gone into a casino before, I'll give myself
twenty five dollars and you can't do a lot with
twenty five dollars dollars. But once I lose it, I'm
out hole And that's typically how I play. But there
was Shelley and Damon the listeners who kept giving me.
(17:22):
Every time I would lose, they just give me more money.
And I was like, please stop making me lose your money.
I'm going to keep doing this until crabs. That's where
I finally craps.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Crabs, craps, definitely craps.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Craps, not crabs. That was where I finally started to
have some winnings and blackjack in the tournament. But that
was all fake. It was just a house's money situation, right,
so it didn't count, But it would have been baller
if I did actually put in one thousand dollars of
money and win one thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Dollars pretty legit.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
How much did you end up walking away with?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I want a few hundred dollars, because I mean I
put in one hundred total and then walked away with yeah,
four hundred something.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh yeah, that's a big one. And you cashed them out.
You have you cashed it.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Out, I have the cash.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It did better than me. That was That's another side
to it is the casino shuts down when you go
into port. It only the casino's only active when you're
out into the middle of the ocean, which I find
really interesting too.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, that's why I had to go back down and
get my other chips, because I cashed them out and
they're like, Oh, by the way, we're going to be
once we port. We're shut down. We're not open tomorrow.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I have more
chips in my room from last night. Be right back,
and I went, I cashed them out, and then I
went up to my room, got more chips, cashed those out,
and then I was good.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And that was all from the same winnings were different.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well that was the chips in my room or from
the night before.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Okay, so total, you think.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
But it's all everything I was playing off of was
from my original investment. Yeah, that's some the lunchbox terminology
there when it comes to the because he know dangerous language,
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Okay, well cruise, we feel good, we feel recapped. Yeah,
are you ready for next year now that you've had
this one under yah, especially.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Now that I know what to expect and kind of
all know how to pack better and I just didn't know.
Now I'm like, okay, I know, I got it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Have a little more grip on it. Do you Does
this make you want to go on the Alaskan Cruise
more or less?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I still want to go on the Alaskan Cruise. I
just feel like it'd be a very different vibe.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It is. As far as the clothes, you think you
know how to pack for this one now, but clothes
are different for Alaska, but similar demographic. I would say
the Alaskan crowd is typically a little bit on the
older side.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I don't know why that is, but uh, I think
just appreciation of nature and.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, maybe I don't know why, and maybe it's not.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Maybe it's it's not one you maybe take kids on.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, definitely a different environment, but everything else. As far
as the cruise ship itself saying name, yeah, so I
didn't know if it further pushed that along, like you're
I have to make that happen now, or you're just
kind of the same.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I need to call my sister and be like, are
we going to do this or what? Because I also
really want to go to Paris. I feel like I
got to get some trips under my belt.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I feel like you just have to make it happen.
I know, you just got to make the call.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I know, well, we only have two times a year
where we can really take trips, so it's like Summer
or Christmas, and then Christmas is hard to do anything
because we have our family traditions and but.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
But you have two vacations a year, and I think
you should take them this year fully.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, I know, but the Christmas one isn't just as
simple as like, okay, well maybe do Alaska then, or
do Paris then. It's more of like the summer one.
I need to figure that out. I don't know. I'll
call my sister.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I at least one of them. You have to go
somewhere you've never been. Yeah, that's what I would encourage
you to do, for sure. Thank you for the I
think this is the year you make it happen.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I think, yes, I do think I'll go to Paris
this year.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That one's like, that's the itch, the one you have.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
They often say too that the place you long to
go the most is the one like that will bring
out the best version of yourself. Like if you ever
really longing to go somewhere for a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Oh well then that's probably yeah, Paris for me, or
somewhere in Spain for me. The Alaskan cruise we just
want to go on because that's what our mom wanted to.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Do, which I highly encourage. I think you will love it.
But yeah, as far as your personal how you feel.
I think Paris has been one of those for you
for a long time, and maybe there's a reason.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Got a boocket find that version of me.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
My girlfriend and I that we did the Paris Barcelona,
Belgium trip together. Yes, we talk about it often. It's
I mean, every time we see each other, something from
that trip comes up to our mind or will be
doing something and it reminds us it was that felt
like one of those trips that you're never going to forget,
you know what I mean? Of course not, and you
could go anywhere, but something about that one in particular,
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and maybe that's what's gonna happen with you, and that's
why your body's like pulling you to go. Yeah, do it?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, I guess I just need to. Yeah, I'll figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I believe in you. I will it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It's just like there's so many schedules to like keep
in mind and to figure out, but it's on the
I don't have a vision board for this year, but
it's on my mental vision board. Okay, Well, I'm like
a physical one.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I'm gonna push you even harder and say there's always
gonna be things to figure out, but this has been
something that you wanted to do for so many years. Yeah,
and I think this is the year you just have
to say, I'm gonna do it and it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Okay, I'm gonna do it and it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I feel like Amy and Paris will be a moment.
So I know you'll have your Emily in Paris moment.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I mean maybe a little.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I mean, maybe you find like a job there. Maybe
there's said I knew, but I don't know, you know,
like maybe you fall in love with with bakery. When
I was over in Paris, I fell in love with
the baking.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
A lot, and I thought a lot about, Oh, maybe
I go to like making school court on blue croissants, yeah,
and bake and then I just work in like a
chocolate factory for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I to think about that sometimes.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, I mean, sometimes it'd be nice to just escape everything,
but I have to be realistic. I'll probably just go
for five to six days and come back on that attitude.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yes, that might be what happens. Okay, We're gonna take
one more quick break and we'll be right back. What
about everything else? How's Maggie and how's Kara?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Everybody's doing I love how I went immediately to ask
about the animals. Sorry, are your kids?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Also?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I feel like everybody is doing good right now. I
guess the main thing on our calendar is track season
is beginning for Stevenson, so he's very pumped and he's
really trying to improve his time on the mile, which
he has done.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And have you started running with him? Is that a
thing yet?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
No? I ran with him when he was fundraising for
Haiti a few months ago, but I did one mile.
Uh and on the app he had an app tracking
every mile because he did a half marathon. The mile
he ran with me was his slowest. He was like, mom,
this is a mile I did with you and it
was like way slower than everybody else's. So do you
(24:15):
feel like it'll encourage you to run more? Or run?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
No more.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I just don't think I'm a runner. I'm a I
used to be a runner, but I just don't think
my body is made for that. I have started stretch
classes at the Stretch Lab Okay Stretch Lab, which based
in place my body and maybe my my ability to
run or just feel more agile and flexible.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And why did you start going to classes for this?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Did?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay, I feel like a home was.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
At I guess I'll call it a session. I don't
know that it's a class, but so I bought I
signed up for three months to go, like you twice
a month or something. For three months, I could go
once a week, but I was like, honestly, that's going
to be hard for me to do. So I gave
(25:06):
my goal myself a goal of every other week and
then I stretch it home in between. I really just
amusing it as a kickstarter because I need to start
stretching more at home before and after walks and maybe
just when I wake up or if I'm watching TV
or doing something like just making sure I'm being wise
with that time. And of course not I'm just stretch
(25:28):
the whole time, but I just find the older I
get like I'm really starting to feel it, and so
I go in there and they kind of assess like
where I might need to focus my attention, and then
they help give me stretches, and then they help and
one of the things that is impactful is creating the resistance.
(25:51):
So they want you to like push against them with
like twenty percent of your force and then release, and
they'll be able to push a little bit further after
you release. And you can do that sort of thing
at home, like in the doorway, like using a wall
or the door the doorway, like I just said, as
your resistance and then release. And so just learning things
(26:11):
like that are going to help keep me strong. And
so do you feel like this is a little bit
from your because you've always had the low back injury? Yeah?
I have low Yeah, my low back has always been
weird from running. Like when I ran a marathon in college,
I hurt my right knee and my because it was overcompensating,
(26:32):
then my left foot. So those two things have always
caused me issues.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
It never fully broken, you never had surgeries or anything, right,
just no, I trained.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Oh gosh, I don't even know what I did, but
let me tell you, I should not have even completed
the marathon, but I had put in so much training
that I wanted to finish it. And my mom and
my boyfriend at the time were meeting me, like every
four miles. They would go to a different checkpoint and
my mom would give me a leave I'd pop more
(27:07):
pills just so I could mask the pain enough to
cross the finish line.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Why did you train for a marathon? What was behind that?
Did you love running?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I mean, yes, I used to run, or I thought
I loved to run. I mean I ran cross country
in high school.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I also think I looked at it as a way
to force me to exercise, and I so some of
that probably was unhealthy because I was using it as
a tool to or is like an excuse of like, oh, well, yeah,
I'm a runner, so I need to go run five
miles or six. But also that's how I had girlfriends.
That's how we would bond and hang out, Like we
(27:49):
would go for runs. Some of my sorority sisters like
that's what we would do, so like, I mean, of
course we would go out afterwards, but it was that's
where we would talk and ketch up because we would
talk the entire time. And one of my Storty sisters, Laurence,
signed up for the marathon training at Texas A and
M because every year A and M would take a
(28:11):
group to a marathon in Austin, and she was like,
I'm going to do this. She ended up dropping out,
but I was like, well, I'm going to stick with
it because I've already done it. And the guy was
doing all the time. He thought it was really impressive,
and I was like, yeah, it is, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
At that point?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
So then I did it, and then I was so
miserable afterwards that I was horrible to be around. He
broke up with me. Not because of that, no, no, no,
because of that. I was horrible to be I was
in so much pain. My body got I don't know
if it's like the acid, there's something that releases with
the running. I was so swollen and just retaining so
(28:53):
much water, the lactic acid build up, Like there's something
that my body was did not respet well to the marathon.
So the furthest I had run before the marathon. So
a marathon's twenty six point two the furthest I'd ever
run was twenty miles, and our coach said, that's all
you need. If you can do twenty, you can do
twenty six, Like it's the rest of the seventy five
percent mental after that. As long as you've done twenty,
(29:15):
your body should be fine. Well, I went into the
marathon with my body already not fine. I had been
water jogging a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Which what is water jogging?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Just I would get there were groups of us in
our training group. If you couldn't hit the street, hit
the pavement, if you had any injuries, they would we
would meet at the pool at A and M and
put these harnesses on, and you're in the water and
you jog, and you jog for a certain amount of time,
and that's basically your distance, and you're working the same
muscles as you would if you're running, So you could
(29:45):
essentially train in water and then take it to land
and be.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Gosh, being on pavement was hurting you, right, And so
is that why you were water jogging? Yes?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, I was giving my joints a break through the
water jogging, so that way, I mean, it would been
far worse if I had just kept training on the pavement. Anyway,
I should not have run the marathon. But I did.
I have the T shirt to prove it. You can
T shirt, I no, I cannot, and a medal somewhere.
But I really was swollen and I couldn't walk, so
(30:19):
none of my clothes were fitting, and I carbo loaded
like crazy before it, so of course, and then I wasn't.
I went from running a ton to not running at all.
So I kept to carbo loading so like I don't
even know like where I thought. I was like, oh,
maybe I'll lose weight doing this marathon. I gained weight,
which for me at the time in college, that didn't
feel good. So I think I was unhappy about that.
(30:41):
I couldn't walk like he would drop me off. We
were neighbors, so he would pick me up for classes
on campus and then drop me off close to where
and then he would go park and walk, because I mean,
obviously on college campuses you walk a tone. I was
in my pajama pants limping to class, miserable, like not
(31:01):
nice and I mean not meaning to be.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, you were going through that.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I was what's the word, I was irritable? Yeah, because
I felt so uncomfortable, and I would have broken up
with me too. I do not blame him at all
one bit. We ended up eventually getting back together maybe
a year and a half for two years a year
and a half after maybe okay, we got back together,
but that it didn't did it not last? Then? Either?
(31:29):
I had other issues and then he broke up with
me again. Looking back, I'm like, I don't blame you.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Have you seen this guy at all since in anyway
up perform?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yes, yes, because he's married to a girl. We both
know he's married to her sister. That's wild, Like small world.
I had a conversation about that. So I'm at a concert.
We were in Austin for something, and I was right
after my mom died, and he he came up and said, hey,
it's really sorry to hear about your mom, and I
was like, yeah, but that's that's the first time i'd
(32:02):
seen it since we're broken up. That's crazy that he
came and he was only there because of that mutual
friend I'm talking about, and so that was interesting. But
it was such a long time ago, Like it didn't
even feel like he's got a family. I have a family,
Like it's not it wasn't an It's just one of
(32:22):
those more of like I'm embarrassed how I acted. I mean,
he probably hasn't even thought twice about it. But it's
sort of when you're the one getting broken up with
and later in life you think of I mean, I
had two relationships in college that meant a lot to me.
He was one of them, so obviously you think that
your college relationships do count more than like high school.
(32:43):
And while they weren't that long, it was just we
tried to get back together and then he was like, oh, nope,
I guess this time it's not the marathon and something else,
and it was I had stuff I needed to work through.
I wasn't healthy.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I was thinking about this the other day because so
somebody on the this happened on the cruise. Some girl
had come up to me and she was like, hey,
we went to college together, and I was like, what year?
And I was trying to put all the pieces together
and I didn't know her, but we had like one
mutual friend. And later on I got a message from
another listener on the ship was like, Hey, do you
know this girl. She's like really, she's sharing a lot
(33:18):
of information about you and like saying that you weren't
kind to her in college, and I was like, we
didn't even go to school together. We already confirmed this
like that way we had different times and then I
was like spirally and I was like, man, if you
think about your life and just all the people that
you passed in your life and all the people you
interact with, all the relationships you've had, and even just strangers,
even moments in time where somebody was part of your
(33:40):
life for a few months rather than years or whatever,
and you just really think about that concept of you
never know the part you played in somebody's story. And
that was like a moment where I was very much
like trying to go through my file in my brain
of like did I did something happen? Am I missing something?
That I do something? And I never I didn't know
that person at all. I've never met her up until
(34:02):
that moment, but it at least had me spiraling in
that direction, you know, to be like did I and
it is you? It's wild the roles you will play
in somebody's life, whether they're small or significant, and you
don't know until you maybe cross paths one day again,
or you never cross paths. But for somebody it was
a huge moment and for the other person it was nothing. Yeah,
(34:25):
it's crazy to think about that.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
There are different people we've worked with over the years,
or like I think even at this company or being
in Austin, and then people I don't know. Yes, you're right,
it's like high school, college, career, different careers encounters, maybe
(34:47):
how you were acting during a certain season, or if
it was a small encounter maybe one day, or a
season that was maybe six months or a year. Like,
there's definitely times I'm not proud of how I act
or behaved, And there's probably some people that I definitely
owe an apology to. For sure, I won't. I don't
(35:09):
know if I'll ever see them again. Yeah, well, and
that's the thing, you don't The perception of me might
be very different then, yeah, because you meet them at
different phases of your life, So who you were then
is probably a different person than now. And I think
where the lack of that comes from is if you
meet somebody again and they're the same person, You're like, oh, okay,
that's just that's who you are.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, But I think for most people that's not the case.
You know, they grow and evolve and life changes them.
But it's it was just funny. It had me like
in a rabbit hole of just thinking about all the
people I've encountered in my life and all the moments
where maybe I was a villain, maybe I was a hero,
or maybe I was nothing, you know of like, where
where did that impact somebody along the line, And now
(35:50):
I'm thinking about you.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
And your ex boyfriend and how you have.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Like this these two moments and now he's kind of
like a acquaintance in a way. And I mean not really,
I haven't seen him. I mean even seeing him that
for some that was years ago. I mean that's probably
two thousand. My mom died in twenty fourteen, so I
probably still haven't seen him in a decade. But I
mean I'll see him on our friend's Instagram or whatever
and be like, oh, that's crazy. Yeah, they're family now,
(36:16):
because you know. And I think you can also romanticize
the past some too, Like for me, I was so
heartbroken when we broke up that I probably romanticized what
version he was to me because I was so devastated. Yeah,
and it was so perfect. But again I get it,
(36:37):
and I am thankful that I have had growth and
I'm not stuck in that. I think a lot of
that time in my life was very I was very insecure,
which also would lead to being misunderstood a lot, because
sometimes when you're insecure and you might be quieter, it's bitchy.
(36:58):
And so I definitely had those moments, but those in
eating disorder era for me, so I was very preoccupied.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Well, and we had Jody Messina on this week, and
she mentioned something like that about being at an award
show and how she was very just insecure being in
a room of a bunch of women like Faith Hill
and oh.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah, she said she didn't want to leave her dressing room.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, and how it could have likely been perceived that
she was being mean when she was just afraid to
be in that space. And it's just it's a it's
a funny, like retrospective way of looking at things and
seeing just a role that you play in a lot
of things and what you were like in those situations.
And this is one of those where you had a
really unique one where you can look at it and oh.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
My god, I was crazy town yeah, and all of
those but probably didn't work out the second time, because
I've told this story on my podcast with Kat and
she loves to bring it up from time to time.
But like he had made eggs one morning and I
wasn't eating egg yolk at the time, and yoke. She
also says, I say egg yolk weird, which I do, uh,
(38:06):
And I it was, you know, the early two thousands,
I was only eating egg whites, and I freaked out,
like not at him, but it was like I didn't
know what to do, Like I almost like it's like
it paralyzed me because it was all mixed together and
I was I clearly needed food. I think I was hungry,
(38:27):
but when they were mixed, I was like what do
I do? And I was so restricted and my brain couldn't.
It's like my lid flipped sort of you know, describe
like the front part of your brain if you look
at that prefuntal cortex as like once it lifts up
and flips, like if you have kids that sometimes you're like,
why are they being so irrational right now? They're not
(38:48):
understanding what their lid maybe is flipped and there's no
rational thinking when the lid is flipped. And I think
that because I was in the throes of my eating disorder,
my lid flipped over, not knowing how I was supposed
to eat these eggs now, and I was panicked and
freaking out. And I think if that's when he was like, Okay,
this is not how I would have lived my life
(39:11):
to fight over ag Like. I wasn't mad at him,
it just root my attitude. It ruined the morning like
whatever we had the rest of the day, like we
were at his family's place in Texas, and I think
I just ruined the vibe, like a total buzzkill. But
I have compassion for that version of me too, because
(39:32):
I was doing the best that I could, I guess
at the time without the proper tools at all, I
had none. I feel like at that moment somebody probably
should have checked me in somewhere, but even he didn't know,
Like it's not like I was being vocal with him,
like like as an adult now I can look back
at I wasn't even twenty five minutes so, and my
underdeveloped brain because now we know the brain's don't even
(39:53):
developed till twenty five. So in my young twenties having
a neating disorder and trying to trying to rationalize my behavior,
it's not I'm not gonna be able to make it
make sense. I can't. So I have compassion for that
version of me, And I'm thankful that I have healing
(40:14):
and that there is hope and healing in that because
I had it when it came back after my mom
died in my marriage too, and I would I got
restrictive again and I'm sure there wasn't the egg white episode,
but there was probably another something similar that my husband
had to deal with. But I think as you're married,
that's the difference. Like I was able to I felt
(40:35):
safe with this partner that I had, and I wanted
to tell him about it when it returned after my
mom died, we had conversations. That's the difference. Like young
brain me what I wasn't having conversations with my boyfriend.
I'm like, oh, this is actually what's happening. I have
any disorder. He didn't know. You know, no, at the time,
(40:56):
I kept it very secret. It was hidden. I felt shame.
That was you know. I felt like, why can't I
just be like normal girls? You'll just eat an egg
I don't know, or at that point, maybe a MIT
griddle or something, because I felt like normal girls they
could just go through the drive through and you know,
because I think that's what he had that morning and
then like I was like, no, I'll make eggs at
(41:19):
the house, and he was like, okay, we'll do it
for you. But he had picked up McDonald's anyway, good times.
Can anyone just relate to this?
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Yes? Yes, again, Hey, it's it's back to being. It's
it's the story you played in other people's lives, and
it's an interesting It's just something to think about in retrospect.
And I sometimes wish there was just a button I
could press and kind of play memories and say, how
did I forget that memory completely? Is that like something
I blacked out? Was that something I need to remember?
(41:49):
Do I owe somebody an apology?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Like, like, now I'm thinking about him and I was like,
he was just an overall awesome, good dude. And then
if I were to come up with him, which I'm
probably has not been the case, but like if someone
would be like, oh wow, okay, you know Amy or whatever,
he might be like, yeah, she's freaking crazy.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Right, And I'm like, dang, I really need to like
make some.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
What do you mean she's crazy? Well, one time I
made her eggs.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
He probably doesn't about it.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
If he ever makes eggs now in his life is
probably like there's that one time. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Oh, well, thanks for being here this week and Amy
talking about all kinds of random things, and it was
a good cruise recap and if you want to remember,
you can come on the cruise next year. Topshelf Countrycruise
dot Com. You can get your cabin and come hang
out with us. If there's another Martini bar, you.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Know, my find us there. I mean I'll probably have
a year to recover. Yes, at that point I will
be able to, but I'm gonna need a limit. Well,
we'll have somebody watching you this time. We'll have people
watching both of us. I think that will be a
good thing. Okay, we're jumping out of here.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
We're gonna go answer some listener questions in part three
if you want to check that out. Otherwise, if this
is where we leave you, Amy, where can are you good?
Over there?
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah? I was trying to read my ball, but I
realized I just opened up a little suja drink lemon
cayenne pepper suja juice thingy, and I was like, oh,
what is in here? And I was trying to read
the ingredients and I cannot because I need my readers.
I can read it for you, I hoped, Eddie. The
print is too tiny. People can find me Radio Amy
(43:19):
on Instagram and Feeling Things with Amy and Kat on
Instagram for our podcast, which obviously is the name of
our podcast, which is Feeling Things with Amy and Kat
new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Awesome and you can follow me at web Girl Morgan
and the show at Bobby Bone Show. Check us out
on YouTube. Lots of content up there, all right, buye everybody.
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
for listening. Be sure to check out the other two
parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
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